Emma Dunn

Emma Dunn

Born: February 24, 1874
Died: December 14, 1966
in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
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Emma Dunn (26 February 1875 – 14 December 1966) was an English character actress on the stage and in motion pictures.

Emma Dunn appeared onstage in her early teens, graduating to the London stage for several years and later became a noted Broadway actress. She appeared in the first American production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt (1906) with Richard Mansfield as Peer. She played Peer's mother, Ase, even though she was, in real life, 20 years younger than Mansfield. She appeared in three productions for theatre impresario David Belasco: The Warrens of Virginia (1907), The Easiest Way (1909) and The Governor's Lady (1912). In The Easiest Way, Dunn portrayed Annie, who was black, in blackface. In 1913 Dunn appeared in vaudeville.

Dunn made her first film in 1914, a silent film of her 1910 stage success, Mother, directed by Maurice Tourneur. This was Tourneur's first American film. Dunn's second film was 1920's Old Lady 31, reprising the role she played in the 1916 Broadway play of the same name. One more silent film followed in 1924, Pied Piper Malone, before she made her talkie debut in Side Street, co-starring the Moore brothers, Matt, Owen and Tom as her sons.

Dunn wrote two books on elocution and speech: Thought Quality in the Voice (1933) and You Can Do It (1947).

Emma Dunn was born 26 February 1875, in Birkenhead, England, although she sometimes gave her year of birth as 1883.

Dunn married Harry Beresford, an actor who was then known professionally as Harry J. Morgan, in Chicago on 4 October 1897. They divorced on 10 February 1909, in New York City. She was awarded sole custody of their young daughter, Dorothy. On 19 May 1909, Dunn married John W. Stokes (John W. S. Sullivan), an actor, playwright and theatrical manager. They subsequently adopted a second daughter, Helen. The couple divorced sometime between 1923 and Stokes' death in 1931.

After suffering a heart attack some months before, Dunn died 14 December 1966, in Los Angeles, California, aged 91.

Movies for Emma Dunn...

The Son of Frankenstein
Title: The Son of Frankenstein
Character: Amelia the housekeeper (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
9 minute home-movie version of the 1939 feature film "Son of Frankenstein" from Castle Films.
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The Woman in White
Title: The Woman in White
Character: Mrs. Vesey
Released: May 7, 1948
Type: Movie
A young painter stumbles upon an assortment of odd characters at an English estate where he has been hired to give art lessons to beautiful Laura Fairlie. Among them are Anne Catherick, a strange young woman dressed in white whom he meets in the forest and who bears a striking resemblance to Laura; cunning Count Fosco, who hopes to obtain an inheritance for nobleman Sir Percival Glyde, whom he plans to have Laura marry; Mr. Fairlie, a hypochondriac who can't stand to have anyone make the slightest noise; and eccentric Countess Fosco who has her own dark secret. The artist also finds himself drawn to Marion Halcomb, a distant relation to Laura for whom the Count also has plans.
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Life with Father
Title: Life with Father
Character: Margaret
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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The Hoodlum Saint
Title: The Hoodlum Saint
Character: Maggie
Released: April 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
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My Buddy
Title: My Buddy
Character: Mary Ballinger
Released: October 12, 1944
Type: Movie
A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his return from the war, he puts off his marriage and works for a bootlegger. He is forced to take a rap for his boss, goes to prison, and forms a gang.
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Are These Our Parents?
Title: Are These Our Parents?
Character: Ma Henderson
Released: June 27, 1944
Type: Movie
A mother's preference for partying, boozing and running around with an assortment of sleazy characters results in her neglecting her nubile teenage daughter, who subsequently finds herself mixed up with horny teenage boys, scuzzy nightclub owners and murder.
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It Happened Tomorrow
Title: It Happened Tomorrow
Character: Mrs. Keaver (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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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Title: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Character: Doña Mercedes
Released: February 11, 1944
Type: Movie
A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.
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Minesweeper
Title: Minesweeper
Character: Mom Smith
Released: November 10, 1943
Type: Movie
A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to a minesweeper, where he has to perform hazardous duties while at the same time keeping his real identity a secret.
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Hoosier Holiday
Title: Hoosier Holiday
Character: Molly Baker
Released: September 13, 1943
Type: Movie
During World War II three brothers go to enlist in the Air Force, but since they're farmers they're told they're needed at home more than in the service. Determined to join up, they enlist the aid of a pretty young girl whose father is head of the local draft board.
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I Married a Witch
Title: I Married a Witch
Character: Wife of Justice of the Peace (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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The Talk of the Town
Title: The Talk of the Town
Character: Mrs. Shelley
Released: August 20, 1942
Type: Movie
When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson and accidental murder. Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley... which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap.
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The Postman Didn't Ring
Title: The Postman Didn't Ring
Character: Martha Carter
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting the lives of the recipients.
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The Mad Martindales
Title: The Mad Martindales
Character: Agnes
Released: May 15, 1942
Type: Movie
A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
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Babes on Broadway
Title: Babes on Broadway
Character: Mrs. Williams
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead, they decide to put up their own show to collect money for a summer camp for the kids.
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Rise and Shine
Title: Rise and Shine
Character: Mrs. Murray
Released: November 21, 1941
Type: Movie
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game
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Ladies in Retirement
Title: Ladies in Retirement
Character: Sister Theresa
Released: September 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora's home, tensions soon lead to murder.
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Scattergood Meets Broadway
Title: Scattergood Meets Broadway
Character: Mirandy Baines
Released: August 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Scattergood finds out that his neighbor, Elly Drew, is going to sell her home to support her son David, an aspiring playwright, who is in New York City trying to get his play produced. Scattergood decides to loan Elly the money but things are not as David has been telling his Mother...
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Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
Title: Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
Character: Mrs. Martha Kildare
Released: August 22, 1941
Type: Movie
A variety of predicaments arise to distract Dr. Kildare from his wedding to Nurse Mary Lamont.
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Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Title: Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Character: Mirandy Baines
Released: May 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after being unjustly imprisoned, and a young chemist who is trying to invent a color television but is being opposed by his girlfriend's father, who wants the girl to marry a pharmacist like himself instead of some crazy inventor.
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The Penalty
Title: The Penalty
Character: 'Ma' McCormick
Released: March 13, 1941
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI agent and a cabby, the boy sees it all. Fortunately the courts intervene and send the lad off to live with a family of farmers.
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The Monster and the Girl
Title: The Monster and the Girl
Character: Aunt Della (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1941
Type: Movie
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
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Scattergood Baines
Title: Scattergood Baines
Character: Mirandy Baines
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd business maneuvering, he manages to open up a hardware store. Twenty years later he has become a prosperous and respected member of the community, a member of the local school board and the owner of a railroad that transports timber to the local sawmill. Problems begin to arise, however, when a young schoolteacher he has hired turns out to be not quite what he expected, and the mill owners pressure Scattergood to sell them his railroad, with the idea of raising the transportation fees paid to them by the local loggers.
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Title: Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Character: Martha
Released: January 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No". Later that day, they separately discover that, due to a legal complication, they are not legally married.
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The Great Dictator
Title: The Great Dictator
Character: Mrs. Jaeckel
Released: October 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Title: Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Character: Mrs. Martha Kildare
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
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Dance, Girl, Dance
Title: Dance, Girl, Dance
Character: Mrs. Simpson
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
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One Crowded Night
Title: One Crowded Night
Character: Ma Matthews
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.
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You Can't Fool Your Wife
Title: You Can't Fool Your Wife
Character: Mother Fields
Released: May 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.
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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Title: Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Character: Mrs. Martha Kildare
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
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Half a Sinner
Title: Half a Sinner
Character: Granny Gladden
Released: April 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure. Her new confidence inspires her to flirt with complete strangers. When a gangster pays unwanted attention to her, she ditches him and flees in his car, unaware that there's a corpse in the trunk. Determined to recover his stolen vehicle and its incriminating cargo the thug begins a desperate search. The oblivious Anne, comes to the aid of a handsome young man stranded alongside the road. Romance blooms, but after the shocking discovery of a body in the trunk, the duo decide they have to return the car. The bickering lovebirds head back to the city, trailed by both the angry gangster and the cops, who suspect the young couple of murder.
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Little Orvie
Title: Little Orvie
Character: Mrs. Welty
Released: March 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.
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High School
Title: High School
Character: Mrs. O'Neill
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.
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The Llano Kid
Title: The Llano Kid
Character: Doña Teresa
Released: December 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Lora Travers is the only person who can identify hold-up artist The Llano Kid and she persuades him to come in on a scheme with her and her husband. They have been searching for the long-lost son of a rich Mexican widow and they get the Kid to claim it is him. All goes according to plan until greed and jealousy raise their heads.
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The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Title: The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Character: Mrs. Martha Kildare
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.
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Hero for a Day
Title: Hero for a Day
Character: Emmy "Moms" Higgins
Released: October 6, 1939
Type: Movie
When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense.
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Each Dawn I Die
Title: Each Dawn I Die
Character: Mrs. Ross
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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Calling Dr. Kildare
Title: Calling Dr. Kildare
Character: Mrs. Martha Kildare
Released: April 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?
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Son of Frankenstein
Title: Son of Frankenstein
Character: Amelia
Released: January 13, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.
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The Duke of West Point
Title: The Duke of West Point
Character: Jack's Mother
Released: December 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.
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The Cowboy and the Lady
Title: The Cowboy and the Lady
Character: Ma Hawkins
Released: November 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
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Thanks for the Memory
Title: Thanks for the Memory
Character: Mrs. Platt
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
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Young Dr. Kildare
Title: Young Dr. Kildare
Character: Mrs. Martha Kildare
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.
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Three Loves Has Nancy
Title: Three Loves Has Nancy
Character: Mrs. Briggs
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
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Cowboy from Brooklyn
Title: Cowboy from Brooklyn
Character: Ma Hardy
Released: July 9, 1938
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
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Lord Jeff
Title: Lord Jeff
Character: Mrs. Briggs
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is caught and is sentenced to a reformatory where young men are trained to be sailors. He is befriended by model in-mate Terry O'Mulvaney but soon starts to get them both in trouble.
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Madame X
Title: Madame X
Character: Rose, Fleuriot's Houskeeper
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
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Varsity Show
Title: Varsity Show
Character: Mrs. Smith
Released: September 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.
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Hideaway
Title: Hideaway
Character: Emma Peterson
Released: August 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out.
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Title: The Emperor's Candlesticks
Character: Anna - Olga's Housekeeper
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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Waikiki Wedding
Title: Waikiki Wedding
Character: Mother
Released: March 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii. He gets the company to sponsor a contest in which the winner gets a Hawaiian vacation and is obligated to write articles on the islands which, when published, will constitute a publicity coup for the company. Unfortunately, Georgia Smith, the winner, feels lonely and isolated in the Islands and wants to return to the States. With help from buddy Shad Buggle Tony tries to romantically divert Georgia without letting her know his true motivation.
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Circus Girl
Title: Circus Girl
Character: Molly
Released: March 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
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When You're in Love
Title: When You're in Love
Character: Mrs. Hamilton
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
An Australian opera singer hires a husband so she can work in the U.S. Moore sings "Minnie the Moocher" in one scene.
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Second Wife
Title: Second Wife
Character: Mrs. Brown
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Kenneth discovers that his son by his first wife is ill in a remote Swiss village, and is forced to leave Wife Number Two alone during childbirth.
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The Harvester
Title: The Harvester
Character: Granny Moreland
Released: April 18, 1936
Type: Movie
In a small town in Indiana in the 1890s, the domineering and ambitious Mrs. Biddle arranges a marriage between her spoiled daughter Thelma and the town's prize catch, harvester David Langston, who is wedded to the soil. David is friends with orphan Ruth Jameson and, although she is in love with him, he eventually gives in to the machinations of Mrs. Biddle and consents to marry Thelma. Meanwhile, technological advances come to town, including its first gasoline buggy, galvanic battery, and metal bathtub fitted with running water. When Mrs. Biddle tries to convince David to give up the farming life and join her husband in real estate, Mr. Biddle, hen-pecked and dissatisfied with city life, warns David against selling his farm.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Mrs. Meredith (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Another Face
Title: Another Face
Character: Sheila's Mother (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1935
Type: Movie
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
Title: Seven Keys to Baldpate
Character: Mrs. Quimby
Released: December 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
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This Is the Life
Title: This Is the Life
Character: Mrs. Davis
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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Little Big Shot
Title: Little Big Shot
Character: Orphanage Matron
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
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The Keeper of the Bees
Title: The Keeper of the Bees
Character: Margaret Campbell
Released: July 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man called Bee Master and his protégé, Little Scout, who try to convince him that he has more to live for than he thinks he does.
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Ladies Crave Excitement
Title: Ladies Crave Excitement
Character: Mrs. Phelan
Released: June 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.
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The Glass Key
Title: The Glass Key
Character: 'Mom' Madvig
Released: June 15, 1935
Type: Movie
When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-hand man, must decide which side he is on.
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George White's 1935 Scandals
Title: George White's 1935 Scandals
Character: Aunt Jane
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A Broadway producer discovers new talent in a small Georgia town and brings them to New York for his new show.
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Flirtation
Title: Flirtation
Character: Mrs. Poole
Released: November 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A naive farmer encounters a beautiful burlesque dancer on the streets of New York and agrees to pose as her husband during her mother's visit.
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Dr. Monica
Title: Dr. Monica
Character: Mrs. Monahan
Released: June 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.
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The Quitter
Title: The Quitter
Character: Cordelia Tilford
Released: February 5, 1934
Type: Movie
When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hard-fighting champion of the working-class into an upscale society paper catering to the rich and powerful. Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another man's identity and is still living there.
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Dark Hazard
Title: Dark Hazard
Character: Mrs. Mayhew
Released: January 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.
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A Man of Sentiment
Title: A Man of Sentiment
Character: Mrs. John Russell Sr.
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.
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It's Great to Be Alive
Title: It's Great to Be Alive
Character: Mrs. Wilton
Released: July 8, 1933
Type: Movie
An aviator who crash landed on an island in the South Pacific returns home to find that he is the last fertile man left on Earth after an epidemic of masculitus.
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Elmer, the Great
Title: Elmer, the Great
Character: Mrs. Kane
Released: April 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
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Private Jones
Title: Private Jones
Character: Mrs. Jones
Released: March 25, 1933
Type: Movie
After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter of his family and is employed by businessman Roger Winthrop, his sister Helen's boss.
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Grand Slam
Title: Grand Slam
Character: Reporter
Released: February 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
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Hard to Handle
Title: Hard to Handle
Character: Mrs. Hawks (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
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Blessed Event
Title: Blessed Event
Character: Mrs. Roberts
Released: September 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
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Letty Lynton
Title: Letty Lynton
Character: Mrs. Darrow
Released: April 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow. Renault is waiting for her in New York and will not leave her alone, so she poisons him. When detectives take her to the D.A.s office, Jerry cooks up an alibi.
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It's Tough to Be Famous
Title: It's Tough to Be Famous
Character: 'Moms' McClenahan
Released: April 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Scotty, an unwilling Navy war hero is cast into the limelight. He wants to get married and be an engineer, but is forced to fulfil the expectations of the public, his employer and his PR agent, which he hates. Although he and his long time girlfriend Janet love each other, they are pressured to marry before they are ready. The strain takes its toll on both of them.
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The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
Title: The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
Character: Mrs. Sarah Cohen
Released: March 27, 1932
Type: Movie
The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.
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The Wet Parade
Title: The Wet Parade
Character: Mrs. Chilcote
Released: March 26, 1932
Type: Movie
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
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Hell's House
Title: Hell's House
Character: Emma Clark
Released: January 30, 1932
Type: Movie
A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.
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Broken Lullaby
Title: Broken Lullaby
Character: Frau Miller
Released: January 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does not assuage his guilt. He travels to Germany to meet the man's family.
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Under Eighteen
Title: Under Eighteen
Character: Mrs. Evans (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.
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The Guilty Generation
Title: The Guilty Generation
Character: Nina Palmero
Released: November 19, 1931
Type: Movie
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.
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Compromised
Title: Compromised
Character: Mrs. Squires
Released: November 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie. The two go through contentious times with the Brock patriarch, but when Stella becomes a mother, she seems to becomes accepted, although it's used as a way to shift Sidney's and the child's affections from her. Connie comes back into their lives, now seeking to reclaim Sidney, and manipulates the situation to convince Stella that he's been seeing her. So Stella decides to get a divorce, but fortunately, Sidney becomes aware of the deception in time.
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Morals for Women
Title: Morals for Women
Character: Mrs. Hutson
Released: October 24, 1931
Type: Movie
A desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love.
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Bad Company
Title: Bad Company
Character: Emma
Released: October 16, 1931
Type: Movie
A psychotic and sadistic mob boss is infatuated with the young wife of his newlywed attorney, and he plots to get him out of the way so he can have her to himself.
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This Modern Age
Title: This Modern Age
Character: Margaret Blake
Released: August 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
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Too Young to Marry
Title: Too Young to Marry
Character: Mrs. Bumpstead
Released: May 3, 1931
Type: Movie
In this comedy drama set in a small town, a milque-toast gets a backbone and stands up to his overbearing wife. Only one of his daughters is on his side. The family is amazed and shocked by his sudden change. At first they rebel, but when he defies his wife and allows his good daughter to marry the grocery boy she loves, they finally come to respect him.
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The Bad Sister
Title: The Bad Sister
Character: Mrs. Madison
Released: March 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Marianne. Marianne returns and marries a wealthy young man, and Lindley turns his love toward Laura.
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The Prodigal
Title: The Prodigal
Character: Mrs. Farraday
Released: February 21, 1931
Type: Movie
An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family.
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Manslaughter
Title: Manslaughter
Character: Miss Bennett
Released: July 22, 1930
Type: Movie
A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even imagined existed before.
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The Texan
Title: The Texan
Character: Señora Doña Marguerita Ibarra
Released: May 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Outlaw Llano Kid poses as a rich Mexican widow's son and falls in love with a cousin.
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Side Street
Title: Side Street
Character: Nora O'Farrell
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
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Pied Piper Malone
Title: Pied Piper Malone
Character: Mother Malone
Released: February 4, 1924
Type: Movie
Pied Piper Malone (1924)