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Claude (1965)
Character: Claude's Mom
Animation Workshop Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A hand-drawn animation. Claude is a small and silent boy who carries around a box to which he keeps adding dials, antenna, etc. His parents are extremely rich, throughout the film Calude’s father keeps telling his son: “Claude, you’ll never amount to anything.” Mother several times exasperatedly asks him: “Can’t you do anything, Claude?”. Claude says nothing but, in the end, he has the last act: he twiddles the dials on his completed box and vaporizes both parents.
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The Voice That Thrilled the World (1943)
Character: Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures.
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Rhythm on the River (1940)
Character: Country cousin
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own name. The problem is every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style.
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The Time of Your Life (1948)
Character: Kitty Duval
Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Joe. Today, Tom notices a woman named Kitty when she comes into Nick's, and he quickly falls in love with her. Meanwhile, a distraught young man repeatedly calls his girlfriend, begging her to marry him. Nick himself muses on all the various persons who come into his bar, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.
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Town Tamer (1965)
Character: Mary Donley
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruce Cabot and Richard Jaeckel co-star as the lawless bad guys in this Western based on a novel by Frank Gruber.
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Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
Character: Rochelle
An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.
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All Women Have Secrets (1939)
Character: Kay Parker Gregory
When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.
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Queen of the Mob (1940)
Character: Ethel Webster (as Jean Cagney)
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Character: Josie Cohan
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
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Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Character: Carrie Chaney
The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.
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Quicksand (1950)
Character: Vera Novak
Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled. As Brady scrambles to cover evidence of his petty theft, he fast finds himself drawn into an ever worsening "quicksand" of crime.
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Golden Gloves (1940)
Character: Mary Parker
An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.
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A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
Character: Jennie Brown
A charismatic peddler from the Bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?
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The Tilted Tenderfoot (1955)
Character: Doris Corbett
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
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Kentucky Rifle (1956)
Character: Cordie Hay
A man escorts a wagon load of Kentucky rifles through Indian territory and must find a way to get through without losing the rifles to the Indians. Unfortunately the Indians know about it, and give the occupants an ultimatum: either the rifles or their lives.
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