Kay Garrett

Acting
1894-01-15
Cresco, Iowa, USA

Biography

Kay Garrett was born on 15 January 1894 in Cresco, Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for The Big Bluff (1955). He died on 26 November 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Known For & Full Filmography26 Titles

#1Strangers on a Train

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Tennis Match Spectator (uncredited)

7.7 / 10
CrimeThrillerDrama

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.

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#2Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as Mr. Brooks (uncredited)

7.3 / 10
ComedyRomance

Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.

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#3Gilda

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Gambler (uncredited)

7.5 / 10
RomanceDramaThriller

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

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#4Sweet Smell of Success

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as Patron at 21 (uncredited)

7.6 / 10
Drama

New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.

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#5The Thin Man

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

7.5 / 10
ComedyMysteryCrime

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

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#6Inherit the Wind

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

7.7 / 10
Drama

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.

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#7Don't Bother to Knock

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.6 / 10
DramaThriller

An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.

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#8Gun Crazy

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Carnival Patron (uncredited)

7.4 / 10
CrimeRomanceDrama

Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.

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#9He Walked by Night

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Doctor (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
ThrillerCrime

Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.

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#10Auntie Mame

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as Audience Member (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
ComedyDrama

Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.

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#11Caught

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Cafe Customer (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
DramaRomanceThriller

Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, violent tendencies. Eventually, young Leonora escapes her unhappy life and begins working with New York City doctor Larry Quinada, who she soon falls for. Unfortunately, Ohlrig refuses to grant his wife a divorce, and things get even darker for Leonora when she realizes she's pregnant with his child.

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#12Kiss Me Kate

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as Audience Member (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
MusicComedyRomance

A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, and they must work together when mistaken identities get them mixed up with the mafia.

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#13Topper

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.7 / 10
ComedyFantasyRomance

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 their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.

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#14Pinky

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Townsman (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
Drama

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.

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#15Iron Man

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Fight Crowd Spectator (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
Drama

An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother.

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#16A Lawless Street

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m as Townsman (uncredited)

5.6 / 10
Western

A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.

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#17The Toast of New Orleans

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Audience Member (uncredited)

5.2 / 10
DramaMusicRomance

Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans to teach him to sing opera but comes to regret this rash decision when the singers fall in love.

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#18Flamingo Road

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
DramaRomance

A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.

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#19Deception

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Concertgoer (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
DramaRomance

After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.

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#20It Started with a Kiss

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m as Charity Raffle Guest (uncredited)

5.5 / 10
ComedyRomance

While on leave in New York, a serviceman both weds a chorus girl and wins a red convertible in a charity raffle. Both his wife and the car turn out to be problematic.

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#21The Secret Fury

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Attorney (uncredited)

5.5 / 10
CrimeDrama

The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.

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#22Miss Grant Takes Richmond

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

5.6 / 10
Comedy

A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.

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#23Tell Your Children

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Parent (uncredited)

4.4 / 10
Drama

High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.

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#24Trapped

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
CrimeThrillerMystery

Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.

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#25Circumstantial Evidence

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m as Juror (uncredited)

5.2 / 10
CrimeDrama

A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.

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#26Hell Bound

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as Quantro's Man (uncredited)

5.8 / 10
ActionDramaThriller

After WW2, a Los Angeles crime ring uses a complex scheme, involving a freight ship, a junkie, and a corrupt health officer, to smuggle drugs into the USA.

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