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Colonel Blood (1934)
Character: Lady Castlemaine
'1670. Irish patriot caught stealing Crown Jewels talks his way to pardon.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Leap Year (1932)
Character: Paula Zehran
'Affianced Foreign Office agent searches for mystery woman he loves.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Master & Man (1929)
Character: Celia Waring
A sacked workman rescues an owner's amnesiac son from a factory fire and reports him dead.
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Too Many Parents (1936)
Character: Miss Allison
Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart writes himself letters his father should be writing. When his hoax is discovered, Philip attempts suicide.
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The House of Trent (1933)
Character: Rosemary Trent
It follows a doctor who faces both a scandal and a moral dilemma when a patient of his dies while he is making love to a press magnate's daughter.
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The Calendar (1931)
Character: Wenda Panniford
Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations. He decides to get his own back with the help of Hillcott, an ex-burglar. Jill is the love interest
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The Happy Ending (1931)
Character: Mildred Craddock
A father who deserted his family some years before returns home only to find that his wife has told his children and neighbours that he died as a hero.
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One Precious Year (1933)
Character: Dierdre Carton
A classy woman has an affair with a rake after she learns that she has a terminal disease
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Cross Roads (1930)
Character: The Wife
'Mother thwarts daughter's elopement with story of how wife shot her errant husband.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Just Smith (1933)
Character: Lady Moynton
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...
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The School for Scandal (1930)
Character: Lady Sneerwell
Charles, Joseph and Sir Benjamin are in love with Maria and Lady Sneerwell is in love with Charles.
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Borrowed Clothes (1934)
Character: Lady Mary Torrent
Lady Torrent attempts to sell some of her best Parisian gowns to get back into her husband's good books. Confusion ensues following a misunderstanding over an advertisement.
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Murder at Covent Garden (1932)
Character: Helen Osmond
A detective goes undercover and poses as a criminal to try to discover the reasons behind the murder of a night club owner.
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The Old Man (1931)
Character: Lady Arranways
'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Nipper (1930)
Character: Clarissa Wentworth
A producer makes a star of the cockney waif who tried to rob him.
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Guilt (1931)
Character: Anne Barrett
The wife of a playwright has an affair with an actor.
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The Lost Chord (1933)
Character: Pauline
'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Golden Cage (1933)
Character: Venetia Doxford
'Girl marries rich man but still loves poor hotel clerk.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Wandering Jew (1933)
Character: Joanne de Beaudricourt (Phase II)
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.
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The Faithful Heart (1932)
Character: Diana Oughterson
Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years earlier had run out on his family. When Edna re-enters Marshall's life, it causes him to reassess his values-and to end his engagement to his judgmental fiancee. When Faithful Hearts was released in the US, all the voices were redubbed by American actors; even Herbert Marshall, a fixture in Hollywood films since the dawn of the talkie era, was submitted to this electronic augmentation. Original titled The Faithful Heart (Americans must have more of everything!), the film was based on a play by Monckton Hoffe.
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Just My Luck (1935)
Character: Harriet Wright
Homer Crow, fired from his laboratory job at the Dunn-Wright Rubber Company, is sure that his formula for an indestructible rubber, called Durex, will be a success. Others are also, and Honer endures many obstacles, prat-falls and staged accidents while striving to protect his inventions.
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The Blarney Stone (1933)
Character: Lady Anne Cranton
A penniless Irishman becomes the business partner of an English aristocrat with a penchant for high-stakes gambling.
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Taxi for Two (1929)
Character: Charlotte
'Lady's son poses as chauffeur to woo girl who buys taxi.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Lady in Danger (1934)
Character: Lydia
Dexter becomes involved in a revolution and is asked to hide the Queen. This leads to misunderstanding with his firm and his fiancee.
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Arms and the Man (1932)
Character: Raina Petkoff
Which soldier will the naive, impressionable Raina choose to love - the unromantic, hard-nosed, tough Bluntschli, or the handsome, dashing, reckless (and extremely stupid) Sergius?
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Road House (1934)
Character: Lady Chettwinde
Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
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Number Seventeen (1932)
Character: Nora
A gang of jewel thieves hides out in an abandoned London house after a robbery, unaware that a detective is among them in disguise.
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Bonnie Scotland (1935)
Character: Lady Violet Ormsby
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
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The Fire Raisers (1934)
Character: Arden Brent
Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists. His conscience is troubling him ...
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Break of Hearts (1935)
Character: Lady Phyllis Cameron
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.
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The Squeaker (1930)
Character: Beryl Stedman
A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.
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Lily Christine (1932)
Character: Muriel Harvey
Lily is threatened with divorce by her husband after spending an innocent night with friend Rupert Harvey.
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