John T. Murray

John T. Murray

Born: August 28, 1886
Died: February 12, 1957
in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
John T. Murray was an Australian film actor.

Movies for John T. Murray...

Here Comes Mr. Zerk
Title: Here Comes Mr. Zerk
Character: Oscar B. Zerk
Released: July 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Harry, a famous scientist, is mistaken for an escaped lunatic.
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Reveille with Beverly
Title: Reveille with Beverly
Character: Mr. Ryan (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
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The Devil with Hitler
Title: The Devil with Hitler
Character: Member of Board of Directors in Hell (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the Devil on notice they intend to replace him with Adolf Hitler unless he can get Hitler to commit a good deed. The devil has his work cut out for him, and doesn't appear likely to escape being replaced by the German leader.
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Boom Town
Title: Boom Town
Character: Mr. Springtime (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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Foreign Correspondent
Title: Foreign Correspondent
Character: Clark (Jones Family Member) (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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You're Next!
Title: You're Next!
Character: Baby Face Wessel
Released: May 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Two goofball private detectives are hired to find a millionaire who has been kidnapped by a mad scientist.
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Broadway Melody of 1940
Title: Broadway Melody of 1940
Character: Ham Actor (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
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Skinny the Moocher
Title: Skinny the Moocher
Character: Simmons
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Deep in debt, Charley must marry a wealthy society girl, and attends an afternoon party to announce the engagement. Trouble is, he's menaced by two thuggish creditors and must take his kleptomaniac butler along, passing him off as an uncle.
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Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Title: Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Character: Don Davis
Released: July 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as much time as possible with his pretty teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems when he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation.
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The Hardys Ride High
Title: The Hardys Ride High
Character: Don Davis
Released: April 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2 million dollars. In order to claim the inheritance, he and his family must leave for Detroit. The disinherited heir Philip 'Phil' Westcott, adopted son of the deceased relative, has to leave the fabulous mansion Detroit. But the playboy Phil ain't going down without a fight. He decides on a charm offensive. First with Polly Benedict and foremost Andrew 'Andy' Hardy, the son of Judge Hardy.
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The Sap Takes a Wrap
Title: The Sap Takes a Wrap
Character: Uncredited
Released: March 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Charley gives his girlfriend a mink coat he was supposed to be guarding for three showgirls; when the ladies want their coat back, Charley goes to great lengths to recover it.
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Gang Bullets
Title: Gang Bullets
Character: Horace Meade
Released: November 10, 1938
Type: Movie
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
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The Arkansas Traveler
Title: The Arkansas Traveler
Character: Mr. Dean
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, a newspaper started by Mr. Allen, an old friend who is now deceased.
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Down on the Farm
Title: Down on the Farm
Character: Marvin
Released: October 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
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Many Sappy Returns
Title: Many Sappy Returns
Character: Mental Patient
Released: August 19, 1938
Type: Movie
Charley mistakes a lunatic as the father of the girl he's interested in.
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Men with Wings
Title: Men with Wings
Character: Jones
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
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Cowboy from Brooklyn
Title: Cowboy from Brooklyn
Character: Colonel Rose
Released: July 9, 1938
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
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The Mind Needer
Title: The Mind Needer
Character: Ben Johnson
Released: April 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A Charley Chase short, produced at Columbia. Charley is alarmingly forgetful, and this is his wedding anniversary. Will he give his wife a present and avoid her wrath?
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Judge Hardy's Children
Title: Judge Hardy's Children
Character: French Waiter (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.
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True Confession
Title: True Confession
Character: Otto Krayler
Released: December 24, 1937
Type: Movie
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.
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Man Bites Lovebug
Title: Man Bites Lovebug
Character: Theodore
Released: December 24, 1937
Type: Movie
To test his wife, Charley's friend puts him up to making a play for her, but she's on to it and pretends she's fallen for him, infuriating the friend.Charley must stay overnight, and unexpected complications put him in the wife's bedroom.
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Small Town Boy
Title: Small Town Boy
Character: C. Lafferty
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Henry Armstrong was past being a spring chicken, still believes in Santa Claus and the maxim that "honesty is the best policy", but lack of money keeps him from marrying Molly and buying a little home, and his is threatened with the loss of the petty job he has had for four years with old Curtis French, Molly's uncle, because he can not sell enough insurance policies. And, then, he finds a thousand dollar bill. His honesty makes him advertise the find, but no one claims the money. When he is convinced that the owner will not turn up and that the money is his to keep, he becomes a changed, more aggressive and self-confident person. He begins to make sales as fast as he can make the pitch and he insists that he and Molly be married at once. While getting dressed for the ceremony, he places the $1000 bill in one of his father's old suits, and Pa Armstrong, trying to raise money to buy his son a wedding present, sells the suit to a passing junk man.
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Calling All Doctors
Title: Calling All Doctors
Character: Mr. Cronkite
Released: July 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Charley is a hypochondriac who is driving his family, his friends and his doctor crazy.
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It Can't Last Forever
Title: It Can't Last Forever
Character: Announcer
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
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Ever Since Eve
Title: Ever Since Eve
Character: Lowell
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
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The Wrong Miss Wright
Title: The Wrong Miss Wright
Character: Silas Wright
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Charley tries to get out of an arranged marriage so he can marry another girl. What he doesn't realize is that they are one and same girl.
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Sweetheart of the Navy
Title: Sweetheart of the Navy
Character: Carson
Released: June 8, 1937
Type: Movie
Singer Joan Whitney, called the "Sweetheart of the Navy" by sailors, is struggling to re-open the Snug Harbor Cafe. After her partner, Richard, skips town with the money owed to their creditors, the club opens unceremoniously. Two of Joan's sailor friends, Andy and Pete, offer to help her raise money for the club by staging a fight with Bumper Martin, boxing champion of the fleet. At Andy's request, straight-laced yeoman Eddie Harris replaces him in the upcoming fight. Andy and Pete then intimidate or coerce the sailors into betting on the fight, promising to give Joan the profits. Navy Commander Lodge, who is grooming Eddie for the Naval Academy at Annapolis, is against the fight, however, and Joan decides to "vamp" Eddie to make him fight.
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Girl Loves Boy
Title: Girl Loves Boy
Character: Venable
Released: March 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Bob Conrad is the playboy son of town squire Charles Conrad. Much against his dad's wishes, Bob falls in love with Dorothy McCarthy, the daughter of penniless widow Mrs. McCarthy. At the insistence of his dad, Bob weds Sally Lace. Dorothy's broken heart is mended however, when it turns out that Sally's divorce from her previous husband was never finalized.
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Lost Horizon
Title: Lost Horizon
Character: Meeker (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1937
Type: Movie
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
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Here Comes Carter
Title: Here Comes Carter
Character: Ben Rogers
Released: October 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
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I Married a Doctor
Title: I Married a Doctor
Character: Nat Hicks
Released: April 25, 1936
Type: Movie
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Writer (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Snowed Under
Title: Snowed Under
Character: Mike (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer Arthur Layton sends Alice, Alan's first wife, to help him stick to business. But then Daisy, his second wife, shows up wanting her alimony. Stranded with two wives, a girlfriend, and a jug of applejack, Alan still has to finish his play!
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Caught in the Act
Title: Caught in the Act
Character: Jack the Kisser
Released: March 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Andy is mistaken for "Jack the Kisser," a man who grabs women on the street and kisses them.
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The Lady in Scarlet
Title: The Lady in Scarlet
Character: Albert J. Sayre
Released: October 20, 1935
Type: Movie
When a wealthy art dealer is murdered, the private investigator hired for the case discovers a web of blackmail, corruption and stolen bonds.
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The Last Days of Pompeii
Title: The Last Days of Pompeii
Character: Pilate's Servant (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1935
Type: Movie
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
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The Gay Deception
Title: The Gay Deception
Character: Jules (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
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Great God Gold
Title: Great God Gold
Character: Simon
Released: April 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Greed, ambition and hunger-for-power drive John Hart, a New-York-City stock-market broker, into crooked dealings and deception, but he doesn't realize that those he ruined will seek vengeance. He meets his match and downfall when his path crosses with a reporter, Phil Stuart; a girl, Marcia Harper, and a man-with-a-gun from a family he ruined.
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Cheating Cheaters
Title: Cheating Cheaters
Character: Ira Lazarie
Released: November 5, 1934
Type: Movie
The Palmers, an apparently wealthy family, move into the house next door to the Lazarres. However, the Palmers are actually a gang of thieves plotting to rob the Lazarres.
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Romance in the Rain
Title: Romance in the Rain
Character: Melville O'Grunion
Released: August 13, 1934
Type: Movie
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
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Air Maniacs
Title: Air Maniacs
Character: Host / Narrator
Released: December 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Zany flying in biplanes of the era.
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The Man Called Back
Title: The Man Called Back
Character: Sam Corlis
Released: July 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married socialite Doris Kenyon. Doris' insane husband John Halliday commits suicide, but arranges the evidence so that his wife will be charged with murder.
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Running Hollywood
Title: Running Hollywood
Character: Scratchface Henchman
Released: January 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
Title: Murders in the Rue Morgue
Character: Gendarme (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1932
Type: Movie
In 19th Century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
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Alexander Hamilton
Title: Alexander Hamilton
Character: Count Talleyrand
Released: September 12, 1931
Type: Movie
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
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Young as You Feel
Title: Young as You Feel
Character: Colonel Stanhope
Released: August 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that neither of his two sons have the time nor inclination to eat with him. Billy is obsessed with culture, while Tom is a physical fitness nut. At the office, Lemuel is exasperated when Billy arrives for work at four in the afternoon and cannot stay because of a party he is giving that night to unveil a statue he bought for $20,000. Lemuel then finds Tom meeting with his golf committee rather than working. When the boys argue that business is only a means to an end, and that happiness and enjoyment of life are desired goals, Lemuel counters their contentions by declaring that what they really need are wives and tells them that Dorothy and Rose Gregson, the daughters of an old friend, will soon be visiting.
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 4: 'The Mashie Niblick'
Title: How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 4: 'The Mashie Niblick'
Released: June 2, 1931
Type: Movie
Bobby Jones instructs on the use of the Mashie Niblick.
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God's Gift to Women
Title: God's Gift to Women
Character: Mons. Chaumier, an Irate Husband
Released: April 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.
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Charlie Chan Carries On
Title: Charlie Chan Carries On
Character: Dr. Lofton
Released: April 11, 1931
Type: Movie
Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Kong. Fast-paced with lots of wisecracking. The first film to star Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.
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Night Work
Title: Night Work
Character: Calloway
Released: August 3, 1930
Type: Movie
Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's designated 'Fired Man."; when a disgruntled customer demands that somebody-must-be-fired, Willie is summoned and summarily fired, only to be rehired when the now-satisfied customer has departed. Willie inadvertently adopts a four-year-old orphan at a cost of ten-dollars a week, and things go from bad to worse since Willie doesn't make ten-dollars a week. But, with the help of Mary, a beautiful young nurse, Willie manages to turn some corners and improve his lot in life, albeit with some skids along the way.
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Satires
Title: Satires
Released: September 6, 1929
Type: Movie
Mr. Young introduces the sketch in an appropriately melodramatic fashion, wearing an opera cape and a glowering expression. He recites a bit of doggerel about the current popularity of mystery plays ("full of thrills and sighing moans, slamming doors and ringing phones") and then slinks away. Eerie music, thunder, and sinister lighting set the scene. Vivien enters, frightened, and then John, ditto. They tiptoe about, and exchange ridiculous quips about how terrible it all is. Young staggers in, groaning, and slumps into a chair. Vivien screams, and dashes away. When John bumps into the corpse and excuses himself, the corpse comes to life long enough to say "That's all right" before falling dead again.
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Honky Tonk
Title: Honky Tonk
Character: Cafe Manager
Released: August 31, 1929
Type: Movie
Nightclub hostess Sophie Leonard educates her daughter Beth abroad and keeps her life secret for her. But suddenly the daughter shows up.
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Sonny Boy
Title: Sonny Boy
Character: Hamilton
Released: April 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Sonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into kidnapping him because she is terrified that her husband will take the boy out of the country after the divorce.
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Fazil
Title: Fazil
Character: Gondolier
Released: June 4, 1928
Type: Movie
An Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry, but the tremendous differences in their backgrounds and the cultural differences between their two different societies put strains on their marriage that may well prove irreparable.
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Finger Prints
Title: Finger Prints
Character: Homer Fairchild
Released: January 8, 1927
Type: Movie
A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.
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Bardelys the Magnificent
Title: Bardelys the Magnificent
Character: Lafosse
Released: September 30, 1926
Type: Movie
Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen.
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Wife Tamers
Title: Wife Tamers
Character: A Friend
Released: March 25, 1926
Type: Movie
Mr. Barry has a huge argument with his wife, and to make her jealous, he asks his valet to set him up with a pretty girl who is stranded in their neighborhood. He takes her out to dinner, but to his disgust he discovers that she lacks even one ounce of class and her table manners are frightening. Soon enough, Barrymore is reunited with his wife.
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High Steppers
Title: High Steppers
Character: Cyril Buckland
Released: March 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Perryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In search of a change, he heads for London, where he meets Audrey Nye, a former jazz baby who has gotten a responsible job on a newspaper. She helps Perryam get hired as a reporter.
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Joanna
Title: Joanna
Character: Lord Teddy Dorminster
Released: December 14, 1925
Type: Movie
Joanna Manners is a flapper with a million-dollar figure, million-dollar looks, and a million dollars in cash. She falls in love with John Wilmore, a gut who hasn't got a dime nor a pot to put it in if he had a dime. There are those who object. Especially, the crowd of gold-digging gigolos and hustlers she knows.
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Winds of Chance
Title: Winds of Chance
Character: Lucky Broad
Released: August 15, 1925
Type: Movie
A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.
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Stop Flirting
Title: Stop Flirting
Released: March 30, 1925
Type: Movie
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Sally
Title: Sally
Character: Otis Hooper
Released: March 29, 1925
Type: Movie
Sally is a 1925 American silent romantic comedy film starring Colleen Moore.
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Madonna of the Streets
Title: Madonna of the Streets
Character: 'Slippery' Eddie Foster
Released: October 19, 1924
Type: Movie
Rev. John Morton, who is determined to follow as closely as possible the teachings of Jesus, inherits a considerable fortune when his uncle dies. Shortly thereafter he succumbs to the wiles of Mary Carlson and marries her. To Mary's dismay, John uses his money for charitable work. When John learns that not only has Mary been unfaithful to him but she was also his uncle's mistress and became Mrs. Morton in order to share the inheritance she believed to be rightfully hers, he sends her away with his secretary.