Harry Bowen

Harry Bowen

Born: October 4, 1888
Died: December 5, 1941
in Brooklyn, New York, USA

Movies for Harry Bowen...

Pot o' Gold
Title: Pot o' Gold
Character: Streetsweeper (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
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The Day the Bookies Wept
Title: The Day the Bookies Wept
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1939
Type: Movie
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
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The Dummy Owner
Title: The Dummy Owner
Released: January 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of record. At first, Leon is excited, but the arrangement soon creates difficulty for him. First, he knows nothing about horses except how to bet on them, and second, when his wife finds out, she is furious.
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She's Got Everything
Title: She's Got Everything
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marry a millionaire, but Carol insists on getting a job.
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Living on Love
Title: Living on Love
Character: Taxi Driver with Gorilla
Released: November 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".
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Should Wives Work?
Title: Should Wives Work?
Released: September 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Errol's wife goes back to work, despite his objections.
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Shall We Dance
Title: Shall We Dance
Character: Johnson (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
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We Who Are About to Die
Title: We Who Are About to Die
Character: Agitated Citizen in Mob (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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Grandma's Buoys
Title: Grandma's Buoys
Character: Harry
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Tom and Harry are sailors on a yacht, and go ashore for a few beers and whatever else may come up. What comes up is a brawl between them and the barflies in the waterfront saloon they go to. They are aided by an elderly lady and her knitting needles.
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The Big Game
Title: The Big Game
Character: Gambler Betting $500
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
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Missing Girls
Title: Missing Girls
Character: Willie
Released: September 10, 1936
Type: Movie
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
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Who's Looney Now
Title: Who's Looney Now
Character: Brother
Released: August 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Mr. Brown is riding home from work one day with his new neighbor, Mr. Johnson. When Brown explains that he has all kinds of problems at home, Johnson wants to help him. So, when they arrive, Johnson gives Brown a demonstration of one of the tricks that he uses to get his family to act as he wishes them too. But when Brown tries out Johnson's ideas on his own, things do not go as planned.
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The Gentleman from Louisiana
Title: The Gentleman from Louisiana
Released: August 14, 1936
Type: Movie
In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.
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Dummy Ache
Title: Dummy Ache
Character: Cabbie
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Misunderstandings, mishaps, and hijinks ensue. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division in 2013.
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Fury
Title: Fury
Character: Baggage Clerk (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Hill-Tillies
Title: Hill-Tillies
Character: Joe
Released: April 24, 1936
Type: Movie
The girls camp out in the woods for a publicity stunt.
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The Harvester
Title: The Harvester
Character: Carl
Released: April 18, 1936
Type: Movie
In a small town in Indiana in the 1890s, the domineering and ambitious Mrs. Biddle arranges a marriage between her spoiled daughter Thelma and the town's prize catch, harvester David Langston, who is wedded to the soil. David is friends with orphan Ruth Jameson and, although she is in love with him, he eventually gives in to the machinations of Mrs. Biddle and consents to marry Thelma. Meanwhile, technological advances come to town, including its first gasoline buggy, galvanic battery, and metal bathtub fitted with running water. When Mrs. Biddle tries to convince David to give up the farming life and join her husband in real estate, Mr. Biddle, hen-pecked and dissatisfied with city life, warns David against selling his farm.
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At Sea Ashore
Title: At Sea Ashore
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Patsy's working at Rumplemeyer's Donut Shop in Brooklyn. By accident she catches Mr. Rumplemeyer's trousers in the donut machine as he's leaving to pick his niece who's arriving from the old country, so he gives Patsy cab fare and sends her. She forgets her purse, so when she arrives at the immigration office, she can't pay the cabbie, who tells her he'll wait while the meter runs. Inside, Patsy finally finds the high-spirited Lyda, but by then, Patsy has sneaked into the holding area and may need a passport to get out. She hides in Lyda's trunk, but with the cabbie, a suspicious immigration officer, and a traffic cop buzzing around will uncle and niece ever connect?
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Vamp Till Ready
Title: Vamp Till Ready
Character: Man
Released: March 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Charley's somewhat prudish wife pretends to be a party girl.
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Neighborhood House
Title: Neighborhood House
Character: Irate Movie Patron
Released: March 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Charley, his wife Rosina and their daughter Darla attend "Bank night" at their local movie theater, more eager to win the cash prize than see the picture. When little Darla is selected to choose the winning ticket, she draws her father's number. The crowd reacts angrily, thinking that the drawing is a fraud, forcing the child to choose another number. This one turns out to be her own ticket, after which a third drawing yields her mother's ticket. While pandemonium erupts in the audience, some gangsters arrive and raid the theater. A chase follows, resulting in the eventual capture of the crooks.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: San Francisco Mob Leader
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Pan Handlers
Title: Pan Handlers
Character: Man in Bathtub (uncredited)
Released: February 29, 1936
Type: Movie
The girls get jobs selling aluminum cookware door to door.
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Strike Me Pink
Title: Strike Me Pink
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
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Two in the Dark
Title: Two in the Dark
Character: Taxi Driver
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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Heir to Trouble
Title: Heir to Trouble
Character: Cowhand Hank
Released: December 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Ken Armstrong (Ken Maynard) finds himself a mine owner and a daddy simultaneously when a friend dies and wills him his mine and his baby. The outlaws eying the mine try to frame the hero for the death.
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Manhattan Monkey Business
Title: Manhattan Monkey Business
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: November 9, 1935
Type: Movie
When Charley can't pay his bill at a restaurant, he is forced to become a waiter.
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The Rainmakers
Title: The Rainmakers
Character: Switchman
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
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The Timid Young Man
Title: The Timid Young Man
Character: Milton's Valet
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Milton, a disappointed romantic, has sworn off women. He gives a lift to a female hitchhiker, whom he happily discovers is also a hurt soul and has sworn off men. Their trip together runs into interference from an aggressive driver who later reappears after the two have set up camp. He starts putting the moves on the woman, but when Milton's ex-girlfriend shows up, she gets into a fight with the interloper and gives Milton and his new pal the chance to slip away.
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Slightly Static
Title: Slightly Static
Character: Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.
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In Love at 40
Title: In Love at 40
Character: Motel Desk Clerk
Released: August 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Edgar falls in love with another woman.
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Hot Tip
Title: Hot Tip
Character: Racetrack Spectator
Released: August 20, 1935
Type: Movie
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
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The Headline Woman
Title: The Headline Woman
Character: Ernie
Released: May 14, 1935
Type: Movie
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
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Hit and Rum
Title: Hit and Rum
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Lew Kelly is a walking cuckoo-clock who thinks he is a judge. Leon and Eddie are two drunks who think they are drivers. They crash together, and Lew gets trapped in the middle. Leon and Eddie finally come to terms and leave Lew amidst the wreckage. The next day, Leon answers a court summons, only to find that Lew is the presiding judge, after sneaking in and taking over the job as the regular judge is absent.
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The Misses Stooge
Title: The Misses Stooge
Character: Mr. Schmidt - Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician.
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Sing Sister Sing
Title: Sing Sister Sing
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 1935
Type: Movie
At a residence hotel, Patsy is moving in with Thelma. Thelma has prepared some rules, including singing whenever one feels quarrelsome or angry. Although Thelma tells Patsy that they'll share everything, there's precious little closet or drawer space for Patsy's clothes, little room to maneuver around Thelma in the bathroom, and then a sleepless night for Patsy when Thelma goes sleepwalking. Can they share and share alike, or will Patsy keep on singing?
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The Dancing Millionaire
Title: The Dancing Millionaire
Character: Crusher's Manager
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition
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You Said a Hatful!
Title: You Said a Hatful!
Character: Train Clerk
Released: October 13, 1934
Type: Movie
When he learns the secret news that it will be sold today at 4pm in Kansas City, international banker J.P. Anderson sets in motion a plan to purchase the Tippycanoe Tuckahoe & Tehachapi Railroad.
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Gridiron Flash
Title: Gridiron Flash
Character: Convict With Smith
Released: October 6, 1934
Type: Movie
A college football team recruits a tough convict.
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Something Simple
Title: Something Simple
Character: Desk Clerk
Released: September 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Taken to a hospital, after suffering a dizzy spell, Charley is told by a 'nut', posing as a doctor, that he suffers from 'Tetra-Ethyl", and the only remedy is to sit down, relax, clear the mind and recite a nursery rhyme. The fake doctor gives Charley a package to deliver to Mr. Henderson, the "Supreme Crown of the Knights of the Brown Derby." At the hotel, hosting a convention of "Brown Derbies," Charley suffers a dizzy spell and the only place he can find to sit down is in Mr. Henderson's lap, where he recites "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Mr. Henderson, it is revealed, also suffers from "Tetra-Ethyl." Seized by an attack, Henderson sits down and tries to recite "Who Killed Cock Robin," but forgets the lines, which Charley and Henderson's daughter, Betty, sing in a song together. That, coming at the end of the second reel,is all it takes for Charley and Betty to decide to get married.
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Blind Date
Title: Blind Date
Character: Milkman
Released: July 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
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It Happened One Day
Title: It Happened One Day
Character: Salesman
Released: July 7, 1934
Type: Movie
Charley meets his new boss--who has a lovely daughter.
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Another Wild Idea
Title: Another Wild Idea
Character: Vegetable Man
Released: June 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Betty's father has an invention that looks like a fancy camera; it emits an ultra-lavender ray that temporarily rids the ray's target of inhibitions. To test it, Betty's father zaps Charley hoping his newly-aberrant behavior will cause Betty to end her affections for the milquetoast. Dad's plan backfires: the invention works perfectly, Charley gets a backbone, and Betty loves her new forceful man. However, Charley's courage and lack of a superego get him in trouble with the law. He goes on trial for assaulting a bullying police officer. Is Charley going up the river leaving Betty high and dry?
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I'll Take Vanilla
Title: I'll Take Vanilla
Character: Cop
Released: May 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Ice-cream vendor Charley gets mixed up with a cute girl and her snotty nephew.
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Bedlam of Beards
Title: Bedlam of Beards
Character: Biff's Partner (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1934
Type: Movie
A pair of barbers attempt to solve a kidnapping.
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The Cracked Ice Man
Title: The Cracked Ice Man
Character: Ice Man
Released: January 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
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Going Hollywood
Title: Going Hollywood
Character: Bartender
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and thank him. However, difficult problems lay ahead when Lili gets in the way.
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Chance at Heaven
Title: Chance at Heaven
Character: First Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.
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Golden Harvest
Title: Golden Harvest
Character: Wheat Farmer (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.
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Rainbow Ranch
Title: Rainbow Ranch
Character: Train Passenger
Released: July 25, 1933
Type: Movie
An emergency at his Aunt's ranch gets Ed Randall leave from the Navy. He returns to find the water cut off and her note due the next day. When the man he seeks legal advice from is murdered, Ed is accused and he now finds himself in jail with a lynch mob forming outside.
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Crashing Broadway
Title: Crashing Broadway
Character: Freddie Storm
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
When Tad Wallace's act flops on Broadway, he joins a troop heading west. In a small town, they run into Jeffries who has just burned down the theater. When Jeffries kills Griswold, Tad has a plan to trap him by using the talents of Shakespearian actor Thorndyke.
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Too Many Highballs
Title: Too Many Highballs
Character: 2nd Traffic Cop
Released: February 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Harold Hobbs doesn't much like that his lazy, sponging and unemployed brother-in-law Claude and his mother-in-law live with him and his wife, Hortense, especially as the in-laws seem to rule the roost ever since they moved in. To get his in-laws out of the house, Harold has regularly left a bottle of booze for Claude to be able to entertain prospective employers. When Harold learns that on all the other occasions the employers have not showed (he assumes there probably were no prospective employers) leaving Claude to consume the booze on his own, he decides to show Claude a lesson by spiking the bottle with castor oil. Complications ensue when Joe, Harold's friend, encourages him to skip work to attend the prize fight. What Joe doesn't tell Harold is that he tells his boss that Harold needs the day off to attend to the sudden death of his brother-in-law.
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Goldie Gets Along
Title: Goldie Gets Along
Character: Fred - Casting Director
Released: January 27, 1933
Type: Movie
A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
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The Dentist
Title: The Dentist
Character: Joe
Released: December 9, 1932
Type: Movie
An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion.
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Red Haired Alibi
Title: Red Haired Alibi
Character: Travers' Henchman (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.
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The Giddy Age
Title: The Giddy Age
Character: Moses - the Butler
Released: September 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A quirky short about Love and Liars.
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Beyond the Rockies
Title: Beyond the Rockies
Character: Man at Slot Machine (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A noted gunman takes a job on a cattle ranch to stop a band of rustlers.
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Ghost Valley
Title: Ghost Valley
Character: Marty
Released: May 13, 1932
Type: Movie
A cowboy and a beautiful girl inherit a supposedly haunted gold mine.
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Just a Pain in the Parlor
Title: Just a Pain in the Parlor
Released: April 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to the high brow party in progress.
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The Nickel Nurser
Title: The Nickel Nurser
Character: Messenger (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Charley is an efficiency expert trying to teach a millionaire's daughter the value of money.
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Title: The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Character: Schatze's Cabby
Released: February 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
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Hasty Marriage
Title: Hasty Marriage
Character: Streetcar Conductor (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1931
Type: Movie
It's in three distinct segments. The first and probably best involves Charley, his girlfriend, and her father foolish her mother and the suitor she prefers into getting Charley into the house for dinner. In the later two segments, in which Charley must get married within minutes to get a job, and then tries to go on a picnic with his new family, are both also packed with laughs and timed with an almost musical brilliance.
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The Tip-Off
Title: The Tip-Off
Character: Vatelli Henchman
Released: October 16, 1931
Type: Movie
A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.
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Sweepstakes
Title: Sweepstakes
Character: Cantina Waiter
Released: July 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
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Lime Juice Nights
Title: Lime Juice Nights
Character: Irving's friend
Released: March 22, 1931
Type: Movie
Karl Dane & George K. Arthur trading places while dining.
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Fifty Million Husbands
Title: Fifty Million Husbands
Character: Magazine Salesman
Released: May 23, 1930
Type: Movie
An estranged couple visit their old apartment, which is now occupied by Charley and his wife. Charley's wife, however, misunderstands the purpose of their visit.
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Red Hot Rhythm
Title: Red Hot Rhythm
Character: Whiffle
Released: November 23, 1929
Type: Movie
A 1929 film by Leo McCarey.
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Crazy Feet
Title: Crazy Feet
Character: Actor (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1929
Type: Movie
Charley intervenes in a fight between Eddie and Thelma inside her small car. Cop Kennedy misinterprets things, and Charley hides in the theatre Thelma is rehearsing in. Charley replaces Eddie as Thelma's partner in an artistic dance act, and makes a fiasco of it.
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The Glorious Fourth
Title: The Glorious Fourth
Character: Pedestrian
Released: June 26, 1927
Type: Movie
It's the Fourth of July and the mother of Our Gang member Joe Cobb is doing a brisk business at her fireworks stand. Briefly left in charge of the stand, Joe does his best not to blow up himself or his friends, but a poorly-aimed skyrocket owned by Allen "Farina" Hoskins triggers a somewhat premature but undeniably spectacular display of pyrotechnics.
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Thundering Fleas
Title: Thundering Fleas
Character: Watcher of flea circus
Released: July 18, 1926
Type: Movie
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
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Mighty Like a Moose
Title: Mighty Like a Moose
Character: Harp Player
Released: July 18, 1926
Type: Movie
After a homely married couple separately undergo plastic surgery, they unwittingly plan an extramarital affair with each other.
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Charley My Boy!
Title: Charley My Boy!
Character: Applicant
Released: January 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A daughter's rich father wants to marry her off to a rich but older man. The daughter has other ideas however and sets out to find a nice young man she can fall in love with.