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Hazard House (1954)
Character: Mrs. Hazard (voice)
A married couple watches a documentary program which presents the hazards children face in the home.
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Toy Town Hall (1936)
Character: Danny's Mother (voice)
A child would rather listen to the radio than go to bed, but mother insists. He sleeps, but at midnight, his toys come alive and put on a show for him (much of it recycled, though often with different backgrounds, from earlier cartoons).
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At Your Service Madame (1936)
Character: Mrs. Hamhock (voice) (uncredited)
Mrs. Hamhock finds herself the object of unwanted attention following an article in the paper about...
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He Was Her Man (1937)
Character: Widow Mouse (voice)
A Depression-era female mouse has to sell apples in the miserable cold, and then bring them home to her abusive husband. But when he abandons her and takes up with another woman, she does what any woman has the right to do.
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The Captain's Pup (1938)
Character: Mama (voice) (uncredited)
The mangiest pup at Pete's Pooch Palace catches the Captain's eye. He takes it home, but Mama is less than thrilled; she forbids it to stay in the house. The Captain pretends to put it out, but hides it under his coat. At the dinner table, though, it is soon exposed. Confined to the back yard, the dog howls the night away. The Captain is sent outside to quiet it, but is too tired to make it out the door. He finally gets there and sneaks the dog back inside to his own bed.
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Cleaning House (1938)
Character: Mama (voice) (uncredited)
Mama has everyone working on spring cleaning, or so she thinks; in fact, everyone's slacking off in various ways. The Captain is the only one to get caught and face her wrath, though. To escape, he fakes illness, but the boys catch him at it. Mama calls the doctor; the boys intercept him and impersonate him. They get revealed, but so does the Captain, and Mama puts him to work doing everyone's job.
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Old Smokey (1938)
Character: Mama (voice) (uncredited)
Engine Co. No. 1 is replacing faithful fire horse Old Smokey with a new engine, which Der Captain is very proud of. He soon gets a chance to test it, when his panicked wife calls; unfortunately, he's still learning how to use it. As he arrives, the ladder extends to its full range, with the Captain on top and most of the rungs missing.
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The Hungry Wolf (1942)
Character: Lili's Mother (voice) (uncredited)
It's the dead of winter, a hungry wolf is out of food, and he's desperate.
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Mama's New Hat (1939)
Character: Mama (voice) (uncredited)
The boys buy mama a new hat for Mother's Day, but on the way home fall in the mud and ruin it. They swap the bad hat with one that a nearby horse is wearing and head home.
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Bottles (1936)
Character: Witch Hazel (voice)
A dark and stormy night in a drugstore. The druggist mixes a potion and falls asleep. The skull-and-crossbones on the bottle comes to life and drips the potion on the druggist.
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The Velvet Alley (1959)
Character: Mrs. Cowznoski
Ernie Pandash has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.
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The Killer Is Loose (1956)
Character: Apartment House Manager's Wife (uncredited)
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.
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Marshal of Cripple Creek (1947)
Character: Duchess Wentworth
Tom Lambert arrives and Long John Case gets him into trouble. To protect his wife and son he refuses to talk and is sent to prison. Long John then gets Lambert's son into his outlaw gang but Lambert is told the boy's problems are caused by Red Ryder. So Lambert breaks prison planning to kill Red. [Written by Maurice Van Auken]
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I Love to Singa (1936)
Character: Mother (voice)
A stern classical music teacher becomes a father of four musically-inclined sons, but when one of them demonstrates a preference for jazz music, his father kicks him out of the house.
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The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Character: N/A
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.
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Wildcat Bus (1940)
Character: Mrs. Waters (uncredited)
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
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Days of Wine and Roses (1958)
Character: Mrs. Nolan
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
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The CooCoo Nut Grove (1936)
Character: Mae West
A visit to a Hollywood nightclub, featuring caricatures of, among others, Walter Winchell, Hugh Herbert, W.C. Fields, Katharine Hepburn, Ned Sparks, Johnny Weissmuller, Lupe Velez, John Barrymore, Harpo Marx, George Arliss, Mae West, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Clark Gable, Edna May Oliver, Gary Cooper, The Dionne Quintuplets, Groucho Marx, Helen Morgan, Wallace Beery, Edward G. Robinson and George Raft.
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Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Character: Mrs. Brophy (uncredited)
Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
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Broken Toys (1935)
Character: Zasu Pitts / Mae West (voice)
A sailor doll, thrown into a toy dump, rallies the demoralized dolls that were already there.
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Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Character: Tart on Bridge at the End (uncredited)
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
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Jungle Book (1942)
Character: White Hood (uncredited)
Mowgli, lost in the jungle when a toddler, raised by wolves, years later happens upon his human village and reconnects with its inhabitants, including his widowed mother. Continuing to maintain a relationship with the jungle, adventures follow.
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Stagecoach to Denver (1946)
Character: Duchess
Lambert has the stagecoach wrecked killing the Commissioner so his phony replacement can alter Coonskin's land survey. When Red Ryder exposes the survey hoax, Lambert has his stooge Sheriff put Red in jail.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
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Artists and Models (1955)
Character: Fat Lady (uncredited)
A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he sleeps, but unbeknownst to the latter, the artist of his favorite comic book lives in the same building as they do with the model for her drawings.
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Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.4 (2003)
Character: Jenny Wren
Six classic stories retold by the Disney team. 'The Tortoise and the Hare' features the race between Max Hare and Toby Tortoise. In 'The Pied Piper', rats have overrun Hamelin and only the Pied Piper can get rid of them, whilst 'King Midas Gets the Golden Touch' is a cautionary tale. 'Toby Tortoise Returns' features Max Hare and Toby Tortoise again, this time in a boxing ring. In 'Old King Cole', all the storybook friends are invited to the King's castle, whilst 'King Neptune' saves his subjects from pirates.
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His Bitter Half (1950)
Character: Mrs. Daffy Duck (voice) (uncredited)
Daffy Duck marries for money, but the bossy wife and her raucous, trouble-making little son soon have him wanting out.
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
Character: Nanny / Queenie / Lucy (voice)
When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement.
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Vigilantes of Boomtown (1947)
Character: Duchess Wentworth
The ranch of Red Ryder (Allan Lane) and his aunt, The Duchess (Martha Wentworth), is being used as the training site for "Gentleman Jim" Corbett (George Turner) for his upcoming fight in Carson City, Nevada for the heavyweight championship against Bob Fitzsimmons (John Dehner). Molly McVey (Peggy Stewart), the daughter of a U.S. Senator, crusading against prize-fighting in Nevada, complicates matters soemwhat when she conceives the bright idea of having Corbett kidnapped, thus causing the cancellation of the fight. The two men (George Chesebro and George Lloyd) she hires to do the kidnapping also add to the complications by kidnapping Ryder instead of Corbett. Meanwhile, a gang of crooks, led by McKean (Roy Barcroft), descend on the town intent on looting the town and also making off with the fight proceeds.
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Don't Look Now (1936)
Character: Lady Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited)
It's St. Valentine's Day. Cupid is having fun arranging, while a young devil is making mischief sabotaging, love affairs.
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Young Man with Ideas (1952)
Character: Mrs. Hammerty
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
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Go, Johnny, Go! (1959)
Character: Mrs. McGillicuddy
Rock-n-roll promoter Alan Freed holds a talent search to develop a new rock star, then must find the elusive, mystery contestant (Jimmy Clanton) who doesn't know he has won.
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The Bookworm (1939)
Character: Witch (voice) (uncredited)
Three witches need a worm to complete their potion; they dispatch a raven to catch one, and he goes after a bookworm. He chases the worm into the horror section, where the monsters attack but soon, Paul Revere rides Black Beauty to the rescue, along with the Police Gazette, and other assorted war heroes; eventually, the Boy Scouts build a match-stick bridge, leading the worm to safety.
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Papa Gets the Bird (1940)
Character: Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Papa Bear attempts to give the family's pet canary a bath. An MGM Bear Family cartoon.
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Little Cheeser (1936)
Character: Little Cheeser's Mother (voice) (uncredited)
Little Cheeser is a young mouse who thinks he's more grown up than he is. Mama tells him to go to bed, calling him "Mama's little man"; he doesn't want to. His devil side emerges and guides him to the cheese in the pantry, where his angel side appears to stop him. The devil leads him on to the smoking supplies, where he lights a pipe, then to a racy magazine, and then to the booze. The soused Cheeser goes looking for the cat, but when he finds it, the reality sobers him up quickly. The devil, meanwhile, has been trapped in a copy of Dante's Inferno by the angel. The angel helps Cheeser escape, and he's all too happy to go to bed and be Mama's little man.
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Toby Tortoise Returns (1936)
Character: Jenny Wren (voice) (uncredited)
Toby Tortoise is back, and this time he and Max Hare box instead of racing.
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Disney's Halloween Treat (1982)
Character: Madam Mim (voice) (archive footage)
Contains memorable scenes from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Lady and the Tramp," "Peter Pan," "One Hundred and One Dalmatians," and "The Sword in the Stone."
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Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957)
Character: Mrs. Merchant
A young woman discovers she is the daughter of the infamous Dr. Jekyll, and begins to believe that she may also have a split personality, one of whom is a ruthless killer.
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Santa Fe Uprising (1946)
Character: The Duchess
The Duchess, the aunt of Red Ryder, comes to town to protect her property. Crawford, a town big-shot behind an outlaw gang, tries to prevent her from reaching her destination, but the attack is thwarted by Red. The latter is made town marshal, and when he gets too close to the truth and is making it too hot for the Crawford faction, Crawford has his henchman Luke kidnap Red's Indian friend Little Beaver.
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Streamlined Greta Green (1937)
Character: Junior's Mother (voice) (uncredited)
In a world wherein cars act like humans, Junior wants to be a taxi, but his mother wants him to grow up to be a nice touring car like his father. Mom doesn't know that Junior sometimes skips school and ventures into the city to ride in traffic, drink hi-test gas, and race trains.
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Clancy Street Boys (1943)
Character: Mrs. Molly McGinnis
Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits the members of the gang to pose as his family. Things turn sour, however, when a local mobster finds out about Muggs' deception and threatens to expose it.
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You for Me (1952)
Character: Lucille's Mother (uncredited)
A good-hearted nurse gets mixed up with a millionaire who could help her hospital.
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Rock Around the Clock (1956)
Character: Miss Dunlap (uncredited)
A frustrated big-band promoter runs in to rock-and-rollers Bill Haley and the Comets at a small-town dance. He quickly becomes their manager and, with the help of Alan Freed, hopes to bring the new sound to the entire country. But will a conniving booking agent, with a personal ax to grind with the manager, conspire to keep the band from making the big time?
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Disney's Greatest Villains (1977)
Character: Madam Mim (voice) (archive footage)
The Slave in the Magic Mirror is the host of this show, designed to explain that all heroes need villains to balance things out. Without villains, there would be no heroes. Villains from Disney films abound here.
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The Field Mouse (1941)
Character: Herman's Mother (voice)
A lazy young field mouse and his feisty grandfather fight for survival when advancing farm machinery destroys their home and sends their family scattering.
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Blue Monday (1938)
Character: Mama (voice) (uncredited)
The Captain, after much wrestling with his alarm clock, finally wakes up to discover there's no buttons (for suspenders) on his ding-busted pants. He chews out Mama; she tells him if he doesn't like the housekeeping, he can do it himself, and storms out. What follows is pretty much the usual bunch of man-keeping-house jokes: a voracious vacuum, an overflowing sink, crashing dishes, and a dozen crises at once. And still no buttons on the pants.
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O. Henry's Full House (1952)
Character: Mrs. O'Brien (segment "The Last Leaf") (uncredited)
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
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The Stranger (1946)
Character: Sara
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.
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Oregon Trail Scouts (1947)
Character: Duchess
Red Ryder battles an unscrupulous fur thief named Hunter for the right to trap beaver and otter on the land of Chief Running Fox.
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Homesteaders of Paradise Valley (1947)
Character: The Duchess
Red Ryder convinces homesteaders to settle in Paradise Valley. Business men in nearby Central City want control of the valley and water supply and propose to build a dam for half interest in the land. They use Red to generate interest in the dam but when the dam is completed, they rig the stockholder's meeting so Central City will get the water.
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Love Nest (1951)
Character: Mrs. Thompson (Uncredited)
Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further upsetting Connie but pleasing Jim's friend Ed. Tenant Charley, who marries tenant Eadie, loans money to Jim to help him keep the building, money which this Casanova obtains from rich widows.
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Fraidy Cat (1942)
Character: Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Tom hears a ghost story on the radio and is spooked by it; Jerry notices this and takes advantage of it, using a variety of tricks to scare Tom.
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Rustlers of Devil's Canyon (1947)
Character: The Duchess
Red Ryder returns to Sioux City, Wyoming, at the close of the Spanish-American War, settling down at the ranch of his aunt, The Duchess, with his pals Little Beaver and "Blizzard". But Red soon discovers that the country is over-run by rustlers.
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I Haven't Got a Hat (1935)
Character: Miss Cud (voice) (uncredited)
It's recital day at the schoolhouse. First up: Porky, who recites The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. A nervous kitten recites Mary Had a Little Lamb. The puppies Ham and Ex sing the title song. Oliver Owl plays the piano; Beans the cat puts a cat and dog inside, and they play a tune as well.
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Prison Shadows (1936)
Character: Mrs. Murphy (uncredited)
A boxer is framed for murder after an opponent dies in the ring.
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Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941)
Character: Mrs. Brady
The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters.
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Strange Affair (1944)
Character: Proprietress (uncredited)
Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can use a pay phone. At the dinner, Bill and Jack are seated with Brenner's daughter, Freda, and, to Bill's surprise, another man is introduced as Baumler -- who dies moments later.
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The Sword in the Stone (1963)
Character: Madam Mim / Old Lady Squirrel (voice)
Wart is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a powerful but amnesiac wizard who has plans for him beyond mere squiredom. He starts by trying to give him an education, believing that once one has an education, one can go anywhere. Needless to say, it doesn't quite work out that way.
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One Girl's Confession (1953)
Character: Old Lady
Cleo Moore stars as Mary Adams, whose first step on the road to ruin is a $25,000 robbery. Mary hides the money, then confesses to the crime, secure in the belief that she can dig up the loot upon her release from prison.
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Jupiter's Darling (1955)
Character: Widow Titus
Rome is on the verge of being conquered by Hannibal. While Rome's ruler, Fabius Maximus, plots a defense against Hannibal's armies, Fabius' fiancée, Amytis, is curious about the fearless conqueror. Amytis travels to Hannibal's camp just to get a look at him, but she ends up being captured. However, she is instantly smitten by the Carthaginian commander, so she tries to shift his attentions away from Rome -- and to her instead.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Character: Sheila's Mother (uncredited)
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
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Fallen Angel (1945)
Character: Hotel Maid (uncredited)
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
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The Beatniks (1959)
Character: Nadine
A young singer's chance at fame is threatened by his hoodlum pals.
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Pigs Is Pigs (1937)
Character: Mama Pig (voice) (uncredited)
A hungry little pig eats a couple of pies off the windowsill. When it's time for dinner, he ties together the spaghetti of all the other little pigs and eats it all. That night, he has a nightmare where he is force-fed by a mad scientist.
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Adventure (1945)
Character: Woman (uncredited)
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
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