Barbara Kent

Barbara Kent

Born: December 16, 1907
Died: October 13, 2011
in Gadsby, Alberta, Canada
Canadian born Barbara Kent (born Barbara Cloutman), who resettled, with her family, in California in 1913, was an actress in Hollywood films from 1926 to 1942.

Movies for Barbara Kent...

The Fleet's In
Title: The Fleet's In
Character: Hostess
Released: January 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
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Under Age
Title: Under Age
Character: Jackie
Released: April 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Fresh out of reform school, a bunch of delinquent girls fall in with a gang of crooks and are put to work as "hostesses" in a number of mob-controlled bars and cafes. The girls are expected to string along male customers so that the latter will squander their money on watered-down drinks and fixed poker games. When one gullible New Yorker is clipped to the tune of $18,000 worth of diamonds, the Law closes in.
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Blondie Meets the Boss
Title: Blondie Meets the Boss
Character: Jitterbug Dancer (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
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Guard That Girl
Title: Guard That Girl
Character: Jeanne Martin
Released: November 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Attorney Joshua Scranton hires "Budge" Edwards and Larry Donovan, who has just bought into Edwards' detective agency, to protect Estelle Hudson, a client of his who is to inherit three-million dollars the next Thursday. He tells them he has reason to believe the girl is in danger from five relatives who stand to benefit from her death.
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Old Man Rhythm
Title: Old Man Rhythm
Character: Edith Warren
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.
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Swellhead
Title: Swellhead
Character: Mary Malone
Released: May 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Baseball player Terry McCall is a very good baseball player, who doesn't mind bragging about his skills on the baseball diamond and also his off-the-field skills at wooing and winning women. An accident causes his luck to turn bad and results in him turning blind, but he later regains his sight after being instrumental in saving the life of Mickey Malone, the team's young mascot. He then promises Mary Malone, Mickey's sister, for whose affection he has been competing with a teammate, that he is through showing off and bragging. But, in the end, he is still blowing smoke.
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Her Forgotten Past
Title: Her Forgotten Past
Character: Doris Maynard
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A compulsive gambler, thought to have been killed in an automobile crash, reappears when his wife remarries.
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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Rose Maylie
Released: February 28, 1933
Type: Movie
An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.
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Reckless Decision
Title: Reckless Decision
Character: Beth MacDougall
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
The teenage daughter of a puritanical Reverend promises him she will not marry until she is older, but after a night of heavy drinking she wakes up to find she has a husband.
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Self Defense
Title: Self Defense
Character: Nona Devoux
Released: December 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Katy Devoux runs a gambling-drinking joint in British Columbia. She is a fair-playing business woman, but is ashamed of the source of her income, so she has had her daughter Nona raised in the states. Jeff Bowman, an unprincipled scoundrel and business rival, arranges for her daughter to come to town in hope of bringing shame to the mother. He overplays his hand and is killed by Tim Reed, a faithful retainer of Katy's and in love with Nona. The plea is self defense.
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The Pride of the Legion
Title: The Pride of the Legion
Character: Martha Tully
Released: October 17, 1932
Type: Movie
After suffering a traumatic injury, a policeman resigns from the force and, after he's saved from a suicide attempt, goes to work at a café frequented by gangsters.
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No Living Witness
Title: No Living Witness
Character: Carol Everett
Released: September 13, 1932
Type: Movie
An assistant district attorney tries to stop his girlfriend's father from being swindled out of his money by a crooked lawyer in a racetrack scam.
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Beauty Parlor
Title: Beauty Parlor
Character: Sally Dale
Released: June 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Film follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by a true gentleman of means, the other of whom lets herself become a pawn of operators of a call-girl ring.
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Vanity Fair
Title: Vanity Fair
Character: Amelia Sedley
Released: March 15, 1932
Type: Movie
An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
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Emma
Title: Emma
Character: Gypsy
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
When Fred Smith's wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple's three children, cares also for the family's new addition. Fred becomes rich and successful, then he and Emma marry. When Fred dies, his will becomes a source of trouble between the children and Emma.
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Freighters of Destiny
Title: Freighters of Destiny
Character: Ruth Mercer
Released: October 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A young man seeks vengeance on the outlaws who killed his father.
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Chinatown After Dark
Title: Chinatown After Dark
Character: Lotus
Released: October 15, 1931
Type: Movie
The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.
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Grief Street
Title: Grief Street
Character: Jean Royce
Released: October 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who is found strangled to death in his theater dressing room with its door and window locked from the inside.
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Indiscreet
Title: Indiscreet
Character: Joan Trent
Released: April 25, 1931
Type: Movie
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
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Feet First
Title: Feet First
Character: Barbara
Released: October 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding.
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What Men Want
Title: What Men Want
Character: Betty 'Babs' Joyce
Released: July 12, 1930
Type: Movie
A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.
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Dumb-bells in Ermine
Title: Dumb-bells in Ermine
Character: Faith Corey
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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The Night Ride
Title: The Night Ride
Character: Ruth Kearns
Released: January 12, 1930
Type: Movie
Just after newsman Rooker and Ruth Kearns are married he covers a double murder during a bank robbery. Cigarettes at the scene implicate gangster Tony Garotta. Garotta kidnaps Rooker and another reporter, intending to kill them.
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Welcome Danger
Title: Welcome Danger
Character: Billie Lee
Released: October 12, 1929
Type: Movie
A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.
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The Shakedown
Title: The Shakedown
Character: Marjorie
Released: March 9, 1929
Type: Movie
The life of a less-than successful professional boxer changes when he takes in an orphan.
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His Destiny
Title: His Destiny
Character: Betty Baker
Released: December 10, 1928
Type: Movie
A 1928 Western
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Lonesome
Title: Lonesome
Character: Mary
Released: June 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?
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That's My Daddy
Title: That's My Daddy
Character: Molly Moran
Released: December 19, 1927
Type: Movie
A wealthy bachelor lies his way out of a speeding ticket by telling the cops he's on his way to visit his baby girl in hospital - ever helpful, they accompany him whereupon a little girl attaches herself to him, with hilarious results.
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The Small Bachelor
Title: The Small Bachelor
Character: Molly Waddington
Released: November 6, 1927
Type: Movie
What must a man do in order to put an end to his bachelorhood? For George Finch, one of nature's white mice and probably the worst artist ever to put brush to canvas, there are many obstacles. Undoubtedly the greatest is his beloved Molly's fearsome stepmother, Mrs. Waddington, who has her eye on an eligible English lord for a son-in-law. Luckily, George has an ally in sharp-witted Hamilton Beamish, an old family friend of the Waddingtons, not to mention George's butler, Mullett, and his light-fingered girlfriend, Fanny, whose valuable skills are of particular interest to the would-be father-in-law.
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The Drop Kick
Title: The Drop Kick
Character: Cecily Graves
Released: September 25, 1927
Type: Movie
College football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when he pays an innocent visit to a woman whose husband kills himself.
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The Lone Eagle
Title: The Lone Eagle
Released: September 18, 1927
Type: Movie
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No Man's Law
Title: No Man's Law
Character: Toby Belcher
Released: May 1, 1927
Type: Movie
A wild stallion (Rex the Wonder Horse) becomes the protector of a prospector and his foster daughter as two thugs plot to steal their claim.
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Flesh and the Devil
Title: Flesh and the Devil
Character: Hertha von Eltz
Released: December 25, 1926
Type: Movie
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.
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Prowlers of the Night
Title: Prowlers of the Night
Character: Anita Parsons
Released: November 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Sheriff Jack Norton is badly wounded in a gun battle with bandits and is helped by Anita Parsons, the daughter, as he later learns, of the bandit leader. Torn between his love for the girl and his devotion to duty, Jack decides the latter is too strong to resist.