Sammy Blum

Sammy Blum

Born: May 25, 1889
Died: June 1, 1945
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Sammy Blum...

It's Your Move
Title: It's Your Move
Character: Man with Chair
Released: August 10, 1945
Type: Movie
Edgar's landlord wants to sell the house Edgar is renting. He has to come up with the money in two weeks or the landlord will sell it out from under him.
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The Falcon in San Francisco
Title: The Falcon in San Francisco
Character: Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: July 20, 1945
Type: Movie
While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl who's nurse has been recently murdered.
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Betrayal from the East
Title: Betrayal from the East
Character: Drunk at Carnival Show (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1945
Type: Movie
A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
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Bride by Mistake
Title: Bride by Mistake
Character: Bus Driver
Released: July 26, 1944
Type: Movie
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
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Golf Slappy
Title: Golf Slappy
Character: Mr. Jones
Released: February 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Golf in a few difficult lessons with Eddie Gribbon.
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The Monster and the Girl
Title: The Monster and the Girl
Character: Popcorn Vendor (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1941
Type: Movie
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
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The Great McGinty
Title: The Great McGinty
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
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Young Tom Edison
Title: Young Tom Edison
Character: Train Passenger
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
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The Heckler
Title: The Heckler
Character: Train Bartender
Released: February 16, 1940
Type: Movie
An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
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Let Us Live
Title: Let Us Live
Character: Chef (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Title: The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Character: Counterman at Italian Restaurant
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
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Sally, Irene and Mary
Title: Sally, Irene and Mary
Character: Barber
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.
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Lodge Night
Title: Lodge Night
Character: Rufus
Released: June 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Andy gets into hot water because of his frequent lodge meetings.
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Devil's Playground
Title: Devil's Playground
Character: Bartender
Released: January 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. The romantic rivalry is forgotten when Dorgan must rescue Mason and his crew from a sunken sub.
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Great Guy
Title: Great Guy
Character: Party Chef (Uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
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Under Your Spell
Title: Under Your Spell
Character: Sponsor (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Atlantic Adventure
Title: Atlantic Adventure
Character: Ship Masseur
Released: August 25, 1935
Type: Movie
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
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The Best Man Wins
Title: The Best Man Wins
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: January 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
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No Man of Her Own
Title: No Man of Her Own
Character: Door to Door Salesman (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
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Night World
Title: Night World
Character: Salesman (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1932
Type: Movie
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
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Iron Man
Title: Iron Man
Character: Mandel
Released: April 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.
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The Bad Sister
Title: The Bad Sister
Character: Dave - Townsman / Investor (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Marianne. Marianne returns and marries a wealthy young man, and Lindley turns his love toward Laura.
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Shadow of the Law
Title: Shadow of the Law
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: June 6, 1930
Type: Movie
John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
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The Grand Parade
Title: The Grand Parade
Character: Sam
Released: February 2, 1930
Type: Movie
No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the actress is cast as Molly, the sweetheart of minstrel-show performer Jack Kelly. Rising to the top of his profession, Kelly plummets to the bottom thanks to his fondness for intoxicating beverages. Molly nurses and coddles Kelly back to health, giving nary a thought for her own comfort or happiness.
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Party Girl
Title: Party Girl
Character: Sam Metten
Released: January 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Jay Rountree, a young, rising businessman and a son of a wealthy manufacturer gets caught up in a web involving an escort service or 'party girls' and trapped into an unhappy marriage.
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The Delightful Rogue
Title: The Delightful Rogue
Character: Junipero
Released: September 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A modern-day pirate vies with a society playboy for the love of a dancer.
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Rio Rita
Title: Rio Rita
Character: Mexican Cafe Owner
Released: September 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita. He suspects, that her brother is the bandit.
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The Rodeo
Title: The Rodeo
Character: Radio Announcer
Released: March 24, 1929
Type: Movie
The film begins with a family at home having a meal. The biggest laugh involved some candles being substituted for asparagus and the hilarity that resulted when the people and dog at them. Later, the decide to go to the rodeo but 1001 problems occur on the way there in the car.
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The Wheel of Destiny
Title: The Wheel of Destiny
Released: September 30, 1927
Type: Movie
After suffering a blow on the head, brilliant scientist Forrest Stanley totally loses his memory. Wandering into a travelling carnival, Stanley manages to land a job as a fast-talking spieler. In this capacity, he meets and falls in love with fellow "carnie" Georgia Hale.
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Upstream
Title: Upstream
Character: Eric's Valet
Released: January 30, 1927
Type: Movie
A silent comedy set in an actor's boardinghouse. Some plot points are seemingly inspired by the Barrymore dynasty.
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The Winning of Barbara Worth
Title: The Winning of Barbara Worth
Character: Horace Blanton
Released: October 14, 1926
Type: Movie
While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter.
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Black Paradise
Title: Black Paradise
Character: The Halfwit
Released: May 30, 1926
Type: Movie
In San Francisco, Sylvia Douglas and her fiancée, James Callahan, a reformed crook, make their getaway after Jim, disgusted with his inability to find a job, un-reforms and steals a diamond necklace. Graham, a detective, gives chase to a desolate island in the South Pacific where a rum-running gangster, Murdock, holds him captive. Callahan becomes infatuated with a native girl, Leona, and Sylvia turns to Graham for protection against the offensive Murdock. A volcano eruption causes problems for all.
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Siberia
Title: Siberia
Character: Feodor
Released: March 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Officer in the Imperial Russian Army, Petroff, is in love with Sonia, a schoolteacher who casts her lot with revolutionaries. During a time of suppression, she is exiled with her brother to Siberia. There Petroff is sent in the discharge of his official duties and secretly renews their romance. When the Bolsheviki overthrow the government, Sonia is freed and aids in the escape of Petroff, who incurs the enmity of Egor, the revolutionary leader, because he is a royalist. Together they escape across the frozen wastes in a sledge, pursued by wolves and Egor, who has used patriotism as a cloak to conceal personal ambitions.
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Headin' Home
Title: Headin' Home
Character: Jimbo Jones (as Sam Blum)
Released: September 18, 1920
Type: Movie
The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.