Nora Cecil

Nora Cecil

Born: September 24, 1878
Died: May 1, 1951
in London, England, UK
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Nora Cecil (September 20, 1878 – May 1, 1951) was a British-American character actress whose 30-year career spanned both the silent and sound film eras. Cecil's career began on the stage, where she appeared in a single Broadway production, The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast, which ran for more than 240 performances at the Broadway Theatre in 1901-02. (A 1930 newspaper article says that Cecil "made her debut, three decades ago, on the London stage.")

Cecil appeared in well over 100 feature films and film shorts.

In 1915, she moved from the stage into films, her first appearance being in a starring role in The Arrival of Perpetua, directed by Émile Chautard. She often played "thin-lipped, stern-visaged dowagers and forbidding mothers-in-law" and "welfare workers, landladies, schoolmistresses and maiden aunts".

One of the most significant roles was in the W.C. Fields vehicle, The Old Fashioned Way in 1934. Some of the other notable films in which Cecil appeared include: Ernst Lubitsch's historical romance, The Merry Widow, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald; the 1939 version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, starring Mickey Rooney; the John Ford classic, Stagecoach, with John Wayne.

Her final acting performance was in a featured role in Mourning Becomes Electra in 1947, starring Rosalind Russell.

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The Big Parade of Comedy
Title: The Big Parade of Comedy
Character: Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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Big Town
Title: Big Town
Character: Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
Released: August 23, 1946
Type: Movie
A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.
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The Missing Lady
Title: The Missing Lady
Character: Miss Millie
Released: August 17, 1946
Type: Movie
While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible sleuth Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow (Kane Richmond) finds himself being blamed for the crime. It doesn't help the Shadow's claims of innocence when more bodies begin piling up. Good thing he knows exactly who's guilty among an increasingly smaller group of suspects.
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Two Sisters from Boston
Title: Two Sisters from Boston
Character: Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1946
Type: Movie
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
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Lady on a Train
Title: Lady on a Train
Released: August 3, 1945
Type: Movie
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
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The Thin Man Goes Home
Title: The Thin Man Goes Home
Character: Miss Peavy
Released: December 24, 1944
Type: Movie
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Title: The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Character: Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
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The Unknown Guest
Title: The Unknown Guest
Character: Martha Williams
Released: October 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear.
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I Married a Witch
Title: I Married a Witch
Character: Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
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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Apache Trail
Title: Apache Trail
Character: Passenger (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
Title: The Wife Takes a Flyer
Character: Miss Updike
Released: April 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
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Obliging Young Lady
Title: Obliging Young Lady
Character: Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
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Three Girls About Town
Title: Three Girls About Town
Character: Casket Customer
Released: October 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
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A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Title: A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Character: Charwoman
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.
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Little Men
Title: Little Men
Character: Head of Orphanage
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.
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The Bank Dick
Title: The Bank Dick
Character: Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (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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Young People
Title: Young People
Character: Righteous Old Lady
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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Lucky Partners
Title: Lucky Partners
Character: Women's Club President
Released: August 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
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What a Life
Title: What a Life
Character: Miss Eggleston
Released: October 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.
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Some Like It Hot
Title: Some Like It Hot
Character: Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Title: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Character: Miss Jenkins
Released: April 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
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Stagecoach
Title: Stagecoach
Character: Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Character: Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
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Mr. Boggs Steps Out
Title: Mr. Boggs Steps Out
Character: Widow Peddie
Released: February 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do something novel with the prize and ends up buying a barrel factory. He encounters trouble when the nearby pickle factory is threatened by a shyster attempting to close it.
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International Settlement
Title: International Settlement
Character: English Woman
Released: February 4, 1938
Type: Movie
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
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Borrowing Trouble
Title: Borrowing Trouble
Character: Dressmaker
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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Nothing Sacred
Title: Nothing Sacred
Character: Schoolteacher (uncredited)
Released: November 25, 1937
Type: Movie
When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.
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Blossoms On Broadway
Title: Blossoms On Broadway
Character: Leader of Committee (uncredited)
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
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Partners in Crime
Title: Partners in Crime
Character: Housekeeper
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.
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She Asked for It
Title: She Asked for It
Character: Elderly lady (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Dwight Stanford and his wife, Penny, are a pair of spendthrifts who can't hold on to money, dependent for support on Dwight's rich uncle, who sends them a monthly allowance. Conrad Norris, Dwight's cousin, disapproves of Dwight and Penny, and resents his uncle's generosity. The uncle is the victim of a hit-and-run accident and, there being no will, Conrad, as next of kin, inherits. Switch, the uncle's lawyer, tells Dwight he is shutout with no hope of appeal. Dwight starts writing mystery novels about a fictional detective named Steven Knight, which become instant hits and the money pours in.
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Easy Living
Title: Easy Living
Character: Miss Swerf
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
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Night of Mystery
Title: Night of Mystery
Released: May 21, 1937
Type: Movie
One of a series of movies based on the character Philo Vance
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Three Smart Boys
Title: Three Smart Boys
Character: Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
Released: May 13, 1937
Type: Movie
When they overhear Miss Witherspoon, the school superintendent, say that nothing short of an epidemic will allow the school to be closed for a week, the Our Gang conspire to fake illness.
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Night Must Fall
Title: Night Must Fall
Released: April 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him in. Mrs. Bramson's niece Olivia takes a liking to Danny, and comes to believe that he may have been involved in the disappearance of a local woman.
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Champagne Waltz
Title: Champagne Waltz
Character: Train Passenger
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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The Mighty Treve
Title: The Mighty Treve
Character: Old Maid at Dog Show
Released: January 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
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College Holiday
Title: College Holiday
Character: Miss Elkins (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1936
Type: Movie
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
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Under Your Spell
Title: Under Your Spell
Character: School Teacher (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
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The Big Broadcast of 1937
Title: The Big Broadcast of 1937
Character: Home Economics Woman
Released: October 5, 1936
Type: Movie
The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.
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Let's Make a Million
Title: Let's Make a Million
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.
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Fury
Title: Fury
Character: Albert's Mother (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Little Miss Nobody
Title: Little Miss Nobody
Character: Mrs. Robinson
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
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Dancing Pirate
Title: Dancing Pirate
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Released: May 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy. When the pirate vessel arrives at the port of Las Palomas, Jonathan, clad in buccaneer's garb, makes his escape. Everyone in Las Palomas, including Governor Alcalde (Frank Morgan) and fetching senorita Serafina (Steffi Duna), assumes that Jonathan is the pirate chieftain, leading to a series of typical comic-opera complications.
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Collegiate
Title: Collegiate
Character: Miss Curtiss
Released: January 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.
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Two in the Dark
Title: Two in the Dark
Character: Mrs. Potter, Landlady
Released: January 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
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Way Down East
Title: Way Down East
Character: Townswoman at Party
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
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Slightly Static
Title: Slightly Static
Character: Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.
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Gold Diggers of 1935
Title: Gold Diggers of 1935
Character: Housekeeper (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
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Car 99
Title: Car 99
Character: Granny Adams
Released: March 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.
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Memories and Melodies
Title: Memories and Melodies
Character: Customer (uncredited)
Released: February 16, 1935
Type: Movie
This Technicolor short features the songs of the great American popular composer Stephen Collins Foster. Based on Foster's memoirs.
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Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Title: Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Character: Ship's Matron (uncredited)
Released: January 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeking to convince her to write her biography as a feature for his magazine. One of Marion's old beaus, now running for U.S. Senator from their home state, also comes calling.
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The Merry Widow
Title: The Merry Widow
Character: Animal Woman (uncredited)
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
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Opened by Mistake
Title: Opened by Mistake
Character: Head Nurse
Released: October 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Patsy tries to stay with Thelma at the hospital where she works, but Thelma is forced to pretend that Patsy is a patient.
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The Spectacle Maker
Title: The Spectacle Maker
Character: Duchess
Released: September 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious Technicolor.
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Chained
Title: Chained
Character: Edith (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.
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One-Horse Farmers
Title: One-Horse Farmers
Character: Subway Passenger (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The girls buy a country home that turns out to be a sand trap.
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Bachelor Bait
Title: Bachelor Bait
Character: Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
Released: July 27, 1934
Type: Movie
After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
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The Old-Fashioned Way
Title: The Old-Fashioned Way
Character: Mrs. Wendelschaffer
Released: July 13, 1934
Type: Movie
The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.
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Upperworld
Title: Upperworld
Character: The Streams' Housekeeper (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1934
Type: Movie
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
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Laughing Boy
Title: Laughing Boy
Character: Schoolteacher
Released: April 13, 1934
Type: Movie
A young Navajo defies tribal custom to marry an outcast.
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You're Telling Me!
Title: You're Telling Me!
Character: Mrs. Price
Released: April 6, 1934
Type: Movie
Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His daughter is in love with the son of the town snob. Events conspire to ruin his bullet-proof tire just as success seems near. Another of his inventions prohibits him from committing suicide, so Sam decides to go on living.
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Mixed Nuts
Title: Mixed Nuts
Character: Mrs. Twitchett
Released: February 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Oddly enough for a Roach comedy the premise of MIXED NUTS is grounded in topical political satire aimed at the New Deal, although the satire is of a very lightweight (and light-hearted) nature. The film begins at a city council meeting where an unidentified politician announces that the government has released $50,000 for the relief of unemployed plumbers. This prompts applause, but also a pointed question from an angry woman who wants to know what the government is going to do for the members of her profession: chorus girls. The politician glibly replies that the administration has set aside money—two million dollars, no less!—for the re-education of chorus girls, "to fit them for the better things in life."
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Search for Beauty
Title: Search for Beauty
Character: Miss Pettigrew
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.
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Design for Living
Title: Design for Living
Character: Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1933
Type: Movie
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
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Going Hollywood
Title: Going Hollywood
Character: Briarcroft's Teacher
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and thank him. However, difficult problems lay ahead when Lili gets in the way.
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Meet the Baron
Title: Meet the Baron
Character: Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
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Stage Mother
Title: Stage Mother
Character: Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
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Doctor Bull
Title: Doctor Bull
Character: Aunt Emily Banning
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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Peg o' My Heart
Title: Peg o' My Heart
Character: Smythe (maid)
Released: May 26, 1933
Type: Movie
Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to learn to be a lady and that Pat can never see her again.
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Nature in the Wrong
Title: Nature in the Wrong
Character: Muriel's mother
Released: March 18, 1933
Type: Movie
Charley, hoping to find cultured people in his ancestry in order to be suitable to Muriel's family, is tricked by his rival Ronnie into believing himself a descendant of Tarzan. Conked on the head, Charley suddenly believes he IS Tarzan.
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Fast Workers
Title: Fast Workers
Character: Tall 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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King of the Jungle
Title: King of the Jungle
Character: Spinster in park (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1933
Type: Movie
A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
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Wreckety Wrecks
Title: Wreckety Wrecks
Character: Miss Winterbottom
Released: February 18, 1933
Type: Movie
When the boys run over a dummy, they think they've killed someone. They decide to dispose of the "body" and mistake a seminary for a cemetery.
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Asleep in the Feet
Title: Asleep in the Feet
Character: Female Police Officer
Released: January 21, 1933
Type: Movie
The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
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Mr. Bride
Title: Mr. Bride
Character: Mrs. Cecil
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Charley's boss "rehearses" for his honeymoon--with Charley.
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Hot Saturday
Title: Hot Saturday
Character: Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1932
Type: Movie
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
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Girl Grief
Title: Girl Grief
Character: Miss Tuttle, Principal
Released: October 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Although terrified of girls, Charley must take a job teaching at a girls school.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Title: Pack Up Your Troubles
Character: Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed by the enemy during a battle. After the war is over, Stan and Ollie venture to New York City, where they begin a quest to reunite Eddie's little daughter with her rightful family. The task proves both monumental and problematic as the boys discover just how many people in New York have the last name Smith.
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Amateur Daddy
Title: Amateur Daddy
Character: Saleslady
Released: April 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on Fred's deathbed request to go to Scotch Valley and take care of his surviving wife and children. When Jim arrives in the small town, he is told that there are two Fred Smith families in Scotch Valley, the rich Smiths and the poor Smiths. Jim assumes that the Smiths he is looking for are the poor ones, and is directed to a house where four children live in poverty.
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Young Bride
Title: Young Bride
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Released: April 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
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Arrowsmith
Title: Arrowsmith
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
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The Ruling Voice
Title: The Ruling Voice
Character: Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.
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Street Scene
Title: Street Scene
Character: Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
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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Everything’s Rosie
Title: Everything’s Rosie
Character: Hotel Proprietress
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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East Lynne
Title: East Lynne
Character: Charity Bazaar Committee
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite being nearly blinded as the result of an explosion, she returns home to see her son again.
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Millie
Title: Millie
Character: Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1931
Type: Movie
After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men - men who once devoted their time to her mother.
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Only Saps Work
Title: Only Saps Work
Character: Mrs. Partridge
Released: December 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis Sr., the film casts Errol as James Wilson, a kleptomaniac who starts with picking pockets and ends up robbing a bank. Wilson's friend Lawrence Payne (Richard Arlen) inadvertently aids our hero during one of his heists, ending up in deep doo-doo with the law. Before Wilson is able to extricate Payne from his dilemma for the sake of heroine Barbara Tanner (Mary Brian), he pauses long enough to pose as a private eye -- and even gives bellboy Oscar (Stu Erwin) tips on how to spot a crook! If only all of Leon Errol's feature films had been as consistently hilarious as Only Saps Work.
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Hell's Angels
Title: Hell's Angels
Character: Helen's Maid (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
When World War I breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford university, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.
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Little Accident
Title: Little Accident
Character: Dr. Zernecke
Released: August 3, 1930
Type: Movie
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
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The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
Title: The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
Released: May 2, 1930
Type: Movie
The sinister Dr. Fu Manchu returns to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.
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Seven Days Leave
Title: Seven Days Leave
Character: Amelia Twymley
Released: January 24, 1930
Type: Movie
In London, during WWI, a lonely woman who wants to feel a part of the war effort pretends to her friends to have a son fighting in the war. She is shocked when he shows up on her doorstep, and they make an agreement that he will pretend to be her son. "Seven Days Leave" is a screen adaption of James M. Barrie's play, "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals."
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Footlights and Fools
Title: Footlights and Fools
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1929
Type: Movie
Moore plays the "dual" role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl in France to acquire a new persona.
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Seven Footprints to Satan
Title: Seven Footprints to Satan
Character: Old Witch
Released: January 27, 1929
Type: Movie
A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before his planed departure. Her suspects about that guest were serious, this man tries to steal one of her fathers rubin, and she and her fiance are kidnapped and brought to a house, where strange things happen. The whole thing becomes a nightmare under the direction of a mysterious Mr. Satan.
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The Cavalier
Title: The Cavalier
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
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The Baby Cyclone
Title: The Baby Cyclone
Character: Mrs. Crandall
Released: September 26, 1928
Type: Movie
A woman thinks a small dog is an angel pet in this silent comedy.
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A Trick of Hearts
Title: A Trick of Hearts
Character: The Mayor
Released: March 18, 1928
Type: Movie
In this comedy-western, based on the life of Henry Irving Dodge, our cowboy hero keeps his tongue firmly planted in his cheek as he goes up against a town run by such women as newly elected sheriff, Carrie Patience. Hoping to restore some masculinity to the sheriff's office, Gibson stages a series of fake hold-ups but is soon upstaged by a real crook
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The Devil Dancer
Title: The Devil Dancer
Character: Julia
Released: November 3, 1927
Type: Movie
An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl he has become fascinated with. THE DEVIL DANCER was highly praised at time of release for its exquisite cinematography, especially in the use of light and shadow. The film received an Academy Award nomination in this category. Sadly, it is among the lost. No prints or negatives are known to survive.
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Too Many Crooks
Title: Too Many Crooks
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Davis, Lloyd Hughes, George Bancroft, El Brendel, William V. Mong, John St. Polis, and Otto Matieson. It was released on April 2, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.
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Girls
Title: Girls
Character: Matron Helen Hunt
Released: March 27, 1927
Type: Movie
When the girls on campus learn that Tom Drake is so super-shy that he never kissed a girl, they begin betting which one will kiss him first. So the girls line up to try to get their lips on him. However, in this and subsequent scenes, crazy stuff keeps happening to prevent him from getting that kiss.
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Sensation Seekers
Title: Sensation Seekers
Character: Mrs. Lodge
Released: March 21, 1927
Type: Movie
Ray Sturgis, leader of the fashionable Long Island jazz set, is engaged to "Egypt" Hagen, an up-to-date girl in every respect. Egypt is arrested at a roadhouse raid, and at her mother's bidding, the Reverend Norman Lodge arranges for her freedom. At a fancy-dress ball, when Ray wears a costume made of newspaper headlines concerning her arrest, Egypt is offended. Seen constantly in the company of Reverend Lodge, her reputation causes church people to take up the matter with the bishop.
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The Demi-Bride
Title: The Demi-Bride
Character: School Teacher
Released: February 19, 1927
Type: Movie
Trouble begins when Mme. Girard steps out on her husband, Criquette's father, to fool around with rakish Phillippe Levaux. When Monsieur Girard finds out, Criquette saves her stepmother from scandal by tricking Levaux into a hasty marriage.
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The Silent Rider
Title: The Silent Rider
Character: Mrs. Randall
Released: January 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Cowboy Jerry Alton is content with life on the Bar Z Ranch until Mrs. Randall hires pretty Marian Faer to assist in cooking. Marian explains that she is looking for a redheaded husband. All the men are smitten with her, and several, including Jerry, try to dye their hair red.
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Midnight Faces
Title: Midnight Faces
Character: Mrs. Hart
Released: March 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A young man inherits a mansion in a Florida swamp from an uncle he never knew he had. When he, his assistant and the estate's executor arrive at the house, the audience catches sight of someone crawling in the window, though the house is supposed to be unoccupied. As the house staff begins to arrive they sense a strange presence in the house, and when a young woman no one knows runs into the house to escape a knife-wielding psycho, the occupants realize they may be in danger from both outside and inside the house.
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Chip of the Flying U
Title: Chip of the Flying U
Character: Dr. Cecil Grantham
Released: March 14, 1926
Type: Movie
A remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based on a story by popular pulp fiction writer Peter B. Kyne. Chip Bennett, a Flying U ranch hand-turned-cartoonist, despite being a confirmed misogynist falls in love with Della Whitmore, a lady doctor and sister of his employer.
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His Majesty, Bunker Bean
Title: His Majesty, Bunker Bean
Character: Countess Casanova
Released: September 14, 1925
Type: Movie
His Majesty, Bunker Bean is a 1925 silent film comedy directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Matt Moore. It is based on a 1916 play, His Majesty, Bunker Bean by Lee Wilson Dodd, taken from a novel Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers.
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The Deadwood Coach
Title: The Deadwood Coach
Character: Matilda Shields - in play
Released: December 7, 1924
Type: Movie
A man searches for the villains who murdered his parents
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Manslaughter
Title: Manslaughter
Character: Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
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Timothy's Quest
Title: Timothy's Quest
Character: Townswoman
Released: September 16, 1922
Type: Movie
A charming pastoral about two unwanted children finding acceptance and love, Timothys Quest (1922) is a rare, cinematic gem based on a novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), who was then known as Americas best loved author of stories about children.
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Footfalls
Title: Footfalls
Released: September 8, 1921
Type: Movie
A blind cobbler is able, by dint of his extraordinary hearing, to recognize the identity of a murderer. His own son is accused of the killing, and the old man waits, knowing the murderer will return to prevent the blind man from revealing what he knows.
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The Daughter Pays
Title: The Daughter Pays
Released: November 10, 1920
Type: Movie
For revenge, wealthy Osbert Gault marries Virginia Mynors, the daughter of a woman who had jilted him years earlier. Unaware of Gault's motives, Virginia consents to the marriage for the sake of her impoverished family.
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American Buds
Title: American Buds
Character: Emily
Released: February 24, 1918
Type: Movie
Letters from the late mother of orphaned sisters Jane and Katherine seem to indicate that their father is Capt. Bob Dutton. Under orders from his superior, Colonel Harding, to acknowledge the children or quit the service, Dutton accepts responsibility for them. Shocked by his presumably checkered past, Cecile Harding, Dutton's fiancée and the colonel's daughter, breaks their engagement. One evening Jane surprises Capt. Robert Duncan, Dutton's rival for Cecile, stealing Bob's papers.
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Prunella
Title: Prunella
Released: January 1, 1918
Type: Movie
When Tourneur adapted the allegorical plays The Blue Bird by Belgian symbolist Maurice Maeterlinck and Prunella by British playwrights Harley Granville Barker and Lawrence Housman in 1918, they had been successfully staged for many years, opening in Moscow and on Broadway and everywhere. Today, the saccharine charm of these anti-modern fairy tales doesn’t work any more. But undistracted by the meaning or action of the film, we can enjoy the surface of Prunella all the better, the dazzling sets and costumes, silhouettes and painted backdrops created by the great art director Ben Carré in a fashionable Art Déco Neo-Rococo style.
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The Wild Girl
Title: The Wild Girl
Character: Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1917
Type: Movie
A dying stranger abandons a baby girl in a gypsy camp, with a note explaining that on her eighteenth birthday, she is to inherit a Virginia estate. The gypsy chief, aware of the girl's value, instructs Sabia, the tribe's matron, to dress and rear her as a boy. Years later, while the tribe is traveling in Virginia, Vosho, the chief's son, discovers the true sex of the girl, now called Firefly, and demands to marry her.
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A Royal Romance
Title: A Royal Romance
Character: Miss McPherson
Released: April 30, 1917
Type: Movie
Princess Sylvia refuses to marry the Emperor Maximilian of Rhaetia because his proposal has been offered for diplomatic rather than romantic reasons. Learning that Maximilian is traveling to a hunting lodge in a small village, Sylvia follows him, disguised as an untitled English girl, and the emperor immediately falls in love with her.
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The Poor Little Rich Girl
Title: The Poor Little Rich Girl
Character: One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only with making money, and her mother cares only about her social position. But one day a servant's irresponsibility creates a crisis that causes everyone to rethink what is important to them.
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Tillie Wakes Up
Title: Tillie Wakes Up
Character: Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken
Released: January 29, 1917
Type: Movie
Tillie and her neighbor Mr. Pipkins are both distraught over their respective marriages. One day, they sneak off to have a lively time at Coney Island. They flee the park together just as their spouses come to find them. After a chase, each is rescued from the ocean and reconcile with their respective spouses.
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The Social Secretary
Title: The Social Secretary
Character: Spinster (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1916
Type: Movie
An attractive young girl struggles to hold a job as she deals with unwanted romantic advances from her boss.
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A Model Husband
Title: A Model Husband
Character: Mrs Gossip
Released: March 29, 1916
Type: Movie
Mr. Cherub is considered by all tne world to be a model husband. Housewives hold him up as a shining example to their husbands. In truth, however, Mr. Cherub is anything but a virtuous husband.