Gwen Kenyon

Acting

Gwen Kenyon

Born 1916-01-22 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Gwen Kenyon was born on 22 January 1916 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Cisco Kid in Old New Mexico (1945), The Great Mike (1944) and Socks Appeal (1943) She was previously married to Morton Scott. She died on 18 October 1999 in Montecito, California, USA.

Acting credits

Wells Fargo poster
5.5

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.

Wells Fargo

1937

You and Me poster
6.6

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.

You and Me

1938

Turnabout poster
6.0

Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.

Turnabout

1940

Bluebeard's 8th Wife poster
7.1

American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy to tame him.

Bluebeard's 8th Wife

1938

Phantom Lady poster
7.0

A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his wife.

Phantom Lady

1944

Hold 'Em Navy poster
4.7

Two football players fight over the same girl.

Hold 'Em Navy

1937

True Confession poster
6.1

A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.

True Confession

1937

The Corpse Vanishes poster
4.3

A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from virgin brides.

The Corpse Vanishes

1942

Niagara Falls poster
6.7

The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.

Niagara Falls

1941

So's Your Aunt Emma! poster
6.7

A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders.

So's Your Aunt Emma!

1942

Dancing Co-Ed poster
6.6

After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.

Dancing Co-Ed

1939

King of Chinatown poster
5.6

A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.

King of Chinatown

1939

No artwork available
8.0

Una and Gwen get jobs as process servers, and are assigned to serve papers on a prominent local doctor.

Quack Service

1943

Sing, You Sinners poster
7.0

Of the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in his garage and marry Martha; but feckless Joe thinks his only road to success is through swapping and gambling. It seems the only thing all three can join in is their singing act, which Mike and Dave hate. Finally, all Joe's hopes are pinned on a race horse he's acquired swapping, but it's a bigger gamble than his family knows.

Sing, You Sinners

1938

Cocoanut Grove poster
9.0

Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.

Cocoanut Grove

1938

Daughter of Shanghai poster
5.4

A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.

Daughter of Shanghai

1937

Thanks for the Memory poster
5.8

Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.

Thanks for the Memory

1938

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service poster
6.1

Charlie Chan is an agent of the US government working in Washington DC and he is assigned to investigate the murder of the inventor of a highly advanced torpedo. Aiding Chan is his overeager but dull-witted son Tommy and his daughter Iris.

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service

1944

Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher poster
4.6

Cosmo Jones, a correspondence-school detective from a small town, comes to the big city to offer his services to the police. He happens by where a gangster is killed by an opposing gang. Socialite Phyllis Blake is running around with gang member Tom and the opposing gang plan on kidnapping her. Cosmo is with Sergeant Flanagan when the attempt is made in front of a night club, where a bystander is seriously wounded in the gun-battle. Police Chief Murphy blames Flanagan for the shooting and demotes him. Cosmo, with the aid of a porter, Eustace and Flanagan's fiancée, Susan, tries to find the killer. Phyllis is finally kidnapped and Cosmo decides the act was committed by one of the two gangs. He has her father place an ad in the newspaper that contact has been made with the kidnappers. Each gang thinks the other is pulling a double cross, and one gang wipes out the other.

Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher

1943

Say It in French poster
7.5

An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....

Say It in French

1938

Tropic Holiday poster
6.2

A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border.

Tropic Holiday

1938

Sarong Girl poster
7.0

A dancer in a girlie show plots revenge when a judge orders her show closed.

Sarong Girl

1943

Under Age poster
7.5

Fresh out of reform school, a bunch of delinquent girls fall in with a gang of crooks and are put to work as "hostesses" in a number of mob-controlled bars and cafes. The girls are expected to string along male customers so that the latter will squander their money on watered-down drinks and fixed poker games. When one gullible New Yorker is clipped to the tune of $18,000 worth of diamonds, the Law closes in.

Under Age

1941

In Old New Mexico poster
7.0

Gallant Cisco "kidnaps" murder suspect Ellen from the authorities, then sets about to prove her innocence, all with the cooperation of a sympathetic sheriff.

In Old New Mexico

1945