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Jeanne Bates

Jeanne Bates

Jeanne Bates began her acting career while a student at San Mateo Junior College, appearing on radio soap operas in San Francisco. She played the lead in an airwave mystery series, Lew X. Lansworth's "Whodunit" (Bates' scream was the show's "signature"), which became so successful that it (and Bates) moved to Hollywood in 1941. Bates and Lansworth married in 1943. By the time the two were married, Bates was already under contract to Columbia Pictures, where she debuted in a Boston Blackie mystery.

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Movies Starring Jeanne Bates (37)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting ...

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Mulholland Dr. (1999)

The original TV pilot version of Mulholland Drive, telling the story of an amnesiac woman in Los Angeles who sets out to uncover the secrets of her own past with the help of a wannabe actress. Filmed in early 1999 and never aired, this version has only eve ...

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Dream Lover (1994)

Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman he married. ...

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Grand Canyon (1991)

Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one finds himself ...

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Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue (1991)

Blue is a teenage girl who lives with her Jazz playing father Ham. Ham gets very sick and dies, and now Blue must support herself somehow. Elle, the headmistress at a brothel, talks her into living and working at her establishment. She decides to leave the ...

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Public Enemy #2 (1991)

Second City Television alumnus Dave Thomas stars in this hilarious spoof of "America's Most Wanted." Thomas portrays Wynn Dalton, a talentless acting hopeful who bears an uncanny resemblance to Dwayne Gary Steckler (also played by Thomas), a psycho killer ...

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Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4 (1990)

A reporter investigating the bizarre death of a woman who leaped from a building in flames finds herself mixed up in a cult of witches who are making her part of their sacrificial ceremony during the Christmas season. ...

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Die Hard 2 (1990)

One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists ...

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Mom (1990)

During a time when the city of Los Angeles is terrorized by animal attack style murders, a kindly elderly lady provides a nomad with room and board. It turns out that he is a werewolf and is responsible for the recent killings. He bites the elderly woman, ...

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From the Dead of Night (1989)

After having a near death experience Joanna finds her life in constant danger. She begins to believe that certain forces are trying to bring her back into the world of the dead. Her boyfriend Glen thinks she's crazy so Joanna turns to her ex-boyfriend, Pet ...

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Getting Married (1978)

A man falls madly in love with a pretty newscaster and goes all out to win her heart and her hand in marriage before she weds another man. ...

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Eraserhead (1977)

First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child. ...

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Gus (1976)

The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so happy. ...

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The Strangler (1964)

An overweight lab technician with low self esteem, brought on by his dominant mother, becomes a serial killer of female nurses. ...

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The Slowest Gun in the West (1960)

The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff. Fletcher is so cowardly the townsfolk are sure that the local outlaws will be too proud to gun him down. T ...

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Vice Raid (1959)

A prostitute sets out to frame a cop. ...

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Hi Grandma! (1958)

A young mechanical genius invents a recording device that can play back the voices of the dead. Here, the voice is that of the genius's evil-dead grandmother. A woman whose malign influence scarred her own children for life and corrupted the innocence of h ...

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Blood Arrow (1958)

Phyllis Coates, TV's erstwhile Lois Lane, essays one of her largest film roles in Blood Arrow. Coates is cast as a devout Mormon girl whose mission is to transport smallpox vaccine to her friends and neighbors. Unfortunately, this requires her to journey t ...

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Guns Don't Argue (1957)

The actions of various criminals such as Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and Baby Face Nelson are reenacted in this film. ...

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Trooper Hook (1957)

When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escapes custody and attempts to re-claim his son. ...

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General Electric Theater: Into the Night (1955)

A husband and wife are driving on a trip to Palm Springs. They stop for gas and are kidnapped by a pair of criminals, who have just killed a store clerk during a robbery. They plan to flee to Mexico and need the couple to help get them through police roadb ...

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Sabaka (1955)

A fire worshipping cult of Indian is disbanded by a man, his elephant and tiger. ...

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Death of a Salesman (1951)

Willy Loman, an aging, failing salesman, struggles to accept reality and his failure to achieve the American Dream. ...

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The Mask of Diijon (1946)

A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt. ...

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Tonight and Every Night (1945)

An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall. ...

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Sergeant Mike (1944)

A soldier becomes quite upset when he is transferred from the highly coveted machine-gun unit to the canine corps. He begins to change his opinion when he learns that his army dog Mike was a gift from an eight-year-old whose father was killed in the war. N ...

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It's Murder (1944)

Documentary short film explaining the need for secrecy in the exchange of sensitive government information, so as to prevent sabotage or subversion of the American war effort. ...

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The Soul of a Monster (1944)

A man recovers on his death bed after his wife makes a mysterious pact with a strange woman. But is he really alive? ...

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Shadows in the Night (1944)

A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion. ...

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She's a Soldier Too (1944)

Wartime workers deal with homefront dramatics. ...

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The Black Parachute (1944)

A paratrooper drops behind enemy lines to rescue the deposed king of a mythical Balkan nation. ...

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Sundown Valley (1944)

In this wartime western, an evil Nazi and his partner endeavor to sabotage a western gunsight plant. ...

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The Racket Man (1944)

A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees to help the FBI break up a black market ring by pretending to have been kicked out of service and to have resumed his old life of crime. ...

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The Phantom (1943)

Two expeditions are trying to reach the Lost City of Zoloz -- one headed by Professor Davidson, a scientist who wants to establish an archaeological site, and the other by a greedy treasure hunter who wants to keep the fabled treasures of the city for hims ...

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There's Something About a Soldier (1943)

Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training. ...

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The Return of the Vampire (1943)

In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scien ...

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The Chance of a Lifetime (1943)

A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant. ...

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