Virginia Capers
Eliza "Virginia" Capers (September 22, 1925 – May 6, 2004) was an American actress. She won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1974 for her performance as Lena Younger in Raisin, a musical version of Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.825 |
Birthday | 1925-09-22 |
Place of Birth | Sumter, South Carolina, USA |
Also Known As |
1972
Lady Sings the Blues
6.9/62
Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addi...
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Lady Sings the Blues
1993
What's Love Got to Do with It
7.1/307
Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husband Ike.
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What's Love Got to Do with It
1997
Sunsplit
3.3/3
As the California sun shines down from an Los Angeles sky, three unique individuals are about to collide in the most unexpected ways imaginable. Lyle...
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Sunsplit
1986
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
6.4/25
Although Jo Jo Dancer has achieved success as a stand-up comedian, he hasn't found happiness. After receiving severe burns in a narcotics-related inci...
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Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
1995
Truman
7.6/15
Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decision...
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Truman
1980
White Mama
8/3
A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial...
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White Mama
1973
Five on the Black Hand Side
7/2
Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values whe...
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Five on the Black Hand Side
1988
Backfire
5.4/10
Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him unresponsiv...
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Backfire
1987
Off the Mark
4/4
A teenaged boy's family once hosted a Russian exchange student in their home for a year. Several years later, as adults, the two find themselves compe...
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Off the Mark
1971
Big Jake
6.873/216
An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.
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Big Jake
1995
The Feminine Touch
7.5/2
Jenny Baron (Paige Turco) is a beautiful investigative reporter swept into a deadly conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of the government. W...
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The Feminine Touch
2001
Taking Back Our Town
0/0
A true story about a concerned housewife, Pat Melancon, who tries to block Shintech, a massive Japanese petrochemical conglomerate, from building a pl...
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Taking Back Our Town
1996
Raven Hawk
4/8
A Native-American woman, who was framed for the murders of her parents years before, returns to her reservation to seek revenge.
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Raven Hawk
1990
Pacific Palisades
3.2/11
A woman from Paris, Bernadette, comes to the United States after being promised a job. When she arrives, however, she learns that she is a victim to a...
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Pacific Palisades
1962
House of Women
5.4/7
An innocent, pregnant prison inmate (Shirley Knight) becomes the bad warden's (Andrew Duggan) personal favorite.
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House of Women
1971
The Late Liz
0/0
Religion changes a woman's attitude towards alcohol.
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The Late Liz
1992
Original Intent
3.5/2
Matthew Cameron (Jay Richardson) is a lawyer undergoing a midlife crisis despite having a seemingly perfect life with his wife, advertising executive...
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Original Intent
1986
Howard the Duck
5.39/983
A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard from...
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Howard the Duck
1986
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
7.586/4801
After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures througho...
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1982
The Toy
5.796/201
On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eri...
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The Toy
1990
Donor
5.333/3
Dr. Kristine Lipton finds that something strange is happening in the hospital she works for when a friend is strangled by an elderly patient, who runs...
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Donor
1993
Beethoven's 2nd
5.497/949
Beethoven is back -- and this time, he has a whole brood with him now that he's met his canine match, Missy, and fathered a family. The only problem i...
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Beethoven's 2nd
1985
Da Capo
2/1
Interwoven with scenes that are meant to grab attention by their stunning composition, this biographical look at Finland's violinist Arto Arsi is not...
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Da Capo
1988
The George McKenna Story
6.204/27
Washington plays a school principal in a tough inner city Los Angeles high school out to rid it of drugs, gangs, low moral of teachers, and restore ed...
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The George McKenna Story
1979
The North Avenue Irregulars
6.4/14
When crooks set up operations in a traditional town, a minister and a group of church ladies are willing to do anything, no matter how wacky, to get t...
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The North Avenue Irregulars
1971
Support Your Local Gunfighter
6.526/78
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to driv...
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Support Your Local Gunfighter
1970
There Was a Crooked Man...
6.768/115
Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in...
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There Was a Crooked Man...
1990
Burning Bridges
1/1
Fact-based story of a woman who suffered a nervous breakdown after having an extra-marital affair.
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Burning Bridges
1972
The Judge and Jake Wyler
3/1
A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency with a charming ex-con as her leg man and various parolees helping in the day-to-day operation.
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The Judge and Jake Wyler
2001
For Love of Olivia
0/0
To protect his wife's "secret", a small-town Southern lawyer in the 1960s decides to defend a young man accused of murder, all while running for Congr...
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For Love of Olivia
1984
Teachers
5.6/68
A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still canno...
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Teachers
1990
When You Remember Me
5.7/9
Fact-based story of Mike Mills, a teen with muscular dystrophy, who is placed in a state nursing home by his destitute single mother. There he must co...
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When You Remember Me
1981
Inmates: A Love Story
0/0
Accountant Roy is sentenced to prison because he cooked up balances. He hopes that his companions, who profited from his cheat, will help him to a rev...
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Inmates: A Love Story
1973
The World's Greatest Athlete
5.3/28
Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he can reverse the school's athletic fortunes. An Afri...
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