Amy Veness

Amy Veness

Born: February 25, 1876
Died: September 22, 1960
in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK
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Amy Veness (26 February 1876 – 22 September 1960) was a British film actress. She played the role of Grandma Huggett in The Huggetts Trilogy.

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Doctor in the House
Title: Doctor in the House
Character: Grandma Cooper (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1954
Type: Movie
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.
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Angels One Five
Title: Angels One Five
Character: Aunt Tabitha
Released: March 19, 1952
Type: Movie
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.
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The Magic Box
Title: The Magic Box
Character: Grandmother in Wedding Group
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
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Tom Brown's Schooldays
Title: Tom Brown's Schooldays
Character: Mrs. Wixie
Released: April 17, 1951
Type: Movie
When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his friend East, plucky Brown devises a plan to get back at Flashman; in the meantime, he’s asked to look out for a timid new student, whose life is accidentally put in peril during a school race.
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Captain Horatio Hornblower
Title: Captain Horatio Hornblower
Character: Mrs. McPhee (Hornblower's Housekeeper)
Released: April 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.
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Portrait of Clare
Title: Portrait of Clare
Character: Lady In The Train
Released: November 13, 1950
Type: Movie
The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.
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Chance of a Lifetime
Title: Chance of a Lifetime
Character: Lady Davis
Released: April 24, 1950
Type: Movie
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
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The Astonished Heart
Title: The Astonished Heart
Character: Alice Smith
Released: March 17, 1950
Type: Movie
Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But Leonora could do without Barbara's husband, Christian (Noel Coward), whom she finds arrogant and off-putting ... at first. One evening alone together, romance is set ablaze, leaving Christian with a lot of explaining to do to Barbara.
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A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Title: A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Character: Grannie
Released: May 23, 1949
Type: Movie
The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.
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The Huggetts Abroad
Title: The Huggetts Abroad
Character: Grandma Huggett
Released: March 21, 1949
Type: Movie
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.
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Vote for Huggett
Title: Vote for Huggett
Character: Grandma
Released: February 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
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Here Come the Huggetts
Title: Here Come the Huggetts
Character: Grandma Huggett
Released: December 2, 1948
Type: Movie
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.
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My Brother's Keeper
Title: My Brother's Keeper
Character: Mrs. Gully
Released: August 19, 1948
Type: Movie
War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.
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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Mrs. Bedwin
Released: June 28, 1948
Type: Movie
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
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Bond Street
Title: Bond Street
Character: Seamstress
Released: May 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
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Good-Time Girl
Title: Good-Time Girl
Character: Mrs. Chalk
Released: April 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
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Blanche Fury
Title: Blanche Fury
Character: Mrs. Winterbourne
Released: February 19, 1948
Type: Movie
Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she has a daughter. But before long, boredom sets in, and Blanche begins a tempestuous romance with stableman Philip Thorn. Together, they hatch a murderous plan to gain control of the estate.
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The Master of Bankdam
Title: The Master of Bankdam
Character: Mrs. Pilling
Released: August 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Two brothers struggle for control of the family business in 19th century Yorkshire.
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The Turners of Prospect Road
Title: The Turners of Prospect Road
Character: Grandma
Released: June 16, 1947
Type: Movie
A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Greyhound Derby.
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Don Chicago
Title: Don Chicago
Character: Bowie Knife Bella
Released: August 6, 1945
Type: Movie
Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society.
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Madonna of the Seven Moons
Title: Madonna of the Seven Moons
Character: Tessa
Released: January 22, 1945
Type: Movie
In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.
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The World Owes Me a Living
Title: The World Owes Me a Living
Character: Mrs. Waterman
Released: January 1, 1945
Type: Movie
When a British pilot is hospitalized after a plane crash, the woman he loves sits by his bedside and remembers, in flashbacks, key episodes from their life together.
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Don't Take It to Heart
Title: Don't Take It to Heart
Character: Cook
Released: November 13, 1944
Type: Movie
A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
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This Happy Breed
Title: This Happy Breed
Character: Mrs. Flint
Released: May 28, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival.
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Fanny by Gaslight
Title: Fanny by Gaslight
Character: Mrs. Heaviside
Released: May 8, 1944
Type: Movie
Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young advisor Harry Somerford leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect.
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The Man in Grey
Title: The Man in Grey
Character: Mrs. Armstrong (uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1943
Type: Movie
After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.
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Millions Like Us
Title: Millions Like Us
Character: Mrs. Blythe
Released: June 1, 1943
Type: Movie
When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life and begins a relationship with a young airman.
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This England
Title: This England
Character: Jenny
Released: July 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.
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Just William
Title: Just William
Character: Mrs. Bott
Released: July 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two jewel thieves to escape. They feel sorry about this, and then, to redeem themselves, the kids begin investigating a rival candidates conspiracy. Their involvement causes the boy's father to win the elections.
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Flying Fifty-Five
Title: Flying Fifty-Five
Character: Aunt Eliza
Released: May 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good at. His name and position work against him, however, so he adopts an alias and prevails upon the charity of a drunken friend Charles Barrington, through whom he meets Stella Barrington - who has not only inherited her father’s racing stables but also his debts. Still incognito, he takes on the job of stable lad for Stella but little does she realise that he could be the man to finally put an end to her money worries forever.
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The Show Goes On
Title: The Show Goes On
Character: Mrs. Scowcroft, Sally's Mother
Released: March 31, 1937
Type: Movie
A mill worker with show biz dreams catches a big break when she's discovered by an ailing composer who's seeking the right singer for his songs.
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Aren't Men Beasts!
Title: Aren't Men Beasts!
Character: Harry Harper
Released: January 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!
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Aren't Men Beasts!
Title: Aren't Men Beasts!
Character: Mrs. Flower
Released: January 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!
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The Mill on the Floss
Title: The Mill on the Floss
Character: Mrs. Deane
Released: January 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
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Black Roses
Title: Black Roses
Character: Annushka
Released: December 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Released in Germany as Schwarze Rosen, Black Roses represented the return to UFA studios of British musical comedy favorite Lillian Harvey, after several years in Hollywood. The delectable Harvey plays a Russian ballerina, stranded in turn-of-the-century Finland. She falls in love with sculptor Esmond Knight, a political dissident with a price on his head. To save Knight, Harvey spends the night with Tsarist governor Robert Rendel. The story is based on the real-life ballerina Marina Feodorovna, who ended up sacrificing her life on behalf of her lover. Black Roses was filmed in three languages: German, French and English; the English version was originally titled Did I Betray?
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Windbag the Sailor
Title: Windbag the Sailor
Character: Emma Harbottle
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
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Crime Over London
Title: Crime Over London
Released: October 21, 1936
Type: Movie
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
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The Beloved Vagabond
Title: The Beloved Vagabond
Character: Cafe Owner
Released: August 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!
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Joy Ride
Title: Joy Ride
Character: Lady Clara Mutch-Twistleton
Released: December 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Two cousins invite their girlfriends on a joy-ride, but car trouble leads to catastrophe!
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Play Up the Band
Title: Play Up the Band
Character: Lady Heckdyke
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition.
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Drake of England
Title: Drake of England
Character: Mother Moore
Released: May 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of England, one of his final films, he takes the title role in Arthur Woods' portrayal of the life and times of the flamboyant piratical adventurer who founded Britain's sea fortunes. From clandestine romance at the court of Elizabeth I to conquests in the newly discovered lands of South America and spectacular victory over the Armada, Drake of England offers a panoramic overview of Drake's life.
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Title: The Old Curiosity Shop
Character: Mrs. Jarley
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him. They are pursued both by Quilp and by the shop-keeper's long-lost brother, who wants to find them for a different reason.
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Lorna Doone
Title: Lorna Doone
Character: Betty Muxworthy
Released: December 9, 1934
Type: Movie
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.
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A Southern Maid
Title: A Southern Maid
Character: Donna Rosa
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure.
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Red Wagon
Title: Red Wagon
Character: Petal Schultze
Released: December 6, 1933
Type: Movie
Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.
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The Love Nest
Title: The Love Nest
Character: Ma
Released: July 1, 1933
Type: Movie
On the eve of his own marriage, a man offers shelter to a runaway wife with whom he strikes up an unexpected bond.
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Hawleys of High Street
Title: Hawleys of High Street
Character: Mrs. Hawley
Released: June 7, 1933
Type: Movie
A butcher and a draper stand for election to the local council.
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Let Me Explain, Dear
Title: Let Me Explain, Dear
Character: Aunt Fanny
Released: June 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash, but a delicate situation ensues when he has to explain the presence of her necklace in his pocket!
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Their Night Out
Title: Their Night Out
Character: Gertrude Bunting
Released: March 1, 1933
Type: Movie
An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang!
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Pyjamas Preferred
Title: Pyjamas Preferred
Character: Mme. Gautier
Released: December 31, 1932
Type: Movie
In France the husband of a purity league leader runs a shady nightclub.
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Flat No. 9
Title: Flat No. 9
Character: Mrs. Brandon Partridge
Released: May 12, 1932
Type: Movie
A comedy film directed by Frank Richardson
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The Marriage Bond
Title: The Marriage Bond
Character: Mrs. Crust
Released: March 22, 1932
Type: Movie
A drunken man is left by his wife but she later comes back to him when she realises how desperate he is.
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Murder on the Second Floor
Title: Murder on the Second Floor
Character: Mrs Armitage
Released: March 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...
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Self Made Lady
Title: Self Made Lady
Character: Old Sookey
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Early '30s British drama, starring Heather Angel, about a poor girl who achieves success as a fashion designer.
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Money for Nothing
Title: Money for Nothing
Character: Emma Bolt
Released: January 20, 1932
Type: Movie
As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker father, Sir Henry Blossom, investing heavily in a supposedly worthless gold mine. Financial chaos ensues in a farcical comedy of confused identities, romantic entanglements, and a fortune hiding in a hat.
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Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
Title: Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
Character: Emily Smithers
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.
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Hobson's Choice
Title: Hobson's Choice
Character: Mrs. Hepworth
Released: October 2, 1931
Type: Movie
A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.
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My Wife's Family
Title: My Wife's Family
Character: Arabella Nagg
Released: June 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow interprets what he has said to mean he is the father of an illegitimate child.
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The Brat
Title: The Brat
Character: Mrs. Forrester
Released: September 1, 1919
Type: Movie
An unkempt chorus girl is arrested on a minor charge. In court, she is spotted by a novelist who is looking for someone of her type on whom to model a character in a book he is writing. He takes her into his home where she is looked down upon by his snobbish family. But the girl brings something to the family unlike anything they have known before.
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Please Help Emily
Title: Please Help Emily
Character: Mrs. Lethbridge
Released: November 19, 1917
Type: Movie