Gigi PerreauFilmography

High Seas Hijack

Synopsis: Five years after Mission: Impossible, Peter Graves accepted a starring assignment in the modestly budgeted High Seas Hijack. Most of the film takes place on a highly valuable oil tanker. A group of terrorists decide that the best way to advance their cause is to steal the tanker and imprison its Read More

Adam-12: Credit Risk

Synopsis: Applying for a credit card, Officer Jim Reed (Kent McCord) is astonished when he is turned down as a bad risk. It soon develops that this negative assassment is due to a computer error. But in trying to set things right, Reed finds himself a virtual prisoner in the darkest catacombs of Read More

Journey to the Center of Time

Synopsis: Time Warp is the alternate title for the moderately budgeted Journey To the Center of Time. The scene is a research center, where experimental time-travel is in its formative stages. The center's directors are informed that, if they don't prove the efficacy of their research within 24 hours, they Read More

Hell on Wheels

Actors: Marty Robbins, John Ashley, Robert Dornan

Synopsis: Del (John Ashley) is an auto mechanic who leaves his brother Marty (Marty Robbins) to open his own business in this routine action drama. The brothers are kidnapped when Del is chased by federal agents for running moonshine. Marty races stock cars during the day and sings at night. How else could Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Sleepy Slayer

Synopsis: Lifelong parasite Rachel Gordon (Phyllis Hill) will be cut off without a cent by her rich Uncle Abner (Richard Hale) unless she immediately returns all the money she has syphoned from his bank account. Out of desperation, Rachel takes a shot at Albert while the man is sleeping. It turns out she Read More

Look in Any Window

Actors: Paul Anka, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol, Carole Mathews

Synopsis: The only film directed by sometime actor and producer William Alland, Look in Any Window is an uninspired melodrama that relied on the star power of teen heartthrob Paul Anka to attract the younger set when it was released in 1961. Anka plays Craig Fowler, a disturbed kid whose main pleasure and Read More

Tammy, Tell Me True

Actors: Sandra Dee, John Gavin, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey, Julia Meade

Synopsis: In this emotional romance, the young backwoods girl Tammy lives in a houseboat on the river. She is very sad because she hasn't heard from her college-student boyfriend in ages. Determined to be near him, she cruises her boat down to his university and enrolls. To pay expenses she gets a job. Her Read More

Betty Hutton Show

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Graduating Class

Synopsis: Newly hired at a private school, teacher Laura Siddons (Wendy Hiller) suspects that one of her students, a girl named Gloria (Gigi Perreau), is having a clandestine romance. Laura and her gentleman friend, Ben (Robert H. Harris), eventually catch up with Gloria and confirm their suspicions: the Read More

Girls' Town

Actors: Mamie van Doren, Mel Tormé, Paul Anka, Ray Anthony, Maggie Hayes

Synopsis: This sexually explicit, low-budget film makes no pretensions about being anything other than offensive. There is no plot since none is especially necessary. Director Charles Haas (his last film was the following year), opens with a scene of sexually active men and women at a party. Then one of Read More

The Cool and the Crazy

Actors: Scott Marlowe, Dick Bakalyan, Dick Jones, Shelby Storck

Synopsis: This over-the-top '50s juvenile delinquency melodrama has developed a cult following for its rabid anti-marijuana message and a thoroughly enjoyable performance by teen-pic icon Dick Bakalyan as one of the teenagers gone bad. A reform-school graduate turns some long-in-the-tooth high schoolers Read More

Wild Heritage

Actors: Will Rogers, Jr., Maureen O'Sullivan, Rod McKuen, Casey Tibbs, Judi Meredith

Synopsis: Will Rogers Jr. follows in the cinematic footsteps of his famous father in the evenly-paced western Wild Heritage. Rogers is cast as a frontier judge, given to his own special, down-to-earth brand of jurisprudence. In truth, however, Will Jr's role is a subordinate one; most of the film's running Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Daughter

Synopsis: Claiming to be suffering from amnesia, an 18-year-old girl (Gigi Perreau) asks Perry (Raymond Burr) to find out who she is and help restore her memory. As it turns out, the girl has plenty to forget: Her name is Doris Bannister, and she is the daughter of Lisa Bannister (Osa Massen)--who herself Read More

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Actors: Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March, Marisa Pavan, Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis: This meticulous and unusually long cinemadaptation of Sloan Wilson's best-selling novel The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit stars Gregory Peck as an ex-army officer, pursuing a living as a TV writer in the postwar years. Hired by a major broadcasting network, Peck is assigned to write speeches for Read More

There's Always Tomorrow

Actors: Gigi Perreau, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, William Reynolds, Judy Nugent

Synopsis: There's Always Tomorrow is a remake of a 1934 film of the same name. Fred MacMurray is a toy company executive whose wife (Joan Bennett) and kids (Gigi Perreau, William Reynolds and Judy Nugent) take him for granted. Barbara Stanwyck is Fred's former girlfriend, whose own business activities Read More

Dance with Me, Henry

Actors: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Rusty Hamer, Mary Wickes

Synopsis: Dance With Me, Henry was the screen swan song for the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Most of the action takes place in Kiddieland, an amusement park owned by soft-hearted Lou Henry (Costello). An inveterate collector of strays, Lou has adopted orphaned kids Shelley (Gigi Perreau) and Read More

Attila, Flagello di Dio

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Henri Vidal, Irene Papas, Colette Regis

Synopsis: Italian director Pietro Francisci directed this 1954 drama about the fifth-century invasion of Rome by Attila the Hun. Anthony Quinn stars as the legendary barbaric King of the Huns who wreaked havoc upon Rome, threatening to topple the entire empire. Sophia Loren costars as Honoria, the beautiful Read More

Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

Actors: Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn, Lynn Bari

Synopsis: Douglas Sirk directed this frothy musical comedy set in the 1920s starring Charles Coburn as Samuel Fulton, an elderly man with a multi-million dollar fortune. With no family of his own to whom he can leave his money, Fulton is pondering what to do with his estate. Years ago, he was in love with a Read More

Bonzo Goes to College

Actors: Maureen O'Sullivan, Charles Drake, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: Bonzo Goes to College is the one that Ronald Reagan isn't in. The focus, of course, is on brainy chimpanzee Bonzo, who escapes a seedy sideshow and hides out on a college campus. Here he is adopted by Betsy Drew (Gigi Perreau), the daughter of nonplused professor Malcolm Drew (Charles Drake). Read More

Reunion in Reno

Actors: Mark Stevens, Peggy Dow, Frances Dee, Leif Erickson

Synopsis: Columbia and Universal were the leading purveyors of well-crafted "little" pictures in the 1950s. It was Universal who put together Reunion in Reno, which opens with little Maggie (Gigi Perreau) walking into the offices of divorce-attorney Norman (Mark Stevens), demanding a divorce from her Read More

The Lady Pays Off

Actors: Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, Virginia Field, Ann Codee

Synopsis: The Lady Pays Off is a formative example of filmmaker Douglas Sirk's elegant exotica. Linda Darnell plays the title character, a vacationing schoolteacher and one-time gambler named Evelyn Warren. Unfortunately, that "one time" leaves Evelyn indebted to casino owner Matt Braddock (Stephen McNally) Read More

Weekend with Father

Actors: Van Heflin, Patricia Neal, Virginia Field, Richard Denning

Synopsis: This seminal Brady Bunch stars Van Heflin as a widower and Patricia Neal as a widow. Both parties have several children by their first marriages. Heflin and Neal fall in love and decide to marry, each hoping to adopt the other's kids. The couple idealistically subscribes to the "one big happy Read More

Never a Dull Moment

Actors: Irene Dunne, Fred MacMurray, William Demarest, Andy Devine

Synopsis: In this 1951 comedy Irene Dunne stars as Kay, a Manhattan-based songwriter who marries widowed rodeo cowboy Chris (Fred MacMurray). In the tradition of The Egg and I, Kay suffers a great deal of culture shock when she moves into Chris' western ranch. When she isn't being bedeviled by her new Read More

Shadow on the Wall

Actors: Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Nancy Davis, Kristine Miller

Synopsis: A murder is witnessed by the victim's little daughter (Gigi Perreau), who immediately goes into a state of shock. All the girl has seen is the shadow of her mother's killer, but the audience knows that the murderer is Ann Sothern. At first Sothern is secure that the girl will never be able to Read More

For Heaven's Sake

Actors: Clifton Webb, Joan Bennett, Robert Cummings, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Blondell

Synopsis: When the continual bickering of a married couple threatens to tear them apart, an angel is sent to help them get back together and start making babies in this fantasy. The husband is a busy producer for theatrical shows so the angel disguises himself as a wealthy Westerner looking to invest in a Read More

Roseanna McCoy

Actors: Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Charles Bickford, Raymond Massey, Richard Basehart

Synopsis: The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn's Roseanna McCoy. Newcomer Joan Evans stars as the title character, whose elopement with Johnse Hatfield (Farley Granger) serves to further fuel the flames of the deadly mountain feud. The opposing patriarches, Devil Anse Read More

My Foolish Heart

Actors: Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, Kent Smith, Lois Wheeler, Jesse Royce Landis

Synopsis: Producer Samuel Goldwyn dishes up sentiment by the bowlful with My Foolish Heart. Susan Hayward is (somewhat unconvincingly) cast as a wide-eyed girl from Idaho who meets bon vivant Dana Andrews at a Manhattan party. Their brief affair results in a pregnancy, but since Andrews has been killed in Read More

Song of Surrender

Actors: Wanda Hendrix, Claude Rains, MacDonald Carey, Andrea King, Henry Hull

Synopsis: Though her acting range was limited, Wanda Hendrix was cute as all get out, and this cuteness is pretty much all that's required from her in Song of Surrender. The film is set in a small town of the early 1900s. Hendrix is cast as Abigail Hunt, the young bride of fiftyish museum curator Elisha Read More

Family Honeymoon

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Rita Johnson, William Daniels, Gigi Perreau, Jimmy Hunt

Synopsis: In this family farce, an older couple falls in love and decide to marry and embark upon a peaceful honeymoon without the bride's three bratty children. Unfortunately, the way things work out, the whole family ends up tagging along. The little darlings are less than pleased that their widowed Read More

The Sainted Sisters

Actors: Veronica Lake, Joan Caulfield, Barry Fitzgerald, William Demarest, George Reeves

Synopsis: Never mind Veronica Lake and Joan Caulfield: the real star of The Sainted Sisters is Barry Fitzgerald, dispensing Hibernian blarney by the wheelbarrowful. The story begins as turn-of-the-century golddiggers Letty and Jane Stanton (Lake and Caulfield) escape New York after divesting a gullible Read More

Enchantment

Actors: David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes, Farley Granger, Jayne Meadows

Synopsis: Most of the story in this five-hanky British melodrama takes place over a 50 year period within a single London home, 99 Wiltshire Place, the birth place of a noted general who has not been back since he was a young man and had a terrible wrenching fight with his sister over his love for their Read More

The High Barbaree

Actors: Van Johnson, June Allyson, Thomas Mitchell, Marilyn Maxwell, Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis: In this war movie, set during WW II, a pilot must crash land in the Pacific after he is shot down. As he floats upon the waves, he begins remembering the mythical island of Barbaree that his grandfather used to tell him about. To keep his wounded companion alive, he begins telling his life story. Read More

Green Dolphin Street

Actors: Patrick Aherne, Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Linda Christian, Gladys Cooper, Donna Reed, Bernie Gozier, Richard Hart, Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis: The 161-minute costume drama Green Dolphin Street is set in 1840, on an island off the coast of Newfoundland, (or at least, the MGM backlot facsimile of same). Boiled down to essentials, it's the story of two sisters, blonde Marguerite Patourel (Donna Reed) and brunette
Marianne Patourel Read More

Song of Love

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Robert Walker, Henry Daniell, Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis: Song of Love is the MGM-ified version of the lives and loves of 19th century musicians Clara Wieck Schumann (Katharine Hepburn), Robert Schumann (Paul Henreid) and Johannes Brahms (Robert Walker, who the previous year had played another composer, Jerome Kern, in Til the Clouds Roll By). Clara Read More

Alias Mr. Twilight

Synopsis: A granddaughter's world begins to crumble when allegations of her grandfather say that he is a criminal. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Yolanda and the Thief

Actors: Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan, Mildred Natwick, Mary Nash

Synopsis: Yolanda and the Thief has long been considered the nadir of Arthur Freed's years as an MGM musical producer. Unappreciated at the time of its release, the film was a huge financial and critical failure. It has since become a cult film and cinematic cause celebre, revered by its adherents and Read More

God Is My Co-Pilot

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Dane Clark, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Andrea King

Synopsis: Such was the prevailing mood among filmgoers in 1943 that God Is My Co-Pilot was allowed to show a spiritual shaft of light in the sky and several scenes of enemy pilots spitting up blood when shot down by American bullets. The film was based on the best-selling novel by fighter pilot Col. Robert Read More

Voice of the Whistler

Actors: Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James B. Cardwell, Tom Kennedy

Synopsis: In this drama based on a popular radio series, a millionaire believes he has six months left to live and so marries his nurse. She doesn't love him, but he has promised to make her the sole heir to his fortune. She leaves her real fiancé for the ailing magnate with the promise that she will return Read More

Two Girls and a Sailor

Actors: Van Johnson, June Allyson, Gloria de Haven, Jimmy Durante, Lena Horne

Synopsis: Two Girls and a Sailor is another of those all-star, no-plot wartime musicals turned out by the bushel basket in the 1940s. Its lack of nuance does not lessen its entertainment value in the least. Gloria DeHaven and June Allyson play a couple of well-meaning sisters who stage their own USO shows Read More

Mr. Skeffington

Actors: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, Richard Waring, George Coulouris, Jerome Cowan

Synopsis: From a novel of the same name by "Elizabeth", the film begins in 1914, with Bette Davis cast as vain, flighty society woman Fanny Trellis. Informed by Jewish-American financier Job Skeffington (Claude Rains) that her brother Trippy (Richard Waring) has stolen money to pay his gambling debts, Fanny Read More

Dark Waters

Actors: Merle Oberon, Franchot Tone, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter, Rex Ingram, John Qualen

Synopsis: Adapted from a Saturday Evening Post serial by Frank and Marian Cockrell, Dark Waters stars Merle Oberon as heiress Leslie Calvin, a woman with a neurotic aversion to water. This stems from the fact that in her childhood, Leslie was one of four survivors of a torpedoed steamship. Preying upon Read More

The Master Race

Actors: George Coulouris, Osa Massen, Stanley Ridges, Lloyd Bridges, Carl Esmond, Nancy Gates

Synopsis: The Master Race argues persuasively that, although it appeared that the Nazis would lose WW2, it was foolish to assume that Hitler's legacy would not insinuate itself into the postwar era. Nazi bigwig Von Beck (George Coulouris) arrives in a small Belgian village on the eve of its liberation by Read More

Madame Curie

Actors: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Walker, Van Johnson, Albert Basserman, Margaret O'Brien, Henry Travers

Synopsis: Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon team for the third time in this fact-based biography directed by Mervyn Leroy, based on Eve Curie's book about her mother. In early 1900s Paris, poor Polish student Marie (Greer Garson) gets a chance to study magnetism with kindly professor Jean Perot (Albert Basserman Read More

There's Always Tomorrow

Actors: Frank Morgan, Binnie Barnes, Lois Wilson, Louise Latimer, Elisabeth Young

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a devoted father begins feeling unappreciated at home and so embarks upon a clandestine friendship with a former employee. The children see them together and assume it's an affair. They beg him to end the relationship. Later the woman herself talks to the kids, assuring them Read More