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Squibs (1935)
Character: Amelia "Squibs" Hopkins
Squibs, a cockney flowerseller with a father overwhelmed by gambling debts wins through with the help of assorted friends and a romantically inclined policeman.
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Réveille (1924)
Character: Mick
A seamstress stops a poor ex-soldier from becoming a left-wing agitator.
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La petite bonne du palace (1926)
Character: Betty Cinders
Cinders is about a professor who inherits both a vast fortune and a luxurious hotel on the French Riviera. He leaves his modest family house in London – where he keeps his insects – and takes Betty, the maid, along with him to his new home.
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Le Diable au cœur (1928)
Character: Ludivine Bucaille - une fille étrange
Ludivine, a lttle tomboy, takes on the too polite Delphin. Being caught, and punished, she wants him and his father to be dead. When the latter dies, she feels guilty and takes Delphin under her wing.
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The Vagabond Queen (1929)
Character: Sally / Princess Zonia
The Vagabond Queen is a 1929 British comedy film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Betty Balfour, Glen Byam Shaw and Ernest Thesiger. It was the final film directed in Britain by Bolváry before he returned to Germany. A young woman takes the place of a Princess who is a target for an assassination. This film was released in May 1929 as a silent film and re-released with synchronized music and sound effects in August 1930.
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Die Regimentstochter (1929)
Character: Marie
Marie, adopted as a baby by Warrant Officer Guippo, helps a smuggler escape because he saved his life previously. She finds him again in Paris while she is engaged to Count Bertrand.
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Somebody's Darling (1925)
Character: Joan Meredith
A squire's novelist son poses as a nurse to save an heiress from her guardian's private asylum.
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The Nipper (1930)
Character: The Nipper
A producer makes a star of the cockney waif who tried to rob him.
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Raise the Roof (1930)
Character: Maisie Grey
The wealthy Rodney Langford, who dreams of going on the stage, hopes to fulfil his ambitions by buying a failing revue called 'Raise the Roof', starring Maisie Grey. His father, fearing scandal, bribes amoral actor Atherley Armitage to sabotage the show. But, when all hope seems lost, Maisie comes up with an ingenious idea to try and save the day.
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Paradise (1928)
Character: Kitty Cranston
The daughter of a poor clergyman wins £500 and goes to find happiness on the Riviera.
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The Cabaret Kid (1926)
Character: Fay Wynchbeck
A pilot saves a dancer from a Paris nightclub owner and they stow away to Cornwall.
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Brown on Resolution (1935)
Character: Elizabeth Brown
Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the Royal Navy during the First World War. There his bravery and marksmanship keeps a German ship in port so a British ship can sink it. He becomes a hero, but at what cost?
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29 Acacia Avenue (1945)
Character: Mrs Robinson
The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor, they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early.
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Champagner (1929)
Character: Jenny
Jenny, a cheerful kitchen maid at the Paris-style Palais de Luxe, is hopelessly in love with charming head waiter Jean—only to be stood up when he forgets their planned tryst in favor of the hotel’s glamorous dancer, Lola. Humiliated and on the verge of arrest for “stealing” champagne, Jenny hides backstage where she’s mistaken for a performer, wows the crowd with an impromptu dance, and finally wins Jean’s heart.
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Die sieben Töchter der Frau Gyurkovics (1926)
Character: Mizzi
The young Tony will travel from Budapest to the countryside to marry his cousin Katinka, the oldest of the seven sisters Gyurkovics. Because Tony is already secretly married to another, the situation is problematic.
Mizzi is the impish middle sister of seven who is glad to leave boarding school and has many adventures making her way back home. This includes impersonating a countess and meeting Count Horkay who is impersonating her cousin Tony, his friend whom Mizzi's mother intends to marry her oldest sister. The younger set all have their own ideas of who they love despite the plans of the older folks.
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Champagne (1928)
Character: Betty
A spoiled heiress defies her millionaire father by running off to France to pursue her lover. Things don't go entirely as planned.
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Evergreen (1934)
Character: Maudie
Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later, she reappears on the stage as young looking and beautiful as ever.
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My Old Dutch (1934)
Character: Lil
Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama - with time for some laughs - portrays the life and hardships of a working class Hackney couple over a span of 40 years. Our intrepid couple (wonderfully played by Betty Balfour and Michael Hogan) have to face everything life throws at them with fortitude, from the Great War (a son in the RAF and zeppelin raids) to a raging oil fire during the Great Strike. The inimitable Gordon Harker provides sterling support. The film the couple watch at the cinema is the 1915 version of My Old Dutch, starring Albert Chevalier (writer of the original music hall song) and Florence Turner. As the complete silent film is now believed to be lost, this 1934 version contains the only surviving footage.
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