Suzanne Kaaren

Acting

Suzanne Kaaren

Born — Died

1912-03-21 — 2004-08-27

Place of birth

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

33 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Suzanne Kaaren (March 21, 1912 – August 27, 2004) was an American B-movie actress and dancer who starred in stock film genres of the 1930s and 1940s: horror films, westerns, comedies and romances. Kaaren left for Hollywood in October 1933. Her starting salary was $150 per week, and was eventually cast opposite Tim McCoy in Ridin' Gents, a Monogram Pictures production. She was then signed by Republic Pictures to play a character in From Rags To Riches. Ridin' Gents was filmed without either McCoy or Kaaren. She joined a troupe assembled by producer Walter Wanger, which also included Gloria Youngblood. The theatrical company was known as Trade Winds. Th…

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 6 titles

The Ghost Comes Home poster
5.7

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

The Ghost Comes Home

1940

The Devil Bat poster
5.3

Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.

The Devil Bat

1940

What's the Matador? poster
6.3

The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their suitcase. When they are confronted by her jealous husband he vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the fiesta where they are performing a comedy bullfight (Curly is the matador, Moe and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the ring. Curly knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero.

What's the Matador?

1942

City of Chance poster
5.6

Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.

City of Chance

1940

Roar of the Press poster
6.3

While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.

Roar of the Press

1941

Rags to Riches poster
9.5

A framed cabby rounds up fur thieves and saves his opera-singer girlfriend.

Rags to Riches

1941

1930s · 26 titles

The Women poster
7.2

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

The Women

1939

Angel poster
6.7

While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.

Angel

1937

Rhythm in the Clouds poster
7.5

Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.

Rhythm in the Clouds

1937

Idiot's Delight poster
6.1

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

Idiot's Delight

1939

Disorder in the Court poster
6.7

The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend Gail Tempest, who dances at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians, is accused of killing Kirk Robin.

Disorder in the Court

1936

Here's Flash Casey poster
5.6

After graduating college an aspiring photographer lands his first job--with a big city newspaper.

Here's Flash Casey

1938

Yes, We Have No Bonanza poster
6.6

Set in a western town, the stooges are working as waiters in a saloon with the three girls they hope to marry. The proprietor of the saloon is a crook who, with his partner, has buried $40,000 of stolen money. The boys go prospecting in hopes of raising enough money to pay off the debts of their fiancée father, who owes money to their boss. They dig up the stolen money, which the crooks recognize as their loot and abscond with. A wild chase ensues, ending with the bad guy's car crashing into the Sheriff's office.

Yes, We Have No Bonanza

1939

Undercover Man poster
7.0

An operative from the Wells Fargo company goes undercover to trap a crooked sheriff and his equally nefarious hirelings in this standard B-Western from A.W. Hackel's low-budget Supreme Pictures Corp.

Undercover Man

1936

When's Your Birthday? poster
5.5

Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.

When's Your Birthday?

1937

Bottoms Up poster
5.2

Three smart film-flammers help a homeless little girl to love and happiness by making monkeys out of Hollywood's big movie moguls. A love story to make life worth living, bristling with roaring laughter and rhythmic with singable, lovable song hits. Made by the producers of "Sunny Side Up" — and surpassing it in everything.

Bottoms Up

1934

A Million to One poster
5.0

The son of a disgraced Olympic decathlete prepares to become a star in his own right. His quest is complicated by a beautiful girl and a bitter rival.

A Million to One

1936

Blondes at Work poster
6.3

When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.

Blondes at Work

1938

No artwork available
7.0

A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing speedboats. They are innovative and soon the Navy comes a-knocking in hopes that he will design a fast and easily maneuverable boat to carry torpedoes.

Pride of the Navy

1939

The Wildcatter poster
8.0

Eager to take advantage of a new oil boom, "Lucky" Conlon leaves his gas station and diner for Texas, with his wife Helen's blessing. In Texas, Lucky wins enough money in roulette to lease a parcel of land, and he and his friend "Smiley" begin drilling. Julia Frayne, whom Lucky met while gambling, turns out to be the daughter of oil tycoon Tom Frayne, who is eager to buy out the leases of the growing number of independent drillers, called "wildcatters," in order to hold a monopoly on the local oil fields.

The Wildcatter

1937

Wives Never Know poster
9.0

The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J. Hugh Ramsay, author of the bestselling book, "Marriage—The Living Death".

Wives Never Know

1936

Miracles for Sale poster
6.4

Retired performer Mike Morgan sells original illusions to fellow magicians, and although he believes in the supernatural, likes to expose sham psychics. This involves him in some mysterious murders.

Miracles for Sale

1939

Sleepers East poster
7.0

No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city. Covering a bachelor party for a friend in need, Lena winds up at a gambling house where she is the sole witness when Mayor Wentworth's drunken lout of a son shoots the owner. Wentworth's political machine wants Lena to falsely incriminate mob boss Callahan to bolster their re-election campaign. Callahan's mouthpiece nabs Lena first, conveying her stealthily by train from Toledo to New York to prevent her from testifying against the big boss. A midnight special smash-up, a tense courtroom finale and true love triumphant round out this typical Fox pre-Code programmer, released just before the Legion of Decency dropped the hammer in 1934.

Sleepers East

1934

Strangers All poster
6.8

Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.

Strangers All

1935

Wild Gold poster
6.5

A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevada gold country, and he takes the carburetor off her car and throws it in the river, stranding them there. They wind up staying at the cabin of a crusty old prospector, and soon the manager of a nightclub act shows up with his bevy of beautiful showgirls.

Wild Gold

1934

Phantom Ranger poster
4.7

A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make counterfeit plates for them. A lawman is sent to rescue him.

Phantom Ranger

1938

Trade Winds poster
6.4

After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.

Trade Winds

1938

No artwork available
NR

This ancient history musical comedy predates A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by a few decades. Frank Albertson plays a happy Roman bachelor who falls for a lovely slave girl, in a silly tale that uses stock footage from MGM's silent Ben Hur.

No Place like Rome

1936

Close Relations poster
7.0

Roscoe believes he is in line to receive a large inheritance, but the reality is considerably more psychopathic-- no, nuts.

Close Relations

1933

No artwork available
6.2

In the early 1900s, as the Panama Canal is being built, a group of doctors try to discover a cure for yellow fever, a disease that is decimating the workers constructing the canal.

White Legion

1936

Women Must Dress poster
3.5

A divorced woman finds success as a fashion designer.

Women Must Dress

1935

Romance of Louisiana poster
6.8

A short historical drama about the Louisiana Purchase.

Romance of Louisiana

1937