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Ona Munson is a Actor American born on 16 june 1903 at Portland (USA)

Ona Munson

Ona Munson
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Birth name Owena Wolcott
Nationality USA
Birth 16 june 1903 at Portland (USA)
Death 11 february 1955 (at 51 years) at New York City (USA)

Ona Munson (June 16, 1903 – February 11, 1955) was an American actress perhaps best known for her portrayal of madam Belle Watling in Gone with the Wind (1939).

Biography

She was married three times, to actor and director Edward Buzzell in 1926, to Stewart McDonald in 1941, and designer Eugene Berman in 1949. These have been termed "lavender" marriages, in that they were intended to conceal her bisexuality and her affairs with women, including filmmaker Dorothy Arzner and playwright Mercedes de Acosta. Munson has been listed as a member of a group called the "sewing circle", a clique of lesbians organized by actress Alla Nazimova.

Usually with

Joseph Kane
Joseph Kane
(3 films)
Yakima Canutt
Yakima Canutt
(2 films)
Mervyn LeRoy
Mervyn LeRoy
(4 films)
Gino Corrado
Gino Corrado
(3 films)
George Cukor
George Cukor
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ona Munson (15 films)

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Actress

The Red House, 1h40
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Noir
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson, Rory Calhoun, Julie London, Allene Roberts
Roles Mrs. Storm
Rating66% 3.3460653.3460653.3460653.3460653.346065
Handicapped farmer Pete Morgan (Edward G. Robinson) and sister Ellen (Judith Anderson) live on an isolated farm with their adoptive daughter, Meg (Allene Roberts) who is actually their niece. They keep to themselves and are viewed as mysterious by the nearby town. Now a teenager, Meg convinces Pete to hire one of her 12th grade high school classmates, Nath Storm (Lon McCallister) to come help with chores on the farm. Everyone gets along great, until Nath says he is going to take a shortcut home through the old woods to go home. The woods are part of Pete's property and he forbids anyone from entering them. Pete becomes agitated, insisting the woods are dangerous and contain a haunted house which is painted red, and that Nath must stay out.
Dakota
Dakota (1945)
, 1h22
Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance, Western
Actors John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, Mike Mazurki, Ona Munson
Roles 'Jersey' Thomas
Rating58% 2.9465152.9465152.9465152.9465152.946515
En 1871, sur le territoire du Dakota, le joueur professionnel John Devlin rencontre 'Sandy', fille de Marko Poli, magnat du chemin de fer. Les deux jeunes gens se marient et s'enfuient, poursuivis par le père. Lors de leur périple, ils remontent une rivière vers le nord à bord du River Bird, commandé par le capitaine Bounce, et sont confrontés au gang de Jim Bender et de son second 'Bigtree' Collins...
Idaho
Idaho (1943)
, 1h10
Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Virginia Grey, Bob Nolan, Ona Munson, Harry Shannon
Roles Belle Bonner
Rating59% 2.9549652.9549652.9549652.9549652.954965
Judge John Grey decides to close down Belle Bonner's saloon. It turns out, though, that Grey is actually a former outlaw named Tom Allison, and this information is used by Belle and her crony Duke Springer to blackmail the judge. It's up to Roy Rogers to ride into town and save the day.
The Shanghai Gesture, 1h39
Directed by Josef von Sternberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, Ona Munson, Albert Bassermann, Phyllis Brooks
Roles 'Mother' Gin Sling
Rating65% 3.2949053.2949053.2949053.2949053.294905
Gigolo "Doctor" Omar (Victor Mature) bribes the Shanghai police not to jail the broke American showgirl Dixie Pomeroy (Phyllis Brooks); he invites her to seek a job at the casino owned by Dragon-lady "Mother" Gin Sling (Ona Munson), his boss.
Lady from Louisiana, 1h22
Directed by Bernard Vorhaus
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors John Wayne, Dorothy Dandridge, Ona Munson, Henry Stephenson, Ray Middleton, Helen Westley
Roles Julie Mirbeau
Rating57% 2.8995552.8995552.8995552.8995552.899555
Yankee lawyer John Reynolds (Wayne) and Southern Belle Julie Mirbeau (Ona Munson) meet and fall in love on a riverboat going to New Orleans in the Gay Nineties. Upon arrival they are met by Julie's father (Henry Stephenson) who runs the popular Louisiana State Lottery Company and Reynold's Aunt Blanche (Helen Westley) who is a key figure in the anti-Lottery forces hoping Wayne as State's Attorney will end the Lottery.
Wild Geese Calling, 1h17
Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Henry Fonda, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Ona Munson, Barton MacLane, Russell Simpson
Roles Clarabella
Rating62% 3.138873.138873.138873.138873.13887
A lumberjack, John, travels to Alaska from Seattle in search of gold. He marries a dance-hall girl named Sally, but soon finds that she was once in love with his best friend, Blackie.
Gone with the Wind, 4h3
Directed by George Cukor, Victor Fleming, Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Political films, Auto-justice
Actors Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen
Roles Belle Watling
Rating81% 4.0987954.0987954.0987954.0987954.098795
Part 1 On the eve of the American Civil War in 1861, Scarlett O'Hara lives at Tara, her family's cotton plantation in Georgia, with her parents and two sisters. Scarlett learns that Ashley Wilkes—whom she secretly loves—is to be married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, and the engagement is to be announced the next day at a barbecue at Ashley's home, the nearby plantation Twelve Oaks.
The Big Guy, 1h18
Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Victor McLaglen, Jackie Cooper, Ona Munson, Edward Brophy, Peggy Moran, Jonathan Hale
Roles Mary Whitlock
Rating68% 3.4064653.4064653.4064653.4064653.406465
Bill Whitlock has been temporarily promoted from guard to warden at the state penetentiary when he is cruelly informed by the prison board that he is to be demoted. Meanwhile, mechanic Jimmy Hutchins becomes unwittingly involved in a jailbreak when Jack Lang, a confederate of convicts Chuck Burkhart and Buzz Miller, instructs the unsuspecting Jimmy to meet him in the country so that he can show the plans to Jimmy's new motor to some friends. Inside the prison, Burkhart and Miller take Bill hostage and then force Jimmy to drive the getaway car. During the chase, a motorcycle officer is killed, and the escape car runs off the road. Bill shoots the fleeing Burkhart and confiscates the bag of stolen money he finds in the dead man's possession. Embittered by his demotion, Bill decides to keep the booty, while Jimmy is charged with murder. The boy protests his innocence, claiming as his alibi the plans that he was to show Lang, but at the trial, Lang denies his involvement with Jimmy and the boy is sentenced to hang. After the boy's sentencing, Bill discovers Jimmy's plans in the bag with the stolen money, thus thrusting him into a moral dilemma when Jimmy's appeal is denied. After Lang visits Jimmy and tells him about Burkhart's loot, Jimmy accuses Bill of stealing the money and joins in a prison break with Dippy, the prison trustee. As Dippy and Jimmy speed into a police trap, Bill comes to their aid, only to be shot by Dippy. Although he dies before he can testify on Jimmy's behalf, the warden's signed affidavit clears the boy of all charges.
Dramatic School, 1h20
Directed by Robert B. Sinclair
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about television, Films based on plays
Actors Luise Rainer, Paulette Goddard, Alan Marshal, Lana Turner, John Hubbard, Genevieve Tobin
Roles une étudiante
Rating61% 3.098463.098463.098463.098463.09846
Aspiring actress Louise Mauban (Luise Rainer) attends the Paris School of Drama while working at a dreary factory job. Her fellow students begin to suspect that her stories of a luxurious life and her wealthy, handsome boyfriend, Marquis Andre D'Abbencourt (Alan Marshal), are just fantasies that she weaves to relieve her humdrum life. One of them, Nana (Paulette Goddard), maliciously invites Louise to her "birthday party", having arranged for Andre to attend. However, the plan backfires. Andre is enchanted by Louise and the lie turns into the truth. He showers her with gifts and takes her out every night.
Five Star Final, 1h29
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, Anthony Bushell, H. B. Warner, Boris Karloff, Aline MacMahon
Roles Kitty Carmody
Rating72% 3.643283.643283.643283.643283.64328
Joseph W. Randall (Edward G. Robinson), the city editor of a tabloid newspaper, reluctantly agrees when publisher Bernard Hinchecliffe (Oscar Apfel) plans to boost circulation with a restrospective series on a 20-year-old murder and scandal, involving a secretary, Nancy Voorhees (Frances Starr), who shot the man who got her pregnant and then refused to marry her. Nancy is now married to Michael Townsend (H. B. Warner), an upstanding member of society, and has a daughter, Jenny (Marian Marsh), about to marry the son of a socially prominent family, Philip Weeks (Anthony Bushell). She reacts with horror at the renewed interest in the scandal she had put behind her.
Broadminded, 1h5
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Joe E. Brown, Ona Munson, Bela Lugosi, William Collier Jr., Thelma Todd, Marjorie White
Roles Constance Palmer
Rating56% 2.80292.80292.80292.80292.8029
Brown plays Ossie, a New York City playboy sent to California to straighten himself out. He and his cousin, while driving west, pay too much attention to a sedan full of college girls and rear end a car driven by Pancho Arango (Bela Lugosi). The cousins make it to Hollywood where Brown falls in love with Lugosi's daughter.
Going Wild
Going Wild (1930)
, 1h8
Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films
Actors Joe E. Brown, Lawrence Gray, Ona Munson, Walter Pidgeon, Frank McHugh, Johnny Arthur
Roles Ruth Howard
Rating57% 2.859932.859932.859932.859932.85993
Rollo Smith (Joe E. Brown) and his friend Jack Lane (Lawrence Gray) are down on their luck and have stowed away on a train, finding a place in the compartment of ace pilot and writer Robert Story (Arthur Hoyt). The conductor (Fred Kelsey) tosses the pair off the train just where the famous writer is supposed to arrive, with Rollo being mistaken for Story.