The best Dolores Moran’s movies

Dolores Moran

Dolores Moran

27/01/1924- 05/02/1982
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Hollywood Canteen

Hollywood Canteen
7/10
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.

To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not
7.8/10
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 29/05/1942
  • Character: The Pippirino (uncredited)
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

The Ghost Breakers

The Ghost Breakers
7/10
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located on Black Island near the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.

Old Acquaintance

Old Acquaintance
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 27/11/1943
  • Character: Deirdre Drake
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.

Silver Lode

Silver Lode
6.8/10
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000. Ballard seeks to stall McCarty while tracking down evidence that will prove his innocence.

Without Reservations

Without Reservations
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 13/05/1946
  • Character: Dolores Moran (uncredited)
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.

The Hard Way

The Hard Way
7.1/10
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

Too Young to Know

Too Young to Know
5.9/10
A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son.

Count the Hours!

Count the Hours!
6.2/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/04/1953
  • Character: Paula Mitchener
A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 31/10/1947
  • Character: Jean Bradford
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth; but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?

The Horn Blows at Midnight

The Horn Blows at Midnight
6.6/10
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.

The Man I Love

The Man I Love
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/12/1946
  • Character: Gloria O'Connor
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls for him hard.

Three Cheers for the Girls

Three Cheers for the Girls
6.6/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 08/05/1943
  • Character: Blonde Chorus Girl (uncredited)
This short film showcases six production numbers from various Warner Bros. musicals.

Johnny One-Eye

Johnny One-Eye
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 05/05/1950
  • Character: Lily White
Johnny One-Eye was adapted from one of Damon Runyon's lesser-known stories. Pat O'Brien and Wayne Morris star as Martin Martin and Dane Cory respectively, former partners in crime who have long since split up. When a new district attorney puts the heat on, Cory, anxious to save his own hide, accuses Martin of an unsolved murder. Holed up in abandoned house, Martin is befriended by a little girl (Gayle Reed) and her dog. It so happens that the girl is the daughter of the crusading DA, and thereby hangs the rest of this tale. Produced by Benedict Bogeaus, Johnny One-Eye co-stars Bogeaus' wife Dolores Moran as a moll named Lily White. The film represented the last directorial assignment of Robert Florey, who retired shortly afterward.

Mr. Noisy

Mr. Noisy
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/03/1946
  • Character: Nurse Shapely (uncredited)
This All-Star Comedy (production number 7437, and a remake of 1940's "The Heckler" with Charley Chase) has Shemp Howard, noise-maker and heckler deluxe, hired by two gamblers to rattle a ball team while the gamblers bet on the opponents. The gamblers are more than a little bit vexed when Shemp loses his voice.

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