John Holland

John Holland

Born: May 17, 1908
Died: May 21, 1993
in Fremont, Nebraska, USA
John Holland (May 16, 1908 – May 21, 1993) was an American actor and singer.

John Holland was born Harold Boggess in Fremont, Nebraska. He adopted his grandfather's name John Holland as a stage name. He began acting in Hollywood films in 1937, and later appeared on numerous television series, including Hawaiian Eye, Wagon Train, and Perry Mason. His most notable film credits were My Fair Lady (1964), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967), and Chinatown (1974).

In addition to film and television, Holland acted in musical theater, such as the Broadway production of Peter Pan (1954), and in plays, such as the touring company of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. He received positive reviews for his performance in a concert titled "The California Night of Music" in Los Angeles in September 1937. He often gave free concerts during visits to his parents in Alton, Illinois, accompanied by his father, organist Newton Boggess.

John Holland died on May 21, 1993 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles at age 85.

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Fear No Evil
Title: Fear No Evil
Character: Rafael / Father Damon
Released: January 19, 1981
Type: Movie
Brilliant and aloof teenager Andrew is always the butt of his classmates' jokes — but little do they know that he is actually the demon Lucifer. As the evil wells up within him, he avenges himself in acts of demonic murder and destruction. But his foe, the archangel Gabriel, has assumed the form of 18 year old student Julie.
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Title: Battlestar Galactica
Character: Waiter
Released: September 17, 1978
Type: TV
When the 12 Colonies of Man are wiped out by a cybernetic race called the Cylons, Commander Adama and the crew of the battlestar Galactica lead a ragtag fleet of human survivors in search of a "mythical planet" called Earth.
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From Noon Till Three
Title: From Noon Till Three
Character: Song Publisher (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1976
Type: Movie
Bank robber Graham Dorsey spends a few hours with beautiful widow Amanda Starbuck, in which time his gang takes part in a disastrous holdup. Learning of his comrades' demise, Dorsey goes on the lam. Believing her short-term lover was killed by the law, Amanda decides to make the most of having had a liaison with the supposedly deceased desperado by writing a book about him. Much to his confusion, the still-living Dorsey watches as his name becomes legendary.
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The Strongest Man in the World
Title: The Strongest Man in the World
Character: Regent (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1975
Type: Movie
Medfield College science major Dexter Riley and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin compound when a lab accident creates a supercharged mix that ends up in Dexter's cereal box, giving him superhuman strength. The powerful formula comes to the attention of the college dean and two rival cereal companies, touching off a hilarious chain of events.
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Chinatown
Title: Chinatown
Character: Farmer in the Valley
Released: June 20, 1974
Type: Movie
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
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Lost in the Stars
Title: Lost in the Stars
Character: Van Jarsdale
Released: April 8, 1974
Type: Movie
A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.
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Title: Adam's Rib
Character: Judge McElroy
Released: September 14, 1973
Type: TV
Adam's Rib is an American situation comedy broadcast on ABC-TV from September 14 to December 28, 1973. It was produced by MGM Television and had 13 episodes. The series was a TV adaptation of the 1949 motion picture of the same name.
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Title: The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Character: Mr. Caldwell
Released: September 19, 1970
Type: TV
30-year-old single Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis to start a new life after a romantic break-up. There she reacquaints with Phyllis who rents her a room, and meets her upstairs neighbor and new best friend Rhoda. Mary unexpectedly lands a job as associate producer at the TV station WJM, where she works alongside her bristly boss, Lou; the comical newswriter, Murray; and the newscast's often-incompetent anchor, Ted.
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They Saved Hitler's Brain
Title: They Saved Hitler's Brain
Character: Prof. John Coleman
Released: August 18, 1968
Type: Movie
At the end of WWII, Nazi officials spirited the living head of Adolf Hitler out of Germany to a hiding place in the South American country of Mandoras, in order to revive the Third Reich at a later date. By the 1960s, the time has come, so a top scientist is kidnapped in order to help keep Hitler alive. This film is a re-edit of The Madmen of Mandoras released in theaters in 1963.
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Title: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Character: Matthews
Released: March 9, 1967
Type: Movie
A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business.
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Title: Honey West
Character: Piccadilly Charlie
Released: September 17, 1965
Type: TV
After her father's death, Honey West takes over his high-tech private-detective firm, assisted by rugged Sam Bolt--and her pet ocelot Bruce.
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The Naked Brigade
Title: The Naked Brigade
Character: Major Hamilton
Released: April 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A British girl is trapped on the island of Crete when the Germans invade it.
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My Blood Runs Cold
Title: My Blood Runs Cold
Character: Mr. Courtland
Released: March 24, 1965
Type: Movie
Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle driven by young Ben Gunther. Ben temporarily abandons his damaged cycle and accepts a ride from Julie but insists upon calling her Barbara. Later, at the Merriday beach house, Julie's Aunt Sarah tells Julie that her great great grandmother was named Barbara, and furthermore, that ancestress had an illegitimate child fathered by one Benjamin Gunther.
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My Fair Lady
Title: My Fair Lady
Character: Butler
Released: October 21, 1964
Type: Movie
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
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Open the Door and See all the People
Title: Open the Door and See all the People
Character: Antoine
Released: March 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Based on Jerome Hill's unpublished novel, Peacock Feathers, this ensemble piece focuses on the relationship between two aging sisters.
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The Madmen of Mandoras
Title: The Madmen of Mandoras
Character: Prof. John Coleman
Released: November 13, 1963
Type: Movie
A group of Nazi survivors save Hitler's brain keeping it alive in a huge jar hooked up to a machine. The Nazis plan to release a deadly gas destroying all life on the planet. To ensure their success they kidnap Professor Coleman the only man on the planet with the antidote to the poison gas.
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A Gathering of Eagles
Title: A Gathering of Eagles
Released: June 21, 1963
Type: Movie
Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that the previous commander had failed, and had been fired for. He is also recently married, and as a tough commanding officer doing whatever he has to do to shape his men up, his wife sees a side to him that she hadn't seen before.
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Police Nurse
Title: Police Nurse
Character: Edward Mayhall
Released: June 1, 1963
Type: Movie
While investigating his wife's sudden death, a policeman becomes involved with shady doctors and black-market racketeers.
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Air Patrol
Title: Air Patrol
Character: Arthur Murcott
Released: July 17, 1962
Type: Movie
L.A. detective Sgt. Castle and his two partners investigate the theft of a valuable Fragonard painting by a thief who pilots a helicopter.
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Peter Pan
Title: Peter Pan
Character: Black Bill
Released: December 8, 1960
Type: Movie
In this magical tale about the boy who refuses to grow up, Peter Pan and his mischievous fairy sidekick Tinkerbell visit the nursery of Wendy, Michael and John Darling. With a sprinkling of pixie dust, Peter and his new friends fly out the nursery window and over London to Never-Never Land. The children experience many wonderful and exciting adventures with the Lost Boys, Tiger Lily's Indian tribe, and Peter's arch enemy the dastardly pirate Captain Hook.
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The High Powered Rifle
Title: The High Powered Rifle
Character: District Attorney
Released: September 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A private detective (Willard Parker) falls for the girlfriend (Allison Hayes) of a racketeer whom he believes has targeted him for death.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Club Member
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Lust to Kill
Title: Lust to Kill
Character: Mayor Jonathan W. McKenzie
Released: September 28, 1958
Type: Movie
A cowboy escapes from jail with the help of his girlfriend, and goes after the men he believes are responsible for his brother being shot down by lawmen.
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The Girl in Black Stockings
Title: The Girl in Black Stockings
Character: Norman Grant
Released: September 24, 1957
Type: Movie
Residents at a posh Utah hotel become suspects when a girl is found murdered during a pool party. Local sheriff Jess Holmes takes charge of the investigation and must discover who among the terrified guests and staff -- including bodacious vixen Harriet Ames, the hotel's bitter, crippled proprietor, visiting lawyer David Hewson and his secretary, Beth -- is the culprit, even as murders continue to take place.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Bruno Grant
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: Wagon Train
Character: Ellington
Released: September 18, 1957
Type: TV
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Mr. Foster
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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King Richard and the Crusaders
Title: King Richard and the Crusaders
Character: Castelaine Man-at-Arms (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1954
Type: Movie
Based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians and Muslims during the battle for the Holy Land in the time of King Richard the Lionheart.
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Rio Grande Patrol
Title: Rio Grande Patrol
Character: Fowler
Released: October 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Fowler is smuggling guns across the border and his buyer is the outlaw Bragg. The guns are hidden in the luggage of the girls that come to work in his saloon. Border guards Kansas and Chito, along with Mexican Captain Trevinom suspect them and they are trying to find the guns.
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Second Chance
Title: Second Chance
Character: Dr. Matthews
Released: September 6, 1950
Type: Movie
A bank president and his wife, facing a crisis in their life and both nearing the age of fifty, look back on what has happened to them over the years of their marriage.
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Rock Island Trail
Title: Rock Island Trail
Character: Maj. Porter
Released: May 18, 1950
Type: Movie
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
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Massacre River
Title: Massacre River
Character: Roberts
Released: June 26, 1949
Type: Movie
Two Cavalry Officers clash over the Colonel's Daughter at a remote outpost with Indian troubles.
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Law of the Golden West
Title: Law of the Golden West
Character: Quentin Morell
Released: May 23, 1949
Type: Movie
Young Buffalo Bill Cody goes after the murderer of his father and uncovers a land-grab conspiracy.
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State Department: File 649
Title: State Department: File 649
Character: Ballinger
Released: February 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Kenneth Seeley, member of the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon, a morale worker with the bureau, are assigned to an area in Mongolia dominated by an outlaw warlord. The latter captures the village where they reside and when escape is clearly impossible, Seeley blows up the outlaw's headquarters, losing his own life in doing so.
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My Dear Secretary
Title: My Dear Secretary
Character: Mr. Hudson (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1948
Type: Movie
A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, however, when he turns out to be an erratic, immature playboy. Opposites attract, of course, but not without sub-plots that touch on competitiveness within marriage and responsibility.
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Behind Locked Doors
Title: Behind Locked Doors
Character: Dr. J.R. Bell (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1948
Type: Movie
Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake, free from prosecution so long as he pretends to be crazy. To get the goods on Drake, private detective Ross Stewart has himself committed to the asylum as a patient. Meanwhile, reporter Kathy Lawrence, posing as Stewart's wife, acts as his liaison to the outside world.
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Sons of Adventure
Title: Sons of Adventure
Character: Paul Kenyon
Released: September 1, 1948
Type: Movie
This western mystery offers a behind-the-scenes look at movie making. The trouble begins when a cowboy star is mysteriously killed on the set. A detective investigates and becomes determined to save the prime suspect. Despite the terrible danger he faces, the investigator does not stop until the real culprit has been apprehended and justice is served.
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Blonde Ice
Title: Blonde Ice
Character: Carl Hanneman
Released: July 24, 1948
Type: Movie
A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.
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Romance on the High Seas
Title: Romance on the High Seas
Character: Best Man (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
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The Voice of the Turtle
Title: The Voice of the Turtle
Character: Henry Atherton
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
An aspiring Broadway actress falls in love with a soldier on leave during a weekend in New York City.
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Big Town After Dark
Title: Big Town After Dark
Character: District Attorney Harding (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1947
Type: Movie
A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
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Lucky Legs
Title: Lucky Legs
Character: Fur Salesman
Released: October 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.
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Call of the Canyon
Title: Call of the Canyon
Character: Willy Hitchcock
Released: August 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.
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Invisible Agent
Title: Invisible Agent
Character: Spencer's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
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She's in the Army
Title: She's in the Army
Character: Wally Lundigan - Columnist
Released: May 15, 1942
Type: Movie
A socialite joins the Womens Ambulance Corps as both a publicity stunt and to win a bet with a newspaper columnist, who wagered $5000 that she couldn't last six weeks.
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Take a Letter, Darling
Title: Take a Letter, Darling
Character: Secretary
Released: May 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.
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House of Errors
Title: House of Errors
Character: Paul Gordon
Released: April 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II farce released by Poverty Row company PRC. Langdon and Charles "Buddy" Rogers are newspaper messengers helping reporter Ray Walker obtain an interview with journalist-hating inventor Richard Kipling. But before they know it, Harry and Buddy become unwittingly involved in plans to steal the professor's newest invention: a machine gun.
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Don Winslow of the Navy
Title: Don Winslow of the Navy
Character: Paul Barsac
Released: January 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, near Pearl Harbor, where a ring of saboteurs is trying to destroy ships carrying supplies to the troops stationed in the islands and sabotage the war effort under orders from an unknown leader.
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Uncle Joe
Title: Uncle Joe
Character: Paul Darcey
Released: October 18, 1941
Type: Movie
A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried parents to live with her uncle on his Iowa farm.
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Dangerous Lady
Title: Dangerous Lady
Character: Guy Kisling
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Private detective 'Duke' Martindale and his wife, Phyllis, an attorney, are working together to clear a girl falsely convicted of murdering a judge. Two people who know the truth are killed and 'Duke' Is shot at. Despite some interference by Police-Sergeant Brent, and a dangerous automobile chase and 'Duke' and Phyllis finding themselves prisoners of the real murderers, the case is solved.
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Sky Raiders
Title: Sky Raiders
Character: Henchman Hess
Released: April 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Captain Bob Dayton and Lieutenant Ed Carey are partners in a company called "Sky Raiders" which seeks US government contracts for its inventions. Enemy spies attempt to steal, sabotage and discredit the inventions and founders of the company.
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Pot o' Gold
Title: Pot o' Gold
Character: Sponsor (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Title: The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Character: Grinson - Foreign Agent
Released: December 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
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Phantom of Chinatown
Title: Phantom of Chinatown
Character: Mason
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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Up in the Air
Title: Up in the Air
Character: Sam Quigley
Released: September 9, 1940
Type: Movie
A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his janitor pal, Jeff, solve the mystery for the none-too-sharp police.
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Balalaika
Title: Balalaika
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
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Circus Girl
Title: Circus Girl
Character: Reporter
Released: March 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
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Paradise Express
Title: Paradise Express
Character: Gus
Released: February 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
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Join the Marines
Title: Join the Marines
Character: Lieutenant
Released: January 25, 1937
Type: Movie
New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the team. Joining the Marines to win the Colonel's approval many adventures follow.