Marietta Canty
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Marietta Canty (1905-1986) was an African American actress, community activist and recipient of numerous humanist awards.
As an actress, Marietta Canty first appeared on Broadway in 1933. She also appeared in 40 films between 1940 and 1955, mostly in supporting roles and bit parts. Two of her first roles were in the films The Lady is Waiting (1942) and The Spoilers (1942), both with Marlene Dietrich in the leading role. Canty is perhaps best known as Delilah, Spencer Tracy's housemaid, in the comedy Father of the Bride (1950) and in its sequel Father's Little Dividend (1951). Canty retired from film acting in 1955, her last role in Hollywood was Rebel Without a Cause starring James Dean, where she had a memorable part as Sal Mineo's family maid.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.823 |
| Birthday | 1905-09-30 |
| Place of Birth | Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
| Also Known As |
1955
Rebel Without a Cause
7.5/1594
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems...
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Rebel Without a Cause
1951
Father's Little Dividend
6.4/63
Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be...
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Father's Little Dividend
1942
Not a Ladies' Man
6/2
A recently divorced district attorney falls for his troubled son's schoolteacher.
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Not a Ladies' Man
1944
Lady in the Dark
4.7/9
A neurotic editor sees a psychoanalyst about the advertising man, movie star and other man in her life.
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Lady in the Dark
1953
The I Don't Care Girl
6.5/1
This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story...
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The I Don't Care Girl
1946
The Searching Wind
0/0
Always the diplomat, Alex Hazen is slow to take sides in Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Cassie Bowman wants him to be more decisive and leaves him in...
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The Searching Wind
1947
Dear Ruth
7.2/6
Lt. William Seacroft, on leave from the Italian front, arrives at the New York home of Ruth Wilkins, with whom he has been corresponding. Unknown to b...
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Dear Ruth
1940
Boom Town
6.9/51
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil t...
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Boom Town
1949
Chicago Deadline
6/11
On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but c...
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Chicago Deadline
1943
Three Hearts for Julia
6/1
When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again.
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Three Hearts for Julia
1952
Dreamboat
5.9/14
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been vio...
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Dreamboat
1952
The Bad and the Beautiful
7.3/246
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of vari...
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The Bad and the Beautiful
1955
A Man Called Peter
6.4/15
Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but finds out there is a different future for him whe...
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A Man Called Peter
1951
A Streetcar Named Desire
7.6/1330
A fading southern belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
1942
The Lady Is Willing
6.8/6
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep t...
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The Lady Is Willing
1947
The Sea of Grass
6.2/26
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
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The Sea of Grass
1940
Boom Town
6.9/51
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil t...
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Boom Town
1943
Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
5.7/3
Dennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat's new kittens.
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Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
1940
'What's Your 'I.Q.'?': Number Two
0/0
Questions and answers on various subjects, from Lady Godiva to the Panama Canal.
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'What's Your 'I.Q.'?': Number Two
1945
Bring on the Girls
6.1/5
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hote...
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Bring on the Girls
1951
Belle Le Grand
3/1
Upon her release from prison for a murder she didn't commit, a woman finds that her younger sister has been placed in an orphanage. Determined to do w...
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Belle Le Grand
1942
Silver Queen
5.6/5
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
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Silver Queen
1942
The Spoilers
6.2/54
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle wit...
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The Spoilers
1950
Father of the Bride
7/199
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself,...
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Father of the Bride
1942
Johnny Doughboy
5.5/6
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group o...
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Johnny Doughboy
1949
Dear Wife
6/1
In this sequel to Dear Ruth, teenaged Miriam starts a political campaign to nominate Bill Seacroft, her brother-in-law, for state senator in oppositio...
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Dear Wife
1946
Home Sweet Homicide
4.7/3
Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves by trying...
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Home Sweet Homicide
1950
Bright Leaf
5.9/16
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
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Bright Leaf
1944
Goin' to Town
0/0
General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical joke being played on them.
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Goin' to Town
1942
The Magnificent Dope
7.2/10
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" t...
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The Magnificent Dope
1947
The Crimson Key
4.3/3
Larry Morgan, a private detective, is hired by a woman who wants Larry to trail her husband. The husband is murdered and, shortly afterwards, the wife...
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The Crimson Key
1950
My Foolish Heart
6.7/15
After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew W...
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