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Aquel hombre de Tánger (1953)
Character: Mrs. Sanders
Mary Ellen travels abroad and ends up marrying a Count while she is intoxicated. The Count disappears and with the aid of her father, George, she tracks down his address in the Casbah, only to discover he was an impostor. The real count is Henri, a nondescript man with a shrewd business sense. Mary Ellen pays him to carry on the masquerade of being her husband so she can get a divorce.
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Midnight (1934)
Character: Mrs. Weldon
Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Garboni, just as Saxon was to sit in the electric chair.
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Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
Character: Ludmilla Novotny
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
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Johnny Angel (1945)
Character: Miss Drumm
George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.
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Forever Amber (1947)
Character: Mrs. Spong
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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White Heat (1949)
Character: Ma Jarrett
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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Something in the Wind (1947)
Character: Grandma Read
A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.
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Crossroads (1942)
Character: Madame Pelletier
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
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Sergeant York (1941)
Character: Mother York
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
Character: Madame Rosalie La Grange
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.
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The Moon Is Down (1943)
Character: Mme. Sarah Orden
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
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Random Harvest (1942)
Character: Mrs. Deventer
Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.
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The President's Lady (1953)
Character: Mrs. Robards
The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The plot concentrates on the later scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.
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The Yearling (1946)
Character: Ma Forrester
Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?
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Keeper of the Flame (1943)
Character: Old Mrs. Forrest
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
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The Man with a Cloak (1951)
Character: Mrs. Flynn, the housekeeper
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.
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Victory (1940)
Character: Mrs. Schomberg
A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.
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Experiment Perilous (1944)
Character: Maggie, the Maid
In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.
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