Ruby Dandridge

Acting

Ruby Dandridge

Born — Died

1900-03-03 — 1987-10-17

Known for

Acting

Credits

30 titles

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 22 titles

Dead Reckoning poster
6.9

War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publicity that awaits him, jumps off the train and later turns up dead. Suspecting foul play, Rip begins digging into his pal's past. He encounters cover-ups, threats to his own life and deadly femme fatale Coral Chandler.

Dead Reckoning

1946

The Clock poster
7.1

A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.

The Clock

1945

Tap Roots poster
6.9

Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.

Tap Roots

1948

Inside Job poster
5.9

A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.

Inside Job

1946

Cabin in the Sky poster
6.5

When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for six months to prove that he deserves to be in heaven. He awakens, remembering nothing and struggles to do right by his devout wife, Petunia, while an angel known as the General and the devil's son, Lucifer Jr., fight for his soul.

Cabin in the Sky

1943

Corregidor poster
4.4

A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.

Corregidor

1943

Uncle Tom's Cabaña poster
5.6

Uncle Tom tells the blood curdling story of how the evil Simon Legree tried to foreclose on Tom's simple log cabin. Uncle Tom's Cabaña is a 1947 American animated short film directed by Tex Avery. The short is a parody of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and is Avery's second parody of the novel, the first being Uncle Tom's Bungalow in 1937 while at Warner Bros. Cartoons.

Uncle Tom's Cabaña

1947

My Wild Irish Rose poster
6.0

Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.

My Wild Irish Rose

1947

Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs poster
5.4

Spoof of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) with an all-black cartoon cast. One of the “Censored 11” banned from TV syndication by United Artists in 1968 for racist stereotyping.

Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs

1943

Home in Oklahoma poster
6.6

In this Roy Rogers entry, featuring a song written by Oklahoma Governor Roy J. Turner (making him and Lousiania's Jimmie Davis and Texas' W.E. "Pappy" O'Daniel possibly the only state governors to write songs used in a western), Flying U ranch owner Sam Talbot is killed by a fall from a horse. St. Louis reporter Connie Edwards comes to check a rumor that he might have been murdered. She goes to Roy Rogers, editor of the local newspaper, and he takes her to the reading of Talbot's will. The ranch is left to Talbot's 12-year-old ward, Duke Lowery, much to the dismay of Talbot's niece, Jan Holloway. After some attempts on Duke's life, Roy finally proves that Jan, Steve McClory and coroner Jim Judnick had Talbot killed and are conspiring to do the same for Duke, making Jan the last heir.

Home in Oklahoma

1946

Three Little Girls in Blue poster
7.3

Three sisters go to Atlantic City with hopes of finding rich husbands.

Three Little Girls in Blue

1946

The War Against Mrs. Hadley poster
5.2

Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.

The War Against Mrs. Hadley

1942

Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears poster
6.2

The stories of "Goldilocks" and "Little Red Riding Hood" collide with the world of jazz, resulting in three jiving bears and a jitterbugging Big Bad Wolf. One of the “Censored 11” banned from TV syndication by United Artists in 1968 for racist stereotyping.

Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears

1944

Flop Goes the Weasel poster
6.2

While Mammy is gone to catch a worm for her about-to-hatch egg, a weasel steals the egg for his breakfast. When the egg hatches, the blabbermouth chick initially mistakes the weasel for his Mammy.

Flop Goes the Weasel

1943

The Arnelo Affair poster
5.2

A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder.

The Arnelo Affair

1947

Gallant Lady poster
6.5

A female doctor is sent to prison for a mercy killing. She manages to escape, get married and lead a model life, but one day her secret is exposed.

Gallant Lady

1942

Junior Miss poster
7.8

A Manhattan family's Christmas season turns topsy-turvy when 13-year-old Judy Graves mistakenly thinks her newly-arrived visiting uncle has just been released from prison.

Junior Miss

1945

Melody Parade poster
8.0

The owner and staff of a Hollywood nightclub struggle to keep their establishment from closing.

Melody Parade

1943

Tish poster
6.5

In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.

Tish

1942

Broken Strings poster
4.8

After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing music to classical.

Broken Strings

1940

A Night for Crime poster
4.6

A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth solving yet another mystery among Hollywood's famous.

A Night for Crime

1943

Carolina Blues poster
5.8

When he loses his lead singer, bandleader Kay Kyser can't find a replacement he likes.

Carolina Blues

1944

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