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Inez Courtney is a Actor American born on 12 march 1908 at New York City (USA)

Inez Courtney

Inez Courtney
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Nationality USA
Birth 12 march 1908 at New York City (USA)
Death 5 april 1975 (at 67 years)

Inez Courtney (March 12, 1908 – April 5, 1975) was an American actress on the Broadway stage and in films. Born in New York City, New York, she came from a large Irish-American family. Her father died when she was fifteen so she decided to go onto the stage. A year later she was doing a specialty dance which earned her the nicknames of St Vitis, Mosquito and Lightning.

Courtney's first role as a singer and dancer came in the musical The Wild Rose in 1926. She became well-known among New York theatrical audiences for her work in Good News (1927), a musical comedy about college life. Her other credits include Spring Is Here in 1929 and America's Sweetheart in 1931. In the early 1930s, Miss Courtney left Broadway and went to Hollywood.

Courtney acted in 58 films between 1930 and 1940. She secured her first movie work by asking Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures for his assistance. The red-headed comedienne made her screen debut as Cousin Betty in Loose Ankles (1930). The film co-starred Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Loretta Young. Her many movie credits include The Raven (1935), Suzy (1936), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), and Turnabout (1940), her last film.

Courtney was married to an Italian nobleman, whereby she acquired the title Marchessa, but did not use it. She died at the Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune, New Jersey in 1975 of undisclosed causes at the age of 67.

Biography

D'après l'IBDb ci-dessous, Inez Courtney débute enfant au théâtre à Broadway, dans deux comédies musicales et une revue, représentées de 1919 à 1921. Elle tient son premier rôle adulte (à 18 ans), comme chanteuse et danseuse, dans la comédie musicale The Wild Rose (1926), chorégraphiée par Busby Berkeley, aux côtés notamment de Joseph Santley. Elle participe encore à cinq autres comédies musicales, toujours à Broadway, entre 1927 et 1933.

Au cinéma, elle contribue à cinquante-huit films américains, le plus souvent dans des seconds rôles de caractère (parfois dans des petits rôles non crédités), entre 1930 et 1940. Son deuxième film (musical) est Spring is Here de John Francis Dillon (1930, avec Louise Fazenda), où elle reprend le rôle qu'elle tenait dans la comédie musicale éponyme, sur une musique de Richard Rodgers, créée à Broadway en 1929. Parmi ses films les mieux connus, mentionnons Le Corbeau de Lew Landers (1935, avec Boris Karloff et Béla Lugosi), Suzy de George Fitzmaurice (1936, avec Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone et Cary Grant), Vacances payées d'Alfred Santell (1938, avec Ginger Rogers et Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) et The Shop Around the Corner d'Ernst Lubitsch (1940, avec James Stewart et Margaret Sullavan). Inez Courtney apparaît une ultime fois à l'écran dans Changeons de sexe d'Hal Roach (1940, avec Adolphe Menjou et Carole Landis). Elle se retire alors définitivement, pour se consacrer à sa famille.

Usually with

Robert Homans
Robert Homans
(5 films)
Tom Dugan
Tom Dugan
(5 films)
Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Inez Courtney (40 films)

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Actress

The Shop Around the Corner, 1h39
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Christmas films, Films based on plays
Actors Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden, William Tracy
Roles Ilona
Rating80% 4.001314.001314.001314.001314.00131
Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) is the top salesman at a leathergoods shop in Budapest owned by the high-strung Mr. Hugo Matuschek (Frank Morgan). Kralik's coworkers at Matuschek and Company include his friend, Pirovitch (Felix Bressart), a kindly family man; Ferencz Vadas (Joseph Schildkraut), a two-faced womanizer; and Pepi Katona (William Tracy), an ambitious, precocious delivery boy. One morning, Kralik reveals to Pirovitch that he's been corresponding anonymously with an intelligent and cultured woman whose ad he came across in the newspaper.
Turnabout
Turnabout (1940)
, 1h23
Directed by Hal Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films based on plays
Actors Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis, John Hubbard, William Gargan, Verree Teasdale, Mary Astor
Roles Miss Edwards
Rating61% 3.0979953.0979953.0979953.0979953.097995
Tim and Sally Willows (John Hubbard and Carole Landis) are a spoiled well-off couple who constantly bicker and cannot agree on anything.
When Tomorrow Comes, 1h30
Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Barbara O'Neil, Onslow Stevens, Nydia Westman, Nella Walker
Roles Waitress (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.3380253.3380253.3380253.3380253.338025
Un célèbre pianiste français en tournée s'arrête dans un bar et tombe amoureux d'une serveuse.
Blondie Meets the Boss, 1h15
Directed by Frank R. Strayer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Jonathan Hale, Don Beddoe, Dorothy Comingore
Roles Betty Lou Wood
Rating66% 3.334123.334123.334123.334123.33412
The film centers on Blondie (Penny Singleton) taking over at Dagwood's (Arthur Lake) office while he's off on a fishing trip.
Having Wonderful Time, 1h10
Directed by Robert Parrish, Alfred Santell, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Films based on plays, Road movies
Actors Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lucille Ball, Eve Arden, Red Skelton, Lee Bowman
Roles Emma
Rating59% 2.996442.996442.996442.996442.99644
Bored New York office girl Teddy (Ginger Rogers), goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains called Camp Kare Free, for rest and to get away from the noisy, busy, city life and avoid advances from Emil. She meets and at first does not like waiter Chick, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. She also meets friend Faye, her roommate Miriam, and Buzzy. Miriam has eyes for Buzzy, who seems to have eyes for everyone. Within her two-week stay, Teddy and Chick fall in love and spend every day together.
The Hurricane, 1h50
Directed by John Ford, Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Météorologie, Prison films, Transport films, Catastrophe climatique, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Massey
Roles Girl on Ship (uncredited)
Rating70% 3.5454853.5454853.5454853.5454853.545485
As a passenger ship sails by the bleak ruins of a deserted island, Dr. Kersaint (Thomas Mitchell) blows his former home a kiss. When a fellow passenger asks him about the place, he tells its tragic story, segueing into a flashback.
The 13th Man, 1h10
Directed by William Nigh
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Inez Courtney, Selmer Jackson, Milburn Stone, Robert Homans, Eadie Adams, Dewey Robinson
Roles Julie Walters
Rating59% 2.955892.955892.955892.955892.95589
Swifty Taylor, a journalist with the Globe Times, hunts for the underworld figure responsible for the killing of a crusading district attorney, murdered by curare-laced dart while attending a prizefight, and of a reporter who had got too close to the truth. Meanwhile, Taylor's secretary, Julie, hopes to persuade him to settle down and marry her.