Elaine Shepard

Elaine Shepard

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Elaine Elizabeth Shepard (April 2, 1913 – September 6, 1998) was a Broadway and film actress in the 1930s and 1940s. She was also the author of The Doom Pussy, a semi-fictional account of aviation in the Vietnam War. Shepard's first film appearance was in the 1936 Republic serial Darkest Africa, in which she played Valerie Tremaine, the heroine of the film. This was followed with a series of leading roles in other minor films, such as You Can't Fool Your Wife, a 1940 comedy starring Lucille Ball. She then had several minor roles in major films, including playing a secretary in Topper and uncredited roles in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and the 1946 Ziegfeld Follies. A more prominent role came in Seven Days Ashore, a musical in which she plays the principal love interest for the band of sailors on shore leave. Shepard also had some minor appearances on Broadway, including a part in the 1940 Cole Porter musical Panama Hattie. Shepard abandoned acting and turned to freelance journalism. She is best known in this role for her Vietnam War coverage, which became the basis for her 1967 book The Doom Pussy, recounting her experiences with aviators in the early part of the war. This book includes an early use of the phrase "the whole nine yards".

  • Title: Elaine Shepard
  • Popularity: 1.114
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1913-04-02
  • Place of Birth: Olney - Illinois - USA
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Elaine Shepard Movies

  • 1937
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    Topper

    Topper

    6.714 1937 HD

    Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of...

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  • 1943
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    The Falcon in Danger

    The Falcon in Danger

    5.6 1943 HD

    Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is $100,000. The Falcon investigates and discovers a plot...

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  • 1937
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    Night 'n' Gales

    Night 'n' Gales

    7 1937 HD

    Because of a storm, the Gang has to stay overnight at Darla's house, and they drive her father crazy.

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  • 1944
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    Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

    Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

    6.6 1944 HD

    In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the...

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  • 1936
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    Darkest Africa

    Darkest Africa

    7.2 1936 HD

    A 15-episode serial in which Beatty goes to darkest Africa to rescue the Goddess of Joba, who is being held by the high priest.

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  • 1937
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    Law of the Ranger

    Law of the Ranger

    1 1937 HD

    Working undercover, Rangers Bob and Wally arrive to take up ranching. Out to stop them is Bill Nash and his men. When Bob plans to file on a ranch,...

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  • 1936
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    I Cover Chinatown

    I Cover Chinatown

    1 1936 HD

    A tour guide in Chinatown and his girlfriend get mixed up with jewel thieves and murder.

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  • 1937
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    The Fighting Texan

    The Fighting Texan

    1 1937 HD

    A rancher finds that his stock of horses is mysteriously being depleted, and discovers that a ranch near him has had a sudden upsurge in its horse...

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  • 1944
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    Seven Days Ashore

    Seven Days Ashore

    4.5 1944 HD

    Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends.

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  • 1938
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    Professor Beware

    Professor Beware

    6.1 1938 HD

    Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the...

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  • 1938
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    There Goes My Heart

    There Goes My Heart

    7.154 1938 HD

    An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.

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  • 1940
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    You Can't Fool Your Wife

    You Can't Fool Your Wife

    4.5 1940 HD

    Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky...

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  • 1951
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    Fiamme sulla laguna

    Fiamme sulla laguna

    1 1951 HD

    After the death of his father, Anna starts working in the navy where he falls in love with a navy man.

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  • 1966
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    Bat Men of Africa

    Bat Men of Africa

    1 1966 HD

    Re-edited feature film version of the 1936 serial Darkest Africa.

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