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Lois Moran is a Actor American born on 1 march 1909 at Pittsburgh (USA)

Lois Moran

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Birth name Lois Darlington Dowling
Nationality USA
Birth 1 march 1909 at Pittsburgh (USA)
Death 13 july 1990 (at 81 years) at Sedona (USA)

Lois Moran est une actrice, chanteuse et danseuse américaine, née Lois Darlington Dowling le 1er mars 1909 à Pittsburgh (Pennsylvanie), morte le 13 juillet 1990 à Sedona (Arizona).

Biography

De 1921 à 1925, installée avec sa mère à Paris, elle y apprend le chant et la danse et se produit au sein du ballet de l'Opéra. Ainsi, sous le pseudonyme de Lois Moran, elle débute au cinéma dans deux films muets français, La Galerie des monstres de Jaque Catelain (avec le réalisateur et Jean Murat), sorti en 1924, puis Feu Mathias Pascal de Marcel L'Herbier (avec Ivan Mosjoukine et Marcelle Pradot), achevé en 1925 et sorti en 1926.

Revenue aux États-Unis et sollicitée par Hollywood, elle y tourne son premier film américain, Le Sublime Sacrifice de Stella Dallas d'Henry King (avec Ronald Colman et Alice Joyce), sorti en 1925. Suivent seize autres films muets américains jusqu'en 1928, dont La Route de Mandalay (The Road to Mandalay) de Tod Browning (1926, avec Lon Chaney et Owen Moore).

Elle contribue ensuite à seize films parlants américains, sortis à partir de 1929, dont Mammy de Michael Curtiz (1930, avec Al Jolson et Lowell Sherman). Son dernier film est le court métrage Ladies Not Allowed de Joseph Santley, sorti en 1932 (après quoi elle se retire du grand écran), avec Victor Moore et Otto Kruger.

Au théâtre, Lois Moran débute à Broadway en 1930-1931, dans la pièce This Is New York de Robert E. Sherwood, avec Robert Barrat. Puis elle retrouve Victor Moore dans deux comédies musicales de George et Ira Gershwin, Of Thee I Sing (1931-1933) et sa suite Let 'Em Eat Cake (1933-1934).

Mariée en 1935, Lois Moran se consacre désormais à sa famille, mais réapparaît néanmoins brièvement à la télévision en 1954-1955, dans deux séries, dont Waterfront (trente-deux épisodes).






Avec Ronald Colman, dans Le Sublime Sacrifice de Stella Dallas (1925, poster promotionnel)







Avec Lon Chaney, dans The Road to Mandalay (1926, photo promotionnelle)







Avec Al Jolson, dans Mammy (1930, photo promotionnelle)




Best films

Transatlantic (1931)
(Actress)

Usually with

Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders
(1 films)
Earle Foxe
Earle Foxe
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Lois Moran (26 films)

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Actress

Alice in the Cities, 1h50
Directed by Wim Wenders
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Photographie
Actors Rüdiger Vogler, Lisa Kreuzer, Edda Köchl, Wim Wenders, Lois Moran, Peter Handke
Roles Airport Hostess
Rating78% 3.946713.946713.946713.946713.94671
German writer Philip Winter has missed his publisher's deadline for writing an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and encounters a German woman, Lisa, and her daughter, Alice, who are both doing the same thing. After Lisa leaves Alice temporarily in Phil's care, it quickly becomes apparent that he will have to look after her for longer than he expected. Phil finds himself stuck with Alice, searching various cities of Germany for her grandmother, whose name and address Alice cannot remember. The only clue they have is a photograph of her grandmother's front door with no house number and no one in the shot.
Transatlantic, 1h18
Directed by William K. Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran, Myrna Loy, John Halliday, Jean Hersholt, Billy Bevan
Roles Judy Kramer
Rating63% 3.18373.18373.18373.18373.1837
Alors qu'un luxueux paquebot traverse l'océan Atlantique, le public est mis au courant des déboires de plusieurs de ses passagers. Edmund Lowe dirige le casting dans le rôle de Monty Greer, un joueur suave qui tombe amoureux de Judy, la fille du broyeur d'objectifs immigré Rudolph Kramer. En essayant de récupérer des titres de valeur volés au banquier Henry Graham, Greer se retrouve au milieu d'une féroce fusillade dans la salle des machines du navire. Pendant ce temps, Graham, qui a trompé sa femme Kay avec la danseuse sexy Sigrid Carline, est assassiné par une personne ou des inconnus.
Men in Her Life, 1h10
Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lois Moran, Charles Bickford, Victor Varconi, Don Dillaway, Luis Alberni, Adrienne D'Ambricourt
Roles Julia Cavanaugh
Rating70% 3.5472153.5472153.5472153.5472153.547215
Julia Cavanaugh is a formerly rich socialite who is heavily in debt. She meets Count Ivan Karloff, a Russian con-man, whom she hopes to marry to relieve her financial problems. They get engaged and he seduces her but when he finds out that she has no money, he abandons her.
Mammy
Mammy (1930)
, 1h24
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Al Jolson, Lowell Sherman, Lois Moran, Noah Beery Sr., Louise Dresser, Hobart Bosworth
Roles Nora Meadows
Rating59% 2.952622.952622.952622.952622.95262
The story deals with the joys and tribulations of a travelling minstrel troupe known as the Merry Meadow Minstrels. Al Jolson plays as a blackface endman while Lowell Sherman plays as the interlocutor. Hobart Bosworth plays as the owner of the show, while his daughter, played by Lois Moran, serves as Al Jolson's love interest in the picture. Sherman's character, however, is also in love with Moran's. The show is in a miserable state until Jolson entertains a sheriff and manages to convince him to invest in the show. The show becomes very successful thanks to this investment and Jolson is eventually able to visit his mother. Some time after he returns, he tells Moran that he loves her and this causes Sherman to become jealous. After a heated argument between Jolson and Sherman over Moran, a character played by Mitchell Lewis, who is upset because he was caught cheating at cards, puts real bullets in Jolson's stage gun. Since Jolson pretends to shoot Sherman in the minstrel show act, Lewis knows that this will result in Sherman's death and that Jolson will be blamed for the murder. After Sherman is shot, Jolson is arrested but manages to escape and take a freight train out of town. Eventually, Lewis confesses to the crime and Jolson is thereby proven to be innocent.
Soup to Nuts, 1h10
Directed by Benjamin Stoloff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Buddy films, Disaster films
Actors Ted Healy, Charles Winninger, Lucile Browne, Hallam Cooley, Shemp Howard, Moe Howard
Roles Beauty
Rating58% 2.903462.903462.903462.903462.90346
Ted Healy is a salesman for the Schmidt Costume Shop who likes to hang out at the fire station where Moe (billed as "Harry Howard"), Larry and Shemp (along with Fred Sanborn) work. Old man Schmidt spends more time building crazy inventions (typical of devices by writer/cartoonist Rube Goldberg) than tending to his business; as a consequence he is bankrupt and his business is taken over by his creditors, who send a young man named Carlson to manage the business. Carlson immediately falls for Mr. Schmidt's niece, Louise, but she resists him.
Behind That Curtain, 1h31
Directed by Irving Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Warner Baxter, Lois Moran, Gilbert Emery, Claude King, Boris Karloff, Peter Gawthorne
Roles Eve Mannering Durand
Rating48% 2.4123152.4123152.4123152.4123152.412315
Words and Music, 1h21
Directed by James Tinling
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Helen Twelvetrees, Lois Moran, Frank Albertson, William Orlamond, Elizabeth Patterson, John Wayne
Roles Mary Brown
Rating55% 2.7786152.7786152.7786152.7786152.778615
Two young college students, Phil (David Percy) and Pete (John Wayne), compete for the love of pretty girl named Mary (Lois Moran), and also to win the $1500 prize in a song-writing contest to write the best show tune for the annual college revue. The two men each ask Mary to sing for them, but eventually, she chooses Phil as her beau, and it is he who also has the winning song.
Sharp Shooters, 1h
Directed by John G. Blystone
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors George O'Brien, Lois Moran, Noah Young, Tom Dugan, William Demarest, Gwen Lee
Roles Loretta
Rating66% 3.3219753.3219753.3219753.3219753.321975
George (George O'Brien) is a sailor and smooth-talking lady's man who believes in the adage "love 'em and leave 'em" when it comes to women. While on leave in Morocco, George meets Lorette (Lois Moran), a fiery French dancing girl who falls madly in love with him, unaware that he has a girl in every port. Initially thinking of her as just another diversion, George soon discovers that he can't get rid of the girl. Later, she follows him to the United States, but does his best to avoid her. Amused by George's predicament and feeling sorry for the girl, his two best friends, Tom (Noah Young) and Jerry (Tom Dugan), shanghai him aboard a vessel and arrange things so that George is unable to avoid Lorette. As a result, the hero surrenders to the inevitable and marries the girl.