Isabel Jewell

Isabel Jewell

Born: July 19, 1907
Died: April 5, 1972
in Shoshone, Wyoming, USA
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Isabel Jewell (July 19, 1907 – April 5, 1972) was an American actress most active in the 1930s and early 1940s. Some of her most famous films were Ceiling Zero, Marked Woman, A Tale of Two Cities, and Gone With the Wind. After years in theater stock companies, including an 87-week stint in Lincoln, Nebraska, she hit the big time after getting a part on Broadway in Up Pops the Devil (1930). She received glowing critical reviews for Blessed Event (1932) as well.

Jewell's film debut came in Blessed Event (1932). She had been brought to Hollywood by Warner Brothers for the film version of Up Pops the Devil. Jewell gained other supporting roles, appearing in a variety of films in the early 1930s. She played stereotypical gangsters' women in such films as Manhattan Melodrama (1934) and Marked Woman (1937). She was well received playing against type, as the seamstress sentenced to death on the guillotine along with Sydney Carton (Ronald Colman in A Tale of Two Cities (1935). Her most significant role was as the prostitute Gloria Stone in Lost Horizon (1937). Jewell's films included Gone with the Wind (1939) (in the role of "that white trash, Emmy Slattery"), Northwest Passage (1940), High Sierra (1941), and the low-budget The Leopard Man (1943).

By the end of the 1940s, her roles had reduced in significance to the degree that her performances were often uncredited, e.g. The Snake Pit. She performed in radio dramas in the 1950s, including This is Your FBI.

In 1972, Jewell appeared opposite Edie Sedgwick in the film Ciao! Manhattan. Her final film was the B movie Sweet Kill (1973), the directorial debut of Curtis Hanson, a future Academy Award winner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isabel Jewell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Ciao! Manhattan
Title: Ciao! Manhattan
Character: Mummy
Released: April 19, 1973
Type: Movie
Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Edie Sedgwick’s own self-destructive spiral.
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Sweet Kill
Title: Sweet Kill
Character: Mrs. Cole
Released: March 15, 1972
Type: Movie
Horror and suspense in the story of a psychotic maniac who literally "loves" women to death.
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The New Cinema
Title: The New Cinema
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Between the French La Nouvelle Vague and the Italian Neorealismo, Europe had been undergoing a continuous cinema transformation since the 1950s, while the ailing American studio system groaned under its own weight and inertia. New Hollywood had arrived with Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, and already by 1968 it was changing how Hollywood thought and acted. The student film scene was getting ready to explode, and it knew it.
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Title: Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Character: 'A Tale of Two Cities' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1961
Type: Movie
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
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Title: Lock-Up
Released: September 28, 1959
Type: TV
Lock-Up is an American legal drama series that premiered in syndication in September 1959 and concluded in June 1961. The half-hour episodes had little time for character development or subplots and presented a compact story without embellishment.
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Bernardine
Title: Bernardine
Character: Ruby McDuff
Released: July 24, 1957
Type: Movie
A teenager pines for (and sings about) his dream girl.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Madame Ahr
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Drum Beat
Title: Drum Beat
Character: Lily White
Released: November 10, 1954
Type: Movie
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her aunt and uncle. After Modoc renegade Captain Jack engages in ambush and other atrocities, MacKay must fight him one-on-one with guns, knives and fists.
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Man in the Attic
Title: Man in the Attic
Character: Katy
Released: December 23, 1953
Type: Movie
London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst; her niece Lily (star of a decidedly Parisian stage revue) finds him interesting and increasingly attractive. Is Lily in danger, or are her mother's suspicions merely a red herring?
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Title: Mr. & Mrs. North
Released: October 3, 1952
Type: TV
Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry North, a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good amateur detective, and his wife, Pamela, as they solve crimes in New York City.
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Belle Starr's Daughter
Title: Belle Starr's Daughter
Character: Belle Starr
Released: November 13, 1948
Type: Movie
The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find her killer.
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Michael O'Halloran
Title: Michael O'Halloran
Character: Mrs Laura Nelson
Released: August 8, 1948
Type: Movie
A young crippled girl and her love for a teenage newsboy despite her over-protective and alcoholic mother's objections.
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The Bishop's Wife
Title: The Bishop's Wife
Character: Hysterical Mother
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
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Born to Kill
Title: Born to Kill
Character: Laury Palmer
Released: April 30, 1947
Type: Movie
Helen Brent has just received a Reno divorce. That night, she discovers her neighbor Laury Palmer and a gentleman caller murdered in Palmer's home. The killer is her neighbor's other boyfriend Sam Wilde, an insanely jealous man who won't abide anyone "cutting in" on him.
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Badman's Territory
Title: Badman's Territory
Character: Belle Starr
Released: May 4, 1946
Type: Movie
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
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Sensation Hunters
Title: Sensation Hunters
Character: Mae
Released: October 12, 1945
Type: Movie
A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
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Steppin' in Society
Title: Steppin' in Society
Character: Jenny the Juke
Released: July 9, 1945
Type: Movie
In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly esteemed racketeer.
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The Merry Monahans
Title: The Merry Monahans
Character: Rose
Released: September 15, 1944
Type: Movie
The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get himself and his family blacklisted from every major vaude house in the country. Though Pete's kids Jimmy and Patsy love their dad, they're forced to break away from the act and go off on their own to survive. Eventually, the whole gang is reunited in a shamelessly lachrymose musical finale.
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The Falcon and the Co-Eds
Title: The Falcon and the Co-Eds
Character: Mary Phoebus
Released: November 10, 1943
Type: Movie
The Falcon is called to a young woman's school to investigate a murder. When he arrives, another victim is discovered.
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Danger! Women at Work
Title: Danger! Women at Work
Character: Marie
Released: August 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Three women inherit a 10-ton truck and decide to go into business. Hi jinks ensue.
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The Seventh Victim
Title: The Seventh Victim
Character: Frances Fallon
Released: August 21, 1943
Type: Movie
A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.
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The Leopard Man
Title: The Leopard Man
Character: Maria the Fortune Teller
Released: May 19, 1943
Type: Movie
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
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For Beauty's Sake
Title: For Beauty's Sake
Character: Amy Devore
Released: June 6, 1941
Type: Movie
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
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High Sierra
Title: High Sierra
Character: Blonde
Released: January 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
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Little Men
Title: Little Men
Character: Stella
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.
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Marked Men
Title: Marked Men
Character: Linda Harkness
Released: September 30, 1940
Type: Movie
A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into the desert.
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Scatterbrain
Title: Scatterbrain
Character: Esther Harrington
Released: July 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.
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Babies for Sale
Title: Babies for Sale
Character: Edith Drake
Released: June 14, 1940
Type: Movie
A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.
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Irene
Title: Irene
Character: Jane McGee
Released: April 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a model. She soon catches the eye of socialite Bob Vincent, whose mother is hosting a ball at the family mansion. To promote Madame Lucy's dress line, Mr. Smith arranges for his models to be invited to the ball.
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Northwest Passage
Title: Northwest Passage
Character: Jennie Coit
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on their famous raid at Fort St. Francis and their marches before and after the battle.
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Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!
Title: Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!
Character: Gertie - Truck Stop Waitress
Released: January 1, 1940
Type: Movie
In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads for her elopement. The two begin traveling together and get further mixed up with a fleeing bank robber, a crazy tourist camp, and other troubles. Songs include: "Oh Johnny, How You Can Love," "Maybe I Like What You Like," "Swing Chariot Swing," and "Make Up Your Mind."
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Gone with the Wind
Title: Gone with the Wind
Character: Emmy Slattery
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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Missing Daughters
Title: Missing Daughters
Character: Peggy
Released: May 22, 1939
Type: Movie
The Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy dance-hall operator Lucky Rogers.
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They Asked For It
Title: They Asked For It
Character: Molly Herkimer
Released: May 20, 1939
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into the strange death of an old hermit who lived on the fringe of town.
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The Crowd Roars
Title: The Crowd Roars
Character: Mrs. Martin
Released: August 6, 1938
Type: Movie
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.
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Swing It, Sailor!
Title: Swing It, Sailor!
Character: Myrtle Montrose
Released: February 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Comical exploits of two Navy pals, at sea and on shore.
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Love on Toast
Title: Love on Toast
Character: Belle Huntley
Released: December 3, 1937
Type: Movie
The plot concerns a female press agent who must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a soup company. The Mr. Manhattan chosen is a singing soda jerk, who doesn't want to play along until he is given the honor of choosing his own Miss Brooklyn.
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Marked Woman
Title: Marked Woman
Character: Emmy Lou Eagan
Released: April 10, 1937
Type: Movie
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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Lost Horizon
Title: Lost Horizon
Character: Gloria Stone
Released: March 3, 1937
Type: Movie
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
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Career Woman
Title: Career Woman
Character: Gracie Clay
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 courtroom drama stars Claire Trevor, Isabel Jewell, Michael Whalen, Gene Lockhart, Eric Linden, Charles Middleton, Edward Brophy, Kathleen Lockhart, Guinn Williams, El Brendel, Sterling Holloway, Ray Brown, Howard Hickman, Frank McGlynn Sr., Charles Waldron Sr., Spencer Charters and Eily Malyon.
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Go West Young Man
Title: Go West Young Man
Character: Gladys
Released: November 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Mavis Arden is a sensational movie star. Her following spans the world and her personal appearance tours prove her popularity. On her way home from one such appearance, Arden's car breaks down. She orders her publicity man to find her a place to stay, suspicious that he planned the break down to keep her away from a man. However, she soon finds herself mooning over an attractive repairman in town and listening to his ideas about inventing equipment for film.
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Title: Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Character: Lilli Eipper
Released: October 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
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The Man Who Lived Twice
Title: The Man Who Lived Twice
Character: Peggy Russell
Released: September 25, 1936
Type: Movie
A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.
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36 Hours to Kill
Title: 36 Hours to Kill
Character: Jeanie Benson
Released: July 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
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Small Town Girl
Title: Small Town Girl
Character: Emily 'Em' Brannan
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
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Big Brown Eyes
Title: Big Brown Eyes
Character: Bessie Blair
Released: April 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
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The Leathernecks Have Landed
Title: The Leathernecks Have Landed
Character: Brooklyn
Released: February 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherneck buddy "Tubby" Waters killed, hothead "Woody" Davis infiltrates a gang of Shanghai gunrunners to bring the culprit to justice.
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Dancing Feet
Title: Dancing Feet
Character: Mabel Henry
Released: January 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy refuses to accompany Peyton on a slumming trip to a cheap dance hall, and Peyton dances with several of the dowagers and tells them that Silas is practically dying of scarlet fever. The guests hastily depart and Joan joins Peyton at the Dreamland Dance Hall. She is mistaken by Jimmy Cassidy (Edward J. Nugent) as one of the hostesses and decides to dance with him as a lark. One thing follows another and Judy gets disinherited and takes a job at the dance hall through Jimmy and his friend Mabel(Isabel Jewell.) Jimmy confides to Judy his ambition to become a dance instructor over the radio and Judy decides to help him but can't get the needed financial backing. She gets Peyton to front the money, promising him she will reconsider his offer of marriage if Jimmy's plan fails.
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Ceiling Zero
Title: Ceiling Zero
Character: Lou Clarke
Released: January 16, 1936
Type: Movie
War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot's girl-friend and due to this he changes flights with Texas.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: The Seamstress
Released: December 25, 1935
Type: Movie
The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris. The action switches between London and Paris on the eve of the revolution where we witness 'the best of times and the worst of times' - love, hope, the uncaring French Aristocrats and the terror of a revolutionary citizen's army intent on exacting revenge.
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The Casino Murder Case
Title: The Casino Murder Case
Character: Amelia
Released: March 15, 1935
Type: Movie
When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the casino owned by Uncle Kinkaid, Lynn is indeed poisoned under the watchful eye of Philo. However, he recovers, but the same cannot be said for Lynn's wife Virginia, who is at the family home. Only a family member could have poisoned Lynn and Virginia and everyone has their dark motives. Philo will follow the clues and find the perpetrator.
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Times Square Lady
Title: Times Square Lady
Character: Babe
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir and seize control.
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I've Been Around
Title: I've Been Around
Character: Sally Van Loan
Released: March 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.
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Shadow of Doubt
Title: Shadow of Doubt
Character: Inez
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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Evelyn Prentice
Title: Evelyn Prentice
Character: Judith Wilson
Released: November 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.
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She Had to Choose
Title: She Had to Choose
Character: Sally Bates
Released: October 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A young actress hits Hollywood determined to be a movie star and runs into a lot of roadblocks along the way.
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Here Comes the Groom
Title: Here Comes the Groom
Character: Angy
Released: June 21, 1934
Type: Movie
Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety. But the robbery goes awry and Mike finds himself on the run from the police, pretending to be a famous singer whose gimmick is wearing a mask in public.
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Manhattan Melodrama
Title: Manhattan Melodrama
Character: Annabelle
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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Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
Title: Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
Released: March 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and a Gala Hollywood Premiere.
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Design for Living
Title: Design for Living
Character: Plunkett's Stenographer
Released: December 29, 1933
Type: Movie
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
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Counsellor at Law
Title: Counsellor at Law
Character: Bessie Green
Released: December 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
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The Women in His Life
Title: The Women in His Life
Character: Catherine Watson
Released: December 8, 1933
Type: Movie
An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.
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Advice to the Lovelorn
Title: Advice to the Lovelorn
Character: Rose
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper's "Miss Lonelyhearts" advice column because he missed the scoop on a major earthquake whilst out on the town. Determined to be fired from the column he starts to give crazy advice to the readers, but this only makes him even more popular.
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Day of Reckoning
Title: Day of Reckoning
Character: Kate Lovett
Released: October 26, 1933
Type: Movie
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly nagging wife who, as soon as he is put away, takes up with a more successful businessman. This causes her new lover's ex-lover to get insanely jealous and kill the conniving wife.
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Bombshell
Title: Bombshell
Character: Nellie, Junior's Girlfriend
Released: October 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
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Beauty for Sale
Title: Beauty for Sale
Character: Hortense
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.
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Bondage
Title: Bondage
Character: Beulah
Released: April 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Judy Peters is about to be sentenced after she has pled guilty to her third offense of prostitution, when Dr. Nelson interrupts and tells her story to the court. (Mubi.)
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The Crime of the Century
Title: The Crime of the Century
Released: February 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A doctor who is also a “mentalist” confesses to a murder. The only problem is that the murder he’s confessed to hasn’t happened yet – although dead bodies are now starting to turn up all over the place. A reporter sets out to solve the “mystery”.
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Blessed Event
Title: Blessed Event
Character: Dorothy Lane
Released: September 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.