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Wanda McKay is a Actor American born on 22 june 1915
Wanda McKay (June 22, 1915 – April 11, 1996) was an American model and film actress.
She was born as Dorothy Quackenbush in Portland, Oregon, but her family later moved to Fort Worth in Texas. After moving to New York she became a model and her image was used to promote Chesterfield cigarettes. McKay was voted "Miss American Aviation" in 1938.
By 1939 McKay had moved into films after being given a contract by Paramount Pictures. Initially she made small uncredited appearances before going on to starring roles as a leading lady in many B Movies during the 1940s, working in particular at studios such as PRC and Monogram Pictures. Film worked dried up for her in the 1950s, and she appeared on television and in a minor role in The Merry Widow (1952). Her last film appearance was a small uncredited part in Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957).
In 1977 she married Hoagy Carmichael, a marriage that lasted until his death in 1981.
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Wanda McKay
She was born as Dorothy Quackenbush in Portland, Oregon, but her family later moved to Fort Worth in Texas. After moving to New York she became a model and her image was used to promote Chesterfield cigarettes. McKay was voted "Miss American Aviation" in 1938.
By 1939 McKay had moved into films after being given a contract by Paramount Pictures. Initially she made small uncredited appearances before going on to starring roles as a leading lady in many B Movies during the 1940s, working in particular at studios such as PRC and Monogram Pictures. Film worked dried up for her in the 1950s, and she appeared on television and in a minor role in The Merry Widow (1952). Her last film appearance was a small uncredited part in Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957).
In 1977 she married Hoagy Carmichael, a marriage that lasted until his death in 1981.
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Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)
, 1h54Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Dean Martin, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Eva Bartok, Dewey Martin, Walter Slezak, Paul Henreid
Roles New York Operator (uncredited)
Rating56%
Millionaire hotel mogul Ray Hunter (Dean Martin) flies to Rome to buy another property, the Regent. He is picked up at the airport by lovely Maria Martelli (Eva Bartok), who works for the hotel's owner, the Countess Alzani.
Roaring City (1951)
, 59minutesDirected by William Berke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Hugh Beaumont, Edward Brophy, Richard Travis, Joan Valerie, Wanda McKay, Abner Biberman
Roles Sylvia Rand
Rating58%
The Golden Eye (1948)
, 1h9Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Roland Winters, Victor Sen Yung, Mantan Moreland, Evelyn Brent, Wanda McKay, Ralph Dunn
Roles Evelyn Manning
Rating58%
Manning, owner of the Golden Eye Mine in Arizona, persuades Charlie Chan to help him. To avoid alerting Manning's murderous enemies, Chan registers as a guest at a nearby dude ranch along with his number two son, Tommy, and his black servant, Birmingham Brown. There he meets San Francisco Police Lieutenant Mike Ruark, posing as drunken fellow guest "Vincent O'Brien" to investigate why the mine has suddenly become valuable.
Jinx Money (1948)
, 1h8Directed by William Beaudine
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, William Benedict, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey, Benny Bartlett
Roles Virginia
Rating60%
Pollack, an underworld gambler, is murdered, but before he dies he hides $50,000 that he just won gambling in a newspaper and kicks it under a car. The next day Sach and Slip are walking in the street and find the paper and the cash. Gabe, who is a reporter, runs a story on them finding the money and the gangsters that Pollack won the money from come looking for them. One by one they take the money from the boys and are immediately killed by the mysterious "umbrella". Eventually the boys get tired of having the money taken from them and people dying around them so they hand the money over to the police. The "umbrella", not knowing that they boys no longer have the money, comes to collect it from them and is captured by the police who were staking the boys hideout waiting for the killer.
Jungle Goddess (1948)
, 1h2Directed by Lewis D. Collins
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors George Reeves, Ralph Byrd, Wanda McKay, Armida, Onest Conley, Rudy Robles
Roles Greta Vanderhorn
Rating21%
Stage Struck (1948)
, 1h11Directed by William Nigh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Kane Richmond, Audrey Long, Conrad Nagel, Ralph Byrd, John Gallaudet, Anthony Warde
Roles Helen Howard
Rating55%
Jiggs and Maggie in Society (1947)
, 1h6Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Joe Yule, Renie Riano, Wanda McKay, Herbert Evans, Jimmy Aubrey, Richard Irving
Roles Millicent Perker
Rating63%
Irish-American matriarch Maggie attempts to gain her family entry into New York's High Society.
Hollywood and Vine (1945)
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors James Ellison, Wanda McKay, Ralph Morgan, June Clyde, Franklin Pangborn, Emmett Lynn
Roles Martha Manning
Rating55%
Martha Manning is on her way to imagined fame and fortune in Hollywood and stops off at Pop Barkley's hamburger stand thirty miles from the city of her dreams. A stray dog enters as does Larry Winters who thinks the dog belongs to Martha. Feeding the dog his hamburger Larry notices the dog dancing to The Emperor's Waltz on Pop's jukebox and thinks the dog belongs to Martha. Martha feels Larry is a wolf and leaves the cafe with Larry vowing to track her down in Hollywood to return her dog who he has named "Emperor".
Sensation Hunters (1945)
, 1h2Directed by Christy Cabanne
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Robert Lowery, Eddie Quillan, Doris Merrick, Constance Worth, Isabel Jewell, Nestor Paiva
Roles Helen
Rating54%
Voodoo Man (1944)
, 1h2Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Zombie films
Actors Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, George Zucco, Wanda McKay, Louise Currie, Bill Corbett
Roles Betty Benton
Rating52%
Nicholas (George Zucco) runs a filling station in the sticks. In reality, he is helping Dr. Richard Marlowe (Bela Lugosi) capture comely young ladies, so he transfera their life essences to his long-dead wife. Also assisting is Toby (John Carradine), who lovingly shepherds the leftover zombie girls and pounds on bongos during voodoo ceremonies. The hero is a Hollywood screenwriter who, at the end of the picture, turns the experience into a script titled "Voodoo Man." When his producer asks who should star in it, the hero suggests ... Bela Lugosi.
Belle of the Yukon (1944)
, 1h23Directed by Randolph Scott, William A. Seiter, Gypsy Rose Lee, Dinah Shore
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Musical, Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Gypsy Rose Lee, Dinah Shore, Bob Burns, Bob Burns, Charles Winninger
Roles Cherie Atterbury
Rating53%
In a Yukon town called Malemute, a saloon owned by "Honest" John Calhoun gets a new star performer, Belle De Valle, while he's away. A stranger in town, Sam Slade, offers to keep an eye on things until the boss returns, while saloon manager Pop Candless and crooked town marshal Maitland keep a suspicious eye on him.
The Monster Maker (1944)
, 1h2Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors J. Carrol Naish, Ralph Morgan, Tala Birell, Wanda McKay, Glenn Strange, Sam Flint
Roles Patricia Lawrence
Rating48%
Dr. Markoff (J. Carrol Naish) has concocted a formula that spreads a hideous disease named acromegaly - which extends bones and distorts facial features. Markoff has no moral dilemma in experimenting on unsuspecting human subjects. His amoral behavior assumes monstrous dimensions when famed concert pianist Lawrence (Ralph Morgan) is injected with the doctor's disease-inducing serum. In return for an antidote, Markoff intends to exact more than his pound of flesh by extorting a fortune from Lawrence and demanding the hand of the musician's pretty daughter Patricia (Wanda McKay).
Raiders of Ghost City (1944)
Directed by Ray Taylor, Lewis D. Collins
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Dennis Moore, Lionel Atwill, Joe Sawyer, Wanda McKay, Regis Toomey, Virginia Christine
Roles Cathy Haines
Rating59%
At the height of the Civil War, a gang of supposed Confederates, headed by Alex Morel, raid all gold shipments from Oro Grande, California, bound for Washington. Captain Steve Clark is recognized as a Union Secret Service agent by Morel's accomplice Trina Dessard, along with his friend Idaho Jones, is ambushed in the baggage car and sent to almost certain death when the car is un-coupled and plunges down the mountainside.
Black Raven (1943)
, 1h1Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors George Zucco, Wanda McKay, Robert Livingston, Noel Madison, Byron Foulger, Charles Middleton
Roles Lee Winfield
Rating55%
Corregidor (1943)
, 1h13Directed by William Nigh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Otto Kruger, Elissa Landi, Donald Woods, Frank Jenks, Ian Keith, Rick Vallin
Roles Nurse Jane 'Hey-Dutch' Van Dornen
Rating47%
A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.