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The Best Man (1964)
Character: Banquet Guest (uncredited)
The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.
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The Great Gatsby (1949)
Character: Patent Medicine King (uncredited)
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
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Fitzwilly (1967)
Character: Customer (uncredited)
When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses by charging goods to various wealthy people and misdirecting the shipments, all to keep Miss Vicki's standard of living.
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Possessed (1947)
Character: Concert Spectator (uncredited)
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Character: Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
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Sing and Like It (1934)
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue
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Limelight (1952)
Character: Empire Theatre Patron (uncredited)
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
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Seven Days in May (1964)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
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They Won't Believe Me (1947)
Character: Theatre Patron (uncredited)
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
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The Fountainhead (1949)
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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California (1947)
Character: Delegate (uncredited)
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
Character: Guest (uncredited)
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from its extremely resentful leader.
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Repeat Performance (1947)
Character: N/A
On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
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Citizen Kane (1941)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Pal Joey (1957)
Character: Guest at Charity Ball (uncredited)
An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.
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Blonde Alibi (1946)
Character: Policeman #3 (Uncredited)
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
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In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
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Portland Exposé (1957)
Character: Tavern Patron (uncredited)
The owner of a tavern is pressured by the local mob to go into business with them, and figures it's better all around if he does that rather than cause trouble. However, when he starts to see what kind of place his nice little neighborhood bar is turning into, and when one of the mob's goons tries to rape his daughter, he decides to fight them.
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Critic's Choice (1963)
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage.
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The Merry Widow (1952)
Character: Club Patron (uncredited)
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Marshovia on a visit, Crystal Radek change places with her secretary Kitty. Following them to Paris, Danilo has a hard time wooing the widow after meeting an attractive young woman at a nightclub, the same Crystal Radek who presents herself as Fifi the chorus girl. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)
Character: Benefit Guest (uncredited)
Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Character: Theatre Patron
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
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Storm Warning (1951)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.
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Gunga Din (1939)
Character: (uncredited)
British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
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Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
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Gun Crazy (1950)
Character: Office Worker (uncredited)
Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.
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Ball of Fire (1941)
Character: Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
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Inherit the Wind (1960)
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.
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Youngblood Hawke (1964)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.
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Lover Come Back (1961)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.
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Deception (1946)
Character: Concertgoer (uncredited)
After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
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The Strange Woman (1946)
Character: Congregation Member (uncredited))
In early 19th century New England, an unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to seduce, deceive and control the men around her.
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A Star Is Born (1954)
Character: Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited)
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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The Egg and I (1947)
Character: Reveler at Country Dance (Uncredited)
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.
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Auntie Mame (1958)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.
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Room for One More (1952)
Character: N/A
Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Send Me No Flowers (1964)
Character: Commuter (uncredited)
When a hypochondriac assumes that he is dying, he makes an elaborate plan to ensure his wife's happiness. However, trouble ensues when she misunderstands his intentions.
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Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.
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That Certain Woman (1937)
Character: Club Patron (uncredited)
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
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East of Eden (1955)
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.
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I Married a Witch (1942)
Character: N/A
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when she discovers that her mischief might have found her true love.
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