
Theresa Harris
Oyuncu · 1906 – 1985 · Houston, Texas, USA
Theresa Harris (December 31, 1906 [some sources indicate 1909] – October 8, 1985) was an American film and television actress, singer and dancer. In 1929 Harris traveled to Hollywood, where she embarked on an acting career. She made her film debut in Thunderbolt, singing the song "Daddy Won't You Please Come Home". As she entered the 1930s she found herself playing maids to fictitious Southern belles, socialites and female molls. These parts were sometimes uncredited. She also floated around studios doing bit parts, usually at Warner Bros. or MGM. Aside from maids, she specialized in playing blues singers, waitresses, tribal women, prostitutes, and hatcheck girls. Harris had a featured role as a friend of Jean Harlow in MGM's Hold Your Man (1932). In 1933 she appeared as Chico in the Warner Bros. pre-Code production of Baby Face, starring Barbara Stanwyck. That same year Harris starred in a substantial role opposite Ginger Rogers in Professional Sweetheart. As Rogers' character's maid, Harris' character subs for Rogers' character as a singer on the radio. Despite the fact that Harris' character was a major point for the story's plot development, she was uncredited for the role. Throughout the 1930s, Harris played many uncredited parts in films such as Horse Feathers (1932), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933) and Morning Glory (1933). She also played Bette Davis's maid Zette in the film Jezebel (1938). In 1937 she appeared in the race film Bargain With Bullets opposite Ralph Cooper for Million Dollar Productions. While doing promotion for the film, Harris spoke about her frustration over the difficulty African American actors faced in the film industry, stating, "I never had the chance to rise about the role of maid in Hollywood movies. My color was against me anyway you looked at it. The fact that I was not "hot" stamped me either as uppity or relegated me to the eternal role of stooge or servant....My ambition is to be an actress. Hollywood had no parts for me." Harris continued to lobby for better parts but found few opportunities within Hollywood. In the 1939 movie Tell No Tales she was credited for her part as Ruby, the wife of a murdered man. Harris played an emotional scene with Melvin Douglas at the funeral. She appears in a small but vivid role as Kathie Moffat's ex-maid Eunice Leonard in Jacques Tourneur 1947 Out of the Past. In addition to films, Harris performed in many radio programs. She was often paired with Eddie Rochester Anderson, who portrayed her on-screen boyfriend. She also appeared in several prominent roles for RKO Pictures as she was a favorite of RKO producer Val Lewton who routinely cast African American actors in non-stereotypical roles. In 1942 Lewton cast Harris as a sarcastic waitress in Cat People, followed by roles in I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Phantom Lady (1944), and Strange Illusion (1945). During the 1950s Harris appeared several times on television shows. She made her last film appearance in an uncredited role in The Gift of Love in 1958. Harris later married a doctor and retired from acting, living comfortably after having carefully invested the money she made during her career in the movies. On October 8, 1985, Harris (then known as Theresa Robinson) died in Inglewood, California. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Film7.2DramLilly (Baby Face), sefalet içinde yaşadığı onca yıldan sonra hayat basamaklarını tırmanmanın kolay yolunu bulmuştur; önüne gelenle yatmak... Lilly, babasının gizlice içki sattığı, bodrumdaki barda başlayan yolculuğuna, New York’un şaaşalı ofis binalarının çatı katında devam edecektir. Üstelik tüm basamakları tek tek çıkarak... Bankanın Alt-Düzey Yöneticisi Jimmy McCoy, Lilly’e önemli bir terfi imkanı olduğunu söyler. Fakat bir şart vardır; bankanın müdürüyle yatmak... Jimmy’nin son zamanlarda görememekten şikayetçi olduğu Lilly şöyle der; "Geceleri yatağa erken girebilmek için çok çalışıyorum."
Film7.4KomediDramSusan Walker (Natalie Wood) bir mağazada çalışan Kris Kringle'ın (Edmund Gwenn) gerçek Santa Claus (Noel Baba) olduğunu iddia ediyor ve hatta bunu kanıtlamaya da çalışıyor. Oscar ödüllü bu komedi fantazisi 1973'de televizyon için 1994'de sinema için yeniden çekildi.
Film7.7SuçGerilimJeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) küçük bir kasabada benzincilik yapmaktadır. Ancak bir gün, pis işler yapan Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas) ile karşılaşır ve esrarengiz geçmişinin peşini bırakmadığını anlar. Geçmişte Jeff, Whit tarafından tutulan bir özel dedektiftir. Whit’i yaraladıktan sonra 40 bin dolarını alarak Acapulco’ya kaçan sevgilisi Kathie (Jane Greer) ’yi bulmak için görevlendirilir. Ancak Kathie, öyle etkileyici bir kadındır ki Jeff’e Whit hakkındaki her şeyi unutturur. Whit’in yeni işi tabi ki Jeff için bir tuzak kurmaktır ama Jeff’in aldığı önlemler Whit’i daha beter bir tuzağa düşürür.
Film7.3GizemSuçDenizci Michael O’Hara, avukat Grisby ve Şangay’dan yeni dönmüş partneri Bannister’ın tekne yolculuğunda çalışmayı kabul eder; asıl sebep Bannister’ın eşi Elsa’ya duyduğu ilgidir. Grisby ona ‘reddedemeyeceği bir teklif’ yapar: onu öldürmüş gibi yapması karşılığında, Michael’e 5000 dolar ödeyecektir.
Film6.9GizemKorkuAmerikalı bir adam, memleketinin efsanelerinden olan "kedi-insan"a dönüşeceğinden korkan Sırp bir göçmen ile evlenir.
Film7.2KomediDramWhen all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.
Gold Diggers of 1933
1933 · 183 votes
Film7.3SuçGerilimGeorge Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence that he is the killer.
The Big Clock
1948 · 192 votes
Film7.0KomediFantastikBoxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1941 · 126 votes
Film7.2KomediDramA happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
The Women
1939 · 184 votes
Film6.4DramRomantikMogador, Morocco. Late 1920s. A complex romance develops between a womanizing Legionnaire and a disillusioned Parisian cabaret singer.
Morocco
1930 · 171 votes
Film6.0WesternVera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with her stepfather (John Alderson). Coveting Joan's property, lumber baron Eric Warren (Ray Collins) sends out his foreman Boyd Caldwell (Rod Cameron) to persuade her to sell. Instead, Caldwell falls in love with the girl, vowing to protect her trees from the eco-unfriendly Warren. Republic's wide-screen Naturama process is shown to good advantage throughout Spoilers of the Forest.
Spoilers of the Forest
1957 · 2 votes
Film6.9KomediDramBuğulu bakışlı saf bir kız, şaşırtıcı bir tenor, kendini beğenmiş yıldız sanatçılar, cırtlak sesli sarışınlar ve 80’lerin entrikalarla dolu seksi kızlarıyla tanışın. Onlar, yüksek sesle Harry Warren/Al Dubin şarkıları söyleyen ve Busby Berkeley’nin sansasyonel numaralarını sergileyen 42. Sokağın sakinleri. Eğlenceli ve göz kamaştırıcı şovların sahnelendiği, Roby Keeler ve Ginger Rogers gibi yeni yüzlerin rol aldığı bu filmin her dakikasını çok dramatik.
Film6.8GizemKorkuA nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.
I Walked with a Zombie
1943 · 344 votes
Film7.1DramSuçFrank Jessup, işi elverdiğince sakin bir hayat sürmekte olan bir ambulance şoförüdür. Birlikte olduğu şefkat dolu sevgilisiyle mükemmele yakın bir yaşamları vardır. Aldığı gizemli bir not her şeyi altüst edecektir. Notta yaşlı bir kadının evine gitmesi söylenmektedir. Frank notun dediğini yaparak sözü geçen kadının malikanesnin yolunu tutar. Bayan Tremayne ile karşılaştığında kafası karışır. KEndini öldürmek üzereyken adamın geldiğini söyler ama Frank bunun bir intihar mı yoksa cinayet teşebbüsü mü olduğuna anlam veremez. Evde dolanırken de evin üvey kızı olan Diane Tremayne ile karşılaşır. Genç ve güzel kadın kendine herkesi aşık edebilecek kadar cazibelidir de. Frank'i ne kadar baştan çıkarmaya çalışır. Hayatı tepetaklak olan adam sevdiği her şeyi yavaş yavaş kaybetmeye başlar. Ancak bir süre sonra gerçeklerin farkına varır. İçinde bulunduğu durum bir aşk ilişkisinden ibaret değildir, bedelini düşündüğünden daha da ağır ödeyeceği büyük bir oyunun bir parçası haline gelmiştir.
Film5.8WesternAs a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
Santa Fe Trail
1940 · 66 votes
Film6.6GerilimDramCleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
The File on Thelma Jordon
1949 · 68 votes
Film7.0DramRomantikIn 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
Jezebel
1938 · 225 votes
Film6.1KomediRomantikScatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated when they fall in love. Meanwhile, Betty's sensible older sister Eve fears Betty's heart will be broken when Jose returns to South America. She arranges to meet with the real O'Rourke and love soon blossoms between them as well.
Neptune's Daughter
1949 · 34 votes
Film6.4KomediDramA drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Merrily We Go to Hell
1932 · 49 votes
Film6.6DramRomantikEdna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
Blossoms in the Dust
1941 · 38 votes
Film6.6KomediRomantikIn old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
The Flame of New Orleans
1941 · 27 votes
Film6.2DramA lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer's fiance.
The Company She Keeps
1951 · 16 votes
Film6.8GizemSuçGet ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!
Charlie Chan at the Olympics
1937 · 26 votes
Film5.6MüzikRomantikRick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge's daughter Cindy to let him leave for one night, so that he can visit Lisa on her birthday. After that he goes on the town with Cindy and she falls in love with him. But Dr. Schemmer wants his son to become her husband.
Small Town Girl
1953 · 13 votes
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Dizi7.8GizemDramFarklı geçmişlerden cinayetler, intiharlar, hırsızlıklar ve algılanan veya algılanamayan belirli motivasyonların neden olduğu diğer suç türlerine ilişkin suç, korku, drama ve komedi unsurlarını kapsayan ilgisiz kısa öyküler dizisi.
- Dizi6.7DramKomedi
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · 7 votes
Dizi6.6DramLetter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.
Letter to Loretta
1953 · 7 votes
Dizi8.0KomediHow to Marry a Millionaire is an American sitcom that aired in syndication from September 1957 to August 1959. The series is based on the 1953 film of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, and Lauren Bacall. The series stars Lori Nelson, Merry Anders, and Barbara Eden. Lisa Gaye joined the cast in the second season after Lori Nelson left the series. How to Marry a Millionaire was the first series that Barbara Eden was featured in as a regular cast member. Eden would go on to play one of her more notable roles, "Jeannie" in the NBC sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. During the series' first season, Eden was billed third. After Lori Nelson left the series, Eden was billed first.
How to Marry a Millionaire
1957 · 2 votes