Mary Field

Mary Field

Born: June 10, 1909
Died: June 12, 1996
in New York City, New York, USA
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Mary Field (June 10, 1909 – June 12, 1996) was an American film actress who primarily appeared in supporting roles. She was born in New York City. As a child she never knew her biological parents. During her infancy she was left outside the doors of a church with a note pinned to her saying that her name was "Olivia Rockefeller". She would later be adopted.

In 1937, she was signed under contract to Warner Bros. Studios and made her film debut in The Prince and the Pauper (1937). Her other screen credits include parts in such films as Jezebel (1938), Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938), The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938), Eternally Yours (1939), When Tomorrow Comes (1939), Broadway Melody of 1940, Ball of Fire (1941), How Green Was My Valley (1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Ministry of Fear (1944), Dark Angel (1946), Out of the Past(1947), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), and Life With Father (1947). During her time in Hollywood she appeared in approximately 103 films.

Her TV credits include parts in Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, and The Loretta Young Show. In 1963, her last acting role was as a Roman Catholic nun in the television series, Going My Way, starring Gene Kelly and modeled after the 1944 Bing Crosby film of the same name. She appeared in several episodes of the television comedy, Topper, as Henrietta Topper's friend Thelma Gibney.

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Seven Ways from Sundown
Title: Seven Ways from Sundown
Character: Ma Karrington
Released: September 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Audie Murphy is again the kid who puts on a badge to catch the bad guy, skillfully played by Barry Sullivan. On the way back to town the two develop a curiously close relationship - Sullivan passes up several chances to get away - but in the end Sullivan "asks for it" and Murphy obliges.
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Ride a Crooked Trail
Title: Ride a Crooked Trail
Character: Mrs. Curtis
Released: November 23, 1958
Type: Movie
After robbing a bank Murphy assumes the identity of his pursuer, a famous US Marshal, when he stumbles into a town and is confronted by the local judge, Matthau. Murphy is forced to remain as the new Marshal; an old flame, Scala, nearly unmasks him by accident, only to be forced to assume the ruse of being Murphy's wife. The "couple" given a house and respectability, which neither has had before. They maintain the charade to avoid hurting a young orphan boy, Matthau's ward. Scala is torn by her loyalty to boyfriend planning to rob the bank and growing feelings for Murphy
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The Missouri Traveler
Title: The Missouri Traveler
Character: Nelda Hamilton
Released: January 21, 1958
Type: Movie
Byron Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum, receives a ride into the rural Missouri town of Delphi with rich land-owner Tobias Brown.
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The Three Faces of Eve
Title: The Three Faces of Eve
Character: Effie, sales clerk
Released: December 23, 1957
Type: Movie
A doctor treats a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder.
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The Three Faces of Eve
Title: The Three Faces of Eve
Character: Effie Blanford (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1957
Type: Movie
A doctor treats a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder.
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Title: Wagon Train
Character: Mrs. Gillespie
Released: September 18, 1957
Type: TV
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
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Toy Tiger
Title: Toy Tiger
Character: Miss Elsie
Released: June 29, 1956
Type: Movie
Advertising executive Gwen Taylor sends her art director Rick Todd on a mission to bring an artist back to the commercial fold. Meanwhile, Gwen's fatherless son Timmie, at a remote boys' school, is riding for a fall by manufacturing evidence of his "explorer father." By an amazing coincidence, Rick steps off the bus at just the right moment for Timmie to recruit him as "father" without his knowledge. With no intention of collaborating, the befuddled Rick is carried along by the sweep of events. Who can predict the outcome?
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The Price of Fear
Title: The Price of Fear
Character: Ruth McNab
Released: March 13, 1956
Type: Movie
A co-owner of a race track goes on the run after witnessing something he shouldn't have at the track.
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Lucy Gallant
Title: Lucy Gallant
Character: Irma Wilson
Released: October 20, 1955
Type: Movie
A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.
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To Hell and Back
Title: To Hell and Back
Character: Mrs. Murphy
Released: September 22, 1955
Type: Movie
The true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history. Based on the autobiography of Audie Murphy who stars as himself in the film.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Clara
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Minerva
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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The Private War of Major Benson
Title: The Private War of Major Benson
Character: Sister Mary Theresa
Released: August 2, 1955
Type: Movie
A Major noted for advancing with his mouth before thinking is given a choice: to be drummed out of the Army, or take command of and shape up the ROTC program at Sheridan Academy before it fails its next inspection. At Sheridan he encounters three hundred pre-teen cadets who range from rascally to adorable, and a female doctor who has just the right prescription for him.
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Four Guns to the Border
Title: Four Guns to the Border
Character: Mrs. Pritchard
Released: November 5, 1954
Type: Movie
A group of outlaws plan and execute a robbery in a small town. However, things go awry as the team attempt a getaway, when a couple of the locals attempting to follow them, are ambushed by marauding natives.
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Title: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Character: Cathy Marion
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: TV
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The same basic show has since appeared on several networks, with its latest revival debuting in 2012 on Disney Junior. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
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Title: Studio 57
Released: September 21, 1954
Type: TV
Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956.
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Title: Topper
Released: October 9, 1953
Type: TV
Topper is an American fantasy sitcom based on the 1937 film of the same name. The series was broadcast on CBS from October 9, 1953 to July 15, 1955, and stars Leo G. Carroll in the title role.
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The Lady Wants Mink
Title: The Lady Wants Mink
Character: Janie
Released: March 29, 1953
Type: Movie
A woman raises mink to get the coat she's always wanted.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Nora
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Dear Brat
Title: Dear Brat
Character: Criminal Records Clerk (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1951
Type: Movie
Mirian Wilkins, the teenage daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge of her father, elects him to the position of honorary president. When the family's new gardener, Baxter, turns out to be a notorious ex-convict who was sentenced to prison by Senator Wilkins when he was a judge, Wilkins considers firing him until his daughter points out that would be an unwise decision considering the position her father held on society.
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Edge of Doom
Title: Edge of Doom
Character: Mary Jane Glennon
Released: August 3, 1950
Type: Movie
A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
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Cheaper by the Dozen
Title: Cheaper by the Dozen
Character: Music Teacher (uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
"Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families.
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Dear Wife
Title: Dear Wife
Character: Mrs. Bixby
Released: November 15, 1949
Type: Movie
In this sequel to Dear Ruth, teenaged Miriam starts a political campaign to nominate Bill Seacroft, her brother-in-law, for state senator in opposition to the local political machine. Unknown to Miriam, said machine nominates her father, Judge Wilkins. As support grows for Bill, the presence of rival candidates under one roof poses problems, especially for Ruth, wife to Bill and daughter of the judge.
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Mighty Joe Young
Title: Mighty Joe Young
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Released: July 27, 1949
Type: Movie
A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.
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You're My Everything
Title: You're My Everything
Character: Record Store Clerk (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1949
Type: Movie
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Character: Peasant woman
Released: April 18, 1949
Type: Movie
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.
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Henry, the Rainmaker
Title: Henry, the Rainmaker
Character: Mrs. Sweeney
Released: February 13, 1949
Type: Movie
The first of Monogram's "Father" series was Henry, the Rainmaker, assembled in a fast seven days. Henry Latham is an average family man who is galvanized into entering a mayoral race over the issue of garbage disposal. When incumbent mayor Colton solves this issue himself, Henry turns his attentions to the current water shortage. His efforts to become a rainmaker prove cataclysmic, to say the least.
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One Sunday Afternoon
Title: One Sunday Afternoon
Character: Secretary
Released: December 25, 1948
Type: Movie
The third film version of James Hagan's play, this time with songs added, starring Dennis Morgan as a dentist who marries patient and loyal Dorothy Malone despite his constant infatuation with sexy flirt Janis Paige. Filmed previously in 1933 ("One Sunday Afternoon") and 1941 ("The Strawberry Blonde").
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Joan of Arc
Title: Joan of Arc
Character: Boy's Mother (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
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A Song Is Born
Title: A Song Is Born
Character: Miss Totten
Released: October 19, 1948
Type: Movie
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.
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Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
Title: Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
Character: Wee Shop Clerk
Released: August 11, 1948
Type: Movie
As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, a middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches...a mermaid. He takes her home and, though she has no spoken language, falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won't believe that the thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish.
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Up in Central Park
Title: Up in Central Park
Character: Schoolteacher
Released: July 9, 1948
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.
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Romance on the High Seas
Title: Romance on the High Seas
Character: Marie - Elvira's Maid (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
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The Fuller Brush Man
Title: The Fuller Brush Man
Character: Beaver Patrol Leader
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.
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Sitting Pretty
Title: Sitting Pretty
Character: Della (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
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If You Knew Susie
Title: If You Knew Susie
Character: Telephone Operator
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker.
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Out of the Past
Title: Out of the Past
Character: Marny (uncredited)
Released: November 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
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Louisiana
Title: Louisiana
Character: Mrs. Davis
Released: November 15, 1947
Type: Movie
The music-loving son of a Louisiana sharecropper uses his songs to graduate from college.
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Unconquered
Title: Unconquered
Character: Maggie
Released: October 10, 1947
Type: Movie
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.
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Driftwood
Title: Driftwood
Character: Mrs. White
Released: September 15, 1947
Type: Movie
An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.
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Life with Father
Title: Life with Father
Character: Nora
Released: September 13, 1947
Type: Movie
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
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Dark Passage
Title: Dark Passage
Character: Aunt Mary at Bus Station (uncredited)
Released: September 5, 1947
Type: Movie
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
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The Unfaithful
Title: The Unfaithful
Character: Miss Bryar
Released: July 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
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High Conquest
Title: High Conquest
Character: Miss Woodley
Released: June 21, 1947
Type: Movie
Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.
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Welcome Stranger
Title: Welcome Stranger
Character: Secretary
Released: June 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once he meets teacher Trudy Mason, Pearson is delighted to stay. The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancé. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy?
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Miracle on 34th Street
Title: Miracle on 34th Street
Character: Dutch Girl's Adoptive Mother (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.
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The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Title: The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Character: Felice
Released: June 2, 1947
Type: Movie
Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.
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The Other Love
Title: The Other Love
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: May 14, 1947
Type: Movie
Seriously ill, concert pianist Karen Duncan is admitted to a Swiss sanitorium. Despite being attracted to Dr Tony Stanton she ignores his warnings of possibly fatal consequences unless she rests completely. Rather, she opts for a livelier time in Monte Carlo with dashing Paul Clermont.
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The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Title: The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Character: Typewriting Academy Receptionist
Released: January 4, 1947
Type: Movie
In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men object to her at first, she soon charms them all, especially the handsome young head of the company. Their romance gets sidetracked when she becomes involved in the Women's Suffrage movement.
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Song of the South
Title: Song of the South
Character: Mrs. Favers
Released: November 12, 1946
Type: Movie
Uncle Remus draws upon his tales of Br'er Rabbit to help little Johnny deal with his confusion over his parents' separation as well as his new life on the plantation.
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Black Angel
Title: Black Angel
Character: Mavis' Maid (Uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1946
Type: Movie
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
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Rendezvous with Annie
Title: Rendezvous with Annie
Character: Deborah
Released: July 22, 1946
Type: Movie
A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two people knowing he was home for a few hours. When she learns that she is pregnant, she does not disclose that her husband had paid her a visit as to not get him into trouble. The townspeople are unanimous in their condemnation of her. But, after his discharge, he enlists the aid of a nightclub singer, the only other person who knew he came home.
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The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Title: The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Character: Bradford's Secretary
Released: June 7, 1946
Type: Movie
A PI investigates a priest's murder.
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One More Tomorrow
Title: One More Tomorrow
Character: Maude Miller
Released: May 24, 1946
Type: Movie
Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party — until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the ownership of The Bantam, a liberal magazine that opposes everything his family represents. As Tom and Christie's relationship deepens, love blooms and he proposes to her. Realizing that she could never fit in with Tom's social circle, Christie says no, a decision she later regrets. But Tom isn't left alone for long — scheming gold-digger Cecelia Henry wastes no time in catching Tom on the rebound and forcing him into a disastrous marriage.
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Murder in the Music Hall
Title: Murder in the Music Hall
Character: Waitress
Released: April 10, 1946
Type: Movie
An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.
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The Dark Corner
Title: The Dark Corner
Character: Movie Theatre Cashier (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
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Little Giant
Title: Little Giant
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1946
Type: Movie
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
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The Affairs of Susan
Title: The Affairs of Susan
Character: Nancy
Released: July 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.
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Frenchman's Creek
Title: Frenchman's Creek
Character: Prue (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1944
Type: Movie
An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.
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Up in Mabel's Room
Title: Up in Mabel's Room
Character: Priscilla's Sister (uncredited)
Released: September 12, 1944
Type: Movie
Newly-married Gary Ainsworth (Dennis O'Keefe) once gave his former sweetheart Mabel (Gail Patrick) a sexy negligee with his initials embroidered in the lacework. It is Gary's unenviable task to retrieve the incriminating undergarment from Mabel's room before his wife Geraldine (Marjorie Reynolds) gets wise.
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The Port of 40 Thieves
Title: The Port of 40 Thieves
Character: Della
Released: August 13, 1944
Type: Movie
A widow confesses she murdered her husband and kills two more people before her stepdaughter and an attorney prove her wrong.
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Mr. Skeffington
Title: Mr. Skeffington
Character: Penelope Hyslup (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
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Ladies of Washington
Title: Ladies of Washington
Character: Nurse's Aide (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1944
Type: Movie
The new boarder at a Washington, D.C. rooming house for women likes the fast life, but her recreational activities lead to her involvement in murder.
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Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
Title: Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
Character: Husband-Seeking Woman
Released: April 1, 1944
Type: Movie
High-school student Henry Aldrich hopes to improve his grades by finding a sweetheart for his unmarried teacher.
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It Happened Tomorrow
Title: It Happened Tomorrow
Character: Restaurant Cashier (uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1944
Type: Movie
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
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Four Jills in a Jeep
Title: Four Jills in a Jeep
Character: Maid (scenes deleted)
Released: March 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.
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Princess O'Rourke
Title: Princess O'Rourke
Character: Clara Stilwell (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1943
Type: Movie
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
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A Lady Takes a Chance
Title: A Lady Takes a Chance
Character: Florrie Bendix
Released: August 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
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Three Hearts for Julia
Title: Three Hearts for Julia
Character: Symphony Guild Secretary (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1943
Type: Movie
When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again.
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Hello, Frisco, Hello
Title: Hello, Frisco, Hello
Character: Ellie, Cockney Maid
Released: March 26, 1943
Type: Movie
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Title: Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Character: Party Pianist (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 Gorilla Man
Title: The Gorilla Man
Character: Nurse Kruger
Released: January 16, 1943
Type: Movie
A wounded soldier discovers his hospital is secretly run by the Nazis.
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The Great Gildersleeve
Title: The Great Gildersleeve
Character: Amelia Hooker
Released: December 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew.
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You Were Never Lovelier
Title: You Were Never Lovelier
Character: Louise - the Acuña Maid (uncredited)
Released: November 19, 1942
Type: Movie
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.
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I Married a Witch
Title: I Married a Witch
Character: Nancy Wooley (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.
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Now, Voyager
Title: Now, Voyager
Character: Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
Released: October 22, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
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You Can't Escape Forever
Title: You Can't Escape Forever
Character: Kirsty Lundstrom (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1942
Type: Movie
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.
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Get Hep to Love
Title: Get Hep to Love
Character: Woman Judge
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
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The Major and the Minor
Title: The Major and the Minor
Character: Mother at Station (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Susan Applegate, tired of New York after one year and twenty-five jobs, decides to return to her home town in Iowa. Discovering she hasn't enough money for the train fare, Susan disguises herself as a twelve-year-old and travels for half the price. Caught out by the conductors, she hides in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor who takes the "child" under his wing.
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Wake Island
Title: Wake Island
Released: August 11, 1942
Type: Movie
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
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Mrs. Miniver
Title: Mrs. Miniver
Character: Miss Spriggins (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
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Miss Annie Rooney
Title: Miss Annie Rooney
Character: Mrs. Metz
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her family and friends band together to raise money to get her the proper dress.
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This Above All
Title: This Above All
Character: Hotel Maid
Released: May 12, 1942
Type: Movie
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Title: The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Character: Maid (Uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge.
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Mokey
Title: Mokey
Character: Mrs. Graham
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A newlywed tries to deal with her troubled stepchild.
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Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Title: Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Character: Agnes
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series.
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Ball of Fire
Title: Ball of Fire
Character: Miss Totten
Released: December 2, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
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One Foot in Heaven
Title: One Foot in Heaven
Character: Lulu Digby (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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How Green Was My Valley
Title: How Green Was My Valley
Character: Eve (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
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Sea Raiders
Title: Sea Raiders
Character: Aggie Nelson
Released: October 13, 1941
Type: Movie
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
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Wild Geese Calling
Title: Wild Geese Calling
Character: Jennie Delaney
Released: August 15, 1941
Type: Movie
In the 1890s lumberjack John leaves Seattle for Alaska to look for gold. After he marries dancehall girl Sally, he finds she used to be in love with his best friend Blackie.
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A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Title: A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Character: Woman on Street (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.
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Shadows on the Stairs
Title: Shadows on the Stairs
Character: Phoebe Marcia St. John Snell
Released: March 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.
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The Great Mr. Nobody
Title: The Great Mr. Nobody
Character: Miss Frame
Released: February 15, 1941
Type: Movie
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
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Golden Hoofs
Title: Golden Hoofs
Character: Nellie Crocker
Released: February 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.
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Charter Pilot
Title: Charter Pilot
Character: King's Secretary
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.
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The Bank Dick
Title: The Bank Dick
Character: Woman with Cherries on Hat (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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The Trail Blazers
Title: The Trail Blazers
Character: Alice Chapman
Released: November 11, 1940
Type: Movie
The Mesquiteers try to help their friend build a telegraph system, despite a local newspaper editor's attempts to sabotage the lines.
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The Ape
Title: The Ape
Character: Mrs. Mason
Released: September 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?
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The Howards of Virginia
Title: The Howards of Virginia
Character: Susan Howard
Released: September 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
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Girls of the Road
Title: Girls of the Road
Character: Mae
Released: July 24, 1940
Type: Movie
A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.
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Three Faces West
Title: Three Faces West
Character: Mrs. Stebbins
Released: July 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
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My Son, My Son!
Title: My Son, My Son!
Character: Bessie, Ladies' Room Maid
Released: March 21, 1940
Type: Movie
A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him.
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Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
Title: Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
Character: Girl Customer (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a cheap line of clothing. To escort her about town, the agent invents a "Mr. Manhattan." He then has them fake a marriage. When he realizes that he is in love with his creation, the agent promptly fires "Mr. M" and takes her to the altar personally. Songs include: "Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me," "Unfair To Love," and "A Lemon In The Garden Of Love."
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Broadway Melody of 1940
Title: Broadway Melody of 1940
Character: Second Bride (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
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Convicted Woman
Title: Convicted Woman
Character: Gracie Dunn
Released: January 31, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
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The Invisible Man Returns
Title: The Invisible Man Returns
Character: Passerby at Willie's House (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1940
Type: Movie
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
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Legion of the Lawless
Title: Legion of the Lawless
Character: Mrs. Barton
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way.
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Eternally Yours
Title: Eternally Yours
Character: Peabody's Housekeeper
Released: October 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.
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Dancing Co-Ed
Title: Dancing Co-Ed
Character: Miss Jennie May
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
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The Fighting Gringo
Title: The Fighting Gringo
Character: Sandra Courtney
Released: August 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A gunfighter and his partners clear a Spanish rancher charged with murder.
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Stunt Pilot
Title: Stunt Pilot
Character: Ethel
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest (Universal also used the strip characters in two serials), finds a movie company shooting a war picture at Three Points airport, with Tailspin Tommy Tompkins as a stunt pilot in the film. Tommy is incensed by the complete disregard for human life shown by the film's director, Sheehan, and quits. Sheehan gets a replacement pilot named Earl Martin, who is known as a reckless pilot who will try an aerial stunt for a thrill. He hand Tommy get into a fight when Martin takes Betty Lou Barnes for a ride in a plane that is practically falling apart.
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Good Girls Go to Paris
Title: Good Girls Go to Paris
Character: Ada - Brand's Maid (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
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The Sun Never Sets
Title: The Sun Never Sets
Character: Maid
Released: May 31, 1939
Type: Movie
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompanied by his wife Helen. He discovers his younger brother John, is not keen on following in his footsteps. John is then persuaded to try colonial service by his grandfather. He is accompanied by Clive who has been sent to investigate the source of a series of radio broadcasts that are sewing unrest throughout the world. These may be linked to Hugo Zurof, a man plotting to rule the world.
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Title: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Character: Piano Player
Released: April 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
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The Family Next Door
Title: The Family Next Door
Character: Secretary
Released: March 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her smart aleck son Sammy hears that an electric railroad line is to be built through town, she decides that the family can become rich by purchasing the lots along the right of way. Patriarch George Pierce laughs at the idea, but when Rose and Sammy learn that Cora Stewart, the wealthy town widow, has withdrawn her savings from the bank, they jump to the conclusion that she is interested in buying the lots, and mother and son secretly invest the family bank roll in the land.
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Sergeant Madden
Title: Sergeant Madden
Character: Mrs. Daly
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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Society Smugglers
Title: Society Smugglers
Character: Secretary
Released: March 1, 1939
Type: Movie
The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds.
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Made for Each Other
Title: Made for Each Other
Character: Johns Hopkins Technician (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
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There Goes My Heart
Title: There Goes My Heart
Character: Mrs. Crud - Pennypepper's Patient (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
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Slander House
Title: Slander House
Character: Bessie, an attendant
Released: October 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client.
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Youth Takes a Fling
Title: Youth Takes a Fling
Character: Maid
Released: September 22, 1938
Type: Movie
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Title: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Character: Millie - Mrs. Updyke's Maid (uncredited)
Released: July 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
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Cowboy from Brooklyn
Title: Cowboy from Brooklyn
Character: Myrtle Semple
Released: July 9, 1938
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
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White Banners
Title: White Banners
Character: Hester
Released: June 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.
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Jezebel
Title: Jezebel
Character: Woman at the Olympus Ball (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1938
Type: Movie
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
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The Prince and the Pauper
Title: The Prince and the Pauper
Character: Mrs. Canty
Released: April 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
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Call It a Day
Title: Call It a Day
Character: Elsie Lester, Roger's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1937
Type: Movie
The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.