Cast: Elisabeth Risdon

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


Mexican Spitfire

1940 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Lupe Velez · Leon Errol · Donald Woods · Linda Hayes

Plot Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up...

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At the Stroke of Twelve (S)

1941 · Movie · 21 min. · United States

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Lost Angel

1943 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Margaret O'Brien · James Craig · Marsha Hunt · Philip Merivale

Plot Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the...

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Saturday's Children

1940 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast John Garfield · Anne Shirley · Claude Rains · Roscoe Karns

Plot Pretty Bobby Halevy loves Rims Rosson, a dreamer and inventor without much going for him. Rims has a scheme of going to Manila to turn hemp into silk and become...

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Sorority House

1939 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast Anne Shirley · James Ellison · Barbara Read · Pamela Blake

Plot A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she’s trying to join.

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Grissly's Millions

1945 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction John English

Cast Paul Kelly · Virginia Grey · Donald Douglas · Elisabeth Risdon

Plot An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.

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The Walls Came Tumbling Down

1946 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Lothar Mendes

Cast Lee Bowman · Marguerite Chapman · Edgar Buchanan · George Macready

Plot Gilbert Archer, a Broadway gossip-columnist for a newspaper, learns that his best friend,a priest, has been murdered and one of the suspects is a pretty girl, Patricia Foster. In one...

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Blonde Fever

1944 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

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The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

1947 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction George Seaton · John M. Stahl

Cast Betty Grable · Dick Haymes · Anne Revere · Allyn Joslyn

Plot In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men object to her at first, she...

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Mexican Spitfire's Elephant

1942 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Lupe Velez · Leon Errol · Walter Reed · Elisabeth Risdon

Plot A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it past customs. Now, his lordship...

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Mexican Spitfire Out West

1940 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Lupe Velez · Leon Errol · Donald Woods · Elisabeth Risdon

Plot Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but ends up as the surprised one when...

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Let's Make Music

1941 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Bob Crosby · Jean Rogers · Elisabeth Risdon · Joseph Buloff

Plot With the size of her classes dwindling each year, Newton High music teacher Malvina Adams is asked to retire. Trying to prove she's still got it, she composes a school...

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The Woman I Love

1937 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Paul Muni · Miriam Hopkins · Louis Hayward · Colin Clive

Plot In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.

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Mexican Spitfire at Sea

1942 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Lupe Velez · Leon Errol · Charles 'Buddy' Rogers · ZaSu Pitts

Plot The Lindsay's are on a ship to Hawaii for their delayed second honeymoon. Unknown to Carmelita, Dennis is using the trip to secure a contract with Mr. Baldwin. The Baldwins...

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Honeymoon Deferred

1940 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Edmund Lowe · Margaret Lindsay · Elisabeth Risdon · Chick Chandler

Plot Edmund Lowe plays an insurance investigator who interrupts his honeymoon to look into the case of a murder, which could also be a suicide, in which case his company won’t...

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Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event

1943 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Goodwins

Cast Lupe Velez · Leon Errol · Walter Reed · Elisabeth Risdon

Plot Dennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat's new kittens.

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Guilty of Treason

1950 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Felix E. Feist

Cast Charles Bickford · Bonita Granville · Paul Kelly · Richard Derr

Plot The story of Cardinal József Mindszenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist...

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The Bride Goes Wild

1948 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Van Johnson · June Allyson · Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins · Hume Cronyn

Plot McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and has not started his...

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The Final Hour

1936 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction D. Ross Lederman

Cast Ralph Bellamy · Marguerite Churchill · John Gallaudet · George McKay

Plot An alcoholic attorney becomes embroiled in blackmail and murder when he continues to aid a falsely accused client.

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Lover Come Back

1946 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast George Brent · Lucille Ball · Vera Zorina · Charles Winninger

Plot Kay Williams, an executive with Styles, Inc., is true to her absent husband Bill despite much harassment for dates from co-workers. But when Bill finally returns from Europe, it becomes...

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