William Newell

William Newell

Born: January 5, 1894
Died: February 21, 1967
in Millville, New Jersey, USA

Movies for William Newell...

Title: The Fugitive
Character: Judge
Released: September 17, 1963
Type: TV
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
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Title: The Beverly Hillbillies
Character: Guard #1
Released: September 26, 1962
Type: TV
Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: Sam Peterson
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: TV
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
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Title: The Andy Griffith Show
Character: Fred Sterling
Released: October 3, 1960
Type: TV
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.
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Pollyanna
Title: Pollyanna
Character: Mr. Hooper (Uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1960
Type: Movie
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
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Who Was That Lady?
Title: Who Was That Lady?
Character: Schultz (uncredited)
Released: April 8, 1960
Type: Movie
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.
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Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
Title: Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
Character: Jailbird
Released: January 21, 1960
Type: Movie
Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky chimpanzee. However, the circus isn't all fun and games when the evil candy vendor, Harry Tupper, convinces Toby that his Aunt Olive and Uncle Daniel don't love him or want him back. Toby resigns himself to circus life, but when he finally realizes that Tupper lied to him, and that his aunt and uncle truly love him, Toby happily returns home once again.
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Last Train from Gun Hill
Title: Last Train from Gun Hill
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk
Released: July 29, 1959
Type: Movie
A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the rape and murder of his wife.
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The Sheepman
Title: The Sheepman
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs.
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The Missouri Traveler
Title: The Missouri Traveler
Character: Pos Neely
Released: January 21, 1958
Type: Movie
Byron Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum, receives a ride into the rural Missouri town of Delphi with rich land-owner Tobias Brown.
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Title: The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
Character: Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1957
Type: TV
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour is a collection of thirteen one-hour specials airing occasionally from 1957 to 1960, and originally served as part of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. Its original network title was The Ford Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the first season, and The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Presents The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the following seasons. It was the successor to the classic comedy, I Love Lucy, and featured the same major cast members. The production schedule avoided the grind of a regular weekly series. Desilu produced the show, which was mostly filmed at their Los Angeles studios with occasional on-location shoots at Lake Arrowhead, Las Vegas and Sun Valley, Idaho. CBS reran the show under the "Lucy-Desi" title during the summers of 1962-1967, after which it went into syndication.
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Mister Cory
Title: Mister Cory
Character: Ned - Owner (uncredited)
Released: February 23, 1957
Type: Movie
An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.
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Our Miss Brooks
Title: Our Miss Brooks
Character: Dr. Henley
Released: April 24, 1956
Type: Movie
The big-screen translation of the successful television show of the 1950's. Arden stars as Connie Brooks, wisecracking English teacher at Madison High School, still hoping to tie the knot with shy biology teacher Philip Boynton (Robert Rockwell).
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Mr. Fescue
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Second Bank Teller
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Charlie
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Wichita
Title: Wichita
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1955
Type: Movie
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter makes him a perfect candidate for Marshal, but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town.
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Phffft
Title: Phffft
Character: Workman (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of bringing them together.
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Escape from Fort Bravo
Title: Escape from Fort Bravo
Character: Symore
Released: December 4, 1953
Type: Movie
A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.
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Here Come the Marines
Title: Here Come the Marines
Character: Maj. Desmond
Released: June 29, 1952
Type: Movie
After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and he is promoted. During a drill that he is putting the rest of the gang through, they find a soldier left for dead on the side of the road. Slip discovers a playing card next to the marine and traces it to Jolly Joe Johnson's gambling house. They suspect that the gambling house is cheating and set out to uncover the proof.
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High Noon
Title: High Noon
Character: Jimmy - Drunk with Eye Patch (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
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Young Man with Ideas
Title: Young Man with Ideas
Character: Party Waiter (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1952
Type: Movie
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
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The Lady Pays Off
Title: The Lady Pays Off
Character: Bartender (as Billy Newell)
Released: October 4, 1951
Type: Movie
The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money. In order to pay her debts, casino manager Matt Braddock asks her to take care of his sad little daughter Diana.
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Bright Victory
Title: Bright Victory
Character: Todd the Bartender (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
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Louisa
Title: Louisa
Character: Movie Usher (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.
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Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Title: Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Character: Horace "Hank" Hawkshaw (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1950
Type: Movie
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.
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Song of My Heart
Title: Song of My Heart
Character: Doorman
Released: January 31, 1948
Type: Movie
The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.
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Wedlock Deadlock
Title: Wedlock Deadlock
Character: Dick
Released: December 18, 1947
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house before Betty's mother (Esther Howard), aunt (Patsy Moran) and brother (Charles Williams) show up and give every indication of becoming permanent free-loading guests. Dick (William Newell) gives Eddie a plan that will cause his unwanted guests to vacate the premises, by having Dick and his wife, Ruby (Dorothy Granger), move in as Eddie's relatives, and even bigger pests, thereby causing Betty's relatives to move out. The plan works and Eddie and Betty are pleased until Dick announces that he and Ruby have intentions of staying on.
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Key Witness
Title: Key Witness
Character: Smiley
Released: October 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.
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Second Chance
Title: Second Chance
Character: Pinky
Released: July 18, 1947
Type: Movie
Jewel thieves battle investigators.
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Doctor Jim
Title: Doctor Jim
Character: Editor (as Bill Newell)
Released: January 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Dr. Jim Gateson, a country doctor who has counselled and ministered to his community for 30 years, is being honored with a surprise testimonial dinner. The scenario then flashes back through three decades, commencing with the young GP first hanging up his shingle, serving at the front during WWI, home life being disrupted by telephone calls from those in need, and competition from a new medic in town who doesn't make country calls.
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The Best Years of Our Lives
Title: The Best Years of Our Lives
Character: Waiter at Bank Dinner (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
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Alias Mr. Twilight
Title: Alias Mr. Twilight
Character: Delivery Man (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1946
Type: Movie
Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the simple luxuries of life, yet has no qualms when working a racket devised to relieve his victims of their property. Trudy Marshall is the governess of the granddaughter, and is in love with a detective (Michael Duane) who is about to expose the old man's unsuspected activities.
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Lady in the Lake
Title: Lady in the Lake
Character: Drunk (Uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1946
Type: Movie
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
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Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Title: Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Character: Piano Player (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1946
Type: Movie
A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.
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The Magnificent Rogue
Title: The Magnificent Rogue
Character: Stage Manager
Released: November 7, 1946
Type: Movie
A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
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Bowery Bombshell
Title: Bowery Bombshell
Character: Detective Dugan
Released: July 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car to a street cleaner for a fabulous amount, so they can get enough money to save Louie's (Bernard Gorcey) Malt Shop. Sidewalk photographer Cathy Smith (Teala Loring) snaps a pictures of three bank robbers as they are fleeing a robbery but when the Bowery Boys and Cathy realize that Sach is also in the photograph, they break into the photo lab to destroy the negative, which might make the police think Sach was involved in the robbery.
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The Man Who Dared
Title: The Man Who Dared
Character: Police Sgt. Clay
Released: May 30, 1946
Type: Movie
A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based on circumstantial evidence alone, but his plan goes awry.
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Young Widow
Title: Young Widow
Character: Charlie (Uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.
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Adventure
Title: Adventure
Character: Barber #1 (uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1945
Type: Movie
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
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The Lost Weekend
Title: The Lost Weekend
Character: Liquor Store Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.
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On Stage Everybody
Title: On Stage Everybody
Character: Mason (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
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Her Lucky Night
Title: Her Lucky Night
Character: Proprietor
Released: February 9, 1945
Type: Movie
In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.
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The Great Morgan
Title: The Great Morgan
Character: Film Character (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, interspersed with a repeated loop of a scene from some melodrama. (Contains in their entirety the shorts, "Musical Masterpieces," "Our Old Car," and "Badminton," as well as clips from other projects)
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The Missing Juror
Title: The Missing Juror
Character: Wally, Counterman (Uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1944
Type: Movie
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
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Sing a Jingle
Title: Sing a Jingle
Character: Wiggins
Released: January 7, 1944
Type: Movie
In Sing a Jingle, Allan Jones plays popular radio crooner Roy King, who goes to work in a war plant after being declared 4F. He falls in love with Muriel Crane, the boss' daughter, who is at first unaware of the fact that King is the heartthrob of millions (he's gotten the job under an assumed name).
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Top Man
Title: Top Man
Character: Secretary
Released: September 17, 1943
Type: Movie
In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of local factory workers, the plucky lad, his siblings and his schoolmates put on a lively little show. With a little work, he even convinces Count Basie to come with his band.
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Fired Wife
Title: Fired Wife
Character: Bartender
Released: September 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
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Honeymoon Lodge
Title: Honeymoon Lodge
Character: Bartender
Released: July 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
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All by Myself
Title: All by Myself
Character: Price
Released: June 11, 1943
Type: Movie
Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who of course is unaware of it. But unknown to Jean, Mark has become engaged to singer Val. When Jean finds out she tries to save face by saying that she is also engaged, and then uses a little social blackmail to get psychiatrist Bill Perry to pretend to be her fiancé for an evening out with Mark and Val.
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Keeper of the Flame
Title: Keeper of the Flame
Character: Piggot
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
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Slightly Dangerous
Title: Slightly Dangerous
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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No Place for a Lady
Title: No Place for a Lady
Character: Toreador Club Waiter
Released: February 11, 1943
Type: Movie
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.
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The Outlaw
Title: The Outlaw
Character: Drunken Cowboy (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his stolen horse, and it is discovered in the possession of Billy the Kid. In a surprising turnaround, Billy and Doc become friends. This causes the friendship between Doc and Pat to cool. The odd relationship between Doc and Billy grows stranger when Doc hides Billy at his girl Rio's place after Billy is shot.
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A Night to Remember
Title: A Night to Remember
Character: Police Photographer
Released: December 10, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.
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Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Title: Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Character: Clerk
Released: December 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.
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Get Hep to Love
Title: Get Hep to Love
Character: Janitor
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
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The Major and the Minor
Title: The Major and the Minor
Character: Ticket Agent #2 (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Susan Applegate, tired of New York after one year and twenty-five jobs, decides to return to her home town in Iowa. Discovering she hasn't enough money for the train fare, Susan disguises herself as a twelve-year-old and travels for half the price. Caught out by the conductors, she hides in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor who takes the "child" under his wing.
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A Tragedy at Midnight
Title: A Tragedy at Midnight
Character: Swanson
Released: February 2, 1942
Type: Movie
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
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Inflation
Title: Inflation
Character: Jerry the Man Wanting to Buy Car (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
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Miss Polly
Title: Miss Polly
Character: Hubert - New Postman
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.
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Devil Pays Off
Title: Devil Pays Off
Character: Second Steward
Released: November 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
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Three Girls About Town
Title: Three Girls About Town
Character: Laundry Man
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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Ice-Capades
Title: Ice-Capades
Character: Harry Stimson
Released: August 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.
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Manpower
Title: Manpower
Character: Lineman at Cafe Counter (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Title: Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Character: Murdock Handler (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
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Blondie Goes Latin
Title: Blondie Goes Latin
Character: Steward Ringing Chime and Crying (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.
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Caught in the Act
Title: Caught in the Act
Character: Sgt. Riley
Released: January 17, 1941
Type: Movie
On the day of his daughter's wedding, a good-natured construction worker (Henry Armetta) is suspected by his wife of being involved with another woman, wrongly implicates his company's boss as a racketeer, and is arrested by police for running a shakedown operation. Comedy.
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Mysterious Doctor Satan
Title: Mysterious Doctor Satan
Character: Speed Martin
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer America. The only one standing in his way is Bob Wayne, who fights Satan as the enigmatic Copperhead. Mysterious Doctor Satan is a 1940 film serial named after its chief villain. Doctor Satan's main opponent is the masked mystery man, "The Copperhead", whose secret identity is Bob Wayne, a man searching for justice and revenge on Satan for the death of his step-father. The serial charts the conflict between the two as Bob Wayne pursues Doctor Satan, while the latter completes his plans for world domination.
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Wedding Bills
Title: Wedding Bills
Character: Groom-to-be (uncredited)
Released: November 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Another in the long series of "Pete Smith" shorts from M-G-M in which William Newell meets and falls in love with Sally Payne, and begins to budget for their plans to get married. His budget, alas, does not include nor anticipate the plans of Sally and her parents. This short was reissued in June of 1950 to be shown as a trailer with 1950's "Father of the Bride" and some sources think this short was made for that express purpose and date it as a 1950 film.
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City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: Max's Lyricist (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1940
Type: Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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Public Deb No. 1
Title: Public Deb No. 1
Character: Reporter
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
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He Stayed for Breakfast
Title: He Stayed for Breakfast
Character: Waiter
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.
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The Great Profile
Title: The Great Profile
Character: Reporter
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
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Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Title: Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Character: Insurance Investigator (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.
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Hold That Woman!
Title: Hold That Woman!
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang that has stolen diamonds from a Hollywood movie star has stashed them inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.
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Bubbling Troubles
Title: Bubbling Troubles
Character: Alfalfa's Dad (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1940
Type: Movie
To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
Title: The Doctor Takes a Wife
Character: Soda Jerk
Released: April 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
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The Domineering Male
Title: The Domineering Male
Character: Marriage Proposer (uncredited)
Released: March 30, 1940
Type: Movie
This Pete Smith Specialty short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. Who's really chasing whom?
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The Ghost Comes Home
Title: The Ghost Comes Home
Character: Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
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The Invisible Man Returns
Title: The Invisible Man Returns
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1940
Type: Movie
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
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Swanee River
Title: Swanee River
Character: Bill, Stagehand
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
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Nick Carter, Master Detective
Title: Nick Carter, Master Detective
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: December 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
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The Invisible Killer
Title: The Invisible Killer
Character: Det. Sgt. Pat Dugan
Released: November 14, 1939
Type: Movie
Reporter Sue Walker has too much inside information on the local gambling rackets to suit her sweetheart, Detective Lieutenant Jerry Brown, chief of the police Homicide Squad. When the call comes in that there has been a killing at Lefty Ross' place, a notorious gambling joint, Jerry is peeved when Sue beats him there. He discovers that gambler Jimmy Clark was killed as he answered a telephone call, and his body is riddled with bullets but Jerry can't find any weapon. Sue is amazed to see Gloria Cunningham there. Gloria's father is one of the town's leading reformers and she is engaged to District Attorney Richard Sutton. Ross decides to give Sutton all the information he needs and makes an appointment to go to Sutton's home. Once there, Ross is called to the telephone before he can give any information, and is killed in the same mysterious manner as Jimmy Clark.
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Let's Talk Turkey
Title: Let's Talk Turkey
Character: Abner J. Poodlebeam
Released: October 28, 1939
Type: Movie
It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her scowling family, and Abner has no idea how to proceed. The film's narrator has us cut away to the kitchen of chef M.O. Cullen who demonstrates the proper way to carve the bird, spoon out the stuffing, and lay out the platter. Back to Abner, who's missed Cullen's lesson, so he makes a fine mess. Can this marriage survive?
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The Housekeeper's Daughter
Title: The Housekeeper's Daughter
Character: Reporter
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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The Day the Bookies Wept
Title: The Day the Bookies Wept
Character: Maxie T. Bookmaker (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1939
Type: Movie
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
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Second Fiddle
Title: Second Fiddle
Character: Make-Up Artist
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
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Naughty But Nice
Title: Naughty But Nice
Character: Arranger (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
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Good Girls Go to Paris
Title: Good Girls Go to Paris
Character: Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
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Invitation to Happiness
Title: Invitation to Happiness
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1939
Type: Movie
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
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Rose of Washington Square
Title: Rose of Washington Square
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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Everybody's Baby
Title: Everybody's Baby
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
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Honolulu
Title: Honolulu
Character: Second Interne
Released: February 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
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Alfalfa's Aunt
Title: Alfalfa's Aunt
Character: John Switzer
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Alfalfa's weird aunt Penelope pays a visit. She's working on a murder mystery novel, but Alfalfa thinks she's trying to murder him. It's up to the Spanky and the gang to save him.
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Slander House
Title: Slander House
Character: Terry Kent
Released: October 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client.
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Rhythm in the Clouds
Title: Rhythm in the Clouds
Character: Clyde Lyons
Released: June 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
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Dangerous Holiday
Title: Dangerous Holiday
Character: Solitaire
Released: June 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
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Make Way for Tomorrow
Title: Make Way for Tomorrow
Character: Ticket Seller (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1937
Type: Movie
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?
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Bill Cracks Down
Title: Bill Cracks Down
Character: Eddie 'Porky' Plunkett
Released: March 22, 1937
Type: Movie
William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he finds "Tons' Walker, a strong and burly steel worker running the company, per his late-father's will request. He also finds that his father's will specifies the Junior will change his name to Bill Hall and work in the family steel mill for a year under the fake name. Walker's job is to make a man out of the son. The son is not overjoyed by this prospect. Neither is Walker.
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Larceny on the Air
Title: Larceny on the Air
Character: Andrews
Released: January 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.
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A Man Betrayed
Title: A Man Betrayed
Character: Gabby
Released: December 27, 1936
Type: Movie
A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders, but gets framed.
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The Mandarin Mystery
Title: The Mandarin Mystery
Character: Detective Guffy
Released: December 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.
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Beware Of Ladies
Title: Beware Of Ladies
Character: Sniff
Released: December 21, 1936
Type: Movie
An unhappily married newspaper reporter discovers she's being used as a pawn in a scheme to discredit the political candidate she's been assigned to write about.
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Happy Go Lucky
Title: Happy Go Lucky
Character: Charlie Davis
Released: December 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold the experimental airplane that he was flying. Foreign gangsters, the missing flyers girlfriend, and the U.S. military wants him, dead or alive.
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Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
Title: Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
Character: Hank McGlaurie
Released: November 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A 14-episode serial in which Mala, a Polynesian in the employ of U.S. Intelligence investigates sabotage on Clipper Island. A gang of spies causes the eruption of a volcano, for which our hero is blamed. He convinces the local Princess Melani of his innocence and helps her ward off a takeover by rival high priest Porotu.
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Libeled Lady
Title: Libeled Lady
Character: Divorce Detective
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
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Bulldog Edition
Title: Bulldog Edition
Character: Charlie Hunter
Released: September 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also complicating matters is that one newspaper's editor and circulation director are competing for the affections of a pretty blonde reporter.
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Sitting on the Moon
Title: Sitting on the Moon
Character: Mike
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A successful songwriter and a struggling singer become involved professionally and romantically on the road to stardom.
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Fury
Title: Fury
Character: Service Station Owner (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Navy Born
Title: Navy Born
Character: Lt. Bill Lyons
Released: June 2, 1936
Type: Movie
A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best friends. Despite the resistance of the lad's surviving relatives, who worry that growing in the Navy will be hard on the boy, the officer loves and takes good care of the boy. At least he does until the child is abducted by a gangster who has mistaken him for his long-lost boy. Fortunately for the young fellow, the officer rallies the entire Navy and comes to the rescue.
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Absolute Quiet
Title: Absolute Quiet
Character: Bill Dahle (Uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary hostage, the convicts inadvertently cause the crash-landing of a small plane ferrying Axton's political adversary, Gov. Sam Pruden, and a nosy reporter. As the long night unfolds, each person's rivalries and weaknesses are prodded by the others.
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The Voice of Bugle Ann
Title: The Voice of Bugle Ann
Character: Mr. Tanner
Released: February 15, 1936
Type: Movie
A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.
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Riffraff
Title: Riffraff
Character: Pete
Released: January 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie.
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Rendezvous
Title: Rendezvous
Character: Carter's Receptionist (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
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Here Comes the Band
Title: Here Comes the Band
Character: Greasy (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1935
Type: Movie
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
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Honeymoon Limited
Title: Honeymoon Limited
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco.
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Bombshell
Title: Bombshell
Character: Lola's Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.