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Testimony (1920)
Character: Lucinda
A farmer's runaway wife returns but is ejected by his mother.
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Dangerous Afternoon (1961)
Character: Mrs. Judson
The manager of a halfway house for female ex-cons takes action when a blackmailer threatens to expose her secret.
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Children of Chance (1949)
Character: Francesca
In Ischia, a priest uses the money a young woman has made on the black market toward a home for illegitimate children.
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The Lady Clare (1919)
Character: Alice
A Lord weds a Lady despite discovering that she is a substituted village child. Based on the poem Lady Clare by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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Old Mother Riley (1937)
Character: Mrs. Briggs
Old Mother Riley is a British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Barbara Everest, Patrick Ludlow and Hubert Leslie. Mother Riley and her daughter stop the plans of some disinherited relatives to overturn the terms of a will. It was the first in the Old Mother Riley series of films.
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The Umbrella (1933)
Character: Mrs. Wynne
Two thieves are released from prison; one of them has an umbrella with jewels hidden in its handle.
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When London Sleeps (1932)
Character: Madame Lamberti
Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs. The only link between them seems to be Tommy Blyth, whose betting has put him in serious debt with Haines and who fancies Mary, the Lamberti's adopted daughter. In fact, there is a further unexpected link between the two worlds.
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The Warren Case (1934)
Character: (uncredited)
Chided by his boss for a conspicuous lack of sensational stories, Lewis Bevan takes matters into his own hands to revive his flagging career.
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Meet Maxwell Archer (1940)
Character: Miss Duke
Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder.
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The Lost Chord (1933)
Character: Mother Superior
'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Love's Old Sweet Song (1933)
Character: Nurse
'Farmer loves singer whom his half-brother marries and abandons with baby.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Bigamist (1921)
Character: Blanche
Pamela (Duke) and Herbert Arnott (Royce) have been happily married for five years and have had two children. On the day of their wedding anniversary, Pamela receives a letter from another woman signed Lucy Arnott which states that she is the legal wife of Herbert.
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Fox Farm (1922)
Character: Kate Falconer
A gypsy loves a married farmer who is blinded blowing up a tree.
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The Persistent Lovers (1922)
Character: Joyce
A Duke's daughter loves an author and follows him to France, discovering her father withheld letters.
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Inquest (1939)
Character: Mrs. Wyatt
A woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. A coroner is determined to prove that she did it, but thanks to the assistance of a quick-witted lawyer she is eventually found innocent.
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The Roof (1933)
Character: Mrs. Foster
Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
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The Prime Minister (1941)
Character: Baroness Lehzen (uncredited)
A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria.
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Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
Character: Mrs. Olav
A gentle widower with a small daughter finds his peaceful small rural village suddenly invaded by Nazis and, enraged in short order by their atrocities, becomes the leader of an aggressive underground movement.
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Phantom of the Opera (1943)
Character: The Aunt
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful young soprano Christine Dubois the star of the opera and wreak revenge on those who stole his music.
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Upstairs and Downstairs (1959)
Character: 2nd Old Lady
On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank robbers, a Welsh lass who takes one look at London and runs, and an Italian charmer who turns the place into a bawdy house. Then when Ingrid arrives from Sweden things actually start to get complicated.
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The Safecracker (1958)
Character: Mrs. Dawson
Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.
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Rotten to the Core (1965)
Character: Mrs Dick
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy Perkins
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There Goes the Bride (1932)
Character: Mme. Marquand (uncredited)
A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a bag thief in the train. When she refuses to tell him who she really is, her accuser decides to take her home where he can keep an eye on her until 12 o'clock the next day, the time at which she has calculated that it will be safe to tell the truth! But when his fiancée arrives unexpectedly and then his 'guest' is mistaken for her, it all gets rather embarrassing...
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Mission to Moscow (1943)
Character: Mrs. Litvinov
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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Wanted for Murder (1946)
Character: Mrs Colebrooke
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
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The Man Who Finally Died (1963)
Character: Martha
Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in Bavaria - with his father's name on the coffin. His investigation in Bavaria reveals startling facts and the obstruction he meets makes him suspect foul play.
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The Lodger (1932)
Character: Mrs. Bunting
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
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Love in Exile (1936)
Character: Ana
When a king suddenly abdicates, his subjects are lead to believe that it is for the love of a foreigner in this romance. In reality, he is stepping down so avaricious businessmen can crown their own man king. The deposed monarch spends his exile on the Riviera, while the woman, filled with guilt because he stepped down for her, lives in Holland. Interestingly enough, Edward VIII the King of England abdicated for the love of American woman Wallis Simpson a few weeks after this British film was released.
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Nurse on Wheels (1963)
Character: Nurse Merrick
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.
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Passing Shadows (1934)
Character: Mrs. Lawrence
The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man.
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Trunk Crime (1939)
Character: Ursula
When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, throws him in a trunk and locks him in, and taunts the bully with the promise that he will be buried alive in the trunk. Only, once he gets his trunk and his prey to his country estate, the vengeful victim finds things keep going wrong...
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Gaslight (1944)
Character: Elizabeth
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
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Frieda (1947)
Character: Mrs Dawson
An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape.
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The Second Mr. Bush (1940)
Character: Mrs. Windel-Todd
A writer poses as a shy butterfly hunter who has a fortune and is hounded by reporters.
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Jump for Glory (1937)
Character: Mrs. Nolan
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
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The Uninvited (1944)
Character: Lizzie Flynn
A pair of siblings from London [Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey] purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, England. Only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price, and soon they’re caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave. Rich in atmosphere, The Uninvited, directed by Lewis Allen, was groundbreaking for the seriousness with which it treated the supernatural, haunted house genre, and it remains an elegant and eerie experience, featuring a classic score by Victor Young. A tragic family past, a mysteriously locked room, cold chills, bumps in the night - this gothic Hollywood classic has it all.
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The Damned (1962)
Character: Miss Lamont
An American tourist and a troubled young woman are chased by her gang leader brother to a top secret British government facility that conducts experiments on children.
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Lily Christine (1932)
Character: Hempel
Lily is threatened with divorce by her husband after spending an innocent night with friend Rupert Harvey.
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Jane Eyre (1943)
Character: Lady Ingram
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
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Scrooge (1935)
Character: Mrs. Cratchit
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
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El Cid (1961)
Character: Mother Superior
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
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The Patient Vanishes (1941)
Character: Mrs. Cardby
Action and excitement beckon as popular sleuth Mick Cardby goes on the trail of a missing girl, and finds himself in the clutches of a gang of blackmailers.
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An Inspector Calls (1954)
Character: Committee Member - Mrs. Lefson
An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?
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Madeleine (1950)
Character: Mrs. Smith
Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man, as they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman.
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Ingrid Bergman Remembered (1996)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she is best remembered for a natural and vulnerable persona which was so genuine and alluring. Her cinematic contributions produced such classics as "Casablanca," "Gaslight" and "Anastasia." But Ingrid's story goes deeper than the triumphs of her movie career.
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The Fatal Witness (1945)
Character: Lady Elizabeth Ferguson / Vera Cavanaugh
A playboy produces an airtight alibi when he is questioned about the murder of his wealthy aunt.
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Pride and Prejudice (1938)
Character: Mrs. Bennet
In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, who have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to eldest daughter Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with second-eldest Elizabeth.
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The Valley of Decision (1945)
Character: Delia
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.
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The Man Behind the Mask (1936)
Character: Lady Slade
A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
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