Walter Pidgeon

Walter Pidgeon

Born: September 22, 1897
Died: September 25, 1984
in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Walter Davis Pidgeon (September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984) was a Canadian actor who lived most of his adult life in the United States. He starred in many motion pictures, including Mrs. Miniver, The Bad and the Beautiful, Forbidden Planet, Advise and Consent and Funny Girl.

Movies for Walter Pidgeon...

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Title: Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 27, 2018
Type: Movie
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars.
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Title: Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Character: actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1991
Type: Movie
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
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Fritz Lang, drawings for a film
Title: Fritz Lang, drawings for a film
Character: Captain Alan Thorndike (stills from Man Hunt)
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A short film using parts of the storyboard drawings for Fritz Lang's Man Hunt given to the French Cinémathèque to recreate a scene to showcase a part of the directors' creative process.
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Sextette
Title: Sextette
Character: The Chairman
Released: March 3, 1978
Type: Movie
On the day of her wedding to her sixth husband, a glamorous silver screen sex symbol is asked to intervene in a political dispute between nations, which leads to chaos.
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Two-Minute Warning
Title: Two-Minute Warning
Character: The Pickpocket
Released: November 12, 1976
Type: Movie
A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly and the SWAT commander, learn of the plot and rush to the scene.
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Title: Gibbsville
Released: November 11, 1976
Type: TV
Gibbsville is an American drama television series starring John Savage and Gig Young that aired on NBC from November 11 to December 30, 1976. The series centered on the activities of two reporters for a newspaper in a small Pennsylvania town in the 1940s.
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Title: Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Character: Grayson's Butler
Released: July 26, 1976
Type: Movie
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Title: That's Entertainment, Part II
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 16, 1976
Type: Movie
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Title: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Character: Judge Trenchard
Released: February 26, 1976
Type: Movie
Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, and ensuing trial of accused and convicted killer, Bruno Hauptmann.
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Murder on Flight 502
Title: Murder on Flight 502
Character: Charlie Parkins
Released: November 21, 1975
Type: Movie
On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.
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You Lie So Deep, My Love
Title: You Lie So Deep, My Love
Character: Uncle Joe Padway
Released: February 25, 1975
Type: Movie
A disturbed man wants his girlfriend's love and his wife's money, and will stop at nothing to get them, even murder.
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The Lion Roars Again
Title: The Lion Roars Again
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in May 1975.
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That's Entertainment!
Title: That's Entertainment!
Character: (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: June 21, 1974
Type: Movie
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
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The Girl on the Late, Late Show
Title: The Girl on the Late, Late Show
Character: John Pahlman
Released: April 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded, then discovers that his inquiries have set off a string of murders.
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Live Again, Die Again
Title: Live Again, Die Again
Character: Thomas Carmichael
Released: February 16, 1974
Type: Movie
After being cryogenically frozen for more than 30 years, a woman wakes to find her husband an old man and her children older than she is. Her daughter has also developed a psychotic obsession with her and may be out to kill her.
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Harry in Your Pocket
Title: Harry in Your Pocket
Character: Casey
Released: September 23, 1973
Type: Movie
A master thief and his drug-addicted partner teach two aspiring crooks how to steal wallets.
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The Neptune Factor
Title: The Neptune Factor
Character: Dr. Samuel Andrews
Released: August 3, 1973
Type: Movie
When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.
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Title: The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Character: Self
Released: April 2, 1973
Type: TV
In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a yearly recipient whose talent has fundamentally advanced the film art; whose accomplishments have been acknowledged by scholars, critics, professional peers and the general public; and whose work has stood the test of time.
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Skyjacked
Title: Skyjacked
Character: Sen. Arne Lindner
Released: May 24, 1972
Type: Movie
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.
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The Screaming Woman
Title: The Screaming Woman
Character: Dr. Amos Larkin
Released: January 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground. Her family, however, refuses to believe her story, and sees the incident as an opportunity to prove the woman's mind has snapped so they can take control of her money.
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The Mask of Sheba
Title: The Mask of Sheba
Character: Dr. Max van Condon
Released: March 9, 1970
Type: Movie
Intrigue, romance, and the customary angry natives are the major elements in this tale of a hunt for a priceless gold mask in the jungles of Ethiopia.
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House on Greenapple Road
Title: House on Greenapple Road
Character: Mayor Jack Parker
Released: January 11, 1970
Type: Movie
A promiscuous housewife has been murdered and hardboiled detective Dan August has to find the motive...and the body.
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Rascal
Title: Rascal
Character: Sterling North (voice)
Released: June 11, 1969
Type: Movie
A comedy filled with tenderness as a baby raccoon snuggles his way into the life of a lonely boy. He becomes the boy's only companion during his father's frequent absences. Because of Rascal, both father and son realize their responsibility to each other
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Funny Girl
Title: Funny Girl
Character: Florenz Ziegfeld
Released: September 19, 1968
Type: Movie
The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedian and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld girl, her subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.
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The Vatican Affair
Title: The Vatican Affair
Character: Herbert Cummings
Released: September 10, 1968
Type: Movie
A blind professor masterminds the theft of treasure from St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
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Warning Shot
Title: Warning Shot
Character: Orville Ames
Released: January 18, 1967
Type: Movie
Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Title: How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Character: Lewis Gannet
Released: January 7, 1967
Type: Movie
A man who completes compiling a dossier on a mysterious billionaire begins to get the feeling that he is becoming the victim of a conspiracy.
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Title: The F.B.I.
Character: Leo Roland
Released: September 19, 1965
Type: TV
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
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Cinderella
Title: Cinderella
Character: King
Released: February 22, 1965
Type: Movie
After the success of the live 1957 Cinderella on CBS (with Julie Andrews), the network decided to produce another television version. The new script hewed closer to the traditional tale, although nearly all of the original songs were retained and performed in their original settings. Added to the Rodgers and Hammerstein score was "Loneliness of Evening", which had been composed for South Pacific but not used.
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Title: Daniel Boone
Character: Lord Dunsmore
Released: September 24, 1964
Type: TV
Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: B.G. Perkins
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Title: Breaking Point
Released: September 16, 1963
Type: TV
Breaking Point is an American medical drama that aired on ABC from September 16, 1963, to April 27, 1964, continuing in rebroadcasts until September 7. The series, which was a spinoff of Ben Casey, stars Paul Richards and Eduard Franz. The series was created by Meta Rosenberg.
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The Shortest Day
Title: The Shortest Day
Character: Ernest Hemingway (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
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Two Colonels
Title: Two Colonels
Character: Colonello Henderson
Released: January 5, 1963
Type: Movie
In WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging friendship which the war will test.
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Advise & Consent
Title: Advise & Consent
Character: Senate Majority Leader
Released: June 6, 1962
Type: Movie
Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
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Big Red
Title: Big Red
Character: James Haggin
Released: June 6, 1962
Type: Movie
Wealthy sportsman James Haggin (Walter Pidgeon) lives on a Quebec estate called Wintapi. Émile Fornet (Émile Genest), handler of Haggin's hunting dogs, and Émile's wife Therese (Janette Bertrand), Haggin's cook and housekeeper, live in a separate house on the estate. To start a line of top show dogs, Haggin purchases the winner of the Montreal Kennel Club show, an Irish setter named Red.
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Title: Dr. Kildare
Character: Dr. Charles Priest
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: TV
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Title: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Character: Admiral Harriman Nelson
Released: July 12, 1961
Type: Movie
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
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Title: Checkmate
Character: John Baker
Released: September 17, 1960
Type: TV
Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS Television from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes and was produced by Jack Benny's production company, "JaMco Productions" in co-operation with Revue Studios. Guest stars included Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, and Lee Marvin, among many other commensurately prominent performers.
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Meet Me in St. Louis
Title: Meet Me in St. Louis
Character: Alonzo Smith
Released: April 26, 1959
Type: Movie
This adaptation of the classic 1944 film musical explores the lives of the close-knit Smith family -- mother, father, grandfather, and five children -- who live in St. Louis in the year 1903.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: General Augustus Perry
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Swiss Family Robinson
Title: Swiss Family Robinson
Character: Father
Released: October 12, 1958
Type: Movie
T.V. movie adaptation of The Swiss Family Robinson, sponsored by Rexall.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Sherman Hatfield
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Title: Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Character: Self
Released: July 29, 1957
Type: TV
Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.
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The Rack
Title: The Rack
Character: Col. Edward W. Hall, Sr.
Released: November 2, 1956
Type: Movie
Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the US after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell?
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Dave King
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Jess Clark
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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Title: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.
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These Wilder Years
Title: These Wilder Years
Character: James Rayburn
Released: August 17, 1956
Type: Movie
A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.
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Forbidden Planet
Title: Forbidden Planet
Character: Dr. Edward Morbius
Released: March 23, 1956
Type: Movie
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for 20 years, only to find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.
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The Glass Slipper
Title: The Glass Slipper
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: March 24, 1955
Type: Movie
Musical adaptation of the story of Cinderella and her magical trip to the prince's ball.
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Hit the Deck
Title: Hit the Deck
Character: Rear Adm. Daniel Xavier Smith
Released: February 24, 1955
Type: Movie
Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.
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Deep in My Heart
Title: Deep in My Heart
Character: J.J. Shubert
Released: December 9, 1954
Type: Movie
Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.
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The Last Time I Saw Paris
Title: The Last Time I Saw Paris
Character: James Ellswirth
Released: November 18, 1954
Type: Movie
Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new bride with a deadening job at a newspaper wire service. But when an old investment suddenly makes the family wealthy, their marriage begins to unravel — until a sudden tragedy changes everything.
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Men of the Fighting Lady
Title: Men of the Fighting Lady
Character: Cmdr. Dowling
Released: May 7, 1954
Type: Movie
A writer visits an aircraft carrier during the Korean war to learn more about it and the way it's run. He also gets to find out more about the Navy and Marine aviators themselves, their internal and external conflicts and dangers of their job.
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Executive Suite
Title: Executive Suite
Character: Frederick Y. Alderson
Released: April 30, 1954
Type: Movie
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.
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Dream Wife
Title: Dream Wife
Character: Walter McBride
Released: June 19, 1953
Type: Movie
Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much business and not enough pleasure on the part of Effie. When Clemson meets Tarji, a princess trained in all the arts of pleasing men, he decides he wants an old fashioned girl. Princess Tarji's father is king of oil-rich Bukistan. Because of the oil situation and to maintain good political relations during the courtship between Clemson & Tarji, the State Department assigns a diplomat to maintain protocol until the wedding - Effie!
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Scandal at Scourie
Title: Scandal at Scourie
Character: Patrick J. McChesney
Released: May 17, 1953
Type: Movie
After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a stop at Scourie, Ontario little Patsy meets Victoria McChesney. Victoria and her husband Patrick have no children and she immediately decides to adopt the girl. The only condition imposed on them is that as Patsy has been baptized a Roman Catholic the Protestant McChesneys agree to raise her as a Catholic. Patsy is a well-behaved little girl whose only real problem is a school bully, also one of the orphans, who spreads stories that she set their orphanage on fire.
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The Bad and the Beautiful
Title: The Bad and the Beautiful
Character: Harry Pebbel
Released: December 25, 1952
Type: Movie
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
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The Hoaxters
Title: The Hoaxters
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: December 5, 1952
Type: Movie
A 1952 American documentary film written by Herman Hoffman, about the threat posed by communism to the American way of life.
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Million Dollar Mermaid
Title: Million Dollar Mermaid
Character: Frederick Kellerman
Released: December 4, 1952
Type: Movie
After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.
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The Sellout
Title: The Sellout
Character: Haven D. Allridge
Released: May 30, 1952
Type: Movie
A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.
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The Unknown Man
Title: The Unknown Man
Character: Dwight Bradley 'Brad' Masen
Released: November 9, 1951
Type: Movie
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
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Quo Vadis
Title: Quo Vadis
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1951
Type: Movie
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
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Calling Bulldog Drummond
Title: Calling Bulldog Drummond
Character: Major Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond
Released: July 2, 1951
Type: Movie
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
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Soldiers Three
Title: Soldiers Three
Character: Col. Brunswick
Released: April 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.
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The Miniver Story
Title: The Miniver Story
Character: Clem Miniver
Released: October 26, 1950
Type: Movie
The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing tensions within the family.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Panelist
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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That Forsyte Woman
Title: That Forsyte Woman
Character: le jeune Jolyon Forsyte
Released: November 3, 1949
Type: Movie
Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teenager June Forsyte has found love with an artist, Phillip Bosinny. The interactions between the Forsytes and the people and society around them is the truss for this love story set in the rigid and strict times of the Victorian age.
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The Red Danube
Title: The Red Danube
Character: Col. Michael S. 'Hooky' Nicobar
Released: October 14, 1949
Type: Movie
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
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Command Decision
Title: Command Decision
Character: Major General Roland Goodlow Kane
Released: December 23, 1948
Type: Movie
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.
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Julia Misbehaves
Title: Julia Misbehaves
Character: William Sylvester Packett
Released: August 8, 1948
Type: Movie
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites her mother to her wedding, with the disapproval of William's mother.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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If Winter Comes
Title: If Winter Comes
Character: Mark Sabre
Released: December 31, 1947
Type: Movie
The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a friendship with Effie, a young pregnant girl. As the townsfolk theorize that Mark is the baby's father, Effie - already troubled because of her impending motherhood - commits suicide, and circulating rumors lead the authorities to think Mark killed her. The innocent writer must fight to clear his name.
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The Secret Heart
Title: The Secret Heart
Character: Chris Matthews
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother, Chase, and stepmother, Lee, work to help Penny process her grief through psychotherapy and revisiting their past, but only the revelation of long-buried family secrets -- including her mother's secret lover and the true nature of her father's death -- can bring Penny out of her intense despair.
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Holiday in Mexico
Title: Holiday in Mexico
Character: Jeffrey Evans
Released: August 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Christine Evans, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the widowed American ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey Evans, believes that she is no longer a young girl and that she has fully matured into adulthood. Eager to make her mark in the sophisticated world of foreign diplomats living in Mexico, Christine appoints herself as organizer of her father's social activities and takes over the planning of a big garden party he will be hosting. Because he loves his daughter,
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Week-End at the Waldorf
Title: Week-End at the Waldorf
Character: Chip Collyer
Released: October 4, 1945
Type: Movie
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
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Mrs. Parkington
Title: Mrs. Parkington
Character: Major Augustus Parkington
Released: October 12, 1944
Type: Movie
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
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Twenty Years After
Title: Twenty Years After
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
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Madame Curie
Title: Madame Curie
Character: Pierre Curie
Released: December 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
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The Youngest Profession
Title: The Youngest Profession
Character: Walter Pidgeon
Released: February 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents to the extent of hiring Dr. Hercules, the strong man from a side show to pay attention to her mother in order to make her father jealous, despite the good advice received from Walter Pidgeon.
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White Cargo
Title: White Cargo
Character: Mr. Harry Witzel
Released: December 12, 1942
Type: Movie
In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who'd seen it all, Langford, a new manager sent from England for a four-year stint, and Tondelayo, a siren of great beauty who desires silk and baubles. Witzel is gruff and seasoned, certain that Langford won't be able to cut it. Langford responds with determination and anger, attracted to Tondelayo because of her beauty, her wiles, and to get at Witzel. Manipulation, jealousy, revenge, and responsibility play out as alliances within the triangle shift.
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Mrs. Miniver
Title: Mrs. Miniver
Character: Clem Miniver
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
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Design for Scandal
Title: Design for Scandal
Character: Jeff Sherman
Released: December 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
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How Green Was My Valley
Title: How Green Was My Valley
Character: Mr. Gruffydd
Released: October 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
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Blossoms in the Dust
Title: Blossoms in the Dust
Character: Sam Gladney
Released: August 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
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Man Hunt
Title: Man Hunt
Character: Captain Alan Thorndike
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Shortly before the start of WW2, renown British big-game hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.
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Flight Command
Title: Flight Command
Character: Squadron Commander Billy Gary
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable to land due to heavy fog. On his first day on the job, his poor shooting skills results in the Hellcats losing an air combat competition. His fellow pilots accept him anyways but they think he's crossed the line when they erroneously conclude that while their CO Billy Gray is away, Drake has an affair with his wife Lorna. Drake is now an outcast and is prepared to resign from the Navy but his extreme heroism in saving Billy Gray's life turns things around.
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Title: A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Character: Self
Released: October 24, 1940
Type: Movie
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created.
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Sky Murder
Title: Sky Murder
Character: Nick Carter
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
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Phantom Raiders
Title: Phantom Raiders
Character: Nick Carter
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.
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Dark Command
Title: Dark Command
Character: William 'Will' Cantrell
Released: April 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
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It's a Date
Title: It's a Date
Character: John Arlen
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.
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The House Across the Bay
Title: The House Across the Bay
Character: Tim Nolan
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda, testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma, who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan, who knows nothing about her past.
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Nick Carter, Master Detective
Title: Nick Carter, Master Detective
Character: Nicholas 'Nick' Carter, aka Robert Chalmers
Released: December 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
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Stronger Than Desire
Title: Stronger Than Desire
Character: Tyler Flagg
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
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6,000 Enemies
Title: 6,000 Enemies
Character: Steve Donegan
Released: June 9, 1939
Type: Movie
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.
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Society Lawyer
Title: Society Lawyer
Character: Christopher Durant
Released: March 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help of nightclub singer Pat Abbott and crime boss Tony Gazotti (a former client), Durant launches his own investigation of the murder in order to prove his friend's innocence
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Listen, Darling
Title: Listen, Darling
Character: Richard Thurlow
Released: October 21, 1938
Type: Movie
To stop Pinkie's widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn't love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend Buzz kidnap her in the family travel trailer to live a carefree life on the open road. They then get the idea to find Dottie a financially secure husband whom both she and Pinkie would like.
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Too Hot to Handle
Title: Too Hot to Handle
Character: Bill Dennis
Released: September 16, 1938
Type: Movie
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America, her opinion of him begins to change.
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The Shopworn Angel
Title: The Shopworn Angel
Character: Sam Bailey
Released: July 15, 1938
Type: Movie
During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car nearly runs him over.
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The Girl of the Golden West
Title: The Girl of the Golden West
Character: Sheriff Jack Rance
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Mary Robbins is a moderately educated, beautiful, young woman who owns the saloon called "The Poker". She is the only woman in the town of Couldee - making her the fancy of all the men there, especially to Sheriff Jack Rance. On the way to Monterey to sing at a mass officiated by Father Sienna, her stagecoach is held up by the infamous masked bandit, Ramerez. He too takes a fancy to Mary, and decides to secretly follow her, taking on the identity of an officer named, Lieutenant Johnson. While in Monterey, he dances, sings and courts Mary, who has now fallen in love with him. He then has to make a quick getaway. In the mean-time, Sheriff Jack has set up a trap to catch Ramerez at "The Poker". When Ramerez does arrive he soon discovers that Mary is the owner, and quickly changes to the identity of Lieutenant Johnson. How long can this charade last?
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Man-Proof
Title: Man-Proof
Character: Alan Wythe
Released: January 7, 1938
Type: Movie
A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.
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A Girl with Ideas
Title: A Girl with Ideas
Character: Mickey McGuire
Released: November 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
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My Dear Miss Aldrich
Title: My Dear Miss Aldrich
Character: Ken Morley
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
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Saratoga
Title: Saratoga
Character: Hartley Madison
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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As Good as Married
Title: As Good as Married
Character: Fraser James
Released: May 9, 1937
Type: Movie
When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.
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Girl Overboard
Title: Girl Overboard
Character: Paul Stacey
Released: February 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A beautiful girl on a passenger ship is suspected of murder.
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She's Dangerous
Title: She's Dangerous
Character: Dr. Scott Logan
Released: January 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.
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Fatal Lady
Title: Fatal Lady
Character: David Roberts
Released: May 15, 1936
Type: Movie
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
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Big Brown Eyes
Title: Big Brown Eyes
Character: Richard Morey
Released: April 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
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Good Badminton
Title: Good Badminton
Character: Walter
Released: November 24, 1934
Type: Movie
This Vitaphone short has Hugh Herbert tossing in some comedy lines while Walter Pidgeon relates the history of the new-fad (in 1936) game of Badminton. Ace badminton players Bill Hurley and George F. (Jess) Willard, not to be confused with boxer Jess Willard, play the fast-and-furious game.
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Journal of a Crime
Title: Journal of a Crime
Character: Florestan
Released: March 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
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The Kiss Before the Mirror
Title: The Kiss Before the Mirror
Character: Lucy's Lover
Released: May 4, 1933
Type: Movie
When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.
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Rockabye
Title: Rockabye
Character: Al Howard
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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The Hot Heiress
Title: The Hot Heiress
Character: Clay
Released: March 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much to the shock of her friends and family.
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Kiss Me Again
Title: Kiss Me Again
Character: Paul de St. Cyr
Released: January 7, 1931
Type: Movie
An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that marriage would be a mistake. The officer goes off to war and she becomes an opera star.
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Going Wild
Title: Going Wild
Character: 'Ace' Benton
Released: December 21, 1930
Type: Movie
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what Story looks like. So they get free room and meals at the Palm Inn and everything is going well until they want Story to fly in the race on Saturday. Rollo has never even be up in a plane, never mind fly one, so he must figure a way out. But the girls have everything bet on his winning the race. Written by Tony Fontana
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Viennese Nights
Title: Viennese Nights
Character: Franz von Renner
Released: November 25, 1930
Type: Movie
In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Elsa instead marries the wealthier officer Franz von Renner, in an attempt at social climbing.
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The Gorilla
Title: The Gorilla
Character: Arthur Marsden
Released: November 2, 1930
Type: Movie
A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an ape. (lost film)
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Sweet Kitty Bellairs
Title: Sweet Kitty Bellairs
Character: Lord Varney
Released: September 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Kitty Bellairs, a flirtatious young woman of 18th Century England, cuts a swath of broken hearts and romantic conquests as she visits a resort with her sister.
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Title: An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, attended by most of the major players and song writers under contract to WB at that time.
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Bride of the Regiment
Title: Bride of the Regiment
Character: Colonel Vultow
Released: May 21, 1930
Type: Movie
As they are leaving the church following their wedding, Count Adrian Beltrami and Countess Anna-Marie are told that the Austrians are marching on the town to quell an Italian uprising. The bride and relatives induce the count to flee to his castle, but Tangy, a silhouette cutter, brings word from the revolutionary committee asking him to return; the count goes, asking Tangy to pose as the count and protect Anna-Marie.
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Show Girl in Hollywood
Title: Show Girl in Hollywood
Character: Premiere Emcee
Released: April 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.
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A Most Immoral Lady
Title: A Most Immoral Lady
Character: Tony Williams
Released: September 22, 1929
Type: Movie
Laura Sergeant (Leatrice Joy), together with her husband, Humphrey Sergeant (Sidney Blackmer) operates a scam scheme to extort money from millionaires through blackmail and victimization until she mistakenly victimizes Tony Williams (Walter Pidgeon), the man she really loves.
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Her Private Life
Title: Her Private Life
Character: Ned Thayer
Released: August 25, 1929
Type: Movie
A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American.
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The Voice Within
Title: The Voice Within
Released: April 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Early talkie starring Eve Southern and Walter Pidgeon.
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Melody of Love
Title: Melody of Love
Character: Jack Clark
Released: October 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Historically significant as Universal's first 100% all-talkie, the production suffered from having a tight shooting schedule. Carl Laemmle was only able to rent the Fox Movietone sound-on-film recording system for one week, having to be filmed at night while the Fox Studio was closed down for the evenings.
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Clothes Make the Woman
Title: Clothes Make the Woman
Character: Victor Trent
Released: June 4, 1928
Type: Movie
A young Russian peasant feels pity for the Princess Anastasia and saves her life by accidentally wounding her in the massacre of the Romanovs during the Russian Revolution.
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Turn Back the Hours
Title: Turn Back the Hours
Character: Philip Drake
Released: March 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Turn Back the Hours is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, and Sam Hardy.
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Woman Wise
Title: Woman Wise
Character: United States Consul
Released: January 8, 1928
Type: Movie
Woman Wise is a 1928 American silent comedy drama film directed by Albert Ray and starring William Russell, June Collyer, and Walter Pidgeon.
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The Gateway of the Moon
Title: The Gateway of the Moon
Character: Arthur Wyatt
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
John Griffith Wray silent South America romantic melodrama starring Dolores Del Rio, Walter Pidgeon, Anders Randolf, Lesle Fenton, and Noble Johnson.
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The 13th Juror
Title: The 13th Juror
Character: Richard Marsden
Released: November 13, 1927
Type: Movie
A 1927 American mystery film directed by Edward Laemmle and written by Charles Logue and Walter Anthony. It is based on the 1908 play Counsel for the Defense by Henry Irving Dodge. Richard Marsden is a long-time friend of Henry Desmond, a powerful and successful attorney. The district attorney plan to break Desmond by having George Quinn infer that Marsden's wife is having an affair with the lawyer.
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The Gorilla
Title: The Gorilla
Character: Stevens
Released: November 13, 1927
Type: Movie
An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.
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Sumuru
Title: Sumuru
Character: Paul Sinclair
Released: September 1, 1927
Type: Movie
1927 picture starring Carmel Myers and Walter Pidgeon.
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The Heart of Salome
Title: The Heart of Salome
Character: Monte Carroll
Released: May 8, 1927
Type: Movie
1927 picture starring Alma Rubens and Walter Pidgeon.
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Marriage License?
Title: Marriage License?
Character: Paul
Released: September 5, 1926
Type: Movie
1926 picture starring Alma Rubens and Walter McGrail.
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Miss Nobody
Title: Miss Nobody
Character: Bravo
Released: June 27, 1926
Type: Movie
The father of an heiress dies broke leaving her destitute without inheritance. She falls in with a group of hobos traveling incognito cross country dressed as a man.
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Old Loves and New
Title: Old Loves and New
Character: Clyde Lord Geradine
Released: April 11, 1926
Type: Movie
Gervas Carew's wife, Elinor, has deserted him while he was fighting for France, for Lord Clyde Geraldine, a cad of the first order, but Elinor, in turn is cast off when Lord Geraldine turns his attention to an Irish lass, Marny. Marny has no idea of Geraldine's past nor his brutal nature.
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The Outsider
Title: The Outsider
Character: Basil Owen
Released: January 17, 1926
Type: Movie
1926 film starring Jacqueline Logan, Lou Tellegen, and Walter Pidgeon.
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Mannequin
Title: Mannequin
Character: Martin Innesbrook
Released: January 11, 1926
Type: Movie
Adapted from the Fannie Hurst story of the same name, Mannequin is the story of Joan Herrick, kidnapped in infancy from her wealthy parents and raised by a slatternly slum woman. The film is still extant.