Millie Perkins
Actor
Perkins was working as a receptionist at a New York City advertising agency when she caught the eye of a visiting photographer with a resultant career as a model; by 1958 Perkins was an international cover girl. However, in 1958, she was vigorously pursued, and then selected, to appear in her first film, in the title role of The Diary of Anne Frank. Perkins had never studied nor sought to be an actress, but George Stevens saw her on the cover of several magazines and tried to convince her to read for the part. Finally, she flew to Hollywood for a screen test and, with much fanfare, landed the role of Anne Frank in George Stevens' 1959 film "The Diary of Anne Frank." Perkins received almost universally excellent reviews for her portrayal of Anne although the film was a notorious commercial flop.
After her work with George Stevens, Perkins was placed under contract to 20th Century Fox, She was one of the bright young stars of Hollywood but the studio ... Show more...
Perkins was working as a receptionist at a New York City advertising agency when she caught the eye of a visiting photographer with a resultant career as a model; by 1958 Perkins was an international cover girl. However, in 1958, she was vigorously pursued, and then selected, to appear in her first film, in the title role of The Diary of Anne Frank. Perkins had never studied nor sought to be an actress, but George Stevens saw her on the cover of several magazines and tried to convince her to read for the part. Finally, she flew to Hollywood for a screen test and, with much fanfare, landed the role of Anne Frank in George Stevens' 1959 film "The Diary of Anne Frank." Perkins received almost universally excellent reviews for her portrayal of Anne although the film was a notorious commercial flop.
After her work with George Stevens, Perkins was placed under contract to 20th Century Fox, She was one of the bright young stars of Hollywood but the studio contract system, which was coming to an end just as the young Millie Perkins was signed into it, was a poor fit for this young star, who had come of age with the Beat Generation in 1950s New York City. George Stevens would later state:"Millie did not fit in. She was 10 years too early." Suspended for refusing the lead in the 1960 film Tess of the Storm Country - Perkins saw the film as a B-picture and a step back career-wise - Perkins was cast by 20th Century Fox in the 1961 film Wild in the Country, playing the supporting role of the girlfriend to star Elvis Presley; the studio then dropped Perkins. Joshua Logan personally selected Perkins for the female lead in the 1964 film Ensign Pulver but the film was a failure: Perkins would not appear in another mainstream film release for almost twenty years. She played the female lead in both of Jack Nicholson's inaugural productions The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind - shot side by side in 1964 - and in 1968 co-starred in Wild in the Streets which was written by her then-husband Robert Thom.
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A Woman's a Helluva Thing (2001)
As: Annie
After the death of his estranged mother, a womanizer discovers that they had a lot in common.
Runtime: 89 min.
Stars: Angus Macfadyen | Ann-Margret | Penelope Ann Miller | Kathryn Harrold | Nicole Nieth
The Chamber (1996)
As: Ruth Kramer
Having survived the hatred and bigotry that was his Klansman grandfather's only legacy, young attorney Adam Hall seeks at the last minute to appeal the old man's death sentence for the murder of two small Jewish boys 30 years before. Only four weeks before Sam Cayhall is to be executed, Adam meets his grandfather for the first time in the Mississippi prison which has held him since the crime. The meeting ...
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: James Foley
Stars: Faye Dunaway | Lela Rochon | Chris O'Donnell | Robert Prosky | Gene Hackman
Bodily Harm (1995)
As: Dr. Spencer
Homicide cop Rita Cates takes a murder case where the victim is a Las Vegas stripper. The investigation immediately takes a perverse turn when she discovers the prime suspect: a psychotic ex-cop with whom she once had a torrid affair. That initial affair drove Cates' husband to suicide, but it doesn't stop her from picking up where she left off. In the heat of passion, she jeopardizes the case, her ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: James Lemmo
Stars: Daniel Baldwin | Gregg Henry | Linda Fiorentino | Millie Perkins | Bill Smitrovich
Murder of Innocence (1993)
As: Edna Webber
In this shocking account based on a true story, newlywed Laurie Wade finds her marriage, and eventually the rest of her life, shattered by her deep-rooted psychotic behavior. The young woman soon begins a terrifying descent into insanity and brings danger to all those around her as she goes from brief "short-circuits" to overtly murderous behavior.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Tom McLoughlin
Stars: Graham Beckel | Millie Perkins | Jerry Hardin | Stephen Caffrey | Valerie Bertinelli
Necronomicon (1993)
As: Lena
H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of The Dead and his unwitting release of a monster and his writing of the following horror segments "The Drowned", "The Cold", and "Whispers".
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Shusuke Kaneko | Brian Yuzna | Christophe Gans
Stars: Bruce Payne | Jeffrey Combs | Richard Lynch | Belinda Bauer | Bess Meyer
Pistol: The Birth of a Legend (1991)
As: Helen Maravich
A story about the great basketball player "Pistol" Pete Maravich when he was in the eighth grade. He plays on the varsity basketball team at Daniel High School but has some very difficult obstacles standing in his way of playing. The only support he has is from his father, retired basketball pro Press Maravich.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Frank C. Schröder
Stars: Millie Perkins | Tom Lester | Nick Benedict | Adam Guier | Murrell Garland
Call Me Anna (1990)
As: Frances Duke
Patty Duke portrays herself in this made-for-tv biopic about her struggles as a child star growing into adulthood.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Gilbert Cates
Stars: Howard Hesseman | Timothy Carhart | Patty Duke | Deborah May | Ari Meyers
Two Moon Junction (1988)
As: Mrs. Delongpre
A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Zalman King
Stars: Richard Tyson | Louise Fletcher | Sherilyn Fenn | Burl Ives | Kristy McNichol
Wall Street (1987)
As: Mrs. Fox
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Stars: John C. McGinley | Martin Sheen | Michael Douglas | Charlie Sheen | Daryl Hannah
Slam Dance (1987)
As: Bobby Nye
An artist, framed for the murder of a woman, is drawn into a web of corruption, blackmail and deceit.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Wayne Wang
Stars: Tom Hulce | Virginia Madsen | Adam Ant | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio | Don Keith Opper
Jake Speed (1986)
As: Mrs Winston
Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves lives on paper, but when a young girl is kidnapped and her sister (Karen Kopins) begs the real-life Speed for help, he must find a way to be as gallant as the book hero whose creation he's inspired. Accompanied by the victim's sibling, Speed flies to Africa ...
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Andrew Lane
Stars: John Hurt | Dennis Christopher | Leon Ames | Wayne Crawford | Karen Kopins
At Close Range (1986)
As: Julie
Based upon the true story of Bruce Johnston Sr., his son, and his brothers; together, they constituted one of suburban Philadelphia's most notorious crime families during the 1970's. Their criminal activities ranged from burglary, theft... and ultimately, murder.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: James Foley
Stars: Christopher Walken | Mary Stuart Masterson | Chris Penn | Sean Penn | Millie Perkins
Anatomy of an Illness (1984)
As: Ellen Cousins
Biopic of Saturday Review editor and political journalist Norman Cousins who developed and promoted a self-made health therapy consisting of intake of large quantities of vitamin C and making oneself laugh as much as possible.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Richard T. Heffron
Stars: Eli Wallach | David Ogden Stiers | Lelia Goldoni | Millie Perkins | Ed Asner
License to Kill (1984)
As: Mary Fiske
A grieving family whose daughter was killed in a car crash with a drunken driver is outraged and frustrated as they encounter the inevitable bureaucratic delays in bringing the case to trial. Once in the courtroom, they are horror-stricken as the young, hard-pressed district attorney seems unable to overcome the technicalities and maneuverings that the driver's attorney uses to keep his client out of ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Jud Taylor
Stars: Denzel Washington | Millie Perkins | Penny Fuller | Don Murray | James Farentino
Table For Five (1983)
As: Kathleen
J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) wants a second chance to be a father to his children ... but someone else has taken his place. Determined not to just be a friendly 'uncle' in their lives, he gets permission from his ex-wife Kathleen (Millie Perkins) and her new husband (Richard Crenna) to take the kids on a Mediterranean cruise. On the journey he comes to realise it's not that easy and, feeling overwhelmed, ...
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Rob Lieberman
Stars: Marie-Christine Barrault | Richard Crenna | Millie Perkins | Jon Voight | Roxana Zal
The Haunting Passion (1983)
As: Lois O'Connor
An unusual love triangle unfolds in this thriller starring Jane Seymour and Gerald McRaney. A happily married couple moves into an old house, but their happiness is marred when the wife (Seymour) becomes the object of someone else's affection. What's even more troubling is that the new admirer is a ghost -- the lover of the house's former owner.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: John Korty
Stars: Gerald McRaney | Millie Perkins | Ruth Nelson | Jane Seymour | Paul Rosselli
Be Pretty and Shut Up! (1981)
As: Herself
The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda. The title, which is borrowed from a 1958 film with the same name by Marc Allegret, refers to the sense the actresses have of what is expected of them by the film industry.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Delphine Seyrig
Stars: Ellen Burstyn | Patti D'Arbanville | Candy Clark | Juliet Berto | Jenny Agutter
The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976)
As: Molly
Anger stemming from being abused as a child drives an alcoholic's daughter to kill as an adult.
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Matt Cimber
Stars: Millie Perkins | Lonny Chapman | Vanessa Brown | Peggy Feury | Jean Pierre Camps
Lady Cocoa (1975)
As: Marie
Foxy Lady Cocoa is out to take down her mobster boyfriend.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Matt Cimber
Stars: Millie Perkins | Joe Greene | Lola Falana | Alex Dreier | Gene Washington
Cockfighter (1974)
As: Frances Mansfield
Warren Oates plays a world-weary gambler trying to make big money cockfighting. Always on the road, he works inside and outside the rules to try to work up to the biggest fight of the year.
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Monte Hellman
Stars: Harry Dean Stanton | Ed Begley Jr. | Richard B. Shull | Warren Oates | Laurie Bird
Wild in the Streets (1968)
As: Mary Fergus
Max Flatow is a precocious, social miscreant who has a way with home-made explosives. When he tires of these, he runs away from home only to emerge seven years later as Max Frost, the world's most popular entertainer. When Congressman John Fergus uses Frost as a political ploy to gain the youth vote in his run for the Senate, Frost wills himself into the system, gaining new rights for the ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Barry Shear
Stars: Shelley Winters | Millie Perkins | Hal Holbrook | Diane Varsi | Christopher Jones
Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)
As: Abigail
Three cowhands, between jobs, have the bad dumb luck to pitch night camp in the same valley as a cabin full of guys who just robbed a stagecoach and killed the guard. Come morning, a posse arrives, forms up along the ridge, and takes for granted that everyone down below is guilty--fit for either shooting to bits or hanging from a tree, whichever comes first. Precisely half of Ride in the Whirlwind's 82 ...
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Monte Hellman
Stars: Jack Nicholson | Millie Perkins | Cameron Mitchell | Katherine Squire | George Mitchell
The Shooting (1966)
As: Woman
A hired gun seeks to enact revenge on a group of bounty hunters in the Old West.
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Monte Hellman
Stars: Will Hutchins | Jack Nicholson | Millie Perkins | Warren Oates | Charles Eastman
Ensign Pulver (1964)
As: Scotty
1945, on an old cargo ship somewhere deep in the Pacific ocean: Captain Morton strives to become commander, so he demands the maximum quality of work from his crew, without granting them any freedom or favors - ignoring that they're thousand of miles away from the front. In one word: he drives his crew crazy. They are near mutiny, but no-one dares to do the first step. Until Ensign Pulver plays a prank ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Joshua Logan
Stars: Walter Matthau | Jack Nicholson | Larry Hagman | Burl Ives | Robert Walker, Jr.
Girl from La Mancha (1963)
As: Aldonza / Dulcinea
The story of Dulcinea, the love of Don Quixote, who was only a normal girl named Aldonza that is suddenly involved by the legend of the brave and ingenous gentleman.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Vicente Escrivá
Stars: Millie Perkins | Folco Lulli | Pepe Rubio | Vittoria Prada | Walter Santesso
Wild in the Country (1961)
As: Betty Lee Parsons
A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Philip Dunne
Stars: Elvis Presley | Hope Lange | Tuesday Weld | Millie Perkins | Rafer Johnson
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
As: Anne Frank
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
Runtime: 180 min.
Directed by: George Stevens
Stars: Richard Beymer | Shelley Winters | Millie Perkins | Joseph Schildkraut | Gusti Huber