Gladys Blake

Gladys Blake

Born: May 12, 1920
Died: May 21, 1983

Movies for Gladys Blake...

This Woman Is Dangerous
Title: This Woman Is Dangerous
Character: Maggie (Uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1952
Type: Movie
A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover goes into hiding, she checks in to the hospital for extensive surgery to recover her eyesight. There she is treated by a handsome young doctor. As expected not only does the doctor successfully open her eyes, he also opens her heart for him.
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On the Town
Title: On the Town
Character: Brooklyn Girl on Subway (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
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The Accused
Title: The Accused
Character: Boxing Fan (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1949
Type: Movie
A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.
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Ladies of the Chorus
Title: Ladies of the Chorus
Character: Flower Shop Girl
Released: December 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and Peggy takes her place. When Peggy falls in love with wealthy Randy, May fears class differences may lead to misery.
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The Time of Your Life
Title: The Time of Your Life
Character: Sidekick
Released: September 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Joe. Today, Tom notices a woman named Kitty when she comes into Nick's, and he quickly falls in love with her. Meanwhile, a distraught young man repeatedly calls his girlfriend, begging her to marry him. Nick himself muses on all the various persons who come into his bar, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.
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Smart Woman
Title: Smart Woman
Character: Elsie, Larrimore's Secretary
Released: April 30, 1948
Type: Movie
A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.
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Big Town After Dark
Title: Big Town After Dark
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1947
Type: Movie
A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
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Fear in the Night
Title: Fear in the Night
Character: Bank Clerk (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1947
Type: Movie
The dream is unusually vivid: Bank employee Vince Grayson finds himself murdering a man in a sinister octagonal-shaped room lined with mirrors while a mysterious woman breaks into a safe. It is so vivid that Vince suspects it may have really happened. To get the dream off his mind, he goes on a picnic with some relatives. When a thunderstorm forces his party into a nearby mansion, Vince discovers that the bizarre room does exist, and it means nothing but trouble.
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Scared to Death
Title: Scared to Death
Character: Lilly Beth
Released: February 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor indicate they want the marriage dissolved. Arriving at the scene is a mysterious personage identified as the doctor's brother who formerly was a stage magician in Europe. He is accompanied by a threatening dwarf...
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The Magnificent Rogue
Title: The Magnificent Rogue
Character: Townley's Secretary
Released: November 7, 1946
Type: Movie
A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
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Nocturne
Title: Nocturne
Character: Pantages Theatre Cashier
Released: October 29, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.
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Over 21
Title: Over 21
Character: Girl (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1945
Type: Movie
A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.
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Bewitched
Title: Bewitched
Character: Glenda
Released: July 4, 1945
Type: Movie
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
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The Naughty Nineties
Title: The Naughty Nineties
Character: Girl in Garter Gag (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1945
Type: Movie
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
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Rockin' in the Rockies
Title: Rockin' in the Rockies
Character: Betty Vale
Released: April 17, 1945
Type: Movie
Rancher Rusty Williams is away at agricultural college and leaves his spread in the hands of his older cousin Shorty. Shorty wants to do more than run a ranch, however -- he wants to prospect for gold, but he has no money. He recruits a pair of partners in the guise of two runaway vagrants and a pair of backers in two stranded singers. But then Rusty shows up, and his four somewhat bumbling hired hands manage to compound Larry and Curly's deep ineptitude, and Rusty wants them all out of his hair.
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Let's Go Steady
Title: Let's Go Steady
Character: Miss Schlepheimer
Released: January 4, 1945
Type: Movie
After learning they were duped by a con artist, two songwriters join forces with other swindled colleagues and use creative methods to promote their music.
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Reckless Age
Title: Reckless Age
Character: Waitress
Released: August 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
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Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Title: Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Character: Sally
Released: July 7, 1944
Type: Movie
A young girl rents an apartment from a man who has recently enlisted in the Marines. The trouble is that he's given out keys to a half-dozen of his friends, and they all keep dropping in.
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She's a Soldier Too
Title: She's a Soldier Too
Character: Miss Dooley (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1944
Type: Movie
Wartime workers deal with homefront dramatics.
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Career Girl
Title: Career Girl
Character: Janie Woods
Released: January 11, 1944
Type: Movie
Joan Terry, from Kansas City, comes to New York to get a job on the stage. But until she finds an opportunity, she stays at a boarding house where other talent is also waiting. To get a better chance, the people there decide to build a talent pool, where the person with the most chances for a job gets the full support, trying to get jobs for the others there too - and Joan is chosen to do that. But this is not so easy when her fiance is trying to keep her away from the stage...
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Top Man
Title: Top Man
Character: Madge
Released: September 17, 1943
Type: Movie
In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of local factory workers, the plucky lad, his siblings and his schoolmates put on a lively little show. With a little work, he even convinces Count Basie to come with his band.
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Fired Wife
Title: Fired Wife
Character: Diana
Released: September 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
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Phantom of the Opera
Title: Phantom of the Opera
Character: Jeanne
Released: August 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful young soprano Christine Dubois the star of the opera and wreak revenge on those who stole his music.
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A Stranger in Town
Title: A Stranger in Town
Character: Birdie
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.
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Seven Sweethearts
Title: Seven Sweethearts
Character: Newspaper Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Released: November 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.
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Who Done It?
Title: Who Done It?
Character: Telephone Operator
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
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Ship Ahoy
Title: Ship Ahoy
Character: Merton's Secretary
Released: April 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved.
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Woman of the Year
Title: Woman of the Year
Character: Flo Peters
Released: February 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
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Fly-By-Night
Title: Fly-By-Night
Character: Sales Clerk (Uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1942
Type: Movie
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
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Johnny Eager
Title: Johnny Eager
Character: Receptionist at Verne's Office (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1941
Type: Movie
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
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Niagara Falls
Title: Niagara Falls
Character: Trixie
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
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Married Bachelor
Title: Married Bachelor
Character: Marie (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentric professor) in order to pay off a debt to a gangster.
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West Point Widow
Title: West Point Widow
Character: Salesgirl
Released: June 20, 1941
Type: Movie
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.
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Bachelor Daddy
Title: Bachelor Daddy
Character: Brunette Note-Deliverer
Released: June 4, 1941
Type: Movie
The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.
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The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
Title: The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
Character: Maisie
Released: May 2, 1941
Type: Movie
An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paralyzed.
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Title: The Lady from Cheyenne
Character: Chorus Girl
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Title: Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Character: Maisie, Emergency Switchboard Operator
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.
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The Golden Fleecing
Title: The Golden Fleecing
Character: First Stenographer (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
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I Love You Again
Title: I Love You Again
Character: Salesgirl (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
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Sailor's Lady
Title: Sailor's Lady
Character: Beauty Operator
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
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Broadway Melody of 1940
Title: Broadway Melody of 1940
Character: Miss Martin (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
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The Earl of Chicago
Title: The Earl of Chicago
Character: 'Babe', Silken Legs (uncredited)
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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Money To Burn
Title: Money To Burn
Character: Miss Pitts
Released: December 31, 1939
Type: Movie
In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a whopping $50,000.
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The Cisco Kid and the Lady
Title: The Cisco Kid and the Lady
Character: Saloon Girl
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother.
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Fast and Furious
Title: Fast and Furious
Character: Miss Brooklyn
Released: October 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
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The Women
Title: The Women
Character: Miss St. Claire (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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These Glamour Girls
Title: These Glamour Girls
Character: Joy Lane Cashier (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
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Tell No Tales
Title: Tell No Tales
Character: Myra Haskins (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1939
Type: Movie
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
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Lucky Night
Title: Lucky Night
Character: Blackie
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.
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There's That Woman Again
Title: There's That Woman Again
Character: Fran
Released: December 24, 1938
Type: Movie
Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill's prying wife wants to help catch the crook.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Mary (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Racing Blood
Title: Racing Blood
Character: Phyllis Reynolds
Released: November 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Frankie Reynolds (Frankie Darro' ), youngest member of a family of jockeys, borrows $4.85 (yes, four dollars and eighty-five cents) from his sister Phyllis (Gladys Blake), who is not a jockey, to buy a crippled colt from the stables owned by Clay Harrison (Kane Richmond). He nurses the colt back to health, and in two years has one of the fastest horses in the country.
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Love in September
Title: Love in September
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Love in September
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One in a Million
Title: One in a Million
Character: Switchboard Operator
Released: March 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A department store clerk, wrongly accused of stealing by her lecherous boss, becomes involved in a romantic relationship with the boss's son.
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Coming Out Party
Title: Coming Out Party
Character: Gold's Secretary
Released: March 9, 1934
Type: Movie
In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young man, but the strong-willed girl initially demurs until the night of her debut. Her social adviser fills the debutante’s dance card with partners, which inflames the violinist.
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Air Fright
Title: Air Fright
Character: Lucas's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1933
Type: Movie
The girls are stewardesses on an experimental flight.
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Rainbow Over Broadway
Title: Rainbow Over Broadway
Character: Nellie Valleron
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Ex-vaudeville performer Trixie makes a come-back, and threatens to thwart the ambitions of her song-writing step-children, Bob and Judy.
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My Weakness
Title: My Weakness
Character: Mitzi
Released: September 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin.
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The Important Witness
Title: The Important Witness
Released: July 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and she is arrested for it.
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The Rummy
Title: The Rummy
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1933
Type: Movie
After Billy gets discharged for wrecking his Taxi, he takes a job at a Taxidermy business. Ben brings in his flea to be stuffed & loses it. They get locked in at night and are frightened.
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Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife
Title: Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife
Character: Gertie - Stenographer
Released: January 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A Mack Sennett-produced sound short about couples playing bridge through the ages.