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A Son Comes Home (1936)
Character: Essie Wimple
A mother experiences the torment of discovering that her own son is a killer.
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The Story of Alfred Nobel (1939)
Character: Mother (uncredited)
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and later established the Nobel Prize.
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The Wedding Night (1935)
Character: Mrs. Sobieski
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik (Bellamy). Due to a snowstorm, Tony and Manya are trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.
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The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Character: Frau Holf the Cook
An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.
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Boulder Dam (1936)
Character: Ma Vangarick
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
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The Man I Married (1940)
Character: Old Lady
An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.
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The Woman in Red (1935)
Character: Mrs. Agnew, Housekeeper
A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust family in this horsy-set drama.
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Street Scene (1931)
Character: Marguerite 'Greta' Fiorentino
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.
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The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932)
Character: Anna
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party. The strain of command on the older captain and his new, young wife is very great.
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Cradle Song (1933)
Character: Mistress of Novices
In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?
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Madame Racketeer (1932)
Character: Mrs. Donkenspeil
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.
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Stranded (1935)
Character: Mrs. Young (uncredited)
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Black Moon (1934)
Character: Anna, the nursemaid
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
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Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
Character: Emma
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well. He soon leaves his wife so the two can go off together.
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