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Ellen Drew (born Esther Loretta Ray; November 23, 1914 – December 3, 2003) was an American actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ellen Drew, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Outlaw's Son
1957
as Ruth Sewall
A young boy grows to adulthood believing his father was the man responsible for a murder committed during a bank robbery.
America for Me
1953
as School Teacher
A vacationing school teacher and her friend meet a cowboy on his way to a rodeo. The teacher and the cowboy fall in love while the travelogue camera t...

Man in the Saddle
1951
as Nan Melotte
A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself ...

The Great Missouri Raid
1951
as Bee Moore
During the American Civil War (1861-1865), farmers Jesse and Frank James decided to form an armed gang to face the Union troops using guerrilla warfar...

Stars in My Crown
1950
as Harriet Gray
Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time, he has a family and many friends but also finds friction with a ...

Cargo to Capetown
1950
as Kitty Mellar
A sailor and his captain fight over a beautiful girl.

The Baron of Arizona
1950
as Sofia de Peralta-Reavis
The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical eviden...

Davy Crockett, Indian Scout
1950
as Frances Oatman
It's 1848 and a wagon train with an Army escort is heading west through Indian territory, It's scout is Davy Crockett, nephew of his more famous names...

The Crooked Way
1949
as Nina Martin
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his crimin...

The Man from Colorado
1948
as Caroline Emmet
Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to ...

The Swordsman
1948
as Barbara Glowan
Young lovers brings two fighting clans together.

Johnny O'Clock
1947
as Nelle Marchettis
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partn...

Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
1946
as Irene Cotter / Natalie Cotter
A criminal psychologist investigates the murder of a veteran with amnesia.

Sing While You Dance
1946
as Susan Kent
Susan Kent, hoping to establish herself as a song-plugger, tries to obtain a second song from a young songwriter, Johnny Crane, after his first song b...

Man Alive
1945
as Connie McBride
A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.

Isle of the Dead
1945
as Thea
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a supers...

China Sky
1945
as Louise Thompson
During World War II, an American mission hospital is headed up by Dr. Gray Thompson and Dr. Sara Durand. Sara is secretly in love with Gray but hides ...

That's My Baby!
1944
as Betty Moody
A love triangle occurs between the publisher's daughter Betty Moody. comic book artist Tim Jones, and the company's wily manipulative manager Hilton P...

Dark Mountain
1944
as Kay Downey
A woman doesn't realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a murder he committed, she turns to an ex-boyfriend...

The Impostor
1944
as Yvonne
The story concerns a condemned murderer named Clement (Jean Gabin), who is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the French jail that holds him. During his ...

Night Plane from Chungking
1943
as Ann Richards
Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a ...

Ice Capades Revue
1942
as Ann Porter
Promoter Ann Porter decides to start her own Ice Show despite the efforts of ex-racketeer Duke Baldwin who owns a rival show. Jeff Stewart, a rich, su...

My Favorite Spy
1942
as Teresa 'Terry' Kyser
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).

The Remarkable Andrew
1942
as Peggy Tobin
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he i...

Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
as Ellen Drew (uncredited)
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddie...

The Night of January 16th
1941
as Katherine "Kit" Lane
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interes...

Our Wife
1941
as Babe Marvin
A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.

The Parson of Panamint
1941
as Mary Mallory
As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield recalls the tow...

Reaching for the Sun
1941
as Rita
Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.

The Monster and the Girl
1941
as Susan Webster
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape ...

The Mad Doctor
1940
as Linda Booth
A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.

The Texas Rangers Ride Again
1940
as Ellen 'Slats' Dangerfield
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the g...

Christmas in July
1940
as Betsy Casey
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford Ho...

Buck Benny Rides Again
1940
as Joan Cameron
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing ...

Women Without Names
1940
as Joyce King
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts...

French Without Tears
1940
as Diana Lake
It is based on the popular West End stage comedy by Terrence Rattigan. It all begins when Diana (Ellen Drew), the sister of a British boy studying in ...

Geronimo
1939
as Alice Hamilton
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 betwee...

The Escape
1939
as Reporter
An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his ...

The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1939
as Ann Wilson
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.

The Lady's from Kentucky
1939
as Penelope 'Penny' Hollis
Good-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard times. His one out is a marker for half-ownership in a...

If I Were King
1938
as Huguette
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...

Sing, You Sinners
1938
as Martha Randall
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 thin...

You and Me
1938
as Cashier (uncredited)
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. Am...

Cocoanut Grove
1938
as Radio Station Receptionist
Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.

Dangerous to Know
1938
as Secretary on Intercom (voice) (uncredited)
Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), wit...

Scandal Street
1938
as (uncredited)
Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in the smal...

Night of Mystery
1937
as Secretary
One of a series of movies based on the character Philo Vance

Make Way for Tomorrow
1937
as Usherette (uncredited)
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with d...

Murder Goes to College
1937
as Lil
The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the underworld trying to “beat the numbers-racket” with ...

College Holiday
1936
as Dancer on Train
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.

Rose Bowl
1936
as Mary Arnold
Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is ba...

The Accusing Finger
1936
as Wife
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sente...

The Big Broadcast of 1937
1936
as Telephone Girl
The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.

Murder with Pictures
1936
as Bit Role (uncredited)
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for t...

Wives Never Know
1936
as Information Clerk at Flowerland Nurseries (uncredited)
The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J. Hugh Ramsay, author of the bestselling book, "Marr...

Lady Be Careful
1936
as Girl in Sailboat
Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The...

Hollywood Boulevard
1936
as Terry Ray - Casting Office Secretary (uncredited)
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to w...

Yours for the Asking
1936
as Woman (uncredited)
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. ...

Rhythm on the Range
1936
as Party Guest
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner o...