May Beatty

May Beatty

Born: June 4, 1880
Died: April 1, 1945
in Christchurch, New Zealand

Movies for May Beatty...

Lassie Come Home
Title: Lassie Come Home
Character: Woman (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling to remain apart from young Carraclough son Joe and sets out on a long and dangerous journey to rejoin him.
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Forever and a Day
Title: Forever and a Day
Character: Wartime Londoner Cook
Released: January 21, 1943
Type: Movie
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
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This Above All
Title: This Above All
Character: Tea Shop Customer
Released: May 12, 1942
Type: Movie
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
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I Wake Up Screaming
Title: I Wake Up Screaming
Character: Lady Handel
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
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Dressed to Kill
Title: Dressed to Kill
Character: Phyllis Lathrop
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
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Pride and Prejudice
Title: Pride and Prejudice
Character: Mrs. Philips
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.
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My Son, My Son!
Title: My Son, My Son!
Character: Annie
Released: March 21, 1940
Type: Movie
A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him.
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Vigil in the Night
Title: Vigil in the Night
Character: Mrs. Merchant - Prescott's Housekeeper
Released: February 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.
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That Inferior Feeling
Title: That Inferior Feeling
Character: Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).
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We Are Not Alone
Title: We Are Not Alone
Character: Mrs. Patterson
Released: November 25, 1939
Type: Movie
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
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Eternally Yours
Title: Eternally Yours
Character: Dowager
Released: October 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.
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The Women
Title: The Women
Character: Fat Woman / Society Woman (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Mrs. Jameson, Brandon Housekeeper
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Mrs. Hogan (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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I Am a Criminal
Title: I Am a Criminal
Character: Maggie
Released: December 7, 1938
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, a gangster uses an innocent newsboy to manipulate the jury just prior to his manslaughter trial. The 10-year-old newsboy idolizes the gangster. Eventually the lad's admiration comes to deeply affect the gangster who begins to soften up. Meanwhile his moll plans to rob him. The newsboy intervenes and stops her.
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If I Were King
Title: If I Were King
Character: Anna
Released: September 28, 1938
Type: Movie
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
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Mysterious Mr. Moto
Title: Mysterious Mr. Moto
Character: Woman at Police Station
Released: September 17, 1938
Type: Movie
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
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They're Always Caught
Title: They're Always Caught
Character: Grocery Clerk (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1938
Type: Movie
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short shows the role the crime laboratory plays in the solving of cases, and how even the smallest detail can become a major clue.
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One Wild Night
Title: One Wild Night
Character: Mrs. Spencer (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
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She Loved a Fireman
Title: She Loved a Fireman
Character: Mrs. Michaels
Released: December 18, 1937
Type: Movie
A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
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Call It a Day
Title: Call It a Day
Character: Frank's Landlady (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1937
Type: Movie
The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.
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The Romance Of Robert Burns
Title: The Romance Of Robert Burns
Character: Lady Argyle (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1937
Type: Movie
The 'Farmer Poet' Robert Burns, after a bad romance, pens "Auld Lang Syne" to much fanfare and courts high society at the expense of his blossoming relationship with beautiful Jean Armour. Soon a marriage is arranged for Jean, and Robby must race to her side before she is married off.
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Lloyd's of London
Title: Lloyd's of London
Character: Lady Markham
Released: November 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
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Satan Met a Lady
Title: Satan Met a Lady
Character: Mrs. Arden (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1936
Type: Movie
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
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The White Angel
Title: The White Angel
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1936
Type: Movie
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
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Private Number
Title: Private Number
Character: Grandma Gammon
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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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
Released: May 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Title: Little Lord Fauntleroy
Character: Mrs. Mellon
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfather.
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The Invisible Ray
Title: The Invisible Ray
Character: Mme. LeGrand (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has already started affecting Rukh. Consumed by paranoia, he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Wild for revenge, Rukh hatches a deadly plot...using his own poisoned body as a weapon to kill.
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The Widow from Monte Carlo
Title: The Widow from Monte Carlo
Character: Dowager
Released: December 19, 1935
Type: Movie
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter.
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The Girl Who Came Back
Title: The Girl Who Came Back
Character: "Auntie"
Released: September 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.
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Here Comes the Band
Title: Here Comes the Band
Character: Miss Doyle
Released: August 30, 1935
Type: Movie
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
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Mad Love
Title: Mad Love
Character: Françoise
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
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Becky Sharp
Title: Becky Sharp
Character: Briggs
Released: June 28, 1935
Type: Movie
The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book "Vanity Fair", the film looks at the English class system during the Napoleonic Wars era.
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The Little Minister
Title: The Little Minister
Character: Rintoul's Maid Making Wedding Dress
Released: December 28, 1934
Type: Movie
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relationship with this feisty, passionate young woman, who holds a secret about the village's nobleman, Lord Milford Rintoul, and his role in an increasingly fractious labor dispute.
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Rainbow Over Broadway
Title: Rainbow Over Broadway
Character: Queenie
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Ex-vaudeville performer Trixie makes a come-back, and threatens to thwart the ambitions of her song-writing step-children, Bob and Judy.
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Ann Vickers
Title: Ann Vickers
Character: Nurse (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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Horse Play
Title: Horse Play
Character: The Duchess
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Ranchowner Slim Perkins is in love with his neighbor's niece, Angelica Wayne, but her aunt and uncle throw him off their property because he is a poor bumbler. One day a stranger buys Slim's ranch for one million dollars because the land contains valuable minerals. Slim and his partner, Andy Jones, are overwhelmed by their new found wealth, but it does not help to soothe Slim's hurt feelings when he finds out that Angelica has gone to England to stay with her other aunt. He decides to bring her his horse, "Cynthia Ann," as a gift, and with Andy and the horse, he sets sail.
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Vanity Street
Title: Vanity Street
Character: Mrs. Dantry
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
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The Man Called Back
Title: The Man Called Back
Character: Mrs. Lucy Sanderson
Released: July 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married socialite Doris Kenyon. Doris' insane husband John Halliday commits suicide, but arranges the evidence so that his wife will be charged with murder.
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The Road to Singapore
Title: The Road to Singapore
Character: Bridge Player on Ship
Released: September 2, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman's life falls to pieces when she's caught cheating on her husband.
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Chances
Title: Chances
Character: Mayfair 1119 (uncredited)
Released: July 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Rose is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with his brother.
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East Lynne
Title: East Lynne
Character: Charity Bazaar Committee
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite being nearly blinded as the result of an explosion, she returns home to see her son again.
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Ex-Flame
Title: Ex-Flame
Character: Lady Harriett
Released: November 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman's uncontrollable jealousy over her husband's former girlfriend results in her losing not only her house but her young son is taken away from her.
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The Benson Murder Case
Title: The Benson Murder Case
Character: Mrs. Paula Banning
Released: April 13, 1930
Type: Movie
A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there; he decides to find out who killed him.