Acting
Isabel Jewell
Born July 19, 1907 · Shoshone, Wyoming, USA
Died April 5, 1972 · aged 64
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Isabel Jewell (July 19, 1907 – April 5, 1972) was an American actress most active in the 1930s and early 1940s. Some of her most famous films were Ceiling Zero, Marked Woman, A Tale of Two Cities, and Gone With the Wind. After years in theater stock companies, including an 87-week stint in Lincoln, Nebraska, she hit the big time after getting a part on Broa…
Known For
Gone with the Wind · 1939Gone with the Wind
★ 7.91939
MovieDramaWar
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Sweet Kill · 1972Sweet Kill
★ 4.11972
MovieHorrorThriller
Horror and suspense in the story of a psychotic maniac who literally "loves" women to death.
Evelyn Prentice · 1934Evelyn Prentice
★ 6.51934
MovieDramaMystery
A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.
High Sierra · 1941High Sierra
★ 7.11941
MovieCrimeDrama
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
Scatterbrain · 1940Scatterbrain
★ 7.51940
MovieComedyMusic
A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.
Lost Horizon · 1937Lost Horizon
★ 7.01937
MovieAdventureFantasy
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden, idyllic valley of Shangri-La. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-La provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
Marked Men · 1940Marked Men
★ 5.61940
MovieActionCrime
A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into the desert.
Bondage · 1933Bondage
★ 7.01933
MovieDrama
Judy Peters is about to be sentenced after she has pled guilty to her third offense of prostitution, when Dr. Nelson interrupts and tells her story to the court. (Mubi.)
Movies
Gone with the Wind · 1939Gone with the Wind
★ 7.91939
MovieDramaWar
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Sweet Kill · 1972Sweet Kill
★ 4.11972
MovieHorrorThriller
Horror and suspense in the story of a psychotic maniac who literally "loves" women to death.
Evelyn Prentice · 1934Evelyn Prentice
★ 6.51934
MovieDramaMystery
A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.
High Sierra · 1941High Sierra
★ 7.11941
MovieCrimeDrama
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
Scatterbrain · 1940Scatterbrain
★ 7.51940
MovieComedyMusic
A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.
Lost Horizon · 1937Lost Horizon
★ 7.01937
MovieAdventureFantasy
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden, idyllic valley of Shangri-La. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-La provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
Marked Men · 1940Marked Men
★ 5.61940
MovieActionCrime
A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into the desert.
Bondage · 1933Bondage
★ 7.01933
MovieDrama
Judy Peters is about to be sentenced after she has pled guilty to her third offense of prostitution, when Dr. Nelson interrupts and tells her story to the court. (Mubi.)
The Bishop's Wife · 1947The Bishop's Wife
★ 7.11947
MovieComedyFantasy
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
The New Cinema · 1968The New Cinema
1968
MovieTV MovieDocumentary
Between the French La Nouvelle Vague and the Italian Neorealismo, Europe had been undergoing a continuous cinema transformation since the 1950s, while the ailing American studio system groaned under its own weight and inertia. New Hollywood had arrived with Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, and already by 1968 it was changing how Hollywood thought and acted. The student film scene was getting ready to explode, and it knew it.
Marked Woman · 1937Marked Woman
★ 6.61937
MovieCrimeDrama
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
The Seventh Victim · 1943The Seventh Victim
★ 6.51943
MovieHorrorMystery
After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.
Manhattan Melodrama · 1934Manhattan Melodrama
★ 7.01934
MovieCrimeDrama
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
A Tale of Two Cities · 1935A Tale of Two Cities
★ 6.91935
MovieHistoryDrama
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
Design for Living · 1933Design for Living
★ 7.11933
MovieComedyRomance
Independent Gilda is resigned fo a life of married tedium when Tom and George, having gotten past their jealousy, come to America and whisk Gilda away to live an exciting polyamorous life in Paris.
Drum Beat · 1954Drum Beat
★ 6.11954
MovieWestern
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her aunt and uncle. After Modoc renegade Captain Jack engages in ambush and other atrocities, MacKay must fight him one-on-one with guns, knives and fists.
Man in the Attic · 1953Man in the Attic
★ 5.51953
MovieThrillerCrime
London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst; her niece Lily (star of a decidedly Parisian stage revue) finds him interesting and increasingly attractive. Is Lily in danger, or are her mother's suspicions merely a red herring?
Northwest Passage · 1940Northwest Passage
★ 6.61940
MovieAdventureHistory
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on their famous raid at Fort St. Francis and their marches before and after the battle.
Babies for Sale · 1940Babies for Sale
★ 6.31940
MovieDrama
A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.
Times Square Lady · 1935Times Square Lady
★ 7.01935
MovieMusicCrime
A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir and seize control.
Swing It, Sailor! · 1938Swing It, Sailor!
★ 7.51938
MovieComedyAdventure
Comical exploits of two Navy pals, at sea and on shore.
Small Town Girl · 1936Small Town Girl
★ 6.01936
MovieComedyRomance
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
Big Brown Eyes · 1936Big Brown Eyes
★ 6.41936
MovieComedyCrime
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
Born to Kill · 1947Born to Kill
★ 6.71947
MovieCrimeDrama
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.
TV Shows
Gunsmoke · 1955Gunsmoke
★ 6.71955
SeriesWestern
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
Lock-Up · 1959Lock-Up
★ 6.41959
SeriesDrama
Lock-Up is an American legal drama series that premiered in syndication in September 1959 and concluded in June 1961. The half-hour episodes had little time for character development or subplots and presented a compact story without embellishment.
Mr. & Mrs. North · 1952Mr. & Mrs. North
★ 5.01952
SeriesComedyCrime
Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry North, a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good amateur detective, and his wife, Pamela, as they solve crimes in New York City.