Gloria Williams

Filmes

A Dália Azul
Assistant Maid (uncredited)
O capitão da aviação naval Johnny retorna da guerra juntamente com seus dois camaradas, Buzz e George. Separando-se deles para voltar para a sua esposa Helen, Johnny a encontra alcoólica e com um caso extraconjugal. Mesmo assim tenta continuar com ela, mas resolve abandoná-la quando a ouve dizer que mentiu sobre a morte do filho pequeno de ambos. Tentando sair da cidade sob uma forte chuva, ele encontra Joyce, que não sabe quem ele é. Johnny também não sabe que ela é a ex-esposa de Eddie, um dos donos da boate "Dália Azul" e o homem que tem um caso com Helen. Johnny e Joyce começam um romance, que é interrompido quando Johnny ouve no rádio sobre a morte de Helen. Imediatamente ele vai atrás do ex-marido de Joyce a quem julga ser o assassino, mas sua busca é dificultada por ter os gângsters cúmplices de Eddie e toda a polícia de Los Angeles atrás dele.
True to Life
Woman (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.
A Incrível Suzana
Ball Guest (uncredited)
Susan Applegate, tired of New York after one year and twenty-five jobs, decides to return to her home town in Iowa. Discovering she hasn't enough money for the train fare, Susan disguises herself as a twelve-year-old and travels for half the price. Caught out by the conductors, she hides in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor who takes the "child" under his wing.
Alma Torturada
Woman (uncredited)
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
Pacific Blackout
Dance Club Woman
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper (Robert Preston) escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
New York Town
(uncredited)
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
West Point Widow
Nurse
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.
Love Thy Neighbor
Minor Role
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
Geronimo
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
Cafe Society
Nurse
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
Boy Trouble
Mother
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
Illegal Traffic
G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.
Se Eu Fora Rei
Girl
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
Prison Farm
Bit Role
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)
Cocoanut Grove
Undetermined Role
Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
A Oitava Esposa de Barba Azul
Minor Role (uncredited)
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him.
Uma Nação Em Marcha
Pioneer Girl
A história sobre o desenvolvimento das comunicações entre os Estados Unidos, durante sua rápida expansão no século XIX. A história narra a vida de Ramsey McCay (Joel McCrea), empregado da recém criada associação entre Henry Wells e William Fargo, e de como graças a sua dedicação, a Wells-Fargo chega a converter-se em uma grande empresa de correios e transporte de mercadorias para o Oeste, presente nos maiores acontecimentos de época.
True Confession
Woman (uncredited)
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.
Ebb Tide
Woman
In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The Golden State , whose captain and crew have died of smallpox. From Tehua in the South Seas to Australia, they are to deliver a cargo of champagne. Thorbecke decides to head for Peru, however, so he can sell the merchandise and pocket the money. While sailing, Faith Wishart, daughter of the deceased captain, comes out of her hiding place on board and, by briefly holding Thorbecke at gunpoint, demands he make the delivery.
Exclusive
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
Artistas e Modelos
Woman (uncredited)
Mac Brewster (Benny) é o chefe de uma empresa de publicidade que está em dívida. O contrato de um milhão de dólares da Townsend Silver poderia salvar a empresa, mas o rico playboy Alan Townsend (Arlen) quer um amador da alta sociedade em vez de um modelo profissional para se tornar "a garota da cidade". Incomodada por ter sido superada como profissional, a top model de Brewster (Lupino) vai para Miami com planos de entrar em Townsend e passar como debutante da sociedade.
Garota de Sorte
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
I Met Him in Paris
Woman
Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket to Switzerland, but George (with no illusions about his friend) appoints himself chaperone. Through a series of slapstick winter sports, Kay remains puzzled about George's disapproval of Gene...but there's a reason.
A Cruz dos Anos
Bridge Player (uncredited)
Quando perde sua casa, um casal de idosos é obrigado a se separar temporariamente e se dividir nas casas de seus filhos.
The Accusing Finger
Passenger
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.