Frank Darien

Frank Darien

Born: March 18, 1876
Died: October 20, 1955
in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Frank Darien was an American actor. He appeared in 225 films and between 1915 and 1951.

Movies for Frank Darien...

Crossroads - U.S.A.
Title: Crossroads - U.S.A.
Character: Mr. Cooper
Released: February 2, 1952
Type: Movie
Group of people trapped in gas station during a storm teach a young man valuable life lessons.
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The Whip Hand
Title: The Whip Hand
Character: Luther Adams
Released: October 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.
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The Flying Saucer
Title: The Flying Saucer
Character: Matt Mitchell
Released: January 4, 1950
Type: Movie
The CIA sends playboy Mike Trent to Alaska with agent Vee Langley, posing as his "nurse," to investigate flying saucer sightings. At first, installed in a hunting lodge, the two play in the wilderness. But then they sight a saucer. Investigating, our heroes clash with an inept gang of Soviet spies, also after the saucer secret.
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Alias Nick Beal
Title: Alias Nick Beal
Character: Assistant Tailor
Released: March 4, 1949
Type: Movie
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
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The Accused
Title: The Accused
Character: Jerry (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1949
Type: Movie
A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.
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Belle Starr's Daughter
Title: Belle Starr's Daughter
Character: Old Man
Released: November 13, 1948
Type: Movie
The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find her killer.
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You Gotta Stay Happy
Title: You Gotta Stay Happy
Character: Old Man (Uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. She then persuades him to take her to California.
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Title: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Character: Judge Quarles (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1948
Type: Movie
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.
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Magic Town
Title: Magic Town
Character: Quincy
Released: October 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.
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The Woman on the Beach
Title: The Woman on the Beach
Character: Lars
Released: June 7, 1947
Type: Movie
A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.
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That's My Man
Title: That's My Man
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: June 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.
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A Likely Story
Title: A Likely Story
Character: Messenger (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1947
Type: Movie
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
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The Secret Heart
Title: The Secret Heart
Character: Mr. Wiggins
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother, Chase, and stepmother, Lee, work to help Penny process her grief through psychotherapy and revisiting their past, but only the revelation of long-buried family secrets -- including her mother's secret lover and the true nature of her father's death -- can bring Penny out of her intense despair.
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The Fabulous Suzanne
Title: The Fabulous Suzanne
Character: Mr. Tuttle
Released: December 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the restaurant, she use the same system for investing her money. Her stock broker tries to dissuade her, but she persists and her investments increases her wealth.
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Bad Bascomb
Title: Bad Bascomb
Character: Moab McCabe
Released: May 26, 1946
Type: Movie
A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl.
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A Stolen Life
Title: A Stolen Life
Character: Elevator operator (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.
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The Great American Mug
Title: The Great American Mug
Character: Old Time Barber (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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Kiss and Tell
Title: Kiss and Tell
Character: Elmer K. Waldo (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1945
Type: Movie
Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly suspected of being pregnant.
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Anchors Aweigh
Title: Anchors Aweigh
Character: Hollywood Bowl Janitor (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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The Last Installment
Title: The Last Installment
Character: Dad Pilkington (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1945
Type: Movie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a criminal idolizes the life of a famous gangster - unaware that his hero met a tragic end.
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Tarzan and the Amazons
Title: Tarzan and the Amazons
Character: Dinghy Skipper (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1945
Type: Movie
A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.
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Gentle Annie
Title: Gentle Annie
Character: Jake
Released: December 5, 1944
Type: Movie
The Goss family live on a farm they call the dust bowl where the wind blows during the day and the coyotes howl at night. When the train is robbed, everyone thinks that Cotton and Violet were the ones that did the job, but no one has any proof. US Marshal Lloyd Richland comes into town in disguise to find the truth and he finds that the sheriff is corrupt and that the Goss family is gosh darn nice. They take in Richland and a stranded woman named Mary without any questions. Cotton believes that Sheriff Tatum shot their pa in the back, and the sheriff is now trying to plug the boys. Richland is looking for the train robbers, and at the same time is keeping an eye on Tatum and the lovely young Mary.
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Bluebeard
Title: Bluebeard
Character: Inquiry Judge (Uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1944
Type: Movie
Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?
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The Adventures of Mark Twain
Title: The Adventures of Mark Twain
Character: Toy Shop Clerk
Released: July 20, 1944
Type: Movie
A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.
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The Gang's All Here
Title: The Gang's All Here
Character: Stage Doorman (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
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Hello, Frisco, Hello
Title: Hello, Frisco, Hello
Character: Missionary
Released: March 26, 1943
Type: Movie
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.
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The Mummy's Tomb
Title: The Mummy's Tomb
Character: Old Townsman (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
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Get Hep to Love
Title: Get Hep to Love
Character: Constable
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
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Jackass Mail
Title: Jackass Mail
Character: Postmaster
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
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Meet the Stewarts
Title: Meet the Stewarts
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
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The Panther's Claw
Title: The Panther's Claw
Character: Samuel Wilkins
Released: March 3, 1942
Type: Movie
The police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is being blackmailed and is following instructions he received by mail to leave $1000 on a certain grave. It turns out that he's not the only one who got a blackmail letter from the same person--calling himself "The Black Panther"--and it also turns out that all the recipients are connected to an opera company.
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Roxie Hart
Title: Roxie Hart
Character: Michael Finnegan (uncredited)
Released: February 20, 1942
Type: Movie
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.
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Hellzapoppin'
Title: Hellzapoppin'
Character: Man Calling for Mrs. Jones
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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Appointment for Love
Title: Appointment for Love
Character: Station Agent (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.
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King of the Texas Rangers
Title: King of the Texas Rangers
Character: Pop Evans
Released: October 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Tom King Jr. seeks to discover who murdered his father, a Texas Ranger; the trail leads to a network of Axis spies.
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Under Fiesta Stars
Title: Under Fiesta Stars
Character: Benjamin Peabody
Released: August 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Rodeo champ Gene Autry inherits half interest in both a ranch and a mine that provides steady employment for the surrounding rancheros. Unfortunately, the other half goes to Easterner Barbara Erwin (Carol Hughes), who is only interested in monetary remuneration. To convince Gene to buy her share, Barbara enters into an unholy alliance with unscrupulous attorneys Arnold (Ivan Miller) and Fry (Sam Flint), who, without their client's consent, hire a gang of thugs headed by Tommick (John Merton). When a ranchero (Elias Gamboa) is mortally wounded in the ensuing gun battle, Barbara sees the error of her way and switches sides.
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Wide Open Town
Title: Wide Open Town
Character: Pop
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Belle Langtry runs a town being taken over by cattle rustlers. She is also a front for the outlaws, who are led by Steve Fraser. Hoppy gets elected sheriff and cleans up the town with help from the Bar 20 boys.
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Hurricane Smith
Title: Hurricane Smith
Character: 'Pop' Wessell
Released: July 20, 1941
Type: Movie
Rodeo rider Hurricane Smith is wrongly convicted of murder and robbery, but escapes and creates a new life, but one of the real criminals shows up to claim the loot which he believes Smith has.
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Out of the Fog
Title: Out of the Fog
Released: June 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
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Sis Hopkins
Title: Sis Hopkins
Character: Jud
Released: April 12, 1941
Type: Movie
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
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Arkansas Judge
Title: Arkansas Judge
Character: Henry Marden
Released: January 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accused of slander.
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Arizona
Title: Arizona
Character: Joe
Released: December 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.
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The Way of All Flesh
Title: The Way of All Flesh
Character: Second Director
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
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Blame It on Love
Title: Blame It on Love
Character: Pop
Released: June 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A short film put out by the Hotpoint Company to demonstrate their Electric Ranges.
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Lillian Russell
Title: Lillian Russell
Character: Coachman
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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Viva Cisco Kid
Title: Viva Cisco Kid
Character: Express Agent
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father is in cahoots with a vicious criminal who plans to murder him.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Character: Uncle John
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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Two Thoroughbreds
Title: Two Thoroughbreds
Character: Mr. Beal - the Mailman
Released: December 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A farm boy trains a wild colt on his own.
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At the Circus
Title: At the Circus
Character: Telegrapher (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to find the thief and get the money back.
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Sabotage
Title: Sabotage
Character: Smitty
Released: October 13, 1939
Type: Movie
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
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Babes in Arms
Title: Babes in Arms
Character: Mr. Parks - Druggist (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl.
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Here I Am a Stranger
Title: Here I Am a Stranger
Character: Western Union Messenger
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
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Blackmail
Title: Blackmail
Character: Ramey's Oil-Well Watchman (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
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Maisie
Title: Maisie
Character: Pops (Uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman Charles "Slim" Martin when he accuses her of lifting his wallet and ends up being hired as a maid for ranch owners Cliff and Sybil, who are attempting to mend their rocky marriage after Sybil's infidelity with a cowboy.
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Dark Victory
Title: Dark Victory
Character: Anxious Man (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Title: Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Character: Freddie
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
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Panama Patrol
Title: Panama Patrol
Character: Sam
Released: March 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Character: Old Jailer (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
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Stand Up and Fight
Title: Stand Up and Fight
Character: Mr. Daniels, Cumberland Hotel
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
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The Long Shot
Title: The Long Shot
Character: Zeb Jenkins
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thoroughbred horse. Despite the rivalries of their parents, the couple prepares to jointly enter the Santa Anita handicap. The odds are against their entry, but Hunt and Jones have every confidence of winning. Just before the starting bugle, gangsters intrude, demanding that the trainers throw the Big Race.
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Western Jamboree
Title: Western Jamboree
Character: Dad Haskell
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Knowing that is contains valuable helium gas, a gang of bad guys first tries to purchase the ranch which Gene straw-bosses. When that fails, they lay a hidden pipeline to snag the gas.
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Love Finds Andy Hardy
Title: Love Finds Andy Hardy
Character: Mr. Barnes
Released: July 22, 1938
Type: Movie
Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.
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Prison Break
Title: Prison Break
Character: Cappy, Joaquin's Cell-mate
Released: July 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Story of a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemplary behavior in prison ensures that he is up for early parole. He realizes, however, that his movements will be limited, and he will be unable to join and wed his beloved. The only solution is to escape and hunt down the real killer, himself.
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Jezebel
Title: Jezebel
Character: Bookkeeper (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1938
Type: Movie
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
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Cassidy of Bar 20
Title: Cassidy of Bar 20
Character: Pappy
Released: February 25, 1938
Type: Movie
Hopalong Cassidy, boss of the Bar 20 ranch in Texas, rides down the Camino Real in the New Mexico cattle country near Alamogordo, in response to an urgent message from his lifelong sweetheart, Nora Blake, who is in serious trouble. Before he and his saddlemates, "Lucky" Jenkins and "Pappy", can reach her ranch, they are stopped by Clay Allison, a cattle-rustler who is in almost complete control of the district, and wants to extend his holdings by seizing Nora's cattle and driving her out. Seeing Cassidy as a menace to his plans, he has him arrested on a trumped-up charge. Cassidy and his pals shoot their way out of the trouble and reach Nora;s ranch where they learn that Allison's henchmen have murdered her foreman, Tom Dillon, and Allison has sent for a crew of outlaws on the Texas border.
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Born to Be Wild
Title: Born to Be Wild
Character: Farmer (uncredited)
Released: February 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.
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Big Town Girl
Title: Big Town Girl
Character: Farmer
Released: December 3, 1937
Type: Movie
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.
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Wine, Women and Horses
Title: Wine, Women and Horses
Character: Mr. Schultz
Released: September 11, 1937
Type: Movie
An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.
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Trapped by G-Men
Title: Trapped by G-Men
Character: Dad Higbee
Released: September 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.
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The Good Old Soak
Title: The Good Old Soak
Character: Jasper
Released: April 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
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Fair Warning
Title: Fair Warning
Character: Hotel Doctor
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
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Time Out for Romance
Title: Time Out for Romance
Character: Telegraph Operator
Released: February 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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Wedding Present
Title: Wedding Present
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
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Undercover Man
Title: Undercover Man
Character: Dizzy Slocum
Released: September 23, 1936
Type: Movie
An operative from the Wells Fargo company goes undercover to trap a crooked sheriff and his equally nefarious hirelings in this standard B-Western from A.W. Hackel's low-budget Supreme Pictures Corp.
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Satan Met a Lady
Title: Satan Met a Lady
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1936
Type: Movie
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
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Early to Bed
Title: Early to Bed
Character: Pop - a Clerk
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
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Trouble for Two
Title: Trouble for Two
Character: Ambassador's Aide (Uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1936
Type: Movie
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called The Suicide Club, and so he seeks to become a member.
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Brides Are Like That
Title: Brides Are Like That
Character: Clem Brown
Released: April 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not working. Bill is a dreamer, a talker and a golf player and he has a lot of ideas, but still lives off Fred. When Hazel gets engaged to Doc Jenkins, it takes a while, but Bill talks her into marrying him instead. The only problem is that now, he needs to find a job.
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Captain January
Title: Captain January
Character: Slocum
Released: April 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school but she's rescued by relatives.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: Missouri Trader
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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The Walking Dead
Title: The Walking Dead
Character: Cemetery Caretaker (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
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Dr. Socrates
Title: Dr. Socrates
Character: Sam - a Druggist
Released: October 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
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Nurse to You!
Title: Nurse to You!
Character: Mr. Case
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Cautious, frugal Charley is told by his insurance doctor that he has six months to live, and goes on to live life to the fullest.
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Here Comes Cookie
Title: Here Comes Cookie
Character: Clyde
Released: September 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
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Here Comes the Band
Title: Here Comes the Band
Character: Pawnbroker (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1935
Type: Movie
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
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Mad Love
Title: Mad Love
Character: Lavin, Waxwork Proprietor (Uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
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Public Hero Number 1
Title: Public Hero Number 1
Character: Dr. Hale - Plastic Surgeon (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
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Life Begins at Forty
Title: Life Begins at Forty
Character: Abercrombie's Friend
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
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The Perfect Clue
Title: The Perfect Clue
Character: Stationmaster
Released: March 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Mona Stewart, madcap, spoiled daughter of a wealthy man, becomes upset when she learns that her father is engaged to a woman she hates. She runs away, via various modes of transportation, and hires an ex-con, David Mannering, to drive her around as she eludes the all-out search conducted by her father and her fiancée, Ronnie Van Zandt. A romance is blossoming until her chauffeur is arrested for the murder of a crime-syndicate boss.
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The Little Colonel
Title: The Little Colonel
Character: Nebler
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years pass and Elizabeth returns to her home town with her husband and young daughter. The little girl charms her crusty grandfather and tries to patch things up between him and her mother.
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Behind the Evidence
Title: Behind the Evidence
Character: Herbert
Released: January 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Norman Foster plays a millionaire who takes a job as a reporter after he's wiped out in the Stock Market. Foster's managing editor Samuel S. Hinds considers the young upstart to be a pain in the neck. But all is forgiven-at least until next time-when Foster solves a series of puzzling robberies..
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The Gay Bride
Title: The Gay Bride
Character: Mr. Bartlett (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
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Anne of Green Gables
Title: Anne of Green Gables
Character: Angus the Station Master (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and to the local villagers.
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Marie Galante
Title: Marie Galante
Character: Ellsworth
Released: October 25, 1934
Type: Movie
On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt leaves Marie high and dry in the Yucatan, she takes work as a nightclub singer to earn her safe passage to the Canal region. But Marie faces bigger problems when she gets mixed up in a destructive plot against the U.S. Naval fleet, and so she accepts the kindly assistance of secret agent Dr. Crawbett.
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Dames
Title: Dames
Character: Druggist #1 (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
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His Greatest Gamble
Title: His Greatest Gamble
Character: Dinner Guest (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
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Service with a Smile
Title: Service with a Smile
Character: Customer
Released: July 28, 1934
Type: Movie
Walter Webb, thinking his gas station has been destroyed, describes a "super-deluxe" gas station run by chorus girls to his insurance agent.
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Smarty
Title: Smarty
Character: Court Spectator (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attorney Vernon Thorpe secures a divorce for her, and Vicki and Vernon are soon married. Vicki's yen for wearing revealing clothes and a penchant for inviting ex-husband to dinner soon provokes the easily-provoked Vernon into belting one on her himself. She goes to Tony's apartment, where Tony is entertaining Bonnie, who is not all that entertained by the presence of Vicki, especially after Vicki shows every intent of moving in and staying.
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Journal of a Crime
Title: Journal of a Crime
Character: Stage Manager
Released: March 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
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Fashions of 1934
Title: Fashions of 1934
Character: Jules
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
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The House on 56th Street
Title: The House on 56th Street
Character: Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1933
Type: Movie
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.
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From Headquarters
Title: From Headquarters
Character: Manley
Released: November 16, 1933
Type: Movie
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
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Female
Title: Female
Character: Ed, Comptroller (Uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
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Bureau of Missing Persons
Title: Bureau of Missing Persons
Character: Man Identifying Daughter's Photo (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1933
Type: Movie
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
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Baby Face
Title: Baby Face
Character: Paris Bank Agent (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
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Professional Sweetheart
Title: Professional Sweetheart
Character: Appleby
Released: June 9, 1933
Type: Movie
Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor and his nutty henchmen pick her a public-relations "sweetheart" from fan mail, who turns out to be a hayseed.
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Lilly Turner
Title: Lilly Turner
Character: Hotel Porter (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1933
Type: Movie
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
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The Story of Temple Drake
Title: The Story of Temple Drake
Character: Gas Station Manager (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1933
Type: Movie
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
Title: Mystery of the Wax Museum
Character: Autopsy Surgeon (Uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1933
Type: Movie
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
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Hello, Everybody!
Title: Hello, Everybody!
Character: Henry Thompson
Released: February 17, 1933
Type: Movie
The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole town, depends on Kate to hold everything together. The power company wants to build a dam which will require flooding many of the farms; Kate is holding out; if Kate sells, everyone else will sell; if Kate refuses, the rest of the town will refuse as well. Randolph Scott meets Kate's beautiful sister, Sally Blane, at a dance. Randolph Scott, as it turns out, is an agent for the power company. Kate thinks he's just using Sally; Sally believes that he truly likes her. Randolph comes to the farm and appears to woo Kate. Kate remains unconvinced about selling out, but falls for Randolph.
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Now We'll Tell One
Title: Now We'll Tell One
Character: Professor Darien
Released: November 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Charley unwittingly puts on a belt that has the power to change the wearer's personality.
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Prosperity
Title: Prosperity
Character: Ezra Higgins
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.
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Okay, America!
Title: Okay, America!
Character: O'Toole (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
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The Miracle Man
Title: The Miracle Man
Character: Hiram Higgins
Released: April 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.
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Union Depot
Title: Union Depot
Character: Doctor / Little Boy's Father (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
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The Big Shot
Title: The Big Shot
Character: Herb, the Postmaster
Released: December 31, 1931
Type: Movie
A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers.
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Way Back Home
Title: Way Back Home
Character: Station Master (uncredited)
Released: November 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.
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The Tip-Off
Title: The Tip-Off
Character: Edna's Uncle
Released: October 16, 1931
Type: Movie
A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.
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Five Star Final
Title: Five Star Final
Released: September 26, 1931
Type: Movie
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
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Bad Girl
Title: Bad Girl
Character: Lathrop
Released: August 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
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The Public Defender
Title: The Public Defender
Character: The Waiter
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
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I Take This Woman
Title: I Take This Woman
Character: Station Agent
Released: June 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A wealthy New York socialite falls for and marries a cowboy while out West. Her father disinherits her, and after trying to make a go of it as a cowboy's wife, they agree to divorce and she returns back east to her family. However, she soon changes her mind and determines to get her husband back.
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Big Business Girl
Title: Big Business Girl
Character: Luke C. Winters
Released: June 12, 1931
Type: Movie
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.
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Everything’s Rosie
Title: Everything’s Rosie
Character: Sam Hall
Released: May 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
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Old Ironsides
Title: Old Ironsides
Character: Seaman (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1926
Type: Movie
An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, who fall afoul of the same pirates and thus become involved with the Constitution's mission.