Johnny Downs

Johnny Downs

Born: October 10, 1913
Died: June 6, 1994
in Brooklyn, New York, USA

Movies for Johnny Downs...

Cruisin' Down the River
Title: Cruisin' Down the River
Character: Young Jack
Released: August 2, 1953
Type: Movie
A New Yorker inherits an old river boat and decides to turn it into a night club while falling in love with Sally Jane, the granddaughter of his worse enemy.
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Column South
Title: Column South
Character: Posick
Released: May 20, 1953
Type: Movie
In the weeks prior to the start of the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers hope to help their cause by inciting a Navajo war in the New Mexico Territory. Director Frederick de Cordova's 1953 western stars Audie Murphy, Robert Sterling, Joan Evans, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Palmer Lee, Jack Kelly, James Best, Bob Steele and Ralph Moody.
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Title: Racket Squad
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: TV
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
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Hills of Oklahoma
Title: Hills of Oklahoma
Character: Square Dance Caller
Released: June 1, 1950
Type: Movie
In this remake of Gene Autry's 1942 "Call of the Canyon", Rex Allen, the newly-elected head of the cattleman's association, is driving the combined herds of the ranchers to the nearest railhead when he runs into trouble. Singing cowboy Rex Allen stars as a newly appointed leader of a cattleman's association who finds himself battling a greedy meat-packer (Robert Karnes) and his father (Robert Emmett Keane) for fair passage through the hills of Oklahoma.
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Title: Captain Billy's Mississippi Music Hall
Released: October 1, 1948
Type: TV
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Rhapsody in Blue
Title: Rhapsody in Blue
Character: Dancer
Released: June 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
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Forever Yours
Title: Forever Yours
Character: Ricky
Released: January 26, 1945
Type: Movie
A young woman who has been stricken with infantile paralysis gives up hope and is trying to "will herself" to die. A doctor who has been conducting experiments with patients with paralyzed nerves is convinced he can cure her.
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Twilight on the Prairie
Title: Twilight on the Prairie
Character: Bucky
Released: April 30, 1944
Type: Movie
In this musical western, a cowboy band is offered the chance to appear in a Hollywood movie and begins the journey to the West Coast. Unfortunately, the band ends up stranded in Texas and must take a job running a ranch. Musical mayhem ensues: Songs include: "Let's Love Again," "Where the Prairie Meets the Sky," "Don't You Ever Be a Cowboy," "Texas Polka," "No Letter Today," "I Got Mellow in the Yellow of the Moon," "Sip Nip Song," "Salt-Water Cowboy," "The Blues," "Little Brown Jug" and "And Then."
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Trocadero
Title: Trocadero
Character: Johnny Edwards
Released: April 24, 1944
Type: Movie
A newspaper columnist and host of his own national network radio program, interviewing more film personalities on his show than any other commentator, is searching for a story for a Sunday column carried by newspaper from coast to coast. Hanging out in Hollywood's famed Trocadero restaurant and night-spot, he gets his story when "Troc" owner and band-leader Eddie LeBaron, relates to him the sage of the famed screenland nitery. And hears plenty of music furnished by four of the top name-bands in the land, including that of Bob Chester, who formed his own swing band in 1935 after being top saxophonist with the bands of Ben Pollack and Ben Bernie. Singer Ida James and the Chester band led off with "Shoo Shoo Baby" in their screen debut.
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What a Man!
Title: What a Man!
Character: Henry Burrows
Released: January 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Henry Burrows, timid, white-collar worker for the firm of Rankin and Phillips, returns to his bachelor apartment to discover Joan Rankin, whom he does not know, hiding there. She feigns illness, Henry goes for a doctor and returns to find that a gangster has been murdered on his doorstep and the police think he is implicated. They inform him that the gangster's moll, Constance, has escaped. Henry thinks they are talking about Joan.
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Harvest Melody
Title: Harvest Melody
Character: Tommy Nelson
Released: November 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Farmer Tommy and his girl Jane come in from the country for a night at the Hollywood Trocadero. There, they meet Chuck, Hollywood's Number One press agent, and his Girl Friday, Daisie. Hearing of the hardships imposed down on the farm by the war-related labor shortage, Chuck offers the help of his clients, movie star Gilda Parker, heavyweight boxer Canvas, and Eddie Le Baron and his whole orchestra, to help harvest the crops.
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Campus Rhythm
Title: Campus Rhythm
Character: 'Scoop' Davis
Released: November 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Radio singer Joan Abbott, known as the "Crunchy-Wunchy Thrush", does not want to renew her contract with the cereal sponsor, as she wants to go to college. But her guardian, her Uncle Willie signs the contract in order to pay off his own debts. But this time Joan won't take no for an answer and enrolls under an assumed name. When Joan goes missing, the radio institutes a search for Joan via a publicity stunt.
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Adventures of the Flying Cadets
Title: Adventures of the Flying Cadets
Character: Danny Collins
Released: September 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Four youthful cadets are implicated in a series of murders, and must attempt to clear themselves of suspicion.
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Behind the Eight Ball
Title: Behind the Eight Ball
Character: Danny
Released: December 4, 1942
Type: Movie
The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical comedy. Only one problem: two guest stars are shot and killed on two successive evenings, right in front of the audience. Hoping to solve the mystery, detective William Demarest demands that everyone -- actors and theatergoers alike -- return the following weekend to restage the show. But with no major performer willing to assume the fatal guest-star slot, Joan is forced to hire the Three Jolly Jesters (Al, Harry and Jimmy Ritz), Manhattan washroom attendants with showbiz aspirations.
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Kiss and Wake Up
Title: Kiss and Wake Up
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
To make his fiancee jealous, Johnny has a friend masquerade as a girl.
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The Mad Monster
Title: The Mad Monster
Character: Tom Gregory
Released: May 15, 1942
Type: Movie
A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.
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The Gay Nineties
Title: The Gay Nineties
Character: Johnny
Released: April 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Songs from the 1890s presented in a musical short.
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Groom and Bored
Title: Groom and Bored
Character: Jimmy Warren
Released: April 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Johnny tries to keep his marriage a secret from his boss, who feels that matrimony interferes with business.
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Freckles Comes Home
Title: Freckles Comes Home
Character: Freckles Winslow
Released: January 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Freckles Winslow comes home from college and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on the spot, and his girl friend, Jane, falls in love with a confidence man.
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All-American Co-Ed
Title: All-American Co-Ed
Character: Bob Sheppard / Bobbie DeWolfe
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for their comedy drag revue, staying undercover as a woman at an all-girls' school wasn't part of the rehearsal!
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Moonlight in Hawaii
Title: Moonlight in Hawaii
Character: Pete Fleming
Released: October 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Deciding to quit his singing act and become a tourist guide, Pete Fleming escorts wealthy Mrs. Floto and her three nieces to Hawaii for a vacation. Behind his back, Pete's three bandmates stowaway and tag along.
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Sing Another Chorus
Title: Sing Another Chorus
Character: Andy Peyton
Released: September 19, 1941
Type: Movie
In this musical, an idealistic college graduate is bitten by the show business bug after he finds success writing and producing the campus variety show. Wanting to launch his career, he convinces his father to allow him to create a production using the workers at the old man's clothing factory. Unfortunately, the young man is naive and an unscrupulous producer bilks his father's advance money from him.
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Redhead
Title: Redhead
Character: Ted Brown
Released: May 21, 1941
Type: Movie
A wealthy businessman's irresponsible son and a down-on-her-luck model enter into a marriage of convenience, and end up falling in love.
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Let's Get Away from It All
Title: Let's Get Away from It All
Released: May 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A Soundie with Johnny Downs with Gale Storm.
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Penthouse Serenade
Title: Penthouse Serenade
Released: May 5, 1941
Type: Movie
A Soundie with Johnny Downs and Gale Storm.
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Adam Had Four Sons
Title: Adam Had Four Sons
Character: David Stoddard
Released: March 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie even more. At the same time, Emilie falls in love with Adam. The boys grow up, but Adam insists that Emilie stay on as part of the family. Her relationships with both the boys and Adam become strained after one son marries a gold-digging viper named Hester. Written by Daniel Bubbeo
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Honeymoon for Three
Title: Honeymoon for Three
Character: Chester T Farrington III
Released: January 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he meets up with a former college fling with a loopy Danish girl which he barely remembers. She remembers him, very well.
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Slightly Tempted
Title: Slightly Tempted
Character: Jimmy Duncan
Released: October 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A con man tries to sell phony stocks to unwary investors.
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Melody and Moonlight
Title: Melody and Moonlight
Character: Danny O'Brian
Released: October 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Jane Frazee made her starring film debut in the Republic B-plus musical Melody and Moonlight. The plot is motivated by the show-biz aspirations of bellboy Danny O'Brien (Johnny Downs). With the help of a wealthy chiropodist (Jerry Colonna), O'Brien not only gets to star on a big-time radio show, but also sprinkles stardust upon his sweetheart Kay Barnett (Jane Frazee)-who, unbeknownst to everyone but the audience, is the daughter of the show's sponsor.
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Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot
Title: Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot
Character: Johnny
Released: August 10, 1940
Type: Movie
In this musical, a con man makes a good living by promoting bogus charity shows. He gets the communities all revved up and then skips town with all their money. But then he meets three earnest people wanting to garner financial support for an orphanage. This time the con man's loyal assistant finally catches on to the wicked scam and turns him in to the police. Meanwhile, the newly reformed assistant and one of the charity workers fall in loves.
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I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Title: I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Character: Robert Lee 'Bob' Gunther
Released: May 1, 1940
Type: Movie
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to write a love ballad. It is Crawford's hope that the song will reach out and touch his long-lost childhood sweetheart. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby was based on James Edward Grant's short story Trouble in B Flat; echoes of the basic premise later resurfaced in the 1957 "A" picture The Girl Can't Help It.
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A Child Is Born
Title: A Child Is Born
Character: Johnny Norton
Released: December 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
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Laugh It Off
Title: Laugh It Off
Character: Stephen 'Steve' Hannis
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Four former actresses decide to restart their careers by opening up a nightclub.
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Parents on Trial
Title: Parents on Trial
Character: Don Martin
Released: September 21, 1939
Type: Movie
According to Hollywood, the parents were generally at fault when good kids went bad. This theory is elucidated in Columbia's Parents on Trial, wherein strict disciplinarian James Westley (Henry Kolker) fails to understand or appreciate the real needs and feelings of his teenaged daughter Susan (Jean Parker).
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Hawaiian Nights
Title: Hawaiian Nights
Character: Ted Hartley
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Bandleader Tim Hartley's father objects strongly to his son's occupation choice and packs him off to Hawaii to manage the family hotel holdings. This proves to be a wrong move as Hawaiia has more bands than it does pineapples.
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Bad Boy
Title: Bad Boy
Character: John Fraser
Released: July 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Johnny Fraser leaves his mother in their small home town and sets out for the big city. He obtains a job with a large firm of architects. Steve Carson, a fellow employee, is constantly flaunting the money he has won at the race track. Johnny also bets the races, but loses heavily and takes some of the firm's money to cover his losses.
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First Offenders
Title: First Offenders
Character: Fred Gray
Released: April 12, 1939
Type: Movie
A crusading and reform-minded District Attorney gives up his position in order to open establish a farm that gives juvenile delinquents and first-offenders a place to straighten out their lives before they reach the point of no return. He meets much resistance from various segments of the law and the citizens.
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Once Over Lightly
Title: Once Over Lightly
Character: Bob Bradley
Released: December 17, 1938
Type: Movie
The big Barber College competition between rivals Clipton and Beardsley is coming up and everything is on the line for professor and coach Kapouris. But thanks to a secret depilatory he developed, Clipton has the edge.
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Swing, Sister, Swing
Title: Swing, Sister, Swing
Character: Johnny Bennett
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last long, but they had fun anyway. Songs include: "Baltimore Bubble," "Gingham Gown," "Just a Bore," "Wasn't It You," "Kaneski Waltz" (Frank Skinner, Charles Henderson).
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Hold That Co-ed
Title: Hold That Co-ed
Character: Dink
Released: September 16, 1938
Type: Movie
An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.
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It's in the Stars
Title: It's in the Stars
Character: Dorothy's Boyfriend
Released: August 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Musical short about a fraternity and a sorority that call a halt to dating between their houses to improve their grades.
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Hunted Men
Title: Hunted Men
Character: Frank Martin
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. Joe escapes through a window and hails a taxi, but when he gets nervous at the sound of sirens, he jumps out. Hardware salesman Peter Harris accidentally hits Joe with his car, and unharmed, Joe seizes this opportunity to hide in Peter's car. Peter is so drunk that Joe is able to con him into believing that he is Charles Edwards, a fellow hardware man who was with him at a convention, and in the guise of friendship, accompanies Peter to his suburban home. The next morning, Joe gets antsy and wants to leave, but Peter's family, his wife Mary, young son Robert and daughter Jane all entreat him to stay.
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Algiers
Title: Algiers
Character: Pierrot
Released: January 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture are met with unfazed local detectives, led by Inspector Slimane, who are biding their time. Meanwhile, Pepe meets the beautiful Gaby, which arouses the jealousy of Ines.
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Thrill of a Lifetime
Title: Thrill of a Lifetime
Character: Stanley
Released: December 3, 1937
Type: Movie
"Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He is so imbued with the idea that he has established a summer camp for that reason,and has written a play on the subject. The Yacht Club Boys visit the camp, misrepresenting themselves as Broadway producers, and the talented guest of the camp put on Nelson's play...which all ends up with a lot of marriage mating; Judy and Skipper, Betty Jane and Stanley and...Gwen and "Howdy,' the guy who was positive there was no such thing as true love.
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Blonde Trouble
Title: Blonde Trouble
Character: Fred Stevens
Released: August 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Fred Stevens is an aspiring songwriter from Schenectady who journeys to New York City, hoping to make a name for himself. On the train he meets dental assistant Edna Baker, and the two embark upon a friendship that evolves into her falling for him. While struggling in Tin Pan Alley, Fred falls in with his composer partner's gold-digging sister-in-law Eileen. Eileen really becomes interested when she finds out Fred is carrying his life savings.
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Turn Off the Moon
Title: Turn Off the Moon
Character: Terry Keith
Released: May 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Department store owner J. Elliott Dinwiddy has waited ten years for the perfect astrological moment to propose to his secretary, Myrtle Tweep. His astrological advisor, Dr. Wakefield, has told him that if he can unite a boy and a girl in true love before midnight, he can propose to Myrtle the following night at 3:15 a.m. and she will accept. Fate brings unemployed dancer Caroline Wilson into the music department of Dinwiddy's, where she meets handsome songwriter Terry Keith. Keith has been writing music for Dinwiddy's Silver Jubilee show and has allowed Dinwiddy's nephew, Truelove Spencer, to take all the credit. That night, Terry comes into Dinwiddy's to work on the music and finds Caroline asleep in the Honeymoon Cottage, the section of the department store Spencer supervises. Posing as a man named "Pinky," Dinwiddy promises Caroline that Spencer will hire her as the bride of the Honeymoon Cottage and invites her to live there.
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Clarence
Title: Clarence
Character: Bobbie
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things, and who concentrates by playing his saxophone. Clarence ingratiates himself with the wealthy and eccentric Wheeler family, though daughter Cora can't stand the boy.
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College Holiday
Title: College Holiday
Character: Johnny Jones
Released: December 19, 1936
Type: Movie
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
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Pigskin Parade
Title: Pigskin Parade
Character: Chip Carson
Released: October 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a hillbilly farmhand and his sister. The hillbilly farmhand's ability to throw melons enables him to become their star passing ace.
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The Arizona Raiders
Title: The Arizona Raiders
Character: Lonesome Alonzo Q. Mulhall
Released: June 27, 1936
Type: Movie
After saving himself from hanging, Laramie Nelson saves Tracks Williams from the same fate. They then travel to Lindsay's ranch where they get jobs. There they run into Adams who they learn is planning to rustle Lindsay's horses.
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The First Baby
Title: The First Baby
Character: Johnny Ellis
Released: April 2, 1936
Type: Movie
When a couple become parents for the first time, they discover grandmothers can be almost as demanding as a newborn.
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So Red the Rose
Title: So Red the Rose
Character: Yankee boy
Released: December 20, 1935
Type: Movie
During the American Civil War, Valette Bedford waits patiently for her husband Duncan Bedford, to return home, praying that she will not become a widow.
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Coronado
Title: Coronado
Character: Johnny Marvin
Released: November 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego track, in a tent-city with her father. Otto, and ditzy sister, Violet, June Wray is a singer with the Eddy Duchin Orchestra appearing to the hotel. Johnny Marvin, an aspiring songwriter and the son of a wealthy automobile manufacturer, is staying at the hotel and, from they moment June and Johnny meet, they fall instantly in love. Trouble arises when Johnny's father objects to the romance, and complications and help arrive in the form of two Marine-hating sailors,Chuck Hornbostel and "Pinky" Falls, when Chuck marries June's ditzy sister.
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Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Title: Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Character: Singer/Tap Dancer (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number of amiable stars in the audience.
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The Virginia Judge
Title: The Virginia Judge
Character: Bob Stuart
Released: September 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Walter C. Kelly, Marsha Hunt, Stepin Fetchit
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College Scandal
Title: College Scandal
Character: Paul Gedney
Released: June 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor. Julie attraction from the make students drops a bit when two of her admirers are found murdered. When an attempt on the life of a third one is made. Seth Dunlap, an instructor at the school, decides to turn detective and find the killer. Assisted by his sister, who is in love with the third student, Dunlap begins to follow the the small trail of clues left by the killer.
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Babes in Toyland
Title: Babes in Toyland
Character: Little Boy Blue
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.
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Strange Case of Hennessy
Title: Strange Case of Hennessy
Character: Husband
Released: December 8, 1933
Type: Movie
An escaped lunatic poses as famed detective Silo Dance in this musical comedy mystery set in an old dark house in this spoof of S.S. Van Dine's famed sleuth Philo Vance.
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The High School Hoofer
Title: The High School Hoofer
Character: High School Student
Released: December 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Leroy's dance is an eccentric one performed to the tune "Dinah", played to a fast, jazzy beat, and his feet certainly keep up. More than that, while he is dancing, he looks like a John Held Jr. cartoon from the New Yorker, a young sheik who wears clothes in a manner than makes him look like he is posing languidly at an absurd angle, even while he is moving fast. There are a couple of cuts to focus on his feet, and he is very good.
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The Trail of '98
Title: The Trail of '98
Character: Mother's Boy
Released: March 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.
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The Crowd
Title: The Crowd
Character: John, age 12 (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1928
Type: Movie
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.
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The Valley of the Giants
Title: The Valley of the Giants
Character: Bryce, as a Boy (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1927
Type: Movie
Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.
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Chicken Feed
Title: Chicken Feed
Character: Professor Presto Misterio (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1927
Type: Movie
Chicken Feed is a 1927 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert A. McGowan. It was the 66th Our Gang short subject released. The kids go to a magic show and decides to try a little magic of their own.
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Outlaws of Red River
Title: Outlaws of Red River
Character: Tom Morley (prologue) (as Jimmy Downs)
Released: May 8, 1927
Type: Movie
As a boy, Tom Morley, was forced to watch the killings of his foster parents and the abduction of his foster sister. When he reaches manhood he joins the Texas Rangers and becomes very good at tracking down outlaws; whereby, he is given the nickname "The Falcon". He finally tracks down his long lost foster sister who has become a spy for the outlaws.
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Seeing the World
Title: Seeing the World
Character: Johnny
Released: February 13, 1927
Type: Movie
In this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to Europe after winning a local contest. He takes them on a tour of Naples, Pompeii, Rome, the Vatican, Venice, London, and finally Paris, where problems arise on top of the Eiffel Tower.
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Bring Home the Turkey
Title: Bring Home the Turkey
Character: Johnny
Released: January 16, 1927
Type: Movie
Habitually mistreated at the deceptively named Happyland Home Orphanage, the Our Gang kids find a loyal and kindhearted friend in the form of a black grownup named Uncle Tom. Alas, Tom's own children -- including real-life siblings Allen "Farina" Hoskins and Jannie "Mango" Hoskins -- are carted off to Happyland by the cold-hearted county officials. Farina, Mango, and the other kids escape the cruel orphanage in the dead of night, while Uncle Tom, preparing for their return, "borrows" food, clothes, and furnishings from various merchants.
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
Title: 45 Minutes from Hollywood
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: December 26, 1926
Type: Movie
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
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Telling Whoppers
Title: Telling Whoppers
Character: Toughey Thompson
Released: December 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Farina and Joe fib to the gang that they've beaten up the neighborhood bully. Later, they hear he's been murdered and think they'll get the blame.
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War Feathers
Title: War Feathers
Character: Johnny
Released: November 20, 1926
Type: Movie
While on a cross-country train trip, the Our Gang kids drive the rest of the passengers crazy with a never-ending game of cowboys and Indians. During a stopover in the sleepy town of Red Dog, the kids disembark in hopes of savoring a taste of genuine Western life. They get more than they bargained for when a trio of bandits rides into town for a showdown with the local sherff.
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The Fourth Alarm
Title: The Fourth Alarm
Character: Johnny
Released: August 11, 1926
Type: Movie
The rascals once again, now as a plumbers.
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Shivering Spooks
Title: Shivering Spooks
Character: Johnny
Released: August 7, 1926
Type: Movie
The kids are playing baseball when a man dressed in Middle-Eastern clothing comes out and tells them to be quiet. They join Mary, Farina, and Scooter in the gang's hide-out while Mary is reading ghost stories. While on the other side of the wall, the Arab-looking man is cheating people out of their money by staging a fake séance using state-of-the-art special effects. The cave entrance for the gang's hide-out collapses, so they light candles and dig into the wall, entering into the house. The "suckers" find out they are being cheated and run to get the cops to book the guys. The guys find out that the kids are in the house, and one dresses up in a ghost costume and chases the kids throughout the house.
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Thundering Fleas
Title: Thundering Fleas
Character: Johnny
Released: July 18, 1926
Type: Movie
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
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Uncle Tom's Uncle
Title: Uncle Tom's Uncle
Character: Johnny / 'Marks the Lawyer'
Released: May 29, 1926
Type: Movie
The Gang stages their own revisionist version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in Mickey's barn. But Joe's mother thinks the back yard needs cleaning, and there are several interruptions when they lose a leading character. Mickey plays Simon Legree; Mary as Eva; Joe as Uncle Tom; and Farina essays the role of Topsy.
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Baby Clothes
Title: Baby Clothes
Character: Johnny
Released: April 24, 1926
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Weedle are desperate to find two babies, for their rich uncle has sent them money for years thinking they have children. Now that he’s coming into town, the couple must find a pair of babies as soon as possible. The Our Gang kids are ready for the job, but a 27-year old midget is also in the running for the job and he doesn’t play fairly.
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Monkey Business
Title: Monkey Business
Character: Johnny
Released: March 21, 1926
Type: Movie
An abused chimpanzee escapes from a zoo. On the run, he meets Farina, running away from home and his battling parents. The two become friends and inspire the rest of the gang to put on a show to make money from neighborhood kids. But the chimp has his own idea and runs off creating havoc all over town until chased down by the local cops.
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Buried Treasure
Title: Buried Treasure
Character: Johnnie
Released: February 13, 1926
Type: Movie
The Rascals take their homemade boat on a search for treasure and crash a movie set.
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Good Cheer
Title: Good Cheer
Character: Johnny
Released: January 9, 1926
Type: Movie
On Christmas Eve, the Gang copes with hardships, helps capture a gang of thieves, and learns that Santa Claus really exists for those who wish fervently enough.
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One Wild Ride
Title: One Wild Ride
Character: Johnny
Released: December 5, 1925
Type: Movie
The gang has a taxi, consisting of an old Model T with no engine, pushed by a horse. When the owner takes his horse back, they must rely on motorists to tow them to the top of the hill so they can coast down. Little Farina borrows the car and it runs out of control all over town, causing mayhem everywhere it goes.
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Better Movies
Title: Better Movies
Character: Johnny
Released: November 1, 1925
Type: Movie
The gang decided to go into the movie-making business, using all kinds of sets and props. There were problems as those not involved are trying to ruin their business by playing pranks and even insisting the police to close them down.
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Your Own Back Yard
Title: Your Own Back Yard
Character: Johnny Downs
Released: September 26, 1925
Type: Movie
Your Own Back Yard is a 1925 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 43rd Our Gang short subject released. Farina is having a very bad day, especially by his friends-very cruel playing nasty tricks, etc. Heeding his mother's advice to stay "in your own back yard," he does just that, feeding jumping beans to his chickens.
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Boys Will Be Joys
Title: Boys Will Be Joys
Character: Johnny
Released: July 25, 1925
Type: Movie
Adults have the Pike and Coney Island amusement parks, so the rascals put up their own rides in a large vacant lot. Mickey's got big plans for expansion when surveyors show up to begin work on a factory. The gang travels by donkey cart to the office of Henry Mills, President of Pan American Export Company, to protest. Henry, in his 60s, is still a boy at heart: he has his chauffeur stop the car so he can join a sandlot game. He bails on a meeting with his board of directors, going with the kids to the factory site where he stops the workers and helps our gang add more rides. The directors follow him, and they get put to work. Will they ever have their meeting?
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Official Officers
Title: Official Officers
Character: Johnny
Released: June 29, 1925
Type: Movie
The kids in the tenements have no place to play except in streets where traffic is a hazard. Mickey gets the idea of building barricades to give our gang space to play at an intersection, but a beat cop, the nasty "Hard-Boiled" McManus, puts a quick end to that. A sympathetic constable and a detective who has kids of his own give our gang a chance to help law enforcement. The little rascals wear uniforms and keep an eye on things: Joe, for instance, eyes the bananas at Tony's fruit stand. When the now-fired McManus returns and seeks revenge, the junior police force and their adult colleagues are put to the test.
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Shootin' Injuns
Title: Shootin' Injuns
Character: Johnnie
Released: May 2, 1925
Type: Movie
Many of the "Our Gang" kids are in their secret clubhouse - so secret that some wannabe members have troubles trying to find the tunnel entrance - planning their next game, which will be a Wild West shootout. They run into some obstacles in playing the game, including objections from parents, and as such they decide to postpone it until the wee hours of the next morning and play it in the streets of the neighborhood. As it begins to rain during the middle of their shootout that morning, they decide to take refuge in a neighborhood house. What they are unaware of is that the house belongs to inventor W.R. Jones, who rigged it to be a "magnetic house", a demonstration for a possible amusement park attraction. Not knowing about the house's rigged contraptions leads to a lot of misadventures for the gang not related to shooting Indians as they try to figure out what's happening around them.
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Red Pepper
Title: Red Pepper
Character: Boy with Ice Cream (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1925
Type: Movie
An ordinary day - so an eventful one - of Tom Katt, a young man who works as a drugstore owner's assistant: his - very acrobatic - bike ride to his place of work; the - fanciful - way he performs his job; the - ingenious - subterfuge he finds to help his employer, who has money problems; the - swift - way he escapes the cops chasing him...
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Dog Days
Title: Dog Days
Character: Rich Kid
Released: March 7, 1925
Type: Movie
The boys are showing off their dogs to each other when little rich girl Mary Kornman rides by in her pony-drawn cart. When the pony shies and runs away, Mickey comes to the rescue with his dog. In gratitude, Mary invites all the boys and their dogs to her party, much to the chagrin of her wealthy mother.