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Mary Brian is a Actor American born on 17 february 1906 at Corsicana (USA)
Mary Brian (February 17, 1906 – December 30, 2002) was an American actress and movie star who made the transition from silent films to sound films.
She died of heart failure at age 96 in Del Mar, California. She is interred in the Eternal Love Section, Lot 4134, Space 2, Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery, Los Angeles, overlooking Burbank.
Mary Brian has a star for her contribution to motion pictures on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1559 Vine Street in Hollywood.
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Mary Brian
Birth name Louise Byrdie Dantzler
Nationality USA
Birth 17 february 1906 at Corsicana (USA)
Death 30 december 2002 (at 96 years) at Del Mar (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 17 february 1906 at Corsicana (USA)
Death 30 december 2002 (at 96 years) at Del Mar (USA)
Biography
Though she was engaged numerous times and was linked romantically to numerous Hollywood men, including Cary Grant and notorious womaniser Jack Pickford, Brian had only two husbands: magazine illustrator Jon Whitcomb (for six weeks, beginning May 4, 1941) and film editor George Tomasini (from 1947 until his death in 1964). After retiring from the screen for good, she devoted herself to her husband's career; Tomasini worked as film editor for Hitchcock on the classics Rear Window (1954) and Psycho (1960).She died of heart failure at age 96 in Del Mar, California. She is interred in the Eternal Love Section, Lot 4134, Space 2, Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery, Los Angeles, overlooking Burbank.
Mary Brian has a star for her contribution to motion pictures on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1559 Vine Street in Hollywood.
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Dragnet (1947)
, 1h11Directed by Leslie Goodwins
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Henry Wilcoxon, Mary Brian, Tom Fadden, Douglass Dumbrille, Virginia Dale, Don C. Harvey
Roles Anne Hogan
Rating68%
A dead John Doe is found on the beach and Detective Lieutenant Tony Ricco gets the case to solve. However, there are no clues whatsoever to the dead man's identity and Tony is all out of options to bring the investigation any closer to a finish. An old friend of his from Scotland Yard in London, Geoffrey James, comes to visit him, and Tony asks for some input on the case.
I Was a Criminal (1945)
, 1h11Directed by Richard Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Albert Bassermann, Mary Brian, Eric Blore, Herman Bing, George Chandler, Luis Alberni
Roles Frau Obermueller, the Mayor's Wife
Rating74%
Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt is released from prison after many years of hard labor. His freedom is new to him and, as he tries to navigate this strange new world, he promptly finds himself in the midst of a Prussian catch-22: To get a residence permit (passport), he must have a job, but he can only get a job if he has a residence permit. No one in the Prussian-German bureaucracy feels compelled to help him, everything must go by the book. To escape this vicious circle, out of desperation Voigt breaks into a police station to forge the much needed permit.
Affairs of Cappy Ricks (1937)
Directed by Ralph Staub
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Walter Brennan, Mary Brian, Lyle Talbot, Georgia Caine, Phyllis Barry, William B. Davidson
Roles Frances 'Frankie' Ricks
Rating55%
Cappy Ricks (Walter Brennan) has returned home from a long voyage at sea only to find that his family and business are not as he left them. His daughter Frankie (Mary Brian) is engaged to a dimwit that he isn't fond of. His future mother-in-law has plans for his business and for his prized ship. Cappy Ricks knows he has to end the chaos and set things straight. Now all he needs is a plan.
Navy Blues (1937)
Directed by Ralph Staub
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Dick Purcell, Mary Brian, Warren Hymer, Joe Sawyer, Edward Woods, Horace McMahon
Roles Doris Kimbell
Rating61%
A sailor bets his friends he can date any woman he wants to. They pick out a librarian with a reputation as a "cold fish", and when he pursues her he discovers that he has competition--and his rival has much more sinister intentions than he does.
, 1h20Directed by Alfred Zeisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Cary Grant, Mary Brian, Peter Gawthorne, Charles Farrell, Henry Kendall, John Turnbull
Roles Frances Clayton
Rating63%
Un milliardaire qui s'ennuie parie avec son médecin qu'il sera capable de gagner sa vie pendant un an.
Spendthrift (1936)
, 1h20Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Henry Fonda, Patricia Paterson, Mary Brian, George Barbier, Edward Brophy, Richard Carle
Roles Sally Barnaby
Rating54%
Comédie dans le milieu des courses de chevaux.
Once in a Million (1936)
Directed by Arthur B. Woods
Genres Comedy
Actors Buddy Rogers, Mary Brian, Charles Carson, Iris Hoey, Jimmy Godden
Roles Suzanne
Rating58%
Two's Company (1936)
Directed by Tim Whelan
Genres Thriller
Actors Ned Sparks, Gordon Harker, Mary Brian, Patric Knowles, Olive Blakeney, Morton Selten
Roles Julia Madison
Three Married Men (1936)
, 1h6Directed by Edward Buzzell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Lynne Overman, William Frawley, Roscoe Karns, Mary Brian, George Barbier, Marjorie Gateson
Roles Jennie Mullins
Rating66%
Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
, 1h5Directed by W. C. Fields, Clyde Bruckman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Mary Brian, W. C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Grady Sutton, Billy Bletcher, Vera Lewis
Roles Hope Wolfinger
Rating74%
Ambrose Wolfinger works as a "memory expert" for a manufacturing company's president; he keeps files of details about all the people President Malloy (Oscar Apfel) meets with, so that Malloy will never be embarrassed about not remembering things when meeting with them. Ambrose supports himself, his shrewish wife Leona (Kathleen Howard), his loving daughter Hope (from a previous marriage; played by Mary Brian), his freeloading brother-in-law Claude (Grady Sutton), and his abusive mother-in-law Cordelia (Vera Lewis).
Charlie Chan in Paris (1935)
, 1h12Directed by Lewis Seiler, Hamilton MacFadden
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Warner Oland, Mary Brian, Thomas Beck, John Miljan, John Qualen, Keye Luke
Roles Yvette Lamartine
Rating70%
Chan is on his way back from completing the London case—they always mentioned the previous case—to go on "vacation" to Paris, but this is just a way to make people think that he is innocently there. He is on a case for some London bankers and customers who say that some bonds from the Lamartine Bank in Paris are forged, so they hired Chan to solve the case. The suspects Chan meets include; Max Corday, a local artist who wants to reap the financial rewards of fame; Albert Dufresne, the assistant to the bank president who is living beyond his means; Henri Latouche, a bank officer who has access to financial bank records; Yvette Lamartine, the daughter of the bank president who is determined to recover old love letters from the bank vault; and Marcel Xavier, a crippled and blind beggar and "crazed World War I veteran who thinks that the bank is cheating on him and wants his money.
Monte Carlo Nights (1934)
, 1h2Directed by William Nigh
Origin USA
Genres Crime, Romance
Actors Mary Brian, John Darrow, Yola d'Avril, Astrid Allwyn, George "Gabby" Hayes, Robert Frazer
Roles Mary Vernon
Rating51%
A man wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of real killer. The problem is that he only has one clue to go on.
College Rhythm (1934)
, 1h26Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Joe Penner, Jack Oakie, Lyda Roberti, Helen Mack, Jane Wyman, George Barbier
Roles Gloria Van Dayham
Rating60%
Private Scandal (1934)
, 1h2Directed by Ralph Murphy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Zasu Pitts, Phillips Holmes, Mary Brian, Ned Sparks, Lew Cody, June Brewster
Roles Fran Somers
Rating69%
Ever Since Eve (1934)
, 1h17Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors George O'Brien, Mary Brian, Herbert Mundin, Betty Blythe, Roger Imhof, Russell Simpson
Roles Elizabeth Vandergrift