Marjorie Lord Filmography

Harold Robbins' The Pirate

Actors: Anne Archer, Olivia Hussey, Franco Nero

Synopsis: This four-hour TV movie is one more of novelist Harold Robbins' "guess who everyone is supposed to really be?" wallowfests (with nary a Jolly Roger in sight). The "pirate" is Baydr (Franco Nero), an anti-Semitic Lebanese oil sheik, who, unbeknownst to himself, is actually an Israel-born Jew Read More

Love, American Style: Season 01

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!

Actors: Bob Hope, Elke Sommer, Phyllis Diller, Cesare Danova, Marjorie Lord

Synopsis: Usually cited as the absolute nadir of Bob Hope's film career, Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! is by no means a classic, but it isn't nearly as bad as some of his other sixties efforts (take a look a Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell sometime). The plot is set in motion by movie sex bomb Elke Sommer Read More

Wagon Train: The Willy Moran Story

Thunder over Sangoland

Synopsis: In this adventure, a renowned American physician journeys to darkest Africa to help a pair of sibling missionaries stop prospectors from inciting a tribal war. The miners do this to scare the white colonists away from their newly discovered mine. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Port of Hell

Actors: Dane Clark, Carole Mathews, Wayne Morris, Marshall Thompson, Marjorie Lord

Synopsis: In this early disaster film, the tough-minded and strict Los Angeles Harbormaster must use his courage and wits when the communists announce they have planted an atomic bomb on a freighter. It will detonate in 12 hours. Now, the harbormaster must not only save the city, he must keep his actions Read More

Blades of the Musketeers

Actors: Robert Clarke, John Hubbard, Mel Archer, Keith Richards, Paul Cavanagh

Synopsis: The Dumas-inspired Blades of the Musketeers began life as an hour-long TV show, produced by Hal Roach Jr. as a possible series pilot. Robert Clarke, who'd previous headlined a pilot for a never-sold "Robin Hood" series, plays D'Artagnan, while the rest of the Musketeers are portrayed by John Hubbard Read More

Mexican Manhunt

Synopsis: Set in Mexico, this thriller centers on an author who becomes obsessed with solving a murder that occurred fifteen years ago. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rebel City

Actors: William "Wild Bill" Elliott, Marjorie Lord, Robert Kent, Keith Richards, I. Stanford Jolley

Synopsis: Rebel City is a "B" western with "A" aspirations. Wild Bill Elliot plays gambler Frank Graham, who heads to Kansas in search of his father's murderer. This being 1864, the local military presence is more preoccupied with keeping Southern sympathizers out of the state to worry about Graham's Read More

Down Laredo Way

Actors: Rex Allen, Slim Pickens, Dona Drake, Marjorie Lord, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: Singing cowboy Rex Allen joins the circus in Down Laredo Way. It all begins when Allen and his sidekick Slim Pickens come to the aid of little Taffy (Judy Nugent), whose acrobat father is killed in an accident. Or was it an accident? After all, the dead man's partner, Valerie (Marjorie Lord), has Read More

The Danny Thomas Show

Stop That Cab

Synopsis: In this action comedy, a bunch of bungling jewel thieves are in such a hurry to flee the site of their latest caper that they leave their loot on the back seat of the cab they used for the getaway. Later they return and torment the driver into revealing where he stashed the stones. ~ Sandra Read More

Riding High

Actors: Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford, Frances Gifford, Raymond Walburn

Synopsis: Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an "A" picture on a modest budget. To that end, Capra bought the rights of his 1934 film Broadway Bill from Columbia, and remade it under the title Riding High. He then hired Read More

The Lost Volcano

Actors: Johnny Sheffield, Donald Woods, Marjorie Lord, John Ridgely, Elena Verdugo, Robert Lewis

Synopsis: The Lost Volcano is the 3rd entry in Monogram's "Bomba the Jungle Boy" series. Johnny Sheffield, formerly "Boy" in the Tarzan pictures, stars as Bomba. In this outing, Our Hero sets out to rescue David (Tommy Ivo), the kidnapped son of husband-and-wife zoologists Paula and Ruth Gordon (Donald Woods Read More

Magnavox Theater

Synopsis: This Dumas story was presented by Magnavox Theater and produced by Hal Roach Jr. Helmed by veteran western director Budd Boetticher, at 53 minutes long it is generally considered to be the first full-length made-for-television movie. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

Chain Gang

Actors: Douglas Kennedy, Marjorie Lord, Emory Parnell, Thurston Hall

Synopsis: Columbia's Chain Gang combines biting social commentary with good old-fashioned melodrama. Reporter Cliff Roberts (Douglas Kennedy) intends to expose political corruption by posing as a convict and joining a prison chain gang. While a "guest of the state," Roberts gets the lowdown on how cheap Read More

Air Hostess

Actors: Gloria Henry, Ross Ford, Audrey Long, Marjorie Lord, William Wright

Synopsis: The upsurge in commercial air travel in the postwar years resulted in several films dealing with the trials and tribulations of airline stewardesses. Gloria Henry, who'd later star as Alice Mitchell in TV's Dennis the Menace, is teamed with Danny Thomas' future TV wife Marjorie Lord and Audrey Long Read More

Masked Raiders

Actors: Tim Holt, Richard Martin, Marjorie Lord, Gary Gray, Frank Wilcox

Synopsis: Texas Rangers Tim Holt and Richard Martin are dispatched to halt a gang of masked outlaws terrorizing the frontier. Infiltrating the gang, Holt and Martin learn that the raiders are operating altruistically, robbing from the rich to give to the poor. The real villain, it seems, is the local banker Read More

The Argyle Secrets

Actors: William Gargan, Marjorie Lord, Ralph Byrd, Jack Reitzen, John Banner

Synopsis: Only faintly related to the old stage play The Argyle Case, The Argyle Secrets is based on a half-hour radio program originally heard on CBS' Suspense. In the immediate postwar years, several above-suspicion Americans attempt to hide their past collaborations with the Nazis. Reporter William Gargan Read More

The Strange Mrs. Crane

Actors: Marjorie Lord, Robert Shayne, Pierre Watkin, James Seay, Ruth Brady

Synopsis: Strange Mrs. Crane stars Marjorie Lord, later famous as the TV wife of Danny Thomas (and the real-life mother of actress Anne Archer) in the atypical role of female crook Gina Crane. Hoping to bury her criminal past, Gina settles into a comfortable existence as the wife of politician Clinton Crane Read More

New Orleans

Actors: John Alexander, Louis Armstrong, Arturo de Cordova, Dorothy Patrick

Synopsis: New Orleans is Republic Pictures' spin on such "musical origin" films as Birth of the Blues and Dixie. Covering nearly four decades, the story is a fanciful recreation of the "birth" of American jazz music. Arturo de Cordova plays Nick Duquesne, owner of a posh gambling house in Read More

Shantytown

Actors: Mary Lee, John Archer, Marjorie Lord, Harry Davenport, Billy Gilbert

Synopsis: Though Republic's Shantytown keeps threatening to become a musical, it's essentially a romantic drama built around the thespic talents of new discovery Mary Lee. The star plays Liz Gorey, a hoydenish lass from the wrong part of town who'd rather play sandlot baseball than anything else. In the Read More

Johnny Come Lately

Actors: James Cagney, Grace George, Marjorie Main, Hattie McDaniel, Marjorie Lord, Edward McNamara

Synopsis: For his first independently-produced starring effort, James Cagney chose the sentimental drama Johnny Come Lately. Cagney plays itinerant newspaperman Tom Richards, who wanders into a small corruption-ridden town. Striking up a friendship with elderly Vinnie McLeod (Grace George in her only movie Read More

Adventures of Smilin' Jack [Serial]

Synopsis: The 12-episode Universal serial The Adventures of Smilin' Jack is based on the Zack Mosely comic strip of the same name. The title character-minus his trademarked pencil moustache-is played by Tom Brown. Departing radically from the characters and situations of the original funny-paper version Read More

Hi, Buddy

Actors: Dick Foran, Robert Paige, Marjorie Lord, Bobs Watson

Synopsis: Dick Foran and Harriet Hilliard (aka Harriet Nelson) top the cast of the Universal musical quickie Hi, Buddy. Foran plays GI Dave O'Connor, who comes to the rescue when a boy's club is threatened with foreclosure. Upon learning that the money targetted for the club has been appropriated by a Read More

Sherlock Holmes in Washington

Actors: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Lord, Henry Daniell, George Zucco

Synopsis: One of the silliest and most unbelievable of the Universal Sherlock Holmes series, Sherlock Holmes in Washington is also undeniably one of the most enjoyable. The story gets under way when an Allied spy (an unbilled Gerald Hamer, one of this series' "regulars") smuggles a valuable piece of Read More

Flesh and Fantasy

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Field, Robert Cummings

Synopsis: In the tradition of his earlier Carnival in Flanders and Tales of Manhattan, director Julien Duvivier's Flesh and Fantasy is a "pormanteau" film, consisting of several short stories. Linking the three tales unfolded herein are clubmen Doakes (Robert Benchley) and Davis (David Hoffman), who carry Read More

About Face

Actors: William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Jean Porter, Marjorie Lord, Margaret Dumont

Synopsis: No relation to the 1953 musical film of the same title, About Face is a 43 minute Hal Roach "Streamliner." Sgt. Doubleday (William Tracy), the man with the photographic memory, and his former topkick Sgt. Ames (Joe Sawyer), go on a night on the town. After accidentally sparking a barroom brawl Read More

Timber

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine, Dan Dailey, Marjorie Lord, Edmund MacDonald

Synopsis: Timber is a typical Universal Pictures amalgam of he-man virility and endless spools of stock footage from earlier films. Newly recruited from MGM, Dan Dailey Jr. stars as Kansas, a two-fisted troubleshooter from the U.S. Forestry Service. Kansas, his pal Arizona (Andy Devine) and mill owner Read More

Escape from Hong Kong

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine, Marjorie Lord, Don Terry, Gilbert Emery

Synopsis: Its "timely" title notwithstanding, Escape From Hong Kong is simply more of the he-man derring-do that Universal had been grinding out since the silent era. The stars are Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine and Don Terry, previously teamed in Unseen Enemy and soon to be costarred in the studio's Top Sergeant Read More

Moonlight in Havana

Actors: Allan Jones, Jane Frazee, Marjorie Lord, William Frawley, Don Terry

Synopsis: Cult-favorite director Anthony Mann's second filmic effort was the unprepossessing Universal mini-musical Moonlight in Havana. Allan Jones stars as hotshot baseball player Johnny Norton, in Havana for spring training. It turns out that Johnny has a beautiful singing voice, but only when he's Read More

The Middleton Family at the 1939 New York World's Fair

Actors: Marjorie Lord, Jimmy Lydon, Ruth Lee

Synopsis: Few promotional films have received such wide circulation, and for so long a period, as 1939's Middleton Family at the NY World's Fair. Originally designed as a 50-minute, full-color "informercial" for Westinghouse, the film follows a "typical" American family as they take in the wonders of the Read More

Forty Naughty Girls

Actors: James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts, Marjorie Lord, George Shelley, Joan Woodbury

Synopsis: RKO Radio's "Hildegarde Withers" series, based on the mystery stories by Stuart Palmer, ground to a half with 40 Naughty Girls. ZaSu Pitts is once more miscast as crime-solving schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers, while James Gleason is rather better served as Inspector Oscar Piper. The title refers to Read More

Border Cafe

Actors: Harry Carey, John Beal, Armida, George Irving, Leona Roberts

Synopsis: The cattle rustlers in Border Cafe, a modern-day western from the RKO B-unit, are Eastern gangsters headed by none other than that old reprobate J. Carrol Naish. After having landed in jail for drunken driving for the umpteenth time, young Bostonian Keith Whitney (John Beal callously leaves his Read More

High Flyers

Actors: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Lupe Velez, Marjorie Lord, Margaret Dumont

Synopsis: Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey's final film is far from their best, but at least it never plunges to the depths reached by their earlier Silly Billies and Mummy's Boys. Adapted from an unproduced stage play called The Kangaroos, High Flyers casts Bert and Bob as Jerry Lane and Pierre Potkins Read More

Hideaway

Actors: Fred Stone, Emma Dunn, Marjorie Lord, J. Carrol Naish, William Corson

Synopsis: In this crime comedy, a lazy feller and his family take-up residence in an abandoned house. The squatters have no idea that the owners, a gang of crooks, are just about to return and use it as their hide out. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

On Again - Off Again

Actors: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Marjorie Lord, Patricia Wilder, Esther Muir

Synopsis: The comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey are atypically cast as bickering "friendly enemies" in On Again-Off Again. Based on the old stage farce A Pair of Sixes (previously filmed in 1930 as Queen High), the film stars the comedians as Hobbs and Horton, co-owners of a profitable pill Read More