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The Man Called Back (1932)
Character: Vivien Lawrence
Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married socialite Doris Kenyon. Doris' insane husband John Halliday commits suicide, but arranges the evidence so that his wife will be charged with murder.
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Mon coeur au ralenti (1928)
Character: Ralph's wife
Middle-aged teacher Nadia experiences increasing social exclusion and paranoia as society begins to exclude her and her husband, Ange, in disturbing ways complicated by her difficult family history and her troubled relationship with her son, Ralph, and his family.
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White Heat (1927)
Character: Helen
A man loves a dancer who becomes a producer's mistress.
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Women Love Once (1931)
Character: Hester Dahlgren
Happily married Julien Fields journeys to Europe to pursue his artistic interests.
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The Woman Tempted (1927)
Character: Louise Harding
A young woman murders another woman whose behaviour drove her fiancé to suicide.
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Human Desires (1924)
Character: Andree de Vigne
In Paris an actress divorces a jealous impresario and weds the officer who once saved from from suicide.
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The Wine of Life (1924)
Character: Regine
A newly divorced woman falls in love with an artist and a hypnotist at the same time.
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Ladies of Leisure (1930)
Character: Claire Collins
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.
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That Hamilton Woman (1941)
Character: Lady Spencer
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
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The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
Character: Clothilde
Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
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Anybody's Woman (1930)
Character: Ellen
A lawyer, left by his wife, gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after.
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Kick In (1931)
Character: Picadilly Bessie
Chick Hewes is released from prison and finds work as an accountant. Two years later, Chick's crooked friend, Benny LaMarr, to whom he is indebted for past kindnesses, steals a diamond necklace from the home safe of the district attorney. When the district attorney threatens to accuse the police of inefficiency in crime fighting, Garvey, who is campaigning for the office of police commissioner, promises to catch the thief in twenty-four hours.
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Rich Man's Folly (1931)
Character: Paula Norcross
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.
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Husband's Holiday (1931)
Character: Christine Kennedy
A stuffy family man cheats on his wife but she refuses him a divorce at first. Meanwhile his mistress resents her second class status.
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No One Man (1932)
Character: Sue Folsom
When the boyfriend of a rich, bored socialite dies from a weak heart, she finds herself attracted to the doctor who treated him, a hard-working idealist decidedly different from the usual spoiled society rich kids she is used to.
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Westward Passage (1932)
Character: Henrietta, Olivia's Cousin
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
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Morocco (1930)
Character: Anna Dolores (uncredited)
Mogador, Morocco. Late 1920s. A complex romance develops between a womanizing Legionnaire and a disillusioned Parisian cabaret singer.
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Nell Gwyn (1926)
Character: Lady Castlemaine
An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.
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Behold My Wife! (1934)
Character: Diana Carter-Curson
After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and lands up at a saloon, where he is shot by an Indian, Pete. Pete's girlfriend, Tonita nurses Michael's wound and falls in love with him. Michael realizes this, proposes marriage to Tonita - a perfect revenge for his prejudice family. They marry and he takes her to New York, in full Indian dress hoping to embarrass the family.
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The Vice Squad (1931)
Character: Ambassador's Wife
A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
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Woman to Woman (1929)
Character: Vesta Compton
While on leave in WW I France an English officer and French cabaret star fall in love with one another and plan to marry. However, he is recalled to the front, wounded and has memory loss.
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The Masquerader (1933)
Character: Lady Diana Joyce
A drug-addicted member of Parliament needs to take time off and secretly pull his life together, so he gets his lookalike cousin to agree to temporarily assume his identity.
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Berkeley Square (1933)
Character: Duchess of Devonshire
A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
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Peg o' My Heart (1933)
Character: Ethel Chichester
Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to learn to be a lady and that Pat can never see her again.
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Devil and the Deep (1932)
Character: Mrs. Planet
Naval commander Charles Sturm has made life miserable for his wife Diana due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. His obsessive behavior soon drives her to the arms of a handsome lieutenant. When Charles learns of their affair, he plots revenge.
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Strangers in Love (1932)
Character: Muriel Preston
Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when the latter dies.
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No More Ladies (1935)
Character: Woman (uncredited)
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
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The Fake (1927)
Character: Mrs Hesketh Pointer
'MP forces daughter to marry titled drug addict who dies when her lover tries to cure him.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Grand Canary (1934)
Character: Elissa Bayham
Based on an AJ Cronin novel, a disgraced doctor exiled to the Canary Islands, meets and falls in love with a married woman.
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Unfaithful (1931)
Character: Gemma Houston
In this society drama set in contemporary England, a noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in order to protect her sister-in-law, who actually is.
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The Match King (1932)
Character: Sonia Lombard
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
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Irene (1940)
Character: Mrs. Newlands Grey
Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a model. She soon catches the eye of socialite Bob Vincent, whose mother is hosting a ball at the family mansion. To promote Madame Lucy's dress line, Mr. Smith arranges for his models to be invited to the ball.
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