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Jennie (1940)
Character: Jennie Collins
A happy girl marries into the family of a stern shoemaker and leads a mutiny.
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Berlin Correspondent (1942)
Character: Karen Hauen
Bill Roberts is an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. Having witnessed Nazi brutalities first hand, Roberts hopes to alert his listeners of impending dangers, and does so by sending out coded messages during his broadcasts. The Gestapo begins to suspect something and assigns glamorous secret agent Karen Hauen to spy on Roberts. When she discovers that her own father is supplying Roberts with vital secrets, she turns her back on the Nazis and joins our hero in his efforts.
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Walk East on Beacon (1952)
Character: Millie / Teresa Zalenko
An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.
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Wonder Man (1945)
Character: Sailor's Girl Friend
Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summons his bookworm twin, Edwin Dingle, to Prospect Park so that he can help the police nail Jackson.
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Manhattan Heartbeat (1940)
Character: Dottie Haley
A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better.
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Close-Up (1948)
Character: Peggy Lake
A photographer accidentally photographs a Nazi war criminal on the streets of New York and becomes a target for reprisals and murder.
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Swamp Water (1941)
Character: Mabel MacKenzie
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.
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Chetniks! (1943)
Character: Natalia, Brockner's Secretary
Subtitled The Fighting Guerillas, Chetniks tells the story of Serbian guerilla fighter General Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović. Based on the General's own memoirs, the film depicts Mihailovitch (played here by Philip Dorn) as a selfless idealist, leading his resistance troops, known as the Chetniks, on one raid after another against the Germans during WW II.
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Sundown Jim (1942)
Character: Tony Black
US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful end. This requires him to clean out the local criminal element, which he does with determination.
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Orchestra Wives (1942)
Character: Elsie
Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the band's tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.
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Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941)
Character: Judy Miller
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
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Western Union (1941)
Character: Sue Creighton
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.
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Laddie (1940)
Character: Pamela Pryor
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.
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Winter Carnival (1939)
Character: Margie Stafford
A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.
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That Other Woman (1942)
Character: Emily Borden
A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her which backfires after some bad advice.
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Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case (1941)
Character: Terry Parker
Like the first entry, this one is played mostly for laughs, with Radio's Mister District Attorney. James Ellison replacing Dennis O'Keefe as feckless assistant DA P. Cadwallader Jones. The publisher of a tony fashion magazine is murdered, requiring Jones to sift through a colorful array of suspects. He is helped along by snoopy girl reporter Terry Parker.
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