Ruth Lee

Ruth Lee

Born: September 14, 1895
Died: August 3, 1975
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Ruth Lee (September 14, 1895 - August 3, 1975) was an American film and stage actress. In film she played primarily uncredited parts. As a stage actress she acted in stock theater with the National Theatre in Washington, D.C.

Lee died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. She was married to the actor Grandon Rhodes.

Movies for Ruth Lee...

The World of Tomorrow
Title: The World of Tomorrow
Character: Mom Middleton (archive footage)
Released: December 31, 1984
Type: Movie
Documentary featuring original materials from the 1939 New York World's Fair. Includes film images of Jason Robards Jr. as a child at the World's Fair and clips from the promotional film "The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair" (1939).
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Doctor Blood's Coffin
Title: Doctor Blood's Coffin
Character: Girl
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
After being thrown out of medical school for ethical violations, Dr. Peter Blood returns home to a small Cornish village, where he sets up a research laboratory in a secluded cave. There, he attempts to revive the dead, using kidnapped humans -- who he views as unworthy of life -- for their body parts, specifically, their hearts.
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Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
Title: Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
Character: Wife - Circus Spectator
Released: January 21, 1960
Type: Movie
Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky chimpanzee. However, the circus isn't all fun and games when the evil candy vendor, Harry Tupper, convinces Toby that his Aunt Olive and Uncle Daniel don't love him or want him back. Toby resigns himself to circus life, but when he finally realizes that Tupper lied to him, and that his aunt and uncle truly love him, Toby happily returns home once again.
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Title: Behind Closed Doors
Character: Mrs. Gates
Released: October 2, 1958
Type: TV
Behind Closed Doors is an American drama series set during the Cold War hosted by and occasionally starring Bruce Gordon in the role of Commander Matson. The series, which aired on NBC from October 2, 1958, to April 9, 1959, focuses, among other themes, on how the former Soviet Union stole American missile secrets and proposes steps to prevent further espionage. Behind Closed Doors is based on the files and experiences of Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, who offers comments at the end of each segment. Behind Closed Doors, a Screen Gems production, replaced Jackie Cooper's sitcom The People's Choice, followed the NBC quiz show, Twenty-One, and preceded the The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show. Its competition was The Pat Boone Chevy Show on ABC and Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater western anthology series on CBS.
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Wild Is the Wind
Title: Wild Is the Wind
Character: Party Guest
Released: December 11, 1957
Type: Movie
A widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings her back to the ranch, but his haunting memories of his lost love and her tendency to drift away to other men cause the two to have a tough time at keeping a marriage together.
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Title: Hey, Jeannie!
Character: Miss Colby
Released: September 8, 1956
Type: TV
Hey, Jeannie! is an American situation comedy starring Jeannie Carson as a young Scottish woman living in New York City. Twenty-six episodes aired on CBS from September 8, 1956 to May 4, 1957 in the Saturday slot following The Gale Storm Show and preceding the western series Gunsmoke. Six additional episodes aired in 1958 in syndication. Reruns of Hey, Jeannie! aired during the summer of 1960 under the title The Jeannie Carson Show.
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Title: Hey, Jeannie!
Character: Miss Welch
Released: September 8, 1956
Type: TV
Hey, Jeannie! is an American situation comedy starring Jeannie Carson as a young Scottish woman living in New York City. Twenty-six episodes aired on CBS from September 8, 1956 to May 4, 1957 in the Saturday slot following The Gale Storm Show and preceding the western series Gunsmoke. Six additional episodes aired in 1958 in syndication. Reruns of Hey, Jeannie! aired during the summer of 1960 under the title The Jeannie Carson Show.
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High Society
Title: High Society
Character: Ruth (Jazz Festival Organizer) (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Childhood friends Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven got married and quickly divorced. Now Tracy is about to marry again, this time to a shrewd social-climbing businessman. C.K. still loves her. Spy magazine blackmails Tracy's family by threatening to reveal her playboy father's exploits if not allowed to cover the wedding. A remake of the 1940 rom com The Philadelphia Story.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Neighbour
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Hell's Outpost
Title: Hell's Outpost
Character: Mrs. Moffit
Released: December 15, 1954
Type: Movie
A returning Korean War vet becomes embroiled in a fight over possession of a tungsten mine.
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Crime Wave
Title: Crime Wave
Character: Third Police Broadcaster (uncredited)
Released: October 22, 1953
Type: Movie
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.
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Young Man with Ideas
Title: Young Man with Ideas
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1952
Type: Movie
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
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As You Were
Title: As You Were
Character: Wife
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: Movie
In a train station, Army recruiting sergeant Ames attempts to enlist a group of young men with blandishments of travel and glamour in the Army.
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When I Grow Up
Title: When I Grow Up
Character: Bully's Mother
Released: April 19, 1951
Type: Movie
Josh is a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, he chances across an old diary once kept by his grandfather. Leafing through the yellowed pages, Josh discovers that Grandpa went through many of the same childhood travails that he is enduring at that moment. Armed with a renewed understanding of and appreciation for his elders, Josh decides to stick around for a while and see how things develop.
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Insurance Investigator
Title: Insurance Investigator
Character: Miss Pringle
Released: March 23, 1951
Type: Movie
When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.
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And Then There Were Four
Title: And Then There Were Four
Character: Mrs. McCall
Released: December 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Driving safety film sponsored as a public service by oil companies. Of five drivers who leave home in the morning, only four return, and we wait to learn who the victim is. The film gives considerable discussion to careless driving habits and depicts Angelenos from different walks of life as well as their homes, neighborhoods, streets, and freeways.
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Your Witness
Title: Your Witness
Character: Miss Hubert
Released: March 6, 1950
Type: Movie
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.
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Whirlpool
Title: Whirlpool
Character: Miss Hall (uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1950
Type: Movie
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
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It Happens Every Spring
Title: It Happens Every Spring
Character: Miss Collins - Prof. Greenleaf's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1949
Type: Movie
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
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Cover Up
Title: Cover Up
Character: Mrs. Abbey
Released: February 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midwestern town. All clues leads him into suspecting murder. Unfortunately, no one wants to assist him with the case, including Sheriff Larry Best.
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Henry, the Rainmaker
Title: Henry, the Rainmaker
Character: Schoolteacher
Released: February 13, 1949
Type: Movie
The first of Monogram's "Father" series was Henry, the Rainmaker, assembled in a fast seven days. Henry Latham is an average family man who is galvanized into entering a mayoral race over the issue of garbage disposal. When incumbent mayor Colton solves this issue himself, Henry turns his attentions to the current water shortage. His efforts to become a rainmaker prove cataclysmic, to say the least.
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Annie Was a Wonder
Title: Annie Was a Wonder
Character: Mrs. Nesbitt
Released: January 29, 1949
Type: Movie
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short, narrator John Nesbitt tells the story of Scandinavian immigrant Annie Swenson, who worked as cook and housekeeper in his family's home while he was growing up.
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The Judge Steps Out
Title: The Judge Steps Out
Character: Welfare Worker (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
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Monsieur Verdoux
Title: Monsieur Verdoux
Character: Gossipy Woman Hanging Clothes (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1947
Type: Movie
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
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The Magnificent Rogue
Title: The Magnificent Rogue
Character: Lita Andrews
Released: November 7, 1946
Type: Movie
A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
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Sister Kenny
Title: Sister Kenny
Character: Mother (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1946
Type: Movie
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
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The Dark Horse
Title: The Dark Horse
Character: Mrs. Aldrich
Released: July 19, 1946
Type: Movie
This 1946 film stars Phillip Terry as a war veteran, who is persuaded by machine politico Donald MacBride to run for alderman. Ann Savage plays the "honest government functionary" with whom the hero falls in love. Terry finds that disreputable politicians are using his war record to push through some shady legislation, so he renounces these hacks.
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The Stranger
Title: The Stranger
Character: Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1946
Type: Movie
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.
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Ding Dong Williams
Title: Ding Dong Williams
Character: Laura Cooper
Released: April 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Ding Dong Williams, a clarinet player who can neither read nor write music is employed at a motion picture studio. The studio plans to use him and his six-piece band but his musical deficiencies are discovered and the plan scrapped. But the secretary of the head of the music department intercedes on his behalf and he is given a chance in the film.
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Partners in Time
Title: Partners in Time
Character: Miss Martha Thurston
Released: April 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Squire Skimp has a new plan to swindle the people of Pine Ridge. However, Lum has something more important on his mind. He has to tell a young engaged couple on the verge of breaking up the story of how the Jot 'em Down store first started (through flashbacks). Based on characters from the popular "Lum and Abner" radio program of the time.
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Idea Girl
Title: Idea Girl
Character: Abigail Hawthorne
Released: February 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Larry Brewster, partner in the music publishing firm of Brewster and Crow, returns from a trip to find that his partner, J.C. Crow has hired Pat O'Rourke as a song plugger.
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Swingin' on a Rainbow
Title: Swingin' on a Rainbow
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
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Divorce
Title: Divorce
Character: Liz Smith
Released: August 18, 1945
Type: Movie
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
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Anchors Aweigh
Title: Anchors Aweigh
Character: Kindergarten Teacher (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl with musical aspirations, and before Joe can stop him, promises to get her an audition with José Iturbi. But the trouble really starts when Joe realizes he's falling for his buddy's girl.
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Mama Loves Papa
Title: Mama Loves Papa
Character: Mabel
Released: August 8, 1945
Type: Movie
A loose remake of the 1935 comedy of the same name. Thanks to the efforts of his social-climbing wife Jessie, furniture store employee Wilbur Todd is tossed headfirst into the world of small-town politics. Sized up as a patsy by crooked politician Kirkwood, poor Wilbur is plied with champagne as part of Kirkwood's scheme to land a sweetheart playground-equipment contract.
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On Stage Everybody
Title: On Stage Everybody
Character: Barbara (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
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The Naughty Nineties
Title: The Naughty Nineties
Character: Townswoman (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1945
Type: Movie
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
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Corpus Christi Bandits
Title: Corpus Christi Bandits
Character: Mom Christie
Released: April 20, 1945
Type: Movie
After the Civil War, veteran Jim Christi (Allan Lane) returns to Texas, where he is unjustly accused of murder. In flashback, Mr. Christi relates the story of his father Corpus Christi Jim. After robbing a stage, Jim and partners Rocky and Steve decide to go straight and return the money. But the fourth member of the gang, Spade refuses and leaves. The two former partners soon find themselves on opposite sides of the law.
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Keep Your Powder Dry
Title: Keep Your Powder Dry
Character: Classroom Instructor (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
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The Man Who Walked Alone
Title: The Man Who Walked Alone
Character: Aunt Harriett
Released: March 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.
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The Town Went Wild
Title: The Town Went Wild
Character: Lucille Conway
Released: December 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother.
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Goin' to Town
Title: Goin' to Town
Character: Mrs. Wenworth
Released: September 1, 1944
Type: Movie
General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical joke being played on them.
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Tucson Raiders
Title: Tucson Raiders
Character: Hannah Rogers
Released: May 14, 1944
Type: Movie
In Elliot's initial appearance as Red Ryder, he finds himself framed for murder. Little Beaver then foils the crooked Sheriff's attempt to have Red killed escaping jail. When Hannah Rogers gives the Sheriff a note, Red sees her give him a signal. Gabby lifts the note and Red decodes it. The Duchess then gets a confession from Hannah enabling Red to set out after the outlaws.
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Main Street Today
Title: Main Street Today
Character: Helen (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1944
Type: Movie
This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.
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My Tomato
Title: My Tomato
Character: Mrs. Doakes
Released: December 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes incorrectly is being rationed as a war measure. Mrs. Doakes knows that tomatoes aren't rationed, but she doesn't correct him, especially after he announces that he will grow enough tomatoes to feed the entire block. As he proceeds with his tomato garden, he, unaware of what it actually takes to grow tomato plants successfully, accepts advice from the many people who are willing to give it. The problem ends up being that much of the advice is conflicting. But at the end of the process, Joe is pleased with the fact of having grown a fruit to maturity - regardless of the actual yield of the garden - until someone else, or something else, has a say in what happens to that fruit. Written by Huggo (Taken from the imdb page)
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Hers to Hold
Title: Hers to Hold
Character: Miss Crawford
Released: July 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a crush on much-older playboy Bill Morley (Joseph Cotton), Penelope stops at nothing to land the elusive Morley as her husband. Highlights include Durbin's renditions of "Begin the Beguine" and the "Seguidilla" from Carmen, and a captivating sequence that includes highlights from Durbin's earlier films, presented as home movies!
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Silver Skates
Title: Silver Skates
Character: Mrs. Martin
Released: February 26, 1943
Type: Movie
The management of touring ice show faces mounting debts.
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Shadow of a Doubt
Title: Shadow of a Doubt
Character: Mrs. MacCurdy (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Just when Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton, is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderful news: Her uncle and namesake, Charlie Oakley, is coming to visit. However, as secrets about him come to the fore, Charlotte’s admiration turns into suspicion.
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Get Hep to Love
Title: Get Hep to Love
Character: Woman
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
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Keeping in Shape
Title: Keeping in Shape
Character: Mrs. Doakes
Released: June 22, 1942
Type: Movie
Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.
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Not a Ladies' Man
Title: Not a Ladies' Man
Character: Jennie Purcell
Released: May 14, 1942
Type: Movie
A recently divorced district attorney falls for his troubled son's schoolteacher.
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The Witness
Title: The Witness
Character: Mrs. Doakes
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account of the ways that a government investigative committee has been interrogating its witnesses. Joe then nods off, and imagines that he is being questioned by the committee. He envisages how satisfying it would be to turn the tables on the investigators.
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How to Take a Vacation
Title: How to Take a Vacation
Character: Wife
Released: October 9, 1941
Type: Movie
In this Robert Benchley instructional video, he demonstrates the pitfalls of a homebody husband attempting to take a vacation apart from his wife.
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The Forgotten Man
Title: The Forgotten Man
Character: Mother
Released: May 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Robert Benchley's wry forerunner to "Father of the Bride" detailing his perspective of the upcoming nuptials.
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Crime Control
Title: Crime Control
Character: Mrs. Doakes (uncredited)
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders that have recently been brought in. Shoelaces, for example, have an objectionable habit of breaking at crucial moments. The officer proceeds to call attention to window shades, bedroom slippers, and other menaces. He also answers his critics who advocate reasoning with these objects rather than punishing them.
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The Trouble with Husbands
Title: The Trouble with Husbands
Character: Mrs. Doakes
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands and shave. Then she sends him to the store for some butter, and he comes back with everything - except butter. Finally, he decides to install a small shelf on the wall - and makes a major production out of it.
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Sued for Libel
Title: Sued for Libel
Character: Radio Actress (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
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How to Eat
Title: How to Eat
Character: Mrs. Joe Doakes
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his stock everyman and slightly bumbling character Joe Doakes to dramatize such situations. Situations that can impede digestion include receiving bad news resulting in stress, being in love, and feeling scared. Snacking or nibbling between meals can ruins one's appetite at meal time. Having the correct posture while eating is important for digestion; finding the right posture can be difficult in certain circumstances, such as being on a picnic or eating in bed (specifically for men when using trays). Sharing tables with staring strangers may also impede digestion. And it's difficult to digest food when one can't get any of it. Written by Huggo (Taken from the imdb page)
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Home Early
Title: Home Early
Character: Mrs. Doakes
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.
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Dark Magic
Title: Dark Magic
Character: Wife
Released: May 12, 1939
Type: Movie
A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.
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The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair
Title: The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair
Character: Mother
Released: April 30, 1939
Type: Movie
"An average American family", the Middletons, visit the 1939 World's Fair and witnesses the advent of future technology, encountering robots and dishwashers for the first time.
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The Rich Are Always with Us
Title: The Rich Are Always with Us
Character: Second Gossiper in 1920 (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.