Mary Foy

Mary Foy

Born: August 8, 1872
Died: June 18, 1956
in Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Movies for Mary Foy...

Pack Up Your Troubles
Title: Pack Up Your Troubles
Character: Landlady
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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I Stole a Million
Title: I Stole a Million
Character: Prison Matron (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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Maisie
Title: Maisie
Character: Sheriff's Wife (Uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman Charles "Slim" Martin when he accuses her of lifting his wallet and ends up being hired as a maid for ranch owners Cliff and Sybil, who are attempting to mend their rocky marriage after Sybil's infidelity with a cowboy.
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Zenobia
Title: Zenobia
Character: Townswoman
Released: April 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
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Let Us Live
Title: Let Us Live
Character: Theatre Scrubwoman (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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Fury
Title: Fury
Character: Townswoman Defendant (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Midnight Phantom
Title: Midnight Phantom
Character: Mary Ryan
Released: November 26, 1935
Type: Movie
A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops.
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The Great American Pie Company
Title: The Great American Pie Company
Character: Mrs. Ephraim Deacon (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1935
Type: Movie
In this comedic short, two pie vendors discuss merging their businesses, but one of them may have an ulterior motive.
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Little Big Shot
Title: Little Big Shot
Character: Orphanage Matron #2
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
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Naughty Marietta
Title: Naughty Marietta
Character: Duenna (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A French princess flees an arranged marriage and sails for New Orleans, where she is rescued from pirates by a dashing mercenary.
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No Ransom
Title: No Ransom
Character: Mrs. Smithers
Released: October 7, 1934
Type: Movie
In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat son. To gain some much needed attention, the lonesome fellow hires a hitman to kill him. Instead, the gunman kidnaps him to frighten the family into appreciating their devoted father.
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Two Heads on a Pillow
Title: Two Heads on a Pillow
Character: Mrs. Jenner
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
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City Park
Title: City Park
Character: Mrs. Guppy, Landlady
Released: May 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The old men meet a young girl, broke, hungry and discouraged, in the park. Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome (Henry B. Walthall) bluffs his way into obtaining enough money to support the welfare of the girl,Rose Wentworth (Sally Blane), and his two cronies. He sends for the girl's former sweetheart, who turns out to be a crook.
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House of Mystery
Title: House of Mystery
Character: Hyacinth Potter
Released: March 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Out of the Mystic Temples of Old India crept this terrible Monster to wreak vengeance of the Hindu Gods. One by one its victims fell with not a trace of the bloody assassin.
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Once to Every Woman
Title: Once to Every Woman
Character: Jane Baxter
Released: March 24, 1934
Type: Movie
An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.
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School for Girls
Title: School for Girls
Character: Miss Gage
Released: March 22, 1934
Type: Movie
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.
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Before Midnight
Title: Before Midnight
Character: Housekeeper
Released: November 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.
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Ann Vickers
Title: Ann Vickers
Character: Big Prison Matron in Warden's Office (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1933
Type: Movie
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
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Strange People
Title: Strange People
Character: Mrs. Jones - the Housekeeper
Released: June 16, 1933
Type: Movie
All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstration of how convictions can be made on circumstantial evidence. During the proceedings, a phony murder is quickly revealed as the real thing.
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Reform Girl
Title: Reform Girl
Character: Prison Matron (uncredited)
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daughter.
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Slightly Married
Title: Slightly Married
Character: Mrs. Banks
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.
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Ladies of the Big House
Title: Ladies of the Big House
Character: Mrs. Lowry
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
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A House Divided
Title: A House Divided
Character: Mary
Released: December 5, 1931
Type: Movie
A New England fisherman's second wife prefers his son.
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The Vice Squad
Title: The Vice Squad
Character: Tenement Mother (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
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Behind Office Doors
Title: Behind Office Doors
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him.
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Scandal Sheet
Title: Scandal Sheet
Character: Mrs. Wilson
Released: January 31, 1931
Type: Movie
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
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The Widow from Chicago
Title: The Widow from Chicago
Character: Gossiping Irish Neighbor (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death.
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Boarding House Blues
Title: Boarding House Blues
Character: Mrs. Fitts
Released: October 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A boarding house maid is treated mean, until inheriting oil gives her a new gleam.
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A Man from Wyoming
Title: A Man from Wyoming
Character: Inspector
Released: July 12, 1930
Type: Movie
A story about a man from Wyoming who enlists in the Army and is sent to the front during World War I. There he saves the life of an American society girl working in the Ambulance Corps. Afterwards at a rest camp, they meet again, fall in love, and are secretly married.
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Dumb-bells in Ermine
Title: Dumb-bells in Ermine
Character: Mrs. Strong
Released: May 10, 1930
Type: Movie
In a small town in Virginia, Faith Corey, daughter of a socially prominent family, meets and falls in love with Jerry Malone, a prizefighter, though her straitlaced mother wants her to marry Siegfried, a spellbinding "missionary reformer." Though Grandma Corey promotes the romance with the prizefighter, Mike, the fighter's hardboiled, wisecracking manager, tries to keep them apart; following a quarrel, Faith reconciles herself to marrying Siegfried, but when he invites a group of "weak sisters" to a revival meeting, he is disgraced when one accuses him of her downfall. Finally, with Mike's advice, Jerry wins back Faith and they are united with the family's blessings.
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Ladies in Love
Title: Ladies in Love
Character: Mrs. Tibbs - Landlady
Released: May 4, 1930
Type: Movie
A small town Vermont fellow falls in love with a New York City radio singing star, but she is about to be married to the radio station owner.
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Such Men Are Dangerous
Title: Such Men Are Dangerous
Character: Marie - Elinor's Maid (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1930
Type: Movie
A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that spurned him on their wedding night.
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Embarrassing Moments
Title: Embarrassing Moments
Character: Mrs. Hickson
Released: January 17, 1930
Type: Movie
A couple meet, fall in love and get married in a 24-hour period.
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The Lariat Kid
Title: The Lariat Kid
Character: Aunt Bella
Released: May 12, 1929
Type: Movie
A lawman goes undercover to help his brother, a rancher, fight off horse thieves working for his greedy neighbor, who wants his ranch.
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Chips of the Old Block
Title: Chips of the Old Block
Released: July 1, 1928
Type: Movie
The Foy Family performs a vaudeville act.
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Mad Hour
Title: Mad Hour
Character: Police Matron
Released: March 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Mad Hour is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Boyle and starring Sally O'Neil, Alice White and Donald Reed. It was adapted from a novel by Elinor Glyn.
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A Perfect Gentleman
Title: A Perfect Gentleman
Character: The Aunt
Released: January 15, 1928
Type: Movie
Monty Banks gets involved in tracking down a stolen fortune, his adventures culminating in a whirlwind, gag-filled climax at sea.
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Scarlet Youth
Title: Scarlet Youth
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A country girl is seduced by a criminal and moves with him to the big city. When she sees him with another woman, she leaves him and goes to work in a brothel, where she contracts a venereal disease.
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Slaves of Beauty
Title: Slaves of Beauty
Character: Irishwoman
Released: June 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Comedic send-up of the beauty salon industry...
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Ankles Preferred
Title: Ankles Preferred
Character: Mrs. McGuire
Released: February 27, 1927
Type: Movie
Nora, a department store clerk, is determined to succeed on the basis of her brain power despite her attractive ankles. She gets a job as model at the shop of McGuire and Goldberg, and they announce that Nora may be given a trip abroad if she persuades their financer to lend the partners additional funds. The financer, Hornsbee, becomes presumptuous, leading to an encounter between him and Barney, Nora's young suitor; and she is ultimately glad to accept Barney's modest attentions.
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Life of an Actress
Title: Life of an Actress
Released: February 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Film directed by Jack Nelson
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It's the Old Army Game
Title: It's the Old Army Game
Character: Sarah Pancoast
Released: July 10, 1926
Type: Movie
Druggist Elmer Prettywillie is sleeping. A woman rings the night bell only to buy a two-cent stamp. Then garbage collectors waken him. Next it's firemen on a false alarm. And then a real fire.
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The Pinch Hitter
Title: The Pinch Hitter
Character: Aunt Martha
Released: December 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Joel Parker is sent to college by his crabby farmer father only because it was his mother's dying wish that he get an education. At college, he's immediately pegged as a chump and is constantly victimized by the other students, headed by Jimmie Slater. Only Abbie Nettleton, who works at the campus bakery, has any sympathy for him.
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The Lucky Devil
Title: The Lucky Devil
Character: Mrs. Hunt
Released: July 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Richard Dix, a displayer in a department store, enters a raffle and wins the so-called 'hoodoo' bad-luck automobile formerly owned by the store owner's son, a soul seemingly always in trouble with cops and women. Well, suddenly Dix begins to have the same problem, only he also gets mixed up in the life of Esther Ralston and her Aunt Edna May Oliver. Hilarious misunderstandings and undertakings become the fodder for the day!
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Dangerous Money
Title: Dangerous Money
Character: 'Auntie' Clark
Released: October 13, 1924
Type: Movie
Boardinghouse servant Adele Clark is unexpectedly awarded the ownership of a certain piece of New York City property known as Clark's Field. The trustees send her to a finishing school, whose headmistress, Signorina Vitale, persuades Adele and her sweetheart, Tim Sullivan, that she should travel in Europe. Adele's new riches cause her to lose her sense of proportion, and she soon is involved with a fast set indulging in the jazz life. Even Tim cannot curb Adele's extravagance, and he returns to America while Adele marries Italian fortune-hunter Prince Arnolfo Da Pescia. When a will is discovered naming Tim as the rightful heir to Clark's Field, Adele and Arnolfo hurry to New York, and Arnolfo tries to steal the will, then dies in a hotel fire.
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Icebound
Title: Icebound
Character: Sadie Fellowes
Released: March 2, 1924
Type: Movie
Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. He returns when his mother dies to find that she has left everything to her ward, Jane Crosby.
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The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Title: The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Character: Old Mis' Means
Released: February 14, 1924
Type: Movie
A young Indiana schoolteacher finds himself embroiled in local conflicts when he falls in love with an indentured servant and must discover the identity of a gang of bandits who are terrorizing the local population.
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The White Rose
Title: The White Rose
Character: The Landlady
Released: May 21, 1923
Type: Movie
A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see what "the real world" is all about. He winds up in New Orleans and finds himself attracted to a poor, unsophisticated orphan girl, Bessie. One thing leads to another, and before long Bessie finds that she is pregnant with Joseph's child.
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Second Fiddle
Title: Second Fiddle
Character: Mrs. Bradley
Released: January 14, 1923
Type: Movie
Jim Bradley has always played second fiddle in his family -- while his older brother, Herbert, goes off to college, Jim becomes a garage mechanic. When Herbert returns home, it's easy for him to steal Jim's girl, Polly Crawford. But trouble comes to the Bradley's town when Cragg murders his daughter and breaks into the family's home. Herbert goes for help, leaving Jim with an empty gun to protect their mother and Polly.
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The Headless Horseman
Title: The Headless Horseman
Released: November 5, 1922
Type: Movie
The village of Sleepy Hollow is getting ready to greet the new schoolteacher, Ichabod Crane, who is coming from New York. Crane has already heard of the village's legendary ghost, a headless horseman who is said to be searching for the head that he lost in battle. The schoolteacher has barely arrived when he begins to pursue the beautiful young heiress Katrina Van Tassel, angering Abraham Van Brunt, who is courting her. Crane's harsh, small-minded approach to teaching also turns some of the villagers against him. Soon there many who would like to see him leave the village altogether.
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Beyond the Rocks
Title: Beyond the Rocks
Character: Clementine - Theodora's Older Sister #1 (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1922
Type: Movie
A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her unhappy honeymoon.
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Stardust
Title: Stardust
Character: Mrs. Becker
Released: February 5, 1922
Type: Movie
Lily Becker is born in Paradise, Iowa and raised there by her prudish mother and her spineless father. Mrs Becker pressures Lily into marrying local yokel Albert Penny, who is extremely dull……
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The Ghost in the Garret
Title: The Ghost in the Garret
Character: Dennison's cook
Released: February 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Framed for stealing some pearls while staying at the country home of her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Dennison, Delsie O'Dell is banished from their house. Delsie along with her bulldog, Violet, follows Oscar, the actual thief, to an old haunted house, which is the hideout for a gang of thieves. A series of humorous escapades follows as she first hides from the thieves, then pretends to be a ghost, terrorizing them. Eventually she retrieves the pearls, clears her name, and is safe once again in the arms of Bill, Dennison's secretary.
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Sally in Our Alley
Title: Sally in Our Alley
Character: Mrs. McGill
Released: July 17, 1916
Type: Movie
Sally McGill, a little Irish girl, brought up in a particularly sordid section, is compelled to work to support her entire family. Ben Blaney, the young foreman where she works, loves little Sally. Mrs. Rockwell, wealthy and childless, finds joy in taking a limited number of the poorest children to her country home each summer, and she selects those whom she will take. Sally's ambition is to become a refined lady like those about her, and she is attracted to Paul Taylor, but knows she is inferior to him.
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A Favorite Fool
Title: A Favorite Fool
Character: One of the Widow's Children (as Seven Little Foys)
Released: November 14, 1915
Type: Movie
Arling, ringmaster of a small wagon circus, abuses Polly and her seven children. Foy, a farmhand, sympathizes with her and she decides to quit her place as trapeze woman in the show and get other work. She sends her brood to the poorhouse, and Foy, ignorant of her flock, makes love to her and is accepted.
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In the Year 2000
Title: In the Year 2000
Character: The Gang Leader (as Mrs. Patrick Foy)
Released: May 17, 1912
Type: Movie
A remake for the US market of Alice Guy's Les Résultats du féminisme. The film is considered to be lost.
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Falling Leaves
Title: Falling Leaves
Character: Dr. Headley's Nurse (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1912
Type: Movie
It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the disease seems preparing to soon claim yet another life, a teenage girl named Winifred. Winifred's mother and little sister Trixie are devastated. When Trixie hears the family doctor say of Winifred that "when the last leaf falls, she will have passed away," she interprets the doctor's words literally. Thinking over what she has heard, she determines to do everything possible to save her sister.
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Algie, the Miner
Title: Algie, the Miner
Character: Society Dowager
Released: February 28, 1912
Type: Movie
When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man.