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Motherland (1927)
Character: Mrs Edwards
'Soldier poses as dead captain to comfort blind mother while girl poses as dead Jew's wife to comfort family.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Circle (1939)
Character: Lady Catherine
In London, aware of her husband's longstanding affair and feeling neglected, a woman flirts with a former flame in a plot to teach her husband a lesson without endangering their marriage.
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Old Iron (1938)
Character: Lady Woodstock
Overbearing but kind-hearted old industrialist Sir Henry Woodstock (known as "Old Iron" to his family) quarrels with his favourite son Harry because Harry wishes to marry the daughter of a business opponent whom he suspects of shady practices. Harry, who has inherited his father's temperament, drives away in a blind fury, runs a man down and kills him. At his trial for manslaughter Sir Henry's testimony as to the quarrel, and the mental disturbance that must have resulted from the conflict in Harry's mind between love of his father and determination to do what he himself thought right, secures Harry's acquittal.
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The Great Well (1924)
Character: Mrs. Starling
In India a major tries to cash in on a dry oil well but shoots himself when the oil returns.
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Almost a Divorce (1931)
Character: Aunt Isobel
'Farcical comedy of matrimonial complications in which a bibulous man almost wrecks his friend's marriage.' (British Film Institute)
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Just Smith (1933)
Character: Lady Trench
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...
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Parisian Life (1936)
Character: Liane
Mendoza, who had an affair with the star of the original production of La Vie parisienne in 1900, returns in 1935 with his son and granddaughter. His granddaughter is engaged to a young Frenchman, but Mendoza's strait-laced and puritanical son initially forbids the marriage. The core conflict involves Mendoza and his old Parisian friends conspiring to change the son's mind and convince him to embrace the titular "Parisian life".
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Blind Justice (1935)
Character: Fluffy
When Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to reveal that Peggy's brother Ralph was shot for cowardice during World War One.
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Brown Sugar (1931)
Character: Mrs. Cunningham
The young Lord Sloane marries a musical comedy actress, much to his parents' disappointment. The actress's brother-in-law gets into betting difficulties so she obtains money from her husband to help him.
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Happy Family (1939)
Character: Gran
Summer 1939, and an ordinary family gets an alarming taste of war to come.
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The Law Divine (1920)
Character: Edie le Bas
A war worker wins back her wounded husband with recollections of their honeymoon.
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The Song You Gave Me (1933)
Character: Grandmother
Set in Vienna, this lively musical comedy stars Bebe Daniels as an actress who falls in love with her secretary, but has difficulty in persuading him to propose to her.
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The Old Dark House (1932)
Character: Rebecca Femm
In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.
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A Cup of Kindness (1934)
Character: Mrs. Phyllis Tutt
A tale of two feuding families whose offspring cause uproar when they announce their marital plans.
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Of Human Bondage (1946)
Character: Mrs. Gray
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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I Was a Spy (1933)
Character: Canteen Ma
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.
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But the Flesh Is Weak (1932)
Character: Lady Florence Ridgway
A poor-but-charming father and son try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.
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The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
Character: Lady
A London barrister believes the woman who spent the night in his hotel suite is the erring wife of his newest client.
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Flames of Passion (1922)
Character: Aunt
Dorothy, a young girl, is seduced by her father's chauffeur. She gives birth to a child who is given to the chauffeur's wife. The chauffeur, on a drunken binge murders the child, unaware that the child is his own.
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Chu-Chin-Chow (1924)
Character: Alcolma
In Baghdad a girl escapes from a robber sheikh and thwarts a plot to rob a merchant.
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Vintage Wine (1935)
Character: Josephine Popinot
The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.
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The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946)
Character: Mother Meg
Robin Hood's swashbuckling son comes to the rescue when England's boy-king is captured by the evil, power-hungry William of Pembroke.
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