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Love Lies (1931)
Character: Junetta
Love Lies is a 1932 British musical comedy film directed by Lupino Lane and starring Stanley Lupino, Dorothy Boyd and Jack Hobbs. It was made by British International Pictures at Elstree Studios. It was based on Stanley Lupino's own hit 1929 stage musical.
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The Lady Is Willing (1934)
Character: Helene Dupont
In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to kidnap the man's wife so he can get her signature and reclaim the money. The detective didn't plan on falling in love with the wife, but he does, and mayhem ensues.
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The Last Coupon (1932)
Character: Mrs. Meredith
A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!
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Their Night Out (1933)
Character: Lola
An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang!
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Counsel's Opinion (1933)
Character: Leslie
Divorce barrister Logan arrives back in London from a trip overseas to find the whole city fogbound. Unable to reach his flat, he books into the exclusive Royal Parks Hotel. Leslie sweet-talks Logan into letting her stay in his suite, and although the pair are attracted to each other, the night passes innocently. On arriving at Chambers, Logan is asked to act as counsel for Lord Rockburn, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Logan accepts the brief, but then discovers to his horror that Lady Rockburn was a guest at the Royal Parks Hotel ball the previous night, and a cornerstone of the case is alleged impropriety after a maid observed a man leaving her room that morning......
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Strip, Strip, Hooray! (1932)
Character: Spanish Lady
A specialist sunbathing camp is threatened by a campaign by the leader of the 'Wear More Clothes League'.
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Dr. Josser K.C. (1931)
Character: Rosa Wopp
'Crook dons disguises to attempt blackmail.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Silver Spoon (1934)
Character: Lady Perivale
“A homeless gentleman confesses to a Lord's murder to protect a woman they both love.” - BFI.
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Murder at Covent Garden (1932)
Character: Girl
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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A Dream Comes True (1935)
Character: Herself (uncredited)
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
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Legends of the West (1992)
Character: Jerry in 'Frontier Marshall'
Host Jack Palance explores how Hollywood has depicted Western legends like George Armstrong Custer, Billy the Kid, Crazy Horse and the O.K. Corral
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A Night in Montmartre (1931)
Character: Therese
A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, believes in their innocence and sets out to find who really killed the blackmailer.
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The Man from Down Under (1943)
Character: Aggie Dawlins
An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.
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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935)
Character: Self
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Color). It features a young, pre-stardom 13-year-old Judy Garland singing "La Cucaracha" with her two sisters (billed as "The Garland Sisters"). In the film, Hollywood stars participate in a Mexican-themed revue and festival in Santa Barbara. Andy Devine, the "World's Greatest Matador," engages in a bullfight with a dubious bovine supplied by Buster Keaton, and musical numbers are provided by Joe Morrison and The Garland Sisters. Comedy bits and dance numbers are also featured.
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No Escape (1934)
Character: Myra Fengler
“Crime film set in Malaya concerning the pursuit of a planter framed for poisoning his partner and suspected of carrying plague.” - BFI.
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Blow-Ups of 1947 (1947)
Character: Self
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.
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Forbidden Territory (1934)
Character: Valerie Petrovna
Britisher Sir Charles Farrington and a son, Rex Farrington, arrive in a Russian Soviet territory searching for another Farrington son, Michael,who has been thrown into prison. Valarie Perrovna is a singer who is in love with the imprisoned son and she provides the searchers with the information as to where the missing son is being held. They all go there and help Michael escape. But is their escape vehicle---a flat wagon pulled by three horses--- fast enough and sturdy enough through the snow to beat the Commmisar and his troops to the Rumanian border
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Land of Liberty (1939)
Character: (archive footage)
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
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This Thing Called Love (1940)
Character: Charlotte Campbell
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
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Skylark (1941)
Character: Myrtle Valentine
As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at the moment when she is trying to decide what to do, she meets a handsome attorney, and their innocent flirtation begins to turn into something a bit more serious.
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Out of the Blue (1931)
Character: Rosa
Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees abroad to Biarritz to become a nightclub singer.
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Three Girls About Town (1941)
Character: Faith Banner
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
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Thanks for Everything (1938)
Character: Kay Swift
Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love with a girl who upsets things.
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Frontier Marshal (1939)
Character: Jerry
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Three Blind Mice (1938)
Character: Miriam Harrington
Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her staff.
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There's Always Tomorrow (1934)
Character: Alice Vail
Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee.
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The Magnificent Brute (1936)
Character: Della Lane
A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes of his landlady at the boarding house and falls in love with a gold-digger. His best friend also finds himself smitten by the seductive young woman. But when the one of the workers fritters away a collection that had been taken up for the wife of a deceased co-worker on a foolish bet, he and the vamp take off until the good-hearted landlady intervenes and convinces them to stay and take their lumps.
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Gift of Gab (1934)
Character: Maid
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
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La strada buia (1950)
Character: Esther Clementi
A man drives his car off a cliff in an apparent suicide. One insurance investigator is not so sure it was an accident or suicide and gets 48 hours to prove his case.
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The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Character: Alice Munro
The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns—in part—a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of between 500 to 1,500 Anglo-American troops, who had honorably surrendered at Fort William Henry, plus some women and servants; the kidnapping of two sisters, daughters of the British commander; and their rescue by the last Mohicans.
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In Old California (1942)
Character: Lacey Miller
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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Shadow of the Eagle (1950)
Character: Catherine - Empress of Russia
During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.
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Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
Character: Cecil Carver
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
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If Winter Comes (1947)
Character: Natalie Bagshaw
The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a friendship with Effie, a young pregnant girl. As the townsfolk theorize that Mark is the baby's father, Effie - already troubled because of her impending motherhood - commits suicide, and circulating rumors lead the authorities to think Mark killed her. The innocent writer must fight to clear his name.
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The Spanish Main (1945)
Character: Anne Bonney
Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene, governed by Don Juan Alvardo, a Spanish ruler. Alvarado has Laurent thrown in prison, but the latter escapes, and five-years later is a pirate leader. He poses as the navigator on a ship in which Contessa Francesca, daughter of a Mexican noble, is traveling on her way to marry Alvarado, whom she has never seen. Laurent's pirates capture the ship and Francesca, in order to save another ship, gives her hand-in-marriage to Laurent, who sails her to the pirate hideout. This irks his jealous pirate comrades Anne Bonney and Captain Benjamin Black. They overpower Laurent and send Francesca to Alvarado, and then Mario du Billar, a trusted right-hand man, makes a deal to deliver Laurent to Alvarado.
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The Time of Their Lives (1946)
Character: Mildred Dean
Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.
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Always Goodbye (1938)
Character: Harriet Martin
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is born, Jim helps her find a home for the baby with Phil Marshall and his wife. Margot insists that neither the Marshalls nor the child can ever know that she is his mother.
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Decameron Nights (1953)
Character: Comtesse di Firenze / Nerina / Old Witch
Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells three tales of love and lust.
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The Dude Goes West (1948)
Character: Kiki Kelly
Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are. So off he goes into the West and becomes the foe of the notorious Pecos Kid, the captive of Paiutes, the target in a saloon showdown, and the lone source of the whereabouts of a fabulous gold strike.
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Sutter's Gold (1936)
Character: Countess Elizabeth Bartoffski
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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It's in the Bag! (1945)
Character: Eve Floogle
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
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Tropic Holiday (1938)
Character: Marilyn Joyce
A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border.
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Diamond Jim (1935)
Character: Lillian Russell
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
Character: Rosita, a Maid Pure and Simple
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
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Up in Mabel's Room (1944)
Character: Alicia Larchmont
Newly-married Gary Ainsworth (Dennis O'Keefe) once gave his former sweetheart Mabel (Gail Patrick) a sexy negligee with his initials embroidered in the lacework. It is Gary's unenviable task to retrieve the incriminating undergarment from Mabel's room before his wife Geraldine (Marjorie Reynolds) gets wise.
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Barbary Coast Gent (1944)
Character: Lil Damish
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
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Three Smart Girls (1936)
Character: Donna Lyons
The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
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Man About Town (1939)
Character: Lady Arlington
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.
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The Hour Before the Dawn (1944)
Character: May Hetherton
A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she needs to get information about so she can help in Hitler's planned invasion of England.
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The Three Musketeers (1939)
Character: Milady De Winter
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
Character: Katherine Howard
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
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Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968)
Character: Sister Celestine
Mother Superior of St. Francis Academy is challenged by a modern young nun when they take the girls on a bus trip across the country.
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Rendezvous (1935)
Character: Olivia Karloff
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
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I Married an Angel (1942)
Character: Peggy
A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven shows up.
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'Til We Meet Again (1940)
Character: Comtesse de Bresac
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
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Getting Gertie's Garter (1945)
Character: Barbara
Dennis O'Keefe, newly married to lovely Sheila Ryan, is in a jam. O'Keefe's former girl friend, exotic dancer Marie McDonald, has in her possession an expensive, jeweled garter given to her by O'Keefe in his bachelor days. McDonald intends to show the garter to O'Keefe's suspicious wife, so Our Hero must retrieve the embarrassing accouterment without tipping off the missus.
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The First Hundred Years (1938)
Character: Claudia Weston
David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job
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Angels with Broken Wings (1941)
Character: Sybil Barton
Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is about to marry Guy Barton, a wealthy businessman. But Mexican divorces have been declared illegal, so Guy is still married to Sybil Barton, an unscrupulous gold-digger who left him twelve years earlier. She demands that Guy give her $250,000 for his freedom.- Written by Les Adams
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My Own True Love (1948)
Character: Geraldine
Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience as a G.I., during which he lost a leg and was imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp.
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The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
Character: Lady Claire Mere
The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.
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The Pirates of Capri (1949)
Character: Queen Maria Carolina
A group of men calling themselves 'The Pirates of Capri", headed by Captain Sirroco, who is really Count Amalfi, are trying to restore freedom to the people of Naples. The Queen is advised of the pirate's assault of a member of her court and she seeks to escape to Palermo. But, she is advised it would be good politics for her to attend a ball Amalfi is giving for his fiancée, Mercedes, who is unaware of the dual role Amalfi is playing.
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One Exciting Adventure (1934)
Character: Rena Sorel
One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream.
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Holiday (1938)
Character: Laura Cram
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!
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Tight Shoes (1941)
Character: Sybil Ash
A crook with big feet buys shoes that are too tight from a salesman, then decides to use the store as a front for illegal gambling.
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The Trouble with Angels (1966)
Character: Sister Celestine
Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.
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New Wine (1941)
Character: Countess Marie Duvarre
The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.
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Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
Character: Caroline Whipple
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse, she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with to ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.
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Call Out the Marines (1942)
Character: Violet 'Vi' Hall
Two Marine sergeants (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe) flirt with a cafe girl (Binnie Barnes) in San Diego, then find out she's a spy.
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Heads We Go (1933)
Character: Lil Pickering
A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star.
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Malaga (1954)
Character: Frisco
A female former OSS agent is sent to Tangiers, Morocco, to infiltrate and destroy an international smuggling ring.
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Gateway (1938)
Character: Mrs. Fay Sims
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
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Day-time Wife (1939)
Character: Blanche
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
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40 Carats (1973)
Character: Maud Ericson
After an overnight fling with a man nearly 20 years her junior while vacationing in Greece, Ann Stanley returns to New York assuming she'll never see Peter Latham again. Until, that is, he shows up on her doorstep to take her daughter to a party. Despite her yearning for Peter and the encouragement of her friends and family, Ann initially rebuffs him when he pursues her, but slowly she yields to his charm and her own stifled emotions.
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Small Town Girl (1936)
Character: Priscilla Hyde
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
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