Películas dramáticas de Dorothy Adams
Películas de Dorothy Adams filtradas por género
8
1974
The story of Virginia Hill, a former prostitute who was the girlfriend of '40s killer and gangster Bugsy Siegel. ...
🎭 Mrs. Benziger
6.7
1960
Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his career goals, he is forced to choose between bu ...
🎭 Martha Pauley
5.7
1958
A young, sweet girl from the country moves to Los Angeles with her mother and meets a young man who she thinks is just perfect. That is until she gets pregnant and he's on his way to jail. ...
🎭 Hannassey Woman
7.6
1958
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill, and the rough and lawless Hannasseys over a va ...
🎭 Mrs. Potter (uncredited)
7.2
1957
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him. ...
🎭 Mother at Rehearsal (uncredited)
7.4
1957
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen? ...
🎭 Ma Crawford
6
1957
Big Arnie tries to make it in a hot-rod gang and get the girl... none who find him all that appealing. ...
🎭 Slave Woman / Hebrew at Golden Calf / Hebrew at Rameses' Gate
7.8
1956
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and ...
🎭 Aunt Martha
6.3
1956
A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago. ...
🎭 Carpenter's Wife
4
1955
A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the High Priest as well. ...
🎭 Mrs. Meeber - Carrie's Mother
6.5
1952
Carrie (Jennifer Jones) es una campesina que decide irse a Chicago, donde se convierte en una famosa actriz. Allí vivirá un amor apasionado con un hombre casado (Laurence Olivier), un respetabl ...
🎭 Ma Alexander
5.5
1952
Poor health and alcoholism force Grover Cleveland Alexander out of baseball, but through his wife's faithful efforts, he gets a chance for a comeback and redemption. ...
🎭 Sam's Wife (uncredited)
6.3
1952
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin ...
🎭 Sick Woman
6
1952
Witness the story of Jesus, beginning with his birth in Bethlehem, to his crucifixion, death, and triumphant resurrection. ...
🎭 Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
4.2
1951
Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the state legislature. He takes over his uncle's newspaper to take on big business as an enemy of the p ...
🎭 Mrs. Dunn
6.7
1951
A Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”. ...
🎭 Screaming Temple Spectator (uncredited)
6.5
1949
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret. ...
🎭 Mrs. Kelton
6.8
1949
Tras un romance con un pianista y una pelea con sus padres, una joven de 19 años abandona su casa y descubre que está embarazada. ...
🎭 Milk Customer
6.7
1949
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop. ...
🎭 Woman at Fort Pitt (uncredited)
6.2
1947
Inglaterra, 1763. Después de ser condenada por un crimen, la joven y hermosa Abigail Hale acepta, con el fin de escapar de la horca, servir catorce años como esclava en la colonia de Virginia, ...
🎭 Mrs. Sara Fox (uncredited)
5.4
1947
An Irish rascal and inveterate gambler uses his considerable skills at the gaming tables of New Orleans to become fabulously rich. ...
🎭 Millie
6
1947
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before. ...
🎭 Mrs. Allen
5.3
1946
11 year old Davy discovers that a chained gentle dog, Buck, is badly wounded around the neck because of the thick, tight collar he is made to constantly wear by his unfeeling owner. When Buck com ...
🎭 Mrs. Cameron
7.8
1946
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to be ...
🎭 Angry Apartment House Tenant
5.6
1946
Un oficial de policía, Joe Warne, investiga el asesinato de un compositor, Keith Vincent. Las pruebas evidentes conducen a creer que se trata de un suicidio y la policía cierra el caso. Joe, po ...
🎭 Claudette (uncredited)
6.4
1946
The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII) and sends Lt. (j.g.) Philip Masson, U.S.N.R ...
🎭 Martha (uncredited)
6.4
1946
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides to adopt the child so that her husband B ...
🎭 Mrs. Johnson
10
1946
A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease. ...
🎭 Stella's downstairs neighbor (uncredited)
6.4
1945
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a qui ...
🎭 Nurse
6
1945
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his p ...
🎭 Dr. Trykel's Associate
5
1945
This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con man all of the family savings to find reassura ...
🎭 Bolger's wife
4.8
1945
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax. ...
🎭 WAC Seamstress #2 (uncredited)
5.9
1945
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps. ...
🎭 Mrs. Mary Abbott (uncredited)
9
1944
A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a killer. ...
🎭 Laura's Maid Bessie Clary (uncredited)
7.6
1944
El detective Mark McPherson investiga el asesinato de Laura, una elegante y seductora mujer que aparece muerta en su apartamento. McPherson elabora un retrato mental de la joven a partir de las d ...
🎭 Nurse (uncredited)
6.4
1944
While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing with shortages and ration ...
🎭 Lt. Irma Emerson
5.5
1943
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson ...
🎭 Deaf Annie
5.8
1942
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, she is thinking ...
🎭 Nurse (uncredited)
5.7
1942
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get ...
🎭 Woman Behind Hope at Baptism (uncredited)
6.6
1941
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another. ...
🎭 Wife (uncredited)
5.8
1941
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber. ...
🎭 Elvy
6.8
1941
Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred rampant ...
🎭 Mother in Stalled Car (uncredited)
6.5
1941
Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to rise above their troubles and fulfill their d ...
🎭 Susie Mae (uncredited)
6.6
1941
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take o ...
🎭 Indigent Woman
5
1940
A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left to the good Dr. Christian to expose this fake and save a fragile young girl's life. ...
🎭 Maid at Ethel's
6.1
1940
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results. ...
🎭 3rd Nurse
🎭 Bellevue Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
5.8
1940
A man violates company policy by getting married. ...
🎭 Mother in Dr. Gaines' Office
5.5
1940
A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket. ...
🎭 The Young Woman
5
1940
The Fight for Life was documentary filmmaker Pare Lorentz' first "dramatic" film, utilizing the talents of several top New York stage actors. A tribute to the Chicago Maternity Center and its eff ...
🎭 Nurse (uncredited)
6.5
1939
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward. ...
🎭 Miss Atkinson (uncredited)
7.1
1939
Un grupo de mujeres pasan la mayor parte del día entre salones de belleza y tiendas de ropa, siempre murmurando, con cotilleos y rumores. De repente, una de ellas descubre que su marido se ve a ...
🎭 Florist (uncredited)
7.5
1939
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks cu ...
🎭 Jenny's Mother (uncredited)
6.1
1939
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse ...
🎭 Anna
4.3
1938
Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nightclub performer. ...
🎭 Second Fortune Teller
4.7
1938
Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless. ...
🎭 Nurse
6.3
1938
A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison. ...