Cleo Moore

Acting

Cleo Moore

Born — Died

1924-10-31 — 1973-10-25

Place of birth

Galvez, Prairieville, Louisiana, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

22 titles

Cleouna Moore (October 31, 1924 – October 25, 1973) was an American actress, usually featured in the role of a blonde bombshell in Hollywood films of the 1950s, including seven films with Hugo Haas. She also became a well-known pin-up girl.

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 19 titles

Bait poster
5.4

A man looking for his fortune in a mine decides to tempt his partner with his much younger wife. The goal? To catch them "in the act" and kill him without consequence.

Bait

1954

One Girl's Confession poster
6.3

Cleo Moore stars as Mary Adams, whose first step on the road to ruin is a $25,000 robbery. Mary hides the money, then confesses to the crime, secure in the belief that she can dig up the loot upon her release from prison.

One Girl's Confession

1953

On Dangerous Ground poster
6.6

A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.

On Dangerous Ground

1951

Bright Leaf poster
6.0

Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.

Bright Leaf

1950

Hunt the Man Down poster
6.3

A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.

Hunt the Man Down

1950

711 Ocean Drive poster
6.4

A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. After the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action.

711 Ocean Drive

1950

Thy Neighbor's Wife poster
6.8

In 1841, in the small Morovian village of Skalni Hradec, a judge makes his much younger wife witness the public humiliation of an unfaithful wife who is bound with ropes to a wooden half-cross. He then tells her he'll kill her if he ever catches her being unfaithful. Things get tense when she falls for another man.

Thy Neighbor's Wife

1953

The Great Jewel Robber poster
7.6

A dramatization of the criminal career of notorious jewel thief Gerard Dennis, who targeted wealthy socialites and movie stars.

The Great Jewel Robber

1950

Hit and Run poster
5.2

A garage owner marries a much younger woman. Trouble begins when he becomes friends with a man who has his eyes on his former-showgirl wife.

Hit and Run

1957

Gambling House poster
6.2

A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.

Gambling House

1950

Dynamite Pass poster
6.1

A cowhand becomes involved in a war between a road construction crew and the greedy toll-owner hoping to thwart the new project.

Dynamite Pass

1950

The Pace That Thrills poster
6.0

Chills and spills in the fast-paced world of motorcycle racing.

The Pace That Thrills

1952

Women's Prison poster
5.8

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.

Women's Prison

1955

Rio Grande Patrol poster
6.5

Fowler is smuggling guns across the border and his buyer is the outlaw Bragg. The guns are hidden in the luggage of the girls that come to work in his saloon. Border guards Kansas and Chito, along with Mexican Captain Trevinom suspect them and they are trying to find the guns.

Rio Grande Patrol

1950

No artwork available
7.0

Joe and Alice McDoakes are planning on throwing a party, but Joe mixes up his list of creditors with the list of names Alice gave him to invite. The creditors have a much better time than Joe does.

So You Want to Throw a Party

1950

Over-Exposed poster
5.2

This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an ambitious clip-joint floozie turned photographer with flexible morals and a penchant for fast money.

Over-Exposed

1956

Hold Back Tomorrow poster
6.4

A condemned murderer, scheduled to hang in the morning, asks for the company of a woman in his final hours.

Hold Back Tomorrow

1955

Strange Fascination poster
5.5

A homely middle-aged man falls hard for a much younger woman leading to disaster.

Strange Fascination

1952

The Other Woman poster
5.2

Bit player Sherry Stewart gets miffed when director Walter Darman turns her down after she reads for a small part in his picture. She and her boy friend, Ronnie, devise a plan to lure Darman to her apartment, where she gives him a drugged drink. She tells Darman they had been intimate and blackmails him for $50,000. More than a little distracted by his situation, his wife senses something is wrong and he gets into a violent argument with his father-in-law who owns the producing company Darman works for, and discontinues the picture. Sherry informs Darman she is going to tell his wife all about them. Darman tells his secretary that he is going to work late and is not to be disturbed, sets the moviola runnings, and exits by the back door and hot-foots it to Sherry's apartment.

The Other Woman

1954

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