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The Greener Hills (1939)
Character: Miller Daughter
An MGM Miniature about an incurable optimist who is always giving up on his job or project to try something new, while his wife and kids humor him, thinking that some day he may make that million he always talks about. He takes over a peanut farm, but immediately starts off on a bee-hive project, leaving his wife and kids to run the peanut farm.
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The World Accuses (1934)
Character: 'Pat' Collins
When a middle aged woman accepts a job at a day care center she comes across the child she gave up early in life.
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Youth on Trial (1945)
Character: Cam Chandler
A female juvenile court judge learns that her own daughter is one of the town delinquents in this minor low-budget potboiler.
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The Harvester (1936)
Character: Naomi Jameson
In a small town in Indiana in the 1890s, the domineering and ambitious Mrs. Biddle arranges a marriage between her spoiled daughter Thelma and the town's prize catch, harvester David Langston, who is wedded to the soil. David is friends with orphan Ruth Jameson and, although she is in love with him, he eventually gives in to the machinations of Mrs. Biddle and consents to marry Thelma. Meanwhile, technological advances come to town, including its first gasoline buggy, galvanic battery, and metal bathtub fitted with running water. When Mrs. Biddle tries to convince David to give up the farming life and join her husband in real estate, Mr. Biddle, hen-pecked and dissatisfied with city life, warns David against selling his farm.
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Stop, Look and Love (1939)
Character: Dora Haller
Daughter has trouble holding onto boyfriends because of her critical mother until understanding father comes to her aid.
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New Deal Rhythm (1933)
Character: Little Girl (uncredited)
Plotless musical revue celebrating President Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration.
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The Spectacle Maker (1934)
Character: The Little Princess
A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious Technicolor.
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Three Married Men (1936)
Character: Sue Cary
Jennie Mullins and her fiancé Peter Cary are happily in love but their families are miserable about their relationship. The Carys and Mullinses have been feuding for years over the apparent failure of the Carys' business which was caused by the now-deceased Mr. Mullins. Despite familial pressure to the contrary, Jennie and Peter proceed with their wedding. Just before the wedding, Peter receives advice from his soon-to-be brothers-in-law, Jeff and Bill Mullins. Both men warn him about the drudgery of marriage, ply him with drink, and destroy his fantasy of an ideal, romantic marriage.
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Beautiful Dreamer (1935)
Character: N/A
The life of Stephen Foster, composer who was the influence for the early Minstrel shows.
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Keep 'Em Rolling (1934)
Character: Young Marjorie Deane (uncredited)
World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.
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Torch Singer (1933)
Character: Sally, Age 5
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she searches for the child she gave up.
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Silver Dollar (1932)
Character: Maryann Silver-Dollar Echo Honeymoon Martin - Girl (uncredited)
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
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Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
Character: Little girl
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
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Anna Karenina (1935)
Character: Tania
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
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Roughly Speaking (1945)
Character: Elinor Randall as a Girl (uncredited)
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
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Little Men (1934)
Character: Daisy
The former Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for homeless boys. One of the boys, Nat, invites Dan, a street kid, to come to the school, where the boys are all loved and well cared for. Dan is a young tough, but his heart is good, and when he is accused of theft at the school, Jo continues to believe in him and that the true thief will be found out.
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Magnificent Obsession (1935)
Character: Ruth, the Child in the Park
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Character: Amy Lawrence
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
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Two Sinners (1935)
Character: Sally Pym
An ex-convict gets released after shooting a fellow who made a play for his wife. When he meets Sleeper, his life takes a change for the better, but along with her comes the boisterous little Collins, for whom she is a governess.
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Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
Character: Jane Rand
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
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Smilin' Through (1932)
Character: Young Kathleen
On the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named Jeremy, leaving him emotionally devastated. Carteret spends three decades in seclusion, mostly communing with the spirit of Moonyeen, until he learns that her niece, Kathleen, has become an orphan. He adopts and raises the child as his own but is alarmed when, as a young woman, she falls in love with the son of Moonyeen's murderer.
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The Mysterious Rider (1933)
Character: Jo-Jo Foster
The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles to their land. When Harkness gets a better offer, he steals Benton's receipt for the money and Benton is jailed. To fight back, Benton escapes jail at night to become the Phantom.
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Queen Christina (1934)
Character: Christina as a Child (uncredited)
Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.
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Naughty Marietta (1935)
Character: Felice (uncredited)
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
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Picture Snatcher (1933)
Character: Jerry's Little Girl (uncredited)
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
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The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)
Character: Nora Moran, as a Child
Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit. She could easily reveal the truth and save her own life, if only it would not damage the lives, careers and reputations of those whom she loves.
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Blood and Sand (1941)
Character: Encarnacion (as a child)
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.
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Evelyn Prentice (1934)
Character: Dorothy Prentice
A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.
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Jennie Gerhardt (1933)
Character: Vesta at Age 6
This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.
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They Just Had to Get Married (1933)
Character: Rosalie
Molly Hull, a maid, and Sam Sutton, a butler, are bequeathed a million dollars, and they encounter many problems and difficulties as they try to become the newest members of the idle rich.
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All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Character: Louise de Rham (uncredited)
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.
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Elinor Norton (1934)
Character: Betty, little girl
A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
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Caravan (1934)
Character: Young Latzi (Uncredited)
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
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Devil's Squadron (1936)
Character: Mary
In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies, his daughter is left to run the company. The company seems to be producing dangerous prototypes, so the woman decides to close the company.
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The Strange Case of Clara Deane (1932)
Character: Nancy Deane (as a child)
A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a criminal...
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Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933)
Character: Jane Simmons (uncredited)
Lifelong friends and medical school graduates Mary Stevens and Don Andrews decide to set up office together. While Mary struggles to earn respect because of her gender, Don gets caught up in his ambitions for a bigger life.
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As the Earth Turns (1934)
Character: Marie
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
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The Unexpected Father (1932)
Character: Pudge
A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's calculating, money-hungry fiancée.
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Harmony Lane (1935)
Character: Marian Foster
The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.
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Johnny Doughboy (1942)
Character: Cora Sue Collins
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
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Mad Love (1935)
Character: Crippled Girl (Uncredited)
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.
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Get Hep to Love (1942)
Character: Elaine Sterling
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
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The Scarlet Letter (1934)
Character: Pearl
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
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The Dark Angel (1935)
Character: Kitty as a Child
Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan. Gerald graciously gives them his blessing. Then, Gerald and Alan go to war. Angered over a misunderstanding involving Alan and Kitty, Gerald sends Alan on a dangerous mission that will change all their lives forever.
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Without Children (1935)
Character: Carol Cole as a Child
Struggling architect David Cole is encouraged by his boss, Phil Graham, to fraternize with high society as a means of drumming up business. This inadvertently leads to him having an affair with a rich older woman. When his wife Sue discovers the infidelity, she divorces him and takes away their two children. It turns out this was Phil's intent all along - so he could marry Sue. With David now living in Europe, the two children grow up spoiled and self-centered under Phil and Sue's neglectful care. When one of them is shot while roughhousing, David realizes he must own up to his responsibilities as a father...but it may be too late to make a difference in his children's lives...
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Black Moon (1934)
Character: Nancy Lane
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
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Public Hero Number 1 (1935)
Character: Little Girl (uncredited)
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
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Treasure Island (1934)
Character: Young Girl at the Inn (uncredited)
In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure.
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