Film and television actress Audrey Totter (1917-2013) had a relatively short-lived film career, but created several memorable movie moments, mostly at MGM, from 1944 until the early 1950s. The former radio actress first played small parts in films such as “Main Street After Dark” (1945, her debut film), “The Sailor Takes a Wife” (1945) and “The Postman Always Rings Twice” (1946), until she got her break in the whodunit “Lady in the Lake” (1947), based on Raymond Chandler’s detective novel, with Robert Montgomery playing Marlowe; he also directed the film.
“Lady in the Lake” is notable for its experimental use of the first-person narrative style because for most of the film the camera serves as the eyes of private detective Philip Marlowe. Ms Totter’s character looks directly into the camera, as if she’s sparring with Marlowe and by extension with the audience. In the film, Robert Montgomery appears only occasionally, reflected in a mirror, so the camera largely focuses on Ms. Totter as a conspiring publisher who hires Marlowe but has secrets of her own.
Yet, “The Set-Up” (1949), directed by Robert Wise, is maybe the most outstanding film in her career. It’s a screen classic in the noir genre, played out in real time, with Robert Ryan as a washed-up boxer who refuses to give up; Ms. Totter delivers a nuanced performance as his supporting yet despairing wife.
Ms. Totter also played hardboiled dames with the same ease, as she did in “Tension” (1949), directed by John Berry who was later blacklisted. In this suspenseful noir thriller she cheats on her husband, played by Richard Basehart, and gets him blamed for the murder of her boyfriend, played by Lloyd Gough. ‘If you haven’t got enough brains to agree with me, then keep your mouth shut!’ she says. “Tension” is one of those diamonds in the rough that you find when you least expect it, but powerhouse performances by Ms. Totter are the file rouge throughout her film career.
In the late 1930s, she began her acting career in radio in Chicago, and she moved to Los Angeles a few years later to work in films. She performed in various film genres, but to film audiences, she gained much attention for her work in film noir and for playing femme fatale characters, as well as tough and complex women. She became a standout actress of her time.
I met Ms. Totter in April 2004 when she was 86 and lived at the Motion Picture and Television Home, a.k.a. the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, a healthcare facility and retirement community less than an hour from Los Angeles, where the film and television industry has been taking care of its own for decades. Casting director and mutual friend Marvin Paige (1927-2013) drove me from his West Toluca Lake home on Landale Street to Woodland Hills, where we had the following conversation with the veteran actress.
After our interview, the three of us had lunch in the restaurant of the Motion Picture and Television Home where Ms. Totter pointed out who sat where; two tables from us was former actress Virginia Grey, who, by that time, rarely left her room. She had made her screen debut in 1927 at age ten. How close could you get to the early beginnings of film history?
With her soft voice, Ms. Totter—at age 86 still looking radiant as ever—recalled her days at MGM and her wonderful life after she virtually retired from the screen in the early 1950s.
Audrey Mary Totter was born on December 20, 1917, in Joliet, Illinois. More than nine years after we met in 2004, she died in Woodland Hills on December 12, 2013, at age 95—a few days shy of her 96th birthday. The cause was complications of congestive heart failure, her daughter Mea Lane said. The death of the versatile and stylish actress marked the end of a significent era in Hollywood, as she was one of the last surviving stars from the golden age of film—and of film noir.
Ms. Totter, how did you end up signing for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer?
Metro and 20th Century Fox wanted me at the same time after they had heard me on the radio, but everybody suggested that I go with MGM, so I did. And they were right. I did several screentests for wardrobe before I became a contract player and did my first film at the studio [“Main Street After Dark,” 1945], so by then, I was used to the camera. You also had a coach who helped you when you needed it. At MGM, we all made a lot of friends; it was like a fraternity. We were all young, eager, and happy to get the opportunity to work there.
In “The Set-Up” there is this wonderful scene with the character of Robert Ryan in his final boxing fight. Your character is in the hotel room but can’t stand it any longer and decides to go for a walk. You pass this newspaper stand where the radio is on and you’re able to follow what’s happening. Your performance and that film stand the test of time, don’t they?
Yes, although I think I made other films that were at least as important and interesting, but I never made another film that I enjoyed more than “The Set-Up.” Robert Wise was such a wonderful director, and that was one of his first pictures. I was under contract with Metro then, and RKO wanted to borrow me. So then I asked, ‘Who is the director?’ ‘Robert Wise.’ ‘Who’s that?’ [Laughs.] Then I read the script, which was wonderful, and when I met Mr. Wise, I thought he was wonderful, so I decided to do it. I was very glad that I did. And Robert Ryan was marvelous; he should have won an Academy Award, or he should at least have been nominated. Don’t you think so? But, you see, they were making “Champion” [with Kirk Douglas as the boxer] at that time, and for whatever reason, Mr. [Howard] Hughes—the owner of RKO—thought “Champion” would be more important. So when “The Set-Up” was released, we had no publicity. But the film did very well. Robert Wise was so talented, and both of us knew that it would work.
Do you think today’s audiences still remember Robert Ryan? In Europe, he’s completely forgotten.
His films are still on television, but I don’t think he gets the credit he deserves.
I suppose your most famous film still is “The Postman Always Rings Twice” [1946]. You appeared in only one scene with John Garfield, but it was a very interesting character to play, wasn’t it?
Yes, and that was a very important film for me career-wise, with two big stars like Lana Turner and John Garfield; later I also worked with his daughter Julie [“The Nativity,” 1978]. That car scene put me on the map. When my car breaks down, I step out as John Garfield offers to look under the hood. And then I say, ‘I’m going to wait standing up. It’s a hot day, that’s a leather seat, and I’ve got on a thin skirt’ [laughs].
You worked for several years at MGM, and also at Columbia. Was there a big difference if compare those two studios?
Like night and day. Metro treated all their people really great; actors all had their own private dressing rooms. Mr. [Louis B.] Mayer was like a father to all of us. Columbia was very different, but I was there for only one year. I spent most of my career at MGM.
One of your MGM films was “Any Number Can Play” [1949] with Clark Gable. Did you know him before you made that film?
I knew him socially before we did the film. I have a funny story; we were at a dinner party once, and he was sitting next to me. Lana Turner was there too; she always looked gorgeous with all her jewelry. Clark Gable asked me, ‘Are you admiring her jewelry?’ I said, ‘Yes, they’re very beautiful.’ Then he said, ‘You know, you got something much more important: you have jewels inside’ [laughs]. He was a nice man—a gentleman—and he always talked about Carole Lombard [Mr. Gable’s third wife who died in a plane crash in 1942]. He was still very much in love with her, and I don’t think he ever got over her. Most of the women he dated since her death, I think, had a slight resemblance to her—including me.
Were you aware then that you were a part of an important era in film history?
No. We had no idea; we thought we were doing only B pictures, but some are very popular now. “Lady in the Lake,” for example, was a B movie, and it seems to work better when you see it on television. I don’t know why, but it looks great on a smaller screen. Robert Montgomery had tested a lot of actresses, but they all looked at him and not into the camera. But I did. And he asked me, ‘How come you looked at the camera and not at me?’ When I worked for radio, I was used to look at the microphone the whole time. In films, they always tell you to ignore the camera, and for “Lady in the Lake” you had to treat the camera as another actor. Since I was used to playing to the microphone for several years, it was almost natural for me to play to the camera. So that background helped me. To this day, I’m still very fond of that film.
Did you live a life filled with glitter and glamor?
Not at all. It was a very nice life and my acting career brings back nothing but fond memories, but in 1952 I sort of put it all aside after I had met Leo Fred, a doctor. I fell in love with him, and we got married in 1953. We were married for forty-two wonderful years until he passed away in 1995, and we have a wonderful daughter who also resides here in Woodland Hills. My career was fun—that’s maybe the best word to describe it, I think—but I decided to give it up when I got married. From then on, I didn’t take any long assignments and did mostly television, playing guest roles and some recurring roles in TV shows [including as Nurse Wilcox on the TV soap opera “Medical Center” from 1972-1976, shot at the old MGM studios]. So a life filled with glitter and glamor? No. My life away from the camera was a very happy one, a life of complete normalcy.
Woodland Hills, California
April 13, 2004
FILMS
MAIN STREET AFTER DARK (1945) DIR Edward L. Cahn PROD Jerry Besler SCR John C. Higgins, Karl Kamb (story by John C. Higgins) CAM Jackson Rose ED Harry Komer MUS George Bassman CAST Edward Arnold, Hume Cronyn, Selena Boyle, Dan Duryea, Audrey Totter (Jessie Belle Dibson), Tom Trout, Dorothy Ruth Morris, Tom Drake
DANGEROUS PARTNERS (1945) DIR Edward L. Cahn PROD Arthur L. Field SCR Marion Parsonnet (novel “Paper Chase” [1942] by Eleanor Perry; adaptation by Edmund L. Hartmann) CAM Karl Freund ED Ferris Webster MUS David Snell CAST James Craig, Signe Hasso, Edmund Gwenn, Audrey Totter (Lili Roegan), Mabel Paige, John Warburton, Henry O’Neill, Grant Withers
BEWITCHED (1945) DIR Arch Oboler PROD Jerry Besler SCR (story “Alter Ego” by Arch Oboler; adaptation by Arch Oboler) CAM Charles Salerno Jr. ED Harry Komer MUS Bronislau Kaper CAST Phyllis Thaxter, Edmund Gwenn, Henry H. Daniels Jr., Horace McNally, Minor Watson, Audrey Totter (Karen [voice only])
ZIEGFELD FOLLIES (1945) DIR Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney, Charles Walters, Roy Del Ruth, Lemuel Ayres, Merrill Pye, Robert Lewis PROD Arthur Freed SCR Peter Barry, David Freedman, Harry Tugend, George White, Robert Alton, Al Lewis, Irving Brecher CAM George Folsey, Charles Rosher ED Albert Akst MUS Lennie Hayton CAST William Powell, Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, Victor Mature, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Cyd Charisse, Hume Cronyn, Keenan Wynn, Peter Lawford, Kay Thompson, Audrey Totter (Phone Operator “Number Please”)
THE HIDDEN EYE (1945) DIR Richard Whorf PROD Robert Sisk SCR George Harmon Coxe, Harry Ruskin (story by George Harmon Coxe; characters created by Baynard Kendrick) CAM Lester White ED George Hively MUS David Snell CAST Edward Arnold, Frances Rafferty, Ray Collins, Paul Langton, William ‘Bill’ Phillips, Thomas E. Jackson, Morris Ankrum, Cameron Mitchell, Audrey Totter (Perfume Saleslady [uncredited])
HER HIGHNESS AND THE BELLBOY (1945) DIR Richard Thorpe PROD Joe Pasternak SCR Richard Connell, Gladys Lehman CAM Harry Stadling Sr. ED George Boemler MUS George Stoll CAST Hedy Lamarr, Robert Walker, June Allyson, Carl Esmond, Agnes Moorehead, Rags Ragland, Ludwig Stössel, Audrey Totter (Mildred [uncredited])
ADVENTURE (1945) DIR Victor Fleming PROD Sam Zimbalist SCR Vincent Lawrence, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan (novel “Adventure” by Clyde Brion Davis; adaptation by William H. Wright, Anthony Veiller) CAM Joseph Ruttenberg ED Frank Sullivan MUS Herbert Stothart CAST Clark Gable, Greer Garson, Joan Blondell, Thomas Mitchell, Tom Tully, John Qualen, Richard Haydn, Lina Romay, Harry Davenport, Audrey Totter (Ethel [uncredited])
THE SAILOR TAKES A WIFE (1945) DIR Richard Whorf PROD Edwin H. Knopf SCR Anne Morrison Chapin, Whitfield Cook (play by Chester Erskine) CAM Sidney Wagner ED Cotton Warburton MUS Johnny Green CAST Robert Walker, June Allyson, Hume Cronyn, Audrey Totter (Lisa Borescu), Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Reginald Owen, Gerald Oliver Smith, Anna Q. Nilsson
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946) DIR Tay Garnett PROD Carey Wilson SCR Niven Busch, Harry Ruskin (novel “The Postman Always Rings Twice” [1934] by James M. Cain) CAM Sidney Wagner ED George White MUS George Bassman CAST Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, Audrey Totter (Madge Gorland), Alan Reed, Jeff York
THE co*ckEYED MIRACLE (1946) DIR S. Sylvan Simon PROD Irving Starr SCR Karen DeWolf (play “But Not Goodbye” [1944] by George Seaton) CAM Ray June ED Ben Lewis MUS David Snell CAST Frank Morgan, Keenan Wynn, Cecil Kellaway, Audrey Totter (Jennifer Griggs), Richard Quine, Gladys Cooper, Marshall Thompson, Leon Ames, Jane Green
LADY IN THE LAKE (1946) DIR Robert Montgomery PROD George Haight SCR Steve Fisher (novel “The Lady in the Lake” [1943] by Raymond Chandler) CAM Paul Vogel ED Gene Ruggiero MUS David Snell CAST Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter (Adrienne Fromsett), Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames, Jayne Meadows, Dick Simmons
THE SECRET HEART (1946) DIR Robert Z. Leonard PROD Edwin H. Knopf SCR Anne Morrison Chapin, Whitfield Cook (story and adaptation by Rose Franken, William Brown Meloney) CAM George J. Folsey ED Adrienne Fazan MUS Bronislau Kaper CAST Claudette Colbert, Walter Pidgeon, June Allyson, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Sterling, Marshall Thompson, Elizabeth Patterson, Patricia Medina, Dwayne Hickman, Hume Cronyn, Anna Q. Nilsson, Audrey Totter (Dinner Party Guest, voice only [uncredited])
THE BEGINNING OR THE END (1947) DIR Norman Taurog PROD Samuel Marx SCR Frank Wead (story by Bob Considine) CAM Ray June ED George Boemler MUS Daniele Amfitheatrof CAST Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler, Audrey Totter (Jean O’Leary), Hume Cronyn, Hurd Hatfield, Joseph Calleia, Godfrey Tearle, Richard Haydn, Norman Lloyd, Jimmy Hunt, Peter Lawford, Patricia Medina
THE UNSUSPECTED (1947) DIR Michael Curtiz PROD Michael Curtiz, Charles Hoffman SCR Ranald MacDougall (story by Charlotte Armstrong; adaptation by Bess Meredyth) CAM Elwood Bredell ED Frederick Richards MUS Franz Waxman CAST Joan Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey Totter (Althea Keane), Constance Bennett, Hurd Hatfield, Ted North, Fred Clark, Bess Flowers
HIGH WALL (1947) DIR Curtis Bernhardt PROD Robert Lord SCR Lester Cole, Sydney Boehm (story by Alan R. Clark, Bradbury Foote; play by Alan R. Clark, Bradbury Foote) CAM Paul Vogel ED Conrad A. Nervig MUS Bronislau Kaper CAST Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter (Dr. Ann Lorrison), Herbert Marshall, Dorothy Patrick, H.B. Warner, Warner Anderson, Moroni Olsen, John Ridgely
THE SAXON CHARM (1948) DIR Claude Binyon PROD Joseph Sistrom SCR Claude Binyon (novel “The Saxon Charm” [1947] by Frederic Wakeman Sr.) CAM Milton R. Krasner ED Paul Weatherwax MUS Walter Scharf CAST Robert Montgomery, Susan Hayward, John Payne, Audrey Totter (Alma Wragg), Harry Morgan, Harry von Zell, Cara Williams, Chill Wills, Heather Angel
ALIAS NICK BEAL (1949) DIR John Farrow PROD Endre Bohem SCR Jonathan Latimer (story by Mindret Lord) CAM Lionel Lindon MUS Franz Waxman CAST Ray Milland, Audrey Totter (Donna Allen), Thomas Mitchell, George Macready, Fred Clark, Geraldine Wall, Henry O’Neill, Darryl Hickman, Nestor Paiva, Bess Flowers
THE SET-UP (1949) DIR Robert Wise PROD Richard Goldstone SCR Art Cohn (poem “The Set-Up” [1928] by Joseph Moncure March) CAM Milton R. Krasner ED Roland Gross CAST Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter (Julie Thompson), George Tobias, Alan Baxter, Wallace Ford, Percy Helton, Hal Baylor, Darryl Hickman, Kevin O’Morrison
ANY NUMBER CAN PLAY (1949) DIR Mervyn LeRoy PROD Arthur Freed SCR Richard Brooks (novel “Any Number Can Play” [1945] by Edward Harris Heth) CAM Harold Rosson ED Ralph E. Winters MUS Lennie Hayton CAST Clark Gable, Alexis Smith, Wendell Corey, Audrey Totter (Alice Elcott), Frank Morgan, Mary Astor, Lewis Stone, Barry Sullivan, Marjorie Rambeau, Edgar Buchanan, Leon Ames, Darryl Hickman
TENSION (1949) DIR John Berry PROD Robert Sisk SCR Allen Rivkin (story by John D. Klover) CAM Harry Stradling Sr. ED Albert Akst MUS André Previn CAST Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter (Claire Quimby), Cyd Charisse, Barry Sullivan, Lloyd Gough, Tom D’Andrea, William Conrad, Tito Ronaldo, Virginia Brissac
UNDER THE GUN (1951) DIR Ted Tetzlaff PROD Ralph Dietrich SCR George Zuckerman (story by Daniel B. Ullman) CAM Henry Freulich ED Virgil W. Vogel CAST Richard Conte, Audrey Totter (Ruth Williams), John McIntire, Sam Jaffe, Shepperd Strudwick, Gregg Martell, Phillip Pine, Donald Randolph, Royal Dano, Richard Taber
THE BLUE VEIL (1951) DIR Curtis Bernhardt PROD Norman Krasna, Jerry Wald SCR Norman Corwin (story by François Campaux) CAM Franz Planer ED George Amy MUS Franz Waxman CAST Jane Wyman, Charles Laughton, Joan Blondell, Richard Carlson, Agnes Moorehead, Don Taylor, Audrey Totter (Helen Williams), Cyril Cusack, Everett Sloane, Natalie Wood, Everett Sloane, Dan O’Herlihy, Harry Morgan
F.B.I. GIRL (1951) DIR – PROD William Berke SCR Dwight V. Babco*ck, Richard H. Landau (story by Rupert Hughes) CAM Jack Greenhalgh ED Philip Cahn MUS Darrell Calker CAST Cesar Romero, George Brent, Audrey Totter (Shirley Wayne), Tom Drake, Raymond Burr, Raymond Greenleaf, Margia Dean, Don Garner
THE SELLOUT (1952) DIR Gerald Mayer PROD Nicholas Nayfack SCR Charles Palmer (story by Matthew Rapf) CAM Paul Vogel ED George White MUS David Buttolph CAST Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Audrey Totter (Cleo Bethel), Paula Raymond, Thomas Gomez, Cameron Mitchell, Karl Malden, Everett Sloane, Jonathan Cott
ASSIGNMENT—PARIS (1952) DIR Robert Parrish PROD Samuel Marx, Jerry Besler SCR William Bowers (novel “Trial by Terror” [1952] by Pauline Gallico, Paul Gallico; adaptation by Walter Goetz, Jack Palmer White) CAM Burnett Guffey, Ray Cory ED Charles Nelson MUS George Duning CAST Dana Andrews, Audrey Totter (Sandy Tate), Märta Torén, George Sanders, Sandro Giglio, Donald Randolph, Ben Astar, Willis Bouchey, Earl Lee
MY PAL GUS (1952) DIR Robert Parrish PROD Stanley Rubin SCR Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin CAM Leo Tover ED Robert Fritch MUS Leigh Harline CAST Richard Widmark, Joanne Dru, Audrey Totter (Joyce Jennings), George Winslow, Joan Banks, Regis Toomey, Ludwig Donath, Ann Morrison, Lisa Golm
WOMAN THEY ALMOST LYNCHED (1953) DIR – PROD Allan Dwan SCR Steve Fisher (based on a story in the Saturday Evening Post) CAM Reggie Lanning ED Fred Allen MUS Stanley Wilson CAST John Lund, Brian Donlevy, Audrey Totter (Kate Quantrill), Joan Leslie, Ben Cooper, Nina Varela, Jim Davis, Reed Hadley, Ann Savage
MAN IN THE DARK (1953) DIR Lew Landers PROD Wallace MacDonald SCR Jack Leonard, George Bricker (story by Tom Van Dycke, Henry Altimus; adaptation by William Sackheim) CAM Floyd Crosby ED Viola Lawrence CAST Edmond O’Brien, Audrey Totter (Peg Benedict), Ted de Corsia, Horace McMahon, Nick Dennis, Dayton Lummis, Dan Riss
CRUISIN’ DOWN THE RIVER (1953) DIR Richard Quine PROD Jonie Taps SCR Richard Quine, Blake Edwards CAM Charles Lawton Jr. ED Jerome Thoms MUS George Duning CAST Dick Haymes, Audrey Totter (Sally Jane Jackson), Billy Daniels, Cecil Kellaway, Connie Russell, Douglas Fowley, Larry J. Blake, Bess Flowers
CHAMP FOR A DAY (1953) DIR William A. Seiter SCR Irving Shulman (story “The Disappearance of Dolan” in the Saturday Evening Post by W.G. Fay) CAM John L. Russell ED Fred Allen MUS R. Dale Butts CAST Alex Nicol, Audrey Totter (Peggy Gormley), Charles Winninger, Hope Emerson, Joseph Wiseman, Barry Kelley, Harry Morgan, Jesse White, Grant Withers
MISSION OVER KOREA (1953) DIR Fred F. Sears PROD Robert Cohn SCR Jesse Lasky Jr., Martin Goldsmith, Eugene Ling (story by Richard Tregaskis) CAM Sam Leavitt ED Henry Batista MUS Mischa Bakaleinikoff CAST John Hodiak, John Derek, Audrey Totter (Nurse Lieutenant Kate), Maureen O’Sullivan, Harvey Lembeck, Richard Erdman, Richard Bowers
MASSACRE CANYON (1954) DIR Fred F. Sears PROD Wallace MacDonald SCR David Lang (also story) CAM Lester White ED Aaron Stell CAST Phil Carey, Audrey Totter (Flaxy), Douglas Kennedy, Jeff Donnell, Guinn Williams, Ross Elliott, Ralph Dumke, Mel Welles, Chris Alcaide
WOMEN’S PRISON (1955) DIR Lewis Seiler PROD Bryan Foy SCR Jack Dewitt, Crane Wilbur (story by Jack DeWitt) CAM Lester White ED Henry Batista CAST Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Cleo Moore, Audrey Totter (Joan Burton), Phyllis Thaxter, Howard Duff, Warren Stevens, Barry Kelley, Mae Clarke, Juanita Moore
A BULLET FOR JOEY (1955) DIR Lewis Allen PROD David Diamond, Samuel Bischoff SCR Geoffrey Homes [Daniel Mainwaring], A.I. Bezzerides (story by James Benson Nablo) CAM Harry Neumann ED Leon Barsha MUS Harry Sukman CAST Edward G. Robinson, George Raft, Audrey Totter (Joyce Geary), George Dolenz, Peter Van Eyck, Toni Gerry, William Bryant
THE VANISHING AMERICAN (1955) DIR Joseph Kane PROD R. Dale Butts SCR Alan Le May (novel “The Vanishing American” [1925] by Zane Grey) CAM John L. Russell ED Richard L. Van Enger CAST Scott Brady, Audrey Totter (Marion Warner), Forrest Tucker, Gene Lockhart, Jim Davis, Gloria Castillo, Lee Van Cleef, George Keymas, James Millican
GHOST DRIVER (1957) DIR – SCR Richard Einfeld, Merrill G. White PROD Richard Einfeld CAM John M. Nickolaus Jr. ED Merrill G. White MUS Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter CAST James Craig, Audrey Totter (Anne Stevens), Nico Minardos, Pira Louis, Lowell Brown, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Elena Da Vinci, Jorge Treviño
JET ATTACK (1958) DIR Edward L. Cahn PROD Alex Gordon SCR Orville H. Hampton (story by Mark Hanna) CAM Frederick E. West ED Robert S. Eisen MUS Ronald Stein CAST John Agar, Audrey Totter (Tanya Nikova), Gregory Walcott, James Dobson, Leonard Strong, Nicky Blair, Victor Sen Yung, Joseph Hamilton, Guy Prescott, George Cisar, Stella Lynn
MAN OR GUN (1958) DIR Albert C. Gannaway PROD Vance Skarstedt SCR Vance Skarstedt, James J. Cassity CAM Jack A. Marta MUS Ramey Idriss, Gene Garf CAST Macdonald Carey, Audrey Totter (Fran Dare), James Craig, James Gleason, Warren Stevens, Harry Shannon, Jil Jarmyn, Robert Burton, Ken Lynch, Karl Davis
THE CARPETBAGGERS (1964) DIR Edward Dmytryk PROD Joseph E. Levine SCR John Michael Hayes (novel “The Carpetbaggers” [1961] by Harold Robbins) CAM Joseph MacDonald ED Frank Bracht MUS Elmer Bernstein CAST George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Bob Cummings, Martha Hyer, Elizabeth Ashley, Lew Ayres, Martin Balsam, Ralph Taeger, Archie Moore, Caroll Baker, Leif Erickson, Arthur Franz, Audrey Totter (Prostitute), Bess Flowers
HARLOW (1965) DIR Alex Segal PROD Lee Savin, William Sargent Jr. SCR Karl Tunberg CAM Jim Kilgore ED Bill Heath, Leo H. Shreve MUS Nelson Riddle, Al Ham CAST Carol Lynley, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Barry Sullivan, Hurd Hatfield, Lloyd Bochner, Hermione Baddeley, Audrey Totter (Marilyn), John Williams, Michael Dante, Jack Kruschen, Ginger Rogers, Sonny Liston
CHUBASCO (1968) DIR – SCR Allen H. Miner PROD Jimmy Lydon CAM Louis Jennings, Paul Ivano ED John W. Holmes MUS William Lava CAST Richard Egan, Christopher Jones, Susan Strasberg, Ann Sothern, Simon Oakland, Audrey Totter (Theresa Marino), Preston Foster, Peter Whitney, Edward Binns
THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG RIDES AGAIN (1979) DIR Vincent McEveety PROD Ron Miller SCR Don Tait (characters created by Jack M. Bickham) CAM Frank V. Phillips ED Gordon D. Brenner MUS Buddy Baker CAST Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Tim Matheson, Kenneth Mars, Jack Elam, Robert Pine, Harry Morgan, Ruth Buzzi, Audrey Totter (Martha Osten), Richard X. Slattery
TV MOVIES
THE OUTSIDER (1967) DIR Michael Ritchie PROD – SCR Roy Huggins CAM Bud Thackery ED David Rawlins, Carl Pingitore MUS Pete Rugolo CAST Darren McGavin, Sean Garrison, Shirley Knight, Nancy Malone, Edmond O’Brien, Ann Sothern, Joseph Wiseman, Ossie Davis, Audrey Totter (Mrs. Bishop)
THE NATIVITY (1978) DIR Ken Cameron, Bernard L. Kowalski PROD Michael Apted, William P. D’Angelo SCR Michael Apted, Millard Kaufman, Morton S. Fine CAM Gábor Pogány ED Robert Phillips, Jerry Dronsky MUS Lalo Schifrin CAST Madeline Stowe, John Shea, Jane Wyatt, Paul Stewart, Audrey Totter (Elizabeth), George Voskovec, Julie Garfield, Jamil Zakkai, John Rhys-Davies
THE GREAT CASH GIVEAWAY GETAWAY (1980) DIR Michael O’Herlihy PROD Robert A. Papazian SCR Philip H. Reisman Jr. CAM Gert Andersen ED Fred A. Chulak MUS John Carl Parker CAST David Kyle, Elissa Leeds, Albert Salmi, Richard Bull, James Keach, Audrey Totter (Judge), Dee Carroll, George Hamilton
THE CITY KILLER (1984) DIR Robert Michael Lewis PROD Stanley Shpetner SCR William Wood CAM Fred J. Koenekamp ED Mel Friedman, Les Green MUS John Rubinstein CAST Heather Locklear, Terence Knox, Gerald McRaney, Peter Mark Richman, John Harkins, Jeff Pomerantz, Jason Bernard, Todd Susman, Jeannetta Arnette, Audrey Totter (Receptionist)
