Kathryn Sheldon

Kathryn Sheldon

Born: September 22, 1879
Died: December 25, 1975
in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Movies for Kathryn Sheldon...

Vicki
Title: Vicki
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1953
Type: Movie
A supermodel gets murdered. While investigating the case the story of a waitress turned glamor girl is revealed.
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The Happy Time
Title: The Happy Time
Character: Miss Tate - Schoolteacher
Released: October 30, 1952
Type: Movie
A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.
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The Blue Veil
Title: The Blue Veil
Character: Mrs. Chalmers (Uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1951
Type: Movie
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
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No Way Out
Title: No Way Out
Character: Mother (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1950
Type: Movie
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.
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Rock Island Trail
Title: Rock Island Trail
Character: Old Woman
Released: May 18, 1950
Type: Movie
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
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Ladies of the Chorus
Title: Ladies of the Chorus
Released: December 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and Peggy takes her place. When Peggy falls in love with wealthy Randy, May fears class differences may lead to misery.
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Girls of the Big House
Title: Girls of the Big House
Character: Kitchen Warden
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.
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Miss V from Moscow
Title: Miss V from Moscow
Character: Minna
Released: November 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Set in the shadows of wartime Paris, this 1940s drama directed by Albert Herman stars Lola Lane, Noel Madison and Howard Banks. When a Soviet secret agent discovers her uncanny resemblance to a dead Nazi spy, she infiltrates the enemy and works to save U.S. ships from German submarines. Assisting her on her mission are French underground agents, along with an American serving in the British armed forces.
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I Married a Witch
Title: I Married a Witch
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.
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The Magnificent Ambersons
Title: The Magnificent Ambersons
Character: Matron (uncredited)
Released: July 10, 1942
Type: Movie
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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Rings on Her Fingers
Title: Rings on Her Fingers
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother and uncle of a pretty girl in order to separate millionaires from their money. They convince Susan she has an opportunity to fulfill all her dreams, and the trio heads for Palm Beach. Susan meets John Wheeler who says he is shopping for a sailboat. Believing that he is a millionaire, Warren and May sell him a boat that doesn't belong to them, and make off with his $15,000 life savings. Looking for greener pastures, they work themselves into the family of wealthy Tod Fenwick, who falls for Sue, posing as "Linda Worthington". But John shows up as a guest of Fenwick and he tells "Linda", not knowing she was part of the scam, that he has a detective after the fake captain that sold him the boat...
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Parachute Battalion
Title: Parachute Battalion
Character: Ma Hollis
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien and Buddy Ebsen.
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Father Steps Out
Title: Father Steps Out
Character: Aunt Martha Matthews
Released: July 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Story concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent on an R&R vacation by his doctor, falling off his private train-car and landing in a hobo jungle occupied by Faylen and Hall, and being cured of all his ills, while reporter Jimmy Dugan (Frank Albertson) poses as a doctor in order to get an exclusive story about the railroad takeover.
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Arizona Bound
Title: Arizona Bound
Character: Aunt Miranda Masters
Released: July 19, 1941
Type: Movie
The Rough Riders are called in to help save Master's stage line. Taggart has his gang robbing the stages and shooting the drivers. When Buck drives the next stage, Taggart's men rob it and then make it look like Roberts is part of the gang. Written by Maurice Van Auken
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Title: The Lady from Cheyenne
Character: Bit Role
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
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Public Deb No. 1
Title: Public Deb No. 1
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
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Young People
Title: Young People
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.
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Gold Rush Maisie
Title: Gold Rush Maisie
Character: Mrs. Sullivan
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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Out West with the Peppers
Title: Out West with the Peppers
Character: Abbie
Released: June 30, 1940
Type: Movie
When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But adjusting to a new home and community isn't easy for the brood. Third entry in the "Five Little Peppers" series of four films.
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Rockin' Thru the Rockies
Title: Rockin' Thru the Rockies
Character: Nell
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
The stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show west. When hostile Indians run the horses run off they are stranded. They must contend with a snow storm and a marauding bear as well the Indians. After almost killing each other ice fishing they solve their problems by rigging up a sail on the wagon and sailing west.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
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Our Leading Citizen
Title: Our Leading Citizen
Character: Miss Swan
Released: August 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
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Boys' Reformatory
Title: Boys' Reformatory
Character: Miss Caldwell, Secretary
Released: May 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor.
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Zenobia
Title: Zenobia
Character: Townswoman
Released: April 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
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Within the Law
Title: Within the Law
Character: Prison Superintendent
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
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Sunset Trail
Title: Sunset Trail
Character: Abigail Snodgrass
Released: February 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Disguising himself as a milquetoast Easterner who writes Western novels, Hoppy enrolls in a dude ranch in order to unmask the murderer of the owner's husband.
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Four Girls in White
Title: Four Girls in White
Character: Miss Keener - Night Superintendent
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
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Convict's Code
Title: Convict's Code
Character: Landlady
Released: January 18, 1939
Type: Movie
On parole after three years in prison, a football player (Robert Kent) encounters the man (Sidney Blackmer) who framed him.
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Marie Antoinette
Title: Marie Antoinette
Character: Mrs. Tilson - Setting the Table for Four (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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I'm from the City
Title: I'm from the City
Character: Grandma Hattie Martindale
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Pete Pepper is a shy, timid circus performer who is scared to death of horses, but rides like a whirlwind when he has been hypnotized by "Ollie" Finch. Pete is entered as a competitor in a wild-west cross-country obstacle race...and has to ride without being hypnotized.
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Condemned Women
Title: Condemned Women
Character: Matron
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.
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Mannequin
Title: Mannequin
Character: Woman (Uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Captain's Wife
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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Quick Money
Title: Quick Money
Character: Mrs. Otis
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years. Accompanying him is his personal secretary, Ambrose Ames. Despite it being purely a vacation to get some rest and relaxation, the leading citizens of the town welcome him back with some official gatherings. Mayor Jonas Tompkins, who never liked Bluford, holds no grudges against him and too welcomes him with open arms. Although Bluford had no intention of making the news public, the townsfolk learn that he has indeed come back to do business, specifically develop a summer resort in Glenwood to rival that of the best summer resorts worldwide.
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Rushin' Ballet
Title: Rushin' Ballet
Character: Harried dance recital teacher
Released: April 24, 1937
Type: Movie
While trying to track down Butch, Spanky and Alfalfa get caught up in a dance recital.
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Circus Girl
Title: Circus Girl
Character: Nurse
Released: March 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
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Maid of Salem
Title: Maid of Salem
Character: Mrs. Deborah Cheeves (Uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
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Every Sunday
Title: Every Sunday
Character: Woman Gotten out of Bath (uncredited)
Released: November 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Edna's grandfather is a conductor of a small orchestra that gives concerts in the park every Sunday. Because of lack of audience the city officials want to cancel these concerts. To stop this from happening, Judy and Edna gather a crowd the following Sunday; and to keep its attention, they themselves perform with the orchestra. Edna sings an aria and Judy sings 'Americana'.
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Below the Deadline
Title: Below the Deadline
Character: Aunt Mary Tibbett
Released: June 7, 1936
Type: Movie
After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.
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Brilliant Marriage
Title: Brilliant Marriage
Character: Ellen, the Maid
Released: March 25, 1936
Type: Movie
When a wealthy heiress discovers the terrible family secret that has been hidden from her since birth, her world is turned upside down.
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The Bridge of Sighs
Title: The Bridge of Sighs
Character: Mabel the Maid
Released: February 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
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Tango
Title: Tango
Character: Mrs. Maisie Alman, the Landlady
Released: February 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Believing his wife to be unfaithful, a husband deserts her and his child. Destitute, the woman is forced to take a job as a tango dancer.
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Dr. Socrates
Title: Dr. Socrates
Character: Woman Talking to Stout Woman
Released: October 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
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Society Fever
Title: Society Fever
Character: Minnie
Released: July 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A mother starts to get worried when she finds out that some wealthy friends have been invited to dinner with her somewhat screwball family.
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Dinky
Title: Dinky
Character: Prison Matron
Released: May 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
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Mary Jane's Pa
Title: Mary Jane's Pa
Character: Second Gossip
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
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Carnival
Title: Carnival
Character: Woman
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
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Desirable
Title: Desirable
Character: Charity Collector at Box Office
Released: September 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
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The Invisible Man
Title: The Invisible Man
Character: Orphanage Worker (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Working in Dr. Cranley's laboratory, scientist Jack Griffin was always given the latitude to conduct some of his own experiments. His sudden departure, however, has Cranley's daughter Flora worried about him. Griffin has taken a room at the nearby Lion's Head Inn, hoping to reverse an experiment he conducted on himself that made him invisible. But the experimental drug has also warped his mind, making him aggressive and dangerous. He's prepared to do whatever it takes to restore his appearance.