Eleanor Parker

Eleanor Parker

Birthday: 1922-06-26

Place of Birth: Cedarville, Ohio, USA

Biography: Eleanor Jean Parker (June 26, 1922 – December 9, 2013) was an American actress. She was nominated for three Academy Awards for her roles in the films Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951), and Interrupted Melody (1955), the first of which won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She was also known for her roles in the films Of Human Bondage (1946), Scaramouche (1952), The Naked Jungle (1954), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), A Hole in the Head (1959), The Sound of Music (1965), and The Oscar (1966). Description above from the Wikipedia article Eleanor Parker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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The Man with the Golden Arm
The Man with the Golden Arm

When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides...

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Detective Story
Detective Story

Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad....

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Home for the Holidays
Home for the Holidays

An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who ...

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It's a Great Feeling
It's a Great Feeling

A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big b...

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How to Steal the World
How to Steal the World

Secret agent Napoleon Solo fights to stop a top-secret plot to conquer the world....

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Between Two Worlds
Between Two Worlds

Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got onboard or where they are going. Soon it beco...

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A Hole in the Head
A Hole in the Head

An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son....

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Scaramouche
Scaramouche

In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder....

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Caged
Caged

A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments...

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The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music

In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess...

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The Woman in White
The Woman in White

A young painter stumbles upon an assortment of odd characters at an English estate where he has been...

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Interrupted Melody
Interrupted Melody

Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjor...

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The King and Four Queens
The King and Four Queens

Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and...

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Three Secrets
Three Secrets

A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California...

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Never Say Goodbye
Never Say Goodbye

Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very un...

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The Naked Jungle
The Naked Jungle

The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of...

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Hollywood Canteen
Hollywood Canteen

Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entert...

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Above and Beyond
Above and Beyond

The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although una...

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Many Rivers to Cross
Many Rivers to Cross

Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anyt...

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Pride of the Marines
Pride of the Marines

Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his...

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Madison Avenue
Madison Avenue

An adman and an adwoman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House....

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Fantasy Island
Fantasy Island

Mr. Roarke and his assistant Tattoo greet a former reporter in World War II who wants to relive a br...

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Escape from Fort Bravo
Escape from Fort Bravo

A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort....

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The Oscar
The Oscar

An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Holly...

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The Tiger and the Pussycat
The Tiger and the Pussycat

A middle-aged businessman finds himself in thirst for romance adventure, and it seems that a proper ...

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The Mysterious Doctor
The Mysterious Doctor

The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which i...

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Chain Lightning
Chain Lightning

Former World War II flying ace Matt Brennan takes a position as a test pilot for a commercial aircra...

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Warning Shot
Warning Shot

Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case....

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Home from the Hill
Home from the Hill

The wealthiest man in a Texas town decides to teach his teenage son how to hunt to make a man out of...

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Eye of the Cat
Eye of the Cat

A man and his girlfriend plan to rob the mansion of the man's eccentric but wealthy aunt. However, t...

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Busses Roar
Busses Roar

A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields....

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Escape Me Never
Escape Me Never

A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's ...

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Once Upon a Spy
Once Upon a Spy

Computer genius and chess champion Ted Danson is lured into service by secret agent Eleanor Parker a...

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Return to Peyton Place
Return to Peyton Place

Residents of the small town of Peyton Place aren't pleased when they realize they're the characters ...

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An American Dream
An American Dream

Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personali...

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Crime by Night
Crime by Night

A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy....

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Lizzie
Lizzie

A psychiatrist treats a woman of three faces: neurotic Elizabeth, wanton Lizzie, and charming Beth....

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Valley of the Kings
Valley of the Kings

Hard-boiled archeologist Mark Brandon is searching for ancient tombs in Egypt when he is approached ...

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Mission to Moscow
Mission to Moscow

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to th...

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Sunburn
Sunburn

A model and a private eye help a New York insurance investigator on a deadly case in Acapulco....

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Of Human Bondage
Of Human Bondage

A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him...

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The Voice of the Turtle
The Voice of the Turtle

An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City...

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Hans Brinker
Hans Brinker

Based on the beloved children’s story, Hans Binker, a Dutch boy (Robin Askwith) and his sister need ...

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The Seventh Sin
The Seventh Sin

In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with Paul. Her physician husband Walte...

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A Millionaire for Christy
A Millionaire for Christy

Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle ...

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The Last Ride
The Last Ride

A police lieutenant is determined to bust the gang of crooks selling defective automobile tires....

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The Very Thought of You
The Very Thought of You

Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, ...

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Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring

Dennie has returned from a year among the hippies to her superficial, image-conscious suburban famil...

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She's Dressed to Kill
She's Dressed to Kill

A fashion designer gives a private showing at her mansion over a weekend, but someone starts killing...

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Valentino
Valentino

Italian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling betw...

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Dead on the Money
Dead on the Money

An actress is persuaded by a charming man to join him in a scheme of revenge against his cousin....

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The Great American Beauty Contest
The Great American Beauty Contest

The pursuit by America's loveliest girls for a coveted beauty crown is threatened by a scandal which...

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The Bastard
The Bastard

Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to Engla...

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Warning Shot
Warning Shot

Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case....

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Panic Button
Panic Button

A businessman comes up with a scheme to make money by financing a film version of "Romeo and Juliet"...

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Always Together
Always Together

An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical...

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Destination Tokyo
Destination Tokyo

During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a sec...

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The Big Shot
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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Vaudeville Days
Vaudeville Days

A narrator provides very brief info on the beginnings and history of Vaudeville while Vaudeville act...

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Soldiers in White
Soldiers in White

A young intern is drafted and placed in the Army Medical Corps as a buck private and is none too hap...

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Men of the Sky
Men of the Sky

A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Ai...

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Atlantic City
Atlantic City

In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudevi...

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Madame X
Madame X

Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she...

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Blow-Ups of 1946
Blow-Ups of 1946

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1946....

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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director O...

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Frank Capra's American Dream
Frank Capra's American Dream

A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard....

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