Biography: Vera Ralston |
Czech figure skater Vera Hruba Ralston was a runner-up in the 1936 Olympics. Shortly thereafter, she turned professional, arriving in the U.S. in 1939 to headline Ice-Capades Revue. In light of the movie success of skater Sonja Henie, Ralston was... more
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Cast: Joseph Kane
Tags: Detective Film Crime Thriller Mystery Crime Thriller
Length: 75min
Nightclub singer Ilona Vance (Vera Ralston) is Accused of Murder in this Republic programmer. And from the looks of things, Ilona is guilty; she was, after all, the last person to see crooked lawyer Hobart (Sidney Blackmer) alive. But Lt. Roy Hargis...
Cast: Edgar Buchanan
Tags: Drama
Length: 68min
Every time Republic Pictures head honcho Herbert J. Yates starred his minimally talented wife Vera Ralston in a film, the studio's stockholders began trembling in their boots. Like most of its predecessors, the 1957 Ralston vehicle Spoilers of the...
Cast: Adolphe Menjou Hoagy Carmichael Johnny Mercer David Brian Sterling Hayden
Length: 94min
Republic's Trucolor process is shown off to good advantage in the outdoors actioner Timberjack. Sterling Hayden and David Brian star as Chipman and Brunner, a pair of rugged lumbermen who vie for the attentions of Lynn Tilton (Vera Ralston). The...
Cast: Pat O'Brien
Length: 103min
Based on a novel by Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail is a sprawling, all-star western from the Republic Studio mills. Despite is vaunted budget, the plot is strictly B-picture material. Ambitious California landowner Charles Hale (Ray Middleton) hopes to...
Cast: Fred MacMurray Robert Douglas Victor McLaglen
Tags: Romantic Adventure Adventure
Length: 92min
Republic Pictures' notion of an "epic", Fair Wind to Java manages to pack in enough entertainment value to send the adventure fans home happy. Tough South Seas skipper Fred MacMurray goes hunting for pearls on a forbidden Javanese island. Native girl...
Length: 90min
The much-maligned Vera Ralston turns in an acceptable performance as star of Republic's A Perilous Journey. Though seemingly inspired by MGM's Westward the Women, the film was actually based on -The Golden Tide, a novel by Vingie Roe. In the year...
Cast: Forrest Tucker Walter Brennan Phil Harris
Tags: Combat Films Drama
Length: 98min
Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker, the Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy of Republic, star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of beautiful nurse Vera Hruba Ralston, Corey and Tucker prepare to...
Cast: Claire Trevor
Tags: Docudrama Melodrama Drama Crime
Length: 98min
The Kefauver Committee's ongoing investigation of organized crime spawned several "Torn from Today's Headlines!" films in the early 1950s. Republic's Hoodlum Empire concerns the efforts by gangster Joe Gray (John Russell) to get out of the rackets...
Cast: John Carroll Allan Dwan
Tags: Western
Length: 90min
Allan Dwan's assured direction is the principal selling card of Republic's Belle le Grand. Based on a story by Peter B. Kyne, the film stars Vera Ralston as the title character, an ex-jailbird who becomes the gambling queen of old San Francisco. Upon...
Length: 90min
Of the many attempts by Republic Pictures' CEO Herbert J. Yates to turn his lady friend Vera Ralston into a star, Surrender is one of the better efforts. Ralston plays a conscienceless "femme fatale" who works out a complex scheme to secure her...
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