Biography
From Wikipedia Phyllis Crane (August 7, 1914 – October 12, 1982) was a Canadian-born American film actress. She appeared in over 45 films between 1928 and 1937. Crane signed with Columbia Pictures in 1934. Modern viewers will recognize Crane from her appearances in several early Three Stooges films, such as Three Little Pigskins, Uncivil Warriors, and Pop Goes the Easel. Perhaps her most famous role was as Professor Nichols' daughter in Hoi Polloi.
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Complete Filmography
Midnight Blunders
1936
as Miss Millstone (uncredited)
The evil Dr. Wong abducts prominent scientist Dr. Edwin Millstone. Bumbling bank guards Tom and Monte search through Chinatown to find Dr. Wong and re...
Ay Tank Ay Go
1936
as Mary Lou Beagle
Boy loves girl, but she's on the other side in a hillbilly feud.
My Man Godfrey
1936
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a...
A Pain in the Pullman
1936
as Girl Curly Kisses (uncredited)
The stooges are small time actors traveling by train to an engagement. Along with their pet monkey, they manage to spoil the trip for quite a few of t...
Below the Deadline
1936
as Miss Jennings (uncredited)
After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to e...
The Bridge of Sighs
1936
as Peggy Watts (uncredited)
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtne...
Three on a Limb
1936
as Molly's Friend the Car-Hop
Scoutmaster Elmer Brown loses his heart to the pretty carhop who works in a drive-in diner. Complicating his romantic longings is her policeman fiancé...
Hot Paprika
1935
as The Bank Filing Clerk
A bank clerk, who mistakenly believes he has three months to live, quits his job, runs off to the island of Paprika, gets involved with a flirty canti...
The Girl Who Came Back
1935
as Miss Parsons (uncredited)
A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to bl...
Hoi Polloi
1935
as Nichols' Daughter (uncredited)
A professor bets that he can turn the stooges into gentlemen. After many attempts to teach them etiquette, he brings them to a fancy society party. Th...
Every Night at Eight
1935
as Telephonist (uncredited)
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing,...
The Captain Hits the Ceiling
1935
as Vera
Franklin gets into a disagreement with a tough sea captain. However, he doesn't find out until later that the captain is his fiance's father.
Stage Frights
1935
Two bumbling detectives help a stage actress who has been receiving threatening letters.
Murder in the Fleet
1935
as Woman Trying to Leave Ship (Uncredited)
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of te...
Alias Mary Dow
1935
as Maid (uncredited)
A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
Uncivil Warriors
1935
as Miss Judith Buttz (uncredited)
Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable informati...
Circumstantial Evidence
1935
as A Dumb Dame (uncredited)
A reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then taking the rap for it. However, the "fake" murder...
Pop Goes the Easel
1935
as Model in Tights (uncredited)
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hun...
Three Little Pigskins
1934
as Molly Gray
The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football players. Hired to play for his team, they blow the big...
Men in Black
1934
as Anna Conda (uncredited)
The stooges are three doctors who graduated medical school by being in it for too many years. They come across such problems as an overly chirpy nurse...
Blind Date
1934
as Girl in Box
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
Elmer, the Great
1933
as Gentryville Journal reporter (uncredited)
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only...
It's a Cinch
1932
as Phyllis
When a dance instructor is tricked into facing a prize fighter in the boxing ring, his girlfriend devises a plan to turn the odds in his favor.
Young Bride
1932
as The Taxi Dancer
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
Keep Laughing
1932
Keep Laughing is a 1932 Comedy short
The Lure of Hollywood
1931
as Phyllis
Two aspiring actresses encounter mishaps during a shoot.
Aloha
1931
as Dixie
In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir...
Crashing Hollywood
1931
as Phyllis
Crashing Hollywood is a 1931 Comedy short.
Ten Cents a Dance
1931
as Eunice
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
Three Hollywood Girls
1931
as Phyllis
Three young girls live together in a one room apartment just scraping by while dreaming of Hollywood stardom. When one refuses a small role because th...
Hold the Baby
1930
short subject comedy
College Lovers
1930
as Josephine Crane
Romance on a college campus.
Madam Satan
1930
as Girl in Parked Car
A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.
The Girl Said No
1930
as Alma Ward
A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plot...
The Forward Pass
1929
as Dot
Marty Reid, the star quarterback at Sanford College, is constantly singled out by the opposition for punishment, and he swears to his pal, Honey Smith...
So This Is College
1929
as Betty Jackson
Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.
Coquette
1929
as Bessie
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
Why Be Good?
1929
as Salesgirl (uncredited)
A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.
Stolen Kisses
1929
as Margot
A crotchety old coot wants his son and daughter-in-law to have kids so he can have grandchildren, but so far they haven't done so. In a somewhat ham-h...
Racing Romance
1927
Racing Romance is a 1927 Action film. According to a brief article in the St. Petersburg, FL Evening Independent newspaper, the film was centered in t...