Virginia Brissac
Birthday: 1883-06-10
Place of Birth: San Jose, California, USA
Biography: Virginia Brissac (June 11, 1883 – July 26, 1979) was an American stage and film actress. With her stern features, she often played schoolteachers and other authority figures. Her film career began in 1913 with two short films and ended with Rebel Without a Cause (1955), playing grandmother to the character that James Dean portrayed.
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Rebel Without a Cause
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although...
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Artists & Models
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign....
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Hot Cargo
Two discharged service men go to the redwood country in northern California to visit the family of a...
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Lady Gangster
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 bank robbery...
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Monsieur Verdoux
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining inco...
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Dark Victory
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few...
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Two of a Kind
A con woman and a lawyer get a carnival grifter to pose as an elderly rich couple's long-lost son....
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Remember the Night
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter ...
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The Mummy's Tomb
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all...
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The Ghost Breakers
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located...
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The Little Foxes
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mi...
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Phantom Lady
A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove he...
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Destry Rides Again
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the...
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The Snake Pit
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arr...
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The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
Janet Spencer is driving down a country road when one of her tires blows out. This seemingly innocuo...
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The Scarlet Clue
Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investi...
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The Big Shot
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth co...
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The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
The Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist....
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Harriet Craig
A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family....
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Captain from Castile
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happen...
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About Mrs. Leslie
A lonely, unhappy owner of a Beverly Hills boarding house reflects on her lonely, unhappy life and t...
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The Bandits of Corsica
Siamese twins separated at birth retain a psychic link; each feels the other's pain and happiness....
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Three's a Crowd
What would you do in this house of fear... if you knew that your husband killed your former flame?...
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The Mysterious Mr. M
An evil scientist known as "Mr. M." uses a drug he has developed called "hypnotreme" to help steal s...
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Secret Beyond the Door
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly ...
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Lucky Jordan
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to ...
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Three Godfathers
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeopl...
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Down the Stretch
A jockey tries to overcome the reputation of his father, who once threw a race....
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Song of the Open Road
A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to joi...
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Why Girls Leave Home
In this crime drama, a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated night c...
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The Man in the Barn
After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, he escaped to Maryland and was disco...
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Little Old New York
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize hi...
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Appointment for Love
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymo...
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Delinquent Parents
A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves....
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Chad Hanna
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls i...
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Operation Pacific
During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firin...
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Murder by an Aristocrat
A wealthy family is blackmailed. Murder results. And a nurse at the scene of the crime is determined...
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Washington Melodrama
An elderly businessman plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away....
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The Forgotten Woman
A beautiful woman is forced to help gangsters in a robbery, and is arrested as an accessory....
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Together Again
Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for y...
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Stolen Holiday
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bo...
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Always a Bride
A young man wants to marry his sweetheart, but her parents will agree to their wedding only on one c...
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Strike Up the Band
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between sc...
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Fair Wind to Java
The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American m...
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Stop, Look and Love
Daughter has trouble holding onto boyfriends because of her critical mother until understanding fath...
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Cheaper by the Dozen
"Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Provi...
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It's a Date
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more s...
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Young Dr. Kildare
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigo...
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The Big Noise
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for hi...
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Tension
Warren Quimby manages a drugstore while trying to keep his volatile wife, Claire, happy. However, wh...
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Hired Wife
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his ...
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Alias the Deacon
A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight ...
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Mountain Justice
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prej...
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The Nurse's Secret
An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam....
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Jesse James
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn t...
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Wings of the Navy
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on...
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Young Mr. Lincoln
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modes...
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A Child Is Born
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward....
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They Shall Have Music
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step f...
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First Love
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncl...
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The Cisco Kid and the Lady
An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the chil...
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The Mating of Millie
Self-sufficient in life and successful in business, prim and proper Millie McGonigle wants just one ...
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The Hard Way
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small ...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's ...
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Black Friday
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him w...
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Sing, Neighbor, Sing
Country radio singers of the '40s appear in this tale about a lothario who poses as a professor to s...
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Sister Kenny
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences gr...
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Shadow of a Doubt
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie ...
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The Adventurous Blonde
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) i...
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The Great Lie
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his af...
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The Untamed Breed
A cowboy sets out to capture an escaped Brahma bull that is terrorizing local ranchers. Based on a s...
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White Bondage
A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated....
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Little Orvie
Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep ...
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Parents on Trial
According to Hollywood, the parents were generally at fault when good kids went bad. This theory is ...
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G.I. Honeymoon
In this romantic comedy, set during WW II, an newlywed army couple are unable to consummate their ma...
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Two Against the World
Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to...
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Captain Eddie
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver an...
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Three Daring Daughters
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband....
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Summer Holiday
Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neigh...
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No Man of Her Own
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash....
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Gateway
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists th...
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All This, and Heaven Too
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Du...
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The House Across the Bay
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charge...
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An Act of Murder
A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering....
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Take a Letter, Darling
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to ...
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Faces in the Fog
Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and...
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Tough as They Come
The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when th...
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Mug Town
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and tr...
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Old Los Angeles
Also known as California Outpost, Old Los Angeles stars Bill Elliot in one of his expanded-budget Re...
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Bad Men of Missouri
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of Wi...
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The Last Bandit
About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortu...
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Woman of the North Country
In 1890 Minnesota Christine Powell is the scheming head of the Powell dynasty, the richest mining em...
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They Died with Their Boots On
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death...
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Honeymoon Limited
A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walk...
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Remember the Day
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him ...
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I Stole a Million
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways....
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Get Hep to Love
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her...
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The Bad Man of Brimstone
A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own ...
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Idol of the Crowds
Retired hockey player Johnny Hansen, in order to make money to enlarge his chicken farm, returns to ...
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If I Had My Way
Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his ...
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This Is the Life
18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which sh...
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Love Letters of a Star
A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsibl...
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Marriage Is a Private Affair
Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been marr...
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Pursued
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighb...
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Meet Me at the Fair
In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young b...
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Executive Suite
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to ...
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One Foot in Heaven
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another....
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Moonlight in Vermont
A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school....
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The Doolins of Oklahoma
When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kill...
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Thrill of a Romance
A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business mee...
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Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
The Indians try to make a fire in the Kettles fireplace the old fashion way, the smoke signal way. J...
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