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Rookery Nook (1930)
Character: Rhoda Marley
A husband tries to hide a runaway girl from his wife and mother-on-law.
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Mischief (1931)
Character: Diana Birkett
When financier Reginald Bingham leaves on a business trip to Paris, normally devoted wife Eleanor leaves for a cottage with a secret boy friend. The couple are followed by friends of her husband, who attempt to hinder the affair. However, Reginald is also tempted by a fling with an old friend in Paris.
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Plunder (1930)
Character: Joan Hewlett
A comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls.
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A Night Like This (1932)
Character: Cora Mellish
Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.
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His Lordship Regrets (1938)
Character: Mary
The impoverished Lord Cavender woos a phony heiress, Mabel Van Morgan, only to find that his secretary Mary, whom he really loves, is a genuine heiress. His Lordship does quickly and truly regret.
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Up to the Neck (1933)
Character: April Dawne
'Comedy concerning a bank clerk who uses his inheritance to fund a serious drams which, ironically, succeeds as a burlesque.' (BFI)
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On Approval (1930)
Character: Helen Hayle
'Broke duke and millionairess try month of trial marriage.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Night of the Garter (1933)
Character: Gwen Darling
'Newlywed tries to get back gift garter from honeymoon bride.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Chance of a Night Time (1931)
Character: Pauline Gay
Bashful lawyer Henry cannot attend his fiancée's birthday party because of a business engagement. However, farcical circumstances find him mistaken for the dance partner of a professional lady hired to entertain a country house party at which his fiancée is a guest.
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Summer Lightning (1933)
Character: Millicent Keeble
Hugo Carmody, the impoverished secretary to Lord Emsworth falls for Millicent the boss's niece, and steals his Lordship's prize pig in a scheme to raise funds to marry her.
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Candles at Nine (1944)
Character: Brenda Tempest, Cecil's Wife
A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young actress whom the other relatives didn't know was related to him. Several attempts on her life are thwarted by a detective, who sets out to discover who's behind the scheme to kill her.
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The Love Contract (1932)
Character: Antoinette
A young woman becomes the driver of a wealthy stockbroker who lost her family’s savings.
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Lilies of the Field (1934)
Character: Betty Beverley
Twin daughters of country rector set out to attract attentions of handsome young antiquary visitor.
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D’Ye Ken John Peel? (1935)
Character: Lucy Merrall
Major John Peel returns to England, following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, and renews his acquaintance with Lucy Merrall, but she tells him she is engaged to be married. He later learns that, Cravens, the man she is to marry already has a wife. He also learns that Craven cleaned out Lucy's father in a crooked gambling game, and Lucy is paying the price to hold the family home together.
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Thark (1948)
Character: Kitty Stratton
Mrs Frush complains to Sir Hector Benbow that Thark, the large country house she has bought from him, is haunted. Investigators and occupants spend a tense night searching for the spook.
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Sorrell and Son (1934)
Character: Molly Pentreath
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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Petticoat Fever (1936)
Character: Clara Wilson
A lonely radio operator in Labrador falls for an engaged woman.
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John and Julie (1955)
Character: Mrs. Swayne
The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
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Jack's the Boy (1932)
Character: Ivy
With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star plays the son of a celebrated Scotland Yard detective, who joins the force in hopes of following his father's footsteps. Unfortunately, Jack is something of a screw-up, and before long he has become the laughing stock of the force.
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