Monroe Owsley

Monroe Owsley

Born: August 11, 1900
Died: June 7, 1937
in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Monroe Owsley was an American stage and screen actor, his film career beginning in 1928.

Movies for Monroe Owsley...

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Title: Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
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The Hit Parade
Title: The Hit Parade
Character: Teddy Leeds
Released: April 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Agent Pete Garland is fired by society singer Monica Barrett after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds fits in better with her social status. To get even, Pete wants to make an unknown singer into a star. He finds Ruth Allison, drives her hard through rehearsals and makes her a star. But she is worried about her past, something she hasn't told Pete: She's an ex-convict and jumped bail in order to keep her partners in crime out of it. Further she's in love with Pete, but feels that he's still carrying a torch for Monica. When Monica's popularity is decreasing, Pete is able to get Ruth a stint on the program, the result is Monica is fired and Ruth get her job, but Monica takes revenge by revealing Ruth's past. Ruth considers it is best for her to disappear before being arrested, but she has become a star in public opinion. Will she get Pete or will she go to prison again?
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Hideaway Girl
Title: Hideaway Girl
Character: Count de Montaigne
Released: November 20, 1936
Type: Movie
An unfortunate marriage and a bogus Count are the ingredients for this musical.
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Mister Cinderella
Title: Mister Cinderella
Character: Aloysius P. Merriweather
Released: October 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriweather for much longer.The comedy comes fast and frantic in Mister Cinderella, from Hal Roach Studios.
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Yellowstone
Title: Yellowstone
Character: Marty Ryan / Jenkins
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Murder mystery set in Yellowstone National Park.
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Private Number
Title: Private Number
Character: James "Jimmy" Coakley
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler also has an infatuation for the young girl but his intentions are not that good.
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Remember Last Night?
Title: Remember Last Night?
Character: Billy Arliss
Released: October 28, 1935
Type: Movie
After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed.
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Goin' to Town
Title: Goin' to Town
Character: Fletcher Colton
Released: April 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Cleo Borden grew up in a saloon, loves the men—and the men love her—but her aspirations lead her to enter into a contract to marry a wealthy man. When he dies and leaves her all of his fortune, she soon learns that although she has money, she is not yet a lady, so she embarks on a journey to become one. She has no desire to change herself, but the man she sets her sights on does—so she obliges.
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Rumba
Title: Rumba
Character: Hobart Fletcher
Released: February 8, 1935
Type: Movie
A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.
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Behold My Wife!
Title: Behold My Wife!
Character: Bob Prentice
Released: December 6, 1934
Type: Movie
After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and lands up at a saloon, where he is shot by an Indian, Pete. Pete's girlfriend, Tonita nurses Michael's wound and falls in love with him. Michael realizes this, proposes marriage to Tonita - a perfect revenge for his prejudice family. They marry and he takes her to New York, in full Indian dress hoping to embarrass the family.
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She Was a Lady
Title: She Was a Lady
Character: Jerry Couzins
Released: August 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Before his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded American suitor finds that his father refuses to allow the two to marry as she is not a high-born lady.
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Shock
Title: Shock
Character: Bob Hayworth
Released: July 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob Hayworth resents Marbury greatly as the latter had married the girl, Lucy Neville, Marbury was courting in pre-war London. Ordered to go on a night patrol, the cowardly Gilroy committed suicide rather than face his fear. Bob and Derek arrange it to appear that Bob had been killed by a shell-burst, and Derek, with his face camouflaged, takes the patrol posing as Gilroy. While on patrol, Derek is hit by a shell-burst and found by the German Red Cross, who turn him over to a family of French peasants.
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Wild Gold
Title: Wild Gold
Character: Walter Jordan
Released: June 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevada gold country, and he takes the carburetor off her car and throws it in the river, stranding them there. They wind up staying at the cabin of a crusty old prospector, and soon the manager of a nightclub act shows up with his bevy of beautiful showgirls.
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Twin Husbands
Title: Twin Husbands
Character: Colton Drain
Released: November 29, 1933
Type: Movie
The film begins with a guy waking up from a bump on the head. The people around him try in vain to convince him that five years have passed and that he's a rich guy. However, none of this makes sense to the character played by Miljan AND none of it makes any sense to the audience...none. After this plot is quickly abandoned, the film begins to get better. It seems that a wife and her business partner are trying to use Miljan as a double for her estranged and missing husband.
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Brief Moment
Title: Brief Moment
Character: Harold 'Sig' Sigrift
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though they're genuinely in love, the husband's endless partying completely dominates and is destroying their marriage.
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Ex-Lady
Title: Ex-Lady
Character: Nick Malvyn
Released: May 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.
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The Keyhole
Title: The Keyhole
Character: Maurice Le Brun
Released: March 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
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Call Her Savage
Title: Call Her Savage
Character: Lawrence Crosby
Released: November 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
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Hat Check Girl
Title: Hat Check Girl
Character: Tod Reese
Released: October 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Gerry Marsh is a hat-check girl in a nightclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and others before she falls in love with millionaire playboy Buster Collins. Gerry is supported by her girlfriend Jessie.
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Unashamed
Title: Unashamed
Character: Harry Swift
Released: July 2, 1932
Type: Movie
A debutante's (Helen Twelvetrees) brother (Robert Young) stands trial for killing her no-good lover.
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This Modern Age
Title: This Modern Age
Character: Tony Girard
Released: August 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
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Indiscreet
Title: Indiscreet
Character: Jim Woodward
Released: April 25, 1931
Type: Movie
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
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Honor Among Lovers
Title: Honor Among Lovers
Character: Philip Craig
Released: February 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.
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Ten Cents a Dance
Title: Ten Cents a Dance
Character: Eddie Miller
Released: January 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
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Free Love
Title: Free Love
Character: Rush Begelow
Released: December 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.
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Holiday
Title: Holiday
Character: Ned Seton
Released: July 3, 1930
Type: Movie
A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.
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Carry on, Sergeant!
Title: Carry on, Sergeant!
Character: Leonard Sinclair
Released: November 10, 1928
Type: Movie
A group of workers decide to join the army in the Great War. The indulge themselves in the side benefits to being soldiers, and one of them marries a French waitress.
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The First Kiss
Title: The First Kiss
Character: Other suitor
Released: August 17, 1928
Type: Movie
The Talbots, formerly one of the Eastern Shore's first families, have gone to seed: Pap is a drunk, soddenly decaying in his ruined ancestral home, and three of his sons (William, Carol, and Ezra) are lazy, shiftless young men. Mulligan, Pap's second son who supports the entire family by oyster fishing, falls in love with wealthy Anna Lee, but when he first kisses her, she calls him "white trash."