Mary Gordon

Mary Gordon

Born: May 16, 1882
Died: August 23, 1963
in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Mary Gordon (born Mary Gilmour, 16 May 1882 – 23 August 1963) was a Scottish actress, long in the United States, who mainly played housekeepers and mothers, most notably the landlady Mrs. Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes series of movies of the 1940s starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Her body of work included nearly 300 films between 1925 and 1950. With her mother and daughter (both also named Mary), she arrived in Los Angeles in the mid-1920s and began playing variations on the roles she would spend her career on. She became friends with John Ford while making Hangman's House in 1928 and made seven more films with him. In 1939, she took on her best-remembered role as Sherlock Holmes' landlady and played the role in ten films and numerous radio plays. She was a charter member of the Hollywood Canteen, entertaining servicemen throughout the Second World War. On the radio show Those We Love, she played the regular role of Mrs. Emmett.

She entered retirement just as television reshaped the entertainment industry, making only a single appearance in that medium.

She was active in the Daughters of Scotia auxiliary of the Order of Scottish Clans.

She lived out her final years in Pasadena, California with her daughter and grandson. She died at age 81 on 23 August 1963 in Pasadena, California after a long illness.

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Title: The Cisco Kid
Character: Mary O'Toole
Released: September 5, 1950
Type: TV
The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, The Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho. Cisco and Pancho were technically desperados, wanted for unspecified crimes, but instead viewed by the poor as Robin Hood figures who assisted the downtrodden when law enforcement officers proved corrupt or unwilling to help. It was also the first television series to be filmed in color, although few viewers saw it in color until the 1960s.
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West of Wyoming
Title: West of Wyoming
Character: Nora Jones
Released: February 19, 1950
Type: Movie
The Johnny Mack Brown West of Wyoming concerns the efforts by cattle baron Simon (Stanley Andrews) to prevent the opening up of the rang to homesteaders. Government agent Brown comes calling when Simon begins resorting to cold-blooded murder. The leading lady is Gail Davis, a few years shy of her Annie Oakley TV stardom. Surprisingly, West of Wyoming contains none of the comedy relief that had characterized earlier Johnny Mack Brown oaters.
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The File on Thelma Jordon
Title: The File on Thelma Jordon
Character: Charwoman (Uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
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Deputy Marshal
Title: Deputy Marshal
Character: Mrs. Lance
Released: October 28, 1949
Type: Movie
A lawman takes on gangsters attempting to steal property wanted for a railroad.
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Haunted Trails
Title: Haunted Trails
Character: Aunt Libby
Released: August 21, 1949
Type: Movie
Singing cowboy Whip Wilson, the foreman on a cattle drive, quits his job to pursue five bank robbers who murdered his brother.
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Mr. Soft Touch
Title: Mr. Soft Touch
Character: Slatternly Woman Tenant (Uncredited)
Released: July 28, 1949
Type: Movie
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.
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Tucson
Title: Tucson
Character: Housemother (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1949
Type: Movie
The story of Andy Bryant, a University of Arizona student whose grades suffer because of his preoccupation with an upcoming intercollegiate rodeo. Andy's father is more interested in embarrassing a rival at the rodeo than he is with his son's academic progress. When his lack of focus nearly causes a tragic accident in the university chemistry lab, Andy decides to hunker down and study.
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Clues to Adventure
Title: Clues to Adventure
Character: Woman Reading Newspaper (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: April 11, 1949
Type: Movie
This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provisions - freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and prohibition of the infliction of cruel and unusual punishments - in the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights.
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Shamrock Hill
Title: Shamrock Hill
Character: Grandma Rogan
Released: February 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A young girl holds a special place in her heart for a place called Shamrock HIll, and she tries to stop it from having a television station built on it.
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Highway 13
Title: Highway 13
Character: Aunt Myrt Lacy
Released: December 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Hank Wilson is a driver for a truck for a big transportation company which is in financial straits. He is in love with Doris Lacy, a waitress at the truck-stop where the company has its truck fleet serviced. Frequent accidents near the place leads the company to hire a private detective to investigate, and when the detective is murdered Hank is arrested as a suspect. The insurance company that covers the fleet has him released and he is sent back to work with instructions to investigate the accidents on his own. The trail leads to the uncle of Doris, and one of the part-owners of the company.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Scottish Woman (uncredited)
Released: November 28, 1948
Type: Movie
In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer.
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The Strange Mrs. Crane
Title: The Strange Mrs. Crane
Character: Nora
Released: October 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former associate Floyd Durant shows up to blackmail Gina, she has no choice but to murder him. Things take a bizarre turn when Barbara Arnold is charged with Durant's murder and Gina is selected to serve on the jury.
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Fort Apache
Title: Fort Apache
Character: Ma (barmaid)
Released: June 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.
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Big Town Scandal
Title: Big Town Scandal
Character: Mary - Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1948
Type: Movie
A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
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Angels' Alley
Title: Angels' Alley
Character: Mrs. Mamie Mahoney
Released: March 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.
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The Judge Steps Out
Title: The Judge Steps Out
Character: Annie (Scrub Woman) (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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Roses Are Red
Title: Roses Are Red
Character: Cleaning Lady
Released: November 10, 1947
Type: Movie
A crooked crime boss tries to put a crony into office.
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The Invisible Wall
Title: The Invisible Wall
Character: Mrs. Bledsoe
Released: October 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was supposed to deliver to gambling and a con artist. His attempts to get the money back leads to bigger problems including a murder plot.
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Exposed
Title: Exposed
Character: Housekeeper
Released: September 8, 1947
Type: Movie
A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.
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The Long Night
Title: The Long Night
Character: Old Woman in Crowd (uncredited)
Released: May 28, 1947
Type: Movie
City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.
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Sister Kenny
Title: Sister Kenny
Character: Mrs. Gordon (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. Mahoney
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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Shadows Over Chinatown
Title: Shadows Over Chinatown
Character: Mrs. Conover
Released: June 27, 1946
Type: Movie
In San Francisco's Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing relatives and uncovers a murder for insurance scheme.
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In Fast Company
Title: In Fast Company
Character: Mrs. Cassidy
Released: June 22, 1946
Type: Movie
The Bowery Boys come to the rescue when a corrupt taxi company puts the squeeze on several independent drivers.
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Dressed to Kill
Title: Dressed to Kill
Character: Mrs. Hudson
Released: May 24, 1946
Type: Movie
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.
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The Hoodlum Saint
Title: The Hoodlum Saint
Character: Trina
Released: April 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
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Sentimental Journey
Title: Sentimental Journey
Character: Agnes, the Cook (uncredited)
Released: March 6, 1946
Type: Movie
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides to adopt the child so that her husband Bill will not be alone when she dies. Unfortunately, Bill is not charmed by Hitty.
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Little Giant
Title: Little Giant
Character: Ma Miller
Released: February 22, 1946
Type: Movie
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
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Kitty
Title: Kitty
Character: Nanny
Released: October 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
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Strange Confession
Title: Strange Confession
Character: Mrs. O'Connor
Released: October 5, 1945
Type: Movie
A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in the death of the scientist's son.
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Divorce
Title: Divorce
Character: Ellen
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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Captain Eddie
Title: Captain Eddie
Character: Mrs. Westrom
Released: June 18, 1945
Type: Movie
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
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The Woman in Green
Title: The Woman in Green
Character: Mrs. Hudson
Released: June 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
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The Body Snatcher
Title: The Body Snatcher
Character: Mary McBride (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.
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Law of the Badlands
Title: Law of the Badlands
Released: April 14, 1945
Type: Movie
A cavalry officer is framed for the murder of a fellow officer and cashiered out of the army. After he gets out of prison he vows to find the renegade who framed him and bring him to justice.
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See My Lawyer
Title: See My Lawyer
Character: Mrs. Fillmore
Released: March 9, 1945
Type: Movie
Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub owner, B. J. Wagonhorn, refuses to let them go. In reprisal, they start hurling insults at the nightclub patrons… a ploy that soon has them facing multiple lawsuits… to the delight of three struggling attorneys, Charlie Rodman, Bettty Wilson and Arthur Lane.
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Hollywood Canteen
Title: Hollywood Canteen
Character: Hostess (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
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The Last Ride
Title: The Last Ride
Character: Mrs. Mary Kelly
Released: October 7, 1944
Type: Movie
A police lieutenant is determined to bust the gang of crooks selling defective automobile tires.
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The Pearl of Death
Title: The Pearl of Death
Character: Mrs. Hudson
Released: August 1, 1944
Type: Movie
The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to London, thanks in part to Sherlock Holmes. But before long the jewel is stolen, due to an error on Holmes' part, and shortly thereafter, a series of horrible murders begin, the murderer leaving his victims with their spines snapped and surrounded by a mass of smashed china.
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Secret Command
Title: Secret Command
Character: Mrs. McKenzie (uncredited)
Released: July 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman. Jeff still resents Sam for abandoning the family years ago and fears he may steal away Lea Damaron, his current girlfriend -- who is Sam's old flame. While Sam tries to sniff out Nazi saboteurs in the plant, he grows closer to Jill McGann, the agent tasked with pretending to be his wife.
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Secrets of Scotland Yard
Title: Secrets of Scotland Yard
Character: Libby, the Housekeeper
Released: July 26, 1944
Type: Movie
Secrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated in the old E. Phillips Oppenheim novel The Great Impersonation. After losing WW I, the German high command, with remarkable foresight, prepares for the next war by planting a spy in the British Admiralty. Edgar Barrier plays the dual role of the German spy and his British twin brother. When one twin is killed, the other assumes his identity. The question: is the surviving brother the "good" one or the bad? It is up to C. Aubrey Smith, cast as Scotland Yard inspector Sir Christopher Belt, to sort out the mystery. Though it owes a great deal to the aforementioned Oppenheim yarn, Secrets of Scotland Yard is actually based on a novel by Denison Clift, who also wrote the screenplay.
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Follow the Leader
Title: Follow the Leader
Released: June 3, 1944
Type: Movie
Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlough; actually, Muggs has been honorably discharged with a physical defect, but he tells no one of this. Danny, another East Side kid, is in jail because a large amount of medical supplies have been stolen from the warehouse where he works. Muggs see Spider, a new member of the gang, flashing a large amount of money around, and Muggs shrewdly turns toughie, boasting that he has a dishonorable discharge because of thievery. This leads Spider to confide in Muggs that he is the one who has been aiding in the theft of supplies from the warehouse, and he gets paid for the loot by Larry, operator of a nightclub where Muggs' sister, Milly, is an entertainer. Fingers, a henchman for Larry, kills Spider when he learns that Muggs has been let in on the operation. The police then suspect Muggs of killing Spider.
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The Hour Before the Dawn
Title: The Hour Before the Dawn
Character: Annie
Released: May 10, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she needs to get information about so she can help in Hitler's planned invasion of England.
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Million Dollar Kid
Title: Million Dollar Kid
Character: Mrs. McGinnis
Released: February 28, 1944
Type: Movie
The gang is friend with a millionaire because they saved him from an agression. However, the gang is suspecting that the man's son was actually one of the agressors.
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The Racket Man
Title: The Racket Man
Character: Mom Benson
Released: January 18, 1944
Type: Movie
A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees to help the FBI break up a black market ring by pretending to have been kicked out of service and to have resumed his old life of crime.
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Whispering Footsteps
Title: Whispering Footsteps
Character: Ma Murphy
Released: December 30, 1943
Type: Movie
An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.
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The Spider Woman
Title: The Spider Woman
Character: Mrs. Hudson
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".
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Smart Guy
Title: Smart Guy
Character: Maggie
Released: December 17, 1943
Type: Movie
A gambler is about to stand trial for a crime he actually didn't commit. In order to brush up his "image", he adopts an orphaned newsboy.
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Here Comes Kelly
Title: Here Comes Kelly
Character: Mrs. Kelly
Released: September 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Cocky Kelly's girlfriend helps him straighten up enough to get a job as a process server.
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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
Title: Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
Character: Mrs. Hudson
Released: September 17, 1943
Type: Movie
During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects including the owners of the home, the staff and the patients recovering there.
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Two Tickets to London
Title: Two Tickets to London
Character: Mrs. Tinkle
Released: June 14, 1943
Type: Movie
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
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Sarong Girl
Title: Sarong Girl
Character: Mattie
Released: June 11, 1943
Type: Movie
A dancer in a girlie show plots revenge when a judge orders her show closed.
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Title: Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Character: Mrs. Hudson
Released: March 24, 1943
Type: Movie
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.
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Keep 'Em Slugging
Title: Keep 'Em Slugging
Character: Mrs. Banning
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Character: Mrs. Hudson
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he shortly falls into the clutches of Professor Moriarty.
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Gentleman Jim
Title: Gentleman Jim
Character: Mrs. Casey (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
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The Mummy's Tomb
Title: The Mummy's Tomb
Character: Jane Banning
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
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Half Way to Shanghai
Title: Half Way to Shanghai
Character: Mrs. McIntyre
Released: September 18, 1942
Type: Movie
A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Character: Mrs. Hudson
Released: September 18, 1942
Type: Movie
England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terror in England, just before they take place. Baffled, the Defense Committee call in Sherlock Holmes.
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The Pride of the Yankees
Title: The Pride of the Yankees
Character: Maid (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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Powder Town
Title: Powder Town
Character: Mrs. Douglas
Released: June 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr., Marion Martin and Mary Gordon.
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It Happened in Flatbush
Title: It Happened in Flatbush
Character: Mrs. Collins
Released: May 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
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Meet the Stewarts
Title: Meet the Stewarts
Character: Mrs. Stewart
Released: May 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
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Dr. Broadway
Title: Dr. Broadway
Character: Broadway Carrie
Released: May 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
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The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Title: The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Character: Mrs. Scott
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.
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Fly-By-Night
Title: Fly-By-Night
Character: Ma Prescott
Released: January 19, 1942
Type: Movie
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
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Bombay Clipper
Title: Bombay Clipper
Character: Abigail 'Mag' MacPherson
Released: January 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.
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Blue, White, and Perfect
Title: Blue, White, and Perfect
Character: Mrs. Flaherty - Mike's Landlady (uncredited)
Released: January 6, 1942
Type: Movie
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
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Sealed Lips
Title: Sealed Lips
Character: Mrs. Ann Morton (Fred's mother)
Released: January 2, 1942
Type: Movie
There's something very odd about Romano, a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing, Romano doesn't sound much like himself. For another, he always seems to be hiding something. Detective Lee suspects that something's amiss, and he's probably right!
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Riot Squad
Title: Riot Squad
Character: Mrs. McGonigle
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Crime drama starring Richard Cromwell as a young medic who becomes the private physician to an underworld gang.
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Borrowed Hero
Title: Borrowed Hero
Character: Mrs. Riley
Released: December 5, 1941
Type: Movie
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
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Appointment for Love
Title: Appointment for Love
Character: Martha
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.
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It Started with Eve
Title: It Started with Eve
Character: Mrs. O'Toole (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
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Unfinished Business
Title: Unfinished Business
Character: Miss Brady
Released: August 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment – the film charts the relationship that develops between a small-town girl in the big city, and the brother of the man who has heartlessly seduced and abandoned her.
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Double Cross
Title: Double Cross
Character: Mrs. Murray
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A disgraced cop aims to reclaim his honor by nailing a corrupt crime boss.
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Pot o' Gold
Title: Pot o' Gold
Character: Mom McCorkle
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
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Flight from Destiny
Title: Flight from Destiny
Character: Martha
Released: February 8, 1941
Type: Movie
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
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The Invisible Woman
Title: The Invisible Woman
Character: Mrs. Bates
Released: December 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.
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Kitty Foyle
Title: Kitty Foyle
Character: Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.
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No, No, Nanette
Title: No, No, Nanette
Character: Gertrude, the Cook
Released: December 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?
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Nobody's Children
Title: Nobody's Children
Character: Mary
Released: December 12, 1940
Type: Movie
A radio host broadcasts a show about children living in an orphanage.
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Go West
Title: Go West
Character: Train Passenger
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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Public Deb No. 1
Title: Public Deb No. 1
Character: Landlady
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
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Young People
Title: Young People
Character: Old Woman
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.
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When the Daltons Rode
Title: When the Daltons Rode
Character: Ma Dalton
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
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Queen of the Mob
Title: Queen of the Mob
Character: Tenement Landlady
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
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The Last Alarm
Title: The Last Alarm
Character: Mrs. Hadley
Released: June 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A recently retired fire captain suffers from boredom, until one of his friends is killed battling an arson fire. It becomes his purpose in life to track down the arsonist. As he gets closer to finding the killer, things become dangerous for him and his family.
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Brother Orchid
Title: Brother Orchid
Character: Mrs. Sweeney - Flo's Landlady (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
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I Take This Oath
Title: I Take This Oath
Character: Mrs. Eileen Hanagan
Released: May 20, 1940
Type: Movie
The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers.
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Tear Gas Squad
Title: Tear Gas Squad
Character: Mrs. Sullivan
Released: May 4, 1940
Type: Movie
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
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Saps at Sea
Title: Saps at Sea
Character: Mrs. O'Riley
Released: April 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues.
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My Son, My Son!
Title: My Son, My Son!
Character: Mrs. Mulvaney
Released: March 21, 1940
Type: Movie
A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him.
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Women Without Names
Title: Women Without Names
Character: Juror
Released: March 14, 1940
Type: Movie
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
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The Invisible Man Returns
Title: The Invisible Man Returns
Character: Cookie (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1940
Type: Movie
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
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The Night of Nights
Title: The Night of Nights
Character: 1nd Pencil Woman (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Title: Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Character: Mrs. O'Leary
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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Day-time Wife
Title: Day-time Wife
Character: Scrubwoman
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
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Rulers of the Sea
Title: Rulers of the Sea
Character: Mrs. Ogilvie (Uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1939
Type: Movie
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
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The Marshal Of Mesa City
Title: The Marshal Of Mesa City
Character: Mrs. Dudley
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Woman (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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The Escape
Title: The Escape
Character: Neighbor
Released: October 5, 1939
Type: Movie
An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Mrs. Hudson
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…
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The Story That Couldn't Be Printed
Title: The Story That Couldn't Be Printed
Character: Woman Reading Newspaper (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1939
Type: Movie
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of John Peter Zenger, who in Colonial New York was tried for sedition based on what he printed in his newspaper.
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She Married a Cop
Title: She Married a Cop
Character: Ma Duffy
Released: July 11, 1939
Type: Movie
This comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation among two producers when he sings at the annual Policeman's Ball. For a long time, they have been looking for a voice for their new cartoon feature, "Paddy the Pig," and the cop is just perfect. The policeman is tickled pink at the prospect of being a star and begins telling all his friends about his good fortune (he has no idea what they plan to do with his voice). Eventually he ends up marrying one of the producers, who still hasn't told him the truth. Suddenly the night of the big premiere finally arrives and all of the policeman's old friends and colleagues are there. As it begins, the policeman is appalled and humiliated to see that he has been mocked and has become a laughing stock. He immediately spurns his new wife and goes back to the police force. Time passes, and fortunately, the two reunite and settle their differences.
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Tell No Tales
Title: Tell No Tales
Character: Mrs. Bryant (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1939
Type: Movie
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
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The Jones Family in Hollywood
Title: The Jones Family in Hollywood
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
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Captain Fury
Title: Captain Fury
Character: Mrs. Bailey
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
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Code of the Streets
Title: Code of the Streets
Character: Mrs. Flaherty
Released: April 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis, Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay is innocent.
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Broadway Serenade
Title: Broadway Serenade
Character: Annie (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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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Character: Mrs. Hudson
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds that Sherlock Holmes is there to investigate the local belief that his uncle was killed by a monster hound that has roamed the moors since 1650, and is likely to strike again at Sir Henry.
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Tail Spin
Title: Tail Spin
Character: Mrs. Lee
Released: February 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
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Wings of the Navy
Title: Wings of the Navy
Character: Irene's Housekeeper
Released: February 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
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Off the Record
Title: Off the Record
Character: Mrs. Finnegan (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
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Campus Confessions
Title: Campus Confessions
Character: Mrs. Twill
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
This comical campus romance showcases the fancy footwork of All-American basketball player Hank Luisetti while it tells the story of a dean's son who does his very best to become a good student. When he fails, he turns to playing basketball and befriends Luisetti, which makes him quite popular. This doesn't sit well with the dean, who wants academics to be more important than sports.
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Gateway
Title: Gateway
Character: Scottish Mother
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
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City Streets
Title: City Streets
Character: Mrs. Devlin
Released: July 1, 1938
Type: Movie
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" Joe Carmine. Joe convinces Father Ryan to let him informally adopt her. Joe and Winnie live together with Tommy Devlin and his grandmother, Mrs. Devlin, and a dog Winnie names Muriel. Joe sells his shop to pay for an unsuccessful operation on Winnie's legs. This bankrupts Carmine, who then earns a meager living selling fruits and vegetables on the streets. Winnie is sent to live in an orphanage, and Carmine is discouraged from continuing his relationship with her. Carmine is so distraught by grief that he slowly begins to die. Winnie is brought to him by Father Ryan, and she finds the strength to stand and walk to his bedside and sings his favorite song, "Santa Maria." Later, after Winnie has acquired full use of her legs, Joe, in his new catering truck, takes the children on a picnic in the country.
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Blond Cheat
Title: Blond Cheat
Character: Maggie (uncredited)
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Mrs. MacDonald
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
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Mannequin
Title: Mannequin
Character: Mrs. O'Rourke (Uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
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Friend Indeed
Title: Friend Indeed
Character: Housekeeper
Released: December 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Pete Smith tells the story of 'Sparky', a German shepherd dog trained to lead his blind master, a country doctor who lost his sight in a fire, and now has to depend upon the dog to lead him in his daily rounds. 'Sparky" was the dog who was responsible for the Interstate Commerce Commission passing a special ruling allowing guide-dogs to travel first-class in Pullman cars to accompany their blind partner, and not as animals confined to the baggage car. Smith shows how 'Sparky' went to Washington D. C. with his master and helped sell the change to the legislators.
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Lady Behave!
Title: Lady Behave!
Character: Cook
Released: December 22, 1937
Type: Movie
It's bad enough that Clarice Kendall Andrews, Paula's irresponsible sister, comes home from celebrating Mardi Gras and drunkenly mentions that she got married during the festivities. What's worse is the fact that Paula knows that Clarice is still married to an equally irresponsible gigolo. Paula learns that the man Clarice married, Stephen Cormack, is on his yacht and his lawyer, thinking that Paula is Clarice, offers the older woman $5000 to annul the marriage.
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You're Only Young Once
Title: You're Only Young Once
Character: Mary's Mother (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Andy Hardy and his sister find romance during a family vacation in Catalina.
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A Damsel in Distress
Title: A Damsel in Distress
Character: Cook (uncredited)
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the staff of Tottney Castle have laid bets on who she'll choose, with young Albert wagering on 'Mr. X'. After Alyce goes to London to meet a beau she is restricted to the castle to curb her scandalous behavior. Albert then summons Jerry to Alyce's aid in order to 'protect his investment'.
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Double Wedding
Title: Double Wedding
Character: Mrs. Keough
Released: October 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
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You Can't Have Everything
Title: You Can't Have Everything
Character: YWCA Scrub Woman (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
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Meet the Boy Friend
Title: Meet the Boy Friend
Character: Mrs. Grimes
Released: July 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as "America's Boyfriend" decides to wed a Swedish actress. His manager doesn't want this because he is afraid of Tony losing female fans so he takes up a 300 hundred thousand dollar insurance policy if Tony does in fact wed. Tony soon meets a girl name June Delaney on a bus who doesn't swoon over him like other girls. He falls for her but doesn't know her true identity.
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Her Husband Lies
Title: Her Husband Lies
Character: Mrs. Jenks
Released: March 13, 1937
Type: Movie
J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his beautiful wife Natalie, a nightclub singer who retired when they married. Spade's younger brother "Chick" wires Spade from Seattle that he has quit gambling for a job in real estate and is about to marry a nice girl named Betty. Relieved to find his kid brother is straight, Spade sends him $10,000 cash as a wedding present. When a woman posing as a pregnant wife comes to Spade for a loan, Spade gives it to her. Later, when Steve Burdick, the woman's supposed husband, brags in a bar that he made a fool of Spade, Spade's hit man, Trigger, kills Burdick. Tired of Spade's gambling, Natalie books a return engagement at Cafe Nocturne, telling him that she is a singer rather than a wife now.
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The Great O'Malley
Title: The Great O'Malley
Character: Mrs. O'Malley
Released: February 13, 1937
Type: Movie
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
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The Plough and the Stars
Title: The Plough and the Stars
Character: Woman at Barricades
Released: December 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.
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After the Thin Man
Title: After the Thin Man
Character: Rose (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.
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The Plot Thickens
Title: The Plot Thickens
Character: Woman with Bag
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
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Great Guy
Title: Great Guy
Character: Mrs. Ogilvie
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
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Stage Struck
Title: Stage Struck
Character: Mrs. Cassidy
Released: September 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.
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Mary of Scotland
Title: Mary of Scotland
Character: Nurse
Released: July 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
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The White Angel
Title: The White Angel
Character: Nursing Applicant (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1936
Type: Movie
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
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Little Miss Nobody
Title: Little Miss Nobody
Character: Mrs. Biddle
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
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Share the Wealth
Title: Share the Wealth
Character: Ma MacClyde
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A small town shoe clerk runs for mayor under a "Share the Wealth" platform but finds himself in trouble when he's the recipient of $50,000.
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Laughing Irish Eyes
Title: Laughing Irish Eyes
Character: Mrs. O'Keefe
Released: March 4, 1936
Type: Movie
An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.
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The Lady Consents
Title: The Lady Consents
Character: Apple Lady
Released: February 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized.
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Mutiny on the Bounty
Title: Mutiny on the Bounty
Character: Peddler (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
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Waterfront Lady
Title: Waterfront Lady
Character: Mrs. O'Flaherty
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
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Bonnie Scotland
Title: Bonnie Scotland
Character: Mrs. Bickerdike
Released: August 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
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The Irish in Us
Title: The Irish in Us
Character: Ma O'Hara
Released: July 31, 1935
Type: Movie
A boxer and his policeman brother feud over a police captain's daughter.
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Ginger
Title: Ginger
Character: Mrs. Monahan (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian actor. Although denied the love of a mother and father, Ginger looks after her uncle, gives him lectures, loves him, defends him and keeps house for him. But, through a meddling do-gooder, she is placed in the home of the Parkers, and clashes immediately with the pampered young son, Hamilton.
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$10 Raise
Title: $10 Raise
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A timid, overworked and underpaid bookkeeper needs a $10 raise to marry his sweetheart...
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Bride of Frankenstein
Title: Bride of Frankenstein
Character: Hans' Wife
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.
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Vanessa: Her Love Story
Title: Vanessa: Her Love Story
Character: Mrs. Leathwaite
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
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The Little Minister
Title: The Little Minister
Character: Nanny
Released: December 28, 1934
Type: Movie
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relationship with this feisty, passionate young woman, who holds a secret about the village's nobleman, Lord Milford Rintoul, and his role in an increasingly fractious labor dispute.
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Our Daily Bread
Title: Our Daily Bread
Character: Community Woman in Cottage (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society based upon the teachings of Edward Gallafent. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.
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Charlie Chan in London
Title: Charlie Chan in London
Character: Prison Visitor (uncredited)
Released: September 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor. Pamela is convinced of his innocence.
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The Man from Hell
Title: The Man from Hell
Character: Mrs. Frank McCarrol
Released: August 28, 1934
Type: Movie
A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough western town where he finds trouble everywhere.
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One More River
Title: One More River
Character: Cook (Uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1934
Type: Movie
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
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The Defense Rests
Title: The Defense Rests
Character: Scrub Woman
Released: July 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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Cross Streets
Title: Cross Streets
Character: Sonny's Mother
Released: July 5, 1934
Type: Movie
A man falls in love with a young woman, only to discover that she's the daughter of an ex-girlfriend who jilted him almost 20 years before.
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Baby Take a Bow
Title: Baby Take a Bow
Character: Mrs. O'Brien (Uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight, and Eddie and Kay have a beautiful little girl named Shirley. However, Welch has kept a close eye on them for years. He believes in "once a criminal, always a criminal." Then, when Eddie's employer's wife's pearls go missing, it comes out that Eddie and Larry both spent time in prison, and they're fired. Welch suspects that Eddie and Larry have something to do with the theft of the pearls. Will Welch prove that Eddie and Larry had something to do with the theft, or will the truth prevail?
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Change of Heart
Title: Change of Heart
Character: Woman in Street
Released: May 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.
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Manhattan Melodrama
Title: Manhattan Melodrama
Character: Boat Passenger (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
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The Woman Condemned
Title: The Woman Condemned
Character: Crying Woman at Night Court (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1934
Type: Movie
When a radio star is found murdered in her home, everyone assumes that the mysterious young woman discovered with her is the culprit — everyone, that is, but newspaper reporter Jerry Beall, who sets out to prove her innocence.
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Beloved
Title: Beloved
Character: Mrs. O'Leary
Released: January 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
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Design for Living
Title: Design for Living
Character: Theatre Chambermaid (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1933
Type: Movie
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
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The Invisible Man
Title: The Invisible Man
Character: Screaming Woman (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Working in Dr. Cranley's laboratory, scientist Jack Griffin was always given the latitude to conduct some of his own experiments. His sudden departure, however, has Cranley's daughter Flora worried about him. Griffin has taken a room at the nearby Lion's Head Inn, hoping to reverse an experiment he conducted on himself that made him invisible. But the experimental drug has also warped his mind, making him aggressive and dangerous. He's prepared to do whatever it takes to restore his appearance.
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Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Title: Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Character: Cleaning Woman
Released: November 2, 1933
Type: Movie
Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?
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Meet the Baron
Title: Meet the Baron
Character: Washer Woman (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
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The Power and the Glory
Title: The Power and the Glory
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1933
Type: Movie
A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime he lost touch with his family. When he saw what was happening it was already too late.
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My Woman
Title: My Woman
Character: Woman at Ironing Board (Uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
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Doctor Bull
Title: Doctor Bull
Character: Townswoman at Meeting
Released: September 22, 1933
Type: Movie
In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!
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The Kiss Before the Mirror
Title: The Kiss Before the Mirror
Character: Scrubwoman (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1933
Type: Movie
When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.
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Sweepings
Title: Sweepings
Character: Mrs. Patrick O'Leary (Uncredited)
Released: April 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude.
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The Whirlwind
Title: The Whirlwind
Character: Mrs. Curtis
Released: April 13, 1933
Type: Movie
After years of wandering due to a charge of murder, Tim Reynolds returns to Sagebrush to find the Sheriff Tate Hurley who was his chief accuser. The hatred between the two men was not extinguished, and they first compete in a wrestling match.
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Nature in the Wrong
Title: Nature in the Wrong
Character: Mrs. Clancy
Released: March 18, 1933
Type: Movie
Charley, hoping to find cultured people in his ancestry in order to be suitable to Muriel's family, is tricked by his rival Ronnie into believing himself a descendant of Tarzan. Conked on the head, Charley suddenly believes he IS Tarzan.
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Men Must Fight
Title: Men Must Fight
Character: Pacifist Audience Member
Released: February 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.
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She Done Him Wrong
Title: She Done Him Wrong
Character: Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1933
Type: Movie
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
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Ladies They Talk About
Title: Ladies They Talk About
Character: Prisoner in Visiting Room
Released: February 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
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Call Her Savage
Title: Call Her Savage
Character: Lady in Tenement (Uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
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Wild Girl
Title: Wild Girl
Character: Washerwoman (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.
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Blonde Venus
Title: Blonde Venus
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Title: Pack Up Your Troubles
Character: Mrs. MacTavish (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed by the enemy during a battle. After the war is over, Stan and Ollie venture to New York City, where they begin a quest to reunite Eddie's little daughter with her rightful family. The task proves both monumental and problematic as the boys discover just how many people in New York have the last name Smith.
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70,000 Witnesses
Title: 70,000 Witnesses
Character: Scrubwoman (uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1932
Type: Movie
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.
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Beauty Parlor
Title: Beauty Parlor
Character: Landlady
Released: June 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Film follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by a true gentleman of means, the other of whom lets herself become a pawn of operators of a call-girl ring.
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Radio Patrol
Title: Radio Patrol
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1932
Type: Movie
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
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Dancers in the Dark
Title: Dancers in the Dark
Character: Scrubwoman
Released: March 11, 1932
Type: Movie
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.
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The Expert
Title: The Expert
Character: Neighbor
Released: March 5, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
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The Impatient Maiden
Title: The Impatient Maiden
Character: Irish Neighbor (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
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Texas Cyclone
Title: Texas Cyclone
Character: Kate
Released: February 24, 1932
Type: Movie
When Texas Grant rides into town people think the supposedly dead Jim Rawlins has returned. After a confrontation with Utah Becker, Grant learns Jim's wife, Helen, is about to lose her ranch to Becker, so he decides to stay and pose as Rawlins in an effort to help her.
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A House Divided
Title: A House Divided
Character: Townswoman (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1931
Type: Movie
A New England fisherman's second wife prefers his son.
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Possessed
Title: Possessed
Character: Woman at Political Rally (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer can make her dreams come true, but there is only one problem, he will give her everything but a marriage proposal. Will this affair ever lead to marriage?
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24 Hours
Title: 24 Hours
Character: Nurse
Released: October 3, 1931
Type: Movie
A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.
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Waterloo Bridge
Title: Waterloo Bridge
Character: Distraught Woman on Stairway (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1931
Type: Movie
In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. After they fall for each other, Roy tricks Myra into visiting his family, who live in a country estate outside London, his mother having remarried to a retired British Major. Myra is reluctant to continue the relationship with Roy, he not aware of her past.
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The Brat
Title: The Brat
Character: Angry Wife in Night Court (uncredited)
Released: August 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon her behavior has forever altered their snobbish ways.
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The Black Camel
Title: The Black Camel
Character: Mrs. MacMasters
Released: June 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tarneverro first. Enter inspector Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police, investigating the unsolved murder, three years earlier, of a Hollywood actor.
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Subway Express
Title: Subway Express
Character: Mrs. Delaney
Released: May 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a subway passenger and the usual-and-unusual suspects climb on and off at each stop.
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Oh, for a Man!
Title: Oh, for a Man!
Character: Stage Door Admirer with Violets
Released: November 28, 1930
Type: Movie
Disenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up her career to marry him. But Barney grows disenchanted himself at being known as the husband of a diva and itches to get back to his life of crime and manliness.
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Anybody's Woman
Title: Anybody's Woman
Character: Maid
Released: August 15, 1930
Type: Movie
A lawyer, left by his wife, gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after.
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Roaring Ranch
Title: Roaring Ranch
Character: Mrs. O'Riley (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1930
Type: Movie
Cowboy fights to keep his ranch after oil is discovered on it.
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When the Wind Blows
Title: When the Wind Blows
Character: Chubby's Mother (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Jackie throws his schoolbook out the window in disgust, but then climbs outside to retrieve it. Finding himself locked out, he tries various means of getting back inside without his parents finding out. When his parents mistake his noises for a burglar, a local policeman is called, but he seems incompetent to catch either the phony burglar or the real one who has shown up in the meantime
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The Ghosts
Title: The Ghosts
Character: Chubby's Mama
Released: April 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Juanito gets locked out of his house in the middle of a windy night. Spanish language version of When the Wind Blows (1930)
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His Honor the Mayor
Title: His Honor the Mayor
Character: His Wife
Released: March 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Charles Murray is running for mayor. Opponent Eddie Baker has a young woman go into his shoe shop and, while changing stockings, say things that will alienate the women voters; Baker tells her it's a practical joke, and he'll get her boy friend out of jail.
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Song o' My Heart
Title: Song o' My Heart
Character: Irish Woman
Released: March 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Broken hearts in Ireland. Sean is a great tenor, in semi-retirement, living in a village close to Mary, the woman he’s always loved. Mary’s aunt convinced her to marry a man for his money; he has recently deserted her, leaving her penniless. She and her two children, Eileen and Tad, move in with the selfish and austere aunt. Eileen is falling in love with Fergus, a young man who’s off to Dublin to seek his fortune. Sean is drawn out of retirement and goes on tour in America. At his first concert, he’s nervous and out of sorts until the last song, when peace descends on him like a gift. What has happened, and can family life be set right?
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Hell's Heroes
Title: Hell's Heroes
Character: Choir Member (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers.
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The Saturday Night Kid
Title: The Saturday Night Kid
Character: Reducing customer (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1929
Type: Movie
Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is Jean Harlow's first credited role.
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Is Everybody Happy?
Title: Is Everybody Happy?
Character: Neighbor (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1929
Type: Movie
It is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist. The music for the film was written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke, except for "St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy and "Tiger Rag". The film's title comes from Lewis's catchphrase "Is everybody happy?" The film's soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, but the film itself is considered a lost film, according to the Vitaphone Project website. A five minute clip from the film can be found on YouTube.
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Madame X
Title: Madame X
Character: Nursemaid (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1929
Type: Movie
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her three year old son again despite her earnest attempts to make amends. For many years the mother seeks refuge overseas and in Absinthe. In the end, her son, a young and promising lawyer unknowingly defends her in court. Ruth Chatterton gives a marvelous performance in this early talkie in her portrayal of Madame X.
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The Ol' Gray Hoss
Title: The Ol' Gray Hoss
Character: First taxi passenger
Released: October 19, 1928
Type: Movie
This story revolves around an old man who feels alone in the world aside from the gang who keeps him company and his old horse. He runs a horse and buggy business, but he has new competition: an auto taxi. The gang helps him to maintain his job by sabotaging the other man's.
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Hangman's House
Title: Hangman's House
Character: The Woman at Hogan's Hideout
Released: May 13, 1928
Type: Movie
Forced by her mean-spirited father, Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien, to marry a man she doesn't love, Connaught O'Brien gives up hope of ever with her true love, Dermot McDermot. After her father dies and a hunted rebel leader returns to town, however, Connaught finds a renewed hope that the tides of oppression will shift and she might again find happiness. This silent romantic drama, set in Ireland, is the first film in which a then-unknown John Wayne is clearly visible.
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The Matinee Idol
Title: The Matinee Idol
Character: Woman in Audience (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1928
Type: Movie
The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don?
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Naughty Nanette
Title: Naughty Nanette
Character: Mrs. Rooney
Released: April 15, 1927
Type: Movie
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Black Paradise
Title: Black Paradise
Character: Mrs. Murphy
Released: May 30, 1926
Type: Movie
In San Francisco, Sylvia Douglas and her fiancée, James Callahan, a reformed crook, make their getaway after Jim, disgusted with his inability to find a job, un-reforms and steals a diamond necklace. Graham, a detective, gives chase to a desolate island in the South Pacific where a rum-running gangster, Murdock, holds him captive. Callahan becomes infatuated with a native girl, Leona, and Sylvia turns to Graham for protection against the offensive Murdock. A volcano eruption causes problems for all.
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The Home Maker
Title: The Home Maker
Character: Mrs. Hennessy
Released: November 22, 1925
Type: Movie
A man's life seems to be falling apart. He's bored with his job, gets passed over for a promotion and, when the pressures get to be too much, he tries to commit suicide, but he even fails at that and manages only to cripple himself instead of killing himself. Forced to stay at home, he finds the role of "househusband" enjoyable--until his wife takes a low-paying job with his old company, and rapidly rises up the corporate ladder.