Gus Reed

Gus Reed

Movies for Gus Reed...

Coney Island
Title: Coney Island
Character: Member of quartette, singing waiters
Released: June 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
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One Foot in Heaven
Title: One Foot in Heaven
Character: Choir Member (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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New York Town
Title: New York Town
Character: Businessman (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
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Victory
Title: Victory
Character: Dutchman
Released: December 21, 1940
Type: Movie
A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.
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Christmas in July
Title: Christmas in July
Character: Juror (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
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Let Us Live
Title: Let Us Live
Character: Man Asking J. B. (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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Stablemates
Title: Stablemates
Character: Singer at Beulah's
Released: October 7, 1938
Type: Movie
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
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Start Cheering
Title: Start Cheering
Character: Train Conductor
Released: March 3, 1938
Type: Movie
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
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Her Master's Voice
Title: Her Master's Voice
Character: Counter Clerk
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Besieged by his adoring female fans, radio celebrity Ned "The Fireside Troubadour" Farrar hides out at the home of his wife Queena's imperious Aunt Min. Pretending to be Aunt Min's handyman, he performs his tasks so well that she refuses to let him leave.
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Mary Burns, Fugitive
Title: Mary Burns, Fugitive
Character: Manager (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
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3 Kids and a Queen
Title: 3 Kids and a Queen
Character: Customer
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
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One More Spring
Title: One More Spring
Character: Chef
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
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Hi, Nellie!
Title: Hi, Nellie!
Character: Mac (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
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Umpa
Title: Umpa
Character: Dr. Truly A. Singer
Released: November 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Dialogue and songs are all in rhyme (including one identical song), in the manner of later Columbia film "The Women Haters." Jack Osterman is smitten with a woman on a park bench, and cannot stop saying the word "Umpa" for the rest of the film, which involves his treatment by a doctor and his singing and dancing temptress nurses.
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Ex-Flame
Title: Ex-Flame
Character: Bit Role (uncredited)
Released: November 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman's uncontrollable jealousy over her husband's former girlfriend results in her losing not only her house but her young son is taken away from her.