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Another Romance of Celluloid (1938)
Character: Self (uncredited)
This second entry in MGM's "Romance of Film" series documents how celluloid movie film is processed and features behind-the-scenes glimpses of current MGM productions.
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From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
Character: Self
An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at the time. Such as The Women, Thunder Afloat, Siren of the Tropics, Ninotchka, Northwest Passage, and At the Circus.
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Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998)
Character: Emily Hardy (archive footage)
In a deconstruction of classic Hollywood codes, using repetitive single frame images, the re-editing of teenager movies produces an intense Oedipal drama.
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Exclusive (1937)
Character: Mrs. Swain
Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on reporting the news.
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H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)
Character: Mrs. John Pulham
A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of society, still remembers the beautiful young woman who once brought him out of his shell.
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Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)
Character: Emily Hardy
All set to graduate from high school , Andy Hardy flunks his English exam -- in spite of the fact that Aunt Milly is his teacher, and that the Judge has gone to all the trouble of getting him his very own private secretary.
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Judge Hardy and Son (1939)
Character: Emily Hardy
Judge Hardy guides Andy through problems with girls, money and an essay contest.
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Double or Nothing (1937)
Character: Martha Sewell Clark
A philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 apiece, with the stipulation that the first one who can double the amount -- without dishonesty-- will win a cool million. Hindering the four are the avaricious relatives of the late millionaire.
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The Big Hangover (1950)
Character: Martha Belney
A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol.
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Bitter Sweet (1940)
Character: Mrs. Millick
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
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Sergeant Madden (1939)
Character: Mary Madden
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946)
Character: Emily Hardy
Andy Hardy goes to college after serving in the war and finds his sweetheart is engaged to someone else.
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Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941)
Character: Emily Hardy
With his high school graduation behind him, Andy Hardy decides that as an adult, it's time to start living his life. Judge Hardy had hoped that his son would go to college and study law, but Andy isn't sure that's what he wants to do so he heads off to New York City to find a job. Too proud to accept any help from Betsy Booth, Andy finds that living on his own isn't so easy. With perseverance he eventually finds a job and even gets to date the pretty receptionist in his office. He also has to face several of life's lessons leading him to conclude that he may still have a bit of growing up to do.
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Judge Hardy's Children (1938)
Character: Emily Hardy
Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.
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The Accusing Finger (1936)
Character: Twitchy's Landlady
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
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Hold That Kiss (1938)
Character: Mrs. Evans
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
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Love Is a Headache (1938)
Character: Mary, Peter's Secretary
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
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Canyon Passage (1946)
Character: Mrs. Overmire
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
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Wives Never Know (1936)
Character: Mrs. Gossamer
The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J. Hugh Ramsay, author of the bestselling book, "Marriage—The Living Death".
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Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
Character: Mrs. Catherine Kahly
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
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Souls at Sea (1937)
Character: Mrs. Martin (uncredited)
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
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Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Character: Mrs. Regan
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
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Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
Character: Emily Hardy
Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as much time as possible with his pretty teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems when he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation.
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I Married a Doctor (1936)
Character: Ella Stowbody
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
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Out West with the Hardys (1938)
Character: Emily Hardy
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
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Whispering Smith (1948)
Character: Emmy Dansing
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa).
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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944)
Character: Emily Hardy
Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he sees her. Andy is clueless. On the train Andy meets Kay and Dr. Standish who are both headed for Wainwright. Andy likes Kay, but Dr. Standish also seems to take an interest in her. Things are going well at College with Kay, but the blonde is nice one minute and ignores Andy the next. When Andy finds out that the blonde is really identical twins, he tries to help them out with their father but gets caught at their rooming house after midnight.
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Little Miss Big (1946)
Character: Mary Jane Baxter
A wealthy eccentric women escapes from a mental institution and finds refuge with a financially strapped barber and his two daughters
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Polo Joe (1936)
Character: Aunt Minnie
A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.
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The Hardys Ride High (1939)
Character: Emily Hardy
Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2 million dollars. In order to claim the inheritance, he and his family must leave for Detroit. The disinherited heir Philip 'Phil' Westcott, adopted son of the deceased relative, has to leave the fabulous mansion Detroit. But the playboy Phil ain't going down without a fight. He decides on a charm offensive. First with Polly Benedict and foremost Andrew 'Andy' Hardy, the son of Judge Hardy.
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Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)
Character: Self
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.
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The White Angel (1936)
Character: Queen Victoria (uncredited)
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
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Washington Melodrama (1941)
Character: Elizabeth Claymore
An elderly businessman plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl's murder.
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Sweethearts (1938)
Character: Hannah
The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.
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Internes Can't Take Money (1937)
Character: Mother Teresa
Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Haley, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern back room. Kildare pursues Janet and enlists Hanlon to help her; the gangster's solution, not surprisingly, is violent.
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King of Gamblers (1937)
Character: Nurse
Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her employer is the secret head of the city's major gambling machine racket and has a penchant for murdering anyone who gets in his way.
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Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)
Character: Natalie Merridew Seldon
Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her out of a dangerous situation.
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Guns of the Pecos (1936)
Character: Aunt Carrie Burton
A singing cowboy (Dick Foran) thwarts a thieving judge and courts a woman (Anne Nagel) in Texas.
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Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942)
Character: Emily Hardy
Andy is about to head off to college but he's got a few things to take care of before leaving. For starters, he must try and sell his junk car for $20 to pay for a bill and he must convince his father not to go with him to college. Worst of all is that Polly wants to make up but her best friend decides to give Andy a test.
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Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958)
Character: Emily Hardy
Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics.
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Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)
Character: Emily Hardy
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.
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Samson and Delilah (1949)
Character: Hazel
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
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The Pace That Kills (1935)
Character: Madame / Henchwoman
A drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother, and turns them into “cocaine fiends”.
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