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Mary Beth Hughes is a Actor American born on 13 november 1919 at Alton (USA)

Mary Beth Hughes

Mary Beth Hughes
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Birth name Mary Elizabeth Hughes
Nationality USA
Birth 13 november 1919 at Alton (USA)
Death 27 august 1995 (at 75 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Mary Beth Hughes (November 13, 1919 – August 27, 1995) was an American film, television, and stage actress best known for her roles in B movies.

Biography

As a starlet under contract with MGM, Hughes went on studio-appointed dates with several actors, including Lew Ayres, Franchot Tone, Mickey Rooney, and James Stewart. While under contract to Fox, she also went on prearranged dates with Milton Berle and George Montgomery.

In 1940, against Fox's wishes, Hughes began a relationship with actor Robert Stack. The romance lasted a year.

After her romance with Stack ended, Hughes married actor Ted North in 1943. The couple had one son, Donald, before divorcing in 1947. In 1948, she married singer/actor David Street. The marriage ended in 1956. In 1973 Hughes married her manager, Nicky Stewart, but that marriage also ended in divorce four years later.


Death
Mary Beth Hughes died at the age of 75 on August 27, 1995, of natural causes in Los Angeles.

Usually with

Richard Day
Richard Day
(10 films)
Thomas Little
Thomas Little
(9 films)
Frank Orth
Frank Orth
(8 films)
Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(8 films)
Cyril J. Mockridge
Cyril J. Mockridge
(7 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Mary Beth Hughes (50 films)

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Actress

Dig That Uranium
Dig That Uranium (1955)
, 1h1
Directed by Edward Bernds
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, David Gorcey, Bernard Gorcey, Benny Bartlett, Raymond Hatton
Roles Jeanette, the waitress
Rating60% 3.0478053.0478053.0478053.0478053.047805
An old friend of the boys returns to town and tells them stories of getting rich out west. He proceeds to sell them a uranium mine and they head west. When they arrive, local thugs try to chase them off. When they find out the boys own a mine they decide to let them stay in town with the plans to follow them and take the mine from them. Eventually the boys defeat the thugs and find the uranium, only to discover that it is on an Indian reservation and doesn't belong to them.
Highway Dragnet
Highway Dragnet (1954)
, 1h10
Directed by Nathan Juran
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix, Reed Hadley, Mary Beth Hughes, Iris Adrian
Roles Terry Smith - Bar Girl
Rating62% 3.144353.144353.144353.144353.14435
A former Korean War-era Marine hitches a ride with a female fashion photographer and her young assistant to escape from the Las Vegas police on a murder charge.
Loophole
Loophole (1954)
, 1h20
Directed by Harold D. Schuster
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Barry Sullivan, Dorothy Malone, Charles McGraw, Don Haggerty, Mary Beth Hughes, Don Beddoe
Roles Vera
Rating66% 3.338083.338083.338083.338083.33808
The film tells the story of bank teller Mike Donovan (Sullivan) who failed to report a $49,000 shortage from his drawer. He's accused of theft and quickly fired from his job. He is then prevented from finding other employment by insurance investigator Gus Slavin (McGraw), who is convinced Donovan took the money.
Passage West
Passage West (1951)

Directed by Lewis R. Foster
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Payne, Dennis O'Keefe, Arleen Whelan, Arthur Hunnicutt, Mary Anderson, Mary Beth Hughes
Roles Nellie McBride
Rating60% 3.0494553.0494553.0494553.0494553.049455
Six convicts led by Pete Black pull a Utah prison break. They intercept a California-bound wagon train and interrupt a child's funeral. Demanding the wagons leave immediately, they anger Rose Billings, a woman in a black dress mourning her father, but wagon train leader Jacob Karns, a preacher who plans to marry Rose, thinks it best to obey the men.
Close to My Heart
Close to My Heart (1951)
, 1h30
Directed by Don Alvarado, William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Gene Tierney, Ray Milland, Fay Bainter, Howard St. John, Mary Beth Hughes, James Seay
Roles Arlene
Rating64% 3.24523.24523.24523.24523.2452
Brad Sheridan (Milland) and Midge Sheridan (Tierney) cannot have children of their own. Midge and Brad decide to adopt and inquire at an adoption agency. Learning of an abandoned child left at the police station, Midge is determined to have the baby as her own, but Brad refuses to go along with Midge's plans until he can find out something about the child's parents, which then makes the boy an adoption risk.
Young Man with a Horn
Young Man with a Horn (1950)
, 1h47
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernández, Jerome Cowan
Roles Marge Martin
Rating71% 3.5926753.5926753.5926753.5926753.592675
As a young boy, after his mother dies, Rick Martin sees a trumpet in the window of a pawn shop. He works in a bowling alley to save up enough money to buy it. Rick grows up to be an outstanding musician, tutored by jazzman Art Hazzard. He lands a job playing for the big band of Jack Chandler, getting to know the piano player Smoke Willoughby and the beautiful singer Jo Jordan.
The Devil's Henchman
The Devil's Henchman (1949)
, 1h8
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Warner Baxter, Mary Beth Hughes, Mike Mazurki, Regis Toomey, Harry Shannon, James Flavin
Roles Silky
Rating64% 3.227583.227583.227583.227583.22758
The daytime insurance agent Jess Arno (Warner Baxter), moonlights as an undercover salvager at night. He sells the loot he finds to a seedy man named Tip Banning. Arno has long time suspected that Tip is in fact the leader of a gang of waterfront smugglers.
El Paso
El Paso (1949)
, 1h43
Directed by Lewis R. Foster
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Payne, Eduardo Noriega, Gail Russell, Sterling Hayden, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dick Foran
Roles Stagecoach Nellie
Rating58% 2.90332.90332.90332.90332.9033
Clay Fletcher is leaving South Carolina and heading west. A rebel officer during the Civil War and also a lawyer, he wants to ease back into law practice with something not too difficult, so he travels to El Paso, Texas with estate documents to get the signature of an attorney there, Henry Jeffers.
Inner Sanctum
Inner Sanctum (1948)
, 1h2
Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Noir, Crime
Actors Mary Beth Hughes, Charles Russell, Billy House, Fritz Leiber, Nana Bryant, Lee Patrick
Roles Jean Maxwell
Rating59% 2.9923452.9923452.9923452.9923452.992345
Inner Sanctum is a movie about a murderer who is on the run and hiding out in a small town. Unbeknownst to him, he is not only hiding in the same boarding house as the only witness to his crime, he is sharing the same room.