Harry Barris

Harry Barris

Born: November 24, 1905
Died: December 13, 1962
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Harry Barris...

The Blue Dahlia
Title: The Blue Dahlia
Character: Belhop (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1946
Type: Movie
Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
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Young Widow
Title: Young Widow
Character: Officer's Club Pianist (Uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.
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The Lost Weekend
Title: The Lost Weekend
Character: Pianist at Harry & Joe's (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.
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The Great American Mug
Title: The Great American Mug
Character: Tipster in Barber Chair (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1945
Type: Movie
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the typical American barbershop throughout the years.
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Anchors Aweigh
Title: Anchors Aweigh
Character: Sailor Asking Joe to Get Autographs (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl with musical aspirations, and before Joe can stop him, promises to get her an audition with José Iturbi. But the trouble really starts when Joe realizes he's falling for his buddy's girl.
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Steppin' in Society
Title: Steppin' in Society
Character: Ivory
Released: July 9, 1945
Type: Movie
In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly esteemed racketeer.
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Woo, Woo!
Title: Woo, Woo!
Character: Happy Husband
Released: January 5, 1945
Type: Movie
Hugh Herbert forms a company to relieve other people from worrying, but a jealous husband, Harry Barris, gives him sone unexpected trouble. Following some narrow escapes, Hugh works his way out of the trouble by making the husband believe he has killed his wife, Christine McIntyre.
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Here Come the Waves
Title: Here Come the Waves
Character: Bandleader (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1944
Type: Movie
Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.
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Open Season for Saps
Title: Open Season for Saps
Character: Joe Wilson
Released: October 27, 1944
Type: Movie
After his wife complains about the number of nights Woodcock (Shemp Howard) spends at the Hoot Owl Lodge, he takes her on a belated honeymoon. The first person they meet is lodge member Joe Wilson, who asks Woodcock to help him retrieve some ill-advised letters to lovely hotel guest Irene (Christine McIntyre). Woodcock soon finds himself caught between his jealous wife, and Irene's Latin-tempered fiancee Ricardo.
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And the Angels Sing
Title: And the Angels Sing
Character: Saxy
Released: April 25, 1944
Type: Movie
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an offer of ten dollars to sing at a dubious night club on the edge of town where a band led by Happy Marshall is playing.
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Is Everybody Happy?
Title: Is Everybody Happy?
Character: Bob
Released: October 28, 1943
Type: Movie
This is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist.
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Better Not Roll Those Eyes
Title: Better Not Roll Those Eyes
Released: November 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A Soundie with Harry Barris and Jean Porter.
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Priorities on Parade
Title: Priorities on Parade
Character: Harvey Erkimer
Released: July 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Band leader Johnny Draper auditions his band, the Dixie Pixies, at the Eagle Aircraft Co., hoping to be hired to play for the workers in the plant. However, personnel manager E. V. Hartley can only offer them regular jobs, and when Johnny inspires the Dixie Pixies to work in the plant, lead singer and dancer Donna D'Arcy leaves the band for a singing job at the Club Martel in downtown Los Angeles.
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Holiday Inn
Title: Holiday Inn
Character: Midnight Club Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Released: July 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and his manager.
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Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
Title: Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
Released: March 30, 1942
Type: Movie
A Soundie with Ginger Harmon and Harry Barris.
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The Fleet's In
Title: The Fleet's In
Character: Pee Wee
Released: January 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
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Birth of the Blues
Title: Birth of the Blues
Character: Suds
Released: November 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
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West Point Widow
Title: West Point Widow
Character: Hot Dog Vendor
Released: June 20, 1941
Type: Movie
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.
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Blondie Goes Latin
Title: Blondie Goes Latin
Character: Musician (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.
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Rhythm on the River
Title: Rhythm on the River
Character: Bass Sax player
Released: August 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own name. The problem is every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style.
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Some Like It Hot
Title: Some Like It Hot
Character: Harry, Piano Player
Released: May 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game.
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Trade Winds
Title: Trade Winds
Character: Pianist (Uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1938
Type: Movie
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
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The Shining Hour
Title: The Shining Hour
Character: Bertie
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
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Cowboy from Brooklyn
Title: Cowboy from Brooklyn
Character: Louie
Released: July 9, 1938
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
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Something to Sing About
Title: Something to Sing About
Character: Pinky - Band Pianist
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss.
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Double or Nothing
Title: Double or Nothing
Character: Sing Orchestra Leader
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 apiece, with the stipulation that the first one who can double the amount -- without dishonesty-- will win a cool million. Hindering the four are the avaricious relatives of the late millionaire.
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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
Released: May 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
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Every Night at Eight
Title: Every Night at Eight
Character: Harry
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
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Secret Sinners
Title: Secret Sinners
Character: Harry Barris - Pianist
Released: October 19, 1933
Type: Movie
A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to another new acquaintance, a man of means, unaware that he is married and going through a messy divorce.
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Rambling 'Round Radio Row #2
Title: Rambling 'Round Radio Row #2
Character: Himself - Pianist / Singer
Released: October 22, 1932
Type: Movie
Returning to New York on an ocean liner, Lois Whiteman, Harry Barris and Art Jarrett decide to visit composer Burton Lane, who is also aboard, to rehearse a little. Saxophonists Benny Krueger and Rudy Wiedhoeft meet and perform with their instruments.
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Now's the Time
Title: Now's the Time
Released: June 12, 1932
Type: Movie
In this short, Mary Carlisle is in love with Harry and they have a fight and she storms off. At the same time, Mary's father (Edgar Kennedy) has recently remarried and he's sick of his wife talking about how great Harry Barris is! And, on top of that, when Edgar meets Harry it ends very badly for Edgar!
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He's a Honey
Title: He's a Honey
Released: April 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Harry Barris wants to get married to Eleanor Hunt, but there's an impediment in the way, so he tells her he'll sing "I Surrender, Dear" during his broadcast if they can be wed.
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That Rascal
Title: That Rascal
Released: February 21, 1932
Type: Movie
Harry Barris and Audrey Ferris want to get married, and her father, Harry Holman, likes Barris' piano playing. However, he hates it when Barris sings songs like "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal, You".
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The Spirit of Notre Dame
Title: The Spirit of Notre Dame
Character: William Appleton Shellingdon Pelt ("Wasp")
Released: October 13, 1931
Type: Movie
Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's the only man on the team.
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Confessions of a Co-Ed
Title: Confessions of a Co-Ed
Character: Harry
Released: July 11, 1931
Type: Movie
A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love. Soon, however, her lover returns, and she finds herself in a dilemma as to who to choose.
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Two Plus Fours
Title: Two Plus Fours
Character: Harry
Released: August 10, 1930
Type: Movie
This short subject was done by Paul Whiteman's Rhythm boys shortly after they finished The King of Jazz where lead singer Bing Crosby made his motion picture debut. Shortly afterwards the trio broke up and Bing went solo and the rest was history. When a well-liked tailor is about to lose his story his daughter and a young singing group try to save it.