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Ellen Drew is a Actor American born on 23 november 1915 at Kansas City (USA)

Ellen Drew

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Birth name Esther Loretta Ray
Nationality USA
Birth 23 november 1915 at Kansas City (USA)
Death 3 december 2003 (at 88 years) at Palm Desert (USA)

Ellen Drew (November 23, 1915 – December 3, 2003) was an American film actress.

Born Terry Ray in Kansas City, Missouri, Drew worked various jobs and won a number of beauty contests before becoming an actress. Moving to Hollywood in an attempt to become a star, she was discovered while working at an ice cream parlor where one of the customers, actor William Demarest, took notice of her and eventually helped her get into films.

Ray's venture into the movies brought about a conflict in names with another Terry Ray, this one a male. A 1937 newspaper photo showed the resolution of the conflict as "They conferred, drew lots from the hat and masculine Terry Ray became Terry Rains, while feminine Terry Ray remained as before."

After a couple of years of playing bit roles in a number of movies using her birth name, she became a fixture at Paramount Pictures as Ellen Drew from 1938 to 1943, where she appeared in as many as six films per year, including Sing You Sinners (1938) with Bing Crosby and The Lady's from Kentucky (1939) with George Raft. She moved to RKO in 1944. Among her leading men were Ronald Colman, William Holden, Basil Rathbone, Dick Powell, and Robert Preston (in The Night of January 16th and Night Plane from Chungking).

Her films include Christmas in July (1940), Isle of the Dead (1945), Johnny O'Clock (1947), The Man from Colorado (1948), The Crooked Way (1949) and The Baron of Arizona with Vincent Price (1950). In the 1950s, with her movie career on the decline, she worked as a television actress. Among her final roles was the part of Julia Webberly in the 1960 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Larcenous Lady.

Biography

Elle a joué dans de nombreuses séries télévisées américaines. Elle possède son étoile sur le Walk of Fame de Hollywood.

Usually with

Hans Dreier
Hans Dreier
(20 films)
Edith Head
Edith Head
(11 films)
William LeBaron
William LeBaron
(11 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ellen Drew (56 films)

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Actress

Outlaw's Son, 1h28
Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Dane Clark, Ben Cooper, Lori Nelson, Ellen Drew, Buddy Joe Hooker, Ahna Capri
Roles Ruth Sewall
Rating60% 3.0483653.0483653.0483653.0483653.048365
This script must be run from the command line
Man in the Saddle, 1h27
Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Joan Leslie, Ellen Drew, Alexander Knox, Richard Steven Rauber, John Russell
Roles Nan Melotte
Rating62% 3.1493353.1493353.1493353.1493353.149335
Owen Merritt, petit propriétaire d'un ranch, se fait voler la femme qu'il aime par un important propriétaire terrien, Will Isham. Mais quand celui-ci apprend que c'est un mariage d'intérêt, il décide de se débarrasser définitivement de celui qui reste son rival. Merritt ne réagit pas, jusqu'au jour où ses deux amis et associés sont assassinés par l'homme de main de Isham.
Man in the Saddle
Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Joan Leslie, Ellen Drew, Alexander Knox, Richard Steven Rauber, John Russell
Roles Nan Melotte
Rating62% 3.1493353.1493353.1493353.1493353.149335
Owen Merritt, petit propriétaire d'un ranch, se fait voler la femme qu'il aime par un important propriétaire terrien, Will Isham. Mais quand celui-ci apprend que c'est un mariage d'intérêt, il décide de se débarrasser définitivement de celui qui reste son rival. Merritt ne réagit pas, jusqu'au jour où ses deux amis et associés sont assassinés par l'homme de main de Isham.
The Great Missouri Raid, 1h24
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Western
Themes Films about families, Gangster films
Actors Wendell Corey, Macdonald Carey, Ellen Drew, Ward Bond, Bruce Bennett, Bill Williams
Roles Bee Moore
Rating58% 2.90852.90852.90852.90852.9085
À la fin de la guerre civile, les frères Franck et Jesse James sont poursuivis par l'armée de l'Union pour leur implication dans le gang des confédérés.
Davy Crockett, Indian Scout
Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors George Montgomery, Ellen Drew, Noah Beery, Jr, Phillip Reed, Robert Barrat, Paul Guilfoyle (acteur, 1902-1961)
Roles Frances Oatman
Rating54% 2.7099252.7099252.7099252.7099252.709925
C'est en 1848 et un wagon avec une escorte de l'armée se dirige vers l'ouest à travers le territoire indien. Son éclaireur est Davy Crockett, neveu de son homonyme plus célèbre. Il y a un espion parmi eux qui informe les Indiens. Ils survivent à la première attaque indienne et continuent ensuite. Ils ont le choix entre deux passages à travers les montagnes. Apprenant la passe à défendre par les Indiens, ils se dirigent vers l'autre. Mais à l'arrivée, les Indiens attaquent. D'une certaine manière, ils ont été informés.
Stars in My Crown, 1h29
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Films about religion
Actors Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Alan Hale, Lewis Stone, James Mitchell
Roles Harriet Gray
Rating73% 3.6917653.6917653.6917653.6917653.691765
Shortly after the American Civil War, preacher Josiah Gray (Joel McCrea) arrives in the town of Walesburg. He heads straight for the saloon to give his first sermon. When the patrons laugh at him, he pulls out two guns, cowing the men into listening.
The Baron of Arizona, 1h37
Directed by Samuel Fuller
Genres Drama, Historical, Crime, Romance, Western
Actors Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Vladimir Nikolayevich Sokoloff, Beulah Bondi, Reed Hadley, Robert Barrat
Roles Sofia de Peralta-Reavis
Rating68% 3.446233.446233.446233.446233.44623
The notorious attempt by swindler James Reavis to claim the entire territory of Arizona as his own before it was granted statehood in 1912 is recounted years later by John Griff, who works for the Department of the Interior.
The Crooked Way, 1h30
Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew, Rhys Williams, Percy Helton, John Doucette
Roles Nina Martin
Rating65% 3.29453.29453.29453.29453.2945
After sustaining a head wound in combat, decorated World War II veteran Eddie Rice (John Payne) is treated at a San Francisco military hospital for a permanent form of amnesia. This leaves him with no knowledge of his life, family and friends prior to his enlistment, a void that the army intelligence unit was unable to fill as they couldn't find any information about him, other than the fact he enlisted in Los Angeles. Doctors tell him that no medical cure exists for his case, but that if he returns to Los Angeles he might run into people who know him and could help him fill in the blanks.
The Man from Colorado, 1h40
Directed by Henry Levin, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Glenn Ford, William Holden, Ellen Drew, Ray Collins, Edgar Buchanan, Jerome Courtland
Roles Caroline Emmet
Rating65% 3.2985053.2985053.2985053.2985053.298505
In Colorado near the end of the American Civil War, Union Colonel Owen Devereaux (Ford) orders his regiment to fire on a detachment of Confederate soldiers, even though he (and only he) has seen that they are signaling their surrender with a white flag. Afterward, his best friend and second-in-command, Captain Del Stewart (Holden), finds the flag and buries it as a surviving Confederate officer secretly looks on.
The Swordsman
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Genres Adventure
Actors Larry Parks, Ellen Drew, George Macready, Edgar Buchanan, Ray Collins, Holmes Herbert
Roles Barbara Glowan
Rating58% 2.908912.908912.908912.908912.90891
Les amours contrariées de deux personnages en Écosse au XVII siècle. Deux familles, les MacArden et les Glowan, se vouent une haine farouche. Mais Alexander MacArden et Barbara Glowan se découvrent des sentiments l'un pour l'autre.
The Swordsman, 1h20
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Larry Parks, Edgar Buchanan, Ellen Drew, Marc Platt, Nedrick Young, Robert Shayne
Roles Barbara Glowan
Rating58% 2.908912.908912.908912.908912.90891
This script must be run from the command line
Johnny O'Clock, 1h35
Directed by Robert Rossen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, Lee J. Cobb, Ellen Drew, Nina Foch, Thomas Gomez
Roles Nelle Marchettis
Rating66% 3.3439653.3439653.3439653.3439653.343965
Johnny O'Clock (Dick Powell) is a junior partner in a posh casino with Guido Marchettis (Thomas Gomez). Complicating their longtime working relationship is Guido's wife Nelle (Ellen Drew), who is still in love with former boyfriend Johnny. She gives Johnny an expensive custom pocket watch, the twin of a birthday present she gave her husband, except Johnny's has a romantic engraving on the back.
China Sky
China Sky (1945)
, 1h18
Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Randolph Scott, Ruth Warrick, Anthony Quinn, Ellen Drew, Carol Thurston, Richard Loo
Roles Louise Thompson
Rating59% 2.9517052.9517052.9517052.9517052.951705
Dr. Gray Thompson, (Randolph Scott) an American missionary doctor, works alongside Dr. Sara Durand (Ruth Warrick) in a hospital he has built in a small hilltop Chinese village, while Japanese forces descend on China. When Gray returns for a trip, he shocks Sara (who is in love with him) by introducing his new socialite wife, Louise (Ellen Drew). Bored and feeling out of place, Louise tries to persuade him to give up his dangerous cause. In the midst of aerial bombing attacks on the village, Dr. Thompson unselfishly helps the local residents, and especially the insurgent leader Chen-Ta (Anthony Quinn) who loves nurse Siu-Mei (Carol Thurston), betrothed to Dr. Kim (Philip Ahn), a sympathetic Chinese/Korean doctor.
Isle of the Dead, 1h11
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about viral outbreaks
Actors Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Helene Thimig, Alan Napier, Anna Lee, Ernst Deutsch
Roles Thea
Rating64% 3.245313.245313.245313.245313.24531
An onscreen text warns of the superstitious belief in a vorvolaka, a malevolent force in human form. The film proper begins during the Balkan Wars of 1912. While his troops are burying their dead, General Pherides (Karloff) and American reporter Oliver Davis (Marc Cramer) visit the Isle of the Dead to pay their respects to the General's long-dead wife. They discover the crypt despoiled; hearing a woman singing on the supposedly uninhabited island, they set out to find her. They also find retired Swiss archeologist Dr. Aubrecht (Jason Robards, Sr.), his Greek housekeeper Madame Kyra (Helen Thimig), British diplomat Mr. St. Aubyn (Alan Napier) and his pale and sickly wife (Katherine Emery), her youthful Greek companion Thea (Ellen Drew), and an English tinsmith.