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The Pig's Curly Tail (1926)
Character: Little Girl
Two pigs steal the snobby Mrs. Hippo's new Ford and, while being pursued by the police, they hit a stone wall, fly into the air and land in a laundry. They get involved with a clothes-wringer, their tails are caught in the rollers, and they come out with corkscrew tails. In the live action, animator Walter Lantz, as he finishes the story, is being led away by the keeper of the local insane asylum.
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Crowded Paradise (1956)
Character: Louise Heath
A Puerto Rican immigrant anxiously awaits his wedding day, but his fiancé's racist landlord intervenes.
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Scotland Yard (1941)
Character: Lady Sandra Lasher
Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planning an enormous robbery.
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The Girl on the Barge (1929)
Character: Superior McCadden
The illiterate daughter of a drunken, nasty sea captain falls in love with a tugboat pilot. Her father disapproves of the relationship, and is determined to do everything he can to break it up.
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The Impostor (1975)
Character: Victoria Kent
An ex-Army intelligence agent is hired to impersonate a rich builder who has been marked for assassination. While impersonating the builder, he discovers a conspiracy to embezzle a land-development company.
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Private Affairs (1940)
Character: Jane Bullerton
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
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Circle of the Day (1957)
Character: Barbara Millet
On her tenth wedding anniversary (which is also her daughter's birthday), a wife begins to suspect her husband of unfaithfulness.
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The Great Gatsby (1926)
Character: Pammy (uncredited)
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
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Woman Who Came Back (1945)
Character: Lorna Webster
A young woman is tormented by the belief that she is the victim of a witch's curse.
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Follow That Woman (1945)
Character: Nancy Boone
A private detective's wife takes over his business when he enters the Army.
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Sailor's Lady (1940)
Character: Sally Gilroy
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
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Double Exposure (1944)
Character: Pat Marvin
In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to prove her own innocence.
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Frontier Marshal (1939)
Character: Sarah Allen
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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One Night in the Tropics (1940)
Character: Cynthia Merrick
Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia. The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey, and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe, who sends two enforcers - Abbott and Costello - to ensure that the wedding occurs as planned.
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Convention Girl (1935)
Character: Betty, Singer-Call Girl
Wily hotel 'hostess' Babe LaVal navigates booming business, cabaret calls and shady deals in Atlantic City. She meets a soup magnate, and begins to feel it might be 'the real thing'.
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Song of the Sarong (1945)
Character: Sharon
An adventurer is promised $1 million if he can recover a fortune in pearls, but they are guarded by a tribe of fierce natives.
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Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
Character: Eve Kingsley
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
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To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)
Character: Helene Hunt
Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier.
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Parachute Battalion (1941)
Character: Kit Richards
Pre-Pearl Harbor propaganda film about young Americans, from various social backgrounds, who undergo parachute training at Fort Benning prior to becoming paratroopers.
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Submarine Patrol (1938)
Character: Susan Leeds
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
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Women in Bondage (1943)
Character: Toni Hall
Women in Bondage is a 1943 World War II film about conditions for women under Hitler's regime. The plot involves two women imprisoned for speaking out against the government. It was directed by Steve Sekely and starred Gail Patrick and Nancy Kelly.
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Fly By Night (1942)
Character: Pat Lindsay
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
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He Married His Wife (1940)
Character: Valerie
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.
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Friendly Enemies (1942)
Character: June Block
During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has taken the US side against Germany regarding the war, while the other stays stubbornly loyal to "the old country". His stubbornness results in tragedy for his old friend and a lesson in the consequences of blind loyalty.
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Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)
Character: Connie Bryce
A letter from Jane, who is nursing British troops, asks Tarzan's help in obtaining a malaria serum extractable from jungle plants. Tarzan and Boy set out across the desert looking for the plants. Along the way they befriend a stranded American lady magician.
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Mismates (1926)
Character: Jimsy
"Mismates" is the story of a wealthy youth who, against his mother's wishes, marries a poor girl and is disowned. At first determined to support himself and his wife, he soon craves the accustomed luxury and deserts his wife and child. On false information provided by the boy's mother and substantiated by himself the wife is sent to jail and the child kidnapped by the husband. This is where the drama kicks in.
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The Storm (1962)
Character: Janet Willsom
A newlywed woman is alone in her home during a devastating storm. As she waits for her husband to return, she is besieged by menacing sounds throughout the house, power outages, a jumpy pet black cat, and a creepy cabbie. After much deliberation, she decides to investigate a strange disturbance in the storm cellar.
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Glorifying the American Girl (1929)
Character: Child (uncredited)
A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the latest hits. She is accompanied on piano by her childhood boyfriend, who is in love with her, despite her single-minded interest in her career. When a vaudeville performer asks her to join him as his new partner, she sees it as an opportunity to make her dream come true. Upon arriving in New York City, our heroine finds out that her new partner is only interested in sleeping with her and makes this a condition of making her a star. Soon, however, she is discovered by a representative of Ziegfeld.
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A Very Young Lady (1941)
Character: Alice Carter
A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications.
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Tornado (1943)
Character: Victory Kane
The owner of an Illinois coal mine struggles to keep his business in operation, all the while unaware that among his employees is a saboteur planning destruction and chaos.
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The Bad Seed (1956)
Character: Christine Penmark
Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.
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Tail Spin (1939)
Character: Lois Allen
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
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Gambler's Choice (1944)
Character: Mary Hayes / Vi Parker
The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York...
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Jesse James (1939)
Character: Zerelda "Zee" Cobb
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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