Elsie Baker

Good Neighbor Sam (1964)

To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral appearance.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Swift
CAST:  Jack Lemmon  •  Romy Schneider  •  Dorothy Provine  •  Mike Connors

To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral appearance.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Swift
CAST:  Jack Lemmon  •  Romy Schneider  •  Dorothy Provine  •  Mike Connors

Mystery Street (1950)

When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Sturges
CAST:  Ricardo Montalban  •  Sally Forrest  •  Bruce Bennett  •  Elsa Lanchester

When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Sturges
CAST:  Ricardo Montalban  •  Sally Forrest  •  Bruce Bennett  •  Elsa Lanchester

The Black Stork (1917)

A young man and woman are considering marriage; eugenicist Harry J Haiselden warns that they are ill-matched and will produce defective offspring. He is right; their baby is born defective, dies quickly and floats into heaven.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton
CAST:  Jane Fearnley  •  Allan Murnane  •  Hamilton Revelle  •  Elsie Esmond

A young man and woman are considering marriage; eugenicist Harry J Haiselden warns that they are ill-matched and will produce defective offspring. He is right; their baby is born defective, dies quickly and floats into heaven.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton
CAST:  Jane Fearnley  •  Allan Murnane  •  Hamilton Revelle  •  Elsie Esmond

Beatrice Fairfax (1916)

Beatrice Fairfax, the original advice-to-the-lovelorn reporter and her friend and not-so-secret admirer Jimmy Barton investigate calls for help and escape exotic perils and dangers. Episodes include exciting and fun stories of baby-napping, blackmail, jewel ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton
CAST:  Harry Fox  •  Grace Darling  •  Allan Murnane  •  Nigel Barrie

Beatrice Fairfax, the original advice-to-the-lovelorn reporter and her friend and not-so-secret admirer Jimmy Barton investigate calls for help and escape exotic perils and dangers. Episodes include exciting and fun stories of baby-napping, blackmail, jewel ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton
CAST:  Harry Fox  •  Grace Darling  •  Allan Murnane  •  Nigel Barrie

Ghosts of Hanley House (1968)

Five people are spending the night in a haunted house. Things get dicey when some of them start turning up decapitated.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Louise Sherrill
CAST:  Elsie Baker  •  Barbara Chase  •  Roberta Reeves  •  Wilkie de Martel

Five people are spending the night in a haunted house. Things get dicey when some of them start turning up decapitated.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Louise Sherrill
CAST:  Elsie Baker  •  Barbara Chase  •  Roberta Reeves  •  Wilkie de Martel

Shakedown (1950)

Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joseph Pevney
CAST:  Howard Duff  •  Brian Donlevy  •  Peggy Dow  •  Lawrence Tierney

Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joseph Pevney
CAST:  Howard Duff  •  Brian Donlevy  •  Peggy Dow  •  Lawrence Tierney

Patria (1917)

Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves with Mexicans across the border. They are stopped by the efforts of munitions factory heiress Patria Channing and U.S ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton  •  Jacques Jaccard
CAST:  Irene Castle  •  Milton Sills  •  Warner Oland  •  George Majeroni

Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves with Mexicans across the border. They are stopped by the efforts of munitions factory heiress Patria Channing and U.S ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton  •  Jacques Jaccard
CAST:  Irene Castle  •  Milton Sills  •  Warner Oland  •  George Majeroni

Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)

The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker gets caught in the middle of the squabble ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Stevenson
CAST:  Peter Ustinov  •  Dean Jones  •  Suzanne Pleshette  •  Elsa Lanchester

The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker gets caught in the middle of the squabble ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Stevenson
CAST:  Peter Ustinov  •  Dean Jones  •  Suzanne Pleshette  •  Elsa Lanchester

No Room for the Groom (1952)

Alvah, a young GI who happens to own a vineyard, elopes to Las Vegas with Lee, his housekeeper's daughter. But Alvah's chicken pox postpone the wedding night. The rest revolves around more delays to the consummation, caused by Lee's manipulative Mama and the flock ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Douglas Sirk
CAST:  Tony Curtis  •  Piper Laurie  •  Don DeFore  •  Spring Byington

Alvah, a young GI who happens to own a vineyard, elopes to Las Vegas with Lee, his housekeeper's daughter. But Alvah's chicken pox postpone the wedding night. The rest revolves around more delays to the consummation, caused by Lee's manipulative Mama and the flock ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Douglas Sirk
CAST:  Tony Curtis  •  Piper Laurie  •  Don DeFore  •  Spring Byington

The Mysteries of Myra (1916)

Myra Maynard's family is cursed by the devil-worshipping Black Order and she is marked for death by black magic on the eve of her eighteenth birthday. Dr. Payson Alden, the movies' first psychic detective, uses science to try and defeat the cult's evil spells, and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton
CAST:  Jean Sothern  •  Howard Estabrook  •  Allan Murnane  •  M.W. Rale

Myra Maynard's family is cursed by the devil-worshipping Black Order and she is marked for death by black magic on the eve of her eighteenth birthday. Dr. Payson Alden, the movies' first psychic detective, uses science to try and defeat the cult's evil spells, and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton
CAST:  Jean Sothern  •  Howard Estabrook  •  Allan Murnane  •  M.W. Rale