Ransom M. Sherman

Acting

Ransom M. Sherman

Born 1898-10-14 · Appleton, Wisconsin, USA

Acting credits

Gentleman's Agreement poster
7.0

A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.

Gentleman's Agreement

1947

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer poster
6.9

Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

1947

Yankee Fakir poster
6.0

A medicine show pitchman investigates a small town murder in Arizona.

Yankee Fakir

1947

The Hucksters poster
7.0

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.

The Hucksters

1947

Whiplash poster
5.0

An artist follows a woman from California to New York, where he boxes for her mobster husband.

Whiplash

1948

High Barbaree poster
5.6

After his plane is downed in the South Pacific, a Navy flier recounts his life to a co-pilot while awaiting rescue.

High Barbaree

1947

The Countess of Monte Cristo poster
7.0

This musical tells the tales of two movie extras who abscond to an expensive resort with their costumes and pretend to be aristocrats. Included in the film are ice skating numbers and songs.

The Countess of Monte Cristo

1948

Are You With It? poster
4.5

Milton Haskins, a math genius known for his infallibility with numbers, quits his job with an insurance company when he discovers he made a mistake, and hooks up with a traveling carnival. His knowledge of mathematics makes him a natural as an assistant at the wheel of fortune. His fiancée begs him to return to his job but he refuses, so she joins the carnival and becomes a striptease artist. When Milton attempts to drag her off the stage, a brawling mêlée breaks out and the entire troupe is arrested by the local police. The carnival is sold but Milton reveals that the new owner has conspired to defraud the insurance company. The insurance company has to accept the carnival in lieu of the money owed, and they allow Milton and his fiancée, Vivian, to stay with and help run the carnival.

Are You With It?

1948

Pretty Baby poster
6.8

A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.

Pretty Baby

1950

Always Leave Them Laughing poster
4.4

A self-absorbed comedian steps all over his friends and colleagues in order to achieve success.

Always Leave Them Laughing

1949

Always Together poster
7.3

An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors.

Always Together

1947

Winter Meeting poster
6.6

A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems.

Winter Meeting

1948

One Last Fling poster
4.8

A jealous wife suspects the worst when her dingaling husband hires his former girlfriend for a position at his company.

One Last Fling

1949

Flaming Fury poster
7.0

A Los Angeles fire captain (Roy Roberts) sends an arson-squad rookie (George Cooper) undercover.

Flaming Fury

1949

Swing Your Partner poster
10.0

Caroline Bird, the crotchety and stingy owner of Bird Milk Products, is not amused when her employees at the Dairyville factory, the oldest plant in the company, broadcast a special radio program in honor of her birthday. Employees Lulubelle, Scotty and Vera Vague, fed up with the terrible working conditions at Dairyville, cut into the broadcast, and Lulubelle asserts that Caroline is a "big hunk of cheese." Lane, the factory manager, cannot find the culprit, and so Caroline goes with her secretary, Dale Evans, to Dairyville.

Swing Your Partner

1943