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Martha Vickers is a Actor American born on 28 may 1925 at Ann Arbor (USA)

Martha Vickers

Martha Vickers
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Birth name Martha MacVicar
Nationality USA
Birth 28 may 1925 at Ann Arbor (USA)
Death 2 november 1971 (at 46 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Martha Vickers (May 28, 1925 – November 2, 1971) was an American model and actress.

Biography

Elle est née le 28 mai 1925 à Ann Arbor (Michigan) sous le nom de Martha MacVicar (nom sous lequel elle est créditée dans ses premiers films) ; elle commence sa carrière comme modèle et cover girl. Elle fait sa première apparition au cinéma en 1942 dans Frankenstein rencontre le loup-garou mais poursuit une carrière de pin-up durant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale dans des magazines comme Yank : The Army Weekly. C'est dans Le Grand Sommeil qu'elle est réellement révélée au grand public, dans un rôle qui n'est pas sans rapport avec sa carrière antérieure de pin up. Elle y incarne une ravageuse femme enfant qui ne peut s'empêcher de lancer « You're so cute » (Vous êtes mignon) à tous les hommes qu'elle rencontre, tout en suçant son pouce.

Elle a été mariée trois fois, son mari le plus célèbre fut Mickey Rooney avec qui elle vécut de 1949 à 1951. Elle se retira du cinéma en 1960.

Elle décède le 2 novembre 1971 d'un cancer de l'œsophage. Elle repose au Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.

Usually with

Vera West
Vera West
(4 films)
John Ridgely
John Ridgely
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Martha Vickers (17 films)

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Actress

The Burglar, 1h30
Directed by Paul Wendkos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield, Martha Vickers, Peter Capell, Mickey Shaughnessy
Roles Della
Rating65% 3.2931653.2931653.2931653.2931653.293165
Professional burglar Nat Harbin (Dan Duryea) and his two associates, Baylock (Peter Capell) and Dohmer (Mickey Shaughnessy), set their sights on wealthy spiritualist Sister Sarah (Phoebe Mackay), who has inherited a fortune — including a renowned emerald necklace — from a Philadelphia financier. Using Nat's female ward, Gladden (Jayne Mansfield), to pose as an admirer and case the mansion where the woman lives, they set up what looks like a perfect break-in; even when Nat's car is spotted by a couple of cops, he bluffs his way through, gets the necklace, and makes the getaway. But the trio—plus Gladden—can't agree on how to dispose of the necklace, and soon their bickering becomes a lot less important than the fact that someone is on to what they've done—a woman (Martha Vickers) is working on Nat, while a man (Stewart Bradley) is working on Gladden. Equally serious, the trio kills a New Jersey state trooper while on their way to warn her. And among the cops chasing them is one with larceny in his heart and murder on his mind.
The Big Bluff, 1h10
Directed by W. Lee Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Crime
Actors John Bromfield, Martha Vickers, Robert Hutton, Rosemarie Bowe, Eve Miller, Robert Bice
Roles Valerie Bancroft
Rating56% 2.849392.849392.849392.849392.84939
The suave Don Juan Ricardo 'Rick' De Villa (John Bromfield) and his married lover Fritzi Darvel would like to take off together, but his lack of money prevents them from doing so. A chance encounter introduces Rick to the young, but terminally ill socialite Valerie Bancroft (Martha Vickers), in whom Rick sees the solution to his predicament. Rick sweeps her off her feet and they soon marry, although Valerie's entourage are suspicious of him. Rick then proceeds to try and bring about Valerie's demise so he can inherit her wealth and live the good life with Fritzi.
Alimony
Alimony (1949)
, 1h10
Directed by Alfred Zeisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Martha Vickers, John Beal, Hillary Brooke, Douglass Dumbrille, Blossom Rock, Leonid Kinskey
Roles Katie Klinger
Rating54% 2.733992.733992.733992.733992.73399
Paul Klinger is on a desperate search for his lost daughter, Kate. He goes to see a man in New York, Dan Barker, a songwriter who knew Kate in the past when she lived in the city. Dan tells Paul that Kate changed her name to Kitty Travers, and then continues to tell the story of what he knows about "Kitty":
Bad Boy
Bad Boy (1949)
, 1h25
Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Audie Murphy, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Wyatt, James Gleason, Jimmy Lydon, Martha Vickers
Roles Lila Strawn
Rating64% 3.244073.244073.244073.244073.24407
Orphan Danny Lester is a delinquent boy of seventeen who is on the run from the law. He has temporarily taken his refuge working as a bellboy in a hotel in Texas, and robs a game of dice taking place at the hotel. He is caught and sentenced to twenty years by Judge Florence Prentiss. It is decided he is to serve in a juvenile reformatory until he is old enough to serve in an actual prison.
Ruthless
Ruthless (1948)
, 1h44
Directed by Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir
Actors Zachary Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Sydney Greenstreet, Lucille Bremer, Martha Vickers
Roles Susan Duane
Rating67% 3.388663.388663.388663.388663.38866
Horace Vendig shows himself to the world as a rich philanthropist. In fact, the history of his rise from his unhappy broken home shows this to be far from the case. After being taken in by richer neighbors he started to exhibit an obsessive and selfish urge to make more and more money, loving and leaving women at will to further this end.
The Man I Love, 1h36
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir
Actors Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Bruce Bennett, Andrea King, Martha Vickers, Alan Hale
Roles Virginia 'Ginny' Brown
Rating66% 3.343173.343173.343173.343173.34317
Homesick for her family in Los Angeles, lounge singer Petey Brown (Ida Lupino) decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast. Shortly she lands a job at the nightclub of small-time-hood Nicky Toresca (Robert Alda) where her sister Sally (Andrea King) is employed.
The Big Sleep, 1h54
Directed by Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, John Ridgely, Dorothy Malone, Regis Toomey
Roles Carmen Sternwood
Rating78% 3.9481453.9481453.9481453.9481453.948145
Private detective Philip Marlowe (Bogart) is summoned to the mansion of his new client General Sternwood (Waldron). The wealthy retired general wants to resolve gambling debts his daughter, Carmen Sternwood (Vickers), owes to bookseller Arthur Gwynn Geiger. As Marlowe is leaving, General Sternwood's older daughter, Mrs. Vivian Rutledge (Bacall), stops him. She suspects her father's true motive for calling in a detective is to find his young friend Sean Regan, who had mysteriously disappeared a month earlier.
The Time, The Place and The Girl, 1h45
Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Martha Vickers, S.Z. Sakall, Alan Hale
Roles Victoria Cassel
Rating59% 2.952062.952062.952062.952062.95206
Deux hommes de chant et de danse luttent pour produire un spectacle de Broadway. David Butler 1946 Dennis Morgan stars de la musique, Jack Carson, Martha Vickers, Janis Paige, SZ Sakall, Angela Greene, Florence Bates, Donald Woods, Alan Hale et Mimi Aguglia.
Marine Raiders, 1h28
Directed by Harold D. Schuster, Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, Frank McHugh, Barton MacLane, Blake Edwards
Roles Sally Parker
Rating58% 2.906862.906862.906862.906862.90686
Major Steve Lockhart, commander of a Marine Raider battalion and Captain Dan Craig, commander of the Paramarines are together on Guadalcanal facing a Japanese assault that became the Battle of Edson's Ridge. When Captain Craig discovers the body of one of his lieutenants who had been tortured and executed by the Japanese, he goes on a one-man army kill crazy rampage of revenge in the jungle with his Reising gun (that jams) and his M1911 pistol.
The Mummy's Ghost, 1h1
Directed by Reginald Le Borg
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Lon Chaney, Jr., John Carradine, Robert Lowery, Ramsay Ames, Barton MacLane, Frank Reicher
Roles Miss McLean - Student (uncredited)
Rating56% 2.8028852.8028852.8028852.8028852.802885
Andoheb, the aging High Priest of Arkam (Karnak in the previous films), has summoned Yousef Bey to the Temple of Arkam to pass on the duties of High Priest. Beforehand, Andoheb explains the legend of Kharis to Bey. Meanwhile in Mapleton, Massachusetts, Professor Matthew Norman, who had examined one of Kharis' missing bandage pieces during the Mummy's last spree through Mapleton, also explains the legends of the Priests of Arkam and Kharis to his History class who are less than believing. After the lecture ends, one of the students, Tom Hervey, meets up with his girlfriend Amina Mansori, a beautiful woman of Egyptian descent. However, a strange, clouded feeling in her mind occurs when ever the subject of Egypt is mentioned.
This Is the Life, 1h27
Directed by Felix E. Feist
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Donald O'Connor, Susanna Foster, Peggy Ryan, Louise Allbritton, Patric Knowles, Dorothy Peterson
Roles Fille
Rating66% 3.300023.300023.300023.300023.30002
18 ans, Angela élevée dans une petite ville de la Nouvelle Angleterre par sa tante Betsy, reçoit un héritage dont elle se sert pour aller à New-York, officiellement pour la formation de sa voix. Mais elle poursuit le major Hilary Jarret, chirurgien militaire avec qui elle a entiché de façon irraisonnée. Son départ déprime fortement son ami d'enfance Jimmy Plum.
The Falcon in Mexico, 1h10
Directed by William Berke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Tom Conway, Mona Maris, Martha Vickers, Nestor Paiva, Emory Parnell, Pedro de Cordoba
Roles Barbara Wade
Rating60% 3.047953.047953.047953.047953.04795
The Falcon helps a woman enter an art gallery late at night to supposedly recover a painting that belongs to her. The Falcon discovers that the woman is the model for the artist's painting, however the artist has been dead since 1929, and the body of the owner of the gallery lays murdered on the floor. Wanted by the American police for murder, the Falcon finds the late artist's daughter and they travel to Mexico.
Captive Wild Woman, 1h1
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about apes
Actors John Carradine, Milburn Stone, Evelyn Ankers, Acquanetta, Lloyd Corrigan, Martha Vickers
Roles Dorothy Colman
Rating54% 2.703382.703382.703382.703382.70338
The film begins with animal trainer Fred Mason (Milburn Stone) returning from his latest safari with a horde of animals for his employer John Whipple (Lloyd Corrigan), owner of the Whipple Circus. Among them is Cheela (Ray Corrigan), a gorilla with remarkably human characteristics. Mason relates that she is the most affectionate jungle animal he has ever encountered.