Jane Darwell

Jane Darwell

Born: October 13, 1879
Died: August 13, 1967
in Palmyra, Missouri, USA
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Jane Darwell (October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967) was an American film and stage actress. With appearances in over 100 major motion pictures, Darwell is perhaps best-remembered for her portrayal of the matriarch and leader of the Joad family in the film adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and her role as the Bird Woman in Mary Poppins.

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Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2
Title: Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 28, 1986
Type: Movie
What better way to say goodnight than with Disney's Greatest Lullabies? Soothing refrains from masterfully crafted shorts and features you come to know and love. The most poignant, precious moments from the vast Disney library presented in this enchanted series. Certain to turn any child into a Sleeping Beauty--the best lullabies in the world--from Disney!
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Mary Poppins
Title: Mary Poppins
Character: Bird Woman
Released: December 17, 1964
Type: Movie
Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in their lives but also spreads happiness.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Mrs. Leah Mulligan
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: Mamie Carnation
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: TV
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
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Hound-Dog Man
Title: Hound-Dog Man
Character: Grandma Wilson
Released: November 11, 1959
Type: Movie
A rustic drama set in the early 20th century, Hound Dog Man is the simple story of a young man, Spud Kinney constantly in hot water for disobeying his mother. The lad should be watching the family farm, but he falls in with his older brother, Clint, and his reckless buddy Blackie Scantling who take him hunting in hillbilly country. The boy falls in love with a beautiful mountain girl, while Blackie has his own fling with another attractive hillbilly maiden, Nita Stringer, and then becomes mixed up with an older, married woman, Sussie Bell.
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The Last Hurrah
Title: The Last Hurrah
Character: Delia
Released: December 31, 1958
Type: Movie
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
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Title: Maverick
Character: Mrs. Knowles
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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The Greer Case
Title: The Greer Case
Character: Annie Jackson
Released: January 31, 1957
Type: Movie
When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.
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Girls in Prison
Title: Girls in Prison
Character: Matron Jamieson
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
An inmate is persuaded to take part in a breakout by cellmates anxious to cash in on loot they believe she has hidden.
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There's Always Tomorrow
Title: There's Always Tomorrow
Character: Mme Rogers
Released: January 8, 1956
Type: Movie
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.
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Title: Matinee Theater
Released: October 31, 1955
Type: TV
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.
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A Life at Stake
Title: A Life at Stake
Character: Landlady
Released: March 1, 1955
Type: Movie
An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial and may actually be deadly.
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Hit the Deck
Title: Hit the Deck
Character: Jenny
Released: February 24, 1955
Type: Movie
Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.
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Title: The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Released: October 15, 1954
Type: TV
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October 1954 until May 1959, 166 episodes originally aired on ABC television network. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known as Fort Apache. He and his German shepherd dog, Rin Tin Tin, helped the soldiers to establish order in the American West. Texas-born actor James Brown appeared as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters. Co-stars included veteran actor Joe Sawyer and actor Rand Brooks from Gone with the Wind fame.
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Title: Climax!
Character: B. Cool
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Mrs. Koestler
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Title: Studio 57
Released: September 21, 1954
Type: TV
Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956.
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Title: Lassie
Released: September 12, 1954
Type: TV
Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy family adventures in the American countryside, teaching each other about love, nature and commitment.
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The Bigamist
Title: The Bigamist
Character: Mrs. Connelley
Released: December 3, 1953
Type: Movie
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr. Jordan uncovers the fact that Graham has another wife, Phyllis, and a small child in Los Angeles, he confesses everything.
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Title: Letter to Loretta
Character: Irene Townsend
Released: September 20, 1953
Type: TV
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.
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Affair with a Stranger
Title: Affair with a Stranger
Character: Ma Stanton
Released: June 20, 1953
Type: Movie
Director Roy Rowland's 1953 drama, depicting the rocky marriage of a young model and her Broadway playwright-husband, stars Victor Mature, Jean Simmons, Jane Darwell, Dabbs Greer, Nicholas Joy, Lillian Bronson and George Cleveland.
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The Sun Shines Bright
Title: The Sun Shines Bright
Character: Aurora Ratchitt
Released: May 2, 1953
Type: Movie
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.
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It Happens Every Thursday
Title: It Happens Every Thursday
Character: Mrs. Spatch
Released: April 22, 1953
Type: Movie
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. But their schemes to increase circulation get them in over their heads.
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Title: Cavalcade of America
Character: Minna
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
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We're Not Married!
Title: We're Not Married!
Character: Mrs. Bush
Released: July 11, 1952
Type: Movie
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.
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Journey Into Light
Title: Journey Into Light
Character: Mack
Released: September 28, 1951
Type: Movie
John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunkenly interrupts a sermon, then despondent after her suicide. Burrows travels to Los Angeles for a fresh start, but takes to the bottle himself and ends up arrested for public intoxication. A skid-row con man, Gandy, finds him a bed at a flop house, while a street preacher, Doc Thorssen, and daughter Christine take him to a local mission. Christine is blind. She falls in love with Burrows, enjoying his discussions of the spirit and the soul but knowing little of his past. One day she is struck by a streetcar and knocked unconscious, causing Burrows to once again question his faith. He ultimately accepts the Lord's will and is offered a better place to live and preach. Burrows decides he is better suited to the mission, with Christine by his side.
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Excuse My Dust
Title: Excuse My Dust
Character: Mrs. Belden
Released: June 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Joe, inventor in an American Small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car, driven with a gasoline motor. Everybody is making fun about his "crazy invention", only his girl friend believes in him. When he's halfway successful, another woman tries to win his heart, and his girl-friend thinks he has quit with her. But on a race for those new horse-less vehicles, he gets in trouble and only his former girl friend is able to help him.
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The Lemon Drop Kid
Title: The Lemon Drop Kid
Character: 'Nellie Thursday' Regan
Released: April 2, 1951
Type: Movie
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.
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Father's Wild Game
Title: Father's Wild Game
Character: Minerva Bobbin
Released: December 3, 1950
Type: Movie
The fourth entry in Monogram's "Father" series. Henry Latham decides he'll save money by hunting for his meat rather than buying it from the store.
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The Second Face
Title: The Second Face
Character: Mrs. Lockridge
Released: December 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A homely girl is seriously injured in a car crash. When she eventually wakes up in the hospital, she's astounded to see that plastic surgery has transformed her into a world-class beauty. When she finds out that a mysterious "benefactor" has paid for her surgery, she sets out to find out who he is and why he did it.
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Three Husbands
Title: Three Husbands
Character: Mrs. Wurdeman
Released: November 10, 1950
Type: Movie
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.
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Redwood Forest Trail
Title: Redwood Forest Trail
Character: Hattie Hickory
Released: September 18, 1950
Type: Movie
Forest Ranger and singing cowboy, Rex Allen, attempts to save a camp for underprivileged boys with the help of "Alfalfa " Switzer who plays one of the boys.
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Surrender
Title: Surrender
Character: Molly Hale
Released: September 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of bigamy. She has an affair with gambler Gregg Delaney but marries his best friend, Johnny Hale, when she discovers Hale is the richest man in Texas. This loses her the respect of her sister, Janet, who loves Hale, and Delaney, who loves Violet. Meanwhile, town sheriff Bill Howard is working hard to get Delaney to confess to a murder.
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Caged
Title: Caged
Character: Isolation Matron
Released: May 19, 1950
Type: Movie
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
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The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Title: The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Character: Mrs. Murphy
Released: April 29, 1950
Type: Movie
An Irish horsecar driver's daughter meets New York showman Tony Pastor and goes into vaudeville.
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Wagon Master
Title: Wagon Master
Character: Sister Ledyard
Released: April 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Navajo, geography, and moral challenges on the journey.
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Red Canyon
Title: Red Canyon
Character: Aunt Jane
Released: April 27, 1949
Type: Movie
A former outlaw goes straight and is determined to catch and tame a wild stallion. Western.
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3 Godfathers
Title: 3 Godfathers
Character: Miss Florie
Released: December 31, 1948
Type: Movie
Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Anna - Maid
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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Train to Alcatraz
Title: Train to Alcatraz
Character: Aunt Ella
Released: June 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Criminals aboard a train to the infamous penitentiary plot an escape, and receive outside help in their attempt.
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The Red Stallion
Title: The Red Stallion
Character: Aggie Curtis
Released: August 16, 1947
Type: Movie
Family film about an elderly rancher, her young grandson, and the horse that the child raises from a colt.
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Keeper of the Bees
Title: Keeper of the Bees
Character: Mrs. Ferris
Released: July 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Michael Worthington, an elderly owner of an apiary, befriends an embittered artist, Jamie McFarlaine, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Jamie falls in love with Alice, but the romance is almost doomed by the gossip-spreading of a meddlesome neighbor.
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My Darling Clementine
Title: My Darling Clementine
Character: Kate Nelson
Released: October 17, 1946
Type: Movie
Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, making his brothers deputies, and vows to stay in Tombstone until James' killers are found. He soon runs into the brooding, coughing, hard-drinking Doc Holliday as well as the sullen and vicious Clanton clan. Wyatt discovers the owner of a trinket stolen from James' dead body and the stage is set for the Earps' long-awaited revenge.
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Three Wise Fools
Title: Three Wise Fools
Character: Sister Mary Brigid
Released: September 26, 1946
Type: Movie
An orphan girl melts the hearts of three crusty old men.
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The Dark Horse
Title: The Dark Horse
Character: Aunt Hattie
Released: July 19, 1946
Type: Movie
This 1946 film stars Phillip Terry as a war veteran, who is persuaded by machine politico Donald MacBride to run for alderman. Ann Savage plays the "honest government functionary" with whom the hero falls in love. Terry finds that disreputable politicians are using his war record to push through some shady legislation, so he renounces these hacks.
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Captain Tugboat Annie
Title: Captain Tugboat Annie
Character: Tugboat Annie
Released: November 17, 1945
Type: Movie
This tale of two tugboats focuses upon the rivalries between two operators competing to win a major shipping contract. Meanwhile a tugboat office secretary and an ex-con who wants to go straight, fall in love. Tugboat Annie is put in charge of a child violinist. When a waterfront fire breaks out, the two warring captains join forces to put it out.
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I Live in Grosvenor Square
Title: I Live in Grosvenor Square
Character: Mrs. Patterson
Released: July 20, 1945
Type: Movie
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.
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She's a Sweetheart
Title: She's a Sweetheart
Character: Mom
Released: December 7, 1944
Type: Movie
In this musical drama, a woman turns her mansion into a boarding house for soldiers on furlough, providing them with room, board, and musical entertainment.
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Music in Manhattan
Title: Music in Manhattan
Character: Mrs. Pearson
Released: October 6, 1944
Type: Movie
Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest. Though this leads them to a few professional gigs, something is missing from their act and they are not popular. Believing a little cash will boost their career, Frankie heads for Washington, D.C. to see if her wealthy father will help them. En route Frankie is mistaken for the wife of the well-known pilot Johnny Pearson and ends up in his suite having to pretend she is his spouse. When the pilot meets her, romantic sparks fly.
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The Impatient Years
Title: The Impatient Years
Character: Minister's wife
Released: September 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Standing before a divorce court judge are Sergeant Andy Anderson and Janie Anderson asking him to dissolve their marriage. Janie's father, William Smith, objects and the judge allows him to give his version of their story. They had met in San Francisco fifteen months earlier and, after knowing each other only three days, had gotten married. Andy was sent overseas the day after the wedding and when he returns and despite the fact that Janie had borne him a son, they find they are almost strangers. Mr. Smith suggests, and the judge orders, that if they retrace their actions over the four days they knew each other they would regain their love.
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Reckless Age
Title: Reckless Age
Character: Mrs. Connors
Released: August 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
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Tender Comrade
Title: Tender Comrade
Character: Mrs. Henderson
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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Government Girl
Title: Government Girl
Character: Miss Trask (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1943
Type: Movie
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
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Family Feud
Title: Family Feud
Character: The Mother
Released: November 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Documentary short film depicting ways in which Americans can assist the war effort by proper conservation around the home.
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Stage Door Canteen
Title: Stage Door Canteen
Character: Jane Darwell
Released: June 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
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Gildersleeve's Bad Day
Title: Gildersleeve's Bad Day
Character: Aunt Emma Forrester
Released: May 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Gildersleeve has jury duty.
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The Ox-Bow Incident
Title: The Ox-Bow Incident
Character: Ma Grier
Released: March 11, 1943
Type: Movie
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
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The Great Gildersleeve
Title: The Great Gildersleeve
Character: Aunt Emma Forrester
Released: December 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew.
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Highways by Night
Title: Highways by Night
Character: Grandma Fogarty
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.
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The Battle of Midway
Title: The Battle of Midway
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 14, 1942
Type: Movie
The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.
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The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Title: The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Character: Mariah Clemm
Released: August 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
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Men of Texas
Title: Men of Texas
Character: Mrs.Scott aka Aunt Hattie
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
A Chicago reporter (Robert Stack) and photographer focus on a Confederate outlaw (Brod Crawford) in post-Civil War Texas.
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It Happened in Flatbush
Title: It Happened in Flatbush
Character: Mrs. Maguire
Released: May 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
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On the Sunny Side
Title: On the Sunny Side
Character: Annie
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Don, the Andrews' 11-year-old son, eagerly accepts the English boy, and is happy when his school-friends do the same. But his isn't so happy when things begin to change when his father fore-goes their evening game of Chinese Checkers to play chess with Hugh, and Hugh shows himself to be a formidable scholar, and impresses Don's girlfriend Betty, and becomes more popular with the boys than Don was...and Don is beginning to think that Hugh is too much of a good thing. Don gets downright depressed and decides to run away. Uh, oh, here comes Hugh.
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Young America
Title: Young America
Character: Grandmother Nora Campbell
Released: February 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Young America is a 1942 American drama film directed by Louis King and written by Samuel G. Engel. The film stars Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Lynne Roberts, Robert Cornell, William Tracy and Roman Bohnen. The film was released on February 6, 1942, by 20th Century Fox.
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All Through the Night
Title: All Through the Night
Character: Mrs. Donahue
Released: January 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
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Small Town Deb
Title: Small Town Deb
Character: Katie
Released: November 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Family bickering features young daughter favored by her father and older daughter favored by snobbish mother.
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All That Money Can Buy
Title: All That Money Can Buy
Character: Ma Stone
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.
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Private Nurse
Title: Private Nurse
Character: Miss Adams
Released: August 22, 1941
Type: Movie
In this brief B programmer, a nurse is hired to care for a widower's daughter who is unaware that her father is a gangster and that her mother is actually still alive. The concerned nurse burdens herself with the difficult responsibility of revealing the unfortunate truth.
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Thieves Fall Out
Title: Thieves Fall Out
Character: Grandma Allen
Released: May 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.
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Chad Hanna
Title: Chad Hanna
Character: Mrs. Bettina Huguenine
Released: December 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.
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Youth Will Be Served
Title: Youth Will Be Served
Character: Supervisor Stormer
Released: November 22, 1940
Type: Movie
A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.
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Brigham Young
Title: Brigham Young
Character: Eliza Kent
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
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Untamed
Title: Untamed
Character: Mrs. Maggie Moriarty
Released: July 24, 1940
Type: Movie
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit and ends up stealing a wife from her husband. When the epidemic hits, he and the wife begin their arduous journey.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Character: Ma Joad
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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Miracle on Main Street
Title: Miracle on Main Street
Character: Mrs. Herman
Released: December 19, 1939
Type: Movie
On Christmas Eve in the Spanish quarter of L.A. police try to arrest a couple running a shady floor show. Hiding in a church, the young woman finds an abandoned baby and uses it as cover to escape capture.
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Gone with the Wind
Title: Gone with the Wind
Character: Mrs. Merriwether
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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20,000 Men a Year
Title: 20,000 Men a Year
Character: Mrs. Allen
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
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The Rains Came
Title: The Rains Came
Character: Aunt Phoebe Smiley
Released: September 15, 1939
Type: Movie
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.
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Grand Jury Secrets
Title: Grand Jury Secrets
Character: Mrs. Keefe
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room session.
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Unexpected Father
Title: Unexpected Father
Character: Mrs. Callahan
Released: June 14, 1939
Type: Movie
Jimmy Hanley learns that his former dancing partner has been killed, leaving a baby boy Sandy, so he takes the baby to live with him and his roommate Boris Bebenko. Theatre manager Allen Rand threatens to fire Jimmy for neglecting his work, but Jimmy's girlfriend Diana squares things by going to dinner with Rand over Jimmy's objections. Sandy catches measles and the quarantine causes Jimmy and Boris to miss a big audition.
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The Zero Hour
Title: The Zero Hour
Character: Sophie
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.
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Inside Story
Title: Inside Story
Character: Aunt Mary Perkins
Released: March 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an old-fashioned Christmas on a farm..
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Jesse James
Title: Jesse James
Character: Mrs. Samuels - Jesse's mother
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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Five of a Kind
Title: Five of a Kind
Character: Nurse Waldron
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.
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Time Out for Murder
Title: Time Out for Murder
Character: Polly, Helen's supervisor
Released: September 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A bank runner is accused of killing a woman for whom he deposited a large amount. Reporter and bank official investigate.
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Little Miss Broadway
Title: Little Miss Broadway
Character: Miss Hutchins
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
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Three Blind Mice
Title: Three Blind Mice
Character: Mrs. Kilian
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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Battle Of Broadway
Title: Battle Of Broadway
Character: Mrs. Rogers
Released: April 22, 1938
Type: Movie
The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son's romance with a showgirl. Director George Marshall's 1938 comedy stars Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Raymond Walburn, Hattie McDaniel, Lynn Bari, Robert Kellard, Jane Darwell, Andrew Tombes, Esther Muir and Frank Moran.
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The Jury's Secret
Title: The Jury's Secret
Character: Mrs. Sheldon, Bill's Mother
Released: January 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
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Change of Heart
Title: Change of Heart
Character: Mrs. Thompson
Released: January 14, 1938
Type: Movie
While Carol Murdock is becoming the golf-champion at the country club, husband Anthony is all wrapped up in his business and rants a lot about how much time his wife spends playing gold, thereby neglecting their home and him. Carol teams up with golfer Phillip Reeves and they win a tournament together, and Reeves becomes infatuated with Carol. Anthony rants some more and Carol packs up and starts the divorce proceedings. Anthony fights back by taking up golf himself.
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Dangerously Yours
Title: Dangerously Yours
Character: Aunt Cynthia Barton
Released: September 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Title: Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Character: Mrs. Krueger
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
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The Singing Marine
Title: The Singing Marine
Character: Ma Marine
Released: July 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest, however, sets him up for trouble in romance, in his career, and with the Corps.
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Slave Ship
Title: Slave Ship
Character: Mrs. Marlowe
Released: June 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
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Fifty Roads to Town
Title: Fifty Roads to Town
Character: Mrs. Henry
Released: June 3, 1937
Type: Movie
A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run.
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The Great Hospital Mystery
Title: The Great Hospital Mystery
Character: Nurse Sarah Keats
Released: May 14, 1937
Type: Movie
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
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Nancy Steele Is Missing!
Title: Nancy Steele Is Missing!
Character: Mrs. Mary Flaherty
Released: March 12, 1937
Type: Movie
After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her real father there's a job and a reward, but an old prisonmate gets in the way.
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Love Is News
Title: Love Is News
Character: Mrs. Flaherty
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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Laughing at Trouble
Title: Laughing at Trouble
Character: Glory Bradford
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is.
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Craig's Wife
Title: Craig's Wife
Character: Mrs. Harold
Released: September 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult her relationship with domestic service and family members.
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Star for a Night
Title: Star for a Night
Character: Mrs. Martha Lind
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.
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Poor Little Rich Girl
Title: Poor Little Rich Girl
Character: Woodward
Released: July 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored by a rival soap company.
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White Fang
Title: White Fang
Character: Maud Mahoney
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
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Little Miss Nobody
Title: Little Miss Nobody
Character: Eva Bradley
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
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Private Number
Title: Private Number
Character: Mrs. Frisby
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler also has an infatuation for the young girl but his intentions are not that good.
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Captain January
Title: Captain January
Character: Mrs. Eliza Croft
Released: April 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school but she's rescued by relatives.
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The First Baby
Title: The First Baby
Character: Mrs. Ellis
Released: April 2, 1936
Type: Movie
When a couple become parents for the first time, they discover grandmothers can be almost as demanding as a newborn.
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The Country Doctor
Title: The Country Doctor
Character: Mrs. Graham
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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Paddy O'Day
Title: Paddy O'Day
Character: Dora
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.
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We're Only Human
Title: We're Only Human
Character: Mrs. Walsh
Released: December 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
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Metropolitan
Title: Metropolitan
Character: Grandma
Released: October 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.
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Navy Wife
Title: Navy Wife
Character: Mrs. Louise Keats
Released: September 17, 1935
Type: Movie
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
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Curly Top
Title: Curly Top
Character: Mrs. Denham
Released: July 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones". As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself falling in love with Mary.
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Wig-Wag
Title: Wig-Wag
Character: Mrs. Winchell - Jack's Mother
Released: April 11, 1935
Type: Movie
When Dorothy jilts her fiancee, he tries to make her jealous by getting a friend of his to dress like a woman and pose as his new girlfriend.
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Life Begins at Forty
Title: Life Begins at Forty
Character: Ida Harris
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
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McFadden´s Flats
Title: McFadden´s Flats
Character: Nora McFadden
Released: March 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Dan McFadden builds an apartment house in a working-class neighborhood on New York's East Side called "McFadden's Flats." At the same time, Dan and his wife Nora send their tomboyish daughter Molly to an expensive girls' school to teach her etiquette. Molly only agrees to go after her sweetheart, Sandy MacTavish, convinces her she should. When Dan is unable to complete the apartments because of a lack of money, Sandy's father Jock, a Scottish barber and Dan's best friend, secretly backs Dan's loan at the bank, even though Jock is known for his penny-pinching ways.
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One More Spring
Title: One More Spring
Character: Mary Sweeney
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
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Bright Eyes
Title: Bright Eyes
Character: Mrs. Higgins
Released: December 28, 1934
Type: Movie
An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody.
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Gentlemen Are Born
Title: Gentlemen Are Born
Character: Landlady
Released: November 17, 1934
Type: Movie
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
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The White Parade
Title: The White Parade
Character: Sailor
Released: November 16, 1934
Type: Movie
The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in order to become nurses and join the White Parade. It is told mainly through the character of June Arden who finds romance with Ronald Hall III on the way, with side stories of the other girls who find failure, success, laughs and tears on the way.
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Happiness Ahead
Title: Happiness Ahead
Character: Mrs. Davis - The Landlady
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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Tomorrow's Youth
Title: Tomorrow's Youth
Character: Mary O'Brien
Released: October 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A look at how his parents' divorce affects the life of a young boy.
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Desirable
Title: Desirable
Character: Frederick's Mother
Released: September 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
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Embarrassing Moments
Title: Embarrassing Moments
Character: Mrs. Stuckelberger
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it looks as though Jerry's latest prank has resulted in the death of his best friend.
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Million Dollar Ransom
Title: Million Dollar Ransom
Character: Ma McGarry (Uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
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Blind Date
Title: Blind Date
Character: Ma Taylor
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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One Night of Love
Title: One Night of Love
Character: Mrs. Barrett - Mary's Mother
Released: July 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
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Most Precious Thing in Life
Title: Most Precious Thing in Life
Character: Mrs. O'Day
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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Let's Talk It Over
Title: Let's Talk It Over
Character: Mrs. O'Keefe
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.
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Change of Heart
Title: Change of Heart
Character: Mrs. Mc Gowan
Released: May 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.
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The Scarlet Empress
Title: The Scarlet Empress
Character: Miss Cardell, Sophia's Nurse (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1934
Type: Movie
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
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Finishing School
Title: Finishing School
Character: Maude (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the director of the school and her mother oppose such a relationship.
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Wonder Bar
Title: Wonder Bar
Character: Baroness (uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
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Once to Every Woman
Title: Once to Every Woman
Character: Mrs. Wood
Released: March 24, 1934
Type: Movie
An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.
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Journal of a Crime
Title: Journal of a Crime
Character: Dinner Guest (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
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David Harum
Title: David Harum
Character: Mrs. Woolsey (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a 10-1 harness racing horse, making him Rogers' bank partner.
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Heat Lightning
Title: Heat Lightning
Character: Gladys - the Wife
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
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Fashions of 1934
Title: Fashions of 1934
Character: Customer at Maison Elegance (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
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Cross Country Cruise
Title: Cross Country Cruise
Character: Mrs. O'Hara (Uncredited)
Released: January 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
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Design for Living
Title: Design for Living
Character: Curtis' Housekeeper
Released: December 29, 1933
Type: Movie
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
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He Couldn't Take It
Title: He Couldn't Take It
Character: Mrs. Case
Released: December 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process server. He serves process on a gangster and exposes a criminal conspiracy while trying to stop his long-suffering girlfriend from taking a vacation with her lecherous boss.
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King for a Night
Title: King for a Night
Character: Mrs. Williams
Released: December 9, 1933
Type: Movie
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
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Roman Scandals
Title: Roman Scandals
Character: Roman Spa Proprietress (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1933
Type: Movie
A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
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Only Yesterday
Title: Only Yesterday
Character: Mrs. Lane
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
Title: Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
Character: Mrs. Spence - Landlady (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1933
Type: Movie
Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption.
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Ann Vickers
Title: Ann Vickers
Character: Mrs. Gage (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1933
Type: Movie
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
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One Sunday Afternoon
Title: One Sunday Afternoon
Character: Mrs. Lind
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.
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Before Dawn
Title: Before Dawn
Character: Mrs. Marble
Released: August 4, 1933
Type: Movie
After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously dying. Police detectives with the help of a clairvoyant try to determine who, living or dead, is responsible.
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Bed of Roses
Title: Bed of Roses
Character: Mrs. Webster -- Head Prison Matron (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin.
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Emergency Call
Title: Emergency Call
Character: Nurse Brown (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 1933
Type: Movie
A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
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Jennie Gerhardt
Title: Jennie Gerhardt
Character: Boardinghouse Keeper (uncredited)
Released: June 8, 1933
Type: Movie
This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.
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The Girl in 419
Title: The Girl in 419
Character: Nurse Esmond
Released: May 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.
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Bondage
Title: Bondage
Character: Mrs. Elizabeth Wharton
Released: April 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Judy Peters is about to be sentenced after she has pled guilty to her third offense of prostitution, when Dr. Nelson interrupts and tells her story to the court. (Mubi.)
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Murders in the Zoo
Title: Murders in the Zoo
Character: Banquet Guest (uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1933
Type: Movie
Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in the arms of other men. In turn, Gorman uses his animals to kill these men. When a New York City zoo suggests a fundraising gala, Gorman sees a prime opportunity to dispatch the dashing Roger and anyone else who might cross him.
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Child of Manhattan
Title: Child of Manhattan
Character: Mrs. McGonagle
Released: February 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the Vanderkill estates. To reassure his aunt Sophie, Vanderkill visits Loveland to determine whether it is as disreputable as Sophie suspects. There he meets a dime-a-dance girl, Madeleine MacGonagal, who charms him with her quaint proletarian accent. They begin a secret affair, which turns into a secret marriage when pregnancy ensues. When the baby fails to survive, Madeleine decides that since he had married her only for the baby's sake, she should make haste to Mexico to secure a divorce. There she meets Panama Canal Kelly, a former suitor who now owns a silver mine. Her plans for divorce and quick remarriage are complicated when Vanderkill arrives to confront her.
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The Past of Mary Holmes
Title: The Past of Mary Holmes
Released: January 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down shanty and suffers from alcoholism. Known for her eccentric behavior, Mary breeds geese, and is thus known in her neighborhood as 'The Goose Woman'. She blames her grown son Geoffrey (Linden) for the deterioration of her voice, and does everything to destroy his life. When Geoffrey, who works as a commercial artist, announces to her that he will marry Joan Hoyt (Arthur), an actress, she becomes torn with jealousy and threatens to reveal to Joan that he is an illegitimate birth.
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Air Hostess
Title: Air Hostess
Character: Ma Kearny
Released: January 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A plucky stewardess risks her life marrying a daredevil pilot.
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Women Won't Tell
Title: Women Won't Tell
Character: Mrs. Walter Robinson
Released: November 16, 1932
Type: Movie
A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is actually the rightful heir.
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Hot Saturday
Title: Hot Saturday
Character: Mrs. Brock
Released: October 28, 1932
Type: Movie
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
Title: Washington Merry-Go-Round
Character: Alice's Aunt
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
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Back Street
Title: Back Street
Character: Mrs. Adolph Schmidt
Released: August 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
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Young America
Title: Young America
Character: School Teacher (Uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old Arthur, "the worst kid in town", who moves cars away from fiire-plugs without the knowledge of the owners. The judge gives Arthur and friend Nutty another chance. However they run into further trouble when they break into Mr. Doray's drugstore to get medicine for Nutty's grandmother. Mr. Doray is not sympathetic and completely against his wife's plan to become Arthur's guardian. More incidents occur with Mr. Doray quick to judge prior to getting all of the facts. Mrs. Doray must choose between her marriage and Arthur.
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Ladies of the Big House
Title: Ladies of the Big House
Character: Mrs. Turner
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
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Huckleberry Finn
Title: Huckleberry Finn
Character: Widow Douglas
Released: August 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences like school and shoes, plans to run away. His scapegrace, abusive father intervenes; Tom and black Jim help him escape; and (departing from the novel) all three raft down the Mississippi, where they're joined by two likable rogues and meet pretty orphans Ella and Mary Jane. The latter may change Huck's mind about girls...
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Tom Sawyer
Title: Tom Sawyer
Character: Widow Douglas
Released: December 19, 1930
Type: Movie
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be pirates and, being believed drowned, attending their own funeral. The boys also witness a murder and Tom and his friend Becky Thatcher are pursued by the vengeful murderer.
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Little Church Around the Corner
Title: Little Church Around the Corner
Character: Anxious Woman at Mine Disaster (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1923
Type: Movie
A wealthy minister in a mining town is something of an advocate for the miners' safety, but he doesn't really get involved in the issue. He is soon snapped out of that attitude, however, when his daughter is trapped underground in a mine explosion, along with the mine's owner.
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The Restless Sex
Title: The Restless Sex
Character: Housekeeper (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1920
Type: Movie
A love triangle drama, based on a novel by Robert W. Chambers, who is better-known for weird fiction (which is not noticeable in this story.)
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The Rug Maker's Daughter
Title: The Rug Maker's Daughter
Character: Mrs. Van Buren
Released: July 5, 1915
Type: Movie
Bob Van Buren's rescue of an upper-class Turkish girl and her duenna in Constantinople when they are waylaid by robbers paves the way for a romance between them. The romance progresses rapidly despite the hullabaloo raised by Demetra's father and by the Turk fiancé he is trying to force upon her; but the very thought of a girl, so highly educated, so gifted with needle and loom, so famously graceful as a dancer ending up in a harem instead of a respectable home, drives Bob Van Buren to desperation.
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The Goose Girl
Title: The Goose Girl
Character: Irma
Released: January 25, 1915
Type: Movie
Count Von Herbeck, the chancellor to the Grand Duke of Ehrenstein, is married but keeps the fact secret on account of his high ambitions. His wife, dying, writes him a letter urging him to make their little child a great lady.
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Hypocrites
Title: Hypocrites
Character: Madam (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1915
Type: Movie
The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Purity, who is also represented by a ghostly naked girl that flits through the film.
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The Rose of the Rancho
Title: The Rose of the Rancho
Character: Señora Castro Kenton, Juanita's Mother
Released: November 15, 1914
Type: Movie
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho. Government agent Kearney holds him off till the cavalry shows up and he can declare his love for Juanita, called “the Rose of the Rancho.”
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Ready Money
Title: Ready Money
Character: Mrs. Tyler
Released: November 5, 1914
Type: Movie
Edward Abeles and Theodore Roberts as a couple of prospectors who get involved with greedy city types on a business trip to New York.