Jane Darwell

Jane Darwell

Nascimento : 1879-10-15, Palmyra, Missouri, USA

Morte : 1967-08-13

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jane Darwell (October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967) was an American film and stage actress. With appearances in over 100 major motion pictures, Darwell is perhaps best-remembered for her portrayal of the matriarch and leader of the Joad family in the film adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and her role as the Bird Woman in Mary Poppins. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jane Darwell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Jane Darwell
Jane Darwell

Filmes

Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2
The Bird Woman
What better way to say goodnight than with Disney's Greatest Lullabies? Soothing refrains from masterfully crafted shorts and features you come to know and love. The most poignant, precious moments from the vast Disney library presented in this enchanted series. Certain to turn any child into a Sleeping Beauty--the best lullabies in the world--from Disney!
Mary Poppins
The Bird Woman
Na Londres de 1910, o banqueiro Mr. Banks, um homem frio que trata com rigidez Jane e Michael, seus filhos sapecas, não consegue contratar uma babá, pois elas desistem facilmente do emprego. Em uma noite, enquanto redige com sua esposa um anúncio de jornal procurando uma babá, sua filha Jane aparece com uma carta mostrando como seria uma babá perfeita. Esta carta acaba chegando nas mãos de Mary Poppins, que é tudo aquilo que está descrito na carta. Mary Poppins possui poderes mágicos e, com seu amigo faz-tudo Bert, transforma a vida daquela família, com muita música, magia e diversão.
Hound-Dog Man
Grandma Wilson
A rustic drama set in the early 20th century, Hound Dog Man is the simple story of a young man, Spud Kinney constantly in hot water for disobeying his mother. The lad should be watching the family farm, but he falls in with his older brother, Clint, and his reckless buddy Blackie Scantling who take him hunting in hillbilly country. The boy falls in love with a beautiful mountain girl, while Blackie has his own fling with another attractive hillbilly maiden, Nita Stringer, and then becomes mixed up with an older, married woman, Sussie Bell.
O Último Hurrah
Delia
Em um mundo em mudança onde a televisão se tornou a principal fonte de informação, um jovem jornalista testemunha como seu tio, Frank Skeffington, um político veterano e honesto, prefeito de uma cidade da Nova Inglaterra, tenta ser reeleito enquanto banqueiros e empresários conspiram na sombra para colocar um candidato fraco e manejável no conselho da cidade.
Girls in Prison
Matron Jamieson
An inmate is persuaded to take part in a breakout by cellmates anxious to cash in on loot they believe she has hidden.
Chamas Que Não Se Apagam
Mme Rogers
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.
A Life at Stake
Landlady
An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial and may actually be deadly.
Hit the Deck
Jenny
Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.
O Bígamo
Mrs. Connelley
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr. Jordan uncovers the fact that Graham has another wife, Phyllis, and a small child in Los Angeles, he confesses everything.
Affair with a Stranger
Ma Stanton
Director Roy Rowland's 1953 drama, depicting the rocky marriage of a young model and her Broadway playwright-husband, stars Victor Mature, Jean Simmons, Jane Darwell, Dabbs Greer, Nicholas Joy, Lillian Bronson and George Cleveland.
The Sun Shines Bright
Aurora Ratchitt
John Ford weaves three "Judge Priest" stories together to form a good- natured exploration of honour and small-town politics in the South around the turn of the century. Judge William Priest is involved variously in revealing the real identity of Lucy Lake, reliving his Civil War memories, preventing the lynching of a youth and contesting the elections with Yankee Horace K. Maydew.
It Happens Every Thursday
Mrs. Spatch
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. But their schemes to increase circulation get them in over their heads.
Travessuras de Casados
Mrs. Bush
Um juiz de paz realiza casamentos poucos dias antes de sua licença ser válida. Alguns anos depois, cinco casais descobrem que nunca foram legalmente casados. Annabel Norris, já Sra Mississippi e pronta para entrar no concurso Sra América, está agora livre para entrar no concurso de Miss Mississippi. Ramona e Steve, que se detestam, mas se casaram para obter um contrato lucrativo de rádio; um casal que mal conseguia se falar; um magnata do petróleo e uma caçadora de fortunas; e soldado Willie Fisher, prestes a ser enviado para a Guerra da Coréia deixando sua linda esposa grávida.
Journey Into Light
Mack
John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunkenly interrupts a sermon, then despondent after her suicide. Burrows travels to Los Angeles for a fresh start, but takes to the bottle himself and ends up arrested for public intoxication. A skid-row con man, Gandy, finds him a bed at a flop house, while a street preacher, Doc Thorssen, and daughter Christine take him to a local mission. Christine is blind. She falls in love with Burrows, enjoying his discussions of the spirit and the soul but knowing little of his past. One day she is struck by a streetcar and knocked unconscious, causing Burrows to once again question his faith. He ultimately accepts the Lord's will and is offered a better place to live and preach. Burrows decides he is better suited to the mission, with Christine by his side.
Excuse My Dust
Mrs. Belden
Joe, inventor in an American Small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car, driven with a gasoline motor. Everybody is making fun about his "crazy invention", only his girl friend believes in him. When he's halfway successful, another woman tries to win his heart, and his girl-friend thinks he has quit with her. But on a race for those new horse-less vehicles, he gets in trouble and only his former girl friend is able to help him.
The Lemon Drop Kid
'Nellie Thursday' Regan
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.
Father's Wild Game
Minerva Bobbin
The fourth entry in Monogram's "Father" series. Henry Latham decides he'll save money by hunting for his meat rather than buying it from the store.
The Second Face
Mrs. Lockridge
A homely girl is seriously injured in a car crash. When she eventually wakes up in the hospital, she's astounded to see that plastic surgery has transformed her into a world-class beauty. When she finds out that a mysterious "benefactor" has paid for her surgery, she sets out to find out who he is and why he did it.
Three Husbands
Mrs. Wurdeman
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.
Redwood Forest Trail
Hattie Hickory
Forest Ranger and singing cowboy, Rex Allen, attempts to save a camp for underprivileged boys with the help of "Alfalfa " Switzer who plays one of the boys.
Surrender
Molly Hale
Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of bigamy. She has an affair with gambler Gregg Delaney but marries his best friend, Johnny Hale, when she discovers Hale is the richest man in Texas. This loses her the respect of her sister, Janet, who loves Hale, and Delaney, who loves Violet. Meanwhile, town sheriff Bill Howard is working hard to get Delaney to confess to a murder.
À Margem da Vida
Isolation Matron
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
Caravana de Bravos
Sister Ledyard
Um grupo de mórmons vai fundar uma nova colônia no Rio San Juan Rio e contrata os astutos Travis e Sandy como guias. Logo se junta a eles a trupe de Doc Hall e os Clegg Boys, bandidos em fuga que consideram uma caravana mórmon o disfarce ideal.
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Mrs. Murphy
An Irish horsecar driver's daughter meets New York showman Tony Pastor and goes into vaudeville.
Escrava do Ódio
Aunt Jane
A former outlaw goes straight and is determined to catch and tame a wild stallion. Western.
O Céu Mandou Alguém
Miss Florie
Após assaltarem um banco do Arizona, três bandidos fogem, perseguidos pelo xerife Buck Sweet. Ali encontram uma mulher moribunda, prestes a dar a luz numa carroça abandonada. Mesmo correndo o risco de perder a liberdade, o trio honra sua promessa de salvar o bebê decidindo atravessar o deserto até a cidade de Nova Jerusalém.
Train to Alcatraz
Aunt Ella
Criminals aboard a train to the infamous penitentiary plot an escape, and receive outside help in their attempt.
The Red Stallion
Aggie Curtis
Family film about an elderly rancher, her young grandson, and the horse that the child raises from a colt.
Keeper of the Bees
Mrs. Ferris
Michael Worthington, an elderly owner of an apiary, befriends an embittered artist, Jamie McFarlaine, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Jamie falls in love with Alice, but the romance is almost doomed by the gossip-spreading of a meddlesome neighbor.
Paixão dos Fortes
Kate Nelson
Em 1882, Wyatt Earp e seus irmãos decidem se estabelecer em Tombstone depois que seu gado é roubado e seu irmão mais novo James é morto. Wyatt é um ex-delegado e aceita de bom grado ser delegado em Tombstone, juntamente com seus irmãos como ajudantes. Ele logo se torna amigo do segurança do saloon local, Doc Holliday e ele faz justiça calma e friamente. Wyatt tem vários desentendimentos com Ike Clanton e seus quatro filhos. Então ele é forçado a matar Billy Clanton, o que leva ao famoso tiroteio no OK Corral.
Três Tolos Sabidos
Sister Mary Brigid
An orphan girl melts the hearts of three crusty old men.
The Dark Horse
Aunt Hattie
This 1946 film stars Phillip Terry as a war veteran, who is persuaded by machine politico Donald MacBride to run for alderman. Ann Savage plays the "honest government functionary" with whom the hero falls in love. Terry finds that disreputable politicians are using his war record to push through some shady legislation, so he renounces these hacks.
Captain Tugboat Annie
Tugboat Annie
This tale of two tugboats focuses upon the rivalries between two operators competing to win a major shipping contract. Meanwhile a tugboat office secretary and an ex-con who wants to go straight, fall in love. Tugboat Annie is put in charge of a child violinist. When a waterfront fire breaks out, the two warring captains join forces to put it out.
I Live in Grosvenor Square
Mrs. Patterson
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.
She's a Sweetheart
Mom
In this musical drama, a woman turns her mansion into a boarding house for soldiers on furlough, providing them with room, board, and musical entertainment.
Music in Manhattan
Mrs. Pearson
Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest. Though this leads them to a few professional gigs, something is missing from their act and they are not popular. Believing a little cash will boost their career, Frankie heads for Washington, D.C. to see if her wealthy father will help them. En route Frankie is mistaken for the wife of the well-known pilot Johnny Pearson and ends up in his suite having to pretend she is his spouse. When the pilot meets her, romantic sparks fly.
The Impatient Years
Minister's wife
Standing before a divorce court judge are Sergeant Andy Anderson and Janie Anderson asking him to dissolve their marriage. Janie's father, William Smith, objects and the judge allows him to give his version of their story. They had met in San Francisco fifteen months earlier and, after knowing each other only three days, had gotten married. Andy was sent overseas the day after the wedding and when he returns and despite the fact that Janie had borne him a son, they find they are almost strangers. Mr. Smith suggests, and the judge orders, that if they retrace their actions over the four days they knew each other they would regain their love.
Reckless Age
Mrs. Connors
Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
Mulheres de Ninguém
Mrs. Henderson
Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.
Dez Pequenas Para um Homem
Miss Trask (uncredited)
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
Noivas do Tio Sam
Jane Darwell
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
Gildersleeve's Bad Day
Aunt Emma Forrester
Gildersleeve has jury duty.
The Great Gildersleeve
Aunt Emma Forrester
A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew.
Consciências Mortas
Jenny Grier
Dois vagabundos estão passando por uma cidade no oeste, quando chega a notícia de que um fazendeiro local foi assassinado e seu gado roubado. As pessoas da cidade se juntam aos vagabundos, formam uma patrulha para capturar os criminosos. Eles encontram três homens na posse do gado, e estão determinados a ver a justiça ser feita no local. Quando uma patrulha alcança três homens suspeitos de matar um fazendeiro local, alguns deles ficam fortemente divididos sobre se devem ou não linchar os homens.
Highways by Night
Grandma Fogarty
A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.
A Batalha de Midway
Narrator (voice)
O ataque japonês a ilha de Midway no oceano pacifico em junho de 1942, filmado no momento em que aconteceu.
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Mariah Clemm
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
Men of Texas
Mrs.Scott aka Aunt Hattie
A Chicago reporter (Robert Stack) and photographer focus on a Confederate outlaw (Brod Crawford) in post-Civil War Texas.
It Happened in Flatbush
Mrs. Maguire
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
On the Sunny Side
Annie
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Don, the Andrews' 11-year-old son, eagerly accepts the English boy, and is happy when his school-friends do the same. But his isn't so happy when things begin to change when his father fore-goes their evening game of Chinese Checkers to play chess with Hugh, and Hugh shows himself to be a formidable scholar, and impresses Don's girlfriend Betty, and becomes more popular with the boys than Don was...and Don is beginning to think that Hugh is too much of a good thing. Don gets downright depressed and decides to run away. Uh, oh, here comes Hugh.
Young America
Grandmother Nora Campbell
Young America is a 1942 American drama film directed by Louis King and written by Samuel G. Engel. The film stars Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Lynne Roberts, Robert Cornell, William Tracy and Roman Bohnen. The film was released on February 6, 1942, by 20th Century Fox.
Balas Contra a Gestapo
Mrs. Donahue
A vida tranquila de um pequeno grupo de mafiosos do Brooklin, chefiados por Gloves, toma um rumo inesperado quando um padeiro é assassinado. Eles se envolvem num grande complô gerido por nazistas dentro de Nova Iorque.
Small Town Deb
Katie
Family bickering features young daughter favored by her father and older daughter favored by snobbish mother.
O Homem Que Vendeu a Alma
Ma Stone
Baseado no conto "Fausto" de Goethe, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" conta a história do pobre fazendeiro Jabez Stone (James Craig), que após diversos infortúnios vende a alma ao Diabo (Walter Huston) em troca de sete anos de boa sorte e dinheiro.
Private Nurse
Miss Adams
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.
Thieves Fall Out
Grandma Allen
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.
Chad Hanna
Mrs. Bettina Huguenine
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.
Youth Will Be Served
Supervisor Stormer
A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.
Untamed
Mrs. Maggie Moriarty
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit and ends up stealing a wife from her husband. When the epidemic hits, he and the wife begin their arduous journey.
O Filho dos Deuses
Eliza Kent
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
Vinhas da Ira
Ma Joad
Tom, filho mais velho de uma pobre família de trabalhadores rurais, retorna para casa após cumprir pena por homicídio involuntário. Ele planeja levar os parentes até a Califórnia, onde dizem que trabalho não falta. Durante a viagem eles passam por diversos tipos de provações e quando finalmente chegam na "Terra Prometida" descobrem que é um lugar bem pior do que aquele que deixaram.
Miracle on Main Street
Mrs. Herman
On Christmas Eve in the Spanish quarter of L.A. police try to arrest a couple running a shady floor show. Hiding in a church, the girl finds an abandoned baby and uses it as cover to escape capture.
...E o Vento Levou
Mrs. Merriwether
Scarlett O'Hara é uma jovem mimada que consegue tudo o que quer. No entanto, algo falta em sua vida: o amor de Ashley Wilkes, um nobre sulista que deve se casar com a sua prima Melanie. Tudo muda quando a Guerra Civil americana explode e Scarlett precisa lutar para sobreviver e manter a fazenda da família.
20,000 Men a Year
Mrs. Allen
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
E As Chuvas Chegaram
Aunt Phoebe Smiley
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.
Grand Jury Secrets
Mrs. Keefe
A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room session.
Unexpected Father
Mrs. Callahan
Jimmy Hanley learns that his former dancing partner has been killed, leaving a baby boy Sandy, so he takes the baby to live with him and his roommate Boris Bebenko. Theatre manager Allen Rand threatens to fire Jimmy for neglecting his work, but Jimmy's girlfriend Diana squares things by going to dinner with Rand over Jimmy's objections. Sandy catches measles and the quarantine causes Jimmy and Boris to miss a big audition.
The Zero Hour
Sophie
A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.
Inside Story
Aunt Mary Perkins
A good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an old-fashioned Christmas on a farm..
Jesse James
Mrs. Samuels - Jesse's mother
Jesse James e seu irmão Frank juram vingar a morte da mãe, morta por um representante da companhia ferroviária de Saint Louis. Eles começam a carreira criminosa roubando os passageiros dos trens, mas logo expandem suas atividades cometendo assalto a bancos.
Five of a Kind
Nurse Waldron
Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.
Time Out for Murder
Polly, Helen's supervisor
A bank runner is accused of killing a woman for whom he deposited a large amount. Reporter and bank official investigate.
Miss Broadway
Miss Hutchins
Betsy é uma órfã talentosa que passa a ficar sob os cuidados de seu tio Pop, gerente de uma casa teatral. Em pouco tempo a garota se transforma na queridinha da clientela, incluindo o maestro Jimmy Clayton. Mas a proprietária do edifício, Sarah Roger não está gostando nada da situação.
Precisam-se Três Maridos
Mrs. Kilian
Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her staff.
Battle Of Broadway
Mrs. Rogers
The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son's romance with a showgirl. Director George Marshall's 1938 comedy stars Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Raymond Walburn, Hattie McDaniel, Lynn Bari, Robert Kellard, Jane Darwell, Andrew Tombes, Esther Muir and Frank Moran.
The Jury's Secret
Mrs. Sheldon, Bill's Mother
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
Change of Heart
Mrs. Thompson
While Carol Murdock is becoming the golf-champion at the country club, husband Anthony is all wrapped up in his business and rants a lot about how much time his wife spends playing gold, thereby neglecting their home and him. Carol teams up with golfer Phillip Reeves and they win a tournament together, and Reeves becomes infatuated with Carol. Anthony rants some more and Carol packs up and starts the divorce proceedings. Anthony fights back by taking up golf himself.
Dangerously Yours
Aunt Cynthia Barton
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Mrs. Krueger
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
The Singing Marine
Ma Marine
Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest, however, sets him up for trouble in romance, in his career, and with the Corps.
Navio Negreiro
Mrs. Marlowe
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
Fifty Roads to Town
Mrs. Henry
A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run.
The Great Hospital Mystery
Nurse Sarah Keats
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
Nancy Steele Is Missing!
Mrs. Mary Flaherty
After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her real father there's a job and a reward, but an old prisonmate gets in the way.
Love Is News
Mrs. Flaherty
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
Laughing at Trouble
Glory Bradford
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is.
Craig's Wife
Mrs. Harold
Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult her relationship with domestic service and family members.
Star for a Night
Mrs. Martha Lind
Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.
Pobre Menina Rica
Woodward
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored by a rival soap company.
White Fang
Maud Mahoney
A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
Private Number
Mrs. Meecham
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler also has an infatuation for the young girl but his intentions are not that good.
Little Miss Nobody
Eva Bradley
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
O Anjo Do Farol
Mrs. Eliza Croft
Shirley Temple canta, dança e encanta a todos num vilarejo pesqueiro da New England. Ela faz Star, garotinha de 4 anos de idade que vive com o Capitão January (Guy Kibbee) desde que foi salva por ele de um naufrágio quando era bebê. Mas sua alegre vida conjunta é inesperadamente ameaçada quando um fiscal da cidade resolve tirá-la do vigia do farol e mandá-la para um orfanato.
The First Baby
Mrs. Ellis
When a couple become parents for the first time, they discover grandmothers can be almost as demanding as a newborn.
The Country Doctor
Mrs. Graham
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
Perdida na Metrópole
Dora
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds (Pinky Tomlin) and a beautiful Russian singer (Rita Hayworth) provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child (Jane Withers) who has arrived illegally in New York. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 comedy, with numerous songs, also features Jane Darwell, George Givot, Robert Dudley, Vera Lewis, Louise Carter, Francis Ford, Russell Simpson and Clarence Wilson.
We're Only Human
Mrs. Walsh
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
Metropolitan
Grandma
Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.
Navy Wife
Mrs. Louise Keats
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
A Pequena Órfã
Mrs. Denham
Rico administrador de orfanato toma sob suas asas a pequena Elizabeth e sua irmã mais velha Mary. Quando esta se apaixona pelo benfeitor, cabe à pequenina fazer o papel de cupido.
Wig-Wag
Mrs. Winchell - Jack's Mother
When Dorothy jilts her fiancee, he tries to make her jealous by getting a friend of his to dress like a woman and pose as his new girlfriend.
Life Begins at Forty
Ida Harris
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
McFadden´s Flats
Nora McFadden
Dan McFadden builds an apartment house in a working-class neighborhood on New York's East Side called "McFadden's Flats." At the same time, Dan and his wife Nora send their tomboyish daughter Molly to an expensive girls' school to teach her etiquette. Molly only agrees to go after her sweetheart, Sandy MacTavish, convinces her she should. When Dan is unable to complete the apartments because of a lack of money, Sandy's father Jock, a Scottish barber and Dan's best friend, secretly backs Dan's loan at the bank, even though Jock is known for his penny-pinching ways.
One More Spring
Mary Sweeney
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
Olhos Encantados
Mrs. Higgins
Em um filme escrito e produzido especialmente para ela, Shirley Temple vive Shirley Blake, uma menina cujo pai morreu em um acidente de avião. Enquanto sonha em ser aviadora, passa grande parte do tempo com seu padrinho num aeroporto enquanto a mãe trabalha na casa de uma família rica. Após ficar órfã de mãe também, seu padrinho luta para conseguir a guarda da menina.
Gentlemen Are Born
Landlady
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
The White Parade
Miss Robets
The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in order to become nurses and join the White Parade. It is told mainly through the character of June Arden who finds romance with Ronald Hall III on the way, with side stories of the other girls who find failure, success, laughs and tears on the way.
Happiness Ahead
Mrs. Davis - The Landlady
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.
Tomorrow's Youth
Mary O'Brien
A look at how his parents' divorce affects the life of a young boy.
Desirable
Frederick's Mother
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
Embarrassing Moments
Mrs. Stuckelberger
Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it looks as though Jerry's latest prank has resulted in the death of his best friend.
Million Dollar Ransom
Ma McGarry (Uncredited)
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
Encontro às Cegas
Ma Taylor
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
One Night of Love
Mrs. Barrett - Mary's Mother
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
Most Precious Thing in Life
Mrs. O'Day
An unwed mother watches as her illegitimate son is raised by others. Director Lambert Hillyer's 1934 drama stars Jean Arthur, Richard Cromwell, Donald Cook, Anita Louise, Jane Darwell, Mary Forbes and Ward Bond.
Let's Talk It Over
Mrs. O'Keefe
A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.
O Seu Primeiro Amor
Mrs. Mc Gowan
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.
A Imperatriz Vermelha
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
A Imperatriz Vermelha
Miss Cardell, Sophia's Nurse (uncredited)
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
Finishing School
Maude (uncredited)
Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the director of the school and her mother oppose such a relationship.
Wonder Bar
Baroness (uncredited)
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
Once to Every Woman
Mrs. Wood
An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.
Diário de um Crime
Dinner Guest (uncredited)
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
David Harum
Mrs. Woolsey (uncredited)
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a 10-1 harness racing horse, making him Rogers' bank partner.
Heat Lightning
Gladys - the Wife
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
Fashions of 1934
Customer
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
Cross Country Cruise
Mrs. O'Hara (Uncredited)
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
Sócios no Amor
Curtis' Housekeeper
Uma mulher não consegue decidir entre dois homens que a amam, e o trio concorda em tentar viver juntos em um relacionamento amigável platônico. Dois americanos que partilham um apartamento em Paris, o dramaturgo Tom Chambers (Fredric March) e o pintor George Curtis (Gary Cooper), são seduzidos pelo espírito livre de Gilda Farrell (Miriam Hopkins). Quando ela não consegue decidir com qual deles ela prefere ficar, propõe um "acordo de cavalheiros": Ela vai morar com eles como uma amiga e crítica de seus trabalhos, mas nunca vão ter relações sexuais. Mas quando Tom vai a Londres para supervisionar a produção de uma de suas peças, deixando Gilda sozinha com George, por quanto tempo o Acordo de Cavalheiros vai durar?
He Couldn't Take It
Mrs. Case
Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process server. He serves process on a gangster and exposes a criminal conspiracy while trying to stop his long-suffering girlfriend from taking a vacation with her lecherous boss.
King for a Night
Mrs. Williams
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
Only Yesterday
Mrs. Lane
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
Mrs. Spence - Landlady (uncredited)
Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption.
Ann Vickers
Mrs. Gage (uncredited)
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
A Mulher Preferida
Mrs. Lind
Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.
Before Dawn
Mrs. Marble
After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously dying. Police detectives with the help of a clairvoyant try to determine who, living or dead, is responsible.
Emergency Call
Nurse Brown (uncredited)
A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
Jennie Gerhardt
Boardinghouse Keeper
This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.
The Girl in 419
Nurse Esmond
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.
Bondage
Mrs. Elizabeth Wharton
Judy Peters is about to be sentenced after she has pled guilty to her third offense of prostitution, when Dr. Nelson interrupts and tells her story to the court. (Mubi.)
Murders in the Zoo
Banquet Guest (uncredited)
Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in the arms of other men. In turn, Gorman uses his animals to kill these men. When a New York City zoo suggests a fundraising gala, Gorman sees a prime opportunity to dispatch the dashing Roger and anyone else who might cross him.
Child of Manhattan
Mrs. McGonagle
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.
The Past of Mary Holmes
Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down shanty and suffers from alcoholism. Known for her eccentric behavior, Mary breeds geese, and is thus known in her neighborhood as 'The Goose Woman'. She blames her grown son Geoffrey (Linden) for the deterioration of her voice, and does everything to destroy his life. When Geoffrey, who works as a commercial artist, announces to her that he will marry Joan Hoyt (Arthur), an actress, she becomes torn with jealousy and threatens to reveal to Joan that he is an illegitimate birth.
Air Hostess
Ma Kearny
A plucky stewardess risks her life marrying a daredevil pilot.
Roman Scandals
Roman Spa Proprietress (uncredited)
A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
Women Won't Tell
Mrs. Walter Robinson
A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is actually the rightful heir.
Sábado Alegre
Mrs. Brock
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Alice's Aunt
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
Back Street
Mrs. Adolph Schmidt
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
Young America
School Teacher (Uncredited)
Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old Arthur, "the worst kid in town", who moves cars away from fiire-plugs without the knowledge of the owners. The judge gives Arthur and friend Nutty another chance. However they run into further trouble when they break into Mr. Doray's drugstore to get medicine for Nutty's grandmother. Mr. Doray is not sympathetic and completely against his wife's plan to become Arthur's guardian. More incidents occur with Mr. Doray quick to judge prior to getting all of the facts. Mrs. Doray must choose between her marriage and Arthur.
Ladies of the Big House
Mrs. Turner
A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
Huckleberry Finn
Widow Douglas
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...
Tom Sawyer
Widow Douglas
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.
Little Church Around the Corner
Anxious Woman at Mine Disaster (uncredited)
A wealthy minister in a mining town is something of an advocate for the miners' safety, but he doesn't really get involved in the issue. He is soon snapped out of that attitude, however, when his daughter is trapped underground in a mine explosion, along with the mine's owner.
The Restless Sex
Housekeeper (uncredited)
A love triangle drama, based on a novel by Robert W. Chambers, who is better-known for weird fiction (which is not noticeable in this story.)
The Goose Girl
Irma
Count Von Herbeck, the chancellor to the Grand Duke of Ehrenstein, is married but keeps the fact secret on account of his high ambitions. His wife, dying, writes him a letter urging him to make their little child a great lady.
Hypocrites
Madam (uncredited)
The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Purity, who is also represented by a ghostly naked girl that flits through the film.
The Rose of the Rancho
Señora Castro Kenton, Juanita's Mother
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho. Government agent Kearney holds him off till the cavalry shows up and he can declare his love for Juanita, called “the Rose of the Rancho.”
Ready Money
Mrs. Tyler
Edward Abeles and Theodore Roberts as a couple of prospectors who get involved with greedy city types on a business trip to New York.