Johnny Mitchell

Johnny Mitchell

Born: December 13, 1918
Died: January 19, 1951
in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Johnny Mitchell...

Cinderella Jones
Title: Cinderella Jones
Character: Soldier
Released: March 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
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Pillow to Post
Title: Pillow to Post
Character: Earl 'Slim' Clark
Released: June 9, 1945
Type: Movie
With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. She finally gets one tentative sale with the Black Hills Oil Co., but Earl wants dinner with her. With the shortage of housing due to the war, Jean needs a military husband to get a place to stay in Clayfield, which is next to Camp Clay. She gets Lt. Mallory to act as her husband just to register. Then things go wrong as his commanding officer is there and believes them to be married. It gets worse as Don's mother shows up and then Jean's father.
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Hollywood Canteen
Title: Hollywood Canteen
Character: Busboy (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
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Mr. Skeffington
Title: Mr. Skeffington
Character: Johnny Mitchell
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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There's Something About a Soldier
Title: There's Something About a Soldier
Character: Lt. Burroughs
Released: November 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.
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Robin Hood of the Range
Title: Robin Hood of the Range
Character: Ned Harding (as Douglass Drake)
Released: July 28, 1943
Type: Movie
Inasmuch as western star Charles Starrett gained screen fame as the Robin Hood-like "Durango Kid", it stands to reason that Starrett would head the cast of Robin Hood of the Range. The star plays Steve Marlowe, the foster son of railroad manager Henry Marlowe (Kenneth McDonald). When it becomes apparent that the railroad is using underhanded methods to drive local homesteaders off their land, Steve adopts the guise of "The Vulcan", a legendary champion of justice.
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Title: Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Character: Military Policeman Keeney
Released: June 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
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Law of the Northwest
Title: Law of the Northwest
Character: Paul Darcy (as Douglas Drake)
Released: May 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Briefly switching gears in 1942 and 1943, western star Charles Starrett made a handful of "northerns" in which he played a Canadian mountie. In Law of the Northwest, Steve King (Starrett) supervises a road-construction project designed to transport war materials to the Aleutians. Problems arise when a crooked contractor decides that his interests are more important than the war effort.
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Redhead from Manhattan
Title: Redhead from Manhattan
Character: Marty Britt
Released: May 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
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Laugh Your Blues Away
Title: Laugh Your Blues Away
Character: Jimmy Westerly (as Douglas Drake)
Released: November 12, 1942
Type: Movie
Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her son with the daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher.
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Sunday Punch
Title: Sunday Punch
Character: 'Baby' Fitzroy (as Douglass Newland)
Released: May 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Ma Galestrum (Connie Gilchrist) is a boardinghouse owner whose tenants are a group of aspiring boxers. When her young niece, Judy (Jean Rogers), comes to stay for a visit, college dropout Ken Burke (William Lundigan) and Swedish janitor Ole (Dan Dailey Jr.) immediately fall for her charms. Ken considers going back to college for Judy, but his fight promoter is less than thrilled with this idea. Meanwhile, Ole is determined to meet Ken in the ring to vie for Judy's heart.
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Rio Rita
Title: Rio Rita
Character: Control Man (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
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The Vanishing Virginian
Title: The Vanishing Virginian
Character: James Weldon 'Shirley (as Douglass Newland)
Released: February 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.
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Two-Faced Woman
Title: Two-Faced Woman
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
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Johnny Eager
Title: Johnny Eager
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1941
Type: Movie
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
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Married Bachelor
Title: Married Bachelor
Character: Devlin (as Douglass Newland) (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentric professor) in order to pay off a debt to a gangster.