Joan Woodbury
Acting
Born 1915-12-17
Died 1989-02-22
Los Angeles, California, USA
66 credits
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Joan Woodbury (December 17, 1915 – February 22, 1989) was an American actress beginning in the 1930s and continuing well into the 1960s.
Woodbury received her first acting role in the 1934 film Eight Girls in a Boat, which was uncredited. Another uncredited role followed, with her first credited role being in the 1934 film One Exciting Adventure, which starred Binnie Barnes. Her first major role, billed as Nana Martinez, was in a Hopalong Cassidy movie The Eagle's Brood. Woodbury appeared in 15 films from 1934 through 1935, of which 10 were uncredited.
In 1936, her career began to become more successful, with appearances in eight films that year, of which five were uncredited. However, of the three roles that were credited, Woodbury made an impact, and caught the attention of studios. Her mixture of Danish, British, and Native American heritage gave her an exotic appearance, and allowed her to be cast in many different ethnicities, from Hispanic to French and Asian. By 1937, her career had taken off, mostly in B-movies such as Living on Love and Bulldog Courage, but also with her receiving many credited roles.
In 1937, Woodbury starred in her first of several credited Charlie Chan films, titled Charlie Chan on Broadway. She also began appearing in numerous Westerns, portraying the heroine opposite some of the 1930s' biggest cowboy actors, to include William Boyd of Hopalong Cassidy fame, Roy Rogers, and Johnny Mack Brown. Woodbury appeared in 50 films from 1937 to 1945, almost all of which were credited. Her most memorable of that period was her lead role in the serial Brenda Starr, Reporter, in 1945. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Woodbury, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Ten Commandments
Bride of Frankenstein
Go West
Passport Husband
Blue Skies
Call of the Wild
The Desperadoes
Algiers
Shut My Big Mouth
The Whistler
Ten Cents a Dance
King of the Zombies
The Time Travelers
The Hard Way
Super-Sleuth
Dr. Broadway
They Gave Him a Gun
Lodge Night
Here Comes Trouble
Charlie Chan in Shanghai
Mystery of the White Room
Anthony Adverse
Charlie Chan at the Opera
Brenda Starr, Reporter
Song of the Gringo
Sunset Serenade
The Living Ghost
Man From Headquarters
Bring on the Girls
Gangs Inc.
Confessions of Boston Blackie
Yankee Fakir
Charlie Chan on Broadway
Cipher Bureau
Forty Naughty Girls
Living on Love
In Old Cheyenne
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
Dangerous Waters
While New York Sleeps
Northwest Trail
A Yank in Libya
Midnight Court
Night Spot
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
Flame of the West
You Can't Beat the Law
The Luck of Roaring Camp
Crashing Hollywood
Here Comes Kelly
Two Latins from Manhattan
Bulldog Courage
The Eagle's Brood
There Goes My Girl
Phantom Killer
Sauce for the Gander
Always in Trouble
The Lion's Den
I'll Sell My Life
The Rogues' Tavern
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