Georgia Backus
Actor · 1900 – 1983 · Columbus, Ohio, USA
Georgia Belden Backus was an American character actress on stage, radio and screen. She was also a writer, director and producer of radio dramas. In 1930 she was named dramatic director of the Columbia Broadcasting System, to guide the development of the new art of the radio play.
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Movie8.0MysteryDramaNewspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Citizen Kane
1941 · 6.2K votes
Movie7.3DramaRomanceThe spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942 · 493 votes
Movie6.9RomanceFantasyA 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when she discovers that her mischief might have found her true love.
I Married a Witch
1942 · 231 votes
Movie6.9DramaCrimeA penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
No Man of Her Own
1950 · 48 votes
Movie6.8CrimeThrillerThrough a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
Too Late for Tears
1949 · 99 votes
Movie6.9DramaWarThe story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
The Moon Is Down
1943 · 14 votes
Movie6.3WarDramaAn anti-Nazi refugee on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
So Ends Our Night
1941 · 13 votes
Movie5.9ThrillerDramaA bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.
Cause for Alarm!
1951 · 43 votes
Movie6.6CrimeDramaLawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
Force of Evil
1950 · 145 votes
Movie6.5RomanceComedyBold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr. McBain's ex-wife comes looking for money.
The Lady Is Willing
1942 · 10 votes
Movie7.5WarDramaAn Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes him realize his mistake in leaving. He makes a deal with the Nazis to return in exchange for some Austrian prisoners, but discovers that the Nazis are not to be trusted.
They Dare Not Love
1941 · 2 votes
Movie5.7AdventureRomanceAn agent of Mexico poses as a pirate to foil a would-be emperor in 1820s California.
The Mark of the Renegade
1951 · 10 votes
Movie5.7WesternA group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them, under the impression that he is the legendary Colonel Desmond. It seems they're wrong; but Johnny's show comes to Coppertown and Johnny romances lovely gambler Lisa Roselle, whom the miners believe is at the center of their troubles.
Copper Canyon
1950 · 24 votes
Movie8.3WesternComedyA shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
Shut My Big Mouth
1942 · 3 votes
Movie6.3WesternA gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.
Apache Drums
1951 · 30 votes
Movie5.0RomanceComedyA distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1942 · 7 votes
Movie7.4ComedyCrimeLucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
Lucky Jordan
1942 · 5 votes
Movie4.3ComedyRomanceA WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.
Suddenly It's Spring
1947 · 8 votes
Movie5.0ComedyRomanceA young woman spends much of her time fantasizing about what might be, but a realistic admirer tries to convince her to live the life she has.
Dream Girl
1948 · 8 votes
Movie6.3DramaRomanceA recently divorced district attorney falls for his troubled son's schoolteacher.
Not a Ladies' Man
1942 · 4 votes
Movie6.3RomanceDramaEveryone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, except her husband.
Repent at Leisure
1941 · 4 votes