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Concerning a Woman of Sin (1949)
Character: N/A
An unscrupulous agent is able to sell a story by an unknown authoress to a Hollywood studio chief for big money. But he has to conceal the fact that the writer is only nine years old.
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The Trip to Bountiful (1953)
Character: N/A
A woman has to live with a daughter in law who hates her and a son who does not dare take her side. While the unhappy family lives in a Houston apartment, Carrie Watts dreams of returning to Bountiful, where she was raised.
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Paradise Lost (1971)
Character: Clara Gordon
Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them and the people running with them. Opened on Broadway in 1935, it became one of the Group Theatre's most controversial plays and Odets' favorite.
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Heidi (1955)
Character: Aunt Dete
Johanna Spyri's beloved children's story is given the live-television musical treatment.
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The Family Rico (1972)
Character: Mama Rico
A Mafia chief is torn between his brother, who has defected from the family, and his loyalty to the organization.
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Cinderella (1965)
Character: Stepmother
After the success of the live 1957 Cinderella on CBS (with Julie Andrews), the network decided to produce another television version. The new script hewed closer to the traditional tale, although nearly all of the original songs were retained and performed in their original settings. Added to the Rodgers and Hammerstein score was "Loneliness of Evening", which had been composed for South Pacific but not used.
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Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Character: Arletta
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
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80 Steps to Jonah (1969)
Character: Nonna
Wayne Newton stars as an accused thug hiding out at a camp for blind children.
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The King and Four Queens (1956)
Character: Ma McDade
Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.
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Satan's School for Girls (1973)
Character: Headmistress Jessica Williams
Within the grim walls of Fallbridge College for Girls is Elizabeth Sayers, a new student who, under an assumed name, hopes to learn the truth behind her younger sister's apparent suicide. Our heroine soon learns that the school is in the clutches of a coven of witches called 'The Five' — and that she herself has the right satanic qualities to enable The Five to take over the world!
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Le locataire (1976)
Character: Madame Dioz
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
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I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
Character: Katie Roth
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.
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I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
Character: Mother
Harold Fine is a self-described square - a 35-year-old Los Angeles lawyer who's not looking forward to middle age nor his upcoming wedding. His life changes when he falls in love with Nancy, a free-spirited, innocent, and beautiful young hippie. After Harold and his family enjoy some of her "groovy" brownies, he decides to "drop out" with her and become a hippie too. But can he return to his old life when he discovers that the hippie lifestyle is just a little too independent and irresponsible for his tastes?
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Character: Kate Fisher
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Wild River (1960)
Character: Ella Garth
A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of a stubborn octogenarian from her home on an island in the river, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.
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East of Eden (1955)
Character: Kate Trask
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.
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Seize the Day (1986)
Character: Mrs. Einhorn
Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but caught in a downward spiral, he must, in addition, face the father who never really understood him, while trying to balance his newly precarious existence.
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This Angry Age (1957)
Character: Mme. Dufresne
Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother. Their mother attempts to exert a hold on her children by involving them in the family's run-down rice plantation. However the siblings seek liberation, and look for this in their romantic lives. Suzanne becomes involved with Michael and Joseph finds a love interest in Claude.
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The Rose Tattoo (1955)
Character: Bessie
A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.
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