Marjorie Lord
Marjorie Lord (née Wollenberg) was an American television and film actress. She played Kathy "Clancy" O'Hara Williams, opposite Danny Thomas's character on The Danny Thomas Show and later Make Room for Granddaddy.
In 1935, at the age of 16, Lord made her Broadway debut in The Old Maid with Judith Anderson. Her other Broadway appearances came in Signature, Little Brown Jug, and The Girl in the Freudian Slip.
Lord was signed by RKO Radio Pictures in 1935. While appearing in Springtime for Henry with Edward Everett Horton, director Henry Koster approached her and signed her to a contract with Universal Studios. She appeared in six feature films and a film serial The Adventures of Smilin' Jack for Universal. Her film work includes a number of wartime pictures, including the 1943 mystery Sherlock Holmes in Washington, starring Basil Rathbone in the title role. She also appeared in the Western films Masked Raiders, Mexican Manhunt, and Down Laredo Way. In 1966, she played Mrs. Martha Meade, the wife of Bob Hope's character, in the screwball comedy Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.977 |
Birthday | 1918-07-26 |
Place of Birth | San Francisco, California, USA |
Also Known As | Marjorie Wollenberg, |
1978
The Pirate
5.5/4
An Israeli man, raised by a wealthy and powerful Arab, comes into conflict with his heritage when he is entrusted with managing his country's oil fort...
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The Pirate
1943
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
6.735/66
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on She...
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington
1966
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
5.1/23
Tom Meade mistakenly dials the gorgeous European film star Didi at her Oregon hotel. Didi, who has escaped Hollywood to avoid being typecast as a bomb...
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Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
1947
New Orleans
6.6/11
A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman,...
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New Orleans
1942
About Face
5/1
Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.
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About Face
1950
The Lost Volcano
5.3/9
Little David Gordon lives in the jungle with his parents Ruth and Fred, along with their servant Nona. David likes living there while his father captu...
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The Lost Volcano
1950
Riding High
5.8/7
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
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Riding High
1950
Chain Gang
6.7/3
Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts masquerades as a prison guard to document inhuman conditions.
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Chain Gang
1937
Forty Naughty Girls
5.2/5
Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.
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Forty Naughty Girls
1937
Border Cafe
6.3/3
The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny wester...
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Border Cafe
1948
The Argyle Secrets
6/12
A framed reporter and the crooks on his trail scramble to locate a book containing the names of American war profiteers and traitors who collaborated...
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The Argyle Secrets
1942
Moonlight in Havana
0/0
A talented baseball player discovers he can only sing beautifully when he has a cold, leading a nightclub manager to hilariously attempt to keep him s...
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Moonlight in Havana
1953
Down Laredo Way
0/0
Rex Allen against diamond smugglers down Laredo way
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Down Laredo Way
1988
Side by Side
0/0
Three men who have just been forced to retire convince their bank to finance their dream: To produce a line of clothing for senior citizens.
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Side by Side
1942
Escape from Hong Kong
6/1
Three American vaudeville entertainers become involved with spies in Hong Kong, just before Pearl Harbor.
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Escape from Hong Kong
1937
On Again—Off Again
7/1
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Ho...
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On Again—Off Again
1937
High Flyers
7/3
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamond...
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High Flyers
1951
Stop That Cab
0/0
Sid Melton stars as a taxi driver dealing with nutty passengers and a nagging wife. Comedy.
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Stop That Cab
Venture of Faith
0/0
Shortly after WWII, students at Valparaiso University in Indiana come together to raise funds and construct a new building on campus, so the school ca...
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Venture of Faith
1937
Hideaway
4/1
A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out.
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Hideaway
1938
Girls' School
6/5
Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fl...
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Girls' School
1939
The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair
6.2/5
"An average American family", the Middletons, visit the 1939 World's Fair and witnesses the advent of future technology, encountering robots and dishw...
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The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair
1949
Masked Raiders
6/1
Texas Rangers Tim Holt and Richard Martin are dispatched to halt a gang of masked outlaws terrorizing the frontier. Infiltrating the gang, Holt and Ma...
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Masked Raiders
1984
The World of Tomorrow
1/1
Documentary featuring original materials from the 1939 New York World's Fair. Includes film images of Jason Robards Jr. as a child at the World's Fai...
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The World of Tomorrow
1943
Johnny Come Lately
6.7/15
Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will b...
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Johnny Come Lately
1943
Hi, Buddy
7/3
Dick Foran and Harriet Hilliard (aka Harriet Nelson) top the cast of the Universal musical quickie Hi, Buddy. Foran plays GI Dave O'Connor, who comes...
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Hi, Buddy
1942
Timber!
0/0
Two FBI agents are sent to investigate sabotage at a lumber camp.
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Timber!
1943
Shantytown
6/1
Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"
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Shantytown
1948
The Strange Mrs. Crane
6/2
Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former...
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The Strange Mrs. Crane
1975
The Missing Are Deadly
5/1
An emotionally disturbed teenager whose father is a research scientist takes a rat from his father's laboratory that is infected with an incurable vir...
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The Missing Are Deadly
1950
Blades of the Musketeers
0/0
In 1625 France, D'Artagnan joins the king's musketeers, meets three new friends - Athos, Porthos and Aramis - among them and, together, the four quick...
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Blades of the Musketeers
1953
Rebel City
5/1
Wild Bill Elliot plays gambler Frank Graham, who heads to Kansas in search of his father's murderer. This being 1864, the local military presence is m...
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Rebel City
1943
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
5/2
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
1943
Flesh and Fantasy
6.7/15
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts...
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Flesh and Fantasy
1953
Mexican Manhunt
5.8/2
Los Angeles, 1953. The author David L. "Dave" Brady wants to bring a missed ex-newspaperman back to Los Angeles. Therefore Dave has to travel to Mexic...
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Mexican Manhunt
1949
Air Hostess
4.7/3
The Hansen School for Air Hostesses, operated by Celia Hansen, welcomes a new group of students; a librarian named Ruth Jackson; Lorraine Carter, a nu...
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Air Hostess
1954
Port of Hell
0/0
The new warden of a large American harbor raises the hackles of sailors and fishermen by his strict enforcement of all the safety rules. He takes the...
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