Florence Roberts

Florence Roberts

Nacimiento : 1861-03-16,

Muerte : 1940-06-06

Perfil

Florence Roberts

Películas

Silent Night
Jenny
Mark, un sicario del sur de Londres recientemente liberado de prisión, intenta ir directamente a por su hija, pero Alan, su ex compañero de celda, lo atrae para hacer un trabajo final.
On Their Own
Granny Jones
The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue.
Double Alibi
Landlady
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Mrs. Bowling Green
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
Young as You Feel
Granny Jones
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.
Too Busy to Work
Granny Jones
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
Quick Millions
Granny Jones
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
The Jones Family in Hollywood
Granny Jones
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
Everybody's Baby
Granny Jones
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
The Storm
Mrs. Roberts
A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
Down on the Farm
Granny Jones
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Personal Secretary
Mrs. J. J. Farrell
Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.
Safety in Numbers
Granny Jones
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor (Prouty), is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
A Trip to Paris
Granny Jones
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.
Love on a Budget
Granny Ida Jones
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
Borrowing Trouble
Granny Jones
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
La vida de Emile Zola
Madame Zola
Biografía del famoso escritor francés Emile Zola, que incide especialmente en su participación en el famoso "Caso Dreyfuss", que puso en jaque al ejército francés.
Hot Water
Granny Jones
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
Big Business
Granny Jones
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
Nobody's Baby
Mrs. Mason - Landlady
Kitty Reily (Patsy Kelly) and Lena Marchetti (Lyda Roberti) meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompetent Lena. They keep running into each other until Kitty resigns to being friends with Lena when they become hospital nurses and share a dorm room.
Off to the Races
Granny Jones
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.
Back to Nature
Granny Jones
The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography.
Educating Father
Granny Jones
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.
Every Saturday Night
Granny Evers
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.
The Country Doctor
Grandmother (uncredited)
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
Your Uncle Dudley
Janet Dixon
A paint store owner turns his attention to civic affairs while his business falls apart.
Harmony Lane
Mrs. Foster
The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.
Every Night at Eight
Mrs. Murgatroyd (uncredited)
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
Los miserables
Toussaint
Siglo XIX. Adaptación de la famosa novela de Victor Hugo. Tras robar unas hogazas de pan para dárselas a unos niños hambrientos, Jean Valjean es perseguido por la justicia y encarcelado. Cuando sale de prisión, no sabe dónde ir, pues no confía en nadie; pero tiene la suerte de llegar a una ciudad, donde el bondadoso obispo Myriel le da cobijo y, además, lo salva de caer de nuevo en manos de la justicia.
The Nut Farm
Ma Barton, Willie's Mother
Bob and Helen decide to move to California and make a fresh start. Bob wants to buy a nut farm, but Helen dreams of being in the movies. While Bob is looking for a farm to buy, Helen is taken in by a group of scam artists who promise to make her a star. Helen's brother Willie tries to prevent her and Bob from losing all their money to the scam artists.
Public Opinion
Mrs. Buttons
A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.
Rocky Mountain Mystery
Mrs. Ballard
A mining engineer teams up with a crusty deputy sheriff to solve the mystery killings at an old mine where the owner's family waits for him to die, and where a valuable radium strike may have been made.
Sons of Steel
Sarah Mason
Chadburne Steel is run by two brothers, old men. They each have different plans for their sons. Curtis (Holmes Herbert) has put Ronald (William Blakewell) through college in style...
Había una vez dos héroes
The Widow Peep
En Toyland vive la pareja formada por Stannie Dum y Ollie Dee. Los dos se encuentran hospedados en la casa de Madre Peep y trabajan en una fábrica de juguetes. En dicho fantástico país el malvado y siniestro Silas Barnaby corteja a la hija de la anciana señora Peep, aunque ella se niega a acceder a sus deseos de matrimonio, puesto que su corazón está entregado a un joven de su entorno. Debido a esta negativa, Barnaby pone en práctica un método de presión…
Cleopatra
Lady Flora
Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert), reina de Egipto, recibe al cónsul romano Julio César (Warren William), con quien traza una alianza de cara a afianzar su posición. A la muerte de Julio, coquetea con Marco Antonio (Henry Wilcoxon), para intentar conservar el favor romano.
Student Tour
Elderly Woman
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
Four Parts
Charley is one of four identical brothers, which drives his girlfriend nuts.
The Cracked Ice Man
Betty's Mother (uncredited)
Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Agnes
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
Hoopla
Ma Benson
A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.
Torch Singer
Mother Angelica
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she then searches for the child she gave up.
Melody Cruise
Miss Potts
A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.
Lilly Turner
Wedding Guest Calling for Bride (uncredited)
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
Daring Daughters
Ginger Hemingway, the Grandmother
A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.
Fast Workers
Short Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his money. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.
Dangerously Yours
Mrs. Lathem
A playboy asks his friend to borrow his yacht to entertain his girlfriend.
Vanity Street
Annie - Fern's Maid (uncredited)
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
The All-American
Mrs. King
The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
Make Me a Star
Mrs. Gashwiler
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
Hollywood al desnudo
Elderly Brown Derby Diner (uncredited)
Mary Evans es una camarera cuya amistad con Max Carey, un director de cine alcohólico, le permite relacionarse con peces gordos. De esta manera llama la atención del millonario Lonny Borden, un productor de Hollywood cansado de la vida de la costa este y de ser un segundón de Max. (FILMAFFINITY)
Westward Passage
Mrs. Ottendorf
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
Fanny Foley Herself
Lucy
A vaudeville performer has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two daughters.
Too Many Cooks
Mrs. Cook
Una joven pareja intenta hacer frente a sus familiares que siguen inmiscuyéndose en su felicidad.
Everything’s Rosie
Mrs. Lowe
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
Kept Husbands
Henrietta Parker
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.
Los ojos del mundo
The Maid (prologue)
Cuando era una niña poco sofisticada, Myra Willard es seducida para "casarse" con James Rutledge y da a luz a su hija, Gertrude; pero su esposa legal en un ataque de rabia desfigura el rostro de Myra con ácido y deja marcas en la niña, lo que hace que Myra se retire de los ojos del mundo a un pueblo de montaña. Treinta años después ...
Sapho
Fanny Le Grand / Sapho
A woman with a notorious past enchants a student preparing for the foreign service.