Marshall Ruth

Marshall Ruth

Born: December 24, 1898
Died: January 19, 1953
in Marshalltown, Iowa, USA

Movies for Marshall Ruth...

Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Title: Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Character: Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1948
Type: Movie
A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a mad doctor and a murderous gorilla.
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Desperate
Title: Desperate
Character: Traveling Salesman (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1947
Type: Movie
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.
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New York Town
Title: New York Town
Character: Spectator in Broadcast Studio (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
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Turnabout
Title: Turnabout
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
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Hollywood Cavalcade
Title: Hollywood Cavalcade
Character: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Released: October 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
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Let Us Live
Title: Let Us Live
Character: Peter Roxbury (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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I Am the Law
Title: I Am the Law
Character: Tubby - Law Student (uncredited)
Released: August 25, 1938
Type: Movie
With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.
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Wedding Present
Title: Wedding Present
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
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Moonlight on the Prairie
Title: Moonlight on the Prairie
Character: Fat Saloon Cowboy
Released: November 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.
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False Pretenses
Title: False Pretenses
Character: Gardner
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. Complications ensue.
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Diamond Jim
Title: Diamond Jim
Character: Man at Racetrack
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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Faithless
Title: Faithless
Character: Party Guest
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
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Night Life in Reno
Title: Night Life in Reno
Character: Red
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An (interrupted) indiscretion by John Wyatt with a floozy prompts his wife, June, to make a trip to Reno, Nevada in order to get a quickie six-week-waiting-period divorce. John, penitent over his past actions (since he got caught), follows his wife to Reno and manages a reconciliation after a murder gives him a chance to prove his true devotion.
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Moonlight and Monkey Business
Title: Moonlight and Monkey Business
Character: Honeymooner
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
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One Night at Susie's
Title: One Night at Susie's
Character: Slim (Uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.
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Bulls and Bears
Title: Bulls and Bears
Character: Quigley's Stock Partner
Released: March 2, 1930
Type: Movie
Andy's wife, seeing others succeed in the stock market, decides to invest their money in it.
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Navy Blues
Title: Navy Blues
Character: Chubby Blonde Sailor
Released: December 20, 1929
Type: Movie
On shore leave, a young sailor meets and falls in love with a pretty young blonde. He goes home with her to meet her parents, but they don't approve of him at all. Their daughter takes offense at this, and in the ensuing argument she storms out of the house determined to live on her own.
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Wall Street
Title: Wall Street
Character: Billy
Released: December 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A very topical early talkie from low-budget company Columbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph Ince, brother of producer Thomas H. Ince, as Roller McCray, a steelworker turned ruthless tycoon whose tough business methods leads a rival (Philip Strange) to commit suicide. The widow (Aileen Pringle), believing she can ruin Ince by using his own methods, conspires with her husband's former partner (Sam De Grasse), but a strong friendship between Ince and Pringle's young son (Freddie Burke Frederick) changes things dramatically. According to future Three Stooges director Edward Bernds, who worked as a sound mixer on Wall Street, Ince's reaction to his rival's suicidal jump from a window ledge was changed from a sneering "I didn't think he had the guts" to the more respectful "I didn't think he'd do it" due to derisive laughter from the film's crew.
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Pep Up
Title: Pep Up
Released: February 24, 1929
Type: Movie
Cliff presents his girl with a poodle at a party. His jealous rival plants bugs on both the dog and Cliff.
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The Broadway Melody
Title: The Broadway Melody
Character: Stew - Mr. Zanfield's Assistant (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1929
Type: Movie
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
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Virgin Lips
Title: Virgin Lips
Character: Slim
Released: July 25, 1928
Type: Movie
In a banana republic, way south of the Texas border, a dumb-Dora American girl, Norma (Olive Borden), lets her ruby-red lips promise more than she is willing to deliver, and she finds herself a prisoner in a notorious dance-hall/brothel. But her American aviator boyfriend, Barry Blake (John Boles), is flying to her rescue. He does just that but, alas, they are quickly captured by a gang of outlaws. Possibly the many expensive pieces of jewelry she has gathered from the many male friends she has made along the way, including El Presidente, captured the outlaws' attention.
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Her Sacrifice
Title: Her Sacrifice
Character: Cyril
Released: September 26, 1926
Type: Movie
A woman with a sordid past is redeemed by love in this silent melodrama from low-budget Sanford Productions.