Joseph E. Bernard

Joseph E. Bernard

Born: May 31, 1880
Died: October 18, 1958
in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Movies for Joseph E. Bernard...

Pat and Mike
Title: Pat and Mike
Character: Gibby
Released: June 13, 1952
Type: Movie
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.
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Adam's Rib
Title: Adam's Rib
Character: Mr. Bonner - Adam's Father (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1949
Type: Movie
When a woman attempts to kill her uncaring husband, prosecutor Adam Bonner gets the case. Unfortunately for him his wife Amanda (who happens to be a lawyer too) decides to defend the woman in court. Amanda uses everything she can to win the case and Adam gets mad about it. As a result, their perfect marriage is disturbed by everyday quarrels.
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I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Title: I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Character: Apartment House Manager
Released: May 23, 1948
Type: Movie
An innocent dancer is accused of murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his wife follows the trail of clues to find the real perpetrator.
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A Double Life
Title: A Double Life
Character: Joe (Landlady's Husband) (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
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The Egg and I
Title: The Egg and I
Character: Asa Pettingrew (Uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1947
Type: Movie
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.
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It's a Wonderful Life
Title: It's a Wonderful Life
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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Sister Kenny
Title: Sister Kenny
Character: Ticket Taker (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1946
Type: Movie
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
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House of Dracula
Title: House of Dracula
Character: Brahms - Coroner (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1945
Type: Movie
A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his nurse, finds the physical causes of lycanthropy in wolf-man Larry Talbot and of vampirism in Count Dracula, but himself becomes afflicted with homicidal madness while exchanging blood with Dracula.
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Anchors Aweigh
Title: Anchors Aweigh
Character: Old Doorman (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl with musical aspirations, and before Joe can stop him, promises to get her an audition with José Iturbi. But the trouble really starts when Joe realizes he's falling for his buddy's girl.
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Sudan
Title: Sudan
Character: Horse Owner (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1945
Type: Movie
A desert pickpocket, his sidekick, and an escaped slave help an incognito queen in danger.
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Moonlight in Vermont
Title: Moonlight in Vermont
Character: Lavery
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.
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Happy Land
Title: Happy Land
Character: Clerk (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1943
Type: Movie
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence.
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Crazy House
Title: Crazy House
Character: Car Owner / Swiss Bellringer
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
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A Lady Takes a Chance
Title: A Lady Takes a Chance
Character: Gambler
Released: August 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
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Hers to Hold
Title: Hers to Hold
Character: Mr. Kitnacker
Released: July 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a crush on much-older playboy Bill Morley (Joseph Cotton), Penelope stops at nothing to land the elusive Morley as her husband. Highlights include Durbin's renditions of "Begin the Beguine" and the "Seguidilla" from Carmen, and a captivating sequence that includes highlights from Durbin's earlier films, presented as home movies!
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Action in the North Atlantic
Title: Action in the North Atlantic
Character: Ed (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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Raiders of San Joaquin
Title: Raiders of San Joaquin
Character: Jim Blake (as Joseph Bernard)
Released: May 1, 1943
Type: Movie
In this western, two cowboys ride to the rescue of ranchers who are fighting to keep a land-grabber from taking their land and selling it to the railroad
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Reunion in France
Title: Reunion in France
Character: R.R. Mechanic (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
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Apache Trail
Title: Apache Trail
Character: Tall Man (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
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Thundering Hoofs
Title: Thundering Hoofs
Character: Stage Driver Hank
Released: July 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Bill Underwood falls out with his father and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge of his father's stage line.
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Obliging Young Lady
Title: Obliging Young Lady
Character: Dining Car Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
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Four Jacks and a Jill
Title: Four Jacks and a Jill
Character: Jailer (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Karanina "Nina" Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little Aregal Cafe, with herself as the vocalist, by pretending she once knew the King or Aregal back in the old country. Steve shows up pretending to be the King of Aregal, and complicates the growing romance between Nina and Nifty. When Steve runs off with Opa, the real King of Aregal (also Steve) appears and complicates things again.
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Tom, Dick and Harry
Title: Tom, Dick and Harry
Character: Judge in Dream (uncredited)
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry. But Janie just can't seem to make up her mind between them. While fantasizing about her futures with each of the men, Janie spends her time desperately trying to juggle between them until she can make a decision.
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Sign of the Wolf
Title: Sign of the Wolf
Character: Hank
Released: March 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Two German shepherds and their mistress (Grace Bradley) crash-land in Canada by a fox breeder's (Michael Whalen) farm.
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Kitty Foyle
Title: Kitty Foyle
Character: Nightclub Waiter #1 (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.
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They Knew What They Wanted
Title: They Knew What They Wanted
Character: The R.F.D.
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accepts his marriage proposal.
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I Love You Again
Title: I Love You Again
Character: Watchman (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
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The Saint Takes Over
Title: The Saint Takes Over
Character: Customs Inspector
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint" the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter created by Leslie Charteris. This film focuses on the character of Inspector Henry Farnack. When Farnack is framed by a gang he is investigating, it is up to The Saint to clear his name.
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20 Mule Team
Title: 20 Mule Team
Character: Second Barfly Counting Bill's Money
Released: May 3, 1940
Type: Movie
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.
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Laddie
Title: Laddie
Character: Tom Crispin
Released: January 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.
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Danger Flight
Title: Danger Flight
Character: Brown
Released: November 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Crooks plot to steal a payroll being shipped by air.
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Thunder Afloat
Title: Thunder Afloat
Character: Fisherman (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
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Beau Geste
Title: Beau Geste
Character: Legionnaire (uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1939
Type: Movie
When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the brothers must fight for their lives as they plot mutiny against tyranny and defend a desert fortress against a brutal enemy.
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Bachelor Mother
Title: Bachelor Mother
Character: Store Watchman (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.
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Tell No Tales
Title: Tell No Tales
Character: Man talking to Officer Simmons (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1939
Type: Movie
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
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Let Us Live
Title: Let Us Live
Character: Man in Courtroom Corridor (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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The Great Man Votes
Title: The Great Man Votes
Character: 'Brad' Bradley
Released: January 13, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.
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Next Time I Marry
Title: Next Time I Marry
Character: Man Watering Lawn
Released: December 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So Nancy pays Tony Anthony, working on a WPA road project, to marry, then divorce her. When Nancy inadvertently drives off with Tony's dog, Tony seemingly kidnaps her to retrieve the pooch, which leads to a cross-country race between the two to reach Reno and the divorce court since neither one wants to be the second to file papers.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Neighbor (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Law of the Underworld
Title: Law of the Underworld
Character: Club Headwaiter Frank
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Customer
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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Madame X
Title: Madame X
Character: Deck Steward on Yacht
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
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White Bondage
Title: White Bondage
Character: Man in Barber Shop
Released: August 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.
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Wild and Woolly
Title: Wild and Woolly
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden anniversary. Not unexpectedly, things go astray when a bank robber hopes to cash in on the excitement, but fortunately his plans are thwarted by the towns newly elected sheriff (Brennan)...who's a reformed crook himself!
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She Had to Eat
Title: She Had to Eat
Character: Railroad Man (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
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Midnight Taxi
Title: Midnight Taxi
Character: Copy Reader
Released: April 4, 1937
Type: Movie
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
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History Is Made at Night
Title: History Is Made at Night
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
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The Captain's Kid
Title: The Captain's Kid
Character: Courtroom Spectator
Released: November 14, 1936
Type: Movie
In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.
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M'Liss
Title: M'Liss
Character: Doctor
Released: July 27, 1936
Type: Movie
The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteacher.
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The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Title: The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Character: Randall (as J.E. Bernard)
Released: May 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Right after the Civil War, an ex-Union soldier sets out to become a schoolmaster in his small town, even though many locals still harbor a resentment against "Yankees". He goes up against the town bully, who both want the same girl, and his troubles multiply when a vicious band of nightriders set out to drive him out of town.
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Mary Jane's Pa
Title: Mary Jane's Pa
Character: Plainclothesman with Sheriff
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
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A Night at the Ritz
Title: A Night at the Ritz
Character: Captain of Waiters (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1935
Type: Movie
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
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While the Patient Slept
Title: While the Patient Slept
Character: 'Murph' Murphy - the Ballistics Expert (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1935
Type: Movie
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
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Murder in the Clouds
Title: Murder in the Clouds
Character: Operator
Released: December 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
Title: Mary Stevens, M.D.
Character: Bellocona Steward Bringing Purse (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
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No Other Woman
Title: No Other Woman
Character: Butler
Released: January 6, 1933
Type: Movie
A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.
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The Truth About Youth
Title: The Truth About Youth
Character: Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1930
Type: Movie
A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.
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Lilies of the Field
Title: Lilies of the Field
Character: Mildred Hawker's Lawyer
Released: January 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.