Josephine Whittell

Josephine Whittell

Born: November 29, 1883
Died: June 1, 1961
in San Francisco, California, USA

Movies for Josephine Whittell...

The Search for Bridey Murphy
Title: The Search for Bridey Murphy
Character: Mrs. Shayne (Uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1956
Type: Movie
After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early life, that of Bridey Murphy.
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A Star Is Born
Title: A Star Is Born
Character: Shrine Auditorium Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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The Big Moment
Title: The Big Moment
Character: Marie
Released: March 7, 1954
Type: Movie
Three individual stories that give an account of crucial moments in the lives of three different people: one is a young thief from Casablanca, another is an immigrant doctor brought to the United States and the third is a girl who survived the Holocaust. All three are given a chance to live with dignity and self-respect.
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Too Young to Kiss
Title: Too Young to Kiss
Character: Mrs. Fullerton (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1951
Type: Movie
Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.
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A Place in the Sun
Title: A Place in the Sun
Character: Eastman's Secretary Margaret (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1951
Type: Movie
An ambitious young man wins an heiress's heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend's pregnancy.
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The Goldbergs
Title: The Goldbergs
Released: December 23, 1950
Type: Movie
Feature film using characters from the popular radio show and the pioneering 1949 TV series, about a Bronx family coping with everyday problems.
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Shakedown
Title: Shakedown
Character: Mrs. Worthington (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
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Chinatown at Midnight
Title: Chinatown at Midnight
Character: Mrs. Emily Dryden
Released: November 17, 1949
Type: Movie
A young man who steals valuable Oriental objects for a lady friend who operates an antique shop gets mixed up in a twisted murder plot.
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In the Good Old Summertime
Title: In the Good Old Summertime
Character: Woman at Window (uncredited)
Released: July 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
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The Fountainhead
Title: The Fountainhead
Character: Hostess (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1949
Type: Movie
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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Adventure in Baltimore
Title: Adventure in Baltimore
Character: Mrs. Eckert
Released: April 19, 1949
Type: Movie
Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl's school who starts campaigning for women's rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do not approve.
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The Accused
Title: The Accused
Character: Dean's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1949
Type: Movie
A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.
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Sitting Pretty
Title: Sitting Pretty
Character: Martha Hammond (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
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The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Title: The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Character: Diane's mother
Released: February 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women. Encountering a roadblock, Morgan takes over and persuades the party to spend the night at an unoccupied beach house. The police close in as one by one, the others learn that Morgan is a killer.
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That Brennan Girl
Title: That Brennan Girl
Character: Mrs. Van Derwin (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.
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Easy to Wed
Title: Easy to Wed
Character: Mrs. Burns Norvell
Released: July 25, 1946
Type: Movie
When a newspaper accuses a wealthy socialite of being a homewrecker, she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit. The publication's frazzled head editor now must find a way to discredit her.
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Released: May 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
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Having Wonderful Crime
Title: Having Wonderful Crime
Character: Myra Lenhart (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1945
Type: Movie
Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.
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The Magnificent Dope
Title: The Magnificent Dope
Character: Mrs. Hunter
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
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Glamour Boy
Title: Glamour Boy
Character: Helga Harris
Released: December 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living in Hollywood. He gets back into the movie business when he overhears a conversation between producers discussing their newest prodigy. Cooper butts in and suggests the producers remake Skippy (a real-life 1931 film that made young Cooper a star). The bigwigs like the idea and then hire Cooper to become the boy's acting coach. Once back on the backlot, Cooper finds both trouble and romance while helping the young boy adjust to life as a movie star.
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Ziegfeld Girl
Title: Ziegfeld Girl
Character: Perkins
Released: April 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
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Life with Henry
Title: Life with Henry
Character: Aunt Harriet (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
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Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Title: Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Character: Miss Morgan
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
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5th Ave Girl
Title: 5th Ave Girl
Character: Miss Watson (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.
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The Women
Title: The Women
Character: Mrs. Spencer (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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Lucky Night
Title: Lucky Night
Character: Lady in Paint Store (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.
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Boy Trouble
Title: Boy Trouble
Character: Mother
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
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Blondie
Title: Blondie
Character: Woman Seeing Optometrist (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.
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Women Are Like That
Title: Women Are Like That
Character: Miss Douglas
Released: April 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.
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Beg, Borrow or Steal
Title: Beg, Borrow or Steal
Character: Mrs. Ed Thompson (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 1937
Type: Movie
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and his wife, Agatha, have been separated for 15 years, but he promises to give their daughter, Joyce, a lavish wedding at his "château" in France. The fact that he doesn't have a château in France is just a minor trifle. He induces the caretaker, Bill Cherau, of a large country estate to allow it to be used for the wedding. The wedding party arrives and Bill falls madly in love with Joyce and she with him, but a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do, and her intended marriage to stuffed-shirt Horace Miller stays on the books. But Steward has a change of heart and he tells one and all that he and his friends, Von Gersdorff, Lefevre, Iznamof, Clifton Summitt and Sasch, are all frauds and crooks. Horace and his family stalk out, which is just fine with Joyce as her true love, the caretaker, is waiting on the grounds.
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Larceny on the Air
Title: Larceny on the Air
Character: Nurse Nelson
Released: January 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.
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Beware Of Ladies
Title: Beware Of Ladies
Character: Alice McDonald
Released: December 21, 1936
Type: Movie
An unhappily married newspaper reporter discovers she's being used as a pawn in a scheme to discredit the political candidate she's been assigned to write about.
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Easy to Take
Title: Easy to Take
Character: Mrs. Ferry
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
To boost the ratings of a kiddie show, the host agrees to take guardianship of of a bratty boy who has a lovely older sister.
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Follow Your Heart
Title: Follow Your Heart
Character: Mrs. Plunkett
Released: August 10, 1936
Type: Movie
An eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions.
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All Business
Title: All Business
Character: Mrs. Grace King
Released: February 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Another hotel-room mix-up with the suspicious wife, Grace King (Josephine Whittell), checking up on her husband, Ford King (Ford Sterling),who is trying to sell his jewelry line to a lady buyer, Frances Brown (Kitty McHugh). The house detective (Edgar Dearing) gets involved and the room-service waiter, (Billy Dooley), constantly gets himself and his tray knocked over.
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Shanghai
Title: Shanghai
Character: Mrs. Truesdale
Released: July 19, 1935
Type: Movie
A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.
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Mills of the Gods
Title: Mills of the Gods
Character: Henrietta Hastings
Released: December 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)
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It's a Gift
Title: It's a Gift
Character: Mrs. Dunk
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.
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Jealousy
Title: Jealousy
Character: Laura
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during his big fight distracts Larry and he is knocked out. He then promises never to be jealous again and marries Jo. When she realizes that they're broke she asks Lambert for a job (she had quit on marrying Larry.) One thing leads to another and Larry, enraged with jealousy, end up killing Lambert. He then wanders off in a daze, and Jo takes the rap for the murder. Larry descends from his amnesiac fog just in time to interrupt the announcement of the jury's verdict in Jo's trial. then it's off to the chair for Larry. Or is it?
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Love Time
Title: Love Time
Character: Mrs. Obenbiegler
Released: November 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Romaticized biopic about the life of composer Franz Schubert.
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Servants' Entrance
Title: Servants' Entrance
Character: Christina
Released: September 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda falls in love with humble chauffeur Eric Landstrom.
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The Life of Vergie Winters
Title: The Life of Vergie Winters
Character: Madame Claire
Released: June 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues the relationship with his true love.
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Baby Face
Title: Baby Face
Character: Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
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Infernal Machine
Title: Infernal Machine
Character: Mme. Albini
Released: April 8, 1933
Type: Movie
This pre-Code comedy-thriller centers on Robert Holden, a broke and discouraged veteran, who meets fellow American Elinor Green at a cafe in Paris. After their first encounter, Holden's attempt to return Green's thought-to-be stolen purse ends up rendering him a stowaway on board a ship bound for America. Also aboard is a collection of characters, including Green's banker fiancé, a famed scientist, and an opera singer. Romance begins to blossom between Holden and Green, just as a radiogram claims that an “infernal machine,” or bomb, is aboard the ship. Quickly each passenger accuses the others of planting the bomb until eventually Holden, jealous of Green's attention to her undeserving fiancé, falsely admits to being the culprit. In his role as assumed perpetrator, Holden tests the group further.
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What Price Hollywood?
Title: What Price Hollywood?
Character: Miss DuPont the Interviewer (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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Symphony of Six Million
Title: Symphony of Six Million
Character: Mrs. Gifford
Released: April 29, 1932
Type: Movie
A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to continue working is severely tested. Based on a novel by Fannie Hurst.
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Peach-o-Reno
Title: Peach-o-Reno
Character: Mrs. Doubleday-Doubleday
Released: December 25, 1931
Type: Movie
After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but they want to get their parents back together. Joe and Aggie, accidentally, are becoming clients at the same law-firm, Wattles and Swift, which is the biggest and most successful in town.
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Caught Plastered
Title: Caught Plastered
Character: Miss Newton
Released: August 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook.
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Marie, Ltd.
Title: Marie, Ltd.
Character: Adelaide
Released: March 23, 1919
Type: Movie
When Drina Hilliard (Alice Brady) finishes college, she heads home to New York, where her mother Marie (Mrs. Gertrude Hillman) runs a millinery shop. On the way, she meets the handsome Blair Carson (Leslie Austen), but the budding love affair gets sidetracked as Drina begins working for her mother. Marie has been running a petty scam -- when a man buys a hat for his wife or sweetheart, she overcharges him and splits the difference with the woman. The Archives Du Film Du CNC holds a complete copy.
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Alimony
Title: Alimony
Character: Bernice Bristol Flint
Released: December 3, 1917
Type: Movie
Bernice Bristol Flint, an attractive grass widow (a woman divorced or separated from her husband), associates herself intimately with a number of divorce attorneys who live well on their percentage from unscrupulously secured divorces carrying a large alimony.