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Mr. Intruder (1930)
Character: N/A
A magazine editor gets a good story when he comes home to find his wife with his best friend.
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A Dream Comes True (1935)
Character: Hippolyta (archive footage) (uncredited)
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
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Breakdowns of 1938 (1938)
Character: Verree (archive footage) (uncredited)
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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The Milky Way (1936)
Character: Ann Westley
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.
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Skyscraper Souls (1932)
Character: Sarah Dennis
After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan. Despite the devotion of longtime mistress Sarah, the ruthless David, while seeking bank mergers to protect his building, tries to seduce Sarah's secretary, Lynn. David then agrees to a plot by a bank board member to inflate his bank's stock and sell short — just before the market crashes.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Character: Hippolyta
Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
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The Firebird (1934)
Character: Carola Pointer
Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old daughter Mariette. One day, as Carola leaves the building, Brandt catches her in the stairwell and proposes she "visit" him at his apartment after everyone has gone to bed. Shocked and offended at his brazenness, she complains to the building manager, who orders Brandt to leave. He refuses, so the Pointers decide that they will move out instead. While they're packing, the police show up at their apartment with some bad news--Brandt has been found murdered, shot in the head. Inspector Muller, the detective investigating the murder, discovers that there is more to this case than meets the eye.
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Dr. Monica (1934)
Character: Anna Littlefield
A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.
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Good-bye Love (1933)
Character: Phyllis Van Kamp aka Fanny Malone
A sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn't know is that not only is he not wealthy, nor a big-game hunter nor from a royal family, but he's only a butler. Complications ensue as he tries to keep up the pretense.
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Turnabout (1940)
Character: Laura Bannister
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.
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Desirable (1934)
Character: Helen Walbridge
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
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Payment Deferred (1932)
Character: Marguerite Collins
Bank clerk William Marble is desperate for money to pay his family's bills. When his wealthy nephew visits, Marble asks him for a loan, but the young man refuses. Marble decides to kill his nephew. It is a twisted path to justice after Marble is transformed by the crime he committed and the wealth he gains.
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Madame du Barry (1934)
Character: Duchess de Granmont
Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon, former street waif Madame du Barry charms her way into the heart of gouty King Louis XV.
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Love Thy Neighbor (1940)
Character: Barbara Allen
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
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A Modern Hero (1934)
Character: Lady Claire Benston
A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.
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Fashions of 1934 (1934)
Character: Mabel McGuire aka Grand Duchess Alix
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
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Roman Scandals (1933)
Character: Empress Agrippa
A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
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Topper Takes a Trip (1938)
Character: Mrs. Nancy Parkhurst
Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs. Parkhurst takes Mrs. Topper on a trip to France where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce. With help of a gold-digging French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too easy.
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They Just Had to Get Married (1933)
Character: Lola Montrose
Molly Hull, a maid, and Sam Sutton, a butler, are bequeathed a million dollars, and they encounter many problems and difficulties as they try to become the newest members of the idle rich.
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First Lady (1937)
Character: Irene Hibbard
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.
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Terror Aboard (1933)
Character: Millicent Hazlitt
An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
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Syncopation (1929)
Character: Rita Eliot
Benny and Flo are a husband-and-wife dance team starring in a new Broadway revue. When the show quickly flops, the two are forced to look for other employment and eventually find work in a nightclub, becoming famous in the process. But their relationship is tested when Flo attracts the attentions of a sophisticated millionaire playboy...
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Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)
Character: Mrs. Borden
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.
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The Sap from Syracuse (1930)
Character: Dolly Clark
Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foils two crooks trying to get their hands on her lucrative nickel mine.
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I Take This Woman (1940)
Character: Madame Marcesca
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
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Come Live with Me (1941)
Character: Diana Kendrick
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
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Luxury Liner (1933)
Character: Luise Marheim
This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean liner.
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