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The Little Adventuress (1938)
Character: Aunt Hattie
Two circus acrobats hurtle to their death when a wire snaps and their daughter, "Pinky" Horton, has to face the future as an orphan. Unwilling to live with her stern Aunt Hattie, she and Handy, a circus performer, load up Counto the Wonder Horse into a trailer and head to the California racing stable owned by her cousin, Dick. But the latter has lost everything, and refuses to accept a position in the soap factory owned by Herkimer Gould, the father of Dick's fiancée, Helen. "Pinky" is convinced that Counto is a horse filled with racing blood, and she spends the grocery money and sells their jalopy to get the funds needed to enter Counto in a claiming race.
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Tango (1936)
Character: Mrs. Carver, Tony's Mother
Believing his wife to be unfaithful, a husband deserts her and his child. Destitute, the woman is forced to take a job as a tango dancer.
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Strictly Fresh Yeggs (1934)
Character: Mrs. Stanton
After spending the night out drinking, a man tries to find his way home, but can't quite get there.
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Star Reporter (1939)
Character: Julia Randolph
An idealistic young newspaper reporter crusades against organized crime.
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Ever in My Heart (1933)
Character: Cousin Serena Honeywell
World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.
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Okay, America! (1932)
Character: Mrs. Drake
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
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Double Door (1934)
Character: Avery
In 1910 Manhattan, Victoria Van Brett, a bitter spinster heiress lives an isolated life with her sister Caroline. Her domineering urges go into overdrive when their half-brother Rip brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Avenue mansion, built by their late industrialist father. The title refers to a secret soundproofed chamber that the villainess uses to entrap her enemies.
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Girls' School (1938)
Character: Miss MacBeth
At an exclusive boarding school for adolescent girls, the lives of two very different students intertwine when introverted class monitor Natalie Freeman learns of the more popular Linda Simpson's secret boyfriend.
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Spitfire (1934)
Character: Granny Raines
Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a dam, who protects her.
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Tomorrow at Seven (1933)
Character: Mrs. Quincy
People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace".
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Rockabye (1932)
Character: Mrs. Bronson (uncredited)
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
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Faithless (1932)
Character: Mrs. Blainey
Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
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Les Misérables (1935)
Character: Old Beggarwoman Directing Jean to Bishop
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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Convention City (1933)
Character: Mrs. Orchard
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company sales manager. T.R. Kent and George Ellerbe are two salesmen who both want the job. However, they both get into trouble: T.R. is discredited when jealous saleswoman, Arlene Dale, interferes with his attempted seduction of Honeywell's daughter, Claire, and George attempts to seduce Nancy Lorraine. The position of sales manager is bestowed upon a drunken employee as a bribe after he catches J.B. about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator." Considered a lost film.
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Gentlemen Are Born (1934)
Character: Miss Graham
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
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Florida Special (1936)
Character: Nosey Woman (uncredited)
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue when one of the passengers disappears while carrying $11-million in unset jewels.
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While the Patient Slept (1935)
Character: Kema - the Cook (uncredited)
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
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The Scarlet Letter (1934)
Character: Abigail Crakstone
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
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The Women (1939)
Character: Receptionist (uncredited)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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Little Women (1933)
Character: Worker at Christian Commission (uncredited)
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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