Richard Lane

Richard Lane

Born: May 27, 1899
Died: September 5, 1982
in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, USA
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Richard Lane (May 28, 1899 – September 5, 1982) was an American television announcer and actor who made his mark broadcasting wrestling and roller derby shows on KTLA-TV, mainly from the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Lane was born in 1899 in Rice Lake, Wisconsin to a farm family. Early in life he developed talents for reciting poetry and doing various song-and-dance acts.

By his teenage years, he was doing an "iron jaw" routine in circuses around Europe and worked as a drummer touring with a band in Australia. After the decline of vaudeville, Lane obtained extensive work in motion pictures and was best known at the time for playing Inspector John or William Faraday or Farraday (depending on the film) in all fourteen Boston Blackie Columbia Pictures features starring Chester Morris, starting with Meet Boston Blackie in 1941. During World War II, he appeared as emcee with USO troops entertaining G.I.s. His unit appeared at Fort MacArthur in September 1944. Lane also announced for the Jalopy Derby and Destruction Derby at Ascot Park, Gardena California.

Lane also played Faraday in the first radio version of Boston Blackie, which ran on NBC from June 23, 1944 to September 15, 1944.

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The Shaggy D.A.
Title: The Shaggy D.A.
Character: Roller Rink Announcer
Released: December 17, 1976
Type: Movie
Wilby Daniels, a successful lawyer running for District Attorney, suddenly finds himself being transformed into an English sheepdog. Somehow he has to keep his change a secret and find just what is causing it, all the while eluding the local dog catcher.
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Kansas City Bomber
Title: Kansas City Bomber
Character: Len
Released: August 2, 1972
Type: Movie
Roller-derby skater K.C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.
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I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Title: I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Character: Kelley
Released: April 5, 1951
Type: Movie
A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession. Eventually she is forced to choose between her ambition and the man she loves.
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The Admiral Was a Lady
Title: The Admiral Was a Lady
Character: Marty Gruber
Released: August 4, 1950
Type: Movie
Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her.
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The Jackie Robinson Story
Title: The Jackie Robinson Story
Character: Hopper
Released: May 16, 1950
Type: Movie
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
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Everybody's Dancin'
Title: Everybody's Dancin'
Character: Colonel Ed Harrison
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Dance-hall owner Dick Lane is in dire need of some big-name acts or he will lose his business. Several country-western stars come to his rescue by agreeing to appear on a TV special to be broadcast from his club.
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Quicksand
Title: Quicksand
Character: Lt. Nelson
Released: March 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled. As Brady scrambles to cover evidence of his petty theft, he fast finds himself drawn into an ever worsening "quicksand" of crime.
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There's a Girl in My Heart
Title: There's a Girl in My Heart
Character: Sergeant Mullin
Released: December 19, 1949
Type: Movie
A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and music-hall wife; a German professor of music and his singing daughter; and an Italian café-owner, a kindly priest, a struggling young doctor and a saloon-keeper. And a political ward-heeler, Terrence Dowd, who has a deceptive and dishonest plan to sell them all out in order to build a fight arena. But he meets his match in property-owner Claire Adamson.
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The Big Wheel
Title: The Big Wheel
Character: Reno Riley
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father's legacy and achieve his own successes.
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Flung by a Fling
Title: Flung by a Fling
Character: Sgt. Dick Lane
Released: May 12, 1949
Type: Movie
Gus and Dick, attending a war veterans' convention with their wives, run in to an old girlfriend there, and try to prevent her from meeting up with their wives.
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Title: Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Character: Michael Gihuly
Released: March 9, 1949
Type: Movie
The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team. But K.C. turns outs to be a beautiful woman who really knows her baseball. Second baseman Dennis Ryan promptly falls in love. But his playboy roommate Eddie O'Brien has his own notions about how to treat the new lady owner and some unsavory gamblers have their own ideas about how to handle Eddie.
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Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
Title: Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
Character: Inspector William R. Farraday
Released: March 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown.
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Miss Mink of 1949
Title: Miss Mink of 1949
Character: Herbert Pendelton
Released: February 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Winning a mink coat brings nothing but trouble to a couple on a budget.
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He's in Again
Title: He's in Again
Character: Dick
Released: January 13, 1949
Type: Movie
Gus, a cab driver is in love with the company owner's daughter, but mistakes Dick Lane a harmless, escaped asylum inmate, for the boss and takes him to lunch, and afterwards has the boss picked up as a mental case. Gus further maddens to boss by wrecking the cab.
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The Babe Ruth Story
Title: The Babe Ruth Story
Character: Boston Braves' coach
Released: September 16, 1948
Type: Movie
The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
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The Creeper
Title: The Creeper
Character: Insp. Fenwick
Released: September 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Dr. Morgan and Dr. Cavigny star as a brace of scientists who return from the West Indies with a potent, phosphorescent serum that allegedly changes human beings into cats.
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Pardon My Lamb Chop
Title: Pardon My Lamb Chop
Character: Dick, Shell-shocked Veteran
Released: June 10, 1948
Type: Movie
This Columbia All Star Comedy (production number 9427) finds Gus Shilling discovering that a cranky wife (Dorothy Granger) isn't the worst thing after shell-shocked veteran Dick Lane shows up. Gus invites him to a lamb-chop breakfast---not an appealing breakfast to begin with---and learns that the sound of a whistle sets bells ringing in Dick's head. Whistles, from one source or another, including Gus' wife who isn't all that thrilled about Dick coming to breakfast, start and Dick goes crazy. After a chase Gus is mistaken for the escaped insane man (Cy Shindell)from a local sanitarium and taken away by the doctors.
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Trapped by Boston Blackie
Title: Trapped by Boston Blackie
Character: Insp. William R. Farraday
Released: May 13, 1948
Type: Movie
Blackie is the natural suspect when an expensive pearl necklace is stolen while he is supposed to be guarding it.
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The Return of the Whistler
Title: The Return of the Whistler
Character: Gaylord Traynor
Released: March 18, 1948
Type: Movie
When a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down
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Tenth Avenue Angel
Title: Tenth Avenue Angel
Character: Street Vendor
Released: February 20, 1948
Type: Movie
Flavia's been told that her Aunt Susan's fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he's finished his prison term. Steve wonders how he can make some money and is approached by his old associates. When Flavia discovers the truth about Steve, she loses all faith in her family and in God, and it will take a miracle to restore Flavia's belief and keep Steve out of trouble.
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Two Nuts in a Rut
Title: Two Nuts in a Rut
Character: Richard Lane, producer
Released: February 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Hollywood producer Richard Lane needs a rest and he and his assistant, Gus Schilling, decide that Florida would be an ideal place far-removed from the hustle-and-bustle of Hollywood...and aspiring actresses. Lane's wife is not thrilled to have him that far out of her sight, mostly because of aspiring actresses. Once they arrive at the Florida resort, they quickly encounter the same situations they fled California to avoid, and Lane is in a very sticky situation when his wife follows him to Florida.
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Wedding Belle
Title: Wedding Belle
Character: Dick Lane
Released: August 9, 1947
Type: Movie
As if Dick's marriage wasn't in enough trouble, an ex-girlfriend returns to town with her sights set on him.
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Training for Trouble
Title: Training for Trouble
Character: Richard Lane
Released: July 3, 1947
Type: Movie
Two unemployed vaudeville hoofers land a job in a show and learn that the leading man is their downstairs neighbor.
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Out of the Blue
Title: Out of the Blue
Character: Detective Noonan
Released: April 21, 1947
Type: Movie
Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jensen, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love." She calls on George while his wife is out, and when she passes out during his attempts to get her out before his wife returns, he thinks she is dead and deposits her on Galleo's terrace. Galleo takes advantage of the situation by using it in a blackmail scheme against Arthur, which is shaky, at best, as Olive refuses to stay dead.
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Song of Scheherazade
Title: Song of Scheherazade
Character: Lieutenant
Released: February 26, 1947
Type: Movie
A beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.
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Boston Blackie and the Law
Title: Boston Blackie and the Law
Character: Inspector Farraday
Released: December 12, 1946
Type: Movie
Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape.
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Sioux City Sue
Title: Sioux City Sue
Character: Jefferson Lang
Released: November 21, 1946
Type: Movie
A Hollywood scout averts disaster for a singing cowboy she has misled.
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Gentleman Joe Palooka
Title: Gentleman Joe Palooka
Character: Phillips
Released: October 5, 1946
Type: Movie
In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize=fighting profession. But, his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name and discredit the crooked politicians.
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Pardon My Terror
Title: Pardon My Terror
Character: Dick
Released: September 12, 1946
Type: Movie
Private detectives Gus and Dick take a murder case where nearly everyone is trying to kill them.
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Hot Water
Title: Hot Water
Character: Dick
Released: July 25, 1946
Type: Movie
Gus and Dick find themselves in trouble when they fall into possession of a necklace, not realizing it was left over from a jewel robbery, and also must hide a woman, who is actually part of the robbery, from their wives.
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Ain't Love Cuckoo?
Title: Ain't Love Cuckoo?
Character: Dick Lane
Released: June 6, 1946
Type: Movie
Gus Schilling and Richard Lane are two GIs serving overseas during World War II, and they get word that their wives, also in the U. S. military service, are missing. Meanwhile, the two wives get the same information about the husband of each. Time passes, and Gus, the widower, meets Richard's wife, the widow, and vice-versa and Gus marries Richard's wife and Richard marries Gus's wife, and all is well until they go on their honeymoons and stay at the same hotel.
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The Phantom Thief
Title: The Phantom Thief
Character: Inspector John Farraday
Released: May 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. "Blackie" out to help his pal, "Runt," recover some jewels, finds himself involved in the homicides, and also finds himself as the prime suspect, and now has to find the real culprit in order to clear himself. So "Blackie,", a man of many talents and already a proved magician from cases past, shows he knows a little bit about dancing skeletons, walking phantoms and spiritualism himself, and holds a séance to unmask the murderer.
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Talk About a Lady
Title: Talk About a Lady
Character: Duke Randall
Released: March 28, 1946
Type: Movie
A country girl, wanting to break into show-business, comes to New York City and, by her actions, manages to restore the optimism of a jaded and disillusioned nightclub owner. Eventually, she marries the manager of one of the man's nightclubs.
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A Close Call for Boston Blackie
Title: A Close Call for Boston Blackie
Character: Inspector Farraday
Released: January 24, 1946
Type: Movie
Blackie runs into a woman he formally loved who now is married with a kid. When her husband gets out of prison he's killed in Blackie's apartment and of course the police thing Blackie pulled the trigger. Blackie must set out to prove his innocence as well as capture the real killers.
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Girl on the Spot
Title: Girl on the Spot
Character: Weepy McGurk
Released: January 11, 1946
Type: Movie
Eleven Gilbert & Sullivan numbers are melded within the murder-mystery plot of "Girl on the Spot", with a result that either G&S and/or the plot are always seemingly on stage-wait or in the wings awaiting a cue. Lois Collier is the girl-on-the-spot of the title because she was on the scene of a murder. The police conclude she didn't do it and they use her to set a trap for the real killer, a G&S addict, by financing a Broadway production starring Collier.
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High Blood Pleasure
Title: High Blood Pleasure
Character: Dick
Released: December 6, 1945
Type: Movie
To avoid getting a speeding ticket, Gus poses as a doctor rushing a patient to the hospital for surgery.
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Boston Blackie's Rendezvous
Title: Boston Blackie's Rendezvous
Character: Inspector Farraday
Released: July 5, 1945
Type: Movie
Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.
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Wonder Man
Title: Wonder Man
Character: Asst. District Attorney
Released: June 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summons his bookworm twin, Edwin Dingle, to Prospect Park so that he can help the police nail Jackson.
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Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion
Title: Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion
Character: Insp. John Farraday
Released: May 10, 1945
Type: Movie
Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
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The Bullfighters
Title: The Bullfighters
Character: 'Hot Shot' Coleman
Released: May 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Bumbling detective Stan Laurel disguises himself as a famous matador in order to hide from the vengeful Richard K. Muldoon, who spent time in prison on Stan's bogus testimony.
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Two O'Clock Courage
Title: Two O'Clock Courage
Character: Al Haley
Released: April 13, 1945
Type: Movie
After nearly running over him with her cab, Patty Mitchell picks up a fare who claims to have amnesia. As he fumbles to remember the basic facts of his identity, Patty becomes interested in the stranger and decides to help him in his search. But as the pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place, and Patty's interest becomes more personal, the stranger finds that he is the prime suspect in a murder case.
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What a Blonde
Title: What a Blonde
Character: Pomeroy
Released: February 3, 1945
Type: Movie
American gas rationing during WWII results in comic mayhem as a lingerie executive finds his home overrun with showgirls.
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Here Come the Co-eds
Title: Here Come the Co-eds
Character: Near-Sighted Man at Ballroom
Released: February 2, 1945
Type: Movie
Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.
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Brazil
Title: Brazil
Character: Edward Graham
Released: November 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of US films made by Brazilian singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typical screwball-comedy fashion, the plot is set in motion by authoress Nicky Henderson, who has hit the best-seller charts with her latest tome, Why Marry a Latin? While researching her next book in Rio De Janeiro, she finds out "why" when she meets handsome songwriter Miguel Soares. Upon learning about Nicky's book, Miguel decides to teach her a few lessons in the affairs of the heart. Edward Everett Horton is also on hand, twittering his way through the role of a well-meaning buttinsky. Thanks to the "Good Neighbor" policy of the 1940s, South American musicals were a glut on the market, but Brazil was good enough on its own merits to pay its way at the box office.
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Bowery to Broadway
Title: Bowery to Broadway
Character: Walter Rogers
Released: November 3, 1944
Type: Movie
Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud erupts.
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One Mysterious Night
Title: One Mysterious Night
Character: Inspector Farraday
Released: October 21, 1944
Type: Movie
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
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A Wave, a WAC and a Marine
Title: A Wave, a WAC and a Marine
Character: Marty Allen
Released: October 7, 1944
Type: Movie
Henny Brown, talent scout for the Margaret Ames Film Agency in Hollywood, mistakes Broadway show understudies Judy and Marian, for stars Betty and Eileen, and signs them up for movies. Margaret, furious with Henny for the blunder, fires him---but only temporarily. Another agent, Marty Allen, once married to and still in love with Margaret, signs Betty and Eileen. Henny arrives with Judy and Marian, and the nightclub manager asks Henny to emcee the show. Though he is not sure himself what they can do, Henny introduces the girls and they make a hit in a dramatic sketch. Big-time movie producer R. J. signs them to a film contract. Judy joins the WAVES, Marian the WACS and Marty the Marines and all have two weeks before induction, and that is more than long enough to shoot a Monogram musical-within-a-Monogram musical and have a few days to spare.
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Mr. Winkle Goes to War
Title: Mr. Winkle Goes to War
Character: Sgt. 'Alphabet' Czeidrowski
Released: July 19, 1944
Type: Movie
Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific.
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Louisiana Hayride
Title: Louisiana Hayride
Character: J. Huntington McMasters
Released: July 13, 1944
Type: Movie
A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings.
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Take It Big
Title: Take It Big
Character: Eddie Hampton
Released: June 9, 1944
Type: Movie
Jack Haley plays Jack North, the nether end of a vaudeville horse act who inherits a western ranch. When he heads to the Great Outdoors to take possession, Jack winds up at the wrong place: a swanky dude ranch. He immediately begins running things, at it's quite a while before his error is discovered. By the time he shows up at his own ranch, he's up to his ears in unpaid debts-which naturally requires a fund-raising musical show as a bail-out. Harriet Hilliard handles the romantic portion of the proceedings, occasionally dueting with her real-life husband, bandleader Ozzie Nelson.
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Bermuda Mystery
Title: Bermuda Mystery
Character: Detective Sergeant Donovan
Released: May 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.
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Slightly Terrific
Title: Slightly Terrific
Character: Mike Hamilyon
Released: April 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A manufacturer and an impresario (who has promised some young people he will stage their show) are twin brothers causes a lot of confusion when the manufacturer is mistaken for his no-money brother.
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Gung Ho!
Title: Gung Ho!
Character: Capt. Dunphy
Released: December 20, 1943
Type: Movie
A true-life epic that revolves around an exclusive bataillon of the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, "Carlson's Raiders," whose assignment is to take control of a South Pacific island once possessed by the United States but now under Japanese command.
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The Chance of a Lifetime
Title: The Chance of a Lifetime
Character: Insp. John Farraday
Released: October 26, 1943
Type: Movie
A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
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Crazy House
Title: Crazy House
Character: S. E. Hanley
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
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Corvette K-225
Title: Corvette K-225
Character: Vice Admiral
Released: September 29, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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Fired Wife
Title: Fired Wife
Character: Orin Tracy
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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Don't Be a Sucker!
Title: Don't Be a Sucker!
Character: Soapbox Orator
Released: June 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces.
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Swing Your Partner
Title: Swing Your Partner
Character: Mr. Lane
Released: May 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Caroline Bird, the crotchety and stingy owner of Bird Milk Products, is not amused when her employees at the Dairyville factory, the oldest plant in the company, broadcast a special radio program in honor of her birthday. Employees Lulubelle, Scotty and Vera Vague, fed up with the terrible working conditions at Dairyville, cut into the broadcast, and Lulubelle asserts that Caroline is a "big hunk of cheese." Lane, the factory manager, cannot find the culprit, and so Caroline goes with her secretary, Dale Evans, to Dairyville.
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Air Force
Title: Air Force
Character: Maj. W.G. Roberts
Released: March 20, 1943
Type: Movie
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
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After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Title: After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Character: Inspector Farraday
Released: March 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
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It Ain't Hay
Title: It Ain't Hay
Character: Slicker
Released: March 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
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Arabian Nights
Title: Arabian Nights
Character: Corporal
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous dancing girl Scheherazade.
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Time to Kill
Title: Time to Kill
Character: Lt. Breeze
Released: December 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.
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To the Shores of Tripoli
Title: To the Shores of Tripoli
Character: Lieutenant
Released: November 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier.
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Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood
Title: Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood
Character: Inspector Farraday
Released: November 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and deliver it to him in California. Performing this good deed, he is accused of theft, but is allowed to proceed to Hollywood to help the police find a lost diamond.
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Dead End Kids Go To War
Title: Dead End Kids Go To War
Character: Don Ames
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
The Dead End Kids join the war effort in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men of the Air. The fiendish Black Dragon Society, led by the sinister Baron (perennial B-movie villain Lionel Atwill) plots to pave the way for an Axis invasion of the U.S.A. by destroying America's defenses. When their plans are discovered by the Dead End Kids, the gang is too suspicious of "the coppers" to ask for help. The FBI send in their Junior G-Men to stop the spies, but when one of the Dead Enders is kidnapped, the two groups must work together to smash the Black Dragons once and for all!
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A-Haunting We Will Go
Title: A-Haunting We Will Go
Character: Phillips
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.
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Drums of the Congo
Title: Drums of the Congo
Character: Coutlass
Released: July 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A safari sets out to find a meteorite that fell in the African jungle.
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Dr. Broadway
Title: Dr. Broadway
Character: Police Sgt. Patrick Doyle
Released: May 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
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Alias Boston Blackie
Title: Alias Boston Blackie
Character: Inspector Farraday
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.
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Butch Minds the Baby
Title: Butch Minds the Baby
Character: Harry the Horse
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe crackers when he has to also look after the baby of one of the criminals.
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Title: Ride 'Em Cowboy
Character: Pete Conway (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
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Hellzapoppin'
Title: Hellzapoppin'
Character: Director
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
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Confessions of Boston Blackie
Title: Confessions of Boston Blackie
Character: Inspector John Farraday
Released: December 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the law makes him an easy target for the police. When the body disappears, Blackie must find it to prove his innocence.
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Riders of the Purple Sage
Title: Riders of the Purple Sage
Character: Steve Oldring
Released: October 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Lassiter discovers the judge who cheated his neice of her inheritance leads a gang of bad guys posing as vigilantes. This 1941 Fox production stars a young George Kennedy as Lassiter.
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Navy Blues
Title: Navy Blues
Character: 'Rocky' Anderson
Released: September 13, 1941
Type: Movie
On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven't learned, however, is that the marksman's enlistment is up before the contest is supposed to take place.
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San Antonio Rose
Title: San Antonio Rose
Character: Charles J. Willoughby
Released: June 20, 1941
Type: Movie
San Antonio Rose is an amiably wacky mini-musical evenly divided between its "official" stars, The Merry Macs, and a strong cast of supporting clowns. Robert Paige plays roadhouse operator Con Conway, whose establishment is in danger of being squeezed out by its competition. Stranded entertainers Hope Holloway (Jane Frazee) and Gabby Trent (Eve Arden) decide to revivify Conway's establishment by staging an energetic floor show built around the talented Merry Macs. A rival club owner dispatches his two top hooligans Jigsaw Kennedy (Lon Chaney Jr.) and Benny the Bounce (Shemp Howard) to wreck Conway's club by posing as waiters, but the two stupes are easily cowed into submission--by the leading ladies!
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For Beauty's Sake
Title: For Beauty's Sake
Character: Mr. Jackman
Released: June 6, 1941
Type: Movie
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
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Time Out for Rhythm
Title: Time Out for Rhythm
Character: Mike Armstrong
Released: June 5, 1941
Type: Movie
A producer and his partner clash over two women in show business.
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The Cowboy and the Blonde
Title: The Cowboy and the Blonde
Character: Gilbert
Released: May 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A western rodeo rider is cast in a starring role in a new Hollywood film, but his temperamental and spoiled leading lady proves difficult to tame.
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I Wanted Wings
Title: I Wanted Wings
Character: Flight Commander
Released: March 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps: a wealthy playboy, a college jock, and an auto mechanic. Love interest is supplied by a female photographer and a sultry blonde.
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A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Title: A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Character: Recruiting Officer
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.
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The Penalty
Title: The Penalty
Character: Craig
Released: March 13, 1941
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI agent and a cabby, the boy sees it all. Fortunately the courts intervene and send the lad off to live with a family of farmers.
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Meet Boston Blackie
Title: Meet Boston Blackie
Character: Inspector Faraday
Released: February 20, 1941
Type: Movie
When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.
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Ride, Kelly, Ride
Title: Ride, Kelly, Ride
Character: Dan Thomas
Released: February 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A jockey struggles against gamblers with the help of the stable trainer and horse owner's daughter.
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Respect the Law
Title: Respect the Law
Character: George Johnson
Released: January 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Shows how so-called "minor" lawbreakers can do more damage than major criminals.
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Youth Will Be Served
Title: Youth Will Be Served
Character: Mr. Hewitt
Released: November 22, 1940
Type: Movie
A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.
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Hired Wife
Title: Hired Wife
Character: McNab
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.
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Boom Town
Title: Boom Town
Character: Assistant D.A.
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
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Brother Orchid
Title: Brother Orchid
Character: Mugsy O'Day
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
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The Biscuit Eater
Title: The Biscuit Eater
Character: Harvey McNeil
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs. The favorite is Georgia Boy bred and trained by the boys' fathers. And if Georgia Boy doesn't win, the fathers may both lose their jobs.
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Sandy Is a Lady
Title: Sandy Is a Lady
Character: Philip Jarvis
Released: May 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Mary and Joe Phillips' attempts to improve their financial status are alternately aided and endangered by the antics of their two-year-old, Sandy.
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Two Girls on Broadway
Title: Two Girls on Broadway
Character: Buddy Bartell
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives. Remake of The Broadway Melody (1929).
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Free, Blonde and 21
Title: Free, Blonde and 21
Character: Lieutenant Lake
Released: March 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
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City of Chance
Title: City of Chance
Character: Marty Connors
Released: January 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
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Nick Carter, Master Detective
Title: Nick Carter, Master Detective
Character: Sam Vaughn
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 Amazing Mr. Williams
Title: The Amazing Mr. Williams
Character: Reagan (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
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Main Street Lawyer
Title: Main Street Lawyer
Character: Ballou, Marco's Lawyer
Released: November 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Story of a lawyer, gangster and a floozy.
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Drunk Driving
Title: Drunk Driving
Character: Rick
Released: October 28, 1939
Type: Movie
In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem. One day he mixes drinking and driving, and the tragic consequences hit very close to home.
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Sued for Libel
Title: Sued for Libel
Character: Smiley Dugan
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
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Hero for a Day
Title: Hero for a Day
Character: Abbott
Released: October 6, 1939
Type: Movie
When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense.
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The Escape
Title: The Escape
Character: David Clifford
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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The Day the Bookies Wept
Title: The Day the Bookies Wept
Character: Ramsey Firpo
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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Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Title: Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Character: Kit Carson
Released: July 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard a slave ship on the high seas, the bartering of natives for slavery in a tropical paradise, and battle scenes between enraged California settlers and the Mexican Army.
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News Is Made at Night
Title: News Is Made at Night
Character: Barney Basely
Released: July 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
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Stronger Than Desire
Title: Stronger Than Desire
Character: Jerry Brody
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
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Unexpected Father
Title: Unexpected Father
Character: Leo Murphy - Booking Agent
Released: June 14, 1939
Type: Movie
Jimmy Hanley learns that his former dancing partner has been killed, leaving a baby boy Sandy, so he takes the baby to live with him and his roommate Boris Bebenko. Theatre manager Allen Rand threatens to fire Jimmy for neglecting his work, but Jimmy's girlfriend Diana squares things by going to dinner with Rand over Jimmy's objections. Sandy catches measles and the quarantine causes Jimmy and Boris to miss a big audition.
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It Could Happen to You
Title: It Could Happen to You
Character: District Attorney
Released: June 8, 1939
Type: Movie
In this comedy/mystery a milquetoast ad man finds his good ideas constantly copped by ambitious coworkers. His boss doesn't even seem to see him. The ad man's wife pushes her husband into confronting his boss during a party. Unfortunately, the timid fellow finds himself accused of murder after a corpse is found in the trunk of his car. He is quickly incarcerated for the crime. Meanwhile his wife begins investigating in an attempt to prove his innocence.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Sam Reed
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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For Love or Money
Title: For Love or Money
Character: Foster
Released: April 27, 1939
Type: Movie
To dim-bulb accountants find themselves working for a bookie in this comedy. Their jobs and their lives are placed in jeopardy when they accidently fumble $50,000 worth of the bookie's cash over to the secretary who wastes no time in spending $44,000 of it in less than 8 hours. The bookkeepers are given 36 hours to get all of the money back by their infuriated boss.
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Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Title: Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Character: Police Commissioner Gordon
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
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Charlie Chan in Honolulu
Title: Charlie Chan in Honolulu
Character: Joe Arnold
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
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The Last Warning
Title: The Last Warning
Character: Richard Lane
Released: December 7, 1938
Type: Movie
In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
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His Exciting Night
Title: His Exciting Night
Character: Homer Carslake
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
A milquetoast clerk is betrothed to the socialite whose aunt holds a big account with his company.
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Exposed
Title: Exposed
Character: Tony Mitchell
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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Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
Title: Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
Character: Assistant Coach Jones
Released: October 7, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one condition -- his loser of a son, a student at the school, must become a football hero. Comedy.
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I'm from the City
Title: I'm from the City
Character: Captain Oliver 'Ollie' Fitch
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Pete Pepper is a shy, timid circus performer who is scared to death of horses, but rides like a whirlwind when he has been hypnotized by "Ollie" Finch. Pete is entered as a competitor in a wild-west cross-country obstacle race...and has to ride without being hypnotized.
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The Jitters
Title: The Jitters
Character: Dance Studio Manager
Released: July 1, 1938
Type: Movie
When his wife dances with the dancing instructor, Errol gets jealous and decides to take dancing lessons himself.
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The Saint in New York
Title: The Saint in New York
Character: Dispatcher (Uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.
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Blind Alibi
Title: Blind Alibi
Character: Bowers
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A Paris sculptor (Richard Dix) fakes blindness in Los Angeles to recover his blackmailed sister's love letters.
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Joy of Living
Title: Joy of Living
Character: Harvey (Uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
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Go Chase Yourself
Title: Go Chase Yourself
Character: Nails
Released: April 22, 1938
Type: Movie
When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team. Comedy.
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This Marriage Business
Title: This Marriage Business
Character: Joe Selby
Released: April 8, 1938
Type: Movie
A cocky reporter turns a small town marriage license clerk into a media celebrity.
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Radio City Revels
Title: Radio City Revels
Character: Crane
Released: February 11, 1938
Type: Movie
A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly under his own name. Comedy.
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Ears of Experience
Title: Ears of Experience
Character: The Boss
Released: January 28, 1938
Type: Movie
In a misguided effort to get a raise and promotion from his boss, Edgar Kennedy's wife and her father talk him into leasing a swank house and putting on the ritz. A valet comes with the house and he spends a lot of time trying to soften Kennedy;s rough edges, but when he becomes to insistent about giving his master a bath, the always-irritable Kennedy throws the valet in the hot tub, clothes and all. Meanwhile, his father-in-law has been putting the squeeze on Edgar's boss, telling him that Edsgar has fallen heir to so much money he is going to buy out the business and fire his boss. So the boss comes to Edgars's home and fires him.
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Everybody's Doing It
Title: Everybody's Doing It
Character: Steve Devers
Released: January 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.
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The Dummy Owner
Title: The Dummy Owner
Released: January 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of record. At first, Leon is excited, but the arrangement soon creates difficulty for him. First, he knows nothing about horses except how to bet on them, and second, when his wife finds out, she is furious.
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Crashing Hollywood
Title: Crashing Hollywood
Character: Hugo Wells
Released: January 7, 1938
Type: Movie
A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.
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Wise Girl
Title: Wise Girl
Character: Detective
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life is fun and free of the constraints her country-club life places on her. But she decides to take the uncle to court anyway to free him from the kids so he can paint.
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Danger Patrol
Title: Danger Patrol
Character: Bill
Released: November 18, 1937
Type: Movie
An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.
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Many Unhappy Returns
Title: Many Unhappy Returns
Character: Doctor
Released: October 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Ford Sterling is married to a very jealous wife, who has a hobby of collecting French dolls. In order to keep her appeased and unsuspecting. he buys her an expensive doll for her birthday. But before he can give it to her, he gets mixed up with the blonde at the cigar-store, the doll gets burned up, and his wife is also burned up about many things.
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Saturday's Heroes
Title: Saturday's Heroes
Character: Red Watson
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.
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Should Wives Work?
Title: Should Wives Work?
Released: September 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Errol's wife goes back to work, despite his objections.
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The Life of the Party
Title: The Life of the Party
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
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Flight from Glory
Title: Flight from Glory
Character: Mr. Hanson
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens, Richard Lane, Douglas Walton, Paul Guilfoyle, Solly Ward, Walter Miller and Rita LaRoy.
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Super-Sleuth
Title: Super-Sleuth
Character: Barker
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
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New Faces of 1937
Title: New Faces of 1937
Character: Broker
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple parties. He only fails if it makes a profit.
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There Goes My Girl
Title: There Goes My Girl
Character: Tim J. Whelan
Released: May 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Jerry and Connie are engaged to be married, but they're also rival newspaper reporters, and when they're both assigned to cover the same murder case, the temptation to out-scoop the other threatens their relationship.
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You Can't Buy Luck
Title: You Can't Buy Luck
Character: Det. McGrath
Released: April 30, 1937
Type: Movie
When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Title: The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Character: High-Grade
Released: April 16, 1937
Type: Movie
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
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The Woman I Love
Title: The Woman I Love
Character: Florence's Boyfriend
Released: April 15, 1937
Type: Movie
In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.
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Shake, Mr. Shakespeare
Title: Shake, Mr. Shakespeare
Character: Mr. Smith
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Comedic short featuring Shakespeare's notable characters; many performing musical numbers. An assistant director is told to read all Shakespeare’s works in order to mine them for potential film plots. Falling asleep on the job, he dreams of various Shakespearean characters coming to life from the pages of giant books and singing and dancing in celebration of their "goin’ Hollywood." The characters appearing include Romeo, Juliet, Juliet’s Nurse, Puck, Peter Quince, Hamlet, Old Hamlet’s Ghost, Falstaff, Antony, Cleopatra, and Macbeth. Shakespeare appears toward the end of the film to object, but he is quickly convinced by his characters to join a big song and dance routine. Includes passing references to a number of familiar Shakespearean scenes including Hamlet’s "to be or not to be" soliloquy, Romeo and Juliet’s balcony scene, Hamlet with Yorick’s skull, and Enobarbus’ speech on Cleopatra’s barge.
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Punch and Beauty
Title: Punch and Beauty
Character: Russ Biff
Released: August 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Before the big fight, Joe and his opponent come to blows at their hotel. Palooka knocks him out and the fight has to be postponed.
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For the Love of Pete
Title: For the Love of Pete
Character: McSwat's Cornerman
Released: March 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Boxer Joe Palooka steps into the ring after a friend's dog gets kicked.