Cast: Carolyn Jones

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Carolyn Jones. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1956 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Kevin McCarthy · Dana Wynter · Larry Gates · Carolyn Jones

Synopsis Miles Bennell, a GP in the small Californian town of Santa Mira, returns from an out-of-town meeting to find himself inundated with calls from locals insisting that members of their family are not the same people any more or have...

7.6

16K votes

7.6

16K votes

The Man Who Knew Too Much

1956 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast James Stewart · Doris Day · Brenda De Banzie · Bernard Miles

Synopsis The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) follows an American couple, Dr. Ben McKenna and his wife Jo, vacationing in Morocco with their young son. After a chance encounter with a mysterious man, they become entangled in a dangerous international...

7.5

17K votes

7.5

17K votes

Last Train from Gun Hill

1959 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Kirk Douglas · Anthony Quinn · Carolyn Jones · Earl Holliman

Synopsis The wife of marshal Matt Morgan is raped and murdered. The killers leave behind a distinctive saddle, that Morgan recognises as belonging to his old friend Craig Belden, now cattle baron in the town of Gun Hill. Belden is sympathetic,...

7.4

4K votes

7.4

4K votes

Roots (TV Miniseries)

1977 · Series · 573 min. · United States

Direction Marvin J. Chomsky · John Erman · David Greene · Gilbert Moses

Cast Todd Bridges · Robert Reed · John Amos · Madge Sinclair

Synopsis From the moment the young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is stolen from his life and ancestral home in 18th-century Africa and brought under inhumane conditions to be auctioned as a slave in America, a line is begun that leads from...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

The Seven Year Itch

1955 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Tom Ewell · Marilyn Monroe · Oskar Homolka · Carolyn Jones

Synopsis The Seven Year Itch (1955) follows Richard Sherman, a middle-aged man whose wife and son leave New York City for the summer. Alone in his apartment, Richard's imagination runs wild as he grapples with temptation when a beautiful, young woman...

7.1

14K votes

7.1

14K votes

House of Wax

1953 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Vincent Price · Phyllis Kirk · Frank Lovejoy · Carolyn Jones

Synopsis House of Wax brought Vincent Price into the horror genre, where he fit as snugly as a scalpel in a mad scientist's hand. A remake of the 1933 film Mystery of the Wax Museum, this entertaining Gothic shocker casts Price...

6.7

4K votes

6.7

4K votes

Shield for Murder

1954 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Howard W. Koch · Edmond O'Brien

Cast Edmond O'Brien · Marla English · John Agar · Emile Meyer

Synopsis A vicious cop kills a bookie's runner and steals $25,000 from the corpse. He then frames everyone in sight in order to keep to the money to buy a model home for his would-be lounge singer girlfriend.

6.5

73 votes

6.5

73 votes

The Addams Family (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield · Sidney Salkow · Jerry Hopper · Jean Yarbrough

Cast John Astin · Carolyn Jones · Ted Cassidy · Jackie Coogan

Synopsis The Addams Family (TV Series) (1964) follows the eccentric and macabre Addams family, who delight in the bizarre and supernatural. Led by Gomez and Morticia, their household includes their children Wednesday and Pugsley, Uncle Fester, Grandmama, and their butler Lurch....

6.4

6K votes

6.4

6K votes

Direction Robert Stevens

Cast Patricia Collinge · Darren McGavin · Carolyn Jones · George Macready

Synopsis When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.

6.2

103 votes

6.2

103 votes

The Bachelor Party

1957 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Don Murray · E.G. Marshall · Jack Warden · Philip Abbott

Synopsis Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and...

6.2

121 votes

6.2

121 votes

Baby Face Nelson

1957 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Mickey Rooney · Carolyn Jones · Cedric Hardwicke · Leo Gordon

Synopsis George "Babyface" Nelson becomes one of the most important gangsters of 1920s Chicago by making brutal robberies. In order to compete with Al Capone he allies himself with John Dillinger...

6.2

75 votes

6.2

75 votes

A Hole in the Head

1959 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Frank Sinatra · Eddie Hodges · Edward G. Robinson · Thelma Ritter

Synopsis Tony Manetta runs an unsuccessful Miami hotel, on which he can't meet the payments. Another liability is his weakness for dames (Shirl, his sexy current flame, is even less responsible than Tony). But a solid asset is Ally, his sensible...

6.2

734 votes

6.2

734 votes

Marjorie Morningstar

1958 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Irving Rapper

Cast Gene Kelly · Natalie Wood · Claire Trevor · Ed Wynn

Synopsis While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew (born 'Ehrman'), but has fallen...

6.0

69 votes

6.0

69 votes

Three Hours to Kill

1954 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Dana Andrews · Donna Reed · Dianne Foster · Stephen Elliott

Synopsis After three years on the run, Jim Guthrie returns with the scar of a rope burn on his neck. In flashback we learn how he was framed for murder but then escaped from the lynch mob just as he was...

5.9

101 votes

5.9

101 votes

King Creole

1958 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Elvis Presley · Carolyn Jones · Dolores Hart · Dean Jagger

Synopsis Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to...

5.9

587 votes

5.9

587 votes

Ice Palace

1960 · Movie · 143 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Richard Burton · Robert Ryan · Martha Hyer · Jim Backus

Synopsis At the end of World War I, Zeb Kennedy, a canner, and Thor Storm, a fishing boat captain, set up a fish cannery in Alaska and through the years find themselves on opposite sides of Alaska's bid for statehood. Zeb...

5.8

75 votes

5.8

75 votes

The Tender Trap

1955 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Charles Walters

Cast Frank Sinatra · Debbie Reynolds · Celeste Holm · David Wayne

Synopsis Theatrical agent Charlie Reader lives a dreamy bachelor existence on Sutton Place -- he throws parties for sophisticates and has access to a bevy of beautiful women. One such woman is Julie, who has already set a marriage date for...

5.7

157 votes

5.7

157 votes

Heaven with a Gun

1969 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Lee H. Katzin

Cast Glenn Ford · Barbara Hershey · Carolyn Jones · John Anderson

Synopsis Jim Killian (Glenn Ford) is a reformed gunslinger who takes a job as a local preacher in Vinagaroon, Arizona. He arrives during a time of conflict between shepherds and cattlemen who are engaged in a bloody range war. When Coke...

5.6

253 votes

5.6

253 votes

Make Haste to Live

1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Dorothy McGuire · Stephen McNally · Mary Murphy · Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis Crystal 'Chris' Benson, a single mother in a small New Mexico town, senses a shadowy menace stalking her in the night. She acquires a gun and makes arrangements anticipating her own death, tape-recording a message for her teenage daughter which...

5.4

43 votes

5.4

43 votes

The Man in the Net

1959 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Alan Ladd · Carolyn Jones · Diane Brewster · John Lupton

Synopsis An artist falsely accused of ransacking his own house is proved innocent by the children of the neighborhood.

5.3

105 votes

5.3

105 votes