Ethel Sykes

Ethel Sykes

Born: June 12, 1906
Died: January 1, 1961
in Kapowsin, Washington, USA

Movies for Ethel Sykes...

Give Me Your Heart
Title: Give Me Your Heart
Character: Leaving Guest (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 1936
Type: Movie
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
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Lady Be Careful
Title: Lady Be Careful
Character: Dancer
Released: September 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that he can "thaw" icy beauty-contest winner Billie (Mary Carlisle). What follows is a series of misunderstandings, arguments and reconciliations, all wrapped up in a happy-ever-after conclusion.
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Big Brown Eyes
Title: Big Brown Eyes
Character: Manicurist (Uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
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Hitch Hike To Heaven
Title: Hitch Hike To Heaven
Character: Kitty O'Brien
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his family relationships at risk.
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Upper Cutlets
Title: Upper Cutlets
Released: January 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Walter Catlett wants to join a fight club.
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The Brain Busters
Title: The Brain Busters
Released: January 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Billy Gilbert and Vince Barnett moved over to the remnants of the Christie Brothers for a series of short subjects in which they played variations on Laurel & Hardy. Here, in this short subject, they get hired to run a used car lot and steal a car for James Morton.
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Why Pay Rent?
Title: Why Pay Rent?
Character: Betty Whipple
Released: May 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Elmer fixes up a room for his just-married, freeloading brother-in-law and wife. When the newlyweds show up, Henry brings a surprise in the form of stepson Junior. The apartment is now too small, so Henry decides that they'll buy a lot and build a do-it-yourself home, a disaster in the making when Junior switches the house's part numbers. It doesn't help matters that Elmer, Henry and the wives are all incompetent.
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Imitation of Life
Title: Imitation of Life
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
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Blind Date
Title: Blind Date
Character: Model
Released: July 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
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Half-Baked Relations
Title: Half-Baked Relations
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A courtroom comedy! In this short we follow suspect Mr. Wilson (Clyde) as he explains the events leading to him hitting brother-in-law Homer Healy (Jack Shutta) with a monkey wrench. This was Andy Clyde's last short film for Educational Pictures.
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It Happened One Night
Title: It Happened One Night
Character: Maid of Honor (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
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Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
Title: Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
Character: Dora
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.
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The Big Squeal
Title: The Big Squeal
Character: Betty Burke
Released: July 9, 1933
Type: Movie
Andy Wilson (Andy Clyde), a millionaire pig farmer from Kansas, comes to Chicago (unless New York has a stock yard district)looking for his girl friend, Natalie (Dorothy Christy) who had left the Sunflower state as she did not care much for the company of pigs and/or pig handlers, although Andy wasn't rich when she left, else she would have most likely been a bit more tolerant. Andy runs into his old friend Jake (Billy Bevan), who has been married for about a year to another belle from Kansas, that Andy hasn't met.
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Gents of Leisure
Title: Gents of Leisure
Released: May 9, 1931
Type: Movie
Chester and Vernon are a couple of loafers who find a dollar and treat themselves to a meal, unaware that the dollar has fallen out of their money pouch. They must eat and run, and the plot escalates to an all out train chase in the best slapstick fashion.
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The Florodora Girl
Title: The Florodora Girl
Character: Florodora Sextette Member (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1930
Type: Movie
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
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Into Society and Out
Title: Into Society and Out
Character: Pearl
Released: February 4, 1914
Type: Movie
This amusing and diverting comedy depicts the trials and tribulations of a French nobleman to win the hand of a rich American girl. He is about to succeed when Fate, in the form of two tramps, steps in and he has to abdicate in favor of the higher power.