
Birthday:
07-29-1882
Deathday:
08-25-1952 (70 years)
Birthplace:
Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
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Stars in My Crown
Act like Mrs. Belsher (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.9
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Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time, he has a family and many friends but also finds friction with a few of his parishioners.
Wedding Bells
Act like Hooper (as Polly Van)
event1921
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Rosalie Wayne (Talmadge) meets Reginald Carter (Ford) after he introduces himself while chasing her dog with one of his oxfords, and she marries him in haste. Reggie comes down with the measles following a quarrel over her bobbed hair, not knowing he is ill she leaves for Reno and then Europe. After a year's absence and having secured her divorce, she meets Reggie again and finds him engaged to another. Jealousy arouses her to break up the match, but the wedding is progressing before she devises a means of doing so. Reggie, however, is satisfied and glad to be reunited with his Rosalie despite her sharp tongue and unusual method of winning his love.
Tearin' Loose
Act like Nora (as Polly Van)
event1925
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Jim Dorn, owner of the Bar X Ranch, is accused of crime he actually committed by Bud Deering, his girlfriend Ann's brother.
Wedded Blitz
event1942
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Errol is a character actor who wears various makeups, costumes, and disguises when he goes home. His neighbors mistakenly suspect his glamorous young wife is playing around with strange men.
Bedlam
event1946 star_border 6.5
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London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they were caged animals. Nell Bowen, one of the visitors, is horrified by the deplorable living conditions of the unfortunate inhabitants of this godforsaken place, better known as Bedlam.
The Lady Gambles
Act like Woman at Slot Machine (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6
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When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
Man Of The People
Act like Crying Mother
event1937 star_border 7
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An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
They Won't Believe Me
event1947 star_border 6.6
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On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
Mister 880
Act like Woman (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.9
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The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years.
Nazi Agent
Act like Fat Woman (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.6
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Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Act like Apple Seller
event1939 star_border 3.5
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A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
The Chief Cook
Act like (as Polly Van)
event1917 star_border 4.5
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The film opens in the lobby of a small hotel, where the desk clerk/owner (Budd Ross) is addressing three members of staff: the cook, the waiter and the bellboy. It is obvious from their reactions, particularly the cook (Leo White) that whatever was said did not go down too well. His animated arms knock down the man standing behind him repeatedly until all three servants simultaneously quit. They storm off into the adjoining kitchen where a slavery maid (Blanche White) is on the floor scrubbing the floor. The men all trip over her, moan briefly and then leave.
Spring Parade
Act like Minnie
event1940 star_border 6.8
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In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
Klondike Annie
event1936 star_border 6.4
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A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
Young Tom Edison
Act like Woman at Station
event1940 star_border 5.6
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Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
I Take This Woman
Act like Mrs. Glutz - Woman in Clinic (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.2
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On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
The Thin Man
Act like Janitress (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 7.5
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A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
All by Myself
Act like Mrs. Carter
event1943
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Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who of course is unaware of it. But unknown to Jean, Mark has become engaged to singer Val. When Jean finds out she tries to save face by saying that she is also engaged, and then uses a little social blackmail to get psychiatrist Bill Perry to pretend to be her fiancé for an evening out with Mark and Val.
The Sea of Grass
Act like Townswoman (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.3
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On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
Kitty Foyle
Act like Tenement Woman (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.5
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A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
It's in the Air
Act like (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 5
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Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
La Conga Nights
Act like Landlady
event1940 star_border 7.5
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In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when she hails his cab as she skips out on her former boarding house because she cannot pay rent.
A Lady Takes a Chance
Act like Beggar Woman
event1943 star_border 5.7
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A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
The Gay Falcon
Act like Landlady in Hallway (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.2
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Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.
From This Day Forward
Act like Manageress
event1946 star_border 5.2
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A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.
No Way Out
Act like Woman (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.9
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Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.
Midnight Intruder
Act like The Reitter Cook (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5.2
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A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.
The Climax
Act like Cleaning Woman (Uncredited)
event1944 star_border 5.4
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Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. Ten years later, another young singer reminds Hohner of the late diva and his old mania kicks in. Hohner wants to prevent her from singing for anyone but him, even if it means silencing her forever.
The Egg and I
Act like Reveler at Country Dance (Uncredited)
event1947 star_border 7
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World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.
The Hero
Act like The Mother (as Polly Van)
event1917 star_border 5.5
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The Hero is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Billy West & Oliver Hardy.
The Locket
Act like The Cook (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.4
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A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Back Stage
Act like Polly
event1917 star_border 6
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Props, the stage man, and his assistant at the Orpheum Theater, Plunkville divide their time equally between drinking and attention to duty. Trouble starts when the new acts arrive. The Wiggle sisters, a Hawaiian act, demand the star dressing room but Props turns them down, but relents when Babe, the strong man, and his beautiful wife, Ethel Burton because he is smitten. Once the show begins Props is forever getting in the way of the performers and his bibulous assistant has an unfortunate propensity for dropping the curtain at the wrong moments. Things only get crazier from there.
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