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Brenda Joyce is a Actor American born on 25 february 1917 at Excelsior Springs (USA)

Brenda Joyce

Brenda Joyce
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Birth name Betty Graffina Leabo
Nationality USA
Birth 25 february 1917 at Excelsior Springs (USA)
Death 4 july 2009 (at 92 years) at Santa Monica (USA)

For the American author, see Brenda Joyce (author).

Brenda Joyce (February 25, 1917 – July 4, 2009) was an American film actress. She was born Betty Graftina Leabo in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, although family and friends referred to her as Graftina.

Biography

She was married to Owen Ward from 1941 until their divorce in 1949; they had three children, Pamela Ann, Timothy Owen and Beth Victoria.

Best films

The Rains Came (1939)
(Actress)

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Filmography of Brenda Joyce (26 films)

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Actress

Tarzan's Magic Fountain, 1h13
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Transport films, Aviation films, Tarzan films
Actors Lex Barker, Brenda Joyce, Albert Dekker, Evelyn Ankers, Charles Drake, Alan Napier
Roles Jane
Rating59% 2.9505852.9505852.9505852.9505852.950585
Ankers portrays an aviatrix who walks out of the jungle looking decades younger than her chronological age due to a secret fountain of youth but gradually begins a terrifying accelerated aging process. Against Tarzan's wishes, she and Jane begin a desperate search for the fountain.
Tarzan and the Mermaids, 1h8
Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Films about apes, L'enfance marginalisée, Tarzan films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, George Zucco, Andrea Palma, Linda Christian, Edward Ashley-Cooper
Roles Jane
Rating56% 2.8058652.8058652.8058652.8058652.805865
The setting is a coastal African village where swimming and diving are central to the culture, hence the term "the Mermaids." Tarzan and Jane (Brenda Joyce) help a native girl (Linda Christian) who has fled the village to avoid a forced marriage to a supposed local god. George Zucco portrays Palanth, the corrupt high priest attempting to force the girl into marriage, and Fernando Wagner plays a con man impersonating the god Balu.
Shaggy
Shaggy (1948)
, 1h12
Origin USA
Actors Brenda Joyce, Robert Shayne, Ralph Sanford
Roles Laura Calvin
Rating28% 1.4444151.4444151.4444151.4444151.444415
Tarzan and the Huntress, 1h12
Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Films about apes, L'enfance marginalisée, Tarzan films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Patricia Morison, Barton MacLane, John Warburton
Roles Jane
Rating60% 3.0459653.0459653.0459653.0459653.045965
Due to a shortage of animals in American zoos following World War II, Tanya Rawlins (Patricia Morison), a big-game "huntress," Carl Marley (John Warburton), her financial backer and Paul Weir (Barton MacLane), a cruel trail boss, are given permission by King Farrod (Charles Trowbridge), to capture a male and female of each species of animal on his land.
The Spider Woman Strikes Back, 59minutes
Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Gale Sondergaard, Brenda Joyce, Kirby Grant, Rondo Hatton, Milburn Stone, Hobart Cavanaugh
Roles Jean Kingsley
Rating57% 2.8618952.8618952.8618952.8618952.861895
Une jeune fille va travailler comme concierge chez une vieille femme effrayante. Elle ne sait pas que chaque nuit, la femme lui draine un peu de sang pour nourrir son étrange plante.
Little Giant, 1h31
Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Brenda Joyce, George Cleveland, Margaret Dumont, Jacqueline deWit
Roles Miss Ruby Burke
Rating66% 3.3419053.3419053.3419053.3419053.341905
A naive country boy named Benny Miller (Lou Costello), from Cucamonga, California, has been taking correspondence phonograph lessons in salesmanship. Upon completion of the course, he leaves his mother (Mary Gordon) and his girlfriend Martha (Elena Verdugo) to pursue a career in Los Angeles. He arranges a meeting with his Uncle Clarence (George Cleveland), a bookkeeper with the Hercules Vacuum Cleaner Company. When he arrives to ask for a job, the sales manager, John Morrison (Bud Abbott), mistakes him for one of the auditioning fashion models and has him remove his clothing. Morrison's secret wife, Hazel Temple (Jacqueline deWit), discovers the mistake and suggests that Benny be hired to avoid an accounting scandal, as they have been "cooking the books". Unfortunately, Benny is fired from his salesman post after only one day. Clarence transfers Benny to the company's Stockton branch, which is run by Morrison's cousin, Tom Chandler (also played by Bud Abbott).
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman, 1h12
Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Films about apes, L'enfance marginalisée, Tarzan films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Acquanetta, Edgar Barrier, Dennis Hoey
Roles Jane
Rating60% 3.0474953.0474953.0474953.0474953.047495
Travelers near Zambezi are being killed, apparently by leopards. The commissioner (Dennis Hoey) asks Tarzan to look into the matter. Tarzan immediately doubts that leopards are the problem. At the same time, Tarzan, Jane, and Boy take in Kimba, a boy who claims to have become lost in the jungle. Kimba (Tommy Cook) is the brother of Queen Lea, leader of a leopard cult. She has dispatched him to spy on Tarzan. Queen Lea also conspires with Ameer Lazar (Edgar Barrier), a Western-educated doctor who resents the West's domination of the area.
The Enchanted Forest, 1h18
Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Edmund Lowe, Brenda Joyce, Harry Davenport, John Litel, Clancy Cooper
Roles Anne
Rating60% 3.0016153.0016153.0016153.0016153.001615
The hermit, Uncle John, communicates with animals and cares for the forest. He is at odds with a forester who wants to cut down all the trees, and wants any impediments (like Uncle John and the boy) removed. The child, Jackie, had been washed downstream after a train wreck in a storm. The mother, Anne, whose father owns the land, is told that the child must be dead, but she cannot quite believe it. When she visits her father, and walks in the forest, the boy catches sight of her, and she catches a glimpse of him as well. Through a series of interactions, the mother and child are reunited, the forest is saved, and Uncle John is able to stay.
Pillow of Death, 1h6
Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Lon Chaney, Jr., Brenda Joyce, J. Edward Bromberg, Rosalind Ivan, Clara Blandick, George Cleveland
Roles Donna Kincaid
Rating60% 3.0050053.0050053.0050053.0050053.005005
Attorney Wayne Fletcher (Chaney, Jr.) intends to divorce his wife and marry his secretary (Joyce), who comes from a wealthy family. When the wife is found suffocated to death, he naturally becomes the suspect. As others are killed in the same manner and a phony medium (Bromberg) also claims Fletcher is guilty, Fletcher begins to imagine his dead wife is communicating with him, making it even more difficult for him to prove his innocence.
Strange Confession, 1h2
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Lon Chaney, Jr., Brenda Joyce, J. Carrol Naish, Milburn Stone, Lloyd Bridges, Addison Richards
Roles Mary Carter
Rating64% 3.2480553.2480553.2480553.2480553.248055
Jeff Carter (Lon Chaney, Jr.) is testing a vaccine for influenza. He is working for tycoon, Roger Graham (J. Carrol Naish), who takes the credit and the profit for Jeff's discovery. Roger cares more about profits than safety. Jeff resigns and is blacklisted by his boss. He heads to South America to perfect the formula. Graham has used this opportunity to release the drug and romance Jeff's attractive wife, Mary (Brenda Joyce). When Jeff hears that his son has died, he takes revenge.
Tarzan and the Amazons, 1h16
Directed by Kurt Neumann
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Tarzan films
Actors Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Henry Stephenson, Maria Ouspenskaïa, Barton MacLane
Roles Jane
Rating62% 3.101933.101933.101933.101933.10193
Tarzan and Boy, on their way to meet Jane, who is returning from nursing work in England to support the war effort, rescue an "Amazon" woman from an attack by a black panther. During the attack, she drops a golden bracelet which Cheeta picks up. The Amazon woman's ankle is twisted in the incident and she cannot walk. Telling Boy to wait for him, Tarzan carries the woman through a mountain pass to the valley where her city of Palmyria is located. Boy disobeys Tarzan, follows them at a distance, and discovers the location of the city, then returns to wait for Tarzan.
Tarzan and the Amazons, 1h16
Directed by Kurt Neumann
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Films based on mythology, Films about apes, L'enfance marginalisée, Tarzan films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Henry Stephenson, Maria Ouspenskaïa, Barton MacLane
Roles Jane
Rating62% 3.101933.101933.101933.101933.10193
Tarzan sauve une jeune Amazone des griffes d'un tigre, sous les yeux de Boy et de Cheeta. Il la ramène dans la cité perdue de son peuple, endroit qu'il est le seul à connaître. Mais Boy l'a suivi et découvre ce site merveilleux. Jane revient d'Angleterre, accompagnée d'un groupe de savants dirigé par Sir Guy Henderson. Un bracelet en or pur, perdu par l'Amazone, tombe entre leurs mains. Si Henderson n'est là que pour observer des civilisations disparues, d'autres membres de l'expédition se montrent plus cupides. Jane est chargée de convaincre Tarzan de leur montrer le chemin de la cité.
Thumbs Up
Thumbs Up (1943)
, 1h7
Directed by Joseph Santley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Musical films, Political films
Actors Brenda Joyce, Richard Fraser, Elsa Lanchester, Arthur Margetson, J. Pat O'Malley, Queenie Leonard
Roles Louise Latimer
Rating55% 2.787222.787222.787222.787222.78722
For a publicity stunt to boost her career an American nightclub singer volunteers for a stint in a British munitions factory. She is so impressed by the spirit of her fellow workers that she decides to stay on.