Brenda Joyce

Acting

Brenda Joyce

Born 1917-02-25 · Excelsior Springs, Missouri, USA

Brenda Joyce (born Betty Graftina Leabo, February 25, 1917 – July 4, 2009) was an American film actress.

Acting credits

Tarzan and the Mermaids poster
6.0

A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.

Tarzan and the Mermaids

1948

Tarzan and the Leopard Woman poster
5.8

A tribe devoted to the leopard cult is dedicated to preventing civilization from moving further into Africa.

Tarzan and the Leopard Woman

1946

Shaggy poster
10.0

The film follows the story of a rancher's son, Robbie, his dog Shaggy and adventures they have with ranching neighbors and wild animals in the U.S. west.

Shaggy

1948

The Rains Came poster
6.1

Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.

The Rains Came

1939

Tarzan and the Amazons poster
6.4

A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.

Tarzan and the Amazons

1945

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage poster
7.0

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983

Little Giant poster
5.3

Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.

Little Giant

1946

Tarzan and the Huntress poster
5.7

A shortage of zoo animals after World War II brings beautiful animal trainer Tanya, her financial backer and her cruel trail boss to the jungle. After negotiating a quota with the native king, they take more animals than allowed. Tarzan intervenes.

Tarzan and the Huntress

1947

Right to the Heart poster
7.0

John T. Bromley III is a young man from high society who is physically humiliated by a prizefighter before his socialite sweetheart, Jenny Killian. He goes to a training camp to redeem his self-respect and ensure his success in a return engagement with the fighter.

Right to the Heart

1942

Tarzan's Magic Fountain poster
5.9

An expedition tries to enlist Tarzan's help in finding the secret Blue Valley, which legend says is the location of a miraculous fountain of youth.

Tarzan's Magic Fountain

1949

Danger Woman poster
8.0

A woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.

Danger Woman

1946

The Spider Woman Strikes Back poster
6.8

A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant.

The Spider Woman Strikes Back

1946

Show-Business at War poster
7.0

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

Show-Business at War

1943

Pillow of Death poster
6.6

Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary have an affair. When Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a psychic with questionable motives tries to contact the deceased woman. Soon, Wayne begins seeing visions of his dead wife, and other people involved with the case begin to be killed, one by one.

Pillow of Death

1945

Maryland poster
6.5

A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.

Maryland

1940

Private Nurse poster
7.0

In this brief B programmer, a nurse is hired to care for a widower's daughter who is unaware that her father is a gangster and that her mother is actually still alive. The concerned nurse burdens herself with the difficult responsibility of revealing the unfortunate truth.

Private Nurse

1941

10,000 Kids and a Cop poster
7.0

A documentary showing the constructive approach taken by the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation in Los Angeles toward prevention of juvenile delinquency. William Bendix, as a neighborhood policeman, visits the Foundation and discovers the juveniles who used to give him trouble now engaged in sports and activities, furnished them gratis, under self-supervision. Abbott and Costello furnish a couple of bits to liven it up some.

10,000 Kids and a Cop

1948

Public Deb No. 1 poster
4.9

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.

Public Deb No. 1

1940

Strange Confession poster
6.8

A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in the death of the scientist's son.

Strange Confession

1945

I'll Tell the World poster
7.0

A PR man saves a struggling radio station from ruin.

I'll Tell the World

1945

Little Tokyo, U.S.A. poster
7.0

Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is 63 minutes' worth of speculation about prewar Japanese espionage activities. Los Angeles cop Preston Foster suspects that there's dirty work afoot in the city's Japanese community, but no one will believe him except for intrepid girl reporter Brenda Joyce. When the spies frame Foster on a trumped-up murder charge, Joyce does a little detective work herself. The enemy agents are rounded up just before they can do any real damage. Because of its strident insistence that most (if not all) Japanese-American citizens were secretly loyal to the Rising Sun, Little Tokyo USA is seldom seen these days.

Little Tokyo, U.S.A.

1942

Little Old New York poster
5.3

Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.

Little Old New York

1940

Here I Am a Stranger poster
7.3

The story of a young man's discovery of his father.

Here I Am a Stranger

1939

Whispering Ghosts poster
6.8

A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the mysterious decade-old murder of a sea captain.

Whispering Ghosts

1942