Esther Howard

Esther Howard

Born: April 2, 1892
Died: March 8, 1965
in Butte, Montana, USA

Movies for Esther Howard...

Caught on the Bounce
Title: Caught on the Bounce
Character: Aunt Tildy
Released: October 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Joe Besser needs money to pay back a loan of $2500 and travels to ask his aunt for the money. She boards the train, along with a man who looks like a wanted bank-robber, and tells Joe she needs $2500 herself and can not help him. Between them they capture the bank robber and split the $5,000 reward.
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All That I Have
Title: All That I Have
Character: Mrs. Dalton
Released: October 1, 1951
Type: Movie
As a wealthy retired surgeon nears the end of his life, he begins to distribute his wealth to those in need, stating that "all that I have belongs to God." His nephews bring him to court to determine his mental competence in the hopes of stopping him from disposing of all his money.
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Caged
Title: Caged
Character: Grace (uncredited)
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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No Man of Her Own
Title: No Man of Her Own
Character: Frowsy Woman in boardinghouse (uncredited)
Released: February 21, 1950
Type: Movie
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
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Hellfire
Title: Hellfire
Character: Birdie
Released: May 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's mission of building a church. Frustrated in his attempts to get donations, Zeb attempts to capture fugitive Doll Brown in order to obtain the reward. But he finds that there's more to Doll than meets the eye. When his old friend Bucky McLean shows up gunning for Doll, Zeb sees a chance to redeem them all... one way or another.
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The Lady Gambles
Title: The Lady Gambles
Character: Gross Lady
Released: May 20, 1949
Type: Movie
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
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The Crooked Way
Title: The Crooked Way
Released: April 22, 1949
Type: Movie
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.
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Champion
Title: Champion
Character: Mrs. Kelly
Released: April 9, 1949
Type: Movie
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
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Homicide
Title: Homicide
Character: Mrs. Brucker, Landlady
Released: April 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?
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June Bride
Title: June Bride
Character: Mrs. Mitchell
Released: October 29, 1948
Type: Movie
A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong.
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The Velvet Touch
Title: The Velvet Touch
Character: Pansy Dupont
Released: July 13, 1948
Type: Movie
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
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Wedlock Deadlock
Title: Wedlock Deadlock
Character: Lydia - Betty's Mother
Released: December 18, 1947
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house before Betty's mother (Esther Howard), aunt (Patsy Moran) and brother (Charles Williams) show up and give every indication of becoming permanent free-loading guests. Dick (William Newell) gives Eddie a plan that will cause his unwanted guests to vacate the premises, by having Dick and his wife, Ruby (Dorothy Granger), move in as Eddie's relatives, and even bigger pests, thereby causing Betty's relatives to move out. The plan works and Eddie and Betty are pleased until Dick announces that he and Ruby have intentions of staying on.
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Song of the Thin Man
Title: Song of the Thin Man
Character: Sadie (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1947
Type: Movie
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
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Born to Kill
Title: Born to Kill
Character: Mrs. Kraft
Released: April 30, 1947
Type: Movie
Helen Brent has just received a Reno divorce. That night, she discovers her neighbor Laury Palmer and a gentleman caller murdered in Palmer's home. The killer is her neighbor's other boyfriend Sam Wilde, an insanely jealous man who won't abide anyone "cutting in" on him.
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Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Title: Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Character: Filthy Flora, Dripping Dagger Proprietor
Released: November 22, 1946
Type: Movie
A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.
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Without Reservations
Title: Without Reservations
Character: Sarah (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Released: May 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
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The Falcon's Alibi
Title: The Falcon's Alibi
Character: Gloria Peabody
Released: April 12, 1946
Type: Movie
A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.
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A Letter for Evie
Title: A Letter for Evie
Character: Mrs. Edgewaters
Released: January 28, 1946
Type: Movie
Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a correspondence with Evie, pretending to be Wolf. But things get complicated when Evie wants to meet her tall, handsome soldier. And even more complicated when Wolf sees Evie and likes what he sees.
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Adventure
Title: Adventure
Character: Woman with Mudgin in bar
Released: December 28, 1945
Type: Movie
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
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Detour
Title: Detour
Character: Hedy
Released: November 30, 1945
Type: Movie
The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
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The Great Flamarion
Title: The Great Flamarion
Character: Cleo
Released: January 13, 1945
Type: Movie
A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.
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Murder, My Sweet
Title: Murder, My Sweet
Character: Jesse Florian
Released: December 14, 1944
Type: Movie
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
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Hail the Conquering Hero
Title: Hail the Conquering Hero
Character: Mrs. Everett J. Noble (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1944
Type: Movie
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
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Idle Roomers
Title: Idle Roomers
Character: Hazel's Roommate (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1944
Type: Movie
The stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a side show promoter shows up with 'Lupe', a wild wolfman who promptly escapes. The stooges try to capture the wolfman by playing music to calm him, but music makes the wolfman go berserk and soon the stooges are the ones trying to run away. The boys end up caught in an elevator with the wolfman who shoots them into the sky.
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True to Life
Title: True to Life
Character: Woman (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Title: The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Character: Sally (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
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I Married a Witch
Title: I Married a Witch
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.
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The Palm Beach Story
Title: The Palm Beach Story
Character: Wife of Wienie King
Released: August 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry (Geraldine), decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
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Jackass Mail
Title: Jackass Mail
Character: Dancehall Girl
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
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My Favorite Blonde
Title: My Favorite Blonde
Character: Mrs. Topley
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
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Sappy Birthday
Title: Sappy Birthday
Released: February 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Andy and his brother-in-law plan a fishing trip but never get beyond the driveway.
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Sullivan's Travels
Title: Sullivan's Travels
Character: Miz Zeffie
Released: November 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Title: The Lady from Cheyenne
Character: Landlady
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
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San Francisco Docks
Title: San Francisco Docks
Character: Jean-Beauty Shop owner
Released: December 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, and he beats up Cassidy, a crooked politician who has been annoying her. Cassidy is murdered that night and Johnny is jailed for the crime. Kitty, her father Andy Tracy, and waterfront-priest Father Cameron believe Johnny is innocent but all evidence points to his guilt.
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The Great McGinty
Title: The Great McGinty
Character: Madame Juliette La Jolla
Released: August 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
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Boobs in the Woods
Title: Boobs in the Woods
Character: Mrs. Clyde
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Andy's annoying brother-in-law Gus gets him fired from his job, and then tag-a-longs on a vacation with Andy and his wife.
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Alex in Wonderland
Title: Alex in Wonderland
Character: Blanche - Fred's Wife
Released: March 9, 1940
Type: Movie
In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks like Alex is going to be around for a while, much to Fred's displeasure. Alex in is New York to look for a job and he sees an ad for a champagne salesman. He decides to crash a swank party given by railroad tycoon J.D. Swinnerton and his wife. Alex has his own zany way of getting an introduction to the man. Mayhem ensues when several of the guests come as Robin Hood and one of them is a jewel thief.
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Ride, Cowboy, Ride
Title: Ride, Cowboy, Ride
Character: Cactus Kate Ramsey
Released: September 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Dinny and his cowhand friends rescue Laura from a runaway stagecoach after it is robbed by outlaw Pancho Dominguez and his gang. Dinny is attracted to Laura, who isn't interested in him at all. The climax arises when Pancho's gang raids the town and robs the bank.
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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Title: The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Character: Florist
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
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Broadway Serenade
Title: Broadway Serenade
Character: Mrs. Fellows
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
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Swing, Sister, Swing
Title: Swing, Sister, Swing
Character: Miss Fredericks
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last long, but they had fun anyway. Songs include: "Baltimore Bubble," "Gingham Gown," "Just a Bore," "Wasn't It You," "Kaneski Waltz" (Frank Skinner, Charles Henderson).
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Marie Antoinette
Title: Marie Antoinette
Character: Streetwalker (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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Scandal Street
Title: Scandal Street
Character: Birdie Brown
Released: February 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in the small town of Midberg, where she boards with the Smith family. Nora is befriended by her next-door neighbor Austin Brown, who, unknown to his wife, is engaged in a moneymaking scheme with James Wilson.
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Stand-In
Title: Stand-In
Character: Mrs, Mack
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio, receives some help from a former child star who now works as a stand-in for the studio.
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Partners in Crime
Title: Partners in Crime
Character: Mrs. Wagon
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.
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Dead End
Title: Dead End
Character: Neighbor with Coarse Voice (Uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.
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Rhythm in the Clouds
Title: Rhythm in the Clouds
Character: Mrs. Madigan
Released: June 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
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M'Liss
Title: M'Liss
Character: Rose
Released: July 27, 1936
Type: Movie
The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteacher.
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Klondike Annie
Title: Klondike Annie
Character: Fanny Radler
Released: February 21, 1936
Type: Movie
A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
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Stars Over Broadway
Title: Stars Over Broadway
Character: Mary Sporesgate
Released: November 23, 1935
Type: Movie
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
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It Always Happens
Title: It Always Happens
Character: Mary Clyde
Released: September 14, 1935
Type: Movie
While on a business trip, Andy accidentially gets into a compromising position with the wife of a client.
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The Misses Stooge
Title: The Misses Stooge
Character: The Hostess
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician.
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The Best Man Wins
Title: The Best Man Wins
Character: Mamie
Released: January 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
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Ready for Love
Title: Ready for Love
Character: Aunt Ida
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when a young woman flees her boarding school to stay with her retired aunt, a former actress, who try as she might, has never been welcomed into the snobbish community in which she resides. The young woman too, is shunned and ends up being victimized in witchcraft trial and ducked into a pool of water.
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Sweepings
Title: Sweepings
Character: Violet's Madame (Uncredited)
Released: April 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude.
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Below the Sea
Title: Below the Sea
Character: Lily
Released: March 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A wealthy woman funds an underwater expedition to explore for marine life, but what she doesn't know is that her "colleagues" have other intentions.
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Grand Slam
Title: Grand Slam
Character: Mary
Released: February 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
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The Iron Master
Title: The Iron Master
Character: Mrs. Stillman
Released: February 4, 1933
Type: Movie
The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the foreman of his foundry.
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Rackety Rax
Title: Rackety Rax
Character: 'Sister' Carrie
Released: October 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.
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Tee for Two
Title: Tee for Two
Character: Louisa
Released: October 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A musical revue in which a golfer is knocked unconscious by a golf ball and dreams that the Country Club is loaded with beautiful girls.
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Winner Take All
Title: Winner Take All
Character: Ann, Joan's Friend
Released: July 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves to return to the ring. Can their romance survive the distance?
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Merrily We Go to Hell
Title: Merrily We Go to Hell
Character: Vi
Released: June 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
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The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
Title: The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
Character: Mrs. Maggie Kelly
Released: March 27, 1932
Type: Movie
The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.
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A Fool's Advice
Title: A Fool's Advice
Character: Mrs. Prescott
Released: February 20, 1932
Type: Movie
An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.
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Ladies of the Big House
Title: Ladies of the Big House
Character: Clara Newman
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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The Yellow Ticket
Title: The Yellow Ticket
Character: Prisoner
Released: October 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
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The Vice Squad
Title: The Vice Squad
Character: Josie
Released: May 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
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Ship Ahoy
Title: Ship Ahoy
Character: The Mother
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Two sailors get romantically involved with a mother and daughter.
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Hollywood Classic Special
Title: Hollywood Classic Special
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie