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Six Cylinder Love (1923)
Character: Marilyn Sterling
After buying a car, Richard Burton finds that his wife and daughter have become unreasonably extravagant, and is surrounded by sponging friends.
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The Winslow Boy (1958)
Character: Grace Winslow
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
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The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
Character: Ruby Lemarr
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
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The Great Jasper (1933)
Character: Jenny Horn
Generational saga about a failed streetcar conductor, who finds success as an Atlantic City fortune teller, and his son. Drama.
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The Matrimonial Bed (1930)
Character: Juliet Corton
Five years after Adolphe's death in a train wreck, he is discovered very much alive and with amnesia. Unfortunately he and his first wife are remarried and with children.
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Dangerously Yours (1933)
Character: Jo Horton
A playboy asks his friend to borrow his yacht to entertain his girlfriend.
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Mary of Scotland (1936)
Character: Elizabeth Tudor
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
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The Divorcee (1930)
Character: Helen
When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, she decides to pay him back in kind.
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First, You Cry (1978)
Character: Mrs. Rollin
The story of television news correspondent Betty Rollin and her battle with breast cancer, and how her subsequent mastectomy changed her marriage, her philosophy and her entire life.
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A Modern Hero (1934)
Character: Leah Ernst
A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.
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The Studio Murder Mystery (1929)
Character: Blanche Hardell
Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated, Helen MacDonald, all have substantial reasons for having wanted him dead.
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An Act of Murder (1948)
Character: Catherine Cooke
A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.
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Les Misérables (1935)
Character: Fantine
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Another Part of the Forest (1948)
Character: Lavinia Hubbard
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
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Charming Sinners (1929)
Character: Helen Carr
Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he falls in love with Anne-Marie Whitley (Mary Nolan), the best friend of his own wife Kathryn (Ruth Chatterton). In retaliation, Kathryn begins a flirtation with her former boyfriend Karl Kraley (William Powell). After reels and reels of verbal fencing, the status quo is re-established, and Robert and Kathryn are reunited.
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Inherit the Wind (1960)
Character: Sarah Brady
Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.
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The Greene Murder Case (1929)
Character: Sibella Greene
Philo Vance investigates when a murderer preys upon members of a wealthy family on New York's Upper East Side.
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Christopher Columbus (1949)
Character: Queen Isabella
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
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Thirteen Women (1932)
Character: Grace Coombs
Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.
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