Donald Novis

Donald Novis

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Guilty Bystander
Title: Guilty Bystander
Character: Johnson
Released: April 20, 1950
Type: Movie
A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up.
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Down Memory Lane
Title: Down Memory Lane
Character: (archive footage)
Released: August 1, 1949
Type: Movie
This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo at the end of the film.
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Slightly Terrific
Title: Slightly Terrific
Character: Patrick Michael O'Toole
Released: April 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A manufacturer and an impresario (who has promised some young people he will stage their show) are twin brothers causes a lot of confusion when the manufacturer is mistaken for his no-money brother.
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Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Title: Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Character: Don Clark
Released: March 7, 1944
Type: Movie
A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
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The Policy Girl
Title: The Policy Girl
Character: Jack Saunders
Released: August 11, 1934
Type: Movie
An insurance salesman persuades his sister to help him meet a radio star so he can sell the celebrity a policy.
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Everybody Likes Music
Title: Everybody Likes Music
Character: Self
Released: March 9, 1934
Type: Movie
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The Night Before Christmas
Title: The Night Before Christmas
Character: Singer
Released: December 9, 1933
Type: Movie
A narrator sings the opening stanzas of the classic poem while we see the house at rest. Santa lands on the roof, comes down the chimney, and opens his bag. The toys march out and decorate the tree, with the toy soldiers shooting balls from their cannon, a toy airplane stringing a garland like skywriting, and the toy firemen applying snow. A blimp delivers the star to the top. Meanwhile, Santa fills the stockings. His laughter awakens the children, who sneak out. The toys rush to their places, and Santa escapes up the chimney just in time.
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Trouble in Paradise
Title: Trouble in Paradise
Character: Vocalist - Title Song (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
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Ma's Pride and Joy
Title: Ma's Pride and Joy
Character: Danny O'Brien
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
This Mack Sennett produced short has Donald Novis playing Danny O'Brien, a young singer whose mother takes him to a talent agent office where she demands that the owners listen to him.
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The Big Broadcast
Title: The Big Broadcast
Character: Donald Novis
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.
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This Is the Night
Title: This Is the Night
Character: Singing Gondolier (uncredited)
Released: April 8, 1932
Type: Movie
When Stephen, the husband of Gerald’s mistress, Claire, discovers a pair of tickets for their planned trip to Venice, Gerald must invent a wife to cover their tracks. He is then forced to hire a woman to play “his wife” when Stephen insists he and Claire accompany them to Venice.
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One Hour with You
Title: One Hour with You
Character: Band Singer at Party (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
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Flying High
Title: Flying High
Character: Young Man (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1931
Type: Movie
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
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The Pajama Party
Title: The Pajama Party
Character: Jimmy
Released: October 3, 1931
Type: Movie
After running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at her mansion.
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Let's Do Things
Title: Let's Do Things
Character: Music Store Customer, Singer (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
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Monte Carlo
Title: Monte Carlo
Character: Monsieur Beaucaire in Stage Opera
Released: August 27, 1930
Type: Movie
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
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Irish Fantasy
Title: Irish Fantasy
Character: The Groom
Released: December 14, 1929
Type: Movie
An Irish grandfather tells his young grandson stories of his roots, his courtship with his grandmother and love of freedom through stories and song.
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Bulldog Drummond
Title: Bulldog Drummond
Character: Country Boy
Released: May 2, 1929
Type: Movie
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.