Sheldon Jett

Sheldon Jett

Born: March 24, 1901
Died: February 1, 1960
in Neodesha, Kansas, USA

Movies for Sheldon Jett...

The Lady and the Bandit
Title: The Lady and the Bandit
Character: Ramsey Jostin
Released: August 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
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Tarzan and the Slave Girl
Title: Tarzan and the Slave Girl
Released: June 23, 1950
Type: Movie
The Lionians, a tribe of lion worshippers, make a desperate attempt to find a cure for the mysterious disease plaguing their village. Their Chief decides to kidnap Jane and Lola, a half-breed nurse, in order to help repopulate his civilization. Tarzan must rescue them while fending off blowgun attacks from people called the Waddies who are disguised as bushes.
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Appointment with Danger
Title: Appointment with Danger
Character: Fat Man
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.
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Body and Soul
Title: Body and Soul
Character: Sam - Pool Hall Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1947
Type: Movie
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
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The Exile
Title: The Exile
Character: Card Player (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1947
Type: Movie
In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwell. Charles ends up in the Netherlands, where he falls for local beauty Katie and spends his days happily in the quiet countryside. Unfortunately, Cromwell's associate Col. Ingram and his men track Charles down, and the would-be monarch must resort to swashbuckling his way to freedom.
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Two Sisters from Boston
Title: Two Sisters from Boston
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1946
Type: Movie
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
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The Seesaw and the Shoes
Title: The Seesaw and the Shoes
Character: One of Goodyear's Guests (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1945
Type: Movie
This short shows how two objects led to important discoveries. Children playing with a seesaw inspire French physician Rene Laennec to invent the stethoscope, and a pair of shoes made of caoutchouc lead Charles Goodyear to discover the process for vulcanizing rubber.
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The Woman in the Window
Title: The Woman in the Window
Character: Man at Club (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
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Grandpa Called It Art
Title: Grandpa Called It Art
Character: Cousin Wilmer (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1944
Type: Movie
This MGM Passing Parade series short takes a look at changing definitions of art in the United States.
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The Voice That Thrilled the World
Title: The Voice That Thrilled the World
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1943
Type: Movie
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures.
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Reunion in France
Title: Reunion in France
Character: Tourist (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
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The Palm Beach Story
Title: The Palm Beach Story
Character: Seventh Member Ale and Quail Club
Released: August 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry (Geraldine), decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
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The Pride of the Yankees
Title: The Pride of the Yankees
Character: Sportsman at Ballgame (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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The Gay Falcon
Title: The Gay Falcon
Character: Elevator Passenger (uncredited)
Released: October 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.
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Three Girls About Town
Title: Three Girls About Town
Character: Hotel Extra
Released: October 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
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The Lady Eve
Title: The Lady Eve
Character: Sunbather on Ship (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1941
Type: Movie
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
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Spring Parade
Title: Spring Parade
Character: Policeman
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
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Boom Town
Title: Boom Town
Character: Oil Man at Meeting (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Title: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Character: New England Telephone Company Executive
Released: April 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
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The Lady and the Mob
Title: The Lady and the Mob
Character: Dry Cleaner
Released: April 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
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Topper
Title: Topper
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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Midnight Court
Title: Midnight Court
Character: Courtroom Spectator
Released: March 6, 1937
Type: Movie
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
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Smashing the Vice Trust
Title: Smashing the Vice Trust
Character: Henchman
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
In a meeting with the leaders of his vice syndicate, gangster boss James "Lucky" Lombardo complains that his profits are down. He demands that his henchmen get new, younger and prettier girls for his bordellos.
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It's in the Air
Title: It's in the Air
Character: Double-Decker Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1935
Type: Movie
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
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Hot Tip
Title: Hot Tip
Character: Racetrack Spectator
Released: August 20, 1935
Type: Movie
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
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Grand Old Girl
Title: Grand Old Girl
Character: School Board Member
Released: January 15, 1935
Type: Movie
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.