Lurene Tuttle Filmography

Murder, She Wrote: Murder in the Afternoon

Synopsis: Up-and-coming actress Nita Cochran (Alice Krige), who happens to be the niece of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), lands a plum role on a popular TV soap opera. Nita has been cast as a serial murderer--a fact that proves most unfortunate when an actual murder occurs at the TV studio. The victim Read More

Testament

Actors: Jane Alexander, William Devane, Rossie Harris, Roxana Zal, Lukas Haas

Synopsis: Director Lynne Littman has created an effective, understated portrayal of the cost of a nuclear war in human terms, in a film as far removed from the fake hyperbole of action and disaster movies as the natural world is from cartoons. Set in the small California town of Hamlin, the Wetherly family Read More

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Synopsis: Huckleberry Finn joins Tom Sawyer and Jim, a runaway slave, as they escape down the Mississippi River on a raft. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Return of the Beverly Hillbillies

Synopsis: Ten years after the cancellation of the cornpone comedy series The Beverly Hillbillies, the property was revived -- mercifully briefly -- in the form of a two-hour movie. Originally titled Solving the Energy Crisis, The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies found Buddy Ebsen, Donna Douglas and Nancy Read More

White Mama

Actors: Bette Davis, Ernest Harden Jr.

Synopsis: Bette Davis is White Mama in this custom-made TV movie. Ms. Davis plays a poverty-stricken widow who is too proud to go on welfare. Aware that she can receive a steady income if she takes in a foster child, Davis becomes surrogate mother to tough black teenager Ernest Harden Jr. The relationship Read More

For the Love of It

Synopsis: Veteran comedy specialist Hal Kanter milks every chuckle, chortle and guffaw of Stanley Ralph Ross' teleplay for For the Love of It. The story gets under way when the bad guys surreptitiously plant top-secret documents on a model (Deborah Raffin) and a med student (Jeff Conaway). He's crazy about Read More

Nutcracker Fantasy

Actors: Michael Lee, Melissa Gilbert, Lurene Tuttle, Christopher Lee, Jo Ann Worley

Synopsis: Set to Tchaikovsky's score, this Japanese animated effort chronicles the adventures of a young girl dreaming of a magical land of anthropomorphic mice that are under the spell of a wicked two-headed mouse. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Granny Annie

Synopsis: To the people of Hazzard County, Granny Annie Coggins (Lurene Tuttle) is merely a sweet little old lady who has achieved fame as a rustic artist. But Granny Annie happens to have another little pastime--namely, the counterfeiting of five-dollar bills. As Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) schemes to get Read More

Parts: The Clonus Horror

Actors: Timothy Donnelly, Dick Sargent, Peter Graves, Paulette Breen, David Hooks

Synopsis: This routine, relatively low-budget horror film with a few well-known actors (Peter Graves, Keenan Wynn) unfolds a tale that has echoes in George Orwell's 1984 or in various sci-fi movies. The premise: Americans have not realized that their government is in cahoots with certain industrial and Read More

The Crash of Flight 401

Synopsis: Originally made for television and based on true events from 1972, the story concerns an airline crash in the Everglades and the courageous adventures of the 73 survivors. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Manitou

Actors: Tony Curtis, Michael Ansara, Susan Strasberg, Stella Stevens, Jon Cedar

Synopsis: Low-budget horror director William Girdler's last film stars Susan Strasberg as Karen Tandy, a San Francisco woman who develops a strange growth on her neck. After an operation fails because the doctor is forced to cut his own hand, Karen seeks out an Indian shaman (Michael Ansara), who tells her Read More

Walking Tall: The Final Chapter

Actors: Bo Svenson, Maggie Blye, Forrest Tucker, Lurene Tuttle, Morgan Woodward

Synopsis: Rated R for violence, this is another of the promises broken to us by the movie industry. When they promise that we won't have to see something again, why can't they make it happen? Although this, like the Jason movies (Friday the 13th ad nauseam), is followed by a made for TV movie and a series Read More

Little House on the Prairie: Going Home

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Having endured any number of setbacks, Charles (Michael Landon) can stand no more when a tornado wipes out his crops. Thoroughly discouraged, Charles decides to sell the farm and return to Wisconsin -- but he doesn't tell his family about this decision. On a happier note, Charles' daughter Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson Read More

Alice: A Piece of the Rock

Synopsis: Alice (Linda Lavin) has every reason to assume that she is the beneficiary of her late husband's insurance policy. So imagine her surprise--and outrage--upon discovering that the policy is in the name of another woman. The first airing of this episode, on October 6, 1976, occurred only in the Read More

Walking Tall, Part 2

Synopsis: Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser and his trusty club return in this sequel. As with the first, he continues his single handed crusade against organized crime. Violence ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Little House on the Prairie: The Gift

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The children of Walnut Grove pool their Sunday school funds to purchase an expensive Bible for Reverend Alden's (Dabbs Greer) birthday present. Entrusted with the money, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) attempt to double the amount by purchasing, then selling, a supply of Read More

Walking Tall

Actors: Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman

Synopsis: A runaway box-office hit to the tune of 17 million dollars, Walking Tall is the unabashedly manipulative story of real-life Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser. As played by Joe Don Baker, Pusser can either be regarded as a tireless champion of justice or a baseball-bat-wielding hooligan. But with Read More

Adam-12: Hot Shot

Synopsis: Tonight's case log for Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) includes their high-speed pursuit of a teenage robber. And elsewhere, the two cops confront a gun-wielding father (Raymond Mayo) who has held his daughter (Mia Bendixsen) a virtual prisoner for nearly all her Read More

Adam-12: A Fool and His Money

Synopsis: When Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) wins $5000 in a contest, everyone else at Rampart has a suggestion as to how he should spend the money. Unfortunately, Malloy does not heed the best advice, and suffers the consequences. In a less frivolous moment, Pete and his partner Jim Reed (Kent Read More

Mrs. Sundance

Actors: Lorna Thayer

Synopsis: Fresh from her eight-season run on Bewitched, Elizabeth Montgomery embarked upon a whole new career as everyone's favorite TV-movie star in the ABC production Mrs. Sundance. Shamelessly promoted as a sequel to the movie megahit Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the film cast Montgomery as Read More

The Partridge Family: For Sale by Owner

Synopsis: In order to move into a newer, larger house (with a LOT more bathrooms), the Partridges must undergo the trauma of parting with their old house. Eventually the kids decide that they don't want to move and do everything they can to scare off the new owners (Bert Freed, Lurene Tuttle)--who prove Read More

Petticoat Junction: Cannonball for Sale

Synopsis: Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) returns to Hooterville, still bound and determined to put the Hooterville Cannonball out of business. This time Homer has come up with a surefire scheme: He puts the entire railroad up for sale! Before long, the townsfolk have sold practically everything they own to Read More

The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit

Actors: Dean Jones, Diane Baker, Lloyd Bochner, Fred Clark, Ellen Janov

Synopsis: Advertising executive Fred Bolton (Dean Jones) is under pressure from his boss Tom Dugan (Fred Clark) to come up with a new ad campaign for a wealthy client. Fred's daughter Helen (Ellen Janov) loves to ride horses, so her father buys her one to tie the equine into the profitable advertisement. Read More

Bonanza: Justice

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Beau Bridges, Shirley Bonne

Synopsis: Joe Cartwright's impending marriage to the lovely Sally Cutler (Shirley Bonne) is threatened by the girl's unwanted suitor Horace (Beau Bridges), who is not only clumsy and inept, but also potentially dangerous. When Horace accidently strangles Sally to death, Joe swears vengeance. Ben tries to Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Marriage Machine

Synopsis: Still seeking appropriate spouses for Elly May and Jethro, Jed subscribes to a computer-dating service. The results are not what anyone expects, but then, if they had been, this wouldn't be a situation comedy, would it? The limit comes when Jethro mistakes Jed's computer-selected partner Read More

The Fortune Cookie

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Cliff Osmond, Judi West

Synopsis: The British title of Billy Wilder's classic comedy was Meet Whiplash Willie -- for, despite Jack Lemmon's star billing, the movie's driving force is Oscar-winning Walter Matthau as gloriously underhanded lawyer "Whiplash" Willie Gingrich. CBS cameraman Harry Hinkle (Lemmon) is injured when he is Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Angel

Synopsis: For reasons which he prefers to keep secret, wealthy industrialist Cameron Burgess (Paul Stewart) hires shady music promoter Clete Hawley (Richard Carlson) to groom a likable but untalented British rock singer named Sandy Chester (Martin Horsey) for superstardom. Soon afterward, Hawley is Read More

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

Actors: Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond, Dick Sargent, Skip Homeier

Synopsis: Luther Heggs (Don Knotts) is a typesetter at a newspaper who longs for a chance to be a reporter. Editor Beckett (Dick Sargent) gives Luther his big break and assigns him to spend the night in a house generally considered to be haunted. The situation allows a broad canvas for Knotts to react to Read More

The Restless Ones

Synopsis: In this religious movie, a married pair of television writers begin researching a script on restless teenagers and end up as born-again Christians. Meanwhile their own adolescent son runs away with a pregnant teen who is looking for the child's father. When she cannot, she tries to kill herself. Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Grinning Gorilla

Synopsis: After purchasing the diary of an alleged suicide victim at an auction, Della (Barbara Hale) is surprised when someone offers her $1000 for the book. Turning down the offer, the intrigued Della begins paging through the diary, ultimately arriving at the conclusion that its author did not kill Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: What House Across the Street?

Synopsis: Hoping to coerce Tony (Larry Hagman) into marrying her, Jeannie pretends to accept Roger's marriage proposal. This makes it imperative for Jeannie to hide her true identity from Roger(Bill Daily). For this purpose, she "creates" a set of wealthy parents, who live in the house across the street Read More

My Favorite Martian: Avenue

Synopsis: To study the aging process of humans, Martin (Ray Walston) pushes his own age forward fron 450 to 850 years--thereby making himself seventy in Earth Years. In this guise, Martin takes a job as a night watchman, and subsequently comes to the rescue of two elderly sisters (Lurene Tuttle, Nydia Read More

Petticoat Junction: There's No Flame Like an Old Flame

Synopsis: Years ago, Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) had his heart broken by Mary Alice Perkins, who left him waiting at the altar and married another man. Now, Mary Alice is a widow, and Uncle Joe decides to begin corresponding with her again. Are there wedding bells in the offing, or is Joe setting himself up Read More

The Munsters: Munster Masquerade

Synopsis: The debut episode of the mirthfully macabre sitcom The Munsters begins as Marilyn, the "normal" member of the monstrous Munster family of Mockingbird Heights (normal by our standards if not by theirs) is invited to a costume party held by the snobbish parents of her new boyfriend Tom Daly (Linden Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Shoplifters

Actors: Lurene Tuttle

Synopsis: Mayberry's customary calm is disrupted when Walker's Department Store is plagued with a wave of thefts. To catch the shoplifter red-handed, Barney poses as a store mannequin, with hilariously chaotic results. Andy and Barney eventually trap the crook, but in doing so they risk public ostracization Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Genghis Keane Story

Synopsis: In the final episode of Petticoat Junction's first season, Kate (Bea Benadaret) braces herself for a visit from her former schoolteacher Adelaide Keane (played by Benadaret's fellow old-time-radio veteran Lurene Tuttle), who was so stern and tough that she was known to one and all as "Genghis" Read More

Nightmare in the Sun

Actors: John Derek, Aldo Ray, Arthur O'Connell, Ursula Andress, Sammy Davis, Jr.

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a bored, but seductive wife of a wealthy old ranch goes cruising for trouble and finds it when she picks up a hapless hitchhiker who soon falls under her sexy spell. Like a fly to a spider's web, he is drawn to her bedroom. Unfortunately, the old rancher sees him leaving and Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe

Synopsis: Thanks to the curbstone advice of Perry Mason (Raymond Burr), Sarah Breel (Lurene Tuttle) is cleared of a shoplifting charge. Not long afterward, Sarah's niece Virginia (played by former child star Margaret O'Brien) tells Perry that she believes her aunt is involved in a jewel robbery--or at the Read More

Leave It to Beaver: Bachelor at Large

Actors: Ken Osmond, Frank Bank, Lurene Tuttle

Synopsis: Eddie (Ken Osmond) is convinced that he's too cool for the room when he moves out of his parents' house and into his own apartment. Before long, Wally (Tony Dow) is being regaled with Eddie's stories about his new-found independence, his posh living quarters, and his unlimited accessibility to Read More

Critic's Choice

Actors: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Maxwell, Rip Torn, Jesse Royce Landis

Synopsis: Ira Levin wrote the stage comedy Critic's Choice as a good-natured retort to a comment made by critic Walter Kerr. In his essay How Not to Write a Play, Kerr noted that the worst possible scenario would involve a drama critic forced to review a play written by his wife (we should mention that Read More

Father of the Bride [TV Series]

Actors: Leon Ames, Ruth Warrick, Myrna Fahey, Ricky Sorensen, Burt Metcalfe, Ransom Sherman

The Andy Griffith Show: Opie's Charity

Actors: Stuart Erwin

Synopsis: Sheriff Andy is coaxed into heading the fund-raising campaign for the children's charity established by Annabelle Silby (Lurene Tuttle), the wealthiest woman in Mayberry. Reasoning that charity begins his home, Andy scolds his son Opie for contributing a puny three cents to the charity. Andy soon Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Loquacious Liar

Synopsis: Lewis Martin (Wynn Pearce) considers himself lucky to be alive; he has been kidnapped, driven way in the country, and forced to get drunk, apparently as part of an elaborate frame-up. After his ordeal, Martin contacts Perry Mason (Raymond Burr), accusing his stepfather Judson Bailey (Bruce Gordon) Read More

Psycho

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam

Synopsis: In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the best-known film director in the world) when he released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller. From its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and Read More

Ma Barker's Killer Brood

Synopsis: The story of America's most notorious gangster mother is chronicled in this crime drama. The tale starts in Oklahoma during the Depression. It is she who encourages her sons to become criminals. So sage is her advice, that other infamous mobsters such as Dillinger, and Machine Gun Kelly come to Read More

Leave It to Beaver: Beaver Gets Adopted

Actors: Rusty Stevens, Lurene Tuttle, Lee Torrance

Synopsis: Beaver (Jerry Mathers) accidentally breaks his brother Wally's sports trophy, then messily tries to glue it back together. Surveying the damage, Ward (Hugh Beaumont) concludes that Beaver is jealous of Wally (Tony Dow) and broke the trophy on purpose. Utterly devastated that his dad won't believe Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Artful Dodger

Synopsis: The much-despised Allan Sheridan (William J. Campbell) is going to need the $162,000 he is due to inherit: deeply in debt to several people, Sheridan had better pay up in a hurry if he doesn't want his list of enemies to increase. As it turns out, one enemy is more than enough to bludgeon Sheridan Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Five Books of Owen Deaver

Synopsis: During a stopover in Wyoming, Paladin saves the life of Sheriff Owen Deaver (James Olson)--only to be arrested by Deaver for gunfighting in public. Paladin soon learns that the idealistic young sheriff is the son of an old friend, a legendary lawman. Educated in Philadelphia, Owen Deaver has Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Substitute Face

Synopsis: While enjoying a leisurely ocean cruise in the company of secretary Della (Barbara Hale), Perry (Raymond Burr) is approached by passenger Anna Houser (Lurene Tuttle), who is worried about the wellbeing of her husband Carl (Theodore Newton). Not long afterward, Carl is seen jumping off the ship, an Read More

Bell Science: The Unchained Goddess

Actors: Dr. Frank Baxter, Richard Carlson, Lurene Tuttle, Mel Blanc, Hans Conried

Synopsis: Another delightful entry in the Bell Science Series, The Unchained Goddess represents a felicitious collaboration between legendary Hollywood director Frank Capra and animation geniuses Shamus Culhane and William T. Hurtz. Appearing in live action, Dr. Research (Frank Baxter) and The Fiction Read More

Sweet Smell of Success

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Sam Levene

Synopsis: Ernest Lehman drew upon his experiences as a Broadway press agent to write the devastating a clef short story "Tell Me About Tomorrow." This in turn was adapted by Lehman and Clifford Odets into the sharp-edged, penetrating feature film Sweet Smell of Success. Burt Lancaster stars as J. J. Read More

Untamed Youth

Actors: Don Burnett, Mamie van Doren, Lori Nelson, John Russell, Eddie Cochran, Lurene Tuttle

Synopsis: Untamed Youth is a camp classic, so stupefyingly awful that it's actually festive. The villains are cotton grower Tropp (John Russell) and corrupt female judge Mrs. Steele (Lurene Tuttle), who conspire between them to ship female convicts to work on Tropp's farm for starvation wages. Two of the Read More

Slander

Actors: Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, Steve Cochran, Marjorie Rambeau, Richard Eyer

Synopsis: Anyone who thinks that tabloid journalism is an aberration of the 1980s should take a look at the 1956 release Slander. The film stars Van Johnson as a happily married, well respected TV kiddie show host who becomes the subject of an expose' from a Confidential style magazine. The publisher (Steve Cochran Read More

The Glass Slipper

Actors: Leslie Caron, Michael Wilding, Sr., Keenan Wynn, Estelle Winwood, Elsa Lanchester

Synopsis: The Glass Slipper is a charming retelling of the Cinderella story, eminently suitable for both kids and adults. Leslie Caron plays Ella, the plain-Jane stepsister of beautiful but mean-spirited Birdena (Amanda Blake) and Serafina (Lisa Daniels). While stepmother Widow Sonder (Elsa Lanchester) Read More

Sincerely Yours

Actors: Liberace, Joanne Dru, Dorothy Malone, Alex Nicol, William Demarest

Synopsis: At the height of his TV fame, flamboyant pianist Liberace starred in the lavish Warner Bros. production Sincerely Yours. A remake of the old George Arliss vehicle The Man Who Played God, the film casts "Mr. Showmanship" as famed concert pianist Anthony Warren, who at the height of his popularity Read More

I Love Lucy: The Club Election

Actors: Lurene Tuttle, Doris Singleton, Ida Moore, Margie Liszt, Ruth Perrott

Synopsis: Filmed before the episode in which Lucy (Lucille Ball) gives birth to Little Ricky, "The Club Election" is staged in the form of a flashback, as Ethel (Vivian Vance) recalls the time that she and Lucy ran against each other for the presidency of the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League. The Read More

Give a Girl A Break

Actors: Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Debbie Reynolds, Helen Wood, Bob Fosse

Synopsis: After providing excellent support in previous MGM musicals, the singing-dancing team of Marge and Gower Champion were rewarded with their own starring vehicle, Give the Girl a Break. Marge plays one of three actresses competing for the leading role in a Broadway show directed by Gower. The other Read More

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis

Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Barbara Ruick, Bob Fosse, Hanley Stafford, Hans Conried

Synopsis: Though the film may be titled The Affairs of Dobie Gillis, Dobie -- that is, Bobby Van -- takes second billing to Debbie Reynolds. The scene is a Midwestern university, where freshman Dobie Gillis and his pal Charlie Trask (Bob Fosse) court cute coeds Pansy Hammer (Debbie Reynolds) and Lorna Read More

Never Wave at a WAC

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Paul Douglas, Marie Wilson, William Ching, Arleen Whelan

Synopsis: Self-centered Washington socialite Rosalind Russell joins the WACS in order to be near her boyfriend William Ching, a GI stationed in Paris. Russell is certain that her DC connections will enable her to get out of the service as easily as she got in. Unfortunately for her, Russell's ex-husband Paul Douglas Read More

Niagara

Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Casey Adams, Denis O'Dea

Synopsis: Belated honeymooners Polly (Jean Peters) and Ray Cutler (Casey Adams) arrive at their Niagara Falls cottage only to find that Rose (Marilyn Monroe) and George Loomis (Joseph Cotten) have not yet checked out. Though the Cutlers temporarily take another cabin, the lives of the two couples are bound Read More

Don't Bother to Knock

Actors: Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Donna Corcoran, Jeanne Cagney

Synopsis: Sex symbol Marilyn Monroe went dramatic in 1952's Don't Bother to Knock. Monroe plays Nell Forbes, a beautiful but suicidal young woman, recently released from a mental institution. She doesn't mention this on her resumé when she takes a baby-sitting job in a posh hotel. Jed Towers (Richard Widmark Read More

Room for One More

Actors: Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, George Winslow, Randy Stuart, Iris Mann, John Ridgely, Clifford Tatum, Jr., Lurene Tuttle

Synopsis: Based on the autobiography by George and Anna Rose, Room for One More is a warm-hearted vehicle for husband-and-wife actors Cary Grant and Betsy Drake. Though she already has three children of her own, New Jersey housewife Anna Rose (Drake) adopts several kids born into less fortunate Read More

Goodbye, My Fancy

Actors: Joan Crawford, Robert Young, Frank Lovejoy, Eve Arden, Janice Rule

Synopsis: Based on a play by Fay Kanin, this comedy drama follows a successful congresswoman's emotional journey back to her alma mater. When Agatha Reed (Joan Crawford) is offered an honorary degree at her former college, she is forced to remember the reason she was expelled to begin with. Nearly twenty Read More

The Whip Hand

Actors: Carla Balenda, Elliott Reid, Edgar Barrier, Raymond Burr, Otto Waldis

Synopsis: In this a