Joan Valerie

AKA: Helen Valkis, Helen Hughes, Helen Vlahakis
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1911-07-15

Rhinelander, Wisconsin, USA

Biography

Crew Roles

East of Java
Stand In
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {40}

Lady Jane Seymour

1937-04-30 6.8

The Prince and the Pauper

Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy

Hostess (uncredited)

1948-02-12 5.7

Three Daring Daughters

Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband. ...
Genre :Music, Romance

June Preston

1940-12-13 6.1

Murder Over New York

When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Comedy, Thriller

Lily Latimer

1940-09-06 7.789

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Francine Edwards

1940-05-31 5.438

Girl in 313

A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks? ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Flashy Woman (uncredited)

1951-12-16 6.962

Westward the Women

There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a lon ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Western

Mrs. Dexter

1939-11-24 5.912

Day-time Wife

When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Wanda

1937-08-19 6.1

Confession

Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Rita Darling

1942-08-28 5

Just Off Broadway

Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murder trial. So, what does he do? Why, he skips out on sequestration in order to solve the case himself ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Comedy

Marsha Gordon

1940-12-19 6.5

Michael Shayne: Private Detective

Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues h ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Margaret Weston

1938-03-17 3

Topa Topa

Tom Turner, a naturalist, comes to the "Topa Topa" district (named for the mountain), and falls in love with widow Margaret Weston... ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Secretary (uncredited)

1937-10-13 4.9

Alcatraz Island

A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, Action, Crime

Helen Kelly

1940-08-08 5

Pier 13

A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket. ...
Genre :Mystery

Sally Dawson

1938-01-29 4

The Old Barn Dance

Autry and his buddies have a horse selling business which is threatened by a tractor company which claims horses are out of date. ...
Genre :Western

Sunny

1939-02-19 5.8

Tail Spin

Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price ...
Genre :Drama

Understudy

1940-08-30 6.3

The Great Profile

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy. ...
Genre :Comedy

Switchboard Operator

1937-03-06 5.1

Ready, Willing and Able

Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Autograph Seeker (uncredited)

1937-10-08 7

It's Love I'm After

An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Lucy Pemberton

1938-12-30 5.8

Kentucky

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Ruth Valley

1937-05-15 6

The Cherokee Strip

A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and busine ...
Genre :Action, Music, Western

Miss Norton

1940-01-11 4

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Anne

1938-11-25 6.6

Submarine Patrol

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Barbara Morgan

1937-06-12 6

Blazing Sixes

Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to get the gold out of the county unseen. Complicating ...
Genre :Western

Marguerite Varloff

1938-05-06 1

A Trip to Paris

The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists. ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy

Irma Rand

1951-05-04 4.6

Roaring City

A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murder. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Joan Rogers

1938-12-02 0

Road Demon

At the Indianapolis Speedway mobsters try to bump off a young racer just as they did his dad. Junk yard owner tap dances. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Ruth - Secretary

1937-07-24 6

Talent Scout

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom. ...
Genre :Drama, Music, Romance

Receptionist (uncredited)

1947-07-17 6.9

The Hucksters

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Comedy

Miss Jane MacVickers (uncredited)

1943-11-05 5.2

Government Girl

An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Lillian Russell's Sister

1940-05-24 6.1

Lillian Russell

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star. ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Simpering Girl (uncredited)

1937-12-11 5.5

Missing Witnesses

A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City. ...
Genre :Romance, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama

Vickie

1940-03-28 8

Free, Blonde and 21

Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Bonnie Jones

1940-02-16 0

Young as You Feel

Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home. ...
Genre :Comedy

Party Guest (uncredited)

1950-09-01 5.1

A Life of Her Own

A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man. ...
Genre :Drama

Skinner's Secretary

1937-05-22 5.8

The Go-Getter

A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Phyllis Guerney

1942-04-17 4.5

Who Is Hope Schuyler?

A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attor ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance

Countess Olga

1943-11-27 5

Around the World

Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Toni Stewart (replaced by Iva Stewart)

1938-05-30 0

Safety in Numbers

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit. ...
Genre :Comedy

Dotty

1942-03-11 5.8

Rio Rita

Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Bess Merrill

1938-01-01 5

Sergeant Murphy

An Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter. ...
Genre :Drama