| Half Shot at Sunrise (1930) | Edna May Oliver | Mrs. Marshall | mother | [none] |
| Hook, Line and Sinker (1930) | Jobyna Howland | Mrs. Rebecca Marsh | mother | [none] |
| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Beryl Mercer | Mrs. Martin | grandmother | [none] |
| Three Who Loved (1931) | Bodil Rosing | Anna Larson | mother | [none] |
| Too Many Cooks (1931) | Florence Roberts | Mother Cook | mother | [none] |
| Rockabye (1932) | Jobyna Howland | Snooks Carroll | mother | [none] |
| Rockabye (1932) | Virginia Hammond | Mrs. Van Riker Pell | mother | [none] |
| Hell’s Highway (1932) | Louise Carter | Mrs. Ellis | mother | [none] |
| Thirteen Women (1932) | Irene Dunne | Laura Stanhope | victim, mother, classmate | [none] |
| His Greatest Gamble (1934) | Erin O'Brien-Moore | Florence Stebbins | mother, ex-wife | [none] |
| The Informer (1935) | Una O'Connor | Mrs. McPhillip | mother | [none] |
| Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Nella Walker | Helen Webster | mother | [none] |
| Kid Galahad (1937) | Soledad Jiménez | Mrs. Donati | mother | [none] |
| Crime School (1938) | Helen MacKellar | Mrs. Burke | mother | [none] |
| Crime School (1938) | Sibyl Harris | Mrs. Hawkins | mother | [none] |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Flora Robson | Jessica Newcome | antagonist, mother, wife | Jessica |
| Out of the Fog (1941) | Aline MacMahon | Florence Goodwin | mother | [none] |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Billie Burke | Lavinia Timberlake | mother | [none] |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Hattie McDaniel | Minerva Clay | mother, maid | Minerva and Parry |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Joan Crawford | Mildred Pierce | leading lady, heroine, suspect, mother | Mildred, Mildred B, Work, It Can't Be Wrong |
| Deep Valley (1947) | Fay Bainter | Ellie Saul | mother | |
| The Woman in White (1948) | Alexis Smith | Marian Halcombe | leading lady, cousin, love interest, wife, mother, royalty | The Self Banished |
| The Woman in White (1948) | Eleanor Parker | Laura Fairlie | leading lady, wife, victim, patient, mother, royalty, love interest | Pavan, Laura, The Self Banished |
| The Woman in White (1948) | Agnes Moorehead | Countess Fosco | wife, victim, mother, royalty, murderer | Ann |
| White Heat (1949) | Margaret Wycherly | Ma Jarrett | mother, gangster, victim | Ma, Getaway |
| Caged (1950) | Eleanor Parker | Marie Allen | leading lady, prisoner, ex-convict, victim, mother | Marie, Molto Expressivo, June and Marie, Lullaby, Marie 2 |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Kathryn Givney | Myra Nolan | owner, mother | [none] |
| Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Celia Lovsky | Mrs. Sabourin | mother | Clementi's Mother |
| The FBI Story (1959) | Vera Miles | Lucy Ann Hardesty | leading lady, wife, librarian, mother | Lucy A, Lucy B, The Love Nest |