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Hell and High Water (1933)
Character: Mom Wealin
The life of an avowed bachelor who tows garbage is changed when he meets a runaway taxi dancer.
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Heddas Rache (1919)
Character: N/A
The brothel mother's illegitimate daughter takes revenge by luring her half-siblings into the brothel.
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A Son Comes Home (1936)
Character: Effie Wimple
A mother experiences the torment of discovering that her own son is a killer.
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Mountain Justice (1937)
Character: Granny Burnside
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
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Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Character: Mrs. Benson
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
Character: Elderly Village Woman (uncredited)
A gentle widower with a small daughter finds his peaceful small rural village suddenly invaded by Nazis and, enraged in short order by their atrocities, becomes the leader of an aggressive underground movement.
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943)
Character: Grandmother (uncredited)
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
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I'll Tell the World (1934)
Character: Aunt Louise
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
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Die entfesselte Menschheit (1920)
Character: Rita, Clarenbachs Frau
A Bolshevik agitator is enticing workers into a violent rebellion in post-WWI Berlin, in order to create anarchy. He charms the wife of a factory director into helping him, but the forces of law and order are fighting back.
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The War of the Worlds (1953)
Character: Elderly News Vendor (uncredited)
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
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East Side Kids (1940)
Character: Old Lady in Montage
After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of his best friends goes to prison for a murder he didn't commit. The policeman tries his best to release the friend by proving his innocence.
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One Foot in Heaven (1941)
Character: Elderly Woman (uncredited)
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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A Guy Named Joe (1944)
Character: Old Woman (uncredited)
A cocky U.S. Army Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he's sent back to Earth by a heavenly General with a new assignment.
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North of the Rockies (1942)
Character: Grandma Bailey
Morgan and his gang are smuggling furs across the border. Both the Mounties on the Canadian side and Tex Martin on the American side are after them. When Morgan sets up Tex to be found with furs, Mountie Bill arrests him. But he lets him go hoping he will lead him to the gang and eventually the two join forces.
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Cassidy of Bar 20 (1938)
Character: Ma Caffrey
Hopalong Cassidy, boss of the Bar 20 ranch in Texas, rides down the Camino Real in the New Mexico cattle country near Alamogordo, in response to an urgent message from his lifelong sweetheart, Nora Blake, who is in serious trouble. Before he and his saddlemates, "Lucky" Jenkins and "Pappy", can reach her ranch, they are stopped by Clay Allison, a cattle-rustler who is in almost complete control of the district, and wants to extend his holdings by seizing Nora's cattle and driving her out. Seeing Cassidy as a menace to his plans, he has him arrested on a trumped-up charge. Cassidy and his pals shoot their way out of the trouble and reach Nora;s ranch where they learn that Allison's henchmen have murdered her foreman, Tom Dillon, and Allison has sent for a crew of outlaws on the Texas border.
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The Gentleman from Louisiana (1936)
Character: Miss Langley
In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.
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The Ape (1940)
Character: Jane the Housekeeper
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?
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Untamed (1940)
Character: Miss Rhine
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit and ends up stealing a wife from her husband. When the epidemic hits, he and the wife begin their arduous journey.
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Les Misérables (1935)
Character: Nurse
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Lydia (1941)
Character: Mrs. Fairfield
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.
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The Moon Is Down (1943)
Character: Villager (uncredited)
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
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Caged (1950)
Character: Millie Lewis (uncredited)
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
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Suspicion (1941)
Character: Mrs. Wetherby (uncredited)
A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.
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What a Woman (1943)
Character: Night Maid (uncredited)
An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.
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The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)
Character: Mrs. Gruyson
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
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The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)
Character: Aunt Vera Edwards
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
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The Bride Wore Boots (1946)
Character: Mrs. Harvey (uncredited)
A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.
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Before Dawn (1933)
Character: Mattie (as Gertrude W. Hoffman)
After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously dying. Police detectives with the help of a clairvoyant try to determine who, living or dead, is responsible.
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