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The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1942)
Character: Governess
Story of a rich man who backs a show for an old man and his granddaughter from the East Side who has brought joy to the money bag's crippled son.
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Not a Ladies' Man (1942)
Character: Miss Morton
A recently divorced district attorney falls for his troubled son's schoolteacher.
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Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Character: Sister Agnes
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
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The Story of Ruth (1960)
Character: Hagah
Ruth is one of two Moabite women who marry the sons of Elimelech and Naomi. When Elimelech and sons Mahlon and Chillion die, leaving Naomi a widow with two widowed daughters-in-law, Naomi decides to return to Israel. One daughter-in-law, Orpah, bids her goodbye. Daughter-in-law Ruth however says she will not desert her.
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Gun Fever (1958)
Character: Martha Rand
Luke Ram seeks revenge against the white renegade who lead a Sioux raiding party against his father's stagecoach way station, killing all the inhabitants except himself. He's joined by his mining partner, young Sam Weller, not realizing that they man they seek is Weller's father, in whose gang Sam rode as a young man.
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Pinky (1949)
Character: Viola (Goolby's Saleslady) (uncredited)
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
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Mister Big (1943)
Character: Theatrical Party Member (uncredited)
Students at the Davis School of the Theatre are assigned "Antigone" as their class play, but they conspire to do a swing musical instead.
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The Gunfighter (1950)
Character: Alice Marlowe (uncredited)
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
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The Hard Way (1943)
Character: Flora Ames (Uncredited)
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
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The Daring Young Man (1942)
Character: Saleslady
Jonathan Peckinpaw feels he's failed in his patriotic duty when he's rejected by the army, but he sees a chance to redeem himself by exposing a secret ring of Nazi spies.
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
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Reveille with Beverly (1943)
Character: Mrs. Oliver (uncredited)
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
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Wings for the Eagle (1942)
Character: Personnel Woman
Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.
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Blondie for Victory (1942)
Character: Housewife of America
Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform home-front wartime duties, including guarding the local dam... Blondie for Victory was twelfth in Columbia's series of comedy films based on Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie. Anxious to do her bit for the war effort, Blondie joins the Housewives of America, a home defense league. Husband Dagwood soon finds that Blondie is neglecting her responsibilities at home in favor of her war work; also disgruntled are Dagwood's chauvinistic boss Mr. Dithers and a newlywed husband whose wife is never home thanks to the defense league.
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Edge of Doom (1950)
Character: Mrs. Lally
A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
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The Night Runner (1957)
Character: Miss Dodd
A mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors, and sent back to his old neighborhood. Was he released too soon?
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The Green-Eyed Blonde (1957)
Character: Mrs. Nichols (as Jean Innes)
Blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (working under the pseudonym “Sally Stubblefield”) tells a rough-edged tale of life inside a 1950s women’s reformatory. Set in the Martha Washington School for Girls—an institute for wayward teenagers and unwed mothers—THE GREEN-EYED BLONDE tackles a range of topical social issues as the inmates band together to help out one of their own when she refuses to give up her child.
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Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955)
Character: Night Nurse
Miss Dove is a prim New England school teacher who is treasured by her students in the small town of Liberty Hill. When she falls ill, a kindly doctor, who is a former student of Miss Dove's, comes to her aid. As many of her pupils, present and past, come to see her in the hospital, they reveal how Miss Dove has greatly impacted their lives over the years. These visitors include a police officer, a playwright, a banker, a convict, and an unmarried mother.
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I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951)
Character: Mrs. Salter
A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.
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Friendly Persuasion (1956)
Character: Mrs Purdy (uncredited)
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?
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Friendly Persuasion (1956)
Character: Mrs. Purdy (uncredited)
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?
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The Man with a Cloak (1951)
Character: Landlady
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.
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Mrs. Mike (1949)
Character: Mrs. Mathers
This film is based on the novel, Mrs. Mike, which is based on the real life woman, Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan. A Boston teenager is sent to live with her uncle in frontier Canada because of her fragile health. She eventually falls in love with one of the few young, white males in the region. They marry and depart for the northern wilderness to set up house and home. The rest of the movie is about her struggles and joys of living and travelling in this rugged country.
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