Ben Carter

Ben Carter

Born: February 10, 1911
Died: December 12, 1946
in Fairfield, Iowa, USA

Movies for Ben Carter...

Dark Alibi
Title: Dark Alibi
Character: Benjamin Brown
Released: May 25, 1946
Type: Movie
After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had been forged. Charlie then proceeds to find the true bank robbers.
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Riverboat Rhythm
Title: Riverboat Rhythm
Character: Benjamin
Released: February 16, 1946
Type: Movie
A financially-strapped showboat captain struggles to stay in business.
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The Harvey Girls
Title: The Harvey Girls
Character: John Henry
Released: January 18, 1946
Type: Movie
On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
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Lady on a Train
Title: Lady on a Train
Character: Maxwell
Released: August 3, 1945
Type: Movie
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
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The Scarlet Clue
Title: The Scarlet Clue
Character: Ben Carter
Released: May 11, 1945
Type: Movie
Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
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Bowery to Broadway
Title: Bowery to Broadway
Character: No-More
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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This Is the Life
Title: This Is the Life
Character: Ben Carter
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice training, but she is pursuing Major Hilary Jarret, an Army surgeon with whom she has become infatuated. Her departure depresses her childhood friend Jimmy Plum. Dr. Plum devises an errand on which to send his love-sick son to New York, where Jimmy discovers Angela thinks she is Jarret's fiancée. Jimmy also renews acquaintances with a group of show people, including Sally McGuire, who attempts to console him. Jimmy meets Jarret's divorced wife, Harriet, famed photographer. Jimmy engineers a meeting of Jarret and Harriet with Angela present, which forms the beginning of an understanding that Jarret is not for her. Jimmy is inducted into the Army.
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Stars on Parade
Title: Stars on Parade
Character: Ben Carter Choir Leader
Released: May 25, 1944
Type: Movie
In this musical showcase, two aspiring stars attempt to wow a pair of talent scouts with their stellar abilities. Songs include "My Heart Isn't in It" (Jack Lawrence), "It's Love, Love, Love" (Mack David, Joan Whitney, Alex Kramer), "When They Ask about You" (Sammy Stept), "Jumpin' at the Jubilee" (Ben Carter, Mayes Marshall), "Taking Care of You" (Lou Brown, Harry Akst), "Where Am I Without You?" (Don Raye, Gene De Paul), "Two Hearts in the Dark" (Dave Franklin), "Somewhere This Side of Heaven," "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel."
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Mister Big
Title: Mister Big
Character: Ben Carter - Choir Leader
Released: May 28, 1943
Type: Movie
Students at the Davis School of the Theatre are assigned "Antigone" as their class play, but they conspire to do a swing musical instead.
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Redhead from Manhattan
Title: Redhead from Manhattan
Character: Mark Anthony Brown
Released: May 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
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Crash Dive
Title: Crash Dive
Character: Oliver Cromwell Jones
Released: April 22, 1943
Type: Movie
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
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The Daring Young Man
Title: The Daring Young Man
Character: Pinky
Released: October 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Jonathan Peckinpaw feels he's failed in his patriotic duty when he's rejected by the army, but he sees a chance to redeem himself by exposing a secret ring of Nazi spies.
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Thru Different Eyes
Title: Thru Different Eyes
Character: Henry
Released: June 19, 1942
Type: Movie
A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case.
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Reap the Wild Wind
Title: Reap the Wild Wind
Character: Chinkapin
Released: March 26, 1942
Type: Movie
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
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Born to Sing
Title: Born to Sing
Character: 'Eight Ball'
Released: February 18, 1942
Type: Movie
A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs.
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Young America
Title: Young America
Character: Abraham
Released: February 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Young America is a 1942 American drama film directed by Louis King and written by Samuel G. Engel. The film stars Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Lynne Roberts, Robert Cornell, William Tracy and Roman Bohnen. The film was released on February 6, 1942, by 20th Century Fox.
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Dressed to Kill
Title: Dressed to Kill
Character: Sam
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
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Ride on Vaquero
Title: Ride on Vaquero
Character: Watchman Bullfinch
Released: April 18, 1941
Type: Movie
The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army regiment, to help break up a kidnap ring. On his way to Las Tables with his pal, Gordito, he makes a stop at the Martinez Rancho, where they learn that his friend Carlos has been kidnapped, from his wife Marquerita. At the Crystal Palace Saloon, Cisco runs into an old girlfriend, Sally, who he once jilted for a tight-rope walker, but she doesn't betray him when the sheriff and an army officer enter searching for Cisco.
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Sleepers West
Title: Sleepers West
Character: Lender Jones, a Porter
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
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Chad Hanna
Title: Chad Hanna
Character: Bell Boy
Released: December 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.
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Tin Pan Alley
Title: Tin Pan Alley
Character: Boy
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
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Earl of Puddlestone
Title: Earl of Puddlestone
Character: Homer
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decides to get back at them by making them believe that his family has "royal" connections.
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South to Karanga
Title: South to Karanga
Character: Higgins
Released: August 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder and intrigue on the way.
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Maryland
Title: Maryland
Character: Shadrach Jones
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
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Safari
Title: Safari
Character: Happy
Released: June 14, 1940
Type: Movie
Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Linda finds unplanned adventure in her sudden love for Jim, ultimately forsaking her future with the Baron for the joys of true love.
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Little Old New York
Title: Little Old New York
Character: Noah
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
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Adventure's End
Title: Adventure's End
Character: Stantul, Black Sailor
Released: December 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being wooed by the first mate.
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Kentucky Blue Streak
Title: Kentucky Blue Streak
Character: Waiter
Released: May 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A nosy reporter (Nugent) befriends the dumb Coughlin and pushes the Governor to commute his sentence. Now, Coughlin can ride his family's pride and joy in the Kentucky Derby. BUT, the mean old Warden cancels all paroles--and the idiot decides to escape (even though he's only got 10 more months to serve). So, the reporter has a hunch and goes to see if he can find Coughlin--and the Warden deputizes him!! At this point you might wonder if the boy will make good and win the big race