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Bondage (1933)
Character: Judy Peters
Judy Peters is about to be sentenced after she has pled guilty to her third offense of prostitution, when Dr. Nelson interrupts and tells her story to the court. (Mubi.)
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Black Magic (1929)
Character: Ann Bradbroke
On a South Seas island, "three white derelicts drink away memories of the past. After many adventures during which a girl enters the picture, the three are rehabilitated and everything turns out happily."
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The Voice of Hollywood No. 9 (1930)
Character: N/A
Announced by Bert Wheeler and featuring Marceline Day, Wesley Barry, Dorothy Jordan, Sally Starr, Marjorie Kane, Ken Maynard with Tarzan the Wonder Horse, and radio evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.
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Shipmates (1931)
Character: Kit Corbin
A sailor falls in love with the admiral's daughter but finds they can't marry because of his lowly rank.
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Call of the Flesh (1930)
Character: Maria Consuelo Vargas
A postulant falls in love with a flamboyant singer from a cafe next door to her convent.
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That's My Boy (1932)
Character: Dorothy Rogers
Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian also cast in roles other than just team members.
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A Tailor-Made Man (1931)
Character: Tanya
John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs his way into a high society party. After meeting wealthy businessman Abraham Nathan, John Paul quickly rises to the top of Nathan's company. Suffering during The Depression, John Paul helps Nathan save his company with a radical program of cooperative ownership between workers and management. Meanwhile, John Paul makes an enemy of Gustav, who is engaged to Tanya - the daughter of Mr. Huber, owner of the tailor shop. John Paul maintains a friendship with Tanya, provoking jealousy in Gustav. Gustav threatens to reveal John Paul's plain origins to Nathan, and John Paul briefly resigns from Nathan's company. However, John Paul's plan is a success, and Nathan hires him back immediately. Tanya leaves Gustav and ends up with John Paul.
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Strictly Personal (1933)
Character: Mary O'Connor
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.
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One Man's Journey (1933)
Character: Letty McGinnis
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but always something gets in the way: an epidemic, his children's needs, or the needs of his generally ungrateful patients. Only with the passing years does he come to find that his future isn't over and his past isn't quite the failure he believed.
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Love in the Rough (1930)
Character: Marilyn
When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.
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70,000 Witnesses (1932)
Character: Dorothy Clark
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.
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The Searchers (1956)
Character: Martha Edwards
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
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Hell Divers (1932)
Character: Ann Mitchell
The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.
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Young Sinners (1931)
Character: Constance Sinclair
The reckless son of a millionaire struggles to find a positive outlook on life, so he turns to a hard-nosed trainer for help.
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In Gay Madrid (1930)
Character: Carmina
Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls. His father hopes to instill a more serious attitude in his son by transferring him to a school in the rural town of Santiago. At Santiago, his father's old friend is to be his guardian. When Ricardo arrives at Santiago he joins a fraternity, and continues his carefree lifestyle while serenading and courting his guardian's daughter, Carmina.
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The Lost Squadron (1932)
Character: 'Pest' Curwood
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadistic director.
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The Beloved Bachelor (1931)
Character: Mitzi
Michael Morda, a young sculptor living in San Francisco, is madly in love with Elinor Hunter, and they plan to be married. When Elinor becomes jealous of Julie Stressman, an old friend of Michael's and one of his models, Michael reluctantly asks Julie not to visit him at his studio. They agree to meet only at the construction site where he is working on a sculpture for which Julie is modeling. When Elinor also shows up at the site, Julie leaves so as to avoid a confrontation, but she is killed by some falling materials. Julie's dying request is that Michael adopt her daughter Mitzi, whose father died years earlier. In order to prevent Mitzi from being taken to an orphanage, Michael lies and says he is her father. Elinor hears this, and without asking questions, leaves him and marries another man the same night.
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Down To Earth (1932)
Character: Julia Pearson
Husband and father Will Rogers tells his spoiled wife and children that they have to economize.
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Devil-May-Care (1929)
Character: Leonie de Beaufort
A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.
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Min and Bill (1930)
Character: Nancy Smith
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.
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The Roadhouse Murder (1932)
Character: Mary Agnew
After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news.
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Words and Music (1929)
Character: Showgirl (uncredited)
Phil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college student.
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The Taming of the Shrew (1929)
Character: Bianca
Adapted from Shakespeare's play: Baptista Minola, a wealthy resident of Padua, is the father of Katherine and Bianca. The younger daughter, Bianca, is charming and has many suitors. But her father will not allow Bianca to be married until her older sister, who is notoriously quarrelsome and bad-tempered, is married first. When Petruchio comes from Verona to Padua in search of a wife, he hears of this situation, and he accepts the challenge of trying to woo and marry the ill-natured Katherine.
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The Wet Parade (1932)
Character: Maggie May
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
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The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
Character: Lucy Lee's Mother
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.
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