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The Right Age to Marry (1935)
Character: Mrs. Carlisle
A Yorkshire mill owner retires and leaves control to his nephew, who promptly gets married.
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Double Exposures (1937)
Character: Mrs. Laura Rodman
A industrialist has a row with his son, who leaves home. Meanwhile, both his assistant and solicitor conspire to embezzle a fortune in bonds. A plucky young newspaper reporter pursues the rich man's daughter.
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Who Would Not Welcome One? (1922)
Character: Herself
The Valentine's card, 1920s-style. Two British actresses put lips to paper in a demonstration of the so-called "Kiss Valentine", leaving a lipstick imprint of the loving smooch in favour of a more traditional card.
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Little Women (1917)
Character: Jo March
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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Gamblers All (1919)
Character: Millicent Hope
A lady gambler shields her brother by claiming responsibility for a forgery he committed.
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Crime Over London (1936)
Character: N/A
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
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Law and Disorder (1940)
Character: Mrs. Honeycombe
On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed by a satisfactory cast.
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Sorrell and Son (1934)
Character: Mrs. Palfrey
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions.
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The Dictator (1935)
Character: Madame Hilda
The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.
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Alimony (1924)
Character: Gloria Du Bois
Jimmy Mason lifts himself up from poverty to unlimited riches. The audience knows that he couldn't have done it without the help and support of his wife Marion. When Jimmy starts cheating on her, she divorces him, receiving an enormous settlement. Reduced to penury by various spendthrift mistresses, Jimmy is rescued once more by Marion, who once more guides him to success-and remarries him, this time on her terms.
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Anna Karenina (1948)
Character: Countess Meskov
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
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