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Allan Quatermain (1920)
Character: Mrs. McKenzie
Early South African lensed adaptation of King Solomon's Mines featuring Allan Quatermain and his adventures.
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Public Opinion (1935)
Character: Mrs. Buttons
A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.
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Daring Daughters (1933)
Character: Ginger Hemingway, the Grandmother
A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.
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The Nut Farm (1935)
Character: Ma Barton, Willie's Mother
Bob and Helen decide to move to California and make a fresh start. Bob wants to buy a nut farm, but Helen dreams of being in the movies. While Bob is looking for a farm to buy, Helen is taken in by a group of scam artists who promise to make her a star. Helen's brother Willie tries to prevent her and Bob from losing all their money to the scam artists.
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Nobody's Baby (1937)
Character: Mrs. Mason - Landlady
Kitty Reily (Patsy Kelly) and Lena Marchetti (Lyda Roberti) meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompetent Lena. They keep running into each other until Kitty resigns to being friends with Lena when they become hospital nurses and share a dorm room.
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Everything’s Rosie (1931)
Character: Mrs. Lowe
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
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Your Uncle Dudley (1935)
Character: Janet Dixon
A paint store owner turns his attention to civic affairs while his business falls apart.
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Vanity Street (1932)
Character: Annie - Fern's Maid (uncredited)
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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Fast Workers (1933)
Character: Short Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his money. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.
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Torch Singer (1933)
Character: Mother Angelica
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she searches for the child she gave up.
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Down on the Farm (1938)
Character: Granny Jones
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
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Hoopla (1933)
Character: Ma Benson
A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.
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Hot Water (1937)
Character: Granny Jones
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
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Sons of Steel (1934)
Character: Sarah Mason
Chadburne Steel is run by two brothers, old men. They each have different plans for their sons. Curtis (Holmes Herbert) has put Ronald (William Blakewell) through college in style...
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Silent Night (2020)
Character: Jenny
Mark, a low end South London hitman recently released from prison, tries to go straight for his daughter, but gets drawn back in by Alan, his former cellmate, to do one final job.
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Sapho (1913)
Character: Fanny Le Grand / Sapho
A woman with a notorious past enchants a student preparing for the foreign service.
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The Fighting Westerner (1935)
Character: Mrs. Ballard
A mining engineer teams up with a crusty deputy sheriff to solve the mystery killings at an old mine where the owner's family waits for him to die, and where a valuable radium strike may have been made.
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Every Saturday Night (1936)
Character: Granny Evers
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.
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Double Alibi (1940)
Character: Landlady
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
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The Eyes of the World (1930)
Character: The Maid (prologue)
The Eyes of the World is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Henry King and written by Brewster Morse and Clarke Silvernail. The film stars Eulalie Jensen, Florence Roberts, Una Merkel, and Nance O'Neil.
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Educating Father (1936)
Character: Granny Jones
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.
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Babes in Toyland (1934)
Character: The Widow Peep
Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.
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Off to the Races (1937)
Character: Granny Jones
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.
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Dangerously Yours (1933)
Character: Mrs. Lathem
A playboy asks his friend to borrow his yacht to entertain his girlfriend.
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Too Busy to Work (1939)
Character: Granny Jones
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
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The Storm (1938)
Character: Mrs. Roberts
A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
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Personal Secretary (1938)
Character: Mrs. J. J. Farrell
Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.
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Everybody's Baby (1939)
Character: Granny Jones
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
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A Trip to Paris (1938)
Character: Granny Jones
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.
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Westward Passage (1932)
Character: Mrs. Ottendorf
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
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What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Character: Elderly Brown Derby Diner (uncredited)
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
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Big Business (1937)
Character: Granny Jones
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
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Back to Nature (1936)
Character: Granny Jones
The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography.
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Every Night at Eight (1935)
Character: Mrs. Murgatroyd (uncredited)
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
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Les Misérables (1935)
Character: Toussaint
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Character: Mrs. Bowling Green
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
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The Country Doctor (1936)
Character: Grandmother (uncredited)
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
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Safety in Numbers (1938)
Character: Granny Jones
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
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Lilly Turner (1933)
Character: Wedding Guest Calling for Bride (uncredited)
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
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Love on a Budget (1938)
Character: Granny Ida Jones
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen (1934)
Character: Agnes
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
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Kept Husbands (1931)
Character: Henrietta Parker
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.
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Harmony Lane (1935)
Character: Mrs. Foster
The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.
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Borrowing Trouble (1937)
Character: Granny Jones
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
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On Their Own (1940)
Character: Granny Jones
The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue.
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Too Many Cooks (1931)
Character: Mrs. Cook
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.
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Cleopatra (1934)
Character: Lady Flora
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
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Young as You Feel (1940)
Character: Granny Jones
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.
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Melody Cruise (1933)
Character: Miss Potts
A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.
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Fanny Foley Herself (1931)
Character: Lucy
A vaudeville performer has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two daughters.
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Four Parts (1934)
Character: Mother
Charley is one of four identical brothers, which drives his girlfriend nuts.
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Quick Millions (1939)
Character: Granny Jones
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
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The Cracked Ice Man (1934)
Character: Betty's Mother (uncredited)
Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
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Make Me a Star (1932)
Character: Mrs. Gashwiler
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
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The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939)
Character: Granny Jones
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
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Student Tour (1934)
Character: Elderly Woman
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
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