Acting

Inez Courtney

Born March 12, 1908 · Amsterdam, New York, USA

Died April 5, 1975 · aged 67

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Inez Courtney (March 12, 1908 – April 5, 1975) was an American actress on the Broadway stage and in films. Born in New York City, New York, she came from a large Irish-American family. Her father died when she was fifteen so she decided to go onto the stage. A year later she was doing a specialty dance which earned her the nicknames of St Vitis, Mosquito and…

Known For

The Raven

The Raven · 1935

MovieHorrorCrime

A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.

The Shop Around the Corner

The Shop Around the Corner · 1940

The Shop Around the Corner

MovieComedyDrama

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

Broadway Bill

Broadway Bill · 1934

MovieComedyDrama

Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin and the luck is against him. He is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planned fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...

Hollywood on Parade No. B-1

Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 · 1934

Hollywood on Parade No. B-1

Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and a Gala Hollywood Premiere.

Hold Your Man

Hold Your Man · 1933

MovieDramaRomance

Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie takes off and Ruby is sent to a reformatory for two years.

Big City Blues

Big City Blues · 1932

MovieDramaCrime

An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.

Time Out for Romance

Time Out for Romance · 1937

Time Out for Romance

MovieAdventureComedy

A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

I Love That Man

I Love That Man · 1933

I Love That Man

MovieComedyDrama

Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across the country until they decide to settle down in a small town and give up their life of crime. He goes into business and all seems to be going well until some ex-partners he double crossed show up in town demanding the money he cheated them out of.

Filmography

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The Raven

The Raven · 1935

MovieHorrorCrime

A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.

Mary Burns

The Shop Around the Corner

The Shop Around the Corner · 1940

The Shop Around the Corner

MovieComedyDrama

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

Ilona

Broadway Bill

Broadway Bill · 1934

MovieComedyDrama

Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin and the luck is against him. He is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planned fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...

Nurse Mae (uncredited)

Hollywood on Parade No. B-1

Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 · 1934

Hollywood on Parade No. B-1

Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and a Gala Hollywood Premiere.

Hold Your Man

Hold Your Man · 1933

MovieDramaRomance

Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie takes off and Ruby is sent to a reformatory for two years.

Maizie

Big City Blues

Big City Blues · 1932

MovieDramaCrime

An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.

Faun

Time Out for Romance

Time Out for Romance · 1937

Time Out for Romance

MovieAdventureComedy

A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

Mabel

I Love That Man

I Love That Man · 1933

I Love That Man

MovieComedyDrama

Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across the country until they decide to settle down in a small town and give up their life of crime. He goes into business and all seems to be going well until some ex-partners he double crossed show up in town demanding the money he cheated them out of.

Public Stenographer (scenes deleted)

Blondie Meets the Boss

Blondie Meets the Boss · 1939

Blondie Meets the Boss

Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.

Betty Lou Wood

Crime Ring

Crime Ring · 1938

MovieCrimeDrama

Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.

Kitty

Brilliant Marriage

Brilliant Marriage · 1936

Brilliant Marriage

When a wealthy heiress discovers the terrible family secret that has been hidden from her since birth, her world is turned upside down.

Sally Patrick

Two in a Crowd

Two in a Crowd · 1936

MovieRomanceComedy

When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress Julia Wayne needs the whole $1,000, and so does sportsman Larry Stevens. Since compromise will serve neither of their needs, they are stalemated - until complications arise.

Mrs. Flynn (uncredited)

The Hurricane

The Hurricane · 1937

MovieActionAdventure

A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all pretense of law and order are soon shattered by an incoming tropical storm.

Tourist on Ocean Liner (uncredited)

The Affair of Susan

The Affair of Susan · 1935

The Affair of Susan

MovieRomanceComedy

Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.

Mrs. Barnes

Suzy

A French air ace discovers that his showgirl wife's first husband is still alive.

Maisie

The Captain Hates the Sea

The Captain Hates the Sea · 1934

The Captain Hates the Sea

Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.

Flo

Armored Car

Armored Car · 1937

MovieCrimeDrama

Larry Willis and Bill Wane are security guards who ride in the back of Banks Co. armored trucks. When they barely avoid a robbery, they return to headquarters, where their boss John Hale introduces them to detective Tom Sheridan, who will be working with them to uncover a new gang of robbers.

Blind Date

Having Wonderful Time

Having Wonderful Time · 1938

Having Wonderful Time

MovieComedyRomance

Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.

Emma

Loose Ankles

Loose Ankles · 1930

MovieRomanceComedy

A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the approval of three of her stuffed-shirt relatives, and without scandal. Otherwise, the estate goes to the cat and dog hospital. Ann, not needing the money, rebels by seeking scandal with a gigolo.

Betty

Five of a Kind

Five of a Kind · 1938

MovieComedyDrama

Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.

Libby Long

Millions in the Air

Millions in the Air · 1935

Millions in the Air

The daughter of a radio-program sponsor wants to get on the air too, but her father doesn't allow it, so she enters an amateur contest on his radio program under an assumed name.

Miss Waterbury

Cheating Blondes

Cheating Blondes · 1933

Cheating Blondes

A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.

Polly

Break of Hearts

Break of Hearts · 1935

Break of Hearts

MovieDramaRomance

Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.

Miss Wilson

Carnival

Carnival · 1935

MovieRomanceComedy

"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.

Girl