| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
| 1928 | The Three Passions | Bit Part | Uncredited | |
| 1930 | The W Plan | Woman at Cafe Table | Uncredited | |
| Alf's Button | Bit Part | Uncredited | ||
| A Warm Corner | Bit Part | Uncredited | ||
| 1931 | Never Trouble Trouble | Bit Part | Uncredited | |
| Fascination | Flower Seller | Uncredited | ||
| 1932 | Service for Ladies | Minor Role | Uncredited | |
| Ebb Tide | Girl | Uncredited | ||
| Aren't We All? | Bit Part | Uncredited | ||
| Wedding Rehearsal | Miss Hutchinson | |||
| Men of Tomorrow | Ysobel d'Aunay | |||
| For the Love of Mike | Bit Part | Uncredited | ||
| 1933 | Strange Evidence | Bit Part | Uncredited | |
| The Private Life of Henry VIII | Anne Boleyn | |||
| 1934 | The Battle | Marquise Yorisaka | ||
| The Broken Melody | Germaine Brissard | |||
| The Private Life of Don Juan | Antonita | |||
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Lady Marguerite Blakeney | |||
| 1935 | Folies Bergère de Paris | Baroness Genevieve Cassini | ||
| The Dark Angel | Kitty Vane | Nomination - Best Actress Oscar | ||
| 1936 | These Three | Karen Wright | ||
| Beloved Enemy | Lady Helen Drummond | |||
| 1937 | I, Claudius | Messalina | Unfinished | |
| 1938 | The Divorce of Lady X | Leslie Steele | ||
| The Cowboy and the Lady | Mary Smith | |||
| 1939 | Over the Moon | Jane Benson | ||
| Wuthering Heights | Catherine Earnshaw Linton | |||
| The Lion Has Wings | Mrs. Richardson | |||
| 1940 | 'Til We Meet Again | Joan Ames | ||
| 1941 | That Uncertain Feeling | Jill Baker | ||
| Affectionately Yours | Sue Mayberry | |||
| Lydia | Lydia MacMillan | |||
| 1943 | Forever and a Day | Marjorie Ismay | ||
| Stage Door Canteen | Herself | |||
| First Comes Courage | Nicole Larsen | |||
| 1944 | The Lodger | Kitty Langley | ||
| Dark Waters | Leslie Calvin | |||
| 1945 | A Song to Remember | George Sand | ||
| This Love of Ours | Karin Touzac | |||
| 1946 | Night in Paradise | Delarai | ||
| Temptation | Ruby | |||
| 1947 | Night Song | Cathy Mallory | ||
| 1948 | Berlin Express | Lucienne Mirebeau | ||
| 1951 | Pardon My French | Elizabeth Rockwell | ||
| 1952 | Dans la vie tout s'arrange | Elizabeth Rockwell | French version of The Lady from Boston | |
| 24 Hours of a Woman's Life | Linda Venning | |||
| 1954 | All Is Possible in Granada | Margaret Faulson | ||
| Désirée | Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais | |||
| Deep in My Heart | Dorothy Donnelly | |||
| 1956 | The Price of Fear | Jessica Warren | ||
| 1963 | Of Love and Desire | Katherine Beckmann | ||
| 1966 | The Oscar | Herself | ||
| 1967 | Hotel | Duchess Caroline | ||
| 1973 | Interval | Serena Moore | ||