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Broadway's Like That (1930)
Character: Ruth's Fiance's Wife
A girl who works in a music store discovers, on the eve of her wedding, that her intended husband already has a wife.
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Breakdowns of 1938 (1938)
Character: Mary (archive footage) (uncredited)
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Incendiary Blonde (1945)
Character: Bessie Guinan
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
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Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Character: Mrs. Berent
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
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The Bride Wore Red (1937)
Character: Maria
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
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Lady in the Dark (1944)
Character: Maggie Grant
A neurotic editor sees a psychoanalyst about the advertising man, movie star and other man in her life.
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Dear Brat (1951)
Character: Edie Wilkins
Mirian Wilkins, the teenage daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge of her father, elects him to the position of honorary president. When the family's new gardener, Baxter, turns out to be a notorious ex-convict who was sentenced to prison by Senator Wilkins when he was a judge, Wilkins considers firing him until his daughter points out that would be an unwise decision considering the position her father held on society.
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Captain Eddie (1945)
Character: Elsie Rickenbacker
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
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A Woman's Secret (1949)
Character: Mrs. Mary Fowler
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect.
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Mannequin (1938)
Character: Beryl Lee (as Mary Phillips)
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
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Dear Ruth (1947)
Character: Mrs. Edie Wilkins
Lt. William Seacroft, on leave from the Italian front, arrives at the New York home of Ruth Wilkins, with whom he has been corresponding. Unknown to both Ruth and Bill, Ruth's younger sister, Miriam, has been writing the letters and signing Ruth's name as part of a program to keep up soldiers' morale. Although Ruth has just gotten engaged to a coworker, she agrees to see Bill and pretend she wrote the letters.
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A Farewell to Arms (1932)
Character: Helen Ferguson
A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.
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As Good as Married (1937)
Character: Laura
When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.
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Dear Wife (1949)
Character: Mrs. Wilkins
In this sequel to Dear Ruth, teenaged Miriam starts a political campaign to nominate Bill Seacroft, her brother-in-law, for state senator in opposition to the local political machine. Unknown to Miriam, said machine nominates her father, Judge Wilkins. As support grows for Bill, the presence of rival candidates under one roof poses problems, especially for Ruth, wife to Bill and daughter of the judge.
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I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951)
Character: Mrs. Boyd
A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession. Eventually she is forced to choose between her ambition and the man she loves.
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Life Begins (1932)
Character: Miss Pinty (uncredited)
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
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Kiss and Tell (1945)
Character: Dorothy Pringle
Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly suspected of being pregnant.
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Prince Valiant (1954)
Character: Queen
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
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Wings Over Honolulu (1937)
Character: Hattie Penletter
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
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