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Mister Cinderella (1936)
Character: Martha
Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriweather for much longer.The comedy comes fast and frantic in Mister Cinderella, from Hal Roach Studios.
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That Goes Double (1933)
Character: Gloria Gordon
Complications ensue when a singer discovers he has a double in this musical short film.
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Pride of the Navy (1939)
Character: Mrs. Falcon
A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing speedboats. They are innovative and soon the Navy comes a-knocking in hopes that he will design a fast and easily maneuverable boat to carry torpedoes.
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The Underdog (1943)
Character: Mrs. Bailey
During WWII, a strong-willed 12-year-old boy tries to steer his vocationally and maritally confused father straight, at the same time striving to keep his honor while the gang in his new neighborhood bully him.
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A Burglar to the Rescue (1931)
Character: The Girl, Marian
He is working on the books to cover his crimes, when a visitor arrives with a gun. In the conversation that ensues, it is revealed that the visitor is an escaped convict that was a former employee of the bank. He was railroaded to prison to cover the crooked banker's crime. As with other entries in this series, there is a shadow projected every so often with a voice forecasting what is to come.
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Clarence (1937)
Character: Violet
The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things, and who concentrates by playing his saxophone. Clarence ingratiates himself with the wealthy and eccentric Wheeler family, though daughter Cora can't stand the boy.
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Personal Maid (1931)
Character: Gwen Gary
Nora Ryan, a poor Irish girl, living in New York decides to change her life by working as a personal maid for the wealthy, Gary family.
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The Falcon's Brother (1942)
Character: Arlette
A gentlemanly detective known as The Falcon calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from assassinating a key diplomat.
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The Phantom Speaks (1945)
Character: Cornelia Wilmont
The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.
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Harvest Melody (1943)
Character: Nancy
Farmer Tommy and his girl Jane come in from the country for a night at the Hollywood Trocadero. There, they meet Chuck, Hollywood's Number One press agent, and his Girl Friday, Daisie. Hearing of the hardships imposed down on the farm by the war-related labor shortage, Chuck offers the help of his clients, movie star Gilda Parker, heavyweight boxer Canvas, and Eddie Le Baron and his whole orchestra, to help harvest the crops.
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Lulu Belle (1948)
Character: Mrs. Gloria Randolph
Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his fiancée and career to marry Lulu Bell. When his money runs out, Lulu Belle goes to work in a New Orleans club run by tough gambler Mark Brady. She tries to send George back to Natchez by pretending that she has fallen for prize-fighter Butch Cooper but George, in a fit of jealousy, drives a handful of forks into Butch's face. He is sent to prison and Lulu goes to New York with millionaire Harry Randolph, who makes her the singing sensation of Broadway and asks her to marry him. She refuses when she learns that George has been released from prison, realizing that he is the only man she ever truly loved.
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Queen of the Mob (1940)
Character: Mrs. Grimley
Ma Webster and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
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His Woman (1931)
Character: Flo
Tough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a missionary's daughter, to care for an abandoned baby on board his ship. En route to New York, ships mate Gatson sexually attacks her. The Captain knocks Gatson overboard in an ensuing scuffle. A romance developing between the Captain and Miss Clark is put to the test in New York after an assault investigation uncovers the girl's questionable past.
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City of Chance (1940)
Character: Mrs. Helen Walcott
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
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Professor Beware (1938)
Character: Dorothy - Reporter
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
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Smart Blonde (1937)
Character: Marcia Friel
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
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Girl Overboard (1937)
Character: Molly Shane
A beautiful girl on a passenger ship is suspected of murder.
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Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring (1941)
Character: Miss Fox
The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.
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Married Bachelor (1941)
Character: Margaret John (uncredited)
A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentric professor) in order to pay off a debt to a gangster.
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Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter (1939)
Character: Edna Gregory
When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the real killers.
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Parole Fixer (1940)
Character: Nellie
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.
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Gallant Sons (1940)
Character: Estelle
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
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Foxfire (1955)
Character: Mrs. Mablett
A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.
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Man of Courage (1943)
Character: Joyce Griffith
A crusading district attorney tries to stop a local mob boss who has connections in high places.
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Cipher Bureau (1938)
Character: Helen Lane
The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.
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Sinners in Paradise (1938)
Character: Thelma Chase
The survivors from a plane crash are washed up on an island where the only inhabitants are Mr. Taylor and his servant, Ping. The mismatched group must learn to get along and work together if they are to convince Taylor to let them borrow his boat and return to the main land.
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The Struggle (1931)
Character: Nina
Spanning from 1911 into the Prohibition era, Jimmie Wilson picks up drinking. When he falls in love with and proposes to Florrie, he vows to stop. The young couple gets married, has a daughter and enjoys a happy family life until old habits rise again.
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Tomboy (1940)
Character: Frances
Family drama about a father raising his motherless teenage daughter in a small town.
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Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942)
Character: Mrs. Hubbell
Dr. Gillespie supports Kildare's crusade against their hospital's deal with a rival hospital.
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Design for Scandal (1941)
Character: Thelma (uncredited)
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
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Let's Make a Million (1936)
Character: Caroline
A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.
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Panama Patrol (1939)
Character: Helen Lane
A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.
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A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen (1942)
Character: Irene Hadley
A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.
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Mama Loves Papa (1945)
Character: Mrs. McIntosh
A loose remake of the 1935 comedy of the same name. Thanks to the efforts of his social-climbing wife Jessie, furniture store employee Wilbur Todd is tossed headfirst into the world of small-town politics. Sized up as a patsy by crooked politician Kirkwood, poor Wilbur is plied with champagne as part of Kirkwood's scheme to land a sweetheart playground-equipment contract.
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The Women (1939)
Character: Miss Batchelor (uncredited)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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Renegade Trail (1939)
Character: Mary Joyce
Hoppy goes to town to help Marshal Windy with some rustlers and winds up helping the widow Joyce when confidence men try to take her herd. King's Men songs include: "Hi Thar Stranger" and "Lazy Rolls the Rio Grande."
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The Ivory-Handled Gun (1935)
Character: Paddy Moore
Buck Ward and the Wolverine Kid, who each own one of the ivory handled guns, continue the feud started by their fathers.
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The Calling of Dan Matthews (1935)
Character: Hope Strong
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
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Reformatory (1938)
Character: Adele Webster
A new inmate at a juvenile reformatory tries to organize a mass breakout.
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Sunset Trail (1939)
Character: Ann Marsh
Disguising himself as a milquetoast Easterner who writes Western novels, Hoppy enrolls in a dude ranch in order to unmask the murderer of the owner's husband.
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