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Rose Hobart 2 (2007)
Character: Herself
An ongoing exploration of the films of Rose Hobart and a re-duplication of Joseph Cornell's infamous found footage masterpiece
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Wolf of New York (1940)
Character: Peggy Nolan
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
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Gallant Lady (1942)
Character: Rosemary Walsh
A female doctor is sent to prison for a mercy killing. She manages to escape, get married and lead a model life, but one day her secret is exposed.
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Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid (1997)
Character: Self
This documentary, originally presented on the television series The South Bank Show, covers actor Humphrey Bogart's life and career, including archival footage and interviews with Lauren Bacall and his son Stephen Bogart.
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A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940)
Character: Ramona Lisa
Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, the defeated racketeer-politician, has Earl Carroll and several of his acts kidnapped, figuring the kidnapping coup will cause Jones to be laughed out of office. In Carroll's absence his assistant, Ramona Lisa, and his press agent, Barney Nelson put on the show themselves with the remaining talent, the chorus girls and also pressing into the entertainment cigarette girls, cloakroom girls, the doorman and others including oil heiresses Brenda Gusher and Cobina Gusher. Carroll and the other prisoners make their escape when a kidnapped juggling act sends their captors down in a barrage of beer bottles.
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Compromised (1931)
Character: Ann Brock
Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie. The two go through contentious times with the Brock patriarch, but when Stella becomes a mother, she seems to becomes accepted, although it's used as a way to shift Sidney's and the child's affections from her. Connie comes back into their lives, now seeking to reclaim Sidney, and manipulates the situation to convince Stella that he's been seeing her. So Stella decides to get a divorce, but fortunately, Sidney becomes aware of the deception in time.
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Mickey (1948)
Character: Lydia Matthews
A pretty, tomboyish teenager comes of age in an American small town.
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I'll Sell My Life (1941)
Character: Dale Layden
A woman hoping to raise cash to pay for an operation to restore her blind brother's eyesight finds herself implicated in a nightclub murder.
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Liliom (1930)
Character: Julie
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
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The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
Character: Virginia Thatcher
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
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Salute to the Marines (1943)
Character: Mrs. Carson
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.
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Who Is Hope Schuyler? (1942)
Character: Alma Pearce
A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.
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Swing Shift Maisie (1943)
Character: Lead Woman (Uncredited)
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
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Cass Timberlane (1947)
Character: Diantha Marl
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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Convention Girl (1935)
Character: Cynthia 'Babe' LaVal
Wily hotel 'hostess' Babe LaVal navigates booming business, cabaret calls and shady deals in Atlantic City. She meets a soup magnate, and begins to feel it might be 'the real thing'.
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The Mad Ghoul (1943)
Character: Della Elliott, reporter
A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as part of a plan to steal his lover.
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East of Borneo (1931)
Character: Linda Rudolph
Mrs. Linda Randolph treks through darkened jungles to the land of Maradu to find her missing husband Allan, who'd left her years before when he believed she was in love with another. She finds Allan the drunken court physician to a devious prince-- Whose designs on the pair don't include a happy ending.
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A Lady Surrenders (1930)
Character: Isabel Beauvel
A wealthy industrialist's wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean trip. He thinks she's left him for good, so he marries another woman. When his first wife returns, complications ensue.
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Song of the Open Road (1944)
Character: Mrs. Powell
A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with normal kids. It doesn't take her long to discover that being "normal" isn't easy as it looks. When a crop is in danger of being ruined because there are not enough people to harvest it, the girl employs some of her famous colleagues to lend a hand. Songs include: "Too Much in Love," "Here It Is Monday," "Delightfully Dangerous," "Hawaiian War Chant" and "Notre Dame."
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Susan and God (1940)
Character: Irene
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.
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Canyon Passage (1946)
Character: Marta Lestrade
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
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Bogart: The Untold Story (1997)
Character: Self
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends and co-workers.
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Universal Horror (1998)
Character: Self - Interviewee
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Scandal for Sale (1932)
Character: Claire Strong
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
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Singapore Woman (1941)
Character: Alice North
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
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Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Character: Mrs. Merton
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
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Rose Hobart (1936)
Character: Woman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to disquieting effect. Through Cornell's collage editing, Hobart becomes a singular object of desire and dread, trapped in an exotic paradise.
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Bride of Vengeance (1949)
Character: Lady Eleanora
The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.
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The Brighton Strangler (1945)
Character: Dorothy Kent
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
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Nothing But the Truth (1941)
Character: Mrs. Harriet Donnelly
A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.
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Lady Be Good (1941)
Character: Mrs. Carter Wardley
Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Character: Muriel Carew
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.
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The Soul of a Monster (1944)
Character: Lilyan Gregg
A man recovers on his death bed after his wife makes a mysterious pact with a strange woman. But is he really alive?
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The Shadow Laughs (1933)
Character: Ruth Hackett
The police investigate a bank robbery, and when they don't seem to be making much headway, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate it on his own.
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A Gentleman at Heart (1942)
Character: Claire Barrington
After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.
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Chances (1931)
Character: Molly Prescott
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Rose is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with his brother.
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Isle of the Dead (1945)
Character: Mary St. Aubyn (in long shot; uncredited)
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.
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The Cat Creeps (1946)
Character: Connie Palmer
A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.
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The Trouble with Women (1947)
Character: Agnes Meeler
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (1943)
Character: Trudy Muller, aka Fraulein von Teufel
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
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Conflict (1945)
Character: Kathryn Mason
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
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Mr. and Mrs. North (1942)
Character: Carol Brent
Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.
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Claudia and David (1946)
Character: Edith Dexter
The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Connecticut town.
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Tower of London (1939)
Character: Anne Neville
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
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