Vera Lewis

Vera Lewis

Born: June 9, 1873
Died: February 8, 1956
in New York City, New York, USA
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Vera Lewis (June 10, 1873 – February 8, 1956) was an American film and stage actress, beginning in the silent film era. She appeared in 183 films between 1915 and 1947. She was married to actor Ralph Lewis.

She was born in Manhattan, where she began acting in stage productions. Her film career started in 1915 with the film Hypocrites, which starred Myrtle Stedman and Courtenay Foote. From 1915 to 1929 she appeared in 63 silent films, including the film classic Intolerance (1916) where she played the "old maid" Miss Jenkins.

Unlike many silent film stars, she made a smooth transition to "talking films", starting with her 1930 appearance in Wide Open, starring Patsy Ruth Miller and Edward Everett Horton. Though never what is referred to as a "premier star", she appeared in 58 films during the 1930s, and another 60 during the 1940s. She retired after 1947, and resided at the Motion Picture Country House in Woodland Hills, California at the time of her death on February 8, 1956.

Movies for Vera Lewis...

Wife to Spare
Title: Wife to Spare
Released: November 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Andy tries to fix a dilemma between a gold digging blonde and his brother-in-law who's smitten with her. This causes problems for Andy's wife.
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Title: It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Character: Woman in Chauffeured Car (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1947
Type: Movie
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
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It's a Joke, Son!
Title: It's a Joke, Son!
Character: Hortense Dimwitty
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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The Killers
Title: The Killers
Character: Ma Hirsch (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1946
Type: Movie
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
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Spook Busters
Title: Spook Busters
Character: Mrs. Grimm
Released: August 24, 1946
Type: Movie
The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old abandoned mansion in the middle of the night. Meeting up with pal Gabe and his new French bride, the boys are tormented by mad scientists who try to convince them the place is haunted and then kidnap Sach in order to place his brain inside a gorilla.
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The Cat Creeps
Title: The Cat Creeps
Character: Cora Williams
Released: May 17, 1946
Type: Movie
A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.
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Rhythm Round-Up
Title: Rhythm Round-Up
Character: Mrs. Squimp
Released: September 6, 1945
Type: Movie
Arriving in Arizona, the band members discover that the hotel is haunted and that it properly belongs to young Jimmy Benson (Curtis), the nephew of the previous owner. The "ghosts," however, turns out to be a trio of confidence men, Zeke Winslow (Guinn "Big Boy" Williams), Noah Jones (Raymond Hatton) and Slim Jensen Victor Potel, who are hoping to buy the place themselves.
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Hollywood and Vine
Title: Hollywood and Vine
Character: Fanny
Released: April 25, 1945
Type: Movie
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star.
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The Suspect
Title: The Suspect
Character: Hannah Barlow (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1945
Type: Movie
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.
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Mr. Skeffington
Title: Mr. Skeffington
Character: Justice of the Peace's Wife (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
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Princess O'Rourke
Title: Princess O'Rourke
Character: Matilda (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1943
Type: Movie
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
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Someone to Remember
Title: Someone to Remember
Character: Aggressive Miss Green
Released: August 21, 1943
Type: Movie
An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory for male students, as she is convinced that he will return one day. She continues to live in the building after it becomes a dorm, and eventually grows attached to a troubled young student whom she comes to believe is her own grandson. When she finds out that the boy's father will be visiting him, she prepares herself to be reunited with the man she has convinced herself is her long-lost son.
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The Gorilla Man
Title: The Gorilla Man
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Released: January 16, 1943
Type: Movie
A wounded soldier discovers his hospital is secretly run by the Nazis.
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The Hard Way
Title: The Hard Way
Character: 'Aunt Vera Elliott' in 'Morning Melody' (Uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
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Moontide
Title: Moontide
Character: Mrs. Simpson
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
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Lady Gangster
Title: Lady Gangster
Character: Ma Silsby
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, she is thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners don't have the same ideas.
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Bullet Scars
Title: Bullet Scars
Character: Indignant Woman in Car
Released: March 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Joe's nurse sister Nora Madison is also taken. Dillon tells Bishop that if Joe dies, he will be killed, but Bishop knows he will be either way. Joe dies, but Nora and Steve conceal it from Dillon and send a plea for help in a prescription that Bishop writes in Latin.
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Remember the Day
Title: Remember the Day
Character: Teacher
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
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They Died with Their Boots On
Title: They Died with Their Boots On
Character: Head Nurse (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1941
Type: Movie
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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Miss Polly
Title: Miss Polly
Character: Elvira Pennywinkle
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.
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One Foot in Heaven
Title: One Foot in Heaven
Character: Mrs. Simpson (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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Three Girls About Town
Title: Three Girls About Town
Character: Clubwoman
Released: October 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
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Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Title: Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Character: Mrs. Slocum
Released: September 20, 1941
Type: Movie
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
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Manpower
Title: Manpower
Character: Wife of the Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
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Bad Men of Missouri
Title: Bad Men of Missouri
Character: Mrs. Jordan
Released: July 26, 1941
Type: Movie
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
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The Lady and the Lug
Title: The Lady and the Lug
Character: Elsa's Society Friend (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1941
Type: Movie
In this comedic short, a reporter wins a boxer's contract and decides to stage an exhibition fight for a society ladies' Milk Fund benefit bazaar.
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Here Comes Happiness
Title: Here Comes Happiness
Character: Mrs. James
Released: March 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor but ambitious man. Chet observes a series of suspicious, clandestine meetings with her rich father and his chauffeur which makes him think she is stringing along a "Sugar Daddy" on the side. Financial trickery and sequences of misunderstandings and coincidences culminate with a wedding that turns out much differently than planned.
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Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos
Title: Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos
Character: Mrs. Marshall (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1941
Type: Movie
In this musical short, Cliff Edwards and his cowhands run a struggling dude ranch. When a pretty girl arrives, Cliff believes she is an heiress.
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Four Mothers
Title: Four Mothers
Character: Mrs. Ridgefield
Released: January 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
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She Couldn't Say No
Title: She Couldn't Say No
Character: Pansy Hawkins
Released: December 7, 1940
Type: Movie
Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the oddball and very shrewd characters in a small town.
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Father Is A Prince
Title: Father Is A Prince
Character: Carrie
Released: November 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners. He's a bit of a skinflint, too. His family thinks he works too hard. He feels inferior for not having gone to college, so now he doesn't want his children going, either. His daughter Connie is afraid to break the news of her engagement to Gary Lee, especially since not only is Gary a lawyer and a college grad, but his father owns a vacuum-cleaner company, too.
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Money and the Woman
Title: Money and the Woman
Character: Mrs. Leslie, Depositor (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1940
Type: Movie
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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All This, and Heaven Too
Title: All This, and Heaven Too
Character: Queen Amélia of France (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.
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An Angel from Texas
Title: An Angel from Texas
Character: Mrs. Gates
Released: April 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
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The Courageous Dr. Christian
Title: The Courageous Dr. Christian
Character: Mrs. Norma Stewart
Released: April 4, 1940
Type: Movie
A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.
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Adventure in Diamonds
Title: Adventure in Diamonds
Character: Mrs. MacPherson
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.
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Granny Get Your Gun
Title: Granny Get Your Gun
Character: Carrie Ellis
Released: February 10, 1940
Type: Movie
An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges.
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Four Wives
Title: Four Wives
Character: Mrs. Ridgefield
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
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Private Detective
Title: Private Detective
Character: Mrs. Widner
Released: December 9, 1939
Type: Movie
A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.
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The Return of Doctor X
Title: The Return of Doctor X
Character: Miss Sweetman
Released: November 23, 1939
Type: Movie
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
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Kid Nightingale
Title: Kid Nightingale
Character: Woman Crashing Vase (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1939
Type: Movie
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
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The Roaring Twenties
Title: The Roaring Twenties
Character: Mrs. Gray
Released: October 28, 1939
Type: Movie
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Mrs. Edwards (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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Espionage Agent
Title: Espionage Agent
Character: American Tourist Going to Desert
Released: September 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Title: Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Character: Miss Rosemary Turnbull
Released: September 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
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Hell's Kitchen
Title: Hell's Kitchen
Character: Sarah Krispan
Released: July 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
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Naughty But Nice
Title: Naughty But Nice
Character: Aunt Annabella Hardwick
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
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Sweepstakes Winner
Title: Sweepstakes Winner
Character: Mrs. McCarthy, the Landlady
Released: May 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.
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Women in the Wind
Title: Women in the Wind
Character: Farmer's Wife
Released: April 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
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Dodge City
Title: Dodge City
Character: League Member in Polka-Dot Dress (uncredited)
Released: April 8, 1939
Type: Movie
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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On Trial
Title: On Trial
Character: Mrs. Leeds-Juror #8
Released: April 1, 1939
Type: Movie
An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.
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Yes, My Darling Daughter
Title: Yes, My Darling Daughter
Character: Mrs. Dibble
Released: February 25, 1939
Type: Movie
Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend their last weekend together in a tourist cabin at a rural lake. Her family is shocked that a young unmarried woman would engage in such amoral activity. The comic plot develops as Ellen argues her case for women's freedom and independence, trying to win over her mother, grandmother, and other dubious relatives.
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Title: Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Character: Dowager (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
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Blackwell's Island
Title: Blackwell's Island
Character: Hospital Desk Nurse (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
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Devil's Island
Title: Devil's Island
Character: Gaudet's Housekeeper
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
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Comet Over Broadway
Title: Comet Over Broadway
Character: Mrs. Appleton
Released: December 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
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Nancy Drew… Detective
Title: Nancy Drew… Detective
Character: Miss Van Deering (uncredited)
Released: November 19, 1938
Type: Movie
After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.
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Torchy Gets Her Man
Title: Torchy Gets Her Man
Character: Woman at Schmidt's Pet Store (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1938
Type: Movie
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
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Hard to Get
Title: Hard to Get
Character: Mrs. Petewyler (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1938
Type: Movie
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.
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Girls on Probation
Title: Girls on Probation
Character: Miss Lewis
Released: October 22, 1938
Type: Movie
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
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Broadway Musketeers
Title: Broadway Musketeers
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nightclub performer.
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Boy Meets Girl
Title: Boy Meets Girl
Character: Studio Cleaning Woman
Released: August 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...
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Four Daughters
Title: Four Daughters
Character: Mrs. Ridgefield
Released: August 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue.
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Title: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Character: Juror (uncredited)
Released: July 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
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Racket Busters
Title: Racket Busters
Character: Jordan's Neighbor (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
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In Old Chicago
Title: In Old Chicago
Character: Wedding Witness (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
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Maid of Salem
Title: Maid of Salem
Character: Townswoman (Uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
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Missing Girls
Title: Missing Girls
Character: Ma Barton
Released: September 10, 1936
Type: Movie
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
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Dancing Pirate
Title: Dancing Pirate
Character: Orville's Mother (uncredited)
Released: May 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy. When the pirate vessel arrives at the port of Las Palomas, Jonathan, clad in buccaneer's garb, makes his escape. Everyone in Las Palomas, including Governor Alcalde (Frank Morgan) and fetching senorita Serafina (Steffi Duna), assumes that Jonathan is the pirate chieftain, leading to a series of typical comic-opera complications.
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Paddy O'Day
Title: Paddy O'Day
Character: Aunt Flora
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.
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Never Too Late
Title: Never Too Late
Character: Mother Hartley
Released: November 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A young man gets mixed up with a stolen necklace and a gang of ruthless jewel thieves.
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Way Down East
Title: Way Down East
Character: Mrs. Poole
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
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Navy Wife
Title: Navy Wife
Character: Bridge Player
Released: September 17, 1935
Type: Movie
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
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Man on the Flying Trapeze
Title: Man on the Flying Trapeze
Character: Mrs. Cordelia Neselrode
Released: August 3, 1935
Type: Movie
Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.
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The Daring Young Man
Title: The Daring Young Man
Character: Secretary to the Duchess
Released: July 17, 1935
Type: Movie
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
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The Meanest Gal in Town
Title: The Meanest Gal in Town
Character: Woman at Mayor's Outing (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1934
Type: Movie
A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
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Meet the Baron
Title: Meet the Baron
Character: Head Housekeeper (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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Night Nurse
Title: Night Nurse
Character: Miss Dillon
Released: July 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.
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Command Performance
Title: Command Performance
Character: Queen Elizabeth
Released: January 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance to the prince. The King and Queen hatch a plan to force the prince to do his duty.
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Strictly Unconventional
Title: Strictly Unconventional
Character: Duchess of Brocklehurst
Released: May 3, 1930
Type: Movie
An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian. However her mother-in-law, who did something similar thirty years before, tries to prevent her.
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Wide Open
Title: Wide Open
Character: Mrs. Hathaway
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.
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The Iron Mask
Title: The Iron Mask
Character: Madame Peronne
Released: February 21, 1929
Type: Movie
King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France. Alas, keeping the secret means sending Constance, lover of D'Artagnan, off to a convent. D'Artagnan hears of this and rallies the Musketeers in a bid to rescue her. Unfortunately, Richelieu out-smarts the Musketeers and banishes them forever.
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The Home Towners
Title: The Home Towners
Character: Mrs. Calhoun
Released: November 3, 1928
Type: Movie
Man from small town comes to New York to be best man at an old friend's wedding. He mistakenly supposes that the girl and her family are after his friend's money, and almost wrecks their romance.
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Ramona
Title: Ramona
Character: Señora Moreno
Released: March 27, 1928
Type: Movie
Based on the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of 1884 about a young woman of partial Native American descent, who experiences love and loss in 1800s California.
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The Small Bachelor
Title: The Small Bachelor
Character: Mrs. Waddington
Released: November 6, 1927
Type: Movie
What must a man do in order to put an end to his bachelorhood? For George Finch, one of nature's white mice and probably the worst artist ever to put brush to canvas, there are many obstacles. Undoubtedly the greatest is his beloved Molly's fearsome stepmother, Mrs. Waddington, who has her eye on an eligible English lord for a son-in-law. Luckily, George has an ally in sharp-witted Hamilton Beamish, an old family friend of the Waddingtons, not to mention George's butler, Mullett, and his light-fingered girlfriend, Fanny, whose valuable skills are of particular interest to the would-be father-in-law.
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What Happened To Father
Title: What Happened To Father
Character: Mrs. Bradberry
Released: June 25, 1927
Type: Movie
Film was released in 1927
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Resurrection
Title: Resurrection
Character: Aunt Marya
Released: March 19, 1927
Type: Movie
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
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The Broken Gate
Title: The Broken Gate
Character: Invalid
Released: February 15, 1927
Type: Movie
In the small farming community of Spring Valley, young Aurora Lane has caused a scandal by bearing a son by townsman Lucius Henderson, who refuses to marry her or even admit that he's the father. Shunned as a "sinful" woman by most of the town, she turns over her son, Don, to be raised by Miss Julia, the town librarian, who tells the boy that she's his "aunt". Don grows up and goes to college, and when he comes back home the town gossips begin a rumor-mongering campaign. When the town policeman tries to drive Aurora out of town he is found murdered, and Don is arrested for the crime.
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Take It from Me
Title: Take It from Me
Character: Mrs. Forsythe
Released: October 10, 1926
Type: Movie
Tom Eggett, with the help of his pals, Dick and Van, loses the last cent of his inheritance, is evicted from his apartment, and is rejected by Gwen, his fiancée. A codicil to his uncle's will, however, stipulates that he shall inherit the Eggett department store provided that he operate it for 3 months at a profit. Cyrus Crabb, manager of the store, is determined to gain possession of the business and arranges for the company's credit to be canceled during Tom's management, though Grace Gordon, a stenographer, has evidence of his perfidy.
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The Lily
Title: The Lily
Character: Mrs. Arnaud Sr
Released: October 3, 1926
Type: Movie
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Ella Cinders
Title: Ella Cinders
Character: Ma Cinders
Released: June 6, 1926
Type: Movie
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.
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The Only Thing
Title: The Only Thing
Character: Princess Erek
Released: November 22, 1925
Type: Movie
Thyra arrives in Chekia to wed its old and ugly king. The Duke falls in love with her. A revolution erupts and the king is assassinated. Chief revolutionary Gigberto also falls in love with Thyra. The revolutionaries plan to drown Thyra and Gigberto in a boat, but the Duke takes Gigberto's place. And the loving couple are rescued.
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Stella Dallas
Title: Stella Dallas
Character: Mrs. Tibbets
Released: November 16, 1925
Type: Movie
An eccentric lower class woman struggles to gain respect in high society after marrying a wealthy man, and the problem gets worse when their daughter starts growing up.
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Eve's Secret
Title: Eve's Secret
Character: Duchess
Released: May 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Eve's Secret is that she's not the elegant society woman she seems to be. In fact, Eve is an unkempt country girl who's been "transformed," Pygmalion style, by European duke Poltava.
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Enticement
Title: Enticement
Character: Mrs. Blake
Released: March 1, 1925
Type: Movie
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The Dark Swan
Title: The Dark Swan
Character: Mrs. Quinn
Released: November 26, 1924
Type: Movie
An American drama based on a novel
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Broadway After Dark
Title: Broadway After Dark
Character: Mrs. Smith
Released: May 19, 1924
Type: Movie
Ralph Norton, man-about-town and wealthy favorite in Broadway society circles, is attracted to Helen Tremaine, but her flirtatious behavior causes him to reject the superficial life of his set.
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How to Educate a Wife
Title: How to Educate a Wife
Character: Mrs. Bancks
Released: May 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Business failure Ernest Todd is advised by his friend, Billy Breese, to enlist his wife's charms as a means of winning customers.
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Long Live the King
Title: Long Live the King
Character: Archduchess Annuncita
Released: November 26, 1923
Type: Movie
A young crown prince, wishing to be just an ordinary boy, runs away with his friend. The king dies, and when the prince does not appear, the people begin to rise in revolution. When the crown prince finally hears the death knell for the late king he immediately attempts to return to the palace, however is abducted by revolutionaries and held captive. Will he be rescued in time to restore order?
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The Marriage Market
Title: The Marriage Market
Character: Aunt Agnes Piggott
Released: October 25, 1923
Type: Movie
The story of a wealthy young flapper, Theodora Bland (Pauline Garon), and the amorous adventures and misadventures she has after being expelled from a fashionable and costly east-coast boarding school.
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Peg o' My Heart
Title: Peg o' My Heart
Character: Mrs. Chichester
Released: December 17, 1922
Type: Movie
PEG O MY HEART (Metro Studios, 1922), directed by King Vidor, under the supervision of J. Hartley Manners, introduces the legendary theatrical actress Laurette Taylor (1884-1946) to the screen reprising the role she made famous as a poor Irish farm girl who inherits a fortune but would rather have happiness instead. While a bit too old for the character supposedly in her late teens or early twenties, Laurette was tailor made for it.
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Nancy from Nowhere
Title: Nancy from Nowhere
Character: Mrs. Kelly
Released: January 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Adopted by the Kellys from an orphanage, Nancy is reared in dreadful surroundings and mistreated as the household drudge. She accidentally makes the acquaintance of Jack Halliday, son of a wealthy city family who is fishing near her home. When Mrs. Kelly beats Nancy for accepting the attentions of her husband, the girl escapes into the woods and conceals herself in the rear of Jack's car as he drives into the city.
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The Glorious Fool
Title: The Glorious Fool
Character: Miss Hart
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Billy Grant, a wealthy young playboy, drunkenly crashes his car and appears near death. Afraid that his greedy and unpleasant relatives will get his estate, he convinces his nurse, Jane Brown, to marry him. When Billy regains his health, Jane finds herself in a situation she never imagined nor intended.
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She Couldn't Help It
Title: She Couldn't Help It
Character: Mother Hogan
Released: December 14, 1920
Type: Movie
Removed from an orphanage, Nance Olden is taken to live at Mother Hogan's boarding-house for crooks. There she becomes Tom Morgan's partner, helping him steal a jewel from Edward Ramsey at Union Station.
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Nurse Marjorie
Title: Nurse Marjorie
Character: Duchess of Donegal
Released: April 3, 1920
Type: Movie
Lady Marjorie Donegal becomes a nurse in hospital, much to the dismay of her aristocratic family. She falls in love with one of her patients, a commoner labor leader.
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The Blooming Angel
Title: The Blooming Angel
Character: Floss's Aunt
Released: February 8, 1920
Type: Movie
Floss Brannon, expelled from college for mischievous conduct, marries Chester Framm, a struggling young student who aspires to be an orator. When Chester's salary as an insurance clerk proves insufficient for the couple's needs, Claire invents a complexion cream called "Angel Bloom." Deciding to combine Chester's oratory prowess with the promotion of Angel Bloom, Floss rents an elephant, coats it with the cream and plans to have Chester pitch the product from the back of the animal.
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Lombardi, Ltd.
Title: Lombardi, Ltd.
Character: Mollie
Released: October 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Tito Lombardi a Fifth Avenue dress designer, causes his business to suffer by his generous dispensation of credit to clients, one of whom, Max Strohm, the manager of a musical review, has promised payment for his girls' lavish costumes as soon as the show makes money. To the dismay of Norah Blake, Lombardi's faithful assistant, who loves him, Lombardi proposes to Phyllis Manning, one of the showgirls, and presents her with his finest creations, while not even attempting to kiss her, as she puts off setting a wedding date and also accepts the attentions of wealthy bachelor Bob Tarrant.
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The Mother and the Law
Title: The Mother and the Law
Character: Miss Mary Jenkins
Released: August 18, 1919
Type: Movie
After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The second of these was 'The Mother and the Law', which demonstrates how crime, moral puritanism, and conflicts between ruthless capitalists and striking workers help ruin the lives of marginal Americans.
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The Pest
Title: The Pest
Character: Housekeeper
Released: April 20, 1919
Type: Movie
Naive country girl Jigs Blodgett makes friends with Gene Giles, the nephew of a wealthy judge. Shady John Harland is courting the judge's daughter Blanche because of her father's money and position. To amuse herself, Blanche invites Jigs to a party with her "sophiscated" friends, intending to humiliate and embarrass Jigs. Things don't quite go the way Blanche planned.
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A Weaver of Dreams
Title: A Weaver of Dreams
Character: Aunt Hattie Taylor
Released: March 2, 1918
Type: Movie
A Weaver of Dreams is a lost silent film directed by Edison's John H. Collins
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Jack and the Beanstalk
Title: Jack and the Beanstalk
Character: The Giantess
Released: July 30, 1917
Type: Movie
Jack exchanges his cow for some magic beans. The beans grow overnight into a beanstalk, which Jack climbs, arriving at a castle that is his. Jack sets a deal with the giant in exchange for their fortune.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Title: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character: Mary T. Jenkins (Modern Story)
Released: September 4, 1916
Type: Movie
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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Betty in Search of a Thrill
Title: Betty in Search of a Thrill
Released: May 17, 1915
Type: Movie
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Sunshine Molly
Title: Sunshine Molly
Character: Mrs. O'Brien
Released: March 18, 1915
Type: Movie
A woman known as Sunshine Molly gets a job in an oil field, and clashes with a belligerent employee named "Bull" Forrest. (Note: multiple reels of this film were damaged beyond repair. Only three reels remain, two of which are also heavily damaged.)
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The Caprices of Kitty
Title: The Caprices of Kitty
Released: March 8, 1915
Type: Movie
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Hypocrites
Title: Hypocrites
Character: Parishioner (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1915
Type: Movie
The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Purity, who is also represented by a ghostly naked girl that flits through the film.