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Joan Allen (born August 20, 1956) is an American actress. She worked in theater, television and film during her early career, and achieved recognition for her Broadway debut in Burn This, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in 1989.
She has received three Academy Award nominations; she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Nixon (1995) and The Crucible (1996), and for Best Actress for The Contender (2000).
Her other films include Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid (also known as Zeisters) (1986), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), In Country (1989), The Ice Storm (1996), Face/Off (1997), Pleasantville (1998), The Notebook (2004), The Bourne Supremacy (2004) The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), and Death Race (2008).
Allen, the youngest of four children, was born in Rochelle, Illinois, the daughter of Dorothea Marie (née Wirth), a homemaker, and James Jefferson Allen, a gas station owner. She has an older brother, David, and two older sisters, Mary and Lynn. Allen attended Rochelle Township High School, and was voted most likely to succeed.[citation needed] She first attended Eastern Illinois University, performing in a few plays with John Malkovich, who was also a student, and then Northern Illinois University, where she graduated with a BFA in Theater.
Actors: Arthur Roberts (editor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Hobart Cavanaugh (actor), George Chandler (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), Charles C. Wilson (actor), Kitty McHugh (actress), George Sherman (producer), Anthony Coldeway (writer), Mort Glickman (composer), George Sherman (director), Edward Brophy (actor), Frank Fenton (actor), William Haade (actor), John Ince (actor),
Plot: Newspaper reporter turned detective Mike, along with his partner Eddie Tough (who used to be his photographer on the paper), and Mike's girlfriend Joan go after some business. She's the daughter of the local police chief, so she can send him clients, is the idea.. The first case he gets is a domestic investigation. Leo Stark's wife, Muriel has left him for another guy, Gerald Messenger, a man who looks like an ex-pug. Mike finds her, and Messenger, in an apartment, Eddie takes a photograph of them clutching each-other, and she agrees to give Stark a divorce, and ten thousand dollars. While celebrating at a restaurant, Mike is interrupted by a man, Mr. Norton, who claims that Muriel is really his wife. Mike establishes that Norton had married her two years past, while Stark says he married her five years before. But Norton isn't interested in getting rid of any legal tie with her, he wants her back. Mike agrees to take the job. While he's trying to find her, Norton gets a phone call. He's told that the caller knows where his wife is, and that the informant is waiting for his just around the corner. Norton goes out to the street; a car drives up and parks behind him. A man gets out, we see him only from the waist down. He is carrying a sword umbrella. He stabs Norton in the back, killing him. Then someone shots Messenger to death. Just to make sure there are enough bodies, Messenger's ex-girlfriend Stella gets bumped off as well. Next a new ex-husband shows up at Mike's office, one Sam Lackey, from Texas. He offers to pay in advance if Mike will help his find his wife. He saw her name in the newspapers. She's Muriel Stark. Mike turns down the advance payment, he says it's unlucky--he tells Sam that his wife is poison--people are being murdered all over the place because of her. Mike and Eddie decide they'd better get to Stark, before he can be bumped off too. Meanwhile, Mike's girlfriend Joan is working with her boss Police Detective Lieutenant Cross, to solve the same murders. Will anyone solve the case before the entire human race is eradicated? If you get the chance, watch this film and find out.
Keywords: based-on-novelActors: Frederick Bain (editor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Steve Clark (actor), James Sheridan (actor), Wilhelm von Brincken (actor), Frank Yaconelli (actor), Robert Emmett Tansey (producer), Robert Emmett Tansey (writer), Robert Emmett Tansey (director), Gene Alsace (actor), Chick Hannan (actor), Tom Keene (actor), Charles King (actor), Tex Palmer (actor), Tom Seidel (actor),
Plot: U.S. Marshal Tom Kenyon (Tom Keene), with his sidekick pal Pierre La Faire (Frank Yaconelli) is sent to aid the valley ranchers who are being driven from their homes by a gang of terrorists. Tungsten has been secretly discovered and enemy agents led by Tip Wallace (William von Brincken using his WWII hide-out alias of William Vaughn) in cahoots with Jim Regan (Charles King), crooked foreman of the Allen (Steve Clark) ranch. Tom trails Regan to the gang's hideout and sends the recently-orphaned Donny (Donald Stewart) for the sheriff.
Keywords: 1940s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, archive-footage, b-movie, b-western, bad-cook, brother, cattleman, damsel-in-distress, daughterActors: John Berkes (actor), Steve Clark (actor), Donald Curtis (actor), Herbert Rawlinson (actor), Addison Richards (actor), Bryant Washburn (actor), Kay Linaker (actress), George W. Weeks (producer), S. Roy Luby (director), S. Roy Luby (editor), Tom London (actor), George N. Neise (actor), Bradley Page (actor), Lee Phelps (actor), Hal Price (actor),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Romance, War, War,Actors: Nigel De Brulier (actor), Stanley Fields (actor), Francis Ford (actor), Willie Fung (actor), Harold Goodwin (actor), Harrison Greene (actor), Charles Judels (actor), Paul Kruger (actor), Tom London (actor), Chris-Pin Martin (actor), Jim Mason (actor), LeRoy Mason (actor), Mantan Moreland (actor), Bud Osborne (actor), Frank Darien (actor),
Plot: The Cisco Kid tells his pal Gordito that "From now on, Amigo, I am through with women" and then a few minutes later, after rescuing Joan Allen from an attempted stage holdup, tells her "...but you, senorita, you are different!" and therein lies the short summary of all of the films in the 20th Century-Fox Cisco Kid series. The padded plot, so exhibitors could tell the entries apart, finds Towash, Texas saloon owner Hank Gunther plotting with Jesse Allen, Joan's father, to rob the money missed on the aborted stage holdup from the express company safe rather than report empty-handed to the "Boss". Allen robs the express office, but is seen by Moses, an old hermit, who tells the boys in the saloon that he doesn't know the robber's name but recognized him as the man he had seen that day with Joan. The latter has convinced her father to return the money and they will go to Arizona. Cisco, also seen that day with Joan, gets blamed for the robbery as Gunther has killed ol' Mose who is no longer around to identify Cisco as not being the robber, and Joan is not willing to implicate her father. It is beginning to look like Cisco is indeed through with women, albeit on an involuntary basis.
Keywords: arm-wrestling, cave-in, character-name-in-title, cisco-kid, house-boy, mine, pool, practical-joke, rabbit, shot-in-the-backActors: Austin Melford (miscellaneous crew), Edmund Breon (actor), Edgar Driver (actor), Gus McNaughton (actor), Guy Middleton (actor), Jack Vyvian (actor), Hal Walters (actor), C. Denier Warren (actor), D.J. Williams (actor), Kay Walsh (actress), Basil Dean (producer), Anthony Kimmins (writer), Anthony Kimmins (writer), Austin Melford (writer), Anthony Kimmins (director),
Genres: Comedy, Musical,Actors: Lloyd Corrigan (director), Stuart Erwin (actor), Claude King (actor), Grant Mitchell (actor), Tom Ricketts (actor), Sidney Toler (actor), Geneva Mitchell (actress), Alison Skipworth (actress), Lloyd Corrigan (writer), John Leipold (composer), Irving Bacon (actor), Dorothy Granger (actress), Gertrude Messinger (actress), Ray Harris (writer), Gertrude Norman (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: William Austin (editor), Henry Armetta (actor), Leo Carrillo (actor), Dickie Moore (actor), Nat Pendleton (actor), Frank Sheridan (actor), Thelma Todd (actress), Bryan Foy (producer), Benjamin Stoloff (producer), Nat Pendleton (writer), Lewis Seiler (director), Greta Granstedt (actress), Barbara Weeks (actress), Harold Tarshis (writer), Hans Steinke (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Roy William Neill (director), Percy Marmont (actor), Arthur Rankin (actor), Virginia Lee Corbin (actress), Dorothy Davenport (actress), Jackie Saunders (actress), Dorothy Davenport (producer), Marion Jackson (writer), Bradley King (writer), Adela Rogers St. Johns (writer), Pat Moore (actor), Tommy Hicks (actor), Ramsey Wallace (actor), Dorothy Seay (actress), Jane Walsh (actress),
Genres: Drama,Wheres your head at
Wheres your head at
Dont let the wall cave in on you.
You get what you give,
that much is true.
You pull that wall away from you.
(Wheres your head at)
Wheres your head at.Wheres your head at.
(Wheres your head at)