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A Day at Santa Anita (1937)
Character: Mrs. Van Gordon
Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races.
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The Romance Of Robert Burns (1937)
Character: Lord Craig's Niece
The 'Farmer Poet' Robert Burns, after a bad romance, pens "Auld Lang Syne" to much fanfare and courts high society at the expense of his blossoming relationship with beautiful Jean Armour. Soon a marriage is arranged for Jean, and Robby must race to her side before she is married off.
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Breakdowns of 1938 (1938)
Character: Marcia (archive footage) (uncredited)
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Fly Away Baby (1937)
Character: Ila Sayre
Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
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Ever Since Eve (1937)
Character: Camille Lansing
Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews, accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
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Paris Calling (1941)
Character: Renee
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of Nazi bombing, she returns to Paris and joins the underground movement. Nicholas Jordan, an American member of the RAF, stranded in Paris after the evacuation is also working with the Paris underground. Marianne kills her former fiancée, a pro-Nazi informant, for the traitorous state papers he is carrying, and she and Jordan try to flee over a French seaport...
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Sea Raiders (1941)
Character: Leah Carlton
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
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Keep 'Em Flying (1941)
Character: USO Girl (uncredited)
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for.
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The Singing Marine (1937)
Character: Helen Young
Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest, however, sets him up for trouble in romance, in his career, and with the Corps.
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Sh! The Octopus (1937)
Character: Vesta Vernoff
Comedy-mystery finds Detectives Kelly and Dempsey trapped in a deserted lighthouse with a group of strangers who are being terrorized by a killer octopus AND a mysterious crime figure named after the title sea creature.
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Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
Character: Molly Featherstone
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
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The Kid from Kansas (1941)
Character: Linda Walker
Competition among fruit growers takes a nasty turn when the main buyer offers unrealistically low prices for their crops.
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Crime Takes a Holiday (1938)
Character: Margaret 'Pegqy' Stone
A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of an innocent man.
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Missing Witnesses (1937)
Character: Mabel Jones (uncredited)
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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Night Flight (1933)
Character: Nightclub Vamp
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
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Fools for Scandal (1938)
Character: Jill
An incognito Hollywood star in Paris meets a penniless nobleman who follows her to London.
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Men Are Such Fools (1938)
Character: Wanda Townsend
Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband. She rises through the ranks, becoming a copywriter, and attracts the attention of Jimmy, an amorous coworker who wants to marry her. But Jimmy is jealous of Linda's career and of Harry, a radio executive who works with Linda, and their marriage gets off to a very rough start.
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Call It a Day (1937)
Character: Beatrice Gwynn
The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.
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