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The Amazons (1917)
Character: Willie
Three sisters, all raised as boys, have trouble fitting into male-dominated society.
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Merton of the Movies (1924)
Character: Mrs. Patterson
A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out. This film is lost.
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Hollywood (1923)
Character: Margaret Whitaker
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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Dancing Mothers (1926)
Character: Irma
An unfaithful husband and his daughter go on nightly club outings, leaving the mother at home. The mother rebels against her lonesome life and attempts to prevent a man from pursuing her daughter.
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A Social Celebrity (1926)
Character: April King (as Elsie Lawson)
Small-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. Max adores Kitty Laverne, the manicurist, who loves him but is ambitious to be a dancer, so she heads for New York, hoping that he will follow in pursuit of better things. Mrs. Jackson-Greer, a New York society matron, has occasion to note Max styling the hair of a town girl and induces him to come to New York and pose as a French count. There he meets April, Mrs. King's niece, and loses his heart to her, as well as to Kitty, now a showgirl.
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You'll Find Out (1940)
Character: Ms. Gaby Lawson (uncredited)
The manager of Kay Kyser’s band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.
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Man With Two Lives (1942)
Character: Louise Hammond
A man is brought back from death at the same time a vicious criminal dies in the electric chair. However, the man's soul is now taken over by the electrocuted gangster, who embarks on a vengeful crime wave.
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Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
Character: Mrs. O'Tandy
Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives in the Irish slums.
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It (1927)
Character: First Welfare Worker (uncredited)
A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism -- the captivating personal quality otherwise known as "it."
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