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Private Nurse (1941)
Character: Mrs. Sarah Goldberg
In this brief B programmer, a nurse is hired to care for a widower's daughter who is unaware that her father is a gangster and that her mother is actually still alive. The concerned nurse burdens herself with the difficult responsibility of revealing the unfortunate truth.
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Her Boy (1918)
Character: Mrs. Schultz
When the United States enters World War I, the widowed Helen worries that she will lose her only son David, who has just turned 21. Although David patriotically urges the employees at his factory to enlist, he reluctantly gives in to his mother's pleas to remain at home with her. When David is drafted, his panic-stricken mother alters the date on his birth certificate, although the later birth date implies that he is illegitimate. Disgusted, David enlists under an assumed name, thus shaming Helen, who confesses her dishonesty to the townspeople. Her son, now in uniform, then forgives her.
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The Pied Piper (1942)
Character: Madame
Englishman Mr. Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is persuaded to take along the two Cavanaugh children, and as his journey progresses his family keeps growing in size. Once in German-occupied northern France a new problem arises — the risk of being heard speaking English.
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Bachelor Mother (1939)
Character: Mrs. Weiss
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.
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Girl from God's Country (1940)
Character: Mrs. Broken Thumb
Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne Webster. All of his previous left within a few weeks by the rigors of the Alaskan winter....
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Rio (1939)
Character: Maria (as Ferika Boras)
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.
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East Side, West Side (1949)
Character: Rosa's Grandma Senta (uncredited)
A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.
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Princess O'Rourke (1943)
Character: Mrs. Anna Pulaski (uncredited)
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
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Stronger Than Desire (1939)
Character: Mrs. D'Amoro
An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
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Margin for Error (1943)
Character: Mrs. Finkelstein
When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.
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Eight Girls in a Boat (1934)
Character: Frau Kruger
In an exclusive Swiss school for young girls, Christa Storm discovers that she is going to have a baby. She keeps the secret from everyone but her boyfriend, chemistry student David Perrin. Having lived in the private school for most of her life, Christa cannot confide in her distant father - and David cannot get his approval to marry her.
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Private Lives (1931)
Character: Cook at Chalet (uncredited)
Amanda and Elyot are one another's former spouse. Elyot is remarried to Sibyl and Amanda married Victor. Unexpectedly, both honeymooning couples arrive at a hotel on the same day and are put in rooms with adjoining terraces. Things go well until Amanda sees Elyot on the adjacent terrace.
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The Younger Generation (1929)
Character: Delancey Street Woman
Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
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Little Caesar (1931)
Character: Mrs. Passa (uncredited)
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
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Rafter Romance (1933)
Character: Rosie Eckbaum (uncredited)
A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.
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Born Reckless (1930)
Character: Ma Beretti
In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
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Specter of the Rose (1946)
Character: Mamochka
Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one.
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The World and the Flesh (1932)
Character: Sasha
During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of them, a ballerina, and gives her an ultimatum: give in to him or her friends will face the firing squad.
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La Conga Nights (1940)
Character: Mama O'Brien
In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when she hails his cab as she skips out on her former boarding house because she cannot pay rent.
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This Love of Ours (1945)
Character: Housekeeper
At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him...and attempts suicide. Saved by Touzac's new technique, Florence is revealed in a flashback as Michel's abandoned wife Karin, whom their daughter Susette thinks is dead. Can Susette cope if they now re-unite?
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Argentine Nights (1940)
Character: Mama Viejos
An all-girl band flees to Argentina to avoid their creditors. Comedy with songs.
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Ladies Love Brutes (1930)
Character: Mrs. Forziati
The movie stars George Bancroft, Mary Astor and Fredric March who are all excellent in their roles. The story begins as Joe Forziati (Bancroft), an Italian immigrant who has battled his way to success as a New York building contractor, decides to embark on a social career.
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The Talk of the Town (1942)
Character: Mrs. Pulaski (uncredited)
Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.
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Gallant Sons (1940)
Character: Madame Wachek
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
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Hi, Gaucho! (1935)
Character: Emelia
The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love.
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Lillian Russell (1940)
Character: Mrs. Rose
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)
Character: Olga
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.
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Humanity (1933)
Character: Mrs. Bernstein
A doctor in New York City, who has had to raise his son without a mother since his wife died, struggles and sacrifices to be able to send the boy to a top-ranked, but expensive, medical university in Europe. His dream is that the boy will return to help him provide much needed medical care for the poor of his Lower East Side neighborhood.
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Huddle (1932)
Character: Mrs. Amatto
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.
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Sleepers West (1941)
Character: N/A
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
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Love Affair (1939)
Character: Terry's Landlady (uncredited)
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
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Caught in the Draft (1941)
Character: Yetta
Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. In basic training, Don hopes to make a good impression on the fair Antoinette and her father, but his military career is largely slapstick. Will he ever get his corporal's stripes?
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Svengali (1931)
Character: Marta (uncredited)
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
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Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Character: Mrs. Sarah Rubens (uncredited)
An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.
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Christmas in July (1940)
Character: Mrs. Schwartz
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
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Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
Character: Delicatessen Proprietress
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Character: Grandmother (uncredited)
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
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The Fountain (1934)
Character: Nurse
Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweetheart Julie. Long discussions between Julie and Allison, centering on family conflicts that kept them apart, take place before the severely wounded Von Narwitz returns to the castle and more long discussions ensue.
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