Mary Forbes

Mary Forbes

Born: December 30, 1882
Died: July 22, 1974
in Hornsey, Middlesex [now in Haringey, London], England, UK
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Mary Forbes (1 January 1883 – 22 July 1974), born Ethel Louise Young, was a British-American film actress, based in the United States in her latter years, where she died. She appeared in more than 130 films between 1919 and 1958.

Forbes was born in Hornsey, England.

She made her first public appearance on the concert platform giving recitals. Her acting debut was in 1908 on the London stage at Aldwych Theatre. Her American stage debut came in Romance at Maxine Elliott's Theatre in 1913.

She took over management of the Ambassadors Theatre in 1913 and had several years experience on stage in Britain and America before her appearances in Hollywood films. Two of her three children by her first marriage in the first quarter of 1904 to Ernest J. Taylor, Ralph and Dorothy Brenda, known as Brenda, were also actors. The middle child of the three, Phyllis Mary Taylor, was not in the acting business. Her second husband was British actor Charles Quartermaine, who married in 1925; the union ended in divorce. She married her third husband, Wesley Wall, an American businessman, in 1935; the couple remained married until her death in 1974.

She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1943, with one of her character references being Lucile Webster Gleason, actress and wife of actor James Gleason.

Movies for Mary Forbes...

Houseboat
Title: Houseboat
Character: British Society Woman (uncredited)
Released: November 19, 1958
Type: Movie
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
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Title: Suspicion
Character: Mrs. Merton
Released: September 30, 1957
Type: TV
Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC from 1957 through 1959. The executive producer of Suspicion was film director Alfred Hitchcock.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Mrs. Herbert Winthrop
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Les Miserables
Title: Les Miserables
Character: Nun (uncredited)
Released: August 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character, has nevertheless been convicted for the minor crime of stealing bread. A minor infraction leads to his pursuit by the relentless policeman Javert, a pursuit that consumes both men's lives for many years.
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You Gotta Stay Happy
Title: You Gotta Stay Happy
Character: Aunt Martha
Released: October 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. She then persuades him to take her to California.
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The Judge Steps Out
Title: The Judge Steps Out
Character: Margaret (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
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The Exile
Title: The Exile
Character: Second Court Lady
Released: October 17, 1947
Type: Movie
In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwell. Charles ends up in the Netherlands, where he falls for local beauty Katie and spends his days happily in the quiet countryside. Unfortunately, Cromwell's associate Col. Ingram and his men track Charles down, and the would-be monarch must resort to swashbuckling his way to freedom.
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Ivy
Title: Ivy
Character: Lady Crail (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1947
Type: Movie
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, and her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.
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Cigarette Girl
Title: Cigarette Girl
Character: Mrs. Halstead
Released: February 13, 1947
Type: Movie
A young man and woman base their love on lies that eventually manage to come true.
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Terror by Night
Title: Terror by Night
Character: Lady Margaret Carstairs
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.
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Lady on a Train
Title: Lady on a Train
Released: August 3, 1945
Type: Movie
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
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Earl Carroll Vanities
Title: Earl Carroll Vanities
Character: Queen Mother Elena
Released: April 5, 1945
Type: Movie
Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual "Vanities" provided story material for three Hollywood films: Murder at the Vanities (34), A Night at Earl Carroll's (40) and Earl Carroll Vanities (45). This last film was produced by Republic Pictures, a bread-and-butter studio specializing in Westerns and serials; Republic had made musicals before, but few of them were expensive enough to allow for lavish production numbers. Earl Carroll Vanities is likewise rather threadbare, though some of the individual musical highlights aren't bad. The plot, such as it is, concerns financially strapped nightclub owner Eve Arden, who finagles Earl Carroll into staging one of his revues at her club.
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I'll Remember April
Title: I'll Remember April
Character: Mrs. Barrington
Released: April 1, 1945
Type: Movie
The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Character: Lady Agatha
Released: March 3, 1945
Type: Movie
Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray talks with Lord Henry Wotton, who says that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian imagines a scenario in which the painting will age as he stays youthful. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. But when a stunning revelation forces him to see what he's become, Dorian faces some very dangerous questions.
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Tender Comrade
Title: Tender Comrade
Character: Jo's Mother (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.
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Jane Eyre
Title: Jane Eyre
Character: Mrs. Eshton
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
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Mr. Lucky
Title: Mr. Lucky
Character: War Relief Worker (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
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Two Tickets to London
Title: Two Tickets to London
Character: Dame Dunne Hartley
Released: June 14, 1943
Type: Movie
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Title: Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Character: Mrs. Pettibone
Released: March 24, 1943
Type: Movie
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.
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The Great Impersonation
Title: The Great Impersonation
Character: Lady Leslie Clayfair
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
An Englishman kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London.
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Almost Married
Title: Almost Married
Character: Mrs. Marvin
Released: May 22, 1942
Type: Movie
To avoid a costly breach of contract suit, a rich young man marries a nightclub singer.
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This Above All
Title: This Above All
Character: Vicar's Wife
Released: May 12, 1942
Type: Movie
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
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Twin Beds
Title: Twin Beds
Released: April 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.
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Klondike Fury
Title: Klondike Fury
Character: Mrs. Langton
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a storm and finds himself cared for by a lovely woman. He gets a chance to reclaim his self-esteem when her son suddenly needs the same operation the surgeon botched.
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Nothing But the Truth
Title: Nothing But the Truth
Character: Mrs. Ralston
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Gwen Saunders teams up with her uncle's employee, Steve Bennett, in an attempt to double her $10,000 investment in the family firm. If she can reach the $20,000 mark, her uncle, T.T. Ralston, will match the figure. Steve bets that if he can spend an entire day without telling a lie, Ralston and his business partners must double Gwen's money. Bennett then earns the enmity of everyone involved in his attempt to win the bet.
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Back Street
Title: Back Street
Character: Mrs. Williams
Released: February 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Previously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie Hurst's novel stars Margaret Sullavan as a fashion designer in love with a married banker (Charles Boyer). Directed by Robert Stevenson, the film also stars Richard Carlson, Tim Holt, Frank McHugh, Esther Dale and Cecil Cunningham.
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South of Suez
Title: South of Suez
Character: Mrs. Putnam
Released: November 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger Smythe's mine just as he was about to strike it rich, kills Smythe and blames it on Gamble. Grabbing the diamonds, Gamble flees Africa to England where he changes his name and begins a new life. What he hasn't counted on, though, is meeting and falling in love with Smythe's daughter Katherine, who falls in love with him but can't marry him until she can deal with her hatred of John Gamble, the man she believes killed her father.
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All This, and Heaven Too
Title: All This, and Heaven Too
Character: Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.
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Private Affairs
Title: Private Affairs
Character: Mrs. Stanley
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
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Blame It on Love
Title: Blame It on Love
Character: Mrs. Wadsworth
Released: June 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A short film put out by the Hotpoint Company to demonstrate their Electric Ranges.
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Florian
Title: Florian
Character: Grandmother
Released: June 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
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Laddie
Title: Laddie
Character: Mrs. Anna Pryor
Released: January 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.
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Ninotchka
Title: Ninotchka
Character: Lady Lavenham (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1939
Type: Movie
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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Hollywood Cavalcade
Title: Hollywood Cavalcade
Character: Mrs. Gaynes
Released: October 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Lady Conyngham
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…
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These Glamour Girls
Title: These Glamour Girls
Character: Mrs. Van Reichton (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
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I Stole a Million
Title: I Stole a Million
Character: Flower Shop Customer (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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The Sun Never Sets
Title: The Sun Never Sets
Character: Mrs. Randolph
Released: May 31, 1939
Type: Movie
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompanied by his wife Helen. He discovers his younger brother John, is not keen on following in his footsteps. John is then persuaded to try colonial service by his grandfather. He is accompanied by Clive who has been sent to investigate the source of a series of radio broadcasts that are sewing unrest throughout the world. These may be linked to Hugo Zurof, a man plotting to rule the world.
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Outside These Walls
Title: Outside These Walls
Character: Gertrude Bishop
Released: May 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Title: Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Character: Mrs. Withers
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
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The Ice Follies of 1939
Title: The Ice Follies of 1939
Character: Lady Hilda (Uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.
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Risky Business
Title: Risky Business
Character: Mrs. Jameson
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
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Fast and Loose
Title: Fast and Loose
Character: Mrs. Torrent
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Title: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Character: Mrs. Bel-Goodie
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
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Three Loves Has Nancy
Title: Three Loves Has Nancy
Character: Mrs. Hanson
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Always Goodbye
Title: Always Goodbye
Character: Aunt Martha Marshall
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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The Rage of Paris
Title: The Rage of Paris
Character: Woman in Opera Box (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
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Outside of Paradise
Title: Outside of Paradise
Character: Mrs. Stonewall
Released: February 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Daniel Francis O'Toole, singing maestro in a New York restaurant, finds himself the unexpected heir to an estate in Ireland. He doesn't have money enough for the passage to Ireland, but the band members decide to incorporate him, advancing him the fare for equal shares in the estate. In Ireland, Danny finds that his is only a half-share, and the other half belongs to Mavourneen Kerrigan and she has the exclusive right to sell or keep the property...which, despite his pleas, she refuses to do. She also declares him an undesired guest, objects to his presence and insists that he prepare his own meals. He does so in a large main hall, but can only make hamburgers.
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What Do You Think? (Number Three)
Title: What Do You Think? (Number Three)
Character: Mrs. Dosier - John's Mother (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1938
Type: Movie
This short looks at the possibility that those who have passed on can communicate with us in ways we least expect.
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Everybody Sing
Title: Everybody Sing
Character: Miss Colvin
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Boisterous teen Judy Bellaire is expelled from her all-female boarding school for convincing her fellow school chorus members to sing a classical piece with a modern swing beat. She returns to her dysfunctional home, dejected, but, with the encouragement of her family's cook, Judy decides to follow her dream and audition for a Broadway musical.
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The Awful Truth
Title: The Awful Truth
Character: Mrs. Vance
Released: October 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
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Stage Door
Title: Stage Door
Character: Cast of Stage Play
Released: October 7, 1937
Type: Movie
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
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One Hundred Men and a Girl
Title: One Hundred Men and a Girl
Character: Concert Hall Patron
Released: September 5, 1937
Type: Movie
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold Stokowski to lead them in a concert that leads to a radio contract.
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The Life of the Party
Title: The Life of the Party
Character: Mrs. Saunders
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
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Wee Willie Winkie
Title: Wee Willie Winkie
Character: Mrs. MacMonachie
Released: July 30, 1937
Type: Movie
In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he commands in northern India.
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Another Dawn
Title: Another Dawn
Character: Mrs. Lydia Benton
Released: June 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself incapable of love following the death of her fiancé; some time before. Wister convinces her that he loves her enough to live without her romantic love and that she should marry him. She does so and returns to Dubik with him. There she meets his adjutant, Captain Denny Roark. Roark is a dashing young man who reminds Julia thoroughly of her lost love. Soon she finds she is indeed capable of love, but it is Roark with whom she falls in love, not her husband. As warfare with the local tribes heats up and as Wister gains awareness of the unconsummated romance growing between his wife and best friend, tragedy lurks.
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Women of Glamour
Title: Women of Glamour
Character: Mrs. Stark
Released: March 9, 1937
Type: Movie
A girl with a reputation falls for a wealthy playboy.
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Theodora Goes Wild
Title: Theodora Goes Wild
Character: Mrs. Wyatt (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1936
Type: Movie
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.
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Wedding Present
Title: Wedding Present
Character: Mrs. Dodacker
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
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The White Angel
Title: The White Angel
Character: Lady Disapproving of Florence #1 (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1936
Type: Movie
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
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Captain Blood
Title: Captain Blood
Character: Mrs. Steed
Released: December 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
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The Widow from Monte Carlo
Title: The Widow from Monte Carlo
Character: Lady Holloway
Released: December 19, 1935
Type: Movie
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter.
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The Perfect Gentleman
Title: The Perfect Gentleman
Character: Lady Clyffe-Pembrook
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.
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Rendezvous
Title: Rendezvous
Character: Lady Cavendish (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
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Anna Karenina
Title: Anna Karenina
Released: August 30, 1935
Type: Movie
In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier.
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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: Grace Dean (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Dizzy Dames
Title: Dizzy Dames
Character: Mrs. Stokes
Released: May 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A musical comedy in a theatrical boarding house.
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Les Misérables
Title: Les Misérables
Character: Mlle. Baptiseme
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Laddie
Title: Laddie
Character: Mrs. Anna Pryor
Released: March 18, 1935
Type: Movie
A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents.
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Roberta
Title: Roberta
Released: March 7, 1935
Type: Movie
Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt, owner of a posh fashion house run by her assistant, Stephanie. There they meet the singer Scharwenka (alias Huck's old friend Lizzie), who gets the band a job. Meanwhile, Madame Roberta passes away and leaves the business to John and he goes into partnership with Stephanie.
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We Live Again
Title: We Live Again
Character: Mrs. Kortchagin
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
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Happiness Ahead
Title: Happiness Ahead
Character: Mrs. Travis
Released: October 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.
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Two Heads on a Pillow
Title: Two Heads on a Pillow
Character: Mrs. Caroline Devonshire
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
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A Lost Lady
Title: A Lost Lady
Character: Mrs. Hardy (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1934
Type: Movie
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
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British Agent
Title: British Agent
Character: Lady Catherine Trehearne
Released: September 15, 1934
Type: Movie
An Englishman falls in love with a Russian spy.
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She Was a Lady
Title: She Was a Lady
Character: Lady Diana Vane
Released: August 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Before his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded American suitor finds that his father refuses to allow the two to marry as she is not a high-born lady.
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Blind Date
Title: Blind Date
Character: Mrs. Hartwell
Released: July 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
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Shock
Title: Shock
Character: Lady Heatherly
Released: July 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob Hayworth resents Marbury greatly as the latter had married the girl, Lucy Neville, Marbury was courting in pre-war London. Ordered to go on a night patrol, the cowardly Gilroy committed suicide rather than face his fear. Bob and Derek arrange it to appear that Bob had been killed by a shell-burst, and Derek, with his face camouflaged, takes the patrol posing as Gilroy. While on patrol, Derek is hit by a shell-burst and found by the German Red Cross, who turn him over to a family of French peasants.
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Most Precious Thing in Life
Title: Most Precious Thing in Life
Character: Mrs. Kelsey
Released: June 15, 1934
Type: Movie
An unwed mother watches as her illegitimate son is raised by others. Director Lambert Hillyer's 1934 drama stars Jean Arthur, Richard Cromwell, Donald Cook, Anita Louise, Jane Darwell, Mary Forbes and Ward Bond.
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You Can't Buy Everything
Title: You Can't Buy Everything
Character: Kate Farley
Released: January 26, 1934
Type: Movie
A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.
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Bombshell
Title: Bombshell
Character: Mrs. Middleton
Released: October 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
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Cavalcade
Title: Cavalcade
Character: Duchess of Churt (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great War.
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A Farewell to Arms
Title: A Farewell to Arms
Character: Miss Van Campen
Released: December 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.
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Vanity Fair
Title: Vanity Fair
Character: Mrs. Sedley
Released: March 15, 1932
Type: Movie
An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
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The Silent Witness
Title: The Silent Witness
Character: Lady Howard
Released: February 7, 1932
Type: Movie
A London nobleman (Lionel Atwill) takes the blame and stands trial after his son strangles a lover (Greta Nissen).
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Working Girls
Title: Working Girls
Character: Mrs. Johnstone
Released: December 12, 1931
Type: Movie
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for the scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.
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The Brat
Title: The Brat
Character: Mrs. Forester
Released: August 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon her behavior has forever altered their snobbish ways.
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Chances
Title: Chances
Character: Mrs. Ingleside
Released: July 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Rose is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with his brother.
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Born to Love
Title: Born to Love
Character: The Duchess (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1931
Type: Movie
A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her child will have a father.
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The Man Who Came Back
Title: The Man Who Came Back
Character: Mrs. Gaynes
Released: January 11, 1931
Type: Movie
A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.
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The Devil to Pay!
Title: The Devil to Pay!
Character: Mrs. Hope (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1930
Type: Movie
Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.
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Abraham Lincoln
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Character: Actress (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1930
Type: Movie
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
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East Is West
Title: East Is West
Character: Mrs. Benson
Released: October 23, 1930
Type: Movie
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold to Charlie Yong, the Chop Suey King. Billy kidnaps her with plans of marriage.
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Holiday
Title: Holiday
Character: Mrs. Pritchard Ames
Released: July 3, 1930
Type: Movie
A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.
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So This Is London
Title: So This Is London
Character: Lady Worthing
Released: May 23, 1930
Type: Movie
Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man with a profound distaste for everything British. Yet he must travel to London with his family. When Junior falls in love with an aristocratic girl, whose father despises Americans with equal intensity, fireworks are just about to start.
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Strictly Unconventional
Title: Strictly Unconventional
Character: Mrs. Anna Shenstone
Released: May 3, 1930
Type: Movie
An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian. However her mother-in-law, who did something similar thirty years before, tries to prevent her.
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Sunny Side Up
Title: Sunny Side Up
Character: Mrs. Cromwell
Released: December 25, 1929
Type: Movie
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.
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The Trespasser
Title: The Trespasser
Character: Mrs. Ferguson
Released: November 11, 1929
Type: Movie
A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ensure the child's welfare, which starts gossip that she is a "kept woman."
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The Thirteenth Chair
Title: The Thirteenth Chair
Character: Lady Alice Crosby
Released: October 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.
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Her Private Life
Title: Her Private Life
Character: Ladu Wildering
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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Women Who Win
Title: Women Who Win
Released: January 2, 1919
Type: Movie
A widow and her daughters join the Women's Service Training Bureau and become a nurse, a journalist and a landscape gardener.
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The Woman's Portion
Title: The Woman's Portion
Character: Lizzie
Released: January 1, 1918
Type: Movie
British fictionalised propaganda drama on the need for women to accept separation from, and loss of, their husbands.