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Réveille (1924)
Character: Sophie Fitch
A seamstress stops a poor ex-soldier from becoming a left-wing agitator.
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Faith (1919)
Character: Lavinia Brooker
Bank clerk George Farrelly is warned by his old teacher, Martha, through his childhood sweetheart Charity, about a diamond necklace he took from a safe-deposit box, leading him to confess and return it, testing his integrity and romance amidst temptation, with the story unfolding as a confession about a potential theft.
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The Mother of Dartmoor (1916)
Character: Mrs. Bolt
A man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence.
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Insult (1932)
Character: Arabella
'Africa. Half-caste Legionnaire dies to save governor, the son of major who hates him.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Private Secretary (1935)
Character: Miss Ashford
A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.
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Lucky Ladies (1932)
Character: Angle Tuckett
Two women win £130,000 in the Irish Sweepstakes. They use their winnings to establish an oyster bar, but soon become the target of a phony count who attempts to swindle them.
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The Third String (1932)
Character: Miss Peabody
A man poses as a boxer to impress a woman, but then is forced to fight a real champion.
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All In! (1936)
Character: Genesta Slott
Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an attempt to avoid doing so, he accidentally buys a failing all-in wrestling stadium as well. Now Archie is faced with the tasks of ensuring success for his stable's Derby entry, paying the salaries of his newly-acquired wrestlers, and avoiding a plot to convert the stables into a holiday home.
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Don Quixote (1923)
Character: Tereza
Episodic misadventures of a man who thinks he is a knight.
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Me and Me Moke (1916)
Character: N/A
A young man from a wealthy background takes a job working as a porter at the fruit and vegetable market in Covent Garden.
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The Other Mrs. Phipps (1931)
Character: Mrs Phipps
'Broke lord poses as widow's lady companion and saves girl from kidnap.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Excess Baggage (1933)
Character: Miss Toop
'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Dora (1933)
Character: Mother
'An American visitor to England is frustrated by the restrictions placed upon him and his social life by the Defence of the Realm Act.' (National Film Archive Catalogue)
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Sally Bishop (1923)
Character: Landlady
A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.
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Heartstrings (1923)
Character: Mrs. Chadwick
A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.
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Love, Life and Laughter (1923)
Character: Lily
Love, Life and Laughter tells the story of a pair of working class youngsters with big dreams – a cheery chorus girl and a serious writer. The film toys with our expectations, blurring the boundaries of reverie and reality; tragedy and comedy. Directed by George Pearson, the film was considered lost for many years until in March 2014 when a copy was discovered in an old Dutch cinema.
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The Silver Lining (1928)
Character: Mrs Akers
The Silver Lining is a 1927 British silent drama film. Widow Hurst has two sons who fall out over a girl. One son attempts to frame the other for the theft of some pearls but when his brother is imprisoned he eventually confesses his crime to his mother and guilt ridden arranges for a band of gypsies to shoot him.
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Rose of Tralee (1937)
Character: Mrs. Flory Thompson
An Irish singer heads to America to seek fame and fortune. Once successful he returns home to search for his family.
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Brewster's Millions (1935)
Character: Miss Plimsole
Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in 60 days to inherit the rest of the money, or forfeit the entire inheritance.
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Gay Love (1934)
Character: Dukie
Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new relations develop.
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Rope (1939)
Character: Mrs. Debenham
BBC adaptation of the Patrick Hamilton play
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Dreaming Lips (1937)
Character: Mrs. Stanway
Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular actress wife Elizabeth Bergner. The star plays Gabrielle, the glamorous, spoiled wife of world-famous orchestra leader Peter (Romney Brent). Left alone by her constantly touring husband, she inaugurates a romance with brilliant but reclusive violinist Miguel de Vaye (Raymond Massey).
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Chu Chin Chow (1934)
Character: Mahbubah Baba, Ali's wife
Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.
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The Temperance Fête (1932)
Character: Mrs. Bindle
For a prank one of the waiters at a temperance meeting spikes the lemonade with alcohol.
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Nell Gwyn (1926)
Character: Mrs. Gwyn
An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.
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The Last Journey (1935)
Character: Mrs. Grebe
Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.
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King Solomon's Mines (1937)
Character: Gagool
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
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