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Money Means Nothing (1934)
Character: Mrs. Kerry Green
At Joe's Roadside, a popular but rundown New York roadhouse where the wealthy and not-so-wealthy hang out, a wealthy Manhattan girl and a struggling Brooklyn boy meet and fall in love. She marries him against the wishes of her family, believing that love can solve everything, but she soon wonders if she made the right choice when she finds herself living in a manner, and with the kinds of people, she hadn't counted on.
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Sweepstake Annie (1935)
Character: Friend of Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and not necessarily for the better.
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The Boy Friend (1926)
Character: Mrs. Wilson
A young man uses tips from an absurd book to woo a woman he fancies.
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Bad Boy (1935)
Character: Dowager with Ping Pong Racket
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage.
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A Very Honorable Guy (1934)
Character: Mrs. Emerson
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
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Here Comes the Groom (1951)
Character: Aunt Abby
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
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She Had to Choose (1934)
Character: Mrs. Cutler
A young actress hits Hollywood determined to be a movie star and runs into a lot of roadblocks along the way.
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Million Dollar Ransom (1934)
Character: Wife of Justice of the Peace (Uncredited)
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
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And Sudden Death (1936)
Character: Dodie Sloan
An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone due to reckless driving.
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The Gay Deception (1935)
Character: Mrs. Dingledorf (uncredited)
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
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State of the Union (1948)
Character: Lulubelle Alexander
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
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Men of the Night (1934)
Character: Mrs. Webbley
"Stake-Out" Kelly, ace detective, meets Mary Higgins at a small Hollywood sandwich shop where he expects to get some information concerning Packey Davis, head of a ring of jewel thieves. His suspicions are confirmed when Mary warns him that Davis is outside - waiting for him. Kelly sets a trap and, in the ensuing battle, one of the gangsters is killed. Davis is interested in rubbing out Kelly as Kelly and Baker are the only two witnesses against Smitty, a Davis henchman. Baker is in the hospital and the plan is bring Smitty there for identification. Kelly accidentally slips the secret to Mary, who in turn innocently informs Packey. A trap is laid.
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Here Comes the Band (1935)
Character: Chubby Lady (uncredited)
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
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Mutiny Ahead (1935)
Character: Kitty Vanderpool
A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure.
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Whom the Gods Destroy (1934)
Character: Henrietta Crosland
Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to produce a show but the ship strikes a derelict wreckage and is sinking rapidly. In the ensuing wild panic, Forrester saves many lives, until finally, panic stricken by sudden fear, he dons a woman's clothes and is among the rescued. On the coast of Newfouldland, the villagers, not aware of his true identity, curse him but he is befriended by Alec who helps him conceal his identity. With a planned story of his survival, he returns to New York but cannot face his family or friends after he sees the plaque to his heroism on his New York theatre. Deciding to remain thought of as dead, he becomes a derelict himself, surviving on odd jobs as he watches from afar his now-grown son begin his career as a producer.
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Atlantic Adventure (1935)
Character: Mrs. Murdock
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
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Society Fever (1935)
Character: Mrs. Prouty
A mother starts to get worried when she finds out that some wealthy friends have been invited to dinner with her somewhat screwball family.
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A Modern Hero (1934)
Character: Aunt Clara Weingartner
A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.
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Diamond Jim (1935)
Character: Mrs. Perry
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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Dr. Socrates (1935)
Character: Mary
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
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It Happened One Night (1934)
Character: Last Motel Manager's Wife (uncredited)
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
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Journal of a Crime (1934)
Character: Stout Lady at Play Party (uncredited)
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
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Only Yesterday (1933)
Character: Party Guest (Uncredited)
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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The Raven (1935)
Character: Mrs. Grant
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.
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Love Is News (1937)
Character: Dowager Visiting Jail (uncredited)
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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Show Boat (1936)
Character: N/A
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
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Unknown Blonde (1934)
Character: Mrs Parker
An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
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Unknown Blonde (1934)
Character: Mrs. Parker
An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
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The Merry Frinks (1934)
Character: Mrs. Shinliver
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
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By Your Leave (1934)
Character: Lady with Ancient Greek Costume
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
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Palm Springs (1936)
Character: Mrs. Baxter
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
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Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
Character: Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
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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The Bridge of Sighs (1936)
Character: Mrs. Blaisdell
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
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The Life of Vergie Winters (1934)
Character: Ella Heenan
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues the relationship with his true love.
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Klondike Annie (1936)
Character: N/A
A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
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The Worst Woman in Paris? (1933)
Character: Mrs. Leda Jensen
Tired of being tired and scandalized in gossip columns, she leaves Menjou for a trip to the US. Barely surviving a Midwest train wreck, she becomes a local hero after injuring herself while saving a baby's life. While recovering at the home of the headmaster of a boy's school and his family, her veneer of oversophistications melts away and she finds herself fancying the small town life.
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