Ethel Sykes

Birth : 1906-06-12, Kapowsin, Washington, USA

Death : 1961-01-01

Movies

Give Me Your Heart
Leaving Guest (uncredited)
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
Lady Be Careful
Dancer
Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that he can "thaw" icy beauty-contest winner Billie (Mary Carlisle). What follows is a series of misunderstandings, arguments and reconciliations, all wrapped up in a happy-ever-after conclusion.
Big Brown Eyes
Manicurist (Uncredited)
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
Hitch Hike To Heaven
Kitty O'Brien
A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his family relationships at risk.
Upper Cutlets
Walter Catlett wants to join a fight club.
The Brain Busters
Billy Gilbert and Vince Barnett moved over to the remnants of the Christie Brothers for a series of short subjects in which they played variations on Laurel & Hardy. Here, in this short subject, they get hired to run a used car lot and steal a car for James Morton.
Why Pay Rent?
Betty Whipple
Elmer fixes up a room for his just-married, freeloading brother-in-law and wife. When the newlyweds show up, Henry brings a surprise in the form of stepson Junior. The apartment is now too small, so Henry decides that they'll buy a lot and build a do-it-yourself home, a disaster in the making when Junior switches the house's part numbers. It doesn't help matters that Elmer, Henry and the wives are all incompetent.
Imitation of Life
Party Guest (uncredited)
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Blind Date
Model
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
Half-Baked Relations
A courtroom comedy! In this short we follow suspect Mr. Wilson (Clyde) as he explains the events leading to him hitting brother-in-law Homer Healy (Jack Shutta) with a monkey wrench. This was Andy Clyde's last short film for Educational Pictures.
It Happened One Night
Maid of Honor (uncredited)
A renegade reporter and a young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
Dora
A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.
Gents of Leisure
Chester and Vernon are a couple of loafers who find a dollar and treat themselves to a meal, unaware that the dollar has fallen out of their money pouch. They must eat and run, and the plot escalates to an all out train chase in the best slapstick fashion.
The Florodora Girl
Florodora Sextette Member (uncredited)
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
Into Society and Out
Pearl
This amusing and diverting comedy depicts the trials and tribulations of a French nobleman to win the hand of a rich American girl. He is about to succeed when Fate, in the form of two tramps, steps in and he has to abdicate in favor of the higher power.