William H. Strauss

William H. Strauss

Born: June 13, 1885
Died: August 5, 1943
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for William H. Strauss...

Golden Boy
Title: Golden Boy
Character: Mr. Carp
Released: September 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to by a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
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The Texas Rangers
Title: The Texas Rangers
Character: Juror (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
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The Reckless Way
Title: The Reckless Way
Character: Carl Blatz
Released: February 1, 1936
Type: Movie
The DVD for this film bears the title "The Lure of Hollywood". Marian Nixon plays a girl who doesn't want to settle for second best. She is offered chance to be a model and jumps at it. Her boyfriend is upset--he just wants to marry her and settle down to a life of domestic bliss. But she has stars in her eyes--and soon learns to use publicity to create a new movie star persona. Throughout all this, the sappy boyfriend is always waiting nearby--hoping that she'll come to her senses and give up this new life.
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One More Spring
Title: One More Spring
Character: Jewish Man
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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Beloved
Title: Beloved
Character: Jewish Father
Released: January 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
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The Mayor of Hell
Title: The Mayor of Hell
Character: Mr. Horowitz (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
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Hard to Handle
Title: Hard to Handle
Character: Mr. Abe Goldstein (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Title: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Character: Pawnbroker (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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Love in High Gear
Title: Love in High Gear
Character: Ziegman
Released: May 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A young couple making plans to elope are overheard by a jewel thief, who sees a chance to turn the situation to his advantage.
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Five Star Final
Title: Five Star Final
Released: September 26, 1931
Type: Movie
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
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The Public Enemy
Title: The Public Enemy
Character: Pawnbroker (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
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The Jazz Cinderella
Title: The Jazz Cinderella
Character: Fineman (as William Strauss)
Released: September 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Intending that her son, Herbert, marry debutante Mildred Vane, Mrs. Consuelo Carter is most dismayed when she learns that Herbert has fallen in love with Pat Murray, a model in Darrow's dress shop. Pat's emphatic refusal to take Mrs. Carter's "suggestion" that she give up Herbert leads to her being fired, and she reluctantly accepts Herbert's invitation to weekend at the Carter country home. Finally realizing the hopelessness of the situation, Pat makes a spectacle of herself at a party; but Herbert is not fooled, and their love triumphs.
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Lucky Boy
Title: Lucky Boy
Released: February 2, 1929
Type: Movie
A young Jewish man works in his father's jewelry business, but he doesn't like it at all--he wants to be an entertainer, something he knows that his father would never approve of. He comes up with a scheme to put on his own show in a theater and show his father that he can be a success, but things don't work out quite as well as he planned.
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So This Is Love
Title: So This Is Love
Character: Maison Katz
Released: February 6, 1928
Type: Movie
So This is Love? was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.), is tired of being considered a wimp. After business hours, Jerry secretly takes boxing lessons, enabling him to knock the stuffings out of his burly rival Spike Mullins (Johnnie Walker). Jerry's newfound pugilistic skills wins him the affections of store clerk Hilda Jensen (Shirley Mason), who's just car-razy about "cave men." Filmed in a fast three weeks, So This is Love? was completed before Frank Capra's Matinee Idol but released afterward. Leading lady Shirley Mason was the sister of Viola Dana, who starred in Capra's initial Columbia effort, That Certain Thing.
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The Rawhide Kid
Title: The Rawhide Kid
Character: Simon Silverberg
Released: January 29, 1928
Type: Movie
Good cowboy vs. bad cowboy in this romantic adventure.
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Sally in Our Alley
Title: Sally in Our Alley
Character: Abraham Lapidowitz
Released: September 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Sally, a girl of the tenements, is being raised by three bachelor foster-fathers, a pawnbroker, an organ-grinder and a peddler, and is very happy preparing their meals and keeping the house, while the old men bask in the attention she gives them. However, this happy home is broken up when Sally wealthy aunt appears on the scene and takes Sally back to her luxurious penthouse in order to give her the advantages of money and social position. But Sally's heart is back across the river with her plumber sweetheart, Jimmie Adams.
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Ladies at Ease
Title: Ladies at Ease
Character: Abe Ginsburg
Released: August 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Polly (Pauline Garon) and Gert (Gertrude Short) are a pair of lingerie models, ever on the prowl for boyfriends. When the girls "steal" the sweethearts of vaudeville's Dotty Sisters (Lillian Hackett, Jean Van Vliet), the Dottys retaliate by getting our heroines fired.
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The Shamrock and the Rose
Title: The Shamrock and the Rose
Character: Abe Cohen
Released: April 14, 1927
Type: Movie
The neighborly "feud" between a Jewish and an Irish families escalates when two of their youngsters fall in love.
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Ankles Preferred
Title: Ankles Preferred
Character: Mr. Goldberg
Released: February 27, 1927
Type: Movie
Nora, a department store clerk, is determined to succeed on the basis of her brain power despite her attractive ankles. She gets a job as model at the shop of McGuire and Goldberg, and they announce that Nora may be given a trip abroad if she persuades their financer to lend the partners additional funds. The financer, Hornsbee, becomes presumptuous, leading to an encounter between him and Barney, Nora's young suitor; and she is ultimately glad to accept Barney's modest attentions.
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Private Izzy Murphy
Title: Private Izzy Murphy
Character: Jacob Goldberg
Released: October 30, 1926
Type: Movie
Isadore "Izzy" Goldberg changes his name to I. Patrick Murphy because his store is in an Irish-neighborhood in New York City. He meets Eileen Cohannigan, the daughter of a meat-packer, and he tells her he is Irish and a romance begins. When America enters World War I, "Izzy" enlists, is sent to France, and is wounded while engaged in a heroic rescue during a big battle. While recovering in an overseas hospital, he writes Eileen and tells her he is Jewish and not Irish. Returning home, he is parading with his regiment and he sees Eileen with Robert O'Malley, his old rival. He thinks she has thrown him over because he is Jewish. An Irish lodge comes to bestow an honor on the man they think is Patrick Murphy, an Irish hero. But O'Malley tells them his real name is Goldberg. But Eileen tels him it is he she loves, and they head for the marriage-license bureau.
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Millionaires
Title: Millionaires
Character: Helper in Meyer's Tailor Shop
Released: October 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Meyer Rubens and his wife, Esther, own a pressing-shop in New York's Lower East Side. Esther wants to move on up to the Upper West Side. She has a rich sister, Reba, who persuades Meyer to invest in the worthless oil stock sold by her husband. The stock proves to be not worthless and Meyer and Esther become overnight millionaires. But Reba thinks Meyer, who has no taste for high society, is holding her sister back socially, so she devises some schemes that involve catching Meyer in a compromising situation with other women, so her sister can file for a divorce.
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Roaring Road
Title: Roaring Road
Character: Sol Rosenburg
Released: May 1, 1926
Type: Movie
A young racing driver combines the best features of two rival cars, thus producing an automobile which is the best entry in the race. He triumphs over the other contestants, incidentally winning the girl of his heart.
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Skinner's Dress Suit
Title: Skinner's Dress Suit
Character: Tailor
Released: April 18, 1926
Type: Movie
Honey Skinner is proud of her successful husband. When he tells her he's going to ask for a raise, she knows he'll get it. He asks his boss just as their big client announces he's not renewing his contract. He doesn't get the raise, but he's too embarrassed to tell his wife the truth. She starts making plans to spend that extra $10 a week; the first thing is a new dress suit for him and a new outfit for her so they can fit in at a swanky party. They're the hit of the party, and Honey is embraced by the 'smart set.' Meanwhile, business is bad and Skinner loses his job. The tailor is after him for payment on the suit, and Honey is still spending the salary he doesn't have.
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The Law of the Snow Country
Title: The Law of the Snow Country
Character: Father Fajans
Released: April 1, 1926
Type: Movie