Barbara Bedford

Born: 1903-07-19

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Barbara Bedford (born Violet May Rose; July 19, 1903 – October 25, 1981) was an American actress who appeared in dozens of silent movies. Her career declined after the introduction of sound, but she continued to appear in small roles until 1945. After high school she set out for Hollywood. She had written many fan letters to actor William S. Hart, and he helped her get a small role in his 1920 movie The Cradle of Courage. While working as an extra that same year on The White Circle, she was noticed by fellow cast member John Gilbert, who recommended her to director Maurice Tourneur. Tourneur cast her alongside Gilbert in Deep Waters. Tourneur also cast her in The Last of the Mohicans, where she was the love interest for Alan Roscoe, whom she later married in real life. In 1925 she appeared opposite Hart in his final film, Tumbleweeds, a key western of the silent period. She starred in the 1926 silent film Old Loves and New and in Mockery with Lon Chaney the following year. When her career declined after the switch to sound, she signed with MGM in 1936 to play bit and extra parts. Her last known film appearance was in 1945.


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Born to Dance

as Hector's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1936-11-27

On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but...

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Go West

as Baby's Mother on Stagecoach (uncredited)
Released: 1940-12-06

Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his...

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Boom Town

as Nurse (uncredited)
Released: 1940-08-30

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both...

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Du Barry was a Lady

as Ambrose's Wife (uncredited)
Released: 1943-08-13

Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with...

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I Love You Again

as Miss Stingecombe - Larry's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1940-08-09

Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and...

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Love Crazy

as Renny's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1941-05-23

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of...

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Boys Town

as Nun (uncredited)
Released: 1938-09-08

Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of...

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On Borrowed Time

as Mrs. James Northrup (uncredited)
Released: 1939-07-07

Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather...

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Reunion in France

as Mme. Vigouroux (uncredited)
Released: 1942-12-25

Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a...

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The Keeper of the Bees

as Nurse
Released: 1935-07-14

A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes...

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Ship Ahoy

as Mrs. Loring
Released: 1942-04-16

Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a...

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Third Finger, Left Hand

as Woman at Railroad Station
Released: 1940-10-11

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male...

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It May Happen to You

as Nurse (uncredited)
Released: 1937-06-05

From MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Mobsters convince a meat packing company employee to...

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Souls for Sale

as Self - Celebrity Actress in Commissary
Released: 1923-04-22

A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.

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Maisie Was a Lady

as Nurse (Uncredited)
Released: 1941-01-10

Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who...

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Honky Tonk

as Salvation Army Woman
Released: 1941-10-01

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but...

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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

as Neighbor
Released: 1939-12-01

Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get...

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Idiot's Delight

as Nurse #1
Released: 1939-01-27

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are...

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Girls of the Big House

as Visitors Matron
Released: 1945-11-02

A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town...

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Mockery

as Countess Tatiana Alexandrova
Released: 1927-08-13

There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei...

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Born to Sing

as Woman at Accident Scene (uncredited)
Released: 1942-02-18

A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real...

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Best Foot Forward

as Chaperone at Dance
Released: 1943-10-08

Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball...

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We Who Are Young

as Hospital Phone Operator (uncredited)
Released: 1940-07-19

A man violates company policy by getting married.

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Big City

as Woman Who Screams (uncredited)
Released: 1937-09-03

Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in...

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Sergeant Madden

as Nurse
Released: 1939-03-24

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

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Sky Murder

as Grand's Maid
Released: 1940-09-27

This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of...

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The Last of the Mohicans

as Cora Munro
Released: 1920-11-21

As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian...

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The Earl of Chicago

as Ramsey's Secretary Martha Jackson (uncredited)
Released: 1940-01-05

A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the...

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3 Kids and a Queen

as Nurse
Released: 1935-10-21

An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She...

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Dr. Kildare Goes Home

as Carew's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1940-09-06

A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.

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Dancing Co-Ed

as Secretary (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1939-09-29

After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and...

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Slightly Dangerous

as Customer (uncredited)
Released: 1943-04-01

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents...

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Four Girls in White

as Nurse Behind Counter
Released: 1939-01-27

Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there....

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Little Nellie Kelly

as Miss Wilson (uncredited)
Released: 1940-11-22

Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and...

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Calling Dr. Kildare

as Dr. Carew's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1939-04-28

Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare...

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Tomorrow's Youth

as Miss Booth
Released: 1934-10-14

A look at how his parents' divorce affects the life of a young boy.

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Young Dr. Kildare

as Nurse (uncredited)
Released: 1938-10-14

A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a...

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Whistling in the Dark

as Cult Members / Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Released: 1941-08-08

The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is...

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The Death Kiss

as Script Girl
Released: 1932-12-05

When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin...

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Condemned to Live

as Martha Kristan
Released: 1935-09-15

After a series of murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during...

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Angel of Mercy

as Wife (uncredited)
Released: 1939-05-20

This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross.

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Presenting Lily Mars

as Assistant Boardinghouse Manager
Released: 1943-04-29

Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a...

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Main Street on the March!

as Nurse (uncredited)
Released: 1941-12-09

This Best Short Subject Academy Award winning film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the...

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Stronger Than Desire

as Miss Watson - Flagg's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1939-06-30

An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

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Navy Blue and Gold

as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Released: 1937-11-19

Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.

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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

as Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1943-05-08

In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are...

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The Spoilers

as Helen Chester
Released: 1923-08-26

Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.

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Sunny

as Margaret Manners
Released: 1930-11-09

A showgirl falls for a society boy but has to win over his family.

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Woman Against Woman

as Nurse Sherwood
Released: 1938-06-24

A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling...

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That Mothers Might Live

as Nun Reading Book (uncredited)
Released: 1938-04-30

That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The...

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Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

as Miss Howard (uncredited)
Released: 1939-07-21

Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual...

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Tumbleweeds

as Molly Lassiter
Released: 1925-12-27

William S. Hart stars in this 1925 silent film as a cowboy intent on claiming land during the...

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Lost Angel

as Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Released: 1943-12-23

Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest...

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The Acquittal

as Edith Craig
Released: 1923-11-19

When a wealthy man is found murdered in his bedroom, one of his two adopted sons is arrested and...

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Gold Rush Maisie

as Mrs. Hartley (Uncredited)
Released: 1940-07-26

Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet...

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That Inferior Feeling

as Bride (uncredited)
Released: 1940-01-20

Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of...

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Rich Man, Poor Girl

as Kate
Released: 1938-08-12

A millionaire courts a working-class woman.

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How to Read

as Dental Patient (uncredited)
Released: 1938-08-27

Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.

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Nazi Agent

as Woman (uncredited)
Released: 1942-03-01

Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he...

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The Cavalier

as Lucia D'Arquista
Released: 1928-11-01

In old Mexico a masked rider (Talmadge) and an impoverished girl (Bedford) fall in love, against...

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1-2-3-Go!

as Nurse
Released: 1941-04-26

While playing baseball, Mickey runs into the street to catch a fly ball and is struck by a car....

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Who's Superstitious?

as Wife
Released: 1943-01-02

This short film examines the origins of several superstitions including crossing your fingers,...

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The Mad Whirl

as Margie Taylor
Released: 1925-03-02

A teenager with permissive parents gets too caught up in wild parties and the fast life.

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Three on a Limb

as Addie
Released: 1936-01-03

Scoutmaster Elmer Brown loses his heart to the pretty carhop who works in a drive-in diner....

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Sucker List

as Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1941-07-26

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to...

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Tol'able David

as Rose Kinemon
Released: 1930-11-15

Tol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by...

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Brilliant Marriage

as Brenda
Released: 1936-03-25

When a wealthy heiress discovers the terrible family secret that has been hidden from her since...

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Within the Law

as Sarah - Gilder's Secretary
Released: 1939-03-17

A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.

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Pound Foolish

as Mayor's Secretary
Released: 1940-01-27

An expose of attempts by wealthy people to avoid payment of customs duties. Part of the MGM...

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The Grand Bounce

as Doctor's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1937-05-22

A man writes a check for $1,000 to cover a gambling debt. The problem is that he doesn't have...

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Inflation

as Woman in Close-Out Sale Montage (uncredited)
Released: 1942-01-01

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

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Miracle Money

as Miss Grant (uncredited)
Released: 1938-03-26

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, doctors scam patients with a fake cure for cancer.

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The Chaser

as Brandon's Secretary
Released: 1938-07-29

A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop...

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The Haunted House

as Nancy
Released: 1928-11-04

Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of...

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Found Alive

as Edith Roberts
Released: 1933-04-11

When a California mother loses custody of her young son to her ex-husband, she flees with the...

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Meet the People

as Ritz Patron (uncredited)
Released: 1944-06-01

A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute...

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The Notorious Lady

as Mary Marlowe / Mary Brownlee
Released: 1927-03-26

A man kills a man he finds alone with his wife. Although she is innocent of any wrong doing the...

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Florian

as Kingston's Secretary
Released: 1940-06-05

Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought...

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The Lash

as Lupe
Released: 1930-12-14

A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people...

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The Lady from Nowhere

as Mollie Carter
Released: 1931-08-01

A young couple pose as criminals in order to get the goods on their crooked bosses.

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All About Hash

as Alfalfa's Mother
Released: 1940-03-30

Mickey's parents are constantly quarreling because his mother serves hash every Monday night....

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You, the People

as Rooming House Diner
Released: 1940-11-30

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his...

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Ring Around the Moon

as Carol Anderson
Released: 1936-02-15

Despite being in love with coworker Kay Duncan, high-flying newspaperman Ross Graham winds up...

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The Public Pays

as Markovitz's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1936-10-10

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is...

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The First Hundred Years

as Sadie (uncredited)
Released: 1938-03-12

David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state,...

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Midnight Phantom

as Kathleen Ryan
Released: 1935-11-26

A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is...

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Tiny Troubles

as Alfalfa's mother
Released: 1939-02-18

Alfalfa "trades in" his whining baby brother for another baby--who turns out to be a midget...

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Women Who Give

as Emily Swift
Released: 1924-03-03

Jonathan Swift, stern Cape Cod businessman, has ambitions for his children, Emily and Noah,...

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The Big Punch

as Hope Standish
Released: 1921-02-13

Buck, who is preparing to enter a theological seminary, aids his brother and some friends who...

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Sons of Steel

as Miss Peters
Released: 1934-12-14

Chadburne Steel is run by two brothers, old men. They each have different plans for their sons....

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Desert Vengeance

as Anne Dixon
Released: 1931-01-25

Brother and sister Hugh and Anne Dixon pull their fake suicide scam on Jim Cardew. Hugh leaves a...

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A Girl of the Limberlost

as Elvira Carney
Released: 1934-10-14

Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her...

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Brothers

as Doris LaRue
Released: 1931-05-18

Young orphaned brothers Tom and Bob are separated when Bob is taken to an orphan asylum by the...

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The Broken Mask

as Caricia
Released: 1928-01-01

Pertio, an Argentine dancer, has a severely scarred face that has kept him from succeeding in...

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Seeing Hands

as Ben's Mother (uncredited)
Released: 1943-07-03

This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with...

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Step on It!

as Lorraine Leighton
Released: 1922-05-29

Brother of Lorraine Leighton is falsely accused of rustling and murder and shipped off to jail....

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Broadway Serenade

as Gracie (uncredited)
Released: 1939-04-07

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they...

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Alfalfa's Double

as Alfalfa's Mother
Released: 1940-01-20

Our Gang member Alfalfa comes face to face with his wealthy lookalike Cornelius.

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Easy Money

as Mrs. Ada Turner
Released: 1936-06-13

Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to...

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Women in Hiding

as Head Nurse Miss Townsend (uncredited)
Released: 1940-06-22

In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of...

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Burn 'Em Up O'Connor

as Woman in Movie House (uncredited)
Released: 1939-01-13

An auto mechanic suspects sabotage in a recent series of fatal racecar accidents.

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The Mine with the Iron Door

as Secretary
Released: 1936-05-06

Having acquired the controlling interest in the Eureka Discovery Corporation for five-hundred...

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The Sporting Lover

as uncredited
Released: 1926-06-16

Captain Terrance Connaughton loses his stable of horses in a card game with Algernon Cravens.

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Wedding Worries

as Miss Douglas (uncredited)
Released: 1941-12-13

The Our Gang kids worry that Darla's new stepmother will be an evil stepmother like of fairy...

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Family Troubles

as uncredited
Released: 1943-04-03

Our Gang member Janet Burston believes that her family is neglecting her, so she decides to run...

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The Lady or the Tiger?

as Lady Behind the Door
Released: 1942-03-28

Author Frank R. Stockton, often asked the question, finally decides to divulge the untold ending...

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Old Loves and New

as Marny
Released: 1926-04-11

Gervas Carew's wife, Elinor, has deserted him while he was fighting for France, for Lord Clyde...

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Smoke Bellew

as Joy Gastrell
Released: 1929-01-25

A tale of the great Alaska gold rush in which a man falsely accused of murder tracks down the...

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The Unfoldment

as Martha Osborne
Released: 1922-01-01

Katherine Nevin and her brother Jack are given positions on the newspaper of James Osborne...

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Come Back, Miss Pipps

as Angry Parent (uncredited)
Released: 1941-10-24

On Mickey's birthday, Miss Pipps, the school teacher, serves cake and ice cream during school...

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On Probation

as Mable Gordon
Released: 1935-04-01

A corrupt politician adopts a young girl. A few years later he finds himself falling in love...

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The Port of Missing Girls

as Ruth King
Released: 1928-03-19

Neglected by her moneyed parents and disillusioned with her boyfriend Buddie Larkins, vocalist...

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The Talker

as Barbara Farley
Released: 1925-05-24

Kate Lennox is bored with suburban life and her husband, Harry. Their next-door neighbors, the...

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The Girl from Gay Paree

as Mary Davis
Released: 1927-10-01

Mary Davis, alone and destitute in New York City, pilfers a meal from a restaurant and eludes...

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The Cradle of Courage

as Nora
Released: 1920-09-19

Former crook 'Square' Kelly serves in the First World War. When he returns from the war, one of...

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Radio Hams

as Mrs. Crane
Released: 1939-05-19

A "Pete Smith Specialty" - a fairly serious look at radio hams in the usual jokey format. Shows...

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A Man's Past

as Yvonne Fontaine
Released: 1927-10-01

Imprisoned at the French garrison on the Isle of St. Noir for putting to death a patient...

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The Face of the World

as Thora
Released: 1921-08-01

Silent Drama

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Flag of Mercy

as Nurse
Released: 1942-01-31

The 1939 dramatic short "Angel of Mercy," about Red Cross founder Clara Barton, is reedited to...

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The Whipping Boss

as Grace Woodward
Released: 1924-02-09

Prison inmates are leased by the state to a lumber company, which makes them work under...

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What Fools Men

as Jenny McFarlan
Released: 1925-09-13

Joseph Greer is a wealthy businessman in New York City with all the trappings including a...

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A Way in the Wilderness

as Sick Farmer's Wife (uncredited)
Released: 1940-06-22

This Passing Parade entry tells the story of Dr. Joseph Goldberger (1874-1929), a Hungarian...

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Percy

as Imogene Chandler
Released: 1925-04-05

Western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle.

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Cinderella of the Hills

as Norris Gradley
Released: 1921-10-23

Hoping to reconcile her divorced parents, Norris Gradley remains with her father, Giles, after...

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The Love Trader

as Luane
Released: 1930-09-25

A woman, raised in the most-strict New England atmosphere, marries a stern, God-fearing sea...

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Song of Revolt

as Peasant Woman (uncredited)
Released: 1937-05-29

This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La...

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The Power of Love

as Maria Almeda
Released: 1922-09-27

World's first 3-D feature film. The film is considered lost.

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American Spoken Here

as Corset Buyer (uncredited)
Released: 1940-11-30

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North...

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Romance Land

as Nan Harvess
Released: 1923-02-11

This silent action comedy features Tom Mix donning a suit of armor to battle an unscrupulous...

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Arabia

as Janice Terhune
Released: 1922-11-05

Tom Mix travels from the desert of the American West to the Sahara desert in this picture, which...

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Sunshine of Paradise Alley

as Sunshine O'Day
Released: 1926-12-15

A wealthy banker wants to tear down a tenement slum to build a factory, but a charming girl who...

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Backstage

as Julia Joyce
Released: 1927-04-01

Julia, Myrtle, Fanny, and Jane - all chorus girls, after weeks of rehearsing for a show, find...

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