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Elizabeth Allen is a Actor and Director American born on 25 january 1929 at Jersey City (USA)
This article is about the American actress. For the English actress (1910–1990), see Elizabeth Allan.
Elizabeth Allen (January 25, 1929 — September 19, 2006) was an American theatre, television and film actress and singer whose forty-year career lasted from the mid-1950s through the mid-1990s and included scores of TV episodes as well as six theatrical features, two of which (1963's Donovan's Reef, for which she received a 2nd place Golden Laurel Award as Top New Female Personality, and 1964's Cheyenne Autumn) were directed by John Ford.
She was a cast member in five TV series: The Jackie Gleason Show (1956–57), Bracken's World (1969–70), The Paul Lynde Show (1972–73), CPO Sharkey (1976–77) and the daytime drama Texas (1980–81) while also maintaining a thriving theatrical career as a musical comedy star and receiving two Tony nominations, in 1962 for The Gay Life and in 1965 for Do I Hear a Waltz?.
Au cinéma, elle apparaît dans seulement six films américains. Le premier est Du haut de la terrasse de Mark Robson, sorti en 1960, avec Paul Newman et Joanne Woodward. Le dernier est Opération clandestine de Blake Edwards, sorti en 1972, avec James Coburn et Jennifer O'Neill. Dans l'intervalle, elle collabore notamment à deux films de John Ford, La Taverne de l'Irlandais (1963, avec John Wayne et Lee Marvin) et Les Cheyennes (1964, avec Richard Widmark et Carroll Baker).
À la télévision, entre 1960 et 1982, Elizabeth Allen joue dans un téléfilm (1979) et trente-sept séries, dont La Quatrième Dimension (1960, un épisode), Le Fugitif (1963-1966, trois épisodes) et Bracken's World (1969-1970, intégrale). Son dernier rôle au petit écran, dans le feuilleton Haine et Passion, est celui du Dr Gwen Hardin, lors d'épisodes qui ont été diffusés en 1983.
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Elizabeth Allen
Birth name Elizabeth Ellen Gillease
Nationality USA
Birth 25 january 1929 at Jersey City (USA)
Death 19 september 2006 (at 77 years) at Fishkill (town) (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 25 january 1929 at Jersey City (USA)
Death 19 september 2006 (at 77 years) at Fishkill (town) (USA)
Elizabeth Allen (January 25, 1929 — September 19, 2006) was an American theatre, television and film actress and singer whose forty-year career lasted from the mid-1950s through the mid-1990s and included scores of TV episodes as well as six theatrical features, two of which (1963's Donovan's Reef, for which she received a 2nd place Golden Laurel Award as Top New Female Personality, and 1964's Cheyenne Autumn) were directed by John Ford.
She was a cast member in five TV series: The Jackie Gleason Show (1956–57), Bracken's World (1969–70), The Paul Lynde Show (1972–73), CPO Sharkey (1976–77) and the daytime drama Texas (1980–81) while also maintaining a thriving theatrical career as a musical comedy star and receiving two Tony nominations, in 1962 for The Gay Life and in 1965 for Do I Hear a Waltz?.
Biography
Au théâtre, sous le pseudonyme d'Elizabeth Allen, elle débute à Broadway (New York) dans la pièce Romanoff and Juliet de (et avec) Peter Ustinov, représentée d'octobre 1957 à septembre 1958. Toujours à Broadway, elle contribue par la suite à quatre comédies musicales, la première en 1961-1962 (The Gay Life , sur une musique d'Arthur Schwartz, avec Jules Munshin), la dernière en 1983 (42e Rue, sur une musique d'Harry Warren, avec Jerry Orbach).Au cinéma, elle apparaît dans seulement six films américains. Le premier est Du haut de la terrasse de Mark Robson, sorti en 1960, avec Paul Newman et Joanne Woodward. Le dernier est Opération clandestine de Blake Edwards, sorti en 1972, avec James Coburn et Jennifer O'Neill. Dans l'intervalle, elle collabore notamment à deux films de John Ford, La Taverne de l'Irlandais (1963, avec John Wayne et Lee Marvin) et Les Cheyennes (1964, avec Richard Widmark et Carroll Baker).
À la télévision, entre 1960 et 1982, Elizabeth Allen joue dans un téléfilm (1979) et trente-sept séries, dont La Quatrième Dimension (1960, un épisode), Le Fugitif (1963-1966, trois épisodes) et Bracken's World (1969-1970, intégrale). Son dernier rôle au petit écran, dans le feuilleton Haine et Passion, est celui du Dr Gwen Hardin, lors d'épisodes qui ont été diffusés en 1983.
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The Carey Treatment (1972)
, 1h41Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Pregnancy films
Actors James Coburn, Jennifer O'Neill, Pat Hingle, Elizabeth Allen, John Fink, Dan O'Herlihy
Roles Evelyn Randall
Rating60%
Dr. Peter Carey (James Coburn) is a pathologist who moves to Boston, where he starts working in a hospital. He soon meets Georgia Hightower (Jennifer O'Neill), with whom he falls in love. Karen Randall, daughter of the hospital's Chief Doctor, becomes pregnant and is brought to the emergency department after an illegal abortion. She dies there, and Dr. David Tao (James Hong), a brilliant surgeon and friend of Carey, is arrested and accused of being responsible for the illegal abortion. Carey does not believe his friend to be guilty and starts investigating on his own, despite strong opposition by the police and the doctors around the hospital's chief.
Star Spangled Girl (1971)
, 1h33Directed by Jerry Paris
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Tony Roberts, Todd Susman, Sandy Duncan, Helen Kleeb, Elizabeth Allen, Harry Northup
Roles Landlady
Rating53%
In 1960s San Francisco, Andy Hobart (Tony Roberts) does everything he can to keep his struggling, two-man, radical underground newspaper, the Nitty Gritty, going; he steals food from the supermarket and other people's laundry from the dry cleaners, and holds off his creditors, especially the landlord, Mrs. MacKaninee (Elizabeth Allen), and his printer, Mr. Karlson (Artie Lewis). To appease Mrs. MacKaninee, he accompanies her motorcycling, waterskiing, and surfing. He lives with talented, but nerdy Norman Cornell (Todd Susman), who writes the entire newspaper.
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
, 2h34Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart, Dolores del Río, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden
Roles Guinevere Plantagenet
Rating66%
In 1878, Chiefs Little Wolf (Ricardo Montalban) and Dull Knife (Gilbert Roland) led over three hundred starved and weary Cheyenne from their reservation in the Oklahoma territory to their traditional home in Wyoming. The US government sees this as an act of rebellion, and the sympathetic Captain Thomas Archer (Richard Widmark) is forced to lead his troops in an attempt to stop the tribe. As the press misrepresents the natives' motives and goals for their trek as malicious, Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz (Edward G. Robinson) tries to prevent violence from erupting between the army and the natives. Also featured are James Stewart as Wyatt Earp, Dolores del Río as "Spanish Woman" and Carroll Baker as a pacifist Quaker school teacher and Archer's love interest.
Donovan's Reef (1963)
, 1h49Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden, Elizabeth Allen, Cesar Romero, Dorothy Lamour
Roles Ameilia Dedham
Rating66%
The film is a morality play in the guise of an action/comedy. It deals harshly (though not in an obvious way) with issues of racial bigotry, corporate connivance and greed, American beliefs of societal "superiority" and hypocrisy (i.e., the Boston shipping company considers carrying rum to be immoral, so they euphemistically refer to it as "West Indies goods"). Otherwise, Donovan's Reef is a light-hearted movie made in a period conforming, formulaic and sweetly naive manner (see "Critical Reception", below).
Diamond Head (1962)
, 1h47Directed by Guy Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, George Chakiris, France Nuyen, James Darren, Aline MacMahon
Roles Laura Beckett
Rating59%
Richard "King" Howland is a swaggering bigoted land baron living on the Big Island of Hawaii. He objects when his sister, Sloan Howland, announces she plans to marry Paul Kahana, a native Hawaiian, even though Richard is having a torrid affair with an Asian woman, Mai Chen. During Sloan and Paul's engagement party, Mai Chen's brother attacks Richard with a knife. Paul tries to break up the fight and is killed. Bitter at her brother for Paul's death, Sloan runs off to Honolulu where she is taken in by Paul's brother, Dean, and his family.
From the Terrace (1960)
, 2h29Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Barbara Eden, Ina Balin, Leon Ames
Roles Sage Rimmington
Rating66%
In 1946, David Alfred Eaton returns home from the war to Philadelphia. He finds his mother Martha driven to alcoholism by years of neglect and abuse from her husband Samuel Eaton, owner of a prestigious iron and steel company. Having withdrawn from his family after the death of his firstborn son thirteen years earlier, Samuel's resentment drove Alfred to turn his back on the family business and strike out on his own with his closest friend, Lex.
He Snoops to Conquer (1944)
, 1h43Directed by Marcel Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors George Formby, Elizabeth Allen, Elizabeth Allan, Aubrey Mallalieu, Gordon McLeod, Katie Johnson
Rating63%
The film is set in immediate post-war Britain. After being ordered to do a piece on town planning two newspapermen randomly pick on the small, industrial town of Tangleton. After arriving at the town hall the only man they can find working is the odd job man, George Gribble, who gives them a guided tour of the town. However, they run a negative angle on the story highlighting the fact that the wealthy leader of the council, Mr Oxbold, lives in a giant house by himself while Gribble is one of fourteen staying in a tiny slum house. When they read the article, the town's leaders order Gribble to do an public opinion investigation around the town. Instead of doing a cross section as ordered, he interviews the entire town's population. The results he produces shock the town's complacent leaders, who discover the people are deeply unhappy with the status quo and wants radical changes in living conditions and other services. This is a blow to the council leader and his colleagues who all have financial interests in keeping the town as it is. Oxbold is a slum landlord who fears a Whitehall scheme to demolish much of the existing town and rebuild it with council houses. To avert this, Oxbold and his colleagues decide to send off to London only those limited number of forms which praise the current situation. Gribble is ordered to burn the rest but, not wishing to waste paper, he puts them out for salvage instead.
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Careful What You Wish For (2015)
, 1h30Directed by Elizabeth Allen, Elizabeth Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Isabel Lucas, Dermot Mulroney, Nick Jonas, Kandyse McClure, Graham Rogers, Graham Rogers
Rating56%
Doug Martin, a boy, gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.
Ramona and Beezus (2010)
, 1h43Directed by Elizabeth Allen, Elizabeth Allan, Elizabeth Allen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Joey King, Selena Gomez, Hutch Dano, Ginnifer Goodwin, John Corbett, Bridget Moynahan
Rating64%
The adventurous and creative third grader Ramona Quimby (Joey King) often finds herself in trouble at school and at home, usually with her friend and neighbour, Howie (Jason Spevack). When her father Robert (John Corbett) loses his job and the family falls into severe debt, Ramona tries to find ways to earn money, such as selling "delishus lemonade" and a $20 car wash, which end up backfiring in humourous ways, include embarrassing her older sister, Beatrice (Selena Gomez), in front of Beatrice's childhood friend and crush, the paperboy Henry Huggins (Hutch Dano), especially when Ramona refers to her sister by her family nickname, "Beezus."
Aquamarine (2006)
, 1h44Directed by Elizabeth Allen, Elizabeth Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Mermaids in film, Political films, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Emma Roberts, JoJo, Sara Paxton, Jake McDorman, Arielle Kebbel, Claudia Karvan
Rating54%
Best friends Hailey Rogers (JoJo) and Claire Brown (Emma Roberts) are upset to know that they will be separated in five days as Hailey has to move to Australia because of her mother's (Claudia Karvan) job. Claire, senisible and slightly naive, looks up to Hailey as a mother figure in some ways, since her parents drowned in a boat accident years before. She now lives with her grandparents by the beach near Hailey, who is more daring and adventurous, in a small Florida town.