Marcia Mae Jones

Marcia Mae Jones

Born: August 1, 1924
Died: September 2, 2007
in Los Angeles, California, USA
Marcia Mae Jones was born on August 1, 1924, to an acting family. Her mother, Freda Jones, was an actress, and all three of her siblings - Margaret Jones, Macon Jones, and Marvin Jones - were child actors. But Marcia Mae had the most successful career, and she was the only one of her siblings to become a child star.

She made her acting debut when just six months old, when director James Cruze saw her in her baby carriage and immediately cast her as the baby in his film Mannequin (1926). Her first major role was in Night Nurse (1931), in which she played a sick child that a sinister hospital staff was trying to murder. By age 10, Marcia Mae had appeared in several dramatic films.

In 1936, she played a terrified victim of school bullying in These Three (1936), a role that brought her much attention. In 1937, she played the crippled Klara in Heidi (1937). The film starred two other child actors, Delmar Watson and Shirley Temple. Despite a four-year age difference, Marcia Mae and Shirley acted well with each other, and they appeared together again in The Little Princess (1939).

Besides Shirley Temple and Delmar Watson, Marcia Mae worked with several other child stars of the 1930s, including Jane Withers, Bonita Granville, Jackie Moran, Sybil Jason, and her favorite, Jackie Cooper.

Marcia Mae's film career began to slow down in the early 1950s, after which she largely appeared in television roles. Her adult life was marred by the suicide of her second husband, Bill Davenport, and problems with alcohol. She eventually conquered her alcohol dependency and became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Marcia Mae Jones died on 2 September 2007 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.

Movies for Marcia Mae Jones...

Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
Title: Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 1993
Type: Movie
There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led at the box office — ahead of Gable and Cooper. Her films saved a movie studio from bankruptcy, and a President credited her with raising the morale of Depression-weary Americans. Her earliest movies gave a foretaste of her talents and soon would become the songs and dances that helped make those movies immortal.
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Title: Simon & Simon
Released: November 24, 1981
Type: TV
Simon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24, 1981 to January 21, 1989. The series was broadcast on CBS and starred Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker as two brothers who run a private detective agency together.
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The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe
Title: The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe
Character: Sarah
Released: July 29, 1974
Type: Movie
Poe's fiance, Lenore, falls into a coma and is taken for dead. She is rescued at the last possible moment from being buried alive, but the experience has driven her insane. On the advice of his friend, Dr. Forrest, Poe commits Lenore to the asylum run by Dr. Grimaldi. On a visit to the asylum, Poe and Forrest sense that something strange is going on, and decide to sneak back in after dark and investigate.
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The Way We Were
Title: The Way We Were
Character: Peggy Vanderbilt
Released: October 17, 1973
Type: Movie
Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
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A Great American Tragedy
Title: A Great American Tragedy
Character: Claire
Released: October 18, 1972
Type: Movie
A middle-aged aerospace engineer has his whole life changed when he is suddenly laid off from his job. Unable to find work because of his age and a bad economy, he watches his bills pile up, his wife forced to go back to work and his marriage start to break up.
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Title: The Streets of San Francisco
Released: September 23, 1972
Type: TV
Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.
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Title: Cannon
Released: September 14, 1971
Type: TV
Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones. Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on a network other than ABC. A "revival" television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1, 1980. In total, there were 124 episodes.
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Live a Little, Love a Little
Title: Live a Little, Love a Little
Character: Woman #1 (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1968
Type: Movie
Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses finding out.
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Title: Family Affair
Released: September 12, 1966
Type: TV
Family Affair is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do civil engineer and bachelor Bill Davis as he attempted to raise his brother's orphaned children in his luxury New York City apartment. Davis' traditional English gentleman's gentleman, Mr. Giles French, also had adjustments to make as he became saddled with the responsibility of caring for 15-year-old Cissy and the 6-year-old twins, Jody and Buffy. The show ran for 138 episodes. Family Affair was created and produced by Don Fedderson, also known for My Three Sons and The Millionaire.
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Title: Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Released: September 25, 1964
Type: TV
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964, to May 2, 1969. The series was a spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show, and the pilot was aired as the finale of the fourth season of The Andy Griffith Show on May 18, 1964. The show ran for five seasons and a total of 150 episodes. In 2006, CBS Home Entertainment began releasing the series on DVD. The final season was released in November 2008. The series was created by Aaron Ruben, who also produced the show with Sheldon Leonard and Ronald Jacobs. Filmed and set in California, it stars Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle, a naive but good-natured gas-station attendant from the town of Mayberry, North Carolina, who enlists in the United States Marine Corps. Frank Sutton plays Gomer's high-octane, short-fused Gunnery Sergeant Vince Carter, and Ronnie Schell plays Gomer's friend Gilbert "Duke" Slater. Allan Melvin played in the recurring role of Gunnery Sergeant Carter's rival, Sergeant Charley Hacker. The series never discussed nor addressed the then-current Vietnam War, instead focusing on the relationship between Gomer and Sergeant Carter. The show retained high ratings throughout its run.
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Title: Mister Ed
Released: January 5, 1961
Type: TV
Wilbur Post and his wife Carol move into a beautiful new home. When Wilbur takes a look in his new barn, he finds that the former owner left his horse behind. This horse is no ordinary horse . . . he can talk, but only to Wilbur, which leads to all sorts of misadventures for Wilbur and his trouble-making sidekick Mister Ed.
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Title: My Three Sons
Released: September 29, 1960
Type: TV
A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.
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The Star
Title: The Star
Character: Waitress (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1952
Type: Movie
A washed-up movie queen finds romance, but continues to desire a comeback.
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The Yellow Haired Kid
Title: The Yellow Haired Kid
Character: Amy
Released: November 2, 1952
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok", The Yellow Haired Kid and Johnny Deuce, edited together and released as a feature.
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Chicago Calling
Title: Chicago Calling
Character: Peggy (as Marsha Jones)
Released: December 31, 1951
Type: Movie
Bill Cannon (Dan Duryea) loses everything to alcohol: his job, his family, his self-respect. Soon after his wife and daughter leave him, he receives word his little girl has been injured in a car accident outside Chicago. His wife will call later with news, but Bill’s short the $53 he needs to keep his phone from being disconnected. Filled with anguish, he heads out onto the Los Angeles streets to find some way to come up with the cash. As his character encounters expected cruelty and unexpected kindness, Duryea takes what might have been mere melodrama and turns it into a perceptive examination of one shattered soul. The other fine star of this race-against-the-clock programmer is an unglamorous, lunch-bucket L.A. rarely captured on film.
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Title: Racket Squad
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: TV
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
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Title: The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Released: April 15, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.
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Life with Buster Keaton
Title: Life with Buster Keaton
Released: February 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Buster's shenanigans running a sporting goods store and his antics in a local theatre group.
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Hi-Jacked
Title: Hi-Jacked
Character: Jean Harper (as Marsha Jones)
Released: July 7, 1950
Type: Movie
A parolee, working for a trucking line, struggles to clear his name after being accused of involvement with hijackers.
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The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Title: The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Character: Katie O'Grady
Released: April 29, 1950
Type: Movie
An Irish horsecar driver's daughter meets New York showman Tony Pastor and goes into vaudeville.
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Arson, Inc.
Title: Arson, Inc.
Character: Betty - Fender's Secretary
Released: June 24, 1949
Type: Movie
An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.
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Tucson
Title: Tucson
Character: Polly Johnson
Released: April 27, 1949
Type: Movie
The story of Andy Bryant, a University of Arizona student whose grades suffer because of his preoccupation with an upcoming intercollegiate rodeo. Andy's father is more interested in embarrassing a rival at the rodeo than he is with his son's academic progress. When his lack of focus nearly causes a tragic accident in the university chemistry lab, Andy decides to hunker down and study.
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Trouble Preferred
Title: Trouble Preferred
Character: Virginia Evans
Released: December 31, 1948
Type: Movie
A suicide attempt is investigated by a pair of female police rookies.
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Street Corner
Title: Street Corner
Character: Lois Marsh
Released: December 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Naive small-town girl gets pregnant on her prom night, and winds up in the clutches of the local abortionist. Depending on the release presentation, the movie includes an animation of conception, filmed vaginal and caesarian section births, and a filmed presentation on how syphilis and gonorrhea present themselves.
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The Fabulous Fraud
Title: The Fabulous Fraud
Character: Blind Girl
Released: August 28, 1948
Type: Movie
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, we learn the story of Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, the man who discovered hypnotism.
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Snafu
Title: Snafu
Character: Martha
Released: November 22, 1945
Type: Movie
A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle in the Pacific war-zone, decorated, and spotted in a newsreel by his family. The family asks the War Department to discharge him and send him home.
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Lady in the Death House
Title: Lady in the Death House
Character: Suzy Kirk Logan
Released: March 15, 1944
Type: Movie
As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.
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Nine Girls
Title: Nine Girls
Character: Shirley Berke
Released: February 17, 1944
Type: Movie
One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on their own to unmask the killer.
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Top Man
Title: Top Man
Character: Erna Lane
Released: September 17, 1943
Type: Movie
In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of local factory workers, the plucky lad, his siblings and his schoolmates put on a lively little show. With a little work, he even convinces Count Basie to come with his band.
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Nobody's Darling
Title: Nobody's Darling
Character: Lois
Released: August 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the upcoming school play. But Chuck thinks that she is too untalented and unglamorous to have a part in his production....
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The Youngest Profession
Title: The Youngest Profession
Character: Vera Bailey
Released: February 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents to the extent of hiring Dr. Hercules, the strong man from a side show to pay attention to her mother in order to make her father jealous, despite the good advice received from Walter Pidgeon.
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Secrets of a Co-Ed
Title: Secrets of a Co-Ed
Character: Blonde Co-Ed in Black Outfit [Script Name: Laura Wright]
Released: October 26, 1942
Type: Movie
An attorney's immature college-student daughter becomes romantically involved with a mobster, unaware that a nightclub singer also loves him - or that her father is secretly the mob's leader.
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Let's Go Collegiate
Title: Let's Go Collegiate
Character: Bess Martin
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing team it's ever had. Unfortunately, he gets drafted into the army before he's able to join the team. Two of the team's members get the bright idea of passing off a burly truck driver as the "athlete". Complications ensue.
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The Gang's All Here
Title: The Gang's All Here
Character: Patsy Wallace
Released: June 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gang of saboteurs who will stop at nothing, including murder, to stop them.
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Nice Girl?
Title: Nice Girl?
Character: Jane's Friend at Benefit
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice girl" image when an associate of her father comes to town on his way to study Australian Aboriginal tribes.
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The Old Swimmin' Hole
Title: The Old Swimmin' Hole
Character: Betty Elliott
Released: October 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Teenager Betty Elliott has decided to take over the business and social affairs of her father Doc Elliott. She thinks her father should marry the widowed mother, Julie Harper, of her boyfriend Chris Harper. Doc has been a real friend and father to Chris, who, under his guidance, has learned to take care of all the sick animals in town, but lack of money keeps the widow from sending Chris on to finish high school and medical training is out of the question. Wealthy Grandpa Harper sends his attorney Baker to tell Mrs. Harper that all of Jimmy's dreams could be realized if the widow, whom the grandfather dislikes, would give up custody of her son. The lawyer also begins to court Julie and this throws a kink in Betty's plans to see her father and the widow get married. Written by Les Adams
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Haunted House
Title: Haunted House
Character: Millie Henshaw
Released: July 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.
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Anne of Windy Poplars
Title: Anne of Windy Poplars
Character: Jen Pringle
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Sentimental drama about an ambitious young teacher who arrives in a small town to take the job of vice-principal. Based on one of L M Montgomery's 'Anne of Green Gables' sequels.
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Tomboy
Title: Tomboy
Character: Pat Kelly
Released: April 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Family drama about a father raising his motherless teenage daughter in a small town.
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Meet Dr. Christian
Title: Meet Dr. Christian
Character: Marilee
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital.
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First Love
Title: First Love
Character: Marcia Parker
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's hardly received with open arms, especially by her snobby cousin Barbara. When the entire family is invited to a major social ball, Barbara sees to it that Connie is forced to stay home. With the aid of her uncle, who acts as her fairy godfather, Connie makes it to the ball and meets her Prince Charming in Ted Drake, her cousin's boyfriend.
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The Flying Irishman
Title: The Flying Irishman
Character: Teenager
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
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The Little Princess
Title: The Little Princess
Character: Lavinia
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
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Barefoot Boy
Title: Barefoot Boy
Character: Pige Blaine
Released: August 3, 1938
Type: Movie
A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks.
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Mad About Music
Title: Mad About Music
Character: Olga
Released: February 27, 1938
Type: Movie
A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Character: Mary Sawyer
Released: February 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
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Lady Behave!
Title: Lady Behave!
Character: Patricia Cormack
Released: December 22, 1937
Type: Movie
It's bad enough that Clarice Kendall Andrews, Paula's irresponsible sister, comes home from celebrating Mardi Gras and drunkenly mentions that she got married during the festivities. What's worse is the fact that Paula knows that Clarice is still married to an equally irresponsible gigolo. Paula learns that the man Clarice married, Stephen Cormack, is on his yacht and his lawyer, thinking that Paula is Clarice, offers the older woman $5000 to annul the marriage.
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Heidi
Title: Heidi
Character: Klara Sesemann
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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The Life of Emile Zola
Title: The Life of Emile Zola
Character: Helen Richards
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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Mountain Justice
Title: Mountain Justice
Character: Bethie Harkins
Released: April 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
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Two Wise Maids
Title: Two Wise Maids
Character: Geraldine 'Jerry ' Karns
Released: February 15, 1937
Type: Movie
The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers in an old-fashioned small town. Disdaining the wimpy theories of "progressive" education, Prudence and Agatha stick to the reliable "Three R's," often teaching to the tune of a hickory stick. Though ridiculed for their so-called outmoded methods, the heroines manage to turn out quite a few prize students, earning the undying gratitude of the local citizenry.
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These Three
Title: These Three
Character: Rosalie Wells
Released: March 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Martha and Karen graduate from college and turn an old Massachusetts farm into a school for girls. The friends are aided in their venture by local doctor Joe Cardin, who begins a relationship with Karen, and a prominent woman whose granddaughter, Mary, later enrolls in the new school. Mary soon reveals herself to be a spiteful child and tells a scandalous lie about Martha and Joe that threatens to destroy the lives of all involved.
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This Is the Life
Title: This Is the Life
Character: Child
Released: October 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A popular child star, exploited and overworked by her greedy guardians, decides enough is enough--and takes it on the lam.
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A Dog of Flanders
Title: A Dog of Flanders
Character: Little Girl at Party (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition is to become a painter.
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Imitation of Life
Title: Imitation of Life
Character: Peola's Frontrow Classmate (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
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Doctor Bull
Title: Doctor Bull
Character: Ruth
Released: September 22, 1933
Type: Movie
In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!
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Mush and Milk
Title: Mush and Milk
Released: May 27, 1933
Type: Movie
When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.
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Employees' Entrance
Title: Employees' Entrance
Character: Flower Girl at Wedding (uncredited)
Released: February 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."
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Birthday Blues
Title: Birthday Blues
Character: Girl with Whistle
Released: November 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.
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The Champ
Title: The Champ
Character: Mary Lou Carleton
Released: November 21, 1931
Type: Movie
A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.
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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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Night Nurse
Title: Night Nurse
Character: Nanny Ritchey (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.
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King of Jazz
Title: King of Jazz
Character: Child ('Bridal Veil') (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers—all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson.
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The Bishop Murder Case
Title: The Bishop Murder Case
Character: Hungry Child in Park (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1929
Type: Movie
The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he was killed. The note found dealing with the murder was part of a nursery rhyme and signed by 'Bishop'. The only witness may have been Mrs. Drukker and Adolph, but they are not talking. As the murders progress, each one is accompanied by a nursery rhyme. It is up to Philo Vance to unravel the clues and unmask the identity of the murderer 'Bishop'.
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Mannequin
Title: Mannequin
Character: Joan Herrick as a baby (uncredited)
Released: January 11, 1926
Type: Movie
Adapted from the Fannie Hurst story of the same name, Mannequin is the story of Joan Herrick, kidnapped in infancy from her wealthy parents and raised by a slatternly slum woman. The film is still extant.