Biography

Reliable character actress who is perhaps known for her performance as Sweet Sue in Billy Wilder's comedy classic, "Some Like It Hot" (1959).

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8.093

1959

Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by ...

Some Like It Hot

1959 Comedy Romance

8.191

1960

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to ...

The Apartment

1960 Comedy Drama

7.42

1963

When a naive policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn’t want her seeing other men and cre...

Irma la Douce

1963 Romance Comedy

5.5

1963

Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be ver...

Critic's Choice

1963 Comedy Romance

2.8

1950

Tigri and her stone age friends, all of which are women, hate all men. However, she and her Amazon t...

Prehistoric Women

1950 Fantasy Adventure

0

1954

A girl owns a horse, and hires a boy as a trainer. The horse enters a race and is injured. The boy t...

Pride of the Blue Grass

1954 Drama

6.3

1967

Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry s...

Tony Rome

1967 Crime Mystery

6.3

1947

Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan g...

Buck Privates Come Home

1947 Comedy Romance

6.8

1950

Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspec...

Woman on the Run

1950 Thriller Crime

6.1

1955

The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers....

Bowery to Bagdad

1955 Comedy Fantasy

0

1975

In this pilot film for the later series, a former secret agent, now a private investigator, is hired...

Matt Helm

1975 Action Crime

6

1947

A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue....

I'll Be Yours

1947 Music Comedy

0

1946

Two private eyes compete to find an heiress and bring her back, unmarried, to New York....

The Runaround

1946 Comedy Mystery

5.4

1971

Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in ...

One More Train to Rob

1971 Western Comedy

6.2

1946

In Tangier, disgraced American war correspondent Paul Kenyon, café dancer Rita and local entrepreneu...

Tangier

1946 Adventure Drama

6.2

1946

A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful....

Lover Come Back

1946 Comedy

5

1946

Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to C...

Cuban Pete

1946 Music Comedy

7.3

1953

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's...

From Here to Eternity

1953 War Romance

6.6

1975

Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge d...

Farewell, My Lovely

1975 Crime Mystery

0

1977

Pilot to the short-lived TV series "The Feather and Father Gang" has Detective Feather Danton and he...

Never Con a Killer

1977 TV Movie

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1963

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1967

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1971

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