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The Big Flash (1932)
Character: Nadine, Brick's Girl
Would-be photographer Harry gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a prominent gangster and his girl. Harry and another photographer first visit the gangster's girl, and then wait at the scene of an expected robbery. But before they can get the pictures they want, they must first distract a policeman whose presence would otherwise deter the gangster from appearing.
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Knight Duty (1933)
Character: The Crook's Partner
Harry is a hobo, one step ahead of the law. After accidentally foiling a purse snatcher, he cadges a ride on a flatbed truck, is knocked out when a wax figure falls on him during the ride, and is carried into a museum by someone thinking he's another manikin. Inside, it takes him a while to figure out that he's among dummies. Then, two enterprising jewel thieves arrive to steal the museum director's priceless ruby. Cops are on hand as well: when the ruby goes missing, Harry may be the perfect fall guy. Can Harry stay away from the cops, foil the theft, and behave heroically in front of the museum director's daughter, the same woman whose purse he saved that morning?
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Good Time Henry (1934)
Character: N/A
Henry is lured by old pal Hale into a night on the town despite fears that his wife will discover their hijinks.
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Loose Relations (1933)
Character: N/A
The stereotype in old movies and TV shows is that the man hates his mother-in-law. Well, in "Loose Relations" it doesn't follow this convention, as Andy Clyde is actually happy that his mother-in-law is coming to stay with them and he plans on fixing up a place for her to stay. In a funny scene, when he tells his neighbors, they offer his an axe and a gun!
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Feeling Rosy (1933)
Character: Gold Digger
Andy Clyde is in desperate need of a vacation, and it's not exactly helping the stress.
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Bravest of the Brave (1938)
Character: Madame Ney (uncredited)
This short film looks at the life of Michel Ney, who fought at Napoleon's side and was made a Marshall of France.
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Ship Cafe (1935)
Character: Dancing Teacher (uncredited)
The singing stoker and the vamp.
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Symphony of Six Million (1932)
Character: Birdie
A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to continue working is severely tested. Based on a novel by Fannie Hurst.
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Double Harness (1933)
Character: Brunette Mannequin
After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.
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Charlie Chan's Courage (1934)
Character: Chorus Girl
Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing.
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The Girl from Missouri (1934)
Character: Miss Ulricks (uncredited)
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes to Eadie, only to then commit suicide due to bankruptcy. Fellow millionaire T. R. Paige defends Eadie when the police question her for having Cousins' jewelry -- but when she becomes enamored with his son, Tom, Paige declares Eadie a gold digger.
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What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Character: Actress Filming on Movie Set (uncredited)
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
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The Fatal Hour (1940)
Character: Tanya Serova
When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. Wong faces increasing danger and is nearly executed himself as the investigation develops in treachery and complexity. As Mr. Wong follows the trail of dead bodies, he uncovers a jewel smuggling ring on the San Francisco waterfront and a case much larger than the death of a police officer.
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Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934)
Character: Countess De Marino (uncredited)
Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a married woman, who was jealous of his flirtations with his old moll, night club singer Sally Marsh, who had agreed for one last night with Lother, to get her younger brother Ned out of the Lother's clutches because he has faked Lother's name on a check to pay his gambling debts. Then there is Sally's new flame Jimmy Brett, a con man and gentlemen thief, who has out-tricked Lother in a fixed poker game, and is, together with shorty, after the ladies jewels. Inspector McKinney suspects Joe Saunders, a recently released convict, who was arrested due to some tips by Lother, but Ned and Sally insist that they committed the crime alone.
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Girl Crazy (1932)
Character: Mary
New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his friend Slick, a professional gambler and his wife Kitty, to help him. Slick decides to go there in a cab, driven by shy Jimmy. Jimmy's younger sister Tessie also travels there. There Danny has fallen in love with Molly, but troubles arise for him when the local heavy decides that he doesn't like the ranch and announces running for sheriff. Danny and Slick got the idea that Jimmy would be the ideal candidate, especially because of the fact that the heavy has announced he would kill another sheriff. With some help Jimmy is elected, but Molly leaves Danny with a New York shyster for Mexico. Mitzi, Danny, Kitty, Patsy - Jimmy's sweetheart as well as Jimmy and Slick follow her to win her heart back for Danny, but they are followed by the local heavy and his friend.
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Midnight Limited (1940)
Character: Mae Krantz
The Phantom Robber gets a fortune in jewels and some valuable papers from a robbery on the crack train "The Midnight Limited" and Val Lennon and his pretty assistant, Joan Marshall, are on his trail. But the Phantom strikes three more times and adds murder to his list. Val decides to use himself as bait, although Chief Harrigan and Joan beg him not to risk his life. But Val, disguised as a wealthy Canadian, boards the train for a rendezvous with a killer.
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Daring Daughters (1933)
Character: Gwen Moore
A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.
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The Locked Door (1929)
Character: Girl on Rum Boat (uncredited)
On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and determines to intervene.
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Follow the Fleet (1936)
Character: Showgirl in Casino Number (uncredited)
When the US Navy fleet docks at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister, Connie. But it's not all smooth sailing—Bake has a habit of losing Sherry's jobs for her and, despite Connie's dreams, Bilge is not ready to settle down.
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Tanned Legs (1929)
Character: Beach Girl (uncredited)
Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet. Mama and Papa are set to rights fairly quickly, but Janet's the one with real problems. It seems she sent some compromising love letters to a worthless cad, and now the bounder wants to use the letters for blackmail. Peggy's friend Roger and his flapper sweetheart Tootie hatch an elaborate plan to retrieve the incriminating letters and salvage Janet's reputation.
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Champagne Charlie (1936)
Character: Roulette Player
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
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Criminal Lawyer (1937)
Character: Nora James (uncredited)
Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a rebuke. On the same night in court, Madge Carter is on trial for disorderly conduct, and Brandon volunteers to defend her, and proves the case against her if a frame-up. Finding that she is penniless, Brandon hires her as his secretary, and falls in love with her. Brandon is appointed district attorney and has ambitions of becoming the state governor. Having dinner at Betty's home, she maneuvers him, while he is drunk, into marrying her. Later, Madge is a witness when Larkin shoots down a fellow gangster. By threatening Brandon's life, he forces her to commit perjury at his trial, and say he fired in self-defense. Brandon, the prosecuting attorney (who has had his marriage to Betty annulled) knows she is lying but doesn't know why.
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Camille (1936)
Character: Woman in Theatre Box (uncredited)
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.
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One Hour with You (1932)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
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The Cuckoos (1930)
Character: Slot Machine Señorita (uncredited)
Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.
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Westward Passage (1932)
Character: Woman at Party (uncredited)
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
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Call Her Savage (1932)
Character: Party Guest (Uncredited)
A high-spirited and short-tempered Texan woman storms her way through life until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the error of her ways.
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Rockabye (1932)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
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The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Character: Manicurist (uncredited)
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
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My Little Chickadee (1940)
Character: Indian Squaw (uncredited)
On her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
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Rebellious Daughters (1938)
Character: Kelly, alias Rita Houston
Girl moves out of her parents house against their wishes. Gets a job in a dress shop, gets mixed up with dirty pictures and blackmail.
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Everything’s Rosie (1931)
Character: Madeline Van Dorn
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
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Sandflow (1937)
Character: Rose Porter
Director Leslie Selander exhibits the sure-handed expertise that would endear him to latter-day western cultists in his 1937 formula western Sandflow. Buck Jones plays the son of a crooked land dealer. Seeking redemption, Jones rides through the west to compensate every rancher who was cheated by his dad.
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The Murder Man (1935)
Character: Clara - Robins' Secretary (uncredited)
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
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Espionage (1937)
Character: French Secretary
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
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After Tomorrow (1932)
Character: Office Worker / Wedding Rehearsal Guest
In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney's is cold, Pete's is clingy. Sidney's mother is looking for her own happiness, no matter how much that search harms her daughter and long-suffering husband; and, the longer the engagement lingers, the more pressure Pete's mom puts on Sidney to break it off and set her son free. "After Tomorrow" is Pete and Sidney's favorite song, but with illness, poverty, and temptation: will that good day ever come?
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Laugh and Get Rich (1931)
Character: Silent Party Guest
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
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Afraid to Talk (1932)
Character: Molly (uncredited)
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
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The Pay-Off (1930)
Character: Margy
A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing. The thug, resentful of the couple, plans to organize a mutiny against the gang's boss, but when he is killed in a botched robbery, the police focus their attention on the young couple.
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Three Who Loved (1931)
Character: Helga's Party Girl Friend
A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling.
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Kept Husbands (1931)
Character: Gwen (uncredited)
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.
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Are These Our Children? (1931)
Character: Minor Role
A tale of juvenile delinquency, about a high-school student neglecting his studies, partying hard, falling in with the wrong crowd and finally finding himself on trial for murder committed during a robbery.
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Rio Rita (1929)
Character: Louie's Wife
Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita, though he suspects that her brother is the bandit.
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Ladies of the Jury (1932)
Character: Cynthia Tate (uncredited)
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox juror.
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Goldie Gets Along (1933)
Character: Marie Gardner
A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
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The Women (1939)
Character: Woman Under Sunlamp (uncredited)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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The Royal Bed (1931)
Character: Lady in waiting
The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming general.
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Words and Music (1929)
Character: Showgirl (uncredited)
Phil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college student.
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Go Into Your Dance (1935)
Character: Angry Showgirl #1
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
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The Woman Between (1931)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.
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Romance in the Rain (1934)
Character: Jennie
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
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