Josephine Dunn

Josephine Dunn

Born: May 1, 1906
Died: February 3, 1983
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Josephine Dunn...

The Birth of a Baby
Title: The Birth of a Baby
Character: Mrs. Bromley
Released: May 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Mrs. Burgess explains menstruation to her teen-aged daughter by showing her diagrams in a medical book. Her daughter-in-law Mary then tells Mrs. Burgess that she wishes that she, too, knew more about her body. She also reveals that she may be expecting a baby and is apprehensive about her safety and the changes that a new baby will bring to her life.
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Mr. Broadway
Title: Mr. Broadway
Character: Josephine Dunn
Released: September 12, 1933
Type: Movie
Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.
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Playthings of Desire
Title: Playthings of Desire
Character: Anne Cabot Ford
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Jim Malvern is one of the richest men in the world. Unscrupulous and greedy, he uses beautiful young women as his playthings. But after meeting gorgeous actress Gloria Dawn, Malvern decides to put aside his philandering ways. With a marriage date set, the millionaire invites a flock of his famous friends -- including some of his former lovers -- to a remote island. Moments before the ceremony, Malvern is shot and killed by an unseen assailant. A grieving Gloria, realizing the murderer must be one of the guests, goes on a hunt for her fiance's killer.
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Fast Life
Title: Fast Life
Character: Swimmer (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run, but all they succeed in doing is sinking the Admiral's barge. After discharge, broke and out of work, they find work with a boat builder who wants the fastest race boat in the world. They design the boat, carburetor and the engine but lack of money and the foreclosure of the business hinders their efforts to prove the new design.
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Between Fighting Men
Title: Between Fighting Men
Character: Goldie
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Ken not only has to fight with his brother Wally over the girls, he has to try and stop the conflict between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. It gets worse when Butch kills Judy's father.
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Big City Blues
Title: Big City Blues
Character: Jackie DeVoe
Released: September 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
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One Hour with You
Title: One Hour with You
Character: Mademoiselle Martel
Released: March 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
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Murder at Dawn
Title: Murder at Dawn
Character: Doris Farrington
Released: February 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Mad scientist works on a death ray in his mountain hideaway.
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Two Kinds of Women
Title: Two Kinds of Women
Character: Clarissa Smith
Released: January 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The daughter of a senator from South Dakota visits Manhattan for the first time, eager to see the sights of the big city. While there, she finds herself caught up in an affair with a married man, whose wife soon commits suicide. Complications ensue.
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Sealed Lips
Title: Sealed Lips
Released: November 11, 1931
Type: Movie
The Shadow's third movie short, an adaptation from a Donald Van Riper story, "Dying Lips," which appeared in an issue of Detective Story Magazine.
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Madonna of the Streets
Title: Madonna of the Streets
Released: November 25, 1930
Type: Movie
Directed by John S. Robertson. With Evelyn Brent, Robert Ames, Ivan Linow, Josephine Dunn.
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Second Honeymoon
Title: Second Honeymoon
Character: Mary Huntley
Released: September 12, 1930
Type: Movie
A wealthy man's wife becomes bored with him, so his friend decides to trick her into believing her husband is having an affair to "wake her up".
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Safety in Numbers
Title: Safety in Numbers
Character: Maxine
Released: May 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Before handing over a large inheritance, a guardian hires three chorus girls to educate his charge about the "underside" of big-city life.
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Red Hot Rhythm
Title: Red Hot Rhythm
Character: Claire
Released: November 23, 1929
Type: Movie
A 1929 film by Leo McCarey.
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A Most Immoral Lady
Title: A Most Immoral Lady
Character: Joan Porter
Released: September 22, 1929
Type: Movie
Laura Sergeant (Leatrice Joy), together with her husband, Humphrey Sergeant (Sidney Blackmer) operates a scam scheme to extort money from millionaires through blackmail and victimization until she mistakenly victimizes Tony Williams (Walter Pidgeon), the man she really loves.
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Our Modern Maidens
Title: Our Modern Maidens
Character: Ginger
Released: September 8, 1929
Type: Movie
Young vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancée Gil a diplomatic appointment. Meanwhile Gil's affections meander to beautiful ingenue Kentucky, Billie's best friend.
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Big Time
Title: Big Time
Character: Gloria
Released: September 7, 1929
Type: Movie
The relationship between a male dancer and his actress girlfriend is threatened by a scheming chorister.
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Melody Lane
Title: Melody Lane
Character: Dolores Dupree
Released: July 20, 1929
Type: Movie
A songwriter leaves his chorus girl sweetheart to join the US Army in WWI. In France he falls in love with French singer Madelon. He is crippled in action. Back in the States, his girl friend there leaves him. But Madelon can't forget him and comes to the USA to work there as singer. Per chance she meets the songwriter, and he is cured. Singing one of his love songs, he knows that he has found the right girl.
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Black Magic
Title: Black Magic
Character: Katherine Bradbroke
Released: July 6, 1929
Type: Movie
On a South Seas island, "three white derelicts drink away memories of the past. After many adventures during which a girl enters the picture, the three are rehabilitated and everything turns out happily."
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A Man's Man
Title: A Man's Man
Character: Peggy
Released: May 25, 1929
Type: Movie
An aspiring actress goes to Hollywood to make movies and marries a soda jerk.
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China Bound
Title: China Bound
Character: Joan
Released: May 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Two loony buddies get caught up in a Chinese revolution.
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The Sin Sister
Title: The Sin Sister
Character: Ethelyn Horn
Released: February 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Pearl a vaudeville dancer is stranded somewhere in Alaska. With no official place to stay in the vicinity, Pearl is obliged to accept the hospitality of a wealthy family which has itself been stranded in the Great White North. An ill-tempered fur trader and a looney Eskimo both lust after Pearl, but she is rescued by Peter Van Dykeman her hosts' male secretary….
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All at Sea
Title: All at Sea
Released: February 9, 1929
Type: Movie
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The Singing Fool
Title: The Singing Fool
Character: Molly Winton
Released: September 29, 1928
Type: Movie
After years of hopeful struggle, waiter and aspiring singer-songwriter Al Stone is on his way. He gets his huge break on a magical night when his song wows big-time producer Louis Marcus and gold-digging showgirl Molly, whom Al fancies. Broadway success and marriage follow, but sure enough, hard times are on the way.
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Excess Baggage
Title: Excess Baggage
Character: Elsa McCoy
Released: September 28, 1928
Type: Movie
Excess Baggage is a lost 1928 American silent comedy film directed by James Cruze and distributed by MGM. The film was based on the play of the same name by John McGowan. The film starred William Haines, Josephine Dunn and Kathleen Clifford.
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We Americans
Title: We Americans
Character: Helen Bradleigh
Released: May 6, 1928
Type: Movie
We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes that he handled so well, director Edward H. Sloman concentrates on the trials and tribulations of three first-generation American families: The Jewish Levines, the German Schmidts and the Italian Albertinis.
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Get Your Man
Title: Get Your Man
Character: Simone de Valens
Released: December 6, 1927
Type: Movie
A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man.
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She's a Sheik
Title: She's a Sheik
Character: Wanda Fowler
Released: November 12, 1927
Type: Movie
The daughter of a desert chief kidnaps a member of the French Foreign Legion in the hopes of wooing him.
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Swim Girl, Swim
Title: Swim Girl, Swim
Character: Helen Tracey
Released: September 3, 1927
Type: Movie
Serious university co-ed Alice Smith, is wholly engrossed, it would appear, in chasing butterflies and rare insects under the guidance of her friend, Mr. Spangle, Ph. D., though she secretly yearns to be an athlete and thus win the admiration of Jerry Marvin, a popular schoolmate. She takes up swimming, making herself the campus joke because of her ideas on the subject.
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With Love and Hisses
Title: With Love and Hisses
Character: Girlfriend (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1927
Type: Movie
Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble.
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Fireman, Save My Child
Title: Fireman, Save My Child
Character: Dora Dumston
Released: August 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Two firemen must put up with a variety of travails in their job, especially their chief's spoiled and bratty daughter, who keeps turning in false alarms whenever she needs some heavy lifting done so that she can get the responding firemen to do it.
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Love's Greatest Mistake
Title: Love's Greatest Mistake
Character: Honey McNeil
Released: February 20, 1927
Type: Movie
Love's Greatest Mistake is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Evelyn Brent. The film is now lost.
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The Sorrows of Satan
Title: The Sorrows of Satan
Released: October 12, 1926
Type: Movie
Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his poverty, in his anger he curses God for abandoning him. Soon Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he has inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince's hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn't know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan.
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It's the Old Army Game
Title: It's the Old Army Game
Character: Society Bather
Released: July 10, 1926
Type: Movie
Druggist Elmer Prettywillie is sleeping. A woman rings the night bell only to buy a two-cent stamp. Then garbage collectors waken him. Next it's firemen on a false alarm. And then a real fire.
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Fascinating Youth
Title: Fascinating Youth
Character: Loris Lane
Released: March 17, 1926
Type: Movie
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.