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Men of the Sky (1942)
Character: Mrs. Frank Bickley
A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots receiving their wings from Lt. General H.H. Arnold. An off-screen narrator introduces four of them to us; we see them before the war, during flight training, and in their first assignments as pilots.
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Hans Brinker (1969)
Character: Dame Brinker
Based on the beloved children’s story, Hans Binker, a Dutch boy (Robin Askwith) and his sister need the prize from an ice-skating race to help their ailing father.
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Blow-Ups of 1946 (1946)
Character: Self
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1946.
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Soldiers in White (1942)
Character: Nurse Ryan
A young intern is drafted and placed in the Army Medical Corps as a buck private and is none too happy about it. Injured, he is placed in the hospital where a Major comes by and explains how army doctors make important advances in medical science. The private is inspired and promises to make a good soldier. He is even more inspired when a nurse becomes his superior officer.
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The Great American Beauty Contest (1973)
Character: Peggy Lowery
The pursuit by America's loveliest girls for a coveted beauty crown is threatened by a scandal which implicates a judge, a former winner, and one of the five finalists.
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Madame X (1981)
Character: Katherine Richardson
Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her daughter. The daughter, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
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Fantasy Island (1977)
Character: Eunice Hollander Baines
Mr. Roarke and his assistant Tattoo greet a former reporter in World War II who wants to relive a brief romance that took place in London 30 years ago, a big-game hunter who, for once, wants to be the hunted and a wealthy businesswoman who wants to be a secret and silent observer at her own funeral.
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Lizzie (1957)
Character: Elizabeth Richmond
A psychiatrist treats a woman of three faces: neurotic Elizabeth, wanton Lizzie, and charming Beth.
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It's a Great Feeling (1949)
Character: Eleanor Parker (uncredited)
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
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Three Secrets (1950)
Character: Susan Chase
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.
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A Millionaire for Christy (1951)
Character: Christabel 'Christy' Sloane
Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle has died and left him $2 million. Christy, who's in financial straits, decides to try to snag Peter. Zany hijinks ensue and romantic sparks fly.
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Vaudeville Days (1942)
Character: Colleen (song "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling")
A narrator provides very brief info on the beginnings and history of Vaudeville while Vaudeville acts are staged by impersonators and contemporary performers.
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A Hole in the Head (1959)
Character: Eloise Rogers
An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son.
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Warning Shot (1967)
Character: Doris Ruston
Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.
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Warning Shot (1967)
Character: Mrs. Doris Ruston
Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.
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The Woman in White (1948)
Character: Laura Fairlie / Ann Catherick
A young painter stumbles upon an assortment of odd characters at an English estate where he has been hired to give art lessons to beautiful Laura Fairlie. Among them are Anne Catherick, a strange young woman dressed in white whom he meets in the forest and who bears a striking resemblance to Laura; cunning Count Fosco, who hopes to obtain an inheritance for nobleman Sir Percival Glyde, whom he plans to have Laura marry; Mr. Fairlie, a hypochondriac who can't stand to have anyone make the slightest noise; and eccentric Countess Fosco who has her own dark secret. The artist also finds himself drawn to Marion Halcomb, a distant relation to Laura for whom the Count also has plans.
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The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Character: Zosch Machine
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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The Oscar (1966)
Character: Sophie Cantaro
An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.
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Scaramouche (1952)
Character: Lenore
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
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Detective Story (1951)
Character: Mary McLeod
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
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The Last Ride (1944)
Character: Kitty Kelly
A police lieutenant is determined to bust the gang of crooks selling defective automobile tires.
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The Naked Jungle (1954)
Character: Joanna Leiningen
The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
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Sunburn (1979)
Character: Mrs. Thoren
A model and a private eye help a New York insurance investigator on a deadly case in Acapulco.
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Atlantic City (1944)
Character: Bathing Beauty (uncredited)
In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon".
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Eye of the Cat (1969)
Character: Aunt Danny
A man and his girlfriend plan to rob the mansion of the man's eccentric but wealthy aunt. However, the aunt keeps dozens of cats in her home, and the man is deathly afraid of cats.
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An American Dream (1966)
Character: Deborah Kelly Rojack
Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personality. During a vicious argument with his wife, Deborah, Stephen snaps and pushes her from his high-rise apartment to her death. He manages to convince the authorities that she killed herself, then reignites an old affair with singer Cherry McMahon -- which doesn't sit well with her jealous mobster boyfriend, Nicky.
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Always Together (1947)
Character: Eleanor Parker (uncredited)
An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors.
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Home from the Hill (1960)
Character: Hannah Hunnicutt
The wealthiest man in a Texas town decides to teach his teenage son how to hunt to make a man out of him.
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Escape Me Never (1947)
Character: Fenella MacLean
A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.
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Mission to Moscow (1943)
Character: Emlen Davies
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
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The King and Four Queens (1956)
Character: Sabina McDade
Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.
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Between Two Worlds (1944)
Character: Ann Bergner
Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got onboard or where they are going. Soon it becomes apparent that they all have something in common.
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Dead on the Money (1991)
Character: Catherine Blake
An actress is persuaded by a charming man to join him in a scheme of revenge against his cousin.
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Home for the Holidays (1974)
Character: Alexandra Morgan
An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.
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Chain Lightning (1950)
Character: Joan "Jo" Holloway
Former World War II flying ace Matt Brennan takes a position as a test pilot for a commercial aircraft corporation and bumps into his old girlfriend, Jo Holloway, who now works as a receptionist for the company.
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Return to Peyton Place (1961)
Character: Connie Rossi
Residents of the small town of Peyton Place aren't pleased when they realize they're the characters in local writer Allison MacKenzie's controversial first novel. A sequel to the hit 1957 film.
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Of Human Bondage (1946)
Character: Mildred Rogers
A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for help.
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Il Tigre (1967)
Character: Mme Vincenzini
A middle-aged businessman finds himself in thirst for romance adventure, and it seems that a proper partner is not far away.
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Above and Beyond (1953)
Character: Lucey Tibbets
The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it can do tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll resulting from it will be huge. He is reluctant to be the person who will end so many lives, but as time goes on, the pressure upon him only increase.
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Many Rivers to Cross (1955)
Character: Mary Stuart Cherne
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.
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Once Upon a Spy (1980)
Character: The Lady
Computer genius and chess champion Ted Danson is lured into service by secret agent Eleanor Parker and becomes a reluctant hero thanks to a number of exploits with villainous Christopher Lee and his army of lethal blue-eyed blonde women.
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Panic Button (1964)
Character: Louise
A businessman comes up with a scheme to make money by financing a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" that's destined to fail, thus giving him some major tax breaks.
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Valentino (1951)
Character: Joan Carlisle / Sarah Gray
Italian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling between his career and the woman he loves.
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The Big Shot (1942)
Character: Telephone Operator (voice)
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.
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She's Dressed to Kill (1979)
Character: Regine Danton
A fashion designer gives a private showing at her mansion over a weekend, but someone starts killing off the models.
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Valley of the Kings (1954)
Character: Ann Barclay Mercedes
Hard-boiled archeologist Mark Brandon is searching for ancient tombs in Egypt when he is approached by beautiful Ann Mercedes, who convinces him to help her fulfill her deceased father's life's ambition - to provide solid proof of the biblical Joseph's travels in ancient Egypt. As an ex-pupil of Ann's father, Mark accepts and the two embark on a search for the tomb of the Pharoah Ra Hotep, said to have had some connection with Joseph. The trail to the tomb is fraught with intrigue, betrayal, murder, and the possibility that the tomb itself has been emptied of all its artifacts by ancient looters.
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The Very Thought of You (1944)
Character: Janet Wheeler
Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory.
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Caged (1950)
Character: Marie Allen
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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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)
Character: Zosch Machine (archive footage) (uncredited)
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
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Never Say Goodbye (1946)
Character: Ellen Gayley
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip starts a correspondence with a Marine, sending a picture of her beautiful mother as the author of Flip's flirtatious letters. When the Marine shows up to meet his pen pal, Ellen takes the opportunity to make her ex-husband jealous.
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Hollywood Canteen (1944)
Character: Self
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
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The Seventh Sin (1957)
Character: Carol Carwin
In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with Paul. Her physician husband Walter discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to China (where he will fight a cholera epidemic) or face the scandal of a public divorce. She persuades him to reconsider and he proposes an alternative. If Paul's wife will agree to a divorce and he marries Carol within one week Walter will obtain a quiet divorce. Carol presents Walter's 'deal' to Paul, who regretfully declines, citing respect for his wife.Carol sees as her only choice to accompany Walter to the village, where she meets booze-soaked Tim. He soon introduces her to nuns at the local hospital-convent and Carol begins to re-evaluate her self-absorbed life and character. Working at the convent, Carol learns she is pregnant. She tells Walter she's unsure who is the father and he regrets her honesty. Shortly after, Walter contracts cholera and dies. Carol returns to Hong Kong and an uncertain future.
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Madison Avenue (1961)
Character: Anne Tremaine
An adman and an adwoman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House.
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Destination Tokyo (1943)
Character: Mike's Wife on Record (voice) (uncredited)
During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in advance of the planned bombing of Tokyo. Along the way, the crew learn about each other as they face the enemy and some of them lose their lives.
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Busses Roar (1942)
Character: Norma
A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.
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The Voice of the Turtle (1947)
Character: Sally Middleton
An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City.
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Interrupted Melody (1955)
Character: Marjorie Lawrence
Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence. She’s a foremost Wagnerian, equal to the vocal and physical demands of the composer’s oeuvre. And she’s a beacon of triumph to anyone who fights back when personal tragedy strikes.
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The Sound of Music (1965)
Character: The Baroness
In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
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The Mysterious Doctor (1943)
Character: Letty Carstairs
The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.
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Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971)
Character: Claire Miller
Dennie has returned from a year among the hippies to her superficial, image-conscious suburban family. She must face their disapproval of her actions. They refuse to even try to understand. She must also deal with an ex-lover, and a beloved young sister who is following in her footsteps, wanting the idealistic hippie life but making some rash decisions in the process.
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Pride of the Marines (1945)
Character: Ruth Hartley
Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.
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Crime by Night (1944)
Character: Irene Carr
A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.
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