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Short Kilts (1924)
Character: N/A
As a way to make peace between two feuding Scottish clans, one invites the other over for supper, but things don't turn out quite as expected.
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The Pride of Pikeville (1927)
Character: Woman on Sofa
Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.
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The Cake Eater (1924)
Character: N/A
A young cowboy takes a job at a ranch owned by two aging spinsters, unaware that both are completely in love with him.
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A Yankee Doodle Duke (1926)
Character: Mrs. Chatterton
Ralph Graves plays a cabaret singer who is mistaken for a duke while courting society girl Ruth Taylor.
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Musclebound Music (1926)
Character: Sally Skimp - The Landlady
Bill and Oscar are musicians but they can't make enough to pay their room-and-board, and they are both in love with the landlady's daughter. However, she is in love with Horace, a wrestler, and Bill gets a world's championship match with him in hopes of securing the needed-boardinghouse bill, and the hand of the daughter of the house.
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The Goofy Age (1924)
Character: N/A
The hero's loved one is threatened with marriage with a rival, due to the machinations of her mother. The simplest solution of the situation is to marry her, and upon being reminded of it, the hero lays plans for a hurried ceremony in the goldfish store where he works. But as it is a case of true love, things don't move smoothly. Customers interrupt and so forth, as the justice of the peace tries to spiel off the fateful words. The culminating disaster is when firemen smash in the door, but a simple solution presents itself and the lovers, justice of the peace and witnesses make off with the hook and ladder wagon and the knot is tied before they are caught.
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Sorrowful Jones (1949)
Character: Mrs. Oliver Sims (uncredited)
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.
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Swing Shift Maisie (1943)
Character: Worker (Uncredited)
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
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Stars in My Crown (1950)
Character: Townswoman (uncredited)
Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time, he has a family and many friends but also finds friction with a few of his parishioners.
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The Avenging Rider (1943)
Character: Mrs. Winters
Wrongfully arrested, Tim must escape and find the men who murdered his partner and stole the gold.
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In the Navy (1941)
Character: Old Maid (uncredited)
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.
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Alice in Wonderland (1933)
Character: Aunt (uncredited)
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
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You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940)
Character: Hotel Maid
Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.
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A Likely Story (1947)
Character: Flower Woman (uncredited)
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
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Nice Women (1931)
Character: Mary
A mother tries to get her daughter to marry for money, but the daughter wants to marry for love.
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Saps at Sea (1940)
Character: Mother
Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues.
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Darling, How Could You! (1951)
Character: Mrs. Jones (Uncredited)
Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.
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Doctor Bull (1933)
Character: Susan
In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!
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Appointment with Danger (1950)
Character: Woman
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.
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Something to Live For (1952)
Character: Old Lady (uncredited)
Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actress Jenny Carey whose developing career is threatened by an increasing dependence on alcohol. Alan's growing interest in Jenny strains his marriage to Edna, with whom he has two children.
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Outcast (1928)
Character: Mrs. O'Brien
Outcast is a 1928 silent film drama produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was directed by William A. Seiter and stars Corinne Griffith, often considered one of the most beautiful women in film. This story had been filmed in 1917 as The World and the Woman with Jeanne Eagels. In 1922 a Paramount film of the same name with Elsie Ferguson reprising her stage role was released. Both films were based on a 1914 play, Outcast, by Hubert Henry Davies which starred Ferguson. The Seiter/Griffith film was an all silent with Vitaphone music and sound effects. In the sound era, the story was filmed once again as The Girl from 10th Avenue starring Bette Davis.
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Indianapolis Speedway (1939)
Character: Annoyed Woman at Homecoming
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
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Chickens Come Home (1931)
Character: Busybody
Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.
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A Sea Dog's Tale (1926)
Character: Lemona Smith
An island princess falls in love with a young man whose picture she sees in the newspaper. Her father, the king, sends his agents to the U.S. to kidnap the man and bring him back to the islands to marry his daughter. Complications ensue.
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It Happened One Night (1934)
Character: Bus Passenger (uncredited)
A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
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My Old Dutch (1926)
Character: Mrs. Smiff
The story that inspired Albert Chevalier to write his immortal Costermonger song, 'My Old Dutch', is the story this picture tells of London's quaint and sturdy tradesmen - her humble vegetable peddlers
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