Virginia Sale

Virginia Sale

Born: May 19, 1899
Died: August 23, 1992
in Urbana, Illinois, USA
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Virginia Sale (May 20, 1899 – August 23, 1992) was an American character actress whose career spanned six decades, during most of which she played older women, even when she was in her twenties. Over the 46 years she was active as an actress, she worked in films, stage, radio and television. She was famous for her one-woman stage show, Americana Sketches, which she did for more than 1,000 performances during a 15-year span.

Married to actor and studio executive Sam Wren, she co-starred with him in one of the first television family comedies, Wren's Nest, in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She gave birth to fraternal twins, Virginia and Christopher, in 1936. Later in her career she worked on television, and in commercials. She died from heart failure at the age of 93 at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in 1992.

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Slither
Title: Slither
Character: Bingo Caller
Released: March 7, 1973
Type: Movie
While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being followed. Their chase takes them to trailer camps, bingo halls, laundromats and ultimately, a showdown with a group of unconventional bad guys.
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Big Daddy
Title: Big Daddy
Released: June 11, 1969
Type: Movie
A visitor to the Everglades swamps in Florida encounters and falls in love with an uneducated girl. But he finds competition for her affections from the unlikely and mysterious A. Beauregard Lincoln. He also discovers danger from nature in the form of vicious alligators and from the mystical in the form of a voodoo witch doctor.
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Title: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Character: Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1967
Type: Movie
A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business.
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One Man's Way
Title: One Man's Way
Character: Miss S. E. Collingswood
Released: February 26, 1964
Type: Movie
Reverend Norman Vincent Peale fights to bring his message to the nation.
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Title: Petticoat Junction
Character: Maude Blake
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: TV
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
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Title: Petticoat Junction
Character: Selma Plout
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: TV
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
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Title: The Beverly Hillbillies
Character: Chicken Woman
Released: September 26, 1962
Type: TV
Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
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Title: The Andy Griffith Show
Character: Mrs. Beggs
Released: October 3, 1960
Type: TV
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.
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Title: The Andy Griffith Show
Character: Woman #1
Released: October 3, 1960
Type: TV
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.
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The Case Of The Baby-Sitter
Title: The Case Of The Baby-Sitter
Character: Veronica Hoopler
Released: July 26, 1947
Type: Movie
The baby sitter is none other than veteran Hollywood tough guy Tom Neal. A private detective, Neal is hired to keep an eye on the child of married couple George Meeker and Rebel Randall. Actually, Meeker and Randall are jewel thieves, and their "baby" is their stolen loot. Neal eventually catches on when he realizes that this is the quietest child on earth. Running a scant 41 minutes, Case of the Baby Sitter was designed to be shown in tandem with another Screen Guild Productions "briefie," The Hat Box Mystery: the films were shot back to back, with Tom Neal and Pamela Blake starring in both.
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The Hat Box Mystery
Title: The Hat Box Mystery
Character: Veronica Hoopler
Released: June 12, 1947
Type: Movie
Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentally hidden in the box and the woman is killed. Susan is charged with murder, but Russ and his less-than-useful associate, Harvard, get on the case and prove that the fatal shot was fired by the killer from across the street.
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Trail Street
Title: Trail Street
Character: Hannah
Released: February 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Bat Masterson cleans up Liberal, Kansas.
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Badman's Territory
Title: Badman's Territory
Character: Meg
Released: May 4, 1946
Type: Movie
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
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Danger Signal
Title: Danger Signal
Character: Mrs. Crockett
Released: November 21, 1945
Type: Movie
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.
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Star in the Night
Title: Star in the Night
Character: Miss Roberts (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Nick, a motel owner who has lost faith in more than just the humanity of mankind, is visited by a kindly stranger on Christmas Eve. The motel's guests are only concerned for themselves until a poor man and his wife drive up to the motel, unable to go any further. Out of rooms, Nick's wife prepares a place for them in a shed under a neon star Nick had just finished hanging. Their plight brings out the generosity in everyone, including Nick, who remembers another family almost two thousand years earlier that also found a makeshift room at an inn under another kind of star.
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Blazing the Western Trail
Title: Blazing the Western Trail
Character: Nellie
Released: September 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Stage line owner Brent has his men robbing Halliday stages and when his manager Waring learns of it, Brent has him killed. Jeff Waring arrives and takes his uncle's job. He soon learns what's happening and the Durango Kid goes into action. This keeps Halliday going and gives them a chance to get the mail contract by winning the stagecoach race.
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She Gets Her Man
Title: She Gets Her Man
Character: Phoebe
Released: January 12, 1945
Type: Movie
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.
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The Thin Man Goes Home
Title: The Thin Man Goes Home
Character: Tom's Wife
Released: December 24, 1944
Type: Movie
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
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Together Again
Title: Together Again
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1944
Type: Movie
Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for years and when he died, she was left to carry on and to raise his daughter from his first marriage. She lives with the daughter, her father-in-law and a housekeeper. In the town square, there was a statue of her late husband and every year since his death, they have an anniversary celebration there. This year during a thunderstorm, the statue is hit by lightning and the head falls off. The daughter insists that a new statue be erected instead of patching the old one. Mayor Crandall is sent to New York to interview the prospective sculptor, George Corday.
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Dark Mountain
Title: Dark Mountain
Character: Aletha Bates
Released: September 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A woman doesn't realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a murder he committed, she turns to an ex-boyfriend, who is now a park ranger, for help. He hides her out in a cabin up in the mountains, and her husband goes on the hunt for both of them.
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When Strangers Marry
Title: When Strangers Marry
Character: Chambermaid
Released: August 21, 1944
Type: Movie
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
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The Gang's All Here
Title: The Gang's All Here
Character: Miss Custer, Secretary (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
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Destroyer
Title: Destroyer
Character: Kansas' Dance Partner
Released: August 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
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Hit the Ice
Title: Hit the Ice
Character: Nurse who Faints (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Flash Fulton (Bud Abbott) and Weejie McCoy (Lou Costello) take pictures of a bank robbery. Lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers and accompanied by Dr. Bill Elliott (Patric Knowles) and Peggy Osborn (Elyse Knox), they also meet old friend Johnny Long (Johnny Long) and his band and singer Marcia Manning (Ginny Simms). Dr. Elliott and Peggy are being held in a remote cabin by the robbers, but Weejie rescues them by turning himself into a human snowball that becomes an avalanche that engulfs the crooks.
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Reveille with Beverly
Title: Reveille with Beverly
Character: Mrs. Browning (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
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Torpedo Boat
Title: Torpedo Boat
Character: Mrs. Sweeney
Released: January 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a lightweight, high-speed torpedo boat (hence the title). Their copacetic business relationship is strained when nightclub singer Grace Holman (Jean Parker), having been jilted by Skimmer, marries Tommy on the rebound.
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Harvard Here I Come
Title: Harvard Here I Come
Character: Miss Frisbie
Released: December 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Slapsie Rosenbloom receives an award from the satirical Harvard Lampoon for his well-known stupidity. Instead of being enraged, Slapsie Maxie is delighted by the "honor", and promptly tries to enroll at the ivy-league university. Upon arriving on campus, he is pounced upon by a group of eccentric scientists led by Professor Alvin, who is convinced that Rosenbloom is the "missing link" that science has long been searching for.
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They Died with Their Boots On
Title: They Died with Their Boots On
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1941
Type: Movie
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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Miss Polly
Title: Miss Polly
Character: Orsina Wiggins
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: Sister Sale at the Movie Theatre (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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The Flame of New Orleans
Title: The Flame of New Orleans
Character: Giraud's Cousin Clarissa
Released: July 7, 1941
Type: Movie
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
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Her First Beau
Title: Her First Beau
Character: Miss Blackmere
Released: May 8, 1941
Type: Movie
15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.
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Strike Up the Band
Title: Strike Up the Band
Character: Music Teacher
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raising money to go to Chicago for the contest.
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The Howards of Virginia
Title: The Howards of Virginia
Character: Neighbor Girl
Released: September 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
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Calling All Husbands
Title: Calling All Husbands
Character: Aunt Mabel Parker
Released: September 7, 1940
Type: Movie
A henpecked husband and his bossy wife are due for a surprise when the wife's former boyfriend unexpectedly turns up.
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Flowing Gold
Title: Flowing Gold
Character: Nurse
Released: August 24, 1940
Type: Movie
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
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Gold Rush Maisie
Title: Gold Rush Maisie
Character: Mrs. Harry Gilpin
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
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I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Title: I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1940
Type: Movie
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to write a love ballad. It is Crawford's hope that the song will reach out and touch his long-lost childhood sweetheart. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby was based on James Edward Grant's short story Trouble in B Flat; echoes of the basic premise later resurfaced in the 1957 "A" picture The Girl Can't Help It.
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Forty Little Mothers
Title: Forty Little Mothers
Character: Miss Fairwell
Released: April 26, 1940
Type: Movie
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
Title: The Doctor Takes a Wife
Character: School Teacher
Released: April 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
Title: The Amazing Mr. Williams
Character: Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
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Charlie Chan in Reno
Title: Charlie Chan in Reno
Character: Maid Reporting Missing Passkey
Released: June 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.
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The Jury's Secret
Title: The Jury's Secret
Character: Miss Montague
Released: January 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
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You're a Sweetheart
Title: You're a Sweetheart
Character: Gawking Wife (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1937
Type: Movie
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
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Topper
Title: Topper
Character: Miss Johnson
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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Angel's Holiday
Title: Angel's Holiday
Character: Hatchet-Faced Woman
Released: June 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
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Dangerous Holiday
Title: Dangerous Holiday
Character: Aunt Augusta
Released: June 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
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Meet the Missus
Title: Meet the Missus
Character: Mrs. Moseby
Released: June 4, 1937
Type: Movie
A small town Ohio barber accompanies his ditzy wife to Atlantic City, where she competes in the Happy Noodle Company's Mrs. America Contest.
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The Go-Getter
Title: The Go-Getter
Character: Servant of J. Browne #2 (uncredited)
Released: May 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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We Have Our Moments
Title: We Have Our Moments
Character: Miss Koltz
Released: March 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
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Outcast
Title: Outcast
Character: Jessica Tuite
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.
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Three Men on a Horse
Title: Three Men on a Horse
Character: Chambermaid
Released: November 21, 1936
Type: Movie
A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
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We're in the Money
Title: We're in the Money
Character: Nanny (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
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After the Dance
Title: After the Dance
Character: Edna
Released: June 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot, a hostile convict (Jack La Rue) forces Jerry to help him escape, so Jerry takes to the streets himself. Nightclub entertainer Anne Taylor (Nancy Carroll) meets him, and convinces her boss Louis (Arthur Hohl) to hire him as her partner.
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It's A Small World
Title: It's A Small World
Character: Lizzie
Released: April 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which fleeces travelers through corrupt law enforcement.
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Madame du Barry
Title: Madame du Barry
Character: Sophie, the King's Daughter
Released: October 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon, former street waif Madame du Barry charms her way into the heart of gouty King Louis XV.
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Embarrassing Moments
Title: Embarrassing Moments
Character: Mother
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it looks as though Jerry's latest prank has resulted in the death of his best friend.
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The Man with Two Faces
Title: The Man with Two Faces
Character: Peabody
Released: August 4, 1934
Type: Movie
Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a theatrical producer she comes home incoherent and Vance is found dead in the vanished producer's hotel suite
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Smarty
Title: Smarty
Character: Edna - Vicki's Maid
Released: May 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attorney Vernon Thorpe secures a divorce for her, and Vicki and Vernon are soon married. Vicki's yen for wearing revealing clothes and a penchant for inviting ex-husband to dinner soon provokes the easily-provoked Vernon into belting one on her himself. She goes to Tony's apartment, where Tony is entertaining Bonnie, who is not all that entertained by the presence of Vicki, especially after Vicki shows every intent of moving in and staying.
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Registered Nurse
Title: Registered Nurse
Character: Miss Dixon
Released: April 6, 1934
Type: Movie
In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surgeons when her husband goes mad and needs an operation. One of the surgeon's regards his pursuit a lark, while the other harbors genuine affections for the nurse.
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I Like it That Way
Title: I Like it That Way
Character: Old Maid
Released: April 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.
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Love Past Thirty
Title: Love Past Thirty
Character: Nettle
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
When a woman's boyfriend dumps her for a younger girl, she hatches a scheme to get revenge by going after the girl's former boyfriend.
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The Iron Master
Title: The Iron Master
Character: Miss Smith
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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Smoke Lightning
Title: Smoke Lightning
Character: Housekeeper Sawyer
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
After Smoke wins the Blake ranch in a poker game, Blake commits suicide and Smoke deeds the ranch to Blake’s young daughter. But the Sheriff is after the ranch and has Smoke arrested for the murder of Blake and then brings in an impostor to pose as the girl’s relative.
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Those We Love
Title: Those We Love
Character: Bertha
Released: September 11, 1932
Type: Movie
Director Robert Florey's 1932 melodrama about a woman who suspects her husband of infidelity stars Mary Astor, Kenneth MacKenna, Tommy Conlon, Lilyan Tashman, Hale Hamilton, Cecil Cunningham and Virginia Sale.
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Fireman, Save My Child
Title: Fireman, Save My Child
Character: Miss Gallop
Released: February 20, 1932
Type: Movie
Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for his inventions. But Joe's invited to present his invention to a fire extinguisher company at the same time when he is supposed to play. Will he be able to show the effectiveness of his invention and win the game?
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Running Hollywood
Title: Running Hollywood
Character: Virginia Sale
Released: January 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
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Union Depot
Title: Union Depot
Character: Woman on Platform Watching Actress (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
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Selling Shorts
Title: Selling Shorts
Character: Dot
Released: November 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Third in the series of six Traveling Man two-reel comedy shorts. While traveling they are in need of some moonshine....
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The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Title: The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Character: Charity Ward Nun (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
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Gold Dust Gertie
Title: Gold Dust Gertie
Character: Secretary Who Models Bathing Suit
Released: June 27, 1931
Type: Movie
Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.
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Big Business Girl
Title: Big Business Girl
Character: Sally Curtin (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1931
Type: Movie
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.
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Too Young to Marry
Title: Too Young to Marry
Character: Myra
Released: May 3, 1931
Type: Movie
In this comedy drama set in a small town, a milque-toast gets a backbone and stands up to his overbearing wife. Only one of his daughters is on his side. The family is amazed and shocked by his sudden change. At first they rebel, but when he defies his wife and allows his good daughter to marry the grocery boy she loves, they finally come to respect him.
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My Past
Title: My Past
Character: Miss Taft, Thornley's Secretary
Released: May 3, 1931
Type: Movie
A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one.
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Many a Slip
Title: Many a Slip
Character: Smitty
Released: March 2, 1931
Type: Movie
Comedy centering on the question of whether a man's wife is or isn't pregnant.
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New Moon
Title: New Moon
Character: Madame Romanski
Released: December 23, 1930
Type: Movie
New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriving at the port of Krasnov, Petroff learns that Tanya is engaged to the old Governor Brusiloff. Petroff, disillusioned, crashes the ball to talk with Tanya. Found by Brusiloff, they invent a story about her lost bracelet. To reward him, and remove him, Brusiloff sends Petroff to the remote, and deadly, Fort Darvaz. Soon, the big battle against overwhelming odds will begin.
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Bright Lights
Title: Bright Lights
Character: Newspaper reporter
Released: September 21, 1930
Type: Movie
In this light-hearted musical, an early color film, a successful actress tires of the bustle and hustle of her tawdry life and settles down to what she thinks is the blissful mundaneness of married life. Unfortunately, the actual drudgery of wifedom takes her by surprise and domestic turmoil ensues.
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Moby Dick
Title: Moby Dick
Character: Old Maid
Released: September 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
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The Dude Wrangler
Title: The Dude Wrangler
Character: Dude Guest
Released: July 1, 1930
Type: Movie
In order to prove his manliness to the girl he loves, a young urban dandy takes a job at a dude ranch. Predictable misadventure ensues in this poorly-made early talkie.
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Back Pay
Title: Back Pay
Character: Miss Flanagan - Wheeler's Secretary
Released: June 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.
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Show Girl in Hollywood
Title: Show Girl in Hollywood
Character: Miss J. Rule
Released: April 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.
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Lovin' the Ladies
Title: Lovin' the Ladies
Character: Marie - Joan's Maid
Released: April 6, 1930
Type: Movie
A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to fall for with each other and get engaged within a month.
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What a Life
Title: What a Life
Character: Head Prison Reformer
Released: March 15, 1930
Type: Movie
A musical parody on prison reform in which a prison warden gives his cellblocks the look of a summer resort in order to stave off reformers.
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Lord Byron of Broadway
Title: Lord Byron of Broadway
Character: Flirty Dowager
Released: February 28, 1930
Type: Movie
A talented songwriter gets his inspiration for songs from others and not from within himself. He is oblivious that he may harm other people when he uses their stories or their love for himself.
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Loose Ankles
Title: Loose Ankles
Character: Mrs. Berry from Walla Walla
Released: February 2, 1930
Type: Movie
A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the approval of three of her stuffed-shirt relatives, and without scandal. Otherwise, the estate goes to the cat and dog hospital. Ann, not needing the money, rebels by seeking scandal with a gigolo.
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Embarrassing Moments
Title: Embarrassing Moments
Character: Aunt Prudence
Released: January 17, 1930
Type: Movie
A couple meet, fall in love and get married in a 24-hour period.
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Stewed, Fried and Boiled
Title: Stewed, Fried and Boiled
Released: March 29, 1929
Type: Movie
Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.
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Why Be Good?
Title: Why Be Good?
Character: Junior's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1929
Type: Movie
A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.
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Weary River
Title: Weary River
Character: Noisy Lady in Audience (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1929
Type: Movie
A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations abound.
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Fancy Baggage
Title: Fancy Baggage
Character: Miss Hickey
Released: January 26, 1929
Type: Movie
In order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman pretends to be the rival's new secretary. Complications ensue.
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Below the Deadline
Title: Below the Deadline
Character: Mother Biblow
Released: January 2, 1929
Type: Movie
Beau Nash is a "gentleman crook" who headquarters his gang of jewel thieves in a run-down boardinghouse. When one of his gang, Mike, gets arrested, his sister Claire--aka "Lady Byron"--swears to get revenge. The gang frames Donald, the best friend of the detective who arrested Mike, for a jewelry store robbery. The detective gives Donald--and his new love, Claire--a short time to find the thieves and clear his name before he takes him in.
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The Floating College
Title: The Floating College
Character: Miss Cobbs
Released: November 10, 1928
Type: Movie
College Life - Love - and the big things of life under the light-heartedness of youth.
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Harold Teen
Title: Harold Teen
Character: Mrs. Schmittenberger
Released: April 28, 1928
Type: Movie
Farmboy Harold moves to the city and there attends high school. Soon he is very popular, his spirited nature causing much excitement on the campus. He joins a fraternity, goes out for football, and directs his class theatrical effort. Instead of a school play, Harold suggests doing a western motion picture. Part of the plot requires them to blow up the dam that has cut off the water supply to Harold's homestead in the country. After the explosion Harold runs away because he is afraid of being arrested, but he returns just in time to win a football game for his team.
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Midnight Madness
Title: Midnight Madness
Character: The Gargoyle - Childers' Secretary
Released: March 25, 1928
Type: Movie
In Midnight Madness millionaire diamond miner Michael Bream (Clive Brook) discovers that the woman he’s marrying — funfair shooting-gallery hostess Norma Forbes — is a gold digger. So Bream decides to teach her a lesson, and forces her to live with him in the remote African outback where, eventually, she realizes her true affections.
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The Crowd
Title: The Crowd
Character: Mary's Sister-in-Law (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1928
Type: Movie
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.
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Legionnaires in Paris
Title: Legionnaires in Paris
Character: Fifi
Released: December 23, 1927
Type: Movie
Two American soldiers are on leave in Paris on Armistice Day and, due to a misunderstanding, believe that they've killed a man, although accidentally. When they discover that the police are looking for them, they're convinced that they're in big trouble and take off. Complications ensue.