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Benny, from Panama (1934)
Character: Jeanette Foy
Jeanette and Eddie get married, but their wedding night is a fiasco. First, their wedding guests follow them, resulting in a police chase, then the guests show up at their apartment, disrupting the building. Then, a rowdy sailor friend of Eddie's shows up, accompanied by a squad of even rowdier buddies and an enormous vengeful mosquito.
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A Duke for a Day (1934)
Character: Gloria Blossom
Movie star Gloria Blossom (Jeanette Loff) is unhappy with her press agent's (Eddie Foy, Jr.) attempts at publicity. After reading newspaper stories about other stars marrying into royalty, she demands that Eddie "promote me a husband with a title within 24 hours". With the dubious assistance of reporter Don Barclay and photographer Billy Nelson he talks the first man with a British accent that he meets into marrying Gloria, fooling her into believing he is a Duke. The trouble is that the man is a big fan of Gloria the movie star and is madly in love with her, so after the wedding, when she finds out the truth, her new husband refuses to divorce her. A wild free-for-all fight ensues in the hotel. In typical Hal Roach comedy fashion, numerous innocent bystanders are pulled into the action.
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.45 Calibre War (1929)
Character: Ruth Walling
Reed Lathrop returns to his old home, accompanied by his friend, "Toad" Hunter, to investigate a plot that forces ranchers to sell their properties for very low prices. Finding the ranchers demoralized, he organizes a vigilance committee and enlists the aid of the local circuit judge. Darnell, the owner of the saloon, and Blodgett, a local dealer in ranch property, are unmasked as the culprits. Soon a showdown takes place with the ranchers and the outlaws, ending with the criminals hauled off to prison.
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Fashion News (1928)
Character: Self
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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Man-Made Women (1928)
Character: Marjorie
The man who loved her showed her how to hold the man she loved. A novel picture story packed with drama, thrills and laughs.
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Million Dollar Baby (1934)
Character: Rita Ray
A husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest run by a movie studio that's looking for "a new Shirley Temple".
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Love Over Night (1928)
Character: Jeanette Stewart
Richard Hill is a subway ticket taker who believes beautiful Jeanette Stewart is involved in a robbery, but he still falls in love with her and tries to stop her wedding.
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Young April (1926)
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom.
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Hold 'Em Yale (1928)
Character: Helen Bradbury
A young man from Argentina goes to Yale where he plays football and falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter.
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St. Louis Woman (1934)
Character: Lou Morrison, the St. Louis Woman
Johnny Mack Brown stars as medical student and football star who was expelled after a night club brawl over a woman. He meets her again only to find out she owns the club and is involved with a gambler...
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The Sophomore (1929)
Character: Barbara Lange
Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this nostalgic slice of college, replete with songs, romance, prom dances and the inevitable big football game.
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Party Girl (1930)
Character: Ellen Powell
Jay Rountree, a young, rising businessman and a son of a wealthy manufacturer gets caught up in a web involving an escort service or 'party girls' and trapped into an unhappy marriage.
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Fighting Thru (1930)
Character: Alice Malden
Dan and Tennessee are successful gold miners. Ace Brady learns of their success and sends Fox to rob them. During the robbery Fox shoots Tennessee and Ace arrives to arrest Dan for the murder. Dan escapes but is now a wanted man.
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Flirtation (1934)
Character: Nancy Poole
A naive farmer encounters a beautiful burlesque dancer on the streets of New York and agrees to pose as her husband during her mother's visit.
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See America Thirst (1930)
Character: Woman (uncredited)
Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)
Character: Auction Spectator (uncredited)
In 1856, slave Eliza plans to marry George with the consent of the Shelbys, her masters, but George's owner prevents the wedding. A few years later, Eliza flees with her son, Harry, after learning the Shelbys plan to hand them over to a crooked creditor to prevent foreclosure. George also escapes and goes on the run while Eliza and Harry are captured and brought back home. Mother and son are separated as George tries to find them both.
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Annapolis (1928)
Character: Betty
Bill is a young man who arrives at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. He is an incorrigible know-all, and emerges a sober man. Meanwhile, Bill is accused of a crime committed by his friend, and because he doesn't squeal, he wins the heart and hand of the blond Betty. She is his friend's girl.
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King of Jazz (1930)
Character: Vocalist ('It Happened in Monterey' / 'Bridal Veil' / 'A Bench in the Park')
A large-scale revue musical built around Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, presenting a series of musical performances, sketches, and staged tableaux in early two-color Technicolor, emblematic of Hollywood’s early sound-era “all-star” musical productions.
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The Black Ace (1928)
Character: N/A
Story of a a Texas Ranger whose foster-father has been falsely accused of a series of crimes.
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My Friend from India (1927)
Character: Marion / Ruth Brooks
Wealthy young man about town, Tommy Valentine (Franklin Pangborn) comes to the aid of Barbara Smith (Elinor Fair). But before he can learn anything about Barbara, her social climbing Aunt Bedelia (Ethel Wales), whisks her away. On a mission to "find the girl," Tommy looks for her everywhere. He unknowingly befriends her brother Charlie, who invites him to spend the evening in Smith's palatial home. The next morn Aunt Bedelia finds Tommy with his head wrapped in a towel and assumes him to be the Hindu prince that Charlie promised to bring to her society party. Introduced to all as a Prince from Calcutta, Tommy is forced to see the charade through. But the local con-man Charlie had previously arranged to appear at the party as the Prince shows up as well. At least Tommy is able to reconnect with Barbara, that is until the police show up with orders to arrest all fake fakirs.
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The Racketeer (1929)
Character: Millie Chapman
A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.
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Hide-Out (1934)
Character: Blonde #2 (uncredited)
Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is fully prepared to shoot his way out when the cops come calling, but he is softened by the daughter's affections.
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