Mary Doran

Mary Doran

Born: September 8, 1910
Died: September 6, 1995
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Mary Doran...

A Girl's Best Years
Title: A Girl's Best Years
Character: Judy Nash
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman reporter is hired by an author-songwriter to help him avoid additional breach-of-promise suits.
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The Blonde Bomber
Title: The Blonde Bomber
Character: Marcy
Released: November 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The Palooka gang is out of money again, and Knobby and Johnny try to raise some quick cash by selling phony watches. Their first sale is their last, when a burly customer realizes he's been had. Next stop, Joe, Knobby and Punchy load up at a local diner, and Knobby has a scheme to skip out on the bill. Of course, the diner owner turns out to be their watch customer, and the boys make a hasty exit with the manager's waitress girlfriend in tow. Knobby books Palooka into a local vaudeville house to put on some exhibition bouts. Of course, their friend from the diner is in the audience, with a bag of rotten tomatoes, and he's more than willing to come on stage when Knobby asks for a volunteer to box with Joe.
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The Border Patrolman
Title: The Border Patrolman
Character: Myra
Released: June 20, 1936
Type: Movie
When a border patrolman catches their spoiled daughter smoking in a no-smoking area, parents hire him to watch over her. She then runs over to Mexico and gets involved with jewel thieves and he has to go save her.
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The Bridge of Sighs
Title: The Bridge of Sighs
Character: Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane
Released: February 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
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Miss Pacific Fleet
Title: Miss Pacific Fleet
Character: Miss LeMay - Freytag's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".
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Murder in the Fleet
Title: Murder in the Fleet
Character: Jenny Lane (Uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1935
Type: Movie
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.
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Sunset Range
Title: Sunset Range
Character: Mary 'Bonnie' Shea
Released: April 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Grant hides stolen money in the luggage of Bonnie Shea who is moving west. Later when he and his men arrive to retrieve the money, they also kidnap Bonnie. This sends Reasonin' Bates and his cowhands on their horses after the gangsters in their cars.
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Naughty Marietta
Title: Naughty Marietta
Character: Casquette Girl (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A French princess flees an arranged marriage and sails for New Orleans, where she is rescued from pirates by a dashing mercenary.
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Sing Sing Nights
Title: Sing Sing Nights
Character: Anne McCaigh
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A respected war correspondent is found murdered, with three bullets--from three different guns--in him. Three different men are arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, but only one can be the actual killer. A criminologist sets out to find who is really guilty.
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Corn on the Cop
Title: Corn on the Cop
Character: Alice, Policeman's Wife
Released: April 28, 1934
Type: Movie
A 1934 Warner Brothers Vitaphone short, "Corn on the Cop." In this one, two hobos launch a get-rich scheme by trying to sell axle grease marketed as salve for relief from corns and bunions. The idea, unfortunately, goes awry. Starring Harry Gribbon with Shemp Howard, Boyd Davis, and Mary Doran.
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Merry Wives of Reno
Title: Merry Wives of Reno
Character: Lady with Tennis Player (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
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Saturday's Millions
Title: Saturday's Millions
Character: Marie
Released: September 30, 1933
Type: Movie
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.
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Grand Slam
Title: Grand Slam
Character: Dot (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
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Hard to Handle
Title: Hard to Handle
Character: Dance Contestant (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
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Three on a Match
Title: Three on a Match
Character: Prisoner at Checkers Table (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
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Breach of Promise
Title: Breach of Promise
Character: Mille Applegate
Released: October 23, 1932
Type: Movie
A pre-Code drama.
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Movie Crazy
Title: Movie Crazy
Character: Margie
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
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Exposure
Title: Exposure
Character: Gerry Ward
Released: August 20, 1932
Type: Movie
A reporter runs into a pretty young girl who has inherited her father's failing business. She wants to give it up, but he tries to convince her to make a go of it.
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Love Me Tonight
Title: Love Me Tonight
Character: Madame Dupont (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Title: The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Character: Dance Hall Girl
Released: May 28, 1932
Type: Movie
A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.
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Miss Pinkerton
Title: Miss Pinkerton
Character: Florence Lenz
Released: May 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerton, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
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The Silver Lining
Title: The Silver Lining
Character: Doris Lee
Released: April 16, 1932
Type: Movie
A women in prison tale. One's rich, one's poor. Can they prosper after prison?
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Beauty and the Boss
Title: Beauty and the Boss
Character: Olive 'Ollie' Frey
Released: April 9, 1932
Type: Movie
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
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The Final Edition
Title: The Final Edition
Character: Patsy King
Released: February 12, 1932
Type: Movie
A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate.
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Union Depot
Title: Union Depot
Character: Daisy (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
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Ridin' for Justice
Title: Ridin' for Justice
Character: Mary Slyde
Released: January 4, 1932
Type: Movie
More a romantic melodrama than a true Western, this Buck Jones vehicle from Columbia starred Jones as Buck Randall, a carefree cowboy whose popularity with the local saloon girls becomes the talk of the town.
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Under Eighteen
Title: Under Eighteen
Character: Lucille (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.
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Fifty Fathoms Deep
Title: Fifty Fathoms Deep
Character: Florine
Released: August 20, 1931
Type: Movie
In this high-seas adventure, a woman creates a great rift between old friends: an experienced older diver, and his younger protege. They become enemies when a gold-digger marries the latter. She soon leaves him in favor of a wealthy yachtsman. She is aboard his boat when an accident occurs. The two divers must salvage the costly boat before it sinks.
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The Miracle Woman
Title: The Miracle Woman
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1931
Type: Movie
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?
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Ex-Bad Boy
Title: Ex-Bad Boy
Character: Sadie Bloom
Released: July 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A man gets in trouble with his girlfriend when a beautiful movie star and her fiance come to his small town.
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Their Mad Moment
Title: Their Mad Moment
Character: Stancia
Released: July 12, 1931
Type: Movie
Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir Harry Congers, but in love with Basque peasant Esteban Cristera. Deciding on a final fling before wedlock, Emily goes to Esteban's village in the mountains, but is wounded in a car accident. Recuperating, she learns about the hardships endured by Basque women from Esteban's grandmother and former girlfriend, Stancia, and decides to return to Sir Harry in Biarritz.
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Party Husband
Title: Party Husband
Character: Bee Canfield
Released: June 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its premature end. Fellow Ziegfield alum Mary Doran plays the coquette whose intended conquest of the free-thinking hubby (James Rennie) starts to throw the couple’s “understanding” awry.
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Iron Man
Title: Iron Man
Character: Showgirl
Released: April 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.
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Crimes Square
Title: Crimes Square
Character: Lil
Released: March 26, 1931
Type: Movie
When a crook decides to go straight, his jealous cast off moll exposes him to the police.
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The Criminal Code
Title: The Criminal Code
Character: Gertrude Williams
Released: January 3, 1931
Type: Movie
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
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The Third Alarm
Title: The Third Alarm
Character: Neeta
Released: November 16, 1930
Type: Movie
The story of the firemen at Engine House No.8, where widower Frank "Dad" Brooks is the beloved veteran and whose children, Milly and Jimmie, are especially fond of firemen Dan and "Beauty" Johnson. The problem of the day is concern whether or not Brooks is going to qualify for a pension...until a three-alarm inferno breaks out at the orphanage.
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Remote Control
Title: Remote Control
Character: Marion Ferguson
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
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Our Blushing Brides
Title: Our Blushing Brides
Character: Eloise a Mannequin
Released: July 19, 1930
Type: Movie
Three department store girls--Connie, Franky, and Gerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than 20 dollars per week. Gerry is the sensible one, but the others throw themselves at amoral rich men in an attempt to hook one and better themselves. They end up being hurt and disappointed despite Gerry's attempts to warn them.
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The Sins of the Children
Title: The Sins of the Children
Character: Laura
Released: June 27, 1930
Type: Movie
A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.
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The Divorcee
Title: The Divorcee
Character: Janice
Released: April 19, 1930
Type: Movie
When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, she decides to pay him back in kind.
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Lord Byron of Broadway
Title: Lord Byron of Broadway
Character: Roy's Ex-Sweetheart (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1930
Type: Movie
A talented songwriter gets his inspiration for songs from others and not from within himself. He is oblivious that he may harm other people when he uses their stories or their love for himself.
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They Learned About Women
Title: They Learned About Women
Character: Daisy
Released: January 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Jack and Jerry are doing okay between profession baseball and Vaudeville. That is, until love and gold-diggers get in the way.
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New York Nights
Title: New York Nights
Character: Ruthie Day
Released: December 28, 1929
Type: Movie
Show girl Jill Deverne is married to song writer Fred Deverne, and everyone is involved in the Broadway night life and endless parties. Jill is being pursued by a gangster, and she leaves her husband after he spends the night with a floozie. Jill ends up as the gangster's moll, but she soon gets tired of the lifestyle.
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Their Own Desire
Title: Their Own Desire
Character: Suzanne
Released: December 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Lally is a rich girl whose father writes books and plays polo. After 23 years of marriage her father decides to divorce Lally's mother and remarry to soon-to-be-divorced Beth Cheever. This sours Lally on all men. While on vacation with her mother she meets Jack, who succeeds in stealing her heart. Then Lally discovers that Jack is the son of Beth Cheever, the woman who is to marry her father.
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The Girl in the Show
Title: The Girl in the Show
Character: Connie Bard
Released: August 30, 1929
Type: Movie
In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors decide to marry and settle down. The lead actor helps set up the rest of the troupe with some performances. He then destroys the new marriage. Later the woman and the head actor fall in love. He then gives her the lead role in his newest show.
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
Title: The Trial of Mary Dugan
Character: Pauline Agguerro
Released: June 8, 1929
Type: Movie
A woman is tried for the murder of her lover. Director Bayard Veiller's 1929 courtroom drama stars Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, Lilyan Tashman and H. B. Warner.
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The Broadway Melody
Title: The Broadway Melody
Character: Flo (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1929
Type: Movie
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
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The River Woman
Title: The River Woman
Character: Sally
Released: December 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A drama of the underworld of the old Mississippi River
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Half a Bride
Title: Half a Bride
Character: Betty Brewster
Released: June 16, 1928
Type: Movie
Patience Winslow is an impulsive heiress who marries a much-older man whom she really doesn't love. While honeymooning on her yacht without her new husband, Patience is marooned on a desert island with handsome Captain Edmunds. Her head full of notions that she's gleaned from radio dramas and pulp novels, Patience demands that she and Edmunds enter into an in-name-only marriage, observing the responsibilities and proprieties of matrimony without the sexual entanglements. Complications naturally arise.