Gloria Williams

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography27 Titles

#1This Gun for Hire

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m as Woman (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
CrimeThrillerMystery

Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.

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#2The Blue Dahlia

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Assistant Maid (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
CrimeMystery

Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

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#3Bluebeard'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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#4Make Way for Tomorrow

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

7.5 / 10
DramaRomance

An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.

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#5If I Were King

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

7.1 / 10
AdventureHistory

King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.

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#6Easy Living

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

7.2 / 10
ComedyRomance

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.

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#7The Major and the Minor

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m as Ball Guest (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
ComedyRomance

Low on funds, working-class girl Susan Applegate disguises herself as a youngster in order to pay half fare home. But little 'Sue Sue' finds herself in a whole heap of grownup trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Philip Kirby.

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#8Wells 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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#9Mardi Gras

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Mardi Gras Girl

5.3 / 10
Music

The first of a series of six two-reel "Musical Parade" shorts produced in Technicolor for the Paramount 1943-44 production season. The series would continue into 1948, and then were reissued in the early 50's. Songs included "All the Way" and "At the Mardi Gras."

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#10True to Life

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Woman (uncredited)

8.0 / 10
Comedy

A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.

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#11True Confession

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Woman (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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#12Pacific Blackout

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as Dance Club Woman

6.6 / 10
MysteryRomanceThriller

Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.

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#13Geronimo

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.3 / 10
Western

The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.

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#14New York Town

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

8.5 / 10
ComedyRomance

Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.

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#15The Accusing Finger

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m as Passenger

5.8 / 10
CrimeRomanceDrama

A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.

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#16King 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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#17Ebb Tide

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Woman

7.0 / 10
Adventure

In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The Golden State , whose captain and crew have died of smallpox. From Tehua in the South Seas to Australia, they are to deliver a cargo of champagne. Thorbecke decides to head for Peru, however, so he can sell the merchandise and pocket the money. While sailing, Faith Wishart, daughter of the deceased captain, comes out of her hiding place on board and, by briefly holding Thorbecke at gunpoint, demands he make the delivery.

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#18I Met Him in Paris

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Woman

6.1 / 10
ComedyRomance

Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket to Switzerland, but George (with no illusions about his friend) appoints himself chaperone. Through a series of slapstick winter sports, Kay remains puzzled about George's disapproval of Gene...but there's a reason.

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#19West Point Widow

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as Nurse

7.0 / 10
Comedy

In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.

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#20Artists & Models

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

6.3 / 10
ComedyMusic

An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.

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#21Prison Farm

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Bit Role

6.8 / 10
DramaCrime

Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)

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#22Cafe Society

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Nurse

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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#23Exclusive

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
DramaCrime

Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on reporting the news.

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#24Love Thy Neighbor

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Minor Role

7.3 / 10
Comedy

Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.

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#25Illegal Traffic

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.6 / 10
DramaActionCrime

G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.

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#26Cocoanut Grove

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Undetermined Role

9.0 / 10
ComedyRomance

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

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#27Boy Trouble

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Mother

6.0 / 10
FamilyDramaComedy

A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.

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