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Joan Davis (June 29, 1907 – May 22, 1961) was an American comedic actress whose career spanned vaudeville, film, radio and television. Remembered best for the 1950s television comedy I Married Joan, Davis had a successful earlier career as a B-movie actress and a leading star of 1940s radio comedy.
Born Madonna Josephine Davis in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Davis had been a performer since childhood. She appeared with her husband Si Wills in vaudeville.
Davis' first film was a short subject for Educational Pictures called Way Up Thar (1935), featuring a then-unknown Roy Rogers. Educational's distribution company, Twentieth Century-Fox, signed Davis for feature films. Tall and lanky, with a comically flat speaking voice, she became known as one of the few female physical clowns of her time. Perhaps best known for her co-starring turn with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hold That Ghost (1941), she had a reputation for flawless physical comedy. Her pantomime sequence in Beautiful But Broke (1944) was a slapstick construction-site episode. Not to forget TAILSPIN (1939) as a supporting actor, for the women's Bendix Air Race circuit.
Actors: David Fine (actor), Tim Scanlon (actor), Dustin Bricker (miscellaneous crew), Erica Leerhsen (actress), James Zahn (actor), Igor Stevanovic (miscellaneous crew), Kirk LaSalle (actor), Daniel Trinh (actor), Kellyn Lindsay (actress), John Roome (composer), Michael Coonce (director), Matthew S. Harrison (actor), Michael Coonce (producer), Michael Coonce (actor), Michael Coonce (writer),
Plot: In 1993, Solvay, NY Deputies responding to a missing persons report, found the body of missing James Connelly (18) and the body of Joe Gainard (60's). All evidence pointed to Joe as the killer of James, but before he could leave the scene, Joe died of natural causes. Almost as soon as the bodies were discovered, people began disappearing for no reason other than they were at the railroad tracks, between Railroad Markers 313-330. Ten years later, Michele Connelly, James's older sister and New York Journal Reporter returns from New York City to investigate what actually happened to her brother and the more than thirty people who have disappeared since. From the beginning, her questions and attempts to find the truth are road blocked by local Sheriff Pete Scoggins. His impression upon Michele is that what happened is in the past and it is time to move on. Michele instinctively knows he is hiding something, but what? Michele talks to local farmers to find out more. They inform her that after Joe's death, the Sheriff banned anyone from going out to the Railroad Tracks where the crime happened. They also tell her that over twenty bodies were discovered in Joe's old cornfield after it was sold to a new owner. The bodies that were found date back as far as fifty years since they were last seen alive. Soon, Michele finds herself feeling as if she is part of the story she is investigating.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, independent-film, policeActors: Jankidas (actor), Cuckoo (actress), Kishore Sahu (producer), Indira Bansal (actress), Shankarsingh Raghuwanshi (composer), Kishore Sahu (writer), Jaikishan Dayabhai Pankal (composer), Kishore Sahu (director), Kishore Sahu (actor), Helen (actress), Chitra (actress), Moni Chatterjee (actor), Shyamlal (actor), Sumitra Devi (actress), Sheela R. (actress),
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller,Actors: Sherry Hall (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor), Arno Frey (actor), Chester Conklin (actor), Fred Cavens (actor), Leyland Hodgson (actor), Fred Essler (actor), Philip Ahn (actor), Marcel De la Brosse (actor), Mischa Auer (actor), Robert Armstrong (actor), Wally Brown (actor), John Dilson (actor), Ivan Lebedeff (actor), Colin Kenny (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Musical,