Gloria Shea

Acting

Gloria Shea

Born 1910-05-30 · New York City, New York, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gloria Shea (May 30, 1910 – February 8, 1995) was an American film actress. She was sometimes billed as Olive Shea. Born in New York City, Shea received her schooling at the Convent of Notre Dame de Sande and was trained for the stage by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.. Shea had the female lead role in the Universal serial, The Phantom of the Air (1933). On stage (billed as Olive Shea), she had the role of Baby in the Broadway production of Blind Mice (1930) She married Robert J. Stroh in 1938. On February 8, 1995, Shea died in Jacksonville, Florida.

Acting credits

Dangerous Intrigue poster
7.0

Anthony Halliday, a brilliant young surgeon, is forced to resign as chief of staff at a New York hospital when he is compelled to delay an appendectomy on the daughter of John Mitchell, a wealthy supporter of the hospital, because of an emergency operation he has to perform. The appendectomy is successful, but later complications cause the girl's death. Carol Andrews, his fiancée, regards him as a failure and leaves him. Halliday, suffering from amnesia brought on by the shocks, drifts to Scranton, Pa., where he gets work in the steel mill. He only remembers who he is when he finds himself bandaging some injured workers. The mill doctor, Miller, asks him to become his assistant. Halliday remains at the mill under the name of John Davis. Because of many accidents at the mill, the smelter boss, Joe Kosovic is demoted. He becomes friendly with Halliday and invites him home for dinner, where he becomes attracted to Gerta, Joe school-teacher daughter.

Dangerous Intrigue

1936

We're Rich Again poster
6.2

A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.

We're Rich Again

1934

Bolero poster
6.4

The complicated relationship between an ambitious, ruthless nightclub dancer and the woman he loves.

Bolero

1934

Laddie poster
10.0

A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Laddie

1935

Life Begins poster
6.2

A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.

Life Begins

1932

They Call It Sin poster
6.0

A young, innocent small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a crush to the big city and is left fending for herself.

They Call It Sin

1932

Strange People poster
5.8

All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstration of how convictions can be made on circumstantial evidence. During the proceedings, a phony murder is quickly revealed as the real thing.

Strange People

1933

Big City Blues poster
5.9

An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.

Big City Blues

1932

Big Time Or Bust poster
5.7

Newlywed carnival performers decide to try their luck in New York, but their marriage begins to crumble when their careers take separate paths.

Big Time Or Bust

1933

Men of Action poster
6.0

A villainous banker and his hired saboteurs attempt to thwart construction of Sweetwater Dam.

Men of Action

1935

Glorifying the American Girl poster
5.6

A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the latest hits. She is accompanied on piano by her childhood boyfriend, who is in love with her, despite her single-minded interest in her career. When a vaudeville performer asks her to join him as his new partner, she sees it as an opportunity to make her dream come true. Upon arriving in New York City, our heroine finds out that her new partner is only interested in sleeping with her and makes this a condition of making her a star. Soon, however, she is discovered by a representative of Ziegfeld.

Glorifying the American Girl

1929

I Like it That Way poster
7.0

A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.

I Like it That Way

1934

Tomorrow's Youth poster
10.0

A look at how his parents' divorce affects the life of a young boy.

Tomorrow's Youth

1934

A Successful Failure poster
4.3

Ellery Cushing is full of catchy sayings and old-fashioned wisdom. But all that his family cares about is how much money he makes, and all that his boss at the newspaper sees is that Cushing is getting too old to keep up with his work. So his loyal co-worker Phil decides to see what he can do to help everyone see what his friend has to offer.

A Successful Failure

1934

Women Won't Tell poster
7.0

A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is actually the rightful heir.

Women Won't Tell

1932

Dance, Girl, Dance poster
6.3

Vaudevillian Joe Pitt sweeps young Sally Patter off of her feet and steals the lovestruck girl away from her small-town family to join his act. She winds up heartbroken, pregnant and broke when Joe runs off with the magician's sexy assistant. Sally bravely persists and her immense dancing and singing talent gain the notice of prominent producer, Wade Valentine. Under Valentine's tutelage, she rockets to Broadway stardom while Joe Pitt is reduced to waiting on tables. Alone, Sally proudly gives birth to a baby son. Wade proposes marriage to his beloved protege and it appears that Joe Pitt may never learn about the son he has fathered.

Dance, Girl, Dance

1933

The Oil Raider poster
10.0

"Wildcatter" Dave Warren and his crew are trying to bring in a new oil well. Dave gives troublemaker Simmons a good thrashing and orders him off the site. In order to complete drilling Dave borrows $50,000 from investment banker J. T. Varley and also begins a romance with Varley's daughter Alice. Varley suffers market reverses and knowing that Dave is about to strike oil hires Simmons to wreck the rig so he can foreclose and take over.

The Oil Raider

1934

Smoking Guns poster
10.0

Accused of a murder he did not commit, Ken leaves the country. Three years later Evans finds him in the jungle. When Evans dies, Ken seeing the resemblance, assumes his identity and returns to clear his name.

Smoking Guns

1934

Money Means Nothing poster
5.8

At Joe's Roadside, a popular but rundown New York roadhouse where the wealthy and not-so-wealthy hang out, a wealthy Manhattan girl and a struggling Brooklyn boy meet and fall in love. She marries him against the wishes of her family, believing that love can solve everything, but she soon wonders if she made the right choice when she finds herself living in a manner, and with the kinds of people, she hadn't counted on.

Money Means Nothing

1934

One Way Ticket poster
6.0

A convict marries the warder's daughter after his escape and she eventually persuades him to finish his sentence.

One Way Ticket

1935

Black Gold poster
5.3

Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron J.C. Anderson sets his sights on their territory. When longtime driller Dan O'Reilly falls to his death from a well tower sabotaged by Anderson's strong-arm thugs, his teenage son 'Fishtail' inherits the property and the troubles that come with it. With the help of his geologist pal, Hank Langford, the boy fights to bring in a gusher before the deed to the well-site expires.

Black Gold

1936

The Dude Bandit poster
5.5

After Burton kills Dad Mason and makes it look like a suicide, Ace Cooper arrives to investigate. He poses as a coward during the day but at night he becomes the daring Dude Bandit.

The Dude Bandit

1933

The Eleventh Commandment poster
8.0

A wealthy recluse dies in her New York mansion, leaving an estate worth $50 million. Shortly after, various people turn up claiming to be the rightful heir to her fortune.

The Eleventh Commandment

1933

The Phantom of the Air poster
7.0

An adventure serial presented in 12 chapters. Inventor Thomas Edmunds uses a super plane, 'The Phantom,' to protect his new anti-gravity invention, the Contragrav, from theft.

The Phantom of the Air

1933