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Jury's Evidence (1936)
Character: Ruby
The Foreman of an Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder case.
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Villa Falconieri (1928)
Character: Princess Sora
A young count rents a villa near Rome to be near a woman he's courting. While there, he strikes up a friendship with a young woman living with a violent husband.
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Man of the Moment (1935)
Character: Miss Madden
Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.
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Why Sailors Leave Home (1930)
Character: Slave Girl
When their ship arrives in an Arabian port, the sailors are given shore leave among them Bill Biggles, who has previously had little success with women. Visiting a sheik who has long been under obligation to him, Bill is welcomed at the palace, and the polygamous ruler, who has abducted a damsel, decides to absent himself and appoint Bill as his deputy. It seems Bill's luck is set to change dramatically until the wives decide to go on strike!
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His Lordship Goes to Press (1938)
Character: N/A
An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity things turn out rough but Valerie's charm and personality overcome the obstacles.
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The Happy Family (1936)
Character: Nia Harrison
A mother and father who, in order to shock their extended family out of their idle spendthrift ways, pretend to have lost all their money.
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His Lordship Regrets (1938)
Character: Enid
The impoverished Lord Cavender woos a phony heiress, Mabel Van Morgan, only to find that his secretary Mary, whom he really loves, is a genuine heiress. His Lordship does quickly and truly regret.
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What’s in a Name? (1935)
Character: Mrs Schultz
“Comedy concerning a clerk pretending to be a European composer who falls in love with a woman who poses as an actress.” - BFI.
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Die Abenteurer GMBH (1929)
Character: Lucienne Fereoni
Based on Agatha Christie's "The Secret Adversary," a young couple looking for adventure become involved in the mystery of a missing woman and an espionage ring.
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One of the Best (1927)
Character: Mary Penrose
'1820. Officer frames colleague when gambler forces him to steal secrets.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Death on the Set (1935)
Character: Laura Cane
A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed.
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The Vicar of Bray (1937)
Character: Meg Clancy
The Vicar of Bray is a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external requirements change around him. The religious upheavals in England from 1533 to 1559 and from 1633 to 1715 made it almost impossible for any individual to comply with the successive religious requirements of the state.
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Night Birds (1930)
Character: Mary Cross
Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club.
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Poppies of Flanders (1927)
Character: Beryl Kingwood
An Earl's reformed son fakes a relapse on learning his sweetheart loves another, and dies saving his life.
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Pearls Bring Tears (1937)
Character: Pamela Vane
About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.
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Department Store (1935)
Character: Dolly Flint
The heir to a London department store must learn the business by working his way through various menial jobs incognito first. However, a crooked manager has arranged for a cracksman, just out of prison, to join the staff. Each is mistaken for the other.
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The Silver Lining (1928)
Character: Lettie Deans
The Silver Lining is a 1927 British silent drama film. Widow Hurst has two sons who fall out over a girl. One son attempts to frame the other for the theft of some pearls but when his brother is imprisoned he eventually confesses his crime to his mother and guilt ridden arranges for a band of gypsies to shoot him.
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Three Witnesses (1935)
Character: Margaret Truscott
At a firm of contractors, a partner is accused of murdering his brother following a takeover bid.
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Character: Showgirl Victim (uncredited)
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
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Twice Branded (1936)
Character: Sylvia Hamilton
A young business man (James Mason) is being duped by business swindlers but his gaol bird father is determined to save him.
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Moulin Rouge (1928)
Character: Margaret
An odd and tightly directed tale of a singer/dancer at the Moulin Rouge, who meets her daughter's fiance, only to have him fall obsessively in love with her and she with him. Alienation, betrayal and near tragedy result.
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Scrooge (1935)
Character: Fred's Wife
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
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The Last Journey (1935)
Character: Daisy
Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.
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Murder at Monte Carlo (1935)
Character: Gilian
A professor comes up with a system to win at roulette, and goes to the famous casino at Monte Carlo to try it out. When he turns up murdered and his "system" missing, a reporter sets out to find the killer--and the system.
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