Matt McHugh

Matt McHugh

Born: January 22, 1894
Died: February 22, 1971
in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA
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Matthew O. McHugh (January 22, 1894 – February 22, 1971) was an American film actor who appeared in more than 200 films between 1931 and 1955, primarily in small cameo parts.

McHugh came from a theatrical family. His parents ran a stock theatre company and, as a young child, he performed on stage. His brother, Frank, who went on to become part of the Warner Bros. stock company in the 1930s and 1940s, and sister Kitty performed an act with him by the time he was fourteen years old, but the family quit the stage around 1930. His brother Ed became an agent in New York.

Matt made his Broadway debut in Elmer Rice's Street Scene in 1929, along with his brother Ed, and also appeared in Swing Your Lady in 1936.

Despite his actual origins, McHugh usually performed his roles with a Brooklyn accent, and was often cast as characters explicitly from Brooklyn. In Star Spangled Rhythm (1941), his one scene is a protracted monologue during the climactic "Old Glory" sequence, in which McHugh plays a character who literally embodies the spirit of Brooklyn.

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Wham-Bam-Slam!
Title: Wham-Bam-Slam!
Character: Dr. Claude A. Quacker (archive footage)
Released: September 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Shemp is a sick man with a bad case of nerves. The stooge's friend Claude, a self-taught healer, tries to cure Shemp with various home- made remedies. When nothing seems to work, Claude suggests they buy his old lemon of a car so they can take Shemp on a trip to the country. The car won't start, and the trip never gets off the ground, but not to worry, Shemp is cured by all the excitement.
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Tales of Robin Hood
Title: Tales of Robin Hood
Character: Tuck's Guard-Friend
Released: December 21, 1951
Type: Movie
The story of Robin Hood, how he met his Merry Men and Maid Marian, and saved England from Sir Guy de Clairmont and his henchman. Compiled from the few filmed episodes of an unsold TV series.
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Home Town Story
Title: Home Town Story
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: May 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the state legislature. He takes over his uncle's newspaper to take on big business as an enemy of the people. Miss Martin works in the "Herald" newspaper office. When tragedy strikes, Blake must re-examine his views.
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Arson, Inc.
Title: Arson, Inc.
Character: Hubbell
Released: June 24, 1949
Type: Movie
An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.
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Duke of Chicago
Title: Duke of Chicago
Character: Terry Shea
Released: March 15, 1949
Type: Movie
To save his publishing firm, a prizefighter comes out of retirement in a fixed match.
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An Innocent Affair
Title: An Innocent Affair
Character: Ted Burke
Released: October 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Vincent Doane is in the precarious position of trying to close an advertising account with his rich ex-fiancée. Unfortunately she is more interested in him than in business. Vincent's wife Paula gets suspicious and finally decides to do some flirting of her own to make him jealous. Unknown to her, she chooses cigarette tychoon Claude Kimball. In fact, Kimball hits it off well with both of the Doanes. The question is whether or not their marriage can survive all the shenanigans.
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Shed No Tears
Title: Shed No Tears
Character: First Investigating Detective (Uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1948
Type: Movie
A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance policy.
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Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!
Title: Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!
Character: Frank the Barber (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Light-hearted, old-style romance about a farm-hand who arranges to buy a pair of mules from his employer. No one is able to handle the mules and he must train them. Adding to his dilemma, he pursues his boss's daughter who gets her kicks out of keeping him guessing about her true feelings. Of course, at the end he tames both the mules and the girl.
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Pardon My Clutch
Title: Pardon My Clutch
Character: Claude Finkle
Released: February 26, 1948
Type: Movie
The stooge's friend Claude sells them his old lemon of a car so they can take Shemp, who is sick with a toothache, camping. The car won't work and the boys are apparently out a bundle, when a car collector happens on the scene and offers to buy it at a premium. Claude backs out on the deal and gives the stooges their money back, only to discover the "collector" is an escaped lunatic.
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Should Husbands Marry?
Title: Should Husbands Marry?
Character: Loud Friend
Released: November 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Hugh's loudmouth pal crashes a dinner party Hugh is throwing for his boss.
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They Won't Believe Me
Title: They Won't Believe Me
Released: July 16, 1947
Type: Movie
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
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The Trouble with Women
Title: The Trouble with Women
Character: Herman
Released: June 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.
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My Favorite Brunette
Title: My Favorite Brunette
Character: Third Man on Death Row (uncredited)
Released: March 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.
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Vacation in Reno
Title: Vacation in Reno
Character: Bill Dumont
Released: December 10, 1946
Type: Movie
A hapless husband searches for buried treasure at a dude ranch; meanwhile, his wife wants a divorce and bank robbers want him dead.
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Nocturne
Title: Nocturne
Character: Coffee Attendant
Released: October 29, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.
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Deadline for Murder
Title: Deadline for Murder
Character: Johnny
Released: June 28, 1946
Type: Movie
A favor for an old friend leads a Los Angeles gambler (Kent Taylor) into a dangerous search for a missing document.
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The Blue Dahlia
Title: The Blue Dahlia
Character: Bartender at Gus' (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1946
Type: Movie
Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
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The Dark Corner
Title: The Dark Corner
Character: Milkman (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
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The Bells of St. Mary's
Title: The Bells of St. Mary's
Character: Sporting Goods Salesman (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to save the school, though their differing methods often lead to good-natured disagreements.
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How DOooo You Do
Title: How DOooo You Do
Character: Deputy McNiel
Released: December 24, 1945
Type: Movie
Murder occurs when several of the most popular radio personalities of the '40s converge on a desert resort.
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Lady on a Train
Title: Lady on a Train
Released: August 3, 1945
Type: Movie
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
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Salome, Where She Danced
Title: Salome, Where She Danced
Character: Lafe
Released: April 17, 1945
Type: Movie
During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a lawless western town in Arizona, where she uses her charms and dancing skills to transform herself into "Salome" during her dance routines.
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My Buddy
Title: My Buddy
Character: Happy
Released: October 12, 1944
Type: Movie
A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his return from the war, he puts off his marriage and works for a bootlegger. He is forced to take a rap for his boss, goes to prison, and forms a gang.
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The Mark of the Whistler
Title: The Mark of the Whistler
Character: Tom, Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1944
Type: Movie
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.
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Secret Command
Title: Secret Command
Character: Curly
Released: July 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman. Jeff still resents Sam for abandoning the family years ago and fears he may steal away Lea Damaron, his current girlfriend -- who is Sam's old flame. While Sam tries to sniff out Nazi saboteurs in the plant, he grows closer to Jill McGann, the agent tasked with pretending to be his wife.
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Mr. Skeffington
Title: Mr. Skeffington
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
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And the Angels Sing
Title: And the Angels Sing
Character: Doorman - 33 Club (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1944
Type: Movie
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an offer of ten dollars to sing at a dubious night club on the edge of town where a band led by Happy Marshall is playing.
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Phantom Lady
Title: Phantom Lady
Character: Al Alp - Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1944
Type: Movie
A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
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Whispering Footsteps
Title: Whispering Footsteps
Character: Cy Walsh, Boarder
Released: December 30, 1943
Type: Movie
An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.
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True to Life
Title: True to Life
Character: Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
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The West Side Kid
Title: The West Side Kid
Character: The Worrier
Released: August 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her time to parties; his daughter Gloria is in one scandal after another, changing husbands as often as her moods, and son Jerry spends his time getting drunk and chasing women. Sam hires gangster Johnny April to bump him off but Johnny, liking the old man, defers the killing and sets about making the family appreciate Sam.
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Hi Diddle Diddle
Title: Hi Diddle Diddle
Character: Reporter #2 (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1943
Type: Movie
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.
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So This Is Washington
Title: So This Is Washington
Character: Stranger in Park Renting 'Rooms'
Released: August 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is a good substitute for rubber--Abner's homemade licorice.
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Cowboy in Manhattan
Title: Cowboy in Manhattan
Character: Cab Driver
Released: May 21, 1943
Type: Movie
Bob Allen, a struggling songwriter poses as a millionaire cowboy to win Broadway star Babs Lee.
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Flight for Freedom
Title: Flight for Freedom
Character: Mac (uncredited)
Released: April 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.
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Quiet Please, Murder
Title: Quiet Please, Murder
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: March 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
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Girl Trouble
Title: Girl Trouble
Character: Driver
Released: October 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid.
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The Man in the Trunk
Title: The Man in the Trunk
Character: Detective Murtha
Released: September 19, 1942
Type: Movie
The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.
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The Pride of the Yankees
Title: The Pride of the Yankees
Character: Strength Machine Operator (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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It Happened in Flatbush
Title: It Happened in Flatbush
Character: O'Doul
Released: May 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
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Star Spangled Rhythm
Title: Star Spangled Rhythm
Character: Man from Brooklyn (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
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Too Many Women
Title: Too Many Women
Character: Spike O'Reilly
Released: February 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Thanks to a fib intended to ward off an annoying real estate developer, a young bachelor finds himself engaged to three different women and pursued by a fourth, a gangster's sister.
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Sappy Birthday
Title: Sappy Birthday
Released: February 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Andy and his brother-in-law plan a fishing trip but never get beyond the driveway.
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A Gentleman at Heart
Title: A Gentleman at Heart
Character: Joe
Released: January 16, 1942
Type: Movie
After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.
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The Perfect Snob
Title: The Perfect Snob
Character: Baggage Man
Released: December 19, 1941
Type: Movie
When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging elitist, he devises a plan to help her rediscover old-fashioned family values.
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Blues in the Night
Title: Blues in the Night
Character: St Louis Jail Drunk
Released: November 15, 1941
Type: Movie
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.
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West Point Widow
Title: West Point Widow
Character: Drunk at Football Game
Released: June 20, 1941
Type: Movie
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Title: The Lady from Cheyenne
Character: Reporter on Train
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
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The Devil and Miss Jones
Title: The Devil and Miss Jones
Character: Sam
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, and the employees' anger is directed at him, who they hang in effigy outside the store despite not knowing what he looks like. Merrick, not happy at what he sees going on, decides to mete out the rabble-rousers. So he goes undercover as a sales clerk in the shoe department.
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So You Won't Squawk
Title: So You Won't Squawk
Character: Louie the Wolf's Henchman
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Mobster Louie the Wolf sends an unsuspecting handyman (Keaton) to gather up the collection money owed him, hoping the sap will get rubbed out by Slugger McGraw, a rival gangster. Keaton, however, innocently escapes all the perils that whiz about him without his even knowing it, much to the consternation of McGraw's hoods. When he finally does wake up to Louie's plot, Keaton provokes various policemen to chase him and leads them back to the hoodlum's hideout.
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His Ex Marks the Spot
Title: His Ex Marks the Spot
Character: Radcliffe - the ex wife's boyfriend
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Buster's home life is disrupted when his ex-wife and her boyfriend move in.
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You, the People
Title: You, the People
Character: Albert 'Bert' / 'Perky' Perkins
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the current corrupt mayor. By using several illegal tactics, and aided by voter apathy, the crime boss nearly continues his control of the city.
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Rangers of Fortune
Title: Rangers of Fortune
Character: Horatio Wells
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor (Arthur Allen) and his young granddaughter (Betty Brewer). The trio learns that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron (Joseph Schildkraut), who is endeavoring to push out the ranch owners and take over the territory.
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The Boys from Syracuse
Title: The Boys from Syracuse
Character: Bartender
Released: July 30, 1940
Type: Movie
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Repairman (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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Sailor's Lady
Title: Sailor's Lady
Character: Cabby
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
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La Conga Nights
Title: La Conga Nights
Character: Headwaiter
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when she hails his cab as she skips out on her former boarding house because she cannot pay rent.
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Primrose Path
Title: Primrose Path
Character: Drunk Leaving Bluebell (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
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I Take This Woman
Title: I Take This Woman
Character: Mike Fescue - Man in Clinic (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1940
Type: Movie
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
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Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!
Title: Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!
Character: Charlie-the Cop
Released: January 1, 1940
Type: Movie
In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads for her elopement. The two begin traveling together and get further mixed up with a fleeing bank robber, a crazy tourist camp, and other troubles. Songs include: "Oh Johnny, How You Can Love," "Maybe I Like What You Like," "Swing Chariot Swing," and "Make Up Your Mind."
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The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Title: The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Character: Messenger's Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.
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20,000 Men a Year
Title: 20,000 Men a Year
Character: Baseball Fan
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
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At the Circus
Title: At the Circus
Character: Cabbie (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to find the thief and get the money back.
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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 Escape
Title: The Escape
Character: Pete
Released: October 5, 1939
Type: Movie
An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.
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$1,000 a Touchdown
Title: $1,000 a Touchdown
Character: Brick Benson
Released: October 4, 1939
Type: Movie
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
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The Under-Pup
Title: The Under-Pup
Character: Soda Jerk
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
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Miracles for Sale
Title: Miracles for Sale
Character: 'All Over Town' Bus Driver
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
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Chicken Wagon Family
Title: Chicken Wagon Family
Character: Joe
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
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The Jones Family in Hollywood
Title: The Jones Family in Hollywood
Character: Charlie
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
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The Greener Hills
Title: The Greener Hills
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: January 1, 1939
Type: Movie
An MGM Miniature about an incurable optimist who is always giving up on his job or project to try something new, while his wife and kids humor him, thinking that some day he may make that million he always talks about. He takes over a peanut farm, but immediately starts off on a bee-hive project, leaving his wife and kids to run the peanut farm.
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While New York Sleeps
Title: While New York Sleeps
Character: Cab Driver
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
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Exposed
Title: Exposed
Character: Johnson
Released: November 5, 1938
Type: Movie
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.
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The Mad Miss Manton
Title: The Mad Miss Manton
Character: Frisco - False Waiter (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1938
Type: Movie
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
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That Certain Age
Title: That Certain Age
Character: Soda Jerk (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton invites Bullit to the peace and quiet of his own home to write a series of European affair articles. When Fullerton's adolescent daughter Alice develops a crush on Bullit, her suitor, boyscout Ken Warren, doesn't seem to stand a chance. Mr. and Mrs. Fullerton, Ken Warren, and even Vincent Bullit himself do their best to sway young Alice's feelings away from the older man. It's a difficult task though, as she is at 'that certain age.'
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Three Loves Has Nancy
Title: Three Loves Has Nancy
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
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Professor Beware
Title: Professor Beware
Character: Divorced Man on Highway
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
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Tropic Holiday
Title: Tropic Holiday
Character: Joe
Released: June 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border.
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The Rage of Paris
Title: The Rage of Paris
Character: Department Head (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
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Holiday
Title: Holiday
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: May 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!
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No Time To Marry
Title: No Time To Marry
Character: Abernathy
Released: February 5, 1938
Type: Movie
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficulties in their competitive pursuit of a "big scoop".
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Mannequin
Title: Mannequin
Character: Mike (Uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
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Navy Blue and Gold
Title: Navy Blue and Gold
Character: Heckler
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
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Broadway Melody of 1938
Title: Broadway Melody of 1938
Character: Burt (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse, she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with to ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.
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The Gentleman from Louisiana
Title: The Gentleman from Louisiana
Character: Steve Brodie
Released: August 14, 1936
Type: Movie
In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.
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To Mary - with Love
Title: To Mary - with Love
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: August 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.
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The Phantom Rider
Title: The Phantom Rider
Character: Agent Shorty
Released: July 6, 1936
Type: Movie
The Phantom Rider helps Mary Grayson thwart a plot to steal her land.
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The Country Beyond
Title: The Country Beyond
Character: Const. Weller
Released: April 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman suspects his girlfriend's father of theft and murder.
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Anything Goes
Title: Anything Goes
Character: Detective
Released: January 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To avoid discovery, he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law.
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If You Could Only Cook
Title: If You Could Only Cook
Character: Pete
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
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Barbary Coast
Title: Barbary Coast
Character: Broncho
Released: October 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Jim Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. She goes after him, Chamalis goes after her with intent to harm Carmichael.
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Thunder in the Night
Title: Thunder in the Night
Character: Police Secretary
Released: September 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Officer Karl Torok's best friend, Count Alvinczy, is elected president of the Hungarian cabinet. Meanwhile, Alvinczy's wife, Madalaine, receives a message from a blackmailer, threatening her husband. When the blackmailer winds up dead, Madalaine appears to be the most likely suspect. Torok, however, knows the case is more complicated than it seems and dedicates himself to revealing the truth behind the mystery.
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Diamond Jim
Title: Diamond Jim
Character: Bartender
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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The Glass Key
Title: The Glass Key
Character: Puggy
Released: June 15, 1935
Type: Movie
When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-hand man, must decide which side he is on.
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Party Wire
Title: Party Wire
Character: Bert West
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.
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Mister Dynamite
Title: Mister Dynamite
Character: Sunshine
Released: April 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.
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Murder on a Honeymoon
Title: Murder on a Honeymoon
Character: Madden
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.
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The Good Fairy
Title: The Good Fairy
Character: Moving Man (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.
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Wings in the Dark
Title: Wings in the Dark
Character: 1st Mechanic
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
In his dedicated pursuit of technology that will aid pilots to safely "fly blind" during adverse conditions, aerial innovator Ken Gordon is literally blinded in an accident, but this setback doesn't deter him from his goal.
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Lost in the Stratosphere
Title: Lost in the Stratosphere
Character: Matthew O'Toole
Released: November 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries. But when one of the pilots loses a girl he really cared for, he cannot forgive his friend. Soon afterwards, they must work together on their most dangerous mission yet.
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She Loves Me Not
Title: She Loves Me Not
Character: Andy, the Photographer
Released: August 31, 1934
Type: Movie
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
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Sing and Like it
Title: Sing and Like it
Character: Junker - Hood
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue
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Bridal Bail
Title: Bridal Bail
Character: Patrolman Gus Brown
Released: February 9, 1934
Type: Movie
When a theater offers a free wedding to a couple, confusion reigns.
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Two Alone
Title: Two Alone
Character: Counter Man (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
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Dancing Lady
Title: Dancing Lady
Character: Marcia's Agent (uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.
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From Headquarters
Title: From Headquarters
Character: Man picked up by police wagon (uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1933
Type: Movie
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
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The Prizefighter and the Lady
Title: The Prizefighter and the Lady
Character: Professor's Drinking Buddy (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
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The Mad Game
Title: The Mad Game
Character: Butts McGhee
Released: October 27, 1933
Type: Movie
Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to kidnapping. When they nab the son and daughter-in-law of the judge who sent Carson to prison, he is paroled to help in the capture.
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A Man of Sentiment
Title: A Man of Sentiment
Character: Alex (Willie) Moran - Orderly
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.
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Sailor Beware!
Title: Sailor Beware!
Character: Dan
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A pair of sailors are on shore leave - skirt chasing and raising hell. They're targeted and pursued by a gang looking for a sailor with a winning lottery ticket. Mayhem ensues.
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The Last Trail
Title: The Last Trail
Character: Looney McGann
Released: August 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Based on a Zane Grey story, The Last Trail stars virile cowboy hero George O'Brien in a largely anti-heroic role. Escaping from a posse, the "good bad man" (O'Brien) boards an Eastbound train, where he strikes up a friendship with a genial gangster (J. Carroll Naish). Later on, the cowboy returns to the West as a member of the gangster's gang. He poses as the heir to a vast cattle ranch, never dreaming that he really is the heir. When the truth is revealed, the wayward cowboy switches to the side of the Law, while another of the gangster's flunkeys (Claire Trevor) reveals herself to be an honest newspaperwoman -- and thus a suitable candidate for romance.
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The Man Who Dared
Title: The Man Who Dared
Character: Karel
Released: June 30, 1933
Type: Movie
An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami on February 15, 1933.
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The Girl in 419
Title: The Girl in 419
Character: Jim - a Prisoner
Released: May 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.
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The Devil's Brother
Title: The Devil's Brother
Character: The Prospective Groom
Released: May 5, 1933
Type: Movie
Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.
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Night of Terror
Title: Night of Terror
Character: Detective Bailey
Released: April 23, 1933
Type: Movie
The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.
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The Plumber and the Lady
Title: The Plumber and the Lady
Character: Butch Mulinkovitch
Released: March 31, 1933
Type: Movie
A Mack Sennett talking comedy, released through Paramount Pictures, starring Frank Albertson, Marjorie Beebe, Joyce Compton, Herman Bing, Gertrude Astor and Matt McHugh.
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Sailor's Luck
Title: Sailor's Luck
Character: Taxi Cab Driver
Released: March 17, 1933
Type: Movie
U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San Francisco, but Jimmy becomes jealous and tells her off when he learns Sally has entered a marathon dance contest sponsored by a lecherous snake named Baron Portola. Along with several of his Navy pals, Jimmy goes to the ballroom the night of the dance marathon, to try to change Sally's mind and win her back.
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Hard to Handle
Title: Hard to Handle
Character: Joe Goetz (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
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Afraid to Talk
Title: Afraid to Talk
Character: Joe Skelli
Released: November 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
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Hawkins & Watkins Inc.
Title: Hawkins & Watkins Inc.
Released: July 7, 1932
Type: Movie
Beatrice De Vere (Daphne Pollard), a wealthy eccentric, owns a fabulous diamond that is coveted by others. Thusly begins a slapstick farce that involves two dumb New York cops, with cockney accents, a menacing butler who also tells fortunes, and a gorilla who drives a motorcycle and pilots an airplane.
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The Loud Mouth
Title: The Loud Mouth
Released: June 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Del Lord, famous director of the Three Stooges shorts, directed this story of one man in various comical vignettes playing the "loud mouth" - a guy who can't keep a secret and is always getting himself in trouble with everyone he comes in contact with by shouting out his opinions and criticizing strangers to their face.
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The Wet Parade
Title: The Wet Parade
Character: Shorty the Bellboy (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1932
Type: Movie
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
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Freaks
Title: Freaks
Character: Rollo Brother
Released: February 12, 1932
Type: Movie
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
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The Woman from Monte Carlo
Title: The Woman from Monte Carlo
Character: Chief Petty Officer Vincent
Released: January 9, 1932
Type: Movie
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party. The strain of command on the older captain and his new, young wife is very great.
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Taxi!
Title: Taxi!
Character: Joe Silva (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
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Street Scene
Title: Street Scene
Character: Vincent Jones
Released: September 5, 1931
Type: Movie
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.
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The Grand Dame
Title: The Grand Dame
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1931
Type: Movie
Peggy is a gangster's moll from New Jersey, living a pampered life in Manhattan with three French maids. Blue bloods from England have invited her to tea this afternoon; she's looking forward to her initiation into high society. She takes a Rolls to a club where she's greeted by a team of fakers who plan to sell her a membership in an exclusive but fictive club - for $25,000. As Peggy tries to be refined, will the grifters succeed in the con?