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Beat the Band (1947)
Character: Mrs. Elvira Rogers
Singer Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.
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Hot Steel (1940)
Character: Elvira Appleby (as Myra McKinney)
Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues.
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Captains Courageous (1937)
Character: Bit Role (uncredited)
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
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Lady in a Jam (1942)
Character: Lady of the Evening (uncredited)
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.
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Madame Spy (1942)
Character: Red Cross Woman
Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister who travels by his side. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins associating with suspected Nazi functionaries, and wonders if she may be the elusive “Madame Spy” wanted by American authorities.
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Music for Madame (1937)
Character: Rodowsky Admirer (Uncredited)
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
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The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
Character: Martha Evans (uncredited)
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...
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I've Always Loved You (1946)
Character: Telsman
A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.
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A Dangerous Game (1941)
Character: Mrs. Hubbard
Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at an isolated mentally-ill hospital, where the patients range from slightly daffy to criminally insane, and they don't know which is which. A gang is out to steal a fortune inherited by one of the patients and, before Dick and Andy solve the case, several patients are transferred to the cemetery. And 'tiddlie-winks" are indeed involved.
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Garden of the Moon (1938)
Character: Sarah - Champagne Customer (uncredited)
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.
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Bad Man from Red Butte (1940)
Character: Miss Woods
A cowboy arrives in a town, and is immediately mistaken for his twin brother who is wanted for murder.
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Junior Prom (1946)
Character: Isabel Rogers
A wealthy man's son is running for high school student body president, and the boy's father tells the principal that if his son wins, he will make a sizable donation that will pay for the football team's much-needed uniforms.
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I Stole a Million (1939)
Character: Mrs. Loomis (uncredited)
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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Shadows Over Chinatown (1946)
Character: Kate Johnson
In San Francisco's Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing relatives and uncovers a murder for insurance scheme.
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Harriet Craig (1950)
Character: Mrs. Winston (Uncredited)
A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.
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When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
Character: Waitress (uncredited)
A waitress destined for a better life falls in love with a handsome stranger, only to find that he is already married.
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One Foot in Heaven (1941)
Character: Movie Theatre Cashier (uncredited)
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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Linda, Be Good (1947)
Character: Mrs. Thompson
A writer decides to join a burlesque show so that she can write an authentic expose of the business.
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The President's Mystery (1936)
Character: Phony Townswoman (uncredited)
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
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Trail of the Rustlers (1950)
Character: Mrs. J.G. Mahoney
Charles Starrett goes up against an entire family of criminals posing as respectable citizens in this entry in Columbia's long-running Durango Kid Western series.
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The Groom Wore Spurs (1951)
Character: Mrs. Forbes
Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Castle out of trouble in Las Vegas. Despite his many faults, Abigail falls in love with and marries Ben, with the hope that she can mold him into the virtuous hero he plays on the screen.
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Santa Fe Trail (1940)
Character: Survivor at Delaware Crossing (uncredited)
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
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Railroaded! (1947)
Character: Beauty Salon Owner (uncredited)
A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man.
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The Blue Veil (1951)
Character: Customer (Uncredited)
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
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Bachelor Daddy (1941)
Character: Landlady
The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.
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Hunt the Man Down (1950)
Character: Rolene's Aunt (uncredited)
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
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Young Fugitives (1938)
Character: Letty
A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.
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The Man Who Walked Alone (1945)
Character: Jail Matron
A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.
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The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949)
Character: Maudie (uncredited)
When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law.
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The Affairs of Susan (1945)
Character: Actress at Party (uncredited)
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.
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Modern Times (1936)
Character: Minister's Wife
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...
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Cafe Society (1939)
Character: Secretary
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
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Till We Meet Again (1944)
Character: Portress
An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance. The young novice nun Clothilde is interested in him and is willing to help him escape to England, but the pilot must continue his mission undercover by posing as the husband of a different woman.
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Fury (1936)
Character: Hysterical Townswoman at Trial (uncredited)
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Hold That Blonde! (1945)
Character: Helen Sedgemore (uncredited)
Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another girl for a cure. He fastens his interest upon Sally Martin, who happens to be engaged in helping some crooks steal a valuable necklace.
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Talk About a Lady (1946)
Character: Letitia Harrison
A country girl, wanting to break into show-business, comes to New York City and, by her actions, manages to restore the optimism of a jaded and disillusioned nightclub owner. Eventually, she marries the manager of one of the man's nightclubs.
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Sitting Pretty (1948)
Character: Mrs. Phillips (uncredited)
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
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Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
Character: Ms. Dell
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
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Riding Shotgun (1954)
Character: Townswoman (uncredited)
When a stagecoach guard tries to warn a town of an imminent raid by a band of outlaws, the people mistake him for one of the gang.
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Earthbound (1940)
Character: Minor Role
A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.
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Double Trouble (1941)
Character: Mrs. Whitmore
Harry Langdon and Charley Rogers star in this 1941 Monogram comedy, about two bumbling brothers who take jobs at a New York food cannery and accidentally lose a valuable diamond inside a can of pork-and-beans.
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Keep 'Em Slugging (1943)
Character: Customer
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
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The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
Character: Vic's Wife (uncredited)
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
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Heart of the Rockies (1951)
Character: Mrs. Edsel
Roy is put in charge of a highway construction project. A rancher tries to stop Roy from putting a highway across his land because he fears that the authorities are going to discover the unscrupulous manner in which he got it.
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The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
Character: Mrs. Reynolds
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
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The Unknown Man (1951)
Character: (uncredited)
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
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The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Character: Customer (uncredited)
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937)
Character: Ida Gilbert
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.
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Women's Prison (1955)
Character: N/A
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
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Fallen Angel (1945)
Character: Mrs. Judd (uncredited)
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
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Alias the Deacon (1940)
Character: Mrs. Gregory
A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game.
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A Woman of Distinction (1950)
Character: Member
Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a keepsake of Susan's he wants to return. Desperate for publicity, lecture bureau press agent Teddy Evans magnifies this into a great romance. The efforts of both dignified principals to quash the story have the opposite effect; matters get more and more involved.
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Blazing Sixes (1937)
Character: Aunt Sarah
Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to get the gold out of the county unseen. Complicating matters is the arrival of pretty Barbara Morgan who has come to claim her inheritance - the ranch the outlaw gang is using for their headquarters.
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Rough Riders of Cheyenne (1945)
Character: Harriet Sterling
Sunset returns to find the Carson-Sterling feud still going. Sterling has been killed and it's not long before Andrew Carson is murdered. To end the feud Sunset challenges Martin Sterling to a shootout. Unknown to Sunset, Martin's sister Melinda has waylaid her brother and now appears for the shootout disguised in her brother's clothes.
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