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Things We Can Do Without (1953)
Character: Mrs. Thud (uncredited)
A Pete Smith Specialty shorts series entry. Dave demonstrates a variety of household items and furniture which, while modern, is much more trouble than the progress is worth.
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I Love My Husband, But! (1946)
Character: The Wife (uncredited)
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a wife endures the trials of being married to a husband with traits that drive her crazy.
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I Love My Wife BUT! (1947)
Character: The Wife (uncredited)
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a husband endures the trials of being married to a wife with irritating traits.
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A Wife's Life (1950)
Character: Mrs. George T. Hardnose
In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, average housewife Mrs. George T. Hardnose's day is recalled.
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I Love My Mother-In-Law But... (1948)
Character: The Wife (uncredited)
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a series of vignettes illustrate some ways that mothers-in-law irritate, and/or cause problems for, their son-in-law.
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Bargain Madness (1951)
Character: Dorothy (uncredited)
In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, women battle for bargains in a department store.
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Captain Midnight (1942)
Character: Joyce Edwards
Secret Service Major Steel is one of the few men in America aware of the fact that Captain Albright is also Captain Midnight, daring masked aviator dedicated to fighting gangsters and enemies of America.
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Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto (1941)
Character: Ruth Wade
Rancher Timothy Wade is ambushed by a masked man riding a pinto horse. His young son, Buzzy Wade and the loyal ranch foreman, Dude Bates, are mystified as to who anyone would kill Wade. But, Jim Dana, a U.S. government undercover agent, has his suspicions that the reason may have been in order to acquire the ranch from Buzzy and his older sister, Ruth. Dana thinks the ranch may have a large deposit of a mineral useful to a foreign country. His suspicions are confirmed when a couple of guys with heavy-accents show up inquiring about the property.
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The Trail of the Silver Spurs (1941)
Character: Nancy Nordick
The Range Busters are investigating a gold robbery from the Denver Mint in a supposedly deserted ghost town, but they soon find they're not the only town resident with a nose for gold.
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Spooks Run Wild (1941)
Character: Linda Mason
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
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Bullets for Bandits (1942)
Character: Dakota Brown
In a saloon shooting, a cowboy thinks he killed Prince Katey, a man he closely resembles. Cannonball arrives and thinking the cowboy to be Katey, gets him to return to the Katey ranch where the mother is in trouble. She thinks her missing son has returned and even though the Sheriff is chasing him, he decides to take up the mother's fight against the man who is trying to throw her off the ranch.
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Where the Buffalo Roam (1938)
Character: Laddie Gray
Tex returns to Santa Fe to find his Mother murdered. Foster runs the town and all crimes committed by his gang are blamed on Rogel and his men. He makes Tex Marshal but this backfires when Tex enlists Rogel and his men and goes after Foster who he now knows is responsible for his Mother's death.
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Pony Post (1940)
Character: Alice Goodwin
Atkins is the boss of one of the Pony Express relay stations. He has been causing trouble and is replaced with Cal Sheridan. Atkins now gets the Richard brothers to raid one of the relay stations and they kill Norma's father. Cal sees that the horse of one of the raiders has a broken shoe and Norma sets out to find that horse.
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Brothers of the West (1937)
Character: Annie Wade
Tyler is a range detective whose brother stands accused of robbing a bank and murdering the bank president. To prove him innocent, Tyler must decipher his only clue, an unusual set of tire tracks.
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The Singing Cowgirl (1938)
Character: Nora Pryde
Tolen is after the Harkins ranch where his men have found gold. After they kill Harkins, Dorothy and Dick step in and discover that the gold actually washes down from Tolen's own ranch. When Harkins' brother arrives to take over they test Tolen by having the brother offer to swap ranches.
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More Than a Secretary (1936)
Character: Ann (uncredited)
When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.
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Frontier Crusader (1940)
Character: Jenny Mason
A marshal is sent to clean up a mining town being terrorized by an organized gang that is killing miners and stealing their claims.
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Start Cheering (1938)
Character: Student
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
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Tell Your Children (1938)
Character: Mary
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.
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Code of the Cactus (1939)
Character: Joan
When Blackton outbids Bill Carson. Bill suspects he will have to rustle cattle to fulfill the contract. So Bill arrives posing as an Mexican. When he rustles the cattle from the rustlers, it gets him into the gang. Hoping to bring them all to justice, he is in trouble when his true identity is revealed.
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Savage Fury (1956)
Character: Mona Andrews
Separately released feature version of the 1935 Serial, Call of the Savage.
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Assassin of Youth (1938)
Character: Marjorie 'Marge' Barry
A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends.
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Phantom Rancher (1940)
Character: Ann Markham
Cowboy puts on a black mask and a black outfit to fight a gang of land-grabbing crooks.
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Just Suppose (1948)
Character: Wife (uncredited)
An off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home as he does in the movies; it's a ticket to a domestic disturbance. Next, a son gets to treat his father the way his father treats him. In the third episode, to a shopkeeper's chagrin, a man shops for a hat the way a woman does. In the final sketch, we suppose a household in which the man gets pregnant and has a baby, while the mom, clueless about little children, is the one with the career.
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The Lone Rider Fights Back (1941)
Character: Jean Dennison
Opera star-cum-cowboy hero George Houston stars in PRC's The Lone Rider Fights Back. Appropriately enough, Houston disguises himself as a musician to get the goods on a gang of terrorists. The principal villain hopes to scare the local miners off their land, so he can move in and clean up.
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Heart of Arizona (1938)
Character: Jacqueline Starr
Belle Starr has returned from time in prison only to face a hail of bullets, along with rescue by Hoppy and the Bar 20 gang.
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Student Tour (1934)
Character: Student
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
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