Florence Roberts

Florence Roberts

Born: March 16, 1861
Died: June 6, 1940
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Florence Roberts...

Silent Night
Title: Silent Night
Character: Jenny
Released: December 11, 2020
Type: Movie
Mark, a low end South London hitman recently released from prison, tries to go straight for his daughter, but gets drawn back in by Alan, his former cellmate, to do one final job.
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On Their Own
Title: On Their Own
Character: Granny Jones
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue.
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Double Alibi
Title: Double Alibi
Character: Landlady
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Character: Mrs. Bowling Green
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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Young as You Feel
Title: Young as You Feel
Character: Granny Jones
Released: February 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.
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Too Busy to Work
Title: Too Busy to Work
Character: Granny Jones
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
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Quick Millions
Title: Quick Millions
Character: Granny Jones
Released: August 25, 1939
Type: Movie
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
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The Jones Family in Hollywood
Title: The Jones Family in Hollywood
Character: Granny Jones
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
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Everybody's Baby
Title: Everybody's Baby
Character: Granny Jones
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
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The Storm
Title: The Storm
Character: Mrs. Roberts
Released: October 28, 1938
Type: Movie
A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
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Down on the Farm
Title: Down on the Farm
Character: Granny Jones
Released: October 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
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Personal Secretary
Title: Personal Secretary
Character: Mrs. J. J. Farrell
Released: September 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.
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Safety in Numbers
Title: Safety in Numbers
Character: Granny Jones
Released: May 30, 1938
Type: Movie
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
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A Trip to Paris
Title: A Trip to Paris
Character: Granny Jones
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.
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Love on a Budget
Title: Love on a Budget
Character: Granny Ida Jones
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
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Borrowing Trouble
Title: Borrowing Trouble
Character: Granny Jones
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
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Hot Water
Title: Hot Water
Character: Granny Jones
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
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The Life of Emile Zola
Title: The Life of Emile Zola
Character: Madame Zola
Released: September 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.
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Big Business
Title: Big Business
Character: Granny Jones
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
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Nobody's Baby
Title: Nobody's Baby
Character: Mrs. Mason - Landlady
Released: April 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Kitty Reily (Patsy Kelly) and Lena Marchetti (Lyda Roberti) meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompetent Lena. They keep running into each other until Kitty resigns to being friends with Lena when they become hospital nurses and share a dorm room.
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Off to the Races
Title: Off to the Races
Character: Granny Jones
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.
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Back to Nature
Title: Back to Nature
Character: Granny Jones
Released: August 14, 1936
Type: Movie
The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography.
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Educating Father
Title: Educating Father
Character: Granny Jones
Released: May 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.
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Every Saturday Night
Title: Every Saturday Night
Character: Granny Evers
Released: March 13, 1936
Type: Movie
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.
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The Country Doctor
Title: The Country Doctor
Character: Grandmother (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
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Your Uncle Dudley
Title: Your Uncle Dudley
Character: Janet Dixon
Released: December 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A paint store owner turns his attention to civic affairs while his business falls apart.
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Harmony Lane
Title: Harmony Lane
Character: Mrs. Foster
Released: October 22, 1935
Type: Movie
The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.
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Every Night at Eight
Title: Every Night at Eight
Character: Mrs. Murgatroyd (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
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Les Misérables
Title: Les Misérables
Character: Toussaint
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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The Nut Farm
Title: The Nut Farm
Character: Ma Barton, Willie's Mother
Released: March 24, 1935
Type: Movie
Bob and Helen decide to move to California and make a fresh start. Bob wants to buy a nut farm, but Helen dreams of being in the movies. While Bob is looking for a farm to buy, Helen is taken in by a group of scam artists who promise to make her a star. Helen's brother Willie tries to prevent her and Bob from losing all their money to the scam artists.
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Public Opinion
Title: Public Opinion
Character: Mrs. Buttons
Released: March 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.
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The Fighting Westerner
Title: The Fighting Westerner
Character: Mrs. Ballard
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A mining engineer teams up with a crusty deputy sheriff to solve the mystery killings at an old mine where the owner's family waits for him to die, and where a valuable radium strike may have been made.
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Sons of Steel
Title: Sons of Steel
Character: Sarah Mason
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Chadburne Steel is run by two brothers, old men. They each have different plans for their sons. Curtis (Holmes Herbert) has put Ronald (William Blakewell) through college in style...
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Babes in Toyland
Title: Babes in Toyland
Character: The Widow Peep
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.
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Cleopatra
Title: Cleopatra
Character: Lady Flora
Released: October 5, 1934
Type: Movie
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
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Student Tour
Title: Student Tour
Character: Elderly Woman
Released: October 5, 1934
Type: Movie
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
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Four Parts
Title: Four Parts
Character: Mother
Released: March 17, 1934
Type: Movie
Charley is one of four identical brothers, which drives his girlfriend nuts.
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The Cracked Ice Man
Title: The Cracked Ice Man
Character: Betty's Mother (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Title: Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Character: Agnes
Released: January 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
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Hoopla
Title: Hoopla
Character: Ma Benson
Released: November 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.
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Torch Singer
Title: Torch Singer
Character: Mother Angelica
Released: September 8, 1933
Type: Movie
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she searches for the child she gave up.
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Melody Cruise
Title: Melody Cruise
Character: Miss Potts
Released: June 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.
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Lilly Turner
Title: Lilly Turner
Character: Wedding Guest Calling for Bride (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1933
Type: Movie
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
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Daring Daughters
Title: Daring Daughters
Character: Ginger Hemingway, the Grandmother
Released: March 23, 1933
Type: Movie
A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.
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Fast Workers
Title: Fast Workers
Character: Short Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his money. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.
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Dangerously Yours
Title: Dangerously Yours
Character: Mrs. Lathem
Released: February 24, 1933
Type: Movie
A playboy asks his friend to borrow his yacht to entertain his girlfriend.
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Vanity Street
Title: Vanity Street
Character: Annie - Fern's Maid (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
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The All-American
Title: The All-American
Character: Mrs. King
Released: October 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
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Make Me a Star
Title: Make Me a Star
Character: Mrs. Gashwiler
Released: July 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
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What Price Hollywood?
Title: What Price Hollywood?
Character: Elderly Brown Derby Diner (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
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Westward Passage
Title: Westward Passage
Character: Mrs. Ottendorf
Released: May 27, 1932
Type: Movie
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
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Fanny Foley Herself
Title: Fanny Foley Herself
Character: Lucy
Released: October 9, 1931
Type: Movie
A vaudeville performer has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two daughters.
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Too Many Cooks
Title: Too Many Cooks
Character: Mrs. Cook
Released: July 18, 1931
Type: Movie
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.
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Everything’s Rosie
Title: Everything’s Rosie
Character: Mrs. Lowe
Released: May 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
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Kept Husbands
Title: Kept Husbands
Character: Henrietta Parker
Released: February 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.
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The Eyes of the World
Title: The Eyes of the World
Character: The Maid (prologue)
Released: August 30, 1930
Type: Movie
The Eyes of the World is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Henry King and written by Brewster Morse and Clarke Silvernail. The film stars Eulalie Jensen, Florence Roberts, Una Merkel, and Nance O'Neil.
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The Vulture's Prey
Title: The Vulture's Prey
Character: Landlady
Released: April 28, 1922
Type: Movie
South African Film
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The Man Who Was Afraid
Title: The Man Who Was Afraid
Character: Mrs. Robinson
Released: August 16, 1920
Type: Movie
South African Film
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Allan Quatermain
Title: Allan Quatermain
Character: Mrs. McKenzie
Released: April 11, 1920
Type: Movie
Film about Allan Quatermain
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Sapho
Title: Sapho
Character: Fanny Le Grand / Sapho
Released: October 1, 1913
Type: Movie
A woman with a notorious past enchants a student preparing for the foreign service.