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Maurie (1973)
Character: Rosie Sanders
When an African-American basketball star suffers sudden paralysis, his white friend and teammate assists in his rehabilitation.
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Freeman (1977)
Character: Teresa
This 1977 drama by Phillip Hayes Dean, deals with the sad division between what a man hopes for and what he achieves. In the title role, Dick Anthony Williams portrays a naïve, ambitious, recklessly optimistic man who is not understood by those closest to him and who finds himself in difficulty because of his unrealistic hopes.
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Benny's Place (1982)
Character: Miss Atty Carter
Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at work and at play.
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Brass (1985)
Character: Lucy Ward
The Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department, is a tough cop who has worked his way up the ladder from being on a beat.
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Homeward Borne (1957)
Character: Louise
Just after World War Two ends, an American woman takes in a Polish war orphan boy, a concentration camp survivor. But conflict arises when her husband, a returning Air Force bomber pilot,hates the boy and his psychological baggage.
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Toma (1973)
Character: Mrs. Bernard
This TV-pilot, later made into a TV-series, is about a cop in Newark, New Jersey, who defies his superiors to try to bring down the head of a Mafia numbers racket.
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The Sting (1973)
Character: Alva Coleman
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
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Fitzwilly (1967)
Character: Oberblatz's secretary (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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Take a Giant Step (1959)
Character: Violet
After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with a teacher, he turns to his grandmother for advice. Spence, who lives in a genteel white area and has mostly white friends, feels like an outsider. He visits a bar in a black neighborhood, where he meets a few prostitutes, which doesn't help. Eventually, Spence starts a friendship with the housekeeper, Christine, who tells him her own difficult story.
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Honeymoon Hotel (1964)
Character: Hogan (Uncredited)
A man left at the alter goes on his honeymoon trip anyway, taking his best man along instead.
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Shadow on the Land (1968)
Character: Webber
Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA.
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The Lost Man (1969)
Character: Grandma
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."
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How to Make a Monster (1958)
Character: Millie - the Pedestrian
When master monster make-up man Pete Dumond is fired by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.
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Something of Value (1957)
Character: Kikuyu Woman
As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devoted to his cause, both wish for a more moderate path -- but their hopes for a peaceful resolution are thwarted by rage, colonial arrogance and escalating violence on both sides.
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Lost in the Stars (1974)
Character: Grace
A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.
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Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
Character: Native Mother
Dr. Sturdy is trying to establish a modern hospital in the jungle. His efforts are strongly opposed by Futa, the witch doctor, and Ramo, a native warrior.
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Cupid Takes a Holiday (1938)
Character: Dianna, the Maid (as Pauline Myers)
Because his family has a history of insanity that breaks out when a family member hasn't married by the time they are 25 years old, Nikolai Nikolaevich visits a matrimonial firm searching for a bride. But all the candidates are either too fat, too young, too old, too skinny or too ugly,and he turns them all down.
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Bloodbrothers (1978)
Character: Mrs. Pitt
A young man is torn between following in his brothers' footsteps or striking out on his own.
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Winning (1969)
Character: Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one - the Indianapolis 500. But to get there he runs the risk of losing his wife Elora to his rival, Luther Erding, and strains the relationship with his stepson.
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Shock Treatment (1964)
Character: Dr. Walden (as Pauline Myers)
A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot.
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Angel City (1980)
Character: Bertha
Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no place for the faint of heart.
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Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
Character: Mother (uncredited)
An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason.
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Dear Heart (1965)
Character: Florist
A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.
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I'll Take Sweden (1965)
Character: Eloise
Bob Holcomb will do anything to stop his daughter JoJo from tying the knot with her lazy boyfriend, even move her all the way to Sweden! But once they're "safely" out of the country, JoJo falls for a sly Swedish playboy.
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Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
Character: Mrs. Edson
Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic youth. The story depicts her early attempts at a singing career and her eventual rise to stardom, as well as her difficult relationship with Louis McKay, her boyfriend and manager. Casting a shadow over even Holiday's brightest moments is the vocalist's severe drug addiction, which threatens to end both her career and her life.
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Black Chariot (1971)
Character: The drifter's mother
Young black man joins a black nationalist group, which is betrayed by a turncoat.
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The Comic (1969)
Character: Phoebe
An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a bitter tone about his fate, and takes us through his fame, as he ruins it with womanizing and drink, and his fall, as a lonely, bitter old man unable to reconcile his life's disappointments. The movie is based loosely on the life of Buster Keaton.
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… tick… tick… tick… (1970)
Character: Mrs. Harley
Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.
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My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Character: Constance Riley
Two carefree pals traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who has just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!
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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Character: Jesse (uncredited)
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
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