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Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star (1991)
Character: Self (archive footage)
A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.
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Stella (1950)
Character: Flora
Screwball black comedy about a wacky family that forgets where they've buried a corpse.
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The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Character: Icey Spoon
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
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Hilda Crane (1956)
Character: Mrs. Burns
After two failed marriages, a disillusioned woman returns to her hometown to start life anew.
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Désirée (1954)
Character: Marie
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding General Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.
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Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
Character: Sallie Carr
Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends, but a catastrophic crash leaves only one survivor. He then sets off on a journey to discover who these people were, but ultimately discovers the devastating truth about himself.
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The Student Prince (1954)
Character: Queen
A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.
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Pinky (1949)
Character: Melba Wooley
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
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Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)
Character: Countess Alzani
In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.
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The Bad Seed (1956)
Character: Monica Breedlove
Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.
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When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)
Character: Gertrude Kluggs
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
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Athena (1954)
Character: Grandma Mulvain
A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.
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Elopement (1951)
Character: Millie Reagan
Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.
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