Lillian Yarbo

Known for Acting

3/17/1905

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Biography

Lillian Yarbo is an actress, known for You Can't Take It with You (1938), Destry Rides Again (1939) and The Great Man's Lady (1942).

Known For (33 credits)

5.1

Movie

Night Unto Night

1949

A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by incurable illness and a beautiful woman haunted by the voice of her dead husband.

6.0

Movie

My Brother Talks to Horses

1947

Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John carries on a romance with the lovely Martha.

5.7

Movie

Saratoga Trunk

1945

An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.

6.8

Movie

The Naughty Nineties

1945

In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.

5.8

Movie

The Gang's All Here

1943

A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.

6.5

Movie

Swing Shift Maisie

1943

Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.

4.7

Movie

Redhead from Manhattan

1943

Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.

6.3

Movie

Presenting Lily Mars

1943

Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

6.0

Movie

Between Us Girls

1942

A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter.

4.7

Movie

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

1942

The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

6.3

Movie

The Great Man's Lady

1941

In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.

Movie

Moon Over Her Shoulder

1941

Marriage counselor advises his bored wife to take up painting through which she meets a hubbie-rival yachtsman.