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Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
Character: Mrs. Anna Westphal (uncredited)
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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East Side, West Side (1949)
Character: Josephine
A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.
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So Ends Our Night (1941)
Character: The Pale Woman - Ruth's Roommate
An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
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Shadow of a Woman (1946)
Character: Emma, Eric's Sister
Brooke's marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that her husband is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in order to claim his inheritance.
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Anna Lucasta (1949)
Character: Theresa
A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law tries to devise a plan to marry her off and make some money in the process.
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Monkey on My Back (1957)
Character: Barney's Mother
The painfully true story of welterweight boxing champion Barney Ross is detailed in Monkey on My Back. Cameron Mitchell stars as Ross, whose meteoric ring career is interrupted when he joins the Marines at the outset of WWII. A highly decorated hero, Ross contracts malaria oversees and is given morphine to assuage the pain. By the time he returns to the states, Ross is a confirmed drug addict. Before he can rise to the top again, he must hit rock bottom and his descent into the hell of narcotics dependency is graphically illustrated (so much so that the film was almost denied a Production Code seal). Though a cured Barney Ross served as technical advisor for Monkey on My Back, he ended up suing the producers for defamation of character -- and lost.
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Mission to Moscow (1943)
Character: Train Passenger Arriving Late (uncredited)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
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Invitation (1952)
Character: Agnes
A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.
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The Merry Widow (1952)
Character: Queen (uncredited)
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Marshovia on a visit, Crystal Radek change places with her secretary Kitty. Following them to Paris, Danilo has a hard time wooing the widow after meeting an attractive young woman at a nightclub, the same Crystal Radek who presents herself as Fifi the chorus girl. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Possessed (1947)
Character: Elsie - Graham's maid in DC
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
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Calling Dr. Death (1943)
Character: Marion's Mother
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.
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Madame Curie (1943)
Character: Lucille (uncredited)
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
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The Blue Veil (1951)
Character: Elsa (Uncredited)
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
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Woman of the Year (1942)
Character: Yugoslav Consul's Wife (uncredited)
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
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The Hoodlum (1951)
Character: Mrs. Lubeck
Vincent Lubeck is a vicious ex-convict. His criminal activities are despised by his family, but he uses and abuses them in the course of his crimes. Eventually his own brother must stand up to him.
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Without Reservations (1946)
Character: Alma (uncredited)
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
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Above Suspicion (1943)
Character: Frau Schultz (Uncredited)
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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Journey for Margaret (1942)
Character: Frau Weber
An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her baby she returns to America. War weary, he is forced to do a story about war orphans, where he meets Margaret.
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Escape (1940)
Character: Anna
An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
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Underground (1941)
Character: Ella
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
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Ride The High Iron (1956)
Character: Mrs. Danielchik
A recent war veteran accepts a job in public relations, but he becomes increasingly unhappy with his career choice. Originally filmed for TV but released theatrically.
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My Pal Gus (1952)
Character: Anna
A single father falls in love with his son's schoolteacher.
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Man on a String (1960)
Character: N/A
U.S. spies catch a Moscow-born U.S. citizen helping spies, and they force him to counterspy.
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Payment on Demand (1951)
Character: Molly
David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David has taken up with a younger woman, Joyce decides to make the most of this separation by taking a solo trip to the Caribbean. However, just before diving into a vacation fling, she runs into Emily, an old chum whose own divorce has left her embittered. Joyce then debates giving married life one last chance.
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A Foreign Affair (1948)
Character: German (uncredited)
In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her.
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Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
Character: Mrs. Coffman
A mismatched couple's marital problems come to the surface when the husband develops an interest in their pretty boarder.
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Cry Wolf (1947)
Character: Mrs. Laidell (uncredited)
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family.
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