May Boley

May Boley

Born: May 29, 1881
Died: January 7, 1963
in Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Movies for May Boley...

Kitty Foyle
Title: Kitty Foyle
Character: Fainting Customer (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.
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Lady with Red Hair
Title: Lady with Red Hair
Character: Mrs. Peabody (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
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Henry Goes Arizona
Title: Henry Goes Arizona
Character: Henry's Landlady (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
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The Women
Title: The Women
Character: Mud Mask (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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Persons in Hiding
Title: Persons in Hiding
Character: Mme. Thompson
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
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Letter of Introduction
Title: Letter of Introduction
Character: Mrs. Meggs - the Landlady (uncredited)
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
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Cowboy from Brooklyn
Title: Cowboy from Brooklyn
Character: Mrs. Krinkenheim
Released: July 9, 1938
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
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Prison Farm
Title: Prison Farm
Character: 'Shifty' Sue
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)
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Reckless Living
Title: Reckless Living
Character: Mother Ryan
Released: March 1, 1938
Type: Movie
This harmless Universal musical comedy is worth having as one of the few filmed records of legendary Broadway comedian Jimmy Savo (his previous starrer, Once in a Blue Moon, is among the rarest of collector's item). The story proper is carried by Robert Wilcox and Nan Grey, cast as a pair of mismatched lovers who share a common interest in horse racing. Hero and heroine get mixed up in a shady get-rich-quick scheme, which threatens to turns disastrous but which ends up solving everyone's problems.
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Tovarich
Title: Tovarich
Character: Louise
Released: December 25, 1937
Type: Movie
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
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Ready, Willing and Able
Title: Ready, Willing and Able
Character: Mrs. Beadle
Released: March 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
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Without Orders
Title: Without Orders
Character: Mrs. Maddy Overhose
Released: October 22, 1936
Type: Movie
At Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick lands at the end of a cross-country record flight, met by his father J.P. Kendrick who owns Amalgamated Air Lines. Len is a media darling, adored by fans for his daring flights. He is in love with Amalgamated stewardess Kay Armstrong who is dating veteran pilot "Wad" Madison. Len dates her sister Penny who learns that his hard-drinking and recklessness has caused the death of his co-pilot. Penny knows that he was drinking before the fateful flight and only escaped prosecution by bribing a bartender. She leaves Len who ends up at Amalgamated as a line pilot, being tutored by Wad.
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The Informer
Title: The Informer
Character: Madame Betty
Released: May 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
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The Mighty Barnum
Title: The Mighty Barnum
Character: J. P. Skiff
Released: December 23, 1934
Type: Movie
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Janet Beecher and Adolphe Menjou. Released in 1934.
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The Mighty Barnum
Title: The Mighty Barnum
Character: Bearded Lady
Released: December 23, 1934
Type: Movie
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Janet Beecher and Adolphe Menjou. Released in 1934.
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The Kiss Before the Mirror
Title: The Kiss Before the Mirror
Character: Busybody in Courtroom
Released: May 4, 1933
Type: Movie
When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.
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The Expert
Title: The Expert
Character: Mrs. Smallbridge
Released: March 5, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
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A Woman Commands
Title: A Woman Commands
Character: Mascha
Released: February 12, 1932
Type: Movie
In order to keep his lover, Maria Draga, in luxury, Captain Alex Pastitsch contracts huge debts which threaten his military career. To save Alex's career, his superior officer, Colonel Strádimirovitsch has an idea of how to fix it.
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Fighting Caravans
Title: Fighting Caravans
Character: Jane
Released: February 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Clint Belmet (Gary Cooper) is a bit of a firebrand and is sentenced to at least 30 days in jail, but his partners, Bill Jackson (Ernest Torrence) and Jim Bridger (Tully Marshall) talk a sympathetic Frenchwoman named Felice (Lili Damita) into telling the bumbling, drunken marshal that Clint had married her the previous night. Clint is released so he can accompany Felice on the wagon train heading west to California.
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Going Wild
Title: Going Wild
Character: May Bunch
Released: December 21, 1930
Type: Movie
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what Story looks like. So they get free room and meals at the Palm Inn and everything is going well until they want Story to fly in the race on Saturday. Rollo has never even be up in a plane, never mind fly one, so he must figure a way out. But the girls have everything bet on his winning the race. Written by Tony Fontana
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Moby Dick
Title: Moby Dick
Character: Whale Oil Rosie
Released: September 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
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Children of Pleasure
Title: Children of Pleasure
Character: Fanny Kaye
Released: April 26, 1930
Type: Movie
A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.
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Lilies of the Field
Title: Lilies of the Field
Character: Maizie
Released: January 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.
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The Dance of Life
Title: The Dance of Life
Character: Gussie
Released: August 16, 1929
Type: Movie
A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts. In order to save money on the road, they get married. Soon their act begins to catch on, and they find themselves booked onto Broadway. They also realize that they actually are in love with each other, but just when things are starting to look up, the comic starts to let success go to his head.
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Dangerous Curves
Title: Dangerous Curves
Character: Ma Spinelli
Released: July 12, 1929
Type: Movie
A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a "vamp" who's nothing but trouble for him.
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The Woman from Hell
Title: The Woman from Hell
Character: Mother Price
Released: April 20, 1929
Type: Movie
Dee Renaud is a girl playing the "Devil" in an amusement concession at a beach resort. Slick Glicks, the barker, promises the yokels that if they're able to catch the "Lady From Hell," she will reward them with a kiss. But when Glicks tries to go beyond kissing, Dee is rescued by Jim Coakley, son of a New England lighthouse keeper...
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The Wagon Show
Title: The Wagon Show
Character: Strong Woman
Released: February 19, 1928
Type: Movie
Colonel Beldan runs a Wild West show. When Beldan's star attraction switches to his unscrupulous competitor Vicarino, the young Bob Mason takes the opportunity to take over the job with his horse 'Tarzan'.