
Helen Mowery
Actor · 1922 – 2008 · Casper, Wyoming, USA
Movies15
Movie8.1DramaFrom the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
All About Eve
1950 · 1.8K votes
Movie6.2DramaCrimeAn attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Knock on Any Door
1949 · 75 votes
Movie6.9DramaWarSet at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
Tap Roots
1948 · 11 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
Movie7.1DramaA single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
Caged
1950 · 92 votes
Movie6.0WesternCrimeCharles Starrett makes his final appearance as The Durango Kid, this time as Steve Reynolds, a postal inspector who has gone underground to catch the bad guys. His longtime sidekick, Smiley Burnette appears as an itinerant optometrist who is hardly in the plot line of the film. Jock Mahoney plays Jack Mahoney, an eastern educated dude who has come back home. The Durango Kid teaches Jack how to draw and fire a six-gun, and the two ultimately work together to bring the outlaws to justice.
The Kid from Broken Gun
1952 · 3 votes
Movie7.5DramaAdapted from the TV and radio series of the same name, the producer of said show reads letters from three woman providing the framing story for this melodrama anthology film. The tales focus on parenting and family struggles.
Queen for a Day
1951 · 2 votes
Movie4.8CrimeDramaA man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.
Key Witness
1947 · 14 votes
Movie5.8AdventureThe Hansen School for Air Hostesses, operated by Celia Hansen, welcomes a new group of students; a librarian named Ruth Jackson; Lorraine Carter, a nurse; and Jennifer White, whose husband was an aviator killed in World War II. Ruth meets a smart-alec pilot, Dennis Hogan, but complications arise as Lorraine also has an interest in him. Jennifer meets a war-buddy of her husband, Fred MacCoy. All three women, with each other's help, makes it through to graduation day.
Air Hostess
1949 · 5 votes
Movie5.9MysteryCrimeA private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.
Mysterious Intruder
1946 · 19 votes
Movie10.0WesternSinging cowboy Eddie Dean and his sidekick Soapy (Roscoe Ates) enter into the thick of things when they thwart a stagecoach holdup. Our heroes take it upon themselves to champion the cause of stage-line owner Margie Rodgers (Helen Mowery), who's being victimized by an unknown villain. Dean suspects that there's more to the case than mere robbery, and he's right: someone wants to gain control of Margie's business, and that someone is?
Range Beyond the Blue
1947 · 1 votes
Movie4.0DramaThrillerDuring WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the Japanese.
Women in the Night
1948 · 9 votes
Movie7.0WesternCharles Starrett once more hits the trail as "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Across the Badlands. By now, the formula was a well-oiled machine: Starrett becomes a lawman, is challenged by the local criminal element, and ultimately goes beyond the law as the masked Durango.
Across the Badlands
1950 · 1 votes
Movie7.0WesternCimarron has found a lost treasure and the outlaw gang knows about it. They have made him a prisoner and are trying to get the location from him. However, he has sent for his friend Steve Reynolds and the Durango Kid will soon be on the job.
The Fighting Frontiersman
1946 · 2 votes
Movie9.0ActionCrimeTwo T-men track a tax evader and his money to an Idaho ski resort, where a raven tends bar.
Avalanche
1946 · 1 votes
Series1
TV7.7MysteryDramaThe cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Perry Mason
1957 · 139 votes