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Vanessa Brown is a Actor Autrichienne born on 24 march 1928 at Vienna (Austria)
Vanessa Brown (March 24, 1928 – May 21, 1999) was an Austrian-born American actress who was successful in radio, film, theater, and television.
Brown has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for her contribution to motion pictures (at 1625 Vine Street) and for television (at 6528 Hollywood Boulevard).
(1947)
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Birth name Smylla Brind
Nationality Austria
Birth 24 march 1928 at Vienna (Austria)
Death 21 may 1999 (at 71 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)
Nationality Austria
Birth 24 march 1928 at Vienna (Austria)
Death 21 may 1999 (at 71 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)
Biography
Brown was married to Dr. Robert Alan Franklyn, a prominent plastic surgeon, from 1950 to 1957. In 1959, she married television director Mark Sandrich, Jr. – son of director Mark Sandrich – and they had two children, David Michael and Cathy Lisa. Her marriage to Sandrich ended in divorce, she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1988, and she lost her home during an earthquake in 1989. The surgery she received for her cancer appeared to have been successful, and she believed she had been cured, however the disease returned. The last few years of her life were spent in very poor health, before her death at age 71 in the Motion Picture Country Home, Woodland Hills, California.Brown has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for her contribution to motion pictures (at 1625 Vine Street) and for television (at 6528 Hollywood Boulevard).
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, 1h28Directed by Matt Cimber
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Rape and revenge films
Actors Millie Perkins, Lonny Chapman, Vanessa Brown, Rick Jason, Peggy Feury, George Buck Flower
Roles Cathy
Rating57%
The film concerns a dysfunctional and disturbed woman called Molly (played by Millie Perkins) who, after suffering repeated sexual abuse as a child at the hands of her seafaring father, embarks on a spree of gruesome sexual encounters with men who she meets during her job as a waitress in a seaside bar.
Bless the Beasts & Children (1971)
, 1h49Directed by Stanley Kramer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Bill Mumy, Barry Robins, Jesse White, Miles Chapin, Kenneth C. Swofford, Elaine Devry
Roles Mrs. Goodenow
Rating66%
The story follows a group of six teenaged boys, who share a cabin at a residential summer camp in the western mountains. Each of the boys is a misfit in one way or another; the group is ostracized by the other boys at the camp, and form a bond based, in part, on this broader social isolation. After being taken on a field trip to see a herd of bison selected for culling by local hunters, the boys resolve to sneak away from the camp and set the penned bison free.
Rosie! (1967)
, 1h38Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Rosalind Russell, Sandra Dee, Brian Aherne, Audrey Meadows, James Farentino, Vanessa Brown
Roles Edith Shaw
Rating66%
Rosie Lord (Russell) is a widowed millionaire who, much to the dismay of her daughters Mildred (Meadows) and Edith (Brown), spends her money generously. When she announces to buy a $2.5 million closed theater in a run-down part of Los Angeles, because it's the location where her late husband proposed to her and it's now threatened to be turned into a parking lot, her daughters decide that they have had enough. Edith and her husband Cabot (Nielsen) complain that they are only granted $100.000 a year, and work together with cold-hearted and recently divorced Mildred to discourage Rosie from making the buy. They are unable to convince her and her legal advisor Oliver (Aherne) to let them take care of their money, and thus decide to try to declare her incompetent, thereby hoping to put her in an insane asylum. Edith and Cabot's young daughter Daphne (Dee) is appalled to overhear the scheme, and vows to help her grandmother.
The Bad and the Beautiful (1953)
, 1h58Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Jerry Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about television
Actors Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame
Roles Kay Amiel
Rating77%
In Hollywood, screenwriter James Lee Bartlow (Dick Powell), movie star Georgia Lorrison (Lana Turner), and director Fred Amiel (Barry Sullivan) each refuse to speak by phone to Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) in Paris. Movie producer Harry Pebbel (Walter Pidgeon) gathers them in his office and explains that Shields was calling them because he has a new film idea and he wants the three of them for the project. Shields cannot get financing on his own, but with their names attached, there would be no problem. Pebbel asks the three to allow him to get Shields on the phone before they give their final answer.
The Fighter (1952)
, 1h18Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Richard Conte, Vanessa Brown, Lee J. Cobb, Frank Silvera, Hugh Sanders, Claire Carleton
Roles Kathy
Rating58%
A boxer, in Mexico, sets out to avenge the murder of his family by using the money from his winnings to purchase weapons.
The Basketball Fix (1951)
, 1h5Directed by Felix E. Feist
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors John Ireland, Marshall Thompson, Hazel Brooks, Vanessa Brown, Johnny Sands, Walter Sande
Roles Pat Judd
Rating54%
John Ireland stars in "The Basketball Fix" as Pete Ferreday, a sports writer for a local newspaper. Ferreday narrates the movie as if it's one of his articles. It tells the story of Johnny Long (played by Marshall Thompson), a basketball star for a nearby college known simply as "State." As a freshman, Long becomes an instant star and after an early season win is visited by big time gambler Mike Taft (William Bishop). Mike says he's just won a lot of money in a bet because of Johnny's great play and gives Johnny an envelope containing a large sum of cash - a portion of what Taft has just won. Johnny is determined to be ethical and refuses the money.
Three Husbands (1951)
, 1h18Directed by Irving Reis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick, Vanessa Brown, Howard Da Silva, Shepperd Strudwick, Robert Karnes
Roles Mary Whittaker
Rating55%
When a recently deceased playboy, Max, gets to heaven, he is granted a wish. His request: to watch his three best friends, with whom he regularly played poker, for the next 24 hours. That day, each man would receive a letter; tomorrow, Max's will is to be read. Each letter states that he had an affair with that man's wife, all of with whom he was close. With one, Max attended Friday symphony matinees and had tea afterwards; with another, he went to night clubs and taught French; the last, he repeatedly hired as his nurse through his long battle with heart disease.
Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950)
, 1h14Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Tarzan films
Actors Lex Barker, Vanessa Brown, Robert Alda, Hurd Hatfield, Arthur Shields, Denise Darcel
Roles Jane
Rating57%
Tarzan and Jane are spending some time by a river when they hear a scream. A local tribal girl has gone missing, and the tribes people believe this is due to some evil spirit. Tarzan and Jane quickly realize the girl has been kidnapped. The kidnappers are Lionians, a "lost" culture of Caucasians who have a culture similar to ancient Egypt and who worship lions. The Lionians are kidnapping girls throughout the region to bring back to their city deep in the jungle. But they have brought a terrible disease with them which can kill within hours. Tarzan seeks the help of Dr. Campbell, who has a serum that can both cure the disease as well as vaccinate against it. After saving the local tribe, Dr. Campbell and Tarzan (with the help of Neil, a drunken big game hunter) head for the Lionian city. Meanwhile, Dr. Campbell's native assistant, the buxom and blonde Lola, has fallen for Tarzan. Jane and Lola have a fight, after which both women are captured by a Lionian raiding party.
The Heiress (1949)
, 1h55Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins, Mona Freeman, Vanessa Brown
Roles Maria
Rating80%
Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland) is a plain, painfully shy woman whose emotionally detached father (Ralph Richardson) makes no secret of his disappointment in her. When she meets the charming Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift), she immediately is taken by the attention that he lavishes upon her, attention she so desperately seeks from her father. Catherine falls madly in love with Morris and they plan to marry.
Big Jack (1949)
, 1h25Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Western
Actors Wallace Beery, Richard Conte, Marjorie Main, Edward Arnold, Vanessa Brown, Clinton Sundberg
Roles Patricia Mahoney
Rating60%
À la frontière entre le Maryland et la Virginie en 1802, un jeune médecin est sur le point d'être pendu, lorsqu'il est sauvé par des hommes de la bande de Big Jack qui recherchent un médecin pour soigner le chef de la bande, blessé à la jambe.
The Secret Of St. Ives (1949)
Directed by Phil Rosen
Genres Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Political films, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Richard Ney, Henry Daniell, Vanessa Brown, Edgar Barrier, Aubrey Mather, Luis van Rooten
Roles Floria Gilchrist
Rating57%
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
, 1h44Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best, Natalie Wood, Isobel Elsom
Roles Anna Muir as an Adult
Rating77%
In the early 1900s, young widow Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) moves to the seaside English village of Whitecliff despite the fierce disapproval of her mother-in-law and sister-in-law. Despite its reputation of being haunted, she falls in love with and rents Gull Cottage, where she takes up residence with her young daughter Anna (Natalie Wood) and her maid Martha (Edna Best). On the first night, she is visited by the ghostly apparition of the former owner, a roguish but harmless sea captain named Daniel Gregg (Rex Harrison), who reluctantly agrees to allow her to live in Gull Cottage and promises to make himself known only to her (Anna is too young for ghosts). Despite a few differences and disagreements with Captain Gregg, Mrs. Muir and her household settle comfortably into Gull Cottage. However, it is not long before Mrs. Muir's in-laws arrive with the news that Lucy's investment income has dried up, and they insist that Lucy move back to London with them. After his ghostly eviction of the in-laws, Captain Gregg comes up with an idea to save the house: he will dictate his memoirs to her and she will have them published, with the royalties going to her. During the course of writing the book, they find themselves falling in love, but as both realize it is a hopeless situation, Daniel tells her she should find a real (live) man.
The Foxes of Harrow (1947)
, 1h57Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara, Richard Haydn, Victor McLaglen, Vanessa Brown, Patricia Medina
Roles Aurore D'Arceneaux
Rating64%
In the pre-Civil War New Orleans, roguish Irish gambler Stephen Fox (Rex Harrison) buys his way into society – something he couldn't do in his homeland because he is illegitimate.
The Late George Apley (1947)
, 1h36Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Ronald Colman, Peggy Cummins, Vanessa Brown, Richard Haydn, Richard Neill, Charles Russell
Roles Agnes Willing
Rating69%
George Apley (Ronald Colman) is a stuffy, self-satisfied member of Boston's upper class, supremely confident of the superiority of his hometown. However, his comfortable, predictable world is overturned when he learns, to his horror, that both his son and his daughter have fallen in love with non-Bostonians. However, he is eventually brought around to see reason.
Mother Wore Tights (1947)
, 1h47Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman, Vanessa Brown, Robert Arthur, Sara Allgood
Roles Bessie
Rating63%
In turn-of-the-century Oakland, California, the teenaged Myrtle McKinley (Betty Grable) is expected to follow high school by attending a San Francisco business college. Instead, she takes a job performing with a traveling vaudeville troupe, where she meets and falls in love with singer-dancer Frank Burt (Dan Dailey).