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Freckles (1935)
Character: Laurie Lou Duncan
A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.
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Peeks at Hollywood (1946)
Character: N/A
Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood.
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Timothy's Quest (1936)
Character: Samantha Tarbox
Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson, an old maid with a dislike for children. Timothy eventually wins her over, and also pushes along the romance for her niece, Martha (Eleanore Whitney), with David Masters (Tom Keene).
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Girl of the Ozarks (1936)
Character: Edie Moseley
A sweet little country girl has issues with school. Her mother is ill. The school threatens to send her to an orphanage.
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The Great Man Votes (1939)
Character: Joan
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.
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Keeping Company (1940)
Character: Harriet Thomas
Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.
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This Time for Keeps (1942)
Character: Harriett Bryant
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
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The Rookie Cop (1939)
Character: Nicey
A rookie cop tries to prove his friend is innocent of a robbery, despite the police commissioner's objection to his use of a trained German Shepherd dog named Ace.
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The Affairs of Martha (1942)
Character: Miranda Sommerfield
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
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Long Lost Father (1934)
Character: Girl at Pier
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
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Laddie (1935)
Character: Little Sister
A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
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Fixer Dugan (1939)
Character: Ethel "Terry" O'Connell
Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)
Character: Europena Wiggs
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure. Miss Lucy and Bob get married.
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Love Is a Headache (1938)
Character: Jake O'Toole
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
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Souls at Sea (1937)
Character: Tina
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
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The Youngest Profession (1943)
Character: Joan Lyons
Best friends Joan and Patricia are teenage autograph seekers who spend most of their day bumping into and having tea with movie stars like Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on disinformation from a meddling governess, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents.
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Surrender (1931)
Character: Little Girl (uncredited)
Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.
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Bad Little Angel (1939)
Character: Patricia Victoria Sanderson
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
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Out West with the Hardys (1938)
Character: Jake Holt
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
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The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)
Character: Little Girl in Hospital
Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions of George and Gracie, who've just invented a television device that can pick up and transmit any signal, any time, anywhere.
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Babes on Broadway (1941)
Character: Jo Conway
Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead, they decide to put up their own show to collect money for a summer camp for the kids.
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The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Character: Dinah Lord
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
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All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Character: Louise
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.
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Peter Ibbetson (1935)
Character: Mimsey
When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project with the Duke and Duchess of Towers. When Peter and the duchess become great friends, she reveals that she is Mary — but the duke soon suspects his wife of infidelity and challenges Peter to a duel, threatening the pair's second chance.
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Outside These Walls (1939)
Character: Ellen Sparling
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.
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Young Tom Edison (1940)
Character: Tannie Edison
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
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Maid of Salem (1937)
Character: Nabby
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
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Mother Carey's Chickens (1938)
Character: Lally Joy Popham
A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.
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Too Hot to Handle (1938)
Character: Hulda
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America, her opinion of him begins to change.
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The Under-Pup (1939)
Character: Janet Cooper
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
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Best Foot Forward (1943)
Character: Helen Schlesinger
Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.
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Men with Wings (1938)
Character: Young Peggy Ranson
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
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Gold Rush Maisie (1940)
Character: Jubilee 'Jubie' Davis
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
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Scandal Street (1938)
Character: Wilma 'Willie' Murphy
Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in the small town of Midberg, where she boards with the Smith family. Nora is befriended by her next-door neighbor Austin Brown, who, unknown to his wife, is engaged in a moneymaking scheme with James Wilson.
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The Women (1939)
Character: Little Mary
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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Born to Sing (1942)
Character: Patsy Eastman
A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs.
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The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)
Character: Flowergirl
The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.
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Barnacle Bill (1941)
Character: Virginia Johansen
A fishing boat captain searches for romance in hopes of improving his financial picture.
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