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Orchids to You (1935)
Character: Alice Draper
An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.
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Reward Unlimited (1944)
Character: Peggy's mother
Short film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
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Penrod and His Twin Brother (1938)
Character: Mrs. Laura Schofield
Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line (1997)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck.
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Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
Character: (archive footage)
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
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The Girl on the Front Page (1936)
Character: Mrs. Langford
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
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Clarence (1937)
Character: Mrs. Wheeler
The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things, and who concentrates by playing his saxophone. Clarence ingratiates himself with the wealthy and eccentric Wheeler family, though daughter Cora can't stand the boy.
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Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
Character: Mrs. Mars
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
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Land of Liberty (1939)
Character: Dolly Madison (edited from 'The Buccaneer')
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
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Devil's Doorway (1950)
Character: Mrs. Masters
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
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Down on the Farm (1938)
Character: Mrs. John Jones
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
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The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
Character: Elizabeth Ellis
The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, and the employees' anger is directed at him, who they hang in effigy outside the store despite not knowing what he looks like. Merrick, not happy at what he sees going on, decides to mete out the rabble-rousers. So he goes undercover as a sales clerk in the shoe department.
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The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
Character: Violet Price
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.
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Salty O'Rourke (1945)
Character: Mrs. Brooks
A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.
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The Blue Bird (1940)
Character: Mummy Tyl
An ungrateful girl and her little brother are transported in their dreams by a fairy to a wonderland, tasked with finding the mythical blue bird of happiness, meeting friends and foes along the way.
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Dragonwyck (1946)
Character: Magda
For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.
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A Child Is Born (1939)
Character: Mrs. Mamie West
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
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Green Light (1937)
Character: Mrs. Dexter
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility.
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Hot Water (1937)
Character: Mrs. John Jones
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
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The Affairs of Martha (1942)
Character: Sophia 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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Living in a Big Way (1947)
Character: Mrs. Minerva Alsop Morgan
A World War II pilot (Gene Kelly) comes home to a bride (Marie McDonald) who, spoiled by her father (Charles Winninger), now wants a divorce.
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My Love Came Back (1940)
Character: Clara Malette
Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through his employee Tony so that Julius can escort Amelia to every musical event in the city. The trouble begins when he cannot meet her one night and Tony goes in his place. Tony believes that Julius and Amelia are a couple and then son Paul thinks that Tony and Amelia are a couple as he is sending her the money. The worst part is that Amelia might leave classical music for swing music with classmates Dusty, Joy and the band.
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My Brother Talks to Horses (1947)
Character: Mrs. 'Ma' Penrose
Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John carries on a romance with the lovely Martha.
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Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Character: Mrs. Byam
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
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Roxie Hart (1942)
Character: Mary Sunshine
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.
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Cynthia (1947)
Character: Carrie Bishop Jannings
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
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Louisa (1950)
Character: Louisa Norton
Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.
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Bannerline (1951)
Character: Mrs. Loomis
A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.
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Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
Character: Mrs. Maybelle Worthington
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother and uncle of a pretty girl in order to separate millionaires from their money. They convince Susan she has an opportunity to fulfill all her dreams, and the trio heads for Palm Beach. Susan meets John Wheeler who says he is shopping for a sailboat. Believing that he is a millionaire, Warren and May sell him a boat that doesn't belong to them, and make off with his $15,000 life savings. Looking for greener pastures, they work themselves into the family of wealthy Tod Fenwick, who falls for Sue, posing as "Linda Worthington". But John shows up as a guest of Fenwick and he tells "Linda", not knowing she was part of the scam, that he has a detective after the fake captain that sold him the boat...
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Captain Eddie (1945)
Character: Mrs. Frost
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
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A Letter for Evie (1946)
Character: Mrs. McPherson
Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a correspondence with Evie, pretending to be Wolf. But things get complicated when Evie wants to meet her tall, handsome soldier. And even more complicated when Wolf sees Evie and likes what he sees.
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Every Saturday Night (1936)
Character: Mrs. Evers
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.
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Dodsworth (1936)
Character: Matey Pearson
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
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Broadway Hostess (1935)
Character: Mrs. Duncan-Griswold-Wembly-Smythe
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
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Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Character: Bertha Van Cleve
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.
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The Buccaneer (1938)
Character: Dolly Madison
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
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Stage Struck (1936)
Character: Mrs. Randall
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.
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Angels in the Outfield (1951)
Character: Sister Edwitha
The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance.
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Educating Father (1936)
Character: Mrs. John Jones
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.
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Jezebel (1938)
Character: Mrs. Kendrick
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
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Off to the Races (1937)
Character: Mrs. John Jones
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.
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Too Busy to Work (1939)
Character: Mrs. John Jones
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Character: Lady Octavia Warrenton
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.
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Ah, Wilderness! (1935)
Character: Essie Miller
At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of growing up, with some loving help and guidance from his wise father. A tender, coming-of-age story, with a wonderful look at a long-gone, but fondly remembered, small town America.
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Penrod and Sam (1937)
Character: Mrs. Schofield
A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.
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It's Love I'm After (1937)
Character: Aunt Ella
An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.
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You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Character: Penny Sycamore
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Arkansas Judge (1941)
Character: Mary Shoemaker
Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accused of slander.
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Everybody's Baby (1939)
Character: Mrs. John Jones
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
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A Trip to Paris (1938)
Character: Mrs. John Jones
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.
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Meet John Doe (1941)
Character: Mme Mitchell
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Character: Widow Douglas (uncredited)
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
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When Ladies Meet (1941)
Character: Bridget 'Bridgie' Drake
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
Character: Suzie Robinson
Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. While housewife Kate settles into suburban life, Larry continues to enjoy the theater and party scene of New York.
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A Family Affair (1937)
Character: Emily Hardy
Judge Hardy faces problems at work and at home. Powerful men in town are upset with his decisions and want to see him impeached; his daughters, Joan and Marion, have romantic problems; and his son, Andy discovers Polly Benedict. As usual, Judge Hardy is concerned with everyone in the family and lends wisdom and calmness to all.
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Big Business (1937)
Character: Mrs. John Jones
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
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It Had to Be You (1947)
Character: Mr. Martha Stafford
A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
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Back to Nature (1936)
Character: Louise Jones
The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography.
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Chicken Wagon Family (1939)
Character: Josephine Fippany
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
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The Big Wheel (1949)
Character: Mary Coy
The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father's legacy and achieve his own successes.
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Faithful in My Fashion (1946)
Character: Miss Mary Swanson
A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge promotion where they used to work together - and has become engaged to another man.
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Love Me Forever (1935)
Character: Clara Fields
A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him.
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The Heavenly Body (1944)
Character: Nancy Potter
The beautiful wife of a tweedy astronomer becomes convinced that her astrologer's prediction of a new dream man in her life will come true.
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B.F.'s Daughter (1948)
Character: Gladys Fulton
Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.
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The Great Impersonation (1935)
Character: Duchess Caroline
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
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Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
Character: Rebecca Perry
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Character: Mrs. Hubbard
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
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The Road Back (1937)
Character: Ernst's Mother
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
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Safety in Numbers (1938)
Character: Mrs. John Jones
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
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I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
Character: Mrs. Marshall
Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her uncle and his family in a small Midwestern town. On the train she meets Zach Morgan, a troubled army sergeant on leave for the holidays from a military hospital. Although his physical wounds have healed, he is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and is subject to panic attacks. The pair are attracted to one another and in the warm atmosphere of the Christmas season friendship blossoms into romance, but Mary is reluctant to tell him of her past and that she must shortly return to prison to serve the remainder of her sentence.
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The Vanishing Virginian (1942)
Character: Rosa Yancey
The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.
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Way Down East (1935)
Character: Mrs. Louisa Bartlett
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
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Love on a Budget (1938)
Character: Louise Jones
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
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Singapore (1947)
Character: Mrs. Bellows
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.
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The Voice of Bugle Ann (1936)
Character: Ma Davis
A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.
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Hotel Haywire (1937)
Character: Mrs. Parkhouse
Parkhouse plays a practical joke on a poker-playing buddy by sending him home with a lady's chemise stuffed in his coat pocket. The gag backfires, whereupon Parkhouse finds himself in hot water with his own wife. Threatened with divorce, Parkhouse is advised by a zany astrologer to frame Mrs. P. in a compromising situation at the Hotel Haywire, enlisting amateur detectives Bert and Genevieve Sterns in his scheme.
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Borrowing Trouble (1937)
Character: Mrs. John Jones
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
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Lucky Partners (1940)
Character: Aunt Lucy
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
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Palm Springs (1936)
Character: Aunt Letty
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
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On Their Own (1940)
Character: Mrs. John Jones
The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue.
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In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
Character: Nellie Burke
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
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Young as You Feel (1940)
Character: Mrs. John Jones
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.
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Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime (1941)
Character: Carlotta Emerson
Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed to death. Ellery Queen gets to the bottom of the mystery.
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Meet Me on Broadway (1946)
Character: Sylvia Kane Storm
Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club. Eddie and his girlfriend, actress Ann Stallings, hope the production will launch their legitimate Broadway careers. But complications arise when Maxine Whitaker, daughter of a wealthy rival club owner, becomes romantically interested in charming Eddie.
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The Rocket Man (1954)
Character: Justice Amelia Brown
After procuring a special ray gun, a precocious orphan helps his community by exposing the shady doings of local government, and plays a part in a cute couple getting together.
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Little Women (1933)
Character: Marmee
Little Women is a coming-of-age drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. During the American Civil War, the girls father is away serving as a minister to the troops. The family, headed by their beloved Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence, and his high spirited grandson Laurie.
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Please Believe Me (1950)
Character: Mrs. Milwright
A woman in London unexpectedly inherits a Texas ranching fortune, and takes a transatlantic voyage to collect her fortune, not suspecting two men aboard both plan on winning her hand before she reaches America. One is a gambler interested in her money, and the other, a rich man looking for a wife. The rich man's friend, meanwhile, believes the heiress is actually a gold-digger.
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No Room for the Groom (1952)
Character: Mama Kingshead
Alvah, a young GI who happens to own a vineyard, elopes to Las Vegas with Lee, his housekeeper's daughter. But Alvah's chicken pox postpone the wedding night. The rest revolves around more delays to the consummation, caused by Lee's manipulative Mama and the flock of mostly obnoxious relatives with whom she's filled the house.
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Laddie (1940)
Character: Mrs. Stanton
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.
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Little Mister Jim (1947)
Character: Mrs. Starwell
After his mother's death, a young boy tries to help his father stop drinking.
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Quick Millions (1939)
Character: Mrs. John Jones
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
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Thrill of a Romance (1945)
Character: Nona Glenn
A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.
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The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942)
Character: Cecilia Talbot
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
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The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939)
Character: Mrs. John Jones
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
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