Acting

Nancy Saunders

Born June 29, 1925 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Died June 13, 2020 · aged 94

This pretty, blonde 1940s B-movie starlet was the daughter of newspaperman Leonard Sanders and showgirl Blanche Thompson (who also appeared in a few silent pictures). By her own account, she was born in Hollywood as Nancy Lou Sanders on June 29 1925, the day of the Santa Barbara earthquake. Curiously, being in the movies had not been her primary career choice when she was spotted dancing at the Co…

Known For

The Locket

The Locket · 1946

MovieDramaCrime

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

Slappily Married

Slappily Married · 1946

Slappily Married

Joe's wife, who thinks he's been carrying on with another woman, moves out.

The Shunning

The Shunning · 2011

MovieDramaTV Movie

Beautiful Katie Lapp has always felt something missing in her simple Amish existence -- until a mysterious "Englisher" comes to Lancaster County looking for the baby girl she gave up for adoption 19 years ago.

The Woman on the Beach

The Woman on the Beach · 1947

The Woman on the Beach

A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.

Love-Struck

Love-Struck · 1997

MovieComedyDrama

Two years after her last failed relationship, Emily Vale has stopped believing in love. This brings her to the attention of Venus who sends her son Cupid down to Earth to pierce her with an arrow in the hope of changing her mind. Unfortunately, the handsome but hapless Cupid misses and the arrow strikes his own heart making him fall hopelessly in love with Emily. Thus he is granted temporary leave from paradise in order to pursue her. However, not only does he have a limited time on Earth, but also Emily's last boyfriend, the handsome but sleazy Ted has just shown up intent on winning her back. Which one will Emily choose? And is she ready to open her heart and accept love into her life once more?

Stone Age Romeos

Stone Age Romeos · 1955

Stone Age Romeos

The stooges hope to collect a reward by proving to a museum that cavemen still exist. They return from their expedition with a film purporting to show some stone age stooges defending their women from other cavemen. The museum curators are about to pay they reward, until they overhear the stooges talking about how they faked the film, with themselves playing the cavemen.

It Had to Be You

It Had to Be You · 1947

It Had to Be You

MovieRomanceComedy

A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone · 1950

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

MovieMysteryComedy

Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.

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The Locket

The Locket · 1946

MovieDramaCrime

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

Miss Wyatt (uncredited)

Slappily Married

Slappily Married · 1946

Slappily Married

Joe's wife, who thinks he's been carrying on with another woman, moves out.

Bellhop (uncredited)

The Shunning

The Shunning · 2011

MovieDramaTV Movie

Beautiful Katie Lapp has always felt something missing in her simple Amish existence -- until a mysterious "Englisher" comes to Lancaster County looking for the baby girl she gave up for adoption 19 years ago.

Ella Mae Zook

The Woman on the Beach

The Woman on the Beach · 1947

The Woman on the Beach

A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.

Girl at Party (uncredited)

Love-Struck

Love-Struck · 1997

MovieComedyDrama

Two years after her last failed relationship, Emily Vale has stopped believing in love. This brings her to the attention of Venus who sends her son Cupid down to Earth to pierce her with an arrow in the hope of changing her mind. Unfortunately, the handsome but hapless Cupid misses and the arrow strikes his own heart making him fall hopelessly in love with Emily. Thus he is granted temporary leave from paradise in order to pursue her. However, not only does he have a limited time on Earth, but also Emily's last boyfriend, the handsome but sleazy Ted has just shown up intent on winning her back. Which one will Emily choose? And is she ready to open her heart and accept love into her life once more?

Sr. Jean-Marie

Stone Age Romeos

Stone Age Romeos · 1955

Stone Age Romeos

The stooges hope to collect a reward by proving to a museum that cavemen still exist. They return from their expedition with a film purporting to show some stone age stooges defending their women from other cavemen. The museum curators are about to pay they reward, until they overhear the stooges talking about how they faked the film, with themselves playing the cavemen.

Maggie (archive footage)

It Had to Be You

It Had to Be You · 1947

It Had to Be You

MovieRomanceComedy

A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.

Nancy (uncredited)

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone · 1950

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

MovieMysteryComedy

Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.

Joanie

The Bamboo Blonde

The Bamboo Blonde · 1946

The Bamboo Blonde

MovieWarRomance

A pilot of a B 29 meets Louise Anderson, a singer in a New York nightclub. He falls in love with her, but he had to leave next day for action in the Pacific. He lets paint her picture on his bomber, the "Bamboo Blonde" and becomes a hero with his crew sinking a Japanese battleship and shooting down a Japanese fighter wing. Back in New York, he leaves his fiancée and engages him to Louise.

Glamour Girl (uncredited)

I'm a Monkey's Uncle

I'm a Monkey's Uncle · 1948

I'm a Monkey's Uncle

Set in the stone age, the stooges are cavemen who must have various misadventures hunting, gathering, and otherwise coping with prehistoric life. When some other cavemen threaten to take their women ("Aggie", "Maggie", and "Baggy"), the boys fight them off with a catapulting tree branch that shoots rocks and eggs.

Maggie

The Millerson Case

The Millerson Case · 1947

The Millerson Case

MovieCrimeMystery

While on vacation, a criminal psychologist investigates a murder during a typhoid epidemic.

Belle Englehart

A Likely Story

A Likely Story · 1947

A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.

Blonde on Train (uncredited)

The Ghost Talks

The Ghost Talks · 1949

The Ghost Talks

The stooges are movers for an express company and on a rainy night are sent to move some junk, including a suit of armor, from a spooky old house. The armor is haunted by the ghost of Peeping Tom, who has no intention of leaving. The ghost foils the stooges attempts to take the armor, until Lady Godiva shows up and the two ride off together.

Lady Godiva (uncredited)

The Lone Wolf in London

The Lone Wolf in London · 1947

The Lone Wolf in London

Michael Lanyard is suspected of stealing two fabulous diamonds from a vault in Scotland Yard, where they were being held for safekeeping, but the Yard can't prove he did it. Later, Lanyard is summoned by a member of the nobility to help the latter raise money to pay a blackmailer. Lanyard later finds evidence to reveal the diamonds as having been stolen by a famous stage star.

Ann Klemscott

Arizona Territory

Arizona Territory · 1950

Arizona Territory

Prospector Jeff Malloy rescues Doris Devlin, owner of a trading post, from an ambush planned by her uncle, Kilburn, who is trying to scare her out of the territory so that he can continue his counterfeiting operations.

Doris Devin

Outlaw Country

Outlaw Country · 1949

Lash goes south of the border looking for a counterfeiter, a kidnapped engraver and his daughter, and the mysterious Frontier Phantom, while Fuzzy St. John studies hypnotism.

Jane Evans

Prairie Raiders

Prairie Raiders · 1947

Prairie Raiders

Government Agent Steve leases land to Masters so he can bring in horses for the Army. Henley has obtained a forged lease for the same land and Steve is unable to prove it's a fake. While Steve checks with Washington, Henley plans to roundup and ship the horses. Masters also intends to roundup the horses and he has the Durango Kid on his side in the battle with Henley.

Ann Bradford

Law of the Canyon

Law of the Canyon · 1947

Law of the Canyon

Freight wagons are being stolen and ransomed back to their owners. Government agent Steve Langtry (and his alter ego the Durango Kid) is sent break up the Hood Gang that's behind the robberies.

Mary Coleman

Whirlwind Raiders

Whirlwind Raiders · 1948

Whirlwind Raiders

It's 1873 and the disbanded Texas Rangers have been replaced by the corrupt Texas State Police. Steve Lanning arrives posing as a wanted outlaw to get in with them in his attempt to have them replaced. His inside work helps the Durango Kid break up the State Police raids but he is in trouble when his secret identity as Durango becomes known to them.

Claire Ross

South of the Chisholm Trail

South of the Chisholm Trail · 1947

South of the Chisholm Trail

When the ranchers of Bearcat are plagued by rustlers, Big Jim Grady offers to buy their herds from them at low-ball prices. Steve Haley suggests to the ranchers that they band together and drive their herds to Abilene, Kansas and get full price. Steve's friend Smiley "joins" the rustlers to learn who their leader is. Grady henchman Doc Walker asks Steve to help break up the cattle drive, and he agrees in order to keep tabs on the rustlers. The gang makes several attempts to take the trail herd but Steve, in his guise as the Durango Kid, intervenes and saves the cattle.

Nora Grant

West of Dodge City

West of Dodge City · 1947

West of Dodge City

Charles Starrett once again dons the disguise of the "Durango Kid" to restore law and order in this entry in Columbia's Western series. This time, the Kid, aka Steve Ramsey, witnesses a stage robbery, during which local rancher John Avery is brutally murdered.

Anne Avery

Six-Gun Law

Six-Gun Law · 1948

In this western, an entry in the "Durango Kid" series of westerns, a corrupt, prominent citizen owns a small western town. The trouble begins when a cowboy finds himself convinced by the evil town father that he has killed the sheriff. In exchange for his silence, the official forces the man to become the new sheriff and instructs him to turn a blind eye to the villain's evil doings.

June Wallace