
Birthday:
03-21-1896
Deathday:
09-03-1946 (50 years)
Birthplace:
Oakland, California, USA
Biography
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Fern Emmett (March 22, 1896 – September 3, 1946) was an American film actress. She appeared in 212 films between 1930 and 1946.
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Fern Emmett (March 22, 1896 – September 3, 1946) was an American film actress. She appeared in 212 films between 1930 and 1946.
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Romance of the West
event1930
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Chasing the man who had caused the death of his sister, Jack Walsh rescues Mary Winters from the unwanted attentions of a drunk, and learns that she has been lured to Mexico by the false promises of an ex-prizefighter "Kayo" Mooney. The latter kidnaps Mary but Jack wins the showdown and Mary, and finds that Mooney is the man he was looking for.
Love Crazy
Act like Martha - Ireland's Maid
event1941 star_border 7.1
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Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
The Riders of the Whistling Skull
Act like Henrietta McCoy
event1937 star_border 5.2
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When Professor Marsh disappears while searching for the lost city of Lukachukai, his daughter enlists the help of the Three Mesquiteers.
Texas Terror
Act like Aunt Martha Hubbard
event1935 star_border 4.7
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Sheriff John Higgins quits and goes into prospecting after he thinks he has killed his best friend in shooting it out with robbers. He encounters his dead buddy's sister and helps her run her ranch. Then she finds out about his past.
Cinderella Swings It
Act like Clara Potts
event1943
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Scattergood Baines, Coldriver's most popular citizen, neighborly counselor and sly old fox, entices a Broadway producer to Coldriver to see the gay musical extravaganza Baines is staging for the benefit of the U.S.O. He is also promoting the singing career of his latest local protégé, Betty Palmer. There are a few problems but the Sage of Coldriver manages to keep pulling the right strings.
Say Uncle
event1928
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Synopsis is unknown at this time, may be a lost film.
She Done Him Wrong
Act like Woman in Conversation (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.8
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New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
Dead Men Walk
Act like Kate
event1943 star_border 4.6
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When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes him dead; but subsequent events force him to realize that his brother has, in fact, returned from the dead as a vampire and is seeking revenge on the doctor, who had killed him in self-defense.
The Forty-Niners
Act like Widow Spriggs
event1932
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O'Hara has been hired to lead a wagon train west. Instead he has led it off the trail to where it can be attacked by his Indian friends. But Tennessee Mathews is familiar with O'Hara's tactics and sends for the soldiers.
The Ridin' Fool
Act like Miss Scully
event1931
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The Ridin' Fool presented the bantamweight star as Steve Kendall, a young cowboy saving gambler Boston Harry from being hanged by a group of vigilantes who accuse him of having killed Jim Beckworth. The fugitives hide out at Juanita's hacienda and while their mercenary hostess decides how to best fleece her guests, the posse arrives.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Act like Lena Tolliver
event1936 star_border 6.4
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A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
Gildersleeve's Bad Day
Act like Mrs. Marvin (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.4
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Gildersleeve has jury duty.
The Mummy's Tomb
Act like Laura - Wedding Dress Seamstress (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.7
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A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
Neck and Neck
Act like Aunt Susan
event1931
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Bill Grant is a small-time gambler who spends more time embellishing his accomplishments than actually doing anything. He has a small run of good luck when he wins a racehorse during a poker game. This enables him to enjoy the lifestyle he has been bragging about for so long. While in high society, he falls for Norma, whose father is big in racing circles.
The E-Flat Man
Act like Farmer's Wife
event1935 star_border 5
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Elmer attempts to elope with his fiancée, but they escape her parents by driving off in a car that's actually owned by a wanted gangster. When they hear on the radio that the police are looking for them, they dump the car and hide out near a farmhouse. But the farmer's radio also broadcasts the couple's description, so they run away and start hitchhiking, only to be picked up by two policemen. They manage to flee into a railroad yard and hop a train that turns out to be refrigerated. Finally they decide to turn themselves in -- just as they learn that the real crooks have been apprehended.
Three on a Limb
Act like Molly's Mother
event1936 star_border 5.7
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Scoutmaster Elmer Brown loses his heart to the pretty carhop who works in a drive-in diner. Complicating his romantic longings is her policeman fiancé. When he tries to eliminate Elmer by giving him traffic tickets for every conceivable violation, the girl takes pity on the martyred Elmer and they drive off together. She informs him that she is also fending off another suitor, Oscar; and to make matters worse, her father is backing the cop while her mother promotes Oscar. Eventually all three men wind up competing for her hand at a chaotic wedding ceremony that ends with Elmer winning his beloved.
Miss Polly
Act like Mrs. Frisbee
event1941 star_border 5
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A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.
Bridge Wives
Act like Al's wife, Mrs. Smith
event1932 star_border 6
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A pseudonymous Roscoe Arbuckle directs this comedy short about a man who goes insane because of his wife's bridge addiction.
Michael O'Halloran
Act like Ella (uncredited)
event1937
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A wealthy woman's wild lifestyle finally drives her husband to take their two children, move out of the house and file for divorce. Positive she'll lose her children unless she shows the judge that she's changed her wild ways, she takes in two poor street kids, a brother and sister.
Sea Devils
Act like Miss McGonigle - Librarian (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.7
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Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.
Queenie of Hollywood
Act like Landlady (uncredited)
event1931
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Three girls apply for maid jobs at a resort but are taken for royalty when a telegram about their dog Queenie is intercepted. Film producers vie to put them under contract but selling a script idea finally saves them when the bill comes due.
Hollywood Luck
event1932
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Hollywood Luck is a 1932 Comedy short.
Hollywood Lights
Act like Landlady
event1932 star_border 1
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Hollywood Lights is a 1932 Comedy.
Mother's Holiday
Act like Mother
event1932 star_border 2
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Mother's Holiday is a 1932 Comedy
Idle Roomers
event1931
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Idle Roomers is a 1931 Comedy short.
Second Honeymoon
Act like Maid
event1930 star_border 5
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A wealthy man's wife becomes bored with him, so his friend decides to trick her into believing her husband is having an affair to "wake her up".
Girls Can Play
event1937 star_border 4
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The Hollywood Post's sports writer, Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley), yearns to be a crime reporter, and thus looks for foul play on even the most routine assignments. In writing a piece about a girl's softball team, Jimmy discovers that their sponsor, Foy Harris (John Gallaudet), is a notorious racketeer who has supposedly gone straight. Jimmy suspects Foy is still up to no good. He begins hanging around the team to do a bit of snooping, and also to be near the cute new pitcher, Ann Casey (Jacqueline Wells).
Melody Trail
Act like Nell - Cowgirl Foreman
event1935 star_border 4.7
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Gene goes after the badguys after they kidnap the baby he should have been babysitting.
Amateur Crook
Act like Sarah, Ephraim's Wife
event1937 star_border 1
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Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.
The Harvester
Act like Miss Sophronia
event1936
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In a small town in Indiana in the 1890s, the domineering and ambitious Mrs. Biddle arranges a marriage between her spoiled daughter Thelma and the town's prize catch, harvester David Langston, who is wedded to the soil. David is friends with orphan Ruth Jameson and, although she is in love with him, he eventually gives in to the machinations of Mrs. Biddle and consents to marry Thelma. Meanwhile, technological advances come to town, including its first gasoline buggy, galvanic battery, and metal bathtub fitted with running water. When Mrs. Biddle tries to convince David to give up the farming life and join her husband in real estate, Mr. Biddle, hen-pecked and dissatisfied with city life, warns David against selling his farm.
It Happened Tomorrow
event1944 star_border 6.7
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A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
Love in High Gear
Act like Hotel Maid
event1932
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A young couple making plans to elope are overheard by a jewel thief, who sees a chance to turn the situation to his advantage.
Come on, Cowboys
Act like Bus Passenger Mother
event1937 star_border 5.5
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Harris and Rigby own a circus. Rigby is a counterfeiter and frames his partner. The Mesquiteers learn Rigby is the culprit and get a confession from one of his men only to lose the case when the man is murdered in jail. The Mesquiteers try again and send Lullaby to try and win some of the fake bills in a card game.
Dangerous Holiday
Act like Aunt Elsie
event1937
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A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
Paradise Express
Act like Landlady
event1937 star_border 7
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A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
Knights Before Christmas
Act like Ma
event1930
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Karl Dane and his pal come home for a disastrous Christmas.
Hello, Everybody!
Act like Ettie
event1933 star_border 6
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The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole town, depends on Kate to hold everything together. The power company wants to build a dam which will require flooding many of the farms; Kate is holding out; if Kate sells, everyone else will sell; if Kate refuses, the rest of the town will refuse as well. Randolph Scott meets Kate's beautiful sister, Sally Blane, at a dance. Randolph Scott, as it turns out, is an agent for the power company. Kate thinks he's just using Sally; Sally believes that he truly likes her. Randolph comes to the farm and appears to woo Kate. Kate remains unconvinced about selling out, but falls for Randolph.
Female Fugitive
Act like Cook who quits
event1938
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Police set up a dragnet to trap an outlaw's wife whom they believe to be his accomplice.
Gunfire
event1934
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The second of four films made by Resolute Productions, Inc. that had Rex Bell, Ruth Mix and Buzz Barton billed above the title, and the basic plot is rather basic as the McGregor clan--Ross, Dan and Alex, arch-enemies of Paradise Ranch owner Jerry Vance--frame him on a murder charge, and Danny Blake, a young cowhand befriended by Jerry, and Mary Vance, an Eastern girl who co-owns the ranch with Jerry, help him clear his name.
Happy Landing
Act like Landlady
event1934
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An action-filled film with outlaws-of-the-clouds at war with the men of the U. S. Flying Service. A young pilot, Nick Ferris, fights to track down a dangerous gang of smugglers and clear his name of an undeserved stigma.
The Trail Drive
Act like Aunt Martha
event1933
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Honest John is pulling off a swindle by buying cattle in Texas with worthless scrip and selling them in New Mexico for cash. Ken is leading the cattle drive not knowing that when they cross the state line Honest John's plan will have succeeded.
Heir to Trouble
Act like Amanda Witherspoon
event1935
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Ken Armstrong (Ken Maynard) finds himself a mine owner and a daddy simultaneously when a friend dies and wills him his mine and his baby. The outlaws eying the mine try to frame the hero for the death.
Saga of Death Valley
Act like Miss Minnie
event1939 star_border 6.2
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When Tasker kills Roy Rogers he takes one of his young sons. Fifteen years later the other son Roy arrives buying a ranch in the valley where Tasker now controls the water supply. Roy organizes the ranchers for a showdown with Tasker not knowing that his brother is Tasker's chief henchman.
The Curtain Falls
Act like Undetermined Secondary Role
event1934 star_border 5
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In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
Pot o' Gold
Act like Boy's Mother (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5.5
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Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
The Land of Missing Men
Act like Martha Evans
event1930 star_border 4
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Steve O'Neil robs the stage and kidnaps Nita to keep Lopez from doing the same. Then he and Buckshot head for Lopez's hideout for a showdown. The townspeople head after them not knowing what they will find.
Westward Bound
Act like Emma
event1930
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After Bob Lansing (Jay Wilsey as Buffalo Bill Jr). is involved in a nightclub scrape, where he meets Montana rancher Madge Holt (Allene Ray)), his father sends him out west with his chauffeur Ben (Ben Corbett). In Montana, they are mistaken for rustlers Dick (Tom London) and Jim (Yakima Canutt), and Bob again meets Madge, who recognizes him but wishes to make things difficult for him.
Terror of the Plains
Act like Rose
event1934
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A ranch hand sets out to prove his father is innocent of murder in this B-movie Western starring cowboy hero Tom Tyler. Disguised as an outlaw, Tom Lansing (Tyler) takes up with a motley crew hiding out in a ghost town to catch the true killer. This 1934 classic co-stars Frank Rice as Lansing's sidekick, Banty, and Roberta Gale as Bess, a beautiful young captive of the outlaw gang who is in desperate need of a hero.
Wells Fargo
Act like Mrs. Jenkins
event1937 star_border 5.1
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In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
Boy Trouble
Act like Receptionist
event1939 star_border 5
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A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
Fatal Lady
Act like American Tourist (uncredited)
event1936
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On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
Walking on Air
Act like Bennett's Maid (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5.8
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A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.
City Limits
Act like Mrs. Benton
event1934 star_border 4
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The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of business, personal and physical problems, meets up with a pair of hoboes from whom he starts to learn how to really enjoy life in ways he never knew were possible.
Dancing Feet
Act like Silas' Secretary
event1936 star_border 5.2
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Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy refuses to accompany Peyton on a slumming trip to a cheap dance hall, and Peyton dances with several of the dowagers and tells them that Silas is practically dying of scarlet fever. The guests hastily depart and Joan joins Peyton at the Dreamland Dance Hall. She is mistaken by Jimmy Cassidy (Edward J. Nugent) as one of the hostesses and decides to dance with him as a lark. One thing follows another and Judy gets disinherited and takes a job at the dance hall through Jimmy and his friend Mabel(Isabel Jewell.) Jimmy confides to Judy his ambition to become a dance instructor over the radio and Judy decides to help him but can't get the needed financial backing. She gets Peyton to front the money, promising him she will reconsider his offer of marriage if Jimmy's plan fails.
The Greater Love
Act like Miss Whipple
event1931
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Blackie Saunders and his young partner Sandy arrive in Indian Springs where Blackie meets his old friend Jim whom he once rode with on the wrong side of the law. Jim is now the Parson but Blackie still carries the reputation of a killer. When the townspeople decide Blackie is not a fit guardian for the boy, Jim convinces Blackie to leave the boy with him. But just after Blackie leaves town, the express office is robbed and it is assumed Blackie did it.
Pirates of the Skies
event1939
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Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
Henry Aldrich for President
Act like Mrs. Perkins
event1941 star_border 4
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Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.
M'Liss
Act like Mrs. Larkin
event1936 star_border 5
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The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteacher.
Made for Each Other
Act like Farmer's Wife (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.2
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A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
Tail Spin
Act like Matilda, Gerry's Maid (Uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.8
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Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
Wife, Husband and Friend
Act like Maid
event1939 star_border 6
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Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Act like Mac Gregor's Maid
event1939 star_border 6
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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.
Lucky Night
Act like Mrs. Applewaite (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.6
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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.
They Shall Have Music
Act like Woman on Steps (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6
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The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
Second Fiddle
Act like Townswoman
event1939 star_border 4.5
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Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
Frontier Marshal
Act like Hotel Maid
event1939 star_border 6.1
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Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
First Comes Courage
Act like Dress designer
event1943 star_border 6.6
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Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.
In Name Only
Act like Hotel Chambermaid (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7
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A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
Reno
Act like Shayne's Secretary
event1939 star_border 6
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A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
The Rains Came
Act like Hindu Woman (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.9
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Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.
The Oregon Trail
Act like Minnie
event1936 star_border 4
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Army Captain takes a leave of absence to find out what happened to his missing father.....
Rangers of Fortune
Act like Mrs. Ellis
event1940 star_border 5
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An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor and his young granddaughter. The trio learn that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron, who's endeavoring to push out ranch owners and take over the territory.
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Act like Housekeeper Annie
event1940 star_border 4
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A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
West of Cheyenne
Act like Rose
event1931
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With his father accused of murder, Tom heads after the real murderer who lives in a town of outlaws where no one is allowed in or out. To gain entry he poses as an escaping outlaw with his sidekick Banty posing as the pursuing lawman. This lets Tom join the gang but there is trouble later when Banty gets caught and sentenced to die.
The Tuttles of Tahiti
Act like Martha (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.5
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After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and romance than earn a living. When Jonas loses the family plantation in a cockfight, Chester saves the day by towing in a large ship abandoned at sea and claiming the salvage. But opening a joint bank account in the name of the Tuttle clan may not have been a wise decision.
The Trouble with Women
Act like Landlady (uncredited)
event1947
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A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.
Bar-L Ranch
Act like Mrs. Polk
event1930
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Bob Tyler has rustler trouble while driving a herd of cattle to the new owner, but he refuses to turn the herd over to Frank Kellogg. He has a run-in with Jean Polk, discovers she is the owner of the cattle, and is fired. With his friend, Barney McCool , Bob snoops around and discovers that Kellogg is behind the rustling.
Young Tom Edison
Act like Mrs. McCarney
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.
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Act like Minor Role (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 7
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
Star Dust
Act like Della
event1940 star_border 4.7
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When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.
Burning Gold
Act like Cousin Lena
event1936 star_border 6
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Jim Thornton is an independent wildcat driller in Califonia who hits a gusher and overnight riches, and marries his sweetheart that is a singer at a local saloon. But he can't handle being rich, and the marriage is on the rocks.
Smart Girl
Act like Miss Brown
event1935
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Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a pile of debts. Pat sets up a successful hat-designing business, providing the sole support for herself and her sister Kay (Gail Patrick). So devoted is Pat to Kay's welfare that she stands by in stoic silence as Kay begins romancing Pat's sweetie Nick Graham (Kent Taylor).
Six-Gun Gold
Act like Jenny Blanchard
event1941
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Three cowboys find that a U.S. Marshal relative is an impostor.
Desperate Trails
Act like Mrs. Plunkett
event1939 star_border 4.5
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A young man helps a marshal in his battle against outlaws.
Henry Aldrich, Editor
Act like Miss Bryant
event1942 star_border 6
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Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of mysterious fires. A mild, timid little fellow named Nero Smith shows up to tip off Henry as to the time and place of the next conflagration. Henry prints the story-and is immediately accused of being the firebug himself!
Deadwood Dick
Act like Miranda
event1940 star_border 6
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Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
Triple Justice
Act like Martha Hathaway
event1940 star_border 6
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Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill a teller. Charged for the crime and jailed, Brad realizes he must escape and track down the real killers since the only one who can prove his innocence is his friend, Sheriff Bill Gregory, who has been shot and will not soon regain consciousness. Chasing down the robbers one by one, he eventually discovers the identity of the gang's ringleader.
The Devil Diamond
Act like Miss Wallace
event1937 star_border 4.7
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A group of thugs tries to steal the cursed title gem from a jeweler who has been hired to cut it into small, saleable pieces.
Jim Hanvey, Detective
Act like Noisy Neighbor (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.9
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Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the emerald, but he discovers that finding it was the easy part; the difficult part is getting it back to its rightful owner, and he winds up involved in a murder in which an innocent man is framed.
Ten Nights in a Bar-room
Act like Fanny
event1931 star_border 4.3
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A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.
Two in the Dark
Act like Housekeeper (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5.9
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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.
Half a Sinner
Act like Margaret Reed
event1940 star_border 5.1
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Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure. Her new confidence inspires her to flirt with complete strangers. When a gangster pays unwanted attention to her, she ditches him and flees in his car, unaware that there's a corpse in the trunk. Determined to recover his stolen vehicle and its incriminating cargo the thug begins a desperate search. The oblivious Anne, comes to the aid of a handsome young man stranded alongside the road. Romance blooms, but after the shocking discovery of a body in the trunk, the duo decide they have to return the car. The bickering lovebirds head back to the city, trailed by both the angry gangster and the cops, who suspect the young couple of murder.
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Act like Jenny
event1940 star_border 6.5
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Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
Don't Turn 'em Loose
Act like Hattie - Webster Housekeeper
event1936 star_border 4.8
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A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote.
Arise, My Love
Act like Spinster (Uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.1
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A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
Mickey's Warriors
Act like Society lady
event1930
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A high society lady tries to bring peace between the Mickey's Scorpions and Stinky Davis' gang.
Mickey's Surprise
Act like Woman in audience
event1929
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Rooney's second sound film. In it, we find Mickey and the gang putting on their own school performance.
Mickey's Champs
event1930
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Mickey and the kids befriend a couple of tramps. But when the tramps are accused of stealing, Mickey and Hambone find themselves trying to expose who they think is the real crook: a doctor in a spooky house.
Mickey's Wildcats
Act like Mrs. Davis
event1931
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Mickey and the gang come across a baby. Billy Barty plays a dual role.
Keeping Company
Act like Mrs. Miller
event1940 star_border 6.4
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Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.
Lucky Partners
Act like Hotel Chambermaid (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6
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Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
Young People
event1940 star_border 4.6
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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.
The Lady in Question
Act like Natalie Roguin #2 (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.6
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When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
Swing Time
event1936 star_border 6.8
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Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky.
Loser's End
Act like Molly O'Hara, the Cook
event1935
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Jack rides into trouble when he meets up with Bill Meeker and his outlaw gang. Rescued from the gang's clutches by Don carlos, he joins forces with Carlos and with the help of Lolita who learns of the gang's next raid, they go after the culprits.
Shut My Big Mouth
Act like Hotel Maid
event1942 star_border 10
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A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
Swing, Sister, Swing
Act like Customer
event1938
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In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last long, but they had fun anyway. Songs include: "Baltimore Bubble," "Gingham Gown," "Just a Bore," "Wasn't It You," "Kaneski Waltz" (Frank Skinner, Charles Henderson).
Sabotage
Act like (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7
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The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
Keep 'Em Slugging
Act like Lady in 'poiple'
event1943 star_border 5.5
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A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
The Sundown Kid
Act like Agnes Peabody
event1942
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A Pinkerton agent masquerades as a criminal in order to infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters that is using wealthy widow Lucy Randall as a front. Arriving at the gang's hideout the Dawson ranch, Red discovers that the counterfeiting ring is headed by Mrs. Randall's attorney J. Richard Spencer and Dawson himself.
The Shepherd of the Hills
Act like Mrs. Palestrom
event1941 star_border 6.6
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Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred rampant in the mountains. However, the arrival of a stranger, Daniel Howitt, begins to positively affect the mountain people, who learn to shed their hatred under his gentle influence.
Little Orvie
Act like Mrs. Jackson
event1940 star_border 7
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Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.
Young Blood
Act like Mrs. Pettiwell
event1932
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A reformed gunfighter battles a crooked sheriff who used to be a member of his gang.
Big Calibre
Act like Woman at Dance
event1935
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Intent on avenging his father's murder, Roy Neal and his sidekick Rusty find themselves in the border town of Gladstone where Neal is mistakenly arrested for the robbery of a mail truck. After escaping, Neal joins up with pretty June Bowers whose father has apparently also been murdered. Neal, suspecting two of the town's leading businessmen of being the murderers, tries to flush them out before the sheriff can lock him up again.
In Old Cheyenne
Act like Miss Smith
event1941 star_border 4.1
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Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real bad guy is.
Jesse James at Bay
Act like Mrs. Emmy Davis
event1941 star_border 5
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When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a Jesse look alike in Burns, hires him to wreck havoc on the ranchers. When Jesse kills Burns he switches clothes and goes after the culprits.
In Old California
Act like Mrs. Coggins
event1942 star_border 5.1
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Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
Valley of the Sun
Act like Spinster
event1942 star_border 5.8
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An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
The Great Gildersleeve
Act like Second Old Crow
event1942 star_border 5.9
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A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew.
The Great Man's Lady
Act like City Editor's Secretary
event1941 star_border 6.3
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In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
Go West, Young Lady
Act like Townswoman
event1941 star_border 6.9
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A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
Motive for Revenge
Act like Mrs. Kenilworthy - Housekeeper
event1935 star_border 5
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Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in poverty...
I Stole a Million
Act like Visitor in Hospital (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6
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A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
Assassin of Youth
Act like Henrietta Frisbee
event1938 star_border 2.9
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A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends.
Honeymoon Beach
Act like Ma Watts
event1932
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Glenn Tryon is at his Bachelor's Dinner, attended only by a dozen of his girl friends, prior to marrying Connie Watts but Ma Watts has plans for Connie to marry playboy Billy Bevan, who is unaware of Ma's intentions, as is Blondie who has plans of her own regarding Billy. The laughs here are only slightly less scarce than the chicken in the boarding house chicken-and-dumplings in "True Grit."
Woman of the Year
Act like Mrs. Calverton (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.9
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Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Slightly Dangerous
Act like Burden's maid (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 5.8
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Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
Quiet Please, Murder
Act like Miss Philbert
event1943 star_border 6.8
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A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
Tale of a Dog
Act like Gossiper
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.
She Knew All the Answers
Act like Woman Applicant
event1941 star_border 6.3
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Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side but complications ensue.
A Stranger in Town
Act like Hotel Maid
event1943 star_border 6.5
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In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Act like Josephine-the Maid
event1942 star_border 5.8
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A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.
Crime Ring
Act like Alice-Phoebe's Maid
event1938 star_border 4.7
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Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.
The Monster and the Girl
Act like Woman Social Organizer (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5.8
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After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
Captive Wild Woman
Act like Beth's Murdered Neighbor (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 5.2
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An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
The West Side Kid
Act like Landlady
event1943
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Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her time to parties; his daughter Gloria is in one scandal after another, changing husbands as often as her moods, and son Jerry spends his time getting drunk and chasing women. Sam hires gangster Johnny April to bump him off but Johnny, liking the old man, defers the killing and sets about making the family appreciate Sam.
Calling All Pa's
Act like Grandma Thunderstruck (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6
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In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood.
Scattergood Baines
Act like Clara Potts
event1941 star_border 6
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Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd business maneuvering, he manages to open up a hardware store. Twenty years later he has become a prosperous and respected member of the community, a member of the local school board and the owner of a railroad that transports timber to the local sawmill. Problems begin to arise, however, when a young schoolteacher he has hired turns out to be not quite what he expected, and the mill owners pressure Scattergood to sell them his railroad, with the idea of raising the transportation fees paid to them by the local loggers.
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Act like Clara Potts
event1941
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Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after being unjustly imprisoned, and a young chemist who is trying to invent a color television but is being opposed by his girlfriend's father, who wants the girl to marry a pharmacist like himself instead of some crazy inventor.
San Diego I Love You
Act like Mrs. Callope
event1944 star_border 6.3
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A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
A Song to Remember
Act like Madame Lambert (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 6.2
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Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.
Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
Act like Woman at Radio Station (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 4.6
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A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.
Hidden Enemy
Act like Aunt Mary
event1940 star_border 5
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Reporter vs. German spies and their new metal.
His Weak Moment
event1933
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A comedy short.
Jungle Woman
Act like Beth's Neighbor (archive footage / uncredited)
event1944 star_border 4.9
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Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.
You're in the Army Now
Act like Farmer's Wife
event1941 star_border 3.6
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Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
Overland Stage Raiders
event1938 star_border 5
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After gold shipments from a mining town have been hijacked, the three Mesquiteers buy a plane to fly the gold out. The owner of the shipping line brings in Eastern gangsters to thwart them.
Is Everybody Happy?
Act like Mrs. Broadbelt
event1943
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This is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist.
Pillow of Death
event1945 star_border 6.5
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Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary have an affair. When Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a psychic with questionable motives tries to contact the deceased woman. Soon, Wayne begins seeing visions of his dead wife, and other people involved with the case begin to be killed, one by one.
One Foot in Heaven
Act like Woman Gossip (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.6
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Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Boy Oh Boy!
Act like Woman with fur
event1932
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To celebrate Father and Son Week, Andy takes his son roller skating.
Hunted Men
Act like Miss Quinn
event1938 star_border 6
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Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. Joe escapes through a window and hails a taxi, but when he gets nervous at the sound of sirens, he jumps out. Hardware salesman Peter Harris accidentally hits Joe with his car, and unharmed, Joe seizes this opportunity to hide in Peter's car. Peter is so drunk that Joe is able to con him into believing that he is Charles Edwards, a fellow hardware man who was with him at a convention, and in the guise of friendship, accompanies Peter to his suburban home. The next morning, Joe gets antsy and wants to leave, but Peter's family, his wife Mary, young son Robert and daughter Jane all entreat him to stay.
You and Me
Act like Mother of Nasty Little Girl (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.7
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Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
Broadway
Act like Will's Wife (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.5
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Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
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