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Sheila Terry is a Actor American born on 5 march 1910 at Warroad (USA)
Sheila Terry (March 5, 1910 – January 19, 1957) was an American film actress. She was born Kay Clark in Warroad, Minnesota.
In 1937, she married William Magee of San Francisco, and retired from show business. After his death, Terry wanted to return to show business, but couldn't find a job.
In 1947, she said in a newspaper-interview: "I'm going back into show business and I need an act, I can't sing, I can't dance and I can't play the piano. I should be terrific in night clubs".
She worked as a press agent for 15 years.
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Birth name Kathleen Eleanor Mulheron
Nationality USA
Birth 5 march 1910 at Warroad (USA)
Death 19 january 1957 (at 46 years) at New York City (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 5 march 1910 at Warroad (USA)
Death 19 january 1957 (at 46 years) at New York City (USA)
Sheila Terry (March 5, 1910 – January 19, 1957) was an American film actress. She was born Kay Clark in Warroad, Minnesota.
Biography
She married Major Laurence E. Clark, a wealthy Toronto socialite on August 16, 1928. She divorced him February 16, 1934.In 1937, she married William Magee of San Francisco, and retired from show business. After his death, Terry wanted to return to show business, but couldn't find a job.
In 1947, she said in a newspaper-interview: "I'm going back into show business and I need an act, I can't sing, I can't dance and I can't play the piano. I should be terrific in night clubs".
She worked as a press agent for 15 years.
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Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)
, 1h6Directed by William Hamilton, Edward Killy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors James Gleason, Helen Broderick, Louise Latimer, John Arledge, John Carroll, Willie Best
Roles "High Pockets"
Rating61%
An apparent accident involving a horse in Central Park leads a police inspector to join forces with a brash amateur detective, (Hildegarde Withers, played by Helen Broderick) and solve a woman's death.
Go-Get-'Em, Haines (1936)
, 1h3Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Crime, Western
Actors William Boyd, Yakima Canutt, Sheila Terry, Eleanor Hunt, Duncan Renaldo, Marie Prevost
Roles Jane Kent
Rating50%
Ace report Steve Haines is on the trail of Edward Baldwin, the former head of a public utilities company that has bankrupted and defrauded its investors out of their life savings. Haines trails Baldwin to an ocean liner where he is planning to flee to Europe. During the voyage Haines is impressed by the company on the ship, including a famous actor and his singing daughter and a gangster. Haines organises a pantomime melodrama to entertain the passengers using his new acquaitances and convinces Baldwin to take a role playing a man who is murdered. Prior to going on the stage the prop revolver is replaced with a real one.
Special Investigator (1936)
, 1h1Directed by Louis King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Richard Dix, Owen Gould Davis, Jr., Joe Sawyer, J. Carrol Naish, Dick Elliott, Sheila Terry
Roles Judy Taylor
Rating60%
Bill Fenwick (Richard Dix) is a criminal defense attorney who's near the top of his career, wealthy from defending gangsters and getting them off, but when he learns from Inspector Perkett (Russell Hicks) that his brother George (Owen Davis, Jr.), an agent for the Justice Department, was killed by notorious racketeer Edward J. Selton (J. Carroll Naish) during a raid to recover a half million dollars in stolen gold bullion, he quits his practice to find his brother's murderer. On a tip from Bennie Grey (Erik Rhodes), a former client, Bill goes undercover and opens a law office in Quartzburg, Nevada under the name of "Richard Galt", to investigate the sudden gold strike at the formerly closed mine at the Gold Bar Ranch, which may be the stolen bullion "re-mined".
A Scream in the Night (1935)
, 58minutesDirected by Fred C. Newmeyer
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Lon Chaney, Jr., Sheila Terry, Philip Ahn, John Ince, Richard Cramer, Merrill McCormick
Roles Edith Bentley
Rating44%
A colonial police detective in an Eastern seaport seeks a stolen gem, and infiltrates the underworld by posing as a look-alike wharfside bar owner.
The Lawless Frontier (1934)
, 59minutesDirected by Robert N. Bradbury
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors John Wayne, Sheila Terry, George "Gabby" Hayes, Jay Wilsey, Jack Rockwell, Yakima Canutt
Roles Ruby
Rating51%
The movie opens with a family shooting from the window of their home, as they are robbed of their cattle. John Tobin (John Wayne) arrives home later that night and discovers his family killed and their cattle missing.
Randy Rides Alone (1934)
, 53minutesDirected by Harry L. Fraser, Robert N. Bradbury
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors John Wayne, Alberta Vaughn, George "Gabby" Hayes, Sheila Terry, Yakima Canutt, Earl Dwire
Rating53%
Bandits led by Matt the Mute enter a bar and kill multiple people. Randy Bowers comes to town and is framed by Matt the Mute, who is working with the sheriff, who doesn't know that Matt is really a criminal. Matt the Mute writes out everything he wants to say. Randy escapes with the help of Sally Rogers, the niece of the dead owner of the bar. Bowers runs from the sheriff, and ends up in the cave in which the bandits have their hideout. They kidnap Sally, who escapes with the help of Bowers. Matt the Mute is killed when he enters the bar, which is filled with explosives, and the niece marries Randy.
'Neath the Arizona Skies (1934)
, 52minutesDirected by Harry L. Fraser
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors John Wayne, Sheila Terry, Harry L. Fraser, Frank Hall Crane, Shirley Jean Rickert, George "Gabby" Hayes
Roles Clara Moore
Rating50%
Chris Morrell (John Wayne), the guardian of half-Indian girl Nina (Shirley Jean Rickert), is helping her find her missing white father, so she can cash in on her late mother's oil lease. Outlaw Sam Black (Yakima Canutt) is after the girl and her father as well. Besides dealing with the Black gang, Morrell has to find another robber, Jim Moore, who switches clothes with him after he finds Chris unconscious from a fight with Sam Black. Along the way, he meets a lady who's the sister of Jim Moore (Buffalo Bill Jr.), another bad hombre who's in cahoots with Jim Moore, and an old friend who takes in Nina and helps Chris locate Nina's father and fight off the various desperadoes.
Parachute Jumper (1933)
, 1h5Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd, Leon Ames, Leo Carrillo
Roles Weber's Secretary (uncredited)
Rating63%
United States Marine Corps Lieutenants and pilots Bill Keller (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) and "Toodles" Cooper (Frank McHugh) are shot down in the skies over Nicaragua. When they are found drunk and unharmed in a cantina, they and the Marine Corps go their separate ways. They are offered jobs as commercial pilots, but when they arrive in New York City, they find their would-be employer has gone bankrupt.
Convention City (1933)
, 1h9Directed by Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell, Mary Astor, Adolphe Menjou, Frank McHugh
Roles Mrs. Kent
Rating69%
The plot revolves around the convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. Throughout the film, the employees of Honeywell Rubber are mainly concerned with drinking and sex. President J.B. Honeywell (Grant Mitchell) is to choose a new company salesmanager. T.R. Kent (Adolphe Menjou) and George Ellerbe (Guy Kibbee) are two salesmen who both want the job. However, they both get into trouble: T.R. is discredited when jealous saleswoman Arlene Dale (Mary Astor) interferes with his attempted seduction of J.B.'s daughter and George attempts to seduce Nancy Lorraine (Joan Blondell). The position of sales manager is bestowed upon a drunken employee as a bribe after he catches J.B. about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator".
The House on 56th Street (1933)
Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Gene Raymond, John Halliday, Margaret Lindsay, William Boyd
Roles Dolly
Rating64%
The Mayor of Hell (1933)
, 1h30Directed by Michael Curtiz, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors James Cagney, Madge Evans, Frankie Darro, Arthur Byron, Allen Jenkins, Dudley Digges
Roles Blonde with Mike
Rating68%
Racketeer Patsy Gargan is made deputy commissioner of a reform school as a reward from his corrupt political cronies. Initially, he has no interest in the school, but his sympathy for the boys, who are abused and battered by a brutal, heartless warden and his thuggish guards convince him to take the job seriously. As does an attractive resident nurse named Dorothy.
Private Detective 62 (1933)
, 1h6Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Actors William Powell, Margaret Lindsay, Ruth Donnelly, Gordon Westcott, Arthur Hohl, Natalie Moorhead
Roles Mrs. Wright (Uncredited)
Rating66%
In France, United States State Department employee Donald Free (William Powell) is caught trying to steal French state papers. Free is released from his job and is deported. Back in the US, Free has a hard time finding another job due to the Great Depression. Free convinces Dan Hogan (Arthur Hohl), the crooked and incompentent owner of the Peerless Detective Agency to partner with him. Without Free's knowledge, Hogan becomes financed with gangster Tony Bandor (Gordon Westcott) and business booms.
The Sphinx (1933)
, 1h4Directed by Wilfred Lucas, Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Lionel Atwill, Paul Hurst, Sheila Terry, Robert Ellis, Theodore Newton, Wilfred Lucas
Roles Jerry Crane
Rating56%
A man comes out of the office of "Garfield Investment Company". He meets the janitor in the stairs and asks him for a match, and then what time it is. "It's nine" the Italian-American janitor Luigi Bacciagalupi (Luis Alberni) answers and wants to know from which apartment he came out. The man leaves without answering. Short after the janitor finds a dead man in the office of "Garfield Investment Company". Newspaperman Burton (Theodore Newton) from the Chronicle is there to talk with the inspector. Before he can see him he talks with the watching police officer and after a while he realizes that the Garfield Investment Company just that morning went bankrupty. "Another broker went down the flush". The janitor recognizes on the police-records the man that came out from the office, Mr. Breed. During the trial he sticks to what he has seen and what he has heard, though two different doctors testify that Mr. Breed is deaf and mute since birth.
Lawyer Man (1933)
, 1h12Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors William Powell, Joan Blondell, David Landau, Helen Vinson, Claire Dodd, Alan Dinehart, Sr.
Roles Flo - Gilmurry's Moll (uncredited)
Rating64%
Anton Adam is a lawyer who has just got a client acquitted against the uptown New York lawyer Granville Bentley. Granville offers the poor lawyer partnership and he accepts. Anton's faithful secretary Olga Michaels isn't delighted to see Anton disrespecting the law. His downfall comes when he meets the beautiful Virginia, an actress who is introduced as a woman whose doctor has abandoned her and now seeks help.
The Silk Express (1933)
, 1h1Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Neil Hamilton, Sheila Terry, Arthur Byron, Guy Kibbee, Dudley Digges, Arthur Hohl
Roles Paula Nyberg
Rating60%
Donald Kilgore is determined to take a shipment of silk from Seattle to New York City by rail to break a monopoly set up by gangster Wallace Myton. Also aboard the train are Professor Axel Nyberg and his daughter Paula. He is paralyzed (except for the use of his eyes) and needs an operation in New York urgently to save his life. Myton has agents planted on the train to make sure the silk does not arrive in time.