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Gladys George was an American actress.
George went on the stage at the age of 3 and toured the United States, appearing with her parents. She starred on stage in the 1920s, although she had made several films in the early part of that decade. She starred in Personal Appearance, a comedy by Lawrence Riley. This role was reprised by Mae West in the classic film, Go West, Young Man, which West adapted from the play. In 1936 George was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Valiant Is the Word for Carrie.
George's Broadway credits include The Distant City, Lady in Waiting, and The Betrothal.
Her only other first billed roles were in Madame X (1937) and Love is a Headache.[6] She also appeared in The Roaring Twenties (1939), The Way of All Flesh (1940), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and He Ran All the Way (1951). She played the widow of Miles Archer (Iva Archer) in The Maltese Falcon and Mme. Du Barry in Marie Antoinette.
Her last successful roles were as Lute Mae Sanders in Flamingo Road, her brief appearance as the corrupt nurse Miss Hatch in Detective Story, and Lullaby of Broadway as the alcoholic mother of Doris Day's wholesome character.
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01 March 1940
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals.
06 October 1936
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman.
27 August 1937
Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are presented.
01 October 1937
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
05 July 1940
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children.
11 January 1920
Mary Moreland discovers the photograph of a woman not her mother in her father's suitcase and sets out to find her in hopes of returning her father to his rightful place in the family.
17 June 1944
A young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.
25 December 1946
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home.
06 April 1939
Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to buy mules or tractors for its colonial troops.
01 December 1951
Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry.
18 October 1941
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
14 January 1938
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
10 August 1934
Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.
03 February 1948
Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters.
26 August 1938
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries.
13 January 1943
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
19 October 1951
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det.
28 October 1939
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver.
07 May 1937
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
22 April 1953
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California.
30 April 1949
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
02 November 1950
After her father is murdered, a girl joins the police force in an effort to track down the killers.
26 March 1951
Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan.
02 January 1944
Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents of veteran vaudevillian Benny Fields.
11 April 1941
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots.
22 January 1943
A young woman pretends to be a fortune teller in order to find romance.
16 June 1950
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
07 December 1939
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
20 March 1947
An errant mother tries to teach her daughter to avoid the same errors she made by choosing a different lifestyle.
20 June 1951
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.
29 September 1939
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
01 April 1921
Cora and Frank Rodham are happily married until Frank lands a lucrative position. He doesn't want to see his pretty wife slaving away at domestic chores so he hires servants to do the work for her.
27 June 1941
Kids look to get revenge when their fathers are all killed in a mob war.
28 December 1919
A young man working in a steel mill falls in love with an old Scotsman's daughter. The young man saves the life of the steel-mill owner and is adopted by him.
27 August 1943
Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr.
09 July 1945
In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly esteemed racketeer.
13 February 1921
Sailor and novelist Leonard Fayne marries wealthy Isabel Grace, whose riches hamper his creative faculties.
08 June 1920
A widely respected deep-sea diver is approached by a ring of con artists who want him to be the front man for a phony scheme to recover gold from sunken ships.
