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Hollywood Mystery (1934)
Character: Doris Dawn
A PR man for a low-budget movie studio comes up with what he believes is the perfect gimmick--to make a gangster picture with a real mobster in the lead role.
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She Shall Have Music (1935)
Character: Dorothy Drew
Millionaire shipbuilder Freddie Gates decides to publicize his ships by hiring Jack Hylton and his orchestra to broadcast from his yacht.. Brian Gates, Freddie's son, has a low-approval-rating and a high dislike for jazz music and refuses board ship with the band on board. His father enters a conspiracy with singer Dorothy Drew to get him on the yacht, where the broadcasts will be made. Brian falls in love with Dorothy, but calls of the romance when he sees her dancing and singing with Hylton's band in Paris. Dorothy induces three members of the band to shanghai Brian when the yacht sails. A rival shipowner, determined to stop the broadcasts, bribes the crew to desert the ship and all hands are left stranded in mid-ocean on the yacht. The band-members manage to extricate them from their predicament and they get back to London, where Hylton is acclaimed and Brian marries Dorothy.
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Make-Up (1937)
Character: Joy
Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an independent production company at Shepperton Studios.
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Intimate Relations (1937)
Character: Molly Morell
George Gommery enjoys slipping up to town to see some little actress, and never suspects that his wife can play the same game just as well as he can. Or at least, he never suspects until he tells his wife that her lover is engaged to the woman whom he has been entertaining in London.
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His Lordship Goes to Press (1938)
Character: Valerie Lee
An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity things turn out rough but Valerie's charm and personality overcome the obstacles.
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Night Without Stars (1951)
Character: Claire
A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.
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Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8) (1931)
Character: Self
Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort; Barbara Stanwyck and Ricardo Cortez play golf; other celebrities are shown in Malibu Beach.
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File 113 (1933)
Character: Madeline
A Parisian cop sets out to solve a sudden series of crimes, including robbery and blackmail. Based on a novel by Émile Gaboriau.
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Forgotten (1933)
Character: Lena Strauss
Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws' object to his smelly pipe smoking. Finally the family tucks him 'out of sight and out of mind' into a nursing home, with very little 'honor thy father' thought given to it. However, unmarried daughter, Lena, who loves her father dearly, has a bright fiancée, who makes a lot of money off of a patent, and they make a home for him.
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Let's Make a Night of It (1937)
Character: Peggy Boydell
Unbeknown to each other, a husband and wife acquire separate nightclubs in the same London street; however, both clubs are on the brink of bankruptcy.
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Land Without Music (1936)
Character: Sadie Whistler
Believing real life is an operetta, the citizens of the European country Lucco break into song at every blink of an eye. Since everybody's singing, nobody works, there's no money to pay taxes, and the country faces bankruptcy, leading the ruling princess to declare all music illegal. Enter opera singer Richard Tauber and American journalist Jimmy Durante to save the day and lead the citizens to march on the palace in protest--and in song.
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Dance Band (1935)
Character: Pat Shelley
Life gets complicated for bandleader Buddy when he falls for his greatest rival – the leader of an all-girl dance band!
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After the Ball (1957)
Character: N/A
The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility
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Back Street (1932)
Character: Freda Schmidt
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
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Arizona (1931)
Character: Bonita 'Bonnie' Palmer
A West Point graduate jilts his girlfriend but runs into her later at an Army outpost.
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Sealed Lips (1942)
Character: Lois Grant
There's something very odd about Romano, a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing, Romano doesn't sound much like himself. For another, he always seems to be hiding something. Detective Lee suspects that something's amiss, and he's probably right!
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Tess of the Storm Country (1932)
Character: Teola Garfield
When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long. A local millionaire, Frederick Garfield, lays a false claim to the property and has them evicted. Later, when Tess saves a young man about her age from drowning, she is a bit dismayed to learn that he is Garfield's son. But when her father is jailed on a false-accusation charge of murder, the younger Garfield comes to their aid and proves he himself.
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A Strange Adventure (1932)
Character: 'Nosey' Toodles
A police lieutenant and a female reporter investigate a series of murders committed by a hooded killer in an old dark house.
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Aren't Men Beasts! (1937)
Character: Marie
Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!
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The Mad Parade (1931)
Character: Janice Lee
The story of eight women and how they served their country during World War I.
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Hold Me Tight (1933)
Character: Dottie Wade
Newly married sweethearts Chuck Evans and Molly Roberts work at Blair's Department Store and Molly plans to quit to be a stay-at-home wife and mother. But Chuck unexpectedly and unfairly gets fired so Molly stays on. She catches the eye of Dolan, the crooked store detective, and he makes a play for her, trying to make Chuck, who is still unemployed, small in her eyes. Meanwhile, Dolan puts into action his plan to steal the store's fur coats by hiring his girlfriend, Trudie Holmes, and Molly to do a sham inventory one night, then hires Chuck to unwittingly drive the contraband away. Dolan arranges with his mugs for Chuck to be the fall guy if anything goes wrong. Molly & Chuck become suspicious and manage to foil the robbery. Blair appoints Chuck the head of the shipping department and the young couple see a bright future ahead.
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Hollywood Party (1934)
Character: Linda Clemp
Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws him a big Hollywood star-studded party so that he might use the lions in his next movie. But, his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.
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Tanned Legs (1929)
Character: Peggy Reynolds
Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet. Mama and Papa are set to rights fairly quickly, but Janet's the one with real problems. It seems she sent some compromising love letters to a worthless cad, and now the bounder wants to use the letters for blackmail. Peggy's friend Roger and his flapper sweetheart Tootie hatch an elaborate plan to retrieve the incriminating letters and salvage Janet's reputation.
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Morals for Women (1931)
Character: Lorraine Hutson
A desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love.
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Side Street (1929)
Character: Judy (uncredited)
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
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The Cuckoos (1930)
Character: Ruth Chester
Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.
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Hit the Deck (1929)
Character: Toddy
A sailor finds himself the object of a cafe owner's affections.
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Thrill of Youth (1932)
Character: Jill Fenwick
Chet Thayer returns to his family and the loving arms of his long suffering sweatheart Marcia. Not being the faithful type he soon falls under the spell of the town vamp Jill Fenwick.
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Only Yesterday (1933)
Character: Deborah
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices an envelope addressed to him on his desk. As he begins to read, we're taken back to World War One and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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No Monkey Business (1935)
Character: Clare Barrington
To help his partner win the daughter of an anthropologist, an actor pretends to be an ape.
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The Secret Witness (1931)
Character: Tess Jones
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder.
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Branded Men (1931)
Character: Dale Wilson
When Rod, Ramrod, and Half-A-Rod ride into Steep Gulch, they immediately become Sheriffs. The previous Sheriffs have been killed by Mace and his gang who don't wait long before they make an attempt on the new trio.
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I Hate Women (1934)
Character: Anne Meredith
A reporter is frustrated with women after a string of failed relationships. But then he finds himself taking up the cause of a young women he believes is falsely accused of killing her husband.
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Seven Doors to Death (1944)
Character: Mary Rawling
An architect (Chick Chandler) studies the doors of six shops and an apartment house to solve a gem theft/double murder.
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Radio Patrol (1932)
Character: Vern Wiley
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
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Hollywood and Vine (1945)
Character: Gloria Devine
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star.
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Country Fair (1941)
Character: Pepper Wilson
Johnny Campbell isa glib campaign manager for gubenatorial candidate Stogie McPhee. Having impulsively promised Johnny that she'll marry him if McPhee wins, heroine Pepper Wilson begins canvassing the voters on behalf of rival candidate Gildersleeve. But the race is won by a dark horse, blacksmith Gunther Potts, who single-handedly cleans out the corrupt element in the local government.
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Unfinished Business (1941)
Character: Clarisse
Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment – the film charts the relationship that develops between a small-town girl in the big city, and the brother of the man who has heartlessly seduced and abandoned her.
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Steady Company (1932)
Character: Peggy
Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and ZaSu Pitts supply the laughs.
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School for Husbands (1937)
Character: Diana Cheswick
A couple of lonesome wives, Marion Carter and Diana Cheswick fall for philanderer Leonard Drummon, and arrange to get their husbands, Geoffrey Carter and Morgan Cheswick, off to Paris so they can be free for one night of fun and frolic. The husbands are all for this as they think it will cure their wives of being infatuated with this man-about-town. And they might run into some fun in Paris. Actually, the philanderer is the one who put the idea in their heads to go away so the coast will be clear for his marauding raid party, with no intentions of curing anybody of anything.
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Midnight Mystery (1930)
Character: Louise Hollister
A fog-shrouded house provides the setting for this early talkies thriller.
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The Love Lottery (1954)
Character: Viola
Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone, he relocates to a remote Italian village where unanticipated trouble arises when unwittingly he becomes the prize for an international lottery.
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A Study in Scarlet (1933)
Character: Eileen Forrester
In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy's widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew. Other members keep dying: Malcom Dearing first, then Mr. Baker. There is also an attempt on the life of young Eileen Forrester, who became a reluctant society member upon the death of her father. Holmes' uncanny observations and insights are put to the test.
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Hi'ya, Chum (1943)
Character: Madge Tracy
Entertainers get stranded in a small boomtown, and open up a restaurant.
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Behind the Mask (1946)
Character: Edith Merrill
Falsely accused of murdering a crooked newspaper reporter, suave detective Lamont Cranston -- aka the Shadow -- vows to track down the real killer.
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Treasure Hunt (1952)
Character: Mrs. Dorothy Cleghorn-Thomas
Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.
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