Rita La Roy

Rita La Roy

Birth : 1901-10-02,

Death : 1993-02-17

Profile

Rita La Roy

Movies

You're My Everything
Fashion Editor (uncredited)
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.
Sergeant York
Saloon Girl (uncredited)
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
Hold That Woman!
Lulu Driscoll
A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang that has stolen diamonds from a Hollywood movie star has stashed them inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.
Fixer Dugan
Patricia O'Connell
Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas.
The Old Prospector
Screenplay
An old prospector who never made a strike, and his mule, revisit the old ghost towns from their prospecting past.
The Old Prospector
Director
An old prospector who never made a strike, and his mule, revisit the old ghost towns from their prospecting past.
Smashing the Rackets
Reluctant Witness
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
Border G-Man
Rita Browning (as Rita LaRoy)
A federal agent goes undercover in order to capture a gang that's been smuggling munitions and horses near the Texas border.
Come Across
Brunette Gang Moll
A bank robber pulls off a heist and comes out with a good haul. However, he winds up being forced to give most of it to his gangland "friends" to hide him from the police, and who now turn their backs on him when his money runs out.
Condemned Women
Cora
A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.
Flight from Glory
Molly - the Cook
Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens, Richard Lane, Douglas Walton, Paul Guilfoyle, Solly Ward, Walter Miller and Rita LaRoy.
Mountain Music
Mrs. Hamilton B. Lovelace
Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her enthusiasm offsets that small deficit.
Lady from Nowhere
Mabel Donner
A manicurist witnesses a gangland murder. Realizing there was a witness to their crime, the killer tries to track her down and silence her.
The Mandarin Mystery
Martha Kirk
Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.
Hollywood Boulevard
Nella
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Fugitive Lady
Sylvia Brooks
In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief.
Name the Woman
Marie Denton
Directed by Albert S. Rogell. With Richard Cromwell, Arline Judge, Rita La Roy, Charles C. Wilson.
Whirlpool
Thelma
An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.
From Hell to Heaven
Elsie
The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in different ways.
Blonde Venus
'Taxi Belle' Hooper
American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany to have any chance at being cured. Wife Helen returns to night club work to attempt to raise the money and becomes popular as the Blonde Venus. In an effort to get enough money sooner, she prostitutes herself to millionaire Nick Townsend.
The Honor of the Press
Daisy Tellem
Cub reporter Daniel Greely gets a job on a big city newspaper. A string of robberies occur and the owner of the paper blames the police for not rounding up the crooks. Daniel discovers that a coded message in the newspaper's editor's box tips the crooks about each robbery.
Bachelor's Affairs
Sonya - Mrs. Oliver Denton
A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry but the man soon regrets his rash move when she's constantly bored and looking for dancing and excitement, leaving him feel his age. He conspires with a loyal friend to find a suitable man she might run away with so he can divorce her.
Hollywood Speaks
Millie Coreen
The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the awful truth about entertainment business.
Sinners in the Sun
Lil
A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.
While Paris Sleeps
Fifi
To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.
So Big!
Paula Storm (uncredited)
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
Amateur Daddy
Lotti Pelgram
Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on Fred's deathbed request to go to Scotch Valley and take care of his surviving wife and children. When Jim arrives in the small town, he is told that there are two Fred Smith families in Scotch Valley, the rich Smiths and the poor Smiths. Jim assumes that the Smiths he is looking for are the poor ones, and is directed to a house where four children live in poverty.
The Secret Witness
Sylvia Folsom
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder.
The Yellow Ticket
Fania Rubinstein
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
Left Over Ladies
Vera
Two married couples are involved in divorce proceedings; Patricia and Ronny, who are still in love with each other, and Jerry and Amy who couldn't care less for each other. Patricia's friendship with "Duchess," a tragic, aging lady well versed in making mistakes, leads her and Ronny to the avoidance of a mistake.
The Gay Diplomat
Natalie
Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance.
Traveling Husbands
Daisy
A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.
A Holy Terror
Kitty Carroll
Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may know something about it. En route he crashes his plane into Jerry's bathroom; she falls in love with him which makes her suitor Steve jealous.
Chiselers of Hollywood
Three sisters come to Hollywood to be movie stars. Complications arise when two of them fall in love with the same man.
Sin Takes a Holiday
Grace Lawrence
Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from ugly duckling to uninhibited swan and even contemplates having an affair with a man she meets during a trip to Paris.
Check and Double Check
Elinor Crawford
Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party.
Leathernecking
Fortune Teller
Chick Evans is a Marine private in Honolulu, Hawaii. He falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon, and begins to scheme as to how to win her over.
Conspiracy
Nita Strom
Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric mystery writer Winthrop Clavering help unravel the truth about the murder.
Midnight Mystery
Madeline Austen
A fog-shrouded house provides the setting for this early talkies thriller.
Lovin' the Ladies
Louise Endicott
A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to fall for with each other and get engaged within a month.
Lilies of the Field
Florette
Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.
The Delightful Rogue
Nydra
A modern-day pirate vies with a society playboy for the love of a dancer.
The Love Trap
Mary Harrington
A chorus girl loses her job and thus the room she owes back rent on, and ends up being rescued from the street by a dashing rich man. But his family isn't over-accepting of chorus girls joining their family.
Masquerade
Girl
The second version of Louis Joseph Vance's 1907 mystery melodrama The Brass Bowl. The story of a wealthy world traveler and his evil lookalike, the master criminal Anisty.
Don't Be Nervous
The Girl
Gangster leader Nick the Sheik is released from jail and manages to run into "collector of rare coins" Vernon Snodgrass, who looks exactly like him. With the cops after Nick AND Nick's old girlfriend wanting to get the romance cooking, you can imagine the confusion that ensues.