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Leora Dana is a Actor American born on 1 april 1923 at New York City (USA)
Leora Dana (April 1, 1923, New York City, New York – December 13, 1983, New York City, New York) was an American film, stage and television actress.
(1957)
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Nationality USA
Birth 1 april 1923 at New York City (USA)
Death 13 december 1983 (at 60 years) at New York City (USA)
Awards Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play
Birth 1 april 1923 at New York City (USA)
Death 13 december 1983 (at 60 years) at New York City (USA)
Awards Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play
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Dana was married to actor Kurt Kasznar from 1950 to 1958; the childless union ended in divorce.Best films
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Nothing Lasts Forever (1984)
, 1h22Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Zach Galligan, Lauren Tom, Sam Jaffe, Bill Murray, Imogene Coca, Dan Aykroyd
Roles Joyce
Rating61%
The film opens to Adam Beckett (Zach Galligan) reluctantly performing as a purported pianist to an audience in New York City. When Beckett gives away that he is using a player piano, the outraged crowd storms the stage and wraps Beckett with the piano rolls. After fleeing to Europe, Adam is accosted on a train by Swedish architect, to whom he explains his stymied dreams of becoming an artist. After encouragement from the architect, Adam resolves to return to America. Upon returning, he discovers that the Port Authority has taken control of New York and is restricting entry into the city.
Baby It's You (1983)
, 1h45Directed by John Sayles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Joanna Merlin, Frank Zagarino, Leora Dana, Fisher Stevens
Roles Miss Vernon, Teacher
Rating63%
The film is about a romance between an upper middle class Jewish girl named Jill Rosen (Arquette), who is bound for Sarah Lawrence College, and a blue-collar Italian boy nicknamed the Sheik (Spano) in late 1966 New Jersey, who aspires to follow in Frank Sinatra's footsteps.
Amityville 3-D (1983)
, 1h45Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film, Ghost films
Actors Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Robert Joy, Lori Loughlin, Candy Clark, Leora Dana
Roles Emma Caswell
Rating42%
After he exposes a pair of con artists with his partner Melanie (Candy Clark) in the infamous 112 Ocean Avenue house in Amityville journalist John Baxter (Tony Roberts) is persuaded to purchase the house by real estate agent Clifford Sanders (John Harkins). While preparing the house for John, Clifford investigates footsteps in the attic. He is locked in the room, where a swarm of flies attack and kill him. John believes Clifford died of a stroke, even after Melanie shows him some photos she took of the real estate agent before his death which depict him as a rotting corpse.
Shoot the Moon (1982)
, 2h4Directed by Alan Parker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families
Actors Albert Finney, Diane Keaton, Karen Allen, Peter Weller, Kenneth Kimmins, Dana Hill
Roles Charlotte DeVoe
Rating67%
The marriage of Faith and George Dunlap is in trouble. From a distance, it seemed to be the picture of domestic bliss, a successful author with a beautiful wife and four daughters living in a converted farmhouse that he refurbished. But a crisis is growing at home.
Wild Rovers (1971)
, 2h16Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors William Holden, Ryan O'Neal, Karl Malden, Tom Skerritt, Leora Dana, Moses Gunn
Roles Nell Buckman
Rating64%
An aging cowboy, Ross Bodine, and a younger one, Frank Post, work on cattleman Walt Buckman's ranch in Montana. A neighboring sheepman, Hansen, is in a long-running feud with Buckman.
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
, 2h24Directed by Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Sō Yamamura, E. G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Jason Robards
Roles Mrs. Kramer
Rating74%
In 1941, the newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Sō Yamamura) and his predecessor, Zengo Yoshida (Junya Usami), discuss America's embargo that starves Japan of raw materials. While both agree that a war with the United States would be a complete disaster, army hotheads and politicians push through an alliance with Germany and start planning for war. With the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto orders the planning of a preventive strike, believing Japan's only hope is to annihilate the American Pacific fleet at the outset of hostilities.
Change of Habit (1969)
, 1h33Directed by William A. Graham
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, Virginia Vincent, Edward Asnere, Barbara McNair, Timothy Carey
Roles Mother Joseph
Rating59%
Dr. John Carpenter is a physician in a ghetto clinic who falls for a co-worker, Michelle Gallagher, unaware that she is a nun.
The Boston Strangler (1968)
, 1h56Directed by Richard Fleischer, David S. Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Documentary, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Serial killer films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, Sally Kellerman, William Hickey, Mike Kellin, George Kennedy
Roles Mary Bottomly
Rating69%
The first part of the film shows the police investigation, with some examples of the seedier side of Boston life, including promiscuity in the adult quarters of the city. The second part shows the apprehension of DeSalvo. Bottomly's intent is to answer the question presented in the film's famous print ad:
The Group (1966)
, 2h30Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality, Political films
Actors Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight, Joanna Pettet, Jessica Walter
Roles Mrs. Renfrew
Rating64%
After their university days, eight women go their separate ways. Lakey, always regarded as their leader, leaves for Europe to begin a new life on her own.
A Gathering of Eagles (1963)
, 1h55Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Rock Hudson, Rod Taylor, Mary Peach, Barry Sullivan, Kevin McCarthy, Henry Silva
Roles Mrs. Evelyn Fowler
Rating60%
The Inspector General of the Strategic Air Command (SAC), Major General "Happy Jack" Kirby (Kevin McCarthy), lands unannounced at the fictional Carmody Air Force Base in northern California (a role actually filled by the real life Beale AFB), home of the 904th Strategic Aerospace Wing. Accompanied by a 30-man inspection team, he demands that the Air Police take him directly to the wing's command post and once there announces a no-notice Operational Readiness Inspection (ORI). As the inspection continues, General Kirby receives a score report from a member of his team. With this in hand, he calls General Hewitt, the commanding general of SAC at his Omaha headquarters and soberly informs him, "It doesn't look too good so far, sir.
Pollyanna (1960)
, 2h14Directed by David Swift
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Children's films
Actors Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, Richard Egan, Adolphe Menjou, Agnes Moorehead
Roles Mrs. Ford
Rating73%
Pollyanna, fille orpheline de missionnaires, arrive dans la petite ville de Harrington pour vivre avec sa riche tante, Polly Harrington. Pollyanna est jeune et gaie, se concentre sur la bonté de vie et, ainsi se fait de nombreux amis dans la communauté dont l'hypocondriaque M Snow et l'acide ermite M. Pendergast.
Some Came Running (1958)
, 2h17Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer, John Arthur Kennedy, Nancy Gates
Roles Agnes Hirsh
Rating71%
Dave Hirsh is a cynical Army veteran who winds up in his hometown of Parkman after being put on a bus in Chicago while intoxicated. Ginny Moorehead, a woman of seemingly loose morals and poor education, has taken the same bus.
Kings Go Forth (1958)
, 1h49Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Leora Dana, Karl Swenson, Ann Codee
Roles Mrs. Blair
Rating64%
In the final year of World War II, units of the US Army are in the foothills of the Alps between France and Italy, trying to dislodge a unit of German soldiers from a supply post in the middle of a small village. 1st Lt. Sam Loggins (Frank Sinatra) is in charge of a reconnaissance unit that has just lost its radioman. A truckload of fresh young soldiers arrive, one of whom, Corporal Britt Harris (Tony Curtis) admits to radio training and experience—Harris is immediately appointed the unit's radioman by Loggins.
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
, 1h32Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Western
Actors Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana, Henry Jones, Robert Emhardt
Roles Mrs. Alice Evans
Rating75%
In the Arizona Territory of the 1880s, rancher Dan Evans (Van Heflin) and his young sons witness a stagecoach holdup. The boys want to try to intervene, but their father warns them that it would be useless to act when they are so heavily outnumbered. When the stagecoach driver overpowers one of the robbers and uses him as a human shield, Ben Wade (Glenn Ford), the leader of the gang, callously shoots both men dead.
, 34minutesDirected by George Seaton
Origin USA
Actors Jack Lord, Leora Dana, Karin Wolfe, Bob Carroll, Francis Compton
Roles Anne Fry
Rating67%