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Patricia Dane is a Actor American born on 4 august 1919 at Jacksonville (USA)

Patricia Dane

Patricia Dane
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Birth name Thelma Pearl Pippins
Nationality USA
Birth 4 august 1919 at Jacksonville (USA)
Death 5 june 1995 (at 75 years) at Blountstown (USA)

Patricia Dane (August 4, 1919 – June 5, 1995) was an American film actress of the 1940s.

Biography

Sous le nom de scène de Patricia Dane, bénéficiant d'un contrat à la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, elle débute au cinéma comme Ziegfeld Girl, dans La Danseuse des Folies Ziegfeld de Robert Z. Leonard (1941, avec Lana Turner, Judy Garland et Hedy Lamarr). Suivent notamment La vie commence pour André Hardy de George B. Seitz (1941, avec Mickey Rooney et Judy Garland) et Grand Central Murder de S. Sylvan Simon (1942, avec Van Heflin et Cecilia Parker).

Après le tournage de Mademoiselle ma femme de Vincente Minnelli (avec Red Skelton et Eleanor Powell), sorti en 1943, elle épouse la même année le musicien de jazz Tommy Dorsey et se retire alors, jusqu'à leur divorce en 1947.

Elle tente ensuite un retour à l'écran, mais obtient seulement des petits rôles dans quatre films sortis à partir de 1948. Le dernier de ses quatorze films américains est Plus dure sera la chute de Mark Robson (1956, avec Humphrey Bogart et Rod Steiger).

Patricia Dane se produit également à la télévision dans deux séries américaines, la première en 1951 (Fireside Theatre, un épisode), la seconde en 1954 (The Lone Wolf, un épisode).

Usually with

Lana Turner
Lana Turner
(3 films)
David Snell
David Snell
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Patricia Dane (12 films)

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Actress

The Harder They Fall, 1h48
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling, Max Baer Jr., Mike Lane, Nehemiah Persoff
Roles Shirley (uncredited)
Rating74% 3.745793.745793.745793.745793.74579
Sportswriter Eddie Willis (Humphrey Bogart) is broke after the newspaper he works for goes under. He is hired by crooked boxing promoter Nick Benko (Rod Steiger) to publicize his new boxer, a huge, but slow-witted and untalented Argentinian named Toro Moreno (Mike Lane).
Road to Bali, 1h31
Directed by Hal Walker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Action, Musical
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Murvyn Vye, Humphrey Bogart, Leon Askin
Roles une servante
Rating63% 3.198313.198313.198313.198313.19831
George (Bing Crosby) and Harold (Bob Hope), American song-and-dance men performing in Melbourne, Australia, leave in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals. They end up in Darwin, where they take jobs as pearl divers for a prince. They are taken by boat to an idyllic island on the way to Bali, Indonesia. They vie for the favours of exotic (and half-Scottish) Princess Lala (Dorothy Lamour), a cousin of the Prince (Murvyn Vye). A hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels, which the Prince plans to claim as his own.
I Dood It
I Dood It (1943)
, 1h42
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Red Skelton, Eleanor Powell, Richard Ainley, Sam Levene, Patricia Dane, John Hodiak
Roles Suretta Brenton
Rating61% 3.09773.09773.09773.09773.0977
Constance Shaw est une star à Broadway, et Joseph Rivington Reynolds, un de ses admirateurs. Ils se marient après que Constance a rompu avec son fiancé. Connie pense que Joseph possède une mine d'or, mais il travaille en réalité comme valet de chambre dans un hôtel. Lorsque tout le monde apprend ce qu'il est réellement, Joseph est banni du théâtre. Par hasard, il apprend qu'un complot vise à faire exploser une bombe dans un entrepôt de munitions .
Grand Central Murder, 1h13
Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Van Heflin, Patricia Dane, Sam Levene, Stephen McNally, Cecilia Parker, Millard Mitchell
Roles Mida King, Stage Name of Beulah Toohey
Rating64% 3.242433.242433.242433.242433.24243
Convicted murderer "Turk" (Stephen McNally) escapes from police custody, crashing through a washroom window as a train pulls into Grand Central Station in New York. He telephones his former girlfriend, Broadway star Mida King (Patricia Dane), and threatens to kill her. She leaves her show between acts and hides in a private train car on a siding at the station, planning to leave town and marry her rich, high society fiance, David V. Henderson (Mark Daniels). However, her body is found by David and his ex-fiancee, Connie Furness (Cecilia Parker).
Somewhere I'll Find You, 1h48
Directed by Wesley Ruggles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Robert Sterling, Keenan Wynn, Patricia Dane, Reginald Owen
Roles Crystal McRegan
Rating60% 3.049123.049123.049123.049123.04912
In October 1941, war correspondents and brothers "Jonny" (Clark Gable) and Kirk Davis (Robert Sterling) return to the still-neutral United States after being kicked out of Germany. Jonny's boss, isolationist New York Daily Chronicle publisher George L. Stafford (Charles Dingle), refuses to print his story about Japan and Germany's plans for the world, but Jonny tricks him into doing so, and gets fired for his trouble.
Johnny Eager, 1h47
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Van Heflin, Robert Sterling, Paul Stewart
Roles Garnet
Rating69% 3.492783.492783.492783.492783.49278
Johnny Eager (Robert Taylor) masquerades as a taxi driver for his gullible parole officer, A. J. Verne (Henry O'Neill), but in reality, he is the ruthless head of a powerful gambling syndicate. Verne introduces him to socialite Lisbeth "Liz" Bard (Lana Turner), a sociology student. Johnny and Liz are attracted to each other, but then he discovers that she is the stepdaughter of his longtime nemesis, John Benson Farrell (Edward Arnold). As a crusading prosecutor, Farrell was responsible for sending Johnny to prison, and now as the district attorney, he has gotten an injunction preventing Johnny's expensive dog racing track from opening.
Rio Rita
Rio Rita (1942)
, 1h31
Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Buddy films
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Kathryn Grayson, John Carroll, Tom Conway, Patricia Dane
Roles Lucette Brunswick
Rating59% 2.9998152.9998152.9998152.9998152.999815
Nazi spies have infiltrated the Hotel Vista del Rio, a resort on the Mexican border. They plan to use a radio broadcast by a famous guest, Ricardo Montera (John Carroll), to transmit coded messages to their cohorts. Doc (Bud Abbott) and Wishy (Lou Costello) are stowaways in Montera's car, who steal a basket of "apples" that turn out being miniature radios used by the spies. Rita Winslow (Kathryn Grayson), the hotel's owner and childhood sweetheart of Montera, hire Doc and Wishy as house detectives, who discover the Nazi codebook and give it to Montera. They are then kidnapped by the spies, and left in a room with a bomb set to explode, but manage to escape while Wishy plants the bomb in the pocket of one of the culprits. Meanwhile, the broadcast has already begun and Montera, refusing to participate in treason, fights the spies until the Texas Rangers arrive. The spies' escape by car is thwarted when the planted bomb finally explodes.
Ziegfeld Girl, 2h12
Directed by Busby Berkeley, Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, Tony Martin, Jackie Cooper
Roles Ziegfeld Girl (Uncredited)
Rating66% 3.347733.347733.347733.347733.34773
The story deals with three showbiz hopefuls - Susan Gallagher (Judy Garland), Sandra Kolter (Hedy Lamarr) and Sheila Regan (Lana Turner) - and their efforts to attain the lofty status of "Ziegfeld Girl."
Life Begins for Andy Hardy, 1h41
Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Judy Garland, Ann Rutherford, Fay Holden, Patricia Dane
Roles Jennitt Hicks
Rating66% 3.3442753.3442753.3442753.3442753.344275
With high school behind him, Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) decides that as an adult, it's time to start living his life. Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) had hoped that his son would go to college and study law, but Andy isn't sure that's what he wants to do so he heads off to New York City to find a job. Too proud to accept financial help from his longtime friend Betsy Booth (Judy Garland), he at least lets her drive him to the city.