Bess Flowers — Actor (153)
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The Razor's Edge (1946) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Razor's Edge
director: Edmund Goulding actor: Tyrone Power / Gene Tierney …
other title: Il filo del rasoio / O Fio da Navalha …
An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
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No Man of Her Own (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
No Man of Her Own
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Barbara Stanwyck / John Lund …
other title: Non voglio perderti / Mentira latente …
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
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Topper (1937) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Topper
director: Norman Z. McLeod actor: Constance Bennett / Cary Grant …
other title: La via dell'impossibile / O Par Invisível …
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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Show People (1928) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Show People
director: King Vidor actor: Marion Davies / William Haines …
other title: Maschere di celluloide / Es tut sich was in Hollywood …
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
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The Blue Dahlia (1946) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Blue Dahlia
director: George Marshall actor: Alan Ladd / Veronica Lake …
other title: La dalia azzurra / Die blaue Dahlie …
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
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Champagne for Caesar (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Champagne for Caesar
director: Richard Whorf actor: Ronald Colman / Celeste Holm …
other title: Botta senza risposta / Champaña para César
When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley interviews with Burnbridge Waters for a position at Waters' soap company, the owner rudely turns Bottomley down. As revenge, Bottomley enters a TV quiz show that Waters' company sponsors, with the goal of winning until he bankrupts the businessman. When Bottomley keeps acing the questions, becoming a media sensation, Waters desperately calls on vixen Flame O'Neal to uncover Bottomley's area of weakness.
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Nothing Sacred (1937) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Nothing Sacred
director: William A. Wellman actor: Carole Lombard / Fredric March …
other title: Nulla sul serio / Nada é Sagrado …
When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.
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A Place in the Sun (1951) [Movie]
A Place in the Sun
director: George Stevens actor: Montgomery Clift / Elizabeth Taylor …
other title: Un posto al sole / En Plads I Solen …
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
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Blood Money (1933) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Blood Money
director: Rowland Brown actor: George Bancroft / Judith Anderson …
other title: La Boule rouge
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.
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Beyond the Forest (1949) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Beyond the Forest
director: King Vidor actor: Bette Davis / Joseph Cotten …
other title: Peccato / Der Stachel des Bösen …
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
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The Lady and the Monster (1944) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Lady and the Monster
director: George Sherman actor: Richard Arlen / Vera Ralston …
other title: La donna e il mostro / La mujer y el monstruo …
A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.
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Flesh and Fantasy (1943) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Flesh and Fantasy
director: Julien Duvivier actor: Charles Boyer / Edward G. Robinson …
other title: Il carnevale della vita / Das zweite Gesicht …
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts murder. The third is about a man who literally meets the girl of his dreams.
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Hellzapoppin' (1941) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Hellzapoppin'
director: H. C. Potter actor: Charlie Hall / Charlie Hall …
other title: Hellzapoppin' - Il cabaret dell'inferno / In der Hölle ist der Teufel los …
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
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Alias Nick Beal (1949) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Alias Nick Beal
director: John Farrow actor: Ray Milland / Audrey Totter …
other title: La sconfitta di Satana / Der Agent aus der Hölle …
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
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Runaway Daughters (1956) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Runaway Daughters
director: Edward L. Cahn actor: Marla English / Gloria Castillo …
other title: Tres Fugitivas
Three teenagers with troubled families are unable to adjust at home and in high-school. Tempted with an easy, carefree life they soon pass from misdemeanors into serious crime - and will suffer for it. Sometimes, repentance comes too late.
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The Chase (1946) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Chase
director: Arthur Ripley actor: Robert Cummings / Michèle Morgan …
other title: Incatenata / Auf der Flucht …
Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.
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It Happened Tomorrow (1944) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
It Happened Tomorrow
director: René Clair actor: Dick Powell / Linda Darnell …
other title: Avvenne... domani / Was morgen geschah …
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
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Mighty Joe Young (1949) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Mighty Joe Young
director: Ernest B. Schoedsack actor: Terry Moore / Ben Johnson …
other title: Il re dell'Africa / Panik um King Kong …
A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.
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The Costume Designer (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Costume Designer
director: Tholen Gladden actor: Eve Arden / Joan Caulfield …
This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The costume designer must design clothing that is correct for the film historically and geographically, and must be appropriate for the mood of the individual scene. We see famed costume designer Edith Head at work on a production. The Costume Designer was part of The Industry Film Project, a twelve-part series produced by the film studios and the Academy. Each series episode was produced to inform the public on a specific facet of the motion picture industry. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
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Wild Boys of the Road (1933) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Wild Boys of the Road
director: William A. Wellman actor: Frankie Darro / Edwin Phillips …
other title: Selvaggi ragazzi di strada / Kinder auf den Straßen …
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.