Margaret Seddon

Margaret Seddon

Born: November 17, 1872
Died: April 17, 1968
in Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Movies for Margaret Seddon...

Three Desperate Men
Title: Three Desperate Men
Character: Mrs. Denton
Released: January 12, 1951
Type: Movie
When they learn that their brother Matt Denton is awaiting trial in California, charged with train robbery, deputies Tom Denton and Fred Denton leave their home in Fort Grant, Texas and head west. They arrive in Tulare just in time to rescue Matt from being hanged, but a guard is killed during their escape. Ed Larkin who framed Matt, falsely accuses them of a long list of crimes. They return to Fort Grant so that Tom can see his sweetheart Laura Brook. They encounter outlaw Bill Devlin who persuades them to hold up a train which Laura unwittingly told them would carry a large payroll. Soon the whole territory is enraged at their deeds. They return to Fort Grant to hold up the two banks that are filled with huge sums of cattle money.
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House by the River
Title: House by the River
Character: Mrs. Whittaker - Party Guest
Released: March 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Wealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills her. Long jealous of his brother John, Stephen does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Stephen's arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Marjorie.
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Honeymoon Lodge
Title: Honeymoon Lodge
Character: Elderly Woman
Released: July 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Title: Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Character: Miss Pringle (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1943
Type: Movie
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.
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The Meanest Man in the World
Title: The Meanest Man in the World
Character: Mrs. Frances H. Leggitt
Released: February 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice and tries to convince the world he's a ruthless heel. Suddenly he's the most popular lawyer in town -- but he could lose his fiancée.
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Scattergood Survives a Murder
Title: Scattergood Survives a Murder
Character: Cynthia Quentin
Released: October 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.
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Take a Letter, Darling
Title: Take a Letter, Darling
Character: Aunt Judy
Released: May 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
Title: The Wife Takes a Flyer
Character: The Twin
Released: April 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
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The Remarkable Andrew
Title: The Remarkable Andrew
Character: Mrs. Kelly
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
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Roxie Hart
Title: Roxie Hart
Character: Mrs. Wadsworth (uncredited)
Released: February 20, 1942
Type: Movie
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.
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The Bank Dick
Title: The Bank Dick
Character: Old Lady in Car (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.
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Friendly Neighbors
Title: Friendly Neighbors
Character: Martha Williams
Released: November 17, 1940
Type: Movie
The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the eleven-film "Weaver Brothers and Elviry" comedy-drama series. The singing hayseed family's journey begins when a drought destroys their farm. The young travelers soon hook up with a band of tramps and end up in a small town that has been nearly destroyed by the floods that occasionally roar through it. The Weavers' are moved by the townsfolk's plight and so decide to stay a spell and help out.
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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Title: Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Character: Mrs. Julia Cray, Skin Alergy Patient
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Older Sister (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
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Raffles
Title: Raffles
Character: Maud Holden
Released: November 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the weekend with her parents, Lord and Lady Melrose. A necklace presents an irresistible temptation, but also in attendance is Scotland Yard's finest, finally on the trail.
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Breakfast for Two
Title: Breakfast for Two
Character: Stockholder
Released: October 22, 1937
Type: Movie
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.
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Danger – Love at Work
Title: Danger – Love at Work
Character: Aunt Pitty Pemberton
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
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College Holiday
Title: College Holiday
Character: Mrs. Schloggenheimer
Released: December 19, 1936
Type: Movie
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
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The Big Game
Title: The Big Game
Character: Mother Jenkins
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
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Let's Make a Million
Title: Let's Make a Million
Character: Aunt Martha
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Jane Faulkner (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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It's in the Air
Title: It's in the Air
Character: Mrs. Martha (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1935
Type: Movie
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
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The Girl Friend
Title: The Girl Friend
Character: Grandma Henry
Released: September 27, 1935
Type: Movie
An actor and two songwriters become rural con men.
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Two Sinners
Title: Two Sinners
Character: Mrs. Summerstone
Released: September 12, 1935
Type: Movie
An ex-convict gets released after shooting a fellow who made a play for his wife. When he meets Sleeper, his life takes a change for the better, but along with her comes the boisterous little Collins, for whom she is a governess.
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The Flame Within
Title: The Flame Within
Character: Mrs. Ida Grenfell
Released: May 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Psychiatrist finds herself falling for her patient.
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Shock
Title: Shock
Character: Housekeeper
Released: July 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob Hayworth resents Marbury greatly as the latter had married the girl, Lucy Neville, Marbury was courting in pre-war London. Ordered to go on a night patrol, the cowardly Gilroy committed suicide rather than face his fear. Bob and Derek arrange it to appear that Bob had been killed by a shell-burst, and Derek, with his face camouflaged, takes the patrol posing as Gilroy. While on patrol, Derek is hit by a shell-burst and found by the German Red Cross, who turn him over to a family of French peasants.
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Walls of Gold
Title: Walls of Gold
Character: Mrs. Satterlee
Released: October 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A career woman marries her boyfriend's rich uncle when the boyfriend marries her sister.
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Midshipman Jack
Title: Midshipman Jack
Character: Mrs. Burns
Released: September 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.
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Heroes for Sale
Title: Heroes for Sale
Character: Jeanette Holmes
Released: June 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized but courageous man who will experience, in the years to come, the pain of misfortune but also the happiness of success and hope and love for other human beings.
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The Return of Casey Jones
Title: The Return of Casey Jones
Character: Mrs. Mary Martin
Released: May 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Jimmy, a young boy, idolizes famed train engineer Casey Jones and is devastated when his hero is killed in a train wreck. The boy grows up to be a railroad engineer, too, but one day the train he is piloting loses its brakes and wrecks. Jimmy tries to fix it but has to jump off at the last minute. Unfortunately, stories begin to circulate that he turned coward and jumped off the train first, letting it be destroyed rather than try to save it. He sets out to clear his name.
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Lilly Turner
Title: Lilly Turner
Character: Mrs. Turner
Released: May 13, 1933
Type: Movie
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
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If I Had a Million
Title: If I Had a Million
Character: Mrs. Small - Idylwood Resident (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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Smilin' Through
Title: Smilin' Through
Character: Ellen, the Maid
Released: September 24, 1932
Type: Movie
On the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named Jeremy, leaving him emotionally devastated. Carteret spends three decades in seclusion, mostly communing with the spirit of Moonyeen, until he learns that her niece, Kathleen, has become an orphan. He adopts and raises the child as his own but is alarmed when, as a young woman, she falls in love with the son of Moonyeen's murderer.
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Divorce Among Friends
Title: Divorce Among Friends
Character: Maid
Released: December 13, 1930
Type: Movie
George Morris constantly lies to his wife, Helen, to hide his escapades. As he is about to leave his wife, some guests arrives, including Paul Wilcox, who is in love with Helen. By the end of the party, however, George and Helen have reconciled yet again. Soon after, George meets Joan Whitley and loses a lighter which his wife has given him; Whitley drives off with it. When Helen throws a party, Joan, who is an old friend of Helen, arrives. When Helen introduces Joan to George, they pretend not to know each other. George pleads with Joan to return his lighter. She agrees to meet him later in the library and if he is nice to her she will give him back the lighter.
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Dancing Sweeties
Title: Dancing Sweeties
Character: Mrs. Cleaver
Released: July 19, 1930
Type: Movie
Bill is a hot shot dancer who partners with Jazzbo, until he sees Molly at the dance. He enters the Waltz with Molly and wins first prize - and they wind up being married that same night. Now they are free of their parents nagging and their own bosses. 24 hours - no dancing as in-laws are visiting. 24 days - the Apartment is finished so off to the Hoffman's Parisian Dance Palace. Molly can only dance the Waltz and not the hot new jazz dance so she leaves and Bill follows. They are both unhappy, Bill has two left feet when it comes to romance.
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The Dude Wrangler
Title: The Dude Wrangler
Character: Aunt Mary
Released: July 1, 1930
Type: Movie
In order to prove his manliness to the girl he loves, a young urban dandy takes a job at a dude ranch. Predictable misadventure ensues in this poorly-made early talkie.
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After the Fog
Title: After the Fog
Character: Letitia Barker
Released: December 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Millionaire Joshua Barker insists that his daughter, Faith, must marry Phil Langhorne, a man that neither likes, and Faith is in love with and eager to marry her childhood sweetheart, John Temple.
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Dance Hall
Title: Dance Hall
Character: Mrs. Flynn
Released: December 13, 1929
Type: Movie
A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he's in love with her.
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She Goes to War
Title: She Goes to War
Character: Tom's Mother
Released: June 7, 1929
Type: Movie
A young woman disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancéé into the trenches during World War I to find out what war is really like.
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The Bellamy Trial
Title: The Bellamy Trial
Character: Mother Ives
Released: January 23, 1929
Type: Movie
The Bellamy Trial is a 1929 American drama film directed by Monta Bell and written by Monta Bell and Joseph Farnham.
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The Actress
Title: The Actress
Character: Miss Trafalgar Gower
Released: April 27, 1928
Type: Movie
A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady when she goes off to marry a rich young man from the other side of town. The rest of the play deals with the budding romance and trials and tribulations of their love, as well as the changing face of late-19th-century theatre.
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Silk Legs
Title: Silk Legs
Released: December 18, 1927
Type: Movie
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Quality Street
Title: Quality Street
Character: Nancy Willoughby
Released: November 1, 1927
Type: Movie
A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she disguises herself as her own niece in order to test his loyalty.
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Driven from Home
Title: Driven from Home
Released: January 15, 1927
Type: Movie
A father throws his daughter out of the house when she marries a man he doesn't approve of. In addition, she also finds herself being lusted after by the sinister owner of an opium den.
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A Regular Scout
Title: A Regular Scout
Character: Mrs. Monroe
Released: December 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Silent cowboy western about a man on a mission to exact revenge on the gang who, he feels, are responsible for his mother's death, after their raid. Upon discovering that one of the gang members killed in the raid was the long-lost son of the Monroe family, so he decides to impersonate him to exact his revenge on the their family.
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Blarney
Title: Blarney
Character: Peggy's Aunt
Released: September 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Young Irish boxer James Carabine arrives in New York from Ireland, his way having been paid by Peggy Nolan, a girl from his hometown who's sweet on him. Unfortunately, James falls for the trampy Marcolina, who hooks up with him when her boxer husband loses a fight due to the shady doings of friends of fighter Blanco Johnson. Peggy sets out to rescue him from the bad crowd he's hanging with and get him back into prime boxing form.
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Rolling Home
Title: Rolling Home
Character: Mrs. Alden
Released: June 7, 1926
Type: Movie
Nat Alden, a promoter, has had bad luck on his deal and is broke. He meets an old army pal who is now a chauffeur of the businessman who threw the luckless Nat out of his office. Nat is on his way back to his small hometown, where he is believed to be a millionaire. To keep the belief alive he has his pal drive him there in the businessman's automobile. Complications arise quickly.
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The Golden Cocoon
Title: The Golden Cocoon
Character: Mrs. Shannon
Released: December 14, 1925
Type: Movie
The story of a much put-upon woman who becomes involved with a professor of political economy only to be thrown over by him for the daughter of a wealthy businessman.
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The Midshipman
Title: The Midshipman
Character: Mrs. Randall
Released: October 4, 1925
Type: Movie
Produced under the supervision of the U.S. Navy. James Randall, an upperclassman at the Naval Academy, falls in love with Patricia Lawrence, the sister of a plebe. She is engaged to Basil Courtney, a wealthy reprobate who arranges with Rita to discredit James.
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Proud Flesh
Title: Proud Flesh
Character: Mrs. O'Malley
Released: April 27, 1925
Type: Movie
The snooty Fernanda decides to leave Spain to visit her uncle in San Francisco in order to escape the attentions of the dandy, amorous Don Diego, but he follows her. She is rescued from a wild taxi ride by a passerby who owns a huge plumbing company. Believing him to be a common plumber, she snubs him, but he pursues her and a romantic rivalry is born.
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A Broadway Butterfly
Title: A Broadway Butterfly
Character: Mrs. Steel
Released: March 29, 1925
Type: Movie
Irene, a young girl from a small town, arrives in New York City determined to make it on the Broadway stage. She meets up with Cookie, a worldly chorus girl who takes Irene under her wing. When Irene falls for young Ronald, his rival Crane sets out to break up the pair so he can have Irene for his own--and he doesn't much care how he does it.
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New Lives for Old
Title: New Lives for Old
Character: Widow Turrene
Released: February 22, 1925
Type: Movie
Olympe is a cabaret dancer who offers her services to France when her country goes to war. She becomes a spy and provides valuable intelligence information during World War I by winning the confidence of a German officer. Hugh Warren is the American soldier who falls for Olympe. She allows him to believe she is a simple peasant and reveals nothing of her career as a spy. The two fall in love and are married, but the villainous German agent De Montinrich reveals to her husband's family that she is a tawdry club dancer. Unable to reveal her role in espionage, Olympe is ostracized by her friends and family. When the French government honors Olympe for her wartime bravery, her family no longer considers her a blemish on their sterling reputation.
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The Lady
Title: The Lady
Character: Mrs. Cairns
Released: February 8, 1925
Type: Movie
A young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat. Her husband, who has been disinherited by his father, loses what little money he has left gambling in casinos and then dies, leaving her penniless and with an infant son. When her former father-in-law tries to get custody of the child, she leaves him with a couple she trusts, but when she later goes to reclaim her son, she can't find the people she left him with.
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The Snob
Title: The Snob
Character: Mrs. Curry
Released: November 10, 1924
Type: Movie
Two schoolteachers, married for love, are parted by the husband's obsessive desire for wealth and social position.
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The Confidence Man
Title: The Confidence Man
Character: Mrs. X
Released: April 20, 1924
Type: Movie
Wade is a promoter of fake oil stock who sends two of his men, Dan Corvan and Larry Maddox, down to the small Florida town of Fairfield to make a sale to the miserly Godfrey Queritt (Charles Dow Clark). When Corvan discovers that Sunday school teacher Margaret Leland is friends with the old man, he romances her. He also helps out the local charities and endears himself to the local folk. Corvan is too good at his tricks -- all this hard-won trust is turning him into an honest man.
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Women Who Give
Title: Women Who Give
Character: Ma Keeler
Released: March 3, 1924
Type: Movie
Women Who Give (1924)
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A Lady of Quality
Title: A Lady of Quality
Character: Lady Daphne Wildairs
Released: January 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Clorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to a rich nobleman, Mertoun, the Duke of Osmonde. Clorinda accidentally kills Sir John when he, infuriated by her forthcoming marriage, threatens to blackmail her. She buries the body in the cellar and admits her act to the forgiving Osmonde before marrying him.
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Through the Dark
Title: Through the Dark
Character: Mother McGinn
Released: January 6, 1924
Type: Movie
Through the Dark is a 1924 silent mystery drama produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed through Goldwyn Pictures. It is based on a short story "The Daughter of Mother McGinn" by Jack Boyle
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Little Johnny Jones
Title: Little Johnny Jones
Character: Mrs. Jones
Released: August 12, 1923
Type: Movie
Jockey Johnny Jones is hired to ride The Earl of Bloomsburg's horse at the English Derby. Crooked gambler Robert Anstead frames Johnny as a thief and kidnaps his sweetheart in order to make Johnny throw the race. Will he succeed?
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Little Church Around the Corner
Title: Little Church Around the Corner
Character: Mrs. Wallace
Released: March 9, 1923
Type: Movie
A wealthy minister in a mining town is something of an advocate for the miners' safety, but he doesn't really get involved in the issue. He is soon snapped out of that attitude, however, when his daughter is trapped underground in a mine explosion, along with the mine's owner.
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Women Men Marry
Title: Women Men Marry
Character: Hetty Page
Released: December 27, 1922
Type: Movie
When he loses both his wife and child, Montgomery Rogers adopts his servants' little girl and raises her as his own. Completely unaware of her origins, Emerie grows up to be a first class snob. Her socially ambitious aunt takes her to Europe to become engaged to Brooks Fitzroy, an impoverished lord (Cyril Chadwick). On the voyage back she encounters a young man, Dick Clarke who is working for his passage.
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The Lights of New York
Title: The Lights of New York
Character: Mrs. Reid
Released: November 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Silent drama with two different New York stories. One tells of a good man led astray until a dream causes him to change his ways. The other is about a man whose despair over his love marrying another is lifted through increasingly unlikely events.
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The Man Who Played God
Title: The Man Who Played God
Character: Old Woman
Released: October 1, 1922
Type: Movie
En eminent pianist is made deaf by an anarchist's bomb during a command performance.
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Timothy's Quest
Title: Timothy's Quest
Character: Samantha Ann Ripley
Released: September 16, 1922
Type: Movie
A charming pastoral about two unwanted children finding acceptance and love, Timothys Quest (1922) is a rare, cinematic gem based on a novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), who was then known as Americas best loved author of stories about children.
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Sonny
Title: Sonny
Character: Mrs. Crosby
Released: May 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Two men who bear a striking resemblance to each befriend each other while stationed in France during WWI. One is fatally fatally wounded and requests makes a dying request to his doppelganger to take on his identity.
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Boomerang Bill
Title: Boomerang Bill
Character: Annie's Mother
Released: January 15, 1922
Type: Movie
When New York City police officer O'Malley learns of a young man who is about to embark on a life of crime by taking part in a robbery, he takes the boy aside and tells him the story of Boomerang Bill, another wanna-be gangster who wanted to be a big shot in the New York crime scene. It seems that Bill fell for a pretty young dance-hall girl, and went up against local gang boss Tony the Wop when he insulted her. Tony, who never forgot a slight, found a way to make things very, very tough for Boomerang Bill, in a way that he never saw coming.
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A Man's Home
Title: A Man's Home
Released: December 18, 1921
Type: Movie
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Just Around the Corner
Title: Just Around the Corner
Character: Ma Birdsong
Released: December 11, 1921
Type: Movie
A young woman attempts to find a good man to marry so that her mother may die in peace.
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The Blasphemer
Title: The Blasphemer
Character: Mrs. Harden - John's Mother
Released: October 14, 1921
Type: Movie
This rarely seen, silent religious feature was produced by the Catholic Art Association. After making it big on Wall Street, John Harden boasts that he is the master of his own fate and believes in neither God nor the Devil. Needless to say, he pays mightily for this hubris. His family is reduced to poverty, his friends desert him, and things turn from bad to worse until his childhood faith is restored.
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The Case of Becky
Title: The Case of Becky
Character: Mrs. Emerson
Released: October 9, 1921
Type: Movie
Itinerant magician Balzamo arrives in the town where Dr. Emerson and his pretty young wife live. Smitten with Mrs. Emerson, Balzamo places her under a hypnotic spell and takes her away with him. Many years later, as she lies near death, she warns her daughter Dorothy to flee from the evil Balzamo.
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The Highest Law
Title: The Highest Law
Released: February 5, 1921
Type: Movie
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Headin' Home
Title: Headin' Home
Character: Babe's Mother
Released: September 18, 1920
Type: Movie
The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.
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Wings of Pride
Title: Wings of Pride
Character: Mrs. Prentice
Released: August 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Olive Muir, a haughty society girl, objects when Alice Prentice, a girl of lower station, comes to visit her family. After Alice's drunken father comes to visit the Muir home, Olive learns to her horror that she is adopted and that Prentice is her real father.
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The Country Cousin
Title: The Country Cousin
Character: Mrs. Howitt (as Marguerite Sidden)
Released: November 2, 1919
Type: Movie
The Country Cousin
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The Land of Promise
Title: The Land of Promise
Character: Miss Pringle
Released: December 9, 1917
Type: Movie
Based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life which ends in a farm.
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The Girl Without a Soul
Title: The Girl Without a Soul
Character: Henrietta Hateman
Released: August 13, 1917
Type: Movie
The story of two young sisters, one a somewhat demure musician who is in love with a scoundrel who's no good for her, and the other a wild, free spirit who is the object of a shy young carpenter's affections.
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The Old Homestead
Title: The Old Homestead
Character: Rickety Ann
Released: December 16, 1915
Type: Movie
When Josiah Whitcomb's son gets into trouble with bad companions in New York City, Josiah leaves the farm and goes into the city to find the boy. There he finds that his country ways are not at all respected in the sophisticated city.
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The Dawn of a Tomorrow
Title: The Dawn of a Tomorrow
Character: Polly
Released: June 7, 1915
Type: Movie
A young girl who lives in the slums of London, is in love with a thief. She persuades him to give up his life of crime. Meanwhile, an eccentric millionaire, who has been diagnosed with an incurable dementia, becomes so despondent, he decides to commit suicide. He disguises himself as a vagrant, and wanders into the slums. As he tries to find the courage to kill himself, he is encountered by the young girl. She rationalizes him out of the cowardly act. Her genuine sweetness and strong faith, effects him to such an extent, he begins to believe a recovery is possible. Now the girl's sweetheart has been falsely accused of murder and only the millionaire's licentious nephew can give him an alibi.