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Things Are Looking Up (1935)
Character: Cicely Fytte / Bertha Fytte
Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.
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Everybody Dance (1936)
Character: Katharine 'Lady Kate' Levering
When her sister dies, a nightclub singer is left with her children. In order to raise the children properly, she leaves her singing career and takes her new family to a farm. However, her greedy manager--seeing his "cash cow" slipping away--goes to court to have her declared legally incompetent.
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Happy Ever After (1932)
Character: Illustrated Ida
Two window cleaners help a girl who is trying to get to Hollywood.
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Me and Marlborough (1935)
Character: Kit Ross
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
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Soldiers of the King (1933)
Character: Jenny Marvello / Maisie Marvello
When Cicely Courtneidge's mother (also played by Miss Courtneidge, albeit in heavy makeup), retires, Cicely succeeds as Queen of the Marvellos, a family of music-hall performers. However, when young Dorothy Hyson begins an affair with a young soldier, Miss Courtneidge is trapped between her responsibilities and memories of her affair years ago with another young soldier.
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Take My Tip (1937)
Character: Lady Hattie Pilkinton
Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by their butler - and they devise a plan to scam the con man and get both revenge and their money back.
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The Ghost Train (1931)
Character: Miss Bourne
The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are increasingly threatened by a latent external force. Only five reels of picture and two reels of soundtrack survive.
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The Spider's Web (1960)
Character: Miss Peake
Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie play. An ambassador's wife must hide the corpse of her stepdaughter's unlikeable stepfather from her husband, who is bringing important visitors to their country home.
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Elstree Calling (1930)
Character: Herself
A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).
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Miss Tulip Stays the Night (1955)
Character: Millicent Tulip
Crime writer Andrew Dax and his gorgeous wife Kate go on holiday to a country cottage, where they receive an unexpected visitor, the bossy Miss Tulip, who needs shelter for the night. In the morning, there's a dead body in the house.
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The Perfect Gentleman (1935)
Character: April Maye
A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.
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The L-Shaped Room (1962)
Character: Mavis
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.
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The Wrong Box (1966)
Character: Major Martha
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
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Under Your Hat (1940)
Character: Kay Millett
In pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carburetor stolen by enemy agents. Based on a popular stage musical starring Hulbert and Courtneidge, a husband-and-wife team who had made a series of successful comedy films during the 1930s.
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Aunt Sally (1934)
Character: Sally Bird / Mademoiselle Zaza
An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she finds herself in the middle of a dispute between Mike Kelly, the club's Chicago-born owner, and a group of American gangsters bent on taking over the club. To put pressure on Kelly, the gangsters kidnap "Zaza".
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Not Now Darling (1973)
Character: Mrs. Harriet Frencham
A married British furrier gives a mobster's mistress a cheap mink coat.
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Falling for You (1933)
Character: Minnie Tucker
In this comedy, two rival reporters vie for the scoop on the whereabouts of a missing heiress. They find her in Switzerland. One of the journalists falls in love with her and saves her from marrying an aristocrat. His rival gets to write the story as a consolation prize.
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Jack's the Boy (1932)
Character: Mrs. Bobday
With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star plays the son of a celebrated Scotland Yard detective, who joins the force in hopes of following his father's footsteps. Unfortunately, Jack is something of a screw-up, and before long he has become the laughing stock of the force.
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