Binnie Barnes

Binnie Barnes

Born: March 25, 1903
Died: July 27, 1998
in Islington, London, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Gittel Enoyce "Binnie" Barnes (25 May 1903 – 27 July 1998), later known as Gertrude Maude Barnes, was an English actress.

She was born in Islington to a Jewish father and an Italian mother and was brought up as a Jew. She worked on a farm and in hospital as a probationer. She then became a ballroom dancer and Tex McLeod's stage partner. Later she was in cabaret and revue.

She began her acting career in films in 1923, appearing in a short film made by Lee De Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process. Her film career continued in Britain, then in Hollywood, until 1973, with her final role in the comedy 40 Carats. Her most famous film was probably The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), starring Charles Laughton in the title role, with Barnes as Katherine Howard.

She was married to film producer Mike Frankovich and became an American citizen. They adopted three children.

She died of natural causes at the age of 95 in Beverly Hills, California, in 1998, survived by her three children, including production manager Mike Frankovich Jr. and producer Peter Frankovich. Her interment was in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

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Legends of the West
Title: Legends of the West
Character: Jerry in 'Frontier Marshall'
Released: September 8, 1992
Type: Movie
Host Jack Palance explores how Hollywood has depicted Western legends like George Armstrong Custer, Billy the Kid, Crazy Horse and the O.K. Corral
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40 Carats
Title: 40 Carats
Character: Maud Ericson
Released: June 28, 1973
Type: Movie
After an overnight fling with a man nearly 20 years her junior while vacationing in Greece, Ann Stanley returns to New York assuming she'll never see Peter Latham again. Until, that is, he shows up on her doorstep to take her daughter to a party. Despite her yearning for Peter and the encouragement of her friends and family, Ann initially rebuffs him when he pursues her, but slowly she yields to his charm and her own stifled emotions.
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Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Title: Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Character: Sister Celestine
Released: April 10, 1968
Type: Movie
Mother Superior of St. Francis Academy is challenged by a modern young nun when they take the girls on a bus trip across the country.
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The Trouble with Angels
Title: The Trouble with Angels
Character: Sister Celestine
Released: March 29, 1966
Type: Movie
Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.
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Title: The Donna Reed Show
Released: September 24, 1958
Type: TV
Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the children.
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Malaga
Title: Malaga
Character: Frisco
Released: June 24, 1954
Type: Movie
A female former OSS agent is sent to Tangiers, Morocco, to infiltrate and destroy an international smuggling ring.
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Decameron Nights
Title: Decameron Nights
Character: Comtesse di Firenze / Nerina / Old Witch
Released: January 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells three tales of love and lust.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Miss Marlowe
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Beatrice Hobbs
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Shadow of the Eagle
Title: Shadow of the Eagle
Character: Catherine - Empress of Russia
Released: September 11, 1950
Type: Movie
During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.
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Fugitive Lady
Title: Fugitive Lady
Character: Esther Clementi
Released: May 8, 1950
Type: Movie
A man drives his car off a cliff in an apparent suicide. One insurance investigator is not so sure it was an accident or suicide and gets 48 hours to prove his case.
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Title: Your Show of Shows
Released: February 25, 1950
Type: TV
Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC, from February 25, 1950, until June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Other featured performers were Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Bill Hayes, Judy Johnson, The Hamilton Trio and the soprano Marguerite Piazza. José Ferrer made several guest appearances on the series. The series was telecast from the now-demolished International Theatre at 5 Columbus Circle and the Century Theater, now demolished, in New York. During 2002, Your Show of Shows was ranked #30 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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The Pirates of Capri
Title: The Pirates of Capri
Character: Queen Maria Carolina
Released: December 25, 1949
Type: Movie
A group of men calling themselves 'The Pirates of Capri", headed by Captain Sirroco, who is really Count Amalfi, are trying to restore freedom to the people of Naples. The Queen is advised of the pirate's assault of a member of her court and she seeks to escape to Palermo. But, she is advised it would be good politics for her to attend a ball Amalfi is giving for his fiancée, Mercedes, who is unaware of the dual role Amalfi is playing.
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My Own True Love
Title: My Own True Love
Character: Geraldine
Released: July 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience as a G.I., during which he lost a leg and was imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp.
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The Dude Goes West
Title: The Dude Goes West
Character: Kiki Kelly
Released: May 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are. So off he goes into the West and becomes the foe of the notorious Pecos Kid, the captive of Paiutes, the target in a saloon showdown, and the lone source of the whereabouts of a fabulous gold strike.
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If Winter Comes
Title: If Winter Comes
Character: Natalie Bagshaw
Released: December 31, 1947
Type: Movie
The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a friendship with Effie, a young pregnant girl. As the townsfolk theorize that Mark is the baby's father, Effie - already troubled because of her impending motherhood - commits suicide, and circulating rumors lead the authorities to think Mark killed her. The innocent writer must fight to clear his name.
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Blow-Ups of 1947
Title: Blow-Ups of 1947
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1947
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.
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The Time of Their Lives
Title: The Time of Their Lives
Character: Mildred Dean
Released: August 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.
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Getting Gertie's Garter
Title: Getting Gertie's Garter
Character: Barbara
Released: November 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Dennis O'Keefe, newly married to lovely Sheila Ryan, is in a jam. O'Keefe's former girl friend, exotic dancer Marie McDonald, has in her possession an expensive, jeweled garter given to her by O'Keefe in his bachelor days. McDonald intends to show the garter to O'Keefe's suspicious wife, so Our Hero must retrieve the embarrassing accouterment without tipping off the missus.
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The Spanish Main
Title: The Spanish Main
Character: Anne Bonney
Released: October 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene, governed by Don Juan Alvardo, a Spanish ruler. Alvarado has Laurent thrown in prison, but the latter escapes, and five-years later is a pirate leader. He poses as the navigator on a ship in which Contessa Francesca, daughter of a Mexican noble, is traveling on her way to marry Alvarado, whom she has never seen. Laurent's pirates capture the ship and Francesca, in order to save another ship, gives her hand-in-marriage to Laurent, who sails her to the pirate hideout. This irks his jealous pirate comrades Anne Bonney and Captain Benjamin Black. They overpower Laurent and send Francesca to Alvarado, and then Mario du Billar, a trusted right-hand man, makes a deal to deliver Laurent to Alvarado.
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It's in the Bag!
Title: It's in the Bag!
Character: Eve Floogle
Released: April 21, 1945
Type: Movie
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
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Up in Mabel's Room
Title: Up in Mabel's Room
Character: Alicia Larchmont
Released: September 12, 1944
Type: Movie
Newly-married Gary Ainsworth (Dennis O'Keefe) once gave his former sweetheart Mabel (Gail Patrick) a sexy negligee with his initials embroidered in the lacework. It is Gary's unenviable task to retrieve the incriminating undergarment from Mabel's room before his wife Geraldine (Marjorie Reynolds) gets wise.
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Barbary Coast Gent
Title: Barbary Coast Gent
Character: Lil Damish
Released: September 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
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The Hour Before the Dawn
Title: The Hour Before the Dawn
Character: May Hetherton
Released: May 10, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she needs to get information about so she can help in Hitler's planned invasion of England.
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The Man from Down Under
Title: The Man from Down Under
Character: Aggie Dawlins
Released: August 4, 1943
Type: Movie
An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.
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I Married an Angel
Title: I Married an Angel
Character: Peggy
Released: July 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A playboy drops his many girlfriends when he falls in love with a grounded angel.
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In Old California
Title: In Old California
Character: Lacey Miller
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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Call Out the Marines
Title: Call Out the Marines
Character: Violet 'Vi' Hall
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Two Marine sergeants (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe) flirt with a cafe girl (Binnie Barnes) in San Diego, then find out she's a spy.
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Skylark
Title: Skylark
Character: Myrtle Valentine
Released: November 21, 1941
Type: Movie
As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at the moment when she is trying to decide what to do, she meets a handsome attorney, and their innocent flirtation begins to turn into something a bit more serious.
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Three Girls About Town
Title: Three Girls About Town
Character: Faith Banner
Released: October 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
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New Wine
Title: New Wine
Character: Countess Marie Duvarre
Released: September 10, 1941
Type: Movie
The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.
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Tight Shoes
Title: Tight Shoes
Character: Sybil Ash
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
A crook with big feet buys shoes that are too tight from a salesman, then decides to use the store as a front for illegal gambling.
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Angels with Broken Wings
Title: Angels with Broken Wings
Character: Sybil Barton
Released: May 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is about to marry Guy Barton, a wealthy businessman. But Mexican divorces have been declared illegal, so Guy is still married to Sybil Barton, an unscrupulous gold-digger who left him twelve years earlier. She demands that Guy give her $250,000 for his freedom.- Written by Les Adams
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This Thing Called Love
Title: This Thing Called Love
Character: Charlotte Campbell
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
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'Til We Meet Again
Title: 'Til We Meet Again
Character: Comtesse de Bresac
Released: April 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
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Day-time Wife
Title: Day-time Wife
Character: Blanche
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
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Frontier Marshal
Title: Frontier Marshal
Character: Jerry
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Man About Town
Title: Man About Town
Character: Lady Arlington
Released: June 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.
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Land of Liberty
Title: Land of Liberty
Character: (archive footage)
Released: June 15, 1939
Type: Movie
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
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Wife, Husband and Friend
Title: Wife, Husband and Friend
Character: Cecil Carver
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Milady De Winter
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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Thanks for Everything
Title: Thanks for Everything
Character: Kay Swift
Released: December 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love with a girl who upsets things.
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Gateway
Title: Gateway
Character: Mrs. Fay Sims
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
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Tropic Holiday
Title: Tropic Holiday
Character: Marilyn Joyce
Released: June 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border.
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Always Goodbye
Title: Always Goodbye
Character: Harriet Martin
Released: June 24, 1938
Type: Movie
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is born, Jim helps her find a home for the baby with Phil Marshall and his wife. Margot insists that neither the Marshalls nor the child can ever know that she is his mother.
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Three Blind Mice
Title: Three Blind Mice
Character: Miriam Harrington
Released: June 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her staff.
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Holiday
Title: Holiday
Character: Laura Cram
Released: May 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!
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The Adventures of Marco Polo
Title: The Adventures of Marco Polo
Character: Nazama
Released: April 7, 1938
Type: Movie
The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.
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The First Hundred Years
Title: The First Hundred Years
Character: Claudia Weston
Released: March 12, 1938
Type: Movie
David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job
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The Divorce of Lady X
Title: The Divorce of Lady X
Character: Lady Claire Mere
Released: January 15, 1938
Type: Movie
The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.
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Broadway Melody of 1938
Title: Broadway Melody of 1938
Character: Caroline Whipple
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse, she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with to ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.
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Breezing Home
Title: Breezing Home
Character: Henrietta Fairfax
Released: February 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Bookmakers try to fix a horse race.
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Three Smart Girls
Title: Three Smart Girls
Character: Donna Lyons
Released: December 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The three Craig sisters Penny, Kay, and Joan, go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
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The Magnificent Brute
Title: The Magnificent Brute
Character: Della Lane
Released: October 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes of his landlady at the boarding house and falls in love with a gold-digger. His best friend also finds himself smitten by the seductive young woman. But when the one of the workers fritters away a collection that had been taken up for the wife of a deceased co-worker on a foolish bet, he and the vamp take off until the good-hearted landlady intervenes and convinces them to stay and take their lumps.
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The Last of the Mohicans
Title: The Last of the Mohicans
Character: Alice Munro
Released: July 2, 1936
Type: Movie
The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns—in part—a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of between 500 to 1,500 Anglo-American troops, who had honorably surrendered at Fort William Henry, plus some women and servants; the kidnapping of two sisters, daughters of the British commander; and their rescue by the last Mohicans.
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Small Town Girl
Title: Small Town Girl
Character: Priscilla Hyde
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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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: Countess Elizabeth Bartoffski
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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A Dream Comes True
Title: A Dream Comes True
Character: Herself (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1935
Type: Movie
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Title: La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 1935
Type: Movie
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Color). It features a young, pre-stardom 13-year-old Judy Garland singing "La Cucaracha" with her two sisters (billed as "The Garland Sisters"). In the film, Hollywood stars participate in a Mexican-themed revue and festival in Santa Barbara. Andy Devine, the "World's Greatest Matador," engages in a bullfight with a dubious bovine supplied by Buster Keaton, and musical numbers are provided by Joe Morrison and The Garland Sisters. Comedy bits and dance numbers are also featured.
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Rendezvous
Title: Rendezvous
Character: Olivia Karloff
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
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Diamond Jim
Title: Diamond Jim
Character: Lillian Russell
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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There's Always Tomorrow
Title: There's Always Tomorrow
Character: Alice Vail
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee.
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Forbidden Territory
Title: Forbidden Territory
Character: Valerie Petrovna
Released: October 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Britisher Sir Charles Farrington and a son, Rex Farrington, arrive in a Russian Soviet territory searching for another Farrington son, Michael,who has been thrown into prison. Valarie Perrovna is a singer who is in love with the imprisoned son and she provides the searchers with the information as to where the missing son is being held. They all go there and help Michael escape. But is their escape vehicle---a flat wagon pulled by three horses--- fast enough and sturdy enough through the snow to beat the Commmisar and his troops to the Rumanian border
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One Exciting Adventure
Title: One Exciting Adventure
Character: Rena Sorel
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream.
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Gift of Gab
Title: Gift of Gab
Character: Maid
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
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The Lady Is Willing
Title: The Lady Is Willing
Character: Helene Dupont
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to kidnap the man's wife so he can get her signature and reclaim the money. The detective didn't plan on falling in love with the wife, but he does, and mayhem ensues.
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The Private Life of Don Juan
Title: The Private Life of Don Juan
Character: Rosita, a Maid Pure and Simple
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII
Title: The Private Life of Henry VIII
Character: Katherine Howard
Released: August 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
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Heads We Go
Title: Heads We Go
Character: Lil Pickering
Released: July 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star.
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Counsel's Opinion
Title: Counsel's Opinion
Character: Leslie
Released: March 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Divorce barrister Logan arrives back in London from a trip overseas to find the whole city fogbound. Unable to reach his flat, he books into the exclusive Royal Parks Hotel. Leslie sweet-talks Logan into letting her stay in his suite, and although the pair are attracted to each other, the night passes innocently. On arriving at Chambers, Logan is asked to act as counsel for Lord Rockburn, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Logan accepts the brief, but then discovers to his horror that Lady Rockburn was a guest at the Royal Parks Hotel ball the previous night, and a cornerstone of the case is alleged impropriety after a maid observed a man leaving her room that morning......
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Their Night Out
Title: Their Night Out
Character: Lola
Released: March 1, 1933
Type: Movie
An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang!
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Strip, Strip, Hooray!
Title: Strip, Strip, Hooray!
Character: Spanish Lady
Released: September 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A specialist sunbathing camp is threatened by a campaign by the leader of the 'Wear More Clothes League'.
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Old Spanish Customers
Title: Old Spanish Customers
Character: Carmen
Released: September 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
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The Last Coupon
Title: The Last Coupon
Character: Mrs. Meredith
Released: July 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!
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Partners Please
Title: Partners Please
Character: Billie
Released: March 31, 1932
Type: Movie
An aristocrat becomes a gigolo.
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The Innocents of Chicago
Title: The Innocents of Chicago
Character: Peg Guinan
Released: March 20, 1932
Type: Movie
A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane
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Murder at Covent Garden
Title: Murder at Covent Garden
Character: Girl
Released: February 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A detective goes undercover and poses as a criminal to try to discover the reasons behind the murder of a night club owner.
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Out of the Blue
Title: Out of the Blue
Character: Rosa
Released: November 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees abroad to Biarritz to become a nightclub singer.
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Dr. Josser K.C.
Title: Dr. Josser K.C.
Character: Rosa Wopp
Released: November 4, 1931
Type: Movie
'Crook dons disguises to attempt blackmail.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Love Lies
Title: Love Lies
Character: Junetta
Released: August 11, 1931
Type: Movie
Love Lies is a 1932 British musical comedy film directed by Lupino Lane and starring Stanley Lupino, Dorothy Boyd and Jack Hobbs. It was made by British International Pictures at Elstree Studios. It was based on Stanley Lupino's own hit 1929 stage musical.
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A Night in Montmartre
Title: A Night in Montmartre
Character: Therese
Released: July 16, 1931
Type: Movie
A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, believes in their innocence and sets out to find who really killed the blackmailer.