Gertrude Short

Born: 1902-04-06


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The Show

as Lena Driskai
Released: 1927-01-22

Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of...

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The Thin Man

as Marian (uncredited)
Released: 1934-05-25

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get...

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The Son of Kong

as Persistent Reporter (uncredited)
Released: 1933-12-22

Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.

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Blonde Venus

as Sally, Receptionist at Talent Agency (uncredited)
Released: 1932-09-23

In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a...

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'G' Men

as Collins' Moll (uncredited)
Released: 1935-05-04

James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has...

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Broadway Serenade

as 2nd 5&10 Salesgirl (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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Front Page Woman

as Miss Dunn (uncredited)
Released: 1935-07-11

Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes...

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What Price Hollywood?

as Waitress Letting Mary Serve Max (uncredited)
Released: 1932-06-24

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film...

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Laughing Sinners

as Edna
Released: 1931-05-30

Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting...

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Tom, Dick and Harry

as Bridge Matron (uncredited)
Released: 1941-06-13

Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman...

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Leap Year

as Molly Morris
Released: 1924-01-11

A young man, heir to his misogynistic and millionaire uncle, and in love with a nurse, gets in...

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Love Birds

as Burlesque Girl
Released: 1934-05-04

ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the...

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Tip-Off Girls

as 'Boots' Milburn
Released: 1938-04-01

A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs...

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Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley

as Gossip (uncredited)
Released: 1918-03-10

Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family...

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Park Avenue Logger

as Margy MacLean
Released: 1937-03-16

Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of...

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Barbara Frietchie

as Sue Rogers
Released: 1924-09-26

Two lovers in a small town in Maryland are torn apart by the Civil War--she is loyal to the...

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Woman Wanted

as Gertie
Released: 1935-08-02

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into...

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The Blot

as Neighbor Olsen's Daughter (uncredited)
Released: 1921-09-04

Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door...

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Bulldog Drummond

as Barmaid
Released: 1929-05-02

Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the...

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Helldorado

as Mae
Released: 1935-01-05

Arthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her...

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The Talker

as Maud Fells
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 Prisoner

as Lady Jane
Released: 1923-03-18

While traveling in Europe Philip Quentin encounters his former sweetheart, Dorothy Garrison, and...

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The St. Louis Kid

as Babe Smith - the Girl Buck Picks Up
Released: 1934-11-10

Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and...

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The Lily

as Lucie Plock
Released: 1926-10-03

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Niagara Falls

as uncredited
Released: 1932-06-27

Three girls try to evade the landlady while trying to find work.

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Code of the West

as Mollie Thurman
Released: 1925-04-06

Code of the West (1925)

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The Girl in 419

as Lucy - Housekeeper
Released: 1933-05-26

A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much...

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Happiness Ahead

as Party Reveller
Released: 1934-10-27

Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by...

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A Little Princess

as Ermigarde
Released: 1917-11-05

Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he...

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Rent Free

as Justine Tate
Released: 1922-01-01

A penniless artist moves into an abandoned house, but is discovered by the daughter of its...

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Secret Sinners

as Sue's Chum - the Chorus Girl
Released: 1933-10-19

A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to...

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Little Accident

as Miss Clark
Released: 1930-08-03

On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.

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Gold Diggers of Broadway

as Topsy
Released: 1929-08-30

Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.

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Beggar on Horseback

as Gladys Cady
Released: 1925-06-05

Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to...

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Wild Money

as Miss Green
Released: 1937-07-09

A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on...

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The Key

as Evie, the barmaid
Released: 1934-06-09

A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.

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The Hostage

as Sophia (her sister)
Released: 1917-09-10

The Highlanders and Lowlanders are sworn enemies until Lieutenant Kemper, the son of Brigadier...

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Penny Wisdom

as Chloe Smudge (uncredited)
Released: 1937-04-10

A Pete Smith Specialty short on saving an important dinner after the household's cook suddenly...

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The Man Life Passed By

as Paula
Released: 1923-12-24

The Man Life Passed By (1923)

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Riddle Gawne

as Jane Gawne
Released: 1918-08-03

When Gawne finds his brother dying and hears that the killer has run off with his brother's...

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The Only Road

as Bianca
Released: 1918-06-03

Tomboy Nita, a vegetable seller in a small Californian town, believes herself to be the daughter...

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My Lady's Lips

as Crook girl
Released: 1925-07-01

A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A...

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The Gold Diggers

as Topsy St. John
Released: 1923-09-22

Stephen Lee doesn't want his nephew Wally Sanders to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, because he...

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Luke's Movie Muddle

as uncredited
Released: 1916-12-03

Lonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put...

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Crinoline and Romance

as Sibil Vane
Released: 1923-02-05

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Trial Marriage

as Prudence
Released: 1929-03-10

Constance Bannister enters into a trial marriage contract with Dr. Thorvald Ware and finds...

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Easy to Get

as Gertrude
Released: 1931-12-07

In the third of Pathe's Gay Girls comedy series, Harry Myers is a married man who strings one of...

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Headin' West

as Potato Polly
Released: 1922-02-13

Bill Perkins, a war veteran bumming his way across the country with an airplane pilot, is forced...

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Women's Wares

as uncredited
Released: 1927-10-01

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Her Market Value

as Kitty
Released: 1925-02-09

Her Market Value is a 1925 American silent melodrama film directed by Paul Powell and starring...

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A Bit o' Heaven

as A Raggedy Ruggles
Released: 1917-06-16

A young disabled girl invites a poor family, that she often watches playing in the street, over...

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The Masked Woman

as Mimi
Released: 1927-01-16

Baron Tolento lusts for Diane Delatour, his physician's wife, and donates money to their...

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Sweet Adeline

as Cabaret Dancer
Released: 1926-01-14

A shy and sensitive young man is disregarded by his parents and his older brother. Bill becomes...

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You Never Can Tell

as Vera
Released: 1920-09-22

Bebe Daniels is charming in this light comedy, based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Grace...

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The Broadway Hoofer

as Annabelle
Released: 1929-12-15

Broadway dancing star Adele Dorey who, overworked and exhausted, suddenly ups and leaves New...

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The Other Woman's Story

as Gertie Van
Released: 1925-01-25

Robert Marshall’s dying utterance seems to point to Colman Colby (Robert Frazer) as his killer....

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The Narrow Street

as Nell Mangan
Released: 1925-01-04

Simon Haldane works in the office of the Faulkner Iron Works, but he has been raised by his two...

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The Driver Of The Deadwood Coach

as Driver's Daughter
Released: 1912-12-07

A young boy foils outlaw "Bad Bill" from stealing a gold shipment in this classic Western short.

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Tillie the Toiler

as Bubbles
Released: 1927-06-05

Tillie is a secretary always dressed in the height of fashion who tries to capture a millionaire...

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The Purple Mask

as Mary MacLean
Released: 1916-12-25

Cunard turns into The Queen of the Apaches, an outlaw who steals from the rich to gives to the...

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