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Kiss and Make-Up (1934)
Character: Landlady (as Helena Phillips)
Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the effects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, and wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher... after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.
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My Favorite Brunette (1947)
Character: Mabel (uncredited)
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.
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The Mouthpiece (1932)
Character: Crying Prospective Client (Uncredited)
A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.
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A Successful Calamity (1932)
Character: Lily - the Wilton's Cook (as Helena Phillips)
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
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All of Me (1934)
Character: Mrs. Haron (uncredited)
A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.
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Design for Living (1933)
Character: Mrs. Egelbauer (uncredited)
Independent Gilda is resigned fo a life of married tedium when Tom and George, having gotten past their jealousy, come to America and whisk Gilda away to live an exciting polyamorous life in Paris.
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For Beauty's Sake (1941)
Character: Mrs. Jellicoe
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
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A Tragedy at Midnight (1942)
Character: Beth's grandmother (uncredited)
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
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My Lady's Latchkey (1921)
Character: Mrs. Ellsworth
Young Annesley Grayle, weary of a gloomy, uneventful existence with her aunt, accepts the proposal of a young American that she pose as his wife. Later, they are actually married. When, at a ball, she hears her husband accused of stealing a valuable diamond and realizes that he is indeed a thief, she hides the jewel to save him.
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The Remarkable Andrew (1942)
Character: Mrs. Grondos
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
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Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Character: Mrs. Stiles (uncredited)
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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Curtain Call (1940)
Character: Mrs. Masterson, The Landlady
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.
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6,000 Enemies (1939)
Character: Peachie
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.
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My Bill (1938)
Character: Mrs.Adelaide Crosby
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
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Dangerous Intruder (1945)
Character: Mrs. Stevens
A female hitchiker is taken in by a family after a horrible car accident. While she recovers, she begins to unravel a murder mystery involving the woman of the house.
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The Perfect Gentleman (1935)
Character: Lisa the Flower Woman (uncredited)
A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.
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Life Begins (1932)
Character: Mrs. Riggs, the Prison Matron (uncredited)
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
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The White Angel (1936)
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
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These Glamour Girls (1939)
Character: Ann's Personal Maid (uncredited)
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
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I'll Fix It (1934)
Character: Mrs. Murphy
A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs. But when he tries to fix his adored kid brother's place on the school football team, he meets his match in school-teacher Anne Barry.
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Nancy Drew… Detective (1938)
Character: Mary Eldredge
After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.
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The Working Man (1933)
Character: Hartland's Cook Anna (uncredited)
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.
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The Greene Murder Case (1929)
Character: Miss O'Brien (uncredited)
Philo Vance investigates when a murderer preys upon members of a wealthy family on New York's Upper East Side.
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Friends of Mr. Sweeney (1934)
Character: Gambling Dowager
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!
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Blondie Johnson (1933)
Character: Police Matron (uncredited)
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
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