Margaret Bert

Margaret Bert

Born: June 4, 1896
Died: May 1, 1971
in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK

Movies for Margaret Bert...

Title: Petticoat Junction
Character: Older Woman
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: TV
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
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Curse of the Undead
Title: Curse of the Undead
Character: Dan's Housekeeper (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A mysterious epidemic has struck an Old West frontier town and young girls are falling deathly ill. Doc Carter, his lovely daughter Dolores, and preacher Dan Young have their hands full caring for the infirm. When one of the patients dies unexpectedly, Dan notices two puncture wounds on her neck. His investigation leads him to the strange gunslinger Drake Robey, who always seems to be slower on the draw than his opponents, but who—despite being outdrawn, and even shot—always manages to survive these deadly encounters. Dan soon discovers that Drake also has an aversion to crucifixes, sleeps in coffins, and cannot tolerate sunlight...
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Party Girl
Title: Party Girl
Character: Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1958
Type: Movie
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
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Everything I Have Is Yours
Title: Everything I Have Is Yours
Character: Wardrobe Mistress (Uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1952
Type: Movie
A husband and wife act are hoping to find success on Broadway.
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Singin' in the Rain
Title: Singin' in the Rain
Character: Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1952
Type: Movie
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
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Royal Wedding
Title: Royal Wedding
Character: Ellen's Maid (Uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Tom and Ellen are asked to perform as a dance team in England at the time of Princess Elizabeth's wedding. As brother and sister, each develops a British love interest, Ellen with Lord John Brindale and Tom with dancer Anne Ashmond.
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Three Secrets
Title: Three Secrets
Character: Maid (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1950
Type: Movie
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.
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The Barkleys of Broadway
Title: The Barkleys of Broadway
Character: Mary
Released: May 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man.
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Act of Violence
Title: Act of Violence
Character: Bystander (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.
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Force of Evil
Title: Force of Evil
Character: Sorter (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
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Campus Sleuth
Title: Campus Sleuth
Character: Mrs. Rogers
Released: May 4, 1948
Type: Movie
A photographer is choked to death just outside of where a college dance is being held. The body is discovered by Lee Watson, but promptly disappears, as it is being whisked from one point to another on the campus by a night watchman, who is an ex-convict.
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All My Sons
Title: All My Sons
Released: May 1, 1948
Type: Movie
During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when Joe's son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
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Sarge Goes to College
Title: Sarge Goes to College
Character: Mrs. Rogers
Released: May 13, 1947
Type: Movie
A Marine Sergeant, wounded in overseas service, requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recommends to the Captain and Colonel that "Sarge" be given a few weeks rest before hospitalization. Through the Dean of San Juan Junior College, Sarge enters the school on a temporary basis.
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Two Sisters from Boston
Title: Two Sisters from Boston
Character: Maid (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1946
Type: Movie
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
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Young Widow
Title: Young Widow
Character: Woman on Subway Platform (Uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.
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On Stage Everybody
Title: On Stage Everybody
Character: Woman Boarder (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
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Mrs. Parkington
Title: Mrs. Parkington
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1944
Type: Movie
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
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Movie Pests
Title: Movie Pests
Character: Woman in Audience (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1944
Type: Movie
This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible.
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Tale of a Dog
Title: Tale of a Dog
Character: Gossiper (voice)
Released: April 15, 1944
Type: Movie
When Bigshot Jones gives his unnamed dog to the All-For-One Club, Buckwheat quickly names the canine "Smallpox", inadvertently causing a city-wide panic.
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Trifles That Win Wars
Title: Trifles That Win Wars
Character: Arachnophobic Woman (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1943
Type: Movie
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short looks at how a few specific inventions made a major contribution to the U.S. war effort.
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Who's Superstitious?
Title: Who's Superstitious?
Character: Diner Who Throws Salt
Released: January 2, 1943
Type: Movie
This short film examines the origins of several superstitions including crossing your fingers, knocking on wood, rabbit's feet, and breaking champagne bottles to christen ships, plus the role of superstitions in the Flying Dutchman tale.
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Famous Boners
Title: Famous Boners
Character: Housekeeper (uncredited)
Released: October 24, 1942
Type: Movie
This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the victims of errors.
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Fingers at the Window
Title: Fingers at the Window
Character: Mrs. Geversar (uncredited)
Released: April 22, 1942
Type: Movie
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
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Kid Glove Killer
Title: Kid Glove Killer
Character: Miss Huser - Mayor's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.
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Rio Rita
Title: Rio Rita
Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
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Nazi Agent
Title: Nazi Agent
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
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Kathleen
Title: Kathleen
Character: Margaret
Released: December 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Kathleen is a twelve-year-old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time. She dreams of a family with a mother, father and her, and tells everyone that she has such a family. Because of this story, she cannot invite any friends over as they will see that it is not true.
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Wedding Worries
Title: Wedding Worries
Character: Delia (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1941
Type: Movie
The Our Gang kids worry that Darla's new stepmother will be an evil stepmother like of fairy tale fame.
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Main Street on the March!
Title: Main Street on the March!
Character: Mrs. Schulte (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1941
Type: Movie
This Best Short Subject Academy Award winning film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It chronicles how the people of "Main Street America", the country's military forces, and its industrial base were completely transformed when the decision was made to gear up for war. Original footage is interspersed with contemporary newsreels and stock footage.
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Helping Hands
Title: Helping Hands
Character: Mickey's Mom
Released: September 29, 1941
Type: Movie
Inspired by his soldier brother, Spanky decides to organize a military unit among his friends, collecting odds and ends for the war effort.
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Robot Wrecks
Title: Robot Wrecks
Character: Froggy's Mother (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Spanky and the gang discover a demonstration of a "human-like" robot named Volto and are inspired to create a robot themselves to do their chores for them. Slicker Walburn convinces them they will need "invisible rays" to bring it to life which he just happens to have to sell to them. As they rush off to get their money, Slicker gets Boxcar Smith to wear the robot's outer body so when he "brings" the robot to life, it will be Boxcar bringing it to life. The gang unsuspectedly gets their robot to mow the lawn at Froggy's house, but with a signal from Slicker, Boxcar runs amok and mows down everything in his path. Froggy gets to explain what happened to his parents who bust up the fraud and get the miscreants to work with the gang to clean up the mess.
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Whispers
Title: Whispers
Character: Gossip (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1941
Type: Movie
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation.
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Maisie Was a Lady
Title: Maisie Was a Lady
Character: Boy's Mother at Carnival (Uncredited)
Released: January 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems.
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Little Nellie Kelly
Title: Little Nellie Kelly
Character: Reception Nurse Miss Deane (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
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Bitter Sweet
Title: Bitter Sweet
Character: Woman on Stairs (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
In order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't love, Sarah Millick runs off to Vienna with her music teacher, Carl Linden, whom she does love. They are married. In Vienna, they struggle to make a living by making music. Carl writes an operetta and tries to get it produced. They are helped along by Viennese Baron, but his intentions are not honorable. He kills Carl in a sword fight. A big producer does put on the operetta, with Sari in the lead -- but without her husband, it is a bittersweet victory.
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Gold Rush Maisie
Title: Gold Rush Maisie
Character: Mrs. Carter (Uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
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We Who Are Young
Title: We Who Are Young
Character: Nurse Bringing Letter (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
A man violates company policy by getting married.
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A Failure at Fifty
Title: A Failure at Fifty
Character: Ann's Rutledge's Mother (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man.
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Women in Hiding
Title: Women in Hiding
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1940
Type: Movie
In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the hospital costs involved. She falls prey to a baby-for-sale racket with quack doctors performing their services.
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Forty Little Mothers
Title: Forty Little Mothers
Character: Teacher
Released: April 26, 1940
Type: Movie
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
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The Domineering Male
Title: The Domineering Male
Character: Gertrude's Mother (uncredited)
Released: March 30, 1940
Type: Movie
This Pete Smith Specialty short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. Who's really chasing whom?
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Title: Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Character: Gossiper
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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Miracles for Sale
Title: Miracles for Sale
Character: Mary W. Hotchkinson
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
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Stronger Than Desire
Title: Stronger Than Desire
Character: Sara - Susan's Nursemaid (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
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Bridal Suite
Title: Bridal Suite
Character: Chalet Guest
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.
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Calling Dr. Kildare
Title: Calling Dr. Kildare
Character: Mrs. Benson - Tommy's Mother (uncredited)
Released: April 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?
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How to Sub-Let
Title: How to Sub-Let
Character: Maid
Released: January 29, 1939
Type: Movie
A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.
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Idiot's Delight
Title: Idiot's Delight
Character: Nurse #2
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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Four Girls in White
Title: Four Girls in White
Character: Miss Waring - a Nurse
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
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Men in Fright
Title: Men in Fright
Character: Nurse at Front Desk (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1938
Type: Movie
The kids go to the hospital to visit Darla, who's recovering from a tonsillectomy. Chaos soon ensues.
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Young Dr. Kildare
Title: Young Dr. Kildare
Character: Little Boy's Mother (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.
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Think It Over
Title: Think It Over
Released: July 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.
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How to Raise a Baby
Title: How to Raise a Baby
Character: Mother (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1938
Type: Movie
American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.
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Paradise for Three
Title: Paradise for Three
Character: Telephone Operator at Schultz Disturbance (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1938
Type: Movie
A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.
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Snow Gets in Your Eyes
Title: Snow Gets in Your Eyes
Character: Ladies Underwear Customer (uncredited)
Released: May 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A department store has an indoor ski slide for the annual contest for store employees. Salesgirl June has two admirers - a sausage salesman in the store and the store's snooty ski instructor. The Dandridge Sisters (Dorothy, Vivian and non-sister Etta Jones) perform two numbers.
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Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
Title: Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
Character: Mrs. Sampson (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1938
Type: Movie
A satirical visualization of strange and forgotten, but (at that time) nevertheless still existing laws in the U.S.A.
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Romance of Radium
Title: Romance of Radium
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Romance of Radium is a 1937 American short film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This short film tells the story of the discovery of radium and how it is used in medicine. In 1937, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (One-Reel) at the 10th Academy Awards
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Double Wedding
Title: Double Wedding
Character: Waitress in Crowd at Wedding (uncredited)
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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My Dear Miss Aldrich
Title: My Dear Miss Aldrich
Character: Rabbit Boy's Mother (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
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The Women Men Marry
Title: The Women Men Marry
Character: Wiley's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
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The Grand Bounce
Title: The Grand Bounce
Character: Salvation Army Woman (uncredited)
Released: May 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A man writes a check for $1,000 to cover a gambling debt. The problem is that he doesn't have enough money in his bank account to cover it. The check was written on Friday afternoon, but cannot be cashed before the following Tuesday. The check is used to pay several debts until...
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Love Is News
Title: Love Is News
Character: Woman on street (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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Torture Money
Title: Torture Money
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1937
Type: Movie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.
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Killer Dog
Title: Killer Dog
Released: August 29, 1936
Type: Movie
A dog accused of murdering sheep is brought to trial.
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San Francisco
Title: San Francisco
Character: Salvation Army Nurse (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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Shadow of Doubt
Title: Shadow of Doubt
Character: Nanny on Street
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
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The Winning Ticket
Title: The Winning Ticket
Character: Nurse at Lottery Drawing
Released: February 8, 1935
Type: Movie
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
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Stage Mother
Title: Stage Mother
Character: Nurse
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
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The Unknown
Title: The Unknown
Character: Fortune Teller (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1927
Type: Movie
A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.
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The Blackbird
Title: The Blackbird
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1926
Type: Movie
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.