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Ellis in Freedomland (1952)
Character: Spokeswoman for Westinghouse
Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the second half is focused on the "Spring Sales Event," called "Freedomland."
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Pontius Pilate (1952)
Character: N/A
The story, set 15 years after the Crucifixion, of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who is depicted as a victim of circumstances.
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The Three Wise Guys (1936)
Character: Clarabelle Brooks
Riding in his private car on Christmas day, railroad tycoon Hatcher prefers work to celebrating, while his son Joe prefers having a good time. In the coach car, Joe sees pretty Clarabelle Brooks and is sincerely concerned when she faints. A doctor, who is also in the car, helps to revive Clarabelle, says that she is suffering from severe hunger and, with fellow passenger Blackie Swanson, passes the hat for her. Later, Clarabelle, who is secretly working with con-men Doc and Blackie, goes to their compartment to discuss plans to set Joe up for a breach of promise suit...
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A Bolt of Lightning (1951)
Character: Self - Commercial Spokeswoman
The story of James Otis who was a part of the American revolution. He contested in court the right of the British to search colonists' homes.
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Studio One: Wuthering Heights (1950)
Character: Announcer
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
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Mister Cinderella (1936)
Character: Patricia 'Pat' Randolph
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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McFadden´s Flats (1935)
Character: Molly McFadden
Dan McFadden builds an apartment house in a working-class neighborhood on New York's East Side called "McFadden's Flats." At the same time, Dan and his wife Nora send their tomboyish daughter Molly to an expensive girls' school to teach her etiquette. Molly only agrees to go after her sweetheart, Sandy MacTavish, convinces her she should. When Dan is unable to complete the apartments because of a lack of money, Sandy's father Jock, a Scottish barber and Dan's best friend, secretly backs Dan's loan at the bank, even though Jock is known for his penny-pinching ways.
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Dangerous Corner (1934)
Character: Mrs. Betty Whitehouse
Friends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide.
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Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs (1936)
Character: N/A
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being the desert playground for the movie stars, the women are introduced to the cavalcade of stars vacationing in Palm Springs at the time.
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Fair Warning (1937)
Character: Kate Farnham
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
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Midshipman Jack (1933)
Character: Ruth Rogers
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.
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Calm Yourself (1935)
Character: Mary Elizabeth Allenby
A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
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Scarlet River (1933)
Character: Babe Jewel
Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.
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Here Comes Cookie (1935)
Character: Phyllis Allen
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
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Beggars in Ermine (1934)
Character: Joyce Dawson
John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill.
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The Great Jasper (1933)
Character: Sylvia Bradfield
Generational saga about a failed streetcar conductor, who finds success as an Atlantic City fortune teller, and his son.
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The Defender (Studio One) (1957)
Character: Self / Commercial Spokeswoman
The pilot for the television series, "The Defenders." The story of Walter and Kenneth Pearson, a father-and-son legal team. Broadcast as two segments of "Studio One," the story relates how the Pearsons defend a young man accused of killing a woman during a robbery attempt.
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Ace of Aces (1933)
Character: Card Playing Party Guest (uncredited)
A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the fight. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change.
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The Keeper of the Bees (1935)
Character: Molly
A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man called Bee Master and his protégé, Little Scout, who try to convince him that he has more to live for than he thinks he does.
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Magnificent Obsession (1935)
Character: Joyce Hudson
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
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The Band Plays On (1934)
Character: Kitty O'Brien
A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
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Swing Time (1936)
Character: Margaret Watson
Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky.
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The President's Mystery (1936)
Character: Charlotte Brown
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
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North of Shanghai (1939)
Character: Helen Warner
In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over and decide to team up. They are further assisted by a Chinese cameraman. The three of them manage to expose of spy ring operating out of the Shanghai office of the woman's newspaper.
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Twelve Angry Men (1954)
Character: Herself / Commercial Spokeswoman
Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 September 1954, the drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title and again for a feature film, 12 Angry Men (1957). The episode garnered three Emmy Awards for writer Rose, director Franklin Schaffner and Robert Cummings as Best Actor.
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Emergency Call (1933)
Character: Alice Averill
A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
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The Good Old Soak (1937)
Character: Lucy Hawley
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
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All American Chump (1936)
Character: Kitty Crane
A country bumpkin who's a mathematical genius falls into the hands of gangsters.
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It Can't Last Forever (1937)
Character: Carol Wilson
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
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Flying Down to Rio (1933)
Character: Belinha's Friend (uncredited)
An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance, The Carioca. The first pairing of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, and their only pre-Code film.
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Lucky Devils (1933)
Character: Ginger
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
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The Rockingham Tea Set (1950)
Character: Self - Commercial Spokeswoman
To keep her former fiancé from leaving her, a neurotic young woman (Louise Allbritton) fakes a riding accident, and feigns paralysis of her lower body. When her graceful nurse (Grace Kelly) discovers her treachery, she resorts to a final and desperate act of revenge.
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Cross Fire (1933)
Character: Pat "Mike" Plummer
Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK. When he returns after the war he finds his former assistant not only in control of the mine but the whole town. His former partners have fled becoming outlaws and are now robbing the mine shipments of money they believe is really theirs.
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A Wicked Woman (1934)
Character: Yancey Stroud, aka Yancey Trice
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.
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Headline Shooter (1933)
Character: Miss Saunders
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
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Shadow of Doubt (1935)
Character: Lisa
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
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They Wanted to Marry (1937)
Character: Sheila Hunter
Newspaper photographer Jim Tyler sneaks into a society girl's wedding, and the bride's sister decides she prefers him to her upper-crust suitors. She even likes his pigeon, who travels everywhere with him.
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The Kill (1952)
Character: Self - Commercial Spokeswoman
Jeff and his family just moved into a small, rural community. When two sinister locals tamper with Jeff's water pump, a fight breaks out among the three. Jeff is seen as a fugitive in the eyes of this bloodthirsty community...and there seems to be no way to stop them. Studio One, Season 5, Episode 1.
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The Life of Vergie Winters (1934)
Character: Joan Shadwell
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues the relationship with his true love.
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Mama Steps Out (1937)
Character: Leila Cuppy
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.
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