Bert Moorhouse

Bert Moorhouse

Born: November 20, 1894
Died: January 26, 1954
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Bert Moorhouse was born on November 20, 1894 in Chicago, Illinois, USA as Herbert Green Moorhouse. He was an actor, known for Rough Ridin' Red (1928), Hey Rube! (1928) and The Woman I Love (1929). He was married to Mary. He died on January 26, 1954 in Hollywood, California, USA.

Movies for Bert Moorhouse...

Dangerous Mission
Title: Dangerous Mission
Character: Battaglia
Released: March 6, 1954
Type: Movie
A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.
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Crime Wave
Title: Crime Wave
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: October 22, 1953
Type: Movie
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.
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Ace in the Hole
Title: Ace in the Hole
Character: Josh Morgan (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1951
Type: Movie
An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.
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Gambling House
Title: Gambling House
Character: Mr. Douglas' Court Assistant (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1950
Type: Movie
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
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Sunset Boulevard
Title: Sunset Boulevard
Character: Gordon Cole (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1950
Type: Movie
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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The Secret Fury
Title: The Secret Fury
Character: Tom (uncredited)
Released: February 21, 1950
Type: Movie
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.
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Key to the City
Title: Key to the City
Character: Mayor (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: Movie
At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is proud of his rough and tumble background. Standish is mayor of "Winona, Maine", and is equally proud of her education and dedication to the people who elected her. Thrown together, the two opposites attract and their escapades during the convention get each of them in hot water back home. Written by Ron Kerrigan
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Samson and Delilah
Title: Samson and Delilah
Character: Spectator at Temple
Released: December 21, 1949
Type: Movie
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
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He Walked by Night
Title: He Walked by Night
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1949
Type: Movie
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
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The Accused
Title: The Accused
Character: Prosecutor (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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Words and Music
Title: Words and Music
Character: Backstage Well-Wisher (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1948
Type: Movie
Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979): from their first meeting, through lean years and their breakthrough, to their successes on Broadway, London, and Hollywood. We see the fruits of Hart and Rodgers' collaboration - elaborately staged numbers from their plays, characters' visits to night clubs, and impromptu performances at parties. We also see Larry's scattered approach to life, his failed love with Peggy McNeil, his unhappiness, and Richard's successful wooing of Dorothy Feiner.
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A Foreign Affair
Title: A Foreign Affair
Character: Transport Pilot (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1948
Type: Movie
In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her.
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Homecoming
Title: Homecoming
Character: Surgeon (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1948
Type: Movie
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a sassy and attractive nurse. Their initial antagonism blossoms into romance. Lee then finds himself torn with guilt over being unfaithful to his wife, Penny, who's waiting for him back home.
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Ruthless
Title: Ruthless
Character: Prescott (Uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1948
Type: Movie
Horace Vendig always gets what he wants. Even as a poor youth, he charmed his way into high society by getting the father of his friend, Martha, to foot the bill for his Harvard education. When Vic, another childhood pal, is invited to Horace's mansion for a party, he brings along Mallory Flagg, who happens to bear a striking resemblance to Martha. As Vic and Horace reunite, old resentments rise to the surface.
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The Big Clock
Title: The Big Clock
Character: Editor at Conference Table (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1948
Type: Movie
Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.
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I Walk Alone
Title: I Walk Alone
Character: Toll Booth Policeman
Released: December 31, 1947
Type: Movie
Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. 14 years later, Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay to divert Frankie from his intended goal.
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Magic Town
Title: Magic Town
Character: Newspaper Man (uncredited)
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 Perils of Pauline
Title: The Perils of Pauline
Character: Kitchen Set Cameraman (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take
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That's My Man
Title: That's My Man
Character: Trainer
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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Angel and the Badman
Title: Angel and the Badman
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Released: February 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family and their faith, but his troubled past follows him.
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That Brennan Girl
Title: That Brennan Girl
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.
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It's a Wonderful Life
Title: It's a Wonderful Life
Character: Man with Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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Lady in the Lake
Title: Lady in the Lake
Character: Party Guest (Uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1946
Type: Movie
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
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Till the Clouds Roll By
Title: Till the Clouds Roll By
Character: Elite Club Diner (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.
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Undercurrent
Title: Undercurrent
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1946
Type: Movie
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.
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Nocturne
Title: Nocturne
Character: Movie Director
Released: October 29, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.
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White Tie and Tails
Title: White Tie and Tails
Character: Croupier (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1946
Type: Movie
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying an heiress.
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Notorious
Title: Notorious
Character: Diner Extra / Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: August 21, 1946
Type: Movie
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
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The Runaround
Title: The Runaround
Character: Detective Quillan (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Two private eyes compete to find an heiress and bring her back, unmarried, to New York.
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My Reputation
Title: My Reputation
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1946
Type: Movie
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.
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Sunset in El Dorado
Title: Sunset in El Dorado
Character: Croupier
Released: September 29, 1945
Type: Movie
The story involves a rather odd flashback by Dale who is visiting El Dorado, home of her grandmother. She dreams about her grandmother's adventures including a romance with a cowboy who looks very much like Roy. Roy, of course, also exists in the present for Dale.
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Lady on a Train
Title: Lady on a Train
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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Incendiary Blonde
Title: Incendiary Blonde
Character: Hotel Guest / Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: July 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
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Hitchhike to Happiness
Title: Hitchhike to Happiness
Character: Publisher (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1945
Type: Movie
An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them believe that the waiter lacks the talent to make it big. Only an aspiring songwriter, and a former waitress who has become a famous Hollywood radio star, really believe in him. When the ex-waitress drops by the restaurant to say hello, she and the others decide to play a trick on an arrogant producer by making him believe the waiter has written a sure-fire hit. They succeed and the producer puts on the show. The singer gets to be the star. When the show becomes a smash, everyone is surprised. Songs include: "Hitchhike To Happiness," "For You And Me," "Sentimental," and "My Pushover Heart."
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The Great Morgan
Title: The Great Morgan
Character: Studio Executive (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, interspersed with a repeated loop of a scene from some melodrama. (Contains in their entirety the shorts, "Musical Masterpieces," "Our Old Car," and "Badminton," as well as clips from other projects)
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Address Unknown
Title: Address Unknown
Character: Guest at Christening (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.
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Mr. Skeffington
Title: Mr. Skeffington
Character: Nightclub Guest (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
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Main Street Today
Title: Main Street Today
Character: Citizen at Town Meeting (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1944
Type: Movie
This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.
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The Mad Ghoul
Title: The Mad Ghoul
Character: Man in Audience (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as part of a plan to steal his lover.
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Government Girl
Title: Government Girl
Character: Businessman (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1943
Type: Movie
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
Title: Thank Your Lucky Stars
Character: Audience Extra at Radio Show (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1943
Type: Movie
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
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Heaven Can Wait
Title: Heaven Can Wait
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: August 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.
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Mr. Lucky
Title: Mr. Lucky
Character: Gambling Room Doorman (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
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The Constant Nymph
Title: The Constant Nymph
Character: Party Guest
Released: June 23, 1943
Type: Movie
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own grown daughter, who begins a romance with the composer which culminates in marriage but creates an emotional rivalry that affects the three.
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Mister Big
Title: Mister Big
Character: Theatrical Producer (uncredited)
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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Bombardier
Title: Bombardier
Character: Congressman
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.
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King of the Cowboys
Title: King of the Cowboys
Character: Agent with Governor in Car
Released: April 9, 1943
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses.
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Something to Shout About
Title: Something to Shout About
Character: Man in Audience
Released: February 25, 1943
Type: Movie
A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.
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Margin for Error
Title: Margin for Error
Character: Roulette Croupier
Released: February 10, 1943
Type: Movie
When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.
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The Hard Way
Title: The Hard Way
Character: Party Guest (Uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
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The Glass Key
Title: The Glass Key
Character: Man at Campaign Headquarters (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1942
Type: Movie
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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The Palm Beach Story
Title: The Palm Beach Story
Character: Diner on Train (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry (Geraldine), decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
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The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Title: The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Character: West Point Board Officer (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
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The Big Street
Title: The Big Street
Character: Waiter at Nightclub (Uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.
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Holiday Inn
Title: Holiday Inn
Character: Cameraman on Film Set (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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Beyond the Blue Horizon
Title: Beyond the Blue Horizon
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1942
Type: Movie
A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woman, she is taken back to the United States to claim her inheritance. There are several people, with vested interests, who stand to gain something if she is shown not to be the missing heir.
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My Favorite Spy
Title: My Favorite Spy
Character: Wedding Guest
Released: June 12, 1942
Type: Movie
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
Title: Yankee Doodle Dandy
Character: Maurice Ruppe (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
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The Falcon Takes Over
Title: The Falcon Takes Over
Character: Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.
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It Happened in Flatbush
Title: It Happened in Flatbush
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: May 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
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Take a Letter, Darling
Title: Take a Letter, Darling
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.
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I Was Framed
Title: I Was Framed
Character: Assistant District Attorney
Released: April 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
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My Favorite Blonde
Title: My Favorite Blonde
Character: Diner Patron (uncredited)
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
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Over My Dead Body
Title: Over My Dead Body
Character: Car Dealer in Montage
Released: January 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.
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Blue, White, and Perfect
Title: Blue, White, and Perfect
Character: First Junior Officer Brooks (uncredited)
Released: January 6, 1942
Type: Movie
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
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Two-Faced Woman
Title: Two-Faced Woman
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
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It Started with Eve
Title: It Started with Eve
Character: Mr. Duncan (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
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Tanks a Million
Title: Tanks a Million
Character: Radio Station Announcer
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a photographic memory. Inexplicably promoted to sergeant, Doubleday becomes the bane of topkick Sgt. Ames' (Joe Sawyer) existence.
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Dive Bomber
Title: Dive Bomber
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1941
Type: Movie
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Title: Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Character: Ringside Broadcaster (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
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Sunny
Title: Sunny
Character: Mr. Julian Duprez
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Sunny is a 1941 film American film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sunny. It stars Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Edward Everett Horton, Grace Hartman, Paul Hartman, Frieda Inescort, and Helen Westley.
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Ziegfeld Girl
Title: Ziegfeld Girl
Character: Palm Beach Casino Patron (Uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
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Citizen Kane
Title: Citizen Kane
Character: Man at Xanadu Great Hall (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Title: A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Character: Pedestrian (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.
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Meet John Doe
Title: Meet John Doe
Character: Man at Stadium Rally (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
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Blondie Goes Latin
Title: Blondie Goes Latin
Character: Shipboard Extra (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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The Lady Eve
Title: The Lady Eve
Character: Diner on Ship (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1941
Type: Movie
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
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Play Girl
Title: Play Girl
Character: Lake Placid Lodge Guest (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1941
Type: Movie
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.
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Charter Pilot
Title: Charter Pilot
Character: Ned Thompson, King's mechanic
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.
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Junior G-Men
Title: Junior G-Men
Character: Elevator Operator
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
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The Great Dictator
Title: The Great Dictator
Character: Hynkel's Staff Officer (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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Down Argentine Way
Title: Down Argentine Way
Character: Nightclub Patron / Racetrack Stands Spectator (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their families—takes a backseat to the spectacular location shooting and parade of extravagant musical numbers, which include the larger-than-life Carmen Miranda singing the hit “South American Way” and a showstopping dance routine by the always amazing Nicholas Brothers.
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City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1940
Type: Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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Before I Hang
Title: Before I Hang
Character: Cousel at Defense Table
Released: September 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.
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The Great Profile
Title: The Great Profile
Character: Audience Extra
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
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Dance, Girl, Dance
Title: Dance, Girl, Dance
Character: Jimmy's Friend (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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Rhythm on the River
Title: Rhythm on the River
Character: Party Guest
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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The Golden Fleecing
Title: The Golden Fleecing
Character: Restaurant Customer (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
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The Great McGinty
Title: The Great McGinty
Character: Saloon Extra (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
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My Favorite Wife
Title: My Favorite Wife
Character: Postponed Case Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on an island with another man.
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Turnabout
Title: Turnabout
Character: Photographer's Assistant (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
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Irene
Title: Irene
Character: Charity Ball Guest (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a model. She soon catches the eye of socialite Bob Vincent, whose mother is hosting a ball at the family mansion. To promote Madame Lucy's dress line, Mr. Smith arranges for his models to be invited to the ball.
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Two Girls on Broadway
Title: Two Girls on Broadway
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives. Remake of The Broadway Melody (1929).
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The Heckler
Title: The Heckler
Character: Man at Trophy Presentation
Released: February 16, 1940
Type: Movie
An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
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Broadway Melody of 1940
Title: Broadway Melody of 1940
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
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He Married His Wife
Title: He Married His Wife
Character: Nightclub Patron
Released: January 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.
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The Fatal Hour
Title: The Fatal Hour
Character: Card Player
Released: January 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. Wong faces increasing danger and is nearly executed himself as the investigation develops in treachery and complexity. As Mr. Wong follows the trail of dead bodies, he uncovers a jewel smuggling ring on the San Francisco waterfront and a case much larger than the death of a police officer.
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City of Chance
Title: City of Chance
Character: Gambling House Patron
Released: January 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Title: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Character: Officer
Released: January 11, 1940
Type: Movie
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
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Swanee River
Title: Swanee River
Character: Attendant
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Title: Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Character: Man in the White House
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
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Day-time Wife
Title: Day-time Wife
Character: Nightclub Patron
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Man in Senate Building (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Dancing Co-Ed
Title: Dancing Co-Ed
Character: Workman's Stooge (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Title: Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Character: Audience Member
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
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Each Dawn I Die
Title: Each Dawn I Die
Character: Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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In Name Only
Title: In Name Only
Character: College Man Asking About Game (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
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The Man They Could Not Hang
Title: The Man They Could Not Hang
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.
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Indianapolis Speedway
Title: Indianapolis Speedway
Character: Nightclub Extra
Released: August 5, 1939
Type: Movie
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
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Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Title: Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Character: Bank Employee (uncredited)
Released: July 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as much time as possible with his pretty teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems when he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation.
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Title: Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: July 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants.
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Bachelor Mother
Title: Bachelor Mother
Character: Nightclub Dance Extra (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.
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Second Fiddle
Title: Second Fiddle
Character: Patron at Earl Carroll's
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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Weather Wizards
Title: Weather Wizards
Character: Weather Balloon Launcher
Released: April 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Modern meteorology and a hard-working government weather team put their science and organization to work as a cold front moves from Alaska toward the citrus groves of Southern California. First, the scientists predict the storm's course, giving several days' warning to farmers and growers. The growers, typified by the Morgan family, prepare the oil-burning pots throughout their grove. Then, as the temperature dips below freezing, they light the pots. The cold snap continues as oil-supplies dwindle; the smoky air slows traffic, including trucks bringing more oil. The scientists strive to predict how long freezing temperatures will last: can the Morgans hold out?
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Broadway Serenade
Title: Broadway Serenade
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
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Love Affair
Title: Love Affair
Character: Shipboard Passenger (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
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Midnight
Title: Midnight
Character: Helene's Dance Partner at Flammarions' Party (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Title: Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Character: Night Club Patron
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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Wife, Husband and Friend
Title: Wife, Husband and Friend
Character: Party Guest
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Title: The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Character: Club Patron (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
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Trade Winds
Title: Trade Winds
Character: Party Guest (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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Next Time I Marry
Title: Next Time I Marry
Character: Reporter
Released: December 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So Nancy pays Tony Anthony, working on a WPA road project, to marry, then divorce her. When Nancy inadvertently drives off with Tony's dog, Tony seemingly kidnaps her to retrieve the pooch, which leads to a cross-country race between the two to reach Reno and the divorce court since neither one wants to be the second to file papers.
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Garden of the Moon
Title: Garden of the Moon
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.
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Secrets of an Actress
Title: Secrets of an Actress
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1938
Type: Movie
Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
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Carefree
Title: Carefree
Character: Country Club Member (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with him. When he tries to use hypnosis to strengthen her feelings for Steven, things get complicated.
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Woman Against Woman
Title: Woman Against Woman
Character: Party Guest
Released: June 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
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Josette
Title: Josette
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
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One Wild Night
Title: One Wild Night
Character: Bank Employee (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
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Vivacious Lady
Title: Vivacious Lady
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1938
Type: Movie
College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.
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There's Always a Woman
Title: There's Always a Woman
Character: Skyline Club Dance Extra (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1938
Type: Movie
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.
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Wide Open Faces
Title: Wide Open Faces
Character: Reporter
Released: April 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.
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Test Pilot
Title: Test Pilot
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
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In Old Chicago
Title: In Old Chicago
Character: Opening Night Guest (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
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The First Hundred Years
Title: The First Hundred Years
Character: Night club patron (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1938
Type: Movie
David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job
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Hollywood Hotel
Title: Hollywood Hotel
Character: Man at Orchid Room (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1938
Type: Movie
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: White House Aide
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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Navy Blue and Gold
Title: Navy Blue and Gold
Character: Officer at Bell Ringing Ceremony (uncredited)
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
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There Goes the Groom
Title: There Goes the Groom
Character: Extra at Class Reunion (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
After striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed. Her sister, however, is worth considering, until he learns about her gold-digging family.
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The Awful Truth
Title: The Awful Truth
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
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Saratoga
Title: Saratoga
Character: Horse Race Bit (uncredited)
Released: July 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
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A Day at the Races
Title: A Day at the Races
Character: Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Released: June 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine.
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Café Metropole
Title: Café Metropole
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Released: April 28, 1937
Type: Movie
An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
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Midnight Court
Title: Midnight Court
Character: Court Clerk
Released: March 6, 1937
Type: Movie
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Title: The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Character: Man at Auction (uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1937
Type: Movie
A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.
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Three Smart Girls
Title: Three Smart Girls
Character: Extra in Restaurant
Released: December 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The three Craig sisters Penny, Kay, and Joan, go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
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More Than a Secretary
Title: More Than a Secretary
Character: Jones - Head of Art Department (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1936
Type: Movie
When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.
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Wanted: Jane Turner
Title: Wanted: Jane Turner
Character: Agent with Window Shade (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
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Fugitive in the Sky
Title: Fugitive in the Sky
Character: G-Man
Released: November 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline hostess Rita Moore. He notices G-Man Mike Phelan among the passengers and assuming Phelan is on the trail of a criminal, decides to go along to get a story.
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Craig's Wife
Title: Craig's Wife
Character: Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult her relationship with domestic service and family members.
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My Man Godfrey
Title: My Man Godfrey
Character: Card Playing Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.
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Hollywood Boulevard
Title: Hollywood Boulevard
Character: Night Club Patron (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1936
Type: Movie
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
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Satan Met a Lady
Title: Satan Met a Lady
Character: Extra on Dance Floor (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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Small Town Girl
Title: Small Town Girl
Character: Dance Extra (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Love Before Breakfast
Title: Love Before Breakfast
Character: Brokerage Clerk (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.
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Rendezvous
Title: Rendezvous
Character: 2nd Lieutenant (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
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Atlantic Adventure
Title: Atlantic Adventure
Character: Ship Passenger
Released: August 25, 1935
Type: Movie
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
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Woman Wanted
Title: Woman Wanted
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
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Break of Hearts
Title: Break of Hearts
Character: Party Guest / Theatergoer (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.
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Public Hero Number 1
Title: Public Hero Number 1
Character: Federal Agent (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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Goin' to Town
Title: Goin' to Town
Character: Conceited Man
Released: April 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Cleo Borden grew up in a saloon, loves the men—and the men love her—but her aspirations lead her to enter into a contract to marry a wealthy man. When he dies and leaves her all of his fortune, she soon learns that although she has money, she is not yet a lady, so she embarks on a journey to become one. She has no desire to change herself, but the man she sets her sights on does—so she obliges.
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The Good Fairy
Title: The Good Fairy
Character: Stagedoor Johnny (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.
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The Gilded Lily
Title: The Gilded Lily
Character: Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her best friend, reporter Peter Dawes, who secretly loves her. When Peter learns that the already-engaged Charles has hurt Marilyn, he fabricates an article casting her as the "No Girl" who refused to marry a callous aristocrat. But when the publicity brings Marilyn unexpected fame, and Charles returns, she is forced to choose between the two men.
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The Payoff
Title: The Payoff
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: January 9, 1935
Type: Movie
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
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Broadway Bill
Title: Broadway Bill
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
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Imitation of Life
Title: Imitation of Life
Character: Man at Funeral (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
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Gentlemen Are Born
Title: Gentlemen Are Born
Character: Intern
Released: November 17, 1934
Type: Movie
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
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Kid Millions
Title: Kid Millions
Character: Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
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The Defense Rests
Title: The Defense Rests
Character: Minor Role
Released: July 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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Return of the Terror
Title: Return of the Terror
Character: First Trooper
Released: July 7, 1934
Type: Movie
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
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Smarty
Title: Smarty
Character: Court Clerk (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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Upperworld
Title: Upperworld
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1934
Type: Movie
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
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Wonder Bar
Title: Wonder Bar
Character: Joe (uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
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Gambling Lady
Title: Gambling Lady
Character: Poker Dealer (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling out with the syndicate, she considers the marriage proposal of blueblood Garry Madison. Can such a match work despite snobbery and old associations?
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Hi, Nellie!
Title: Hi, Nellie!
Character: Extra at Merry Go Round Club (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
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Blood Money
Title: Blood Money
Character: Charley's Henchman (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1933
Type: Movie
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.
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Only Yesterday
Title: Only Yesterday
Character: Party Guest (Uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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Stage Mother
Title: Stage Mother
Character: Navy Officer
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
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The Mayor of Hell
Title: The Mayor of Hell
Character: Joe's Henchman Playing Cards (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
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Picture Snatcher
Title: Picture Snatcher
Character: Reporter Witnessing Execution (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
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Murders in the Zoo
Title: Murders in the Zoo
Character: Apartment Desk Clerk (Uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1933
Type: Movie
Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in the arms of other men. In turn, Gorman uses his animals to kill these men. When a New York City zoo suggests a fundraising gala, Gorman sees a prime opportunity to dispatch the dashing Roger and anyone else who might cross him.
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Today We Live
Title: Today We Live
Character: Moorhouse, a Pilot (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."
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Men Must Fight
Title: Men Must Fight
Character: Pacificist Audience Member
Released: February 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.
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The Secret of Madame Blanche
Title: The Secret of Madame Blanche
Character: Supper Club Guest (Uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
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Goldie Gets Along
Title: Goldie Gets Along
Character: Flynn's Clerk-Receptionist
Released: January 27, 1933
Type: Movie
A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
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Lawyer Man
Title: Lawyer Man
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by Gilmurry and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.
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Rockabye
Title: Rockabye
Character: Speakeasy Patron (uncredited)
Released: November 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
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Call Her Savage
Title: Call Her Savage
Character: Party Guest (Uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
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You Said a Mouthful
Title: You Said a Mouthful
Character: Office Manager (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
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The Sport Parade
Title: The Sport Parade
Character: Alumnus (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1932
Type: Movie
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
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Movie Crazy
Title: Movie Crazy
Character: Dinner Party Guest (Uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
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The Dark Horse
Title: The Dark Horse
Character: Reporter
Released: June 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake organizes the office and coaches Hicks to answer every question by pausing and then saying, "Well yes, but then again no." Blake will sell Hicks as dumb but honest. Russell refuses to marry Blake, while Joe keeps people away from Blake's office. Blake teaches Hicks a speech by Lincoln. At the debate when the conservative candidate Underwood recites the same speech, Blake exposes him as a plagiarist. Hicks is presented for photo opportunities and gives his yes-and-no answer to any question, including whether he expects to win.
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Grand Hotel
Title: Grand Hotel
Character: Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
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Daybreak
Title: Daybreak
Character: Gambler
Released: May 2, 1931
Type: Movie
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
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One Night at Susie's
Title: One Night at Susie's
Character: Chippy's Pal (Uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.
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The Pay-Off
Title: The Pay-Off
Character: Spat
Released: October 14, 1930
Type: Movie
A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing. The thug, resentful of the couple, plans to organize a mutiny against the gang's boss, but when he is killed in a botched robbery, the police focus their attention on the young couple.
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Conspiracy
Title: Conspiracy
Character: Victor Holt (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric mystery writer Winthrop Clavering help unravel the truth about the murder.
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The Girl from Woolworth's
Title: The Girl from Woolworth's
Character: Dave
Released: October 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Daisy, a clerk at Woolworth's, loves to sing. She meets Bill, a guard on the subway, at a party and they're both attracted to each other, but each tells the other that they have a different job than they actually do. Bill later finds her handbag on the subway, returns it to her and invites her to dinner. They dine at the swanky Mayfield Club, where owner Lawrence Mayfield is also attracted to Daisy and offers her a job there as a singer. Bill is not happy, although Daisy is.
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The Delightful Rogue
Title: The Delightful Rogue
Character: Nielson
Released: September 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A modern-day pirate vies with a society playboy for the love of a dancer.
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Rough Ridin' Red
Title: Rough Ridin' Red
Character: Sheriff Jerry Martin
Released: November 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Rough Ridin' Red is a 1928 silent Western.
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The Cameraman
Title: The Cameraman
Character: Randall (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1928
Type: Movie
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
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Our Dancing Daughters
Title: Our Dancing Daughters
Character: Diana's Party Friend (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A flapper sets her hat for a man with a hard-drinking wife.