Ruby Dandridge
Birthday: Born in 1900-03-03 in
Deathday: 1987-10-17
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Yancy Derringer
Character: Lily Rose Beam
Yancy Derringer is an American Western series...
Father of the Bride
Character: Delilah
Father of the Bride is an American sitcom that aired on CBS during the 1961-62 season. Produced by MGM Television, the series was based on the 1950 film of the same title. Cast members include Leon Ames as the father of the bride, Ruth Warrick as the mother, and Myrna Fahey as the bride....
Amos 'n' Andy
Character: Henrietta Smith (uncredited)
A sitcom set in Manhattan's historic black community of Harlem....
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Flop Goes the Weasel
Character: Mammy (voice)
While Mammy is gone to catch a worm for her about-to-hatch egg, a weasel steals the egg for his breakfast. When the egg hatches, the blabbermouth chick initially mistakes the weasel for his Mammy....
The Arnelo Affair
Character: Maybelle, Parkson's Maid
A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder....
Tish
Character: Violet
In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker....
Home in Oklahoma
Character: Devoria Lassiter
In this Roy Rogers entry, featuring a song written by Oklahoma Governor Roy J. Turner (making him and Lousiania's Jimmie Davis and Texas' W.E. "Pappy" O'Daniel possibly the only state governors to write songs used in a western), Flying U ranch owner Sam Talbot is killed by a fall from a horse. St. Louis reporter Connie Edwards comes to check a rumor that he might have been murdered. She goes to Roy Rogers, editor of the local newspaper, and he takes her to the reading of Talbot's will. The ranch...
The Clock
Character: Milk Customer
A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City....
A Night for Crime
Character: Alice Jones/Cook (uncredited)
A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth solving yet another mystery among Hollywood's famous....
Three Little Girls in Blue
Character: Mammy
Three sisters go to Atlantic City with hopes of finding rich husbands....
A Hole in the Head
Character: Sally
An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son....
Midnight Shadow
Character: Mrs. Lingley
A confidence man pretending to be a mentalist swindles a family....
My Wild Irish Rose
Character: Della
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott....
Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
Character: Queen's Sweet Voice / Queen's Laugh (voice) (uncredited)
Spoof of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) with an all-black cartoon cast. One of the “Censored 11” banned from TV syndication by United Artists in 1968 for racist stereotyping....
Broken Strings
Character: Dancer
After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing music to classical....
Father Is a Bachelor
Character: Lily - the Maid (uncredited)
Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living without parents. Their parents died a while ago, and they want to keep that secret from the townspeople, especially the young school teacher, Prudence Millett, to avoid being sent to a children's home and eventual separation. Johnny moves in with the kids and poses as their uncle to take care of them while romancing Prudence. But in order to keep the ...
Uncle Tom's Cabana
Character: Boy (voice) (uncredited)
Uncle Tom tells the blood curdling story of how the evil Simon Legree tried to foreclose on Tom's simple log cabin. (Uncle Tom's Cabaña is a 1947 American animated short film directed by Tex Avery. The short is a parody of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and is Avery's second parody of the novel, the first being Uncle Tom's Bungalow in 1937 while at Warner Bros. Cartoons)...
Dead Reckoning
Character: Mabel (uncredited)
War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publicity that awaits him, jumps off the train and later turns up dead. Suspecting foul play, Rip begins digging into his pal's past. He encounters cover-ups, threats to his own life and deadly femme fatale Coral Chandler....
Black Moon
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A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult....
Tap Roots
Character: Dabby
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance ...
Inside Job
Character: Ivory
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store....
Junior Miss
Character: Rheba
A Manhattan family's Christmas season turns topsy-turvy when 13-year-old Judy Graves mistakenly thinks her newly-arrived visiting uncle has just been released from prison....
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Character: Maid
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom....
Corregidor
Character: Hyacinth
A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack....
Cabin in the Sky
Character: Mrs. Kelso
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for six months to prove that he deserves to be in heaven. He awakens, remembering nothing and struggles to do right by his devout wife, Petunia, while an angel known as the General and the devil's son, Lucifer Jr., fight for his soul....
Carolina Blues
Character: Josephine (uncredited)
When he loses his lead singer, bandleader Kay Kyser can't find a replacement he likes....