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Thanks for Listening (1937)
Character: Mary
Homer Tompkins, a trusting young musician with aspirations of becoming a radio star, is installed in a fine set of offices in Reno by a quartet of con artists who have bugged rooms and suites, with the title of "professional listener", and he passes off what he hears to his employers, Lulu, Trixie, Maurice and Champ and they use the information for blackmail purposes. They also so involve his sweetheart, Toots, that he can not withdraw even when he finally learns he is being used as a tool.
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Kentucky Moonshine (1938)
Character: Member of Vocal Specialty Trio (uncredited)
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
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New Faces of 1937 (1937)
Character: Singer
A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple parties. He only fails if it makes a profit.
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Little Miss Broadway (1938)
Character: Betty Brian
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
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High School (1940)
Character: One of the Brian Sisters
A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled on her father's Texan ranch must adjust to her new surroundings with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high school.
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Tin Pan Alley (1940)
Character: Singer
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
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Second Fiddle (1939)
Character: Vocal Trio Member
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
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Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)
Character: Member of Vocal Specialty Trio
Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.
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Music in My Heart (1940)
Character: Member of Singing Trio (uncredited)
A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.
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Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937)
Character: One of the Brian Sisters
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment.
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Beautiful But Broke (1944)
Character: Singer in Trio
Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to organize an all-girl orchestra to fill the void caused by so many orchestra members being called to service due to WWII, and joins struggling singers/songwriters Sally Richards and Sue Ford in this endeavor. Dottie's screwball schemes to get engagements for the group often lead to disaster.
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