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No Place like Rome (1936)
Character: Lydia - Roman Slave Girl
This ancient history musical comedy predates A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by a few decades. Frank Albertson plays a happy Roman bachelor who falls for a lovely slave girl, in a silly tale that uses stock footage from MGM's silent Ben Hur.
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White Legion (1936)
Character: Gloria Blank
In the early 1900s, as the Panama Canal is being built, a group of doctors try to discover a cure for yellow fever, a disease that is decimating the workers constructing the canal.
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Close Relations (1933)
Character: Girl in Depot
Roscoe believes he is in line to receive a large inheritance, but the reality is considerably more psychopathic-- no, nuts.
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Pride of the Navy (1939)
Character: Undetermined Role (uncredited)
A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing speedboats. They are innovative and soon the Navy comes a-knocking in hopes that he will design a fast and easily maneuverable boat to carry torpedoes.
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The Devil Bat (1940)
Character: Mary Heath
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.
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Bottoms Up (1934)
Character: Wolf's Secretary
Promoter "Smoothie" King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinée idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness.
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Trade Winds (1938)
Character: Russian Girl (Uncredited)
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
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Yes, We Have No Bonanza (1939)
Character: Singing Sister (uncredited)
Set in a western town, the stooges are working as waiters in a saloon with the three girls they hope to marry. The proprietor of the saloon is a crook who, with his partner, has buried $40,000 of stolen money. The boys go prospecting in hopes of raising enough money to pay off the debts of their fiancée father, who owes money to their boss. They dig up the stolen money, which the crooks recognize as their loot and abscond with. A wild chase ensues, ending with the bad guy's car crashing into the Sheriff's office.
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When's Your Birthday? (1937)
Character: Diane Basscombe
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.
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Idiot's Delight (1939)
Character: Nurse #3
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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Blondes at Work (1938)
Character: Olive
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
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A Million to One (1936)
Character: Pat Stanley
The son of a disgraced Olympic decathlete prepares to become a star in his own right. His quest is complicated by a beautiful girl and a bitter rival.
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The Cotton Club (1984)
Character: The Duchess of Park Avenue (uncredited)
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
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The Wildcatter (1937)
Character: Julia Frayne
Eager to take advantage of a new oil boom, "Lucky" Conlon leaves his gas station and diner for Texas, with his wife Helen's blessing. In Texas, Lucky wins enough money in roulette to lease a parcel of land, and he and his friend "Smiley" begin drilling. Julia Frayne, whom Lucky met while gambling, turns out to be the daughter of oil tycoon Tom Frayne, who is eager to buy out the leases of the growing number of independent drillers, called "wildcatters," in order to hold a monopoly on the local oil fields.
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Miracles for Sale (1939)
Character: Magician's Assistant in Demo
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
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Roar of the Press (1941)
Character: Angela Brooks
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
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Disorder in the Court (1936)
Character: Gail Tempest (uncredited)
The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend Gail Tempest, who dances at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians, is accused of killing Kirk Robin.
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City of Chance (1940)
Character: Mrs. Williams
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
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Phantom Ranger (1938)
Character: Joan Doyle
A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make counterfeit plates for them. A lawman is sent to rescue him.
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What's the Matador? (1942)
Character: Dolores Sanchez
The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their suitcase. When they are confronted by her jealous husband he vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the fiesta where they are performing a comedy bullfight (Curly is the matador, Moe and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the ring. Curly knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero.
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Wild Gold (1934)
Character: One of the Golden Girls
A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevada gold country, and he takes the carburetor off her car and throws it in the river, stranding them there. They wind up staying at the cabin of a crusty old prospector, and soon the manager of a nightclub act shows up with his bevy of beautiful showgirls.
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Strangers All (1935)
Character: Frances Farrell
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
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Undercover Man (1936)
Character: Linda Forbes
An operative from the Wells Fargo company goes undercover to trap a crooked sheriff and his equally nefarious hirelings in this standard B-Western from A.W. Hackel's low-budget Supreme Pictures Corp.
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Rags to Riches (1941)
Character: Glenda Hayes
A framed cabby rounds up fur thieves and saves his opera-singer girlfriend.
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Angel (1937)
Character: N/A
While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.
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Here's Flash Casey (1938)
Character: Mitzi La Rue
After graduating college an aspiring photographer lands his first job--with a big city newspaper.
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The Women (1939)
Character: Princess Mara (uncredited)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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The Ghost Comes Home (1940)
Character: Nightclub Flower Girl (uncredited)
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
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Sleepers East (1934)
Character: Dixie
No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city. Covering a bachelor party for a friend in need, Lena winds up at a gambling house where she is the sole witness when Mayor Wentworth's drunken lout of a son shoots the owner. Wentworth's political machine wants Lena to falsely incriminate mob boss Callahan to bolster their re-election campaign. Callahan's mouthpiece nabs Lena first, conveying her stealthily by train from Toledo to New York to prevent her from testifying against the big boss. A midnight special smash-up, a tense courtroom finale and true love triumphant round out this typical Fox pre-Code programmer, released just before the Legion of Decency dropped the hammer in 1934.
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Rhythm in the Clouds (1937)
Character: Dorothy Day
Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
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