
Birthday:
03-16-1861
Deathday:
06-06-1940 (79 years)
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
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Off to the Races
Act like Granny Jones
event1937
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The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.
Babes in Toyland
Act like The Widow Peep
event1934 star_border 6.4
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Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.
The Eyes of the World
Act like The Maid (prologue)
event1930
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The Eyes of the World is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Henry King and written by Brewster Morse and Clarke Silvernail. The film stars Eulalie Jensen, Florence Roberts, Una Merkel, and Nance O'Neil.
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Act like Mrs. Bowling Green
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.
Les Misérables
Act like Toussaint
event1935 star_border 7.2
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In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Dangerously Yours
Act like Mrs. Lathem
event1933
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A playboy asks his friend to borrow his yacht to entertain his girlfriend.
The Fighting Westerner
Act like Mrs. Ballard
event1935 star_border 5
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A mining engineer teams up with a crusty deputy sheriff to solve the mystery killings at an old mine where the owner's family waits for him to die, and where a valuable radium strike may have been made.
Torch Singer
Act like Mother Angelica
event1933 star_border 5.2
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When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she searches for the child she gave up.
Hoopla
Act like Ma Benson
event1933 star_border 6
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A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.
Sapho
Act like Fanny Le Grand / Sapho
event1913
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A woman with a notorious past enchants a student preparing for the foreign service.
The Jones Family in Hollywood
Act like Granny Jones
event1939
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Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
The Nut Farm
Act like Ma Barton, Willie's Mother
event1935 star_border 8
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Bob and Helen decide to move to California and make a fresh start. Bob wants to buy a nut farm, but Helen dreams of being in the movies. While Bob is looking for a farm to buy, Helen is taken in by a group of scam artists who promise to make her a star. Helen's brother Willie tries to prevent her and Bob from losing all their money to the scam artists.
Big Business
Act like Granny Jones
event1937 star_border 5
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A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
Allan Quatermain
Act like Mrs. McKenzie
event1920
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Early South African lensed adaptation of King Solomon's Mines featuring Allan Quatermain and his adventures.
The Vulture's Prey
Act like Landlady
event1922
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South African Film
The Man Who Was Afraid
Act like Mrs. Robinson
event1920
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South African Film
Public Opinion
Act like Mrs. Buttons
event1935
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A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Act like Agnes
event1934 star_border 5
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Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
Too Many Cooks
Act like Mrs. Cook
event1931 star_border 2.5
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A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.
Daring Daughters
Act like Ginger Hemingway, the Grandmother
event1933
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A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.
Love on a Budget
Act like Granny Ida Jones
event1938
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This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
Everything’s Rosie
Act like Mrs. Lowe
event1931 star_border 4
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A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
Personal Secretary
Act like Mrs. J. J. Farrell
event1938
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Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.
Sons of Steel
Act like Sarah Mason
event1934 star_border 5
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Chadburne Steel is run by two brothers, old men. They each have different plans for their sons. Curtis (Holmes Herbert) has put Ronald (William Blakewell) through college in style...
Westward Passage
Act like Mrs. Ottendorf
event1932 star_border 5.8
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A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
A Trip to Paris
Act like Granny Jones
event1938 star_border 1
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The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.
Too Busy to Work
Act like Granny Jones
event1939
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The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
The Cracked Ice Man
Act like Betty's Mother
event1934
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Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
Lilly Turner
Act like Wedding Guest Calling for Bride (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.6
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One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
Fanny Foley Herself
Act like Lucy
event1931
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A vaudeville performer has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two daughters.
Vanity Street
Act like Annie - Fern's Maid (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.8
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A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
The Country Doctor
Act like Grandmother (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6
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A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
Fast Workers
Act like Short Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.3
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Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his money. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.
On Their Own
Act like Granny Jones
event1940
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The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue.
Make Me a Star
Act like Mrs. Gashwiler
event1932 star_border 5.5
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A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
Kept Husbands
Act like Henrietta Parker
event1931 star_border 5.3
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A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.
Every Saturday Night
Act like Granny Evers
event1936
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First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.
Harmony Lane
Act like Mrs. Foster
event1935 star_border 3.5
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The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.
Everybody's Baby
Act like Granny Jones
event1939
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The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
Student Tour
Act like Elderly Woman
event1934 star_border 5
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A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
Melody Cruise
Act like Miss Potts
event1933 star_border 5.2
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A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.
Young as You Feel
Act like Granny Jones
event1940
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Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.
What Price Hollywood?
Act like Elderly Brown Derby Diner (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.7
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Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
Your Uncle Dudley
Act like Janet Dixon
event1935 star_border 1
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A paint store owner turns his attention to civic affairs while his business falls apart.
Double Alibi
Act like Landlady
event1940 star_border 4.5
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A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
The Storm
Act like Mrs. Roberts
event1938
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A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
Four Parts
Act like Mother
event1934
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Charley is one of four identical brothers, which drives his girlfriend nuts.
Cleopatra
Act like Lady Flora
event1934 star_border 6.1
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The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
Back to Nature
Act like Granny Jones
event1936
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The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography.
Hot Water
Act like Granny Jones
event1937 star_border 5
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The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
Borrowing Trouble
Act like Granny Jones
event1937 star_border 6
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The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
Down on the Farm
Act like Granny Jones
event1938
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Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Safety in Numbers
Act like Granny Jones
event1938
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The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
Educating Father
Act like Granny Jones
event1936
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Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.
Every Night at Eight
Act like Mrs. Murgatroyd (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 7.5
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Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
The Life of Emile Zola
Act like Madame Zola
event1937 star_border 6.7
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A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola wins success writing about the unsavory side of Paris and settles into a comfortable upper-class life. However, Zola's complacency is shaken when Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is imprisoned for being a spy. Realizing that Dreyfus is an innocent victim of anti-Semitism, Zola boldly pens a newspaper article exposing the truth, is charged with libel and must defend himself in a dramatic courtroom testimony.
Silent Night
Act like Jenny
event2020 star_border 5.1
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Mark, a low end South London hitman recently released from prison, tries to go straight for his daughter, but gets drawn back in by Alan, his former cellmate, to do one final job.
Quick Millions
Act like Granny Jones
event1939 star_border 7.5
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In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
The All-American
Act like Mrs. King
event1932 star_border 5
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The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
Nobody's Baby
Act like Mrs. Mason - Landlady
event1937 star_border 5.7
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Kitty Reily (Patsy Kelly) and Lena Marchetti (Lyda Roberti) meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompetent Lena. They keep running into each other until Kitty resigns to being friends with Lena when they become hospital nurses and share a dorm room.
Officer Thirteen
Act like Granny
event1932 star_border 6.2
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A motorcycle policeman's partner is deliberately run off the road and killed by a member of a syndicate that controls the gambling--and much of the justice system--in his town. When the killer is freed because of perjured testimony and the corrupt legal system, the dead officer's partner quits the force and vows to bring the killer to justice.
Miss Scarlet and the Duke
Act like Athena (1 ep.)
event2020 star_border 7.4
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When Eliza Scarlet's father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detective known as the Duke. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London.
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