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The Son of Frankenstein (1965)
Character: Frankenstein's Wife (archive footage)
9 minute home-movie version of the 1939 feature film "Son of Frankenstein" from Castle Films.
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The Women Men Marry (1937)
Character: Jane Carson
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
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Mountain Justice (1937)
Character: Ruth Harkins
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
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The Voice That Thrilled the World (1943)
Character: Self (segment 'The Story of Louis Pasteur') (archive footage)
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures.
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Travis Logan, D.A. (1971)
Character: Mrs. Tice
Sand devises a scheme to murder his former business partner and maintains his innocence throughout the trial, as he is prosecuted by District Attorney Travis Logan.
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The Melody Lingers on (1935)
Character: Ann Prescott
A piano virtuoso has a child out of wedlock; the father, her fiancé, is killed trying to save her life. Their son is brought up by foster parents and becomes a musician.
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Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Character: Elsa von Frankenstein
One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.
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My Son, My Son! (1940)
Character: Nellie Moscrop Essex
A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him.
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Happiness Ahead (1934)
Character: Joan Bradford
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.
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Cass Timberlane (1947)
Character: Lillian Drover
Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorney friend of of Cass' Brad Criley. While quarreling the Judge tells Virginia to stay with Brad, but when she becomes sick he brings her home.
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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971)
Character: Mamie Baldwin
It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in the city some 50 miles away. He is late, and Ma and the grandparents hear on the radio a report of a bus accident that worries them. Oldest son John-Boy must step up to help grandfather cut down a Christmas tree, and upon learning the concern about Daddy sets out to find him.
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Love Is Better Than Ever (1952)
Character: Mrs. Macaboy
The dancing teacher Anastasia falls in love with the smart theatre agent Jud. He likes her, too, but does not want to give up his solo life at all. Thus she plans a trap for him...
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Rabbit, Run (1970)
Character: Mrs. Angstrom
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife Janice asleep, splayed in front of the TV, highball glass in hand. After a moment's contemplation, he decides to leave. Taking his coat and car keys, he's off and running on a rambling, aimless journey.
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Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
Character: Mrs. Mary Arnold
When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy's preparatory school in England, he puts into place a policy of strict punishment for unruliness and bulying. Arnold finds an ally in Tom Brown (Jimmy Lydon), a new student who is subjected to hazing and abuse by a group of older boys and is pressured by his friends to keep quiet about it. Fed up, he leads his fellow classmates in an underground rebellion against their tormentors. But certain unspoken rules still apply at the school and Brown loses his hero status when he is accussed of breaking the Rugby code of silence.
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Nevada Smith (1966)
Character: Mrs. Elvira McCanles
Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and kill them. The boy is taken in by a gun merchant. The gun merchant shows him how to shoot and to shoot on time and correct.
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A Little Princess (1917)
Character: (uncredited)
Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.
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The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
Character: Marie Pasteur
A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.
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Gun for a Coward (1956)
Character: Madame Keough
A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological aversion to violence after his elder brother unjustly censures him for not joining in a foolhardy gunfight in which their youngest brother is killed.
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I Married a Doctor (1936)
Character: Carol Kennicott
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
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North by Northwest (1959)
Character: Mrs. Townsend
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
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The Right to Live (1935)
Character: Stella Trent
A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.
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Many Rivers to Cross (1955)
Character: Mrs. Cherne
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.
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Somewhere in the Night (1946)
Character: Elizabeth Conroy
George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
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Ruby Gentry (1952)
Character: Letitia Gentry
A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.
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Step Down to Terror (1958)
Character: Mrs. Walters
Pursued by detectives, Johnny Walters leaves the city to visit his family in a small California town. Among the household: his dead brother's luscious widow Helen, who soon is attracted to him. Ominous events and conflicting evidence leave Helen suspicious, but uncertain about her brother-in-law as tension builds...
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Sing Boy Sing (1958)
Character: Caroline Walker
The teenage son of a rural preacher becomes a huge Elvis-like rock 'n' roll star, but he has trouble adjusting to fame and success.
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Miracle in the Rain (1956)
Character: Agnes Wood
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
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Adventure in Baltimore (1949)
Character: Mrs. Lilly Sheldon
Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl's school who starts campaigning for women's rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do not approve.
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Shadow Over Elveron (1968)
Character: Emily Maslan
A corrupt sheriff knows the secrets of everyone in town and uses that information to go unchallenged. But after the arrest of an innocent teenager, the new doctor cannot keep quiet and tries to get the community to stand up for what is right.
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Her First Beau (1941)
Character: Mrs. Wood
15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.
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Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
Character: Mme Ewing
Henry Thomas tries to overcome the horrors of his childhood and start a new life with his wife and kid. However, his abusive step-mother and his dependence on alcohol threaten to ruin his future.
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The Tender Years (1948)
Character: Emily Norris
A progressive pastor takes on thoughtless brutality (and constitutional scruples against search and seizure) in order to promote animal cruelty protection laws.
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Walk Like a Dragon (1960)
Character: Ma Bartlett
California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting her free. But it doesn't occur to Linc that setting her free isn't enough. Where is she going to go? Kim doesn't speak English and she's just going to be exploited by somebody else. Linc takes Kim home to serve as a housekeeper. Ma Bartlett Linc's mother, is not happy that a Chinese girl is living in her home, and even less happy when Kim and her son fall in love. Their affair also arouses the jealousy of Cheng Lu, a Chinese immigrant.
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