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Hello Out There (1949)
Character: The Wife
Director James Whale's last film, it was supposed to be part of an anthology film but was never released. A down on his luck gambler ends up in jail in a small Texan town where he meets and falls in love with Emily. They make plans to go to San Francisco but may not get the opportunity.
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The Backbone of America (1953)
Character: Ethel
An account executive tries to find the perfect American family to use in a forthcoming advertising campaign.
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7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
Character: Mrs. Howard Cassin
An old Chinese man rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens see themselves reflected in the mirror of Lao's mysterious circus of mythical beasts.
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Keep Your Powder Dry (1945)
Character: Gladys Hopkins
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
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Million Dollar Baby (1941)
Character: Josie "Lou" La Rue
A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
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A Night to Remember (1942)
Character: Polly Franklin
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.
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Music for Madame (1937)
Character: Nora Burns
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
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Singin' Spurs (1948)
Character: Clarissa Bloomsbury
In order to help neighboring Indians irrigate their farms, the Hotshots plan to put on a fair for tourists. But first they need $2000 for an advertising campaign, and the only way they can get it is to borrow it from a wealthy local woman, who has made it clear that she won't give them the money until Hezzie marries her.
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Over 21 (1945)
Character: Mrs. Foley
A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.
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George Washington Slept Here (1942)
Character: Rena Leslie
New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, where George Washington was supposed to have actually slept during the American Revolution.
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Character: Effie Perine
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
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Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
Character: Janet Higgins
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally killed, they go on the lam together, getting jobs as farm labourers. But some fellow workers get wise to them.
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Goodbye Again (1961)
Character: Madame Fleury
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman. She soon learns that May-December romances with older women are frowned upon in society.
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Strange Cargo (1929)
Character: Diana Foster
On board a yacht sailing from India to Britain, the owner of the vessel is murdered by one of the passengers. (This film was produced both in full sound and silent versions, the latter for theaters that had not yet been wired for sound.)
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The Black Bird (1975)
Character: Effie
The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop at nothing, including murder, to get it.
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Larceny with Music (1943)
Character: Agatha Parkinson
A former bootlegger is now the prosperous owner of a popular nightclub. A hustling promoter manages to pass off a young singer as the heir to a fortune and gets her booked at the club.
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Jitterbugs (1943)
Character: Dorcas
The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for "gasolene pills" in wartime oil-short America. They are however soon on the side of the angels helping recover $10,000 for an attractive young lady whose family have themselves been swindled.
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Pillow Talk (1959)
Character: Mrs. Walters
Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.
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The New Interns (1964)
Character: Mrs. Hitchcock
Young doctors mix romance with their careers in a big-city hospital.
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Visit to a Small Planet (1960)
Character: Rheba Spelding
The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth... Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet to visit the Earth, and lands in the backyard of a famous television journalist who doesn't believe in UFOs and aliens. Wanting to study humans but not able to fully understand them, Kreton makes a mess out of it, generating a lot of comic situations.
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The Nurse's Secret (1941)
Character: Ruth Adams
An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.
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Mother Wore Tights (1947)
Character: Lil
In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Miriam are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.
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In This Our Life (1942)
Character: Betty Wilmoth
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
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Wake Up and Dream (1946)
Character: Blonde
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
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The Lawless (1950)
Character: Jan Dawson
A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.
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Mildred Pierce (1945)
Character: Maggie Biederhof
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949)
Character: Melissa Price
When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law.
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Take Me to Town (1953)
Character: Rose
Saloon entertainer Vermilion O'Toole and her former partner in crime Newt Cole escape from a train ride to prison and hide out in logging town Timberline. Meanwhile, the three sons of widower Will Hall come to town in search of a wife for their dad. Vermilion needs to lay low to escape the marshal, so she accepts the boys' offer to visit pioneer community Pine Grove. Once there, she annoys local Mrs. Grundys but eventually starts to fit in.
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Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)
Character: Eve 'Evie' Manning
Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east.
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Auntie Mame (1958)
Character: Doris Upson
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.
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Night Spot (1938)
Character: Flo Bradley
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.
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Maid's Night Out (1938)
Character: Kissing Milk Customer (uncredited)
A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he mistakes for a maid.
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Law of the Underworld (1938)
Character: Dorothy Palmer
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution
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Now, Voyager (1942)
Character: Deb McIntyre
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and from an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
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Father Is A Prince (1940)
Character: Aunt Tess 'Tessie' Haley
Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners. He's a bit of a skinflint, too. His family thinks he works too hard. He feels inferior for not having gone to college, so now he doesn't want his children going, either. His daughter Connie is afraid to break the news of her engagement to Gary Lee, especially since not only is Gary a lawyer and a college grad, but his father owns a vacuum-cleaner company, too.
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Danger Patrol (1937)
Character: Nancy Donovan
An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.
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Wives and Lovers (1963)
Character: Mrs. Swanson
Husband and wife Bill and Bertie Austin and their daughter live in a low-rent apartment. He's a struggling writer, at least until agent Lucinda Ford breaks the news that she's sold his book to a publisher, including the rights to turn it into a Broadway play. A new house in Connecticut is the first way to celebrate. But during the long hours Bill is away working on the play, Bertie befriends hard-drinking neighbor Fran Cabrell and her boyfriend Wylie, who plant seeds of suspicion in Bertie's mind that Bill and his beautiful agent might be more than just business partners. Bertie jealously retaliates by flirting with Gar Aldrich, an actor who will be in her husband's play. Bill goes to Connecticut for a heart-to-heart talk, finds Gar there and punches him.
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Money and the Woman (1940)
Character: Miss Martha Church
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
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Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
Character: Blondie White
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
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Fisherman's Wharf (1939)
Character: Stella
Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in San Francisco until Carlo's widowed sister-in-law, Stella, shows up with her brat-son, Rudolph, and takes over. Poor Toma gets his feelings hurt and the idea he "isn't wanted" and runs away
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Mrs. Parkington (1944)
Character: Madeleine Parkington Swann
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
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Caged (1950)
Character: Elvira Powell
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
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A Girl Named Tamiko (1962)
Character: Mary Hatten
A photographer based in Tokyo, who's in love with local beauty Tamiko, begins to court an embassy official so she can help him gain entry into the United States.
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See My Lawyer (1945)
Character: Sally Evans
Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub owner, B. J. Wagonhorn, refuses to let them go. In reprisal, they start hurling insults at the nightclub patrons… a ploy that soon has them facing multiple lawsuits… to the delight of three struggling attorneys, Charlie Rodman, Bettty Wilson and Arthur Lane.
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Honeymoon for Three (1941)
Character: Mrs. Pettijohn
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he meets up with a former college fling with a loopy Danish girl which he barely remembers. She remembers him, very well.
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The Sisters (1938)
Character: Flora Gibbon
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
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The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946)
Character: Susan
Broadway gossip columnist Gilbert Archer investigates his friend's murder, finds clues linking it to a valuable Da Vinci painting, putting himself and Patricia Foster in danger from those after the artwork
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City for Conquest (1940)
Character: Gladys
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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The Smiling Ghost (1941)
Character: Rose Fairchild
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.
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Strange Journey (1946)
Character: Mrs. Lathrop
Reformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him for a murder he didn't commit. He and his wife Patti fly to his privately-owned remote island and have to crash land. Also on the island is a group of shipwrecked people, including a German professor, his daughter, an English journalist, a wealthy widow, a sailor and a Nazi Agent.
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Moon Over Las Vegas (1944)
Character: Mrs. Blake
A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.
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Crashing Hollywood (1938)
Character: Goldie Tibbets
A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.
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Border Cafe (1937)
Character: Ellie
The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny western town, and is rehabilitated through the friendship and wisdom of a kind and patient rancher.
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Gambler's Choice (1944)
Character: Fay Lawrence
The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York...
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South of Suez (1940)
Character: Delia Snedeker
Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger Smythe's mine just as he was about to strike it rich, kills Smythe and blames it on Gamble. Grabbing the diamonds, Gamble flees Africa to England where he changes his name and begins a new life. What he hasn't counted on, though, is meeting and falling in love with Smythe's daughter Katherine, who falls in love with him but can't marry him until she can deal with her hatred of John Gamble, the man she believes killed her father.
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Ladies Must Live (1940)
Character: Mary Larrabee
A small town farmer, who happens to be very wealthy, meets and falls for an actress, but his friends warn him she's only interested in his money.
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The Snake Pit (1948)
Character: Asylum Inmate
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.
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Vertigo (1958)
Character: Car Owner Mistaken for Madeleine
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
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Saturday's Children (1940)
Character: Florrie Halevy Sands
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
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Summer and Smoke (1961)
Character: Mrs. Ewell
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
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Faces in the Fog (1944)
Character: Cora Elliott
Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....
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Nobody's Darling (1943)
Character: Miss Pennington
Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the upcoming school play. But Chuck thinks that she is too untalented and unglamorous to have a part in his production....
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