Ray Cooke

Ray Cooke

Born: April 5, 1905
Died: July 10, 1963
in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

Movies for Ray Cooke...

Sergeant York
Title: Sergeant York
Character: Orderly (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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West Point Widow
Title: West Point Widow
Character: Father in Hospital
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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Third Finger, Left Hand
Title: Third Finger, Left Hand
Character: Ship Steward
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
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Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
Title: Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
Character: Airline Ticket Clerk
Released: September 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Gene inherits a meat-packing plant, then faces stiff competition from snooty Ann Randolph, rival owner determined to do him in.
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Dance, Girl, Dance
Title: Dance, Girl, Dance
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
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Stranger on the Third Floor
Title: Stranger on the Third Floor
Character: Phil, Lunch Counterman (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
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The Saint Takes Over
Title: The Saint Takes Over
Character: Porter
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint" the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter created by Leslie Charteris. This film focuses on the character of Inspector Henry Farnack. When Farnack is framed by a gang he is investigating, it is up to The Saint to clear his name.
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Primrose Path
Title: Primrose Path
Character: Man Clueing in Ed
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
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High School
Title: High School
Character: Airport Attendant
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.
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Wolf of New York
Title: Wolf of New York
Character: Messenger
Released: January 23, 1940
Type: Movie
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
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Invisible Stripes
Title: Invisible Stripes
Character: Pinky - Tim's Mechanic (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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The Roaring Twenties
Title: The Roaring Twenties
Character: Orderly (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1939
Type: Movie
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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Hollywood Cavalcade
Title: Hollywood Cavalcade
Character: First Cab Driver
Released: October 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
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Second Fiddle
Title: Second Fiddle
Character: Pool Party Photographer
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
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Daughters Courageous
Title: Daughters Courageous
Character: Bill (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
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Submarine Patrol
Title: Submarine Patrol
Character: Warship Sailor
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
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King of the Newsboys
Title: King of the Newsboys
Character: Pussy
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.
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Love on a Bet
Title: Love on a Bet
Character: Reporter
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.
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An All American Toothache
Title: An All American Toothache
Character: Dental Student (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.
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The Daring Young Man
Title: The Daring Young Man
Character: Taxicab Driver
Released: July 17, 1935
Type: Movie
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
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Doubting Thomas
Title: Doubting Thomas
Character: Cameraman
Released: July 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
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Maybe It's Love
Title: Maybe It's Love
Character: Diner (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
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Caravan
Title: Caravan
Character: Officer's Lackey (Uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1934
Type: Movie
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
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Jealousy
Title: Jealousy
Character: Line
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during his big fight distracts Larry and he is knocked out. He then promises never to be jealous again and marries Jo. When she realizes that they're broke she asks Lambert for a job (she had quit on marrying Larry.) One thing leads to another and Larry, enraged with jealousy, end up killing Lambert. He then wanders off in a daze, and Jo takes the rap for the murder. Larry descends from his amnesiac fog just in time to interrupt the announcement of the jury's verdict in Jo's trial. then it's off to the chair for Larry. Or is it?
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By Your Leave
Title: By Your Leave
Character: Elevator Operator
Released: November 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
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The Man with Two Faces
Title: The Man with Two Faces
Character: Bellboy (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1934
Type: Movie
Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a theatrical producer she comes home incoherent and Vance is found dead in the vanished producer's hotel suite
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Now I'll Tell
Title: Now I'll Tell
Character: Traylor
Released: June 7, 1934
Type: Movie
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.
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Men in White
Title: Men in White
Character: Dr. Finn (uncredited)
Released: April 6, 1934
Type: Movie
A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating room more important than attending a cocktail party. He soon drifts into an affair with a pretty nurse who shares his passion for healing.
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It Happened One Night
Title: It Happened One Night
Character: Drunk Reporter (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A renegade reporter and a young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
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Flying Down to Rio
Title: Flying Down to Rio
Character: Yankee Clipper Banjo Player (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.
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Lady Killer
Title: Lady Killer
Released: December 9, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.
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I'm No Angel
Title: I'm No Angel
Character: Sailor at Circus (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1933
Type: Movie
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
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Goodbye Again
Title: Goodbye Again
Character: Richview Hotel Bellboy
Released: September 9, 1933
Type: Movie
Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?
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Trying Out Torchy
Title: Trying Out Torchy
Character: Torchy
Released: August 25, 1933
Type: Movie
The final entry in the Torchy short series starring Ray Cooke as things go wrong at a gathering.
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Torchy's Loud Spooker
Title: Torchy's Loud Spooker
Character: Torchy
Released: June 25, 1933
Type: Movie
When the story begins, you learn that Torchy's boss has a problem with his blood pressure and the doctor recommends he take a rest. So, he plans on taking some of his staff with him to a mansion in Florida. However, one of his clients offers the use of his place and the boss accepts. Torchy doesn't like this, as the place is the old Link Estate...the same place where Mr. Link was murdered years ago!
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Torchy Turns Turtle
Title: Torchy Turns Turtle
Character: Torchy
Released: April 23, 1933
Type: Movie
One of those gangs of Arab spies who use to infest Wall Street in their colorful native costumes steals a super-secret bomb formula from Edmund Breese's safe. Naturally he blames his office boy, Ray Cooke. Breese's daughter, Marion Shockley, tells Torchy the way back into her father's graces is to join his lodge, the Turtles.... but they have rough initiations. She drives him to what they imagine is the lodge hall, which is where the Arab gang is waiting, expecting a master spy, for whom they mistake Cooke.
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Torchy's Kitty Coup
Title: Torchy's Kitty Coup
Character: Torchy
Released: January 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Dot Farley is throwing a benefit for cats but hasn't any. This means she calls up her husband, Edmund Breese, to bring some. He being busy with business deputes the job to Franklin Pangborn. Pangborn gets office boy Ray Cooke, and in no time at all, Breese has fleas.
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Torchy Rolls His Own
Title: Torchy Rolls His Own
Character: Torchy
Released: October 20, 1932
Type: Movie
In the eighth of the series of short sound comedies, Ray Cooke as the office boy 'Torchy' is thought to be a whiz at polo -- don't ask; in these short comedies, people believe the most peculiar things because it serves the unimportant plot. Cooke, of course, has never been on a horse so we have comedy sequences of him preparing for the big match, and his inevitable triumph which will offend those who hold polo so dear..
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Torchy's Busy Day
Title: Torchy's Busy Day
Character: Torchy
Released: October 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Edmund Breese, Ray Cooke's boss, is trying to buy a sausage factory. However, the cash hasn't come through, so he sends an insulting telegram to the owner. This ends in the two of them playing a round of office gold to see whether the payment gets made in cash or stock.
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The Loud Mouth
Title: The Loud Mouth
Released: June 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Del Lord, famous director of the Three Stooges shorts, directed this story of one man in various comical vignettes playing the "loud mouth" - a guy who can't keep a secret and is always getting himself in trouble with everyone he comes in contact with by shouting out his opinions and criticizing strangers to their face.
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Torchy's Two Toots
Title: Torchy's Two Toots
Character: Torchy
Released: June 6, 1932
Type: Movie
When his boss goes out of town on a big deal and leaves important securities behind, it's up to office boy Ray Cooke to get them to him tout suite.
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Jimmy's New Yacht
Title: Jimmy's New Yacht
Character: Jimmy
Released: June 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A young lady is wooed by two men
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Torchy Raises the Auntie
Title: Torchy Raises the Auntie
Character: Torchy
Released: May 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Ray Cooke's employer needs to raise $100,000 to retain control of his company. He hopes to get them from his cousins. When the old ladies show up, they are sent to a restaurant with office manager Franklin Pangborn, his daughter, Dorothy Dix, and Cooke. Cooke and Miss Dix are having a dull time, but the restaurant has a supply of laughing gas, as restaurants apparently did back then, and its release causes the older people to become very silly.
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The Midnight Patrol
Title: The Midnight Patrol
Released: April 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A cub reporter rashly makes a promise to solve a murder mystery within 24 hours, then must make good on his boast.
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Torchy's Night Cap
Title: Torchy's Night Cap
Character: Torchy
Released: April 3, 1932
Type: Movie
Ray Cooke is Torchy the Office boy, told to deliver a letter; through a series of accidents, he winds up with the letter torn and can't explain it to his boss because reason. Later, he tries to help two friends elope, which eventually brings us back to the first sequence.
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Torchy Turns the Trick
Title: Torchy Turns the Trick
Character: Torchy
Released: February 7, 1932
Type: Movie
When he bother can't take Dorothy Dix to a fancy dinner, office boy Ray Cooke escorts her. He also has a chance to win a contract for the business by reuniting a visiting prince with his declasse sweetheart.
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Taxi!
Title: Taxi!
Character: Danny Nolan
Released: December 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
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Torchy Passes the Buck
Title: Torchy Passes the Buck
Character: Torchy
Released: December 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Torchy (Ray Cooke) is an office boy....sort of like a secretary that does a variety of tasks for the boss. Well, when the boss is out one day, a friend of Torchy's has friends come to see him. Torchy wants his friend to make a great impression, so he sneaks him into the boss' office and has him pose as the boss! Soon, however, the boss arrives but instead of exposing the ruse, he goes along with it. But he also convinces Torchy to do a job for him...to sneak some venison past the game warden. It seems the boss wants to serve it to friends and win some odd bet.
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Torchy
Title: Torchy
Character: Percival Oliver Muldoon aka Torchy
Released: October 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Fired from his job as office boy, Torchy gets involved with a phony gold mine promoter.
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Blonde Crazy
Title: Blonde Crazy
Character: Jimmy the Bellhop (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
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Sweethearts on Parade
Title: Sweethearts on Parade
Character: Hank
Released: September 12, 1930
Type: Movie
Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands. They meet Bill and Hank, who make them reconsider whether they really need millionaires to be happy.
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The Freshman's Goat
Title: The Freshman's Goat
Released: September 7, 1930
Type: Movie
The freshman and sophomore classes of Barton College get into a brawl over possession of a goat, then decide to settle the dispute with an auto race.
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The Unholy Three
Title: The Unholy Three
Character: Sailor at Sideshow (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1930
Type: Movie
A trio of former sideshow performers double as the "Unholy Three" in a scam to nab some shiny rocks.
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True to the Navy
Title: True to the Navy
Character: Peewee
Released: May 25, 1930
Type: Movie
Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets her eyes on Bull's Eye McCoy a gunner who refuses to settle down.
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Alias French Gertie
Title: Alias French Gertie
Character: Office Boy
Released: April 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a nocturnal search for a cache of valuables, she is interrupted by another safecracker. Narrowly escaping arrest, they decide to pool their talents, but she gets the urge to reform and encourages him to do the same.
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Jazz Heaven
Title: Jazz Heaven
Character: Messenger (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1929
Type: Movie
A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.
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Cat, Dog & Co.
Title: Cat, Dog & Co.
Character: Pedestrian
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Farina, Joe, and friends use dogs to power their "roadsters," but following a lesson from the head of the Be Kind to Animals Society, they make it their cause to rescue animals from bad treatment. Joe even manages to find patience for a nagging flea that persists in biting him. Meanwhile, Wheezer, who has been tormenting animals with his games, dreams that the animals have turned the tables on him.
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Sailor's Holiday
Title: Sailor's Holiday
Character: Sailor in Cafe (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor.
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The Sophomore
Title: The Sophomore
Character: Sophomore Fraternity Brother (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1929
Type: Movie
Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this nostalgic slice of college, replete with songs, romance, prom dances and the inevitable big football game.
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Spite Marriage
Title: Spite Marriage
Character: The Bellboy
Released: March 24, 1929
Type: Movie
An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
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The Broadway Melody
Title: The Broadway Melody
Character: Bellhop (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1929
Type: Movie
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
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Show People
Title: Show People
Character: Director's Assistant (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
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Captain Swagger
Title: Captain Swagger
Character: Chauffeur
Released: October 13, 1928
Type: Movie
Hugh Drummond goes broke living too high and turns to crime in order to pay his bills.
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The Cameraman
Title: The Cameraman
Character: Office Worker (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1928
Type: Movie
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
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Walking Back
Title: Walking Back
Character: Party Boy
Released: May 21, 1928
Type: Movie
Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile's being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang's hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced.