Dorothy Vernon

Dorothy Vernon

Born: November 9, 1875
Died: October 28, 1970
in Norddorf, Amrum island, Germany
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Dorothy Vernon (November 11, 1875 – October 28, 1970) was a German-born American film actress. Born Dorothy Baird, she appeared in 131 films between 1919 and 1956. She died in Granada Hills, California from heart disease, aged 94. Her son was actor and entertainer Bobby Vernon.

Movies for Dorothy Vernon...

Post Mortem
Title: Post Mortem
Character: Telephone Caller (voice)
Released: July 7, 1975
Type: Movie
With her boss unexpectedly absent. Helen, his secretary takes charge.
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Title: Crown Court
Character: Helen Tate
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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Jeanne Eagels
Title: Jeanne Eagels
Character: Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.
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Women's Prison
Title: Women's Prison
Released: February 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
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The War of the Worlds
Title: The War of the Worlds
Character: Elderly Woman at Square Dance (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1953
Type: Movie
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
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So This Is Love
Title: So This Is Love
Character: Armistice Day Reveler at Theatre (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
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Something to Live For
Title: Something to Live For
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1952
Type: Movie
Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actress Jenny Carey whose developing career is threatened by an increasing dependence on alcohol. Alan's growing interest in Jenny strains his marriage to Edna, with whom he has two children.
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Rhubarb
Title: Rhubarb
Character: Baseball Game Spectator (uncredited)
Released: August 29, 1951
Type: Movie
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.
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A Place in the Sun
Title: A Place in the Sun
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1951
Type: Movie
An ambitious young man wins an heiress's heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend's pregnancy.
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Union Station
Title: Union Station
Character: Union Station Extra (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1950
Type: Movie
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
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The Furies
Title: The Furies
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1950
Type: Movie
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.
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Square Dance Jubilee
Title: Square Dance Jubilee
Character: Townswoman
Released: November 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Two talent scouts for a New York-based country music TV show called "Square Dance Jubilee" are sent out West to get authentic western singing acts. They find what they're looking for, but also get mixed up in cattle rustling and murder.
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The File on Thelma Jordon
Title: The File on Thelma Jordon
Character: Courtroom Spectator (Uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
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Beyond the Forest
Title: Beyond the Forest
Character: Townswoman
Released: October 21, 1949
Type: Movie
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
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The Heiress
Title: The Heiress
Character: Delivery Woman (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty — filled with little more than needlepoint. Enter handsome Morris Townsend, a dashing social climber with his eye on the spinster's heart and substantial inheritance.
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Lust for Gold
Title: Lust for Gold
Character: Townswoman (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1949
Type: Movie
A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of the mine has lead her to double-cross her husband.
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Sorry, Wrong Number
Title: Sorry, Wrong Number
Released: September 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
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The Fuller Brush Man
Title: The Fuller Brush Man
Character: Irate Radio-Listener's Wife (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.
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The Egg and I
Title: The Egg and I
Character: Reveler at Country Dance (Uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1947
Type: Movie
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.
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Monsieur Beaucaire
Title: Monsieur Beaucaire
Character: Servant (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Released: May 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
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The Flying Serpent
Title: The Flying Serpent
Character: Townswoman (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A demented archaeologist discovers a living, breathing serpent creature known to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl and accidentally kills his wife by giving her one of the beast's feathers, causing the creature to track her down and slaughter her. Using this knowledge he exacts revenge upon his enemies by placing one of the feathers on his intended victim and letting the beast loose to wreak havoc.
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Booby Dupes
Title: Booby Dupes
Character: Woman Customer (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1945
Type: Movie
The stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out the middleman by catching their own fish. They trade their car and $300 for a "new" boat which turns out to be a piece of junk that soon falls apart and sinks in the middle of the ocean. Luckily the boys also have a row boat which they climb into and then try to signal some passing planes for help. Unfortunately, their paint spattered rag is mistaken for a Japanese flag and they are bombed from the sky.
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If a Body Meets a Body
Title: If a Body Meets a Body
Character: Family Member (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1945
Type: Movie
Curly learns that he is named in the will of his rich uncle, so the boys head for the uncle's mansion to attend the reading of the will. They arrive on a dark and stormy night only to find that the lawyer has been murdered and the will and the body have disappeared. All the relatives must stay in the spooky house while the police investigate and the stooges are given the bedroom where the uncle was murdered. After a series of misadventures with a walking skull and the uncle's body, which keeps turning up in strange places, the stooges unmask the butler and maid as the killers and recover the will. Then they learn that Curly has only been left sixty seven cents.
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A Song to Remember
Title: A Song to Remember
Character: Guest at 1st Pleyel Concert (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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Secret Command
Title: Secret Command
Character: Shipyard Worker (uncredited)
Released: July 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman. Jeff still resents Sam for abandoning the family years ago and fears he may steal away Lea Damaron, his current girlfriend -- who is Sam's old flame. While Sam tries to sniff out Nazi saboteurs in the plant, he grows closer to Jill McGann, the agent tasked with pretending to be his wife.
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Address Unknown
Title: Address Unknown
Character: Cook (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.
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Cover Girl
Title: Cover Girl
Character: Wardrobe Woman
Released: March 22, 1944
Type: Movie
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
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Destroyer
Title: Destroyer
Character: Justice of the Peace's Wife
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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Slightly Dangerous
Title: Slightly Dangerous
Character: Woman in newspaper office (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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Lost Canyon
Title: Lost Canyon
Character: Townswoman
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his men to rustle his cattle. Hoppy is Clark's new foreman and is on to Burton's scheme. But just as he learns of the rustling and is about to go after the gang, the Sheriff arrives and arrests him for hiding Johnny who has been accused of robbery.
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Silver Queen
Title: Silver Queen
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
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The Pride of the Yankees
Title: The Pride of the Yankees
Character: Family Friend (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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Holiday Inn
Title: Holiday Inn
Character: Easter Day Churchgoer (uncredited)
Released: July 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and his manager.
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Jackass Mail
Title: Jackass Mail
Character: Townswoman
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
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The Great Man's Lady
Title: The Great Man's Lady
Character: Spectator at Dedication
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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To Be or Not to Be
Title: To Be or Not to Be
Character: Member of Audience at Performance of Hamlet (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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Valley of the Sun
Title: Valley of the Sun
Character: Townswoman
Released: February 6, 1942
Type: Movie
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
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The Corsican Brothers
Title: The Corsican Brothers
Character: Townswoman at Celebration (Uncredited)
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents' death at the hands of evil Colonna. Because each feels all the same sensations experienced by the other, swordplay is difficult for them. Worse yet, raised very differently, they struggle to find common ground between their conflicting personalities. But to defeat their enemy, the two will have to overcome the obstacles and work as a team.
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The Officer and the Lady
Title: The Officer and the Lady
Character: Matron (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1941
Type: Movie
A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind.
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You'll Never Get Rich
Title: You'll Never Get Rich
Character: Kewpie's Mother (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1941
Type: Movie
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as his object of affection’s boyfriend.
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Invisible Ghost
Title: Invisible Ghost
Character: Kessler's Cook (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1941
Type: Movie
The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.
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The Lady Eve
Title: The Lady Eve
Character: One of Pike's Cooks (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1941
Type: Movie
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
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Riders from Nowhere
Title: Riders from Nowhere
Character: Mrs. Gregory
Released: December 30, 1940
Type: Movie
In this his penultimate Western for low-budget company Monogram, Jack Randall assumed the identity of a murdered ranger in order to track down the killer. In the lawless town of Brimstone, the citizens are being terrorized by a gang of outlaws headed by Mason (Tom London), who, to no one's great surprise, proves to be the very man Jack has been trailing. The relieved citizens of Brimstone then elect Jack as their new sheriff. The murdered ranger's sister was played by Margaret Roach, the 19-year-old daughter of comedy producer Hal Roach. Ernie Adams replaced Glenn Strange (who himself had replaced Frank Yaconelli) as Randall's sidekick, Manny, and Nelson McDowell provided additional comic relief as Brimstone's busy undertaker.
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The Bank Dick
Title: The Bank Dick
Character: Old Lady (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.
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Bitter Sweet
Title: Bitter Sweet
Character: Cafe Patron (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
In order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't love, Sarah Millick runs off to Vienna with her music teacher, Carl Linden, whom she does love. They are married. In Vienna, they struggle to make a living by making music. Carl writes an operetta and tries to get it produced. They are helped along by Viennese Baron, but his intentions are not honorable. He kills Carl in a sword fight. A big producer does put on the operetta, with Sari in the lead -- but without her husband, it is a bittersweet victory.
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Third Finger, Left Hand
Title: Third Finger, Left Hand
Character: Woman at Railroad Station
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
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Too Many Girls
Title: Too Many Girls
Character: Faculty Extra
Released: October 8, 1940
Type: Movie
Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football players join the college team, and the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players, Clint, falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers he is her bodyguard, she decides to go back East. The bodyguards follow her, leaving the team in the lurch.
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Young People
Title: Young People
Character: Woman
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 Great McGinty
Title: The Great McGinty
Character: Voting Registrar (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
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Pardon My Berth Marks
Title: Pardon My Berth Marks
Character: Train Passenger
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife.
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The Heckler
Title: The Heckler
Character: Tennis Spectator
Released: February 16, 1940
Type: Movie
An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
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My Little Chickadee
Title: My Little Chickadee
Character: Diner (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
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Nothing But Pleasure
Title: Nothing But Pleasure
Character: Snoring Bus Rider
Released: January 19, 1940
Type: Movie
To save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home.
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Four Wives
Title: Four Wives
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
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Geronimo
Title: Geronimo
Character: Immigrant
Released: November 26, 1939
Type: Movie
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
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Glove Slingers
Title: Glove Slingers
Character: Fight Spectator in front of Mrs. Kelly (uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A fighter trains for the big bout, and discovers that his opponent is his girlfriend's brother.
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Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Title: Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Character: Dressmaker and Wedding Guest
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.
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Captain Fury
Title: Captain Fury
Character: Townswoman at Dance
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
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The Frontiersmen
Title: The Frontiersmen
Character: Townswoman
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
The local school is causing Hoppy problems. First Bar 20 cattle are stolen when Hoppy investigates a problem there. Then the new teacher arrives and disrupts the routine of the Bar 20 hands. Later with the Bar 20 hands at graduation, the rustlers are poised to strike again. But there is dissension among them and this will lead to the break that Hoppy needs.
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Juvenile Court
Title: Juvenile Court
Character: Woman (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1938
Type: Movie
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
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Carefree
Title: Carefree
Character: Woman at Country Club (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with him. When he tries to use hypnosis to strengthen her feelings for Steven, things get complicated.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Neighbor (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Wide Open Faces
Title: Wide Open Faces
Character: Hotel Guest
Released: April 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.
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I Met My Love Again
Title: I Met My Love Again
Character: College Staff Member (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1938
Type: Movie
In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows infatuated with handsome writer Michael Shaw, and they marry and move to Paris. Years later, after Michael's accidental death, Julie and her daughter move back to Vermont to live with her aunt and Julie finds Ives, now a professor, disinterested in resuming their romantic relationship.
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Heidi
Title: Heidi
Character: Church Member (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.
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Against the Tide
Title: Against the Tide
Character: Mrs Brewer
Released: September 20, 1937
Type: Movie
A Cornish fishing village is struck by tragedy.
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Old Mother Riley
Title: Old Mother Riley
Character: Aggie Sparks
Released: August 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley is a British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Barbara Everest, Patrick Ludlow and Hubert Leslie. Mother Riley and her daughter stop the plans of some disinherited relatives to overturn the terms of a will. It was the first in the Old Mother Riley series of films.
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Land Beyond the Law
Title: Land Beyond the Law
Character: Townswoman at Dance (uncredited)
Released: March 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A wild cowboy changes course and becomes a sheriff after his father is murdered.
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Champagne Waltz
Title: Champagne Waltz
Character: Woman Patron
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitten by Elsa, Buzzy hides his identity and association with the club -- whose owner intends to buy out the Palace property. When Elsa accidentally learns who Buzzy really is, it appears he may have to return to America alone.
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California Mail
Title: California Mail
Character: Townswoman at Dance (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1936
Type: Movie
The Pony Express is finished as the Post Office plans to award the mail contract to a stage line. Bill and his father put in a bid for the mail, however there are three bids close together. The officials will run a race to pick the winner, and the Banton Brothers sabotage Bill's stage. Mary still believes in Bill until they try to get rid of him by holding up the regular stage with his well-known horse. Bill needs proof to clear himself and expose the bad guys.
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Theodora Goes Wild
Title: Theodora Goes Wild
Character: Townswoman (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1936
Type: Movie
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.
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San Francisco
Title: San Francisco
Character: New Years Eve Reveler (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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Song of the Saddle
Title: Song of the Saddle
Character: Townswoman (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets away. He comes back 10 years later to settle the score as the Singing Cowboy. He finds that Hook is still doing his dirty deeds on the unsuspecting people. Along the way, Frank meets the lovely Jen, who came out in the same wagon train 10 years before.
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The Garden Murder Case
Title: The Garden Murder Case
Character: Woman Running for Bus (Uncredited)
Released: February 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major Fenwicke-Ralston.
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All at Sea
Title: All at Sea
Character: Mrs. Humphrey
Released: February 10, 1936
Type: Movie
When mild mannered Joe comes into an inheritance, he leaves his job as a clerk, and embarks on a sea cruise. Posing as a successful writer, Joe attracts various attractive women to him on the voyage, but his deceptions start to land him in trouble.
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Gun Play
Title: Gun Play
Character: Townswoman at Dance (uncredited)
Released: December 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A cowboy comes to the aid of a lady rancher threatened by Mexican bandits who believe there is a treasure buried on her land.
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In Person
Title: In Person
Character: Country Store Customer
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected by her star status.
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Diamond Jim
Title: Diamond Jim
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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Public Hero Number 1
Title: Public Hero Number 1
Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
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The Test
Title: The Test
Character: Trading Post Woman (uncredited)
Released: May 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A fur trapper catches another trapper trying to steal his furs. He stops the thief, but later on the furs are stolen anyway. Rin Tin Tin Jr. tracks down the thief to try to get the furs back.
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'G' Men
Title: 'G' Men
Character: Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1935
Type: Movie
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
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Bride of Frankenstein
Title: Bride of Frankenstein
Character: Maid (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.
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A Political Party
Title: A Political Party
Released: July 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is imperiled when his artist son, Tony, falls in love with a girl who has reason to hope that the bigwig will be elected.
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Woman Haters
Title: Woman Haters
Character: Mary's Mother (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1934
Type: Movie
The stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with the fair sex. Larry marries a girl anyway and attempts to hide the fact from Moe and Curly as they take a train trip.
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Manhattan Melodrama
Title: Manhattan Melodrama
Character: Boat Passenger (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
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The Nuisance
Title: The Nuisance
Character: Jurywoman (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
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Cheating Blondes
Title: Cheating Blondes
Character: Tenement Neighbor
Released: May 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.
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Alimony Madness
Title: Alimony Madness
Character: Spectator Outside Courtroom
Released: March 31, 1933
Type: Movie
A man's wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife.
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Sucker Money
Title: Sucker Money
Character: Seance Attendee
Released: February 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A phony spiritualist hypnotizes the daughter of a wealthy banker in a scheme to swindle the banker out of his money. A reporter investigating the swami discovers the plot, determines to expose it.
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Penguin Pool Murder
Title: Penguin Pool Murder
Character: Purse Snatching Victim at Aquarium (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1932
Type: Movie
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.
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Men Are Such Fools
Title: Men Are Such Fools
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is having an affair with a local lowlife; when he turns up dead, the husband is jailed for his murder, even though he protests his innocence.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
Title: Washington Merry-Go-Round
Character: No Saloons League Woman
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
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Downstairs
Title: Downstairs
Character: Servant (uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1932
Type: Movie
In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive. The servants seem to enjoy their time together, and some even fall in love, as head butler Albert and maid Anna have done. But when lecherous new chauffeur Karl Schneider enters the house, affairs and blackmail follow, and the harmony of the home is slowly destroyed.
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Probation
Title: Probation
Character: Mrs. Meyers
Released: March 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Janet Holman is suspicious of her fiancé, Allen Wells, after he kisses her best friend Gwen when the lights are turned out during a party. Allen leaves early, purportedly for business reasons, but in reality, he is going to visit his secret girl friend, seventeen-year-old Ruth Jarrett. When Ruth's neighbor and landlady, Mrs. Humphries, overhears her talking to Allen on the phone, she becomes morally outraged and calls the police. Ruth is taken away to juvenile hall, and when Ruth's older brother Nick comes home to celebrate Ruth's birthday, Mrs. Humphries explains that Ruth has been seeing an older, wealthy man who has been leading her astray, and that she sent her away for her own good. Nick is saddened that he has failed to keep Ruth on the right track, and when he returns to his apartment, he becomes enraged to see Allen there. When Allen claims ignorance of Ruth's age, Nick hits him, and they engage in a brawl.
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
Title: Murders in the Rue Morgue
Character: Tenant (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1932
Type: Movie
In 19th Century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
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Broken Lullaby
Title: Broken Lullaby
Released: January 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does not assuage his guilt. He travels to Germany to meet the man's family.
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Forgotten Women
Title: Forgotten Women
Character: Landlady
Released: November 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections. As a result of the story, Jimmy becomes city editor.
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Trapped
Title: Trapped
Character: Robbery Victim's Wife
Released: October 28, 1931
Type: Movie
The Shadow's second movie short, an adaptation from a Ray Humphreys story, "The Cat's Paw," from Detective Story Magazine.
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Penrod and Sam
Title: Penrod and Sam
Character: Irate Mother at Birthday Party (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale. But there’s also plenty of time to play pranks, put on a carnival, experience the pangs of first love, and romp with Duke, the world’s best dog.
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Street Scene
Title: Street Scene
Released: September 5, 1931
Type: Movie
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.
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The Costello Case
Title: The Costello Case
Character: Landlady
Released: October 14, 1930
Type: Movie
An Irish policeman handles gangsters, a mystery woman and a wise-guy reporter.
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Soup to Nuts
Title: Soup to Nuts
Character: Junior's Mother (uncredited)
Released: September 28, 1930
Type: Movie
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out; things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.
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Moby Dick
Title: Moby Dick
Character: Mother of Many Children
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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Shooting Straight
Title: Shooting Straight
Character: Churchgoer
Released: July 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Title: All Quiet on the Western Front
Character: Charwoman (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1930
Type: Movie
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
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The Fighting Parson
Title: The Fighting Parson
Character: Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1930
Type: Movie
Harry is mistaken for "The Fighting Parson" in a tough western town.
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The Vagabond Lover
Title: The Vagabond Lover
Character: Mrs. Whitehall's Maid
Released: December 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.
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Cat, Dog & Co.
Title: Cat, Dog & Co.
Character: Pedestrian
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Farina, Joe, and friends use dogs to power their "roadsters," but following a lesson from the head of the Be Kind to Animals Society, they make it their cause to rescue animals from bad treatment. Joe even manages to find patience for a nagging flea that persists in biting him. Meanwhile, Wheezer, who has been tormenting animals with his games, dreams that the animals have turned the tables on him.
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Sappy Service
Title: Sappy Service
Released: April 13, 1929
Type: Movie
In the story, Dr. Huff is beating up process servers. While he doesn't mind that his wife is divorcing him, he feels he's too busy to go to court. Additionally, he's informed the hospital staff to NOT allow any of these process servers in the place. Unfortunately, Bobby (Bobby Vernon) is instructed to serve this angry doc.
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Headin' Westward
Title: Headin' Westward
Character: Lizzie
Released: February 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Concern for her father, who is being slowly ruined by cattle rustling, prompts Mary Benson to do some investigating in a distant cattle town, where she briefly encounters drifters Oklahoma Adams and Sneezer Clark. They follow her back to Arizona, go to work on the Benson ranch, and discover the ranch foreman to be responsible for the rustling and the robbery of a rodeo box office.
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The Broadway Melody
Title: The Broadway Melody
Character: Hotel Housekeeper (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1929
Type: Movie
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
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Show People
Title: Show People
Character: Comedy Player at Farewell Banquet (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
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Manhattan Cowboy
Title: Manhattan Cowboy
Character: Maggie
Released: October 1, 1928
Type: Movie
When easterner Jack Steel gets into trouble with the law again, his father sends him to his ranch out west. There he and Alice Duncan become attracted to each other. Cowhand Slim was planning to marry Alice and now kidnaps her. When Slim's girl friend learns of Slim's interest in Alice, she tells Jack where Alice is and he heads out alone to face the three kidnapers.
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Love's Young Scream
Title: Love's Young Scream
Released: May 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Young lovers pursued by her father -- and then a series of sight gags based on the mayhem of their auto ride.
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Tenderloin
Title: Tenderloin
Character: Aunt Molly
Released: March 14, 1928
Type: Movie
Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the 'Tenderloin' district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the gang that uses the place as their hangout. Chuck's interest in her is only just as another toy to play with. Rose is unknowingly placed in a position in which she is implicated in a crime which she knows nothing about.
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Any Old Count
Title: Any Old Count
Character: Hotel Guest
Released: January 23, 1928
Type: Movie
The Gumps spend time at a hotel
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The First Auto
Title: The First Auto
Character: Gossip
Released: June 27, 1927
Type: Movie
The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.
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The Glorious Fourth
Title: The Glorious Fourth
Character: Friend of Joe's mother
Released: June 26, 1927
Type: Movie
It's the Fourth of July and the mother of Our Gang member Joe Cobb is doing a brisk business at her fireworks stand. Briefly left in charge of the stand, Joe does his best not to blow up himself or his friends, but a poorly-aimed skyrocket owned by Allen "Farina" Hoskins triggers a somewhat premature but undeniably spectacular display of pyrotechnics.
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Twinkletoes
Title: Twinkletoes
Released: November 28, 1926
Type: Movie
"Twinkletoes" Minasi wants to be a great dancer like her deceased mother. Twink meets Chuck Lightfoot, a noted prizefighter, who falls in love with her at first sight. She tries to avoid falling in love with Chuck, whose wife, Cissie, is a drunken harridan and more than a little bit spiteful. Meanwhile, Twink has secured a job in a singing-dancing act in a Limehouse theater, under the auspices of Roseleaf, who has more than just a protective interest in the girl. The jealous Cissie discovers that Twink's sign-painting father also has a night job as a burglar, and she turns him into the police. While a big success dancing on the stage, the arrest of her father has left her somewhat down in the dumps, and she decides to toss herself into the Thames. Possibly, the now-free Chuck, since Cissie has been killed in an accident, might come along and rescue her.
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Tricks
Title: Tricks
Character: Housekeeper
Released: November 16, 1925
Type: Movie
Collegian Angelica "Trix" Varden, willful daughter of William Varden, after a midnight spread of lobster and ice cream, has a dream about an adventure on her father's ranch involving her horse Beverly, one Jack Norton, and Buck Barlow's gang of rustlers. She is expelled from school and returns home to find a handsome new foreman, who is none other than Jack Norton. Trix's curiosity is aroused by her dream, and she finds evidence of rustlers. Barlow shows up, and she locks herself in a cabin and sends Jack's horse, Star, for help. Jack finally defeats Barlow in a fight, and the two horses "realize" that they now have both a master and a mistress.
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Queen of Aces
Title: Queen of Aces
Character: The Boy's Mother
Released: May 13, 1925
Type: Movie
"In "Queen of Aces" released through Universal she [Wanda Wiley] appears as an athletic young woman whom her prospective father-in-law characterizes as a he-woman and forbids her to come to a party in his home. Wanda puts on male attire even donning a mustache. Father takes a shine to the "boy" when "he" says the party is too tame and they slip away to a poker party. The place is raided but they make a getaway and there is a general mix- up when the "boy" is seen slipping into a girl's bedroom." - Synopsis via The Moving Picture World
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The Monster
Title: The Monster
Character: Townswoman at Accident Scene (uncredited)
Released: March 16, 1925
Type: Movie
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.
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Dog Days
Title: Dog Days
Character: Mickey's Mother
Released: March 7, 1925
Type: Movie
The boys are showing off their dogs to each other when little rich girl Mary Kornman rides by in her pony-drawn cart. When the pony shies and runs away, Mickey comes to the rescue with his dog. In gratitude, Mary invites all the boys and their dogs to her party, much to the chagrin of her wealthy mother.
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Conductor 1492
Title: Conductor 1492
Character: Mrs. Brown (as Dorothy Burns)
Released: January 12, 1924
Type: Movie
A young Irish immigrant gets a job as a conductor on a streetcar and fights off an attempt by crooks to take over the company, all the while pursuing the boss' beautiful daughter.
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Dr. Jack
Title: Dr. Jack
Character: Restaurant Hostess (uncredited)
Released: November 26, 1922
Type: Movie
Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich after years of unsuccessful treatment.
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Christie Johnstone
Title: Christie Johnstone
Character: Widow McKay
Released: October 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A bored Lord saves a fishergirl's lover from drowning
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The Janitor
Title: The Janitor
Released: November 7, 1919
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered, well-meaning but bumbling janitor gets unwittingly involved in a battle between two opposing political groups, with each side trying to use him to destroy the other, and the secret police--who have already thrown him out of their office when he worked there--watching all of them.