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Bleak House (1920)
Character: Lady Dedlock
'The story of Lady Dedlock's secret and the tragic consequences of its exposure.' (British Film Institute)
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Rope Unleashed (2001)
Character: Self (archive footage)
A short documentary about the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope'. Interviews with screenwriter Arthur Laurents delve into the troubles of secretly making a movie about gay murderers in the 1940s.
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Downhill (1927)
Character: Dance Hall Lady with Purse (uncredited)
When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disowned by his family. Cast out of his privileged world, Roddy drifts through a series of humiliations—from waiter to penniless actor to gigolo—descending ever further into ruin and self-disgust.
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The Dark Corner (1946)
Character: Mrs. Kingsley
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
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Macbeth (1916)
Character: Lady Macbeth
Shakespeare's tragedy of the Scots nobleman whose ambition leads him to betrayal, murder, and damnation.
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Zaza (1938)
Character: Nathalie
A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.
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Rope (1948)
Character: Mrs. Anita Atwater
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
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Half a Sinner (1940)
Character: Mrs. Jefferson Breckenbridge
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure. Her new confidence inspires her to flirt with complete strangers. When a gangster pays unwanted attention to her, she ditches him and flees in his car, unaware that there's a corpse in the trunk. Determined to recover his stolen vehicle and its incriminating cargo the thug begins a desperate search. The oblivious Anne, comes to the aid of a handsome young man stranded alongside the road. Romance blooms, but after the shocking discovery of a body in the trunk, the duo decide they have to return the car. The bickering lovebirds head back to the city, trailed by both the angry gangster and the cops, who suspect the young couple of murder.
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Stage Door (1937)
Character: Miss Luther
A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought together through their cynicism and disappointments.
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Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
Character: Mrs. Allardyce
In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he commands in northern India.
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Susan and God (1940)
Character: Lady Wigstaff
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.
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Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)
Character: The Queen of France
A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.
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The Bohemian Girl (1922)
Character: Queen
A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.
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The Perils of Pauline (1947)
Character: Julia Gibbs
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take
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The Girl from Manhattan (1948)
Character: Mrs. Brooke
A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his boarding house to the hilt. In her efforts to help him keep his boarding house, she becomes involved with a handsome young minister and his superior, an older bishop.
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Professional Soldier (1935)
Character: Lady Augusta
Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
Character: Lady Constantia Lorridaile
An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfather.
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Kitty (1945)
Character: Lady Susan Dowitt
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
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Shadow of Doubt (1935)
Character: Aunt Melissa
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
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Whirlpool (1950)
Character: Tina Cosgrove
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
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A Damsel in Distress (1937)
Character: Lady Caroline
Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the staff of Tottney Castle have laid bets on who she'll choose, with young Albert wagering on 'Mr. X'. After Alyce goes to London to meet a beau she is restricted to the castle to curb her scandalous behavior. Albert then summons Jerry to Alyce's aid in order to 'protect his investment'.
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Girls' Dormitory (1936)
Character: Professor Augusta Wimmer
When a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.
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An Ideal Husband (1947)
Character: Lady Markby
A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.
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Thunder in the City (1937)
Character: Duchess Of Glenavon
A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
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