Heinie Conklin

Heinie Conklin

Born: July 15, 1880
Died: July 30, 1959
in San Francisco, California, USA
Heinie Conklin (born Charles John Conklin; July 16, 1880 – July 30, 1959) was an American actor and comedian whose career began in the silent film era.

Movies for Heinie Conklin...

Gunmen from Laredo
Title: Gunmen from Laredo
Released: March 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A framed Texas rancher escapes from prison for a showdown with a saloonkeeper.
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Man of a Thousand Faces
Title: Man of a Thousand Faces
Character: Audience Extra (uncredited)
Released: August 15, 1957
Type: Movie
The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.
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Jeanne Eagels
Title: Jeanne Eagels
Character: Joe, Carnival Employee (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.
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A Hatful of Rain
Title: A Hatful of Rain
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1957
Type: Movie
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
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Army Daze
Title: Army Daze
Character: Soldier in Drill Line (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1956
Type: Movie
Joe is drafted into the army of Starvania, and falls in love with Olga, a beautiful Starvanian WAC, but Joe's sergeant also has his eyes on Olga. But Joe wins her hand when he captures two spies in the Colonel's office.
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Stone Age Romeos
Title: Stone Age Romeos
Character: Milkman (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1955
Type: Movie
The stooges hope to collect a reward by proving to a museum that cavemen still exist. They return from their expedition with a film purporting to show some stone age stooges defending their women from other cavemen. The museum curators are about to pay they reward, until they overhear the stooges talking about how they faked the film, with themselves playing the cavemen.
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Title: Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Character: Studio Guard
Released: February 2, 1955
Type: Movie
Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubles in film the which Gorman is now shooting, while the conman tries to have the bungling pair done away with before they realize who he really is.
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Fling in the Ring
Title: Fling in the Ring
Character: Watson’s Manager
Released: January 6, 1955
Type: Movie
The stooges are the trainers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they bet their bankroll on Chopper to win his next fight. When "Big Mike", their boss, tells them to have Chopper lose or they'll lose their lives, the boys try to soften up Chopper so he'll lose. The fight gets canceled and the stooges have to contend with an angry Big Mike and his goons.
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A Star Is Born
Title: A Star Is Born
Character: Benefit Comedy Team Member (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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Broken Lance
Title: Broken Lance
Character: Man in Courtroom Hall (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1954
Type: Movie
Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Matt dies from a stroke partly caused by his rebellious sons and when Joe gets out he plans revenge.
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Pals and Gals
Title: Pals and Gals
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1954
Type: Movie
The stooges go out west for Shemp's health. The boys soon run afoul of a local villain who is forcing pretty Nell to marry him. The bad guy has Nell's sisters locked up, and its up to the stooges to rescue them and save the day.
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Musty Musketeers
Title: Musty Musketeers
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1954
Type: Movie
Set in the middle ages, the stooges wish to marry their sweethearts, but the King won't give his consent until Princess Alicia gets married. The princess is abducted by Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry her and become ruler of the country. The stooges help the princess escape and then defeat the magician and his henchmen in a sword fight.
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Pickup on South Street
Title: Pickup on South Street
Character: Subway Passenger
Released: May 27, 1953
Type: Movie
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.
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Booty And The Beast
Title: Booty And The Beast
Character: Train Conductor (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1953
Type: Movie
The stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a safe in what they think is the man's house. Actually the man is a crook and the boys were unwitting accomplices to a robbery. Once they realize what's happened, the stooges go after the bad guy and who's left on the train to Los Vegas. The boys trap the villain and recover the booty.
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Monkey Business
Title: Monkey Business
Character: House Painter (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1952
Type: Movie
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
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Aim, Fire, Scoot
Title: Aim, Fire, Scoot
Character: Soldier in Drill Line (uncredited)
Released: March 13, 1952
Type: Movie
Joe and his sergeant fall for the same girl.
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Flaming Feather
Title: Flaming Feather
Released: February 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When rancher Tex McCloud has his place burned out, he vows to find and kill the Sidewinder.
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Pest Man Wins
Title: Pest Man Wins
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1951
Type: Movie
The stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. The boys are hired, but must dress as guests to work unobserved. They disrupt the party and a wild pie fight ensues.
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Hula-La-La
Title: Hula-La-La
Character: King (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1951
Type: Movie
The stooges are dance instructors sent by a movie company to a tropical island to teach the natives how to dance so they can appear in a movie. The boys run into trouble with the local witch doctor who wants to add their heads to his collection. The stooges defeat the witch doctor with hand grenades they swipe from a multi-armed idol, and get on with the dancing lessons.
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Pier 23
Title: Pier 23
Character: Counter Man (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1951
Type: Movie
Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the three films was evenly divided into two half-hour "episodes," and each starred Hugh Beaumont as San Francisco-based amateur sleuth Dennis O'Brien. In Pier 23, O'Brien first tackles the case of a wrestler who has died of a suspicious heart attack after refusing to lose a match. He then agrees to help a priest talk an escaped criminal into returning to prison. The film's two-part structure leads to repetition and predictability, but it's fun to watch TV's "Ward Cleaver" making like Philip Marlowe.
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Broken Arrow
Title: Broken Arrow
Character: Townsman
Released: August 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities.
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The Gunfighter
Title: The Gunfighter
Character: Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1950
Type: Movie
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
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Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
Title: Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
Character: Pete
Released: June 4, 1950
Type: Movie
A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey Pennyworth's hometown.
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Riding High
Title: Riding High
Character: Bettor on Broadway Bill (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1950
Type: Movie
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
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When Willie Comes Marching Home
Title: When Willie Comes Marching Home
Character: American Legionnaire at Dance (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1950
Type: Movie
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
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Woman in Hiding
Title: Woman in Hiding
Character: Hotel Waiter (uncredited)
Released: January 6, 1950
Type: Movie
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.
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Punchy Cowpunchers
Title: Punchy Cowpunchers
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: January 5, 1950
Type: Movie
It is the old west and the Dillon clan are making life miserable for a small Western town. Sweetheart Nell (Christine McIntyre) and her dashing but dimwitted boyfriend Elmer (Jock Mahoney) rushes off to find help. Meanwhile, cavalrymen the Stooges are making life miserable for superior, Sergeant Mullins (Dick Wessel). Mullins tries to whip the boys into shape, but his plan backfire and has a run-in with his superior, Captain Daley (Emil Sitka). Daley informs Mullins about the Dillion clan's evildoings, and needs some men to run them out of town. Mullins does not miss a beat, and volunteers the unsuspecting Stooges.
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Neptune's Daughter
Title: Neptune's Daughter
Character: Groom (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1949
Type: Movie
Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated when they fall in love. Meanwhile, Betty's sensible older sister Eve fears Betty's heart will be broken when Jose returns to South America. She arranges to meet with the real O'Rourke and love soon blossoms between them as well.
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The Lady Gambles
Title: The Lady Gambles
Character: Joe - Gambler (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1949
Type: Movie
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
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The Set-Up
Title: The Set-Up
Character: Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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I'm a Monkey's Uncle
Title: I'm a Monkey's Uncle
Character: Milkman (uncredited)
Released: October 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Set in the stone age, the stooges are cavemen who must have various misadventures hunting, gathering, and otherwise coping with prehistoric life. When some other cavemen threaten to take their women ("Aggie", "Maggie", and "Baggy"), the boys fight them off with a catapulting tree branch that shoots rocks and eggs.
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Tall, Dark and Gruesome
Title: Tall, Dark and Gruesome
Character: Expressman (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A crate containing a live gorilla is delivered to a mountain cabin Hugh has rented.
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Tenth Avenue Angel
Title: Tenth Avenue Angel
Character: Fourth of July Dignitary on Dais (uncredited)
Released: February 20, 1948
Type: Movie
Flavia's been told that her Aunt Susan's fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he's finished his prison term. Steve wonders how he can make some money and is approached by his old associates. When Flavia discovers the truth about Steve, she loses all faith in her family and in God, and it will take a miracle to restore Flavia's belief and keep Steve out of trouble.
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A Double Life
Title: A Double Life
Character: Second Bartender (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
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Wife to Spare
Title: Wife to Spare
Character: (Uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Andy tries to fix a dilemma between a gold digging blonde and his brother-in-law who's smitten with her. This causes problems for Andy's wife.
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Hold That Lion!
Title: Hold That Lion!
Character: Train Conductor (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1947
Type: Movie
The stooges are scammed out of their inheritance by Icabob Slipp, a crooked lawyer. The boys follow Slipp onto a passenger train and corner him, but not before they accidentally let a lion loose on the train. The only Stooges SHORT where Moe, Curly and Shemp appear together.
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The Perils of Pauline
Title: The Perils of Pauline
Character: Studio Cop
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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The Unfaithful
Title: The Unfaithful
Character: Streetcar Passenger
Released: July 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
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Out West
Title: Out West
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1947
Type: Movie
The stooges go out west for Shemp's health and get mixed up with some bad guys. The villains have locked up the Arizona Kid and their leader plans to marry his girl, Nell. The boys help the Arizona Kid escape and he rides to fetch the Cavalry. Somehow, the stooges manage to defeat the bad guys before the Cavalry arrives.
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Bride and Gloom
Title: Bride and Gloom
Character: Garage Mechanic (uncredited)
Released: March 27, 1947
Type: Movie
In this Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 8439), Shemp Howard finds himself in a love nest with the wrong woman, while his bride-to-be is waiting, none too happy, at the church.
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A Boy and His Dog
Title: A Boy and His Dog
Character: Townsman at Meeting (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1946
Type: Movie
11 year old Davy discovers that a chained gentle dog, Buck, is badly wounded around the neck because of the thick, tight collar he is made to constantly wear by his unfeeling owner. When Buck comes through the fence and becomes stuck, Davy removes the collar. Even though the boy tells him to stay in his owner's yard, the dog follows him home.
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The Best Years of Our Lives
Title: The Best Years of Our Lives
Character: Customer (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
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Smoky
Title: Smoky
Character: Man Watching Parade (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards. He is given a job on her ranch, but the head cowhand is doubtful about Clint and fears that since he refuses to talk about himself, he must have some dreadful secret in his past. Clint and Smoky become close to each other, weathering the hardships of Western life and the suspicions of others together, until one day, Smoky tragically vanishes. Will Clint ever see him again?
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The Hoodlum Saint
Title: The Hoodlum Saint
Character: Mug (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
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Mr. Noisy
Title: Mr. Noisy
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1946
Type: Movie
This All-Star Comedy (production number 7437, and a remake of 1940's "The Heckler" with Charley Chase) has Shemp Howard, noise-maker and heckler deluxe, hired by two gamblers to rattle a ball team while the gamblers bet on the opponents. The gamblers are more than a little bit vexed when Shemp loses his voice.
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Hiss and Yell
Title: Hiss and Yell
Character: Delivery Man (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1946
Type: Movie
Vera thinks she's witnessed a man decapitating his wife. Actually, she's only seen magician Bluebeard the Great rehearsing his act. Still convinced that the magician is a killer, Vera goes through all sorts of comic agony when she is forced to share the same train compartment with Bluebeard (who doesn't help matters when he offers her a sandwich consisting of "scrambled brains and tongue").
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A Hit with a Miss
Title: A Hit with a Miss
Character: Referee (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Shemp Howard is a prizefighter in this Columbia All-Star Comedy who has a complex that leaves him a coward and unable to fight unless he hears "Pop Goes the Weasel." He hears it enough here, from various and outlandish sources, to eventually win his championship match.
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Escape in the Fog
Title: Escape in the Fog
Character: Accident Witness (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1945
Type: Movie
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.
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Pistol Packin' Nitwits
Title: Pistol Packin' Nitwits
Character: Barfly
Released: April 4, 1945
Type: Movie
Harry and his pal protect a pretty saloonkeeper from a gang of thugs.
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Off Again, On Again
Title: Off Again, On Again
Character: Man Going Hunting (uncredited)
Released: February 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Good samaritan Shemp rescues a girl from an accident, and a newspaper photographer snaps a picture of her thanking Shemp. The paper mixes up the caption, implying that Shemp and the girl are lovers. This doesn't sit well with Shemp's fiancee, who breaks off their engagement, leaving him so heartbroken he asks the rescued girl's gangster boyfriend (Dick Curtis) to kill him. When Shemp's intended returns and apologizes, he realizes that his days are numbered unless he can find the gangster and call off the hit.
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Three Pests in a Mess
Title: Three Pests in a Mess
Character: Devil (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1945
Type: Movie
The stooges are three inventors trying to a get a patent on their preposterous fly catching invention. When they learn they'll have to catch 100,000 flies to earn enough to get a patent, some crooks overhear and think the boys are the $100,000 sweepstakes winners. When the crooks give chase, the stooges hide in a sporting goods store where Curly shoots a dummy, which they mistake for a real person. The boys decide to bury the "body" in a pet cemetery, but the cemetery owner arrives from a costume party with his partners, all dressed as spooks, and they proceed to scare the devil out of the stooges.
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Can't Help Singing
Title: Can't Help Singing
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1944
Type: Movie
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
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Lost in a Harem
Title: Lost in a Harem
Character: Native in Café (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
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Enter Arsène Lupin
Title: Enter Arsène Lupin
Character: Airport Employee (uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1944
Type: Movie
A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.
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Christmas Holiday
Title: Christmas Holiday
Character: Juryman
Released: July 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability, and soon drags Abigail into a life of misery.
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Pick a Peck of Plumbers
Title: Pick a Peck of Plumbers
Character: Elvis - Groundskeeper (uncredited)
Released: July 23, 1944
Type: Movie
After backing over a police motorcycle, Axel and Elmer are fined $100 and given 48 hours to come up with the money or go to jail. Knowing nothing about plumbing, they answer Mr. Skunkem's ad for plumber's assistants, and are sent to the Dinwitty estate to recover a diamond ring from a drain pipe. In due course they destroy the bathroom, and switch the gas and water lines, disrupting Mrs. Dinwitty's bridge party, Vanillia's dinner preparation, and the gardener's lawn watering.
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Movie Pests
Title: Movie Pests
Character: Man Whose Hat Gets Sat On (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1944
Type: Movie
This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible.
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Jungle Woman
Title: Jungle Woman
Character: Inquest Juror (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.
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Busy Buddies
Title: Busy Buddies
Character: Egg Customer (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1944
Type: Movie
The Stooges, not faring well with their diner, enter Curly in a milking contest at the County Fair. But when they take him to a pasture to practice, Curly doesnt know a cow from a bull!
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Sailor's Holiday
Title: Sailor's Holiday
Released: February 24, 1944
Type: Movie
In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just broken off their engagements after meeting other, more desirable women.
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True to Life
Title: True to Life
Character: Man on Street (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
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The Chance of a Lifetime
Title: The Chance of a Lifetime
Character: Police Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1943
Type: Movie
A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
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Crazy House
Title: Crazy House
Character: Keystone Kop
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
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So This Is Washington
Title: So This Is Washington
Character: Steve Reynolds - Station Agent (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is a good substitute for rubber--Abner's homemade licorice.
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Here Comes Mr. Zerk
Title: Here Comes Mr. Zerk
Character: Neighbor
Released: July 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Harry, a famous scientist, is mistaken for an escaped lunatic.
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Spook Louder
Title: Spook Louder
Character: Devil Costume Spy
Released: April 2, 1943
Type: Movie
The stooges are door-to-door salesman peddling a weight reducing machine, until they come to the house of an eccentric inventor, where they are mistaken for new caretakers, are left to guard his house, and must contend with enemy spies and a mysterious pie thrower.
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After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Title: After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Character: Workman
Released: March 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
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His Wedding Scare
Title: His Wedding Scare
Character: Fireman
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
El and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her former husbands.
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The Pride of the Yankees
Title: The Pride of the Yankees
Character: Wallpaper Hanger (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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It Happened in Flatbush
Title: It Happened in Flatbush
Character: Team Trainer (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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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
Title: Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
Character: Soldier
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy because all their customers have marched off to war. Figuring that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, Hank and Jed try to join the Army themselves, only to be rejected for a variety of reasons (When asked to read the eye-chart, Hank says he can't-not because he can't see, but because he can't read).
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The Adventures of Martin Eden
Title: The Adventures of Martin Eden
Released: February 26, 1942
Type: Movie
Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published.
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Over My Dead Body
Title: Over My Dead Body
Character: Juror
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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The Perfect Snob
Title: The Perfect Snob
Character: Baggage Man (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1941
Type: Movie
When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging elitist, he devises a plan to help her rediscover old-fashioned family values.
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Cadet Girl
Title: Cadet Girl
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.
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I Wake Up Screaming
Title: I Wake Up Screaming
Character: Pedestrian newspaper buyer (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
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Honky Tonk
Title: Honky Tonk
Character: Dental Patient
Released: October 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Title: Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Character: Reporter (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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Double Cross
Title: Double Cross
Character: Miggs
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A disgraced cop aims to reclaim his honor by nailing a corrupt crime boss.
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Lady from Louisiana
Title: Lady from Louisiana
Character: Lottery Winner
Released: April 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution.
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Second Chorus
Title: Second Chorus
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: January 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
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Trail of the Vigilantes
Title: Trail of the Vigilantes
Character: Bartender
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
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Phantom of Chinatown
Title: Phantom of Chinatown
Character: Detective in Refrigerator
Released: November 18, 1940
Type: Movie
In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words "Eternal Fire" are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have to work on.
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Li'l Abner
Title: Li'l Abner
Character: Bachelor, Sadies Hawkins Day Race
Released: November 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
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The Westerner
Title: The Westerner
Character: Man at Ticket Window (uncredited)
Released: September 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
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Flowing Gold
Title: Flowing Gold
Character: Man Waiting for Job (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1940
Type: Movie
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
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Dr. Christian Meets the Women
Title: Dr. Christian Meets the Women
Character: Ed the Plumber
Released: August 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left to the good Dr. Christian to expose this fake and save a fragile young girl's life.
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You're Not So Tough
Title: You're Not So Tough
Character: Store Proprietor
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
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Two Girls on Broadway
Title: Two Girls on Broadway
Character: Man with Seal (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 Courageous Dr. Christian
Title: The Courageous Dr. Christian
Character: Pinball Addict
Released: April 4, 1940
Type: Movie
A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.
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The Heckler
Title: The Heckler
Character: Baseball Spectator with Toupee
Released: February 16, 1940
Type: Movie
An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
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High School
Title: High School
Character: Junk Man
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.
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The Green Hornet
Title: The Green Hornet
Character: Watchman (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
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Meet Dr. Christian
Title: Meet Dr. Christian
Character: Patient in Waiting Room
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital.
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Hollywood Cavalcade
Title: Hollywood Cavalcade
Character: Keystone Cop
Released: October 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Title: Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Character: First Taxicab Driver
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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Our Leading Citizen
Title: Our Leading Citizen
Character: Porter
Released: August 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
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Mooching Through Georgia
Title: Mooching Through Georgia
Character: Union Soldier
Released: August 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Man relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War.
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Frontier Marshal
Title: Frontier Marshal
Character: Drunk
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Charlie Chan in Reno
Title: Charlie Chan in Reno
Character: Policeman
Released: June 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.
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Tell No Tales
Title: Tell No Tales
Character: Tramp Comic (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1939
Type: Movie
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
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Invitation to Happiness
Title: Invitation to Happiness
Character: Joe, the Cook (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1939
Type: Movie
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
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The Jones Family in Hollywood
Title: The Jones Family in Hollywood
Character: Legion Member (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
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Big Town Czar
Title: Big Town Czar
Character: Thompson
Released: May 3, 1939
Type: Movie
When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.
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Sergeant Madden
Title: Sergeant Madden
Character: Drunk
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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Let Freedom Ring
Title: Let Freedom Ring
Character: Rancher (uncredited)
Released: February 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
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Sing, You Sinners
Title: Sing, You Sinners
Character: Lunch Counter Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Of the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in his garage and marry Martha; but feckless Joe thinks his only road to success is through swapping and gambling. It seems the only thing all three can join in is their singing act, which Mike and Dave hate. Finally, all Joe's hopes are pinned on a race horse he's acquired swapping, but it's a bigger gamble than his family knows.
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Little Miss Broadway
Title: Little Miss Broadway
Character: Band Member
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
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Professor Beware
Title: Professor Beware
Character: Billboard Painter
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
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Sally, Irene and Mary
Title: Sally, Irene and Mary
Character: Snack Vendor
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.
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Love on a Budget
Title: Love on a Budget
Character: Small Furniture Mover
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
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The Jury's Secret
Title: The Jury's Secret
Character: Shabby Man
Released: January 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
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You're a Sweetheart
Title: You're a Sweetheart
Character: Game Player (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1937
Type: Movie
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
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Double Wedding
Title: Double Wedding
Character: Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
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Stella Dallas
Title: Stella Dallas
Character: Train Passenger (uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1937
Type: Movie
After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.
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Mountain Justice
Title: Mountain Justice
Character: Juror at Ruth's Trial
Released: April 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
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The Good Old Soak
Title: The Good Old Soak
Character: Bit Role
Released: April 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
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Man Of The People
Title: Man Of The People
Character: Hot Clam Harry Foster (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1937
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
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The Mighty Treve
Title: The Mighty Treve
Character: Rancher at Auction
Released: January 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
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Wedding Present
Title: Wedding Present
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
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White Fang
Title: White Fang
Character: Man with Magic Lantern
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
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Rhythm on the Range
Title: Rhythm on the Range
Character: Automobile Driver
Released: July 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters
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The Peppery Salt
Title: The Peppery Salt
Character: The Cabbie
Released: May 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Andy, proprietor of an oceanside lunch counter, tangles with a gang of kidnappers.
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Half Shot Shooters
Title: Half Shot Shooters
Character: Officer (uncredited)
Released: April 30, 1936
Type: Movie
The Stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they wind up in the army again, and of course the same sergeant is their superior. The sergeant plays various tricks on them, and when the Stooges go crazy with a cannon, blowing up a house, a bridge, and a smoke stack, he blows them up.
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Movie Maniacs
Title: Movie Maniacs
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: February 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The stooges arrive in Hollywood hoping to make it in the movie business. They sneak into a movie studio where they are mistaken for three new executives who were due to arrive. After taking over production of a movie, causing the director and cast to walk off, Moe takes over as director, with Larry and Curly as the leading man and lady. When the real executives send a telegram explaining why they haven't arrived, the stooges must leave on the run.
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Modern Times
Title: Modern Times
Character: Assembly Line Worker Next to Big Bill (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
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Man Hunt
Title: Man Hunt
Character: Pete (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1936
Type: Movie
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
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I Don't Remember
Title: I Don't Remember
Character: Cop
Released: December 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Amnesiac can't find the other half of his winning sweepstakes ticket.
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The Calling of Dan Matthews
Title: The Calling of Dan Matthews
Character: Card Player (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1935
Type: Movie
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
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Music Is Magic
Title: Music Is Magic
Character: Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
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She Couldn't Take It
Title: She Couldn't Take It
Character: Waiter
Released: October 8, 1935
Type: Movie
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
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Steamboat Round the Bend
Title: Steamboat Round the Bend
Character: Jailbird
Released: September 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
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Man on the Flying Trapeze
Title: Man on the Flying Trapeze
Character: Street Cleaner (uncredited)
Released: August 3, 1935
Type: Movie
Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.
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The Murder Man
Title: The Murder Man
Character: Warden's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
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Stage Frights
Title: Stage Frights
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Two bumbling detectives help a stage actress who has been receiving threatening letters.
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Uncivil Warriors
Title: Uncivil Warriors
Character: Confederate Sentry (uncredited)
Released: April 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
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Maybe It's Love
Title: Maybe It's Love
Character: Second Complaining Husband (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
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The Dancing Millionaire
Title: The Dancing Millionaire
Character: Squared Circle Waiter
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition
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Broadway Bill
Title: Broadway Bill
Character: Bettor on Broadway Bill (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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The Personality Kid
Title: The Personality Kid
Character: Health Lecture Heckler
Released: June 6, 1934
Type: Movie
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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Jail Birds of Paradise
Title: Jail Birds of Paradise
Character: Prisoner
Released: March 10, 1934
Type: Movie
While the warden is away, his daughter attempts to turn prison into 'Paradise" Considered a Lost Film.
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The Chief
Title: The Chief
Character: Man Dropping Coin in Hat
Released: November 3, 1933
Type: Movie
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
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Riders of Destiny
Title: Riders of Destiny
Character: Elmer - Henchman
Released: October 10, 1933
Type: Movie
James Kincaid controls the local water supply and plans to do away with the other ranchers. Government agent Sandy Saunders arrives undercover to investigate Kincaid's land swindle scheme, and win the heart of one of his victims, Fay Denton.
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The Bowery
Title: The Bowery
Character: Pug (uncredited)
Released: October 7, 1933
Type: Movie
"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ... the cradle of men who were later to be famous.
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Baby Face
Title: Baby Face
Character: Speakeasy Waiter (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
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Private Detective 62
Title: Private Detective 62
Character: Bartender (Uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1933
Type: Movie
A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.
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Lilly Turner
Title: Lilly Turner
Character: Diner Counterman (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1933
Type: Movie
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
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The Keyhole
Title: The Keyhole
Character: Mr. Smith - Man Exiting Room 410 (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
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She Done Him Wrong
Title: She Done Him Wrong
Character: Street Cleaner (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1933
Type: Movie
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Title: Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Character: Undetermined Secondary Role
Released: February 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
Title: Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1933
Type: Movie
A promotional film featuring movie stars at play. Includes Buster Keaton in a Napoleonic admiral suit in his "land yacht", a custom-built bus he occasionally lived in during the period.
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Trailing the Killer
Title: Trailing the Killer
Character: Windy
Released: October 16, 1932
Type: Movie
While the original title, "Trailing the Killer" isn't a misnomer, it was a bit misleading since the "trailer" is a dog named Caesar Caesar the Dog) and the killer is a mountain lion, aka as a cougar or puma the narrator was quick to point out. But the makers also pointed out that Caesar "is the most intelligent dog actor since Rin-Tin-Tin" which probably lured a few Rin-Tin-Tin fans with a show-me attitude. Caesar prowls around the woods of the Northwest, dispatches a rattlesnake, visits his she-wolf mate and their pups, pauses to watch the dainty habits of a raccoon personally washing every morsel of food before eating it---and that raccoon had enough food to use up several minutes of running time---and then saves sheepherder Pierre (Francis McDonald)) from getting et up by one mean mountain lion. Rin-Tin-Tin he ain't, but then who was? Commonwealth...
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Young Ironsides
Title: Young Ironsides
Character: House Detective
Released: September 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Harry is hired by a rich family to stop their daughter from entering a beauty contest.
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Million Dollar Legs
Title: Million Dollar Legs
Character: Secret Emissary #2 (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
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What Price Hollywood?
Title: What Price Hollywood?
Character: Car Owner (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
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Law of the North
Title: Law of the North
Character: Jailbird
Released: May 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Hanley shoots a man and then frames Bill Roberts. Being the Judge he then holds court planning to hang Bill but Bill's friends effect his escape. Andy tries to lead Hanley astray by misleading him as to Bill's location. But Bill changes plans and Hanley catches up with him and this leads to the showdown.
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The Wet Parade
Title: The Wet Parade
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1932
Type: Movie
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
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Dumb Dicks
Title: Dumb Dicks
Character: Dopey
Released: February 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Two incompetent private detectives pose as swamis in order to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers.
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The Passionate Plumber
Title: The Passionate Plumber
Character: Hunter with Rifle at Duel (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1932
Type: Movie
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.
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Law of the Sea
Title: Law of the Sea
Character: Fireman
Released: December 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A sadistic, evil ship captain lusts after a beautiful young girl he spots in town. It turns out that she's the girlfriend of a young man whose father the captain had blinded and cast adrift on the ocean many years before.
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Traveling Husbands
Title: Traveling Husbands
Character: Al - Room Service Waiter
Released: August 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.
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Iron Man
Title: Iron Man
Character: Prizefight Second (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.
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A Connecticut Yankee
Title: A Connecticut Yankee
Character: Sneezing Man at Radio Station (uncredited)
Released: April 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Making a delivery to a mysterious mansion in a rainstorm, radio salesman Hank Martin is knocked out when a suit of armor topples on him. Upon awakening, Hank finds himself in the time of King Arthur. At Camelot Castle, Hank uses a cigarette lighter and his skill with a lasso to save himself from being executed as a demon. Hank so impresses Arthur that the king orders him to joust with one of his knights to save the life of Princess Alisande.
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Cimarron
Title: Cimarron
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1931
Type: Movie
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.
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Soup to Nuts
Title: Soup to Nuts
Character: Ted's Checkers Opponent (uncredited)
Released: September 28, 1930
Type: Movie
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out; things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Title: All Quiet on the Western Front
Character: Joseph Hammacher (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1930
Type: Movie
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
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Mickey's Champs
Title: Mickey's Champs
Released: February 2, 1930
Type: Movie
Mickey and the kids befriend a couple of tramps. But when the tramps are accused of stealing, Mickey and Hambone find themselves trying to expose who they think is the real crook: a doctor in a spooky house.
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Tiger Rose
Title: Tiger Rose
Character: Gus
Released: December 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
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Show of Shows
Title: Show of Shows
Character: Ice Man in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
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Night Parade
Title: Night Parade
Character: Heinie
Released: October 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, a dishonest but beautiful woman uses every trick to ensnare him.
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Side Street
Title: Side Street
Character: Drunk at Parth (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
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The Air Circus
Title: The Air Circus
Character: Jerry McSwiggin
Released: September 29, 1928
Type: Movie
Two eager young pilots at flight school compete over their flight instructor's aviatrix sister.
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A Trick of Hearts
Title: A Trick of Hearts
Character: Blackface Comic
Released: March 18, 1928
Type: Movie
In this comedy-western, based on the life of Henry Irving Dodge, our cowboy hero keeps his tongue firmly planted in his cheek as he goes up against a town run by such women as newly elected sheriff, Carrie Patience. Hoping to restore some masculinity to the sheriff's office, Gibson stages a series of fake hold-ups but is soon upstaged by a real crook
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Horseman of the Plains
Title: Horseman of the Plains
Character: Snowshoe
Released: March 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Tom Mix plays a cowboy coming to the aid of a rancher who's on the verge of foreclosure. Falling in love with Sally Blane, the rancher's pretty daughter, our hero vows to win an important cross-country race.
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Feel My Pulse
Title: Feel My Pulse
Character: Her Patient
Released: February 26, 1928
Type: Movie
A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on the run from the law.
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The Circus
Title: The Circus
Character: Clown (uncredited)
Released: January 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.
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Ham and Eggs at the Front
Title: Ham and Eggs at the Front
Character: Eggs (as Charlie Conklin)
Released: November 29, 1927
Type: Movie
Fifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, in France during World War I.
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The Girl in the Pullman
Title: The Girl in the Pullman
Character: Old Black Joe
Released: October 31, 1927
Type: Movie
Dr. Burton's divorce is about to be effective when his flappery ex-wife Irene pays him a visit turning everything upside down. To avoid explanations to his bride-to-be and her mother they all take the train, including Irene and her lawyer, who will try to prevent him from committing bigamy, as the divorce won't be effective until midnight.
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Drums of the Desert
Title: Drums of the Desert
Character: Hi-Lo
Released: June 4, 1927
Type: Movie
John Curry is a friend of the Navajos who fails in his attempts to keep the white man from exploiting the tribe's secret altars. Realizing that there is oil to be found on the reservation, evil Will Newton gains entry to the area by posing as a trail guide for Elias Manton, an archeologist, and his daughter Mary.
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Beware of Widows
Title: Beware of Widows
Character: Captain
Released: May 23, 1927
Type: Movie
The handsome Dr. John Waller specializes in the ailments of women, or more specifically, wealthy widows.
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Whispering Wires
Title: Whispering Wires
Released: October 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A woman hears of a murder plot through a whispered voice on the telephone.
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Fig Leaves
Title: Fig Leaves
Character: Eddie McSwiggen
Released: August 22, 1926
Type: Movie
Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompting of her neighbor, who has secret designs on Adam, Eve secretly becomes a fashion model by day, knowing that her husband would disapprove.
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More Pay - Less Work
Title: More Pay - Less Work
Character: Janitor
Released: July 4, 1926
Type: Movie
Albert Gran and E.J. Ratcliffe are warring San Francisco shipping magnates; Mary Brian is Gran’s daughter and Charles (Buddy) Rogers is Ratcliffe’s athletic son. The result is a swift, exhilarating comedy, full of laughs and a nonchalant charm.
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Hard Boiled
Title: Hard Boiled
Character: Bill Grimes
Released: June 6, 1926
Type: Movie
Tom Mix plays an Eastern dandy who finds himself banished to a Western ranch in this silent Western
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The Night Cry
Title: The Night Cry
Character: Tony
Released: February 27, 1926
Type: Movie
A giant condor decimates a herd of sheep, and Rin-Tin-Tin is accused of having turned killer.
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The Man Upstairs
Title: The Man Upstairs
Character: Mose (as Charles Conklin)
Released: January 22, 1926
Type: Movie
The Man Upstairs is a lost 1926 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. The film is based on a novel, The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers.
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The Fighting Edge
Title: The Fighting Edge
Released: January 8, 1926
Type: Movie
Juan de Dios O'Rourke, an American Secret Service, of Spanish-Irish descent, leads the cattle ranchers and border patrol in a fight to suppress a gang of cattle rustlers, who have been driving large herds north-to-south from Texas into Mexico, and smuggling illegal, no-passport Chinese aliens south-to-north from Mexico into Texas, operating from a rambling mansion on the Texas side of the border, aided by his sweetheart, a rancher's daughter, Phoebe Joyce.
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Hogan's Alley
Title: Hogan's Alley
Character: The Stranger's Friend
Released: December 12, 1925
Type: Movie
Lefty O'Brien, a pugilist, becomes engaged to ex-tomboy Patsy Ryan against the wishes of her father, Michael. They both live in an Irish-Jewish neighborhood on New York's East Side known as "Hogan's Alley." Lefty defeats Battling Savage for the championship, breaking his left hand and leaving his opponent close to death.
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Clash of the Wolves
Title: Clash of the Wolves
Character: Alkali Bill
Released: November 17, 1925
Type: Movie
A fire in the mountains drives a wolf pack into the nearby desert where they terrorize the local residents. The leader of the wolf pack is Lobo, actually a halfbreed (Rin Tin Tin). When the pack is discovered hunting a herd of cows, a posse gives chase. Lobo leaves his pack to lead the posse away. He is injured and found by a local prospector, Dave Weston (Charles Farrell). The prospector nurses Lobo back to health and the two become close friends. Meanwhile, Weston has made a Borax find in the area. His girlfriend May Barstowe (June Marlowe), daughter of a wealthy rancher, is pleased. However, the local chemist, Borax Horton (Pat Hartigan), actually a claim jumper, plans to steal the claim.
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Seven Sinners
Title: Seven Sinners
Character: Scarlet Fever Sanders
Released: November 7, 1925
Type: Movie
Six burglars separately break into the Vickers mansion on Long Island to loot the safe but catch each other in the act. They all pretend to be members of the household when locked in by a well meaning police officer.
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Red Hot Tires
Title: Red Hot Tires
Character: Coachman
Released: October 31, 1925
Type: Movie
The first time Al Jones sees Elizabeth Lowden, he becomes so distracted that he runs his car into a steamroller. The second time he sees her, Elizabeth's car frightens his horse, causing him to fall. ....
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Below the Line
Title: Below the Line
Character: Deputy Sheriff
Released: September 20, 1925
Type: Movie
Slasher falls off the train that is carrying him. He is found, broken in spirit, by Donald Cass. The dog is regenerated by Donald's love.
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The Gold Rush
Title: The Gold Rush
Character: Prospector (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1925
Type: Movie
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.
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The Marriage Circus
Title: The Marriage Circus
Character: Laundry Deliveryman
Released: April 12, 1925
Type: Movie
The Marriage Circus is a 1925 silent comedy short.
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Find Your Man
Title: Find Your Man
Character: Lumberjack
Released: September 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Paul Andrews returns from the World War with Buddy, a dog he found in Europe. Instead of getting a warm welcome, he finds his sweetheart, Caroline Blair, missing.
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The Reckless Age
Title: The Reckless Age
Released: August 16, 1924
Type: Movie
Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick Minot to make sure the wedding takes place, but he falls in love with the bride.
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The Day of Faith
Title: The Day of Faith
Character: Yegg Darby
Released: October 20, 1923
Type: Movie
Jane Maynard opens a mission in memory of philanthropist Bland Hendricks. John Anstell, son of a powerful and selfish millionaire, Michael Anstell, falls in love with Jane, to the old man's disapproval. Anstell tries to undermine Jane's work by hiring reporter Tom Barnett to write an unfavorable story about the mission.
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Step Forward
Title: Step Forward
Character: The Automobile Salesman
Released: April 13, 1922
Type: Movie
The conductor of a one-man streetcar has to deal with getting passengers on and off, getting tickets, making sure no one tries to ride for free and operating the car all at the same time.
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She Sighed by the Seaside
Title: She Sighed by the Seaside
Character: 2nd Suitor
Released: May 8, 1921
Type: Movie
Lifeguard Ben Turpin tries to keep order at the beach, where tennis players James Finlayson and Charles Conklin vie for the affection of Marie Prevost and get involved in antics including fishing and a wild boat ride in this Mack Sennett two-reeler. Roughly only half of the film still exists.
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Wet and Warmer
Title: Wet and Warmer
Character: Bellboy
Released: November 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Silent comedy featuring the Chaplin-esque Heinie Conklin. The ill-fated Virginia Rappe appears as a hotel guest.
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Hearts and Flowers
Title: Hearts and Flowers
Character: Guest with Pea Shooter
Released: June 22, 1919
Type: Movie
A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Title: Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Character: Prussian Guard Drill Leader
Released: March 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
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She Loved Him Plenty
Title: She Loved Him Plenty
Released: August 11, 1918
Type: Movie
“ Polly Moran, known as Becky O'Brien in this picture, conducts a pawn shop with Ben Turpin and Charles Lynn as her appraisers and clerks. Ben is her sweetheart and Polly sure does love him, but Ben is not quite so enthusiastic, excepting when the cash register is made to tingle, then all his love is for Becky. ” - Synopsis from Motion Picture News
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Who's Your Father?
Title: Who's Your Father?
Character: Comedy Bit (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1918
Type: Movie
This comedy starts with the rescue by a cowboy's dog of a baby that is floating down a gorge toward a cataract in a tiny crib. The cowboy takes the foundling to his cabin. Then the cowboy finds himself not only beset with the troubles of feeding an infant, but also is the object of a spinster who, by claiming the baby, hopes to compromise the cowboy
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It Pays to Exercise
Title: It Pays to Exercise
Character: The Bailiff
Released: February 24, 1918
Type: Movie
short subject comedy - fun at the gym!
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His Merry Mix-Up
Title: His Merry Mix-Up
Released: March 3, 1917
Type: Movie
His Merry Mix-Up is a comedy short
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When Damon Fell for Pythias
Title: When Damon Fell for Pythias
Character: Pythias
Released: January 11, 1917
Type: Movie
The emperor issues a counterblast against liquor and the "wets" try to kill him. Damon saves Pythias from the headsman's axe and the lives of both are spared.
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A Shadowed Shadow
Title: A Shadowed Shadow
Character: Pete the Prowler
Released: November 4, 1916
Type: Movie
A 1916 Joker Comedy starring Lillian Peacock
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She Wrote a Play and Played It
Title: She Wrote a Play and Played It
Character: The Hero
Released: August 13, 1916
Type: Movie
Gale Henry, at that time famous as big-nosed, lugubrious-faced purveyor of silent screen slapstick. Here as a prominent villager too interested writing a play to be bothered with lovers. When a wandering director arrives in town, learns of her play and agrees to produce it for her, with the author in the leading role, she is delighted. But the play proves a frost.