Carol Bruce

Carol Bruce

Carol Bruce was an American band singer, Broadway star, and film and television actress. Bruce began her career as a singer in the late 1930s with Larry Clinton and his band, and later sang with Ben Bernie's orchestra in 1940-1941. Bruce made her Broadway debut in Louisiana Purchase, with songs by Irving Berlin, who discovered her at a nightclub in Newark, New Jersey. She was the first actress to play the role of Julie in a Broadway production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat since the 1932 Broadway revival. Bruce played the role onstage in 1946 and garnered favorable comparisons to Helen Morgan, who had originated the role onstage in 1927 and repeated it in both the 1932 revival and the 1936 film. Bruce appeared with Abbott and Costello in Keep 'Em Flying (1941). Her first serious film role was in This Woman Is Mine (1941). She had supporting roles many years later in the films American Gigolo (1980) and Planes, Trains and Automobiles. After a long career as a singer and in films, Bruce is probably best-remembered for her recurring role as the domineering and meddlesome Lillian "Mama" Carlson (mother of the station manager played by Gordon Jump) on CBS' WKRP in Cincinnati.

  • Title : Carol Bruce
  • Popularity : 3.069
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1919-11-15
  • Place of Birth : Great Neck, Long Island, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As : Shirley Levy
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Carol Bruce Movies

  • 1987
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    Planes, Trains and Automobiles

    Planes, Trains and Automobiles

    7.248 1987 HD

    An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well...

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  • 1980
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    American Gigolo

    American Gigolo

    6.1 1980 HD

    Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's...

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  • 1937
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    Koo Koo Korrespondance Skool

    Koo Koo Korrespondance Skool

    1 1937 HD

    Another of the series of Educational Pictures' comedy shorts headlining comic strip artist Jefferson Machamer. He joins a correspondence school to...

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  • 1941
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    Keep 'Em Flying

    Keep 'Em Flying

    5.9 1941 HD

    When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott &...

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  • 1942
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    Behind the Eight Ball

    Behind the Eight Ball

    4.7 1942 HD

    The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical...

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  • 1969
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    The Girl Who Returned

    The Girl Who Returned

    1 1969 HD

    Tough and exacting coach Geneva whips track star Lucy into shape for an upcoming Olympic event. Geneva's training proves to be so gruelling that Lucy...

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  • 1941
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    This Woman Is Mine

    This Woman Is Mine

    3.2 1941 HD

    Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.

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  • 1996
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    The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists

    The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists

    6.193 1996 HD

    When Littlefoot grandfather falls ill, The dinosaurs only way to cure him is a flower in the forbidding land of mist which hold unexpecting perils...

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  • 1978
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    WKRP in Cincinnati

    WKRP in Cincinnati

    7.5 1978 HD

    When a Cincinnati radio station switches from sedate music to top-40 rock 'n' roll, its staff of oddball characters is forced to switch gears...

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  • 1985
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    The Golden Girls

    The Golden Girls

    7.5 1985 HD

    Four Southern Florida seniors share a house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake. Bright, promiscuous, clueless and hilarious, these lovely,...

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  • 1989
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    Doogie Howser, M.D.

    Doogie Howser, M.D.

    6.61 1989 HD

    Doogie Howser is a doctor. He is also a 16-year-old genius who graduated college at age 10 and finished medical school at age 14. But he is still a...

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  • 1985
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    The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone

    7.7 1985 HD

    This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two...

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  • 1962
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    The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

    5.6 1962 HD

    The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC,...

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  • 1976
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    Charlie's Angels

    Charlie's Angels

    6.7 1976 HD

    Beautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie's Angels are everything a man could dream of... and way more than they could ever handle!...

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  • 1979
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    Knots Landing

    Knots Landing

    6.8 1979 HD

    The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.

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  • 1996
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    Profiler

    Profiler

    7 1996 HD

    Rachel Burke is a criminal profiler, one of the best, actually. She, along with a sophisticated team of specialists on the FBI's Violent Crimes Task...

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  • 1948
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    Studio One

    Studio One

    4.727 1948 HD

    An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One,...

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  • 1987
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    Jake and the Fatman

    Jake and the Fatman

    5.9 1987 HD

    Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake...

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  • 1991
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    The New WKRP in Cincinnati

    The New WKRP in Cincinnati

    7 1991 HD

    The New WKRP in Cincinnati is a sequel/spin-off of the original CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. It was made for the syndication market from 1991 to...

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  • 1993
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    Diagnosis: Murder

    Diagnosis: Murder

    7.1 1993 HD

    Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.

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  • 1978
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    WKRP in Cincinnati

    WKRP in Cincinnati

    7.5 1978 HD

    When a Cincinnati radio station switches from sedate music to top-40 rock 'n' roll, its staff of oddball characters is forced to switch gears...

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.632 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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  • 1994
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    Party of Five

    Party of Five

    7 1994 HD

    Five brothers and sisters are determined to stay together following the tragic loss of their parents.

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