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Bondage (1933)
Character: Boarding House Matron (uncredited)
Judy Peters is about to be sentenced after she has pled guilty to her third offense of prostitution, when Dr. Nelson interrupts and tells her story to the court. (Mubi.)
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Making It (1971)
Character: Librarian
A cocky high school student thinks nothing of using the people around him to satisfy his self-centered needs, until someone in his life gets pregnant.
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Personal Maid (1931)
Character: Mrs. Wurtz's Maid (uncredited)
Nora Ryan, a poor Irish girl, living in New York decides to change her life by working as a personal maid for the wealthy, Gary family.
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The Gazebo (1960)
Character: Matilda
TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the nervous man can't let the body rest there.
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The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Character: Vi
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.
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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966)
Character: Muriel Everett
When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov, to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief and a vacationing television writer, while trying to allay their fears of a Communist invasion by claiming he and his crew are Norwegian sailors.
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Hurry Sundown (1967)
Character: Ada Hemmings
A ruthless Southern opportunist tries to buy his cousin's land, and when thwarted, brings several tragedies to the lives of his loved ones.
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Cover Up (1949)
Character: Hilda
Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midwestern town. All clues leads him into suspecting murder. Unfortunately, no one wants to assist him with the case, including Sheriff Larry Best.
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Our Town (1940)
Character: Mrs. Soames
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community.
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Strictly Personal (1933)
Character: Club Member
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.
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Bad Boy (1935)
Character: Mrs. Jackson
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage.
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Wayward (1932)
Character: Maid (uncredited)
Story of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel Howe Farnham.
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The Front Page (1974)
Character: Jennie
Ruthless Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns resorts to dubious motives in order to get top reporter Hildy Johnson to cover one more big crime story before retirement.
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Moonlight and Pretzels (1933)
Character: N/A
A song plugger is stranded in a small town. There he meets a girl who later helps him to put on a show on Broadway.
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Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
Character: Mrs. Pettibone
While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for overnight lodging and enlists a local waitress/call girl to pose as his wife in order to placate Dino's urges.
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The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
Character: Miss Pringle
A newly promoted plant supervisor finds himself in the position of having to announce a layoff of his fellow workers.
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The Cardinal (1963)
Character: Picket
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
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Navy Wife (1935)
Character: Nurse Sharpe
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
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State Fair (1933)
Character: Mrs. Metcalfe's Acquaintance at Food Contest (Uncredited)
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
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The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1959)
Character: Miss Haskins
In early 1900s' Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children. With an office in Harrisburg and an office in Philadelphia, he has successfully kept two separate homes. However, when an emergency requires his oldest son to find him, Mr. Pennypacker's dual life is revealed.
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Change of Habit (1969)
Character: Rose
Dr. John Carpenter takes the job of running a health center in a low-income district. He enlists three women to help out who — unbeknownst to him — are actually nuns in street clothes. The church wants to improve the neighborhood but fears that nuns in full habit would not be well received. Unaware of her unavailability, John falls for Sister Michelle, serenading her with his guitar — which, luckily for him, effectively wears away at her religious resolve.
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Skidoo (1968)
Character: The Mayor
Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, God kidnaps his daughter Darlene on his luxury yacht.
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The Snake Pit (1948)
Character: Asylum Patient (uncredited)
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.
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Zoo in Budapest (1933)
Character: Miss Fennock (uncredited)
Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true friends are the zoo's animals. When Zani meets Eve, a young orphan girl, they fall in love. To be together Eve must somehow escape from her strict orphan school. When she does she and Zani must hide overnight in the zoo - where everyone is looking to find them.
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The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Character: Waitress at Vegetarian Restaurant (uncredited)
When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.
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