Marion Lessing

Marion Lessing

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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Title: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Character: Church Member (uncredited)
Released: May 16, 1956
Type: Movie
A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.
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Mildred Pierce
Title: Mildred Pierce
Character: Waitress (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1945
Type: Movie
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Calling Philo Vance
Title: Calling Philo Vance
Character: Mrs. Fritz Snauble (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
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The Black Room
Title: The Black Room
Character: Maria the Chambermaid
Released: July 15, 1935
Type: Movie
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron. The older grows to be a selfish, slovenly man, who inherits the castle at his father's death and becomes ruler over the formerly happy villagers. He enjoys his power until he learns his younger brother is returning from abroad and, afraid of the prophecy, he determines to murder his sibling, hide his body in the "black room" - an old torture chamber sealed away behind the fireplace - and then impersonate him, right down to his withered arm. In this way he hopes to not only avoid the prophecy, but also escape consequences of his other criminal deeds and obtain marriage to a local girl of the nobility...
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One Night of Love
Title: One Night of Love
Character: German Girl
Released: July 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
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Dr. Monica
Title: Dr. Monica
Character: Mrs. Swiegart (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.
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Downstairs
Title: Downstairs
Character: The Countess' Maid Antoinette
Released: August 6, 1932
Type: Movie
In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive. The servants seem to enjoy their time together, and some even fall in love, as head butler Albert and maid Anna have done. But when lecherous new chauffeur Karl Schneider enters the house, affairs and blackmail follow, and the harmony of the home is slowly destroyed.
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Casanova wider Willen
Title: Casanova wider Willen
Character: Anna Willcox
Released: October 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Jeffrey wants to marry Virginia, who refuses to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica, gets married first.
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The Big Trail
Title: The Big Trail
Character: Ruth Winter
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
German-language version of The Big Trail with an alternate cast and co-director. Bill Coleman (named Breck Coleman in the U.S. version) leads settlers in covered wagons Westward, across the prairie and mountains.
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Doctors' Wives
Title: Doctors' Wives
Character: Patient
Released: March 14, 1931
Type: Movie
The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one couple. Their troubles begin when the doctor makes a housecall to a seductive woman with designs upon him. His suspicious wife follows him and spies on him. She thinks they are getting romantic when he is actually trying to extricate himself from his predatory patient. She decides to get revenge with his best friend, but nothing happens.
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Seas Beneath
Title: Seas Beneath
Character: Anna Marie Von Steuben
Released: January 30, 1931
Type: Movie
In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. "Mystery Ship," sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarine. Their mission is to find and sink a U-boat that has been especially effective in attacking Allied shipping. Posing as a harmless schooner, the mystery ship is in fact fitted with a formidable gun capable of sinking a U-boat. Stopping in the Canary Islands to refuel, the crew interacts with locals involved with Germans, and with Germans themselves, including the sister of the U-Boat commander, who is lurking offshore waiting for the coming battle.