Clara Blandick

Clara Blandick

Nacimiento : 1876-06-04, Onboard American ship in Hong Kong

Muerte : 1962-04-15

Historia

Clara Blandick (born Clara Blanchard Dickey) was an American stage and screen actress best known for her role as Auntie Em in the beloved 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz.

Perfil

Clara Blandick

Películas

Lo quiso la suerte
Mrs. Peterson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Un entrenador de hípica que pasa por una mala racha pone toda su confianza en su caballo para la próxima competición. No obstante, éste se escapa de su cuadra. Los problemas se complican cuando el sheriff del condado reclama a Dan su caballo al no haber hecho frente al pago de unas facturas. A medida que se acerca la hora del Derby, cuando tenía previsto competir su caballo "Broadway Bill", los nervios atenazan a Dan Brooks, quien una vez que ha recuperado a su caballo se encuentra con un nuevo imprevisto.
Las llaves de la ciudad
Liza, Silas' housekeeper
Durante una convención de alcaldes de ciudades norteamericanas celebrada en San Francisco, dos de estos mandatarios acaban enamorados, con un pequeño problema: mientras que Clarissa gobierna en una pequeña localidad de Maine, Steve es el alcalde de otra comunidad al norte de California. Así que, cuando acaba el congreso, ambos parten para sus respectivos lugares...
Tu eres mi vida
Susan Balmuss
Joe acaba de llegar de la guerra donde ha sido condecorado. Cuando parece que ya ha dejado atrás todos las miserias del ser humano, descubre horrorizado que las desgracias también le esperan en casa. Un mafioso se ha quedado con su club y ha matado a su socio.
The Bride Goes Wild
Aunt Pewtie
Un mujeriego autor de libros infantiles toma prestado un niño para seducir a su ilustradora.
Vivir con papá
Miss Wiggins
La acción se desarrolla hacia 1880, en el domicilio neoyorquino del señor Clarence Day, un hombre que ha hecho fortuna en los negocios y gobierna su casa y a su familia con la mentalidad y los escrúpulos de un contable. La llegada de la tía Cora, acompañada de una jovencita encantadora, y la declaración del señor Day de que no ha sido bautizado produce una conmoción en la familia.
Philo Vance Returns
Stella Blendon
Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend, Philo Vance, to help find the killer.
Así es mi amor
Mrs. Meade
Un excéntrico inventor del siglo XIX está prometido a una hermosa mujer, convencida de que su novio le aportará la estabilidad económica que tanto desea. Al final, el amor se impondrá a la codicia.
Una vida robada
Martha
Mientras pasan el verano en casa de su primo, las hermanas gemelas Kate (Bette Davis) y Patricia (Bette Davis) se enamoran de Bill Emerson (Glenn Ford). Bill se enamora de Patricia y se casa con ella, pero Kate no puede olvidar a Bill.
Claudia and David
Mrs. Barry
The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Connecticut town.
People Are Funny
Grandma Wilson
A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."
Pillow of Death
Belle Kincaid
Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary have an affair. When Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a psychic with questionable motives tries to contact the deceased woman. Soon, Wayne begins seeing visions of his dead wife, and other people involved with the case begin to be killed, one by one.
La dama de la frontera
Abigail
Tras matar al asesino de su compañero, Johnny Hart se convierte en un fugitivo de la ley. En su huida, se detiene en un pueblo y entra en el saloon regentado por una cantante llamada Lorena Dumont. La atracción que hay entre ambos les llevará a un boda con muchas consecuencias.
Can't Help Singing
Aunt Cissy
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
Shadow of Suspicion
Mother Randall
Brash ladies' man James Dale and his partner, wisecracking Everett Northrup, are sent by Cartell & Co. jewelers to safeguard the arrival of the famous Stonehaven necklace at one of its branch offices, recently the victim of a jewel robbery.
La Dubarry era una dama
Old Lady on Subway (uncredited)
Un tipo adinerado se enamora de la artista de un club nocturno, que a su vez ama a un bailarín. Ante el dilema de casarse por dinero o por amor, ella opta por lo primero. Pero el millonario sufre un accidente, y sueña que se encuentra en la época de Luis XV, y que él es monarca que persigue a madame Du Barry, que, claro está, tiene el rostro de su amada. Simpática comedia musical rodada en technicolor, que combina la época actual con de la Francia cortesana. Cuenta con buenos trabajos de Lucille Ball y Gene Kelly, éste cantando los temas musicales "Do I Love You" y "Song of the Rebellion".
El diablo dijo no
Grandmother Van Cleve (uncredited)
Cuando muere a los 70 años, Henry Van Cleve va al Infierno, donde lo recibe un caballero bien vestido que le exige que confiese sus delitos. Henry comienza entonces a contar su historia: desde niño, su acaudalada familia le proporcionó todos los lujos y satisfizo todos sus caprichos. Siendo ya adulto, llevó una vida disipada, entregado a la bebida y a las mujeres. Pero su vida cambió radicalmente el día en que conoció a Martha Strabel, la mujer de sus sueños. Tras escuchar su relato, el caballero le hace saber que en el Infierno no se aceptan personas como él.
Gentleman Jim
Woman on Train (uncredited)
Biografía del campeón de boxeo James J. Corbett. Conocido como 'Gentleman Jim', Corbett se convirtió en el primer campeón del mundo de los pesos pesados en 1892, cuando derrotó a John L. Sullivan, tras la entrada en vigor de las llamadas reglas de Queensberry, que exigían la utilización de unos guantes hinchados para proteger los nudillos, un cuadrilátero con unas medidas determinadas y establecían la duración del combate... En Estados Unidos obtuvo excelentes críticas.
Ruta de Marruecos
Aunt Lucy in Photo (uncredited)
Crosby y Hope son dos náufragos de un crucero por el Mediterráneo que acaban en Arabia intentando conquistar a una bella y exótica princesa.
Anillos en sus dedos
Susan Miller trabaja detrás del mostrador en unos grandes almacenes, y sueña con ropa bonita y el glamour que nunca puede aspirar a tener. Cuando un par de timadores que estafan a millonarios convence a Susan de que puede cumplir todos sus sueños, el trío se dirige a Palm Beach. Susan conoce a John, que dice que está buscando comprar un velero. Creen que él es millonario, los estafadores tratan de venderle un barco que no es suyo, y se apropian de sus ahorros. Hay una petición de boda y la trama se complica.
One Foot in Heaven
Sister Watkins (uncredited)
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Casi un ángel
Nurse
Un joven le pide a una encargada del guardarropa que finja ser su prometida para hacer a su padre feliz en su lecho de muerte. Sin embargo, la salud del anciano mejora y ahora su hijo no sabe cómo decirle que está comprometido con alguien más, en especial porque su padre se ha encariñado con la impostora.
Private Nurse
Miss Phillips
In this brief B programmer, a nurse is hired to care for a widower's daughter who is unaware that her father is a gangster and that her mother is actually still alive. The concerned nurse burdens herself with the difficult responsibility of revealing the unfortunate truth.
Tienda de locos
Customer Seeking Record (uncredited)
Groucho Marx, ayudado por los juguetones Harpo y Chico, organiza un caos en cada planta -e incluso en las paredes y techos- de un gran almacén. En el intento de cortejar a su eterna Dulcinea, la encantadora viuda Margaret Dumont, Groucho empeora la maraña de una feroz intriga de altos ejecutivos.
The Get-Away
Mrs. Higgins
A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
The Nurse's Secret
Aunt Juliet Mitchell
An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.
The Wagons Roll at Night
Mrs. Williams
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat. While acclimating to carnival life, Matt begins a romance with Nick's sister, Mary, causing tension between Matt and Nick. The latter must also juggle his stormy relationship with glamorous circus star Flo Lorraine.
Youth Will Be Served
Miss Bradshaw
A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.
Policía montada del Canadá
Mrs. Burns
En 1885, tres aventureros de la frontera (el maestro Riel, el traficante de whisky Corbeau y el trampero Duroc) fomentan en Canadá una rebelión contra la Corona. Sólo la Policía Montada permanece leal. El policía Ronnie Logan está enamorado de la hija de Corbeau, pero tiene que rivalizar con un ránger de Texas que busca a Corbeau por asesinato
Dreaming Out Loud
Jessica Spencer
Lum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals.
Tomboy
Aunt Martha
Family drama about a father raising his motherless teenage daughter in a small town.
Alice in Movieland
Grandmother
In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment after disappointment, and she needs the unexpected encouragement of her grandmother and an aging, former star whom she meets at a talent night. Finally, she gets a call to be an extra, and she's so hopeful that the regulars decide to make a fool of her. Is this the end of Alice's dream? Not if the porter has anything to say about it.
Swanee River
Mrs. Griffin
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
Corazones indomables
Mrs. Borst
Albany, Nueva York, 1776. Después de casarse, Gil y Lana viajan al norte para instalarse en una pequeña granja en el valle del río Mohawk; pero pronto su creciente prosperidad y felicidad se ven amenazadas por el siniestro sonido de los tambores que anuncian oscuros tiempos de revolución y guerra.
The Star Maker
Miss Esther Jones
La vida de Gus Edwards, famoso compositor de vodevil, actor y productor.
El mago de Oz
Auntie Em
La huérfana Dorothy Gale vive una vida sencilla en Kansas con su tía Emma Clara Blandick, su tío Henry y tres pintorescos peones: Hunk, Zeke y Hickory. Un día la severa vecina Miss Gulch es mordida por el perro de Dorothy, Toto. Miss Gulch se lo lleva, por orden del sheriff, a pesar de las apasionadas protestas de tía Emma y el tío Henry. Toto escapa y regresa junto a Dorothy, la cual se alegra momentáneamente, pero pronto se da cuenta de que Miss Gulch regresará. Decide llevarse a Toto y fugarse en busca de una vida mejor 'en algún lugar sobre el arco iris'.
Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn
Miss Watson
Adaptación de novela homónima de Mark Twain. Amante de la libertad sin ataduras de ningún tipo -¡ni siquiera la de los zapatos!-, el joven Huckleberry Finn (Mickey Rooney), aprovecha la circunstancia de que, su irresponsable padre, quiere chantajear al par de hermanas con las que ahora vive, decide escapar de casa y en el camino se encuentra a Jim (Rex Ingram), el sirviente de casa que también ha escapado, pues, ansía la libertad para reencontrarse con su familia. Como un par de fugitivos, juntos van a vivir una serie de aventuras, donde el resto de la sociedad parecerá estar contra ellos.
Tom Sawyer, Detective
Aunt Polly
The further adventures of Twain's most beloved fictional characters of Tom Sawyer and his friend, Huckleberry Finn.
Swing, Sister, Swing
Ma Sisler
In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last long, but they had fun anyway. Songs include: "Baltimore Bubble," "Gingham Gown," "Just a Bore," "Wasn't It You," "Kaneski Waltz" (Frank Skinner, Charles Henderson).
Professor Beware
Mrs. Green - Landlady
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Crime Ring
Phoebe Sawyer
Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.
My Old Kentucky Home
Julia 'Granny' Blair
Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind and decides that he shouldn't marry Lisbeth. A surgeon restores his sight and he and Lisbeth reconcile to the strains of "My Old Kentucky Home" sung by the Hall Johnson Choir.
Small Town Boy
Mrs. Armstrong
Henry Armstrong was past being a spring chicken, still believes in Santa Claus and the maxim that "honesty is the best policy", but lack of money keeps him from marrying Molly and buying a little home, and his is threatened with the loss of the petty job he has had for four years with old Curtis French, Molly's uncle, because he can not sell enough insurance policies. And, then, he finds a thousand dollar bill. His honesty makes him advertise the find, but no one claims the money. When he is convinced that the owner will not turn up and that the money is his to keep, he becomes a changed, more aggressive and self-confident person. He begins to make sales as fast as he can make the pitch and he insists that he and Molly be married at once. While getting dressed for the ceremony, he places the $1000 bill in one of his father's old suits, and Pa Armstrong, trying to raise money to buy his son a wedding present, sells the suit to a passing junk man.
You Can't Have Everything
Townswoman
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
The Road Back
Willy's Mother
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
La escuadrilla del Pacífico
Evie Curtis
Drama triangular que tiene lugar en la base militar de Pearl Harbor. Un piloto de la armada tiene que acudir allí el mismo día de su boda, por lo que su mujer decide acompañarle. En Hawai, ella encuentra a un antiguo pretendiente ahora convertido en todo un potentado dueño de un gran yate. El marido, celoso por el comportamiento de su esposa, acaba estrellando violentamente su avión en la cubierta del barco del presunto amante. (FILMAFFINITY)
Ha nacido una estrella
Aunt Mattie (uncredited)
Esther Blodgett, una ambiciosa chica de pueblo con mucho talento, llega a Hollywood. En una fiesta en la que trabaja como camarera conoce a Norman Maine, un famoso actor en decadencia. Para sorpresa de Esther, Norman le ofrece un papel en una película y, tras realizar una prueba, el productor queda impresionado y decide convertirla en una estrella. Norman y Esther se casan, pero la felicidad se ve empañada por el declive de Norman y el rápido ascenso al estrellato de Esther.
Her Husband's Secretary
Agatha 'Aunt Gussie' Kingdon
A businessman buys trouble when he hires his wife"s best friend as his secretary.
Make Way for a Lady
Mrs. Dell, Drew's Maid
An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame, Clara Blandick, Frank Coghlan Jr., Willie Best and Maxine Jennings.
In His Steps
Martha Adams
Tom and Ruth are disowned by their parents after eloping. They take up jobs as tenant farmers and and learn the true value of marriage, working and living.
El caballero Adverse
Mrs. Jorham
Anthony Adverse, un niño huérfano que crece en un convento, se enamora de la hija del cocinero. Pero el muchacho se verá envuelto en un sinfín de aventuras que lo llevarán de Cuba a África y después a París. Allí encontrará a su amada convertida en una estrella de la ópera; él, por su parte, llegará a descubrir los secretos que oculta su pasado.
La espléndida descarada
Louisa Abbott
Un senador rechaza a Peggy O'Neal, y ella, despechada, decide casarse con un teniente. Muerto éste en combate, se casa con un miembro del Gobierno, pasando así a formar parte de la alta sociedad. Pero esto no impide que se deje seducir por un joven, dando lugar a toda clase de habladurías en los círculos de Washington.
The Case of the Velvet Claws
Mary F. O'Daugherty
Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a woman with a gun and $5000.
Hearts Divided
Aunt Ellen
Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
El camino del pino solitario
Gaptown Landlady
En un valle perdido entre las montañas, viven los Tolliver y los Falin, dos familias enemistadas que mantienen durante generaciones una guerra abierta e incesante. Se trata de un odio atávico, heredado, sin que ninguna de las partes conozca ni remotamente el oscuro motivo que originó la sangrienta confrontación.
Party Wire
Mathilda Sherman
When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.
Straight from the Heart
Mrs. Anderson
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.
Transient Lady
Eva Branham
A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.
The Winning Ticket
Aunt Maggie
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
Fugitive Lady
Aunt Margaret
In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief.
Estrictamente confidencial
Mrs. Peterson
El señor Higgins tiene cuatro hijas y tres yernos. Cada uno de ellos gestiona una de sus empresas. Dan Brooks odia dirigir la compañía de fabricación de papel. Él prefiere dedicar su atención a su caballo de carreras "Broadway Bill". Alice, la hija preferida de Higgins, animará a Dan cuando la esposa de éste se niegue a apoyarlo en las carreras. Higgins obliga a Dan a vender su caballo y a asumir sus obligaciones en la fábrica. A pesar de ello, Dan sigue obsesionado por las carreras, y Alice se enamora de él.
Jealousy
Mrs. Douglas
Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during his big fight distracts Larry and he is knocked out. He then promises never to be jealous again and marries Jo. When she realizes that they're broke she asks Lambert for a job (she had quit on marrying Larry.) One thing leads to another and Larry, enraged with jealousy, end up killing Lambert. He then wanders off in a daze, and Jo takes the rap for the murder. Larry descends from his amnesiac fog just in time to interrupt the announcement of the jury's verdict in Jo's trial. then it's off to the chair for Larry. Or is it?
The President Vanishes
Mrs. Delling
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
The Girl from Missouri
Miss Newberry
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes to Eadie, only to then commit suicide due to bankruptcy. Fellow millionaire T. R. Paige defends Eadie when the police question her for having Cousins' jewelry -- but when she becomes enamored with his son, Tom, Paige declares Eadie a gold digger.
The Show-Off
Mrs. 'Ma'
Aubrey hace creer a Amy que es un pez gordo del ferrocarril. Cuando se casan, debido a los gastos excesivos han de refugiarse en casa de los padres de Amy. Aubrey pierde el empleo, pero ayuda a un amigo a vender una patente por un buen precio, y vuelve a las andadas.
As the Earth Turns
Cora
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
Beloved
Miss Murfee
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
Amores en Hollywood
Ms. Perkins
Tras alcanzar el éxito, un cantante de baladas abandona a su prometida, una joven profesora, y se marcha con una mujer fatal. A pesar de ello, la novia no se rinde e intentará recuperarlo utilizando todos los medios a su alcance.
Siempre en mi corazón
Anna, the Cook
Nueva Inglaterra, 1909. La norteamericana Mary Archer se enamora perdidamente de un alemán llamado Hugo. A pesar de la oposición de la familia de la joven, ambos se casan. Sus vidas cambiarán cuando el buque Lusitania sea hundido y Estados Unidos participe en la I Guerra Mundial. Hugo participa activamente a favor de su país, convirtiéndose en un espía perseguido por los Servicios Secretos anglosajones.
Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
Minerva Winterslip
When a good-for-nothing man named Dan is stabbed to death and his arm broken, Charlie Chan is on the case. His first clue comes from the victim's sister, who noticed a prowler wearing a glow-in-the-dark wristwatch.
Turn Back the Clock
Mrs. Gimlet, Joe's Mother
While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made different choices twenty years earlier.
Three-Cornered Moon
Landlady
Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock market crash has depleted their worth. Elizabeth's goofy brothers cannot easily adjust to the life of the average worker. Meanwhile, the family doctor has his eye on Elizabeth, but he will have to compete with her suitor, an ill-informed writer.
The Mind Reader
Auntie (uncredited)
Chandler, a con-man, and his helper Frank decide to create a clairvoyant act for the carny circuit, as a little research reveals Ameicans spent $125 million on mind-readers and astrology. The carny, renamed Chandra, falls for one of his marks, Sylvia, but their love is tested when he brings tragedy to other peoples' lives and she asks him to go straight.
Child of Manhattan
Aunt Sophie
Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the Vanderkill estates. To reassure his aunt Sophie, Vanderkill visits Loveland to determine whether it is as disreputable as Sophie suspects. There he meets a dime-a-dance girl, Madeleine MacGonagal, who charms him with her quaint proletarian accent. They begin a secret affair, which turns into a secret marriage when pregnancy ensues. When the baby fails to survive, Madeleine decides that since he had married her only for the baby's sake, she should make haste to Mexico to secure a divorce. There she meets Panama Canal Kelly, a former suitor who now owns a silver mine. Her plans for divorce and quick remarriage are complicated when Vanderkill arrives to confront her.
La amargura del General Yen
Mrs. Jackson (uncredited)
Terminada la guerra civil china, la norteamericana Megan David (Barbara Stanwyck) llega a Shanghai para casarse con el misionero Robert Strike (Gavin Gordon), pero es secuestrada por el general Yen (Nils Asther).
Tentación
Brida
Melodrama dirigido por el especialista George Cukor, sobre una mujer que tras perder a su hijo adoptivo, huye a Europa donde se enamora de un hombre casado.
Tres vidas de mujer
Mrs. Keaton (uncredited)
Tras muchos años sin verse, tres amigas de la infancia, Maria, Vivian y Ruth, vuelven a encontrase y se ponen al día sobre los cambios de sus respectivas vidas. Vivian decide entonces invitar a sus amigas y a sus parejas a un crucero con el fin de conocerse mejor.
Life Begins
Mrs. West
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
Mrs. Lyons (scenes deleted)
A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a criminal...
Alcohol prohibido
Mrs. Tarleton
Los males del alcohol antes y durante la prohibición se hacen evidentes cuando vemos sus efectos en la familia Chilcote.
Shopworn
Mrs. Livingston
A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
Amor en venta
Mrs. Martin
Marian Martin es una humilde muchacha de pueblo que llega a la gran ciudad para conseguir trabajo y, con suerte, un marido con una buena posición social y económica. Mark Whitney es un joven y entusiasta abogado que tiene, además, un prometedor futuro en la política. Marian y Mark se hacen amantes, pero no pueden casarse porque eso afectaría negativamente a la candidatura de Mark a gobernador. Entonces ella, para evitar el escándalo, asume una falsa identidad para poder continuar con el romance.
Hazte rico pronto
Mrs. Layton
Wallungford es un estafador, especialista en engañar a tontainas. Cuenta con dos cómplices. Su nuevo objetivo es una fábrica de cerámica de un pequeño pueblo. Cuando ha recibido dinero de diversos inversores, se enamora de Dorothy y decide regenerarse.
Murder at Midnight
Aunt Julia Gray Kennedy
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologist Phillip Montrose is on hand to help the police. When Kennedy quickly ends up dead as well, the police think it's a tidy murder-suicide, but the family lawyer knows of a letter that voiced Kennedy's suspicions about someone who was out to get him. Soon, the cops are on the trail of a ruthless and clever killer who is one step ahead of even Montrose.
Bought!
Mrs. Sprig
Stephanie, hija de madre soltera, se debate entre un hombre mayor y rico, y otro joven pero menos adinerado. Un día, el hombre mayor descubre que es su padre y decide protegerla. Se relaciona con otro hombre que le propone matrimonio, ero la rechaza al averiguar que sus padres nunca se casaron. Al final, no obstante, encontrará el verdadero amor y descubrirá quién es su padre
Huckleberry Finn
Aunt Polly
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences like school and shoes, plans to run away. His scapegrace, abusive father intervenes; Tom and black Jim help him escape; and (departing from the novel) all three raft down the Mississippi, where they're joined by two likable rogues and meet pretty orphans Ella and Mary Jane. The latter may change Huck's mind about girls...
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Ranch Wife
Tom y Kay son dos jóvenes enamorados que se casan, pero el padre de ella no está de acuerdo con ese matrimonio y la desheredera. Cuando el padre de Kay consigue que se divorcien, ella no tarda en darse cuenta del error que ha cometido.
Salvada
Salvation Army Woman
Ivy 'Bunny' Stevens intenta suicidarse cuando Hamilton la abandona. Menos mal que aparece un predicador del Ejército de Salvación que está dispuesto a ocuparse de ella.
Daybreak
Frau Hoffman
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
It's a Wise Child
Mrs. Stanton
In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.
The Drums of Jeopardy
Aunt Abbie
A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death.
La pecadora
Agnes Murdock
Laura, que se ha criado en una humilde familia, harta de la pobreza decide aceptar a Will Brockton, un hombre rico y bastante mayor que ella. Poco tiempo después, Laura se enamora del joven Jack Madison y deja a Brockton; sin embargo, cuando el dinero vuelve a escasear, vuelve con él.
Inspiración
Madeleine's Mother
Yvonne es una bella modelo que adora frecuentar los ambientes de la vida bohemia parisina, pues le encanta codearse con los artistas. Antes no se había avergonzado nunca de su pasado, pero ahora intentará borrarlo por amor.
Once a Sinner
Mrs. Mason
As Diana Barry is preparing to leave New York to marry inventor Tommy Mason she is offered financial assistance from her ex-lover Dick Kent, who still has a thing for her. Refusing she heads to Sparta, where she informs Tommy of her affair with the older man. Tommy tells her that he doesn't want to know the man's name or any details and Diana is happy to forget the past and move on. This decision comes to bite them a year later though, when Kent returns into the picture.
Tom Sawyer
Aunt Polly
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be pirates and, being believed drowned, attending their own funeral. The boys also witness a murder and Tom and his friend Becky Thatcher are pursued by the vengeful murderer.
Linaje de luchador
Mrs. Duane
Buck Duane venga la muerte de su padre matando al asesino, pero debe huir de la ley. Encuentra a Ruth, el amor de su vida, en las garras del malvado Bland. Al rescatar a Ruth, queda atrapado en las redes de la esposa de Bland...
Romance
Abigail Armstrong
Cuando Harry se enamora de una actriz, le confiesa su intención de casarse con ella a su abuelo, el obispo Tom Armstrong, pero éste trata de disuadirlo contándole su propia experiencia: cuando era estudiante, conoció en una fiesta a Rita Cavallini, una célebre cantante de ópera, y tuvo un romance con ella, convencido de que por él abandonaría su frívola y escandalosa vida. Pero Rita era la amante de un hombre muy poderoso y no parecía dispuesta a dejarlo.
The Sins of the Children
Martha Wagenkampf
Un inmigrante alemán, viudo y con cuatro hijos, llega a un pueblo norteamericano. Su intención es invertir sus ahorros en una sociedad de préstamos con un amigo, pero uno de sus hijos contrae la tuberculosis, así que tendrá que utilizar el dinero para pagar el tratamiento del chico.
Men Are Like That
Ma Fisher
A loud-mouthed lout alienates everyone except his patient wife.
The Girl Said No
Mrs. Ward
Un joven ambicioso consigue empleo en un banco y trata de seducir a la secretaria de su jefe, pero la muerte de su padre logra que reconsidere sus prioridades.
Burning Up
Mrs. Minnie Winkle
Racecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love with Ruth Morgan, whose father is marked as a victim by the gang.
Poor Aubrey
Mrs. Fisher - Aubrey's Mother-in-Law
A poor clerk pretends that he has lots of money.
Wise Girls
Mrs. Bence
Early MGM talkie about a retired businessman, his headstrong daughter, and the comical complications that result when she marries in haste.
The Cabaret Singer
Mrs. Denton
The Denton's marital happiness brings home to Randall the loneliness of his own existence. Shortly afterwards, the young man meets Pearl Eltinge, a cabaret singer. Ignorant of the fact that her beauty is a mask for a shallow mind, Randall makes her his wife.