Elyse KnoxFilmography

Forgotten Women

Actors: Elyse Knox, Edward Norris, Robert Shayne, Theodora Lynch, Veda Ann Borg

Synopsis: Forgotten Women is Monogram's cut-rate 65-minute spin on MGM's The Women. The film deals with four lovely ladies, each of whom is plagued with Man Trouble. Elyse Knox is on the verge of divorce, Veda Ann Borg has been separated from her husband for months, Theodora Lynch's hubby doesn't want her Read More

Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch

Actors: Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood, Jr., Elyse Knox, Marcel Journet, Sheila Ryan

Synopsis: Joe Palooka, comic strip artist Ham Fisher's golden-hearted pugilist, heads South of the Border in The Counterpunch. Actually, Joe (Joe Kirkwood Jr.) goes no further than Monogram's cramped "ocean liner" standing set, but the audience doesn't really mind. The plot concerns a gang of Read More

Fighting Mad

Actors: Virginia Belmont, Paul Bryar, Charles Cane, Roberl Conway, Patricia Dane

Synopsis: Joe Palooka, Ham Fisher's famed comic-strip fighter, risks his life to clear the name of his manager in this series entry. In this episode, Palooka is blinded during a fight. Although surgery restores his vision, the doctors strongly caution him not to fight again for at least a year. Meanwhile Read More

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All

Actors: Joe Kirkwood, Jr., Elyse Knox, William Frawley, Stanley Clements, John Shelton

Synopsis: Ham Fisher's comic-strip pugilist Joe Palooka is once more visualized on-screen in Monogram's Winner Take All. In this one, soft-hearted boxer Joe (Joe Kirkwood) is approached by a trio of gamblers, who want him to throw an upcoming bout. Naturally he refuses, but has cause to regret this decision Read More

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

Actors: Jimmy Aubrey, Stanley Blystone, Walden Boyle, Charles D. Brown

Synopsis: A Cornell Woolrich novel was the source for the variable Monogram melodrama I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes. The plot refers to the dancing shoes of young terpsichorean Tom (Don Castle). A print from one of those shoes is found at the scene of a murder, and the police don't buy Tom's story that his Read More

Joe Palooka in the Knockout

Linda Be Good

Actors: Lennie Bremen, Claire Carleton, Joyce Compton, Byron Foulger, Edward Gargan

Synopsis: In this comedy, a novelist visits a local nightclub to do some research for her upcoming novel. Her husband, away on a business trip, knows nothing of her shenanigans. While in the club, the novelist sees her boss out with a stripper. To help her husband's flagging career, the writer begins Read More

Black Gold

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Katherine de Mille, Elyse Knox, Kane Richmond

Synopsis: A kind-hearted Native American adopts a homeless, orphaned Chinese boy who has only a horse to his name. This touching melodrama chronicles the years they spend together. The boy's new parents mate his horse with their mare and the resulting filly proves to be fast. They nearly lose the filly, but Read More

Sweetheart of Sigma Chi

Actors: Ruth Allen, Robert Arthur, William Beaudine, Jr., Phil Brito, Edward S. Brophy

Synopsis: This musical is a remake of a 1933 film. Like the first, it is set on campus and chronicles the romantic travails of the school rowing champion who has recently come back from a military stint abroad. A young coed is mighty pleased to see him, but he keeps avoiding her. A subplot concerns a group Read More

Joe Palooka, Champ

Actors: Leon Errol, Elyse Knox, Joe Kirkwood, Jr., Eduardo Ciannelli, Joe Sawyer

Synopsis: In this first entry in the pugilistic comedy series based on Ham Fishers long-running comic strip, Joe Palooka is seen before his boxing career took off. The story begins as he is discovered by Knobby Walsh, a keen-eyed manager. As Knobby trains Joe, gangsters intervene and attempt to insure that Read More

Moonlight and Cactus

Synopsis: The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a trio of WW II era ranchers. That they are so good at running it proves terrible surprise for a ranch hand who has just returned home after serving in the Navy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Wave, a Wac and a Marine

Actors: Elyse Knox, Ramsay Ames, Ann Gillis, Alan Dinehart

Synopsis: Released by Monogram, A WAVE, a WAC and a Marine was packaged by Biltmore Productions, a partnership consisting of Abbott and Costello's agent Eddie Sherman and Lou Costello's father Sebastian Cristillo. Though Elyse Knox, Sally Eilers and Ann Gillis head the cast, the film is a showcase for Read More

Follow the Boys

Actors: George Raft, Vera Zorina, Charles Grapewin, George Macready, Charles Butterworth, Regis Toomey, Grace McDonald

Synopsis: Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars making cameo appearances. Tony West (George Raft), his sister Kitty (Grace McDonald), and their father Nick (Charles Grapewin) tour together as The Three Wests, a failing act Read More

Army Wives

Actors: Elyse Knox, Marjorie Rambeau, Rick Vallin, Dorothea Kent, Murray Alper

Synopsis: Few B-picture factories ground out topical wartime dramas with as much regularity as Monogram. In Army Wives, Elyse Knox plays bride-to-be Jerry, who follows her GI fiance Barney (Rick Vallin) from camp to camp. Thanks to numerous complications, both foreseen and otherwise, Jerry and Barney never Read More

So's Your Uncle

Actors: Billie Burke, Donald Woods, Elyse Knox, Frank Jenks

Synopsis: In this tuneful comedy, a would-be actor and playwright is deeply in debt, and to keep away from his creditors, begins pretending to be his aged uncle. Unfortunately he ends up getting hit by a limousine. The rich woman inside takes the wounded "codger" home to her manhungry old aunt. The actor Read More

Hi 'ya, Sailor

Actors: Donald Woods, Elyse Knox, Eddie Quillan, Frank Jenks, Phyllis Brooks

Synopsis: The musical quickie Hi'Ya Sailor was produced by Universal, the same studio responsible for Hi'Ya Chum, Hi, Buddy, Hi, Beautiful and Hi, Good Lookin'. Donald Woods plays Bob Jackson, a song-writing sailor who is taken to the cleaners by a crooked song-publishing racket. Left in the cold, Bob and Read More

Keep 'em Slugging

Actors: Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell, Norman Abbott, Evelyn Ankers

Synopsis: Keep 'Em Slugging was the last of Universal's "Little Tough Guys" series-which, like Monogram's "East Side Kids", was an offshoot of Warner Bros.' "Dead End Kids" films. This time around, the kids decide to mend their troublemaking ways and get real jobs. Tommy (Bobby Jordan) is hired by the Read More

Mister Big

Actors: Gloria Jean, Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan, Robert Paige, Elyse Knox

Synopsis: Drama students rebel in this musical set in a tiny drama school. The trouble begins when the students begin complaining to the school's proprietor that they should be doing more than just the classics. The kids are more interested in performing swing-type entertainment. When the owner takes a Read More

Hit the Ice

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Ginny Simms, Patric Knowles, Elyse Knox

Synopsis: The Abbott & Costello vehicle Hit the Ice started life as satire of health clinics, with Lou Costello cast as a hypochondriac who used a streetcar conductor's change-purse to dispense pills to himself. By the time the film hit the screens, it was a standard A&C melange of comedy, music and Read More

Don Winslow of the Coast Guard [Serial]

Actors: Don Terry, Elyse Knox

Synopsis: The 13-chapter Don Winslow of the Coast Guard was the second of two Universal serials based on the comic strip Don Winslow of the Navy. Don Terry returns as Don Winslow, who has been promoted to Commander in this effort. Also returning is mystery villain The Scorpion, once more working in cahoots Read More

The Arabian Nights

Actors: Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Leif Erickson, Sabu, Billy Gilbert

Synopsis: In a harem in a Middle Eastern palace, the guardian leads the women he protects in telling the tale of Halroun-Al-Raschid (Jon Hall), the Caliph of Bagdad, who found himself an enemy close to home in the form of his half-brother Kamar (Leif Erickson), who was ineligible for the throne because of Read More

The Mummy's Tomb

Actors: Lon Chaney, Jr., Dick Foran, Elyse Knox, Turhan Bey, John Hubbard, Mary Gordon

Synopsis: You cannot keep a good mummy down forever and Kharis is back in this sequel to The Mummy's Hand, which itself was something of a remake of the classic Boris Karloff thriller of 1935, The Mummy. Although assumed to have been killed by Stephen Banning (Dick Foran) in the previous film, Andoheb Read More

Top Sergeant

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine, Don Terry, Elyse Knox, Don Porter

Synopsis: Top Sergeant was the third of four inexpensive Universal action films top-billing Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine and Don Terry. Terry plays the title character, drill sergeant Dick Manson of the Engineer Corps. Carrillo and Devine are cast respectively as Corporals Frenchy Devereaux and Andy Jarrett Read More

Campy Kids from Boot Camp

Synopsis: Campy Kids From Boot Camp was cobbled together from a brace of "streamliners" (second features running between 43 and 50 minutes) produced in the 1940s by Hal Roach Studios. The films are Tanks a Million (1941) and Hayfoot (1942); both star William Tracy as Doubleday, an Army draftee with a Read More

Hay Foot

Synopsis: Instant recall allows a man to become a very valuable Good Samaritan in this comedy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Sheriff of Tombstone

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Elyse Knox, Addison Richards, Sally Payne

Synopsis: In this western, Rogers and his sidekick Gabby get into all kinds of trouble when they ride into Tombstone and find themselves mistaken for the hired gun and his assistant. The gunslinger was engaged to work for the mayor and for a time Rogers goes along with it. When he discovers that the mayor Read More

Miss Polly

Actors: ZaSu Pitts, Kathleen Howard, George "Slim" Summerville, Brenda Forbes, Elyse Knox

Synopsis: Welcome to Midville, an appropriately named small town that has carried moderation to extremes. Run for over a generation by a bluenose civic league, the town doesn't allow driving faster than 12 mph -- and drivers can get a summons for not having a running-board, a part of a car that went out of Read More

Footlight Fever

Actors: Alan Mowbray, Donald MacBride, Elizabeth Risdon, Lee Bonnell, Elyse Knox

Synopsis: A sequel to the zany backstage comedy Curtain Call, RKO Radio's Footlight Fever once again stars Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride as fly-by-night theatrical producers Avery and Crandall. This time, our heroes try to weasel money out of a potential backer, spinsterish millionaire Hattie (Elisabeth Read More

Tanks a Million

Actors: William Tracy, James Gleason, Noah Beery, Jr., Joe Sawyer, Elyse Knox

Synopsis: In 1941, producer Hal Roach abandoned production of full-length features in favor of a new concept: The "Streamliner", a four-reel film-halfway between a short subject and a feature-designed for the double-bill market. The first Roach streamliner was the timely service comedy Tanks a Million Read More

Stardust

Actors: Linda Darnell, John Payne, Roland Young, Charlotte Greenwood, William Gargan

Synopsis: 17-year-old Linda Darnell received her first big break in the appropriately titled 20th Century-Fox production Star Dust. Discovered by talent scout Thomas Brooke (Roland Young), teenager Carolyn Sayre (Darnell) is brought to Hollywood, where she is turned down for a contract because she is Read More

A Girl From Avenue "A"

Actors: Jane Withers, Kent Taylor, Kay Aldridge, Elyse Knox, Laura Hope Crewes

Synopsis: In this comedy drama based on Shaw's play Pygmalion, and set in the 1800s, a wealthy playwright rescues a beautiful street urchin from the cruel city streets to use her as an authentic source of street language for his newest play. His whole family gets in an uproar when she comes to stay, but Read More

Youth Will Be Served

Actors: Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Roberl Conway, Elyse Knox, Joe Brown, Jr.

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a young woman is sent to a National Youth Administration camp after her father is arrested for making moonshine. While there, a local developer endeavors to buy up the camp. To save it, the young woman stages an elaborate camp show. The developer is enchanted and changes Read More

Lillian Russell

Actors: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold, Warren William

Synopsis: Lillian Russell is the sanitized musical biopic of the legendary (and much-married) 19th century musical comedy star. Discovered in 1880 by bandleader Tony Pastor (Leo Carrillo), Lillian Russell (Alice Faye) wastes no time rising to fame and fortune on the Broadway stage. Along the way, she Read More

Free, Blonde and Twenty-One

Actors: Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Joan Davis, Henry Wilcoxon, Robert Lowery

Synopsis: Free, Blonde and 21 was one of a handful of films directed by former leading man Ricardo Cortez. Two of 20th Century-Fox's busiest leading ladies, Mary Beth Hughes and Lynn Bari, head the cast of this soap opera-style yarn about life in a hotel catering to women. Hughes plays Jerry, a duplicitious Read More

Girl in 313

Actors: Florence Rice, Kent Taylor, Lionel Atwill, Kay Aldridge, Mary Treen

Synopsis: The Girl in 313 is undercover police detective Joan Matthews (Florence Rice), who infiltrates a gang of jewel thieves. It is Joan's goal to unmask the leader of the gang, who is presently hiding behind a veneer of respectability. Piecing the clues together, she discovers that the crooks are in Read More

Wake up and Live

Actors: Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Alice Faye, Patsy Kelly, Ned Sparks

Synopsis: The hyped-up 1930s radio feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and columnist Walter Winchell is all but forgotten today, but that doesn't lessen the entertainment value of the Bernie/Winchell vehicle Wake Up and Live. Amidst the bickering of the two stars, the film traces the progress of mike-shy Read More