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His Baiting Beauty (1950)
Character: Harry's Mother-in-Law
Harry has to leave town on a business trip to take part in the opening of a new radio station. However, his wife suspects that he is actually going to meet another woman.
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Exiled to Shanghai (1937)
Character: Claire
A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in television.
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The Lovable Cheat (1949)
Character: Virginie
Posing as a wealthy Parisian, Mercadet fleeces friends and casual acquaintances alike. He is forced into this life of crime to keep up appearances, so that his daughter Julie can land herself a rich husband.
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The Awful Sleuth (1951)
Character: Bert's Mother-In-Law
Drug store soda jerk Bert is a true-crime buff who revels in detective magazines. But he doesn't recognize the notorious gangster he waits on, smiling Memphis Mike.
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Gobs and Gals (1952)
Character: Mrs. Pursell
Two sailors (Robert Hutton) mail love letters from a remote weather station, enclosing photos of their chief (Cathy Downs).
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Andy Plays Hookey (1946)
Character: Andy's Mother-in-Law
Andy makes elaborate plans to attend a prizefight, and they all backfire.
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Bachelor Daze (1944)
Character: Abigail O'Rourke
Slim and Ezra are roommates and are wondering why they are still single. Ezra tells Slim that the local battle axe played by Minerva Urecal has a crush on him but Slim lacks the nerve to ask her to marry him.
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Marry the Boss's Daughter (1941)
Character: Elevator Passenger
Young man from Kansas goes to New York to work for his tycoon-hero. His superiors won't listen to his ideas about business, but the boss and his daughter do.
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Maid to Order (1939)
Character: Mail-Order Bride
Father-in-law Billy Franey discovers the letter that Edgar has written a matrimonial agency to marry him off and slips Edgar's picture in it. When Minerva Urecal (sporting an Italian accent) shows up, wife Vivien Oakland resists attempts to get her out of the house so she can confront the interloper and her husband.
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Hired Husband (1947)
Character: Aunt Jessie
The millionairess aunt of Errol's previously married wife is coming to visit, and since the aunt is dead set against divorce, the wife prevails upon Errol to pose as the butler, and brings back her inebriated first husband to pose as her current mate.
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Two Gun Marshal (1953)
Character: Mama Antonelli
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature film.
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Mountain Justice (1937)
Character: Ella Crippen
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
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Variety Time (1948)
Character: Aunt Jessie (footage from 'Hired Husband') (archive footage)
Jack Parr hosts a variety program of comedic sketches.
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Sweater Girl (1942)
Character: Melinda
College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.
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7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
Character: Kate Lindquist
An old Chinese man rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens see themselves reflected in the mirror of Lao's mysterious circus of mythical beasts.
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The Go-Getter (1937)
Character: Cappy Ricks 'secretary
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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Voice of the Whistler (1945)
Character: Georgie's Wife (uncredited)
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
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State Fair (1945)
Character: Woman Congratulating Mrs. Metcalf (uncredited)
During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine Blueboy; and his wife Melissa enters the mincemeat and pickles contest...with hilarious results.
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The Dark Corner (1946)
Character: Client Wife (uncredited)
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
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The Cowboy and the Blonde (1941)
Character: Murphy
A western rodeo rider is cast in a starring role in a new Hollywood film, but his temperamental and spoiled leading lady proves difficult to tame.
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The Corpse Vanishes (1942)
Character: Fagah
A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from virgin brides.
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The Trap (1946)
Character: Miss Weebles, the Housekeeper
When a troupe of showgirls with their impresario and press agent vacation at a Malibu Beach resort, two of them are garroted. Charlie takes on the case assisted by Number Two Son Jimmy and faithful chauffeur Birmingham Brown.
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When Strangers Marry (1944)
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
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Wildcat Bus (1940)
Character: Old Maid (uncredited)
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
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Salty O'Rourke (1945)
Character: Saleslady (uncredited)
A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.
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The Well Groomed Bride (1946)
Character: Woman in Ticket Line
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship.
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Sioux City Sue (1946)
Character: Mrs. Abercrombie - Elite Hotel Manager (uncredited)
A Hollywood scout averts disaster for a singing cowboy she has misled.
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They Stooge to Conga (1943)
Character: Marsha - the Nazi Housekeeper (uncredited)
The Stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control.
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Golden Hoofs (1941)
Character: Myrt
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.
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She's Back on Broadway (1953)
Character: Cleaning Lady
When Catherine Terris's career in Hollywood hits the skids, she heads back to the site of her first great triumphs...Broadway! She takes the lead in a play which is being directed by Gordon Evans, the man who was both her Svengali and her lover. Evans is still bitter that she walked out on him to become the toast of Hollywood years earlier. Can Terris and Evans put aside their mutual animosity long enough to make a go of this production. The way things start off, it doesn't seem likely.
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Prison Nurse (1938)
Character: Sutherland
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients--and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.
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Louisiana Hayride (1944)
Character: Ma Crocker
A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings.
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Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945)
Character: Mama Rafferty
In this western, a young cowboy rides out to avenge his father's killer. Eventually, he finds the scoundrel, but by this time opts not to kill him for the cowboy has fallen in love with the outlaw's niece. Later, the killer ends up killed and the hero is blamed for the crime.
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Accent on Love (1941)
Character: Teresa Lombroso
A young man of privilege abandons his thankless job as a company vice-president, walks out on his spoiled wife, and joins the working classes, leading to his romance with a European immigrant.
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A Man Alone (1955)
Character: Mrs. Maule (uncredited)
A gunfighter, stranded in the desert, comes across the aftermath of a stage robbery, in which all the passengers were killed. He takes one of the horses to ride to town to report the massacre, but finds himself accused of it. He also finds himself accused of the murder of the local banker, and winds up hiding in the basement of a house where the local sheriff, who is very sick, lives with his daughter.
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Bombshell (1933)
Character: Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
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Something to Shout About (1943)
Character: Mrs. Starretton
A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.
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Destry Rides Again (1939)
Character: Mrs. DeWitt (uncredited)
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)
Character: Uncle Pio's Servant (uncredited)
A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.
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The Mark of the Whistler (1944)
Character: Woman Sweeping Front Stoop (uncredited)
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.
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Here Comes the Band (1935)
Character: Italian Wife (uncredited)
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
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S.O.S Tidal Wave (1939)
Character: N/A
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.
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Man from Frisco (1944)
Character: Mrs. Allison
Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated ships on the West Coast, but he is hindered by the former superintendent of the shipyard, Joel Kennedy. A disappointed lover fails to deliver an important message on welds and it leads to the collapse of a new ship's superstructure and the death of a boy.
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Love on a Bet (1936)
Character: Miss Jones, MacCreigh's Secretary
Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.
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California (1947)
Character: Emma (uncredited)
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.
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Cynthia (1947)
Character: Agnes, Jannings' Cook (Uncredited)
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
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Dear Brat (1951)
Character: Neighbor (uncredited)
Mirian Wilkins, the teenage daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge of her father, elects him to the position of honorary president. When the family's new gardener, Baxter, turns out to be a notorious ex-convict who was sentenced to prison by Senator Wilkins when he was a judge, Wilkins considers firing him until his daughter points out that would be an unwise decision considering the position her father held on society.
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Ever Since Eve (1937)
Character: Bellden's Receptionist (uncredited)
Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
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Holiday in Havana (1949)
Character: Mama Valdez
While working as a hotel busboy, aspiring bandleader Carlos Estrada tries to persuade singer Lolita Valdez to join him in a rhumba contest in Havana.
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Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
Character: Elderly Italian Woman (uncredited)
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. Now years later, he desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family.
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Life Begins with Love (1937)
Character: Mrs. Murphy
A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He disguises himself and gets a job as a laborer at a day-care center. He finds himself attracted to the owner, a pretty young girl determined to make life better for her charges, and he soon begins to question his own priorities.
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They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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Apache Rose (1947)
Character: Felicia
Roy is an oil prospector. His efforts to get drilling rights on an old Spanish land grant are countered by gamblers from an off-shore gambling boat determined to control the land (and oil) themselves.
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Breakfast in Hollywood (1946)
Character: Miss Mullins (uncredited)
The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film derived from the popular ABC radio show of the 1940s. This film features Tom Breneman, the radio show's host, as well as Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Zasu Pitts, Billie Burke and Hedda Hopper. Musical performances are provided by Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, along with Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
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The Daring Young Man (1942)
Character: Nurse
Jonathan Peckinpaw feels he's failed in his patriotic duty when he's rejected by the army, but he sees a chance to redeem himself by exposing a secret ring of Nazi spies.
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Four Girls in White (1939)
Character: Miss Perch - a Nurse
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
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San Francisco Docks (1940)
Character: Landlady
Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, and he beats up Cassidy, a crooked politician who has been annoying her. Cassidy is murdered that night and Johnny is jailed for the crime. Kitty, her father Andy Tracy, and waterfront-priest Father Cameron believe Johnny is innocent but all evidence points to his guilt.
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Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Character: Mrs. Henderson (uncredited)
Just when Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton, is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderful news: Her uncle and namesake, Charlie Oakley, is coming to visit. However, as secrets about him come to the fore, Charlotte’s admiration turns into suspicion.
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Moonlight and Cactus (1944)
Character: Abigail
The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a trio of WW II era ranchers. That they are so good at running it proves terrible surprise for a ranch hand who has just returned home after serving in the Navy.
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Harem Girl (1952)
Character: Aniseh
The palace secretary to a princess foils a sheik's plot to grab royal oil.
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Crazy Knights (1944)
Character: Mrs. Benson
Also known as Ghost Crazy. Three goofballs run up against ghosts and a giant gorilla in a haunted house.
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In Old California (1942)
Character: Mrs. Carson
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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Kid Dynamite (1943)
Character: Judge
The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend Danny Lyons takes his place and wins the fight, only to have Mugs believe that Danny was responsible for his kidnapping.
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Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952)
Character: Mrs. Peabody
Shy farmboy loves his next-door neighbor, but she dreams of going to the big city. Then she gets mixed up with big-city gangsters.
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Dangerous Blondes (1943)
Character: Mrs. Swanson, Housekeeper (uncredited)
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.
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Side Street (1950)
Character: Landlady
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000, and when he decides to return the money things go wrong and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
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Block Busters (1944)
Character: Amelia Rogiet
Muggs, Glimpy and the rest of the Kids set about to Americanize affable young French refugee Jean Rogers. But after a disastrous baseball game, Jean is chased out of the neighborhood and told not to return.
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My Favorite Blonde (1942)
Character: Stone-Faced Woman (uncredited)
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
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Niagara (1953)
Character: Mrs. McGrand
Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.
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A Tragedy at Midnight (1942)
Character: Housekeeper (uncredited)
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
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Secret Service Investigator (1948)
Character: Mrs McGiven
Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing gangs of crooks.
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The Virginian (1946)
Character: N/A
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
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Start Cheering (1938)
Character: Miss Grimley
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
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Pitchin' in the Kitchen (1943)
Character: Miss Clabber (uncredited)
While his wife works at a defense plant, Hugh stays home and tries to do the housework.
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Ghosts on the Loose (1943)
Character: Hilda
The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.
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Partners in Time (1946)
Character: Miss Abernathy (uncredited)
Squire Skimp has a new plan to swindle the people of Pine Ridge. However, Lum has something more important on his mind. He has to tell a young engaged couple on the verge of breaking up the story of how the Jot 'em Down store first started (through flashbacks). Based on characters from the popular "Lum and Abner" radio program of the time.
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Mr. Skeffington (1944)
Character: Woman in Beauty Shop (uncredited)
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
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Three Godfathers (1936)
Character: Parishioner (uncredited)
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men.
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That Funny Feeling (1965)
Character: Woman at Phone Booth
Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire, meets and begins dating wealthy New York City businessman Tom Milford. Embarrassed about bringing him back to her tiny apartment that she shares with her roommate Audrey, Joan brings Tom over to a fancy apartment that she cleans on a daily basis not knowing that it's his place. Tom plays along with the charade despite not knowing who Joan really is, while she tries to tidy up Tom's place not knowing who he really is. Written by Matthew Patay
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Arkansas Judge (1941)
Character: Miranda Wolfson
Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accused of slander.
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The Lost Moment (1947)
Character: Maria
In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared mysteriously. Using a false name, Lewis Venable rents a room from Juliana Bordereau, once Jeffrey Ashton's lover, now an aged recluse. Running the household is Juliana's severe niece, Tina, who mistrusts Venable from the first moment. He realizes all is not right when late one night he finds Tina, her hair unpinned and wild, at the piano. She calls him Jeffrey and throws herself at him. The family priest warns Venable to tread carefully around her fantasies, but he wants the letters at any cost, even Tina's sanity.
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No Place to Go (1939)
Character: Miss Rice
An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he befriends a neighborhood child with a troubled family life.
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Good Sam (1948)
Character: Mrs. Nelson
Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house.
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You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940)
Character: Mrs. Doolittle
Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.
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The Raging Tide (1951)
Character: Johnnie Mae Swanson
A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lt. Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. To escape, he stows away on a fishing boat. At sea, skipper Hamil Linder receives Bruno kindly, teaching him fishing; Bruno enlists Hamil's wayward son Carl to tend his slot machines. Then Carl takes an interest in Bruno's girl Connie. Climax in a storm at sea.
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Murder Among Friends (1941)
Character: Mrs. O'Heaney (uncredited)
A society doctor helps an insurance-company file clerk check deaths related to a big policy.
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Wake Up and Dream (1946)
Character: Edna Lucash
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
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Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
Character: Brenda
Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns out to be ugly and broken down. Daughter Katey, embarrassed by her braces, refuses to go to the beach, as does TV-addicted son Danny. When the family is joined by Hobbs' two unhappily married daughters and their husbands, he must help everyone with their problems to get some peace.
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Frontier Scout (1938)
Character: Helen
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John).
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A Medal for Benny (1945)
Character: Mrs. Chavez (uncredited)
Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.
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The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947)
Character: N/A
Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women. Encountering a roadblock, Morgan takes over and persuades the party to spend the night at an unoccupied beach house. The police close in as one by one, the others learn that Morgan is a killer.
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The Man in the Trunk (1942)
Character: Peggy's Landlady (uncredited)
The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.
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The Ape (1940)
Character: Townswoman
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?
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Oklahoma Annie (1952)
Character: Lottie Fling
A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.
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Lost in Alaska (1952)
Character: Mrs. McGillicuddy
After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder.
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The Powers Girl (1943)
Character: Maggie (uncredited)
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.
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The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949)
Character: Train Passenger (uncredited)
When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law.
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Fury (1936)
Character: Fanny (uncredited)
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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No, No, Nanette (1940)
Character: Woman in Airport
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?
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Marshal of Amarillo (1948)
Character: Mrs. Henry Pettigrew
Nugget, Underwood and Short walk to the Half-Way House after the driver purposely wrecks the stage. They arrive late at night and it is so spooky that Nugget leaves for Amarillo. Unknown to him, the dead body of Short is in the wagon. When Sheriff Lane comes upon Nugget and the body, he goes to investigate and finds no trace of Underwood at all. But he soon finds that Underwood was carrying $50,000 in cash and he believes the story Nugget is telling.
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Sensation Hunters (1945)
Character: Edna Rogers
A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
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Without Reservations (1946)
Character: Sue (uncredited)
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
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Quicksand (1950)
Character: Landlady
Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled. As Brady scrambles to cover evidence of his petty theft, he fast finds himself drawn into an ever worsening "quicksand" of crime.
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A Man Betrayed (1941)
Character: Librarian (uncredited)
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).
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April Showers (1948)
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they're almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they'll really be in trouble. They decide to put their young son in the act in hopes of attracting some new attention. The boy turns out to be a major talent, audiences love him and the act is on its way to the top. That's when an organization whose purpose is to stop children from performing on stage shows up, and they're dead set on breaking up the act.
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Bowery Buckaroos (1947)
Character: Kate T. Barlow
The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted on his back, and Blackjack McCoy has him kidnapped by Indian Joe. Gabe poses as a dangerous gunman, the Klondike Kid, while Slip is in charge of all the remaining loose ends.
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Hit the Ice (1943)
Character: Wife at Hospital (uncredited)
After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers, where they meet an old friend and his band.
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Sadie McKee (1934)
Character: Brennan’s Cook’s Assistant (uncredited)
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
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A Bell for Adano (1945)
Character: Italian Woman
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life.
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Henry and Dizzy (1942)
Character: Mrs. Kilmer
After accidentally sinking a borrowed motorboat, teenager Henry Aldrich scrambles to raise the replacement cash the boat's owner demands. The catch: Henry only has two days to come up with the funds, or the boat's angry owner will turn him over to the police.
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Take One False Step (1949)
Character: Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested.
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
Character: The Cleaning Lady
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beaten up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. W. C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film.
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The Sagebrush Family Trails West (1940)
Character: Widow Gail
The story concentrates on a travelling medicine show maintained by Bobby Clark and his relatives Minerva Urecal, Earle Hodgins and Joyce Bryant. Their progress is impeded when Hodgins is framed on a robbery charge, but Clark uses his fancy lariat to hog-tie the genuine crooks.
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Second Fiddle (1939)
Character: Miss Bland, the School Principal
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
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The Kid Sister (1945)
Character: Mrs. Wiggins
A madcap comedy about a kid sister who tries to steal her older sister's boyfriend. Her plan involves joining forces with a burglar to rob the unfortunate suitor's home.
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His Night Out (1935)
Character: Wife (uncredited)
When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by the gang.
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Stop That Cab (1951)
Character: Lucy's Mother
Sid Melton stars as a taxi driver dealing with nutty passengers and a nagging wife. Comedy.
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Sitting Pretty (1948)
Character: Mrs. Maypole (uncredited)
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
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Double Jeopardy (1955)
Character: Mrs. Kreesy
Marc Hill is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackmailed by his former partner Sam Baggett. When Sam's unfaithful wife Marge cooks up a scheme with her used car salesman lover Jeff Calder to bilk both Devrey and her alcoholic husband, Sam is killed and Devrey is accused of the crime. Mark is called to prove his employers innocence.
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Mr. Muggs Rides Again (1945)
Character: Nora Brown
After having been framed by gamblers, Muggs is barred from riding in horse races. Snce he can no longer race, he takes up a collection so Ma Brown, who owns the horses won't have her stable foreclosed on. However, one of the gamblers involved in the frame falls for Ma Brwn's daughter, and decides to come clean and confess to the police about the frame. The other gamblers hear about it and set out to shut him up and discredit Muggs and Ma Brown once and for all.
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Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)
Character: Mrs. Stuart
Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're prepared to hang any troublemaker, Yankee or Confederate, who stirs the townsfolk up.
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Dramatic School (1938)
Character: Rose - Boulin's Secretary (uncredited)
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
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Oh, Doctor (1937)
Character: Death Watch Mary Mackleforth
A hypochondriac is afraid he will die before he gets an inheritance that will "cure" him.
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The Lady in the Morgue (1938)
Character: Mrs. Horn (uncredited)
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
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Dixie Dugan (1943)
Character: Mrs. Wilson (uncredited)
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.
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Outcasts of the Trail (1949)
Character: Abbie Rysen
Legendary lawman Pat Garrett wins the Fourth of July buckboard race in a small Nevada town against the unscrupulous Fred Smith and pretty Lavinia White. Lavinia blames Garrett for sending her father Ivory White to jail for robbing 100,000 dollars. White, who has stashed the loot away someplace, is about to be released and plans to return the money to the express office for the sake of his children, Lavinia and Chad. Nasty Jim Judd forces Lavinia to help him rob the coach carrying Ivory and the money, counting on the fact that White will keep quiet for his daughter's sake.
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Air Devils (1938)
Character: Margaret Price
Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.
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Murder by Invitation (1941)
Character: Maxine Denham
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.
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Meet the Baron (1933)
Character: Downstairs Maid (uncredited)
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
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Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941)
Character: Head of Reform School (uncredited)
The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters.
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The Living Ghost (1942)
Character: Delia Phillips
A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie.
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Sabotage (1939)
Character: (uncredited)
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
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Undercover Maisie (1947)
Character: Cafe Cook
Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to use her as an undercover agent to expose a conman.
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Undercover Maisie (1947)
Character: Delicatessen Woman (Uncredited)
Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to use her as an undercover agent to expose a conman.
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Keep 'Em Slugging (1943)
Character: Miss Billings
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
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The Jackpot (1950)
Character: Woman Trying On Hats (uncredited)
Bill Lawrence wins a bevy or prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them all in order to pay the taxes he's incurred.
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Sons of the Pioneers (1942)
Character: Ellie Bixby
A singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solve ranch raids.
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So This Is Washington (1943)
Character: Mrs. Pomeroy (uncredited)
Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is a good substitute for rubber--Abner's homemade licorice.
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The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to save the school, though their differing methods often lead to good-natured disagreements.
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One Mysterious Night (1944)
Character: Miss Wilkinson (Uncredited)
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
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The Devil's Party (1938)
Character: Maria
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
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Golden Boy (1939)
Character: Grocery Customer
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
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Family Honeymoon (1948)
Character: Mrs. Webb (uncredited)
Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machinations of Grant's former girlfriend Minna. But on the wedding day, Aunt Jo, who was to babysit, breaks a leg; so the kids come along on the honeymoon.
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Men in Her Diary (1945)
Character: Mrs. Braun
Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of her time to her attractive older sister. But she does keep a diary that contains some fact and many fictional entries. One such is read by the wife of her boss who promptly sues for a divorce. Virginia Grey stars in a musical produced by Hall and sings (possibly dubbed) "Makin' a Million" and "Keep Your Chin Up." No spoiler to add that Ryan gets a boyfriend and Hall and Allbritton are reunited before this one runs it course.
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Missing Evidence (1939)
Character: Amy, Housewife
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty.
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Sudden Danger (1955)
Character: Mrs. Kelly
Detective Andy Doyle suspects that a suicide is actually a murder. He suspects the victim's son, Wallace who is blind and he pursues him until he gets to the truth.
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Master Minds (1949)
Character: Mrs. Hoskins
When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he's able to predict the future. Slip tries to make some money off of Sach by using him as a fortune teller in a carnival, until a mad scientist kidnaps Sach to use him in an intelligence-switching experiment with a monster.
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Heartaches (1947)
Character: Charwoman (uncredited)
Up-and-coming Hollywood actor/crooner, Vic Morton, has a secret. He starts receiving death threats in the mail and an attempt on his life is made. Soon after, two of his associates are murdered. Who is behind it all?
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Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942)
Character: Wife at Circus (uncredited)
A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woman, she is taken back to the United States to claim her inheritance. There are several people, with vested interests, who stand to gain something if she is shown not to be the missing heir.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
Character: Screaming Spinster at Circus (uncredited)
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
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Rainbow Over Texas (1946)
Character: Mama Lolita
Roy visits his home town while on a personal appearance tour. While there he enters a pony express race. To keep him from winning, bad guys try to sabatoge Roy's entry. They fail, or course. Songs include the title song and "Smile for me, Senorita."
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Sundown in Santa Fe (1948)
Character: Ella Mae Watson
Sundown in Santa Fe is an adventure film directed by R.G. Springsteen in 60. A dagger has been left in every robbery by Walter Durant, fugitive leader of the President Lincoln murder ring. Rocky is sent to Santa Fe to find Durant and arrest him and the gang of outlaws he controls. Rocky soon finds that the information for every robbery comes from Tom, who is the son of the sheriff. But Rocky has to arrest the whole gang, and he does not know who is part of the gang and where Durant may be hiding.
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Dancing Co-Ed (1939)
Character: Woman on Radio (voice) (uncredited)
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
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Quiet Please, Murder (1943)
Character: Cookbook-Seeking Library Patron
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
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That Other Woman (1942)
Character: Mrs. MacReady
A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her which backfires after some bad advice.
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Boys of the City (1940)
Character: Agnes
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
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The Strange Mrs. Crane (1948)
Character: Nellie Carter
Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former associate Floyd Durant shows up to blackmail Gina, she has no choice but to murder him. Things take a bizarre turn when Barbara Arnold is charged with Durant's murder and Gina is selected to serve on the jury.
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City Streets (1938)
Character: Mrs. Grimley (uncredited)
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" Joe Carmine. Joe convinces Father Ryan to let him informally adopt her. Joe and Winnie live together with Tommy Devlin and his grandmother, Mrs. Devlin, and a dog Winnie names Muriel. Joe sells his shop to pay for an unsuccessful operation on Winnie's legs. This bankrupts Carmine, who then earns a meager living selling fruits and vegetables on the streets. Winnie is sent to live in an orphanage, and Carmine is discouraged from continuing his relationship with her. Carmine is so distraught by grief that he slowly begins to die. Winnie is brought to him by Father Ryan, and she finds the strength to stand and walk to his bedside and sings his favorite song, "Santa Maria." Later, after Winnie has acquired full use of her legs, Joe, in his new catering truck, takes the children on a picnic in the country.
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Marty (1955)
Character: Mrs. Rosari (uncredited)
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. Marty meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher, realising their emotional connection, he promises to call but family and friends try to convince him not to.
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The Noose Hangs High (1948)
Character: Husky Woman (uncredited)
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
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Lady for a Night (1942)
Character: Spinster in Audience (uncredited)
Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.
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Student Tour (1934)
Character: Wife
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
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Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
Character: Italian Woman in Ambulance (uncredited)
Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.
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