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Life in Sometown, U.S.A. (1938)
Character: Mrs. Brown (uncredited)
A satirical visualization of strange and forgotten, but (at that time) nevertheless still existing laws in the U.S.A.
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The Opening Night (1927)
Character: Gertrude Ames
When theatrical producer Robert Chandler (E. Alyn Warren), believed drowned in a fishing accident, turns up as a lonely, broken amnesiac three months later, he arrives just in time to see his actress wife Carol Chandler (Claire Windsor), thought to be a widow, marrying her leading man Jimmy Keane (John Bowers). Rather than mar her new-found happiness, he takes a job washing cars. New York City is a small town. Will Carol need her car washed?
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Top Flat (1935)
Character: Mrs. Lamont
When Patsy criticises her poetry, Thelma ups and leaves for a better standard of living.
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Pan Handlers (1936)
Character: Anchor Brand Aluminum Representative
The girls get jobs selling aluminum cookware door to door.
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The Four Star Boarder (1935)
Character: Aunt Nellie
In an effort to appease his wife's wealthy aunt (Grace Goodall), newly-wed Charley must masquerade as a boarder in his own home while his wife (Constance Bergen) pretends to be married to an old beau (T. Roy Barnes).
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Here's to Romance (1935)
Character: Mother
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
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Torch Singer (1933)
Character: Head Nurse
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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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy to tame him.
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$1,000 a Touchdown (1939)
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
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Moonlight and Honeysuckle (1921)
Character: Hallie Baldwin
When an Arizona ranchman (Willard Louis) is elected senator, he heads for Washington with his daughter, Judith Baldwin (Mary Miles Minter). But they leave behind ranch hand Tod Musgrove (Monte Blue), who is in love with Judith. In Washington, two men propose to Judith -- Congressman Hamill (Guy Oliver) and Robert Courtney (William Boyd). Since she doesn't know which one to pick, she puts them to a test at her aunt's woodland cabin.
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She Married Her Boss (1935)
Character: Department Head
A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.
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The Shining Hour (1938)
Character: Mrs. Smart (uncredited)
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
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What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Character: Department Head (uncredited)
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
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One More Spring (1935)
Character: N/A
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
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Free, Blonde and 21 (1940)
Character: Undetermined Role
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
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Handy Andy (1934)
Character: Mattie Norcross
A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national chain. In addition, she tries to set up her pretty young daughter with the nitwit son of the chain's owner, even though the girl is in love with the handsome son of the town doctor. Finally the druggist decides he's had enough and takes matters into his own hands.
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The Road to Reno (1938)
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
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Pop Goes the Easel (1935)
Character: Woman in Car (uncredited)
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
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Vagabond Lady (1935)
Character: Miss Jones (uncredited)
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
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I'll Love You Always (1935)
Character: Sarah
Nora Clegg, an actress, marries Carl Brent, an unemployed young engineer, whose estimation of his worth and ability keeps him from getting a job. He finally acquires a position that will require him to go to Russia for a period of time, while Nora goes back to the stage during his absence. But he loses out on the job at the last minute, and rather than tell Nora he has failed again, he steals a roll of money from his prospective employer to buy some things for Nora and go out and have a good time before, she things, his departure. His departure is to jail rather than Russia and he hides the truth from Nora by having an acquaintance mail his letters from Russia. He then finds out that Nora is pregnant.
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Wives Never Know (1936)
Character: Mrs. Banker (uncredited)
Homer Bigelow has an ideal marriage, with a wife who loves him very much as does he in return. Hilarity ensues when, his wife and him take "marital advice" from an old school friend, who thinks marriage is a farce.
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City of Chance (1940)
Character: Bridge Player
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
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Too Busy to Work (1939)
Character: N/A
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
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Within the Law (1939)
Character: Prison Matron
Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful ways.
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Elinor Norton (1934)
Character: Publisher's Staff
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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She Couldn't Take It (1935)
Character: Party Guest
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
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Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)
Character: Sheriff's Wife
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
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Spendthrift (1936)
Character: Uncle Morton Middleton's Nurse
A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the humbled (and impoverished) Fonda finds true love in the arms of Pat Paterson, who cares nothing for material things.
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Show Them No Mercy! (1935)
Character: (uncredited)
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
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California Straight Ahead (1937)
Character: Mrs. Porter
A truck driver races a train to the West Coast in an attempt to determine which method of transportation is faster.
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Palm Springs (1936)
Character: Teacher
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
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Say It in French (1938)
Character: Miss Briggs
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
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True Confession (1937)
Character: Taxpayer Spectator (uncredited)
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.
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Men with Wings (1938)
Character: Matron
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
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The Women (1939)
Character: Head Saleswoman (uncredited)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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To Mary - with Love (1936)
Character: Customer
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)
Character: Guest
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
Character: Screaming Spinster / Wedding Guest (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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The Best Man Wins (1935)
Character: Supervisor of Nurses
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
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City Streets (1938)
Character: Miss Graham
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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