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Wanda McKay est une Actrice Américaine née le 22 juin 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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Dix mille chambres à coucher (1957)
, 1h54Réalisé par Richard Thorpe
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Comédie romantique, Musical, Romance
Thèmes La musique, Musique
Acteurs Dean Martin, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Eva Bartok, Dewey Martin, Walter Slezak, Paul Henreid
Rôle New York Operator (uncredited)
Note56%
Le millionnaire américain Ray Hunter (accompagné par son pilote privé Mike Clark), de passage à Rome afin d'acquérir l'hôtel Le Régent, est pris en charge à l'aéroport par Maria Martelli, employée de la comtesse Alzani, actuelle propriétaire de l'immeuble. Ray est guidé en ville par la jeune femme qui lui sert d'interprète et le présente à sa famille, dont son père Vittorio et sa sœur cadette Nina...
Roaring City (1951)
, 59minutesRéalisé par William Berke
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Policier
Thèmes Sport, Arts martiaux, La boxe
Acteurs Hugh Beaumont, Edward Brophy, Richard Travis, Joan Valerie, Wanda McKay, Abner Biberman
Rôle Sylvia Rand
Note58%
The Golden Eye (1948)
, 1h9Réalisé par William Beaudine
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Thriller, Policier
Acteurs Roland Winters, Victor Sen Yung, Mantan Moreland, Evelyn Brent, Wanda McKay, Ralph Dunn
Rôle Evelyn Manning
Note58%
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)
, 1h8Réalisé par William Beaudine
Genres Comédie, Policier
Acteurs Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, William Benedict, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey, Benny Bartlett
Rôle Virginia
Note60%
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)
, 1h2Réalisé par Lewis D. Collins
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Action, Aventure, Policier, Romance
Thèmes Afrique post-coloniale, La musique, Musique
Acteurs George Reeves, Ralph Byrd, Wanda McKay, Armida, Onest Conley, Rudy Robles
Rôle Greta Vanderhorn
Note21%
Stage Struck (1948)
, 1h11Réalisé par William Nigh
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs Kane Richmond, Audrey Long, Conrad Nagel, Ralph Byrd, John Gallaudet, Anthony Warde
Rôle Helen Howard
Note55%
Jiggs and Maggie in Society (1947)
, 1h6Réalisé par Edward F. Cline
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie
Acteurs Joe Yule, Renie Riano, Wanda McKay, Herbert Evans, Jimmy Aubrey, Richard Irving
Rôle Millicent Perker
Note63%
Irish-American matriarch Maggie attempts to gain her family entry into New York's High Society.
Hollywood and Vine (1945)
Genres Drame, Comédie
Acteurs James Ellison, Wanda McKay, Ralph Morgan, June Clyde, Franklin Pangborn, Emmett Lynn
Rôle Martha Manning
Note55%
Une jeune fille arrive à Hollywood déterminée à devenir une star du cinéma, mais trouve qu'il est beaucoup plus difficile d'atteindre la célébrité qu'elle ne comptait. Cependant, elle devient une sorte de star - en tant que propriétaire d'un chien qui devient une star de cinéma.
Sensation Hunters (1945)
, 1h2Réalisé par Christy Cabanne
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame
Acteurs Robert Lowery, Eddie Quillan, Doris Merrick, Constance Worth, Isabel Jewell, Nestor Paiva
Rôle Helen
Note54%
Homme vaudou (1944)
, 1h2Réalisé par William Beaudine
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Horreur
Thèmes Zombie
Acteurs Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, George Zucco, Wanda McKay, Louise Currie, Bill Corbett
Rôle Betty Benton
Note52%
Le docteur Richard Marlowe emploie une combinaison de rite vaudou et de suggestion hypnotique pour essayer de réanimer sa belle épouse, plongée dans le coma, en transférant les essences de la vie de plusieurs jeunes filles malchanceuses qu'il a enlevées et emprisonnées dans un cachot sous son manoir. Fidèle à son image de vampire, le mythe personnel de Lugosi est ici utilisé pour renforcer l'aspect légendaire du voodoo.
La Belle de l'Alaska (1944)
, 1h23Réalisé par Randolph Scott, William A. Seiter, Gypsy Rose Lee, Dinah Shore
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Comédie, Action, Musical, Western
Acteurs Randolph Scott, Gypsy Rose Lee, Dinah Shore, Bob Burns, Bob Burns, Charles Winninger
Rôle Cherie Atterbury
Note53%
Un propriétaire de saloon met un terme dissolue en tombant amoureux d'une jeune femme.
The Monster Maker (1944)
, 1h2Réalisé par Sam Newfield
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Science-fiction, Horreur
Acteurs J. Carrol Naish, Ralph Morgan, Tala Birell, Wanda McKay, Glenn Strange, Sam Flint
Rôle Patricia Lawrence
Note48%
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)
Réalisé par Ray Taylor, Lewis D. Collins
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Action, Western
Thèmes Politique
Acteurs Dennis Moore, Lionel Atwill, Joe Sawyer, Wanda McKay, Regis Toomey, Virginia Christine
Rôle Cathy Haines
Note59%
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.
The Black Raven (1943)
, 1h1Réalisé par Sam Newfield
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs George Zucco, Wanda McKay, Robert Livingston, Noel Madison, Byron Foulger, Charles Middleton
Rôle Lee Winfield
Note55%
Corregidor (1943)
, 1h13Réalisé par William Nigh
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Guerre, Action
Thèmes La mer, Transport, Politique
Acteurs Otto Kruger, Elissa Landi, Donald Woods, Frank Jenks, Ian Keith, Rick Vallin
Rôle Nurse Jane 'Hey-Dutch' Van Dornen
Note47%
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.