Lynn Bari

Lynn Bari

Born: December 18, 1913
Died: November 20, 1989
in Roanoke, Virginia, USA
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Lynn Bari (born Margaret Schuyler Fisher, December 18, 1913 – November 20, 1989) was a film actress who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in roughly 150 20th Century Fox films from the early 1930s through the 1940s.

Bari was one of 14 young women "launched on the trail of film stardom" August 6, 1935, when they each received a six-month contract with 20th Century Fox after spending 18 months in the company's training school. The contracts included a studio option for renewal for as long as seven years.

In most of her early films, Bari had uncredited parts usually playing receptionists or chorus girls. She struggled to find starring roles in films, but accepted any work she could get. Rare leading roles included China Girl (1942), Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943), and The Spiritualist (1948). In B movies, Lynn was usually cast as a villainess, notably Shock and Nocturne (both 1946). An exception was The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944). During WWII, according to a survey taken of GIs, Bari was the second-most popular pinup girl after the much better-known Betty Grable.

Bari's film career fizzled out in the early 1950s as she was approaching her 40th birthday, although she continued to work at a more limited pace over the next two decades, now playing matronly characters rather than temptresses. She portrayed the mother of a suicidal teenager in a 1951 drama, On the Loose, plus a number of supporting parts.

Bari's last film appearance was as the mother of rebellious teenager Patty McCormack in The Young Runaways (1968) and her final TV appearances were in episodes of The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. and The FBI.

She quickly took up the rising medium of television during the '50s, which began when she starred in the live television sitcom Detective's Wife, which ran during the summer of 1950, and in Boss Lady

In 1955, Bari appeared in the episode "The Beautiful Miss X" of Rod Cameron's syndicated crime drama City Detective. In 1960, she played female bandit Belle Starr in the debut episode "Perilous Passage" of the NBC western series Overland Trail starring William Bendix and Doug McClure and with fellow guest star Robert J. Wilke as Cole Younger.

From July–September 1952, Bari starred in her own situation comedy, Boss Lady, a summer replacement for NBC's Fireside Theater. She portrayed Gwen F. Allen, the beautiful top executive of a construction firm. Not the least of her troubles in the role was being able to hire a general manager who did not fall in love with her.

Commenting on her "other woman" roles, Bari once said, "I seem to be a woman always with a gun in her purse. I'm terrified of guns. I go from one set to the other shooting people and stealing husbands!"

Movies for Lynn Bari...

Johnny Walker
Title: Johnny Walker
Character: Christine Faber (archive footage)
Released: May 13, 2015
Type: Movie
A washed up Hollywood director is trapped in a remote castle by his own fears until the arrival of a mysterious woman offers him possible salvation. Inspired by Dostoevsky's 'Notes from the Underground', Johnny Walker attempts to answer the burning question: Is living a long life vulgar, immoral or just plain bad manners?
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The Young Runaways
Title: The Young Runaways
Character: Mrs. Donford
Released: September 11, 1968
Type: Movie
Three unhappy teenagers run away from home, only to discover living on their own isn't as idyllic as they imagined.
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Title: The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Released: September 13, 1966
Type: TV
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy-fi TV series that aired on NBC for one season from September 16, 1966 to April 11, 1967. The series was a spin-off from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and used the same theme music composed by Jerry Goldsmith, which was rearranged into a slightly different, harder-edged arrangement by Dave Grusin.
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Title: The F.B.I.
Character: Belinda
Released: September 19, 1965
Type: TV
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
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Six Gun Law
Title: Six Gun Law
Character: Mrs. Simmons
Released: December 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Re-edited version of two episodes from the Disney series "The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca" starring Robert Loggia as a lawyer trying to save a friend from being framed for robbery.
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Trauma
Title: Trauma
Character: Helen Garrison
Released: March 23, 1962
Type: Movie
Eight years after her aunt Helen Garrison is killed, newlywed niece Emmaline and husband Warren return to the home where Helen died, where Emmaline tries to recall events from that fateful night that her mind has blacked out.
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Title: Everglades
Released: October 9, 1961
Type: TV
The Everglades is an American crime-adventure television series that aired in first-run syndication for one season from 1961–62 and in reruns. Ron Hayes starred as Constable Lincoln Vail, a law enforcement officer of the fictional Everglades County Patrol who traveled the Florida Everglades in an airboat, a vehicle which was often the focus of the program. Hayes, a northern California actor and stuntman, was an avid outdoorsman and conservationist. Gordon Casell appeared in five of the 38 half-hour episodes as Chief Anderson, Vail's superior. Steve Brodie made three appearances as Captain Andy Benson; Dan Chandler was twice cast as Vail's sidekick, airboat guide Pete Hammond. Future film star Burt Reynolds appeared twice in the role of Lew Johnson and once as Trask. Guest stars included R.G. Armstrong, Victor Buono, Roger C. Carmel, Paul Carr, Jack Cassidy, Lonny Chapman, John Doucette, Penny Edwards, Frank Ferguson, Luke Halpin, Douglas Kennedy, Robert Knapp, Paul Lambert, Tyler McVey, Mala Powers, Chris Robinson, Johnny Seven, Ray Teal, Bill Travers, and Dawn Wells. The show was produced by Ivan Tors and distributed by Ziv-United Artists.
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Title: The New Breed
Character: Mrs. Grace
Released: October 3, 1961
Type: TV
The New Breed is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from October 3, 1961 to June 5, 1962, with thirty-six episodes.
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Title: Ben Casey
Released: October 2, 1961
Type: TV
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.
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Title: Michael Shayne
Released: September 30, 1960
Type: TV
Michael Shayne is an American detective television series starring Richard Denning that aired on NBC from September 30, 1960 to May 19, 1961.
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Title: The Aquanauts
Character: Ann Nincel
Released: September 14, 1960
Type: TV
The Aquanauts is an American adventure/drama series that aired on CBS in the 1960-1961 season. The series stars Keith Larsen, Jeremy Slate and Ron Ely.
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Title: Law of the Plainsman
Character: Constance Valeri
Released: October 1, 1959
Type: TV
Law of the Plainsman is a Western television series starring Michael Ansara that aired on the NBC television network from October 1, 1959, until May 5, 1960. The character of Native American U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart was introduced in two episodes of the popular ABC Western television series The Rifleman starring Chuck Connors as Lucas McCain. Law of the Plainsman is distinctive and unique in that it was one of the few television programs that featured a Native American as the lead character, a bold move for U.S.network television at that time. Ansara had earlier appeared in the series Broken Arrow, having portrayed the Apache chief, Cochise. Ansara, however, was not Native American but of Syrian descent. Ansara played Sam Buckhart, an Apache Indian who saved the life of a U.S. Cavalry officer after an Indian ambush. When the officer died, he left Sam money that was used for an education at private schools and Harvard University. After school, he returned to New Mexico where he became a Deputy Marshal working for Marshal Andy Morrison. He lived in a boarding house run by Martha Commager. The only other continuing character was 8-year old Tess Logan, an orphan who had been rescued by Buckhart. Robert Harland, later of Target: The Corruptors! starred in seven episodes as Deputy Billy Lordan. Wayne Rogers, who went on to star in another Four Star western, Stagecoach West, and later, M*A*S*H, also played deputy Lordan in several episodes.
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Title: Bronco
Character: Amy Biggs
Released: September 23, 1958
Type: TV
Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin.
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Damn Citizen
Title: Damn Citizen
Character: Pat Noble
Released: March 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Louisiana's governor asks war hero Francis C. Grevemberg (Keith Andes) to lead the state police against corruption.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Sylvia Cord
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Ruth Duncan
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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The Women of Pitcairn Island
Title: The Women of Pitcairn Island
Character: Maimiti
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
The widows and children of survivors of the H.M.S. Bounty rule Pitcairn Island, fighting off sailors and intruders.
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Title: Science Fiction Theatre
Released: April 9, 1955
Type: TV
Science Fiction Theatre is an American science fiction anthology series that aired in syndication from April 1955 to April 1957. It was produced by Ivan Tors and Maurice Ziv.
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Title: Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Character: Leota Van Cleef
Released: February 2, 1955
Type: Movie
Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubles in film the which Gorman is now shooting, while the conman tries to have the bungling pair done away with before they realize who he really is.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Mrs. Combie
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Title: Studio 57
Released: September 21, 1954
Type: TV
Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956.
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Francis Joins the WACS
Title: Francis Joins the WACS
Character: Louise Simpson
Released: July 30, 1954
Type: Movie
Peter Stirling (with his old friend the talking mule) is recalled to active duty...in the WACs!
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Title: City Detective
Released: September 7, 1953
Type: TV
Crime drama starring Rod Cameron as 43-year-old Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police lieutenant.
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Title: Boss Lady
Released: July 1, 1952
Type: TV
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Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
Title: Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
Character: Harriet Blaisdell
Released: June 25, 1952
Type: Movie
When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.
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I Dream of Jeanie
Title: I Dream of Jeanie
Character: Mrs. McDowell
Released: June 15, 1952
Type: Movie
The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.
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On the Loose
Title: On the Loose
Character: Larry Lindsay
Released: September 28, 1951
Type: Movie
After years of living in her selfish parents' (Melvyn Douglas and Lynn Bari) egotistical shadows, desperate teenager Jill Bradley (Joan Evans) makes a last-ditch play for attention by attempting suicide. Jill's guilt-ridden father tries at last to help her and to cheer her up but new problems
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Sunny Side of the Street
Title: Sunny Side of the Street
Character: Mary
Released: September 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A TV worker has fickle designs on an aspiring singer for whom she arranges an audition.
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I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Title: I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Character: Mrs. Billywith
Released: February 17, 1951
Type: Movie
A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Anita Cooper
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Millie Drake
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Evelyn
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Kay Plumber
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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The Kid from Cleveland
Title: The Kid from Cleveland
Character: Katherine Jackson
Released: September 5, 1949
Type: Movie
Johnny Barrows, a young man heading toward a life of juvenile delinquency as his home life spirals out of control, sneaks into the 1948 World Series and seeks friendship by playing a sympathetic orphan. He finds stability and mentorship in sportscaster Mike Jackson and the Cleveland Indians, who try to set Johnny on the right path in this touching story for the whole family.
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The Amazing Mr. X
Title: The Amazing Mr. X
Character: Christine Faber
Released: July 29, 1948
Type: Movie
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...
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The Man from Texas
Title: The Man from Texas
Character: Charlie Jackson
Released: March 6, 1948
Type: Movie
James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suffering wife Zoe. He repeatedly tells Zoe, "just one more time," but he is unable to stop which angers her greatly. However, he does have brief moments of heroics such as when he helps the Widow Weeks save her farm.
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Nocturne
Title: Nocturne
Character: Frances Ransom
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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Margie
Title: Margie
Character: Miss Isabel Palmer
Released: October 15, 1946
Type: Movie
A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.
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Home Sweet Homicide
Title: Home Sweet Homicide
Character: Marian Carstairs
Released: October 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves by trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case.
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Shock
Title: Shock
Character: Nurse Elaine Jordan
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door neighbor, Janet Stewart. As Janet attempts to convince her husband of the doctor's dastardly deed, Cross shows up to advise him that Janet is in dire need of some in-depth counseling.
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Captain Eddie
Title: Captain Eddie
Character: Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker
Released: June 18, 1945
Type: Movie
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
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Sweet and Low-Down
Title: Sweet and Low-Down
Character: Pat Stirling
Released: September 21, 1944
Type: Movie
After their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are packing up to go to their next engagement when a kid steals Goodman's clarinet. Goodman and Popsie pursue him to a tenement flat where he has led them to hear his brother play the trombone. Shenanigans ensue following Goodman's offering the brother a job with the band.
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Take It or Leave It
Title: Take It or Leave It
Character: Herself
Released: July 17, 1944
Type: Movie
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
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Tampico
Title: Tampico
Character: Katherine Hall
Released: April 10, 1944
Type: Movie
A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Katherine Hall when her ship is sunk by a German U-boat.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Title: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Character: Michaela Villegas
Released: February 11, 1944
Type: Movie
A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.
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Hello, Frisco, Hello
Title: Hello, Frisco, Hello
Character: Bernice Croft
Released: March 26, 1943
Type: Movie
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.
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China Girl
Title: China Girl
Character: Captain Fifi
Released: December 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beautiful, enigmatic 'China Girl' Miss Young. The two arduously make their way back to friendly lines so that Johnny can deliver the vital military information he's managed to glean from his captors.
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Orchestra Wives
Title: Orchestra Wives
Character: Jaynie Stevens
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the band's tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.
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The Magnificent Dope
Title: The Magnificent Dope
Character: Claire Harris
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
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The Falcon Takes Over
Title: The Falcon Takes Over
Character: Ann Riordan
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.
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Secret Agent of Japan
Title: Secret Agent of Japan
Character: Kay Murdock
Released: April 3, 1942
Type: Movie
World War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari.
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The Night Before the Divorce
Title: The Night Before the Divorce
Character: Lynn Nordyke
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Marital comedy with a dash of murder.
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The Perfect Snob
Title: The Perfect Snob
Character: Chris Mason
Released: December 19, 1941
Type: Movie
When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging elitist, he devises a plan to help her rediscover old-fashioned family values.
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Moon Over Her Shoulder
Title: Moon Over Her Shoulder
Character: Susan Rossiter
Released: October 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Marriage counselor advises his bored wife to take up painting through which she meets a hubbie-rival yachtsman.
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We Go Fast
Title: We Go Fast
Character: Rose Coughlin
Released: September 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes that Mohr is actually a crook and goes back to flirting with her fast cop friends.
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Sun Valley Serenade
Title: Sun Valley Serenade
Character: Vivian Dawn
Released: August 29, 1941
Type: Movie
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When soloist Vivian Dawn quits, Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.
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Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
Title: Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
Character: Self
Released: August 15, 1941
Type: Movie
This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual candid-camera at home with the stars offerings. Ken Murray, assisted by the Brewer Twins, is the MC, while the Andrews Sisters sing "In Apple Blossom Time" and the pre-"Uncle Miltie" Milton Berle plays his clarinet. The rest of the players, with contract-player faces belonging to 20th-Century Fox, RKO Radio, Universal and Columbia, just pass through. Production Number 3851.
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Blood and Sand
Title: Blood and Sand
Character: Encarnacion
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.
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Sleepers West
Title: Sleepers West
Character: Kay Bentley
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
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Charter Pilot
Title: Charter Pilot
Character: Marge Duncan
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.
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Kit Carson
Title: Kit Carson
Character: Dolores Murphy
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Frontiersman Kit Carson fights off Indian attacks on the trail to California.
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Pier 13
Title: Pier 13
Character: Sally Kelly
Released: August 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.
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Earthbound
Title: Earthbound
Character: Linda Reynolds
Released: June 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.
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Lillian Russell
Title: Lillian Russell
Character: Edna McCauley
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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Free, Blonde and 21
Title: Free, Blonde and 21
Character: Carol Northrup
Released: March 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
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City of Chance
Title: City of Chance
Character: Julie Reynolds
Released: January 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
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City in Darkness
Title: City in Darkness
Character: Marie Dubon
Released: November 15, 1939
Type: Movie
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Title: Pack Up Your Troubles
Character: Yvonne
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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Hollywood Cavalcade
Title: Hollywood Cavalcade
Character: Actress
Released: October 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
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Hotel for Women
Title: Hotel for Women
Character: Barbara Hunter]
Released: August 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.
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News Is Made at Night
Title: News Is Made at Night
Character: Maxine Thomas
Released: July 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
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Chasing Danger
Title: Chasing Danger
Character: Renée Claire
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
When American newsreel cameraman stationed in Paris is sent to cover an Arab rebellion he finds a financier presumed dead but actually fomenting desert warfare.
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The Return of the Cisco Kid
Title: The Return of the Cisco Kid
Character: Ann Carver
Released: April 28, 1939
Type: Movie
In Arizona a young woman who's being manipulated by an evil businessman is helped by the Cisco Kid who happens to be there on holiday.
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Pardon Our Nerve
Title: Pardon Our Nerve
Character: Terry Wilson
Released: February 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party. They talk a waiter into playing the part and a series of accidents and tricks sends him on a boxing career.
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Sharpshooters
Title: Sharpshooters
Character: Dianne Woodward
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Ace newsreel cameraman is working in a mythical European country when the king is assassinated. He gets his negatives out of the country and finds the young crown prince who is also in danger.
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Meet the Girls
Title: Meet the Girls
Character: Terry Wilson
Released: October 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.
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I'll Give a Million
Title: I'll Give a Million
Character: Cecelia
Released: July 27, 1938
Type: Movie
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
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Always Goodbye
Title: Always Goodbye
Character: Jessica Reid
Released: June 24, 1938
Type: Movie
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is born, Jim helps her find a home for the baby with Phil Marshall and his wife. Margot insists that neither the Marshalls nor the child can ever know that she is his mother.
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Speed to Burn
Title: Speed to Burn
Character: Marion Clark
Released: June 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse.
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Josette
Title: Josette
Character: Mrs. Elaine Dupree
Released: June 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
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Battle Of Broadway
Title: Battle Of Broadway
Character: Marjorie Clark
Released: April 22, 1938
Type: Movie
The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son's romance with a showgirl. Director George Marshall's 1938 comedy stars Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Raymond Walburn, Hattie McDaniel, Lynn Bari, Robert Kellard, Jane Darwell, Andrew Tombes, Esther Muir and Frank Moran.
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Mr. Moto's Gamble
Title: Mr. Moto's Gamble
Character: Penny Kendall
Released: April 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count...permanently!
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Walking Down Broadway
Title: Walking Down Broadway
Character: Sandra De Voe
Released: March 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
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The Baroness and the Butler
Title: The Baroness and the Butler
Character: Klari - Maid
Released: February 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
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Love and Hisses
Title: Love and Hisses
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: December 21, 1937
Type: Movie
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
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Lancer Spy
Title: Lancer Spy
Character: Miss Fenwick
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love with him.
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Title: Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Character: Party Girl
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
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You Can't Have Everything
Title: You Can't Have Everything
Character: Girl in YWCA (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
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She Had to Eat
Title: She Had to Eat
Character: Crowd Scene Participant (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
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This Is My Affair
Title: This Is My Affair
Character: Party Guest with Keller (uncredited)
Released: May 28, 1937
Type: Movie
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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Café Metropole
Title: Café Metropole
Character: Patron at Sidewalk Café (uncredited)
Released: April 28, 1937
Type: Movie
An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
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Fair Warning
Title: Fair Warning
Character: Counter girl
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
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Love Is News
Title: Love Is News
Character: 'Babe' - Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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On the Avenue
Title: On the Avenue
Character: Mary Jackson (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
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Time Out for Romance
Title: Time Out for Romance
Character: Bridesmaid
Released: February 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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Woman-Wise
Title: Woman-Wise
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Released: January 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
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Crack-Up
Title: Crack-Up
Character: Office Worker (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.
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Under Your Spell
Title: Under Your Spell
Character: Airplane Passenger (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
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Pigskin Parade
Title: Pigskin Parade
Character: Football Game Spectator (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a hillbilly farmhand and his sister. The hillbilly farmhand's ability to throw melons enables him to become their star passing ace.
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Ladies In Love
Title: Ladies In Love
Character: Dress Shop Clerk (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance.
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Sing, Baby, Sing
Title: Sing, Baby, Sing
Character: Hotel Telephone Operator
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
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36 Hours to Kill
Title: 36 Hours to Kill
Character: Traveler
Released: July 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
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Private Number
Title: Private Number
Character: Gambler (Uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler also has an infatuation for the young girl but his intentions are not that good.
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My Marriage
Title: My Marriage
Character: Pat
Released: January 31, 1936
Type: Movie
When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his daughter Carol is left to bear the brunt of social stigma.
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King of Burlesque
Title: King of Burlesque
Character: Dancer (uncredited)
Released: January 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who helps make Baxter a success. His head turned by sudden fame, Baxter falls under the spell of a society woman (Mona Barrie) who has theatrical aspirations of her own. She marries Baxter, then convinces him to produce a string of "artistic" plays rather than his extravagant musical revues. The plays are flops, and the woman haughtily divorces Baxter. Faithful Alice Faye, who'd gone to London when her ex-beau was married, returns to the penniless Baxter. She and her burlesque buddies team up to pull Baxter out of his rut and put him on top again.
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Show Them No Mercy!
Title: Show Them No Mercy!
Character: Crowd Scene Member (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
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Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Title: Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Character: Girl on Sailboat (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number of amiable stars in the audience.
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Thanks a Million
Title: Thanks a Million
Character: Phone Operator (uncredited)
Released: November 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A show troupe is engaged by Judge Culliman, who is running for Governor, to enhance his political campaign. When the inebriated Judge has to be replaced in doing his campaign speech by the troupe crooner, Eric Land, his political backers decide that they want him to run for Governor in the Judge's place. Romance, music, political corruption and the election results follow.
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Music Is Magic
Title: Music Is Magic
Character: Theatre Cashier (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
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Way Down East
Title: Way Down East
Character: Dancing Girl at Party (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
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The Gay Deception
Title: The Gay Deception
Character: Milk Fund Ball Attendee (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
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Redheads on Parade
Title: Redheads on Parade
Character: Waitress (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to prevent him from withdrawing his support.
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The Daring Young Man
Title: The Daring Young Man
Character: Bridesmaid
Released: July 17, 1935
Type: Movie
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
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Doubting Thomas
Title: Doubting Thomas
Character: Aspiring Actress
Released: July 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
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Spring Tonic
Title: Spring Tonic
Character: Bridesmaid
Released: June 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.
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$10 Raise
Title: $10 Raise
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A timid, overworked and underpaid bookkeeper needs a $10 raise to marry his sweetheart...
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George White's 1935 Scandals
Title: George White's 1935 Scandals
Character: Chorine (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A Broadway producer discovers new talent in a small Georgia town and brings them to New York for his new show.
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Under Pressure
Title: Under Pressure
Character: Blonde Brooklyn Girl (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work.
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Charlie Chan in Paris
Title: Charlie Chan in Paris
Character: Club Patron (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much. The case, complicated by a false murder accusation for banker's daughter Yvette, climaxes with a strange journey through the Paris sewers.
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Caravan
Title: Caravan
Character: Gypsy (Uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1934
Type: Movie
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
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Music in the Air
Title: Music in the Air
Character: Dancer (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1934
Type: Movie
A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.
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365 Nights in Hollywood
Title: 365 Nights in Hollywood
Character: Showgirl (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school. He is drawn into the plans of the school's owner to bilk a wealthy young man out of the funds he has supplied to shoot a movie starring pretty student Alice Perkins. But Jimmie hopes to bilk the bilkers by actually completing the movie as ostensibly planned.
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Handy Andy
Title: Handy Andy
Character: Girl at Train Station (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1934
Type: Movie
A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national chain. In addition, she tries to set up her pretty young daughter with the nitwit son of the chain's owner, even though the girl is in love with the handsome son of the town doctor. Finally the druggist decides he's had enough and takes matters into his own hands.
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Stand Up and Cheer!
Title: Stand Up and Cheer!
Character: White House Secretary / Chorine (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.
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Bottoms Up
Title: Bottoms Up
Character: Chorine (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Promoter "Smoothie" King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinée idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness.
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Coming Out Party
Title: Coming Out Party
Character: Party Guest
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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David Harum
Title: David Harum
Character: Young Townswoman (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a 10-1 harness racing horse, making him Rogers' bank partner.
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Search for Beauty
Title: Search for Beauty
Character: Beauty Contestant Entrant (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.
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I Am Suzanne!
Title: I Am Suzanne!
Character: Audience Member
Released: December 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
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Dancing Lady
Title: Dancing Lady
Character: Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.
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Meet the Baron
Title: Meet the Baron
Character: College Girl (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.