Maude Eburne

Maude Eburne

Born: November 10, 1875
Died: October 15, 1960
in Bronte-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada
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Maude Eburne (born Maud Eburne Riggs, 10 November 1875 – 15 October 1960) was a Canadian character actress of stage and screen, known for playing eccentric roles. Eburne began her career in stock theater in Buffalo, New York. Her early theater work was in Ontario and New York City, debuting on Broadway to great acclaim as "Coddles" in the 1914 farce A Pair of Sixes. "When I first came to New York... I said I didn't want to be beautiful young girls or stately leading women, but wanted parts that had something queer in them, especially if there were dialect."

She continued to play mainly humorous domestic roles on stage, appearing in productions such as The Half Moon (1920), Lady Butterfly (1923), Three Cheers (1928) and Many a Slip (1930), before her first significant film role — and first sound film role — in The Bat Whispers (1930), director Roland West's sound remake of his 1926 silent feature The Bat.

Movies for Maude Eburne...

Arson, Inc.
Title: Arson, Inc.
Character: Grandma
Released: June 24, 1949
Type: Movie
An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.
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The Lawton Story
Title: The Lawton Story
Character: Henrietta
Released: March 31, 1949
Type: Movie
Most of the footage is devoted to the annual Passion Play at Lawton, Oklahoma, enacted by volunteers from several nearby communities. This portion of The Lawton Story was directed by Harold Daniels and narrated by radio announcer Knox Manning. To bring the film up to feature length, a fictional plotline concerning the preparations for the pageant was hastily assembled, featuring such familiar Hollywood character players as Forrest Taylor, Willa Pearl Curtis and Maude Eburne.
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The Plunderers
Title: The Plunderers
Character: Old Dame at Wedding
Released: October 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Hero Rod Cameron kills Sheriff Sam Borden at point-blank range and in front of several witnesses in the opening of this Republic Pictures Western, released in the company's patented Trucolor system. The "killing," however, is merely a ruse set up to allow army agent Johnny Drum to infiltrate a gang of highway robbers.
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Slippy McGee
Title: Slippy McGee
Character: Mrs. Dexter
Released: January 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A safecracker breaks his leg and reforms with a good girl and a priest.
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Hitchhike to Happiness
Title: Hitchhike to Happiness
Character: Mrs. Randall
Released: July 16, 1945
Type: Movie
An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them believe that the waiter lacks the talent to make it big. Only an aspiring songwriter, and a former waitress who has become a famous Hollywood radio star, really believe in him. When the ex-waitress drops by the restaurant to say hello, she and the others decide to play a trick on an arrogant producer by making him believe the waiter has written a sure-fire hit. They succeed and the producer puts on the show. The singer gets to be the star. When the show becomes a smash, everyone is surprised. Songs include: "Hitchhike To Happiness," "For You And Me," "Sentimental," and "My Pushover Heart."
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Man from Oklahoma
Title: Man from Oklahoma
Character: Grandma Lane
Released: July 1, 1945
Type: Movie
The feuding Lanes and Whittakers are brought together with the help of Roy Rogers, when a business tycoon tries to play one family against the other.
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The Suspect
Title: The Suspect
Character: Mrs. Packer
Released: January 31, 1945
Type: Movie
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.
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The Town Went Wild
Title: The Town Went Wild
Character: Judge Bingle
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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The Princess and the Pirate
Title: The Princess and the Pirate
Character: Landlady of the 'Boar's Head Inn'
Released: November 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. On the high seas, her ship is attacked by pirates who know her identity and plan to kidnap her and hold her for a king's ransom.
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Bowery to Broadway
Title: Bowery to Broadway
Character: Mame Alda
Released: November 3, 1944
Type: Movie
Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud erupts.
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I'm from Arkansas
Title: I'm from Arkansas
Character: Matilda Jenkins
Released: October 31, 1944
Type: Movie
A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.
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Rosie the Riveter
Title: Rosie the Riveter
Character: Granma Quill
Released: April 8, 1944
Type: Movie
In this romantic wartime comedy, four female defense plant workers share a house with four male workers. The situation is on the up and up as the men and women work different shifts and they are only making do because there is a housing shortage. Unfortunately, they soon begin to fight about who gets the house during certain hours. Romance ensues.
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Up in Arms
Title: Up in Arms
Character: Woman on Cable Car
Released: February 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
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The Chance of a Lifetime
Title: The Chance of a Lifetime
Character: Edna Counihan (Uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1943
Type: Movie
A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
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Reveille with Beverly
Title: Reveille with Beverly
Character: Maggie (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
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Lady Bodyguard
Title: Lady Bodyguard
Character: Mother Hodges
Released: January 2, 1943
Type: Movie
A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a paid-for-a-year $1000 policy. High-risk Terry agrees. George MacAlister fires his secretary, Miss Tracy, just as she is typing up the policy and she, for spite, changes the amount from a thousand dollars to one million dollars. A.C. delivers the policy, without noticing the difference, to Terry at a party at the Frolics Club, a cheap joint wedged between a burlesque house and a flop house hotel. Three characters, an elderly hat-check "girl" known as Mother Hodges; Avery Jamieson, a broken-down actor; and bartender Harry Gargan are named beneficiaries. When the company discovers the error, A.C. is sent to get back the policy and, pending that, don't let Terry make any test flights.
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Dawn on the Great Divide
Title: Dawn on the Great Divide
Character: Sarah Harkins
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are out to stop them by using white men dressed as Indians for the attacks.
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The Boogie Man Will Get You
Title: The Boogie Man Will Get You
Character: Amelia Jones
Released: October 22, 1942
Type: Movie
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.
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Henry Aldrich, Editor
Title: Henry Aldrich, Editor
Character: Mrs. Norris
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of mysterious fires. A mild, timid little fellow named Nero Smith shows up to tip off Henry as to the time and place of the next conflagration. Henry prints the story-and is immediately accused of being the firebug himself!
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There's One Born Every Minute
Title: There's One Born Every Minute
Character: Agatha
Released: June 26, 1942
Type: Movie
A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.
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Henry and Dizzy
Title: Henry and Dizzy
Character: Martha Bradley
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
After accidentally sinking a borrowed motorboat, teenager Henry Aldrich scrambles to raise the replacement cash the boat's owner demands. The catch: Henry only has two days to come up with the funds, or the boat's angry owner will turn him over to the police.
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Almost Married
Title: Almost Married
Character: Mrs. Clayton
Released: May 22, 1942
Type: Movie
To avoid a costly breach of contract suit, a rich young man marries a nightclub singer.
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To Be or Not to Be
Title: To Be or Not to Be
Character: Anna
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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Among the Living
Title: Among the Living
Character: Mrs. Pickens
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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Glamour Boy
Title: Glamour Boy
Character: Borax Betty
Released: December 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living in Hollywood. He gets back into the movie business when he overhears a conversation between producers discussing their newest prodigy. Cooper butts in and suggests the producers remake Skippy (a real-life 1931 film that made young Cooper a star). The bigwigs like the idea and then hire Cooper to become the boy's acting coach. Once back on the backlot, Cooper finds both trouble and romance while helping the young boy adjust to life as a movie star.
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You Belong to Me
Title: You Belong to Me
Character: Ella
Released: October 22, 1941
Type: Movie
A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients.
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They Meet Again
Title: They Meet Again
Character: Mrs. Hastings
Released: July 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Dr. Christian takes time out from his appointed rounds to help clear a bank teller of embezzlement charges.
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West Point Widow
Title: West Point Widow
Character: Mrs. Willits
Released: June 20, 1941
Type: Movie
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.
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The Border Legion
Title: The Border Legion
Character: Hurricane Hattie McGuire
Released: December 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the gang's boss is wounded, they kidnap Kells and force him to remove the bullet. Not allowed to leave and being a wanted man, he joins the gang. Now wanted as a gang member also, he nevertheless plans a raid that will lead the entire gang into a trap.
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Remedy for Riches
Title: Remedy for Riches
Character: Mrs. Hastings
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr. Christian" series of six films.
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Li'l Abner
Title: Li'l Abner
Character: Granny Scraggs
Released: November 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
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Colorado
Title: Colorado
Character: Etta Mae
Released: September 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. When Burke catches up with them he also finds Mason, his brother.
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The Golden Fleecing
Title: The Golden Fleecing
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Dr. Christian Meets the Women
Title: Dr. Christian Meets the Women
Character: Mrs. Hastings
Released: August 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left to the good Dr. Christian to expose this fake and save a fragile young girl's life.
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The Courageous Dr. Christian
Title: The Courageous Dr. Christian
Character: Mrs. Hastings
Released: April 4, 1940
Type: Movie
A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
Title: The Amazing Mr. Williams
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
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Meet Dr. Christian
Title: Meet Dr. Christian
Character: Mrs. Hastings
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital.
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The Covered Trailer
Title: The Covered Trailer
Character: Widow Ella Jones
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil unwittingly sabotages their plans by telling insurance representative Wells that Joe is only forty-four, not forty-five, and is therefore ineligible to collect the annuity insurance that was to pay for the cruise.
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Sabotage
Title: Sabotage
Character: Mrs. Hopkins
Released: October 13, 1939
Type: Movie
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
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Mountain Rhythm
Title: Mountain Rhythm
Character: Ma Hutchins
Released: June 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Cavanaugh and McCauley are after the ranchers land. When the Government announces the land will be put up for auction, the ranchers pool their money only to have it stolen by Cavanaugh's men. They then plan to sell their cattle but Cavanaugh announces a fake gold strike and the cowhands all leave. But Gene's hobo friend the Judge says he will get the cattle to market and he sends out a signal to his hobo friends.
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Exile Express
Title: Exile Express
Character: Mrs. Smith
Released: May 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
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My Wife's Relatives
Title: My Wife's Relatives
Character: Widow Ella Jones
Released: May 20, 1939
Type: Movie
It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the romance between Ellis' son Bill and Joe's daughter Jean. Refusing, Joe quits his job and sets up his own candy company. It's a money-losing enterprise until Joe's wife Lil loses her diamond ring in a batch of candy and offers a $5000 reward to anyone who can retrieve the ring.
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Undercover Agent
Title: Undercover Agent
Character: Mrs. Minnow
Released: April 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
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Convict's Code
Title: Convict's Code
Character: Mrs. Magruder
Released: January 18, 1939
Type: Movie
On parole after three years in prison, a football player (Robert Kent) encounters the man (Sidney Blackmer) who framed him.
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Riders of the Black Hills
Title: Riders of the Black Hills
Character: Mrs. Peggy Garth
Released: June 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Riders of the Black Hills is a 1938 American Western directed by George Sherman. The intrepid cowboys known as the Three Mesquiteers; Stony (Robert Livingston), Tucson (Ray Corrigan) and Lullaby (Max Terhune) are on the case when rancher Peg Garth's (Maude Eburne) prize racehorse is abducted by bookie Rod Stevens (Tom London) and a secret cohort to prevent it from winning an important race.
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Vivacious Lady
Title: Vivacious Lady
Character: Nagging Wife of Man Shaving on Train (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1938
Type: Movie
College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.
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Fight for Your Lady
Title: Fight for Your Lady
Character: Nadya
Released: November 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.
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Live, Love and Learn
Title: Live, Love and Learn
Character: Mrs. Crump
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.
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Hollywood Cowboy
Title: Hollywood Cowboy
Character: Violet Butler
Released: May 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Just after Kramer goes to Wyoming to start his protection racket, cowboy actor Jeff Carson finishes a picture and goes camping. Attracted to Joyce Butler, he hires on at her ranch and quickly gets caught up in Butler's conflict with Kramer. When the Butlers refuse to buy his service, he has their cattle stampeded.
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Paradise Express
Title: Paradise Express
Character: Maggie Casey
Released: February 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
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When's Your Birthday?
Title: When's Your Birthday?
Character: Mrs. Basscombe
Released: February 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.
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Champagne Waltz
Title: Champagne Waltz
Character: Mrs. Scribner
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitten by Elsa, Buzzy hides his identity and association with the club -- whose owner intends to buy out the Palace property. When Elsa accidentally learns who Buzzy really is, it appears he may have to return to America alone.
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Title: Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Character: Maggie Devlin
Released: October 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
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Poppy
Title: Poppy
Character: Sarah Tucker
Released: June 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved daughter Poppy.
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Doughnuts and Society
Title: Doughnuts and Society
Character: Belle Dugan
Released: March 27, 1936
Type: Movie
Kate Flannagan and Belle Dugan operate a downtown coffee shop and, while dispensing their locally-famous doughnuts, engage in their favorite pastime, friendly quarreling between themselves. This changes when Belle suddenly becomes heir to a small fortune which allows her to crash high-society and make her daughter,Joan, a débutante. This creates a rift between the two former partners, with the result that the proud Kate refuses to accept her friend's good fortune nor allow her son, Jerry, who is in love with Joan, to do so.
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Man Hunt
Title: Man Hunt
Character: Mariah Hoggins
Released: January 29, 1936
Type: Movie
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
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The Leavenworth Case
Title: The Leavenworth Case
Character: Phoebe Leavenworth
Released: January 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Director Lewis D. Collins' 1936 whodunit is about the investigation into the death of an elderly tycoon, who is murdered shortly after announcing he plans to change his will and give away his fortune.
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Happiness C.O.D.
Title: Happiness C.O.D.
Character: Aunt Addie
Released: October 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A young man, hard-pressed to pay off his mortgage and support his family, decides that he'll get money any way he can--honestly or otherwise.
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Don't Bet on Blondes
Title: Don't Bet on Blondes
Character: Little Ellen Purdy
Released: July 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
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Party Wire
Title: Party Wire
Character: Clara West
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Title: Ruggles of Red Gap
Character: 'Ma' Pettingill
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
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Maybe It's Love
Title: Maybe It's Love
Character: Landlady
Released: January 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
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Here Comes the Navy
Title: Here Comes the Navy
Character: Droopy's Mother
Released: July 21, 1934
Type: Movie
A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
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Return of the Terror
Title: Return of the Terror
Character: Mrs. Elvery
Released: July 7, 1934
Type: Movie
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
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Lazy River
Title: Lazy River
Character: Miss Minnie Lescalle
Released: March 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
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Havana Widows
Title: Havana Widows
Character: Mrs. Ryan, the Landlady
Released: November 18, 1933
Type: Movie
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
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Fog
Title: Fog
Character: Mrs. Jackson
Released: November 11, 1933
Type: Movie
The murders are committed in swift succession on board a liner crossing the Atlantic in a dense fog, and many of the passengers come under suspicion before the actual killer is bought to justice with the aid of a very substantial "ghost."
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My Lips Betray
Title: My Lips Betray
Character: Mamma Watscheck
Released: November 4, 1933
Type: Movie
In a make-believe, mittleuropean kingdom, a vivacious but dim country girl sings in a beer garden for her rent money. Meanwhile, the king is facing bankruptcy for his little nation, unless he marries a rich but undesirable queen of another comic opera principality. Eventually he takes in the struggling young singer, and they fall in love, despite possible ruin.
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Big Executive
Title: Big Executive
Character: Coroner's Wife
Released: October 19, 1933
Type: Movie
Big Executive
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Shanghai Madness
Title: Shanghai Madness
Character: Mrs. Glissen
Released: August 3, 1933
Type: Movie
In the 1920s Pat Jackson destroys a Chinese post and is discharged from the Navy. Li Po Chang hires him to run a gunboat up the river. He drops Wildeth off at a mission for safety, but when his boat returns the mission is being attacked by communists.
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The Warrior's Husband
Title: The Warrior's Husband
Character: Buria
Released: April 28, 1933
Type: Movie
The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's husband Sapiens (Ernest Truex) is truly a sissy of the first order, and is not unlike most of Pontus' male inhabitants.
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Ladies They Talk About
Title: Ladies They Talk About
Character: Aunt Maggie
Released: February 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
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The Vampire Bat
Title: The Vampire Bat
Character: Aunt Gussie Schnappmann
Released: January 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A German village is stricken by a series of murders that appear to be the work of vampires.
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Robbers' Roost
Title: Robbers' Roost
Character: Aunt Ellen
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick’s cattle. Attracted to Herrick’s sister Helen, Jim decides to tell the Sheriff about the raid. But when his plan is overheard he is made a prisoner.
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Divorce In The Family
Title: Divorce In The Family
Character: Martha Jenkins
Released: August 27, 1932
Type: Movie
A child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932 drama stars Jackie Cooper, Lewis Stone, Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Jean Parker and Louise Beavers.
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The First Year
Title: The First Year
Character: Emily Livingston
Released: July 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being courted by two men, the steady but predictable Tommy Tucker and the more ambitious, flashy, and worldly Dick Loring, who seems closer to Grace in his desire for travel and adventure.
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The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Title: The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Character: Mrs. Elizabeth Hardy
Released: May 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
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Polly of the Circus
Title: Polly of the Circus
Character: Mrs. Jennings
Released: February 27, 1932
Type: Movie
When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a nearby minister, John Hartley. As she recuperates, they fall in love with each other and secretly marry. But when the truth leaks out , John's congregation rebels at having a circus woman as their minister's wife, and he is fired. Polly decides to leave John in hopes of giving back to him the calling that means so much to him. But fate steps in and rearranges all plans.
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The Passionate Plumber
Title: The Passionate Plumber
Character: Aunt Charlotte
Released: February 6, 1932
Type: Movie
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.
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Panama Flo
Title: Panama Flo
Character: Sadie
Released: January 19, 1932
Type: Movie
An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.
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Union Depot
Title: Union Depot
Character: Passenger at Information Desk (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
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This Reckless Age
Title: This Reckless Age
Character: Rhoda
Released: January 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their son Bradley comes home from college with ideas that they consider to be outrageous. His parents would like him to get involved with Mary Burke, a prim and proper young lady. More complications ensue because Bradley's sister Lois is attracted to the flapper lifestyle, but she isn't sure whether she can handle its emotional demands.
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The Woman from Monte Carlo
Title: The Woman from Monte Carlo
Character: Dowager Party Guest
Released: January 9, 1932
Type: Movie
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party. The strain of command on the older captain and his new, young wife is very great.
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Under Eighteen
Title: Under Eighteen
Character: Mrs. McCarthy
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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Local Boy Makes Good
Title: Local Boy Makes Good
Character: Maid
Released: November 27, 1931
Type: Movie
John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day, one of his letters gets accidentally mailed and Julia receives it. When the letter says that he is a fraternity man and a big track star, Julia rushes right over to see him. But John is neither and Spike, Julia's boyfriend, is a track star at a nearby College. John does not want to enter the track meet so Julia tries to use psychology on him. That and a good wrestling hold makes John timidly agree to enter the race, but Spike still scares him.
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The Guardsman
Title: The Guardsman
Character: "Mama"
Released: October 20, 1931
Type: Movie
An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a year, are already showing signs of strain in their marriage. The actor believes his wife is capable of infidelity and sets out to prove this is so. Disguising himself as the kind of man he believes she fancies (a Russian military officer), the actor woos his wife while she believes her husband to be out of town.
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Blonde Crazy
Title: Blonde Crazy
Character: Mrs. Snyder
Released: September 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
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Bought!
Title: Bought!
Character: Mrs. Chauncey
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.
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Stranger in Town
Title: Stranger in Town
Character: Mrs. Petrick
Released: August 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Crickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic chain-store firm to purchase his establishment. The chain manager retaliates by cutting off Crickles' supply of produce, whereupon his friends and neighbors save his business by supplying him with goods from their own farms.
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The Man in Possession
Title: The Man in Possession
Character: Esther
Released: July 4, 1931
Type: Movie
A deeply in debt heiress tries to land a rich man while a collector from the Sheriff's office is guarding the assets in her house.
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Indiscreet
Title: Indiscreet
Character: Aunt Kate
Released: April 25, 1931
Type: Movie
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
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Lonely Wives
Title: Lonely Wives
Character: Mrs. Mantel
Released: February 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line. When an actor-impersonator comes to see him, the two switch lives.
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The Bat Whispers
Title: The Bat Whispers
Character: Lizzie Allen
Released: November 13, 1930
Type: Movie
Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of the criminal as well. Meanwhile, Cornelia Van Gorder has various people arrive at her old mansion, including her niece, Dale, a bank employee, and police detective Anderson. When guests start turning up dead, Cornelia begins to suspect that The Bat may be lurking around the estate.