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Sympathy (1929)
Character: Laura Maxwell
Hobart Cavanaugh & Harry Shannon out on a date without their wives.
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Taking the Count (1937)
Character: Mrs. Howe
Now that they're engaged, Ann wants Joe to retire from the ring, seeing as how he's the heavyweight champ. Ann's mother, who doesn't want her daughter marrying "beneath" the wealthy family's standing, to set Ann up with a European count. What the mother doesn't know is that the "count" is after the family's money more than he is Ann.
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Pygmalion (1963)
Character: Hostess
Can Professor Higgins transform cockney flower girl Eliza Dolittle into a lady by teaching her to speak properly?
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Avalanche (1946)
Character: Mrs. Carlton Morris
Two T-men track a tax evader and his money to an Idaho ski resort, where a raven tends bar.
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The Dark Corner (1946)
Character: Mrs. Bryson (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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This Time for Keeps (1942)
Character: Mrs. Lornow - Hostess
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
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My Foolish Heart (1950)
Character: N/A
After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers her time with her true love, Walt Dreiser, at the beginning of the Second World War. She recalls the events that lead up to her split with Mary Jane, and how Lew married Eloise rather than Mary Jane.
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Because of Him (1946)
Character: Head Nurse
A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star.
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Two Blondes and a Redhead (1947)
Character: Mrs. Abbott
Socialite Cathy Abbott is working in the chorus of a Broadway show instead of being enrolled at an exclusive girl's school as her parents think. When the show closes, she brings two of her chorus friends home with her. In addition to trying to make her friends acceptable to the snooty society of which her family is part, she is also being blackmailed by a rival.
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The Male Animal (1942)
Character: Mrs. Myrtle Keller
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.
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I Surrender Dear (1948)
Character: Mrs. Nelson
Patty Nelson lands a job as a singer with orchestra leader Al Tyler, and tours with the band as "Patty Hart." Patty's father Russ is dismissed from his radio-station job, and the disc jockey selected to replace him is Al Tyler. Patty rushes home to keep Russ company on the air for the final few days, and Al wonders why she suddenly walked out on him. The new "Patty and Russ" radio show catches on, causing complications with Al and the radio-station bosses.
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The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
Character: Martha
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.
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Mr. Skeffington (1944)
Character: Audrey Newton (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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Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
Character: Mrs. Green
A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of a passing stranger threatens their burgeoning relationship.
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Pillow to Post (1945)
Character: Mrs. Mallory, Don's Mother
With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. She finally gets one tentative sale with the Black Hills Oil Co., but Earl wants dinner with her. With the shortage of housing due to the war, Jean needs a military husband to get a place to stay in Clayfield, which is next to Camp Clay. She gets Lt. Mallory to act as her husband just to register. Then things go wrong as his commanding officer is there and believes them to be married. It gets worse as Don's mother shows up and then Jean's father.
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Scattergood Rides High (1942)
Character: Mrs. Van Pelt
When Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a harness race Scattergood tells Martin's son Dan that he will send him to college if he forgets about taking over his father's business, which was heavily mortgaged and has been put up for auction after Knox's death. The boy reluctantly agrees, but when he discovers that his favorite horse Starlight is sick, he decides to bring the animal back to health and then enter him in the Governor's Race, whose $5000 prize would enable Dan to pay off his father's mortgage and keep the business in the family.
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The Bamboo Blonde (1946)
Character: Mrs. Ransom
A pilot of a B 29 meets Louise Anderson, a singer in a New York nightclub. He falls in love with her, but he had to leave next day for action in the Pacific. He lets paint her picture on his bomber, the "Bamboo Blonde" and becomes a hero with his crew sinking a Japanese battleship and shooting down a Japanese fighter wing. Back in New York, he leaves his fiancée and engages him to Louise.
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Du Barry Did All Right (1937)
Character: Edna
A woman living in Paris feels neglected by her husband, so she decides to go to New York City and enjoy herself.
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Personality Kid (1946)
Character: Mrs. Partridge
An Army veteran finds his re-entry into civilian life easier through the efforts of his younger brother and a donkey.
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