Constance Purdy

Constance Purdy

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Constance Purdy

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Pretty Baby
Stout Lady (uncredited)
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
Blonde Dynamite
Second Dowager
While Louie is on vacation, the boys turn The Sweet Shop into an escort service, and soon find a group of beautiful girls as their first clients.
In the Good Old Summertime
Gushing Woman (uncredited)
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
The Scar
Mrs. Neyhmer (uncredited)
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
Mrs. Kelsey Chelsae Blackwell
Maggi continues her forever-ever efforts to crash Manhattan's top society, while Jiggs still mingles with his old construction cronies at the bar of Dinty Moore on 10th Avenue.
That Hagen Girl
Ruth Laverty (uncredited)
Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her real parents. When Tom Bates returns to town, he takes over the house and practice that Judge Merrivale left him when he died. As Tom has been away a number of years, this leads to more gossip and Mary believes that he is her father. The popular and rich Ken loves Mary, but his family and friends constantly remind him that she is 'not one of us'. Julia, a teacher at school encourages Mary but Mary cannot get a break in anything she does, or is accused of doing. Tom knows the answer to her true identity, and he is silent.
Merton of the Movies
Landlady (uncredited)
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Suffragette
In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men object to her at first, she soon charms them all, especially the handsome young head of the company. Their romance gets sidetracked when she becomes involved in the Women's Suffrage movement.
Vacation in Reno
Eleanor's Mother
A hapless husband searches for buried treasure at a dude ranch; meanwhile, his wife wants a divorce and bank robbers want him dead.
Cluny Brown
Lady Outside Bookstore
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
Scarlet Street
Matron (uncredited)
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
白い恐怖
Dr. Brulov's Housekeeper (uncredited)
自分が殺人を犯したという強迫観念にさいなまれる医学博士に、彼を愛する女医が精神分析を試みる。サルバドール・ダリが担当した悪夢のシーンも話題となった、ヒッチコック監督のサスペンス。
Her Favorite Patient
Mrs. Moriarty (uncredited)
A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and help him, and he and a macho test pilot who's fallen for her come up with a plan that involves the pilot faking an illness and being treated by her, with her uncle's "help".
Swing Out, Sister
Mrs. Bradstreet
Universal cowboy star Rod Cameron plays Geoffrey, conductor of a high-toned symphony orchestra. Secretly harboring the desire to become a swingin' jazz trumpeter, Geoffrey takes a job at a "hot" Broadway nightclub. Here he meets and falls in love with café songstress Donna (Frances Raeburn), who has led her family to believe that she's studying for a classical-music career. Meanwhile, a comedy-relief romance develops between Geoffrey's snooty valet Chumley (Arthur Treacher) and Donna's best pal Pat (Jacqueline De Wit). For those not interested in the plot (what there is of it), Swing Out, Sister includes specialty numbers by organist Selika Pettiford and the Lou Diamond Quintet.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Undetermined (uncredited)
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
Adventures of Kitty O'Day
Woman in Ladies Spa (uncredited)
A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police.
One Mysterious Night
Woman in Daley's Office (Uncredited)
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
Summer Storm
Dinner Guest (uncredited)
It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results.
深夜の告白
Fat Shopper in Market (uncredited)
完璧な計画の元に保険金殺人を実行した男女。だが思わぬ落とし穴が彼らを待ち受けていた……。ビリー・ワイルダー監督の初期の作品で、人間が陥りやすい暗部をじっくりと描いている。
Going My Way
Mrs. Quimp's Neighbor (uncredited)
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.
Double Up
Mother (In Law)
Leon hires a lookalike to take his place at home every night while he goes out partying.
True to Life
Woman in Subway (uncredited)
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
White Savage
Blossom
A native boy plays Cupid for a shark fisherman and a South Sea Islands princess.
疑惑の影
Mrs. Martin (uncredited)
カリフォルニア州サンタローザ。その街で家族と共に平凡に暮らす長女チャーリーは、突然やって来た叔父に秘密の匂いを嗅ぎとる。やがて二人の探偵が現れ、チャーリーは叔父に未亡人殺しの疑いがかかっている事を知る。明るい日常生活の中でチャーリーひとりが、叔父が殺人犯かどうかの疑惑にさいなまれていく…。
The Powers Girl
School Board Member (uncredited)
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.
情熱の航路
Rosa (uncredited)
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
The Bashful Bachelor
Widder Abernathy
Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-'em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum is also too timid to propose to Geraldine, so he involves Abner in a "rescue" effort which nearly gets both of them killed. They try again, and this time Geraldine is impressed. Lum writes a proposal note, but Abner, by mistake, delivers it to the Widder Abernathy, who has been ready to remarry for years. This puts Lum in a peck of trouble until the sheriff appears with the Widder's long-gone and hiding husband.
Thunder in the Night
Cafe Owner's Wife
A whodunit set in Budapest, starring Edmund Lowe as a detective investigating the murder of an unemployed vaudeville actor.