Bess Wade

Bess Wade

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Pinky
Title: Pinky
Character: Woman (uncredited)
Released: September 28, 1949
Type: Movie
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
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The Velvet Touch
Title: The Velvet Touch
Character: Bertha
Released: July 13, 1948
Type: Movie
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
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Among the Living
Title: Among the Living
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
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Wagon Train
Title: Wagon Train
Character: Bacon Buyer
Released: October 4, 1940
Type: Movie
In his first starring Western for RKO, young Tim Holt must not only carry on his father's freight business but also hunt down his murderer. A certain Matt Gardner wants to corner the freight business to Pecos and persuades young Zack Sibley's wagon master to switch sides. Zack also earns the enmity of Gardner's son Coe, who takes umbrage to the youngster's flirtation with pretty Helen Lee. It all comes to a head during a food shortage in Pecos, a near-disaster that persuades the wagon master to switch sides once again. When the dust settles, Zack learns that old man Gardner is actually Carl Anderson, the man who murdered his father.
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Stranger on the Third Floor
Title: Stranger on the Third Floor
Character: Court Scrubwoman (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
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The Great McGinty
Title: The Great McGinty
Character: Bit Role (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
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The Ghost Comes Home
Title: The Ghost Comes Home
Character: Club Patron (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Committeewoman (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Title: Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Character: Assistant Cook
Released: August 22, 1939
Type: Movie
The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. In this one the family inherits co-ownership in a copper mine.
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Let Us Live
Title: Let Us Live
Character: Theatre Scrubwoman (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Neighbor (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Missing Witnesses
Title: Missing Witnesses
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Minor Role (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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The Gold Rush
Title: The Gold Rush
Character: Woman in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1925
Type: Movie
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.