Frank Mayo

Frank Mayo

Born: June 27, 1889
Died: July 9, 1963
in New York City, New York, USA
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Frank Mayo (June 28, 1889 – July 9, 1963) was an American actor. He appeared in 310 films between 1911 and 1949. He was born in New York, New York, and died in Laguna Beach, California, from a heart attack. He was married to actress Dagmar Godowsky from 1921-1928. The marriage was annulled in August 1928 on the ground that Mayo had another wife. Mayo was buried at the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Movies for Frank Mayo...

In the Good Old Summertime
Title: In the Good Old Summertime
Character: Guest (uncredited)
Released: July 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
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The Phantom Creeps
Title: The Phantom Creeps
Character: West's Boss
Released: June 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Not a feature, but an edited version of the 1939 serial "The Phantom Creeps" which was released to TV in 1949.
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The Undercover Man
Title: The Undercover Man
Character: Jury Foreman
Released: March 21, 1949
Type: Movie
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.
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Alias Nick Beal
Title: Alias Nick Beal
Character: Committee Man
Released: March 4, 1949
Type: Movie
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
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The Bribe
Title: The Bribe
Character: American Tourist (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1949
Type: Movie
United States Federal agent Rigby travels to the Central American island Carlotta to investigate a stolen aircraft engines smuggling racket.
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Slightly French
Title: Slightly French
Character: Soundman (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.
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Words and Music
Title: Words and Music
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1948
Type: Movie
Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979): from their first meeting, through lean years and their breakthrough, to their successes on Broadway, London, and Hollywood. We see the fruits of Hart and Rodgers' collaboration - elaborately staged numbers from their plays, characters' visits to night clubs, and impromptu performances at parties. We also see Larry's scattered approach to life, his failed love with Peggy McNeil, his unhappiness, and Richard's successful wooing of Dorothy Feiner.
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The Fuller Brush Man
Title: The Fuller Brush Man
Character: Chess-Playing Club Member (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.
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State of the Union
Title: State of the Union
Character: City Official
Released: April 30, 1948
Type: Movie
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
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Homecoming
Title: Homecoming
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1948
Type: Movie
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a sassy and attractive nurse. Their initial antagonism blossoms into romance. Lee then finds himself torn with guilt over being unfaithful to his wife, Penny, who's waiting for him back home.
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Panhandle
Title: Panhandle
Character: Poker Player (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1948
Type: Movie
An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.
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To the Ends of the Earth
Title: To the Ends of the Earth
Character: Ship's Captain (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.
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Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Title: Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Character: Detective
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.
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Killer McCoy
Title: Killer McCoy
Character: Man at Bar (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerful right arm. He becomes successful at boxing, however he has an alcoholic father.
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Her Husband's Affairs
Title: Her Husband's Affairs
Character: Vice President Starrett
Released: November 12, 1947
Type: Movie
Bill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret's approval of his work, instead he gets constructive (and on-target) feedback, which he hates. Things get really strange when Bill creates advertising for a wacky inventor's embalming fluid.
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The Perils of Pauline
Title: The Perils of Pauline
Character: Reporter at Reception (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take
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Buck Privates Come Home
Title: Buck Privates Come Home
Character: The Colonel (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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Undercurrent
Title: Undercurrent
Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1946
Type: Movie
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.
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The Devil's Mask
Title: The Devil's Mask
Character: Quentin Mitchell
Released: May 23, 1946
Type: Movie
A San Francisco airplane bound for South America crashes, and among the scorched debris is found a shrunken native human head, neatly packaged. The perplexed police contact a local anthropology museum about this unclaimed piece of grisly baggage, where they intersect with Jack and Doc, two private eyes, called there to meet a mysterious woman who had a case for them and wanted to meet in private.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
Title: The Postman Always Rings Twice
Character: Bailiff (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1946
Type: Movie
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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Gilda
Title: Gilda
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1946
Type: Movie
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
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Hitchhike to Happiness
Title: Hitchhike to Happiness
Character: Police Detective (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1945
Type: Movie
An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them believe that the waiter lacks the talent to make it big. Only an aspiring songwriter, and a former waitress who has become a famous Hollywood radio star, really believe in him. When the ex-waitress drops by the restaurant to say hello, she and the others decide to play a trick on an arrogant producer by making him believe the waiter has written a sure-fire hit. They succeed and the producer puts on the show. The singer gets to be the star. When the show becomes a smash, everyone is surprised. Songs include: "Hitchhike To Happiness," "For You And Me," "Sentimental," and "My Pushover Heart."
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The Lady Confesses
Title: The Lady Confesses
Character: Coroner
Released: May 16, 1945
Type: Movie
An estranged wife shows up after a nearly 7 years of disappearance -- thought to be dead, to prevent her husband from marrying his new love until someone kills her.
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The Scarlet Clue
Title: The Scarlet Clue
Character: Det. Hodge (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1945
Type: Movie
Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
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The Brighton Strangler
Title: The Brighton Strangler
Character: Policeman (Uncredited)
Released: May 10, 1945
Type: Movie
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
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Eve Knew Her Apples
Title: Eve Knew Her Apples
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1945
Type: Movie
Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She refuses and goes to Las Vegas. When she finds them there hunting her down, she manages to escape them by hiding in the car of a newspaper reporter. She comes out of hiding while he is driving, but everything she says is misconstrued, making him believe that she is a recently-escaped convict, "The Singing Widow". He plans to use this as a story to get back into the good graces of his editor. Through some comic mishaps, he learns who she really is. He then decides to take her back to Hollywood to collect the reward for her return. But now love has entered the mix, and must be resolved with his job and her engagement to another.
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Escape in the Fog
Title: Escape in the Fog
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1945
Type: Movie
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.
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The Falcon in Mexico
Title: The Falcon in Mexico
Character: Inspector O'Shea (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1944
Type: Movie
The Falcon travels to Mexico where he gets involved with murder and a mysterious painting.
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Mademoiselle Fifi
Title: Mademoiselle Fifi
Character: Sergeant at Inn (uncredited)
Released: July 28, 1944
Type: Movie
In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer holds the coach over, social standings are leveled and integrity and spirit are put to the test.
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Mr. Skeffington
Title: Mr. Skeffington
Character: Stock Broker (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
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Old Acquaintance
Title: Old Acquaintance
Character: Army Officer (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
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Princess O'Rourke
Title: Princess O'Rourke
Character: Airline Passenger (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1943
Type: Movie
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
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Corvette K-225
Title: Corvette K-225
Character: Captain of Merchant Ship
Released: September 29, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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Action in the North Atlantic
Title: Action in the North Atlantic
Character: Major / Seaman (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
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The Mysterious Doctor
Title: The Mysterious Doctor
Character: Simon Tewksbury
Released: March 3, 1943
Type: Movie
The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.
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The Gorilla Man
Title: The Gorilla Man
Character: Constable Ryan
Released: January 16, 1943
Type: Movie
A wounded soldier discovers his hospital is secretly run by the Nazis.
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The Hard Way
Title: The Hard Way
Character: Railroad Ticket Taker (Uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
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Gentleman Jim
Title: Gentleman Jim
Character: Gov. Stanford (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
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Across the Pacific
Title: Across the Pacific
Character: Trial Judge Advocate (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveller Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
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Men of the Sky
Title: Men of the Sky
Character: Mr. Mathews (uncredited)
Released: July 25, 1942
Type: Movie
A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots receiving their wings from Lt. General H.H. Arnold. An off-screen narrator introduces four of them to us; we see them before the war, during flight training, and in their first assignments as pilots.
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The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Title: The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Character: District Attorney
Released: July 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Story of a rich man who backs a show for an old man and his granddaughter from the East Side who has brought joy to the money bag's crippled son.
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The Big Shot
Title: The Big Shot
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: June 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.
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Spy Ship
Title: Spy Ship
Character: Police Sergeant
Released: June 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.
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In This Our Life
Title: In This Our Life
Character: Policeman in Car (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1942
Type: Movie
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
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I Was Framed
Title: I Was Framed
Released: April 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
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Lady Gangster
Title: Lady Gangster
Character: Walker
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, she is thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners don't have the same ideas.
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The Male Animal
Title: The Male Animal
Character: Coach Sprague
Released: March 12, 1942
Type: Movie
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Title: Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Character: Joe Oakey
Released: January 31, 1942
Type: Movie
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
Title: The Man Who Came to Dinner
Character: Plainclothesman (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1941
Type: Movie
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
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Steel Against the Sky
Title: Steel Against the Sky
Character: New Worker (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
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They Died with Their Boots On
Title: They Died with Their Boots On
Character: Orderly (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1941
Type: Movie
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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Blues in the Night
Title: Blues in the Night
Character: Gambler Watching Kay Throw Dice (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1941
Type: Movie
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.
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One Foot in Heaven
Title: One Foot in Heaven
Character: Waiting Train Passenger (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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Sergeant York
Title: Sergeant York
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Title: Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1941
Type: Movie
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
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Manpower
Title: Manpower
Character: Midnight Club Doorman (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
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Highway West
Title: Highway West
Character: Police Patrolman (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
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Bad Men of Missouri
Title: Bad Men of Missouri
Character: Henchman
Released: July 26, 1941
Type: Movie
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
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Bullets for O'Hara
Title: Bullets for O'Hara
Character: Weldon
Released: July 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.
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Out of the Fog
Title: Out of the Fog
Character: Reporter
Released: June 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
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The Nurse's Secret
Title: The Nurse's Secret
Character: Policeman
Released: May 24, 1941
Type: Movie
An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.
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The Wagons Roll at Night
Title: The Wagons Roll at Night
Character: Wally
Released: April 25, 1941
Type: Movie
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat. While acclimating to carnival life, Matt begins a romance with Nick's sister, Mary, causing tension between Matt and Nick. The latter must also juggle his stormy relationship with glamorous circus star Flo Lorraine.
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Footsteps in the Dark
Title: Footsteps in the Dark
Character: Joe a Cop (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
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The Great Mr. Nobody
Title: The Great Mr. Nobody
Character: Fireman (uncredited)
Released: February 15, 1941
Type: Movie
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
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Four Mothers
Title: Four Mothers
Character: Worker Not Wearing Mask (uncredited)
Released: January 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
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Santa Fe Trail
Title: Santa Fe Trail
Character: Engineer (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
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She Couldn't Say No
Title: She Couldn't Say No
Character: Town Marshal
Released: December 7, 1940
Type: Movie
Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the oddball and very shrewd characters in a small town.
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East of the River
Title: East of the River
Character: Prison Guard (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
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No Time for Comedy
Title: No Time for Comedy
Character: Actor in Show (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1940
Type: Movie
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
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Flowing Gold
Title: Flowing Gold
Character: Mike Brannigan
Released: August 24, 1940
Type: Movie
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Motorist at Accident Scene (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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Torrid Zone
Title: Torrid Zone
Character: Shaffer
Released: May 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
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Tear Gas Squad
Title: Tear Gas Squad
Character: Nick, proprietor
Released: May 4, 1940
Type: Movie
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
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An Angel from Texas
Title: An Angel from Texas
Character: Bill - Cigar Attendant
Released: April 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
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'Til We Meet Again
Title: 'Til We Meet Again
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
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Alice in Movieland
Title: Alice in Movieland
Character: Sam Purdee (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1940
Type: Movie
In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment after disappointment, and she needs the unexpected encouragement of her grandmother and an aging, former star whom she meets at a talent night. Finally, she gets a call to be an extra, and she's so hopeful that the regulars decide to make a fool of her. Is this the end of Alice's dream? Not if the porter has anything to say about it.
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Title: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Character: Assistant in Hospital
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
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Teddy the Rough Rider
Title: Teddy the Rough Rider
Character: Cabinet Member
Released: February 21, 1940
Type: Movie
This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. According to the narrator, Roosevelt refused to be beholden to political bosses, doing what he believed to be right for the American people.
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Castle on the Hudson
Title: Castle on the Hudson
Character: Visitor Room Guard (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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Calling Philo Vance
Title: Calling Philo Vance
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
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The Fighting 69th
Title: The Fighting 69th
Character: Captain Bootz (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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Invisible Stripes
Title: Invisible Stripes
Character: Prison Gate Guard (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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Private Detective
Title: Private Detective
Character: John Crane, Mona's Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1939
Type: Movie
A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.
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A Child Is Born
Title: A Child Is Born
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
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The Return of Doctor X
Title: The Return of Doctor X
Character: Attorney (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1939
Type: Movie
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
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British Intelligence
Title: British Intelligence
Character: Brixton - Intelligence Agent
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.
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Kid Nightingale
Title: Kid Nightingale
Character: Tall Creditor (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1939
Type: Movie
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
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The Roaring Twenties
Title: The Roaring Twenties
Character: Policeman (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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Smashing the Money Ring
Title: Smashing the Money Ring
Character: Bill - Moving Van Driver (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1939
Type: Movie
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
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On Your Toes
Title: On Your Toes
Character: Third Policeman
Released: October 14, 1939
Type: Movie
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
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Oklahoma Frontier
Title: Oklahoma Frontier
Character: Cap
Released: October 9, 1939
Type: Movie
It's the opening of the Cherokee strip and the Rankins are after a particular section. Frazier is also after the same section and has hired outlaws to make sure he gets it. When Jeff gives Rankin a map, the outlaws kill Rankin, steal the map, and frame Jeff for the murder. Scheduled to be hung the day of the land rush, Jeff's pal Frosty has a plan to free him.
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Title: Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Character: Tribune Photographer
Released: September 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
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Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Title: Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Character: McGuire's Arresting Officer (uncredited)
Released: August 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
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The Cowboy Quarterback
Title: The Cowboy Quarterback
Character: Jail Guard
Released: July 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with gamblers and Rusty's girl Evelyn Corey makes a play for him.
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Naughty But Nice
Title: Naughty But Nice
Character: Frank, Superior Court Bailiff (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
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Code of the Secret Service
Title: Code of the Secret Service
Character: Casino Manager (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Title: Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Character: FBI Agent Phillips (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Dark Victory
Title: Dark Victory
Character: Judith's Friend (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.
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Women in the Wind
Title: Women in the Wind
Character: Salesman (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
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You Can't Get Away with Murder
Title: You Can't Get Away with Murder
Character: Keeper Collins (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.
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The Oklahoma Kid
Title: The Oklahoma Kid
Character: Land Agent (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1939
Type: Movie
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.
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Secret Service of the Air
Title: Secret Service of the Air
Character: Treasury Agent Manning
Released: March 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
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Nancy Drew... Reporter
Title: Nancy Drew... Reporter
Character: Man Leaving Courthouse (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1939
Type: Movie
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Title: Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Character: Officer (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
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They Made Me a Criminal
Title: They Made Me a Criminal
Character: Man at First Fight with Tophat (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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The Phantom Creeps
Title: The Phantom Creeps
Character: Train Engineer
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
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Swingtime in the Movies
Title: Swingtime in the Movies
Character: Mr. Dodds (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1938
Type: Movie
In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.
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Heart of the North
Title: Heart of the North
Character: Miner (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1938
Type: Movie
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.
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The Great Waltz
Title: The Great Waltz
Character: Ship's Officer (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
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I Am the Law
Title: I Am the Law
Character: Witness (uncredited)
Released: August 25, 1938
Type: Movie
With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.
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Cowboy from Brooklyn
Title: Cowboy from Brooklyn
Character: Reporter at Rodeo
Released: July 9, 1938
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
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Hollywood Handicap
Title: Hollywood Handicap
Character: Laughing Man in Race Crowd
Released: May 28, 1938
Type: Movie
A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They raise money to run the horse in the Hollywood Derby at Santa Anita race track. Many Hollywood personalities attend the event.
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Tim Tyler's Luck
Title: Tim Tyler's Luck
Character: Jim Conway
Released: December 27, 1937
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country. He meets up with Laura, who is after Spider Webb who has framed her brother. Webb causes the death of Tim's father, but is eventually tracked down.
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Expensive Husbands
Title: Expensive Husbands
Character: Motion Picture Director
Released: November 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Unable to get work in her home country, Laurine Lynne (Beverly Roberts) travels to Vienna where her press agent, Joe Craig (Allyn Joslyn), convinces her to marry royalty. The lucky fellow is Prince Rupert (Patric Knowles), an impoverished nobleman now working as a waiter. Do the two of them fall in love despite this marriage of convenience?
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Love Is on the Air
Title: Love Is on the Air
Character: Businessman at Meeting
Released: October 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
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The Women Men Marry
Title: The Women Men Marry
Character: Man at Auction (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
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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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Fair Warning
Title: Fair Warning
Character: Headwaiter
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
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Sea Devils
Title: Sea Devils
Character: Coast Guard Officer (uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.
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Jungle Jim
Title: Jungle Jim
Character: Tom Redmond
Released: January 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune. One safari, led by Jungle Jim, wants to make sure she gets the news that she is now a rich woman. The leaders of the other safari want to kill the girl so they can try to get hold of her inheritance.
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The Accusing Finger
Title: The Accusing Finger
Character: Copy Desk Editor
Released: November 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
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Phantom of Santa Fe
Title: Phantom of Santa Fe
Character: Steve Gant
Released: November 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A band of renegades attacks and loots a mission, stealing some priceless treasures. Local citizens blame an outlaw known as "The Hawk," who is also called "The Phantom of Santa Fe."
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Don't Turn 'em Loose
Title: Don't Turn 'em Loose
Character: Parole Board Member
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote.
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Hollywood Boulevard
Title: Hollywood Boulevard
Character: Frank Mayo - Actor at Trocadero Bar
Released: August 20, 1936
Type: Movie
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
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San Francisco
Title: San Francisco
Character: Dealer (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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Burning Gold
Title: Burning Gold
Character: Brent Taylor
Released: May 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Jim Thornton is an independent wildcat driller in Califonia who hits a gusher and overnight riches, and marries his sweetheart that is a singer at a local saloon. But he can't handle being rich, and the marriage is on the rocks.
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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
Released: May 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
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The Singing Kid
Title: The Singing Kid
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
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Desert Gold
Title: Desert Gold
Character: Henchman Bert Lash
Released: March 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Chet Kasedon is after the Indians hidden gold mine but Chief Moya will not reveal it's location. He has also hired mining engineers Gale and Mortimer to locate the mine. When Gale sees Kasedon's cruelty to Moya, he switches sides.
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Give Us This Night
Title: Give Us This Night
Character: Man
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: Miner in Bar
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Two in the Dark
Title: Two in the Dark
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk
Released: January 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
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3 Kids and a Queen
Title: 3 Kids and a Queen
Character: Customer
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
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Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery
Title: Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery
Character: Dirigible Captain
Released: October 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs as he foils a plan by corrupt profiteers to steal an island's oil reserves.
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Hot Tip
Title: Hot Tip
Character: Racetrack Bettor Looking for Tip
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 Daring Young Man
Title: The Daring Young Man
Character: Detective
Released: July 17, 1935
Type: Movie
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
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Racetrack
Title: Racetrack
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: February 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Joe Tomasso is an Italian-American bookmaker and gambler who, outwardly, is hard but soft-hearted inwardly. He becomes fond of a homeless waif, Jackie Curtis, and begins to look upon him as the son he never had. But when Jackie's mother appears, Joe has a hard decision to make.
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Hell's Headquarters
Title: Hell's Headquarters
Character: Phil Talbot
Released: April 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Doctor Smith and his wife, Mary,depart a riverboat and are met by Phil Talbot. Phil informs Dr. Smith that Jessup, the only other white man in the village, has died while the doctor and his wife were off on a two-day holiday. Unknown to Smith, Jessup and his partner, Ross King, had a large cache of ivory tusks in the jungle, and he had told Phil about it. Meanwhile, Mary Smith has decided to steam-boat down the Congo River to Capetown for an extended holiday. Kuba, King's gun-bearer, asks Smith to write a letter to King, currently residing at a New York City Explorer's Club, and advise him that his partner has died. Talbot sends a letter to his stateside sweetheart, Diane Cameron, and her father, asking them to come to Africa and join him on an ivory-treasure expedition, and replenish their family-fortune lost in the recent stock-market crash. What Mr. Cameron and Diane don't know about Talbot is that his years in Africa have unhinged him...
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Chinatown After Dark
Title: Chinatown After Dark
Character: Ralph Bonner
Released: October 15, 1931
Type: Movie
The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.
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Range Law
Title: Range Law
Character: Jim Blount
Released: October 10, 1931
Type: Movie
Having escaped from prison, a cowboy looks for the man that framed him.
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Alias: The Bad Man
Title: Alias: The Bad Man
Character: Rance Collins
Released: July 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A ranger joins the outlaw gang whose boss he believes is a murderer.
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Doughboys
Title: Doughboys
Character: Capt. Scott
Released: August 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he accidentally volunteers for the army. Luckily, Mary's signed up to entertain the troops. Unluckily, Elmer's sergeant likes Mary, too. And worst of all, they're all about to ship out for France.
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The Unknown Lover
Title: The Unknown Lover
Character: Kenneth Billings
Released: October 30, 1925
Type: Movie
Elaine Kent weds Kenneth Billings, a young man who has a taste for wild living. She attempts to reform him and his exasperated father disinherits him. Now that he is without money, Kenneth starts a dye business and he proceeds to throw himself into it with the same amount of effort he once spent on the high life. As a result, he overworks until he is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
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Passionate Youth
Title: Passionate Youth
Released: June 28, 1925
Type: Movie
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The Necessary Evil
Title: The Necessary Evil
Character: Dick Jerome
Released: May 17, 1925
Type: Movie
Ben Lyon and Viola Dana co-star in this heavy society drama
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If I Marry Again
Title: If I Marry Again
Character: Jeffrey Wingate
Released: February 15, 1925
Type: Movie
When his son marries a woman whose mother is the madame of a brothel, a wealthy father in San Francisco disowns him. The newlyweds travel to the South Seas, where he gets a job on a plantation. The father sends an agent to the plantation to try to buy off his son's bride, but she won't go for it.
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The Triflers
Title: The Triflers
Character: Monte Covington
Released: December 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Marjorie Stockton is a fickle flapper who has loads of suitors. She won't give any of them the time of day, however, until she meets her match in the equally fickle Monte Covington.
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Is Love Everything?
Title: Is Love Everything?
Character: Robert Whitney
Released: November 30, 1924
Type: Movie
Virginia Carter accedes to her family's pressures and marries Jordan Southwick, who comes from a wealthy and socially prominent family. However, she soon regrets her actions because she still loves her ex-boyfriend, Robert Whitney. Due to the instigation of his jealous brother Boyd, Jordan suspects Virginia of being unfaithful with Whitney.
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The Perfect Flapper
Title: The Perfect Flapper
Character: Reed Andrews
Released: May 25, 1924
Type: Movie
A 1924 film directed by John Francis Dillon.
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The Woman on the Jury
Title: The Woman on the Jury
Character: Fred Masters
Released: April 20, 1924
Type: Movie
The story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but had deserted her...and of a woman on the jury who refused to condemn her when eleven men had voted guilty...a woman brave enough to defy public opinion, brave enough to lose the loss of the love of her husband by baring her soul to the world in order to save the girl on trial.
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The Shadow of the East
Title: The Shadow of the East
Character: Barry Craven
Released: January 27, 1924
Type: Movie
Barry Craven meets former sweetheart Gillian Locke, who is visiting India with her father. Craven's love for Gillian is revived, but he already has a wife, Lolaire, a native. In a jealous rage, Lolaire kills herself, freeing Craven, who returns to England and marries Gillian. His Indian servant, Kunwar Singh, casts a spell on Craven, causing him to leave Gillian and to go into the Algerian desert. There he joins Said, an old university friend who is the son of an Algerian sheik. Gillian follows, the servant is killed, and with him dies the spell, "The Shadow of the East."
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Wild Oranges
Title: Wild Oranges
Character: John Woolfolk
Released: January 20, 1924
Type: Movie
Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from justice, also lives there and is terrorizing them - and he's interested in Millie. One day widower John Woolfolk, sailing on his yacht, happens upon the island. Soon he and Millie fall in love. Will jealous Nicholas stand for this?
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Six Days
Title: Six Days
Character: Dion Leslie
Released: September 9, 1923
Type: Movie
Laline, a pretty young woman, falls in love with Dion, a young sculptor, but her mother wants her to marry a wealthy Englishman. Laline and Dion are visiting the gravesite of Laline's brother with a priest, and a cave-in traps the three in some long-abandoned underground barracks.
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Souls for Sale
Title: Souls for Sale
Character: Tom Holby
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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The First Degree
Title: The First Degree
Character: Sam Bass
Released: January 30, 1923
Type: Movie
Sam Bass receives a summons to testify before a grand jury, and not realizing that the matter concerns sheep-stealing he assumes it to concern the murder of his brother, Will.
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The Altar Stairs
Title: The Altar Stairs
Character: Rod McLean
Released: December 4, 1922
Type: Movie
On an island in the South Seas, derelict Tony Heritage is rescued from savage natives by trader and ship captain Rod McLean, but repays him by stealing Rod’s money and fleeing to France. There, Heritage marries a young French woman named Joie Malet, but her father, Captain Jean Malet, having discovered his miscreant past, snatches Joie from the altar stairs and takes her to a South Sea island where he has been posted. Tony Heritage follows, but Capt. Malet keeps him away from Joie by giving him a job on another island, helping Rod McLean build a new trading post.
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Afraid to Fight
Title: Afraid to Fight
Released: July 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Former A. E. F. boxing champion Tom Harper, who suffered gas poisoning, is sent to the mountains to regain his health so that he can re-enter the ring and earn the money needed for his crippled sister's operation. Under strict orders not to exert himself, Tom allows himself to be beaten up by Phillip Brand, the town bully, in front of his girl, Harriet Monroe.
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Tracked to Earth
Title: Tracked to Earth
Character: Charles Cranner
Released: March 6, 1922
Type: Movie
A railroad detective is falsely accused by a rancher's daughter Virginia Valli of being a notorious outlaw.
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Across the Dead-Line
Title: Across the Dead-Line
Character: John Kidder
Released: January 9, 1922
Type: Movie
Gilead is a lumber town that is dominated by two branches of the Kidder family: the puritanical, ultra-conservative side led by Enoch and his son John, and the hedonistic branch led by Enoch's brother Aaron. Aaron plans to sway John to come over to his side by using a young girl who has lost her memory to lure him over, but when he kidnaps her John sets out to free her. Complications ensue.
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Dr. Jim
Title: Dr. Jim
Character: Dr. Jim Keene
Released: November 28, 1921
Type: Movie
Although renowned pediatrician Dr. Jim Keene loves his wife, Helen, she resents his devotion to his work and finds solace with other men. After the death of one of Jim’s young patients causes him to suffer a nervous collapse, the couple takes a sea voyage to restore his health.
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Go Straight
Title: Go Straight
Character: Reverend Keith Rollins
Released: October 17, 1921
Type: Movie
Young minister Keith Rollins comes to a backwoods community in Kentucky and finds that lawless and political elements are against him and threaten his position with the congregation.
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The Shark Master
Title: The Shark Master
Released: September 5, 1921
Type: Movie
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The Fighting Lover
Title: The Fighting Lover
Character: Andrew Forsdale
Released: June 13, 1921
Type: Movie
Andrew Forsdale bets his friend Ned Randolph $10,000 that Ned will fall in love with one of three girls within 30 days.
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The Blazing Trail
Title: The Blazing Trail
Character: Bradley Yates (Pickens)
Released: May 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Young doctor Bradley Yates has been trying to come up with a serum to counteract blood poisoning, with no results. Exhausted, he takes a rest in the Blue Ridge Mountains and stays in a small mountain community. When a young schoolteacher comes to town a romance develops between her and Bradley, but the local gossips have spread rumors that he has seduced Talithy, a local girl, and will abandon her for the teacher. Complications ensue.
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Magnificent Brute
Title: Magnificent Brute
Released: March 12, 1921
Type: Movie
French Canadian trapper Victor Raoul returns to the trading post at St. Ignace to find a rival for the affections of Yvonne, his business partner's daughter, in the Marquis Courtière, Parisian representative of the fur company. Raoul quarrels with Fontaine over the visitor's business dealings and his attentions to Yvonne.
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Colorado
Title: Colorado
Character: Frank Austin
Released: February 14, 1921
Type: Movie
While in an army camp waiting to be discharged, Lt. Frank Hayden sees a fellow officer, Capt. Kincaid, attacking a girl. He stops Kincaid, thrashing him soundly in the process. However, to avoid a court-martial for striking a fellow officer, Hayden deserts and flees to the desert. He comes across Tom Doyle, who is stranded and dying of thirst, and takes Doyle back to his home. He meets and falls in love with Doyle's daughter Kitty.
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Tiger True
Title: Tiger True
Released: January 8, 1921
Type: Movie
Tiring of hunting big game in the jungle, Jack Lodge, son of a wealthy man, seeks adventure in the underworld district of a big city.
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Honor Bound
Title: Honor Bound
Character: Billy Thorpe
Released: November 30, 1920
Type: Movie
Irresponsible Billy Thorpe is sent to South America by his financée Claire's father, George Vincent, the rubber king, in order to reform.
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The Marriage Pit
Title: The Marriage Pit
Released: October 18, 1920
Type: Movie
When Wall Street dynamo Richard Strong rescues Edwin Rossiter from financial ruin, Rossiter is so grateful that he persuades his daughter Elinor to marry their benefactor, although she does not love him. Instead, Elinor favors her distant cousin, Charles Dalton, a dissipated member of the aristocracy who weds Zoldene, an actress, on the day of Elinor and Strong's wedding. Soon after, Dalton wearies of Zoldene and renews his attention to Elinor, now estranged from her husband.
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Hitchin' Posts
Title: Hitchin' Posts
Character: Jefferson Todd
Released: September 13, 1920
Type: Movie
Jefferson Todd and Louis Castiga, brothers-in-law, come to blows on a Mississippi River steamer when Todd discovers Castiga's presence there with a woman.
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The Red Lane
Title: The Red Lane
Character: Norman Aldrich
Released: July 12, 1920
Type: Movie
After returning home from years spent in a convent, Marie Beaulieu, is shocked to discover that her father, the leader of a band of smugglers, desires she marry Dave Roi, one of the members of the band.
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The Girl in Number 29
Title: The Girl in Number 29
Released: May 17, 1920
Type: Movie
Laurie Devon is a New York playwright who, having had one success, refuses to work on another play.
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Burnt Wings
Title: Burnt Wings
Character: Ned Templeton
Released: March 29, 1920
Type: Movie
Struggling artist Ned Templeton and his wife Joan are leading a poverty-stricken life in Paris. Threatened by starvation and eviction, Joan is forced to become a prostitute. After some time, Ned becomes successful, and he and Joan move to New York. There he meets Helen, daughter of wealthy art patron James Cartwright. Cartwright was the man who "bought" Joan in Paris, and when he learns that his daughter's happiness depends upon Ned's divorce, he threatens to expose Joan.
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The Peddler of Lies
Title: The Peddler of Lies
Character: Clamp
Released: March 1, 1920
Type: Movie
At a party thrown at the Metcalf estate, the Marquise D'Irancy's Sultana diamond disappears when the lights go out during a power failure. Suspected of the crime is William Kirkland, the wastrel son of the wealthy Kirkland family, but William's sister Diana comes to his defense. Aiding her in the investigation is Clamp, a wandering peddler.
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A Little Brother of the Rich
Title: A Little Brother of the Rich
Released: July 7, 1919
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Joseph Medill Patterson.
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Mary Regan
Title: Mary Regan
Character: Robert Clifford
Released: May 4, 1919
Type: Movie
Mary Regan is the daughter of a gentleman crook and an heiress. Although she has received a good upbringing, she refuses to marry Robert Clifford for fear of damaging his career as a city official. Some old associates of her father, Peter Loveman and Jim Bradley, want her to help them in their blackmailing schemes. She won't, and escapes from her trying situation by going to the mountains for a rest.
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The Amazing Wife
Title: The Amazing Wife
Released: April 7, 1919
Type: Movie
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The Power and the Glory
Title: The Power and the Glory
Character: Gray Stoddard
Released: September 2, 1918
Type: Movie
In order to help her poverty-stricken family, Jonnie Consadine, a strong-willed young woman from the Blue Ridge Mountains, comes to the city and takes a job in a mill, while her uncle, Pros Passmore, continues his endless search for a lost silver mine.
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Tinsel
Title: Tinsel
Character: Jefferson Kane
Released: July 8, 1918
Type: Movie
After the death of her second husband, Princess Sylvia Carzoni writes to her first husband, Richard Carmichael, requesting the custody of their daughter Ruth. The naïve Ruth is so thrilled at the prospect of entering society that Richard reluctantly allows her to go, and in her new surroundings, she happily receives the attentions of several of her mother's friends. Through her own innocence, Ruth withstands their advances, but she falls victim to the dashing Jefferson Kane, who suggests that she visit him at his home. Suspicious, Sylvia follows her daughter to Jefferson's estate, where she finds Ruth struggling with the villain, and after denouncing him, Sylvia takes the girl home. Sylvia lovingly embraces Ruth, and as she is discussing the shallowness of society life, Richard and Bobby Woodward, Ruth's old sweetheart, arrive demanding Ruth's return. Eventually, however, Sylvia regains Richard's love, and Ruth is united with Bobby.
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The Witch Woman
Title: The Witch Woman
Released: April 8, 1918
Type: Movie
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Stolen Hours
Title: Stolen Hours
Character: Philip Duran
Released: January 7, 1918
Type: Movie
During a raid on a gambling establishment run by her father, Cosmo Lester, Diana Lester rescues Hugh Carton, a member of the English Parliament and a candidate for the Cabinet. Hugh gratefully offers Diana a position as his sister's companion, and soon, the two fall desperately in love.
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Betsy Ross
Title: Betsy Ross
Character: Clarence Vernon
Released: September 16, 1917
Type: Movie
Revolutionary War heroine Betsy Ross finds herself in competition with her sister for the affections of a British soldier.
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The Bronze Bride
Title: The Bronze Bride
Character: Harvey Ogden
Released: April 2, 1917
Type: Movie
Disgusted with his son Harvey's attitude since his return from college, wealthy William Ogden turns the boy out to make his own way in the world. Harvey finally lands in the Canadian North Woods, where he goes into business with Joe Dubois, a hunter and trapper. One day while Harvey is trapping, his leg is caught in a steel trap. He is rescued by A-Che-Chee, the daughter of Black Lynx the Indian Chief. A-Che-Chee takes Harvey to her cabin, where she dresses his wound. When her father and brother discover Harvey there, they insist upon an immediate marriage. Harvey protests, but finally agrees in order to maintain the good will of the Indians.
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Sunny Jane
Title: Sunny Jane
Released: March 26, 1917
Type: Movie
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The Red Circle
Title: The Red Circle
Character: Dr. Max Lamar
Released: December 16, 1915
Type: Movie
The Red Circle is a birthmark, on the hand of the heroine, noticeable only in times of stress and excitement, which forces her to steal, leading to no end of complications and intrigue.
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The Lure of the Windigo
Title: The Lure of the Windigo
Character: Louis Le Clerq - Annette's Brother
Released: December 14, 1914
Type: Movie
A young woman in the Canadian wilderness, seduced and then abandoned by her Canadian Mountie lover, turns for help to her old Indian friend.