Rita La Roy

Rita La Roy

Born: October 2, 1901
Died: February 17, 1993
in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, USA

Movies for Rita La Roy...

You're My Everything
Title: You're My Everything
Character: Fashion Editor (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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Sergeant York
Title: Sergeant York
Character: Saloon Girl (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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Hold That Woman!
Title: Hold That Woman!
Character: Lulu Driscoll
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang that has stolen diamonds from a Hollywood movie star has stashed them inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.
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Fixer Dugan
Title: Fixer Dugan
Character: Patricia O'Connell
Released: April 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas.
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Smashing the Rackets
Title: Smashing the Rackets
Character: Reluctant Witness
Released: August 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
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Border G-Man
Title: Border G-Man
Character: Rita Browning (as Rita LaRoy)
Released: June 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A federal agent goes undercover in order to capture a gang that's been smuggling munitions and horses near the Texas border.
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Come Across
Title: Come Across
Character: Brunette Gang Moll
Released: May 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A bank robber pulls off a heist and comes out with a good haul. However, he winds up being forced to give most of it to his gangland "friends" to hide him from the police, and who now turn their backs on him when his money runs out.
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Condemned Women
Title: Condemned Women
Character: Cora
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.
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Flight from Glory
Title: Flight from Glory
Character: Molly - the Cook
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens, Richard Lane, Douglas Walton, Paul Guilfoyle, Solly Ward, Walter Miller and Rita LaRoy.
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Mountain Music
Title: Mountain Music
Character: Mrs. Hamilton B. Lovelace
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her enthusiasm offsets that small deficit.
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The Mandarin Mystery
Title: The Mandarin Mystery
Character: Martha Kirk
Released: December 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.
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Lady from Nowhere
Title: Lady from Nowhere
Character: Mabel Donner
Released: December 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A manicurist witnesses a gangland murder. Realizing there was a witness to their crime, the killer tries to track her down and silence her.
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Hollywood Boulevard
Title: Hollywood Boulevard
Character: Nella
Released: August 20, 1936
Type: Movie
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
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Fugitive Lady
Title: Fugitive Lady
Character: Sylvia Brooks
Released: December 10, 1934
Type: Movie
In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief.
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Name the Woman
Title: Name the Woman
Character: Marie Denton
Released: July 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Directed by Albert S. Rogell. With Richard Cromwell, Arline Judge, Rita La Roy, Charles C. Wilson.
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One Is Guilty
Title: One Is Guilty
Character: Lola Deveroux
Released: May 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Police Inspector Steve Trent is called to the Radford Arms, a high-rise apartment building that has been taken over by a bank and its apartments now-unoccupied.
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Whirlpool
Title: Whirlpool
Character: Thelma
Released: April 10, 1934
Type: Movie
An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.
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From Hell to Heaven
Title: From Hell to Heaven
Character: Elsie
Released: February 24, 1933
Type: Movie
The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in different ways.
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Hot Saturday
Title: Hot Saturday
Character: Camille
Released: October 28, 1932
Type: Movie
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
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Blonde Venus
Title: Blonde Venus
Character: 'Taxi Belle' Hooper
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
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The Honor of the Press
Title: The Honor of the Press
Character: Daisy Tellem
Released: July 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Cub reporter Daniel Greely gets a job on a big city newspaper. A string of robberies occur and the owner of the paper blames the police for not rounding up the crooks. Daniel discovers that a coded message in the newspaper's editor's box tips the crooks about each robbery.
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Bachelor's Affairs
Title: Bachelor's Affairs
Character: Sonya - Mrs. Oliver Denton
Released: June 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry but the man soon regrets his rash move when she's constantly bored and looking for dancing and excitement, leaving him feel his age. He conspires with a loyal friend to find a suitable man she might run away with so he can divorce her.
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Hollywood Speaks
Title: Hollywood Speaks
Character: Millie Coreen
Released: June 25, 1932
Type: Movie
The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the awful truth about entertainment business.
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Sinners in the Sun
Title: Sinners in the Sun
Character: Lil
Released: May 13, 1932
Type: Movie
A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.
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While Paris Sleeps
Title: While Paris Sleeps
Character: Fifi
Released: May 8, 1932
Type: Movie
To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.
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So Big!
Title: So Big!
Character: Paula Storm (uncredited)
Released: April 30, 1932
Type: Movie
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
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Amateur Daddy
Title: Amateur Daddy
Character: Lotti Pelgram
Released: April 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on Fred's deathbed request to go to Scotch Valley and take care of his surviving wife and children. When Jim arrives in the small town, he is told that there are two Fred Smith families in Scotch Valley, the rich Smiths and the poor Smiths. Jim assumes that the Smiths he is looking for are the poor ones, and is directed to a house where four children live in poverty.
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The Secret Witness
Title: The Secret Witness
Character: Sylvia Folsom
Released: December 12, 1931
Type: Movie
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder.
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The Yellow Ticket
Title: The Yellow Ticket
Character: Fania Rubinstein
Released: October 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
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Left Over Ladies
Title: Left Over Ladies
Character: Vera
Released: September 30, 1931
Type: Movie
Two married couples are involved in divorce proceedings; Patricia and Ronny, who are still in love with each other, and Jerry and Amy who couldn't care less for each other. Patricia's friendship with "Duchess," a tragic, aging lady well versed in making mistakes, leads her and Ronny to the avoidance of a mistake.
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The Gay Diplomat
Title: The Gay Diplomat
Character: Natalie
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance.
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Traveling Husbands
Title: Traveling Husbands
Character: Daisy
Released: August 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.
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A Holy Terror
Title: A Holy Terror
Character: Kitty Carroll
Released: July 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may know something about it. En route he crashes his plane into Jerry's bathroom; she falls in love with him which makes her suitor Steve jealous.
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Chiselers of Hollywood
Title: Chiselers of Hollywood
Released: December 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Three sisters come to Hollywood to be movie stars. Complications arise when two of them fall in love with the same man.
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Sin Takes a Holiday
Title: Sin Takes a Holiday
Character: Grace Lawrence
Released: November 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from ugly duckling to uninhibited swan and even contemplates having an affair with a man she meets during a trip to Paris.
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Check and Double Check
Title: Check and Double Check
Character: Elinor Crawford
Released: October 2, 1930
Type: Movie
Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party.
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Leathernecking
Title: Leathernecking
Character: Fortune Teller
Released: September 12, 1930
Type: Movie
Chick Evans is a Marine private in Honolulu, Hawaii. He falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon, and begins to scheme as to how to win her over.
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Conspiracy
Title: Conspiracy
Character: Nita Strom
Released: August 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric mystery writer Winthrop Clavering help unravel the truth about the murder.
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Midnight Mystery
Title: Midnight Mystery
Character: Madeline Austen
Released: June 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A fog-shrouded house provides the setting for this early talkies thriller.
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Lovin' the Ladies
Title: Lovin' the Ladies
Character: Louise Endicott
Released: April 6, 1930
Type: Movie
A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to fall for with each other and get engaged within a month.
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Lilies of the Field
Title: Lilies of the Field
Character: Florette
Released: January 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.
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The Delightful Rogue
Title: The Delightful Rogue
Character: Nydra
Released: September 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A modern-day pirate vies with a society playboy for the love of a dancer.
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The Love Trap
Title: The Love Trap
Character: Mary Harrington
Released: August 4, 1929
Type: Movie
A chorus girl loses her job and thus the room she owes back rent on, and ends up being rescued from the street by a dashing rich man. But his family isn't over-accepting of chorus girls joining their family.
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Masquerade
Title: Masquerade
Character: Girl
Released: July 14, 1929
Type: Movie
The second version of Louis Joseph Vance's 1907 mystery melodrama The Brass Bowl. The story of a wealthy world traveler and his evil lookalike, the master criminal Anisty.
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Don't Be Nervous
Title: Don't Be Nervous
Character: The Girl
Released: July 6, 1929
Type: Movie
Gangster leader Nick the Sheik is released from jail and manages to run into "collector of rare coins" Vernon Snodgrass, who looks exactly like him. With the cops after Nick AND Nick's old girlfriend wanting to get the romance cooking, you can imagine the confusion that ensues.