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The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
Character: Mrs. Marta Charles
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
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The Royal Family of Broadway (1930)
Character: Actress Backstage
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her daughter Gwen must decide between going on stage, or settling down in a conventional marriage. Julie is just thinking that it would be nice to retire and get married, when who should turn up but her old beau, Gilmore Marshal, the platinum magnate from South America.
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Ivy (1947)
Character: Mrs. Gretorex
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, and her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.
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Till We Meet Again (1944)
Character: Mother Superior
An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance. The young novice nun Clothilde is interested in him and is willing to help him escape to England, but the pilot must continue his mission undercover by posing as the husband of a different woman.
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The Great Lie (1941)
Character: Aunt Ada Greenfield
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
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Let's Dance (1950)
Character: Serena Everett
Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and jobless in New York, she runs into an old flame, her USO partner Donald Elwood, who agrees to help her fight for custody of the child.
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Song of the South (1946)
Character: Grandmother
Uncle Remus draws upon his tales of Br'er Rabbit to help little Johnny deal with his confusion over his parents' separation as well as his new life on the plantation.
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Character: Mrs. Custler
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No". Later that day, they separately discover that, due to a legal complication, they are not legally married.
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The Razor's Edge (1946)
Character: Louisa Bradley
An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
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Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Character: Lady Margaret Cronin
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
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Harriet Craig (1950)
Character: Celia Fenwick
A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.
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That Wonderful Urge (1948)
Character: Cornelia Farley
When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she's met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely claiming they're married.
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The Bishop Misbehaves (1935)
Character: Lady Emily Lyons
On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester asks Donald to help her in a robbery she has planned. Thinking it a joke, he plays along; but Hester is serious, and hearing that she plans to rob Mr. Waller, the man who has cheated her father out of thousands of pounds, Donald agrees. A robbery at a pub is arranged, but the Bishop of Broadminster, an avid mystery fan, and his sister stumble into it. Playing detective the Bishop complicates matters and each side, the Bishop, the unscrupulous Waller, the gang Hester hires, and Hester and Donald, each get the upper hand along the way.
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What Every Woman Knows (1934)
Character: La Contessa la Brierre
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.
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The Emperor Waltz (1948)
Character: Princesse Bitotska
At the turn of the 20th century, travelling salesman Virgil Smith journeys to Vienna in the hope he can sell a gramophone to Emperor Franz Joseph, whose purchase of the recent American invention could spur its popularity in Austria.
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My Reputation (1946)
Character: Mary Kimball
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.
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Julia Misbehaves (1948)
Character: Mrs. Packett
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites her mother to her wedding, with the disapproval of William's mother.
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Model Wife (1941)
Character: J. J. Benson
Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
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Florian (1940)
Character: Countess
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
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Three Smart Girls (1936)
Character: Martha
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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Everybody Does It (1949)
Character: Mrs. Blair
Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her. While organising a concert for her he meets glamorous Cecil Carver. She in turn discovers Leonard has a splendid voice, and encourages him to use it for reasons very much her own.
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Uncertain Glory (1944)
Character: Mme. Maret
In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.
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Rage in Heaven (1941)
Character: Mrs. Monrell
A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.
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Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)
Character: Aunt Jessica Hamilton
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.
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Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
Character: Agatha Archer
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
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Sweethearts (1938)
Character: Mrs. Marlowe
The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.
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Never Say Goodbye (1946)
Character: Mrs. Hamilton
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip starts a correspondence with a Marine, sending a picture of her beautiful mother as the author of Flip's flirtatious letters. When the Marine shows up to meet his pen pal, Ellen takes the opportunity to make her ex-husband jealous.
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My Forbidden Past (1951)
Character: Aunt Eula Beaurevel
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
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Little Women (1949)
Character: Aunt March
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother - a very outspoken women for her time. The story is of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
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A Woman Rebels (1936)
Character: Betty Bumble
A Victorian-era woman struggles to break free of the moral codes established by society and enforced by her father.
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The Women (1939)
Character: Mrs. Morehead
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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Watch on the Rhine (1943)
Character: Fanny Farrelly
On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara's wealthy mother near Washington, DC. Kurt secretly works for the anti-Nazi resistance. A visiting Romanian count, becoming aware of this, seeks to blackmail him.
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Ingrid Bergman Remembered (1996)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she is best remembered for a natural and vulnerable persona which was so genuine and alluring. Her cinematic contributions produced such classics as "Casablanca," "Gaslight" and "Anastasia." But Ingrid's story goes deeper than the triumphs of her movie career.
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The Garden of Allah (1936)
Character: Mother Superior Josephine
The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
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The Young in Heart (1938)
Character: Mrs. Jennings
A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.
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