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Jane Eyre (1957)
Character: Mrs Fairfax
Unusual adaptation of the classic novel.
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The Wandering Jew (1923)
Character: Olalla Quintana
'The legend of the Wandering Jew, condemned to walk the earth until the Second Coming.' (British Film Institute)
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Addio Mimí! (1949)
Character: Madame Garzin
A group of struggling artists, poets, and musicians struggle to survive in squalor without giving up their artistic ideals.
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Who Is the Man? (1924)
Character: Genevieve Arnault
Daniel Arnault an impecunious sculptor, is in love with the beautiful Genevieve. Spurred on by her mercenary and socially ambitious mother , Genevieve consents to marry Daniel's wealthy brother Albert (Langhorn Burton). In despair, Daniel sinks into drug addiction. However the marriage is not a success,...
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Stranglehold (1931)
Character: Beatrice
A novelist living in a boarding house imagines a murder that involves his fellow boarders.
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Human Law (1927)
Character: Louise Radcliffe
A jealous husband leaves jail to find his wife loves his lawyer.
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Milestones (1916)
Character: N/A
Family saga about several generations of shipbuilders. Believed to be a lost film.
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Mrs. Thompson (1919)
Character: Enid Thompson
A shopkeeper's daughter marries a cad who ruins the business.
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The Game of Life (1922)
Character: Alice Fletcher
Silent historical film depicts the significant events of Queen Victoria's reign through the experiences of three young girls.
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor (1918)
Character: Isabel Bunter
'1860-1910. Life of a mayor's daughter if she married (a) a rich baronet; (b) a poor shopkeeper; (c) nobody.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Man Who Won (1918)
Character: Milly Cooper
A proud architect learns his vicar's daughter is adopted, so she weds a workman who inherits a fortune.
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The Elder Miss Blossom (1918)
Character: Sophie Blossom
Miss Blossom passes through middle age caring for her widowed brother and his only child, a daughter. A handsome explorer returns from an expedition and meets the family, whereupon he falls in love with the daughter. He departs for another long expedition, leaving behind a message regarding his intent to marry the daughter upon his return. But the message is misdirected to the elder Miss Blossom, who secretly loves the explorer and now awaits his return from far-off lands in joyous expectation of their marriage.
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The Tower of London (1926)
Character: N/A
In the surviving fragment of this film, over a game of chess, a man tells his wife the story of the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey, who reluctantly accepts the crown of England but insists on wielding power alone.
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Glamis Castle (1926)
Character: N/A
British horror drama short from 1926. Fifth episode in the Haunted Houses and Castles of Great Britain 2-reel series.
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The Harbour Lights (1923)
Character: Dora Nelson
A lieutenant saves an heiress from a wicked squire and is framed for murder.
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Aunt Rachel (1920)
Character: Ruth
A jilted aunt refuses to let her niece marry a violinist's nephew.
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Mayerling (1957)
Character: Baroness Vetsera
Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.
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Ivy (1947)
Character: Miss Chattle
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, or her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.
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Over-Exposed (1956)
Character: Mrs. Payton Grange
This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an ambitious clip-joint floozie turned photographer with flexible morals and a penchant for fast money.
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The Secret Garden (1949)
Character: Governess
When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she encounters at her Uncle's remote estate.
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The Miracle (1959)
Character: Mother Superior
A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.
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The Second Time Around (1961)
Character: Mrs. Rogers
In 1911, a widow with two children leaves New York City for territorial Arizona and becomes a ranch hand and later gets herself elected sheriff. A gambler and a rancher become rivals for her affections.
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Smart Woman (1948)
Character: Mrs. Rogers
A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.
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Love from a Stranger (1947)
Character: Auntie Loo-Loo Gerard
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.
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Lust for Life (1956)
Character: Mrs. Stricker
An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.
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Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)
Character: Mrs. Van Cleeve
An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not suffer.
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Eagle Squadron (1942)
Character: Dame Elizabeth Whitby
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
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Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
Character: Hazel
Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store?
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Escape Me Never (1947)
Character: Mrs. MacLean
A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.
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The Errand Boy (1961)
Character: Irma Paramutual
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.
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Between Two Worlds (1944)
Character: Genevieve Cliveden-Banks
Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got onboard or where they are going. Soon it becomes apparent that they all have something in common.
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Désirée (1954)
Character: Mme. Clary
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.
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The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
Character: Mrs. Bancroft (uncredited)
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
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My Fair Lady (1964)
Character: Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
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Ladies in Retirement (1941)
Character: Leonora Fiske
Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora's home, tensions soon lead to murder.
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The Unseen (1945)
Character: Marian Tygarth
David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspicion. Many feel that his wife's death in a car crash was no accident. Elizabeth Howard, the governess he hires to look after his children, makes it her mission to find out the truth. When other murders seem to be following David to his new town, Elizabeth investigates with the help of David's son Barnaby.
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Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Character: Marie Grosnay
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
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The Bellboy (1960)
Character: Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach, where he performs his duties quietly and without a word to anyone. All he displays are facial expressions and a comedic slapstick style. And anything that can go wrong, does go wrong when Stanley is involved. One day, Jerry Lewis arrives at the hotel and some of the staff notice the striking resemblance.
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Of Human Bondage (1946)
Character: Mrs. Betty Athelny
A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for help.
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Casanova Brown (1944)
Character: Mrs. Ferris
Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time. His first marriage, to Isabel, was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel has just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the infant to keep her from being adopted. Isabel's parents hunt for the child and discover that Cass and Isabel are still hopelessly in love.
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Forever and a Day (1943)
Character: Lady Trimble-Pomfret
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
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The Turn of the Screw (1959)
Character: Mrs. Grose
This is a Ford Startime TV special. A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Character: Angelica Muir
In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.
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The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
Character: Mrs. Latham
Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suffering from mental illness, Geoffrey returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He marries Sally but after a while he finds a strange urge to paint her as the angel of death too and history seems about to repeat itself.
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
Character: Adeline Palmer-Jones
A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
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The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957)
Character: Mrs. Charlotte Ogden
Opposing his commanding officer's decision to attack a group of innocent Indians and wipe them out, Lt. Frank Hewitt leaves his post and heads home to Texas. He knows that the attack will send all of the tribes on the warpath and he wants to forewarn everyone. He gets a chilly reception back home however. With most of the men away having enlisted in the Confederate army Frank, a Union officer, is seen by the local women as a traitor. He convinces them of the danger that lies ahead and trains them to repel the attack that will eventually come.
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The Paradine Case (1947)
Character: Innkeeper
In London, barrister Anthony Keane takes the case of Maddalena Paradine, a beautiful woman accused of poisoning her blind husband. Though happily married, Keane becomes infatuated with his enigmatic client and convinced of her innocence. His obsession clouds his judgment as he builds a defense implicating her servant, André Latour—an act that leads to devastating consequences both in court and at home.
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The King's Thief (1955)
Character: Mrs. Bennett
An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.
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23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
Character: Lady Syrett
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancée, attempt to track down the crooks.
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The Pleasure Seekers (1964)
Character: Dona Teresa Lacayo
A trio of gorgeous American tourists hope to find love while vacationing in Spain. Secretary Maggie Williams falls hard for a married newsman named Paul Barton while fighting off the advances of one of his employees. Singer Fran Hobson sets her sights on a handsome European doctor. And coed Susie Higgins receives an unexpected proposal from smooth-talking womanizer Emilio Lacaya.
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My Kingdom for a Cook (1943)
Character: Lucille Scott
While visiting Massachusetts, a famous English author faces the wrath of a socialite after stealing her chef.
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First Comes Courage (1943)
Character: Rose Lindstrom
Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.
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Laugh Your Blues Away (1942)
Character: Mrs. Westerly
Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her son with the daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher.
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Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
Character: Aunt Jennifer
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
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The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942)
Character: Mrs. Laura Winters
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
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Illegal (1932)
Character: Mrs. Evelyn Dean
This is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling parlor, in order to provide her two daughters with a high society education. Eventually she gets caught, and the daughters take over the night club and legitimize it. But the daughters have conflicts, and the no-good husband shows up to complicate matters.
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Seven Sweethearts (1942)
Character: Miss Abagail Robbins
Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.
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