Gloria Roy

Gloria Roy

Born: August 17, 1901
Died: December 16, 1985
in San Jose, California, USA

Movies for Gloria Roy...

Lucky Cisco Kid
Title: Lucky Cisco Kid
Character: Dance Hall Girl (uncredited)
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
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Earthbound
Title: Earthbound
Character: Attorney
Released: June 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Character: Waitress (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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Charlie Chan in Panama
Title: Charlie Chan in Panama
Character: Hostess
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Title: Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Character: Plane Passenger
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
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Chicken Wagon Family
Title: Chicken Wagon Family
Character: Mother
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
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Frontier Marshal
Title: Frontier Marshal
Character: Dance Hall Girl
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Title: Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Character: Nurse
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
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Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
Title: Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
Released: June 11, 1938
Type: Movie
In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a venerable holy man with mystical powers to help foil two insurgencies against the government.
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Big Town Girl
Title: Big Town Girl
Character: Laundry Maid
Released: December 3, 1937
Type: Movie
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.
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The Great Hospital Mystery
Title: The Great Hospital Mystery
Character: Nurse
Released: May 14, 1937
Type: Movie
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
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Fair Warning
Title: Fair Warning
Character: Grace Hamilton
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
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Time Out for Romance
Title: Time Out for Romance
Character: Maid
Released: February 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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The Holy Terror
Title: The Holy Terror
Character: Maria Blair
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Corky is the daughter of an officer in the Naval Air Service who, while putting on musical shows for the troops, uncovers a group of spies.
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Crack-Up
Title: Crack-Up
Character: Operative #16
Released: December 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.
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Charlie Chan at the Race Track
Title: Charlie Chan at the Race Track
Character: Catherine Chester
Released: August 7, 1936
Type: Movie
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.
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High Tension
Title: High Tension
Character: Clerk--Frisco Office
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
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Little Miss Nobody
Title: Little Miss Nobody
Character: Maid
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
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Song and Dance Man
Title: Song and Dance Man
Character: Dolores
Released: March 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
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Charlie Chan's Secret
Title: Charlie Chan's Secret
Character: Madame Carlotta Bowen
Released: January 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of Honolulu. Mysteriously, Colby reappears at his mansion only to be murdered soon after. When his body is discovered during a seance, everyone in attendance becomes a suspect, and it's up to Chan to find the murderer before he or she strikes again.
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This Is the Life
Title: This Is the Life
Character: Diane Revier
Released: October 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A popular child star, exploited and overworked by her greedy guardians, decides enough is enough--and takes it on the lam.
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Thunder in the Night
Title: Thunder in the Night
Character: Katherine Szabo
Released: September 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Officer Karl Torok's best friend, Count Alvinczy, is elected president of the Hungarian cabinet. Meanwhile, Alvinczy's wife, Madalaine, receives a message from a blackmailer, threatening her husband. When the blackmailer winds up dead, Madalaine appears to be the most likely suspect. Torok, however, knows the case is more complicated than it seems and dedicates himself to revealing the truth behind the mystery.
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Life Begins at Forty
Title: Life Begins at Forty
Character: Girl
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
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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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Wild Gold
Title: Wild Gold
Character: One of the Golden Girls
Released: June 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevada gold country, and he takes the carburetor off her car and throws it in the river, stranding them there. They wind up staying at the cabin of a crusty old prospector, and soon the manager of a nightclub act shows up with his bevy of beautiful showgirls.
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Jimmy and Sally
Title: Jimmy and Sally
Character: Shirley
Released: November 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Jimmy is a wiseguy press agent whose efforts to promote a meat-packing firm come to naught. Our hero is fired from his job, whereupon his sweetheart Sally steps in, immediately succeeding where Jimmy had failed.
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Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
Title: Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
Character: Arlene Compton
Released: September 14, 1933
Type: Movie
When a good-for-nothing man named Dan is stabbed to death and his arm broken, Charlie Chan is on the case. His first clue comes from the victim's sister, who noticed a prowler wearing a glow-in-the-dark wristwatch.
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Hot Pepper
Title: Hot Pepper
Character: Lily
Released: January 15, 1933
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and begin fighting over her.
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The Meddler
Title: The Meddler
Character: Gloria Canfield
Released: June 28, 1925
Type: Movie
Richard Gilmore, a staid Wall Street broker, is jilted by Dot Parkhurst when he fails to provide her with the romance and adventure that she wants out of life. Richard then goes west in an effort to prove himself a man and becomes a highwayman known as "The Meddler," robbing people only to return to them all that he stole, keeping only a valueless memento for himself.
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The Burning Trail
Title: The Burning Trail
Character: Esther Ramsey
Released: May 10, 1925
Type: Movie
A professional boxer known as "Smiling Bill Flannigan" accidentally kills an opponent in the ring. He gives up the sport and heads west. He gets a job on a ranch as a cook, and before he knows it he finds himself involved in a war between ranchers and sheepherders.
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Oh, You Tony!
Title: Oh, You Tony!
Character: The Countess (as Dolores Rousse)
Released: September 21, 1924
Type: Movie
This silent Western features Tom Mix as a rancher who goes to Washington to affect better conditions for the anonymous man of the soil. Having lost his money to some scheming lobbyists, Mix, unaware that oil has been found on his property, stakes his possessions on wonder horse Tony winning the big race.
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Against All Odds
Title: Against All Odds
Character: Judy Malone (as Dolores Rousse)
Released: July 27, 1924
Type: Movie
Chick Newton's friend, Bill Warner, is arrested for murdering his uncle. However, Bill has been framed by a blackmailer who has plotted with the uncle to have him disappear in order to avoid creditors and collect insurance. Newton unmasks Tom Curtis as the culprit and rescues Warner from a hanging.
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The Trouble Shooter
Title: The Trouble Shooter
Character: Chiquita (as Dolores Rousse)
Released: May 4, 1924
Type: Movie
Tom Mix, the most popular screen cowboy of his era, played a lineman for a power company in this action melodrama which was a Western in name only.
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Ladies to Board
Title: Ladies to Board
Character: Model (as Dolores Rousse)
Released: February 3, 1924
Type: Movie
While traveling through the prarie, an elderly and cantankerous lady loses control of her car. One of the locals, Tom Faxton (Mix), comes to her rescue. He receives the full impact of the woman's gratitude a few years later when she dies and bequeaths him a rest home for elderly ladies.