Barbara Bedford

Barbara Bedford

Born: July 19, 1903
Died: October 25, 1981
in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, USA
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Barbara Bedford (born Violet May Rose; July 19, 1903 – October 25, 1981) was an American actress who appeared in dozens of silent movies. Her career declined after the introduction of sound, but she continued to appear in small roles until 1945.

After high school she set out for Hollywood. She had written many fan letters to actor William S. Hart, and he helped her get a small role in his 1920 movie The Cradle of Courage. While working as an extra that same year on The White Circle, she was noticed by fellow cast member John Gilbert, who recommended her to director Maurice Tourneur. Tourneur cast her alongside Gilbert in Deep Waters. Tourneur also cast her in The Last of the Mohicans, where she was the love interest for Alan Roscoe, whom she later married in real life.

In 1925 she appeared opposite Hart in his final film, Tumbleweeds, a key western of the silent period. She starred in the 1926 silent film Old Loves and New and in Mockery with Lon Chaney the following year.

When her career declined after the switch to sound, she signed with MGM in 1936 to play bit and extra parts. Her last known film appearance was in 1945.

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Girls of the Big House
Title: Girls of the Big House
Character: Visitors Matron
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.
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Meet the People
Title: Meet the People
Character: Ritz Patron (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some important issues.
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Lost Angel
Title: Lost Angel
Character: Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.
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Best Foot Forward
Title: Best Foot Forward
Character: Chaperone at Dance
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.
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Du Barry was a Lady
Title: Du Barry was a Lady
Character: Ambrose's Wife (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
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Seeing Hands
Title: Seeing Hands
Character: Ben's Mother (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1943
Type: Movie
This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig was blinded in an accident while playing baseball. He eventually acquired a guide dog and now works in a defense plant.
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Title: Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1943
Type: Movie
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
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Presenting Lily Mars
Title: Presenting Lily Mars
Character: Assistant Boardinghouse Manager
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
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Family Troubles
Title: Family Troubles
Released: April 3, 1943
Type: Movie
Our Gang member Janet Burston believes that her family is neglecting her, so she decides to run away from home. The other gang members try to help Janet get adopted (or "adapted") by a more agreeable family, choosing a kindly elderly couple (Sarah Padden and Harry C. Bradley) for the honor.
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Slightly Dangerous
Title: Slightly Dangerous
Character: Customer (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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Who's Superstitious?
Title: Who's Superstitious?
Character: Wife
Released: January 2, 1943
Type: Movie
This short film examines the origins of several superstitions including crossing your fingers, knocking on wood, rabbit's feet, and breaking champagne bottles to christen ships, plus the role of superstitions in the Flying Dutchman tale.
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Reunion in France
Title: Reunion in France
Character: Mme. Vigouroux (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
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Ship Ahoy
Title: Ship Ahoy
Character: Mrs. Loring
Released: April 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved.
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The Lady or the Tiger?
Title: The Lady or the Tiger?
Character: Lady Behind the Door
Released: March 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Author Frank R. Stockton, often asked the question, finally decides to divulge the untold ending of his story, The Lady or the Tiger?
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Nazi Agent
Title: Nazi Agent
Character: Woman (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
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Born to Sing
Title: Born to Sing
Character: Woman at Accident Scene (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1942
Type: Movie
A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs.
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Flag of Mercy
Title: Flag of Mercy
Character: Nurse
Released: January 31, 1942
Type: Movie
The 1939 dramatic short "Angel of Mercy," about Red Cross founder Clara Barton, is reedited to relate the story to America's involvement in World War II. Edited from Angel of Mercy (1939)
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Inflation
Title: Inflation
Character: Woman in Close-Out Sale Montage (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
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Wedding Worries
Title: Wedding Worries
Character: Miss Douglas (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1941
Type: Movie
The Our Gang kids worry that Darla's new stepmother will be an evil stepmother like of fairy tale fame.
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Main Street on the March!
Title: Main Street on the March!
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1941
Type: Movie
This Best Short Subject Academy Award winning film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It chronicles how the people of "Main Street America", the country's military forces, and its industrial base were completely transformed when the decision was made to gear up for war. Original footage is interspersed with contemporary newsreels and stock footage.
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Come Back, Miss Pipps
Title: Come Back, Miss Pipps
Character: Angry Parent (uncredited)
Released: October 24, 1941
Type: Movie
On Mickey's birthday, Miss Pipps, the school teacher, serves cake and ice cream during school hours. Sour old Mr. Pratt, head of the school board, stumbles on the festivities and has Miss Pipps fired. The Our Gang conspire to save her job by inviting all the parents to a special meeting. There the gang stage a melodrama, with Mr. Pratt portrayed as Simon Legree. The parents react by demoting Mr. Pratt to janitor. They appoint kindly Mr. Swanson, the current janitor, to head the school board. And of course they reinstate Miss Pipps as school teacher. Sometime later, in an act of forgiveness, Miss Pipps and the gang hold a birthday party for Pratt who is then humbled by the experience.
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Honky Tonk
Title: Honky Tonk
Character: Salvation Army Woman
Released: October 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
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Whistling in the Dark
Title: Whistling in the Dark
Character: Cult Members / Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiancé, and a friend, to further this goal. Wally, 'The Fox', is a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder, and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot.
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Sucker List
Title: Sucker List
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1941
Type: Movie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to bilk those already seemingly desperate for money of what little they have.
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Love Crazy
Title: Love Crazy
Character: Renny's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
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Maisie Was a Lady
Title: Maisie Was a Lady
Character: Nurse (Uncredited)
Released: January 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems.
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Go West
Title: Go West
Character: Baby's Mother on Stagecoach (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train station, where they steal all his money. They're heading west, too, because they've heard you can just pick the gold off the ground. Once there, they befriend an old miner named Dan Wilson whose property, Dead Man's Gulch, has no gold. They loan him their last ten dollars so he can go start life anew, and for collateral, he gives them the deed to the Gulch. Unbeknownst to Wilson, the son of his longtime rival, Terry Turner (who's also in love with his daughter, Eva), has contacted the railroad to arrange for them to build through the land, making the old man rich and hopefully resolving the feud. But the evil Red Baxter, owner of a saloon, tricks the boys out of the deed, and it's up to them - as well as Quale, who naturally finds his way out west anyway - to save the day.
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American Spoken Here
Title: American Spoken Here
Character: Corset Buyer (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American slang.
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You, the People
Title: You, the People
Character: Rooming House Diner
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the current corrupt mayor. By using several illegal tactics, and aided by voter apathy, the crime boss nearly continues his control of the city.
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Little Nellie Kelly
Title: Little Nellie Kelly
Character: Miss Wilson the Nurse with Baby (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
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Third Finger, Left Hand
Title: Third Finger, Left Hand
Character: Woman at Railroad Station
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
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Sky Murder
Title: Sky Murder
Character: Grand's Maid
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Title: Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Character: Carew's Secretary (uncredited)
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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Boom Town
Title: Boom Town
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
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I Love You Again
Title: I Love You Again
Character: Miss Stingecombe - Larry's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
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Gold Rush Maisie
Title: Gold Rush Maisie
Character: Mrs. Hartley (Uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
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We Who Are Young
Title: We Who Are Young
Character: Hospital Phone Operator (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
A man violates company policy by getting married.
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Women in Hiding
Title: Women in Hiding
Character: Head Nurse Miss Townsend (uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1940
Type: Movie
In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the hospital costs involved. She falls prey to a baby-for-sale racket with quack doctors performing their services.
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A Way in the Wilderness
Title: A Way in the Wilderness
Character: Sick Farmer's Wife (uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1940
Type: Movie
This Passing Parade entry tells the story of Dr. Joseph Goldberger (1874-1929), a Hungarian immigrant who devoted his life to finding the cause of pellagra, a disease that killed hundreds of thousands in the southern United States. Although the medical community believed that the condition was caused by a virus, Goldberger proved that a healthy diet was the cure.
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Florian
Title: Florian
Character: Kingston's Secretary
Released: June 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
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Bubbling Troubles
Title: Bubbling Troubles
Character: Alfalfa's Mom (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1940
Type: Movie
To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.
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The Domineering Male
Title: The Domineering Male
Character: Party Hostess (uncredited)
Released: March 30, 1940
Type: Movie
This Pete Smith Specialty short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. Who's really chasing whom?
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That Inferior Feeling
Title: That Inferior Feeling
Character: Bride (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).
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The Earl of Chicago
Title: The Earl of Chicago
Character: Ramsey's Secretary Martha Jackson (uncredited)
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Title: Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Character: Neighbor
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
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Dancing Co-Ed
Title: Dancing Co-Ed
Character: Secretary (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
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Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Title: Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Character: Miss Howard (uncredited)
Released: July 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as much time as possible with his pretty teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems when he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation.
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On Borrowed Time
Title: On Borrowed Time
Character: Mrs. James Northrup (uncredited)
Released: July 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.
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Stronger Than Desire
Title: Stronger Than Desire
Character: Miss Watson - Flagg's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
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Angel of Mercy
Title: Angel of Mercy
Character: Wife (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1939
Type: Movie
This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross.
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Calling Dr. Kildare
Title: Calling Dr. Kildare
Character: Dr. Carew's Secretary (uncredited)
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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Broadway Serenade
Title: Broadway Serenade
Character: Gracie (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
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Sergeant Madden
Title: Sergeant Madden
Character: Nurse
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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Within the Law
Title: Within the Law
Character: Sarah - Gilder's Secretary
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
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Tiny Troubles
Title: Tiny Troubles
Character: Alfalfa's mother
Released: February 18, 1939
Type: Movie
Alfalfa "trades in" his whining baby brother for another baby--who turns out to be a midget criminal.
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Idiot's Delight
Title: Idiot's Delight
Character: Nurse #1
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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Four Girls in White
Title: Four Girls in White
Character: Nurse Behind Counter
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
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Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
Title: Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
Character: Woman in Movie House (uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1939
Type: Movie
An auto mechanic suspects sabotage in a recent series of fatal racecar accidents.
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Alfalfa's Aunt
Title: Alfalfa's Aunt
Character: Martha Switzer
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Alfalfa's weird aunt Penelope pays a visit. She's working on a murder mystery novel, but Alfalfa thinks she's trying to murder him. It's up to the Spanky and the gang to save him.
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Men in Fright
Title: Men in Fright
Character: Sonny's Mother (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1938
Type: Movie
The kids go to the hospital to visit Darla, who's recovering from a tonsillectomy. Chaos soon ensues.
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Young Dr. Kildare
Title: Young Dr. Kildare
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
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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Boys Town
Title: Boys Town
Character: Nun (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
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How to Read
Title: How to Read
Character: Dental Patient (uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.
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Rich Man, Poor Girl
Title: Rich Man, Poor Girl
Character: Kate
Released: August 12, 1938
Type: Movie
A millionaire courts a working-class woman.
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The Chaser
Title: The Chaser
Character: Brandon's Secretary
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
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Woman Against Woman
Title: Woman Against Woman
Character: Nurse Sherwood
Released: June 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
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That Mothers Might Live
Title: That Mothers Might Live
Character: Nun Reading Book (uncredited)
Released: April 30, 1938
Type: Movie
That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his discovery of the need for cleanliness in 19th-century maternity wards, thereby significantly decreasing maternal mortality, and of his struggle to gain acceptance of his idea. Although Semmelweis ultimately failed in his lifetime, later scientific luminaries advanced his work in spirit like microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who provided a scientific theoretical explanation of Semmelweis' observations by helping develop the germ theory of disease and the British surgeon, Dr. Joseph Lister who revolutionized medicine putting Pasteur's research to practical use. In 1939, at the 11th Academy Awards, the film won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
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Miracle Money
Title: Miracle Money
Character: Miss Grant (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1938
Type: Movie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, doctors scam patients with a fake cure for cancer.
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The First Hundred Years
Title: The First Hundred Years
Character: Sadie (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1938
Type: Movie
David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job
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Navy Blue and Gold
Title: Navy Blue and Gold
Character: Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
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Big City
Title: Big City
Character: Woman Who Screams (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
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It May Happen to You
Title: It May Happen to You
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1937
Type: Movie
From MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Mobsters convince a meat packing company employee to help them hijack a truckload of beef.
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Song of Revolt
Title: Song of Revolt
Character: Peasant Woman (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1937
Type: Movie
This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", came to be written during the French Revolution.
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The Grand Bounce
Title: The Grand Bounce
Character: Doctor's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: May 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A man writes a check for $1,000 to cover a gambling debt. The problem is that he doesn't have enough money in his bank account to cover it. The check was written on Friday afternoon, but cannot be cashed before the following Tuesday. The check is used to pay several debts until...
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Born to Dance
Title: Born to Dance
Character: Hector's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1936
Type: Movie
On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broadway star, who is also enamored by him.
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The Public Pays
Title: The Public Pays
Character: Markovitz's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1936
Type: Movie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement and the courage of a local businessman.
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Easy Money
Title: Easy Money
Character: Mrs. Ada Turner
Released: June 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the company president he will get the goods on the gang or die in the attempt. At the company offices, he meets Carol Carter and she, believing he is a shyster (possibly redundant) lawyer in the employ of the racketeers gives him as little help as possible. Dan visits his brother Eddie, who is mixed up with the gang and tries to make him break away. Eddie is belligerent but finally, because of the pressure brought by Dan and his wife Tonia, agrees to go straight. The gang, led by "Duke" Trotti, fears he will squeal and they kill him, plus they make his death look like an accident and plan to collect on it. Dan is closing in on the gang when Carol, who is now his assistant, comes up with some conclusive evidence, but "Duke" has plans to get rid of her before she can give the information to Dan.
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The Mine with the Iron Door
Title: The Mine with the Iron Door
Character: Secretary
Released: May 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Having acquired the controlling interest in the Eureka Discovery Corporation for five-hundred dollars, and selling half of it to a detective for two-hundred dollars, Bob Harvey sets off with his new partner to find the buried treasure of San Capello---with very strange consequences.
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Brilliant Marriage
Title: Brilliant Marriage
Character: Brenda
Released: March 25, 1936
Type: Movie
When a wealthy heiress discovers the terrible family secret that has been hidden from her since birth, her world is turned upside down.
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Ring Around the Moon
Title: Ring Around the Moon
Character: Carol Anderson
Released: February 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Despite being in love with coworker Kay Duncan, high-flying newspaperman Ross Graham winds up engaged to socialite Gloria Endicott, a woman he doesn't love. Turmoil ensues for Ross as he tries to make his marriage work.
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Three on a Limb
Title: Three on a Limb
Character: Addie
Released: January 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Scoutmaster Elmer Brown loses his heart to the pretty carhop who works in a drive-in diner. Complicating his romantic longings is her policeman fiancé. When he tries to eliminate Elmer by giving him traffic tickets for every conceivable violation, the girl takes pity on the martyred Elmer and they drive off together. She informs him that she is also fending off another suitor, Oscar; and to make matters worse, her father is backing the cop while her mother promotes Oscar. Eventually all three men wind up competing for her hand at a chaotic wedding ceremony that ends with Elmer winning his beloved.
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Midnight Phantom
Title: Midnight Phantom
Character: Kathleen Ryan
Released: November 26, 1935
Type: Movie
A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops.
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3 Kids and a Queen
Title: 3 Kids and a Queen
Character: Nurse
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
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Condemned to Live
Title: Condemned to Live
Character: Martha Kristan
Released: September 15, 1935
Type: Movie
After a series of murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampire committing the murders.
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The Keeper of the Bees
Title: The Keeper of the Bees
Character: Nurse
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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On Probation
Title: On Probation
Character: Mable Gordon
Released: April 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A corrupt politician adopts a young girl. A few years later he finds himself falling in love with her, but discovers that she in turn loves a rich young bachelor.
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Sons of Steel
Title: Sons of Steel
Character: Miss Peters
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Chadburne Steel is run by two brothers, old men. They each have different plans for their sons. Curtis (Holmes Herbert) has put Ronald (William Blakewell) through college in style...
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A Girl of the Limberlost
Title: A Girl of the Limberlost
Character: Elvira Carney
Released: October 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she was born. She finds her comfort with Margaret and Westley Sinton, a childless neighboring couple, who help her with her school costs, as does the wealthy Mrs. Parker, who takes an interest in the talented young girl. She meets and falls in love with Phillip Ammon, the nephew of Dr. Ammon, but learns that he is already engaged. The money that Elnora has saved for her college education is stolen, and when Mrs. Comstock goes to retrieve it from a suspect, she also learns of the duplicity of her husband, who had been courting a neighboring woman on the night he drowned. She begs forgiveness of Elnora, and the romance of Elnora and Phillip also begins to flourish.
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Tomorrow's Youth
Title: Tomorrow's Youth
Character: Miss Booth
Released: October 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A look at how his parents' divorce affects the life of a young boy.
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Found Alive
Title: Found Alive
Character: Edith Roberts
Released: April 11, 1933
Type: Movie
When a California mother loses custody of her young son to her ex-husband, she flees with the child to the jungles of Mexico with hopes of starting life anew.
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The Death Kiss
Title: The Death Kiss
Character: Script Girl
Released: December 5, 1932
Type: Movie
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
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The Lady from Nowhere
Title: The Lady from Nowhere
Character: Mollie Carter
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A young couple pose as criminals in order to get the goods on their crooked bosses.
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Brothers
Title: Brothers
Character: Doris LaRue
Released: May 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Young orphaned brothers Tom and Bob are separated when Bob is taken to an orphan asylum by the authorities and Tom escapes. As time goes by Tom takes to a life of crime, but uses the proceeds to contribute to Bob's education. Years later the brothers meet again when Tom tries to involve Bob in a con game--and neither one knows that the other is his brother. Complications ensue.
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Desert Vengeance
Title: Desert Vengeance
Character: Anne Dixon
Released: January 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Brother and sister Hugh and Anne Dixon pull their fake suicide scam on Jim Cardew. Hugh leaves a note for Jim to take care of Anne. After Jim proposes and leaves money to Anne, he learns of their scheme. Not revealing his knowledge he gets them to return with him to his desert hideout where he and his outlaw gang reside and from which the Dixon's only escape is 30 miles of desert on foot.
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The Lash
Title: The Lash
Character: Lupe
Released: December 14, 1930
Type: Movie
A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.
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Tol'able David
Title: Tol'able David
Character: Rose Kinemon
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Tol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of a famous 1921 silent film Tol'able David starring Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence. Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mailman for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.
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Sunny
Title: Sunny
Character: Margaret Manners
Released: November 9, 1930
Type: Movie
A showgirl falls for a society boy but has to win over his family.
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The Love Trader
Title: The Love Trader
Character: Luane
Released: September 25, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman, raised in the most-strict New England atmosphere, marries a stern, God-fearing sea captain and is thrown suddenly into the romantic, colorful and licentious atmosphere of a South Sea island outpost. With her inhibitions and repressed desires what will be her reaction to the charms of the sensuous of the beautiful tropic nights and the call of love?
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Smoke Bellew
Title: Smoke Bellew
Character: Joy Gastrell
Released: January 25, 1929
Type: Movie
A tale of the great Alaska gold rush in which a man falsely accused of murder tracks down the guilty man.
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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The Haunted House
Title: The Haunted House
Character: Nancy
Released: November 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the will, where they meet the estate's staff, which includes a nurse, a crazed doctor, and a sinister handyman.
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The Cavalier
Title: The Cavalier
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
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The Port of Missing Girls
Title: The Port of Missing Girls
Character: Ruth King
Released: March 19, 1928
Type: Movie
Neglected by her moneyed parents and disillusioned with her boyfriend Buddie Larkins, vocalist Ruth King joins a school for stage and fancy dancing, thus playing into the hands of DeLeon, ....
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The Broken Mask
Title: The Broken Mask
Character: Caricia
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Pertio, an Argentine dancer, has a severely scarred face that has kept him from succeeding in his chosen career. He is persuaded by Caricia, an Argentine dancer who has become a star, to have a plastic surgeon repair his face. The surgery is successful and the two dancers team up both professionally and personally. However, the doctor who performed the operation has fallen madly in love with Caricia, and his determination to have her leads him to perform a procedure on Pertio that makes his scars reappear.
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A Man's Past
Title: A Man's Past
Character: Yvonne Fontaine
Released: October 1, 1927
Type: Movie
A Man's Past (1927)
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Mockery
Title: Mockery
Character: Countess Tatiana Alexandrova
Released: August 13, 1927
Type: Movie
There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to help her get there, and to tell anyone they might meet that he is her husband.
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Backstage
Title: Backstage
Character: Julia Joyce
Released: April 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Julia, Myrtle, Fanny, and Jane - all chorus girls, after weeks of rehearsing for a show, find themselves stranded when the manager is broke. Evicted for not paying the rent, they try various schemes to get food and lodging.
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The Notorious Lady
Title: The Notorious Lady
Character: Mary Marlowe / Mary Brownlee
Released: March 26, 1927
Type: Movie
A man kills a man he finds alone with his wife. Although she is innocent of any wrong doing the wife claims to be guilty of having an affair to save her husband from a death sentence. Unfortunately, the husband also believes her guilt and so he runs off to Africa to forget and assumes a new identity.
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Life of an Actress
Title: Life of an Actress
Character: Nora Dowen
Released: February 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Film directed by Jack Nelson
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Sunshine of Paradise Alley
Title: Sunshine of Paradise Alley
Character: Sunshine O'Day
Released: December 15, 1926
Type: Movie
A wealthy banker wants to tear down a tenement slum to build a factory, but a charming girl who lives there begins to persuade him otherwise.
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The Sporting Lover
Title: The Sporting Lover
Released: June 16, 1926
Type: Movie
Captain Terrance Connaughton loses his stable of horses in a card game with Algernon Cravens.
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Old Loves and New
Title: Old Loves and New
Character: Marny
Released: April 11, 1926
Type: Movie
Gervas Carew's wife, Elinor, has deserted him while he was fighting for France, for Lord Clyde Geraldine, a cad of the first order, but Elinor, in turn is cast off when Lord Geraldine turns his attention to an Irish lass, Marny. Marny has no idea of Geraldine's past nor his brutal nature.
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Tumbleweeds
Title: Tumbleweeds
Character: Molly Lassiter
Released: December 27, 1925
Type: Movie
William S. Hart stars in this 1925 silent film as a cowboy intent on claiming land during the 1889 land rush in the Oklahoma Territory. Though hardened from years of taming the new frontier, he falls in love with a beautiful woman. Before he settles down, however, he must contend with men who wish to bring him harm. In the prologue of the 1939 Astor Pictures revival of this film, Hart gives a moving eight-minute introduction-- the first and only time he appeared in a film accompanied by his striking voice.
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What Fools Men
Title: What Fools Men
Character: Jenny McFarlan
Released: September 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Joseph Greer is a wealthy businessman in New York City with all the trappings including a prim-and-proper secretary, Jenny McFarlan, who takes dictation during working hours and, at night, minus her eyeglasses, serves as his nightclub companion and mistress. Then his daughter,Beatrice, whom he has never seen, shows up and moves in with him. Beatrice is a grown-up flapper who loves jazz, pool parties, flaunting prohibition and carrying-on in general. Most of her carrying-on is with the family chauffeur and her father does not approve, says so, and fires the chauffeur. His parental-guidance technique backfires as Beatrice ups and elopes with the chauffeur. Later, the father has some problems with his business associates and loses his business and most of his fixtures and disappears. But Beatrice locates him and there is a happy reunion between father and daughter, especially since daughter has brought along Jenny to cheer him up.
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The Talker
Title: The Talker
Character: Barbara Farley
Released: May 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Kate Lennox is bored with suburban life and her husband, Harry. Their next-door neighbors, the hen-pecked Henry Fells and his wife, Maud, have several boarders, among them Barbara Farley, who is Lennox's stenographer, and Lonnie Whinston, who is in love with Lennox's little sister, Ruth. Kate claims that women need more independence and less duty, and flirts with Ned Hollister, a car salesman.
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Percy
Title: Percy
Character: Imogene Chandler
Released: April 5, 1925
Type: Movie
Western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle.
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The Mad Whirl
Title: The Mad Whirl
Character: Margie Taylor
Released: March 2, 1925
Type: Movie
A teenager with permissive parents gets too caught up in wild parties and the fast life.
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Women Who Give
Title: Women Who Give
Character: Emily Swift
Released: March 3, 1924
Type: Movie
Women Who Give (1924)
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The Whipping Boss
Title: The Whipping Boss
Character: Grace Woodward
Released: February 9, 1924
Type: Movie
Prison inmates are leased by the state to a lumber company, which makes them work under atrocious and dangerous conditions and treats them as virtual slave laborers. Based on a real-life incident that happened in Florida.
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The Acquittal
Title: The Acquittal
Character: Edith Craig
Released: November 19, 1923
Type: Movie
When a wealthy man is found murdered in his bedroom, one of his two adopted sons is arrested and charged with the killing. However, the verdict at his trial is an acquittal. Since the police don't seem to be particularly interested in finding the real killer, the dead man's daughter-in-law--the wife of the adopted son who wasn't charged--takes it upon herself to solve the crime.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Helen Chester
Released: August 26, 1923
Type: Movie
Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.
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Souls for Sale
Title: Souls for Sale
Character: Self - Celebrity Actress in Commissary
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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The Tie That Binds
Title: The Tie That Binds
Character: Mary Ellen Gray
Released: March 15, 1923
Type: Movie
A beautiful secretary has her pick of the men in the office, but instead of marrying the boss, she takes one of his junior staff. Later, when she is suspected of committing a murder, her husband confesses to it--although he didn't do it--in order to protect her. Complications ensue.
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Romance Land
Title: Romance Land
Character: Nan Harvess
Released: February 11, 1923
Type: Movie
This silent action comedy features Tom Mix donning a suit of armor to battle an unscrupulous ranch foreman in a style that would appear familiar to King Arthur and his knights.
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Another Man's Shoes
Title: Another Man's Shoes
Character: Mercia Solano
Released: November 6, 1922
Type: Movie
To evade a gang conspiring to assassinate him, wealthy businessman Stuart Granger induces his unsuspecting, look-alike cousin, Jack Burton, to impersonate him for a month.
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Arabia
Title: Arabia
Character: Janice Terhune
Released: November 5, 1922
Type: Movie
Tom Mix travels from the desert of the American West to the Sahara desert in this picture, which is as much farce as it is Western
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The Power of Love
Title: The Power of Love
Character: Maria Almeda
Released: September 27, 1922
Type: Movie
World's first 3-D feature film. The film is considered lost.
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Step on It!
Title: Step on It!
Character: Lorraine Leighton
Released: May 29, 1922
Type: Movie
Brother of Lorraine Leighton is falsely accused of rustling and murder and shipped off to jail. Desperate, Lorraine enlists the help of rancher Vic Collins and the two track down the real culprit, evil Pidge Walters.
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The Unfoldment
Title: The Unfoldment
Character: Martha Osborne
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Katherine Nevin and her brother Jack are given positions on the newspaper of James Osborne following their father's death. Osborne's city editor, Charles MacLaughlin, who is hated and feared by his business associates, is strongly attracted to Katherine, who accepts his mother's invitation to dinner. In spite of his ruthless manner Katherine tries to change the atheistic views of "Mac" and his embittered crippled brother, Angus.
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Cinderella of the Hills
Title: Cinderella of the Hills
Released: October 23, 1921
Type: Movie
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The Face of the World
Title: The Face of the World
Character: Thora
Released: August 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Silent Drama
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The Big Punch
Title: The Big Punch
Character: Hope Standish
Released: February 13, 1921
Type: Movie
Buck, who is preparing to enter a theological seminary, aids his brother and some friends who are fleeing from justice, and thus implicated he is sent to prison for 2 years. There he meets again Hope Standish, a Salvation Army girl who had interested him. Returning home, he meets the old district circuit rider and promises to continue the circuit rider's work when he dies. The brother escapes from prison and is converted by Buck, who falls in love with Hope.
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The Last of the Mohicans
Title: The Last of the Mohicans
Character: Cora Munro
Released: November 21, 1920
Type: Movie
As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fighting to rescue the women are Chingachgook and his son Uncas, the last of the Mohican tribe, and their white ally, the frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Hawkeye.
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The Cradle of Courage
Title: The Cradle of Courage
Character: Nora
Released: September 19, 1920
Type: Movie
Former crook 'Square' Kelly serves in the First World War. When he returns from the war, one of his comrades-in-arms convinces him to join the police force. But Kelly finds himself confronting the very criminals who made up his old gang.