The best Irene Manning’s movies

Irene Manning

Irene Manning

17/07/1912- 28/05/2004
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Irene Manning’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Irene Manning.
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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.

Yankee Doodle Dandy

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

I Live in Grosvenor Square

I Live in Grosvenor Square
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 20/07/1945
  • Character: Herself - U.S.O. Singer
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.

The Doughgirls

The Doughgirls
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/11/1944
  • Character: Mrs. Sylvia Cadman
Arthur and Vivian are just married, but when the get to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., they find it occupied. Arthur goes to meet Slade, his new boss, and when he comes back, he finds three girls in his suite. He orders Vivian to get rid of them, but they are friends of Vivian's and as time goes by, it looks more like Grand Central Station than the quiet honeymoon suite Arthur expected. As long as there is anyone else in the suite, Arthur will not stay there and there will be no honeymoon.

Breakdowns of 1942

Breakdowns of 1942
8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1942
  • Character: Self
This is a collection of bloopers and film manipulation by The Warner Studio Club for an annual dinner for the staff at Warner Brothers.

The Old Corral

The Old Corral
5.7/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeWestern
  • Release: 21/12/1936
  • Character: Eleanor Spencer, aka Jane Edwards
As the sheriff of a small western town, Autry sings his way into a relationship with Eleanor, a singer from a Chicago nightclub who earlier witnessed a murder.

Spy Ship

Spy Ship
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/06/1942
  • Character: Pam Mitchell
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.

The Desert Song

The Desert Song
5.8/10
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.

The Big Shot

The Big Shot
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/06/1942
  • Character: Lorna Fleming
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.

The Shining Future

The Shining Future
6.4/10
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place.

Make Your Own Bed

Make Your Own Bed
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/06/1944
  • Character: Vivian Whirtle
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.

Escape in the Desert

Escape in the Desert
5.9/10
Escaped Nazi POWs hold the denizens of a California resort hostage.

Shine on Harvest Moon

Shine on Harvest Moon
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 10/03/1944
  • Character: Blanche Mallory
Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.

The Road to Victory

The Road to Victory
6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 18/05/1944
  • Character: Herself
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place. Edited down from The Shining Future (1944).

Michael O'Halloran

Michael O'Halloran
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/05/1937
  • Character: Leslie (as Hope Manning)
A wealthy woman's wild lifestyle finally drives her husband to take their two children, move out of the house and file for divorce. Positive she'll lose her children unless she shows the judge that she's changed her wild ways, she takes in two poor street kids, a brother and sister.

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