Dona Drake
Date of Birth: 15 Nov 1914
Country: USA
Biography: Beautiful, light-skinned African-American actress/singer/dancer/bandleader Dona (pronounced "dough-nuh") Drake, for the sake of her career, denied her heritage and passed for Latino for the duration of it, even learning Spanish. While it did not make her a true star, her zesty talents and charm went a long way in the field of war-time music.
Total Credits at Criticker: 19 (Actor)
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Rosa Moline is bored with life in a small town. She loves Chicago industrialist Neil Latimer who has a hunting lodge nearby... (imdb)
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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. (imdb)
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Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar. (IMDb)
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When the Daltons are killed at Coffeeville, gang member Bill Doolin arriving late escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name. But the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. So once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law. (imdb)
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An artist discovers a real-life version of the perfect woman he's been drawing for years. (TCM.com)
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A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty. (1941)
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A doctor exiled from England becomes a pirate of the Caribbean. (TCM.com)
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Time: A.D. 1249. Shalimar, an Egyptian princess, striving to rid her country of its Bedouin conquerors, forms an alliance with Prince Haidi, son of the Caliph of Baghdad. She practices her intrigues both at the court and, disguised as a dancing girl, in the market place. (imdb)
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Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, and meet Mary Adams (Dona Drake), who wants to break into radio as a soloist for a band. (imdb)
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This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way. (imdb)
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Siamese twins separated at birth retain a psychic link; each feels the other's pain and happiness. (imdb)
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A shipping magnate hatches a plan for testing the worth of his heirs, none of whom he has ever seen. He summons them all to China, and lays psychological and physical snares in the part of each. Finding none of them worthy, he dismisses them all but does promise financial backing for an airline to Jack Clark (Kent Taylor). (imdb)
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Rodeo star Rex Allen investigates the death of a colleague and in the process uncovers a ring of diamond smugglers. (imdb)
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I Look at You (1941) - Short Film
Alan Ladd was discovered by Sue Carol for his incredible voice in radio. And then she married him. In I Look At You, he is sweet and graceful. And at the very beginning of his career in film. He sings and leads Rita Rio's all-girl band while she dances around him.
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Fresh as a Freshman (1941) - Short Film
Terry arrives at school, but doesn't get exactly the welcome he expected.
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The first and only female leader in the Big Band era. Lots and swing and dancing.
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During the '20s, Rudolph Valentino was the ultimate Latin lover. This biopic offers a highly fictionalized account of his meteoric rise from immigrant member of a dance troupe to Hollywood's most popular star. (allrovi.com)
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Beautiful, But Dummies (1938) - Short Film
Buster West and Tom Patricola deliver a wax model to Madame LaTour's fashion show, and decide to help the models who are having trouble with the director, who is going to fire them because they won't date him. So they introduce the dummy to the director as "The Princess" and use ventriloquism and motions to make him believe she is real.
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