Joyce Mathews

Joyce Mathews

Acting
1919-12-05
New York City, New York, USA

Known For & Full Filmography24 Titles

#1Bluebeard's 8th Wife

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
ComedyRomance

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.

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#2Wells Fargo

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Pioneer Girl

5.5 / 10
HistoryWestern

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.

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#3You and Me

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Sales Clerk (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
CrimeRomanceComedy

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.

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#4Midnight

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Girl (uncredited)

7.4 / 10
ComedyRomance

An unemployed American showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian high society.

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#5A Double Life

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.4 / 10
DramaThriller

A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.

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#6Mister Universe

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Maroni's Moll

6.3 / 10
RomanceComedy

A gullible and honest "Mr. Universe" winner, Tommy Tomkins, gets added to the stable of a con-man and a wrestling prompter.

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#7Jewel Robbery

Movie - 1932, 2h 15m as Maid (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
RomanceComedyCrime

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.

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#8The Barkleys of Broadway

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Genevieve (uncredited)

6.9 / 10
ComedyRomance

Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man.

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#9Dangerous to Know

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Party Guest (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
CrimeDramaMystery

Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.

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#10College Holiday

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m as Dancer

5.7 / 10
Comedy

College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.

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#11King of Chinatown

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Nightclub Girl (uncredited)

5.6 / 10
ActionCrimeDrama

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.

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#12Cafe Society

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Girl

7.5 / 10
ComedyRomance

A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.

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#13True Confession

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Girl in Cocktail Lounge (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
ComedyRomanceCrime

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.

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#14Honeymoon in Bali

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Girl with Umbrella (uncredited)

7.5 / 10
ComedyRomance

Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.

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#15Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.0 / 10
Documentary

Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."

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#16The Way of All Flesh

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Telegraph Girl

4.6 / 10
RomanceCrimeDrama

Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.

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#17All Women Have Secrets

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Peggy

6.0 / 10
Comedy

When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.

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#18Daughter of Shanghai

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Girl (uncredited)

5.4 / 10
CrimeDrama

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

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#19Million Dollar Legs

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Bunny Maxwell

6.0 / 10
Music

At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his girl Susie; he schemes to revive crew boat racing. Sinking boats, no money, and his own waistline stand in his way. Can they win the big race with State University?

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#20Sudden Money

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Yolo

7.0 / 10
DramaComedy

Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.

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#21Say It in French

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Girl

7.5 / 10
Comedy

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....

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#22Sing, You Sinners

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Hat-Check Girl (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
RomanceComedyDrama

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.

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#23Cocoanut Grove

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Girl

9.0 / 10
ComedyRomance

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

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#24$1,000 a Touchdown

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Lorelei

3.7 / 10
Comedy

A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.

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