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Summer of Decision (1959)
Character: Susan
A college student trying to decide on a career spends the summer before his senior year assisting social workers.
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Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes (2022)
Character: N/A
A video essay about fifties and early sixties social and sexual mores, in life and in cinema, and how these "codes" (in partnership with a production Code, capital C, which was almost antediluvian in terms of sexual politics) molded and then trapped the female performers who came up in the shadow of it all. Suzanne Pleshette is a perfect case in point.
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If Things Were Different (1980)
Character: Janet Langford
A woman tries to cope with her husband's emotional instability while also juggling a career as a local TV show director, her motherly duties, and an extramarital affair.
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Wings of Fire (1967)
Character: Kitty Sanborn
A headstrong aviatrix enters an international air race to save her father's foundering business and to soothe the heart of an old flame who returned home with a new wife in tow.
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The Blob (2024)
Character: Annie Hayworth (voice)
Birds looking anxiously at a threat beyond the frame, and then the threat arrives. Mixing a found footage educational film with sci-fi and horror traditions and hand-painted manipulation of the film stock, a familiar narrative is inverted, recontextualizing the fear of others through the anthropocentric eye.
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The Art of 'Spirited Away' (2003)
Character: Herself
The people that brought the film Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) (a.k.a. "Spirited Away") to the US explain how it was converted into English, with some minor confusion between languages, and how well it did in both Japan and America.
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Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1998)
Character: Self
In 1995, Chasen's closed its doors after 60 years of serving chili to movie stars and visiting dignitaries, Presidents and the Pope. During its two final weeks, Chasen regulars (actors and producers), staff, and management sat for interviews. There's an Oscar party for 1500, footage and photos of famous diners, and time with Tommy Gallagher, the ebullient head waiter until retirement in 1994, his son Patrick, catering head Raymond Bilbool, general manager Ronnie Clint, hat check girl Val Schwab, ladies' room attendant Onetta Johnson, and foreign- born waiters, including Jaime. When he started in 1970, like other Latins, he wasn't allowed out of the kitchen. It's a family farewell.
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Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret (1990)
Character: Self
A leading acting teacher who trained some of the most famous performers of the stage and screen, Sanford Meisner was a founding member of the Group Theatre. The Group Theatre, a cooperative theater ensemble, became a leading force in the theater world of the 30s. Meisner performed in many of the group’s most memorable productions.
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Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours (1976)
Character: Elizabeth Morton
A young private detective takes on his first case, a young woman with amnesia who doesn't know why a gunman is trying to kill her but believes she might be involved in a murder.
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Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife (1974)
Character: Self
Mitzi Gaynor and guests Ted Knight (Mary Tyler Moore Show), Jerry Orbach (Chicago), Suzanne Pleshette (Bob Newhart Show) and Jane Withers in music, dance and comedy vignettes celebrating housewives. Songs include "Married," "I Can Cook, Too," and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life." The cast also attend a party performing "The Little Things We Do Together" from Stephen Sondheim's Company.
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For Love or Money (1984)
Character: Joanna Piper
A man and a woman participate in a new game show where partners have to choose between love and money.
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A Stranger Waits (1987)
Character: Kate Bennington
Most men consider the widow Kate Bennington to be irresistible, but when she dives into a madly passionate love affair with a mysterious younger man, one of her secret admirers sets in motion a terrifying plan to end their relationship, forever.
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Help Wanted: Male (1982)
Character: Laura Bingham
An unmarried career woman decides she wants a baby and finds a suitable partner, a sportswriter working for the magazine she publishes. After she maneuvers him into proposing marriage to her, she learns that he happens to be sterile.
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Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid (1978)
Character: Kate Bliss
A turn-of-the-century investigator named Kate Bliss goes to the wide-open spaces of the wild west to capture a gang of outlaws led by a charming "Robin Hood of the plains," leading a band of dispossessed ranchers against a stuffy English land baron who has cheated them out of their property.
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Law and Order (1976)
Character: Karen Day
Story follows three generations of a family in the New York City Police Department.
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Diagnosis Murder: A Twist of the Knife (1993)
Character: Dr. Rachel Walters
Dr Sloan suspects that his flame of long ago, famous heart surgeon Dr Rachel Walters, has murdered US Senator Cabot on the occasion of a guest operation at the community hospital. After a long investigation, Sloan and fellow detectives Dr Bentley and Dr Parker discover her motive: Years ago, Cabot had caused a hit-and-run accident that put her daughter into coma. But how did Dr Walters manage to pass the deadly bacteria on to the senator in front of TV cameras?
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Wall of Noise (1963)
Character: Laura Rubio
The lives and loves behind the scenes at the racetrack are detailed in this thoroughbred soap opera. An ambitious young trainer, Joel Tarrant (Ty Hardin), enters into an illicit affair with the stable owner's wealthy wife, hot-to-trot Laura Rubio (Suzanne Pleshette), in the hope that someday he'll have enough dough to buy his own horses and stable.
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The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)
Character: Arabella Flagg
To restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the California Gold Rush. When their very proper butler gives chase, all roads lead to nonstop adventure, wild and woolly characters, and a lucky punch that leads to a bonanza of belly laughs!
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Target: Harry (1969)
Character: Diane Reed
Pilot Harry Black is hired to fly a man named Carlyle to Istanbul, where he's murdered. Now, mysterious Diane Reed and a local gangster, Rashi, are after Harry believing that he has the priceless plates Carlyle used to counterfeit money.
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Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
Character: Jo Anne Baker
The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker gets caught in the middle of the squabble after evoking Blackbeard's ghost.
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Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
Character: Patience
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
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The Geisha Boy (1958)
Character: Sergent Pearson
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.
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The Star Maker (1981)
Character: Margot Murray
Danny Youngblood is a famed Hollywood director with a reputation for modeling sexy starlets into superstar actresses, and then turning his discoveries into his wives, one after another. However, Danny meets his match when he zeroes in on his latest conquest, Margot Murray, who decides to turn the tables on him.
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Nevada Smith (1966)
Character: Pilar
Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and kill them. The boy is taken in by a gun merchant. The gun merchant shows him how to shoot and to shoot on time and correct.
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River of Gold (1971)
Character: Anna
A pair of beach bums wind up in Acapulco, where they get involved in a search for a beautiful woman and a sunken treasure.
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A Distant Trumpet (1964)
Character: Mrs. Kitty Mainwarring
In 1883, US Cavalry lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from West Point, is assigned to isolated Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona, where he meets commanding officer Teddy Mainwarring's wife Kitty, whom he later rescues from an Indian attack.
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Oh, God! Book II (1980)
Character: Paula Richards
God appears before 11-year-old Tracy Richards to ask for her help to spread his word and influence over the world which she suggests the slogan 'Think God.' Naturaly, Tracy's divorced parents think Tracy's crazy, and plot to halt her 'heaven-sent' mission to spread God's word.
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Dixie: Changing Habits (1983)
Character: Dixie Cabot
Dixie is caught operating a whorehouse, and is sentenced to 90 days house arrest in a convent! Can Dixie bend to the ways of the convent nuns to avoid jail?
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Alone in the Neon Jungle (1988)
Character: Captain Janet Hamilton
A by-the-book female police officer is assigned to the most corrupt precinct in Pittsburgh and told to get it cleaned up.
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The Power (1968)
Character: Prof. Margery Lansing
One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is on to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and to stop them.
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Youngblood Hawke (1964)
Character: Jeanne Green
An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.
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40 Pounds of Trouble (1962)
Character: Chris Lockwood
Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl.
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Hunters Are for Killing (1970)
Character: Barbara Soline
A man comes home after serving time in prison to claim his share of his deceased mother's estate. However, his adoptive father, who holds him responsible for his biological son's death, intends to fight him for everything.
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A Rage to Live (1965)
Character: Grace Caldwell Tate
Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has trouble restraining herself when it comes to the amorous attentions of young men. As word starts to spread about her behavior, Grace becomes a major source of heartache for her mother and a big source of concern to her brother.
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Mister Buddwing (1966)
Character: Fiddle Corwin
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
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The Birds (1963)
Character: Annie Hayworth
Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
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Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970)
Character: Ramona
War is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise quiet army base and the civilians of a nearby Southern town. Brian Keith is an officer who tries to keep the peace. However, peace is hard to come by with Ernest Borgnine as a stereotypical dumb hick sheriff who's quick to call in the local militia. Tony Curtis plays a skirt-chasing sergeant who can't stay out of trouble and soon lands in jail. Brian Keith borrows a tank to release his friend from jail. Things get more chaotic after that.
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Flesh & Blood (1979)
Character: Kate Fallon
A young street-tough-turned-boxer struggles to reach the top while finding his romance with an attractive TV reporter is complicated by an incestuous relationship with his mother.
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Along Came a Spider (1970)
Character: Anne Banning / Janet Furie
Dr. Janet Furie comes to believe that her husband and fellow scientist were set up to die in a lab accident. She blames another scientist, not only for the murder but also for taking credit for her husband's groundbreaking work. When she can't prove her husband was murdered, she spins a web of intrigue and deceit that results in the suspected scientist being framed for another murder that never actually happened.
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Lionpower from MGM (1967)
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's releases for the 1967-68 film season under a "five seasons" theme--fall, winter, spring, summer--plus a "fabulous fifth season". The main music is set to the rousing theme from "The Magnificent Yankee" composed by David Raksin in 1950. The promo is narrated by some of the best voice-over actors of the time, and is an excellent time capsule of a by-gone era.
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The Shaggy D.A. (1976)
Character: Betty Daniels
Wilby Daniels, a successful lawyer running for District Attorney, suddenly finds himself being transformed into an English sheepdog. Somehow he has to keep his change a secret and find just what is causing it, all the while eluding the local dog catcher.
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The Ugly Dachshund (1966)
Character: Fran Garrison
The Garrisons are the "proud parents" of three adorable dachshund pups - and one overgrown Great Dane named Brutus, who nevertheless thinks of himself as a dainty dachsie. His identity crisis results in an uproarious series of household crises that reduce the Garrisons' house to shambles - and viewers to howls of laughter!
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Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
Character: Martha Webster
An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason.
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In Broad Daylight (1971)
Character: Kate Todd
A newly blind actor discovers his wife is cheating on him with his best friend and hatches a plot to murder her and frame his friend for it.
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Rome Adventure (1962)
Character: Prudence Bell
Prudence resigns from her teaching position after being criticized for giving a student her copy of a romance novel. She sails for Italy, takes a job at a small bookstore in Rome, and meets Don, who has just broken up with his girlfriend. Prudence and Don tour Italy together, and romance naturally follows.
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Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean (1990)
Character: Leona Helmsley
Spanning years of both Harry and Leona Helmsley's cutthroat control of their eponymonous empire, this made-for-TV movie chronicles both the high and low points of the couple's life together.
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The Legend of Valentino (1975)
Character: June Mathis
An embellished dramatization of the career and personal life of actor Rudolph Valentino, widely regarded as the screen's first male sex symbol.
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The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998)
Character: Zira (voice)
The circle of life continues for Simba, now fully grown and in his rightful place as the king of Pride Rock. Simba and Nala have given birth to a daughter, Kiara who's as rebellious as her father was. But Kiara drives her parents to distraction when she catches the eye of Kovu, the son of the evil lioness, Zira. Will Kovu steal Kiara's heart?
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Battling for Baby (1992)
Character: Marie
Two childhood friends who have since become fierce rivals are forced to make nice when their children marry. But the feud reignites when a bundle of joy arrives, and the feisty grandmothers vie for baby-tending duties when the new mom goes back to work.
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Fantasies (1982)
Character: Carla Webber
A crazed killer stalks the cast of a television soap-opera.
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Hot Stuff (1979)
Character: Louise Webster
When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new approach to apprehending their targets. They take over a pawn shop where thieves go to unload their merchandise. They record them as they bring stuff in and get them to tell them where they got it. Eventually they're threatened by the mob.
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