Grace Goodall

Grace Goodall

Born: June 10, 1889
Died: September 27, 1940
in San Francisco, California, USA

Movies for Grace Goodall...

Free, Blonde and 21
Title: Free, Blonde and 21
Character: Undetermined Role
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: Bridge Player
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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Too Busy to Work
Title: Too Busy to Work
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
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$1,000 a Touchdown
Title: $1,000 a Touchdown
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1939
Type: Movie
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
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The Women
Title: The Women
Character: Head Saleswoman (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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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Title: Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Character: Guest
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
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Within the Law
Title: Within the Law
Character: Prison Matron
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Title: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Character: Screaming Spinster / Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
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Say It in French
Title: Say It in French
Character: Miss Briggs
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
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The Shining Hour
Title: The Shining Hour
Character: Mrs. Smart (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
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The Road to Reno
Title: The Road to Reno
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1938
Type: Movie
An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
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Men with Wings
Title: Men with Wings
Character: Matron
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
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City Streets
Title: City Streets
Character: Miss Graham
Released: July 1, 1938
Type: Movie
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" Joe Carmine. Joe convinces Father Ryan to let him informally adopt her. Joe and Winnie live together with Tommy Devlin and his grandmother, Mrs. Devlin, and a dog Winnie names Muriel. Joe sells his shop to pay for an unsuccessful operation on Winnie's legs. This bankrupts Carmine, who then earns a meager living selling fruits and vegetables on the streets. Winnie is sent to live in an orphanage, and Carmine is discouraged from continuing his relationship with her. Carmine is so distraught by grief that he slowly begins to die. Winnie is brought to him by Father Ryan, and she finds the strength to stand and walk to his bedside and sings his favorite song, "Santa Maria." Later, after Winnie has acquired full use of her legs, Joe, in his new catering truck, takes the children on a picnic in the country.
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Title: Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1938
Type: Movie
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him.
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Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
Title: Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
Character: Mrs. Brown (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1938
Type: Movie
A satirical visualization of strange and forgotten, but (at that time) nevertheless still existing laws in the U.S.A.
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True Confession
Title: True Confession
Character: Taxpayer Spectator (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.
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Boss of Lonely Valley
Title: Boss of Lonely Valley
Character: Martha Wiggins
Released: November 14, 1937
Type: Movie
A rancher attempts to find the villain behind a land-stealing operation.
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California Straight Ahead
Title: California Straight Ahead
Character: Mrs. Porter
Released: April 16, 1937
Type: Movie
A truck driver races a train to the West Coast in an attempt to determine which method of transportation is faster.
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To Mary - with Love
Title: To Mary - with Love
Character: Customer
Released: August 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.
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Spendthrift
Title: Spendthrift
Character: Uncle Morton Middleton's Nurse
Released: July 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the humbled (and impoverished) Fonda finds true love in the arms of Pat Paterson, who cares nothing for material things.
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Palm Springs
Title: Palm Springs
Character: Teacher
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
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Pan Handlers
Title: Pan Handlers
Character: Anchor Brand Aluminum Representative
Released: February 29, 1936
Type: Movie
The girls get jobs selling aluminum cookware door to door.
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Top Flat
Title: Top Flat
Character: Mrs. Lamont
Released: December 21, 1935
Type: Movie
When Patsy criticises her poetry, Thelma ups and leaves for a better standard of living.
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The Singing Vagabond
Title: The Singing Vagabond
Character: Aunt Hortense
Released: December 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Tex rides to the rescue when badguys led by LaCrosse and Utah Joe kidnap Lettie.
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Show Them No Mercy!
Title: Show Them No Mercy!
Character: (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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She Couldn't Take It
Title: She Couldn't Take It
Character: Party Guest
Released: October 8, 1935
Type: Movie
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
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Here's to Romance
Title: Here's to Romance
Character: Mother
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
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Steamboat Round the Bend
Title: Steamboat Round the Bend
Character: Sheriff's Wife
Released: September 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
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The Four Star Boarder
Title: The Four Star Boarder
Character: Aunt Nellie
Released: April 26, 1935
Type: Movie
In an effort to appease his wife's wealthy aunt (Grace Goodall), newly-wed Charley must masquerade as a boarder in his own home while his wife (Constance Bergen) pretends to be married to an old beau (T. Roy Barnes).
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Pop Goes the Easel
Title: Pop Goes the Easel
Character: Woman in Car (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
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One More Spring
Title: One More Spring
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
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The Best Man Wins
Title: The Best Man Wins
Character: Supervisor of Nurses
Released: January 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
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Elinor Norton
Title: Elinor Norton
Character: Publisher's Staff
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
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Handy Andy
Title: Handy Andy
Character: Mattie Norcross
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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Torch Singer
Title: Torch Singer
Character: Head Nurse
Released: September 8, 1933
Type: Movie
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she searches for the child she gave up.
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The Opening Night
Title: The Opening Night
Character: Gertrude Ames
Released: November 14, 1927
Type: Movie
When theatrical producer Robert Chandler (E. Alyn Warren), believed drowned in a fishing accident, turns up as a lonely, broken amnesiac three months later, he arrives just in time to see his actress wife Carol Chandler (Claire Windsor), thought to be a widow, marrying her leading man Jimmy Keane (John Bowers). Rather than mar her new-found happiness, he takes a job washing cars. New York City is a small town. Will Carol need her car washed?
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Moonlight and Honeysuckle
Title: Moonlight and Honeysuckle
Character: Hallie Baldwin
Released: July 1, 1921
Type: Movie
When an Arizona ranchman (Willard Louis) is elected senator, he heads for Washington with his daughter, Judith Baldwin (Mary Miles Minter). But they leave behind ranch hand Tod Musgrove (Monte Blue), who is in love with Judith. In Washington, two men propose to Judith -- Congressman Hamill (Guy Oliver) and Robert Courtney (William Boyd). Since she doesn't know which one to pick, she puts them to a test at her aunt's woodland cabin.