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Victory and Peace (1918)
Character: Mary Rowntree
'Nurse saves captain from invading Germans and is saved herself when he leads counter-attack.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Fires of Fate (1923)
Character: Miss Adams
Colonel Egerton, a British officer told he has only one year to live, who finds renewed purpose while traveling in Egypt. He rescues a young woman from an Arab prince and fights to protect tourists from hostile forces in the Libyan Desert.
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Foolish Hearts (1935)
Character: Phyllis Gregory
A little entry from the RKO shorts department serving also as an audition-type (stick 'em in one of these and see if they appeal to a real audience, and make a buck or two at the same time)film for studio contractees and budding starlets. And, surrounded and supported by veteran character actors, such as Jack Norton, Jack Rice and Harrison Green, the likes of Tony Martin, Phyllis Brooks and Lucille Ball usually looked pretty good. And soon made for themselves, with studio help, rather nice Hollywood careers.
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Heredity in Man (1937)
Character: Self
A study of heredity in man, showing how both good and bad characteristics are passed on from one generation to the next.
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White Lies (1935)
Character: Miss Benson (uncredited)
A powerful publisher John Mitchell whose pursuit of sensational headlines at the expense of all else takes a personal toll when his daughter Joan is implicated in a murder.
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The Desert Sheik (1924)
Character: Miss Adams
Corinne Adams, a young American girl touring Egypt, meets a British soldier, Maj. Egerton, in Cairo, and they fall in love. She doesn't know that the major is suffering from a terminal illness. They and some friends take a trip into the desert and are attacked by a Bedouin tribe. The women are captured and the major is knocked out and left for dead. Can British troops arrive in time to save the women from a fate worse than death?
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Love on a Bet (1936)
Character: Miss Mannerly, Hutchinson's Secretary
An aspiring theater producer convinces his wealthy uncle to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play’s far-fetched plot: making a cross-country trip with no money.
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Smashing the Rackets (1938)
Character: Flo Fisher
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
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Start Cheering (1938)
Character: Peggy
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
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Without Orders (1936)
Character: Worried Lady Awaiting Salt Lake Flight
At Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick lands at the end of a cross-country record flight, met by his father J.P. Kendrick who owns Amalgamated Air Lines. Len is a media darling, adored by fans for his daring flights. He is in love with Amalgamated stewardess Kay Armstrong who is dating veteran pilot "Wad" Madison. Len dates her sister Penny who learns that his hard-drinking and recklessness has caused the death of his co-pilot. Penny knows that he was drinking before the fateful flight and only escaped prosecution by bribing a bartender. She leaves Len who ends up at Amalgamated as a line pilot, being tutored by Wad.
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Go Chase Yourself (1938)
Character: Junior's Mother (uncredited)
When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team. Comedy.
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Mummy's Boys (1936)
Character: Sheik's Wife
Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse."
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Harmony Lane (1935)
Character: Henrietta Foster
The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.
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Behind The Headlines (1937)
Character: Bennett's Secretary
A radio reporter sets out to rescue his ex-girlfriend when she is kidnapped by gangsters.
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