Acting

Fay McKenzie

Born February 19, 1918 · Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Died April 16, 2019 · aged 101

Eunice Fay McKenzie was an American actress and singer. She starred in silent films as a child, and then sound films as an adult, but perhaps she is best known for her leading roles opposite Gene Autry in the early 1940s in five horse opera features. She was also known for her collaborations with director Blake Edwards on five occasions. She also appeared on Broadway, radio, and television, havin…

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Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's · 1961

Breakfast at Tiffany's

MovieComedyRomance

Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.

The Party

The Party · 1968

Hrundi V. Bakshi, an accident-prone actor from India, is accidentally put on the guest list for an upcoming party at the home of a Hollywood film producer. Unfortunately, from the moment he arrives, one thing after another goes wrong with compounding effect.

Gunga Din

Gunga Din · 1939

MovieAdventureWar

British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.

Slander House

Slander House · 1938

MovieDramaRomance

Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client.

It's a Wonderful World

It's a Wonderful World · 1939

It's a Wonderful World

MovieComedyRomance

Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.

Station Content

Station Content · 1918

Station Content

MovieDramaRomance

A wayward wife abandons her husband but finds redemption by preventing a railway accident and finding her way back to him. The full 5-reel feature is believed lost; A 1926 abridgement of roughly 12 minutes survives.

Murder in the Music Hall

Murder in the Music Hall · 1946

Murder in the Music Hall

MovieCrimeMusic

An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.

The Big Guy

The Big Guy · 1939

MovieCrimeDrama

A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.

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Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's · 1961

Breakfast at Tiffany's

MovieComedyRomance

Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.

Party Guest (uncredited)

The Party

The Party · 1968

Hrundi V. Bakshi, an accident-prone actor from India, is accidentally put on the guest list for an upcoming party at the home of a Hollywood film producer. Unfortunately, from the moment he arrives, one thing after another goes wrong with compounding effect.

Alice Clutterbuck

Gunga Din

Gunga Din · 1939

MovieAdventureWar

British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.

Girl at Party (uncredited)

Slander House

Slander House · 1938

MovieDramaRomance

Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client.

Anna

It's a Wonderful World

It's a Wonderful World · 1939

It's a Wonderful World

MovieComedyRomance

Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.

Guest (uncredited)

Station Content

Station Content · 1918

Station Content

MovieDramaRomance

A wayward wife abandons her husband but finds redemption by preventing a railway accident and finding her way back to him. The full 5-reel feature is believed lost; A 1926 abridgement of roughly 12 minutes survives.

Baby in Arms (uncredited)

Murder in the Music Hall

Murder in the Music Hall · 1946

Murder in the Music Hall

MovieCrimeMusic

An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.

Singer in Mom's Cafe

The Big Guy

The Big Guy · 1939

MovieCrimeDrama

A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.

Waitress (uncredited)

When the Daltons Rode

When the Daltons Rode · 1940

When the Daltons Rode

Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?

Hannah

Assassin of Youth

Assassin of Youth · 1938

Assassin of Youth

MovieDramaComedy

A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends.

Linda Clayton

Remember Pearl Harbor

Remember Pearl Harbor · 1942

Remember Pearl Harbor

A man tries to redeem himself after ducking out on his comrades before the fatal attack.

Marcia Porter

Distilled Love

Distilled Love · 1920

Alice Howell is a simple milkmaid in love with color-blind artist Dick Smith. Oliver Hardy is a bootlegger who lures her to the wicked city to be a gypsy dancer on the street but then accuses her of having an illicit baby.

Baby

Swingtime in the Movies

Swingtime in the Movies · 1938

Swingtime in the Movies

MovieComedyMusic

In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.

Girl from Dallas (uncredited)

Down Mexico Way

Down Mexico Way · 1941

Down Mexico Way

MovieWesternComedy

Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately from Autry's regular B-western series as an A-picture attraction. The story gets under way when a pair of con artists, Gibson (Sidney Blackmer) and Allen (Joe Sawyer), breeze into the town of Sage City claiming to be movie producers. The two scoundrels promise to film a movie in the little burg on the condition that the townsfolk pony up the necessary production fees.

Maria Elena Alvarado

What a Life

What a Life · 1939

MovieDramaComedy

Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.

Student in Lunchroom

Irene

MovieRomanceComedy

Irene, a feisty Irish girl in Philadelphia, clashes with her family and walks out, heading to New York City to seek fame and fortune. She gets a job as a dressmaker's model and becomes involved with Donald, the scion of a wealthy family. Donald's mother doesn't approve of Irene and sets out to discredit her in Donald's eyes.

Irene's Younger Sister

Student Tour

Student Tour · 1934

A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.

Student

Sierra Sue

Sierra Sue · 1941

MovieAdventureMusic

To fight a poisonous weed, ranchers are burning their land. Gene is the Inspector brought in and he recommends spraying. The spraying goes well until the Larabee ranch is reached. When Larrabee refuses to allow the equipment on his land, Gene has it sprayed by airplane. Cattle must stay off recently sprayed land and when a Larrabee man shoots down the plane, the crash sends the cattle stampeding toward the newly sprayed land.

Sue Larrabee

Heart of the Rio Grande

Heart of the Rio Grande · 1942

Heart of the Rio Grande

MovieAdventureComedy

As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a millioniare, and the other is the disgruntled ex-foreman that Gene replaced, now just a ranch hand. Gene eventually gets the daughter straightened out but has to fire the ex-foreman and this leads to trouble when he returns intent on revenge.

Alice Bennett

The Boss Cowboy

The Boss Cowboy · 1934

The Boss Cowboy

Both Nolan and Ross are losing cattle and Ross' foreman Kerns is the culprit. When Taylor finds a wanted poster of Kerns he goes after him.

Sally Nolan

Mad Youth

Mad Youth · 1940

A rich society mother hires a male escort, but he falls for her daughter instead. The mother-daughter conflict forces the daughter to run off to stay with a friend who is enslaved by a prostitution ring.

Escort Girl

The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln

The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln · 1924

The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln

MovieHistoryDrama

A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.

Sarah Lincoln

Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!

Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me! · 1940

Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!

MovieRomanceComedy

In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a cheap line of clothing. To escort her about town, the agent invents a "Mr. Manhattan." He then has them fake a marriage. When he realizes that he is in love with his creation, the agent promptly fires "Mr. M" and takes her to the altar personally. Songs include: "Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me," "Unfair To Love," and "A Lemon In The Garden Of Love."

Brooklyn Girl (uncredited)

All Women Have Secrets

All Women Have Secrets · 1939

All Women Have Secrets

When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.

Martha

The Millionaire

The Millionaire · 1955

The Millionaire

An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.

Ruth Spencer

Mr. Lucky

Mr. Lucky · 1959

An honest professional gambler operates a floating casino.