Donald Kerr

Donald Kerr

Born: August 4, 1891
Died: January 25, 1977
in Eagle Grove, Iowa, USA

Movies for Donald Kerr...

Title: Petticoat Junction
Character: Salesman
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: TV
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
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Ride the High Country
Title: Ride the High Country
Character: Spieler (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1962
Type: Movie
An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
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Some Came Running
Title: Some Came Running
Character: Smitty's Waiter (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1958
Type: Movie
A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.
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The Tunnel of Love
Title: The Tunnel of Love
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1958
Type: Movie
A series of misunderstandings leaves a married man believing he has impregnated the owner of an adoption agency, and that she will be his and his wife's surrogate.
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Party Girl
Title: Party Girl
Character: Backstage Card Player (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1958
Type: Movie
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
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The Big Country
Title: The Big Country
Character: Liveryman (uncredited)
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: Movie
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill, and the rough and lawless Hannasseys over a valuable patch of land.
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My Man Godfrey
Title: My Man Godfrey
Character: Restaurant Waiter (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1957
Type: Movie
The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and noticing his obviously good manners, gets him the job. He proves a great success, but keeps his past to himself. When an old flame turns up Irene's sister Cordelia starts making waves.
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Yaqui Drums
Title: Yaqui Drums
Character: Saloon Piano Player
Released: October 13, 1956
Type: Movie
In this western, a Mexican bandit and an angry rancher team up and take on a crooked saloon keeper.
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Guys and Dolls
Title: Guys and Dolls
Character: Barber (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.
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Illegal
Title: Illegal
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1955
Type: Movie
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
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The Desperate Hours
Title: The Desperate Hours
Character: Barkeeper
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: Movie
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
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Pete Kelly's Blues
Title: Pete Kelly's Blues
Character: Drunk in Speakeasy (uncredited)
Released: July 31, 1955
Type: Movie
In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Title: Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Character: Newspaperman (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.
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New York Confidential
Title: New York Confidential
Released: February 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Title: Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Character: Harvey (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1955
Type: Movie
Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubles in film the which Gorman is now shooting, while the conman tries to have the bungling pair done away with before they realize who he really is.
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Four Guns to the Border
Title: Four Guns to the Border
Character: Town Loafer
Released: November 5, 1954
Type: Movie
A group of outlaws plan and execute a robbery in a small town. However, things go awry as the team attempt a getaway, when a couple of the locals attempting to follow them, are ambushed by marauding natives.
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The Far Country
Title: The Far Country
Character: Miner (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1954
Type: Movie
In 1896, Jeff Webster sees the start of the Klondike gold rush as a golden opportunity to make a fortune in beef...and woe betide anyone standing in his way! He drives a cattle herd from Wyoming to Seattle, by ship to Skagway, and (after a delay caused by larcenous town boss Gannon) through the mountains to Dawson. There, he and his partner Ben Tatum get into the gold business themselves. Two lovely women fall for misanthropic Jeff, but he believes in every-man-for-himself, turning his back on growing lawlessness...until it finally strikes home.
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The Bigamist
Title: The Bigamist
Character: Hollywood Tour Bus Pitchman
Released: December 3, 1953
Type: Movie
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr. Jordan uncovers the fact that Graham has another wife, Phyllis, and a small child in Los Angeles, he confesses everything.
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The Big Heat
Title: The Big Heat
Character: Cabby (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1997.
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Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Title: Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Character: Blackjack Dealer
Released: July 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Professional killer Bus Crow is hired by cattlemen to eliminate squatters. When Marshal Sam Rochelle is sent to investigate, saloon owner Hallie has to be a reluctant witness.
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
Title: The Farmer Takes a Wife
Character: Jacob (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Erie Canal, N.Y., 1850: Molly Larkins, cook on Jotham Klore's canal boat, has a love-hate relationship with her boss. She hires handsome new haul-horse driver Dan Harrow and the inevitable triangle develops (complicated by Dan's desire to farm and Molly's to boat) against a background of the canalmen's fight against the encroaching railroad.
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April in Paris
Title: April in Paris
Released: December 24, 1952
Type: Movie
A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.
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Lost in Alaska
Title: Lost in Alaska
Character: Multolah
Released: August 13, 1952
Type: Movie
After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder.
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Carrie
Title: Carrie
Character: Slawson's Bartender
Released: July 17, 1952
Type: Movie
Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.
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Something to Live For
Title: Something to Live For
Character: Passerby on Street (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1952
Type: Movie
Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actress Jenny Carey whose developing career is threatened by an increasing dependence on alcohol. Alan's growing interest in Jenny strains his marriage to Edna, with whom he has two children.
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Flaming Feather
Title: Flaming Feather
Released: February 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When rancher Tex McCloud has his place burned out, he vows to find and kill the Sidewinder.
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Bend of the River
Title: Bend of the River
Character: Barker (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1952
Type: Movie
Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...
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Detective Story
Title: Detective Story
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
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The Basketball Fix
Title: The Basketball Fix
Character: Headwaiter
Released: August 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A college basketball star collaborrates with organized crime and becomes involved in 'point shaving.' A sportswriter tries to get him back on the right track.
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Title: Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Character: Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1951
Type: Movie
As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.
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Navy Bound
Title: Navy Bound
Character: Older Fisherman at Lounge Table (uncredited)
Released: March 4, 1951
Type: Movie
A sailor who is a champion boxer in the Navy is forced to leave the service because his family's business, a tuna fishing operation, is in financial trouble. He becomes a prizefighter and one day signs up for a winner-take-all boxing match, which could make him a lot of money but could also result in the end of his boxing career.
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Undercover Girl
Title: Undercover Girl
Character: Car Driver (uncredited)
Released: November 2, 1950
Type: Movie
After her father is murdered, a girl joins the police force in an effort to track down the killers.
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So You Want a Raise
Title: So You Want a Raise
Released: September 23, 1950
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes asks for a raise and is informed by his boss that the employee selected by him to run the office while he is on vacation will get a raise.
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Bunco Squad
Title: Bunco Squad
Character: Bunco Truck Driver (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, lining up rich widow Jessica Royce as his latest mark, sets up a false paranormal society with other charlatans to convince the credulous Jessica that her late son is speaking to her through their sham seances. When the plan leads to murder, Johnson and McManus must bring the group down before they kill again.
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Shakedown
Title: Shakedown
Character: Newsboy (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
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Peggy
Title: Peggy
Character: Cab Driver
Released: July 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy but she's smitten with a famous football star so she tries to redirect his interest to Susan.
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Sideshow
Title: Sideshow
Character: Barker
Released: June 18, 1950
Type: Movie
A Treasury Department agent on the trail of an international jewel smuggling ring joins a carnival that he thinks the gang is using as a front. He finally locates the jewels hidden as the eyes of wax figures.
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The Jackie Robinson Story
Title: The Jackie Robinson Story
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: May 16, 1950
Type: Movie
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
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Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Title: Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Character: First Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1950
Type: Movie
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.
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All the King's Men
Title: All the King's Men
Character: Spectator (Uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1949
Type: Movie
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.
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The Heiress
Title: The Heiress
Character: Fish Peddler (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty — filled with little more than needlepoint. Enter handsome Morris Townsend, a dashing social climber with his eye on the spinster's heart and substantial inheritance.
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The Lady Gambles
Title: The Lady Gambles
Character: Roulette Croupier (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1949
Type: Movie
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
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The Set-Up
Title: The Set-Up
Character: Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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Knock on Any Door
Title: Knock on Any Door
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1949
Type: Movie
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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He Walked by Night
Title: He Walked by Night
Character: Mailman (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1949
Type: Movie
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
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Ladies of the Chorus
Title: Ladies of the Chorus
Released: December 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and Peggy takes her place. When Peggy falls in love with wealthy Randy, May fears class differences may lead to misery.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Title: I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Character: Vaudeville Man
Released: May 23, 1948
Type: Movie
An innocent dancer is accused of murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his wife follows the trail of clues to find the real perpetrator.
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So You Want to Build a House
Title: So You Want to Build a House
Character: Andy McGoon (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1948
Type: Movie
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes is evicted from his apartment and decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, his dream house turns into a nightmare.
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Arthur Takes Over
Title: Arthur Takes Over
Character: Cab Driver
Released: April 7, 1948
Type: Movie
A young woman must find a way to break the news to her parents and a stuffy suitor that she is now married to a sailor.
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Secret Beyond the Door...
Title: Secret Beyond the Door...
Character: Ticket Man (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1947
Type: Movie
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.
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The Judge Steps Out
Title: The Judge Steps Out
Character: Photographer with Reporter (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
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Always Together
Title: Always Together
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1947
Type: Movie
An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors.
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Desperate
Title: Desperate
Character: News Vendor on Train (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1947
Type: Movie
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.
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Buck Privates Come Home
Title: Buck Privates Come Home
Character: Tie Demo Bystander (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
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The Best Years of Our Lives
Title: The Best Years of Our Lives
Character: Steve the Bartender (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
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Wife Wanted
Title: Wife Wanted
Character: Bellboy
Released: November 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby, they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people. Carole, unknowingly, is used as bait for one of their victims, Walter Desmond, who "commits suicide." Reporter William Tyler thinks otherwise.
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Nocturne
Title: Nocturne
Character: Gaffer
Released: October 29, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.
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Flight to Nowhere
Title: Flight to Nowhere
Character: Stable Hand
Released: September 30, 1946
Type: Movie
A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets.
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Big Town
Title: Big Town
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: August 23, 1946
Type: Movie
A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.
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Notorious
Title: Notorious
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: August 21, 1946
Type: Movie
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
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The Last Crooked Mile
Title: The Last Crooked Mile
Character: Carnival Barker
Released: August 9, 1946
Type: Movie
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
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Mysterious Intruder
Title: Mysterious Intruder
Character: Reporter (Uncredited)
Released: April 11, 1946
Type: Movie
A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.
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Night Editor
Title: Night Editor
Character: Reporter (Uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1946
Type: Movie
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
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Murder Is My Business
Title: Murder Is My Business
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: March 7, 1946
Type: Movie
Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper press that he is going to close Shayne's agency, just as Michael is about to be hired by the wealthy Eleanor Ramsey, who is being blackmailed. She is the stepmother of what she considers to be two grown-up brats, Dorothy and Ernest, and she considers their father to be of little value to the world himself. They all conspire to get their hands on her money, even to the extent of attempting to hire Shayne to frame an insurance robbery. Mrs. Ramsey is murdered, and Rafferty is trying to pin the killing on Shayne, despite the fact that suspicion points to Buell Renslow, brother of the slain woman. Shayne's secretary, the fetching Phyllis Hamilton, decides to do a little detective work to help her boss.
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Crime of the Century
Title: Crime of the Century
Character: Newsman (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1946
Type: Movie
Ex-convict Hank Rogers is searching for his brother Jim, a newspaperman, and becomes involved with a group of people trying to conceal the death of the president of a large corporation so they can profit financially. With the aid of the dead man's daughter, Audrey Brandon, Hank exposes the crooks.
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Little Giant
Title: Little Giant
Character: Salesman (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1946
Type: Movie
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
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A Guy Could Change
Title: A Guy Could Change
Character: Counterman
Released: January 27, 1946
Type: Movie
A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.
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The Face of Marble
Title: The Face of Marble
Character: 2nd Photographer
Released: January 19, 1946
Type: Movie
The story of Dr. Charles Randolph, a scientist dedicated to deciphering the secrets of life and death. Aided by assistant David Cochran, Charles conducts experiments that have horrifying side effects. Charles's lonely wife, Elaine, is frightened by his work, and in order to protect her, housekeeper Maria unleashes a torrent of voodoo that wrecks havoc.
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On Stage Everybody
Title: On Stage Everybody
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
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The Naughty Nineties
Title: The Naughty Nineties
Character: Croupier (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1945
Type: Movie
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
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Earl Carroll Vanities
Title: Earl Carroll Vanities
Character: Assistant Dance Director
Released: April 5, 1945
Type: Movie
Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual "Vanities" provided story material for three Hollywood films: Murder at the Vanities (34), A Night at Earl Carroll's (40) and Earl Carroll Vanities (45). This last film was produced by Republic Pictures, a bread-and-butter studio specializing in Westerns and serials; Republic had made musicals before, but few of them were expensive enough to allow for lavish production numbers. Earl Carroll Vanities is likewise rather threadbare, though some of the individual musical highlights aren't bad. The plot, such as it is, concerns financially strapped nightclub owner Eve Arden, who finagles Earl Carroll into staging one of his revues at her club.
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The Man Who Walked Alone
Title: The Man Who Walked Alone
Character: Zilch
Released: March 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.
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Here Come the Co-eds
Title: Here Come the Co-eds
Character: Man Taking Dance Lesson (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1945
Type: Movie
Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.
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Double Exposure
Title: Double Exposure
Character: Newspaper Reporter
Released: December 18, 1944
Type: Movie
In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to prove her own innocence.
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Murder, My Sweet
Title: Murder, My Sweet
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1944
Type: Movie
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
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The Woman in the Window
Title: The Woman in the Window
Character: First Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
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The Mark of the Whistler
Title: The Mark of the Whistler
Character: Newspaper Photographer (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1944
Type: Movie
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.
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Atlantic City
Title: Atlantic City
Character: Oakes
Released: September 15, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon".
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Youth Runs Wild
Title: Youth Runs Wild
Character: Member of Horse Act (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1944
Type: Movie
The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.
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South of Dixie
Title: South of Dixie
Character: Newspaper Reporter
Released: June 23, 1944
Type: Movie
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate of Dixieland.
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And the Angels Sing
Title: And the Angels Sing
Character: Mickey
Released: April 25, 1944
Type: Movie
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an offer of ten dollars to sing at a dubious night club on the edge of town where a band led by Happy Marshall is playing.
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True to Life
Title: True to Life
Character: Guide on Bus (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
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There's Something About a Soldier
Title: There's Something About a Soldier
Character: Cab Driver
Released: November 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.
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Nearly Eighteen
Title: Nearly Eighteen
Character: Harry, the Bartender
Released: November 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A singer pretends to be younger so she can enter a music school.
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Northern Pursuit
Title: Northern Pursuit
Character: Reporter at Winnipeg (uncredited)
Released: November 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
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The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Title: The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1943
Type: Movie
A woman of twenty-one opens her grandfather's will left to her thirteen years earlier, per his instructions. Murder soon follows.
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So's Your Uncle
Title: So's Your Uncle
Character: Chauffeur
Released: September 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not approve of their relationship.
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A Lady Takes a Chance
Title: A Lady Takes a Chance
Character: Gambler
Released: August 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
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Crime Doctor
Title: Crime Doctor
Character: Second Reporter in Court
Released: June 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
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All by Myself
Title: All by Myself
Character: Bit
Released: June 11, 1943
Type: Movie
Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who of course is unaware of it. But unknown to Jean, Mark has become engaged to singer Val. When Jean finds out she tries to save face by saying that she is also engaged, and then uses a little social blackmail to get psychiatrist Bill Perry to pretend to be her fiancé for an evening out with Mark and Val.
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Redhead from Manhattan
Title: Redhead from Manhattan
Character: Musician
Released: May 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
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Silver Skates
Title: Silver Skates
Character: Mail Boy
Released: February 26, 1943
Type: Movie
The management of touring ice show faces mounting debts.
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The Great Gildersleeve
Title: The Great Gildersleeve
Character: Photographer
Released: December 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew.
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Cat People
Title: Cat People
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1942
Type: Movie
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
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The Big Street
Title: The Big Street
Character: Pete the Passer (Uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.
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The Pride of the Yankees
Title: The Pride of the Yankees
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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Obliging Young Lady
Title: Obliging Young Lady
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
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The Fleet's In
Title: The Fleet's In
Character: Sailor Herb
Released: January 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
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Riot Squad
Title: Riot Squad
Character: Herbie
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Crime drama starring Richard Cromwell as a young medic who becomes the private physician to an underworld gang.
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The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Title: The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Character: John, the Chauffeur
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
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Birth of the Blues
Title: Birth of the Blues
Character: Skeeter, Barbershop Musician
Released: November 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
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Man-I-Cured
Title: Man-I-Cured
Character: Watson, Errol's Butler
Released: September 20, 1941
Type: Movie
Leon Errol and his wife try to prevent their nephew's romance.
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Roar of the Press
Title: Roar of the Press
Character: 'Red' Keane, Photographer
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
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Kitty Foyle
Title: Kitty Foyle
Character: First New York Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.
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Souls in Pawn
Title: Souls in Pawn
Character: Nan's P.R. Man
Released: December 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Although she is secretly married to a student, a young girl is forced to give up her baby rather than be thought of as an "unwed mother".
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The Devil Bat
Title: The Devil Bat
Character: 'One-Shot' McGuire
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Dr. Paul Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers' family members by instilling in the bats a hatred for a particular perfume he has discovered, which he gets his victims to apply before going outdoors. Johnny Layton, a reporter, finally figures out Carruthers is the killer and, after putting the perfume on himself, douses it on Carruthers in the hopes it will get him to give himself away. One of the two is attacked as the giant bat makes one of its screaming, swooping power dives.
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Drums of the Desert
Title: Drums of the Desert
Character: Hospital Attendant
Released: October 6, 1940
Type: Movie
On his way to a post as special adviser of the new parachute troops of the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Paul Dumont meets the beautiful Helene on the ship. A romance ensues, but the two decide to part when Paul learns that Helene is the fiancée of his best friend and fellow officer Raoul. Raoul is wounded during an Arab attack and the wedding is postponed, and Helene and Paul are thrown together and find it impossible to hide their feelings. The meet in the tent of Hassan, a fortune teller, not knowing the tent is a storage place for arms and ammunition belonging to Addullah, an Arab leader determined to avenge the death of his brother Ben Ali.
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The Ape
Title: The Ape
Character: Citizen Carrying Mauled Ape Trainer
Released: September 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?
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Under Texas Skies
Title: Under Texas Skies
Character: Express Agent
Released: September 29, 1940
Type: Movie
The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been murdered by person or persons unknown. The new sheriff (Henry Brandon) resents the arrival of the Mesquiteers, going so far as to frame Tucson on a murder charge.
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Dance, Girl, Dance
Title: Dance, Girl, Dance
Character: Photographer in Hallway (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
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Wildcat Bus
Title: Wildcat Bus
Character: Mechanic (uncredited)
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
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Stranger on the Third Floor
Title: Stranger on the Third Floor
Character: Man Wanting Seat at Lunch Counter (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
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One Crowded Night
Title: One Crowded Night
Character: Car Owner
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.
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Millionaires in Prison
Title: Millionaires in Prison
Character: Prison Library Clerk (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
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Pop Always Pays
Title: Pop Always Pays
Character: Parking Lot Attendant
Released: June 21, 1940
Type: Movie
A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money. This 1940 comedy stars Leon Errol, Marjorie Gateson, Dennis O'Keefe, Adele Pearce and Walter Catlett.
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On the Spot
Title: On the Spot
Character: Reporter in Phone Booth
Released: June 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Frankie Kelly is the soda jerk and embryo scientist in Midvales only drugstore. Two murders and an attempted killing suddenly swing Midvale into national prominence. Frankie and his pal, Jefferson, become involved when a wounded gangster starts to tell them where $300,000 in stolen loot is hidden, but he is murdered before he can give them all of the information. The search is on.
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Men Without Souls
Title: Men Without Souls
Character: First Photographer (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.
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Mad Youth
Title: Mad Youth
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: May 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A rich society mother hires a male escort, but he falls for her daughter instead. The mother-daughter conflict forces the daughter to run off to stay with a friend who is enslaved by a prostitution ring.
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Son of the Navy
Title: Son of the Navy
Character: Roving-Eyed Sailor
Released: March 30, 1940
Type: Movie
A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.
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Primrose Path
Title: Primrose Path
Character: Sailor in Bluebell
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
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Millionaire Playboy
Title: Millionaire Playboy
Character: Sporting Goods Store Proprietor
Released: March 14, 1940
Type: Movie
A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman.
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The House Across the Bay
Title: The House Across the Bay
Character: Driver
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda, testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma, who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan, who knows nothing about her past.
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Chasing Trouble
Title: Chasing Trouble
Character: Cassidy
Released: January 30, 1940
Type: Movie
A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign espionage ring.
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The Fighting 69th
Title: The Fighting 69th
Character: New Recruit (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
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The Saint's Double Trouble
Title: The Saint's Double Trouble
Character: Card Player (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
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The Fatal Hour
Title: The Fatal Hour
Character: The Drunk
Released: January 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. Wong faces increasing danger and is nearly executed himself as the investigation develops in treachery and complexity. As Mr. Wong follows the trail of dead bodies, he uncovers a jewel smuggling ring on the San Francisco waterfront and a case much larger than the death of a police officer.
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Mexican Spitfire
Title: Mexican Spitfire
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: January 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up their marriage.
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Slightly Honorable
Title: Slightly Honorable
Character: Photographer (Uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
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Reno
Title: Reno
Character: Waiter Bringing Drinks
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
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The Roaring Twenties
Title: The Roaring Twenties
Character: Cabbie (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1939
Type: Movie
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Irish Luck
Title: Irish Luck
Character: Reporter
Released: August 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A spunky young bellhop investigates the murder of a hotel guest.
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Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Title: Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military mission for Chinese forces fighting the Japanese invasion. Mr. Wong finds two captains with the intial J in the case, neither being quite what he seems; there's fog on the waterfront and someone still has that poison-dart gun...
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The Spellbinder
Title: The Spellbinder
Character: Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?
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Second Fiddle
Title: Second Fiddle
Character: Pool Party Photographer
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
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The Girl from Mexico
Title: The Girl from Mexico
Character: Soda Vendor
Released: June 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.
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Exile Express
Title: Exile Express
Character: Reporter
Released: May 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
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Lucky Night
Title: Lucky Night
Character: Seller in Play Palace (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.
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Streets of New York
Title: Streets of New York
Character: Newspaper Distributor (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of making his fortune. Along the way he faces numerous obstacles, opportunities and temptations, but through it all, he considers the actions of his hero, Abraham Lincoln, for guidance. Will Jimmy see his dreams come true, or will he be another of the countless hopefuls chewed up and spit out by New York's mean streets?
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Almost a Gentleman
Title: Almost a Gentleman
Character: Bystander
Released: March 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.
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Sudden Money
Title: Sudden Money
Character: Ted
Released: March 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.
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King of the Turf
Title: King of the Turf
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a job around horses; his biggest hobby. When he finds out the real identity of Mason, Goldie takes care of him. The two find an occasion to buy a horse for only two dollars, and start entering competitions. Goldie is an instant celebrity, but his mom reads the newspapers and tracks him down. Mason is very surprised to see her, his ex-wife, and even more astonished to hear that Goldie is his own son. However, Goldie must go back to school and so they decide to keep the secret. Since Goldie does not want to leave Mason behind, he goes to the bookies and fixes the next race, hoping to disappoint Goldie by asking him to lose on purpose.
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They Made Me a Criminal
Title: They Made Me a Criminal
Character: Man in Ring After First Fight (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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Convict's Code
Title: Convict's Code
Character: Barfly
Released: January 18, 1939
Type: Movie
On parole after three years in prison, a football player (Robert Kent) encounters the man (Sidney Blackmer) who framed him.
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The Great Man Votes
Title: The Great Man Votes
Character: Milk Truck Driver
Released: January 13, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.
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Gang Bullets
Title: Gang Bullets
Character: Joe Armstrong
Released: November 10, 1938
Type: Movie
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
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Mars Attacks the World
Title: Mars Attacks the World
Character: 'Happy' Hapgood
Released: November 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Feature version of the 1938 film serial FLASH GORDON'S TRIP TO MARS. Flash Gordon fights Ming the Merciless once again to ensure the survival of the Earth.
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The Mad Miss Manton
Title: The Mad Miss Manton
Character: Ben - Melsa's Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1938
Type: Movie
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
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Fugitives for a Night
Title: Fugitives for a Night
Character: Man Greeting Nelson on Studio Lot
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.
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Four Daughters
Title: Four Daughters
Character: Earl
Released: August 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue.
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Rebellious Daughters
Title: Rebellious Daughters
Released: July 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Girl moves out of her parents house against their wishes. Gets a job in a dress shop, gets mixed up with dirty pictures and blackmail.
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Woman Against Woman
Title: Woman Against Woman
Character: Country Club Cloak Room Attendant
Released: June 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
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Air Devils
Title: Air Devils
Character: Constable
Released: May 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.
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The Lady in the Morgue
Title: The Lady in the Morgue
Character: Greening
Released: April 22, 1938
Type: Movie
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
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Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
Title: Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
Character: Happy Hapgood
Released: March 21, 1938
Type: Movie
When a deadly Nitron ray strikes Earth, Flash Gordon and his friends travel to Mars to battle Ming the Merciless and his new ally Queen Azura.
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The Dummy Owner
Title: The Dummy Owner
Released: January 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of record. At first, Leon is excited, but the arrangement soon creates difficulty for him. First, he knows nothing about horses except how to bet on them, and second, when his wife finds out, she is furious.
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She's Got Everything
Title: She's Got Everything
Character: First Taxi Driver
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marry a millionaire, but Carol insists on getting a job.
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You're a Sweetheart
Title: You're a Sweetheart
Character: Stagehand (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1937
Type: Movie
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
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High Flyers
Title: High Flyers
Character: The Chauffeur
Released: November 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.
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Hollywood Round-Up
Title: Hollywood Round-Up
Character: Movie Set Crewman
Released: November 6, 1937
Type: Movie
While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a "fake" bank robbery turns out to be the real thing.
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Music for Madame
Title: Music for Madame
Character: Movie Set Assistant (Voice) (Uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
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A Bride for Henry
Title: A Bride for Henry
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1937
Type: Movie
On the day of her wedding a young woman's fiancé doesn't show up, sleeping off the results of the previous night's wild bachelor party. Miffed, the woman decides to go ahead with the wedding anyway to teach her fiancé a lesson, so she calls her lawyer, Henry, and has him stand in for her missing groom. She intends to divorce her new "husband" at the first opportunity, but Henry--who has been in love with her for a long time--is determined to win his "wife's" hand.
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Forty Naughty Girls
Title: Forty Naughty Girls
Character: Call Boy
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.
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Talent Scout
Title: Talent Scout
Character: Twerp - Writer (uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
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The Big Shot
Title: The Big Shot
Character: Mac
Released: July 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A small-town veterinarian inherits $2 million from an uncle he barely knew. His attempts to help mankind don't go smoothly.
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On Again—Off Again
Title: On Again—Off Again
Character: Mug Butler
Released: July 9, 1937
Type: Movie
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!
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Kid Galahad
Title: Kid Galahad
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
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Circus Girl
Title: Circus Girl
Character: Gabby
Released: March 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
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We Who Are About to Die
Title: We Who Are About to Die
Character: Agitated Citizen at Shoeshine Stand (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
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One Live Ghost
Title: One Live Ghost
Character: Chauffeur
Released: November 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Henry Morton just wants to go fishing. Little things thwart him: Maxine the maid makes noise, Sonny, a lad in the household, makes a mess, and Henry's wife wants the car for shopping. A newly arrived friend, Bert, suggests that Henry fake his own death, don a disguise and appear as Bert's English valet, and skulk about. They'll mourn and the truth can later be revealed. Sonny hears the entire plan and alerts Henry's wife and the rest of the household. Only Maxine is in the dark. Henry's wife gives the valet an attic room, throws herself in his arms, complains about her late husband, and sends Henry into a tizzy. He and Bert set up a séance to try to fix their ruse.
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The Drag-Net
Title: The Drag-Net
Character: Al Wilson
Released: April 15, 1936
Type: Movie
A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.
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Taming the Wild
Title: Taming the Wild
Character: Jimmy Taylor - Reporter
Released: February 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Madcap society girl June Bolton has a talent for trouble. Trying to evade a subpoena in connection with one of her misadventures, she winds up in jail and has to be bailed out by the family attorney, Dick Clayton. But June is soon in trouble again, this time involved with a mob boss and a shady lady. Exasperated by his wealthy client's reckless escapades, Clayton determines to quit... until he realizes he has fallen in love with the little madcap.
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The Rainmakers
Title: The Rainmakers
Character: Townsman
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
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Confidential
Title: Confidential
Character: Reporter
Released: October 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.
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She Couldn't Take It
Title: She Couldn't Take It
Character: Sailor
Released: October 8, 1935
Type: Movie
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
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Hot Tip
Title: Hot Tip
Character: Spider
Released: August 20, 1935
Type: Movie
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
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The Nitwits
Title: The Nitwits
Character: Martin
Released: June 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
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Baby Face Harrington
Title: Baby Face Harrington
Character: Reporter
Released: April 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2." Comedy.
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Kentucky Kernels
Title: Kentucky Kernels
Character: Bronson's Chauffeur
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the little boy. But Spanky inherits a Kentucky fortune, so they head south to Banesville, where the Milfords and Wakefields are conducting a bitter feud.
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The Murder in the Museum
Title: The Murder in the Museum
Character: Museum Tour Guide
Released: May 26, 1934
Type: Movie
When a city councilman is murdered while investigating allegations of drug dealing going on a a somewhat disreputable sideshow, the daughter of the chief suspect teams up with a newspaper reporter to find the real killer.
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The Road to Ruin
Title: The Road to Ruin
Character: Drunk shooting Dice
Released: May 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion.
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Carnival Lady
Title: Carnival Lady
Character: Dick
Released: November 11, 1933
Type: Movie
When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Depressed, he joins a circus.
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Bombshell
Title: Bombshell
Character: Monte - Lola's Makeup Man (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
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My Woman
Title: My Woman
Character: Party Guest (Uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
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Picture Snatcher
Title: Picture Snatcher
Character: Mike - Man with Colleen (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
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The Voice of Hollywood No. 1
Title: The Voice of Hollywood No. 1
Released: December 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Radio announcer Lloyd Hamilton tries on straw boaters while various performers do things on the mythical station STAR. They include Dorothy Burgess, Donald Kerr, Carlotta King, and Ruth Hiatt.