Fern Emmett

Fern Emmett

Born: March 21, 1896
Died: September 3, 1946
in Oakland, California, USA
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Fern Emmett (March 22, 1896 – September 3, 1946) was an American film actress. She appeared in 212 films between 1930 and 1946.

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The Trouble with Women
Title: The Trouble with Women
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.
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Pillow of Death
Title: Pillow of Death
Released: December 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary have an affair. When Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a psychic with questionable motives tries to contact the deceased woman. Soon, Wayne begins seeing visions of his dead wife, and other people involved with the case begin to be killed, one by one.
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A Song to Remember
Title: A Song to Remember
Character: Madame Lambert (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1945
Type: Movie
Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.
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San Diego I Love You
Title: San Diego I Love You
Character: Mrs. Callope
Released: September 29, 1944
Type: Movie
A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
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Jungle Woman
Title: Jungle Woman
Character: Beth's Neighbor (archive footage / uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.
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Tale of a Dog
Title: Tale of a Dog
Character: Gossiper
Released: April 15, 1944
Type: Movie
When Bigshot Jones gives his unnamed dog to the All-For-One Club, Buckwheat quickly names the canine "Smallpox", inadvertently causing a city-wide panic.
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It Happened Tomorrow
Title: It Happened Tomorrow
Released: March 31, 1944
Type: Movie
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
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Is Everybody Happy?
Title: Is Everybody Happy?
Character: Mrs. Broadbelt
Released: October 28, 1943
Type: Movie
This is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist.
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The West Side Kid
Title: The West Side Kid
Character: Landlady
Released: August 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her time to parties; his daughter Gloria is in one scandal after another, changing husbands as often as her moods, and son Jerry spends his time getting drunk and chasing women. Sam hires gangster Johnny April to bump him off but Johnny, liking the old man, defers the killing and sets about making the family appreciate Sam.
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First Comes Courage
Title: First Comes Courage
Character: Dress Designer (uncredited)
Released: July 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.
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First Comes Courage
Title: First Comes Courage
Character: Dress designer
Released: July 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.
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Captive Wild Woman
Title: Captive Wild Woman
Character: Beth's Murdered Neighbor (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1943
Type: Movie
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
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Gildersleeve's Bad Day
Title: Gildersleeve's Bad Day
Character: Mrs. Marvin (uncredited)
Released: May 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Gildersleeve has jury duty.
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Dead Men Walk
Title: Dead Men Walk
Character: Kate
Released: April 12, 1943
Type: Movie
When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes him dead; but subsequent events force him to realize that his brother has, in fact, returned from the dead as a vampire and is seeking revenge on the doctor, who had killed him in self-defense.
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Slightly Dangerous
Title: Slightly Dangerous
Character: Burden's maid (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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A Stranger in Town
Title: A Stranger in Town
Character: Hotel Maid
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.
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Quiet Please, Murder
Title: Quiet Please, Murder
Character: Miss Philbert
Released: March 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
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Keep 'Em Slugging
Title: Keep 'Em Slugging
Character: Lady in 'poiple'
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
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Cinderella Swings It
Title: Cinderella Swings It
Character: Clara Potts
Released: January 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Scattergood Baines, Coldriver's most popular citizen, neighborly counselor and sly old fox, entices a Broadway producer to Coldriver to see the gay musical extravaganza Baines is staging for the benefit of the U.S.O. He is also promoting the singing career of his latest local protégé, Betty Palmer. There are a few problems but the Sage of Coldriver manages to keep pulling the right strings.
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The Sundown Kid
Title: The Sundown Kid
Character: Agnes Peabody
Released: December 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A Pinkerton agent masquerades as a criminal in order to infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters that is using wealthy widow Lucy Randall as a front. Arriving at the gang's hideout the Dawson ranch, Red discovers that the counterfeiting ring is headed by Mrs. Randall's attorney J. Richard Spencer and Dawson himself.
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The Great Gildersleeve
Title: The Great Gildersleeve
Character: Second Old Crow
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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My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Title: My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Character: Josephine-the Maid
Released: November 7, 1942
Type: Movie
A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.
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Calling All Pa's
Title: Calling All Pa's
Character: Grandma Thunderstruck (uncredited)
Released: October 24, 1942
Type: Movie
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood.
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The Mummy's Tomb
Title: The Mummy's Tomb
Character: Laura - Wedding Dress Seamstress (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
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Henry Aldrich, Editor
Title: Henry Aldrich, Editor
Character: Miss Bryant
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of mysterious fires. A mild, timid little fellow named Nero Smith shows up to tip off Henry as to the time and place of the next conflagration. Henry prints the story-and is immediately accused of being the firebug himself!
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In Old California
Title: In Old California
Character: Mrs. Coggins
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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The Tuttles of Tahiti
Title: The Tuttles of Tahiti
Character: Martha (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1942
Type: Movie
After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and romance than earn a living. When Jonas loses the family plantation in a cockfight, Chester saves the day by towing in a large ship abandoned at sea and claiming the salvage. But opening a joint bank account in the name of the Tuttle clan may not have been a wise decision.
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The Great Man's Lady
Title: The Great Man's Lady
Character: City Editor's Secretary
Released: April 15, 1942
Type: Movie
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
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Shut My Big Mouth
Title: Shut My Big Mouth
Character: Hotel Maid
Released: February 19, 1942
Type: Movie
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
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Valley of the Sun
Title: Valley of the Sun
Character: Spinster
Released: February 6, 1942
Type: Movie
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
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Woman of the Year
Title: Woman of the Year
Character: Mrs. Calverton (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
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You're in the Army Now
Title: You're in the Army Now
Character: Farmer's Wife
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
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Go West, Young Lady
Title: Go West, Young Lady
Character: Townswoman
Released: November 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
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Miss Polly
Title: Miss Polly
Character: Mrs. Frisbee
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.
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One Foot in Heaven
Title: One Foot in Heaven
Character: Woman Gossip (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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Jesse James at Bay
Title: Jesse James at Bay
Character: Mrs. Emmy Davis
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a Jesse look alike in Burns, hires him to wreck havoc on the ranchers. When Jesse kills Burns he switches clothes and goes after the culprits.
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Henry Aldrich for President
Title: Henry Aldrich for President
Character: Mrs. Perkins
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.
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Six-Gun Gold
Title: Six-Gun Gold
Character: Jenny Blanchard
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Three cowboys find that a U.S. Marshal relative is an impostor.
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The Shepherd of the Hills
Title: The Shepherd of the Hills
Character: Mrs. Palestrom
Released: July 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred rampant in the mountains. However, the arrival of a stranger, Daniel Howitt, begins to positively affect the mountain people, who learn to shed their hatred under his gentle influence.
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Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Title: Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Character: Clara Potts
Released: May 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after being unjustly imprisoned, and a young chemist who is trying to invent a color television but is being opposed by his girlfriend's father, who wants the girl to marry a pharmacist like himself instead of some crazy inventor.
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Love Crazy
Title: Love Crazy
Character: Martha - Ireland's Maid
Released: May 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
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She Knew All the Answers
Title: She Knew All the Answers
Character: Woman Applicant
Released: May 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side but complications ensue.
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In Old Cheyenne
Title: In Old Cheyenne
Character: Miss Smith
Released: April 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real bad guy is.
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Pot o' Gold
Title: Pot o' Gold
Character: Boy's Mother (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
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The Monster and the Girl
Title: The Monster and the Girl
Character: Woman Social Organizer (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1941
Type: Movie
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
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Scattergood Baines
Title: Scattergood Baines
Character: Clara Potts
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd business maneuvering, he manages to open up a hardware store. Twenty years later he has become a prosperous and respected member of the community, a member of the local school board and the owner of a railroad that transports timber to the local sawmill. Problems begin to arise, however, when a young schoolteacher he has hired turns out to be not quite what he expected, and the mill owners pressure Scattergood to sell them his railroad, with the idea of raising the transportation fees paid to them by the local loggers.
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Keeping Company
Title: Keeping Company
Character: Mrs. Miller
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.
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Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Title: Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Character: Jenny
Released: December 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
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Arise, My Love
Title: Arise, My Love
Character: Spinster (Uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
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Rangers of Fortune
Title: Rangers of Fortune
Character: Mrs. Ellis
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor (Arthur Allen) and his young granddaughter (Betty Brewer). The trio learns that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron (Joseph Schildkraut), who is endeavoring to push out the ranch owners and take over the territory.
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Triple Justice
Title: Triple Justice
Character: Martha Hathaway
Released: September 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill a teller. Charged for the crime and jailed, Brad realizes he must escape and track down the real killers since the only one who can prove his innocence is his friend, Sheriff Bill Gregory, who has been shot and will not soon regain consciousness. Chasing down the robbers one by one, he eventually discovers the identity of the gang's ringleader.
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Young People
Title: Young People
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.
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The Lady in Question
Title: The Lady in Question
Character: Natalie Roguin #2 (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
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Lucky Partners
Title: Lucky Partners
Character: Hotel Chambermaid
Released: August 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
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Deadwood Dick
Title: Deadwood Dick
Character: Miranda
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
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Star Dust
Title: Star Dust
Character: Della
Released: April 6, 1940
Type: Movie
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.
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Half a Sinner
Title: Half a Sinner
Character: Margaret Reed
Released: April 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure. Her new confidence inspires her to flirt with complete strangers. When a gangster pays unwanted attention to her, she ditches him and flees in his car, unaware that there's a corpse in the trunk. Determined to recover his stolen vehicle and its incriminating cargo the thug begins a desperate search. The oblivious Anne, comes to the aid of a handsome young man stranded alongside the road. Romance blooms, but after the shocking discovery of a body in the trunk, the duo decide they have to return the car. The bickering lovebirds head back to the city, trailed by both the angry gangster and the cops, who suspect the young couple of murder.
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Young Tom Edison
Title: Young Tom Edison
Character: Mrs. McCarney
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
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Little Orvie
Title: Little Orvie
Character: Mrs. Jackson
Released: March 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
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Hidden Enemy
Title: Hidden Enemy
Character: Aunt Mary
Released: January 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Reporter vs. German spies and their new metal.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Title: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Character: Housekeeper Annie
Released: January 11, 1940
Type: Movie
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
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Reno
Title: Reno
Character: Shayne's Secretary
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
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Saga of Death Valley
Title: Saga of Death Valley
Character: Miss Minnie
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
When Tasker kills Roy Rogers he takes one of his young sons. Fifteen years later the other son Roy arrives buying a ranch in the valley where Tasker now controls the water supply. Roy organizes the ranchers for a showdown with Tasker not knowing that his brother is Tasker's chief henchman.
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Sabotage
Title: Sabotage
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1939
Type: Movie
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
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Desperate Trails
Title: Desperate Trails
Character: Mrs. Plunkett
Released: September 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man helps a marshal in his battle against outlaws.
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The Rains Came
Title: The Rains Came
Character: Hindu Woman (uncredited)
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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In Name Only
Title: In Name Only
Character: Hotel Chambermaid (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
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They Shall Have Music
Title: They Shall Have Music
Character: Woman on Steps (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
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I Stole a Million
Title: I Stole a Million
Character: Visitor in Hospital (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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Frontier Marshal
Title: Frontier Marshal
Character: Hotel Maid
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Second Fiddle
Title: Second Fiddle
Character: Townswoman
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
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Lucky Night
Title: Lucky Night
Character: Mrs. Applewaite (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Title: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Character: Mac Gregor's Maid
Released: April 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
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Wife, Husband and Friend
Title: Wife, Husband and Friend
Character: Maid
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
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Tail Spin
Title: Tail Spin
Character: Matilda, Gerry's Maid (Uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
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Made for Each Other
Title: Made for Each Other
Character: Farmer's Wife (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
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Boy Trouble
Title: Boy Trouble
Character: Receptionist
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
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Pirates of the Skies
Title: Pirates of the Skies
Released: January 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
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Swing, Sister, Swing
Title: Swing, Sister, Swing
Character: Customer
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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Overland Stage Raiders
Title: Overland Stage Raiders
Released: September 20, 1938
Type: Movie
After gold shipments from a mining town have been hijacked, the three Mesquiteers buy a plane to fly the gold out. The owner of the shipping line brings in Eastern gangsters to thwart them.
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Crime Ring
Title: Crime Ring
Character: Alice-Phoebe's Maid
Released: July 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.
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Female Fugitive
Title: Female Fugitive
Character: Cook who quits
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Police set up a dragnet to trap an outlaw's wife whom they believe to be his accomplice.
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Assassin of Youth
Title: Assassin of Youth
Character: Henrietta Frisbee
Released: February 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Mrs. Jenkins
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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Amateur Crook
Title: Amateur Crook
Character: Sarah, Ephraim's Wife
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.
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Girls Can Play
Title: Girls Can Play
Released: June 23, 1937
Type: Movie
The Hollywood Post's sports writer, Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley), yearns to be a crime reporter, and thus looks for foul play on even the most routine assignments. In writing a piece about a girl's softball team, Jimmy discovers that their sponsor, Foy Harris (John Gallaudet), is a notorious racketeer who has supposedly gone straight. Jimmy suspects Foy is still up to no good. He begins hanging around the team to do a bit of snooping, and also to be near the cute new pitcher, Ann Casey (Jacqueline Wells).
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Dangerous Holiday
Title: Dangerous Holiday
Character: Aunt Elsie
Released: June 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
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Come on, Cowboys
Title: Come on, Cowboys
Character: Bus Passenger Mother
Released: May 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Harris and Rigby own a circus. Rigby is a counterfeiter and frames his partner. The Mesquiteers learn Rigby is the culprit and get a confession from one of his men only to lose the case when the man is murdered in jail. The Mesquiteers try again and send Lullaby to try and win some of the fake bills in a card game.
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Michael O'Halloran
Title: Michael O'Halloran
Character: Ella (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A wealthy woman's wild lifestyle finally drives her husband to take their two children, move out of the house and file for divorce. Positive she'll lose her children unless she shows the judge that she's changed her wild ways, she takes in two poor street kids, a brother and sister.
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Paradise Express
Title: Paradise Express
Character: Landlady
Released: February 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
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Sea Devils
Title: Sea Devils
Character: Miss McGonigle - Librarian (uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.
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The Riders of the Whistling Skull
Title: The Riders of the Whistling Skull
Character: Henrietta McCoy
Released: January 4, 1937
Type: Movie
When Professor Marsh disappears while searching for the lost city of Lukachukai, his daughter enlists the help of the Three Mesquiteers.
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Don't Turn 'em Loose
Title: Don't Turn 'em Loose
Character: Hattie - Webster Housekeeper
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote.
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Walking on Air
Title: Walking on Air
Character: Bennett's Maid (uncredited)
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.
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M'Liss
Title: M'Liss
Character: Mrs. Larkin
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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Burning Gold
Title: Burning Gold
Character: Cousin Lena
Released: May 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Jim Thornton is an independent wildcat driller in Califonia who hits a gusher and overnight riches, and marries his sweetheart that is a singer at a local saloon. But he can't handle being rich, and the marriage is on the rocks.
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Fatal Lady
Title: Fatal Lady
Character: American Tourist (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1936
Type: Movie
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
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The Harvester
Title: The Harvester
Character: Miss Sophronia
Released: April 18, 1936
Type: Movie
In a small town in Indiana in the 1890s, the domineering and ambitious Mrs. Biddle arranges a marriage between her spoiled daughter Thelma and the town's prize catch, harvester David Langston, who is wedded to the soil. David is friends with orphan Ruth Jameson and, although she is in love with him, he eventually gives in to the machinations of Mrs. Biddle and consents to marry Thelma. Meanwhile, technological advances come to town, including its first gasoline buggy, galvanic battery, and metal bathtub fitted with running water. When Mrs. Biddle tries to convince David to give up the farming life and join her husband in real estate, Mr. Biddle, hen-pecked and dissatisfied with city life, warns David against selling his farm.
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Title: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Character: Lena Tolliver
Released: March 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
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Dancing Feet
Title: Dancing Feet
Character: Silas' Secretary
Released: January 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy refuses to accompany Peyton on a slumming trip to a cheap dance hall, and Peyton dances with several of the dowagers and tells them that Silas is practically dying of scarlet fever. The guests hastily depart and Joan joins Peyton at the Dreamland Dance Hall. She is mistaken by Jimmy Cassidy (Edward J. Nugent) as one of the hostesses and decides to dance with him as a lark. One thing follows another and Judy gets disinherited and takes a job at the dance hall through Jimmy and his friend Mabel(Isabel Jewell.) Jimmy confides to Judy his ambition to become a dance instructor over the radio and Judy decides to help him but can't get the needed financial backing. She gets Peyton to front the money, promising him she will reconsider his offer of marriage if Jimmy's plan fails.
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The Oregon Trail
Title: The Oregon Trail
Character: Minnie
Released: January 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Army Captain takes a leave of absence to find out what happened to his missing father.....
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Two in the Dark
Title: Two in the Dark
Character: Housekeeper
Released: January 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
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Three on a Limb
Title: Three on a Limb
Character: Molly's Mother
Released: January 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Scoutmaster Elmer Brown loses his heart to the pretty carhop who works in a drive-in diner. Complicating his romantic longings is her policeman fiancé. When he tries to eliminate Elmer by giving him traffic tickets for every conceivable violation, the girl takes pity on the martyred Elmer and they drive off together. She informs him that she is also fending off another suitor, Oscar; and to make matters worse, her father is backing the cop while her mother promotes Oscar. Eventually all three men wind up competing for her hand at a chaotic wedding ceremony that ends with Elmer winning his beloved.
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Heir to Trouble
Title: Heir to Trouble
Character: Amanda Witherspoon
Released: December 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Ken Armstrong (Ken Maynard) finds himself a mine owner and a daddy simultaneously when a friend dies and wills him his mine and his baby. The outlaws eying the mine try to frame the hero for the death.
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Melody Trail
Title: Melody Trail
Character: Nell - Cowgirl Foreman
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Gene goes after the badguys after they kidnap the baby he should have been babysitting.
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Texas Terror
Title: Texas Terror
Character: Aunt Martha Hubbard
Released: October 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Sheriff John Higgins quits and goes into prospecting after he thinks he has killed his best friend in shooting it out with robbers. He encounters his dead buddy's sister and helps her run her ranch. Then she finds out about his past.
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The E-Flat Man
Title: The E-Flat Man
Character: Farmer's Wife
Released: August 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Elmer attempts to elope with his fiancée, but they escape her parents by driving off in a car that's actually owned by a wanted gangster. When they hear on the radio that the police are looking for them, they dump the car and hide out near a farmhouse. But the farmer's radio also broadcasts the couple's description, so they run away and start hitchhiking, only to be picked up by two policemen. They manage to flee into a railroad yard and hop a train that turns out to be refrigerated. Finally they decide to turn themselves in -- just as they learn that the real crooks have been apprehended.
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Smart Girl
Title: Smart Girl
Character: Miss Brown
Released: July 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a pile of debts. Pat sets up a successful hat-designing business, providing the sole support for herself and her sister Kay (Gail Patrick). So devoted is Pat to Kay's welfare that she stands by in stoic silence as Kay begins romancing Pat's sweetie Nick Graham (Kent Taylor).
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Motive for Revenge
Title: Motive for Revenge
Character: Mrs. Kenilworthy - Housekeeper
Released: May 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in poverty...
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Big Calibre
Title: Big Calibre
Character: Woman at Dance
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Intent on avenging his father's murder, Roy Neal and his sidekick Rusty find themselves in the border town of Gladstone where Neal is mistakenly arrested for the robbery of a mail truck. After escaping, Neal joins up with pretty June Bowers whose father has apparently also been murdered. Neal, suspecting two of the town's leading businessmen of being the murderers, tries to flush them out before the sheriff can lock him up again.
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Loser's End
Title: Loser's End
Character: Molly O'Hara, the Cook
Released: January 24, 1935
Type: Movie
Jack rides into trouble when he meets up with Bill Meeker and his outlaw gang. Rescued from the gang's clutches by Don carlos, he joins forces with Carlos and with the help of Lolita who learns of the gang's next raid, they go after the culprits.
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Terror of the Plains
Title: Terror of the Plains
Character: Rose
Released: November 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A ranch hand sets out to prove his father is innocent of murder in this B-movie Western starring cowboy hero Tom Tyler. Disguised as an outlaw, Tom Lansing (Tyler) takes up with a motley crew hiding out in a ghost town to catch the true killer. This 1934 classic co-stars Frank Rice as Lansing's sidekick, Banty, and Roberta Gale as Bess, a beautiful young captive of the outlaw gang who is in desperate need of a hero.
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The Curtain Falls
Title: The Curtain Falls
Character: Undetermined Secondary Role
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
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Happy Landing
Title: Happy Landing
Character: Landlady
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
An action-filled film with outlaws-of-the-clouds at war with the men of the U. S. Flying Service. A young pilot, Nick Ferris, fights to track down a dangerous gang of smugglers and clear his name of an undeserved stigma.
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Gunfire
Title: Gunfire
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The second of four films made by Resolute Productions, Inc. that had Rex Bell, Ruth Mix and Buzz Barton billed above the title, and the basic plot is rather basic as the McGregor clan--Ross, Dan and Alex, arch-enemies of Paradise Ranch owner Jerry Vance--frame him on a murder charge, and Danny Blake, a young cowhand befriended by Jerry, and Mary Vance, an Eastern girl who co-owns the ranch with Jerry, help him clear his name.
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City Limits
Title: City Limits
Character: Mrs. Benton
Released: April 14, 1934
Type: Movie
The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of business, personal and physical problems, meets up with a pair of hoboes from whom he starts to learn how to really enjoy life in ways he never knew were possible.
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His Weak Moment
Title: His Weak Moment
Released: October 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A comedy short.
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The Trail Drive
Title: The Trail Drive
Character: Aunt Martha
Released: September 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Honest John is pulling off a swindle by buying cattle in Texas with worthless scrip and selling them in New Mexico for cash. Ken is leading the cattle drive not knowing that when they cross the state line Honest John's plan will have succeeded.
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Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
Title: Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
Character: Woman at Radio Station (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.
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Hello, Everybody!
Title: Hello, Everybody!
Character: Ettie
Released: February 17, 1933
Type: Movie
The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole town, depends on Kate to hold everything together. The power company wants to build a dam which will require flooding many of the farms; Kate is holding out; if Kate sells, everyone else will sell; if Kate refuses, the rest of the town will refuse as well. Randolph Scott meets Kate's beautiful sister, Sally Blane, at a dance. Randolph Scott, as it turns out, is an agent for the power company. Kate thinks he's just using Sally; Sally believes that he truly likes her. Randolph comes to the farm and appears to woo Kate. Kate remains unconvinced about selling out, but falls for Randolph.
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She Done Him Wrong
Title: She Done Him Wrong
Character: Woman in Conversation (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1933
Type: Movie
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
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Young Blood
Title: Young Blood
Character: Mrs. Pettiwell
Released: November 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A reformed gunfighter battles a crooked sheriff who used to be a member of his gang.
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The Forty-Niners
Title: The Forty-Niners
Character: Widow Spriggs
Released: October 27, 1932
Type: Movie
O'Hara has been hired to lead a wagon train west. Instead he has led it off the trail to where it can be attacked by his Indian friends. But Tennessee Mathews is familiar with O'Hara's tactics and sends for the soldiers.
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Honeymoon Beach
Title: Honeymoon Beach
Character: Ma Watts
Released: October 22, 1932
Type: Movie
Glenn Tryon is at his Bachelor's Dinner, attended only by a dozen of his girl friends, prior to marrying Connie Watts but Ma Watts has plans for Connie to marry playboy Billy Bevan, who is unaware of Ma's intentions, as is Blondie who has plans of her own regarding Billy. The laughs here are only slightly less scarce than the chicken in the boarding house chicken-and-dumplings in "True Grit."
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Hollywood Lights
Title: Hollywood Lights
Character: Landlady
Released: May 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Hollywood Lights is a 1932 Comedy.
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Love in High Gear
Title: Love in High Gear
Character: Hotel Maid
Released: May 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A young couple making plans to elope are overheard by a jewel thief, who sees a chance to turn the situation to his advantage.
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Mother's Holiday
Title: Mother's Holiday
Character: Mother
Released: March 20, 1932
Type: Movie
Mother's Holiday is a 1932 Comedy
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Hollywood Luck
Title: Hollywood Luck
Released: March 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Hollywood Luck is a 1932 Comedy short.
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Bridge Wives
Title: Bridge Wives
Character: Al's wife, Mrs. Smith
Released: February 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A pseudonymous Roscoe Arbuckle directs this comedy short about a man who goes insane because of his wife's bridge addiction.
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Idle Roomers
Title: Idle Roomers
Released: November 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Idle Roomers is a 1931 Comedy short.
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Queenie of Hollywood
Title: Queenie of Hollywood
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Three girls apply for maid jobs at a resort but are taken for royalty when a telegram about their dog Queenie is intercepted. Film producers vie to put them under contract but selling a script idea finally saves them when the bill comes due.
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Neck and Neck
Title: Neck and Neck
Character: Aunt Susan
Released: November 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Bill Grant is a small-time gambler who spends more time embellishing his accomplishments than actually doing anything. He has a small run of good luck when he wins a racehorse during a poker game. This enables him to enjoy the lifestyle he has been bragging about for so long. While in high society, he falls for Norma, whose father is big in racing circles.
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The Ridin' Fool
Title: The Ridin' Fool
Character: Miss Scully
Released: May 31, 1931
Type: Movie
The Ridin' Fool presented the bantamweight star as Steve Kendall, a young cowboy saving gambler Boston Harry from being hanged by a group of vigilantes who accuse him of having killed Jim Beckworth. The fugitives hide out at Juanita's hacienda and while their mercenary hostess decides how to best fleece her guests, the posse arrives.
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The Greater Love
Title: The Greater Love
Character: Miss Whipple
Released: May 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Blackie Saunders and his young partner Sandy arrive in Indian Springs where Blackie meets his old friend Jim whom he once rode with on the wrong side of the law. Jim is now the Parson but Blackie still carries the reputation of a killer. When the townspeople decide Blackie is not a fit guardian for the boy, Jim convinces Blackie to leave the boy with him. But just after Blackie leaves town, the express office is robbed and it is assumed Blackie did it.
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West of Cheyenne
Title: West of Cheyenne
Character: Rose
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
With his father accused of murder, Tom heads after the real murderer who lives in a town of outlaws where no one is allowed in or out. To gain entry he poses as an escaping outlaw with his sidekick Banty posing as the pursuing lawman. This lets Tom join the gang but there is trouble later when Banty gets caught and sentenced to die.
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Ten Nights in a Bar-room
Title: Ten Nights in a Bar-room
Character: Fanny
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.
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Westward Bound
Title: Westward Bound
Character: Emma
Released: December 1, 1930
Type: Movie
After Bob Lansing (Jay Wilsey as Buffalo Bill Jr). is involved in a nightclub scrape, where he meets Montana rancher Madge Holt (Allene Ray)), his father sends him out west with his chauffeur Ben (Ben Corbett). In Montana, they are mistaken for rustlers Dick (Tom London) and Jim (Yakima Canutt), and Bob again meets Madge, who recognizes him but wishes to make things difficult for him.
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Knights Before Christmas
Title: Knights Before Christmas
Character: Ma
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Karl Dane and his pal come home for a disastrous Christmas.
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The Land of Missing Men
Title: The Land of Missing Men
Character: Martha Evans
Released: October 14, 1930
Type: Movie
Steve O'Neil robs the stage and kidnaps Nita to keep Lopez from doing the same. Then he and Buckshot head for Lopez's hideout for a showdown. The townspeople head after them not knowing what they will find.
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Second Honeymoon
Title: Second Honeymoon
Character: Maid
Released: September 12, 1930
Type: Movie
A wealthy man's wife becomes bored with him, so his friend decides to trick her into believing her husband is having an affair to "wake her up".
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Bar-L Ranch
Title: Bar-L Ranch
Character: Mrs. Polk
Released: August 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Bob Tyler has rustler trouble while driving a herd of cattle to the new owner, but he refuses to turn the herd over to Frank Kellogg. He has a run-in with Jean Polk, discovers she is the owner of the cattle, and is fired. With his friend, Barney McCool , Bob snoops around and discovers that Kellogg is behind the rustling.
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Romance of the West
Title: Romance of the West
Released: June 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Chasing the man who had caused the death of his sister, Jack Walsh rescues Mary Winters from the unwanted attentions of a drunk, and learns that she has been lured to Mexico by the false promises of an ex-prizefighter "Kayo" Mooney. The latter kidnaps Mary but Jack wins the showdown and Mary, and finds that Mooney is the man he was looking for.
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Say Uncle
Title: Say Uncle
Released: June 9, 1928
Type: Movie
Synopsis is unknown at this time, may be a lost film.