
Birthday:
06-04-1896
Deathday:
05-01-1971 (74 years)
Birthplace:
Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
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How to Sub-Let
Act like Maid
event1939 star_border 3.5
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A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.
Paradise for Three
Act like Telephone Operator at Schultz Disturbance (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.8
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A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.
Robot Wrecks
Act like Froggy's Mother (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.3
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Spanky and the gang discover a demonstration of a "human-like" robot named Volto and are inspired to create a robot themselves to do their chores for them. Slicker Walburn convinces them they will need "invisible rays" to bring it to life which he just happens to have to sell to them. As they rush off to get their money, Slicker gets Boxcar Smith to wear the robot's outer body so when he "brings" the robot to life, it will be Boxcar bringing it to life. The gang unsuspectedly gets their robot to mow the lawn at Froggy's house, but with a signal from Slicker, Boxcar runs amok and mows down everything in his path. Froggy gets to explain what happened to his parents who bust up the fraud and get the miscreants to work with the gang to clean up the mess.
Love Is News
Act like Woman on street (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6
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When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
Think It Over
event1938 star_border 6.5
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A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.
Killer Dog
event1936 star_border 5.4
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A dog accused of murdering sheep is brought to trial.
Helping Hands
Act like Mickey's Mom
event1941 star_border 6
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Inspired by his soldier brother, Spanky decides to organize a military unit among his friends, collecting odds and ends for the war effort.
All My Sons
event1948 star_border 6.2
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During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when his son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
Nazi Agent
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.
Singin' in the Rain
Act like Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 8.1
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In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
How to Raise a Baby
Act like Mother (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5
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American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.
Kathleen
Act like Margaret
event1941 star_border 5
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Kathleen is a twelve-year-old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time. She dreams of a family with a mother, father and her, and tells everyone that she has such a family. Because of this story, she cannot invite any friends over as they will see that it is not true.
The Unknown
Act like Fortune Teller (uncredited)
event1927 star_border 7.5
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On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster's daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo's desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.
The Blackbird
Act like Minor Role (uncredited)
event1926 star_border 6.3
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Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.
Mrs. Parkington
Act like Nurse (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6.1
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In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
Romance of Radium
Act like Nurse (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6
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Romance of Radium is a 1937 American short film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This short film tells the story of the discovery of radium and how it is used in medicine. In 1937, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (One-Reel) at the 10th Academy Awards
Shadow of Doubt
Act like Nanny on Street
event1935 star_border 6.2
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When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
Act of Violence
Act like Bystander (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.9
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A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.
The Women Men Marry
Act like Wiley's Secretary (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.5
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A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
Party Girl
Act like Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
event1958 star_border 6.8
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Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
Curse of the Undead
Act like Dan's Housekeeper (uncredited)
event1959 star_border 5.4
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A mysterious epidemic has struck an Old West frontier town and young girls are falling deathly ill. Doc Carter, his lovely daughter Dolores, and preacher Dan Young have their hands full caring for the infirm. When one of the patients dies unexpectedly, Dan notices two puncture wounds on her neck. His investigation leads him to the strange gunslinger Drake Robey, who always seems to be slower on the draw than his opponents, but who—despite being outdrawn, and even shot—always manages to survive these deadly encounters. Dan soon discovers that Drake also has an aversion to crucifixes, sleeps in coffins, and cannot tolerate sunlight...
Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
Act like Mrs. Sampson (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 7
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A satirical visualization of strange and forgotten, but (at that time) nevertheless still existing laws in the U.S.A.
The Grand Bounce
Act like Salvation Army Woman (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.5
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A man writes a check for $1,000 to cover a gambling debt. The problem is that he doesn't have enough money in his bank account to cover it. The check was written on Friday afternoon, but cannot be cashed before the following Tuesday. The check is used to pay several debts until...
My Dear Miss Aldrich
Act like Rabbit Boy's Mother (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.1
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A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
Young Dr. Kildare
Act like Little Boy's Mother (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.5
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A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.
Four Girls in White
Act like Miss Waring - a Nurse
event1939 star_border 6.3
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Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
Stronger Than Desire
Act like Sara - Susan's Nursemaid (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.8
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An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
Stage Mother
Act like Nurse
event1933 star_border 5
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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.
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
Act like Ladies Underwear Customer (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6
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A department store has an indoor ski slide for the annual contest for store employees. Salesgirl June has two admirers - a sausage salesman in the store and the store's snooty ski instructor. The Dandridge Sisters (Dorothy, Vivian and non-sister Etta Jones) perform two numbers.
Idiot's Delight
Act like Nurse #2
event1939 star_border 6.1
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A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Calling Dr. Kildare
Act like Mrs. Benson - Tommy's Mother (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.1
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Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?
Miracles for Sale
Act like Mary W. Hotchkinson
event1939 star_border 6.4
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A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
A Failure at Fifty
Act like Ann's Rutledge's Mother (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 4.5
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The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man.
Women in Hiding
Act like Nurse (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 7
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In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the hospital costs involved. She falls prey to a baby-for-sale racket with quack doctors performing their services.
The Winning Ticket
Act like Nurse at Lottery Drawing
event1935 star_border 3.5
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A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
Bridal Suite
Act like Chalet Guest
event1939 star_border 5.1
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A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.
Stars in My Crown
Act like Townswoman (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.
Pat and Mike
Act like Golf Spectator (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 6.3
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Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.
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.
Summer Stock
Act like Woman at Barn Dance (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.7
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To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister. At first reluctant she has them do farm chores in exchange for food. Her reluctance becomes attraction when she falls in love with the director, Joe, who happens to be her sister's fiance.
The Great Sinner
Act like Gambling Casino Patron (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.7
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A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
Little Nellie Kelly
Act like Miss Deane (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6
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Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
Bitter Sweet
Act like Woman on Stairs (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5.8
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A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
Movie Pests
Act like Woman in Audience (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 5.6
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This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible.
Who's Superstitious?
Act like Diner Who Throws Salt
event1943 star_border 5
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This short film examines the origins of several superstitions including crossing your fingers, knocking on wood, rabbit's feet, and breaking champagne bottles to christen ships, plus the role of superstitions in the Flying Dutchman tale.
Campus Sleuth
Act like Mrs. Rogers
event1948
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A photographer is choked to death just outside of where a college dance is being held. The body is discovered by Lee Watson, but promptly disappears, as it is being whisked from one point to another on the campus by a night watchman, who is an ex-convict.
Forty Little Mothers
Act like Teacher
event1940 star_border 6.2
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An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
Sarge Goes to College
Act like Mrs. Rogers
event1947 star_border 4
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A Marine Sergeant, wounded in overseas service, requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recommends to the Captain and Colonel that "Sarge" be given a few weeks rest before hospitalization. Through the Dean of San Juan Junior College, Sarge enters the school on a temporary basis.
Tale of a Dog
Act like Gossiper (voice)
event1944 star_border 6
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When Bigshot Jones gives his unnamed dog to the All-For-One Club, Buckwheat quickly names the canine "Smallpox", inadvertently causing a city-wide panic.
Whispers
Act like Gossip (uncredited)
event1941
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In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation.
Main Street on the March!
Act like Mrs. Schulte (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5.4
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This Best Short Subject Academy Award winning film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It chronicles how the people of "Main Street America", the country's military forces, and its industrial base were completely transformed when the decision was made to gear up for war. Original footage is interspersed with contemporary newsreels and stock footage.
Trifles That Win Wars
Act like Arachnophobic Woman (uncredited)
event1943
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This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short looks at how a few specific inventions made a major contribution to the U.S. war effort.
Wedding Worries
Act like Delia
event1941 star_border 6
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The Our Gang kids worry that Darla's new stepmother will be an evil stepmother like of fairy tale fame.
Torture Money
Act like Nurse (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.9
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In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.
The Domineering Male
Act like Gertrude's Mother (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6
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This Pete Smith Specialty short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. Who's really chasing whom?
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Act like Gossiper
event1939 star_border 2
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Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
Three Secrets
Act like Maid (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.4
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A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.
Famous Boners
Act like Housekeeper (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5
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This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the victims of errors.
Force of Evil
Act like Sorter (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.6
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Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
Fingers at the Window
Act like Mrs. Geversar (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.4
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In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
Gold Rush Maisie
Act like Mrs. Carter (Uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.5
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Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
We Who Are Young
Act like Nurse Bringing Letter (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5.8
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A man violates company policy by getting married.
The Barkleys of Broadway
Act like Mary
event1949 star_border 6.8
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Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man.
Rio Rita
Act like Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.8
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Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
On Stage Everybody
Act like Woman Boarder (uncredited)
event1945
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Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
Two Sisters from Boston
Act like Maid (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6
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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.
Double Wedding
Act like Waitress in Crowd at Wedding (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.5
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A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
Royal Wedding
Act like Ellen's Maid (Uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.5
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Tom and Ellen are asked to perform as a dance team in England at the time of Princess Elizabeth's wedding. As brother and sister, each develops a British love interest, Ellen with Lord John Brindale and Tom with dancer Anne Ashmond.
Everything I Have Is Yours
Act like Wardrobe Mistress (Uncredited)
event1952 star_border 5.8
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A husband and wife act are hoping to find success on Broadway.
Young Widow
Act like Woman on Subway Platform (Uncredited)
event1946 star_border 4.8
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A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.
San Francisco
Act like Salvation Army Nurse (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.6
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A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
Men in Fright
Act like Nurse at Front Desk (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5.5
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The kids go to the hospital to visit Darla, who's recovering from a tonsillectomy. Chaos soon ensues.
Kid Glove Killer
Act like Miss Huser - Mayor's Secretary (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.2
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Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.
Maisie Was a Lady
Act like Boy's Mother at Carnival (Uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.8
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Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems.
Baby Blues
Act like Receptionist
event1941 star_border 6
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Mickey's mom is about to give birth, but he gets worried when he reads that every fourth child born is Chinese. Spanky and the gang then visit a Chinese friend and learn that kids are kids, no matter where they are from.
1-2-3-Go!
Act like Nurse
event1941 star_border 6.7
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While playing baseball, Mickey runs into the street to catch a fly ball and is struck by a car. When the gang visit him in the hospital they are appalled to find the ward populated by many other children injured in automobile accidents. The Our Gang kids resolve to do something about the problem, and thus the "1-2-3-Go Safety Society" is born.
Easter Parade
Act like Florist (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 6.9
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On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To prove Nadine's not important to him, Don acquires innocent new protege Hannah Brown, vowing to make her a star in time for next year's Easter parade.
Petticoat Junction
Act like Older Woman (1 ep.)
event1963 star_border 5.8
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The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
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