Dorothy Peterson

Dorothy Peterson

Born: December 25, 1897
Died: October 3, 1979
in Hector, Minnesota, USA

Movies for Dorothy Peterson...

Seed of Innocence
Title: Seed of Innocence
Character: Nun
Released: October 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A love story about two teenagers who fall in love, have a child, and escape from their families in an attempt to make life for themselves in New York City.
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Title: The Patty Duke Show
Released: September 18, 1963
Type: TV
The Patty Duke Show is an American sitcom which ran on ABC from September 18, 1963 to April 27, 1966, with reruns airing through August 31, 1966. The show was created as a vehicle for rising star Patty Duke. A total of 104 episodes were produced, most written by Sidney Sheldon.
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Title: Naked City
Character: Mrs. Graither
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Tales of Tomorrow
Released: August 3, 1951
Type: TV
Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered such stories as Frankenstein, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo, and many others featuring such performers as Boris Karloff, Brian Keith, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Bruce Cabot, Franchot Tone, Gene Lockhart, Walter Abel, Leslie Nielsen, and Paul Newman. The series had many similarities to the later Twilight Zone which also covered one of the same stories, "What You Need". In total it ran for eighty-five 30-minute episodes.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Wife
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: Robert Montgomery Presents
Released: January 30, 1950
Type: TV
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.
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Title: Suspense
Character: Mrs. Morgan
Released: January 6, 1949
Type: TV
Suspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the radio program of the same name which ran from 1942 to 1962. Like many early television programs, the show was broadcast live from New York City. It was sponsored by the Auto-Lite corporation, and each episode was introduced by host Rex Marshall, who promoted Auto-Lite spark plugs, car batteries, headlights, and other car parts. Some of the early scripts were adapted from Suspense radio scripts, while others were original for television. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens all had stories adapted for the series, while contemporary authors such as Roald Dahl and Gore Vidal also contributed. Many notable actors appeared on the program, including Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Franchot Tone, Robert Emhardt, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, and many more. The program was a live television series, but most episodes were recorded on kinescope. However, only about 90 of the 260 episodes survive today.
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Title: Studio One
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Title: The Philco Television Playhouse
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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That Hagen Girl
Title: That Hagen Girl
Character: Minta Hagen
Released: November 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her real parents. When Tom Bates returns to town, he takes over the house and practice that Judge Merrivale left him when he died. As Tom has been away a number of years, this leads to more gossip and Mary believes that he is her father. The popular and rich Ken loves Mary, but his family and friends constantly remind him that she is 'not one of us'. Julia, a teacher at school encourages Mary but Mary cannot get a break in anything she does, or is accused of doing. Tom knows the answer to her true identity, and he is silent.
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Sister Kenny
Title: Sister Kenny
Character: Agnes
Released: October 10, 1946
Type: Movie
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
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Faces in the Fog
Title: Faces in the Fog
Character: Mrs. Mason
Released: November 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....
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The Woman in the Window
Title: The Woman in the Window
Character: Mrs. Wanley
Released: October 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
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When the Lights Go On Again
Title: When the Lights Go On Again
Character: Clara Benson
Released: October 22, 1944
Type: Movie
The hometown life of a young soldier suffering from shellshock amnesia is revealed in flashback.
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This Is the Life
Title: This Is the Life
Character: Aunt Betsy
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice training, but she is pursuing Major Hilary Jarret, an Army surgeon with whom she has become infatuated. Her departure depresses her childhood friend Jimmy Plum. Dr. Plum devises an errand on which to send his love-sick son to New York, where Jimmy discovers Angela thinks she is Jarret's fiancée. Jimmy also renews acquaintances with a group of show people, including Sally McGuire, who attempts to console him. Jimmy meets Jarret's divorced wife, Harriet, famed photographer. Jimmy engineers a meeting of Jarret and Harriet with Angela present, which forms the beginning of an understanding that Jarret is not for her. Jimmy is inducted into the Army.
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Mr. Skeffington
Title: Mr. Skeffington
Character: Manby
Released: May 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
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This Is the Army
Title: This Is the Army
Character: Mrs. Nelson
Released: August 14, 1943
Type: Movie
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
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Air Force
Title: Air Force
Character: Mrs. Chester (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1943
Type: Movie
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
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The Moon Is Down
Title: The Moon Is Down
Character: Mother (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
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Reconnaissance Pilot
Title: Reconnaissance Pilot
Character: Mrs. Cummings
Released: January 25, 1943
Type: Movie
Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War as he flies reconnaissance missions over enemy-held islands.
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The Man in the Trunk
Title: The Man in the Trunk
Character: Lola DeWinters
Released: September 19, 1942
Type: Movie
The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.
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Saboteur
Title: Saboteur
Character: Mrs. Mason
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
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Uncle Joe
Title: Uncle Joe
Character: Margaret Day
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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Henry Aldrich for President
Title: Henry Aldrich for President
Character: Mrs. Aldrich
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.
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Cheers for Miss Bishop
Title: Cheers for Miss Bishop
Character: Mrs. Bishop
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.
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Ride, Kelly, Ride
Title: Ride, Kelly, Ride
Character: Mrs. Martin
Released: February 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A jockey struggles against gamblers with the help of the stable trainer and horse owner's daughter.
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Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Title: Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Character: Mrs. Pepper
Released: September 1, 1940
Type: Movie
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
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Out West with the Peppers
Title: Out West with the Peppers
Character: Mrs. Pepper
Released: June 30, 1940
Type: Movie
When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But adjusting to a new home and community isn't easy for the brood. Third entry in the "Five Little Peppers" series of four films.
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Women in War
Title: Women in War
Character: Sister Frances
Released: June 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A "good-time girl", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an accidental death, and the only way she's able to get out of it is to volunteer--albeit reluctantly--to be a nurse in the war effort. She travels to England and is assigned to a hospital under a very strict matron. What the girl doesn't know is that the matron is the mother she has never seen.
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Lillian Russell
Title: Lillian Russell
Character: Cynthia Leonard
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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Too Many Husbands
Title: Too Many Husbands
Character: Gertrude Houlihan
Released: April 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.
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Five Little Peppers at Home
Title: Five Little Peppers at Home
Character: Mrs. Pepper
Released: February 8, 1940
Type: Movie
The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner becomes ill.
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Sabotage
Title: Sabotage
Character: Edith Grayson
Released: October 13, 1939
Type: Movie
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
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Two Bright Boys
Title: Two Bright Boys
Character: Kathleen O'Donnell
Released: September 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.
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Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Title: Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Character: Mrs. Pepper
Released: August 22, 1939
Type: Movie
The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. In this one the family inherits co-ownership in a copper mine.
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Dark Victory
Title: Dark Victory
Character: Miss Wainwright
Released: April 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.
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The Flying Irishman
Title: The Flying Irishman
Character: Ma Corrigan
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
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Girls on Probation
Title: Girls on Probation
Character: Jane Lennox
Released: October 22, 1938
Type: Movie
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
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Breaking the Ice
Title: Breaking the Ice
Character: Annie Decker
Released: September 22, 1938
Type: Movie
The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Johnson. After having stopped by the Mennonite farm, where Tommy and Martha stay with the William and Annie Decker, the Johnsons are headed back to their hometown of Goshen. The balance of the film is concerned with both trying to get the necessary train fare and with Tommy clearing his name over a misunderstanding.
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Hunted Men
Title: Hunted Men
Character: Mary Harris
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. Joe escapes through a window and hails a taxi, but when he gets nervous at the sound of sirens, he jumps out. Hardware salesman Peter Harris accidentally hits Joe with his car, and unharmed, Joe seizes this opportunity to hide in Peter's car. Peter is so drunk that Joe is able to con him into believing that he is Charles Edwards, a fellow hardware man who was with him at a convention, and in the guise of friendship, accompanies Peter to his suburban home. The next morning, Joe gets antsy and wants to leave, but Peter's family, his wife Mary, young son Robert and daughter Jane all entreat him to stay.
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52nd Street
Title: 52nd Street
Character: Adela 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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Confession
Title: Confession
Character: Mrs. Koslov
Released: August 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
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Girl Loves Boy
Title: Girl Loves Boy
Character: Mrs. McCarthy
Released: March 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Bob Conrad is the playboy son of town squire Charles Conrad. Much against his dad's wishes, Bob falls in love with Dorothy McCarthy, the daughter of penniless widow Mrs. McCarthy. At the insistence of his dad, Bob weds Sally Lace. Dorothy's broken heart is mended however, when it turns out that Sally's divorce from her previous husband was never finalized.
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Her Husband Lies
Title: Her Husband Lies
Character: Dorothy Powell
Released: March 13, 1937
Type: Movie
J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his beautiful wife Natalie, a nightclub singer who retired when they married. Spade's younger brother "Chick" wires Spade from Seattle that he has quit gambling for a job in real estate and is about to marry a nice girl named Betty. Relieved to find his kid brother is straight, Spade sends him $10,000 cash as a wedding present. When a woman posing as a pregnant wife comes to Spade for a loan, Spade gives it to her. Later, when Steve Burdick, the woman's supposed husband, brags in a bar that he made a fool of Spade, Spade's hit man, Trigger, kills Burdick. Tired of Spade's gambling, Natalie books a return engagement at Cafe Nocturne, telling him that she is a singer rather than a wife now.
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Under Cover of Night
Title: Under Cover of Night
Character: Susan Nash
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.
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Reunion
Title: Reunion
Character: Katherine Kennedy
Released: November 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for delivering the famous Wyatt quintuplets. To honor the doctor on his retirement and to publicize their town, the Moosetown chamber of commerce decides to hold a reunion of all the babies delivered by the doctor, some of whom have become famous.
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The Devil Is a Sissy
Title: The Devil Is a Sissy
Character: Mrs. Jennie Stevens
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
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The Country Doctor
Title: The Country Doctor
Character: Nurse Katherine Kennedy
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
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Man of Iron
Title: Man of Iron
Character: Bessie Bennett
Released: December 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A construction company foreman's life changes--not necessarily for the better--when he is promoted to an executive position.
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Freckles
Title: Freckles
Character: Mrs. Duncan
Released: September 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.
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Pursuit
Title: Pursuit
Character: Mrs. McCoy
Released: August 9, 1935
Type: Movie
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until the suit is over. (Overview written by Les Adams )
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Laddie
Title: Laddie
Character: Mrs. Stanton
Released: March 18, 1935
Type: Movie
A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents.
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Sweepstake Annie
Title: Sweepstake Annie
Character: Mrs. Foster
Released: January 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and not necessarily for the better.
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Society Doctor
Title: Society Doctor
Character: Mrs. Harrigan
Released: January 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their rivalry in the operating room.
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Peck's Bad Boy
Title: Peck's Bad Boy
Character: Aunt Lily Clay
Released: October 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Young boy Bill Peck adores his father and tries to be good, but the arrival of Bill's cousin Horace upsets Bill's plans. Horace's brattish ways result in Bill rather than Horace getting in trouble.
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Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island
Character: Mrs. Hawkins
Released: August 17, 1934
Type: Movie
In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure.
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Side Streets
Title: Side Streets
Character: Mrs. Richards
Released: August 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.
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As the Earth Turns
Title: As the Earth Turns
Character: Mil
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
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Beloved
Title: Beloved
Character: Baroness Irene von Hausmann
Released: January 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
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Big Executive
Title: Big Executive
Character: Mrs. Sarah Conway
Released: October 19, 1933
Type: Movie
Big Executive
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I'm No Angel
Title: I'm No Angel
Character: Thelma
Released: October 6, 1933
Type: Movie
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
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The Mayor of Hell
Title: The Mayor of Hell
Character: Mrs. Smith
Released: June 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
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Reform Girl
Title: Reform Girl
Character: Mrs. Putnam
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daughter.
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Call Her Savage
Title: Call Her Savage
Character: Silas' Wife
Released: November 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
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Payment Deferred
Title: Payment Deferred
Character: Annie Marble
Released: November 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Bank clerk William Marble is desperate for money to pay his family's bills. When his wealthy nephew visits, Marble asks him for a loan, but the young man refuses. Marble decides to kill his nephew. It is a twisted path to justice after Marble is transformed by the crime he committed and the wealth he gains.
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The Cabin in the Cotton
Title: The Cabin in the Cotton
Character: Lilly Blake
Released: September 26, 1932
Type: Movie
Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.
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Life Begins
Title: Life Begins
Character: A Patient
Released: September 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
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Thrill of Youth
Title: Thrill of Youth
Character: Seena Sherwood
Released: August 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Chet Thayer returns to his family and the loving arms of his long suffering sweatheart Marcia. Not being the faithful type he soon falls under the spell of the town vamp Jill Fenwick.
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Attorney for the Defense
Title: Attorney for the Defense
Character: Mrs. Wallace
Released: May 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.
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Night World
Title: Night World
Character: Edith Blair
Released: May 4, 1932
Type: Movie
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
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So Big!
Title: So Big!
Character: Maartje Pool
Released: April 30, 1932
Type: Movie
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
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When a Feller Needs a Friend
Title: When a Feller Needs a Friend
Character: Mrs. Margaret Randall
Released: April 30, 1932
Type: Movie
A lame boy's uncle tries to rescue him from his over-protective parents.
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Business and Pleasure
Title: Business and Pleasure
Character: Mrs. Jane Olsen Tinker
Released: February 24, 1932
Type: Movie
On a Mediterranean cruise, Earl Tinker, a manufacturer of razor blades, is the target of a femme fatale in the pay of a business rival, and he becomes embroiled in a feud between two Arab tribes.
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She Wanted a Millionaire
Title: She Wanted a Millionaire
Character: Mrs. Miller
Released: February 21, 1932
Type: Movie
Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to his French chateau where she risks terrible cruelty and even death.
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The Beast of the City
Title: The Beast of the City
Character: Mary Fitzpatrick
Released: February 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.
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Forbidden
Title: Forbidden
Character: Helen
Released: January 8, 1932
Type: Movie
On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby, but doesn't tell Bob, who turns out to be a rising politician. She passes herself off as the baby's nanny. When Bob learns what is going on, he adopts the little girl, not telling his wife or anyone else where she came from. Lulu gets a job at a newspaper. Things get complicated when the editor gets the dirt on Grover, but also wants to marry Lulu
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Emma
Title: Emma
Character: Mrs. Winthrop (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
When Fred Smith's wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple's three children, cares also for the family's new addition. Fred becomes rich and successful, then he and Emma marry. When Fred dies, his will becomes a source of trouble between the children and Emma.
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Rich Man's Folly
Title: Rich Man's Folly
Character: Katherine Trumbull
Released: November 14, 1931
Type: Movie
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.
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Way Back Home
Title: Way Back Home
Character: Rose Clark
Released: November 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.
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Skyline
Title: Skyline
Character: Rose Breen
Released: October 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by Felix Riesenberg. It was produced and released by Fox Film Corporation.
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Penrod and Sam
Title: Penrod and Sam
Character: Mary Schofield
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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Penrod and Sam
Title: Penrod and Sam
Character: Mrs. Schofield
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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Bought!
Title: Bought!
Character: The Mother
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.
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The Reckless Hour
Title: The Reckless Hour
Character: Mrs. Susie Jennison
Released: August 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a warm-hearted artist-type who shows her that life -- and men -- ain't so bad in this early talkie drama.
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Traveling Husbands
Title: Traveling Husbands
Character: Martha Hall
Released: August 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.
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Party Husband
Title: Party Husband
Character: Kate
Released: June 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its premature end. Fellow Ziegfield alum Mary Doran plays the coquette whose intended conquest of the free-thinking hubby (James Rennie) starts to throw the couple’s “understanding” awry.
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Up for Murder
Title: Up for Murder
Character: Mrs. Marshall
Released: May 26, 1931
Type: Movie
Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.
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Mothers Cry
Title: Mothers Cry
Character: Mary Williams
Released: December 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a life of crime and now returns to inflict his insane behavior on the family household.