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Virginia Carroll is a Actor American born on 2 december 1913 at Los Angeles (USA)
Virginia Carroll (December 2, 1913 – July 23, 2009) was an American actress. She was best known for her appearance in a number of western films
Carroll was born Virginia Broberg in Los Angeles on December 2, 1913. Her brother, Frank Carroll, became a Los Angeles newscaster. She worked as a model at a department store in Los Angeles until she began her film career in 1935.
Carroll was initially cast in a small part as a fashion model in the 1935 film, Roberta. She appeared in her first western film less than a year later in 1936's A Tenderfoot Goes West, co-starring Jack La Rue.
Carroll became a staple in B-listed western feature films. She appeared on screen in these westerns opposite Tex Ritter, Don "Red" Barry, Roy Rogers, Johnny Mack Brown, Bill Elliott, Gene Autry and Whip Wilson. Her roles included the 1942 film, Prairie Gunsmoke.
Carroll was also cast in television roles later in her acting career, including roles on The Roy Rogers Show, Dragnet, The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok and Perry Mason.
Carroll married her first husband, actor Ralph Byrd, in 1936. Byrd would become best known for his role as comic strip hero, Dick Tracy. Carroll and Byrd remained married until his death in 1952. She was married to her second husband, Lloyd McLean, a 20th Century Fox film projectionist, in 1957. The couple remained married until McLean's death in 1969, leaving Carroll a widow for the second time.
Virginia Carroll died at a Santa Barbara, California, retirement community on July 23, 2009, of natural causes at the age of 95. She is survived by one daughter from her marriage to Ralph Byrd, Carroll Byrd Evangeline.
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Virginia Carroll
Nationality USA
Birth 2 december 1913 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 23 july 2009 (at 95 years) at Santa Barbara (USA)
Birth 2 december 1913 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 23 july 2009 (at 95 years) at Santa Barbara (USA)
Virginia Carroll (December 2, 1913 – July 23, 2009) was an American actress. She was best known for her appearance in a number of western films
Carroll was born Virginia Broberg in Los Angeles on December 2, 1913. Her brother, Frank Carroll, became a Los Angeles newscaster. She worked as a model at a department store in Los Angeles until she began her film career in 1935.
Carroll was initially cast in a small part as a fashion model in the 1935 film, Roberta. She appeared in her first western film less than a year later in 1936's A Tenderfoot Goes West, co-starring Jack La Rue.
Carroll became a staple in B-listed western feature films. She appeared on screen in these westerns opposite Tex Ritter, Don "Red" Barry, Roy Rogers, Johnny Mack Brown, Bill Elliott, Gene Autry and Whip Wilson. Her roles included the 1942 film, Prairie Gunsmoke.
Carroll was also cast in television roles later in her acting career, including roles on The Roy Rogers Show, Dragnet, The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok and Perry Mason.
Carroll married her first husband, actor Ralph Byrd, in 1936. Byrd would become best known for his role as comic strip hero, Dick Tracy. Carroll and Byrd remained married until his death in 1952. She was married to her second husband, Lloyd McLean, a 20th Century Fox film projectionist, in 1957. The couple remained married until McLean's death in 1969, leaving Carroll a widow for the second time.
Virginia Carroll died at a Santa Barbara, California, retirement community on July 23, 2009, of natural causes at the age of 95. She is survived by one daughter from her marriage to Ralph Byrd, Carroll Byrd Evangeline.
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A New Kind of Love (1963)
, 1h50Directed by Melville Shavelson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Thelma Ritter, Eva Gabor, George Tobias, Marvin Kaplan
Roles Shopper (uncredited)
Rating58%
A womanizing American reporter assigned in Paris (Paul Newman) mistakes a cynical fashion copycat designer (Joanne Woodward) for a prostitute after she receives a makeover. He decides to interview her for a series of articles, then falls in love with her. The girl goes along with it, first out of revenge as he snubbed her during a past encounter, then out of feelings of her own.
The Story on Page One (1959)
, 2h3Directed by Clifford Odets
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Children's films
Actors Rita Hayworth, Anthony Franciosa, Gig Young, Mildred Dunnock, Katherine Squire, Sanford Meisner
Roles Police Matron (uncredited)
Rating67%
After her marriage turns loveless and dull, Josephine "Jo" Morris (Hayworth) finds comfort and company with Larry Ellis (Young), a widower. The two soon begin an affair. After Larry accidentally kills Jo's husband during a struggle over a gun, the two are tried for his murder.
Bigger Than Life (1956)
, 1h35Directed by Nicholas Ray
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about drugs, Films about psychiatry, Children's films
Actors James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau, Robert F. Simon, Christopher Olsen, or Chris Olsen, Roland Winters
Roles Mrs. Jones (uncredited)
Rating73%
Schoolteacher and family man Ed Avery (James Mason), who has been suffering bouts of severe pain and even blackouts, is hospitalized with what is diagnosed as polyarteritis nodosa, a rare inflammation of the arteries. Told by doctors that he probably has only months to live, Ed agrees to an experimental treatment: doses of the hormone cortisone.
Violent Saturday (1955)
, 1h25Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Lee Marvin, Stephen McNally, Virginia Leith, Tommy Noonan
Roles Carol, Martin's Secretary
Rating68%
Harper (Stephen McNally) is a bank robber posing as a traveling salesman. He arrives in town, soon to be joined by sadistic benzedrine addict Dill (Lee Marvin) and bookish Chapman (J. Carrol Naish).
Headline Hunters (1955)
Directed by William Witney
Genres Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Rod Cameron, Julie Bishop, Ben Cooper, Raymond Greenleaf, Charles "Chubby" Johnson, John Warburton
Roles Elsie Hoffman
Rating52%
Dave Flynn, un jeune diplômé sortant d'une école de journalisme est engagé au Daily Enquirer. Le rédacteur en chef lui confie une enquête sur un homme ayant reçu des menaces de mort.
Pickup on South Street (1953)
, 1h20Directed by Samuel Fuller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films, Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Richard Kiley, Murvyn Vye, Willis Bouchey
Roles Nurse (uncredited)
Rating75%
On a crowded New York City subway train, pickpocket Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) steals Candy's (Jean Peters) wallet. Unbeknownst to Skip or Candy, in the wallet is microfilm of top-secret government information. Candy was delivering an envelope as a final favor to her ex-boyfriend, Joey (Richard Kiley). Joey told her it contains stolen business secrets,and she believed him, unaware that Joey is actually a communist spy.
Pals of the Golden West (1951)
Directed by William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Roy Barcroft, Estelita Rodríguez, Anthony Caruso, Ken Terrell
Roles Wells' Secretary (uncredited)
Rating60%
Le patrouilleur de frontière Roy Rogers reçoit la mission d'empêcher le bétail mexicain, porteur de la maladie du sabot et de la fièvre aphteuse, de franchir la frontière. Il conclut un accord de coopération avec le commandant Lopez, qui a une mission analogue sur la rive mexicaine. Mais celui-ci est sauvagement abattu alors qu'il tentait d'intercepter un troupeau.
, 1h10Directed by William Nigh, Jon English, John English
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Musical, Western
Actors Gene Autry, Patricia Barry, Douglass Dumbrille, Morey Amsterdam, Clayton Moore, Harry Cheshire
Roles Townswoman at Hearing (uncredited)
Rating57%
In the North Woods, Forester Charles Carter (Jason Robards Sr.) discovers that a Tussock Moth infection is threatening to devastate the great woods. This threatens the plans of Henry Mitchell (Douglass Dumbrille), who holds exclusive logging rights for the forest. Mitchell figures that if the moths infest and kill the trees, he can harvest all the dead trees, unencumbered by logging restrictions. When Carter tries to phone in the infestation threat, Mitchell covertly cuts the line, forcing Carter to ride into town to report the problem. Meanwhile along the trail, Gene Autry (Gene Autry) and Forester Joe Lucas (Jimmy Lloyd), who have been drinking, come across a mountain lion, and Gene fires several shots at the wild animal. Mitchell, who has been following the forester, uses the last shot as cover to shoot Carter in the back, leaving him where Autry will assume Carter was killed by his errant shot.
The Black Widow (1947)
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred C. Brannon
Genres Science fiction, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors Carol Forman, Anthony Warde, Ramsay Ames, I. Stanford Jolley, Brother Theodore, Virginia Carroll
Roles Dr. Ann Curry
Rating64%
The Editor of the Daily Clarion newspaper hires amateur criminologist Steve Colt to solve a series of murders, all involving poisonous spider bites.
Murder in the Music Hall (1946)
, 1h24Directed by John English
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Vera Ralston, William Horace Marshall, William Marshall, Helen Walker, Nancy Kelly, William Gargan
Roles Cashier
Rating61%
A Guy Could Change (1946)
, 1h5Directed by William K. Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Allan Lane, Jane Frazee, Robert Blake, Wallace Ford, Mary Treen, Adele Mara
Roles Salesgirl
Rating53%
Faces in the Fog (1944)
, 1h11Directed by John English
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jane Withers, Paul Kelly, Lee Patrick, John Litel, Dorothy Peterson, Gertrude Michael
Roles Hospital Nurse
Rating56%
Pot o' Gold (1941)
, 1h26Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors James Stewart, Paulette Goddard, Charles Winninger, Mary Gordon, Jed Prouty, Charles Arnt
Roles Haskell's Secretary (uncredited)
Rating59%
The film tells of a couple romantically involved despite family feuds.
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
, 1h48Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Political films, Films based on plays, Erotic thriller films
Actors Robert Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Lucile Watson, Virginia Field, Maria Ouspenskaïa, C. Aubrey Smith
Roles Sylvia
Rating76%
After Britain's declaration of World War II, Roy Cronin (Robert Taylor), an army colonel, is being driven to London's Waterloo Station en route to France, and briefly alights on Waterloo Bridge to reminisce about events which occurred during the First World War when he met Myra Lester (Vivien Leigh) whom he had planned to marry. While Roy gazes at a good luck charm, a billiken that she had given him, the story unfolds.
Mysterious Doctor Satan (1940)
Directed by William Witney, John English
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Superhero films
Actors Eduardo Ciannelli, Robert Wilcox, Charles Montague Shaw, Charles Trowbridge, Jack Mulhall, Edwin Stanley
Roles Nurse
Rating73%
Governor Bronson, who raised Wayne from childhood after the death of his parents, is killed at the hands of a world-domination-seeking mad scientist called Doctor Satan. Fearing his death might be at hand, as it has been for everyone else who had opposed the Doctor, the Governor first confides in Wayne with a secret about his past. Bob's father was really an outlaw in the Old West, who fought injustice while wearing a chainmail cowl and leaving small coiled copper snakes as his calling card.