Polly Ann Young
Acting
Biography
Polly Ann Young was born on October 25, 1908 in Denver, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for The Man from Utah (1934), Invisible Ghost (1941) and The Last Alarm (1940). She was married to Carter Hermann. She died on January 21, 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Sister of Sally Blane and Loretta Young, half-sister of Georgiana Young.
Born: October 25, 1908
Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado, USA
Known For
The Circus Show-Up
The sixth in The Shadow series of shorts from Universal. In this one the circus trapeze artist falls to her death when someone flips the light switch just as she starts her famed triple somersault. It only takes the circus manager about fifteen minutes to figure out the obvious suspect was the guilty one.
Mystery Plane
An American pilot with a top-secret invention is kidnapped by foreign agents.
Road to Paradise
Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels from a wealthy socialite.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
Happiness C.O.D.
A young man, hard-pressed to pay off his mortgage and support his family, decides that he'll get money any way he can--honestly or otherwise.
Elinor Norton
A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
Going Wild
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what Story looks like. So they get free room and meals at the Palm Inn and everything is going well until they want Story to fly in the race on Saturday. Rollo has never even be up in a plane, never mind fly one, so he must figure a way out. But the girls have everything bet on his winning the race. Written by Tony Fontana
The Sheik
Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed to go into the desert, she escapes and makes her way across the sands...
Lady with a Past
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
Filmography
as Virginia Kessler
as Helen Newton
as Joan Hadley
as Miss Gertie Twill
as Joan Manning
as Natalie
as Grace Hubbard
as Anita
as Myra Duryea
as Patricia Huntley
as Jerry Delaney
as Eleanor
as Doris Carstairs
as Torok's Sweetheart
as Kitty Bellair
as Rose Mason
as Publisher's Staff
as Marjorie Carter
as Marjorie
as Party Guest (Uncredited)
as Irene Duval
as Girl (uncredited)
as Mollie
as Parisian Party Girl (Uncredited)
as Brunette Book Buyer
as Body Double for Loretta Young (uncredited)
as A Mannequin
as Society Girl at Party (uncredited)
as Sally Vanderwater
as Dancer (uncredited)
as Dancer
as Arab Child (uncredited)
as Child