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Betsy Jones-Moreland is a Actor American born on 1 april 1930 at Brooklyn (USA)
Betsy Jones-Moreland (April 1, 1930 – May 1, 2006) was an American actress.
She was born as Mary Elizabeth Jones in Brooklyn, New York, and began her career in small roles in the mid-1950s, appearing in several Roger Corman films, including a lead role in Last Woman on Earth (1960). Subsequently she appeared mostly on television through 1975.
Jones-Moreland guest-starred in an episode of the television series Ironside starring Raymond Burr, and in the early 1990s appeared in a recurring role as a judge in a series of his Perry Mason television films. Her first Perry Mason appearance, though, was in 1959 as Lorrie Garvin in "The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom." In Have Gun - Will Travel, Ms. Jones-Moreland guest-starred as "Topaz", a saloon hostess who befriended Paladin in the episode "Brother"s Keeper" that aired May 6, 1961. In 1962, she appeared as Nurse Brown on McHale's Navy.
At age 76, the actress died from cancer in El Monte, California.
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Betsy Jones-Moreland
Birth name Mary Elizabeth Jones
Nationality USA
Birth 1 april 1930 at Brooklyn (USA)
Death 1 may 2006 (at 76 years) at El Monte (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 1 april 1930 at Brooklyn (USA)
Death 1 may 2006 (at 76 years) at El Monte (USA)
She was born as Mary Elizabeth Jones in Brooklyn, New York, and began her career in small roles in the mid-1950s, appearing in several Roger Corman films, including a lead role in Last Woman on Earth (1960). Subsequently she appeared mostly on television through 1975.
Jones-Moreland guest-starred in an episode of the television series Ironside starring Raymond Burr, and in the early 1990s appeared in a recurring role as a judge in a series of his Perry Mason television films. Her first Perry Mason appearance, though, was in 1959 as Lorrie Garvin in "The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom." In Have Gun - Will Travel, Ms. Jones-Moreland guest-starred as "Topaz", a saloon hostess who befriended Paladin in the episode "Brother"s Keeper" that aired May 6, 1961. In 1962, she appeared as Nurse Brown on McHale's Navy.
At age 76, the actress died from cancer in El Monte, California.
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Joni (1979)
Directed by James F. Collier
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion
Actors Bert Remsen, Cooper Huckabee, John Milford, Ernie Hudson, Richard Lineback, Jeff Austin
Roles Mrs. Barber
Rating65%
Après un accident de plongée à l'âge de 17 ans, une jeune fille est devenue paralysée. Sa ferveur religieuse l'a alors aidé à surmonter la douleur physique et émotionnelle, mais également à reconstruire sa vie.
The Last Tycoon (1976)
, 2h2Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson, Donald Pleasence, Jeanne Moreau
Roles Lady Writer
Rating62%
Monroe Stahr is the young production chief and the most creative executive of one of the biggest studios of the Golden Age of Hollywood. He is a tireless worker in a time of turmoil in the industry due to the creation of the Writers Guild of America, Monroe being accustomed to make his underlings, including screenwriters, do whatever he says.
Gable and Lombard (1976)
, 2h11Directed by Sidney J. Furie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about television
Actors James Brolin, Jill Clayburgh, Morgan Brittany, Melanie Mayron, Allen Garfield, Red Buttons
Roles Party Guest
Rating52%
The pair meet at a Hollywood party, where rugged leading man Gable eschews evening wear and screwball comedienne Lombard arrives in an ambulance that wrecks his car. They argue. He threatens to spank her. She punches him on the jaw. The two clearly dislike each other, and intensely so, but as fate conspires to bring them together again and again, they begin to admire each other and fall in love.
The Hindenburg (1975)
, 1h45Directed by Robert Wise, Howard Kazanjian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes La fin du monde, Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young, Burgess Meredith
Roles Stewardess Imhoff
Rating62%
Kathie Rauch (Ruth Schudson), a psychic from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sends a letter to the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. claiming the Hindenburg zeppelin will explode after flying over New York. In the meantime, Luftwaffe Colonel Franz Ritter (George C. Scott) boards with the intention of protecting the Hindenburg as various threats have been made to down the airship, which some see as a symbol of Nazi Germany.
, 1h36Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, L'Outfit de Chicago, Gangster films
Actors Jason Robards, George Segal, Ralph Meeker, Jack Nicholson, Jean Hale, Jan Merlin
Roles Poolside Interviewer (uncredited)
Rating65%
An organized crime war breaks out between two rival gangs in Chicago during the Roaring Twenties. The leader of the Southside Mob is the notorious Al Capone, who resents his nemesis George "Bugs" Moran's activity in the city. Moran, too, wants control of the town's bootlegging and gambling operations. His lieutenants Peter and Frank Gusenberg use threats and intimidation to make tavern owners do business with them in exchange for "protection." Moran gives the order to have a crony of Capone's eliminated as the Chicago body count escalates. Inclusive are flashbacks to a lunchtime attack on Capone at a restaurant outside of Chicago by Hymie Weiss and Moran in September 1926 and the murders of Weiss in October 1926 and Dion O'Banion in November 1924 by Capone's gang.
, 1h13Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Comedy horror films
Actors Betsy Jones-Moreland, Antony Carbone, Robert Towne, Sonia Noemí, Esther Sandoval
Roles Mary-Belle Monahan
Rating34%
During a revolution in Cuba, an American international playboy, promoter and mobster Renzo Capeto (Anthony Carbone) comes up with a get-rich-quick scheme and uses his boat to help a group of loyalists headed by Colonel Tostada (Edmundo Rivera Alvarez) escape with Cuba's national treasury which they plan to use to stage a counterrevolution. However, CIA agent XK150, Sparks Moran (Edward Wain a.k.a. Robert Towne) has infiltrated the gang. Capeto plans to steal the money and claim that the mythical "Creature from the Haunted Sea" rose up out of the sea and devoured the loyalists. But what he doesn't know is that there is a real sea monster lurking in the very waters where he plans to kill his passengers. Little does he know that the actual creature may make his plan all too easy to pull off! When the creature upsets his plans, Capeto decides to sink his boat in 30 feet of water and then retrieve the treasure at a later time. Using a nearby island as a base, he and his gang attempt to salvage the loot, but the monster picks them off one by one, except for Agent Sparks Moran and his girlfriend Carmelita (Blanquita Romero).
Last Woman on Earth (1960)
, 1h4Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Horror, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne, Antony Carbone
Roles Evelyn Gern
Rating48%
Harold Gern (Antony Carbone), a successful businessman from New York who is constantly in legal trouble, is spending a holiday in Puerto Rico with his attractive wife Evelyn (Betsy Jones-Moreland), whom he married "between trials". They are joined by Martin Joyce (Edward Wain), Harold's lawyer, who has come to discuss the latest indictment.
Day of the Outlaw (1959)
, 1h32Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Western
Actors Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise, Alan Marshal, Venetia Stevenson, David Nelson
Roles Mrs. Preston
Rating72%
Blaise Starrett (Robert Ryan) is a ruthless cattleman at odds with homesteaders in a small, bleak western town in Wyoming called Bitters. A feud develops between Starrett and a local farmer Hal Crane. The farmer's wife Helen (Tina Louise) offers to renew a love affair with Starrett if he promises not to kill Hal.
The Garment Jungle (1957)
, 1h28Directed by Robert Aldrich, Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Mathews, Gia Scala, Richard Boone, Valerie French, Robert Loggia
Roles Secretary (uncredited)
Rating65%
Alan Mitchell is a returning Korean War veteran who joins his father Walter's garment company, Roxton Fashions. The firm has been paying protection money to gangsters led by Artie Ravidge to keep the union out.
The Brothers Rico (1957)
, 1h32Directed by Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Crosby, James Darren, Larry Gates, Argentina Brunetti
Rating67%
Eddie Rico (Richard Conte) is the owner of a prosperous laundry company in Bayshore, Florida who was the former accountant for a major crime syndicate years ago. He has given up his ties to the syndicate, and hopes to adopt a child with his wife, Alice. When Eddie receives a call asking to give a job to Wesson (William Phipps), a junior mobster, and Alice becomes worried that the syndicate will attempt to bring Eddie back into a life of crime. Eddie calms her down, but then he receives a letter from his mother saying that his two brothers, Johnny (James Darren) and Gino (Paul Picerni), have disappeared. On the way to work, Gino finds Eddie and asks for his help in leaving the country: Gino admits to being the gunman for a gang killing and Johnny was the driver. Gino now believes the syndicate is after him, and he was ordered to St. Louis later that day. Eddie, who does not believe that the syndicate is after them, tells Gino to go to St. Louis and gives him some money. When Eddie returns to work, he finds out that the syndicate boss, "Uncle" Sid Kubik (Larry Gates), has ordered him to Miami. Eddie leaves despite his wife's objections that he will miss an adoption interview.
Operation Mad Ball (1957)
, 1h45Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Jack Lemmon, Kathryn Crosby, Ernie Kovacs, Mickey Rooney, Arthur O'Connell, Dick York
Roles Lt. Bushey (uncredited)
Rating64%
In a hospital unit in the U.S. Army in Europe after World War II, Private Hogan (Jack Lemmon) does not believe that a blue-stocking can be good-looking, but the first sight of dietetic nurse Lieutenant Betty Bixby (Kathryn Grant) sets him straight. When he picks her cigarette lighter up and puts his weapon aside, he is surprísed by security officer Paul Locke (Ernie Kovacs) who admonishes him for putting down his weapon while on guard duty and confines him to quarters preliminary to a court martial. The Colonel in charge of the unit (Arthur O'Connell), however, would prefer to keep everything "in the family" and avoid a court martial.
, 1h11Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films set in the Viking Age, Musical films
Actors Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot, Richard Devon, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Jonathan Haze, Michael Forest
Roles Thyra
Rating33%
Dans un petit village côtier, les hommes ne sont pas rentrés de leur dernière expédition, les femmes décident donc de partir à leur recherche, elles sont rejointes par Ottar, le seul homme qui soit resté au village. Leur drakkar est attaqué par un monstre marin gardien du "Vortex". Le Vortex les précipite sur une rive inconnue, elles sont emmenés en esclavage par le peuple Grimault. Elles tentent de résister mais en vain. Le chef des Grimault, Stark convie les esclaves à un banquet où elles sont malmenées. Voulant tester la force des vikings, le fils de Stark, Senya joue une partie de bras de fer avec Desir, la leader des Vikings, Senya gagne la première manche, Desir la seconde mais les chef les empêche de jouer la belle. Stark propose aux femmes viking de venir avec eux à une partie de chasse.au cours de laquelle Senya est à deux doigts de se faire tuer par un sanglier, il est sauvé par Desir qui tue le sanglier, mais il considère ce sauvetage comme une humiliation et revendique pour lui-même la mort du sanglier. On fait visiter aux femmes vikings la grotte où les mâles sont détenus en esclavage. L'une des femmes tente de les faire évader, mais la prêtresse des vikings, la brune Enger, jalouse de Désir, prévient Stark et fait échouer l'évasion. Stark décrète la mise à mort de Désir et de son amant. Deux buchers sont allumés, et le premier qui demandera grâce aura la vie sauve, mais aucun des deux amoureux ne se décide à le faire. Enger regrette son geste et invoque Thor qui provoque un orage, qui éteint les bûchers tandis que la foudre électrocute Senya qui allait se servir de son épée. Les vikings fuit, mais sont sur le point d'être rattrapés par les Grimault, Enger prend un chemin détournée pour faire diversion et se jette de la falaise, les vikings fuient en barque poursuivi par les Grimault, Le monstre marin survient engloutissant les Grimault tandis qu'Ottar parvient à tuer le monstre d'un coup de lance.
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
, 2h3Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Piano
Actors Kim Novak, Tyrone Power, Victoria Shaw, James Whitmore, Shepperd Strudwick, Jack Albertson
Rating67%
Fresh out of pharmacy school, young Eddy Duchin travels to New York in the 1920s to take a job playing piano for bandleader Leo Reisman's orchestra. But upon arrival, Eddy learns there is no such job.