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Think First (1939)
Character: Ruth Nolan
Episode 24 of the Crime Does Not Pay series. Margie Smith (Laraine Day) works as a waitress at a drive in restaurant. She likes to date and look nice but on her salary, she can't keep up with everyone else. However, a friend shows her that stealing is easy, cool and lets you dress like success. At first, it works out just fine, but remember--this is a Crime Does Not Pay film and you KNOW she'll soon get caught and prosecuted.
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Another Romance of Celluloid: Electrical Power (1938)
Character: Self
This short begins at Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam). The electricity generated here by the Colorado River is sent to Hollywood, where movie studios need it to make movies. After a tour of the MGM studios' power plants, we see short advertisements for upcoming MGM releases.
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Drunk Driving (1939)
Character: Mrs. Jones
In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem. One day he mixes drinking and driving, and the tragic consequences hit very close to home.
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Unseen Guardians (1939)
Character: Leading Actress
The "unseen guardians" of the title are the Postal Inspection Service, which investigates mail order racketeering; the Underwriters' Laboratories, which are shown testing electrical equipment, fire extinguishers, and large floor safes; and those who run orphanages, who assure that the children in their care are placed in proper adoptive homes.
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Honolulu (1939)
Character: Nurse
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
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Help Wanted (1939)
Character: Mary Daniels
A temporary laborer who helps bring down a mob-sponsored employment racket
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Four Girls in White (1939)
Character: Sleepy Nurse
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
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Main Street to Broadway (1953)
Character: Bride in Musical Number (uncredited)
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
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Young Dr. Kildare (1938)
Character: Barbara Chanler
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.
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The Light of Western Stars (1940)
Character: Madeline Hammond
Easterner Madeline Hammond buys a ranch not knowing Hayworth is using it to smuggle ammunition across the border. When trouble starts, she brings back Gene Stewart ex-foreman who left the country after fighting with the Sheriff.
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The Man with Nine Lives (1940)
Character: Nurse Judith Blair
Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are discovered and revived in hopes that Kravaal can indeed complete his cure. But human greed and weakness compound to disrupt the project.
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Fast and Loose (1939)
Character: Christina Torrent
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
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Within the Law (1939)
Character: Helen Morris - the Thief
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
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The Women (1939)
Character: Debutante (uncredited)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
Character: Susan
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
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