Zasu Pitts

Zasu Pitts

Born: January 2, 1894
Died: June 7, 1963
in Parsons, Kansas, USA
Zasu Pitts was an American actress who starred in many silent dramas and comedies, transitioning successfully to mostly comedy films with the advent of sound films. She may be best known for her performance in Erich von Stroheim's epic silent film Greed.

Based on her performance, von Stroheim labeled Pitts "the greatest dramatic actress". He also featured her in his films The Honeymoon (1928), The Wedding March (1928), War Nurse (1930) and Walking Down Broadway, released as Hello, Sister! (1933). However, for the most part, with the advent of sound Pitts was mostly relegated to comedy parts. A bitter disappointment was when she was replaced in the classic war drama All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) by Beryl Mercer after her initial appearance in previews drew unintentional laughs, despite her intense performance. She had viewers rolling in the aisles in Finn and Hattie (1931), The Guardsman (1931), Blondie of the Follies (1932), Sing and Like It (1934) and Ruggles of Red Gap (1935). In 1936 and 1937 she portrayed Hildegarde Withers in two movies, succeeding Edna May Oliver as the spinster sleuth, but they were not well received.

In the 1950s she started focusing on television. This culminated in her best known series role, playing second banana to Gale Storm on CBS's The Gale Storm Show (1956) (also known as Oh, Susannah) in the role of Elvira Nugent ("Nugie"), the shipboard beautician. In 1961, Pitts was cast opposite Earle Hodgins in the episode "Lonesome's Gal" on the ABC sitcom, Guestward, Ho!, set on a dude ranch in New Mexico. In 1962, Pitts appeared in an episode of CBS's Perry Mason, "The Case of the Absent Artist". Her final role was as Gertie, the switchboard operator in the Stanley Kramer comedy epic It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).

Movies for Zasu Pitts...

The Big Parade of Comedy
Title: The Big Parade of Comedy
Character: Mirabelle in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)
Released: September 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Title: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Character: Gertie - Switchboard Operator
Released: November 7, 1963
Type: Movie
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Mrs. Bowie
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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The Thrill of It All
Title: The Thrill of It All
Character: Olivia
Released: July 17, 1963
Type: Movie
A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.
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Teenage Millionaire
Title: Teenage Millionaire
Character: Aunt Theodora
Released: August 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A teenager whose father is a millionaire radio station owner secretly records a song and plays it on one of his father's stations. It becomes a hit.
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Title: Guestward, Ho!
Released: September 29, 1960
Type: TV
Guestward, Ho! is an American situation comedy which aired on the ABC network in the 1960-1961 television season, based on the 1956 book of the same title by Patrick Dennis, author of Auntie Mame.
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Title: The Dennis O'Keefe Show
Released: September 22, 1959
Type: TV
The Dennis O'Keefe Show is a 1959-1960 sitcom produced by United Artists Television which aired on CBS for sponsor General Motors' Oldsmobile division. It was not a ratings success during its original run, and was largely forgotten until a "Best Of" DVD release by Alpha Video during 2004. Certain episodes of the show can also be seen at the Internet Archive. It appears the series has entered the public domain.
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Disneyland '59
Title: Disneyland '59
Character: Self
Released: June 15, 1959
Type: Movie
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail, and the Submarine Voyage, a project so massive that it was called "The Second Opening of Disneyland". Highlights include a mammoth, star-studded parade and the official launching of the Disneyland submarines by U.S. Navy officers. Among the guests are then-Vice-President Richard Nixon and family, Clint Eastwood, and Meredith Willson, who leads the Disneyland band in his own "76 Trombones." Sponsored by Kodak, the commercial spokespersons include Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Daphne Whilom
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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This Could Be the Night
Title: This Could Be the Night
Character: Mrs. Shea
Released: May 14, 1957
Type: Movie
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
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Title: The Gale Storm Show
Released: September 29, 1956
Type: TV
The Gale Storm Show is an American sitcom starring Gale Storm. The series premiered on September 29, 1956, and ran until 1960 for 143 half-hour black-and-white episodes, initially on CBS and in its last year on ABC. The Gale Storm Show was co-produced by Independent Television Corporation and Hal Roach Studios. The series was aired under the title Oh, Susanna in syndication.
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Title: Screen Director's Playhouse
Character: Selma
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.
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Title: The 20th Century Fox Hour
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.
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Francis Joins the WACS
Title: Francis Joins the WACS
Character: Valerie Humpert
Released: July 30, 1954
Type: Movie
Peter Stirling (with his old friend the talking mule) is recalled to active duty...in the WACs!
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Aunt Laura
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Title: Private Secretary
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
Private Secretary is an American sitcom that aired from February 1, 1953 to September 10, 1957 on CBS, alternating with The Jack Benny Program on Sundays at 7:30pm EST. The series stars Ann Sothern as Susan Camille "Susie" MacNamara, devoted secretary to handsome talent agent Peter Sands, played by Don Porter.
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Denver and Rio Grande
Title: Denver and Rio Grande
Character: Jane Dwyer
Released: May 16, 1952
Type: Movie
Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotages the entire operation in the hopes that they can get their tracks laid first and get the money from the railroad.
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Francis
Title: Francis
Character: Valerie Humpert
Released: February 8, 1950
Type: Movie
The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his right mind. In the process of all this, the mule assisted in uncovering a spy, Mareen, who pretended to be lost among the jungles, but was actually...
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Lum and Abner
Title: Lum and Abner
Released: July 18, 1949
Type: Movie
Chester Lauck and Norris Goff tried to bring their highly successful radio show to TV but it didn’t happen. In this failed pilot Abner is on the phone with Mose and says he’ll meet him and Opie Cates to go fishing. Lum comes into the store with a letter from the IRS. He goes to burn it in the stove and sees Abner’s fishing tackle.
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Title: The Philco Television Playhouse
Character: Belinda Pryde
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: TV
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
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Life with Father
Title: Life with Father
Character: Cousin Cora Cartwright
Released: September 13, 1947
Type: Movie
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
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The Perfect Marriage
Title: The Perfect Marriage
Character: Rosa
Released: January 24, 1947
Type: Movie
A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court.
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Breakfast in Hollywood
Title: Breakfast in Hollywood
Character: Elvira Spriggens
Released: February 26, 1946
Type: Movie
The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film derived from the popular ABC radio show of the 1940's. This film features Tom Breneman, the radio show's host, as well as Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Zasu Pitts, Billie Burke and Hedda Hopper. Musical performances are provided by Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, along with Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
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Dear Miss Gloria
Title: Dear Miss Gloria
Character: Guest star
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A short subject, intended as the first of a series, where Gloria Swanson plays "Miss Gloria," advice columnist to the lovelorn.
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Let's Face It
Title: Let's Face It
Character: Cornelia Pigeon
Released: August 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money. Three customers of the "fat farm" scheme to get back at their philandering husbands by hiring the soldier and two of his buddies as "escorts" for the weekend. Complications ensue when the husbands show up unexpectedly.
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Tish
Title: Tish
Character: Aggie Pilkington (as ZaSu Pitts)
Released: September 17, 1942
Type: Movie
In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.
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So's Your Aunt Emma!
Title: So's Your Aunt Emma!
Character: Aunt Emma Bates
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders.
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The Bashful Bachelor
Title: The Bashful Bachelor
Character: Geraldine
Released: March 19, 1942
Type: Movie
Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-'em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum is also too timid to propose to Geraldine, so he involves Abner in a "rescue" effort which nearly gets both of them killed. They try again, and this time Geraldine is impressed. Lum writes a proposal note, but Abner, by mistake, delivers it to the Widder Abernathy, who has been ready to remarry for years. This puts Lum in a peck of trouble until the sheriff appears with the Widder's long-gone and hiding husband.
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Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Title: Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Character: Miss Pepper
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series.
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Weekend for Three
Title: Weekend for Three
Character: Anna, Craig's Maid
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet Jim turns genuinely dismayed once Randy arrives and turns out to be an insufferable, boorish braggart with bad manners and little self-awareness. That dismay turns to outright annoyance when Jim realizes Randy thinks he has come to stay for the weekend. How much damage to a marriage can one unwanted guest do in the space of one weekend?
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The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Title: The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Character: Emily Pepper
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
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Miss Polly
Title: Miss Polly
Character: Pandora Polly
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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Uncle Joe
Title: Uncle Joe
Character: Julia Jordan
Released: October 18, 1941
Type: Movie
A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried parents to live with her uncle on his Iowa farm.
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Niagara Falls
Title: Niagara Falls
Character: Emmy Sawyer
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
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Broadway Limited
Title: Broadway Limited
Character: Myra Pottle
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought in for it.
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No, No, Nanette
Title: No, No, Nanette
Character: Pauline Hastings
Released: December 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?
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It All Came True
Title: It All Came True
Character: Miss Flint
Released: April 6, 1940
Type: Movie
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
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Eternally Yours
Title: Eternally Yours
Character: Cary Bingham
Released: October 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.
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Nurse Edith Cavell
Title: Nurse Edith Cavell
Character: Mme. Moulin
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
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Mickey the Kid
Title: Mickey the Kid
Character: Lilly Handy
Released: July 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children.
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Naughty But Nice
Title: Naughty But Nice
Character: Aunt Penelope 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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The Lady's from Kentucky
Title: The Lady's from Kentucky
Character: Dulcey Lee
Released: April 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Good-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard times. His one out is a marker for half-ownership in a young thoroughbred, which he quickly calls in. He discovers the other owner to be a young woman from an old horse racing family who wants to protect her colt almost as much as Marty wants to rush him into big races for a fast buck. While they clash, Marty soon comes to understand the human bond with the horses and what it means to be a thoroughbred.
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52nd Street
Title: 52nd Street
Character: Letitia Rondell
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
The story of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s.
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Forty Naughty Girls
Title: Forty Naughty Girls
Character: Hildegarde Withers
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.
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Wanted!
Title: Wanted!
Character: Winnie Oatfield
Released: August 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves are captured.
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Sing Me a Love Song
Title: Sing Me a Love Song
Character: Gwen Logan
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs.
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The Plot Thickens
Title: The Plot Thickens
Character: Hildegarde Withers
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
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Mad Holiday
Title: Mad Holiday
Character: Mrs. Fay Kinney
Released: November 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
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13 Hours by Air
Title: 13 Hours by Air
Character: Miss Harkins
Released: April 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves on the run from the law.
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The Affair of Susan
Title: The Affair of Susan
Character: Susan Todd
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.
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Hot Tip
Title: Hot Tip
Character: Belle McGill
Released: August 20, 1935
Type: Movie
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
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She Gets Her Man
Title: She Gets Her Man
Character: Esmeralda
Released: August 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally wrecks their plans, resulting in fame for Esmeralda as the crime-fighting "Tiger Woman," but also further complications.
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Going Highbrow
Title: Going Highbrow
Character: Cora Upshaw
Released: July 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.
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Spring Tonic
Title: Spring Tonic
Character: Maggie Conklin
Released: June 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Title: Ruggles of Red Gap
Character: Mrs. Judson
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
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The Gay Bride
Title: The Gay Bride
Character: Mirabelle
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Title: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Character: Miss Hazy
Released: October 28, 1934
Type: Movie
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure. Miss Lucy and Bob get married.
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Dames
Title: Dames
Character: Matilda Hemingway
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
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Their Big Moment
Title: Their Big Moment
Character: Tillie Whim
Released: August 17, 1934
Type: Movie
Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder.
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Private Scandal
Title: Private Scandal
Character: Miss Coates
Released: May 11, 1934
Type: Movie
"Private Scandal" is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Vera Caspary, Garrett Fort and Bruce Manning. The film stars ZaSu Pitts, Phillips Holmes, Mary Brian, Ned Sparks, Lew Cody, June Brewster, and Harold Waldridge. The film was released on May 11, 1934 by Paramount Pictures.
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Love Birds
Title: Love Birds
Character: Araminta Tootle
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the California desert. Their lonely lives become much more crowded when a drifter discovers gold on the property—though all he’s found is Slim’s missing filling. (adapted from MoMA capsule)
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Sing and Like it
Title: Sing and Like it
Character: Annie Snodgrass
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue
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And She Learned About Dames
Title: And She Learned About Dames
Character: Herself
Released: March 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Students at New York's Rovina Finishing School for Girls send their photographs to the makers of Claybury's Beauty Soap, in the hope of being chosen as "Miss Complexion of 1934." Martha Howson wins the contest, which includes a trip to Hollywood and a tour of the Warner Brothers lot with Lyle Talbot. When she gets to the studio, all she wants to do is meet Dick Powell, star of the new Warner Brothers film Dames (1934).
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Three on a Honeymoon
Title: Three on a Honeymoon
Character: Alice Mudge
Released: March 22, 1934
Type: Movie
This romantic comedy takes place on an ocean liner. One of the few unattached passengers is heiress Joan Foster. Joan finds herself in the arms of the ship's second officer. Little does she know that he has been hired by her father to keep other men away from her.
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Two Alone
Title: Two Alone
Character: Esthey Roberts
Released: January 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
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The Meanest Gal in Town
Title: The Meanest Gal in Town
Character: Tillie Prescott
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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Mr. Skitch
Title: Mr. Skitch
Character: Maddie Skitch
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
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Meet the Baron
Title: Meet the Baron
Character: Zasu
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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Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
Title: Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
Character: Sybby 'Sib'
Released: October 18, 1933
Type: Movie
Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption.
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Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!
Title: Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!
Character: Connie Clark
Released: October 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A lawyer devises a plan to fake a breach of contract suit against a wealthy womanizer.
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Her First Mate
Title: Her First Mate
Character: Mary Horner
Released: August 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas.
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Professional Sweetheart
Title: Professional Sweetheart
Character: Elmerada de Leon
Released: June 9, 1933
Type: Movie
Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor and his nutty henchmen pick her a public-relations "sweetheart" from fan mail, who turns out to be a hayseed.
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One Track Minds
Title: One Track Minds
Released: May 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Thelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there.
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Hello, Sister!
Title: Hello, Sister!
Character: Millie
Released: April 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together...
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Out All Night
Title: Out All Night
Character: Bonny
Released: April 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A "mama's boy" falls for a spinster who takes care of children at a department store nursery.
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The Bargain of the Century
Title: The Bargain of the Century
Character: Zasu
Released: April 8, 1933
Type: Movie
Comedy short with ZaSuPitts and Thelma Todd. After accidentally getting a policeman friend fired, the girls must come up with some way to get him re-hired or be stuck with him as an unwanted roommate.
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The Vanishing Frontier
Title: The Vanishing Frontier
Character: Aunt Sylvia
Released: March 13, 1933
Type: Movie
Its 1850 and California is under ruthless military rule. Kirby Tornell's rancho has been taken over by soldiers and when two of Kirby's men are captured, he goes there to free them. He meets the General's daughter there and attracted to her, repeatedly returns to see her. Eventually he is captured and now his men must try and rescue him.
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Maids a la Mode
Title: Maids a la Mode
Character: Miss Pitts
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.
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Asleep in the Feet
Title: Asleep in the Feet
Character: Zasu
Released: January 21, 1933
Type: Movie
The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
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They Just Had to Get Married
Title: They Just Had to Get Married
Character: Molly Hull
Released: January 5, 1933
Type: Movie
Molly Hull, a maid, and Sam Sutton, a butler, are bequeathed a million dollars, and they encounter many problems and difficulties as they try to become the newest members of the idle rich.
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She Whoops To Conquer
Title: She Whoops To Conquer
Character: Beula
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Both the maid and the youngest daughter are after the same man who wants nothing to do with either of them.
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Sneak Easily
Title: Sneak Easily
Character: Miss Zasu Pitts - Woman of the Jury
Released: December 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.
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Madison Square Garden
Title: Madison Square Garden
Character: Florrie
Released: November 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Eddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of loyalty. When his manager Doc Williams is offered the opportunity to stage a match at Madison Square Garden, but only if he gets rid of his stable of fighters, Eddie fabricates an alibi and stages a walkout on Doc.
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The Soilers
Title: The Soilers
Character: Zasu
Released: October 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Zasu and Thelma are working their way through college by selling magazine subscriptions. Finding little success going door-to-door, the pair decide to use their charms to sell to men at their places of work.
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Once in a Lifetime
Title: Once in a Lifetime
Character: Miss Leyton
Released: October 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
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The Crooked Circle
Title: The Crooked Circle
Character: Nora Rafferty
Released: September 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.
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Alum and Eve
Title: Alum and Eve
Character: Zasu
Released: September 24, 1932
Type: Movie
When Thelma is stopped by a cop for speeding, she tries to get out of it by telling him that she and Zasu are on their way to the hospital.
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Blondie of the Follies
Title: Blondie of the Follies
Character: Gertie
Released: September 1, 1932
Type: Movie
New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for Blondie, as well, to join the cast and gain the advantages. But the friendship goes awry when Lottie's sweetheart, wealthy Larry Belmont, falls for Blondie and she for him.
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Show Business
Title: Show Business
Character: Zasu
Released: August 20, 1932
Type: Movie
The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.
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Back Street
Title: Back Street
Character: Mrs. Dole
Released: August 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
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Roar of the Dragon
Title: Roar of the Dragon
Character: Gabby Woman
Released: July 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain Carson, who becomes involved with a woman who "belongs" to Voronsky. Carson must contend with the bandits outside and the conflicting personalities of those trapped inside the inn, as well as dealing with spies among the inn's personnel.
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Make Me a Star
Title: Make Me a Star
Character: Mrs. Scudder
Released: July 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
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Is My Face Red?
Title: Is My Face Red?
Character: Morning Gazette Telephone Operator
Released: June 17, 1932
Type: Movie
William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his showgirl gal-pal, Peggy. Eventually Bill's reckless tattling gets him in deep trouble with friends and enemies, putting his career and life in jeopardy.
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The Old Bull
Title: The Old Bull
Character: Zasu
Released: June 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Thelma and Zazu are on a leisurely excursion in a borrowed car. Thelma lets Zazu drive. When she brakes to avoid a bull pulled along by three rustics, her foot gets stuck and the car crashes through a barn. The barn's owner won't let them leave without paying damages. The gals hoof it, walking in a large circle to arrive back at the farmer's house after dark. While outside his door, they hear a radio broadcast to beware a lion escaped from a wintering circus. Can Thelma and Zasu reclaim the car while avoiding the angry farmer, his prize bull, and the renegade lion?
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Westward Passage
Title: Westward Passage
Character: Mrs. Truesdale
Released: May 27, 1932
Type: Movie
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
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Strangers of the Evening
Title: Strangers of the Evening
Character: Sybil Smith
Released: May 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.
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The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Title: The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Character: Gladys Fairweather
Released: May 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
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Strictly Unreliable
Title: Strictly Unreliable
Character: Pitts
Released: April 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Zasu inadvertently turns Thelma's vaudeville act into a shambles.
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Destry Rides Again
Title: Destry Rides Again
Character: Temperance Worker
Released: April 17, 1932
Type: Movie
The story about a man framed for a crime he didn't commit, who returns to wreak havoc following his release from prison.
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Shopworn
Title: Shopworn
Character: Aunt Dot
Released: March 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
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Red Noses
Title: Red Noses
Character: Miss Pitts
Released: March 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.
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Steady Company
Title: Steady Company
Character: Dot
Released: March 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and ZaSu Pitts supply the laughs.
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Sealskins
Title: Sealskins
Character: Zasu Pitts
Released: February 6, 1932
Type: Movie
In their first comedy two-reeler of 1932, vivacious Thelma Todd and fluttery ZaSu Pitts learn that the royal seal of a foreign country has been stolen and promptly set out to catch it -- a sea lion.
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Broken Lullaby
Title: Broken Lullaby
Character: Anna, Holderlin's Maid
Released: January 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does not assuage his guilt. He travels to Germany to meet the man's family.
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The Unexpected Father
Title: The Unexpected Father
Character: Polly Perkins
Released: January 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's calculating, money-hungry fiancée.
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On the Loose
Title: On the Loose
Character: Zasu
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mud. The driver stops and offers to buy them some new clothes. They accept the offer and later agree to go on a date.
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The Secret Witness
Title: The Secret Witness
Character: Bella
Released: December 12, 1931
Type: Movie
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder.
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War Mamas
Title: War Mamas
Character: Zasu
Released: November 14, 1931
Type: Movie
During WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers.
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The Guardsman
Title: The Guardsman
Character: Liesl
Released: October 20, 1931
Type: Movie
An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a year, are already showing signs of strain in their marriage. The actor believes his wife is capable of infidelity and sets out to prove this is so. Disguising himself as the kind of man he believes she fancies (a Russian military officer), the actor woos his wife while she believes her husband to be out of town.
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The Pajama Party
Title: The Pajama Party
Character: Zasu
Released: October 3, 1931
Type: Movie
After running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at her mansion.
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Penrod and Sam
Title: Penrod and Sam
Character: Mrs. Bassett
Released: October 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale. But there’s also plenty of time to play pranks, put on a carnival, experience the pangs of first love, and romp with Duke, the world’s best dog.
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The Big Gamble
Title: The Big Gamble
Character: Nora Dugan
Released: September 4, 1931
Type: Movie
A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the one-year suicide clause has elapsed.
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Catch-As Catch-Can
Title: Catch-As Catch-Can
Character: ZaSu
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
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Their Mad Moment
Title: Their Mad Moment
Character: Miss Dibbs
Released: July 12, 1931
Type: Movie
Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir Harry Congers, but in love with Basque peasant Esteban Cristera. Deciding on a final fling before wedlock, Emily goes to Esteban's village in the mountains, but is wounded in a car accident. Recuperating, she learns about the hardships endured by Basque women from Esteban's grandmother and former girlfriend, Stancia, and decides to return to Sir Harry in Biarritz.
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A Woman of Experience
Title: A Woman of Experience
Character: Katie
Released: July 8, 1931
Type: Movie
It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she will make an excellent spy.
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Let's Do Things
Title: Let's Do Things
Character: Zasu Pitts
Released: June 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
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Seed
Title: Seed
Character: Jennie
Released: May 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Bart is a clerk for a publishing company; he has written a novel. His wife Peggy and he have five children. Bart's former girlfriend Mildred is manager of the company's Paris office. She manages to get the novel published and talks Bart into marrying her after he divorces Peggy. Initially successful, Bart must turn to writing trash to keep Mildred in money. When he sees how well his four sons and daughter Margaret have grown without his help, he asks Peggy to let them all come live with him and Mildred. Peggy agrees, but the arrival of his beloved children puts Mildred's future in jeopardy. Written by Ed Stephan
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Beyond Victory
Title: Beyond Victory
Character: Fritzi Mobley
Released: April 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
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The Bad Sister
Title: The Bad Sister
Character: Minnie
Released: March 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Marianne. Marianne returns and marries a wealthy young man, and Lindley turns his love toward Laura.
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Finn and Hattie
Title: Finn and Hattie
Character: Mrs. Hattie Haddock
Released: February 4, 1931
Type: Movie
The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who wears the pants in the family - it's their daughter Mildred. Her parents often proclaim she is a genius - but she is just smarter than them, which wouldn't be too hard! On the train, Finn meets shyster Harry who sizes Finn up as a sucker and quickly wires his partner Bessie, aka "The Princess" to make Finn's acquaintance and take him for everything he has.
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Passion Flower
Title: Passion Flower
Character: Mrs. Harney
Released: December 6, 1930
Type: Movie
A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.
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Free Love
Title: Free Love
Character: Ada, the Maid
Released: December 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.
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War Nurse
Title: War Nurse
Character: Cushie
Released: November 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Untrained, volunteer Nurses from America treat Allied soldiers behind and on the lines in France. They face the horrors of war, fight off the attentions of soldiers and face their own loneliness.
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Sin Takes a Holiday
Title: Sin Takes a Holiday
Character: Annie
Released: November 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from ugly duckling to uninhibited swan and even contemplates having an affair with a man she meets during a trip to Paris.
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River's End
Title: River's End
Character: Louise
Released: November 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith. When they catch up with him in the farthest reaches of Northern Canada, Keith turns out to be a dead ringer for Conniston. On the way back, the sled overturns, Keith grabs the gun and leaves them to die in the snow. After second thoughts he comes back and brings them to safety at an RCMP emergency cabin. Conniston dies of a frozen lung.
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The Lottery Bride
Title: The Lottery Bride
Character: Hilda
Released: September 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.
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Monte Carlo
Title: Monte Carlo
Character: Bertha
Released: August 27, 1930
Type: Movie
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
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The Squealer
Title: The Squealer
Character: Bella
Released: August 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her husband, however, believes her reason was that she wanted him out of the way so she could have his best friend.
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Little Accident
Title: Little Accident
Character: Monica
Released: August 3, 1930
Type: Movie
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
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The Devil's Holiday
Title: The Devil's Holiday
Character: Ethel
Released: May 9, 1930
Type: Movie
Beautiful manicurist Hallie Hobart sets her sights on handsome David Stone, the son of wealthy wheat farmer Ezra Stone. Professing to hate men, Hallie is only interested in luring David in for a lucrative business deal. David easily falls in love, but older brother Mark brands Hallie a gold-digger. To get even with the straight-laced Stone family, Hallie accepts David's marriage proposal.
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Honey
Title: Honey
Character: Mayme
Released: March 29, 1930
Type: Movie
A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.
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No, No, Nanette
Title: No, No, Nanette
Character: Pauline Hastings
Released: January 3, 1930
Type: Movie
A bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show.
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The Honeymoon
Title: The Honeymoon
Character: Caecilia
Released: December 31, 1929
Type: Movie
The marriage between Nikki and the crippled Cecilia takes place.
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This Thing Called Love
Title: This Thing Called Love
Character: Clara Bertrand
Released: December 13, 1929
Type: Movie
A romance runs into difficulties because the girl has seen a great deal of the turbulence in her sister's household, and has no illusions about married bliss.
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The Locked Door
Title: The Locked Door
Character: Telephone Girl
Released: November 16, 1929
Type: Movie
On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and determines to intervene.
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Paris
Title: Paris
Character: Harriet
Released: November 7, 1929
Type: Movie
Irène Bordoni is cast as Vivienne Rolland, a Parisian chorus girl in love with Massachusetts boy Andrew Sabbot (Jason Robards Sr.) Andrew's snobbish mother Cora (Louise Closser Hale) tries to break up the romance. Jack Buchanan likewise makes his talking-picture debut as Guy Pennell, the leading man in Vivienne's revue. No film elements of Paris are known to exist, although the complete soundtrack survives on Vitaphone disks. The sound tape reels for this film survives at UCLA Film and Television Archive.
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Oh, Yeah!
Title: Oh, Yeah!
Character: The Elk
Released: October 19, 1929
Type: Movie
A couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with the fright-yard bulls and other drifters, find romance in the persons of two waitresses at the camp restaurant. American-slang rules the dialogue to the point non-USA viewers need a slang-glossary to follow the dialogue.
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Her Private Life
Title: Her Private Life
Character: Timmins
Released: August 25, 1929
Type: Movie
A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American.
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The Argyle Case
Title: The Argyle Case
Character: Mrs. Wyatt
Released: August 17, 1929
Type: Movie
A multimillionaire is murdered, and his will leaves all his money to a beautiful young blonde. The murdered man's son thinks something is fishy, and a homicide cop sets out to find out who was behind the man's death. Complications ensue.
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The Squall
Title: The Squall
Character: Lena
Released: May 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A fiesty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.
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The Dummy
Title: The Dummy
Character: Rose Gleason
Released: March 9, 1929
Type: Movie
The title character is office-boy Barney. Pretending to be a deaf-mute, Barney tries to trump his detective boss Walter Babbing by tracking down the person who kidnapped Peggy Meredith, the daughter of wealthy Agnes and Trumbull Meredith.
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Sins of the Fathers
Title: Sins of the Fathers
Character: Mother Spengler
Released: December 28, 1928
Type: Movie
A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs off with another man. His wife finds out what happened. Complications ensue.
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The Wedding March
Title: The Wedding March
Character: Cecelia Schweisser
Released: October 6, 1928
Type: Movie
A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.
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Buck Privates
Title: Buck Privates
Character: Hulda
Released: January 29, 1928
Type: Movie
Pvt. Smith, an American soldier stationed in a German town during the occupation of Germany after World War I, falls in love with the daughter of the town's leading citizen. The problem is that his sworn enemy, Sgt. Butts, also has designs on the girl. Butts comes up with a plan to get rid of his competition and get the girl for himself, but things don't go quite the way he planned.
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13 Washington Square
Title: 13 Washington Square
Character: The Maid
Released: January 28, 1928
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a wealthy matron is terribly upset when she learns that her socialite son is planning to marry a blue collar girl.
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Wife Savers
Title: Wife Savers
Character: Germaine
Released: January 7, 1928
Type: Movie
While stationed in Switzerland, soldiers Louis and Rodney fall in love with local damsel Colette, much to the dismay of Colette's self-appointed boyfriend General Lavoris.
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Casey at the Bat
Title: Casey at the Bat
Character: Camille
Released: March 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York scout signs him up, so Casey and his equally dishonest manager go to the big leagues. Eventually, the scout and manager conspire to get him drunk and bet against him for a crucial game with the pennant at stake.
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Dreams of Monte Carlo
Title: Dreams of Monte Carlo
Character: Hope Durant
Released: November 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Three girls from a small town win a trip to Monte Carlo. The trip was sponsored by their local newspaper, which sends along its ace reporter Bancroft as their "chaperone".
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Risky Business
Title: Risky Business
Character: Agnes Wheaton
Released: October 4, 1926
Type: Movie
A domineering mother sets out to break up the romance and possible marriage of her daughter, Cecily Stoughton, with Ted Pyncheon by several contrived devices and bringing in other candidates more to her liking.
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Sunny Side Up
Title: Sunny Side Up
Character: Evelyn
Released: August 2, 1926
Type: Movie
Sunny sings in the streets to obtain funds for a country outing. A theatre owner hears her and takes her up. During a fishing trip Sunny is about to accept the theatre owner's proposal of marriage when his estranged wife turns up...
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The Great Love
Title: The Great Love
Character: Nancy
Released: June 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Struggling young doctor in a rural community, Dr. Lawrence Tibbits, cures Norma, a circus elephant, when she is injured in a fire. The circus moves on, but Norma, who has become quite attached to the young doctor, keeps coming back, trampling everything in her way.
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What Happened to Jones
Title: What Happened to Jones
Character: Hilda (as Zazu Pitts)
Released: February 8, 1926
Type: Movie
On the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided by the police, he escapes into a Turkish bath on ladies night, ending up disguised in drag and with difficult explanations to make.
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Mannequin
Title: Mannequin
Character: Annie Pogani
Released: January 11, 1926
Type: Movie
Adapted from the Fannie Hurst story of the same name, Mannequin is the story of Joan Herrick, kidnapped in infancy from her wealthy parents and raised by a slatternly slum woman. The film is still extant.
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Lazybones
Title: Lazybones
Character: Ruth Fanning
Released: November 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he discovers that he loves the grown-up girl.
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Thunder Mountain
Title: Thunder Mountain
Character: Mandy Coulter
Released: October 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Sam Martin grows up in the Kentucky hills with a preacher as his closest friend and father figure. The young man goes away and gets an education, and when he returns home, he wants to build a school so that others can learn, too.
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Pretty Ladies
Title: Pretty Ladies
Character: Maggie Keenan
Released: September 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One thing leads to another, they fall in love and get married. Al becomes a famous songwriter and Maggie stays home and has children. One day Al is hired to write a big number for Selma Larson, one of the Follies' most beautiful stars, and falls for her.
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1925 Studio Tour
Title: 1925 Studio Tour
Character: Self
Released: April 9, 1925
Type: Movie
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.
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Old Shoes
Title: Old Shoes
Released: April 8, 1925
Type: Movie
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The Great Divide
Title: The Great Divide
Character: Polly Jordan
Released: February 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Alone and unprotected in an isolated wilderness cabin, Ruth Jordan is discovered by three drunken brutes who begin to barter for her. In desperation, she appeals to Stephen Ghent, the least degraded of the desperadoes, promising herself to him if he saves her from the others. Ghent buys off Shorty with a chain of gold nuggets and knocks Dutch senseless. Ghent then sends Dutch off with Shorty and takes Ruth to the next town, where he forces her to marry him. During the 3-day ride across the desert to Ghent's gold mine, the idealistic Ruth learns that he is a man of rough passions.
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Greed
Title: Greed
Character: Trina
Released: December 4, 1924
Type: Movie
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
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Secrets of the Night
Title: Secrets of the Night
Character: Celia Stebbins
Released: November 12, 1924
Type: Movie
Robert Andrews hosts a large party and there stages his own murder, to keep bank examiner Alfred Austin from examining the records of his bank.
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The Fast Set
Title: The Fast Set
Character: Mona
Released: October 20, 1924
Type: Movie
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Changing Husbands
Title: Changing Husbands
Character: Delia
Released: June 22, 1924
Type: Movie
A bored rich housewife wants to go on the stage, but her husband won't let her. When she meets a despairing actress who looks exactly like her, she suggests they swap places for a little while, giving the actress a break while the rich husband is out of town. But the rich husband comes back early, causing havoc for the actress, plus the rich housewife is finding herself attracted to the actress's boyfriend.
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The Goldfish
Title: The Goldfish
Character: Amelia Pugsley
Released: March 30, 1924
Type: Movie
A newly married husband and wife make an agreement that should either of them want to terminate their relationship then a bowl with goldfish would be presented to the other signalling the end of their marriage.
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Tea- With a Kick!
Title: Tea- With a Kick!
Character: 'Brainy' Jones
Released: August 26, 1923
Type: Movie
The tale of Bonnie Day, a rambunctious young lady who is rankled when she is expelled from college for serving tea in her room. She goes on to open up a tearoom in a fancy hotel, saving all the profits to pay the legal fees for her father who has been unjustly jailed. Mr. Day's rival has embroiled him in a crooked stock deal and made him appear to be the guilty party. Meanwhile, Bonnie is in the midst of a romantic dilemma; her Aunt Pearl wants her to wed Napoleon Dobbings, but Bonnie much prefers helpful young lawyer Art Binger.
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Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: Zasu Pitts
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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Three Wise Fools
Title: Three Wise Fools
Character: Mickey
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Sydney Fairchild, the daughter of a woman who was once loved by three bachelors, surprises the men with a visit. Findley, Trumbull, and Gaunt honor their former sweetheart's last request by becoming Sydney's guardians.
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Mary of the Movies
Title: Mary of the Movies
Character: Zasu Pitts (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, and gets to meet 40 actors, actresses and directors, none of whom tip big enough to enable Mary to earn enough money to pay for an operation. Will Mary become an actress and make some big money?
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Souls for Sale
Title: Souls for Sale
Character: Self - Celebrity Actress in Commissary
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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Poor Men's Wives
Title: Poor Men's Wives
Character: Apple Annie
Released: January 28, 1923
Type: Movie
Drama of two girls who married into different layers of society.
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For the Defense
Title: For the Defense
Character: Jennie Dunn
Released: June 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Singer Anna Woodstock loses her voice, but a visit to a hypnotist, Dr. Joseph Kasimir, brings it back. What Anna doesn't realize is that her illness was purely psychosomatic and Kasimir is a swindler.
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A Daughter of Luxury
Title: A Daughter of Luxury
Character: Mary Cosgrove
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
When a lawsuit deprives a rich woman, Mary Fenton, of her wealth, she decides to impersonate another woman, Mary Cosgrove. The situation becomes sticky when Cosgroge turns up and demands Fenton be arrested.
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Patsy
Title: Patsy
Character: Patsy
Released: February 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Patsy is the awkward sister of the lovely Grace. She is also in love with Grace's boyfriend. Mother shows favoritism towards Grace, and father is too accommodating to stand up for Patsy, although he knows she is picked on. When they are all at supper, Grace runs away on a motorboat with a millionaire playboy. During a deep talk with Grace's boyfriend, Patsy reveals that she is in love with somebody who doesn't know she exists.
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Heart of Twenty
Title: Heart of Twenty
Released: June 20, 1920
Type: Movie
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The Other Half
Title: The Other Half
Character: Jennie Jones, The Jazz Kid
Released: August 18, 1919
Type: Movie
Social drama about a friendship that is pressurized by class differences.
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Better Times
Title: Better Times
Character: Nancy Scroggs
Released: July 13, 1919
Type: Movie
Ezra Scroggs is a shiftless gambler who has let his hotel, the Lakeview, fall on hard times. Finally his daughter Nancy gets fed up seeing all the business go to his rival, Si Whittaker at the Majestic, and she decides to do something about it.
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A Lady's Name
Title: A Lady's Name
Character: Emily
Released: December 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Bright young novelist Mabel Vere is engaged to Gerald Wantage, a prig who angrily objects when she advertises for a husband in order to elicit ideas for her new book. Mabel's roommate, Maud Bray, a physical culture expert, frightens away the less desirable suitors, while the writer responds to the more interesting letters, and soon becomes embroiled in a number of adventures.
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The Talk of the Town
Title: The Talk of the Town
Released: September 28, 1918
Type: Movie
Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her hand on a book called "How to Attract the Opposite Sex," she takes its advice to heart. She uses her newly found wiles on Lawrence Tabor (William Stowell) and gets him to marry her. Only after the wedding does she tell him she married him just to get away from her family, and that she intends to do exactly as she pleases.
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A Society Sensation
Title: A Society Sensation
Character: Mary
Released: September 22, 1918
Type: Movie
A wealthy society playboy falls in love with the daughter of a poor fisherman. After Valentino shot to fame, A Society Sensation was cut down to a meek 24 minutes so the lead would be in every scene. Title cards tried to make up for the lost scenes.
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How Could You, Jean?
Title: How Could You, Jean?
Character: Oscar's Sweetheart
Released: June 29, 1918
Type: Movie
A lost Film. Mary Pickford plays a socialite who, having lost her fortune, takes a job as a Swedish cook. She falls in love with a chauffeur who, lo and behold, is a slumming millionaire.
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A Modern Musketeer
Title: A Modern Musketeer
Character: A Kansas Belle (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1917
Type: Movie
A young man grows restless living in a small Kansas town, dreaming of the adventures of the Three Musketeers. So in hopes of becoming a modern D'Artagnan, he mounts his steed (a Model T Ford) and sets out across the West in search of excitement and adventure.
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A Little Princess
Title: A Little Princess
Character: Becky
Released: November 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.
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'49–'17
Title: '49–'17
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1917
Type: Movie
A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experience in this rather fanciful silent Western. The make-believe turns serious when a real gold mine is discovered nearby and a local girl is kidnapped by a nasty gambler.
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Title: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Character: Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 1917
Type: Movie
Behind in the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm and barely managing to feed seven hungry mouths, mother sends young Rebecca off to Riverboro to be raised by her wealthy Aunt Miranda. The little girl is treated like a prisoner by her strict Aunt, yet she gamely does her best to get an education. When spoiled girls at school mock the spirited Rebecca as "missy poor-house," she soon makes them come to eat their words. Despite many difficulties, Rebecca manages to help the less fortunate and spread joy in Riverboro, dreaming that her reward will come when she is "all growed up." This version is notable for having been adapted by famed female screenwriter Frances Marion.