Lillian Cornell

Lillian Cornell

Acting
1916-06-02
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Biography

Lillian Cornell (born Lillian Michuda; June 2, 1916 - May 25, 2015) was an American singer on old-time radio and an actress in films in the early 1940s.

Known For & Full Filmography12 Titles

#1Buck Benny Rides Again

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Peggy

5.0 / 10
ComedyWestern

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 it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.

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#2The Mad Ghoul

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Isabel's Singing Voice (voice) (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
Sci-FiHorror

A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as part of a plan to steal his lover.

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#3The Quarterback

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Sheila

10.0 / 10
Comedy

A comedy featuring Morris in a dual role as a dumb twin and a star football player, and a smart twin studying to become a college professor. They both are smitten with Kay Merrill as well. Of course, gamblers are also involved.

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#4Las Vegas Nights

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as Mildred Jennings

6.4 / 10
ComedyMusic

A vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nightclub. Frank Sinatra's first screen appearance.

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#5You're the One

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as Miss Jones

4.7 / 10

100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character.

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#6Rhythm on the River

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Millie Starling

6.9 / 10
ComedyMusic

Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own name. The problem is every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style.

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#7Slightly Terrific

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m as Gypsy Queen

5.0 / 10
ComedyMusic

A manufacturer and an impresario (who has promised some young people he will stage their show) are twin brothers causes a lot of confusion when the manufacturer is mistaken for his no-money brother.

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#8Sweethearts of the U.S.A.

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m as Helen Grant

5.7 / 10
MusicComedy

A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.

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#9Moon Over Las Vegas

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m as Singer

10.0 / 10
RomanceComedyMusic

A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.

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#10Dancing on a Dime

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Doris Marlowe

5.0 / 10
DramaMusicComedy

Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross, Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe of promising young players rehearsing for a WPA show at the Garrick Theater in New York and are stunned when the government withdraws their funding on the day of the show's dress rehearsal. Destitute, the troupe plans to return home when Mac, the stage doorman, offers to allow four of the men, Phil, Dandy, Jack and Ted, to use the theater for a boardinghouse. After accepting Mac's offer, the men improvise bedrooms out of the set pieces and meet amateur actress Lorie Fenton from Cleveland, who is eager to audition for them. When the men learn she recently received a small inheritance, they allow her to audition, hoping she will back the show.

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#11A Night at Earl Carroll's

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Self

4.5 / 10
Music

Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, the defeated racketeer-politician, has Earl Carroll and several of his acts kidnapped, figuring the kidnapping coup will cause Jones to be laughed out of office. In Carroll's absence his assistant, Ramona Lisa, and his press agent, Barney Nelson put on the show themselves with the remaining talent, the chorus girls and also pressing into the entertainment cigarette girls, cloakroom girls, the doorman and others including oil heiresses Brenda Gusher and Cobina Gusher. Carroll and the other prisoners make their escape when a kidnapped juggling act sends their captors down in a barrage of beer bottles.

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#12Gals, Incorporated

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Vicki

10.0 / 10
ComedyMusicRomance

The story of a nightclub.

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