Walter Catlett

Walter Catlett

Born: February 3, 1889
Died: November 14, 1960
in San Francisco, California, USA

Movies for Walter Catlett...

Beau James
Title: Beau James
Character: Gov. Alfred E. 'Al' Smith
Released: June 7, 1957
Type: Movie
The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.
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Friendly Persuasion
Title: Friendly Persuasion
Character: Professor Quigley
Released: November 25, 1956
Type: Movie
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?
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Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
Title: Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
Character: Col. Plug
Released: July 18, 1956
Type: Movie
Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink ("King of the River") in a boat race to New Orleans. Later, Davy and Georgie, allied with Fink, battle a group of river pirates trying to pass themselves off as Native Americans.
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Columbia Laff Hour
Title: Columbia Laff Hour
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A Columbia Pictures feature, featuring 4 unedited shorts, released between 1947-1956, featuring Shemp Howard.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Character: The Dauphin / The King
Released: September 1, 1955
Type: Movie
This made-for-TV production originally aired on the "Climax!" show and opened up its second season. Huck and his buddy Tom Sawyer become blood brothers right before Huck takes off down the Mississippi River to try and get away from his abusive father. Along his journey Huck comes across a wide range of characters including The Duke.
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Title: Climax!
Character: The Dauphin
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Honeychile
Title: Honeychile
Character: Al Moore
Released: October 20, 1951
Type: Movie
A music publishing company tries to swindle a song from a country girl that they inadvertently recorded without her permission.
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Here Comes the Groom
Title: Here Comes the Groom
Character: McGonigle
Released: September 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
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Father Takes the Air
Title: Father Takes the Air
Character: Mayor Colton
Released: June 17, 1951
Type: Movie
In the fifth and final movie in Monogram's "Father" series, Henry Latham and Mayor Colton dream of reliving their WWI flying careers, leading to an increasingly antagonistic competition.
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Father's Wild Game
Title: Father's Wild Game
Character: Mayor Colton
Released: December 3, 1950
Type: Movie
The fourth entry in Monogram's "Father" series. Henry Latham decides he'll save money by hunting for his meat rather than buying it from the store.
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Father Makes Good
Title: Father Makes Good
Character: Mayor Colton
Released: May 7, 1950
Type: Movie
In the third movie in Monogram's "Father" series, patriarch Henry Latham buys a cow in order to bypass the town's milk tax.
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The Inspector General
Title: The Inspector General
Character: Colonel Castine
Released: December 31, 1949
Type: Movie
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.
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Dancing in the Dark
Title: Dancing in the Dark
Character: Joe Brooks
Released: December 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
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Look for the Silver Lining
Title: Look for the Silver Lining
Character: Walter Catlett
Released: July 30, 1949
Type: Movie
Musical biography of Marilyn Miller, who overcame heartache to become a Broadway star
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Leave It to Henry
Title: Leave It to Henry
Character: Mayor Colton
Released: June 12, 1949
Type: Movie
Henry Latham and town Mayor Colton continue their misadventures in Smalltown, America. This time, twelve-year-old David Latham is testifying at the trial of his father, Henry, who is accused of burning down the McCluskey bridge.
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Henry, the Rainmaker
Title: Henry, the Rainmaker
Character: Mayor Colton
Released: February 13, 1949
Type: Movie
The first of Monogram's "Father" series was Henry, the Rainmaker, assembled in a fast seven days. Henry Latham is an average family man who is galvanized into entering a mayoral race over the issue of garbage disposal. When incumbent mayor Colton solves this issue himself, Henry turns his attentions to the current water shortage. His efforts to become a rainmaker prove cataclysmic, to say the least.
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The Boy with Green Hair
Title: The Boy with Green Hair
Character: The King
Released: November 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed, Peter seeks solace in a nearby forest. To his surprise, he finds other orphans in the woods, who encourage him to spread news of the injustices of war.
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Mr. Reckless
Title: Mr. Reckless
Character: Joel Hawkins
Released: March 26, 1948
Type: Movie
An oil well digger tries to win back his former girlfriend, now engaged to another man.
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Are You With It?
Title: Are You With It?
Character: Jason (Pop) Carter
Released: March 19, 1948
Type: Movie
Milton Haskins, a math genius known for his infallibility with numbers, quits his job with an insurance company when he discovers he made a mistake, and hooks up with a traveling carnival. His knowledge of mathematics makes him a natural as an assistant at the wheel of fortune. His fiancée begs him to return to his job but he refuses, so she joins the carnival and becomes a striptease artist. When Milton attempts to drag her off the stage, a brawling mêlée breaks out and the entire troupe is arrested by the local police. The carnival is sold but Milton reveals that the new owner has conspired to defraud the insurance company. The insurance company has to accept the carnival in lieu of the money owed, and they allow Milton and his fiancée, Vivian, to stay with and help run the carnival.
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I'll Be Yours
Title: I'll Be Yours
Character: Mr. Buckingham
Released: February 2, 1947
Type: Movie
A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.
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Slightly Scandalous
Title: Slightly Scandalous
Character: Mr. Wright
Released: August 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Disparate twin brothers find themselves involved in romantic mayhem when their respective girl friends get them confused in this musical comedy.
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Riverboat Rhythm
Title: Riverboat Rhythm
Character: Col. Jeffrey Witherspoon
Released: February 16, 1946
Type: Movie
A financially-strapped showboat captain struggles to stay in business.
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I Love a Bandleader
Title: I Love a Bandleader
Character: B. Templeton James
Released: September 13, 1945
Type: Movie
A painter suffering from amnesia convinces himself that he's a famous bandleader and finds romance with a pretty singer. Comedy with music.
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The Man Who Walked Alone
Title: The Man Who Walked Alone
Character: Wiggins
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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Lake Placid Serenade
Title: Lake Placid Serenade
Character: Carlton Webb
Released: December 23, 1944
Type: Movie
On a peaceful, pre-war winter in Czechoslovakia, the genial godfather, Jaroslav Haschek, of Vera Hascheck, presents the young girl with her first pair of ice skates. Soon, she astonished the warm-hearted people of her village with her skill, and she is acclaimed a marvel-on-ice.
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Hi, Beautiful
Title: Hi, Beautiful
Character: Gerald Bisbee
Released: December 18, 1944
Type: Movie
Part of the series of Universal B-musicals teaming Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery Jr., this film is also a remake of the 1937 comedy Love in a Bungalow. Patty Callahan (O'Driscoll) offers residence in a model home to soldier Jeff (Beery) and soon falls in love with him. Although the pair are unmarried, they enter a marital contest intended to celebrate the "Happiest G.I. Couple." Winning the contest brings on all sorts of farcical troubles until the couple are able to be united for real. Songs include "Don't Sweetheart Me" and "Best of All."
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My Gal Loves Music
Title: My Gal Loves Music
Character: Dr. Bilbo
Released: December 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A sister act finds itself stranded and broke, and teams up with a medicine man who is promoting a child talent contest.
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3 Is a Family
Title: 3 Is a Family
Character: Barney Meeker
Released: November 23, 1944
Type: Movie
Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled business schemes force his wife, Fay Bainter, to enter the workplace. The couple's daughter, Marjorie Reynolds, shows up with her twin babies in tow. Son Arthur Lake arrives with his pregnant wife (Jeff Donnell). And overbearing maiden aunt Helen Broderick also decides to move in. Because his wife is away at work, poor old Charlie Ruggles is not only housekeeper, but nursemaid and servant as well.
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Ghost Catchers
Title: Ghost Catchers
Character: Colonel Breckinridge Marshall
Released: June 16, 1944
Type: Movie
Two zanies get mixed up with a Southern colonel, his beautiful daughters, a nightclub and a haunted mansion.
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Her Primitive Man
Title: Her Primitive Man
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: May 29, 1944
Type: Movie
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
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Pardon My Rhythm
Title: Pardon My Rhythm
Character: Michael O'Bannon
Released: May 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A high school bandleader captures the interest of a popular co-ed.
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Lady, Let's Dance
Title: Lady, Let's Dance
Character: Timber Applegate
Released: April 11, 1944
Type: Movie
Singing, dancing, and ice skating are featured in this musical that focuses on ice-skating sensation Belita. The story begins as she travels to a California resort where she has been hired as a replacement for a dance team. The resort is run by a handsome fellow. As a result of the gig, the skater becomes a national star while the resort manager gets fired and becomes a drifter until he ends up in the Army. The Oscar nominated score includes the following songs: "Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams", "Dream of Dreams", "Rio", "In the Days of Beau Brummel", "Lady, Let's Dance", "Happy Hearts", "Ten Million Men and a Girl", and the rhumba standard "Esperanza".
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Hat Check Honey
Title: Hat Check Honey
Character: Tim Martel
Released: March 10, 1944
Type: Movie
When a hat-check girl writes a story based on the life of a famous comedian, she helps to reunite a father and son who haven't spoken to each other for years.
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Up in Arms
Title: Up in Arms
Character: Major Brock
Released: February 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
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Shoe Shine Boy
Title: Shoe Shine Boy
Character: Garry Goff
Released: December 25, 1943
Type: Movie
A teenaged shoeshine boy urgently tries to raise the remaining amount of money he needs to purchase a secondhand bugle before 6p.m.
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His Butler's Sister
Title: His Butler's Sister
Character: Mortimer Kalb
Released: November 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
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Fired Wife
Title: Fired Wife
Character: Judge Allen
Released: September 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
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The West Side Kid
Title: The West Side Kid
Character: Ramsey Fensel
Released: August 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her time to parties; his daughter Gloria is in one scandal after another, changing husbands as often as her moods, and son Jerry spends his time getting drunk and chasing women. Sam hires gangster Johnny April to bump him off but Johnny, liking the old man, defers the killing and sets about making the family appreciate Sam.
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Get Going
Title: Get Going
Character: Horace Doblem
Released: June 21, 1943
Type: Movie
Judy King, newly arrived in Washington, applies for a secretary job with a government agency and while being interviewed by Bob Carlton, an agent with the bureau, jokingly hints she may be a spy. While investigating her, he clears Judy and falls in love with her... and then uncovers a real Nazi spy ring.
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Cowboy in Manhattan
Title: Cowboy in Manhattan
Character: Ace Robbins
Released: May 21, 1943
Type: Movie
Bob Allen, a struggling songwriter poses as a millionaire cowboy to win Broadway star Babs Lee.
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Hit Parade of 1943
Title: Hit Parade of 1943
Character: J. MacClellan Davis
Released: March 26, 1943
Type: Movie
When amateur songwriter Jill Wright moves from the Midwest to New York City, she is dismayed to discover that Rick Farrell, the owner of Miracle Publishing Co., has claimed as his own the song she submitted to his company. One of the many films made at Republic with a year attached to the "Hit Parade" title, which came from the "Hit Parade" radio program sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes.
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How's About It
Title: How's About It
Character: Whipple
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A song publisher gets sued for stealing lyrics.
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Heart of the Golden West
Title: Heart of the Golden West
Character: Colonel Silas Popen
Released: November 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ship the cattle on the River Boat. When Lambert and his men are unable to stop the boat, they rustle the cattle.
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Between Us Girls
Title: Between Us Girls
Character: Desk Sergeant
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter. Comedy.
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Give Out, Sisters
Title: Give Out, Sisters
Character: Gribble
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a few students from a financially foundering dance school for their newest production. One of the dancers, a rich young socialite, desperately wants to be in it too, but her prurient maiden aunts refuse to allow her to disgrace their family by becoming a common chorine. She and the club owner (who must have the aunt's permission because the girl is underage) try to convince them, but it's not easy.
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Maisie Gets Her Man
Title: Maisie Gets Her Man
Character: Jasper
Released: June 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
Title: Yankee Doodle Dandy
Character: Theatre Manager
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
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Syncopation
Title: Syncopation
Character: Spelvin (scenes deleted)
Released: May 22, 1942
Type: Movie
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
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My Gal Sal
Title: My Gal Sal
Character: Col. Truckee
Released: April 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New York society, writing one hit song after another. Despite his egotistical behavior, he manages to woo and win Sally Elliott, one of the more popular songstresses of the day
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Star Spangled Rhythm
Title: Star Spangled Rhythm
Character: Walter Catlett
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Title: Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Character: Sylvester W. Twigg
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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Steel Against the Sky
Title: Steel Against the Sky
Character: Rupert Sampson
Released: December 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
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It Started with Eve
Title: It Started with Eve
Character: Dr. Harvey
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
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Unfinished Business
Title: Unfinished Business
Character: Billy Ross
Released: August 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment – the film charts the relationship that develops between a small-town girl in the big city, and the brother of the man who has heartlessly seduced and abandoned her.
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Manpower
Title: Manpower
Character: Sidney Whipple
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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Bad Men of Missouri
Title: Bad Men of Missouri
Character: Mr. Pettibone
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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Hello, Sucker
Title: Hello, Sucker
Character: G. Remington 'Max' Conway
Released: June 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A young couple buy a bankrupt vaudeville booking agency, and try to make it a success.
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Million Dollar Baby
Title: Million Dollar Baby
Character: Simpson
Released: May 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
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Horror Island
Title: Horror Island
Character: Sergeant McGoon
Released: March 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A down-on-his luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.
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The Wild Man of Borneo
Title: The Wild Man of Borneo
Character: 'Doc' Skelby
Released: January 24, 1941
Type: Movie
A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.
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Honeymoon for Three
Title: Honeymoon for Three
Character: Waiter
Released: January 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he meets up with a former college fling with a loopy Danish girl which he barely remembers. She remembers him, very well.
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Remedy for Riches
Title: Remedy for Riches
Character: Clem
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr. Christian" series of six films.
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Blondes and Blunders
Title: Blondes and Blunders
Character: Walter
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
A beautiful blonde places a stolen diamond on an unsuspecting man. Later, she returns to retrieve it.
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Li'l Abner
Title: Li'l Abner
Character: Barber
Released: November 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
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The Quarterback
Title: The Quarterback
Character: Tom
Released: October 15, 1940
Type: Movie
A comedy featuring Morris in a dual role as a dumb twin and a star football player, and a smart twin studying to become a college professor. They both are smitten with Kay Merrill as well. Of course, gamblers are also involved.
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Spring Parade
Title: Spring Parade
Character: Headwaiter
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
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Pop Always Pays
Title: Pop Always Pays
Character: Tommy Lane
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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You're Next!
Title: You're Next!
Character: Slocum
Released: May 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Two goofball private detectives are hired to find a millionaire who has been kidnapped by a mad scientist.
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Half a Sinner
Title: Half a Sinner
Character: Station Attendant
Released: April 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure. Her new confidence inspires her to flirt with complete strangers. When a gangster pays unwanted attention to her, she ditches him and flees in his car, unaware that there's a corpse in the trunk. Determined to recover his stolen vehicle and its incriminating cargo the thug begins a desperate search. The oblivious Anne, comes to the aid of a handsome young man stranded alongside the road. Romance blooms, but after the shocking discovery of a body in the trunk, the duo decide they have to return the car. The bickering lovebirds head back to the city, trailed by both the angry gangster and the cops, who suspect the young couple of murder.
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Alex in Wonderland
Title: Alex in Wonderland
Character: Fred
Released: March 9, 1940
Type: Movie
In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks like Alex is going to be around for a while, much to Fred's displeasure. Alex in is New York to look for a job and he sees an ad for a champagne salesman. He decides to crash a swank party given by railroad tycoon J.D. Swinnerton and his wife. Alex has his own zany way of getting an introduction to the man. Mayhem ensues when several of the guests come as Robin Hood and one of them is a jewel thief.
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Pinocchio
Title: Pinocchio
Character: 'Honest John' Worthington Foulfellow (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
When loving Geppetto creates a wooden puppet, his wish is granted when it comes to life as a little wooden boy named Pinocchio. With his faithful friend and conscience Jiminy Cricket by his side, Pinocchio, embarks on fantastic adventures that his bravery, loyalty and honesty until triumphs in his triumphs in his quest for his heart's desire: to become a real boy.
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Kid Nightingale
Title: Kid Nightingale
Character: Skip Davis
Released: November 4, 1939
Type: Movie
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
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Static in the Attic
Title: Static in the Attic
Character: Walter
Released: September 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Walter gets a ham radio for his birthday.
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Exile Express
Title: Exile Express
Character: Gus
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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Going Places
Title: Going Places
Character: Franklin Dexter
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
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Zaza
Title: Zaza
Character: Marladot
Released: December 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.
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Bringing Up Baby
Title: Bringing Up Baby
Character: Constable Slocum
Released: February 18, 1938
Type: Movie
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
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Every Day's a Holiday
Title: Every Day's a Holiday
Character: Nifty Bailey
Released: December 18, 1937
Type: Movie
When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she manages to expose the crooked police chief and smooth the path for the reform mayoral candidate.
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Danger – Love at Work
Title: Danger – Love at Work
Character: Uncle Alan
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
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Varsity Show
Title: Varsity Show
Character: Professor Sylvester Biddle
Released: September 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.
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Wake Up and Live
Title: Wake Up and Live
Character: Gus Avery
Released: August 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
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Love Under Fire
Title: Love Under Fire
Character: Tip Conway
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
A suspense-thriller-comedy set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.
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Love Is News
Title: Love Is News
Character: Eddie Johnson
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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On the Avenue
Title: On the Avenue
Character: Jake Dibble
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
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Sing Me a Love Song
Title: Sing Me a Love Song
Character: Mr. Sprague (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs.
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Banjo on My Knee
Title: Banjo on My Knee
Character: Warfield Scott
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New Orleans in search of his runaway wife.
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Four Days Wonder
Title: Four Days Wonder
Character: Duffy
Released: December 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity, Judy insists upon playing sleuth, dragging teenaged astronomer Tom Fenton (Kenneth Howell) into her Sherlock shenanigans.
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Fibbing Fibbers
Title: Fibbing Fibbers
Character: Walter
Released: October 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Walter pretends to have been in a car accident in order to avoid two conflicting engagements.
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Cain and Mabel
Title: Cain and Mabel
Character: Jake Sherman
Released: September 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.
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Follow Your Heart
Title: Follow Your Heart
Character: Joe Sheldon
Released: August 10, 1936
Type: Movie
An eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions.
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We Went to College
Title: We Went to College
Character: Senator Budger
Released: June 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Middle-aged couples try to reclaim their youth at a college homecoming.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Morrow
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Upper Cutlets
Title: Upper Cutlets
Released: January 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Walter Catlett wants to join a fight club.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Barsad
Released: December 25, 1935
Type: Movie
The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris. The action switches between London and Paris on the eve of the revolution where we witness 'the best of times and the worst of times' - love, hope, the uncaring French Aristocrats and the terror of a revolutionary citizen's army intent on exacting revenge.
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The Affair of Susan
Title: The Affair of Susan
Character: Gilbert
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.
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Every Night at Eight
Title: Every Night at Eight
Character: Master of Ceremonies
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
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Lightning Strikes Twice
Title: Lightning Strikes Twice
Character: Gus
Released: December 7, 1934
Type: Movie
An actress goes up to a dude ranch for relaxation, when she falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of his wife's murder.
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The Captain Hates the Sea
Title: The Captain Hates the Sea
Character: Joe Silvers
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.
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The Fuller Gush Man
Title: The Fuller Gush Man
Character: Harry Judson
Released: August 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Walter goes to his girlfriend's parents to ask their permission to marry her; but the family puts on an act and pretends to be totally loony.
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Making the Rounds
Title: Making the Rounds
Released: July 6, 1934
Type: Movie
Two drunks cheat on their wives.
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Get Along Little Hubby
Title: Get Along Little Hubby
Character: Elmer Tuttle
Released: June 15, 1934
Type: Movie
When a man's wife inherits $50,000, he quits his job and assumes that he can now take life easy. However, his newly rich wife has her own ideas of how he is going to spend his time.
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Unknown Blonde
Title: Unknown Blonde
Character: Publicity Man
Released: April 23, 1934
Type: Movie
An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
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Elmer Steps Out
Title: Elmer Steps Out
Character: Elmer
Released: February 28, 1934
Type: Movie
To avoid getting a speeding ticket Walter poses as an expectant father rushing to see his wife; when the cop follows him, he's forced to come up with a wife and child.
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Only Yesterday
Title: Only Yesterday
Character: Barnes (Uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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Sailor Beware!
Title: Sailor Beware!
Character: Smitty
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A pair of sailors are on shore leave - skirt chasing and raising hell. They're targeted and pursued by a gang looking for a sailor with a winning lottery ticket. Mayhem ensues.
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So This Is Harris!
Title: So This Is Harris!
Character: Walter Catlett
Released: August 13, 1933
Type: Movie
The film is a series of comical musical numbers and skits following Phil Harris around, starting with him performing at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, which is listened to by Dorothy on the radio whose home-brewing husband Walter hates Harris. The action then moves to the country club where Walter unknowingly encounters Harris while being aggravated by his music. Walter then pretends to be Phil to meet a woman while Harris "entertains" her friend, Dorothy.
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Arizona to Broadway
Title: Arizona to Broadway
Character: Ned Flynn
Released: July 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A team of con men trying to double-cross a woman they are supposedly helping to get some stolen money back wind up getting crossed themselves... by the mob.
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Mama Loves Papa
Title: Mama Loves Papa
Character: Tom Walker
Released: July 14, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.
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Husbands' Reunion
Title: Husbands' Reunion
Character: Walter
Released: July 7, 1933
Type: Movie
A couple of young newlyweds are enjoying their marital bliss when they have an unexpected house guest: an ex-husband, played by Catlett. It doesn't take much time before he wears out his welcome and the two men battle it out. They end up having to take the shenanigans to court and having the judge sort out the mess.
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Roadhouse Queen
Title: Roadhouse Queen
Character: Walter Knox
Released: June 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Walter Catlett learns his son Ben Alexander has thrown over fiancee Joyce Compton for acrobat Nora Lane. He takes lawyer Arthur Housman to the road house where she is performing to lay down the law.
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Dream Stuff
Title: Dream Stuff
Character: Cousin Walter
Released: May 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Walter Catlett is the cousin to some squeaky voiced Dagwood Bumstead type who can't get a girl. Can he browbeat his cousin into swiping pretty girl from accomplished gunman, boxer, and horseman Franklin Pangborn (!?), or is that just DREAM STUFF?
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Private Jones
Title: Private Jones
Character: Spivey
Released: March 25, 1933
Type: Movie
After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter of his family and is employed by businessman Roger Winthrop, his sister Helen's boss.
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Caliente Love
Title: Caliente Love
Released: March 9, 1933
Type: Movie
Poor Walter Catlett messes up the wedding of Joyce Compton and, after botching his suicide attempt, rides along on her honeymoon at Aguas Caliente. Can he get for himself some CALIENTE LOVE at the Casino, or will someone give him the sound thrashing he needs?
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Hunting Trouble
Title: Hunting Trouble
Character: Walter
Released: February 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A wife tries to hide a surprise birthday present from her husband but the butler causes trouble.
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Rockabye
Title: Rockabye
Character: Jimmy Dunn
Released: November 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
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The Sport Parade
Title: The Sport Parade
Character: 'Shifty' Morrison
Released: November 11, 1932
Type: Movie
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
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Rain
Title: Rain
Character: Quartermaster Bates
Released: October 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it incessantly rains. Among the stranded passengers are Sadie Thompson, a prostitute, and Alfred Davidson, a fanatic missionary who will try to redeem her.
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Big City Blues
Title: Big City Blues
Character: Gibboney
Released: September 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
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Okay, America!
Title: Okay, America!
Character: City Editor aka 'Lucille'
Released: September 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
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Back Street
Title: Back Street
Character: Bakeless
Released: August 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
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It's Tough to Be Famous
Title: It's Tough to Be Famous
Character: Joseph Craig 'Joe' Chapin
Released: April 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Scotty, an unwilling Navy war hero is cast into the limelight. He wants to get married and be an engineer, but is forced to fulfil the expectations of the public, his employer and his PR agent, which he hates. Although he and his long time girlfriend Janet love each other, they are pressured to marry before they are ready. The strain takes its toll on both of them.
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The Expert
Title: The Expert
Character: Al Diamond
Released: March 5, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
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Cock of the Air
Title: Cock of the Air
Character: Colonel Wallace
Released: January 23, 1932
Type: Movie
An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer.
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Platinum Blonde
Title: Platinum Blonde
Character: Bingy Baker
Released: October 31, 1931
Type: Movie
Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
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One Quiet Night
Title: One Quiet Night
Released: October 25, 1931
Type: Movie
One Quiet Night is a 1931 Comedy short.
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Honeymoon Trio
Title: Honeymoon Trio
Character: The Nuisance
Released: August 29, 1931
Type: Movie
This Educational Comedies one-reeler is all about Walter Catlett in his obnoxious mode as he somehow imposes himself completely on Al St. John and Dorothy Granger as they go on their honeymoon. Dorothy never seems to notice anything odd about this situation -- which renders it all the funnier -- while Al St. John builds up quite a head of steam in what amounts to a ten-minute slow burn, worthy of Edgar Kennedy at his best.
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Maker of Men
Title: Maker of Men
Character: McNeil
Released: August 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Bob plays football badly so his father Coach Dudley, his girlfriend Dorothy and his school reject him. He joins a rival college team and aims to defeat his dad's team.
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The Front Page
Title: The Front Page
Character: Murphy
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.
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The Florodora Girl
Title: The Florodora Girl
Character: De Boer
Released: May 31, 1930
Type: Movie
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
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The Golden Calf
Title: The Golden Calf
Character: Master of Ceremonies
Released: March 16, 1930
Type: Movie
In this pygmalionesque musical, a drab secretary leads a boring life until a good friend intervenes. The friend begins a total make-over upon her friend. First she slathers her in mud-packs, and then she encases her in lovely silk dresses. Soon the plain woman is transformed into an extraordinary beauty. It is no surprise that her boss, not knowing her true identity, falls hopelessly in love with her. Singing, dancing and romancing ensues. Songs include: "A Picture No Artist Can Paint," "You Gotta Be Modernistic," "I'm Telling the World About You," "Maybe Someday," and "Can I Help It."
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Why Leave Home?
Title: Why Leave Home?
Character: Elmer
Released: October 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Fox musical.
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Married in Hollywood
Title: Married in Hollywood
Character: Joe Glitner
Released: September 22, 1929
Type: Movie
Heir to a Balkan throne, Prince Nicholai falls in love with an American vocalist who is touring with an operetta company in Europe. When he makes known his intention to renounce his heritage and marry Mary Lou, his mother has him locked up and orders Mary Lou back to the United States.
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Happy Days
Title: Happy Days
Character: End Man - Minstrel Show
Released: September 16, 1929
Type: Movie
Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep financial trouble, and she calls all the boats former stars to join in a big show to rescue it.
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Summer Bachelors
Title: Summer Bachelors
Character: Bachelor No. 1
Released: December 18, 1926
Type: Movie
Derry Thomas is a pretty girl from a good family who earns her own living, but is disillusioned about marriage and is firmly set against ever getting married. Nothing against men, just marriage. She is drawn into the company of some rich businessmen whose wives have gone away for the summer. Parties follow in New York nightclubs, road-houses, country clubs and fashionable estates. Situations and contradictions follow.