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Little Orphan Annie (1938)
Character: Annie
Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, 'Pop' Corrigan (J. Farrell MacDonald). She brings him Johnny Adams (Robert Kent), a promising prizefighter. Annie gets the people of the neighborhood to finance his training. But on the night of Johnny's big fight, a gambling syndicate locks him in a gymnasium and it appears the neighborhood folks will lose their investment.
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All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Character: Emily Schuyler
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.
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Beau Geste (1939)
Character: Isobel Rivers (as a Child)
When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the brothers must fight for their lives as they plot mutiny against tyranny and defend a desert fortress against a brutal enemy.
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Bambi (1942)
Character: Adolescent Faline (voice) (uncredited)
Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.
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Janie Gets Married (1946)
Character: Paula Rainey
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.
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Mr. Dynamite (1941)
Character: Joey aka Abigail
A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.
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Under Your Spell (1936)
Character: Gwendolyn (uncredited)
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
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My Love Came Back (1940)
Character: Valerie Malette
Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through his employee Tony so that Julius can escort Amelia to every musical event in the city. The trouble begins when he cannot meet her one night and Tony goes in his place. Tony believes that Julius and Amelia are a couple and then son Paul thinks that Tony and Amelia are a couple as he is sending her the money. The worst part is that Amelia might leave classical music for swing music with classmates Dusty, Joy and the band.
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Little Men (1940)
Character: Nan
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.
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'Neath Brooklyn Bridge (1942)
Character: Sylvia
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. The killer, however, used a baseball bat as his murder weapon, and the bat has the fingerprints of one of the gang on it.
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Meet the Stewarts (1942)
Character: Jane Goodwin
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
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Tough as They Come (1942)
Character: Frankie Taylor
The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and try to stop them.
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Since You Went Away (1944)
Character: Becky Anderson - Class President (uncredited)
In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.
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Off to the Races (1937)
Character: Winnie Mae
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.
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The Cheaters (1945)
Character: Angela Pidgeon
An eccentric wealthy family facing bankruptcy schemes to steal an inheritance, but an alcoholic ex-actor they take in for Christmas charity complicates their plan.
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The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Character: Mary Lou as a Child (uncredited)
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.
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The Time of Their Lives (1946)
Character: Nora O'Leary
Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.
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Janie (1944)
Character: Paula Rainey
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.
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A Wave, a WAC and a Marine (1944)
Character: Judy (as Anne Gillis)
Henny Brown, talent scout for the Margaret Ames Film Agency in Hollywood, mistakes Broadway show understudies Judy and Marian, for stars Betty and Eileen, and signs them up for movies. Margaret, furious with Henny for the blunder, fires him---but only temporarily. Another agent, Marty Allen, once married to and still in love with Margaret, signs Betty and Eileen. Henny arrives with Judy and Marian, and the nightclub manager asks Henny to emcee the show. Though he is not sure himself what they can do, Henny introduces the girls and they make a hit in a dramatic sketch. Big-time movie producer R. J. signs them to a film contract. Judy joins the WAVES, Marian the WACS and Marty the Marines and all have two weeks before induction, and that is more than long enough to shoot a Monogram musical-within-a-Monogram musical and have a few days to spare.
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Glamour Boy (1941)
Character: Brenda Lee
Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living in Hollywood. He gets back into the movie business when he overhears a conversation between producers discussing their newest prodigy. Cooper butts in and suggests the producers remake Skippy (a real-life 1931 film that made young Cooper a star). The bigwigs like the idea and then hire Cooper to become the boy's acting coach. Once back on the backlot, Cooper finds both trouble and romance while helping the young boy adjust to life as a movie star.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Character: Becky Thatcher
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
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Gay Blades (1946)
Character: Helen Dowell (as Anne Gillis)
New York hockey player Andy Buell is approached by Hollywood talent scout Nancy Davis to play the hunk lead in "The Behemoth" but he would prefer she quit her job and become his wife.
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Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (1946)
Character: Sue
A couple of gamblers pressure the local night club owner to rig things so the local college rowing crew will lose their upcoming race.
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King of Hockey (1936)
Character: Peggy O'Rourke
Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
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The Singing Cowboy (1936)
Character: Lou Ann Stevens
A rodeo singer funds a little girl's operation with a show, on television.
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Nice Girl? (1941)
Character: Nancy Dana
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice girl" image when an associate of her father comes to town on his way to study Australian Aboriginal tribes.
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In Society (1944)
Character: Gloria Winthrop
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.
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Man from Music Mountain (1943)
Character: Penny Winters
Roy returns home to fine a range feud between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. When his friend is killed he finds the rifle had a defective pin. He learns the rifle belongs to a ranch hand named Barker and that a third party has caused the feud. When he captures outlaws trying to blow up a dam, he claims Barker was the killer. But Barker has switched rifles and the outlaws now accuse Roy and Roy finds himself in trouble.
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Postal Inspector (1936)
Character: Little Alice (uncredited)
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
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The Under-Pup (1939)
Character: Letty Lou
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
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You Can't Buy Luck (1937)
Character: Peggy (uncredited)
When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
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Stage Door Canteen (1943)
Character: Ann Gillis
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
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Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus (1938)
Character: Fluerette de Cava
Trouble-prone Billy Peck and his gang descend on a traveling circus that has just hit town, and before long their antics are causing the circus owner all kinds of problems.
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Character: Poole's Mother
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
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Edison, the Man (1940)
Character: Nancy Grey
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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The Californian (1937)
Character: Rosalia as a Child
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a sort of Robin Hood in order to fight them.
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