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Biography
Wanda McKay (June 22, 1915 – April 11, 1996) was an American model and film actress.
Career
By 1939 McKay had moved into films after being given a contract by Paramount Pictures. Initially she made small uncredited appearances before going on to starring roles as a leading lady in many B Movies during the 1940s, working in particular at studios such as PRC and Monogram Pictures.:135–137 Film worked dried up for her in the 1950s, and she appeared on television and in a minor role in The Merry Widow (1952). Her last film appearance was a small uncredited part in Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957).
Personal Life
In 1977 she married Hoagy Carmichael, a marriage that lasted until his death in 1981.
Movies & TV shows
1951.
1 Movie
Roaring City
1951
A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murder.
1948.
5 Movies
Jungle Goddess
2.67
1948
When a plane carrying the daughter of a millionaire crashes in an African jungle, two pilots set out to collect the reward. They discover that she has become the goddess of a primitive tribe. An insur...
Stage Struck
1948
The murder of nightclub hostess leads an investigator (Kane Richmond) to seedy nightspots.
Jinx Money
1948
A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of b...
The Golden Eye
5.3
1948
A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable money-making machine. However, the owner, instead of being happy about his now profitable business, ins...
Because of Eve
1948
ad feedback Sally and Bob have been married a year. She might be pregnant, so Dr. West picks up a test sample and tells them to come by in a week for the result. They recall problems they had just be...
1947.
1 Movie
Kilroy Was Here
1947
"Kilroy Was Here" was a popular expression during World War II, but it's not much fun to John J. Kilroy, who has to try to live with all the jokes and wisecracks regarding his name.
1946.
1 Movie
1945.
3 Movies
Hollywood and Vine
1945
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies, but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult then she counted on. Howewver, she does become a star of sorts--as...
Sensation Hunters
1945
A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
1944.
5 Movies
Leave It to the Irish
1944
A private eye (James Dunn) investigates the murder of a fur dealer. Monogram.
Belle of the Yukon
1944
Left by a con man (Randolph Scott), a dancer (Gypsy Rose Lee) finds him in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
Raiders of Ghost City
1944
During the latter stages of the Civil War, a gang of supposed Confederates, headed by Alex Morel (Lionel Atwill), raid all gold shipments destined for Washington from Oro Grande, California. Can they...
Voodoo Man
1
1944
A mad doctor (Bela Lugosi) and his helpers (John Carradine, George Zucco) lure girls to his lab for brain work, to help his wife.
The Monster Maker
1944
Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.
1943.
5 Movies
Smart Guy
1943
A gambler is about to stand trial for a crime he actually didn't commit. In order to brush up his "image", he adopts an orphaned newsboy.
Danger! Women at Work
1943
Three women inherit a 10-ton truck and decide to go into business. Hi jinks ensue.
The Deerslayer
1943
Deerslayer, a white man who was brought up by the Mohicans, helps his old tribe when the Hurons steal Princess Wah Tah, the betrothed of his friend Jingo-Good. His friends, the Hutters, are a white fa...
Corregidor
1943
A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops...
The Black Raven
1
1943
One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote inn called "The Black Raven" after the nickname of...
1942.
5 Movies
Bowery at Midnight
1942
Soup kitchen operator and criminologist Bela Lugosi operates a soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of robberies and murders.
One Thrilling Night
1942
A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver under their bed.
Rolling Down the Great Divide
1942
A ring of cattle thieves uses short-wave radio to communicate with each other. A trio of range detectives must find a way to capture the gang.
Law and Order
1942
Billy the Kid and his pals Jeff Travis and Fuzzy Jones are arrested and brought to Fort Culver, where Billy is amazed to discover that he and the post commander Lieutenant Ted Morrison, are exact doub...
Texas Justice
1942
Tom Cameron and Fuzzy Q. Jones come to the aid of their old friend Smoky, who is having trouble with power hungry cattle rancher Huxley.
1941.
5 Movies
New York Town
1941
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...
The Lady Eve
4.5
1941
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean...
The Pioneers
1941
A frontiersman leads a group of pioneers to their destination in the Old West and then helps them settle it.
Twilight on the Trail
1941
Hoppy, Lucky and California are chasing cattle rustlers who have been bothering cattle rancher friends of Hoppy. The source of the problem is a crooked foreman. Johnny and Lucy are the love interests....
The Royal Mounted Patrol
1941
Western star Charles Starrett makes one of his periodic forays into the Great White North in Columbia's Royal Mounted Patrol. When villainous lumberman Frenchy Duvalle (Donald Curtis) refuses to limit...
1940.
6 Movies
Mystery Sea Raider
1940
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
The Great McGinty
1940
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally ...
The Way of All Flesh
1940
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...
The Mad Doctor
1940
A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
Love Thy Neighbor
1940
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.
Dancing on a Dime
1940
When the government withdraws their funding on the day of the show's dress rehearsal, a group of promising young players, including Ted, Jack, and Phil, are stunned. When Mac, the stage doorman, offer...
1939.
2 Movies
$1,000 a Touchdown
1939
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
All Women Have Secrets
1939
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...
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