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One Crowded Night (1940)
Character: Mae Andrews
The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.
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Birch Interval (1976)
Character: Mrs. Tanner
A young girl is sent to live with Amish relatives in post-war Pennsylvania, where her life dramatically changes.
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Two for the Money (1972)
Character: Mrs. Gap
Two cops, who have quit the police department to become private detectives and bounty hunters, hunt for a killer who has eluded capture for years.
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The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
Character: Crazy Mary
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
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H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)
Character: Miss Redfern, John's Secretary (uncredited)
A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of society, still remembers the beautiful young woman who once brought him out of his shell.
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A Place in the Sun (1951)
Character: Hannah Eastman
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
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Dragonwyck (1946)
Character: Abigail Wells
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
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Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
Character: Sarah (uncredited)
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
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The Great Missouri Raid (1951)
Character: Mrs. Samuels
During the American Civil War (1861-1865), farmers Jesse and Frank James decided to form an armed gang to face the Union troops using guerrilla warfare.
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The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Character: Louise Soubirous
In 1858 Lourdes, France, adolescent peasant Bernadette has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the Massabielle grotto - the townspeople assume this lady to be the Virgin Mary. Pompous government officials think the girl is insane, doing their best to suppress her and her followers, while the church wants nothing to do with the matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the town, ultimately transforming their lives.
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Standing Room Only (1944)
Character: Maj. Harriet Cromwell
During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the housing shortage, are unable to find hotel rooms. In desperation, they pretend to be married and hire themselves out as a butler and maid in order to secure lodgings. Comedy.
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Double Door (1934)
Character: Caroline Van Brett
In 1910 Manhattan, Victoria Van Brett, a bitter spinster heiress lives an isolated life with her sister Caroline. Her domineering urges go into overdrive when their half-brother Rip brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Avenue mansion, built by their late industrialist father. The title refers to a secret soundproofed chamber that the villainess uses to entrap her enemies.
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Meet the Stewarts (1942)
Character: Geraldine Stewart
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
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Rainbow Island (1944)
Character: Queen Oklana
Three merchant seamen fleeing the Japanese take refuge on a Pacific island, where they come across a doctor and his daughter who take care of the natives, a hostile tribe that wants to kill the sailors for trespassing on their sacred ground.
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The Howards of Virginia (1940)
Character: Mrs. Betsy Norton
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
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Shantytown (1943)
Character: Mrs. Gorty
Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"
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Forever Amber (1947)
Character: Mother Red Cap
Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams.
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Old Acquaintance (1943)
Character: Belle Carter
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
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Men of Boys Town (1941)
Character: Mrs. Fenely
Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.
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The Meanest Man in the World (1943)
Character: Kitty Crockett
Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice and tries to convince the world he's a ruthless heel. Suddenly he's the most popular lawyer in town -- but he could lose his fiancée.
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Don Juan Quilligan (1945)
Character: Mrs. Cora Rostigaff
When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.
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Remember the Day (1941)
Character: Miss Nadine Price
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
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Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944)
Character: Agatha Butterfield
A poor family in Florida saves all the money they can in order to plan something special for the soldier they've invited to Sunday dinner. They don't realize that their request to invite the soldier never got mailed. On the day of the scheduled dinner, another soldier is brought to their home and love soon blossoms between him and Tessa, the young woman who runs the home.
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The Devil Commands (1941)
Character: Mrs. Walters
A story about a scientist who is obsessed with communicating with the dead.
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Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)
Character: Judith Dominy
Light-hearted, old-style romance about a farm-hand who arranges to buy a pair of mules from his employer. No one is able to handle the mules and he must train them. Adding to his dilemma, he pursues his boss's daughter who gets her kicks out of keeping him guessing about her true feelings. Of course, at the end he tames both the mules and the girl.
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Macho Callahan (1971)
Character: Crystal
A man tricked into enlisting in the Confederate army is later thrown into a hellish stockade on desertion charges. He eventually breaks out of the prison camp, reunites with his old partner and sets out to kill the man who was responsible for his being in the camp in the first place. However, after accidentally killing a Confederate officer, he finds himself pursued by a gang of vicious bounty hunters intent on collecting the reward put up by the dead officer's widow.
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The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
Character: Giraud's Sister
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
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Deep Waters (1948)
Character: Mary McKay
A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.
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You're My Everything (1949)
Character: Aunt Jane
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.
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Design for Scandal (1941)
Character: Nettie
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
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The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Character: Agnes Fiske
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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Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)
Character: Miss Farber
The story of three wildly neurotic characters: a facially disfigured girl, a homosexual paraplegic, and an introvert epileptic who, after leaving the hospital, set up housekeeping together in a cottage where they support each other.
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The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)
Character: Alice Pritchard
In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men object to her at first, she soon charms them all, especially the handsome young head of the company. Their romance gets sidetracked when she becomes involved in the Women's Suffrage movement.
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The Gay Sisters (1942)
Character: Miss Ida Orner
The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married.
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Body and Soul (1947)
Character: Anna Davis
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
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Secret Beyond the Door (1947)
Character: Caroline Lamphere
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.
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Are Husbands Necessary? (1942)
Character: Anna
George and Mary Elizabeth Cugat are about to celebrate their second wedding anniversary and dream of having a child. Although they live comfortably on George's earnings as a bank official, Liz's scatterbrained handling of their finances constantly puts them in jeopardy. Liz becomes jealous when George's former girl friend, Myra Ponsonby, comes for a visit with his party-loving friends Bill Stone, Cory Cartwright and Chuck, an artist, after which George spends the entire evening dancing at a nightclub with Myra.
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National Velvet (1945)
Character: Mrs. Araminty Brown
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse.
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The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
Character: Jessie Florian (Uncredited)
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.
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Fallen Angel (1945)
Character: Clara Mills
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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