Anne Gwynne
Acting
Biography
Anne Gwynne was signed by Universal Pictures when she was 20 yrs old, and co-starred in "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe" with Buster Crabbe soon thereafter . Over the next years, Miss Gwynne would be featured in some thirty-eight Universal films, and become one of the studio’s most recognizable stars. She co-starred in an additional 20 films, for MGM, Allied Artists, and RKO Pictures among other studios. Anne Gwynne co-starred in what was the first filmed dramatic series for television, 1947-1948's "Public Prosecutor", filming 26 episodes for NBC (also known as "Crawford Mystery Theatre"). Anne Gwynne's motion picture and television career spanned the years 1939 through 1970.
Born: December 10, 1918
Place of Birth: San Antonio, Texas, USA
Known For
Call of the Klondike
A brother and sister are running a phony gold mine scam in the Klondike, which leads to murder. A Canadian Mountie sets out to bring them to justice.
Spring Parade
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
Northwest Passage
Northwest Passage is a 26-episode half-hour adventure television series produced by Metro Goldwyn Mayer about Major Robert Rogers during the time of the French and Indian War. The show derived its title and the main characters Rogers, Towne, and Marriner from the 1937 novel of the same name by Kenneth Roberts, and from the 1940 MGM feature film based on the novel. The scope of the novel was much broader than that of the series, and the second half of the book included an historically based attempt by Rogers to find a water route through North America as a "passage" to the Pacific Ocean. This attempt, lending its name to the novel and used by Roberts as a metaphor for the questing human spirit, is referenced in the first episode. One of the earlier series telecast in color, Northwest Passage aired new episodes on NBC from September 14, 1958, to March 13, 1959. Keith Larsen played the lead role; Buddy Ebsen, later the star of CBS's The Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones, appeared as Sergeant Hunk Marriner, and Don Burnett co-starred as Ensign Langdon Towne.
The Black Cat
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
House of Frankenstein
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
Weird Woman
After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals. Norman's stuck-up friends also sense Paula's strangeness, and soon their meddling gossip and suspicious scheming push the poor woman to use her magic to defend herself and her husband – and maybe even to kill! Or is it just the power of suggestion...?
Breakdown
A boxer (William Bishop) jailed for murder proves his girlfriend's (Ann Richards) wealthy father and a ward boss framed him.
King of the Bullwhip
A whip-cracking federal marshal goes under cover as a masked bandit to ferret out a gold-bullion thief.
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
Honeymoon Deferred
Edmund Lowe plays an insurance investigator who interrupts his honeymoon to look into the case of a murder, which could also be a suicide, in which case his company won't have to pay the victim's contract. His wife, played by Margaret Lindsay, insists on following him around, not only to help him solve the case, but to make sure he doesn't get too friendly with any members of the opposite sex, either.
Filmography
as Mrs. Gaines
as Sonja
as Rita, the Girl (archive footage)
as Ruth Cannon
as Candy Allen
as Jane Kerrigan
as Nancy Craig
as Kitty Kelly
as Jane Jennings
as Midge Gray
as June O'Carroll
as Tess Trueheart
as Phyllis Beecher
as Judy Parker
as Patricia Kelly
as Belle Martin
as Eileen Stevens
as Brooke Peters
as Rita Hussman
as Nan
as Frances Carlyle
as Dixie Holister
as Nurse (uncredited)
as Marion Corbett
as Paula Clayton Reed
as Gerry Vail
as Pat Warren
as Chris Prentice
as Nina Lambert
as Nurse
as Laura Kirby
as Jane Baxter Scott
as Pearl
as Kit Bellamy
as Kit Logan Church
as Doris Daniels
as Susan Blair
as Patricia Leavitt
as Patricia Reynolds
as Anne Shaw
as Marion Barker
as Ruth
as Elaine Winslow
as Mary Morgan
as Sylvia Dana
as Julie Mason
as Jenny
as Tibby Mason
as Millie
as Jean Sovac
as Society Girl (uncredited)
as Cecile Blades
as Josephine Weaver (uncredited)
as Miss Larkin, Charlie's Nurse
as Joan's Friend (uncredited)
as Doris Blair
as Janet Rankin
as Kitty - showgirl