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Trifles (1930)
Character: Mrs. Peters
The Sheriff and County Prosecutor come to an isolated country farm where a woman killed her husband, attempting to gather evidence. Only their wives are able to solve the mystery, which they decide to keep to themselves.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928)
Character: Miss Chapman
Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This film is believed lost.
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Stolen Love (1928)
Character: Aunt Evvie
The story of a girl whose past casts a shadow over her future happiness with the man who loves her. How much of her past must a girl tell the man she wants to marry?
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Fleetwing (1928)
Character: Furja
Capturing a beautiful horse and slave girl, Thurya young Arab Jaafor’s happiness is short lived when the girl is sold to a cruel sheik. Sneaking into the encampment he attempts escape with her on horseback but is captured. The attack of an enemy tribe saves him, the sheik is slain, and the young Jaafor’s tribe celebrates his nuptials with Thurya.
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Personality (1930)
Character: Ma
Directed by Victor Heerman. With Sally Starr, Johnny Arthur, Blanche Friderici, Frank Hammond.
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Soldiers and Women (1930)
Character: Martha
Captain Clive Branch, United States Marine Corps, is stationed at a Marine base in Haiti, and is having affairs with two women, Brenda Ritchie and Helen Arnold, each of whom is married to a Marine Captain. One of the husbands is murdered, and Branch, Helen and Brenda each find themselves high on the list of suspects.
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Miss Pinkerton (1932)
Character: Mary
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerton, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
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A Dangerous Affair (1931)
Character: Letty Randolph
Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook. After the two men verbally duel over a variety of details, they hunker down to business, that of solving the murder of a lawyer who was in the midst of reading a will to a motley collection of heirs.
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The Way to Love (1933)
Character: Rosalie
Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets Madeleine, who works at a circus.
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Ten Cents a Dance (1931)
Character: Mrs. Blanchard
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
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Mata Hari (1931)
Character: Sister Angelica
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
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The Night Club Lady (1932)
Character: Mrs. Carewe
A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.
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Friends and Lovers (1931)
Character: Lady Allice
British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affair, as he uses his beautiful wife to lure men into romance with her, then blackmailing them to save their careers.
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Buffalo Stampede (1933)
Character: Jane Jett
A buffalo hunter tries to stop a thief and his minions from stealing hides.
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Courage (1930)
Character: Aunt Caroline
Belle Bennett plays as the widowed mother of seven children living in Sioux City, Iowa. She moves with them to Cambridge, Massachusetts in order to educate her children with culture and give them every advantage. Bennett, who is unversed in financial matters, soon faces poverty for herself and her children. She takes out a loan from an unscrupulous lender (played by Richard Tucker), who is so impressed by the charm and valiant spirit of Bennett than he neglects to ask her for collateral. Bennett, however, is only able to partially pay her creditors. Marion Nixon, Bennett's eldest daughter, is shocked by her mother's actions and attempts to sacrifice herself to Tucker in order to clear her mother's obligations, even though she is engaged to marry a well to do Harvard undergraduate, played by Rex Bell. This film is believed lost.
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Numbered Men (1930)
Character: Mrs. Miller
Civilian Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other. Lou Rinaldo, who framed Bud to get Mary, and escape-minded King Callahan want to keep him in stir, but convict Bertie and the others, even including the Warden, set events in motion to prove that love and justice will prevail. NB: Prisoner numbers given in lieu of character names in many cast lists for this film do not match the numbers shown on the characters' uniforms, when these can be seen at all, and are not used in dialogue at all.
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Hold Your Man (1933)
Character: Mrs. Wagner
Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie takes off and Ruby is sent to a reformatory for two years.
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All of Me (1934)
Character: Miss Haskell
A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.
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Billy the Kid (1930)
Character: Mrs. McSween
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his way to Mexico when Garrett, recapturing him, must decide whether to bring him in or to let him go.
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Night Nurse (1931)
Character: Mrs. Maxwell
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.
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Wicked (1931)
Character: Mrs. Johnson
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.
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Adorable (1933)
Character: Countess
Rebellious Princess Marie "Mitzi" Christine must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry.
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A Farewell to Arms (1932)
Character: Head Nurse
A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.
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If I Had a Million (1932)
Character: Mrs. Garvey (uncredited)
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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Flying Down to Rio (1933)
Character: Elena De Rezende
An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance, The Carioca. The first pairing of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, and their only pre-Code film.
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Three on a Match (1932)
Character: Miss Blazer (uncredited)
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
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It Happened One Night (1934)
Character: Zeke's Wife
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
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39 East (1920)
Character: Miss McMasters
The eldest daughter of a poor preacher, Penelope Penn leaves her country home to seek her fortune in the big city.
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Man of the Forest (1933)
Character: Peg Forney
Beasley, who is after Gayner's land, plans to kidnap his daughter. But Dale overhears their plan and kidnaps her himself. When Gayner arrives to retrieve his daughter, Beasley kills him and makes the Sheriff arrest Dale for the murder.
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So Big! (1932)
Character: Widow Paarlenburg (uncredited)
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
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State's Attorney (1932)
Character: Night Court Judge (uncredited)
Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him through school, asks him to represent a woman, June Perry, accused of prostitution. Cardigan agrees. But he never expected to fall for her, which is problematic since he's angling to become governor and will need the right kind of wife.
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The Hatchet Man (1932)
Character: Madame Si-Si (uncredited)
When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.
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Kismet (1930)
Character: Narjis
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.
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Jazz Heaven (1929)
Character: Mrs. Langley
A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.
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The Office Wife (1930)
Character: Kate Halsey
Larry, a publisher, wants Kate to write a book about the 'Office Wife'. An executive stenographer's duties creates a relationship approaching that of his wife. Little does Larry know that sometimes literature mirrors life.
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The Girl Said No (1930)
Character: Mrs. McAndrews
A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar, bound and gagged.
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The Trespasser (1929)
Character: Miss Potter the Nurse
A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ensure the child's welfare, which starts gossip that she is a "kept woman."
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The Awful Truth (1929)
Character: Mrs. Leeson
Story of a wealthy couple whose individual infidelities lead inexorably to the divorce court.
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Sadie Thompson (1928)
Character: Mrs. Alfred Davidson
A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who is unfazed by her unsavory past. However, Mr. Davidson, a missionary who arrived on the island at the same time, aims to "save" Sadie from her sinful life and petitions to have her separated from her beau and deported back to San Francisco.
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Young Bride (1932)
Character: Librarian Margaret Gordon
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
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Honor of the Family (1931)
Character: Mme. Boris
Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lost.
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Love Me Tonight (1932)
Character: Third Aunt
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
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Lady with a Past (1932)
Character: Nora
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
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The Barbarian (1933)
Character: Mrs. Hume
An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.
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Wonder of Women (1929)
Character: Tromholt's Housekeeper
The artistic temperament of a German concert pianist renders him chronically unfaithful to his devoted wife. This film is believed lost.
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Murder by the Clock (1931)
Character: Julia Endicott
A policeman investigates a woman's link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside a family mausoleum.
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The Cat Creeps (1930)
Character: Mam' Pleasant
Disappearances and strange goings-on in a spooky old mansion.
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Woman Hungry (1931)
Character: Mrs. Temple
This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The story was filmed as a silent film by MGM as The Great Divide (1925) and as an early silent/sound hybrid by First National also called The Great Divide (1929). Judith Temple has come West to Arizona for some excitement. As she says goodbye to her brother and his wife, who are returning to the East, Dr. Neil Cranford, who is in love with her, is called away to tend the broken ribs of a man injured in a barroom brawl.
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Cynara (1932)
Character: Concerned Mother in Courtroom (uncredited)
A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.
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Secrets (1933)
Character: Martha Marlowe
In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortune. Mary and John endure the difficult journey and settle into a small cabin, then face the hostilities of a cattle rustling gang, as well as the tragic loss of their only son. With Mary's help, John defeats the gang, which propels him to political power that, over the years, gradually erodes the once-happy marriage.
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The Bad One (1930)
Character: Madame Durand
In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sailor and agrees to be his bride. Unfortunately, one of her former suitors suddenly shows up and a terrible fight ensues.
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Thirteen Women (1932)
Character: Miss Kirsten
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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The Woman Between (1931)
Character: Mrs. Weston
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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