Russell Hicks

Russell Hicks

Born: June 3, 1895
Died: June 1, 1957
in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Edward Russell Hicks (June 4, 1895 – June 1, 1957) was an American film actor.

Born in 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland, Hicks appeared in nearly 300 films between 1915 and 1956. His first appearance was an uncredited role in The Birth of a Nation (1915). He often appeared as a smooth-talking confidence man, as in the W.C. Fields film The Bank Dick (1940). Distinguished, suave and a consummate actor, Hicks played a variety of judges, corrupt officials, businessmen and attorneys, working in a variety of mediums almost until his death. Hicks appeared once in the syndicated western television series The Cisco Kid as an uncle of the Gail Davis character, whom he threatens to disinherit if she marries a known gangster.

He died in Los Angeles, California, from a heart attack.

Movies for Russell Hicks...

Title: Panic!
Released: March 5, 1957
Type: TV
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7th Cavalry
Title: 7th Cavalry
Character: Col. Kellogg
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers's body after Little Big Horn.
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You Can't Run Away from It
Title: You Can't Run Away from It
Character: Ship Captain (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1956
Type: Movie
A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.
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Title: West Point
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
The West Point Story is a dramatic anthology television series shown in the United States by Columbia Broadcasting System during the 1956-57 season and by ABC during the 1957-58 season. The West Point Story, produced with the full cooperation of the United States Department of Defense and the United States Military Academy, was said to be based on actual files documenting many of the real-life dramatic occurrences at West Point over the years. Names and dates were altered in order to protect the privacy of the real people portrayed, however. The program was at first hosted by a fictional cadet, Charles C. Thompson, but this device was discontinued prior to the end of 1956. During its second season on ABC, The West Point Story was in competition with NBC's The Californians, set in San Francisco during the gold rush of the 1850s, and with The $64,000 Question quiz series on CBS. The West Point Story was replaced on the summer schedule in 1958 by Jack Wyatt's Confession, which continued to air during the first half of the 1958-1959 season in the 10 p.m. Tuesday evening time slot. At the time that The West Point Story was broadcast, four other military dramas aired either through syndication or on the major networks: Harbor Command, Navy Log, The Silent Service, and Men of Annapolis.
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Title: Telephone Time
Released: April 8, 1956
Type: TV
Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John Nesbitt who hosted the first season. Frank C. Baxter hosted the 1957 and 1958 seasons. The program was directed by Arthur Hiller.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
Title: Once Upon a Honeymoon
Character: Angel Chief
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Thanks to the collaboration between American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) and Angels from Heaven a song writing working on his latest musical can finally go on his delayed honeymoon. The Angel Chief sends down Wilbur the Angel along with a wireless phone, from the 1950s, to help Jeff's muse , his wife Mary, inspire Jeff to complete the needed song. This while at the same time displaying and utilizing the latest and greatest telephone equipment. This includes color phones to match every decor. Be sure to note the matching wall cords that connect the phone to the wall.
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Title: Playwrights '56
Released: October 4, 1955
Type: TV
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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Title: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Released: October 1, 1955
Type: Movie
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
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Title: Navy Log
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
Navy Log is an American drama anthology series that initially aired for one season on CBS. It relates the greatest survival war stories in the history of the United States Navy. This series premiered on September 20, 1955, but the following year, it was moved to ABC, where it aired until September 25, 1958. The program aired for a total of three seasons and 102 episodes.
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Title: Cheyenne
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
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Title: The Secret Storm
Released: February 1, 1954
Type: TV
The Secret Storm is a soap opera which ran on CBS from February 1, 1954 to February 8, 1974. The series was created by Roy Winsor, who also created the long-running soap operas Search for Tomorrow and Love of Life. Gloria Monty of General Hospital fame was a longtime director of the series. Like most CBS Soap Operas of the time such as The Guiding Light and As the World Turns The Secret Storm was filmed, and later taped, in New York at the CBS Broadcast Center on West 52 Street.
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Man of Conflict
Title: Man of Conflict
Character: Mr. Murdock
Released: November 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Young man comes home to get ready to take over the family company, only to find that his father has been corrupted by power. In addition, he falls for the daughter of one of his father's poverty-stricken workers.
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The Studebaker Story
Title: The Studebaker Story
Character: Harold S. Vance
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
The history of the Studebaker family, their success at making wagons and the company's venture into automobiles.
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The Maverick
Title: The Maverick
Character: Col. Hook
Released: December 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Elliott must escort a gang of killer cattleman who have been terrorizing homesteaders.
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Mr. Walkie Talkie
Title: Mr. Walkie Talkie
Character: Col. Lockwood
Released: November 28, 1952
Type: Movie
Military comedy about two sergeant buddies constantly getting into trouble.
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Old Oklahoma Plains
Title: Old Oklahoma Plains
Character: Colonel Charles Bigelow
Released: July 25, 1952
Type: Movie
One-time cavalry officer Rex Allen, between jobs as a star rodeo rider, is asked by his former commanding officer, Colonel Bigelow, to help settle a dispute between the army and local ranchers. The cavalry has commandeered a large parcel of land needed to test their newly-designed tank and prominent rancher Jenson has encited the locals to rebel at this intrusion. It is up to Rex and his sidekick, Slim, to thwart Jenson and convince the residents that these army tests are essential.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Overland Telegraph
Title: Overland Telegraph
Character: Col. Marvin
Released: December 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Not to be confused with the 1929 film The Overland Telegraph, this Western from director Lesley Selander stars Tim Holt as a cowboy appropriately named Tim Holt. In order to hinder the construction of a new telegraph line for his own financial gain, scheming shopkeeper Paul Manning (George Nader) enlists the assistance of a gang of outlaws led by Brad Roberts (Hugh Beaumont in one of his many pre-Leave it to Beaver roles). Unfortunately for the bad guys, Holt and his cohort Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin) sense that there's foul play afoot and embark on an investigation.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: J. Winston Fletcher
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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As You Were
Title: As You Were
Character: Col. Lockwood
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: Movie
In a train station, Army recruiting sergeant Ames attempts to enlist a group of young men with blandishments of travel and glamour in the Army.
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All That I Have
Title: All That I Have
Character: Jess Northrup
Released: October 1, 1951
Type: Movie
As a wealthy retired surgeon nears the end of his life, he begins to distribute his wealth to those in need, stating that "all that I have belongs to God." His nephews bring him to court to determine his mental competence in the hopes of stopping him from disposing of all his money.
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Title: Racket Squad
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: TV
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
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Kentucky Jubilee
Title: Kentucky Jubilee
Character: T.J. Hoarsely
Released: May 18, 1951
Type: Movie
A film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film. There, he gets kidnapped.
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Fourteen Hours
Title: Fourteen Hours
Character: Regan, Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.
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Bowery Battalion
Title: Bowery Battalion
Character: Melvin Hatfield
Released: January 24, 1951
Type: Movie
Slip, Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.
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Again Pioneers
Title: Again Pioneers
Character: Pete Galloway
Released: November 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Citizens of Fairview are outraged when they learn children from the "Patch", a squalid migrant camp on the outskirts of town, will soon be attending Fairview's school.
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Title: The Cisco Kid
Character: Jasper King
Released: September 5, 1950
Type: TV
The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, The Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho. Cisco and Pancho were technically desperados, wanted for unspecified crimes, but instead viewed by the poor as Robin Hood figures who assisted the downtrodden when law enforcement officers proved corrupt or unwilling to help. It was also the first television series to be filmed in color, although few viewers saw it in color until the 1960s.
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The Big Hangover
Title: The Big Hangover
Character: Steve Hughes
Released: May 26, 1950
Type: Movie
A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol.
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Blue Grass of Kentucky
Title: Blue Grass of Kentucky
Character: James B. Armistead
Released: January 22, 1950
Type: Movie
The story revolves around a colt born in Kentucky and named "Blue Grass". and the training of the colt to win the Kentuck Derby. and how all of that affected the lives, fortunes and, relationships and romances of the people associated with the colt's race-track career.
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The Flying Saucer
Title: The Flying Saucer
Character: Hank Thorn
Released: January 4, 1950
Type: Movie
The CIA sends playboy Mike Trent to Alaska with agent Vee Langley, posing as his "nurse," to investigate flying saucer sightings. At first, installed in a hunting lodge, the two play in the wilderness. But then they sight a saucer. Investigating, our heroes clash with an inept gang of Soviet spies, also after the saucer secret.
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Samson and Delilah
Title: Samson and Delilah
Character: Lord of Ashkelon
Released: December 21, 1949
Type: Movie
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
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Barbary Pirate
Title: Barbary Pirate
Character: Commodore Preble
Released: November 10, 1949
Type: Movie
U.S. agent Major Tom Blake is sent to Tripoli to uncover who it is in Washington that is tipping off the pirates as to what's being shipped where. A fast-moving story with lots of sabers and rapiers.
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The Fountainhead
Title: The Fountainhead
Character: Banner Board Member (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1949
Type: Movie
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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Manhattan Angel
Title: Manhattan Angel
Character: J.C. Rayland
Released: March 17, 1949
Type: Movie
Gloria Cole and Eddie Swenson are working to keep an old fire house, now being used as a youth center, from being razed to make room for a new skyscraper in Manhattan.
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South of St. Louis
Title: South of St. Louis
Released: March 6, 1949
Type: Movie
With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Needing money, will join the Confederate troops, each for their particular motivations.
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I Cheated the Law
Title: I Cheated the Law
Character: District Attorney Randolph
Released: March 4, 1949
Type: Movie
An attorney (Tom Conway) learns he was duped into being his gangster murder client's (Steve Brodie) alibi.
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One Sunday Afternoon
Title: One Sunday Afternoon
Character: Tredway
Released: December 25, 1948
Type: Movie
The third film version of James Hagan's play, this time with songs added, starring Dennis Morgan as a dentist who marries patient and loyal Dorothy Malone despite his constant infatuation with sexy flirt Janis Paige. Filmed previously in 1933 ("One Sunday Afternoon") and 1941 ("The Strawberry Blonde").
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Jiggs and Maggie in Court
Title: Jiggs and Maggie in Court
Character: Supreme Court Judge
Released: December 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon character in the George McManus comic strip "Bringing Up Father." She visits McManus in his studio office and tries to persuade him to stop drawing the syndicated comic-strip. He tells her he will...in 1959. Maggie, not getting any younger, retains counsel and takes McManus to court.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Hinton
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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My Dear Secretary
Title: My Dear Secretary
Character: Dick Fulton - Publisher (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1948
Type: Movie
A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, however, when he turns out to be an erratic, immature playboy. Opposites attract, of course, but not without sub-plots that touch on competitiveness within marriage and responsibility.
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The Plunderers
Title: The Plunderers
Character: Cavalry Colonel
Released: October 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Hero Rod Cameron kills Sheriff Sam Borden at point-blank range and in front of several witnesses in the opening of this Republic Pictures Western, released in the company's patented Trucolor system. The "killing," however, is merely a ruse set up to allow army agent Johnny Drum to infiltrate a gang of highway robbers.
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The Return of October
Title: The Return of October
Character: Taylor
Released: October 26, 1948
Type: Movie
A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.
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Race Street
Title: Race Street
Character: Easy Mason
Released: September 11, 1948
Type: Movie
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
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The Velvet Touch
Title: The Velvet Touch
Character: Actor 'Judge Brack'
Released: July 13, 1948
Type: Movie
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
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Shanghai Chest
Title: Shanghai Chest
Character: Frank Bronson, district attorney
Released: July 11, 1948
Type: Movie
Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all three murder sites, and all three victims were connected with the conviction and execution of an evidently innocent man.
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The Gallant Legion
Title: The Gallant Legion
Character: Senator Beale
Released: May 24, 1948
Type: Movie
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Conway and the Texas Rangers must step in to thwart their chicanery.
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Assigned to Danger
Title: Assigned to Danger
Character: Thomas A. Rivers (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1948
Type: Movie
A gang of bank robbers is pursued by an insurance investigator.
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The Hunted
Title: The Hunted
Character: Dan Meredith, Chief of Detectives
Released: April 7, 1948
Type: Movie
A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims she's being framed.
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The Noose Hangs High
Title: The Noose Hangs High
Character: Johnny - Copper Club Manager (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
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The Black Arrow
Title: The Black Arrow
Character: Sir Harry Shelton
Released: March 18, 1948
Type: Movie
A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who is now an outlaw. However, he becomes suspicious about the exact circumstances of his father's death and determines to find out exactly what happened.
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The Judge Steps Out
Title: The Judge Steps Out
Character: Superior Court Judge (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
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Louisiana
Title: Louisiana
Character: Fred Astor
Released: November 15, 1947
Type: Movie
The music-loving son of a Louisiana sharecropper uses his songs to graduate from college.
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Exposed
Title: Exposed
Character: Col. Bentry
Released: September 8, 1947
Type: Movie
A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.
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Smoky River Serenade
Title: Smoky River Serenade
Character: J. Bricket Armstrong
Released: August 20, 1947
Type: Movie
The ramshackle Smoky River Ranch is all that stands in the way of a developer and a big real-estate deal, but the old man who owns the ranch won't sell it, because he has to take care of some down-and-out theater people to honor his dead son's memory. Frustrated, the developer sends in a pretty young girl to try to trick the old man into selling the ranch.
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Dark Delusion
Title: Dark Delusion
Character: Mr. Logan (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 1947
Type: Movie
Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents' dismay. Soon he's drawing up plans to marry the girl and setting up private practice in a smaller town.
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Web of Danger
Title: Web of Danger
Character: Gallagher
Released: June 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew working on a bridge to a remote valley, are constantly quarreling over small and minor matter, especially when it comes to Peg Mallory, whom both men are romancing and Peg enjoys the attention. Thed work is suspended when a worker is killed, but a flood is approaching and the valley citizens are in dire straits unless the bridge is completed - in a hurry.
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Fun on a Weekend
Title: Fun on a Weekend
Character: John Biddle
Released: May 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.
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Buck Privates Come Home
Title: Buck Privates Come Home
Character: Mr. Appleby
Released: April 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
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The Pilgrim Lady
Title: The Pilgrim Lady
Character: Thackery Gibbs
Released: January 22, 1947
Type: Movie
Dennis Carter, the head of a detective agency, and his secretary, Henrietta Rankin, get involved in the murder of a scandal-peddling, blackmailing radio commentator, and evidence point toward Henrietta. Dennis sets out to clear her and also find the real culprits.
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Till the Clouds Roll By
Title: Till the Clouds Roll By
Character: Producer (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.
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The Show-Off
Title: The Show-Off
Character: Mr. Thorbison (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Chaos is brought to a family when daughter marries a brash young man met on a blind date.
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The Plainsman and the Lady
Title: The Plainsman and the Lady
Character: Sen. Twin
Released: November 11, 1946
Type: Movie
Film about the early days of the Pony Express and the crooked businessman who opposed it.
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G.I. War Brides
Title: G.I. War Brides
Character: Insp. Ramsaye
Released: August 12, 1946
Type: Movie
Linda Powell, and English girl, stows away on a ship bound for the United States in order to join the G.I. she loves. She assumes the identity of an English war bride, Joyce Giles, who has decided she no longer loves the American soldier she married and is not going to join him in the U.S. Linda arrives to find that her soldier no longer wishes to marry her...
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Dark Alibi
Title: Dark Alibi
Character: Warden Cameron
Released: May 25, 1946
Type: Movie
After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had been forged. Charlie then proceeds to find the true bank robbers.
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The Hoodlum Saint
Title: The Hoodlum Saint
Character: Marty Martindale (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
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Swing Parade of 1946
Title: Swing Parade of 1946
Character: Daniel Warren Sr.
Released: March 19, 1946
Type: Movie
A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down.
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The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
Title: The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
Character: Robin Hood - Earl of Huntington
Released: February 21, 1946
Type: Movie
Robin Hood's swashbuckling son comes to the rescue when England's boy-king is captured by the evil, power-hungry William of Pembroke.
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Gay Blades
Title: Gay Blades
Character: Buxton
Released: January 25, 1946
Type: Movie
New York hockey player Andy Buell is approached by Hollywood talent scout Nancy Davis to play the hunk lead in "The Behemoth" but he would prefer she quit her job and become his wife.
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A Close Call for Boston Blackie
Title: A Close Call for Boston Blackie
Character: Attorney Harcourt (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1946
Type: Movie
Blackie runs into a woman he formally loved who now is married with a kid. When her husband gets out of prison he's killed in Blackie's apartment and of course the police thing Blackie pulled the trigger. Blackie must set out to prove his innocence as well as capture the real killers.
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Scarlet Street
Title: Scarlet Street
Character: J.J. Hogarth
Released: December 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
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Getting Gertie's Garter
Title: Getting Gertie's Garter
Character: Board Member (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Dennis O'Keefe, newly married to lovely Sheila Ryan, is in a jam. O'Keefe's former girl friend, exotic dancer Marie McDonald, has in her possession an expensive, jeweled garter given to her by O'Keefe in his bachelor days. McDonald intends to show the garter to O'Keefe's suspicious wife, so Our Hero must retrieve the embarrassing accouterment without tipping off the missus.
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A Game of Death
Title: A Game of Death
Character: Mr. Whitney
Released: November 23, 1945
Type: Movie
A shipwrecked Don Rainsford washes up on a homicidal big-game hunter's Caribbean island where the madman hunts human prey for his personal island habitat.
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Apology for Murder
Title: Apology for Murder
Character: Harvey Kirkland
Released: September 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit his estate, while pinning the murder on another businessman.
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First Yank into Tokyo
Title: First Yank into Tokyo
Character: Gen. T.W. Stanton (uncredited)
Released: September 5, 1945
Type: Movie
A U.S. pilot undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist's (Marc Cramer) atomic secrets.
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Flame of Barbary Coast
Title: Flame of Barbary Coast
Character: Cyrus Danver, Owner San Francisco Star
Released: May 28, 1945
Type: Movie
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.
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The Valley of Decision
Title: The Valley of Decision
Character: Mr. Laurence Gaylord
Released: May 3, 1945
Type: Movie
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.
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The Master Key
Title: The Master Key
Character: Police Chief Michael J. O'Brien
Released: April 24, 1945
Type: Movie
Before the outbreak of WWII, Nazi sympathizers plot to undermine America.
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She Gets Her Man
Title: She Gets Her Man
Character: Mayor
Released: January 12, 1945
Type: Movie
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.
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Janie
Title: Janie
Character: Col. Lucas - Commander Camp Wingate
Released: September 2, 1944
Type: Movie
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.
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The Port of 40 Thieves
Title: The Port of 40 Thieves
Character: Charles Farrington
Released: August 13, 1944
Type: Movie
A widow confesses she murdered her husband and kills two more people before her stepdaughter and an attorney prove her wrong.
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Louisiana Hayride
Title: Louisiana Hayride
Character: H.C.Forbes
Released: July 13, 1944
Type: Movie
A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings.
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Bathing Beauty
Title: Bathing Beauty
Character: Mr. Allenwood (uncredited)
Released: June 27, 1944
Type: Movie
After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.
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The Case of the Tremendous Trifle
Title: The Case of the Tremendous Trifle
Character: Colonel
Released: March 14, 1944
Type: Movie
This documentary short film depicts the importance of tiny ball bearings in the ability of a nation to carry out warfare. As ball bearings are necessary for the operation of almost all machinery, war materiel is vitally dependent on the production of these small metallic globes. Allied military forces in World War II decide it is necessary to curtail Germany's ability to provide itself with ball bearings. Intelligence is gathered from many sources in order to plan an aerial bombing raid on Schweinfurt, home of Germany's ball bearing industry.
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Captain America
Title: Captain America
Character: Mayor Randolph
Released: February 5, 1944
Type: Movie
Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the archvillain called The Scarab, who poisons his enemies and steals a secret device capable of destroying buildings by sound vibrations.
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The Woman of the Town
Title: The Woman of the Town
Character: Publisher
Released: December 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Masterson falls in love with Dora Hand, the obligatory golden-hearted chorus girl whose concern for the welfare of her fellow citizens at time reaches Madonna-like dimensions. When Dora is shot down cattle baron King Kennedy, Masterson begins taking his job seriously. After taking care of Kennedy, Masterson determines to enshrine the memory of Dora, whose efforts to clean up Dodge City were largely ignored by the "decent" townsfolk.
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His Butler's Sister
Title: His Butler's Sister
Character: Sanderson
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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Northern Pursuit
Title: Northern Pursuit
Character: Chief Inspector (uncredited)
Released: November 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
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Someone to Remember
Title: Someone to Remember
Character: Mr. Stanton
Released: August 21, 1943
Type: Movie
An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory for male students, as she is convinced that he will return one day. She continues to live in the building after it becomes a dorm, and eventually grows attached to a troubled young student whom she comes to believe is her own grandson. When she finds out that the boy's father will be visiting him, she prepares herself to be reunited with the man she has convinced herself is her long-lost son.
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Three Hearts for Julia
Title: Three Hearts for Julia
Character: Colonel (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1943
Type: Movie
When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again.
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King of the Cowboys
Title: King of the Cowboys
Character: Texas Governor
Released: April 9, 1943
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses.
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Air Raid Wardens
Title: Air Raid Wardens
Character: Major Scanlon
Released: April 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
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Follow the Band
Title: Follow the Band
Character: Jeremiah K. Barton
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A farmer from Vermont travels to New York and becomes a successful singer in a nightclub.
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Tennessee Johnson
Title: Tennessee Johnson
Character: Lincoln's Emissary
Released: December 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's assassination, Johnson becomes the President and became the first U.S. president ever to be impeached.
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Strictly in the Groove
Title: Strictly in the Groove
Character: RC Saunders
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
College student, cattle baron, confused love story.
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Hitler- Dead or Alive
Title: Hitler- Dead or Alive
Character: Samuel Thornton
Released: November 12, 1942
Type: Movie
A team of ex-con bounty hunters go to Germany in search of Hitler. If they can find him, a million dollar reward is to be paid to them.
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To the Shores of Tripoli
Title: To the Shores of Tripoli
Character: Major Wilson
Released: November 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier.
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Springtime in the Rockies
Title: Springtime in the Rockies
Character: Theatergoer in blackout (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.
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King of the Mounties
Title: King of the Mounties
Character: Marshal Carleton
Released: October 17, 1942
Type: Movie
King of the Candian riding police is up against Japs and Nazis who are about to invade Canada. They just want to clear the way with a new futuristic plane called "The Falcon" first, but that's not gonna happen if Kig has his way.
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Lady in a Jam
Title: Lady in a Jam
Character: Carter
Released: June 19, 1942
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.
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Pacific Rendezvous
Title: Pacific Rendezvous
Character: John Carter
Released: May 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.
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Tarzan's New York Adventure
Title: Tarzan's New York Adventure
Character: Judge Abbotson
Released: May 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and Jane follow them to New York.
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We Were Dancing
Title: We Were Dancing
Character: Mr. Bryce-Carew
Released: April 30, 1942
Type: Movie
A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American socialites.
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Fingers at the Window
Title: Fingers at the Window
Character: Dr. Chandley
Released: April 22, 1942
Type: Movie
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
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Ship Ahoy
Title: Ship Ahoy
Character: Capt. C.V. O'Brien
Released: April 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved.
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Butch Minds the Baby
Title: Butch Minds the Baby
Character: J. Wadsworth Carrington
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe crackers when he has to also look after the baby of one of the criminals.
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Title: Ride 'Em Cowboy
Character: Rodeo Announcer #1 (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
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Joe Smith, American
Title: Joe Smith, American
Character: Mr. Edgerton
Released: February 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
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Sealed Lips
Title: Sealed Lips
Character: Dr. Charles Evans
Released: January 2, 1942
Type: Movie
There's something very odd about Romano, a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing, Romano doesn't sound much like himself. For another, he always seems to be hiding something. Detective Lee suspects that something's amiss, and he's probably right!
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Pacific Blackout
Title: Pacific Blackout
Character: Commanding Officer
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
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They Died with Their Boots On
Title: They Died with Their Boots On
Character: Colonel of 1st Michigan (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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Great Guns
Title: Great Guns
Character: Gen. Burns
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted.
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Buy Me That Town
Title: Buy Me That Town
Character: Malcolm
Released: October 3, 1941
Type: Movie
A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the town to use as a hideout. The leader of the gang begins to have a change of heart after he begins falling for a local girl.
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Sergeant York
Title: Sergeant York
Character: General (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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Doctors Don't Tell
Title: Doctors Don't Tell
Character: Supt. Duff
Released: September 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics.
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Dive Bomber
Title: Dive Bomber
Character: Awards Speaker (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1941
Type: Movie
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.
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The Little Foxes
Title: The Little Foxes
Character: William Marshall
Released: August 29, 1941
Type: Movie
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
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Hold That Ghost
Title: Hold That Ghost
Character: Bannister
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
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The Parson of Panamint
Title: The Parson of Panamint
Character: Prosecuting Attorney
Released: July 25, 1941
Type: Movie
As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield recalls the town's glory days. Looming large in Chuckawalla's reminiscences is the day that young and apparently mild-mannerd minister Philip Pharo rode into town. In his own gentle but forceful fashion, Pharo managed to bring the town's lawless element into line, mollify the local bluenoses, and win the heart of likeable dance-hall girl Mary Mallory.
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The Big Store
Title: The Big Store
Character: Arthur Hastings
Released: June 20, 1941
Type: Movie
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
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Blood and Sand
Title: Blood and Sand
Character: Marquis
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.
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The Great Lie
Title: The Great Lie
Character: Colonel Harriston
Released: April 5, 1941
Type: Movie
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
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Man-Made Monster
Title: Man-Made Monster
Character: Warden Harris (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
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Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
Title: Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
Character: Harry Walsh
Released: March 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen asks his son Ellery to help out.
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Here Comes Happiness
Title: Here Comes Happiness
Character: John Vance
Released: March 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor but ambitious man. Chet observes a series of suspicious, clandestine meetings with her rich father and his chauffeur which makes him think she is stringing along a "Sugar Daddy" on the side. Financial trickery and sequences of misunderstandings and coincidences culminate with a wedding that turns out much differently than planned.
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A Man Betrayed
Title: A Man Betrayed
Character: C.R. Pringle
Released: March 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).
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Western Union
Title: Western Union
Character: Provisional Governor
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
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Arkansas Judge
Title: Arkansas Judge
Character: Hetty's Attorney
Released: January 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accused of slander.
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Love Thy Neighbor
Title: Love Thy Neighbor
Character: Harrington
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
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Santa Fe Trail
Title: Santa Fe Trail
Character: Dr. J. Boyce Russell (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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No, No, Nanette
Title: No, No, Nanette
Character: 'Hutch' Hutchinson
Released: December 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?
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Nobody's Children
Title: Nobody's Children
Character: Sen. Lawrence Hargrave (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1940
Type: Movie
A radio host broadcasts a show about children living in an orphanage.
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Lady with Red Hair
Title: Lady with Red Hair
Character: Wealthy London Host (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
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The Bank Dick
Title: The Bank Dick
Character: J. Frothingham Waterbury
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.
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East of the River
Title: East of the River
Character: Warden
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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Junior G-Men
Title: Junior G-Men
Character: Col. Barton
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
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Seven Sinners
Title: Seven Sinners
Character: First Governor
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
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Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.
Title: Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.
Character: Colonel Barton
Released: October 1, 1940
Type: Movie
The Dead End Kids smash a spy ring in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men. Billy, the leader of the Dead End Kids, learns that his scientist father has been captured by the "Order of the Flaming Torch." This group of fifth columnists plans to use America's biggest brains to destroy the country from within. When the saboteurs outwit the gang's street smarts, the kids have no choice but to ask the FBI for help. The feds send in their own teenage contingent -- The Junior G-Men! Now the two groups must form an uneasy alliance, before the Order of the Flaming Torch can turn the U.S.A. into Amerika, the Evil Empire!
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The Return of Frank James
Title: The Return of Frank James
Character: Prosecutor
Released: August 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
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Sporting Blood
Title: Sporting Blood
Character: 'Sneak' OBrien
Released: July 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the big race looms nearer, Myles is distracted to discover that he really loves Linda.
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The Mortal Storm
Title: The Mortal Storm
Character: Rector
Released: June 20, 1940
Type: Movie
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up in the turmoil.
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Earthbound
Title: Earthbound
Character: Prosecutor
Released: June 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.
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Johnny Apollo
Title: Johnny Apollo
Character: District Attorney
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
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Enemy Agent
Title: Enemy Agent
Character: Lyman Scott
Released: April 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are.
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Virginia City
Title: Virginia City
Character: Armistead
Released: March 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
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Parole Fixer
Title: Parole Fixer
Character: U.S. District Court Judge
Released: February 2, 1940
Type: Movie
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.
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The Blue Bird
Title: The Blue Bird
Character: Daddy Tyl
Released: January 15, 1940
Type: Movie
An ungrateful girl and her little brother are transported in their dreams by a fairy to a wonderland, tasked with finding the mythical blue bird of happiness, meeting friends and foes along the way.
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Swanee River
Title: Swanee River
Character: Andrew McDowell
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
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The Big Guy
Title: The Big Guy
Character: Lawson
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Title: Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Character: Mr. Graves
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
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Rulers of the Sea
Title: Rulers of the Sea
Character: Mr. Cunard (Uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1939
Type: Movie
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
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Bad Little Angel
Title: Bad Little Angel
Character: Maj. Ellwood, newspaper owner (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
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Hollywood Cavalcade
Title: Hollywood Cavalcade
Character: Russell Hicks
Released: October 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
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The Real Glory
Title: The Real Glory
Character: Capt. Manning
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous attacks of the ruthless Alisang and his fanatical followers.
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Our Leading Citizen
Title: Our Leading Citizen
Character: Chairman
Released: August 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
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Stanley and Livingstone
Title: Stanley and Livingstone
Character: Commissioner
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
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Hotel for Women
Title: Hotel for Women
Character: Van Ellis
Released: August 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.
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Hotel Imperial
Title: Hotel Imperial
Character: Austrian Officer (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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East Side of Heaven
Title: East Side of Heaven
Character: Hinkle (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Title: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Character: Mr. Barrows
Released: April 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Title: The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Character: Colonel (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Porthos
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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Honolulu
Title: Honolulu
Character: Mr. Clifford Jones (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
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Boy Trouble
Title: Boy Trouble
Character: Magistrate
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
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North of Shanghai
Title: North of Shanghai
Character: Rowley
Released: January 24, 1939
Type: Movie
In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over and decide to team up. They are further assisted by a Chinese cameraman. The three of them manage to expose of spy ring operating out of the Shanghai office of the woman's newspaper.
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Kentucky
Title: Kentucky
Character: Thad Goodwin Sr. - 1861
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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That Certain Age
Title: That Certain Age
Character: Scout Leader (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton invites Bullit to the peace and quiet of his own home to write a series of European affair articles. When Fullerton's adolescent daughter Alice develops a crush on Bullit, her suitor, boyscout Ken Warren, doesn't seem to stand a chance. Mr. and Mrs. Fullerton, Ken Warren, and even Vincent Bullit himself do their best to sway young Alice's feelings away from the older man. It's a difficult task though, as she is at 'that certain age.'
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Fugitives for a Night
Title: Fugitives for a Night
Character: Maurice Tenwright
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Kirby's Attorney (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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Gateway
Title: Gateway
Character: Ernest Porter
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
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Little Miss Broadway
Title: Little Miss Broadway
Character: Perry
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
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Men with Wings
Title: Men with Wings
Character: Gen. Marlin
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Bailiff
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
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In Old Chicago
Title: In Old Chicago
Character: Politician in Jack's Office
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
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The Big Broadcast of 1938
Title: The Big Broadcast of 1938
Character: Capt. Stafford
Released: February 11, 1938
Type: Movie
The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.
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Clipped Wings
Title: Clipped Wings
Character: Capt. Morton
Released: December 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Mickey Lofton, young half-brother of famed war-aviator Jerry, fails in his attempt to enter the Canadian Air Corps, because of his fear of thunderstorms developed by an incident in his boyhood days. Jerry, now a Captain in the U.S. Department of Justice, is given an assignment to capture some border oil smugglers. Through his friendship with Raoul McGuire, one of the suspects, Jerry is accepted as a member of the gang. Mickey is in love with Raoul's sister, Molly. Gang leader Moran shoots and wounds Raoul, and is himself shot down by Jerry. Mickey flies Molly and her wounded brother to a hospital. Jerry takes off in another plane to guard Mickey's craft from a pursuing airplane, and crashes his plane into the gangster's plane but parachutes to safety.
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The Westland Case
Title: The Westland Case
Character: Mr. Woodbury
Released: October 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
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Partners in Crime
Title: Partners in Crime
Character: Mayor Callahan
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.
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Fit for a King
Title: Fit for a King
Character: Editor Hardwick
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a princess in exile, in danger of assassination; and, falling in love with "Scoops", while engaged to a prince.
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The Man Who Cried Wolf
Title: The Man Who Cried Wolf
Character: Prosecuting Attorney
Released: August 29, 1937
Type: Movie
An actor plots "the perfect crime" by confessing to murders he didn't commit.
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The Big Shot
Title: The Big Shot
Character: Martin Drake
Released: July 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A small-town veterinarian inherits $2 million from an uncle he barely knew. His attempts to help mankind don't go smoothly.
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The Toast of New York
Title: The Toast of New York
Character: Lawyer
Released: July 22, 1937
Type: Movie
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
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A Dangerous Adventure
Title: A Dangerous Adventure
Character: Allen
Released: July 21, 1937
Type: Movie
This drama chronicles the education of a naive, rich young woman who inherits a steel mill. To help her keep it running she unites with a man. Meanwhile two crooks try to destroy her production in order to force her to sell it to them for very little money. They are thwarted at the last moment.
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On Again—Off Again
Title: On Again—Off Again
Character: George Dilwig
Released: July 9, 1937
Type: Movie
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!
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The Wildcatter
Title: The Wildcatter
Character: Tom Frayne
Released: June 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Eager to take advantage of a new oil boom, "Lucky" Conlon leaves his gas station and diner for Texas, with his wife Helen's blessing. In Texas, Lucky wins enough money in roulette to lease a parcel of land, and he and his friend "Smiley" begin drilling. Julia Frayne, whom Lucky met while gambling, turns out to be the daughter of oil tycoon Tom Frayne, who is eager to buy out the leases of the growing number of independent drillers, called "wildcatters," in order to hold a monopoly on the local oil fields.
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Fifty Roads to Town
Title: Fifty Roads to Town
Character: Police Official
Released: June 3, 1937
Type: Movie
A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run.
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Pick a Star
Title: Pick a Star
Character: Mr. Stone
Released: May 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
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It Happened Out West
Title: It Happened Out West
Character: Cooley
Released: May 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Bank employee assigned to tell Arizona rancher her property is no good gets suspicious when her foreman agrees. Turns out his banker boss and the foreman know there's silver on that property.
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Criminals of the Air
Title: Criminals of the Air
Character: Kurt Feldon
Released: April 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez in breaking up a well-organized band of smugglers.
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Let Them Live
Title: Let Them Live
Character: Newspaper Editor
Released: April 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
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Midnight Taxi
Title: Midnight Taxi
Character: Barney Flagg
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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23 1/2 Hours Leave
Title: 23 1/2 Hours Leave
Character: Capt. Barker
Released: March 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Army training Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can get himself invited to breakfast with his commanding officer, General Markley. But he gets into an unhappy tangle with a couple of enemy spies (and a happy tangle with the general's daughter) before the bet is finally decided.
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Espionage
Title: Espionage
Character: Alfred Hartrix
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
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Girl Overboard
Title: Girl Overboard
Character: Sam Le Maire
Released: February 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A beautiful girl on a passenger ship is suspected of murder.
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Secret Valley
Title: Secret Valley
Character: Lawyer Austin Martin
Released: January 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Rancher entertains girl in Nevada to get a divorce. Then her gangster husband shows up.
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We Who Are About to Die
Title: We Who Are About to Die
Character: District Attorney Knight (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
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Dodge City Trail
Title: Dodge City Trail
Character: Kenyon Phillips
Released: December 12, 1936
Type: Movie
With the increasing popularity of Republic's sagebrush crooner Gene Autry, rival company Columbia found it necessary to add a musical element to this Charles Starrett Western released in early 1937. As Starrett himself was no singer, the studio hired Donald Grayson to warble Lonesome River, Out in the Cow Country and Pancho's Widow, all by Ned Washington and Sam H. Stept.
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Laughing at Trouble
Title: Laughing at Trouble
Character: Cyrus Hall
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is.
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The General Died at Dawn
Title: The General Died at Dawn
Character: No Matches Man (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1936
Type: Movie
China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.
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The Accusing Finger
Title: The Accusing Finger
Character: Vociferous Pro-Capital Punishment Senator
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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15 Maiden Lane
Title: 15 Maiden Lane
Character: Judge Graham
Released: October 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.
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Sea Spoilers
Title: Sea Spoilers
Character: Phil Morgan
Released: September 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the captaincy of his ship. Instead, he is replaced by Lieutenant Mays, son of the area commander. Mays is afflicted with a fear of the sea, although he has served well in Coast Guard aviation. His father, however, thinks Mays can overcome his fear by taking command of the Niobe. When seal poachers kidnap Bob Randall's girlfriend Connie, Bob and Mays disagree about the proper means of rescuing her and capturing the seal poachers. When Mays's inexperience and phobia foil their attempts at rescue, Bob comes up with his own plan.
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Grand Jury
Title: Grand Jury
Character: Jim Hanify
Released: August 7, 1936
Type: Movie
When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty and put behind bars.
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Spendthrift
Title: Spendthrift
Character: Attorney
Released: July 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the humbled (and impoverished) Fonda finds true love in the arms of Pat Paterson, who cares nothing for material things.
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Bunker Bean
Title: Bunker Bean
Character: A. C. Jones
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
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Ticket to Paradise
Title: Ticket to Paradise
Character: Colton
Released: June 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.
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Fatal Lady
Title: Fatal Lady
Character: American Opera House Manager (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1936
Type: Movie
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
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Special Investigator
Title: Special Investigator
Character: Inspector Perkett
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.
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Woman Trap
Title: Woman Trap
Character: Dodd
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin, whose investigation of the murder leads to a tenure as a temporary FBI agent.
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Laughing Irish Eyes
Title: Laughing Irish Eyes
Character: Silk Taylor
Released: March 4, 1936
Type: Movie
An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.
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The Music Goes 'Round
Title: The Music Goes 'Round
Character: Mr. Cohn
Released: February 27, 1936
Type: Movie
Harry Wallace (Harry Richman) is the star of a musical comedy who, while on a leave of absence from Broadway, encounters a troupe of untalented showboat players and takes them to New York City. Without letting them in on the joke, he then features them in a new revue, hoping that unintentionally-funny act will bring the house down.
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Follow the Fleet
Title: Follow the Fleet
Character: Jim Nolan
Released: February 20, 1936
Type: Movie
When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister, Connie. But it's not all smooth sailing—Bake has a habit of losing Sherry's jobs for her and, despite Connie's dreams, Bilge is not ready to settle down.
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Two in the Dark
Title: Two in the Dark
Character: Police Officer McCord
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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If You Could Only Cook
Title: If You Could Only Cook
Character: Dillon (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
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Charlie Chan in Shanghai
Title: Charlie Chan in Shanghai
Character: James Andrews
Released: October 11, 1935
Type: Movie
When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring.
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Thunder in the Night
Title: Thunder in the Night
Character: Prefect of Police
Released: September 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Officer Karl Torok's best friend, Count Alvinczy, is elected president of the Hungarian cabinet. Meanwhile, Alvinczy's wife, Madalaine, receives a message from a blackmailer, threatening her husband. When the blackmailer winds up dead, Madalaine appears to be the most likely suspect. Torok, however, knows the case is more complicated than it seems and dedicates himself to revealing the truth behind the mystery.
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Dante's Inferno
Title: Dante's Inferno
Character: Prosecuting Attorney
Released: August 23, 1935
Type: Movie
A carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family's wellbeing.
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Lady Tubbs
Title: Lady Tubbs
Character: Mr. Ronald Ash-Orcutt
Released: July 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and barges into the New York social scene.
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Honeymoon Limited
Title: Honeymoon Limited
Character: Slug Gorman (alias Colonel Carver)
Released: July 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco.
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Ladies Crave Excitement
Title: Ladies Crave Excitement
Character: Bert Taylor
Released: June 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.
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Go Into Your Dance
Title: Go Into Your Dance
Character: Sam Rupert
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
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While the Patient Slept
Title: While the Patient Slept
Character: Dr. Jay
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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Living on Velvet
Title: Living on Velvet
Character: Major at Flying Field
Released: March 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of money enters their life, their differences come to light.
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Sweet Music
Title: Sweet Music
Character: Mayor of New York City
Released: February 23, 1935
Type: Movie
A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York.
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The Woman in Red
Title: The Woman in Red
Character: Defense Attorney Clayton
Released: February 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust family in this horsy-set drama.
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Devil Dogs of the Air
Title: Devil Dogs of the Air
Character: Captain
Released: February 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory.
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The Secret Bride
Title: The Secret Bride
Character: John F. Holdstock
Released: December 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, they decide to keep their marriage secret. The political intrigue becomes more involved, and no one is quite what they seem. Soon Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life.
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Murder in the Clouds
Title: Murder in the Clouds
Character: Taggert
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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Babbitt
Title: Babbitt
Character: Commissioner Lyle Gurnee
Released: December 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.
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Gentlemen Are Born
Title: Gentlemen Are Born
Character: Newspaper Editor
Released: November 17, 1934
Type: Movie
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
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The Firebird
Title: The Firebird
Character: Mr. Beyer, the Stage Manager
Released: November 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Prohibited from seeing her actor sweetheart Herman Brandt by her tyrannical parents, sweet young Vienesse lass Mariette defies authority by regularly visiting Brandt's downstairs apartment. The lovers' signal is a song called "The Firebird," which Brandt sings whenever he wants Mariette to visit him. When the actor is murdered, poor Mariette and her parents are prime suspects. But the truth is a bit more complicated than that, involving as it does a haughty aristocrat, a powerful diplomat and a most unusual "candid camera" device.
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Happiness Ahead
Title: Happiness Ahead
Character: Jim Meehan
Released: October 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.
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The Case of the Howling Dog
Title: The Case of the Howling Dog
Character: Clinton Foley
Released: September 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.
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Mushrooms
Title: Mushrooms
Character: President of Pure Food Association (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Harry Gribbon is Horace, a man with one passion in life: Mushrooms.
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Before Morning
Title: Before Morning
Character: Jim Nichols
Released: October 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A night of love, intrigue, death and blackmail leaves stage-star Elise Manning's fate at stake in a conflict with the unscrupulous Doctor Gruell. A rejected lover dies in Miss Manning's apartment, and Gurell implies that the death was murder and attempts to blackmail the actress. The climax brings the actress, her fiancé and the dead-man's wife face-to-face in an emotional denouement.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Title: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1916
Type: Movie
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.