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Doris Merrick is a Actor American born on 6 june 1919

Doris Merrick

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Birth name Doris Simpson
Nationality USA
Birth 6 june 1919
Death 30 november 2019 (at 100 years)

Doris Merrick, (born June 6, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois), is an American retired actress who was active in film and television during the 1940s and 1950s. Born Doris Simpson, she worked as a model before signing a contract with Warner Brothers in 1941. She was first given the name Beth Drake but changed to Doris Merrick not long after. She made her film debut the following year in Girl Trouble. Her professional acting career ended in 1955.

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George Melford
George Melford
(3 films)
Bess Flowers
Bess Flowers
(3 films)
Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch
(1 films)
Trudy Marshall
Trudy Marshall
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Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman
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Filmography of Doris Merrick (17 films)

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Actress

Interrupted Melody
Interrupted Melody (1955)
, 1h46
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore, Cecil Kellaway, Peter Leeds, Walter Baldwin
Roles Nurse (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.342573.342573.342573.342573.34257
The story traces Marjorie's (Eleanor Parker) long, hard road to the top, her success on two continents, and her turbulent marriage to American doctor Thomas King (Glenn Ford). While touring South America in 1941, Lawrence is stricken with polio, which not only abruptly ends her career but briefly robs her of the will to live.
The Neanderthal Man
The Neanderthal Man (1953)

Directed by Ewald André Dupont
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes La préhistoire
Actors Robert Shayne, Richard Crane, Beverly Garland, Robert Easton, Doris Merrick, William Fawcett
Roles Ruth Marshall
Rating44% 2.2167252.2167252.2167252.2167252.216725
A scientist develops a formula which will cause animals to regress to the form of their primitive ancestors, and tries it on himself with disastrous results.
Child of Divorce
Child of Divorce (1946)
, 1h2
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Sharyn Moffett, Regis Toomey, Walter Reed, Una O'Connor, Harry Cheshire, Selmer Jackson
Roles Louise Norman
Rating64% 3.2380753.2380753.2380753.2380753.238075
Young Roberta "Bobby" Carter, only eight years old, catches her mother Joan as she kisses a man who isn't her father in a park. She is especially embarrassed, since her friends are present and recognize her mother.
The Big Noise
The Big Noise (1944)
, 1h12
Directed by Malcolm St. Clair
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Arthur Space, Doris Merrick, Veda Ann Borg, Robert Blake
Roles Evelyn
Rating62% 3.1445053.1445053.1445053.1445053.144505
While cleaning the office of a detective agency, janitors Laurel and Hardy answer a telephone call from an inventor who claims to have created a destructive bomb he calls "The Big Noise." Posing as detectives, the duo move into the inventor's home, where they must contend with his eccentric behavior, oddball widowed aunt (who takes a fancy to Hardy) and his misbehaving nephew. The inventor's neighbors are crooks who are eager to steal the new bomb.
In the Meantime, Darling
In the Meantime, Darling (1944)
, 1h12
Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Jeanne Crain, Frank Latimore, Eugene Pallette, Mary Nash, Stanley Prager, Jane Randolph
Roles Mrs. Macandrews
Rating55% 2.7612452.7612452.7612452.7612452.761245
Due to limited wartime housing, Army lieutenant Danny Ferguson (Frank Latimore) and fiancée Maggie Preston (Jeanne Crain) must postpone their wedding until a room in the Craig Hotel, where married officers stationed at nearby Camp Fielding live with their wives, becomes available. When their accommodations are ready, Maggie arrives with her wealthy parents Henry and Vera (Eugene Pallette) and (Mary Nash), who are unhappy about the living conditions their daughter will be forced to endure. Initially Maggie is too happy to care, but once the newlywed is left alone during the day while her husband is on the base, she begins to become disenchanted with her surroundings and the lack of service her privileged background has groomed her to expect.
Heaven Can Wait
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
, 1h52
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Théâtre, Demons in film, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Louis Calhern, Spring Byington, Marjorie Main
Roles Nellie Brown - Registered Nurse (uncredited)
Rating73% 3.6949353.6949353.6949353.6949353.694935
An aged Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche) enters the opulent reception area of Hell, to be personally greeted by "His Excellency" (Laird Cregar). Henry petitions to be admitted (fully aware of the kind of life he had led), but there is some doubt as to his qualifications. To prove his worthiness (or rather unworthiness), he begins to tell the story of his dissolute life.
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
, 2h6
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp
Roles (uncredited role)
Rating75% 3.795823.795823.795823.795823.79582
In the early days of World War II, Cohan comes out of retirement to star as President Roosevelt in the Rodgers and Hart musical I'd Rather Be Right. On the first night, he is summoned to meet the President at the White House, who presents him with a Congressional Gold Medal (in fact, this happened several years previously). Cohan is overcome and chats with Roosevelt, recalling his early days on the stage. The film flashes back to his supposed birth on July 4, whilst his father is performing on the vaudeville stage.
Girl Trouble
Girl Trouble (1942)
, 1h21
Directed by Harold D. Schuster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Don Ameche, Joan Bennett, Billie Burke, Frank Craven, Fortunio Bonanova, Alan Dinehart, Sr.
Roles Susan
Rating66% 3.3251653.3251653.3251653.3251653.325165
June Delaney belongs to the upper circles of New York City's social life. When she learns that her private money has been impounded by the British government, since most of her investments are made by her father in England before the outbreak of World War II, she is very annoyed. To make the most of what she got and continue living as before she is forced to rent out her upscale apartment. She advertises in a newspaper, and gets a response from a prospective tenant, a Venezuelan playboy and sole heir to an American rubber industry, Pedro Sullivan.