Elaine RileyFilmography

Born:: East Liverpool, Ohio
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Brunette American actress Elaine Riley was signed by RKO Radio in 1942, where her first assignments included the studio's Leon Errol two-reel comedies. She went on to play minor roles in RKO's feature film product, showing up as hat check girls, waitresses, and chorus dancers. Larger parts came...Read More

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The Adventures of Superman: The Atomic Captive

Synopsis: Reporters Clark (George Reeves), Lois (Noel Neill) and Jimmy (Jack Larson) venture onto a Nevada atomic testing site in hopes of interviewing scientist Dr. Latislav (Raskin Ben-Ari), who has exiled himself from the rest of humanity after being exposed to radioactivity. Meanwhile, a pair of enemy Read More

1958
Pardners

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lori Nelson, Jeff Morrow, John Baragrey, Jackie Loughery

Synopsis: This Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis romp is liberally based on the 1936 Bing Crosby film Rhythm on the Range. Set around 1910, the film stars Lewis as the pampered son of female tycoon Agnes Moorehead. Yearning to return to the Wild West where his father was a famed peacekeeper, Lewis purchases a prize Read More

1956
Dial Red 'O'

Actors: Keith Larsen, Helene Stanley, Paul Picerni, Jack Kruschen

Synopsis: In this thriller, a mentally unstable ex-GI escapes from the mental ward and goes searching for his ex-wife who only recently divorced him. The man is not dangerous; he just wants to talk to her. Meanwhile the woman is murdered by her lover, a married man, because she is pregnant with his child. Read More

1955
Clipped Wings

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Renie Riano, Todd Karns

Synopsis: When the Bowery Boys go to visit a friend on an Air Force base, they are pulled into an investigation to discover why their friend is being accused of treason. Accidentally enlisting in the service, they continue their investigation and eventually stumble on a Nazi plot. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Read More

1953
Texas Bad Man

Actors: Wayne Morris, Frank Ferguson, Elaine Riley, Sheb Wooley, Denver Pyle

Synopsis: Wayne Morris' B-western series was the last of its kind to be produced in Hollywood. Texas Bad Man casts Morris as a sheriff who happens to be the son of inveterate thief Frank Ferguson. Knowing full well that Ferguson's gang intends to steal a shipment of gold, Morris must stay up nights trying Read More

1953
Steel Town

Actors: Ann Sheridan, John Lund, Howard Duff, William Harrigan, James Best, Eileen Crowe

Synopsis: Steel Town top-bills Ann Sheridan, but the bulk of the story is carried by John Lund. Cast as Steve Kostane, the nephew of a steel-plant proprietor, Lund must prove his value to by learning the business from the ground up as a steelworker. It isn't easy: throughout the film, Kostane is weighed Read More

1952
Leadville Gunslinger

Actors: Allan Lane, Elaine Riley, Eddy Waller, Grant Withers, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: In this western, a U.S. marshal rides into Leadville to get a prisoner and ends up staying to help a needy friend who is in trouble with the outlaws attempting to oust him from his ranch. To stop them, the lawman poses as a bandit. He then discovers that the town banker is behind it all as he has Read More

1952
The Hills of Utah

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Elaine Riley, Donna Martell, Onslow Stevens

Synopsis: Hills of Utah casts Gene Autry as a frontier doctor with a predilection for singing. A recent med-school graduate, Autry sets up practice in the midst of a long-standing feud between cattlemen and miners. While patching up the participants of the feud, Gene searches every nook and cranny for the Read More

1951
Sailor Beware

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Corinne Calvet, Marion Marshall, Robert Strauss

Synopsis: Using elements of two earlier films, The Fleet's In and Lady Be Careful, Paramount came up with the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis vehicle Sailor Beware. As usual, Jerry Lewis is the helpless goof and Dean Martin the suave ladies' man; this time Lewis is a navy recruit while Martin is his Read More

1951
Where Danger Lives

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains, Maureen O'Sullivan, Charles Kemper

Synopsis: Faith Domergue, the latest of Howard Hughes' protegees, made her film debut in 1950's Where Danger Lives. Domergue plays Margo Lannington the wife of Frederick Lannington (Claude Rains), an elderly millionaire possessed of a sadistic streak. Robert Mitchum co-stars as Jeff Cameron, a poor soul who Read More

1950
Rider from Tucson

Actors: Tim Holt, Elaine Riley, Douglas Fowley, Veda Ann Borg, Robert Shayne

Synopsis: Arizona rodeo champs Dave Saunders (Tim Holt) and Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin) head for Oro Grande, CO, to witness the marriage of their friend Tug Bailey (William Phipps) to Easterner Jane Whipple (Elaine Riley). But Bailey, a successful prospector, is in trouble with claim jumpers, notably Read More

1950
Every Girl Should Be Married

Actors: Cary Grant, Franchot Tone, Diana Lynn, Betsy Drake, Alan Mowbray

Synopsis: Cary Grant met his future wife Betsy Drake on the set of the appropriately titled Every Girl Should be Married. Grant plays well-known baby specialist Madison Brown, who is Dr. Spock in everything but name. After a chance meeting with headstrong young Anabel Sins (Drake), poor Brown finds his Read More

1948
Strange Gamble

Actors: Andy Clyde

Synopsis: In this the final Hopalong Cassidy Western, Hoppy (William Boyd), California Carlson (Andy Clyde), and Lucky Jenkins (Rand Brooks) search for the leaders of a counterfeiting ring after receiving a tip from an anonymous source whose signature is a pencil sketch of a comet. In Silver City, they help Read More

1948
The Big Clock

Actors: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, George Macready, Elsa Lanchester, Rita Johnson

Synopsis: John Farrow's movie adaptation of Kenneth Fearing's The Big Clock, based on a screenplay by Jonathan Latimer (and produced by future James Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum), is a near-perfect match for the book, telling in generally superb visual style a tale set against the backdrop of upscale Read More

1948
Sinister Journey

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Elaine Riley, John Kellogg

Synopsis: The long-running "Hopalong Cassidy" series trudged on with its 61st entry, Sinister Journey. William Boyd, looking pretty much the same as he did when the series started in 1936, is back as Hoppy, with Andy Clyde and Rand Brooks as his cohorts California and Lucky, respectively. Like most of the Read More

1948
False Paradise

Actors: Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks

Synopsis: Returning to the scenic splendor of Lone Pine's Alabama Hills, Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) tries to help retired entomology professor Alonzo Larson (Joel Friedkin) and his daughter Anne (Elaine Riley), who have purchased a seemingly worthless piece of land, The Paradise Ranch. Larson has paid Read More

1948
Borrowed Trouble

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Elaine Riley, John Kellogg

Synopsis: "This town ain't big enough to hold both of us," saloon owner Dink Davis (Cliff Clark) tells his new rival Steve Mawson (John Phillips) in the opening of this lighthearted Hopalong Cassidy Western. Schoolmarm Lucy Abbott (Anne O'Neal) couldn't agree more; in fact, the spinsterish teacher is Read More

1948
Dangerous Venture

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Fritz Leiber, Douglas Evans

Synopsis: A group of archeologists is sent to the American Southwest to investigate a tribe's claims that they are descendants of the ancient Aztecs. However, a gang of crooks are trying to discredit the claim by dressing up as Indians to commit crimes. Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) must rescue the Read More

1948
Variety Girl

Actors: Eric Alden, Mary Hatcher, Olga San Juan, William Bendix, MacDonald Carey, DeForest Kelley, Joan Caulfield, William Demarest, Frank Faylen, Stanley Clements

Synopsis: This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for Paramount Studios in 1947. Mary Hatcher plays Catherine Brown, a woman of humble origins who arrives in Hollywood, where she meets another wanna-be movie star, Amber La Vonne Read More

1947
Danger Street

Actors: Jane Withers, Robert Lowery, Bill Edwards, Elaine Riley

Synopsis: Having just come into a $375,000 trust fund on her 21st birthday, former child star Jane Withers certainly didn't need to star in the Pine-Thomas melodrama Danger Street, but she was determined to prove her worth as an adult dramatic actress. Withers and Robert Lowery costar as Pat Marvin and Read More

1947
Devil's Playground

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Elaine Riley, Robert Elliott

Synopsis: After a two-year absence, the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series returned with The Devil's Playground. William Boyd, now executive-producer of the series, returns as Hoppy, with Andy Clyde as California Carson and Rand Brooks as Lucky Jenkins. More plot-oriented than earlier Cassidy efforts, Devil's Playground Read More

1946
Pan-Americana

Actors: Phillip Terry, Audrey Long, Robert Benchley, Eve Arden, Ernest Truex

Synopsis: A journalist for a popular travel magazine goes looking for interesting stories in Latin America and finds love instead in this colorful musical. The love angle comes from her fiance who lives there, and from the dashing photographer who accompanies her. Included are many South American acts Read More

1945
What a Blonde

Actors: Leon Errol, Richard Lane, Elaine Riley, Veda Ann Borg

Synopsis: What a Blonde gets under way when wealthy lingerie manufacturer Fowler (Leon Errol) runs out of valuable gas-ration coupons. Knowing that he can secure additional coupons if he forms a car pool, Fowler orders his butler Pomeroy (Richard Lane) to seek out a few "riders." Pomeroy returns with a Read More

1945
Two O'clock Courage

Actors: Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane, Lester Matthews, Roland Drew

Synopsis: In this drama, an amnesiac awakens and finds himself accused of murder. Fortunately, a female cabbie helps prove his innocence. Things look bleak until a bullet wound helps him regain his memory and he can prove he didn't kill anyone. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1945
Having Wonderful Crime

Actors: Pat O'Brien, George Murphy, Carole Landis, Lenore Aubert, George Zucco

Synopsis: Having Wonderful Crime spotlights Michael J. Malone, the murder-solving attorney created by author Craig Rice. The film is also ostensibly based on a novel by Rice, though precious little of the original actually made it to the screen. The story begins as Malone (Pat O'Brien) brusquely informs his Read More

1945
The Falcon out West

Actors: Tom Conway, Carol Gallagher, Barbara Hale, Joan Barclay, Cliff Clark

Synopsis: The murder of a wealthy, much-married rancher (Lyle Talbot) in a posh Manhattan nightclub is the catalyst for The Falcon Out West. Amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), aka The Falcon, deduces that the victim was killed with rattlesnake venom. He follows the trail of evidence to a dude ranch Read More

1944
Step Lively

Actors: Frank Sinatra, George Murphy, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria de Haven, Eugene Pallette, Walter Slezak

Synopsis: Previously filmed as a so-so Marx Brothers vehicle in 1938, the John Murray-Alan Boretz Broadway hit Room Service was effectively musicalized in 1944 as Step Lively. The plot remains intact: Fly-by-night theatrical producer Gordon Miller (Groucho Marx in the 1938 film, George Murphy in the remake) Read More

1944
Heavenly Days

Actors: Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Eugene Pallette, Gordon Oliver, Raymond Walburn

Synopsis: Heavenly Days was the last of three RKO Radio film vehicles for the popular radio duo of Fibber McGee and Molly (aka Jim and Marion Jordan). Unlike their first two films, which were cacophonous, plotless musical farces, this one actually has a coherent storyline and not a little "heart appeal." Read More

1944
Show Business

Actors: Eddie Cantor, George Murphy, Joan Davis, Nancy Kelly, Constance Moore

Synopsis: After a year's absence, entertainer Eddie Cantor returned to the screen in the self-produced Show Business. The plot is loosely based on Cantor's own rise to fame, from vaudeville to Broadway. Covering the years 1914 to 1929, the film reflects the changing tastes in entertainment, though Cantor Read More

1944
Higher and Higher

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Jack Haley, Frank Sinatra, Leon Errol, Victor Borge

Synopsis: Higher and Higher was advertised by RKO Radio as "The Sinatra Show", and small wonder: In his first major film role, Frank Sinatra was easily the film's biggest box-office draw. Actually, Frankie was a last minute addition to the film, which began as a traditional adaptation of a popular Broadway Read More

1944
Seven Days Ashore

Actors: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Marcy McGuire, Gordon Oliver, Virginia Mayo

Synopsis: Ostensibly a vehicle for RKO Radio's new comedy duo Wally Brown and Alan Carney, Seven Days Ashore actually casts Brown & Carney in subordinate roles. The plotline is carried by furloughed sailor Dan Arland (Gordon Oliver), who while docked in San Francisco gets mixed up with three amorous Read More

1944
Girl Rush

Actors: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Frances Langford, Vera Vague, Robert Mitchum

Synopsis: Wally Brown and Alan Carney, RKO's own Abbott and Costello ripoffs, star in the comedy western The Girl Rush. As usual, Brown is cast as fast-talking Jerry Miles and Carney plays slow-witted Mike Strager. This time, Jerry and Mike are travelling showmen, stranded in San Francisco when the 1849 Read More

1944
The Falcon and the Co-Eds

Actors: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Rita Corday, Amelita Ward, Isabel Jewell

Synopsis: When an instructor dies mysteriously at an exclusive girl's school, Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), a devil-may-care sleuth known as "The Falcon," reluctantly agrees to investigate. The death appears to have been induced by a heart attack, but the instructor's roommate (Rita Corday) had predicted that Read More

1943

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Elaine RileyFilmography

The Adventures of Superman: The Atomic Captive

Pardners

Dial Red 'O'

Clipped Wings

Texas Bad Man

Steel Town

Leadville Gunslinger

The Hills of Utah

Sailor Beware

Where Danger Lives

Rider from Tucson

Every Girl Should Be Married

Strange Gamble

The Big Clock

Sinister Journey

False Paradise

Borrowed Trouble

Dangerous Venture

Variety Girl

Danger Street

Devil's Playground

Pan-Americana

What a Blonde

Two O'clock Courage

Having Wonderful Crime

The Falcon out West

Step Lively

Heavenly Days

Show Business

Higher and Higher

Seven Days Ashore

Girl Rush

The Falcon and the Co-Eds

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