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Squibs (1935)
Character: Mrs. Parker
Squibs, a cockney flowerseller with a father overwhelmed by gambling debts wins through with the help of assorted friends and a romantically inclined policeman.
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The Happy Ending (1925)
Character: Laura Meakin
A wastrel returns to blackmail his wife who has told her children that he died a hero.
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To What Red Hell (1929)
Character: Mrs Ellis
'Woman shelters epileptic son when he kills prostitute.' (British Film Catalogue)
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A Spot of Bother (1938)
Character: Miss Hagworthy
Skulduggery is on the menu after a bishop hands over a cathedral’s rebuilding fund to a shady businessman. The bishop’s secretary is entrusted with overseeing the investment, but is soon out of his depth as the money is swept up in a brandy and silk underwear smuggling racket.
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What the Butler Saw (1924)
Character: Sophie Foden
Farce centered on a married man, Barrington (Guy Newall), who pretends to be single while his wife, Mrs. Barrington (Irene Rich), is traveling in America. Complications arise when a guest at a hydrotherapy clinic is bitten by a parrot and, in a fit of pique, encourages the bird to bite every other male guest at the facility.
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Yellow Sands (1938)
Character: Minnie Masters
Village romance and gossip collide amongst the West Country fisherfolk of Yellow Sands, as the Varwell family gathers to celebrate the birthday of their aging matriarch, Jennifer. Apart from her Communist nephew, faithful companion and sozzled brother, everyone pays their homage with one eye towards shoring up their expected inheritances - but Jennifer may have her own ideas when she finally makes out her will.
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The First Gentleman (1948)
Character: 1st Lady In Waiting
The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.
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The Black Abbot (1934)
Character: Mary Hillcrist
A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
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Welcome, Mr Washington (1944)
Character: Mrs. Curley
Based on a story by author Noel Streatfeild, the film tells the story of two sisters who are left penniless by their father's sudden death and lease their estate as an airbase to US forces in Britain to help the war effort. Both eventually fall for American servicemen.
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Johnny Frenchman (1945)
Character: Miss Bennett
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.
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The Old Wives' Tale (1921)
Character: Maggie
A woman leaves her husband to run a Paris boarding house, and reunites with her sister after the war.
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Murder! (1930)
Character: Jury Member
When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by remorse, he launches his own investigation.
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A Girl Must Live (1939)
Character: Miss Polkinghome
A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.
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The Lodger (1932)
Character: Mrs. Coles
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
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The Queen of Spades (1949)
Character: Countess's Old Servant
A czarist captain stops at nothing to learn the secrets of a countess rumored to have sold her soul to the devil in order to always win at cards.
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Non-Stop New York (1937)
Character: Mrs. Carr
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
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Champagne Charlie (1944)
Character: Bessie's Dresser
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.
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The Man in Grey (1943)
Character: Cook (uncredited)
After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.
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Britannia of Billingsgate (1933)
Character: Mrs. Wigglesworth
The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.
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The High Command (1937)
Character: Miss Isabella Hobson Tuff
A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
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