Betty Furness Trailers
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Elizabeth Mary Furness (January 3, 1916 – April 2, 1994) was an American actress, consumer advocate, and current affairs commentator. She began her professional career as a model before being noticed by a talent scout and being signed to a film contract in 1932 by RKO Studios. Her first film role was as the "Thirteenth Woman" in the film Thirteen Women (1932) but her scenes were deleted before the film's release.
Over the next few years, she appeared in several RKO films, and became a popular actress. Among her film successes were Magnificent Obsession (1935) and the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film Swing Time (1936). By the end of the decade, she had appeared in over forty films, but during the 1940s, she found it difficult to secure acting roles. In 1948, Furness was performing in the television series Studio One, which was broadcast live. She filled in for an actor to promote Westinghouse products during the advertisement break, and impressed the company with her easy and professional manner. They offered her a contract to promote their products and she thus became closely associated with them.
Most Popular Betty Furness Trailers
Total trailers found: 46
22 October 1936
Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy.
06 October 1934
A college football team recruits a tough convict.
28 July 1933
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
24 June 1933
A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
05 March 1937
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
15 July 1937
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
26 December 1933
A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.
22 September 1933
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.
03 February 1933
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
25 November 1932
A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.
04 December 1934
Friends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide.
23 April 1937
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
28 May 1933
Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK.
11 January 1936
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs.
20 October 1933
A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army.
14 July 1935
A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man called Bee Master and his protégé, Little Scout, who try to convince him that he has more to live for than he thinks he does.
24 January 1939
In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war.
12 March 1935
Dan McFadden builds an apartment house in a working-class neighborhood on New York's East Side called "McFadden's Flats.
20 September 1954
Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 September 1954, the drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title and again for a feature film, 12 Angry Men (1957).
05 February 1937
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.
07 December 1934
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.
14 June 1934
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues the relationship with his true love.
05 February 1937
Newspaper photographer Jim Tyler sneaks into a society girl's wedding, and the bride's sister decides she prefers him to her upper-crust suitors.
28 June 1935
A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
15 June 1952
Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the second half is focused on the "Spring Sales Event," called "Freedomland.
21 December 1934
A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
22 December 1952
The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.
21 February 1934
John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill.
28 August 1936
Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her.
07 April 1952
The story, set 15 years after the Crucifixion, of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who is depicted as a victim of circumstances.
22 December 1933
An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance, The Carioca.
23 January 1950
To keep her former fiancé from leaving her, a neurotic young woman (Louise Allbritton) fakes a riding accident, and feigns paralysis of her lower body.
30 December 1935
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
10 March 1933
Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.
15 May 1936
Riding in his private car on Christmas day, railroad tycoon Hatcher prefers work to celebrating, while his son Joe prefers having a good time.
15 February 1935
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
03 March 1933
Generational saga about a failed streetcar conductor, who finds success as an Atlantic City fortune teller, and his son.
28 September 1936
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D.
30 August 1935
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
25 February 1957
The pilot for the television series, "The Defenders." The story of Walter and Kenneth Pearson, a father-and-son legal team.
18 October 1933
Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption.
30 October 1950
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
22 September 1952
Jeff and his family just moved into a small, rural community. When two sinister locals tamper with Jeff's water pump, a fight breaks out among the three.
12 November 1951
The story of James Otis who was a part of the American revolution. He contested in court the right of the British to search colonists' homes.
16 October 1936
A country bumpkin who's a mathematical genius falls into the hands of gangsters.
01 January 1959
A promotional short from Westinghouse.
