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Women in Prison (1938)
Character: Daisy Saunders
The superintendent of a women's prison is pressured to pardon a member of a criminal gang. When she refuses, her daughter is framed on a manslaughter charge and sent to prison.
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Registered Nurse (1934)
Character: Gloria Hammond
In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surgeons when her husband goes mad and needs an operation. One of the surgeon's regards his pursuit a lark, while the other harbors genuine affections for the nurse.
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Taxi Talks (1930)
Character: N/A
Three incidents in a cab driver's day: a college boy wooing a flapper, a gold digger wooing a southern colonel, gun moll kills gangster and wants to be taken to the precinct house.
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Vanity Street (1932)
Character: Fern Cavan
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
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Harold Teen (1934)
Character: Sally LeSalle
A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same title. With Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert,Douglass Dumbrille and Patricia Ellis.
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Counsellor at Law (1933)
Character: Zedorah Chapman
A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
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Corsair (1931)
Character: Sophie
A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.
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Numbered Woman (1938)
Character: Vicki Roberts
After her brother is wrongfully arrested for the theft of some bonds, a nurse sets out to clear his name by becoming the home-care nurse for the ailing leader of the gang which actually stole the bonds.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Character: Mrs. Semple (uncredited)
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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The Sisters (1938)
Character: Blonde
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
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Marked Woman (1937)
Character: Estelle Porter
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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The Night Club Lady (1932)
Character: Lola Carewe
A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.
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Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)
Character: Girl in Bus
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
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The Mind Reader (1933)
Character: Jenny
Con-man Chandler and his partner Frank decide to start a clairvoyant act. Chandler falls for Sylvia, one of their marks, but their relationship is challenged when his deception impacts others' lives and Sylvia urges him to reform.
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Good-bye Love (1933)
Character: Sandra Hamilton
A sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn't know is that not only is he not wealthy, nor a big-game hunter nor from a royal family, but he's only a butler. Complications ensue as he tries to keep up the pretense.
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Bogart: The Untold Story (1997)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends and co-workers.
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The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)
Character: Florabelle Lawson
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married into wealth. The case escalates when the police find the body of Moxley and charge her with the murder.
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Dr. Socrates (1935)
Character: Muggsy
Dr. Socrates gives up his brilliant surgical career at a prominent hospital following the death of his betrothed under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
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We're in the Money (1935)
Character: N/A
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
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Virtue (1932)
Character: Lil Blaine
A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York City street girl and a good-hearted cab driver, but other matters keep getting in their way, including financial problems and a murder.
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Mills of the Gods (1934)
Character: Sarah
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)
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Should a Girl Marry? (1939)
Character: Betty Gilbert
A young woman and her doctor husband are victims of a blackmail scheme when it is discovered that she was born in prison.
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Afraid to Talk (1932)
Character: Marge Winters
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
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Lilly Turner (1933)
Character: Mrs. Durkee (uncredited)
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival barker, and then falling for a young engineer.
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A Woman is the Judge (1939)
Character: Gertie
Twenty years earlier, Mary Cabot had lost contact with her infant daughter Justine. Now a grown woman, Justine accidentally shoots a man who'd impugned the reputation of her mother, whom she's never met. As luck would have it, the presiding judge at Justine's trial is none other than Mary Cabot.
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Jimmy the Gent (1934)
Character: Gladys Farrell
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
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Unexpected Father (1939)
Character: Ethel Stone
Jimmy Hanley learns that his former dancing partner has been killed, leaving a baby boy Sandy, so he takes the baby to live with him and his roommate Boris Bebenko. Theatre manager Allen Rand threatens to fire Jimmy for neglecting his work, but Jimmy's girlfriend Diana squares things by going to dinner with Rand over Jimmy's objections. Sandy catches measles and the quarantine causes Jimmy and Boris to miss a big audition.
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