Margaret McWade

Margaret McWade

Born: September 1, 1872
Died: April 1, 1956
in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Movies for Margaret McWade...

It Should Happen to You
Title: It Should Happen to You
Character: Elderly Lady at Macy's (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1954
Type: Movie
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.
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The Bishop's Wife
Title: The Bishop's Wife
Character: Miss Trumbull
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
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It's a Joke, Son!
Title: It's a Joke, Son!
Character: Jennifer Whipple
Released: January 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una Merkel) who appears to have a good chance to beat the political hack backed by the machine. Claghorn is in to siphon votes and ensure his wife's opponent will win and is expected to run a campaign that will defeat himself and his wife. But, he runs to win and the machine's henchies abduct him.
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Scattergood Survives a Murder
Title: Scattergood Survives a Murder
Character: Lydia Quentin
Released: October 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.
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The Remarkable Andrew
Title: The Remarkable Andrew
Character: Mrs. Ballard
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
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Remedy for Riches
Title: Remedy for Riches
Character: Gertrude Purdy
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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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Younger Sister (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
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I Stole a Million
Title: I Stole a Million
Character: Matron (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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Forbidden Valley
Title: Forbidden Valley
Character: Mrs. Scudd
Released: February 13, 1938
Type: Movie
In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it and so flees into the rugged mountains. He brings his boy with him. In those lonely hills lives a sad, but wealthy young woman. Love blossoms between the son and the girl as the son struggles to clear his father's name and bring the real villains to justice.
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Danger – Love at Work
Title: Danger – Love at Work
Character: Aunt Patty Pemberton
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
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Wings Over Honolulu
Title: Wings Over Honolulu
Character: Nellie Curtis
Released: May 16, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
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We Have Our Moments
Title: We Have Our Moments
Character: Woman in Stateroom
Released: March 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
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Lost Horizon
Title: Lost Horizon
Character: Missionary (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1937
Type: Movie
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
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Theodora Goes Wild
Title: Theodora Goes Wild
Character: Aunt Elsie
Released: November 12, 1936
Type: Movie
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.
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Let's Make a Million
Title: Let's Make a Million
Character: Aunt Lacy
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.
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Postal Inspector
Title: Postal Inspector
Character: Old Maid - Mrs. Compton (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Amy Faulkner (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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The Last Days of Pompeii
Title: The Last Days of Pompeii
Character: Calvus' Wife (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1935
Type: Movie
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
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Women Who Dare
Title: Women Who Dare
Character: Mrs. Kelly
Released: March 31, 1928
Type: Movie
Film directed by Burton L. King
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High Steppers
Title: High Steppers
Character: Mrs. Clancy
Released: March 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Perryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In search of a change, he heads for London, where he meets Audrey Nye, a former jazz baby who has gotten a responsible job on a newspaper. She helps Perryam get hired as a reporter.
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White Fang
Title: White Fang
Character: Mrs. Black
Released: May 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Silent version of the classic Jack London tale.
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The Lost World
Title: The Lost World
Character: Mrs. Challenger
Released: February 2, 1925
Type: Movie
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
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Sundown
Title: Sundown
Character: Mrs. Brent
Released: November 30, 1924
Type: Movie
Cattlemen attempt to keep their lands and herds from being overrun by nesters.
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Broken Barriers
Title: Broken Barriers
Character: Mrs. Durland
Released: August 18, 1924
Type: Movie
A young girl is forced to give up college when her father loses all his money. She soon meets and falls for a young man at a party, only to discover that he's married. As if that weren't bad enough, he is soon seriously injured in an automobile accident, and doctors say that he may never walk again.
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Her Mad Bargain
Title: Her Mad Bargain
Character: Mrs. Dunn
Released: December 12, 1921
Type: Movie
After the death of her benefactress, Mrs. Beresford, Alice Lambert is evicted by Ruth, Mrs. Beresford's jealous niece; and in despair Alice seeks employment as a model. Her refusal to accept the attentions of Monsieur Armand ends in her dismissal
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The White Mouse
Title: The White Mouse
Character: The Mother
Released: November 6, 1921
Type: Movie
Sergeant Blake of the Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the border to break up a ring of smugglers who are bringing illegal Chinese immigrants into Canada. The ring is led by Ah Ming, a "half-breed" who goes by the name of Dr. Lawler. When Blake encounters Lawler, he is experimenting on a white mouse.
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The Ne'er to Return Road
Title: The Ne'er to Return Road
Character: The Mother
Released: October 9, 1921
Type: Movie
The Ne'er to Return Road
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The Blot
Title: The Blot
Character: Mrs. Griggs
Released: September 4, 1921
Type: Movie
Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and plentiful food, while the Griggses have hardly any. When the professor's rich student Phil West falls for beautiful Griggs daughter Amelia and also befriends the poor Reverend Gates (a young man who is also in love with Amelia), he observes the difference in his life and theirs and tries to help make a difference.
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A Tale of Two Worlds
Title: A Tale of Two Worlds
Character: Attendant
Released: March 13, 1921
Type: Movie
A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.
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Darling Mine
Title: Darling Mine
Character: Agnes McCarthy
Released: August 16, 1920
Type: Movie
Persuaded by a letter from her Aunt Agnes in America, Kitty McCarthy ( Olive Thomas ) travels from Ireland to New York City, there she meets Gordon Davis, a successful playwright, who directs her to her aunt's address on the East Side. Kitty soon discovers her aunt living in a tenement, a confirmed alcoholic. Through her niece's care, Agnes is cured, and one day Davis appears and offers Kitty a part in a comedy that he has written. She accepts, and once backstage meets Vera Maxwell, the victim of an unhappy affair with Oscar Savoy. Kitty brings the lovelorn couple back together but is unsuccessful in arranging her own romance with Davis' nephew Roger until Davis finally intervenes, and a happy ending prevails for all.
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Stronger Than Death
Title: Stronger Than Death
Character: Mrs. Boucicault
Released: January 11, 1920
Type: Movie
Sigrid, A French dancer, diagnosed with a weak heart, is ordered by her doctor never to dance again. But when her dancing skills are needed by her lover's father to help quell a native uprising on the East Indian frontier, she determines to dance whatever the cost.
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The Confession
Title: The Confession
Character: Mrs. Bartlett
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
A priest hears a murderer's confession but can't reveal the truth, even though his brother is being tried for the crime.
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Flower of the Dusk
Title: Flower of the Dusk
Character: Miriam
Released: August 12, 1918
Type: Movie
Blind Ambrose North is tormented by the suspicion that his wife Constance committed suicide when their crippled daughter Barbara was only two, because she did not love him. Before her death, Constance wrote Barbara a letter to be opened on the girl's twenty-first birthday, but when Barbara opens it and learns that her mother killed herself to escape a doomed love affair with Lawrence Austin, she invents a different story for Ambrose, knowing that the truth would hurt him too deeply.
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Blue Jeans
Title: Blue Jeans
Character: Cindy Tutwiler
Released: December 10, 1917
Type: Movie
June, a young orphan, is befriended by Perry Bascom when he shares his lunch with her on the road to Rising Sun. They soon fall in love and marry, only to find out that a woman in Perry's past has come to town to make trouble. Teaming up with the local political bully, the schemers set out to make Perry's life miserable, but June sticks by her husband to the end.
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The President’s Special
Title: The President’s Special
Character: The Floor Switchman's Wife
Released: August 7, 1914
Type: Movie
John Farley and his wife were in very comfortable circumstances. They owned their own little farm and, as a result, were able to live very nicely on John's income as a railroad switchman, and to put money in the bank as well. The one great drawback to the farm, was the fact that it was so far from the tower in which John worked.