Jesse De Vorska

Jesse De Vorska

Born: July 13, 1898
Died: December 27, 1999
in Kovno, Russian Empire [now Kaunas, Lithuania]

Movies for Jesse De Vorska...

Wine, Women and Song
Title: Wine, Women and Song
Character: Irving
Released: March 27, 1933
Type: Movie
The story of aging chorus girl Frankie Arnette, who'll do anything for publicity. Fiercely ambitious, Frankie even promises that if she is given a leading role in an upcoming Broadway musical, prominent producer Morgan Andrews will be allowed to enjoy the "attentions" of her own daughter Marilyn. But Marilyn is in love with likeable Ray Joyce, and wants no part of her mother's intrigues.
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Ma's Pride and Joy
Title: Ma's Pride and Joy
Character: Milton Goldblatt
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
This Mack Sennett produced short has Donald Novis playing Danny O'Brien, a young singer whose mother takes him to a talent agent office where she demands that the owners listen to him.
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Blessed Event
Title: Blessed Event
Character: Morris Shapiro
Released: September 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Title: The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Character: Boarding House Tenant (uncredited)
Released: May 28, 1932
Type: Movie
A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.
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Dancers in the Dark
Title: Dancers in the Dark
Character: Dance Hall Customer
Released: March 11, 1932
Type: Movie
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.
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Taxi!
Title: Taxi!
Character: Goldfarb (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
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The Spider
Title: The Spider
Character: Goldberg
Released: September 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe’s clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant? After the police restrain the audience from leaving, Lowe uses his magical powers to help expose the killer. Watch for the terrific séance scene where weird ghost-like creatures float above the stage.
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Transatlantic
Title: Transatlantic
Character: Buyer
Released: August 19, 1931
Type: Movie
As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe heads the cast as Monty Greer, a suave gambler who falls in love with Judy, the daughter of immigrant lens grinder Rudolph Kramer. In trying to recover some valuable securities stolen from banker Henry Graham, Greer finds himself in the middle of a fierce gun battle in the ship's engine room. Meanwhile, Graham, who has been cheating on his wife Kay with sexy dancer Sigrid Carline, is murdered by person or persons unknown.
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Bad Girl
Title: Bad Girl
Character: Expectant Father (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
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Goldie
Title: Goldie
Character: Gonzales
Released: June 27, 1931
Type: Movie
Sailor Spike dates girls whose names he finds in an address book. Each girl has the same tatoo, placed there by another sailor Bill. When Spike meets Bill they become friends. In Calais Spike meets Goldie. Bill warns him against her, but Spike ignores the warning until he finds Bill's tatoo on Goldie as well.
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The Last Parade
Title: The Last Parade
Character: Rosenberg
Released: January 31, 1931
Type: Movie
During the war two friends love the same nurse. After the war one becomes a detective, the other a racketeer.
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Around the Corner
Title: Around the Corner
Character: Moe Levine
Released: April 25, 1930
Type: Movie
18-year-old Rosie Kaplan O'Grady was found as an abandoned baby by O'Grady, an Irish policeman, and Kaplan, a Jewish pawnbroker, and raised by them as their own. She is being courted by two men; prizefighter Terry Callahan and a rich socialite, Tommy Sinclair and has to choose between them.
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Don't Tell Everything
Title: Don't Tell Everything
Character: Mechanic Finkelheimer (as Jess Devorska)
Released: July 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Max and his son Asher are invited to a party, where Max meets a rich widow, but Asher keeps annoying all of the guests, so Max refuses to speak to him. 10 days later he has married the widow, but hasn't told her about Asher. Asher doesn't like the situation either, and enters the home disguised as the new maid, that leeds to a growing suspicion of his step mother, who has her own little secret.
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Why Girls Say No
Title: Why Girls Say No
Character: Mr. Ginsberg
Released: February 21, 1927
Type: Movie
A short comedy by Leo McCarey about a Jewish father who is worried about his daughter.
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Call the Wagon
Title: Call the Wagon
Released: December 30, 1923
Type: Movie
Young Dick is pursuing pretty young Mary, but so are a lot of other young men. Dick decides to impersonate her butler and uses that position to keep all of Mary's suitors out of the house so he can work on her himself. When his ruse is discovered, he is thrown out of the house. That, however, doesn't stop him. He gets the maid to help him concoct a story about Mary actually being bald and having false teeth, hoping to drive them away. It works, but it doesn't quite have the effect he intended it to.