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Arleen Whelan is a Actor American born on 1 september 1914 at Salt Lake City (USA)

Arleen Whelan

Arleen Whelan
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Nationality USA
Birth 1 september 1914 at Salt Lake City (USA)
Death 7 april 1993 (at 78 years) at Orange County (USA)

Arleen Whelan (September 1, 1916 – April 7, 1993) was an American film actress. She appeared in 25 films between 1937 and 1957, reportedly after 20th Century Fox director H. Bruce Humberstone saw Whelan working as a manicurist in a barbershop. After her screen test the studio cast Whelan as the female lead in a film version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped (1938).

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Filmography of Arleen Whelan (25 films)

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Actress

Raiders of Old California, 1h12
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Western
Actors Jim Davis, Arleen Whelan, Lee Van Cleef, Lawrence Dobkin, Don Diamond, Louis Jean Heydt
Roles Julie Johnson
Rating57% 2.8542452.8542452.8542452.8542452.854245
The film begins with the surrender of Capt. Miguel Sebastian (Dobkin) to Capt. McKane (Davis) from the U.S. Army at the end of Mexican-American War. Three years later, McKane was taking lands from their owners by intimidation and treachery.
The Women of Pitcairn Island, 1h12
Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Lynn Bari, James Craig, John Smith, Sue England, Arleen Whelan, Carol Thurston
Roles Hutia
Rating61% 3.0788053.0788053.0788053.0788053.078805
Nearly twenty years after the Bounty mutineers landed on Pitcairn Island, the last survivor has died leaving only their local-born widows and children. Tensions arise on the island when a fresh load of shipwrecked sailors arrive.
Never Wave at a WAC, 1h27
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Rosalind Russell, Paul Douglas, Marie Wilson, William Ching, Leif Erickson, Arleen Whelan
Roles Sgt. Toni Wayne
Rating58% 2.945552.945552.945552.945552.94555
A divorced socialite and daughter (Russell) of a United States senator (Douglas) asks her father to get her an officer's commission in the Women's Army Corps, so that she can be near her officer boyfriend.
The Sun Shines Bright, 1h30
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Western
Actors Charles Winninger, John Russell, Arleen Whelan, Russell Simpson, Stepin Fetchit, Francis Ford
Roles Lucy Lee Lake
Rating68% 3.4417253.4417253.4417253.4417253.441725
Sur fond de campagne électorale en 1905 dans une petite ville du Kentucky, des hommes se déchirent pour une femme. Alcoolique notoire, le juge Priest se représente aux élections locales. Prenant la défense d'un jeune Noir accusé injustement d'un viol d’une Blanche et participe aux obsèques d’une prostituée notoire, ce qui lui vaut le respect des uns et l’hostilité des autres. De vieux secrets de familles resurgissent...
Flaming Feather, 1h17
Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Sterling Hayden, Forrest Tucker, Arleen Whelan, Barbara Rush, Victor Jory, Richard Arlen
Roles Carolina
Rating58% 2.9043452.9043452.9043452.9043452.904345
A mysterious outlaw, known only as The Sidewinder, is terrorizing Arizona settlers. A rancher whose property was raided, Tex McCloud, and a U.S. Cavalry officer named Blaine both decide to seek justice. They even make a friendly wager over which one will get to The Sidewinder first.
Passage West
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 Rose Billings
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.
Dear Wife
Dear Wife (1949)
, 1h28
Directed by Richard Haydn
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Joan Caulfield, William Holden, Harry von Zell, Billy De Wolfe, Mona Freeman, Edward Arnold
Roles Tommy Murphy
Rating63% 3.193153.193153.193153.193153.19315
Miriam Wilkins is a teenage girl going door-to-door, trying to get Bill Seacroft, her brother-in-law, elected to the state senate. However, Bill has no idea that Miriam is doing this, and he has no wish to become a senator. He is a middle-aged war veteran who works at a bank. He feels like a loser and is frustrated by having to live with his wife Ruth's family. Bill wants to be more independent and stand on his own two feet.
The Senator Was Indiscreet, 1h28
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Political films
Actors William Powell, Ella Raines, Arleen Whelan, Peter Lind Hayes, Ray Collins, Allen Jenkins
Roles Valerie Shepherd
Rating64% 3.244663.244663.244663.244663.24466
The inept, somewhat slow-witted U.S. senator Melvin G. Ashton wants to run for President of the United States. His eager publicist, Lew Gibson, encourages him with various attention-gaining stunts, disappointing his girlfriend Poppy McNaughton, a reporter at a local newspaper.
That Wonderful Urge, 1h22
Directed by Robert B. Sinclair
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Children's films
Actors Gene Tierney, Tyrone Power, Reginald Gardiner, Arleen Whelan, Lucile Watson, Gene Lockhart
Roles Jessica Woods
Rating64% 3.246523.246523.246523.246523.24652
A tabloid reporter (Power) uses a scheme to meet Sara Farley (Tierney), a grocery-store heiress he's been writing unflattering things about. He gets her to start talking about herself and finds her down to earth. Tierney assumes he's going to write more lies, so she announces to the press that the two of them are married. In trying to get the truth out, he loses his job; what follows is classic farce and the stakes escalate. Finally, he sues her for libel and the courts takes it from there!
Ramrod
Ramrod (1947)
, 1h35
Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Don DeFore, Donald Crisp, Preston Foster, Arleen Whelan
Roles Rose Leland
Rating66% 3.344023.344023.344023.344023.34402
Connie Dickason (Veronica Lake) is the strong-willed daughter of a ranch owner (Charles Ruggles), who is under the control of powerful local cattleman Frank Ivey (Preston Foster), a man her father once wanted Connie to marry. Connie instead takes up with a sheep rancher who is run out of town by Ivey. She inherits the man's land.
Stage Door Canteen, 2h12
Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Politique, Musical films, Political films
Actors Cheryl Walker, Lon McCallister, Tallulah Bankhead, Kenny Baker, Margaret Early, Ralph Bellamy
Roles Arleen Whelan
Rating62% 3.1485753.1485753.1485753.1485753.148575
The storyline of the film follows several women who volunteer for the Canteen and who must adhere to strict rules of conduct, the most important of which is that while their job is to provide friendly companionship to and be dance partners for the (often nervous) men who are soon to be sent into combat, no romantic fraternization is allowed. One volunteer who confesses to only becoming involved in the Canteen in order to be discovered by one of the Hollywood stars in attendance, ultimately finds herself falling in love with one of the soldiers.
Castle in the Desert
Directed by Harry Lachman
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Sidney Toler, Arleen Whelan, Richard Derr, Douglass Dumbrille, Henry Daniell, Victor Sen Yung
Roles Brenda Hartford
Rating69% 3.4943953.4943953.4943953.4943953.494395
Mrs. Manderley, an eccentric descendant of the Borgias lives in a castle in the middle of the Mojave Desert with her husband Paul Manderley, a reclusive scholary millionaire. Someone is killed after being poisoned. Paul tries to cover up the murder in which Charlie Chan investigates. In addition to Paul Manderley and his wife (who may be insane and not responsible for her actions) other suspects include:
Sundown Jim, 1h3
Directed by James Tinling
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Virginia Gilmore, Arleen Whelan, Joe Sawyer, Paul Hurst, Moroni Olsen, Don Costello
Roles Catherine Barr
Rating54% 2.749372.749372.749372.749372.74937
Charley's Aunt, 1h20
Directed by Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Jack Benny, Kay Francis, Anne Baxter, James Ellison, Edmund Gwenn, Reginald Owen
Roles Kitty Verdun
Rating68% 3.4403153.4403153.4403153.4403153.440315
Babbs, Charley et Jack, étudiants à Oxford, forment un trio que rien n'arrête. Charley et Jack rêvant d'obtenir Un rendez-vous avec deux jeunes filles, il leur faut un chaperon. Les 3 compères ne trouvent rien de mieux que de déguiser Babbs en femme et de prétendre qu'il est la tante de Charley....