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Maidel Turner is a Actor American born on 12 may 1888 at Sherman (USA)
Maidel Turner (May 12, 1888 – April 12, 1953) was an American movie actress featured in almost 60 films between 1913 and 1951, beginning as the leading lady of The Angel of the Slums (1913) and becoming a comical character actress as she aged. Prominent sound films include The Raven (1935) and State of the Union (1948). Other films included Palm Springs (1936) with Frances Langford.
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Nationality USA
Birth 12 may 1888 at Sherman (USA)
Death 12 april 1953 (at 64 years) at Ocean Springs (USA)
Birth 12 may 1888 at Sherman (USA)
Death 12 april 1953 (at 64 years) at Ocean Springs (USA)
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Here Comes the Groom (1951)
, 1h53Directed by Elliott Nugent, Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Alexis Smith, James Barton, Franchot Tone, Ethel Barrymore
Roles Aunt Abby
Rating62%
Newspaper reporter Pete (Bing Crosby) works in a Paris orphanage. His charming way with children and music enables him to find homes for even the most troubled kids. One afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey (Alan Reed and Minna Gombell), an American couple, come to the orphanage to adopt Bobby, a boy they saw in one of the ads Pete ran in his newspaper. Bobby misbehaves, but when Pete discovers that Mr. Godfrey plays for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he quickly produces a young blind opera wunderkind, Theresa (Anna Maria Alberghetti), who sings her way into the Godfreys' hearts.
State of the Union (1948)
, 2h4Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Howard Smith, Adolphe Menjou
Roles Lulubelle Alexander
Rating71%
Republican newspaper magnate Kay Thorndyke (Angela Lansbury) intends to make her lover, aircraft tycoon Grant Matthews (Spencer Tracy), President of the United States with her as the power behind the throne. Thorndyke plans to use her newspaper chain's influence to deadlock the 1948 Republican National Convention, so it will choose Matthews as a compromise dark horse candidate instead of Dewey, Taft, or another.
Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
, 1h50Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Robert Taylor, Eleanor Powell, Judy Garland, Buddy Ebsen, Sophie Tucker, George Murphy
Roles Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
Rating66%
Young horse trainer Sally (Eleanor Powell) befriends Sonny (George Murphy) and Peter (Buddy Ebsen), who have been hired to look after a horse her family once owned. Concerned for the horse's well-being, she sneaks aboard a train taking the horse and its caretakers to New York City. En route she meets talent agent Steve Raleigh (Robert Taylor) who, impressed with her dancing and singing, sets her on the road to stardom and romance blossoms between the two. A subplot involves a boarding house for performers run by Sophie Tucker, who is trying to find a big break for young Judy Garland.
Slim (1937)
, 1h25Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Pat O'Brien, Henry Fonda, J. Farrell MacDonald, Margaret Lindsay, Jane Wyman, Dick Purcell
Roles Mrs. Johnson
Rating63%
Slim, a farmer from southeastern Ohio, becomes fascinated by a crew of linemen erecting transmission towers across his uncle and aunt's property. He asks Pop (J. Farrell MacDonald) for a job, but there are no openings. When a man is fired, however, Red (Pat O'Brien), Pop's best lineman, takes a liking to Slim and persuades Pop to give him a chance as a "grunt", an assistant on the ground who sends up tools and parts. Red and Stumpy (Stuart Erwin), another grunt, teach Slim what he needs to know.
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937)
, 1h27Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Kenny Baker, Frank McHugh, Alice Brady, Gertrude Michael, Jane Wyman, Henry O'Neill
Roles Lil Doremus (uncredited)
Rating54%
A small town electrician becomes a hit singer in New York. When he was asked to sing for a local radio program. Where he gets involved with a gold digger, a thief, an opera singer and the woman he loves. After suffering from bronchitis he uses another voice to still be on the air but then everyone calls him a fake.
Love Is News (1937)
, 1h12Directed by Tay Garnett
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Don Ameche, Slim Summerville, Walter Catlett, Jane Darwell
Roles Dowager Visiting Jail (uncredited)
Rating68%
Stephen "Steve" Leyton (Tyrone Power) is a prying newspaper reporter who works for Martin Canavan (Don Ameche), and he goes after the rich heiress, Tony Gateson (Loretta Young), to get an exclusive story with her. Annoyed with the articles he has published, and the way Steve has labelled her a "Tin Can Countess", Tony turns on him and announces to the press that they are engaged to each other. All this time, she has an actual fiance, Count Andre de Guyon (George Sanders).
Show Boat (1936)
, 1h53Directed by James Whale
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley
Rating73%
The musical's story spans about forty years, from the late 1880s to the late 1920s. Magnolia Hawks is an eighteen-year-old on her family's show boat, the Cotton Palace which travels the Mississippi River putting on shows. She meets Gaylord Ravenal, a charming gambler, falls in love with him, and eventually marries him. Together with their baby daughter, the couple leaves the boat and moves to Chicago, where they live off Gaylord's gambling winnings. After about ten years, he experiences an especially bad losing streak and leaves Magnolia, out of a sense of guilt that he is ruining her life because of his losses. Magnolia is forced to bring up her young daughter alone. In a parallel plot, Julie LaVerne (the show boat's leading actress, who is part African-American, but "passing" as white) is forced to leave the boat because of her background, taking Steve Baker (her white husband, to whom, under the state's law, she is illegally married) with her. Julie is eventually also abandoned by her husband, and she becomes an alcoholic. Magnolia's becomes a success on the stage in Chicago. Twenty-three years later Magnolia and Ravenal are reunited at the theater in which Kim, their daughter, is appearing in her first Broadway starring role.
Klondike Annie (1936)
, 1h20Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Western
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Victor McLaglen, Mae West, Phillip Reed, Helen Jerome Eddy, Harry Beresford, Harold Huber
Rating63%
Dans le Chinatown de San Francisco, Rose Carleton, surnommée "Frisco Doll", travaille comme chanteuse dans la maison de jeux de Chan Lo. Rose rencontre son ami Vance Palmer qui l'informe qu'il a secrètement arrangé son passage sur un bateau à destination de Nome, en Alaska, où elle espère tirer profit de la ruée vers l'or. Vance lui donne un baiser d'adieu, ce qui augmente la jalousie de Chan Lo. Cette même nuit, Rose tue Chan Lo en légitime défense, et elle embarque avec son jeune serviteur Fah Wong à bord du Java Maid. Son capitaine, Bull Brackett, tombe amoureux de Rose et lui donne sa cabine. Il accepte de débarquer Fah Wong à Seattle, et il y apprend que Rose est recherchée pour le meurtre de Chan Lo. Sœur Annie Alden, qui a embarqué à Seattle, est outrée par la moralité de Rose, mais lorsqu'Annie tombe malade, c'est Rose qui la soigne, impressionnée par la nature charitable de la jeune femme. Annie meurt au moment où l'inspecteur Jack Forrest embarque avec l'intention d'arrêter Rose. Celle-ci se fait alors passer pour Annie et elle arrive à convaincre avec l'aide de Bull que la morte est bien "Frisco Doll". Arrivés en Alaska, Rose et Jack commencent à s'apprécier mais un jour il entend une conversation entre elle et Bull qui lui fait comprendre la situation réelle.
Palm Springs (1936)
, 1h12Directed by Aubrey Scotto
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Actors Frances Langford, Guy Standing, Ernest Cossart, David Niven, Spring Byington, Smith Ballew
Roles Mrs. Baxter
Rating61%
The Earl of Blythstone's gambling losses have left him with debts. Unaware of this is daughter Joan, who is in finishing school but has gambling issues of her own, getting expelled after being caught doing exactly that.
And Sudden Death (1936)
, 1h7Directed by Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Randolph Scott, Frances Drake, Tom Brown, Billy Lee, Fuzzy Knight, Porter Hall
Roles Dodie Sloan
Rating58%
Diamond Jim (1935)
, 1h28Directed by A. Edward Sutherland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur, Cesar Romero, Binnie Barnes, Eric Blore, Albert Conti
Roles Mrs. Perry
Rating67%
Diamond Jim Brady (Edward Arnold) is born to an Irish saloonkeeper and his wife in 1856, but is soon orphaned. At the age of thirty, working as baggage master at the Spuyten Duyvil train station, he rents a suit and a diamond from a pawn shop, and gets a job as a salesman; soon, he is the top salesman on the staff.
Dr. Socrates (1935)
, 1h10Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Robert Barrat, Barton MacLane, Hobart Cavanaugh, John Eldredge
Roles Mary
Rating63%
Life Returns (1935)
, 1h3Directed by James Patrick Hogan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Crime
Actors Onslow Stevens, George Breakston, Lois Wilson, Stanley Fields, Valerie Hobson, Frank Reicher
Roles Mrs. Vandergriff
Rating40%
A doctor who is convinced that the dead can be brought back to life gets the chance to prove his theory on a dog that has recently died.
The Gay Deception (1935)
, 1h17Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Francis Lederer, Frances Dee, Benita Hume, Alan Mowbray, Luis Alberni, Akim Tamiroff
Roles Mrs. Dingledorf (uncredited)
Rating67%
Secretary Mirabel Miller (Frances Dee) wins a lottery and decides to live it up in a luxurious New York hotel, where she clashes with a bellboy (Francis Lederer) who is more than he appears to be.
The Raven (1935)
, 1h1Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Horror, Crime
Actors Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Samuel S. Hinds, Lester Matthews, Irene Ware, Inez Courtney
Roles Mrs. Grant
Rating67%
After Jean Thatcher (Ware) has been injured in a car accident, her father, Judge Thatcher (Hinds) and beau Jerry (Matthews) implore retired surgeon Dr. Richard Vollin (Lugosi) to perform a delicate operation to restore her to health. Vollin agrees and is successful; he befriends the spirited and grateful Jean, in the process revealing his passion for all things related to Edgar Allan Poe, including his homemade collection of torture devices inspired by Poe's works (such as a pit, pendulum with scythe, shrinking room, etc.), and identifying the raven as his talisman.