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The Iceman's Ball (1932)
Character: The Hostess
Clark & McCullough are arrested for disturbing the peace. They steal the police car and return it to the station. The new police commissioner believes that they are real policemen and they get back the patrol car. Out on the beat, the duo chase women rather than criminals, just like real cops.
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Big Dame Hunting (1932)
Character: Ned's Wife
A drunken husband tries to sneak in but his wife catches him... and that means trouble!
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The Wild Man of Borneo (1941)
Character: Little Lady Buying Soap (uncredited)
A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.
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Maybe It's Love (1935)
Character: Second Complaining Wife (uncredited)
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
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Stardust on the Sage (1942)
Character: Mrs. Haskins
A singing cowboy (Gene Autry) and his partner (Bill Henry) thwart a foreman who wants their mine.
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Man Wanted (1932)
Character: New Secretary (Uncredited)
Hardworking magazine editor Lois is married to playboy Fred Ames. Her secretary abruptly quits just as salesman Tom Sheridan happens to arrive to hawk his goods. Desperate for assistance, Lois impulsively hires Tom. While Fred continues his philandering ways, a romance blossoms between Tom and Lois. But Tom's fiancée grows suspicious of his bond with Lois, and he decides to resign. Lois won't give Tom up without a fight, though.
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Miss Susie Slagle's (1946)
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease.
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Four Wives (1939)
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)
Character: Mrs. Smith
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
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The Man Who Lived Twice (1936)
Character: Head Matron (uncredited)
A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.
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Anybody's War (1930)
Character: Camilla
A dog catcher is rejected by the army, but sneaks in with his dog.
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My Favorite Brunette (1947)
Character: Matron (uncredited)
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.
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Let Us Live (1939)
Character: Mother Juror (uncredited)
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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The Lady Eve (1941)
Character: Mother on Ship (uncredited)
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
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The Great McGinty (1940)
Character: Bit Role (uncredited)
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
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You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Character: Neighbor (uncredited)
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)
Character: Grace Fenwick (uncredited)
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want to challenge him. Unfortunately he again spills his secret when he's drunk. All citizens swear to keep his secret and support him to give up his guns forever -- but a boy tells the story to a gang of wanted criminals. Their leader threatens to burn down the whole town, if he doesn't duel him.
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Double Indemnity (1944)
Character: Nettie (uncredited)
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
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Pacific Blackout (1941)
Character: Dance Club Woman
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
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The Virginian (1946)
Character: N/A
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
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Down to Their Last Yacht (1934)
Character: Mrs. Weems (uncredited)
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with songs.
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Bad Boy (1935)
Character: Wife
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage.
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Dark Command (1940)
Character: Townswoman
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
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True to Life (1943)
Character: Mrs. Barkow (uncredited)
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
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Made for Each Other (1939)
Character: Hospital Cashier (uncredited)
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
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Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
Character: Woman Wanting Seat at Lunch Counter (uncredited)
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
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Too Young to Kiss (1951)
Character: Woman (uncredited)
Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.
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Money and the Woman (1940)
Character: Mrs. Slocum, Depositor (uncredited)
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
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Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
Character: Townswoman (uncredited)
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.
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This Gun for Hire (1942)
Character: Woman on Bridge (uncredited)
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944)
Character: Woman (uncredited)
In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.
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Florida Special (1936)
Character: Prunella, at the Bar (uncredited)
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue when one of the passengers disappears while carrying $11-million in unset jewels.
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Missing Witnesses (1937)
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942)
Character: Mrs. Prescott
In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
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Father of the Bride (1950)
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
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Nocturne (1946)
Character: Woman (uncredited)
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.
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Doctors Don't Tell (1941)
Character: N/A
Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics.
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Night in New Orleans (1942)
Character: Elevator Passenger (uncredited)
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
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Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Character: Assistant Chef (uncredited)
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
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Friends of Mr. Sweeney (1934)
Character: Chocolate Malt and Chocolate Éclair Diner
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!
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In Old Missouri (1940)
Character: Socialite
The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son and a socialite wife who wants a divorce. He begs the Weavers to trade places with him and fix things up.
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