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Clancy of the Mounted (1933)
Character: Ann Laurie (as Jacqueline Wells)
A Canadian Mountie is assigned to bring in his brother, who was framed for the murder of a gold mine owner. Based on Robert W. Service's poem "Clancy of the Mounted Police."
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The Good Bad Boy (1924)
Character: Child (uncredited)
Billy Benson has a reputation as a "bad boy" largely due to his habit of winding up in fist fights. Billy is usually fighting to defend his dad's reputation. John Benson is the town ne'er-do-well: a failed inventor who has labored the past 20 years on what he believes is a revolutionary fire extinguisher. Wealthy businessman Walter Howe realizes that it really is a million-dollar idea, and plots...
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The Knockout (1932)
Character: Jackie (as Jacqueline Wells)
When Mickey accidentally knocks out a local boxing champ, he is forced to take the fighter's place in a bout.
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You're Telling Me (1932)
Character: Jackie
In this The Boy Friends series short, college students Mickey and Alabam stay at a city friend's place for what they tell him will be one night - though it stretches into several months.
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Idea Girl (1946)
Character: Pat O'Rourke
Larry Brewster, partner in the music publishing firm of Brewster and Crow, returns from a trip to find that his partner, J.C. Crow has hired Pat O'Rourke as a song plugger.
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Skip the Maloo! (1931)
Character: Miss Benson
Charlie Chase, playing the Duke of Chasewick, but hired by Dell Henderson to play himself, and disabuse his wife and daughter of any fondness for nobility.
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The Frame-Up (1937)
Character: Betty Lindale (as Jacqueline Wells)
A detective investigates a racing scam.
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Night Cargo (1936)
Character: Claire Martineau, alias Marty
While in Singapore, a man and a pretty young girl find themselves mixed up in blackmail and murder.
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Highway Patrol (1938)
Character: Jane Brady (as Jacqueline Wells)
Arrested for speeding by highway patrolman Bill Rolph (Robert Paige), J.W. Brady (Robert Middlemass), the president of an oil refinery, offers him the assignment to find the culprits who have wrecked his gas stations, hi-jacked his trucks and attempted to blow up his plant.
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Classified (1925)
Character: Jeanette
Babs Comet is employed by the classified ad department of the daily paper and uses her looks and position to get a husband.
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My Son Is a Criminal (1939)
Character: Myrna Kingsley (as Jacqueline Wells)
Former police chief Tim Halloran Sr. (Willard Robertson) fully expects his son Tim Jr. (Alan Baxter) to follow in his footsteps, flat though they may be. Instead, the younger Halloran opts for the easy road of crime.
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Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924)
Character: Child Extra (as Jacqueline Wells)
In the year 1550, Sir George Vernon agrees to have his young daughter Dorothy betrothed to John Manners, the son of the Earl of Rutland. Sir George signs a contract, promising that the marriage will take place on Dorothy's 18th birthday, or else he will have to pay a large penalty to Rutland. But when the two children have grown older, rumors of John's wild behavior in France provoke Sir George to call off the engagement, and to pledge his daughter instead to her cousin Malcolm. Rutland now claims the forfeit from Sir George, and meanwhile, John has befriended Mary Stuart, the sworn enemy of Elizabeth, who is now Queen of England.
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Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Character: Pearl O'Neill
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
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When G-Men Step In (1938)
Character: Marjory Drake (as Jacqueline Wells)
Having paid for the education and legal training of his younger brother, Bruce, with the idea that he would become a lawyer and join his business, Frederick Garth, a racketeer posing as an honest businessman, is dismayed when he learns that Bruce has become a G-Man instead.
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Princess O'Rourke (1943)
Character: Stewardess (uncredited)
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
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I Was Framed (1942)
Character: Ruth Marshall
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
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The Ranger and the Lady (1940)
Character: Jane Tabor
While Sam Houston in in the nation's capital trying to get Texas into the Union, his aide is trying to impose a self-serving tax on the use of the Santa Fe trail. The lady owner of a wagon train is using the trail, and a Texas Ranger comes to her assistance.
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Sabre Jet (1953)
Character: Marge Hale
The story of jet pilots flying over Korea by day, from their Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and of their wives, on station with them, who have dinner ready when they return. Jane Carter (Coleen Gray), a reporter for a large newspaper syndicate arrives... she's also the estranged wife of the assistant squadron commander, Colonel Gil Manton (Robert Stack.) At first, she goes at her assignment of getting a story on the pilots wives with the same ruthlessness and persistence that broke up her marriage - but a mirror isn't needed to peek around the corner to where this one is headed.
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Young Bill Hickok (1940)
Character: Louise Mason (as Jacqueline Wells)
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.
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The Hard Way (1943)
Character: Chorine (Uncredited)
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
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She Married an Artist (1937)
Character: Betty Dennis
Because Thornwood's portraits of comely model Sally Dennis are in such great demand, he is obliged to spend virtually all his time with Sally, which prompts Toni to seek retribution in divorce court.
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Westward the Women (1951)
Character: Laurie Smith
There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.
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The Kansas Terrors (1939)
Character: Maria del Montez
In Kansas Terrors, Stoney and his saddle pal Rusty take a job delivering horses to a flyspeck Caribbean island. Here they join forces with Rico to topple the regime of a despotic commandante.
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The Main Event (1938)
Character: Helen Phillips
FBI agent Mac Richards takes his girlfriend, Helen Phillips, to a world championship boxing match only to learn that the event has been canceled because the titleholder has been kidnapped. Mac is entrusted with the ransom money, but the kidnappers discover that his fellow agents have surrounded the train station locker where the money was to be dropped and order the champ's manager to have the money delivered by an usher to a different location. With Helen disguised as the usher and Mac driving a cab, the pair set off to deliver the money. The gang isn't taking any chances, though - they waylay the cab and take both the ransom money and Helen to their hideout. Now Mac and his fellow agents must rescue both the champ and his sweetheart before they come to harm.
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Girl in 313 (1940)
Character: Lorna Hobart
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
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Little Miss Roughneck (1938)
Character: Mary LaRue (as Jacqueline Wells)
Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia's "answer" to Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and Deanna Durbin. In Little Miss Roughneck, Fellows is cast as Foxine LaRue, a tomboyish sort who is being prodded into a show-biz career by her stage mother Gert (Margaret Irving). Young Mr. Partridge (Scott Colton) becomes Foxine's agent, principally because he's sweet on the girl's older sister Mary (Jacqueline Wells). Blackballed from Hollywood because of her mother's pushiness, Foxine tries to help out Partridge and her own family by cooking up a bizarre publicity stunt, enlisting the aid of easy-going Mexican "papacita" Pascual (Leo Carrillo).
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Torture Ship (1939)
Character: Joan Martel
A mad scientist uses captured criminals as experiments for his study on "the criminal mind" aboard his private ship.
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Girls Can Play (1937)
Character: Ann Casey
The Hollywood Post's sports writer, Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley), yearns to be a crime reporter, and thus looks for foul play on even the most routine assignments. In writing a piece about a girl's softball team, Jimmy discovers that their sponsor, Foy Harris (John Gallaudet), is a notorious racketeer who has supposedly gone straight. Jimmy suspects Foy is still up to no good. He begins hanging around the team to do a bit of snooping, and also to be near the cute new pitcher, Ann Casey (Jacqueline Wells).
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The Nurse's Secret (1941)
Character: Florence Lentz
An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.
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The Threat (1949)
Character: Ann Williams
A violent escaped con and his gang kidnap the police detective and DA who put him behind bars.
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Captain Blood (1924)
Character: Little Girl
Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled as a slave to Barbados, where he and his friend Jeremy are purchased by Colonel Bishop at the behest of his niece Arabella. With other slaves he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the terror of the Caribbean privateers until offered a commission in the English Navy. He defeats the French at Port Royal, and as a reward he is named governor of Jamaica and marries Arabella.
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Strange Conquest (1946)
Character: Virginia Sommers
Two doctors try to find the cure for a fatal disease, while battling each other for the affection of a beautiful woman doctor.
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Why Men Leave Home (1951)
Character: Ruth Waldron
A housewife, suspecting her husband of having an affair with a younger woman, enlists the help of a make-up artist to become more attractive to him.
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Sands of Iwo Jima (1950)
Character: Mary
Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.
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The Bohemian Girl (1936)
Character: Arline as an Adult
Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.
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The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)
Character: Face of 7th Victim in Newspaper Photo (uncredited)
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
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Her First Romance (1940)
Character: Eileen Strong
A bookish co-ed is pranked into attending a formal dance, but her stepsister refuses to help her prepare. With support from a cook and her cousin, she gets a dress, but after learning it’s a joke, she initially declines—until a charming opera star offers to escort her, leading to surprising revelations.
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None But the Brave (1928)
Character: Miss Ireland
College hero Charles Stanton fails miserably as an insurance agent; so he becomes a lifeguard, saves an injured swimmer and is rewarded for his valor.
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Coronado (1935)
Character: Barbara Forrest (as Jacqueline Wells)
Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego track, in a tent-city with her father. Otto, and ditzy sister, Violet, June Wray is a singer with the Eddy Duchin Orchestra appearing to the hotel. Johnny Marvin, an aspiring songwriter and the son of a wealthy automobile manufacturer, is staying at the hotel and, from they moment June and Johnny meet, they fall instantly in love. Trouble arises when Johnny's father objects to the romance, and complications and help arrive in the form of two Marine-hating sailors,Chuck Hornbostel and "Pinky" Falls, when Chuck marries June's ditzy sister.
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In Walked Charley (1932)
Character: Jackie
Charley, a travel agent, finds himself in a situation where he has to humor an apparent lunatic.
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Last of the Redmen (1947)
Character: Cora Munro
A family-oriented adaption of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." As the French-Indian War rages across the untamed territory of the Great Northwest, the embattled wilderness gives birth to a legend -- the proud legend of "The Last of the Red Men." August, 1757, General Montcalm and his Iroquois alalies are on the war path -- and General Munro fears for the lives of his children as they travel to join him at Fort William Henry. Although Munro dispatches a letter urging them to take refuge at Fort Edward until the road is safe, an Iroquois scout intercepts the warning. So Major Duncan Hayward is unaware of the danger as he escorts Alice Munro, her sister Cora, and her young brother Davy from the sanctuary of the fort. When their guide Magua, a vengeful Iroquois played by Buster Crabbe, betrays them, only one man can save the travelers from his savage trap.
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Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Character: Lee Gershwin
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
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Maytime (1923)
Character: Little Girl
Ottilie Van Zandt is forced to wed her cousin, despite her love for Richard Wayne, the gardener's son. Richard leaves, vowing to return a wealthy man and eligible suitor for her. He returns to find she has already married and, in turn, marries another girl on impulse. Two generations later, the grandchildren of Ottilie and Richard, who both have inherited their names as well, meet and develop a close friendship that culminates in the romance that their grandparents began but could not consummate years before.
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The Home Maker (1925)
Character: Helen Knapp
A man's life seems to be falling apart. He's bored with his job, gets passed over for a promotion and, when the pressures get to be too much, he tries to commit suicide, but he even fails at that and manages only to cripple himself instead of killing himself. Forced to stay at home, he finds the role of "househusband" enjoyable--until his wife takes a low-paying job with his old company, and rapidly rises up the corporate ladder.
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The Black Cat (1934)
Character: Joan Alison
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
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Happy Landing (1934)
Character: Janet Curtis
An action-filled film with outlaws-of-the-clouds at war with the men of the U. S. Flying Service. A young pilot, Nick Ferris, fights to track down a dangerous gang of smugglers and clear his name of an undeserved stigma.
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Back in the Saddle (1941)
Character: Taffy
Gene returns from the East with new ranch owner Tom Bennett to find everyone's cattle dying. Blaine has reopened the copper mine and the waste is poisoning the water supply. While Gene is away Tom confronts the miners and a man is killed in the ensuing gunfight. Now Gene not only has the dying cattle problem but his ranch owner is in jail.
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Deputy Marshal (1949)
Character: Claire Benton
A lawman takes on gangsters attempting to steal property wanted for a railroad.
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Tarzan the Fearless (1933)
Character: Mary Brooks
Mary Brooks' father, who has been studying ancient tribes, falls into the hands of "the people of Zar, god of the Emerald Fingers." Tarzan helps Mary locate her father, rescues everyone from the High Priest of Zar, and takes Mary to his cave.
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Counsel for Crime (1937)
Character: Ann McIntyre (as Jacqueline Wells)
Otto Kruger once again plays a dynamic, bombastic attorney in Columbia's Counsel for Crime. Kruger plays William Mellon, a shifty shyster whose underhanded methods loses him the love of his sweetheart Anne (Nana Bryant), who subsequently marries a powerful senator (Thurston Hall). What Mellon doesn't know is that Anne has borne him a son, whom the senator has adopted. Reaching adulthood, Paul (Douglass Montgomery) opts for a legal career himself, taking a clerical job with his own father's firm. In typical "B"-picture, Mellon is charged with murdering one of his more odious clients -- and Paul is appointed prosecuting attorney in the case.
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International Squadron (1941)
Character: Mary Wyatt
The true story of the exploits of the RAF's (Royal Air Force) foreign legion battling the German Luftwaffe (Nazi Germany's Air Force) during the early months of 1941 during WWII before America officially entered the war at the end of the year when Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan and Hitler declared war on the United States. The United States then drafted all of their airmen and fighter pilot aces into the United States Air Force for their own combat missions against the Luftwaffe
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The Loudspeaker (1934)
Character: Janet Melrose (as Jacqueline Wells)
A young man from a small town hits New York City, bound and determined to become a radio star. Amazingly, he achieves his ambition, but in the process alienates everyone around him with his arrogance and egomania.
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Headline Hunters (1955)
Character: Laura Stewart
A rookie reporter in pursuit of an expose gets tangled up with big-time mobsters.
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The Hidden Hand (1942)
Character: Rita Channing
Peter Thorne is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing, who uses her insane brother, John Channing, to frighten her other relatives because they are after her money. Further complications arise when another murderer arrives on the scene and plants the blame on John.
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Hollywood Canteen (1944)
Character: Junior Hostess (uncredited)
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
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Lady Gangster (1942)
Character: Myrtle Reed
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners have different ideas.
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Paid to Dance (1937)
Character: Joan Bradley
Government undercover agents William Dennis and Joan Barclay are working to solve the disappearances of girls working as "taxi-dancers" from dance halls operated by Jack Miranda and his henchman Nifty.
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High Tide (1947)
Character: Julie Vaughn
A car accident traps two men inside a car near the water. With the tide coming in, they discuss the circumstances that led up to the accident.
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My Son Is Guilty (1939)
Character: Julia Allen (as Jacqueline Wells)
Honest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring.
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Busses Roar (1942)
Character: Reba Richards
A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.
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Tarzan the Fearless (1964)
Character: Mary Brooks
Re-edited, feature film version of the 1933 serial, Tarzan the Fearless, sold to television in the mid-1960's.
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Heroes of the West (1932)
Character: Ann Blaine
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath. A 12-chapter movie serial.
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The Big Land (1957)
Character: Kate Johnson
Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranchers that their stock will bring $10 a head at auction. Instead, ruthless cattle baron Brog (Anthony Caruso) has scared off all competition and offers much less.
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Behind Prison Gates (1939)
Character: Sheila Murray (as Jacqueline Wells)
An agent for the state attorney general poses as a convict to learn about bank loot.
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Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1923)
Character: Child (as Jacqueline Wells)
John Brandon, an American millionaire, has been married seven times but never found love. Then, when he is in Paris, Mona de Briac comes into his life. Mona comes from an noble family who is facing ruin.
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Northern Pursuit (1943)
Character: Laura McBain
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
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Tillie and Gus (1933)
Character: Mary Sheridan (as Jacqueline Wells)
Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry franchise and a boat. The only way to keep the franchise is to win a race against Pratt's boat.
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You Came Along (1945)
Character: Mrs. Taylor
War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with several girls in every town on the tour. After some amusing escapades, Bob and Ivy become romantically involved, agreeing it's "just fun up in the air." Then Ivy finds out the real reason why it shouldn't be anything more.
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The High and the Mighty (1954)
Character: Lillian Pardee
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.
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Spring Madness (1938)
Character: Mady Platt
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson.
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Flight Into Nowhere (1938)
Character: Joan Hammond
When headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg disobeys orders and takes a plane to photograph potential landing fields in uncharted Latin American country, he ends up running out of gas and crashing. The members of a nearby tribal village save Bill from the wreckage, but arent willing to help him get home.
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Square Shooter (1935)
Character: Sally Wayne
Tim returns from prison after being framed for murder to clear his name and retrieve the ranch taken from his uncle with a forged will.
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Any Old Port! (1932)
Character: Bride
Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord. They are forced to flee the hotel with no money and Ollie arranges for Stan to fight at a local boxing hall for $50. Stan's opponent turns out to be Musgy who uses a loaded glove. During the fight the glove is swapped and Stan triumphs only to find that Ollie has bet their fee that he would lose.
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