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Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 (1934)
Character: N/A
Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and a Gala Hollywood Premiere.
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Bondage (1933)
Character: Beulah
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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Scatterbrain (1940)
Character: Esther Harrington
A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.
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Let’s Be Ritzy (1934)
Character: Betty
Complications ensue when a young married couple pretend to be something they're not.
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The New Cinema (1968)
Character: Self
Between the French La Nouvelle Vague and the Italian Neorealismo, Europe had been undergoing a continuous cinema transformation since the 1950s, while the ailing American studio system groaned under its own weight and inertia. New Hollywood had arrived with Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, and already by 1968 it was changing how Hollywood thought and acted. The student film scene was getting ready to explode, and it knew it.
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They Asked For It (1939)
Character: Molly Herkimer
In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into the strange death of an old hermit who lived on the fringe of town.
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Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love! (1940)
Character: Gertie - Truck Stop Waitress
In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads for her elopement. The two begin traveling together and get further mixed up with a fleeing bank robber, a crazy tourist camp, and other troubles. Songs include: "Oh Johnny, How You Can Love," "Maybe I Like What You Like," "Swing Chariot Swing," and "Make Up Your Mind."
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She Had to Choose (1934)
Character: Sally Bates
A young actress hits Hollywood determined to be a movie star and runs into a lot of roadblocks along the way.
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Northwest Passage (1940)
Character: Jennie Coit
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on their famous raid at Fort St. Francis and their marches before and after the battle.
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The Crowd Roars (1938)
Character: Mrs. Martin
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.
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The Man Who Lived Twice (1936)
Character: Peggy Russell
A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.
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Sweet Kill (1972)
Character: Mrs. Cole
Horror and suspense in the story of a psychotic maniac who literally "loves" women to death.
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The Merry Monahans (1944)
Character: Rose
The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get himself and his family blacklisted from every major vaude house in the country. Though Pete's kids Jimmy and Patsy love their dad, they're forced to break away from the act and go off on their own to survive. Eventually, the whole gang is reunited in a shamelessly lachrymose musical finale.
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Gone with the Wind (1939)
Character: Emmy Slattery
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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Beauty for Sale (1933)
Character: Hortense
A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.
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Bernardine (1957)
Character: Ruby McDuff
A teenager pines for (and sings about) his dream girl.
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Big Brown Eyes (1936)
Character: Bessie Blair
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
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Bombshell (1933)
Character: Nellie, Junior's Girlfriend
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
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The Casino Murder Case (1935)
Character: Amelia Llewellyn
After socialite Lynn Llewellyn receives an anonymous threat, he is poisoned at his uncle's casino, and although he recovers, his wife is murdered by the same killer.
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Little Men (1940)
Character: Stella
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.
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36 Hours to Kill (1936)
Character: Jeanie Benson
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
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The Women in His Life (1933)
Character: Catherine Watson
An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936)
Character: Lilli Eipper
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
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Missing Daughters (1939)
Character: Peggy
The Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy dance-hall operator Lucky Rogers.
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The Crime of the Century (1933)
Character: Bridge Player (uncredited)
Driven to desperation by his young and extravagant wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has arranged a perfect crime; now he begs the police to lock him up before he can commit it.
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Michael O'Halloran (1948)
Character: Mrs Laura Nelson
A young crippled girl and her love for a teenage newsboy despite her over-protective and alcoholic mother's objections.
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Design for Living (1933)
Character: Plunkett's Stenographer
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
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Man in the Attic (1953)
Character: Katy
London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst; her niece Lily (star of a decidedly Parisian stage revue) finds him interesting and increasingly attractive. Is Lily in danger, or are her mother's suspicions merely a red herring?
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For Beauty's Sake (1941)
Character: Amy Devore
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
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Here Comes the Groom (1934)
Character: Angy
Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety. But the robbery goes awry and Mike finds himself on the run from the police, pretending to be a famous singer whose gimmick is wearing a mask in public.
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Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Character: Annabelle
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
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The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Character: Hysterical Mother
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
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Lost Horizon (1937)
Character: Gloria Stone
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden, idyllic valley of Shangri-La. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-La provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
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Evelyn Prentice (1934)
Character: Judith Wilson
A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.
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Day of Reckoning (1933)
Character: Kate Lovett
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly nagging wife who, as soon as he is put away, takes up with a more successful businessman. This causes her new lover's ex-lover to get insanely jealous and kill the conniving wife.
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Ciao! Manhattan (1973)
Character: Mummy
Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Edie Sedgwick’s own self-destructive spiral.
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Career Woman (1936)
Character: Gracie Clay
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder.
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The Seventh Victim (1943)
Character: Frances Fallon
After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.
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Sensation Hunters (1945)
Character: Mae
A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
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Steppin' in Society (1945)
Character: Jenny the Juke
In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly esteemed racketeer.
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Drum Beat (1954)
Character: Lily White
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her aunt and uncle. After Modoc renegade Captain Jack engages in ambush and other atrocities, MacKay must fight him one-on-one with guns, knives and fists.
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Marked Woman (1937)
Character: Emmy Lou Eagan
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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Belle Starr's Daughter (1948)
Character: Belle Starr
The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find her killer.
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Go West Young Man (1936)
Character: Gladys
Mavis Arden is a sensational movie star. Her following spans the world and her personal appearance tours prove her popularity. On her way home from one such appearance, Arden's car breaks down. She orders her publicity man to find her a place to stay, suspicious that he planned the break down to keep her away from a man. However, she soon finds herself mooning over an attractive repairman in town and listening to his ideas about inventing equipment for film.
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Dancing Feet (1936)
Character: Mabel Henry
Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy refuses to accompany Peyton on a slumming trip to a cheap dance hall, and Peyton dances with several of the dowagers and tells them that Silas is practically dying of scarlet fever. The guests hastily depart and Joan joins Peyton at the Dreamland Dance Hall. She is mistaken by Jimmy Cassidy (Edward J. Nugent) as one of the hostesses and decides to dance with him as a lark. One thing follows another and Judy gets disinherited and takes a job at the dance hall through Jimmy and his friend Mabel(Isabel Jewell.) Jimmy confides to Judy his ambition to become a dance instructor over the radio and Judy decides to help him but can't get the needed financial backing. She gets Peyton to front the money, promising him she will reconsider his offer of marriage if Jimmy's plan fails.
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Marked Men (1940)
Character: Linda Harkness
A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into the desert.
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Badman's Territory (1946)
Character: Belle Starr
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
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Shadow of Doubt (1935)
Character: Inez
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
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A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Character: The Seamstress
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
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Mad Love (1935)
Character: Marianne (scenes deleted)
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.
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Blessed Event (1932)
Character: Dorothy Lane
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
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The Falcon and the Co-Eds (1943)
Character: Mary Phoebus
The Falcon is called to a young woman's school to investigate a murder. When he arrives, another victim is discovered.
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Love on Toast (1937)
Character: Belle Huntley
The plot concerns a female press agent who must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a soup company. The Mr. Manhattan chosen is a singing soda jerk, who doesn't want to play along until he is given the honor of choosing his own Miss Brooklyn.
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Babies for Sale (1940)
Character: Edith Drake
A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.
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The Leopard Man (1943)
Character: Maria the Fortune Teller
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
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High Sierra (1941)
Character: Blonde
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
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Advice to the Lovelorn (1933)
Character: Rose
Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper's "Miss Lonelyhearts" advice column because he missed the scoop on a major earthquake whilst out on the town. Determined to be fired from the column he starts to give crazy advice to the readers, but this only makes him even more popular.
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Born to Kill (1947)
Character: Laury Palmer
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.
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Ceiling Zero (1936)
Character: Lou Clarke
War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot's girl-friend and due to this he changes flights with Texas.
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Times Square Lady (1935)
Character: Babe
A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir and seize control.
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Irene (1940)
Character: Jane McGee
Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a model. She soon catches the eye of socialite Bob Vincent, whose mother is hosting a ball at the family mansion. To promote Madame Lucy's dress line, Mr. Smith arranges for his models to be invited to the ball.
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The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936)
Character: Brooklyn
Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherneck buddy "Tubby" Waters killed, hothead "Woody" Davis infiltrates a gang of Shanghai gunrunners to bring the culprit to justice.
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Small Town Girl (1936)
Character: Emily 'Em' Brannan
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
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Counsellor at Law (1933)
Character: Bessie Green
A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
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