Suzanne Kaaren

Actor · 1912 – 2004 · Brooklyn, New York, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Suzanne Kaaren (March 21, 1912 – August 27, 2004) was an American B-movie actress and dancer who starred in stock film genres of the 1930s and 1940s: horror films, westerns, comedies and romances. Kaaren left for Hollywood in October 1933. Her starting salary was $150 per week, and was eventually cast opposite Tim McCoy in Ridin' Gents, a Monogram Pictures production. She was then signed by Republic Pictures to play a character in From Rags To Riches. Ridin' Gents was filmed without either McCoy or Kaaren. She joined a troupe assembled by producer Walter Wanger, which also included Gloria Youngblood. The theatrical company was known as Trade Winds. The comedy When's Your Birthday? (1937) showcased the zany Joe E. Brown, with Kaaren among the supporting players in an RKO Radio Pictures movie about an astrologer. In October 1941, Kaaren was added to the cast of I Married an Angel. She portrayed a maid named Simone, and was uncredited. In October 1943, Pete Smith assigned Kaaren and Harry Barris the leading roles in an MGM motion picture which was to be called Practical Joker. The film was never made. Kaaren figured prominently in several Three Stooges comedy short films. They are Disorder in the Court, Yes, We Have No Bonanza, and What's the Matador?. Miracles for Sale (1939) was based on the novel Death From A Tophat by Clayton Rawson. Kaaren plays a woman who is separated into halves and then joined together again suspensefully. The murder mystery has Robert Young and Florence Rice in prominent roles. She starred opposite Bela Lugosi in The Devil Bat. The cult film of the horror film genre is a Poverty Row production released by Producers Releasing Corporation. In the movie, Lugosi breeds giant bats to attack people. Her final appearance on film is uncredited role as the Duchess of Park Avenue (Manhattan) in 1984's The Cotton Club.

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Movie6.5
CrimeDrama
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
The Cotton Club
1984 · 454 votes
Movie7.2
ComedyDrama
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
The Women
1939 · 183 votes
Movie6.7
RomanceDrama
While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.
Angel
1937 · 79 votes
Movie6.1
ComedyDrama
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Idiot's Delight
1939 · 17 votes
Movie6.6
ComedyWestern
Set in a western town, the stooges are working as waiters in a saloon with the three girls they hope to marry. The proprietor of the saloon is a crook who, with his partner, has buried $40,000 of stolen money. The boys go prospecting in hopes of raising enough money to pay off the debts of their fiancée father, who owes money to their boss. They dig up the stolen money, which the crooks recognize as their loot and abscond with. A wild chase ensues, ending with the bad guy's car crashing into the Sheriff's office.
Yes, We Have No Bonanza
1939 · 15 votes
Movie5.7
RomanceComedy
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
The Ghost Comes Home
1940 · 3 votes
Movie5.2
ComedyDrama
Three smart film-flammers help a homeless little girl to love and happiness by making monkeys out of Hollywood's big movie moguls. A love story to make life worth living, bristling with roaring laughter and rhythmic with singable, lovable song hits. Made by the producers of "Sunny Side Up" — and surpassing it in everything.
Bottoms Up
1934 · 5 votes
Movie6.4
RomanceComedy
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
Trade Winds
1938 · 8 votes
Movie7.5
MusicComedy
Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
Rhythm in the Clouds
1937 · 2 votes
Movie6.8
Drama
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
Strangers All
1935 · 2 votes
Movie9.0
Comedy
The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J. Hugh Ramsay, author of the bestselling book, "Marriage—The Living Death".
Wives Never Know
1936 · 1 votes
Movie5.0
DramaAction
The son of a disgraced Olympic decathlete prepares to become a star in his own right. His quest is complicated by a beautiful girl and a bitter rival.
A Million to One
1936 · 3 votes
Movie6.3
Drama
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
Roar of the Press
1941 · 6 votes
Movie5.5
Comedy
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.
When's Your Birthday?
1937 · 2 votes
Movie6.8
Comedy
The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend Gail Tempest, who dances at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians, is accused of killing Kirk Robin.
Disorder in the Court
1936 · 47 votes
Movie5.6
CrimeDrama
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
City of Chance
1940 · 8 votes
Movie5.3
HorrorScience Fiction
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.
The Devil Bat
1940 · 88 votes
Movie7.0
ComedyCrime
No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city. Covering a bachelor party for a friend in need, Lena winds up at a gambling house where she is the sole witness when Mayor Wentworth's drunken lout of a son shoots the owner. Wentworth's political machine wants Lena to falsely incriminate mob boss Callahan to bolster their re-election campaign. Callahan's mouthpiece nabs Lena first, conveying her stealthily by train from Toledo to New York to prevent her from testifying against the big boss. A midnight special smash-up, a tense courtroom finale and true love triumphant round out this typical Fox pre-Code programmer, released just before the Legion of Decency dropped the hammer in 1934.
Sleepers East
1934 · 1 votes
Movie7.0
ActionAdventure
A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing speedboats. They are innovative and soon the Navy comes a-knocking in hopes that he will design a fast and easily maneuverable boat to carry torpedoes.
Pride of the Navy
1939 · 1 votes
Movie3.5
RomanceComedy
A divorced woman finds success as a fashion designer.
Women Must Dress
1935 · 4 votes
Movie6.3
Comedy
The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their suitcase. When they are confronted by her jealous husband he vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the fiesta where they are performing a comedy bullfight (Curly is the matador, Moe and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the ring. Curly knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero.
What's the Matador?
1942 · 13 votes
Movie6.3
Crime
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
Blondes at Work
1938 · 10 votes
Movie4.7
Western
A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make counterfeit plates for them. A lawman is sent to rescue him.
Phantom Ranger
1938 · 7 votes
Movie6.5
RomanceAdventure
A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevada gold country, and he takes the carburetor off her car and throws it in the river, stranding them there. They wind up staying at the cabin of a crusty old prospector, and soon the manager of a nightclub act shows up with his bevy of beautiful showgirls.
Wild Gold
1934 · 2 votes