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Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 (1934)
Character: N/A
Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and a Gala Hollywood Premiere.
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Admirals All (1935)
Character: Gloria Gunn
A standoffish actress is pursued by a low ranking Navy officer
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Sympathy (1929)
Character: Trixie
Hobart Cavanaugh & Harry Shannon out on a date without their wives.
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Her Bodyguard (1933)
Character: Margot Brienne
The "sugar daddy" of a Broadway star hires a bodyguard to protect her from thieves out to steal the jewels he's given her and also from the attentions of other men, most notably the producer of the show in which she's starring. However, soon the bodyguard and the star begin to become attracted to each other.
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Gambling (1934)
Character: Maizie Fuller
The adopted daughter of New-York-City gambler, Al Draper, elopes from quarantine (key plot word) with another voyager from Europe. Later she is found murdered in a hotel room. Draper is dissatisfied with the handling of the case by the district attorney and sets out to work the case himself.
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The Crouching Beast (1935)
Character: Gail Dunbar
In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to pass his information to an American journalist.
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The Falcon Strikes Back (1943)
Character: Geraldine H. Lipton
The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic lodge. From here he uncovers a phony war bond operation.
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Cafe Hostess (1940)
Character: Annie
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
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Come Closer, Folks (1936)
Character: Mae
A fast-talking pitchman working the con-games on the streets, works himself up into an executive position of a large department store, with the aide of his shill, Mae. But the owner, Elmer Woods, of the department store has a blonde-beauty daughter, Peggy, who goes to work on him.
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Kick In (1931)
Character: Myrtle Sylvester
Chick Hewes is released from prison and finds work as an accountant. Two years later, Chick's crooked friend, Benny LaMarr, to whom he is indebted for past kindnesses, steals a diamond necklace from the home safe of the district attorney. When the district attorney threatens to accuse the police of inefficiency in crime fighting, Garvey, who is campaigning for the office of police commissioner, promises to catch the thief in twenty-four hours.
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The Crime of the Century (1933)
Character: Mrs. Frieda Brandt
Driven to desperation by his young and extravagant wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has arranged a perfect crime; now he begs the police to lock him up before he can commit it.
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Emergency Call (1933)
Character: Mabel Weenie
A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
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City Streets (1931)
Character: Agnes
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
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A Man's World (1942)
Character: Blossom Donovan
Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, women reveal no past and spies neither receive nor expect any mercy, a giant Chromite plant is working full blast to supply the United Nations with the precious war-metal. This is the story of that mine and the people working it in a land the law forget, but the evil and devious Nazis remembered.
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Lady and Gent (1932)
Character: Puff Rogers
Stag Bailey, a slow-witted prizefighter, and his girlfriend, speakeasy hostess Puff Rogers, take over the upbringing of Ted Streaver after his father, Stag's manager, is killed.
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Forgotten Girls (1940)
Character: Frances Wingate
A disillusioned factory worker is charged with the attempted murder of her mother's lover.
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If I Had a Million (1932)
Character: Violet Smith (uncredited)
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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The Stolen Jools (1931)
Character: Reporter
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
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The Gang Buster (1931)
Character: Zella Cameron
Naïve insurance agent 'Cyclone' Case falls in love with Sylvia Martine, whose father has a dispute with gangster Mike Slade. When Sylvia is kidnapped by Slade and his gang, 'Cyclone' decides to save her and wanders straight into a gang war without even realizing it.
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The Devil Is Driving (1932)
Character: 'Silver'
Gabby Denton, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck drifter, seems to get a chance at redemption when his brother-in-law helps get him a job as a mechanic. Not realizing the garage he works for is actually a front for a stolen car ring, Gabby soon finds himself mixed up in both murder and a liaison with the boss's girl.
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Children of Pleasure (1930)
Character: Emma Gray
A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.
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Double Cross (1941)
Character: Fay Saunders
A disgraced cop aims to reclaim his honor by nailing a corrupt crime boss.
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Trapped by G-Men (1937)
Character: Alice Segar, posing as Mrs. Donovan
Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.
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The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)
Character: Mrs. Jeddock
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.
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Mystery Broadcast (1943)
Character: Eve Stanley
A radio detective sets out to solve an old murder case, with the help of her sound man and another radio detective. They manage to talk to the people involved in the case, but shortly afterwards the main suspects turn up dead.
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The Strange Case of Clara Deane (1932)
Character: Clara Deane
A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a criminal...
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The Road to Reno (1931)
Character: Mrs. It-Ritch
Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact that fourth husband Robert is a good provider, good step-dad, and all-around good sport about Jackie's rather wild ways, Jackie is intent on divorcing him although she seems to bear the man no resentment. It just seems that her only reason is that it's time for a change, much like an impulse to buy a new hat. Both children are upset about her decision since they have great affection for Robert. However, daughter Lee has just arrived home from school and decides to accompany her mother to Reno to look after her. On the train west, Lee meets a young mining engineer, Tom, who is headed to a job interview in California. The two hit it off and a romance buds.
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I Give My Love (1934)
Character: Judy Blair
After accidentally killing her no-good husband, Judy makes her true love promise not to tell her small son about his imprisoned mother. She is released ten years later...
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Miracle on Main Street (1939)
Character: Sade Blake
On Christmas Eve in the Spanish quarter of L.A. police try to arrest a couple running a shady floor show. Hiding in a church, the young woman finds an abandoned baby and uses it as cover to escape capture.
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Michael O'Halloran (1937)
Character: Grace Mintum
A wealthy woman's wild lifestyle finally drives her husband to take their two children, move out of the house and file for divorce. Positive she'll lose her children unless she shows the judge that she's changed her wild ways, she takes in two poor street kids, a brother and sister.
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June Moon (1931)
Character: Lucille Sears
An ordinary Joe has ambitions to become a Tin Pan Alley writer.
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Man of the World (1931)
Character: Irene Harper
A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle.
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The Crosby Case (1934)
Character: Lynn Ashton
Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.
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The Fall Guy (1930)
Character: Lottie Quinlan
Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.
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My Son Is Guilty (1939)
Character: Claire Morelli
Honest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring.
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Two Kinds of Women (1932)
Character: Phyllis Adrian
The daughter of a senator from South Dakota visits Manhattan for the first time, eager to see the sights of the big city. While there, she finds herself caught up in an affair with a married man, whose wife soon commits suicide. Complications ensue.
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Sleepers East (1934)
Character: Lena Karelson
No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city. Covering a bachelor party for a friend in need, Lena winds up at a gambling house where she is the sole witness when Mayor Wentworth's drunken lout of a son shoots the owner. Wentworth's political machine wants Lena to falsely incriminate mob boss Callahan to bolster their re-election campaign. Callahan's mouthpiece nabs Lena first, conveying her stealthily by train from Toledo to New York to prevent her from testifying against the big boss. A midnight special smash-up, a tense courtroom finale and true love triumphant round out this typical Fox pre-Code programmer, released just before the Legion of Decency dropped the hammer in 1934.
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Ladies of the Big House (1931)
Character: Susie Thompson
A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
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Night After Night (1932)
Character: Iris Dawn
A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.
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Racketeers in Exile (1937)
Character: 'Babe' DeVoe
In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness a religious revival that inspires the man to begin billing himself as a "born-again" evangelist so he can cash in on the guilty consciences of local businessmen.
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