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Money Madness is a 1948 American film directed by Sam Newfield.
Steve Clark (Hugh Beaumont) rides on a Los Angeles-bound bus and gets off in a small town on the way. He first hides a large amount of cash he had been carrying in his suitcase. Then, he obtains a job, which leads him to a chance encounter with Julie Saunders (Frances Rafferty), a local woman in her twenties. Julie lives with an elderly, bitter aunt who makes her life miserable. Clark, with his charm and original outlook on life, instantly becomes a ray of sunlight for her, and they quickly marry. However, Clark soon admits to her that the marriage is part of a plan he has crafted. This plan will help him launder a large amount of ill-gotten cash. But it also involves murder and will make Julie an accessory to murder, against her own will.
Cast Hugh Beaumont as Steve Clark Frances Rafferty as Julie Harlan Warde as Donald Cecil Weston as Cora Ida Moore as Mrs. Ferguson Danny Morton as Rogers Joel Friedkin as Mr. Wagner Lane Chandler as Policeman
Eugene Hugh Beaumont (February 16, 1909 -- May 14, 1982) was an American actor and television director. He was also licensed to preach by the Methodist church. Beaumont is best known for his portrayal of Ward Cleaver, the husband of June Cleaver (Barbara Billingsley) and the father of Wally (Tony Dow) and Beaver (Jerry Mathers) on the television series, Leave It to Beaver (1957--1963).
In 1931, Beaumont began his career in show business by performing in theaters, nightclubs and on the radio. He began acting in motion pictures in 1940, appearing in over three dozen films (many roles not credited; he was credited along with another future TV dad-William Bendix, who would star in The Life of Riley in the 1946 film The Blue Dahlia which starred Alan Ladd) before taking his best-known role as the archetypal philosophy-dispensing suburban father, Ward Cleaver, on the popular sitcom television series Leave It to Beaver. In 1946-1947, Beaumont starred in five films as private detective Michael Shayne, taking over the role from Lloyd Nolan.
Local legend in Chattanooga says that the fictional town of Mayfield where the Cleavers lived actually came from Mayfield Dairy, for which Beaumont had worked for while attending school in Chattanooga.
Frances Rafferty (June 16, 1922 -- April 18, 2004) was an American actress, dancer, World War II pin-up girl and MGM contract star.
Signed by MGM Studios, Frances made her film debut in 1942. She appeared in minor and secondary roles, and although she had a part in the 1944 film Dragon Seed with Katharine Hepburn and Walter Huston, her significant parts were limited almost exclusively to "B" movies. Her only leading role likely to be seen on TV is in Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945).
During World War II she was a volunteer pin-up girl for YANK magazine, a publication for the soldiers of the United States military.
In the 1950s, Rafferty turned to acting in network television shows. In 1954, she guest starred in two episodes of CBS's The Public Defender, starring Reed Hadley and based on cases of attorneys for the indigent.
From 1954 to 1959, she appeared as Ruth Ruskin Henshaw in all 111 episodes of the Desilu Studios CBS sitcom December Bride, with co-stars Spring Byington as her mother, Lily Ruskin, and Dean Miller as her husband, Matt Henshaw.
Rafferty also appeared in a number of different television programs throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and after retiring in 1965 made one final appearance in a 1977 episode of Karl Malden's ABC series, The Streets of San Francisco.
Harlan Warde (November 6, 1917 - March 13, 1980) was a character actor active in television and movies. From 1958-1962 Warde joined Chuck Connors in The Rifleman. In 1962-1971 Warde joined the cast of the TV Western series The Virginian in the recurring role of Sheriff Brannon. His last role was in the 1979 Rockford Files episode, A Different Drummer playing an aging father of a shady doctor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_Madness
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WOW THIS IS CRAZY
RaIted3x 1 month ago
Ward Cleaver as you've never seen him before...
kpyng 3 months ago
good nice girl, killer , dead aunt, money, noir drama !!! thanks for sharing !!!
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