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Life in Sometown, U.S.A. (1938)
Character: Mrs. Himber (uncredited)
A satirical visualization of strange and forgotten, but (at that time) nevertheless still existing laws in the U.S.A.
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Charge It (1921)
Character: Mille Garreth
A woman's excessive spending brings difficulty to her family.
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Money Means Nothing (1934)
Character: Mrs. Ferris
At Joe's Roadside, a popular but rundown New York roadhouse where the wealthy and not-so-wealthy hang out, a wealthy Manhattan girl and a struggling Brooklyn boy meet and fall in love. She marries him against the wishes of her family, believing that love can solve everything, but she soon wonders if she made the right choice when she finds herself living in a manner, and with the kinds of people, she hadn't counted on.
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Beating the Odds (1919)
Character: Hebe Norse
Political graft collector, David Power forced by the district attorney to leave New York takes cabaret singer Hebe Norse with him. Showing talent in a variety of professions, Power is eventually hired by a great steel manufacturer, Gail Rogers. He falls in love with Rogers' daughter Rosalie, and they marry happily until Rogers returns home with a new wife…. Hebe Norse. When Rogers discovers Hebe's past, the two men sever ties as does Rosalie. Vengefully Rogers tries to ruin one of Power's companies without success. Ultimately Rosalie forgives Power and they and their young daughter are reunited.
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How Women Love (1922)
Character: Rosa Roma
silent drama featuring Betty Blythe, Robert Frazer, and Gladys Hulette
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The Undercurrent (1919)
Character: Mariska
Jack Duncan returns from the war in France to his wife and baby and learns that his job as a draftsman at the Loring Steel Mills has been taken. Given work in the machine shop, Jack becomes the prey of Red agitators who want him because of his popularity with soldiers. The Reds cause Jack's discharge just when his house payments come due, and when they convince him of the injustice of his situation, he joins their ranks. After learning of plans to burn the factory and Loring's home, and start a riot in the town, Jack is won over by a socialist's arguments advocating mild reforms. At a meeting of workingmen, Jack praises Americanism. He warns Loring and, with soldiers at a nearby camp, quells the riot. After a woman agitator kills her comrades and then shoots herself, Jack arrives home to save his wife from an attack by a Red ringleader. Jack is then made a foreman at the mill.
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Our Wife (1941)
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
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Jiggs and Maggie in Society (1947)
Character: Mrs. Vacuum
Maggi continues her forever-ever efforts to crash Manhattan's top society, while Jiggs still mingles with his old construction cronies at the bar of Dinty Moore on 10th Avenue.
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The Girl from Gay Paree (1927)
Character: Mademoiselle Fanchon
Mary Davis, alone and destitute in New York City, pilfers a meal from a restaurant and eludes the police by ducking into the Cafe Royale, where she is shuffled along a line of aspiring chorines awaiting job interviews. In desperation, Mary agrees to impersonate Mademoiselle Fanchon, formerly of the Folies-Bergère, who has walked out on her contract. Reporter Kenneth Ward interviews Mary, believing her to be the notorious Frenchwoman, and due to a misunderstanding, she rushes wildly into his arms. When Robert Ryan, a bachelor friend of the real Fanchon, investigates Mary’s deception, she violently repels his advances and believes she has killed him. Later, the real Fanchon threatens to kill Robert. Following a series of amusing complications, Mary finds love with Kenneth.
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The Undercover Woman (1946)
Character: Cissy Van Horn
Two women private detectives arrive at a dude ranch in time to investigate the murder of their client's philandering husband.
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Sisters of Eve (1928)
Character: Mrs. Wenham Gardner
Young London realtor Leonard Tavernake becomes involved with two sisters, one good and one evil, which leads to much melodrama but things work out in the end.
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Rainbow on the River (1936)
Character: Flower Buyer (uncredited)
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
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Stolen Love (1928)
Character: Modiste
The story of a girl whose past casts a shadow over her future happiness with the man who loves her. How much of her past must a girl tell the man she wants to marry?
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A Fig Leaf for Eve (1944)
Character: Lavinia Sardham
A nightclub dancer, raised in an orphanage, learns she might be the long-lost heiress to a hair tonic fortune.
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Over the Top (1918)
Character: Madame Arnot
The film is based on a book of the same name by Arthur Guy Empey, detailing his service as an American volunteer with the British Army on the Western Front.
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Romance of the Limberlost (1938)
Character: Mrs. Parker
An orphaned girl is being raised in the Limberlost by her aunt, who hates her because the girl's mother married the man that the aunt loved. The girl's existence is close to being servitude bondage, and her only companions are the birds and the animals of the forest. She meets and falls in love with a young man whose ambition is to be a lawyer. But her aunt is arranging for her to be married to the wealthiest man in the Limberlost, a drunken, coarse bully.
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Inflation (1942)
Character: Next Door Neighbor Who Begins Hoarding (uncredited)
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
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Fair Lady (1922)
Character: Countess Margherita
Countess Margherita is a Sicilian girl who is about to be married, but Caesar Maruffi, the head of a criminal syndicate, wants her for himself. He arranges to have the bridegroom assassinated, and Norvin Blake, a young American (Robert Elliott), almost loses his life in his attempt to save him.
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Spotlight Scandals (1943)
Character: Mrs. Baker
A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success eventually leads them to Broadway, but things start to go awry.
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Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
Character: Dowager
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
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Back Street (1932)
Character: Gossip (uncredited)
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
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Badge of Honor (1934)
Character: Mrs. Claire van Alstyne
Hoping to impress a pretty girl he's after, a playboy poses as a newspaperman and goes after a big story.
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A Million Bid (1927)
Character: Mrs. Gordon
To satisfy her controlling mother and secure both of their futures, a daughter hesitantly enters a loveless marriage to a wealthy businessman. Years later, after she has uncovered and overcome her mother's deceptions and manipulations, her newfound happiness is threatened with the appearance of a mysterious "man from the sea."
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Misbehaving Husbands (1940)
Character: Effie Butler
Marital comedy in which a department store mannequin is mistaken for "the other woman".
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She (1925)
Character: Ayesha
Mr. Blackwell discovers a relic that informs him about Blythe (as Ayesha, or "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed"), who loved his father and others in the ancestral line. Blackwell accompanies pal Heinrich George and handyman Tom Reynolds to Arabia.
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Night Alarm (1934)
Character: Mrs. Elizabeth Van Dusen
A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening "beat" gets a chance to investigate a series of arson fires that have been plaguing the city. He believes the fires are tied into a web of political corruption involving a wealthy businessman, the mayor and the police chief. Complicatins ensue when the girl assigned to help him turns out to be the businessman's daughter.
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Puddin' Head (1941)
Character: Mrs. Bowser
On the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Harold L. Montgomery, Sr. discovers that he gave the wrong survey to the builders...
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Burnt Wings (1920)
Character: Helen
Struggling artist Ned Templeton and his wife Joan are leading a poverty-stricken life in Paris. Threatened by starvation and eviction, Joan is forced to become a prostitute. After some time, Ned becomes successful, and he and Joan move to New York. There he meets Helen, daughter of wealthy art patron James Cartwright. Cartwright was the man who "bought" Joan in Paris, and when he learns that his daughter's happiness depends upon Ned's divorce, he threatens to expose Joan.
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Folly of Vanity (1924)
Character: Mrs. Ridgeway (modern sequence)
This drama had two directors: Maurice Elvey handled most of the film, but the fantasy sequence was directed by Henry Otto. Newlyweds Alice and Robert are already having differences over money. He gets angry at her extravagances, especially when she spends more than they can afford on an imitation pearl necklace. Ridgeway, a client of Robert's, invites the couple to a party. Robert wants to decline, but Alice insists that they go. Ridgeway loans Alice a real pearl necklace, to "restore their lustre," and everyone heads for his yacht. Ridgeway pays Alice a lot of attention, while a young widow tries to vamp Robert.
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Before Midnight (1933)
Character: Mavis Fry
A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.
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Yours for the Asking (1936)
Character: May
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear he may follow Lucille onto the straight-and-narrow path, which would not be good for business. So they hire Gert Malloy and Dictionary McKinney, a pair of con-artists, to manipulate Johnny back off the path of righteousness.
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Piano Mooner (1942)
Character: Society Woman
Harry is a workaholic piano tuner whose bride-to-be's brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry his sister. His latest job assignment involves a socialite and a pesky French maid hounding him constantly.
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Earl of Puddlestone (1940)
Character: Millicent Potter-Potter
When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decides to get back at them by making them believe that his family has "royal" connections.
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Disraeli (1921)
Character: N/A
The story of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and the purchase by England of the Suez Canal.
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The Queen of Sheba (1921)
Character: Queen of Sheba
The story of the ill-fated romance between Solomon, king of Israel, and the Queen of Sheba.
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Lena Rivers (1932)
Character: Mathilda Nichols
Young Lena Rivers, who was born out of wedlock, goes to live with a rich uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle's wife and daughter make no secret of their dislike of Lena and that they don't want her in their family.
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Hold That Kiss (1938)
Character: Wedding Guest at Piermont's
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
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The Silver Horde (1920)
Character: Mildred Wayland
A young man who has proven a failure in business goes to Alaska and enters the salmon-fishing industry, in direct competition with the father of the woman he loves.
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Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Character: Frau Kohner (uncredited)
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.
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The Miracle Kid (1941)
Character: Madame Gloria
A young boxer finds his life turned upside down when he meets with sudden success in the ring.
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Dawn on the Great Divide (1942)
Character: Mrs. Elmira Corkle
Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are out to stop them by using white men dressed as Indians for the attacks.
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Bar 20 (1943)
Character: Mrs. Stevens
Stagecoach robbers take the money Hoppy was going to use to buy cattle so Hoppy, California and Lin go after them.
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Mr. Muggs Steps Out (1943)
Character: N/A
Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs McGinnis is hired by wealthy Mrs. Murray, who has a penchant for picking up trouble-prone servants. At an engagement party for Mrs. Murray's spoiled daughter Brenda, Muggs enlists his pals as extra help.
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Murder at Glen Athol (1936)
Character: Ann Randel
A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murde
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A Girl of the Limberlost (1934)
Character: Mrs. Parker
Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she was born. She finds her comfort with Margaret and Westley Sinton, a childless neighboring couple, who help her with her school costs, as does the wealthy Mrs. Parker, who takes an interest in the talented young girl. She meets and falls in love with Phillip Ammon, the nephew of Dr. Ammon, but learns that he is already engaged. The money that Elnora has saved for her college education is stolen, and when Mrs. Comstock goes to retrieve it from a suspect, she also learns of the duplicity of her husband, who had been courting a neighboring woman on the night he drowned. She begs forgiveness of Elnora, and the romance of Elnora and Phillip also begins to flourish.
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Delinquent Parents (1938)
Character: Mrs. Wharton
A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves.
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Slander (1916)
Character: N/A
The wife of attorney John Blair (T. Jerome Lawler), heroine Helene (Kalich) finds herself in an untenable position when two of Blair's clients, Harry Carson (Robert Rendel)) and Richard Tremaine (Eugene Ormonde), both fall in love with her.
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Honky Tonk (1941)
Character: Mrs. Wilson
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
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Something in the Wind (1947)
Character: Society Matron (uncredited)
A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.
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Two Heads on a Pillow (1934)
Character: Mrs. Agnes Walker
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
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The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
Character: Mrs. Wainwright
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several of those politicians and military men who all want to marry her, except for the one with who she is truly in love.
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Tuxedo Junction (1941)
Character: Miss Hornblower
The Weaver Brothers and Elviry have migrated from their usual hard-scrabble digs in the Ozarks and have taken up truck-farming.
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Topper (1937)
Character: Mrs. Goodrich (uncredited)
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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Runaway Daughters (1956)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Three teenagers with troubled families are unable to adjust at home and in high-school. Tempted with an easy, carefree life they soon pass from misdemeanors into serious crime - and will suffer for it. Sometimes, repentance comes too late.
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Sarong Girl (1943)
Character: Miss Ellsworth
A dancer in a girlie show plots revenge when a judge orders her show closed.
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Character: Floor Manager (uncredited)
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
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Pilgrimage (1933)
Character: Janet Prescot
A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.
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They Were Expendable (1945)
Character: Officer's Wife (uncredited)
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.
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Glorious Betsy (1928)
Character: Princess Fredericka
Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.
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Percy (1925)
Character: Lolita
Western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle.
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Only Yesterday (1933)
Character: Mrs. Vincent (Uncredited)
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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Joe Palooka, Champ (1946)
Character: Mrs. Stafford
After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series.
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Federal Fugitives (1941)
Character: Marcia
A government agent goes undercover in order to apprehend a saboteur who caused a plane crash.
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Girls in Chains (1943)
Character: Mrs. Grey
A fired teacher finds work at a girls reform school and helps a detective on a case.
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Espionage (1937)
Character: Train Passenger
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
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Western Courage (1935)
Character: Mrs. Hanley
Wealthy Henry Hanley takes his family to a dude ranch. But his daughter Gloria's boyfriend Eric is waiting and he is after Hanley's money. Ken overhears Eric's plan and abducts Gloria to stop the elopement. The outlaw Lacrosse and his henchman then catch Ken without his guns, take off with Gloria, and leave a tied up Ken in a burning shack.
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Gangster's Boy (1938)
Character: Mrs. Davis
A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.
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Ever Since Eve (1934)
Character: Mrs. Vandergrift
Neil Rogers, a young man who owns a substantial share of a Western gold mine, comes East and falls in love with the rather wild Elizabeth Vandegrift.
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Luxury Liner (1948)
Character: Miss Fenmoor (uncredited)
Capt. Jeremy Bradford has a particularly exciting luxury liner cruise in store when he's charged with transporting a troupe of opera singers to Rio de Janeiro. Anxious to become a singer herself, Bradford's young daughter, Polly, decides to skip out on school and sneak onto the ship before it departs. Angry that his daughter disobeyed him, Bradford puts her to work on the ship for punishment, but Polly has her own ideas about how to spend the trip.
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Shed No Tears (1948)
Character: Mrs. Peet (Uncredited)
A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance policy.
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Hollywood Story (1951)
Character: Herself
A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot in his office years ago. He finds that his life is threatened as he digs deeper into the mystery.
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Sis Hopkins (1941)
Character: Mrs. Farnsworth
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
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The Perfect Clue (1935)
Character: Ursula Chesebrough
Mona Stewart, madcap, spoiled daughter of a wealthy man, becomes upset when she learns that her father is engaged to a woman she hates. She runs away, via various modes of transportation, and hires an ex-con, David Mannering, to drive her around as she eludes the all-out search conducted by her father and her fiancée, Ronnie Van Zandt. A romance is blossoming until her chauffeur is arrested for the murder of a crime-syndicate boss.
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Top Sergeant Mulligan (1941)
Character: Mrs. Lewis
Frank Faylen and Charlie Hall (a longtime Laurel & Hardy foil) star as Dolan and Doolittle, a pair of goofy druggists who join the army to escape the wrath of bill collector Mulligan
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The Scarlet Letter (1934)
Character: Innkeeper
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
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The Women (1939)
Character: Mrs. South (uncredited)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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Crime Doctor (1943)
Character: Mrs. Harrington
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
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Freckles Comes Home (1942)
Character: Minerva Potter
Freckles Winslow comes home from college and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on the spot, and his girl friend, Jane, falls in love with a confidence man.
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Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat (1944)
Character: Mrs. Manning
To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.
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In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924)
Character: Rita Sismondi
A sequel of sorts, the Jewish ethnic comedy characters of Potash and Perlmutter return from their 1923 debut film, also produced by Goldwyn, but with a different actor for Potash.
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Undercurrent (1946)
Character: Saleslady (uncredited)
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.
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My Fair Lady (1964)
Character: Lady at Ball (uncredited)
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
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Madonna of the Desert (1948)
Character: Mrs. Brown
A jeweled Madonna, property of rancher Joe Salinas, attracts two crooks to his ranch, Monica Dell, a smooth operator, and ruthless Nick Julian. Joe believe that the statue has a miraculous power to ward off evil, and Monica, after a narrow escape from injury while trying to steal the statue, is converted to Joe's faith and refuses to go through with the robbery. Nick has no such intentions.
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Chu-Chin-Chow (1924)
Character: Zahrat
In Baghdad a girl escapes from a robber sheikh and thwarts a plot to rob a merchant.
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House of Errors (1942)
Character: Mrs. Martha Randall
Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II farce released by Poverty Row company PRC. Langdon and Charles "Buddy" Rogers are newspaper messengers helping reporter Ray Walker obtain an interview with journalist-hating inventor Richard Kipling. But before they know it, Harry and Buddy become unwittingly involved in plans to steal the professor's newest invention: a machine gun.
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Snowbound (1927)
Character: Julia Barry
Assuming he is marrying a wealthy girl, Peter Foley passes a fraudulent check. To save him from jail, Julia Barry poses as his wife. Peter is actually in love with Alice Blake. He encounters complications with motorcycle cop Bull, who is engaged to Julia. A friend of Alice adds to the mix-up. All wind up snowbound together in a mountain lodge.
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Cheers of the Crowd (1935)
Character: Lil Langdon Walton
To draw attention to a popular show, a publicity expert hires a former carnival character, not knowing that the man is on the run from the law.
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Adventure (1945)
Character: Mrs. Buckley (uncredited)
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
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