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The Love Race (1931)
Character: Ida Mostyn
The Love Race is a delightful musical comedy film based around the fierce rivalry between two motor manufacturers – and the romance that develops between the daughter of one and the son of the other...
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Lonely Road (1936)
Character: Palais Hostess (uncredited)
Commander Stevenson, suffering from unrequited love drives to the coast while very drunk and interrupts some smugglers and informs Scotland Yard.
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The Ace of Spades (1935)
Character: Nita Daventry
The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband's rival. Her lover is running for election on a promise of building a railway that the community needs, but a wealthy landowner won't give permission for the railway to be built over his land. When the landowner is later found dead, suspicion falls on the adulterous candidate.
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Called Back (1933)
Character: Pauline March
'Spain. Revolutionary doctor foiled by blind man and amnesiac girl.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Third Time Lucky (1931)
Character: Jennifer Elling
Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a leading role. Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, who also wrote "The Ghost Train", and later went on to star in "Dad's Army", "Third time lucky" tells the story of a timid parson (Howes) who steps in to protect his ward from blackmail at the hands of Garry Marsh and Gordon Harker.
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Love Lies (1931)
Character: Joyce
Love Lies is a 1932 British musical comedy film directed by Lupino Lane and starring Stanley Lupino, Dorothy Boyd and Jack Hobbs. It was made by British International Pictures at Elstree Studios. It was based on Stanley Lupino's own hit 1929 stage musical.
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A Shot in the Dark (1933)
Character: Alaris Browne
The relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record. However, one of them is actually the person who killed him, and will let nothing - or no one - stand in the way of finding that record.
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Lily of Killarney (1934)
Character: Norah Cregeen
Set in Ireland, a poor knight's rival frames him for murder in this musical based on 'Colleen Bawn'.
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Pearls Bring Tears (1937)
Character: Madge Hart
About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.
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Inside the Room (1935)
Character: Dorothy Ayres
A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.
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Everything in Life (1936)
Character: Miss Winstone
An opera singer pretends to be poor in order to romantically win over a composer.
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Toni (1928)
Character: Princess Eugenie
Depressive Toni is diagnosed with idlesness by his doctor who recommends more excitement and danger. Another patient, a celebrated detective who bears a striking resemblance to Toni, is diagnosed with exhaustion and told to rest. The two swap places but Toni's first client turns out to be an exiled princess whose jewels are about to be stolen by a ruthless gang and the amateur detective finds more thrills than he bargained for.
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The Constant Nymph (1928)
Character: Pauline Sanger
Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a longstanding friend of the family, falls in love with their cousin Florence when she comes to take the girls back to England. But little Tessa Sanger is in love with Lewis herself, and when she runs away from school and comes to live with Florence and her husband, their already-shaky marriage is further undermined
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Rynox (1932)
Character: Petronella 'Peter' Rickforth
Things are not all well at Rynox House, where the company is on the verge of collapse. At the same time, its senior partner, FX Benedik, keeps receiving threats from the disgruntled Boswell Marsh, who is seen in town buying theatre tickets and revolvers. As the Rynox staff, including the young Tony Benedik, work to keep the business afloat, FX invites Marsh to settle his grievances at his house one fateful night....
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The Sport of Kings (1931)
Character: Dulcie Primrose
Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert Amos Purdie, the puritanical head of an anti-betting association, into a punter within a week.
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It Happened in Paris (1935)
Character: Patricia
A British millionaire's son travels to France to study art, and falls in love in Paris.
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Too Many Crooks (1930)
Character: The Girl
A man tries to burgle his own safe on the same night that a professional criminal attempts it.
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Everything Is Rhythm (1936)
Character: Grethe von Essen
Based on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy, this is the comic tale of a Ruritanian princess who elopes with a dance-band leader.
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Birds of Prey (1930)
Character: Mollie Cunningham
At a reception given by Arthur Hilton at his Sussex home the conversation turns to the subject of danger, with Hilton recalling a case in which he was involved as a Natal police commissioner. In it there were three guilty persons, but only one of them was hanged; the other two were sentenced to long terms, vowing vengeance on Hilton. Unknown to him, the same two men are now among his guests, and are determined to have their revenge.
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Easy Virtue (1928)
Character: Hilda Whittaker
Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She soon falls in love with a young Englishman, John Whittaker, and begins anew under an assumed name. But when John brings her home to his disapproving family, Larita’s past begins to resurface.
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