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Peg of Old Drury (1935)
Character: Irish Woman on Boat (uncredited)
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
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Lazybones (1935)
Character: Bridget
Lazybones is an idle baronet. He hasn't a care in the world until his father cuts him off without a penny. He then meets an American heiress & marries her but finds she has been disinherited as well. They find even more trouble in the shape of the American's cousin.
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Lily of Killarney (1934)
Character: Mrs O'Connor
Set in Ireland, a poor knight's rival frames him for murder in this musical based on 'Colleen Bawn'.
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Riders to the Sea (1935)
Character: Maurya
In this story of Western Ireland, the most famous work of Irelands greatest dramatist JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE is brought to the screen by Ulsters greatest film director BRIAN DESMOND HURST.
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The Sky’s the Limit (1937)
Character: Mrs O'Reilly
Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs.
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City Without Men (1943)
Character: Mrs. Maria Barton
A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.
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Ivy (1947)
Character: Martha Huntley
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, and her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.
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This Above All (1942)
Character: Waitress
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
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Lydia (1941)
Character: Mary
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.
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That Hamilton Woman (1941)
Character: Mrs. Cadogan-Lyon
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Roxie Hart (1942)
Character: Mrs. Morton
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.
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Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
Character: Mrs. Monahan
"Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families.
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It Happened in Flatbush (1942)
Character: Mrs. 'Mac' McAvoy
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Character: Mrs. Higgins
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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Between Two Worlds (1944)
Character: Mrs. Midget
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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Cluny Brown (1946)
Character: Mrs. Maile
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
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Kathleen Mavourneen (1937)
Character: Mary Ellen O'Dwyer
A hugely popular, much-adapted comedy in which a Liverpool lass visits family in rural Ireland and finds she has several rivals for her affections
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Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
Character: Landlady
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conniving wife Christine and daughter Lavinia vie for the love of a handsome captain with a dark secret while well-meaning neighbor Peter sets his sights on Lavinia.
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Mother Wore Tights (1947)
Character: Grandmother McKinley
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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The Girl from Manhattan (1948)
Character: Mrs. Beeler
A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his boarding house to the hilt. In her efforts to help him keep his boarding house, she becomes involved with a handsome young minister and his superior, an older bishop.
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935)
Character: Mrs. de Hooley
The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
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The Man from Texas (1948)
Character: Aunt Belle
James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suffering wife Zoe. He repeatedly tells Zoe, "just one more time," but he is unable to stop which angers her greatly. However, he does have brief moments of heroics such as when he helps the Widow Weeks save her farm.
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It's Love Again (1936)
Character: Mrs. Hopkins
Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So, Peter invents "Mrs. Smythe-Smythe", a mysterious Englishwoman who spends her days hunting tigers in India, jumping out of airplanes, and generally driving men mad with her beauty. Since no one in London has ever seen Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, Elaine decides to impersonate the lady, in hopes that the publicity will land her the big break she's been looking for.
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The Accused (1949)
Character: Mrs. Conner
A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.
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Jane Eyre (1943)
Character: Bessie
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
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Juno and the Paycock (1930)
Character: Mrs Boyle, "Juno"
During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life really are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start living like vagabonds.
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Blackmail (1929)
Character: Mrs. White
London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.
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The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Character: Sister Martha
A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.
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The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
Character: Nona
George Sanders stars in this engrossing melodrama about a very domineering sister who holds a tight grip on her brother -- especially when he shows signs of falling in love.
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The Spiral Staircase (1946)
Character: Nurse Barker
On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
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The Lodger (1944)
Character: Ellen Bonting
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
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The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)
Character: Mrs. Dorsey
The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey from their boyhood in Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion.
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Storm in a Teacup (1937)
Character: Honoria Hegarty
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
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Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942)
Character: Alma Lothian, Robert's Aunt
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.
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How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Character: Beth Morgan
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
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Sierra (1950)
Character: Mrs. Jonas
Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that Ring has "never seen a woman close up." Jeff is injured, Ring runs afoul of horse thieves and the law, and Riley (who is a lawyer) labors to clear the Hassards (who others would prefer dead).
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The Fortunate Fool (1933)
Character: Rose
A wealthy author, looking for material, 'adopts' an incorrigible thief he finds in the streets, together with an attractive typist who is down on her luck.
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Challenge to Lassie (1949)
Character: Mrs. MacFarland
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
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Crime Unlimited (1935)
Character: Jewel Thief
A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.
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The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942)
Character: Mrs. Michael Fitzpatrick
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
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Kitty (1945)
Character: Old Meg
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
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