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Educated Evans (1936)
Character: Mary
Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought.
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Darts Are Trumps (1938)
Character: Mary Drake
Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expectations when he takes into partnership an aristocratic ne'er-do-well.
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Hello, Sweetheart (1935)
Character: Helen Taylor
A young poultry farmer is flattered and persuaded into financing a film production. He attempts to interfere in the direction, is swindled and left in the lurch but eventually manages to turn the tables on his former associates.
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East of Ludgate Hill (1937)
Character: Norah Applin
When the City stockbroker firm of Macintyre & Son records a substantial yearly profit, its senior staff are each promised a £50 bonus. But their hasty plans for spending their windfalls are put in jeopardy the following morning, as a set of negotiable bonds are discovered missing.
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Something Always Happens (1934)
Character: Cynthia Hatch
Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.
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Jack Ahoy (1934)
Character: Patricia Fraser
A song and dance comedy in which Jack Hulbert plays an incompetent sailor.
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The Medium (1934)
Character: Carol
A mad sculptor murders his wife and hides the body within a statue; a psychic model suspects the truth.
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Twelve Good Men (1936)
Character: Ann
A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up hiding in the large home of another juror, an actor. It is the actor who saves them from the murderous fugitive.
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The Brown Wallet (1936)
Character: Eleanor
Publisher John Gillespie faces a financial crisis after his business partner skips town with all the firm's assets. Facing ruin, he reluctantly approaches a wealthy aunt for assistance but is met with a stony-faced refusal.
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Brewster's Millions (1935)
Character: Cynthia
Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in 60 days to inherit the rest of the money, or forfeit the entire inheritance.
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The Secret of the Loch (1934)
Character: Angela Heggie
A batty Scottish professor attempts to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, but everyone thinks he's crazy. Meanwhile, a foolish young reporter attempts to get a scoop on the story.
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Solo for Sparrow (1962)
Character: Miss Martin
A group of crooks accidentally kill an elderly shop assistant while stealing the keys to the jewellery shop where she works. When his superiors think that the case is better handed over to Scotland Yard, the local detective inspector, Sparrow, decides to go solo to investigate the crime himself.
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Headline (1943)
Character: Molly Dean
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
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The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
Character: Mrs. Blakeworth
When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts to use methods that can hardly be seen as fair competition.
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