Harold Miller

Harold Miller

Born: May 31, 1894
Died: July 18, 1972
in Redondo Beach, California, USA
Harold Miller (born Harold Edwin Kammermeyer) was an American actor, his screen, then eventually also television, career spanning the years 1919-1964. After the 1920s, Miller appeared only in uncredited bit and background parts.

Movies for Harold Miller...

The Incredible Mr. Limpet
Title: The Incredible Mr. Limpet
Character: Officer at Fleet Admiral's Briefing (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1964
Type: Movie
Milquetoast Henry Limpet experiences his fondest wish and is transformed into a fish. As a talking fish he assists the US Navy in hunting German submarines during World War II.
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Bye Bye Birdie
Title: Bye Bye Birdie
Character: Production Crew Member (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1963
Type: Movie
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.
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Days of Wine and Roses
Title: Days of Wine and Roses
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1963
Type: Movie
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
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How the West Was Won
Title: How the West Was Won
Character: Auction Guest (uncredited)
Released: November 2, 1962
Type: Movie
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
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Gypsy
Title: Gypsy
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.
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Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Title: Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Character: Dance Guest (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1962
Type: Movie
Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns out to be ugly and broken down. Daughter Katey, embarrassed by her braces, refuses to go to the beach, as does TV-addicted son Danny. When the family is joined by Hobbs' two unhappily married daughters and their husbands, he must help everyone with their problems to get some peace.
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Advise & Consent
Title: Advise & Consent
Character: Senate Official (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1962
Type: Movie
Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
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The Notorious Landlady
Title: The Notorious Landlady
Character: Lamplighter Patron (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1962
Type: Movie
An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
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Lover Come Back
Title: Lover Come Back
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1961
Type: Movie
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.
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The Children's Hour
Title: The Children's Hour
Character: Parent on Visitor's Day (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1961
Type: Movie
A private school for young girls is scandalized when one spiteful student accuses the two young women who run the school of being in a relationship.
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Judgment at Nuremberg
Title: Judgment at Nuremberg
Character: Courtroom Officer (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1961
Type: Movie
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Title: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Character: Tiffanys Customer (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1961
Type: Movie
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
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King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
Title: King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
Character: Gambling Casino Patron (uncredited)
Released: June 11, 1961
Type: Movie
Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate.
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Where the Boys Are
Title: Where the Boys Are
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1960
Type: Movie
Good girls Merritt, Melanie, Tuggle and Angie - all students at mid-western Penmore University - are planning on going to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break to get away from the mid-western snow despite not having much money to spend once there. On the drive down, they admit their real purpose is to go where the boys are.
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Who Was That Lady?
Title: Who Was That Lady?
Character: Military Officer (uncredited)
Released: April 8, 1960
Type: Movie
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Title: Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Character: Sardi's Patron / Elevator Passenger (uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1960
Type: Movie
Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. While housewife Kate settles into suburban life, Larry continues to enjoy the theater and party scene of New York.
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Seven Thieves
Title: Seven Thieves
Character: Casino Patron (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1960
Type: Movie
A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.
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The Last Hurrah
Title: The Last Hurrah
Character: Banquet Guest (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1958
Type: Movie
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
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Auntie Mame
Title: Auntie Mame
Character: Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.
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Houseboat
Title: Houseboat
Character: Country Club Patron / Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: November 19, 1958
Type: Movie
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
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Home Before Dark
Title: Home Before Dark
Character: Christmas Party Reveller/New Year's Eve Party Reveller
Released: November 16, 1958
Type: Movie
A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital.
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Party Girl
Title: Party Girl
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1958
Type: Movie
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
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I Married a Monster from Outer Space
Title: I Married a Monster from Outer Space
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Aliens from Outer Space are slowly switching places with real humans -- one of the first being a young man about to get married. Slowly, his new wife realizes something is wrong, and her suspicions are confirmed when her husband's odd behaviour begins to show up in other townspeople.
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Bombers B-52
Title: Bombers B-52
Character: Harold (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1957
Type: Movie
Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.
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Pal Joey
Title: Pal Joey
Character: Guest at Charity Ball (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1957
Type: Movie
An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.
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My Man Godfrey
Title: My Man Godfrey
Character: Scavenger Hunter with Skunk (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1957
Type: Movie
The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and noticing his obviously good manners, gets him the job. He proves a great success, but keeps his past to himself. When an old flame turns up Irene's sister Cordelia starts making waves.
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The Joker Is Wild
Title: The Joker Is Wild
Character: Nightclub Patron / Man at Benefit (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Prohibition-era nightclub crooner Joe E. Lewis has his career and nearly his life cut short when his throat is slashed as payback for leaving the employ of Chicago mob boss Georgie Parker. A broken alcoholic, Joe is brought back from the abyss by his faithful piano player, Austin Mack, who helps turn the former singer into a successful stand-up comedian. But Joe's demons plague his romantic life even as he reaches new heights of success.
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An Affair to Remember
Title: An Affair to Remember
Character: Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Released: July 11, 1957
Type: Movie
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
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The Garment Jungle
Title: The Garment Jungle
Character: Buyer (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union, Walter has hired Artie Ravidge, a hood who uses strong-arm tactics to keep the employees in line.
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Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Title: Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1957
Type: Movie
In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.
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Funny Face
Title: Funny Face
Character: Guest at Aborted Fashion Show (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1957
Type: Movie
A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.
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The Opposite Sex
Title: The Opposite Sex
Character: Anniversary Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1956
Type: Movie
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back. The Opposite Sex is a remake of the 1939 comedy The Women.
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Giant
Title: Giant
Character: Wedding Guest
Released: November 8, 1956
Type: Movie
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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Written on the Wind
Title: Written on the Wind
Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1956
Type: Movie
Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his daughter, Marylee, is the town tramp. Mitch harbors a secret love for Kyle's unsatisfied wife, Lucy -- a fact that leaves him exposed when the jealous Marylee accuses him of murder.
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Tea and Sympathy
Title: Tea and Sympathy
Character: Alumnus
Released: September 27, 1956
Type: Movie
At a high school reunion, a young man recalls his boarding school days, when the only person who seemed to sympathize with him was his housemaster's wife.
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High Society
Title: High Society
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Childhood friends Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven got married and quickly divorced. Now Tracy is about to marry again, this time to a shrewd social-climbing businessman. C.K. still loves her. Spy magazine blackmails Tracy's family by threatening to reveal her playboy father's exploits if not allowed to cover the wedding. A remake of the 1940 rom com The Philadelphia Story.
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Anything Goes
Title: Anything Goes
Character: Ship's Passenger
Released: April 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'discovers' the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises the prize role to the girl they selected without informing the other until they head back across the Atlantic by liner - with each man having brought his choice along! It becomes a stormy crossing as each man has to tell his 'find' that she might not get the role after all.
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Serenade
Title: Serenade
Character: Opera Attendee (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1956
Type: Movie
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico where he meets a sweet farm girl.
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I'll Cry Tomorrow
Title: I'll Cry Tomorrow
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.
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Guys and Dolls
Title: Guys and Dolls
Character: Customer at Mindy's (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.
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So You Want to Be a V.P.
Title: So You Want to Be a V.P.
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1955
Type: Movie
Joe McDoakes is employed as the seventh vice-president in a firm that only makes promotions from the employee ranks.
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Illegal
Title: Illegal
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1955
Type: Movie
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Guest At Demonstration (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Chicago Syndicate
Title: Chicago Syndicate
Character: Fight Spectator (Uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1955
Type: Movie
An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with their own agenda.
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Ain't Misbehavin'
Title: Ain't Misbehavin'
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1955
Type: Movie
Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.
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Hell's Island
Title: Hell's Island
Character: Casino Patron (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1955
Type: Movie
Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
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An Annapolis Story
Title: An Annapolis Story
Character: Officer on Dais (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1955
Type: Movie
Two brothers, both cadets at Annapolis, fall in love with the same girl.
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Phffft
Title: Phffft
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of bringing them together.
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Black Widow
Title: Black Widow
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1954
Type: Movie
A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.
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A Star Is Born
Title: A Star Is Born
Character: Benefit Attendee (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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Dial M for Murder
Title: Dial M for Murder
Character: Men's Club Party Member (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1954
Type: Movie
An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to have his wealthy wife murdered after discovering she is having an affair, and assumes she will soon leave him for the other man anyway.
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How to Marry a Millionaire
Title: How to Marry a Millionaire
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1953
Type: Movie
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
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Vicki
Title: Vicki
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1953
Type: Movie
A supermodel gets murdered. While investigating the case the story of a waitress turned glamor girl is revealed.
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The Band Wagon
Title: The Band Wagon
Character: Bystander in Girl Hunt Ballet (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1953
Type: Movie
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
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The Maze
Title: The Maze
Released: July 26, 1953
Type: Movie
A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he has suddenly aged. Some mysterious things happen in a maze made from the hedges adjoining the castle.
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A Blueprint for Murder
Title: A Blueprint for Murder
Character: Lynn's Lawyer (Uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1953
Type: Movie
Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that the death of her stepchild, Polly, has been attributed to poisoning, he suspects that Lynn is after his late brother's estate, and killing everyone in her way.
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Dangerous Crossing
Title: Dangerous Crossing
Character: Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1953
Type: Movie
A honeymoon aboard an ocean liner is cut short when the young bride finds herself suddenly alone, and unable to convince anyone of her husband’s existence.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Title: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
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Scared Stiff
Title: Scared Stiff
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1953
Type: Movie
A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...
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Small Town Girl
Title: Small Town Girl
Character: Club Patron
Released: April 10, 1953
Type: Movie
Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge's daughter Cindy to let him leave for one night, so that he can visit Lisa on her birthday. After that he goes on the town with Cindy and she falls in love with him. But Dr. Schemmer wants his son to become her husband.
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The Story of Three Loves
Title: The Story of Three Loves
Character: Irate Man at Train Station
Released: March 26, 1953
Type: Movie
Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.
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Call Me Madam
Title: Call Me Madam
Released: March 25, 1953
Type: Movie
Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.
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The Jazz Singer
Title: The Jazz Singer
Character: Nightclub Patron / Party Guest
Released: February 14, 1953
Type: Movie
As Jerry Golding scales the heights of show business, he breaks the heart of his father, who'd hoped that Jerry would follow in his footsteps. Sorrowfully, Cantor Golding reads the Kaddish service, indicating that, so far as he is concerned, his son is dead. A tearful reconciliation occurs when Jerry dutifully returns to sing the "Kol Nidre" in his ailing father's absence.
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The Bad and the Beautiful
Title: The Bad and the Beautiful
Character: Mourner (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1952
Type: Movie
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
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Bloodhounds of Broadway
Title: Bloodhounds of Broadway
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1952
Type: Movie
A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird, Emily Ann Stackerlee , he'll do anything to help her make it big -- including a stint in jail to pay for his crimes. But will the tough guy's sacrifice of the heart pay off when it comes to his girlfriend's singing career?
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Night Without Sleep
Title: Night Without Sleep
Character: Man at Rehearsal (Uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1952
Type: Movie
Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a murder.
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Sudden Fear
Title: Sudden Fear
Character: Reception Guest (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1952
Type: Movie
Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a romantic leading man. On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong...by romancing her. Is he sincere, or does he have a dark ulterior motive?
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Don't Bother to Knock
Title: Don't Bother to Knock
Character: Banquet Guest (uncredited)
Released: July 18, 1952
Type: Movie
Jed, an airline pilot, is resting in a hotel when he notices Nell, a young woman babysitting for a wealthy couple. As Jed gets to know Nell better he realises that the woman is not as stable as perhaps she should be.
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Carrie
Title: Carrie
Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1952
Type: Movie
Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.
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The Narrow Margin
Title: The Narrow Margin
Character: Train Passenger (uncredited)
Released: May 3, 1952
Type: Movie
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a tense train ride.
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Something to Live For
Title: Something to Live For
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1952
Type: Movie
Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actress Jenny Carey whose developing career is threatened by an increasing dependence on alcohol. Alan's growing interest in Jenny strains his marriage to Edna, with whom he has two children.
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This Woman Is Dangerous
Title: This Woman Is Dangerous
Character: Gambling House Patron (Uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1952
Type: Movie
A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover goes into hiding, she checks in to the hospital for extensive surgery to recover her eyesight. There she is treated by a handsome young doctor. As expected not only does the doctor successfully open her eyes, he also opens her heart for him.
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I'll See You in My Dreams
Title: I'll See You in My Dreams
Character: Benefit Guest (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.
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The Stooge
Title: The Stooge
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in the audience to be the butt of Bill's jokes. After Ted begins to steal the show, Bill's girlfriend and his pals advise him to make Ted an equal partner.
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The Family Secret
Title: The Family Secret
Released: October 21, 1951
Type: Movie
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
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Angels in the Outfield
Title: Angels in the Outfield
Character: Baseball Fan (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1951
Type: Movie
The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance.
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Here Comes the Groom
Title: Here Comes the Groom
Character: Wedding Guest
Released: September 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
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A Place in the Sun
Title: A Place in the Sun
Character: (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1951
Type: Movie
An ambitious young man wins an heiress's heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend's pregnancy.
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Hard, Fast and Beautiful
Title: Hard, Fast and Beautiful
Character: Dance Floor Congratulator (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1951
Type: Movie
When most people look at Florence Farley, they see a pretty teenager. But when Milly Farley looks at her daughter she sees something else: a tennis prodigy who could be Milly’s ticket to money and fame.
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Lightning Strikes Twice
Title: Lightning Strikes Twice
Character: Guest at Cookout
Released: April 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
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The Screen Director
Title: The Screen Director
Character: Actor (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1951
Type: Movie
A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the actors and camera crew, shooting the scenes, watching dailies, working with the editor and composer, and attending the first preview. Then a number of real directors are shown in archive footage (as well as a predominance of staged 'archive' footage) working with actors and crew.
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All About Eve
Title: All About Eve
Character: Sarah Siddons Awards Guest (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1950
Type: Movie
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
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Born to Be Bad
Title: Born to Be Bad
Character: Charity Ball Guest (Uncredited)
Released: September 28, 1950
Type: Movie
Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.
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Pretty Baby
Title: Pretty Baby
Character: Radio Actor (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1950
Type: Movie
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
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Sunset Boulevard
Title: Sunset Boulevard
Character: Man on Golf Course (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1950
Type: Movie
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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The Great Jewel Robber
Title: The Great Jewel Robber
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Dennis Morgan. David Brian stars in the title role, and he's supported by John Archer, Marjorie Reynolds, Jacqueline de Wit, Alix Talton, Ned Glass, Perdita Chandler and columnist Sheilah Graham, playing herself.
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The Second Woman
Title: The Second Woman
Character: Fiesta Guest
Released: July 7, 1950
Type: Movie
In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Ellen is strongly attracted to Jeff, who's being plagued by unexplainable accidents, major and minor. Bad luck, persecution...or paranoia? Warned that Jeff could be dangerous, Ellen fears that he's in danger, as the menacing atmosphere darkens.
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Destination Murder
Title: Destination Murder
Character: Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1950
Type: Movie
Laura Mansfield catches a glimpse of mob hit man Jackie Wales after he shoots her businessman father. At the police station, Laura identifies Jackie as the murderer, but the policeman in charge of the case, Lt. Brewster, lets him go, citing a lack of corroborating evidence. Outraged, Laura worms her way into the unsuspecting Jackie's heart, trying to snare him and mob-connected club owner Armitage in her trap.
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Father of the Bride
Title: Father of the Bride
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: May 18, 1950
Type: Movie
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
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In a Lonely Place
Title: In a Lonely Place
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1950
Type: Movie
An screenwriter with a violence record is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
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No Sad Songs for Me
Title: No Sad Songs for Me
Character: New Year's Eve Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1950
Type: Movie
Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every moment of her life count, but her effort is weakened by the discovery that Brad is interested in his assistant, Chris Radner. But when she learns that Brad does indeed love her and not Chris, and that Chris is leaving town, she realizes what she must do to ensure the future happiness of Brad and Polly. She persuades Chris to stay, makes a genuine friend of her and watches Polly grow towards Chris.
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Whirlpool
Title: Whirlpool
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1950
Type: Movie
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
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D.O.A.
Title: D.O.A.
Character: Man in Hallway (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1949
Type: Movie
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.
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All the King's Men
Title: All the King's Men
Character: Speaker of the House (Uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1949
Type: Movie
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.
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Trapped
Title: Trapped
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.
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It's a Great Feeling
Title: It's a Great Feeling
Character: Studio Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
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The Fountainhead
Title: The Fountainhead
Character: Party Guest (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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Alias Nick Beal
Title: Alias Nick Beal
Character: Man at Press Conference
Released: March 4, 1949
Type: Movie
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
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Caught
Title: Caught
Character: Shopper (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1949
Type: Movie
Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, violent tendencies. Eventually, young Leonora escapes her unhappy life and begins working with New York City doctor Larry Quinada, who she soon falls for. Unfortunately, Ohlrig refuses to grant his wife a divorce, and things get even darker for Leonora when she realizes she's pregnant with his child.
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Slightly French
Title: Slightly French
Character: Nightclub Charity Guest (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.
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Ladies of the Chorus
Title: Ladies of the Chorus
Released: December 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and Peggy takes her place. When Peggy falls in love with wealthy Randy, May fears class differences may lead to misery.
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Easter Parade
Title: Easter Parade
Character: Diner in Restaurant (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1948
Type: Movie
On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To prove Nadine's not important to him, Don acquires innocent new protege Hannah Brown, vowing to make her a star in time for next year's Easter parade.
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Romance on the High Seas
Title: Romance on the High Seas
Character: Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
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Wallflower
Title: Wallflower
Released: June 13, 1948
Type: Movie
Two stepsisters become rivals for the same handsome bachelor. Comedy.
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Three Daring Daughters
Title: Three Daring Daughters
Character: Café Patron (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
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I Walk Alone
Title: I Walk Alone
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1947
Type: Movie
Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. 14 years later, Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay to divert Frankie from his intended goal.
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The Judge Steps Out
Title: The Judge Steps Out
Character: Wedding Guest (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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Body and Soul
Title: Body and Soul
Character: Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1947
Type: Movie
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
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Monsieur Verdoux
Title: Monsieur Verdoux
Character: Onlooker in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1947
Type: Movie
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Title: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.
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Lured
Title: Lured
Character: Concertgoer in Lobby
Released: August 28, 1947
Type: Movie
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.
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The Unfaithful
Title: The Unfaithful
Character: Party Guest
Released: July 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
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Fun on a Weekend
Title: Fun on a Weekend
Character: Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)
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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Humoresque
Title: Humoresque
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
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The Best Years of Our Lives
Title: The Best Years of Our Lives
Character: Wealthy Man at Nightclub (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
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Undercurrent
Title: Undercurrent
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1946
Type: Movie
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.
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Deception
Title: Deception
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1946
Type: Movie
After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
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The Jolson Story
Title: The Jolson Story
Character: Night Club Patron (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1946
Type: Movie
At the turn of the 20th century, young Asa Yoelson decides to go against the wishes of his cantor father and pursue a career in show business. Gradually working his way up through the vaudeville ranks, Asa — now calling himself Al Jolson — joins a blackface minstrel troupe and soon builds a reputation as a consummate performer. But as his career grows in size, so does his ego, resulting in battles in business as well as in his personal life.
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Angel on My Shoulder
Title: Angel on My Shoulder
Character: Lawyer's Aide (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1946
Type: Movie
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
Title: The Postman Always Rings Twice
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1946
Type: Movie
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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Gilda
Title: Gilda
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1946
Type: Movie
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
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The Dark Corner
Title: The Dark Corner
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
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Voice of the Whistler
Title: Voice of the Whistler
Character: Sinclair Executive (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1945
Type: Movie
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
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Mildred Pierce
Title: Mildred Pierce
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1945
Type: Movie
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Title: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1945
Type: Movie
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
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Incendiary Blonde
Title: Incendiary Blonde
Character: New Years Eve Party Patron (uncredited)
Released: July 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
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The Affairs of Susan
Title: The Affairs of Susan
Character: Party Guest (Uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.
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Her Favorite Patient
Title: Her Favorite Patient
Character: Club Patron (uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1945
Type: Movie
A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and help him, and he and a macho test pilot who's fallen for her come up with a plan that involves the pilot faking an illness and being treated by her, with her uncle's "help".
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The Lady Confesses
Title: The Lady Confesses
Character: Nightclub Dance Extra
Released: May 16, 1945
Type: Movie
An estranged wife shows up after a nearly 7 years of disappearance -- thought to be dead, to prevent her husband from marrying his new love until someone kills her.
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Blood on the Sun
Title: Blood on the Sun
Character: Bar Patron (uncredited)
Released: April 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda of the time.
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Between Two Women
Title: Between Two Women
Character: Slipper Room Patron (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1945
Type: Movie
A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.
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I Love a Mystery
Title: I Love a Mystery
Character: Restaurant Patron (Uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1945
Type: Movie
In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the aim to kill him.
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Experiment Perilous
Title: Experiment Perilous
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.
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I Accuse My Parents
Title: I Accuse My Parents
Character: Cocktail Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1944
Type: Movie
Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the run. Eventually, he must confront the truth, his past, and his parents. The judge cites parental neglect in the case of a teenager (John Miljan) charged with murder.
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Laura
Title: Laura
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1944
Type: Movie
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
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Musical Movieland
Title: Musical Movieland
Character: Studio Official (uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1944
Type: Movie
A group of tourists is given a tour of a movie studio lot. They see the various permanent sets that are used for different types of movies, and they appear to watch the filming of several productions in progress. Musical numbers from several previous Warner Bros. Technicolor shorts are edited into this short to create the illusion.
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Mr. Skeffington
Title: Mr. Skeffington
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
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Phantom Lady
Title: Phantom Lady
Character: Bar Patron (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1944
Type: Movie
A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
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The Fighting Seabees
Title: The Fighting Seabees
Character: Lt. Cmdr. Stewart (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1944
Type: Movie
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.
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Government Girl
Title: Government Girl
Character: Party Guest / Naval Officer (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1943
Type: Movie
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
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Swing Fever
Title: Swing Fever
Character: Man in Music Publisher's Office (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
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The Voice That Thrilled the World
Title: The Voice That Thrilled the World
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1943
Type: Movie
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures.
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So Proudly We Hail
Title: So Proudly We Hail
Character: Soldier on Transport Ship (Uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1943
Type: Movie
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
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Holy Matrimony
Title: Holy Matrimony
Character: Mourner / Juror (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1943
Type: Movie
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
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Heaven Can Wait
Title: Heaven Can Wait
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: August 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.
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Hi Diddle Diddle
Title: Hi Diddle Diddle
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1943
Type: Movie
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.
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Batman
Title: Batman
Character: Restaurant Patron
Released: July 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
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Mr. Lucky
Title: Mr. Lucky
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
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The Constant Nymph
Title: The Constant Nymph
Character: Concertgoer
Released: June 23, 1943
Type: Movie
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own grown daughter, who begins a romance with the composer which culminates in marriage but creates an emotional rivalry that affects the three.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Dancer at Ball / Congressman (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Keeper of the Flame
Title: Keeper of the Flame
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
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The Hard Way
Title: The Hard Way
Character: Party Guest (Uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
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The Big Street
Title: The Big Street
Character: Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.
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My Favorite Spy
Title: My Favorite Spy
Character: Nightclub Patron
Released: June 12, 1942
Type: Movie
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
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Further Prophecies of Nostradamus
Title: Further Prophecies of Nostradamus
Character: Skeptic (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1942
Type: Movie
This short film applies the prophecies of Nostradamus to events of World War II.
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Take a Letter, Darling
Title: Take a Letter, Darling
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.
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Saboteur
Title: Saboteur
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
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Fingers at the Window
Title: Fingers at the Window
Character: Psychiatrist at Lecture (uncredited)
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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This Time for Keeps
Title: This Time for Keeps
Character: Golfer
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
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Flag of Mercy
Title: Flag of Mercy
Character: Rich Man in Prologue
Released: January 31, 1942
Type: Movie
The 1939 dramatic short "Angel of Mercy," about Red Cross founder Clara Barton, is reedited to relate the story to America's involvement in World War II. Edited from Angel of Mercy (1939)
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Over My Dead Body
Title: Over My Dead Body
Character: Courtroom Extra
Released: January 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.
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One Foot in Heaven
Title: One Foot in Heaven
Character: Second Clerk (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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I Wake Up Screaming
Title: I Wake Up Screaming
Character: Nightclub patron (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
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Appointment for Love
Title: Appointment for Love
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.
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Dive Bomber
Title: Dive Bomber
Character: Doctor (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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Our Wife
Title: Our Wife
Character: Shipboard Passenger (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1941
Type: Movie
A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
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Blondie Goes Latin
Title: Blondie Goes Latin
Character: Shipboard Extra (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.
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Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Title: Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Character: Casino Patron
Released: December 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
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No, No, Nanette
Title: No, No, Nanette
Character: Man in Elevator
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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Lady with Red Hair
Title: Lady with Red Hair
Character: Actor at Rehearsal (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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One Night in the Tropics
Title: One Night in the Tropics
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia. The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey, and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe, who sends two enforcers - Abbott and Costello - to ensure that the wedding occurs as planned.
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Arise, My Love
Title: Arise, My Love
Character: Man at Maxim's (Uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
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Hullabaloo
Title: Hullabaloo
Character: Wedding Guest
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
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The Flag of Humanity
Title: The Flag of Humanity
Character: Military Man at Clara's Death Bed (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of how Clara Barton helped found the American Red Cross.
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Glamour for Sale
Title: Glamour for Sale
Character: Club Patron (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.
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No Time for Comedy
Title: No Time for Comedy
Character: Bar Patron (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1940
Type: Movie
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
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The Golden Fleecing
Title: The Golden Fleecing
Character: Elevator Passenger (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Turnabout
Title: Turnabout
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
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Road to Singapore
Title: Road to Singapore
Character: Yacht Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...
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He Married His Wife
Title: He Married His Wife
Character: Diner at Racetrack Lounge
Released: January 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.
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Mexican Spitfire
Title: Mexican Spitfire
Character: Patron at Mexican Pete's
Released: January 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up their marriage.
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The Earl of Chicago
Title: The Earl of Chicago
Character: House of Lords Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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Another Thin Man
Title: Another Thin Man
Character: West Indies Club Patron (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
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First Love
Title: First Love
Character: Commencement Guest
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's hardly received with open arms, especially by her snobby cousin Barbara. When the entire family is invited to a major social ball, Barbara sees to it that Connie is forced to stay home. With the aid of her uncle, who acts as her fairy godfather, Connie makes it to the ball and meets her Prince Charming in Ted Drake, her cousin's boyfriend.
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Sued for Libel
Title: Sued for Libel
Character: Amateur Magicians Club Member (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
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Espionage Agent
Title: Espionage Agent
Character: Ball Guest
Released: September 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Title: Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Character: Audience Member
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
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Miracles for Sale
Title: Miracles for Sale
Character: Nightclub Patron
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
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Bachelor Mother
Title: Bachelor Mother
Character: Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.
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Daughters Courageous
Title: Daughters Courageous
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
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It's a Wonderful World
Title: It's a Wonderful World
Character: Guest (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.
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Rose of Washington Square
Title: Rose of Washington Square
Character: Man in Front Row (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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Women in the Wind
Title: Women in the Wind
Character: Salesman (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
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They Made Her a Spy
Title: They Made Her a Spy
Character: Bar Patron at Club Dome
Released: April 14, 1939
Type: Movie
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
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Love Affair
Title: Love Affair
Character: Man in Couple on Deck (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
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Midnight
Title: Midnight
Character: Flammarions' Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
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Beauty for the Asking
Title: Beauty for the Asking
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: February 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Denny breaks up with his fiancée Jean to marries wealthy Flora. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented. After sending it to twelve rich woman, only Flora decides to invest in the business. As Denny has no job, the girls give him an office at the factory. The business takes off, but Jean finds that she is still in love with Denny and Denny seems to forget he is married to Flora.
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Tail Spin
Title: Tail Spin
Character: Officer at Bar in Cleveland Club (Uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Title: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
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Kentucky
Title: Kentucky
Character: Dancer
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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Tarnished Angel
Title: Tarnished Angel
Character: Man Introducing Violet
Released: October 28, 1938
Type: Movie
A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.
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Straight, Place and Show
Title: Straight, Place and Show
Character: Country Club Patron
Released: September 30, 1938
Type: Movie
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
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Fugitives for a Night
Title: Fugitives for a Night
Character: George at Jericho Club
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.
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Three Loves Has Nancy
Title: Three Loves Has Nancy
Character: Man at Party (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
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Blond Cheat
Title: Blond Cheat
Character: Cafe Customer (uncredited)
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.
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The Rage of Paris
Title: The Rage of Paris
Character: Man in Opera Box (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
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The Saint in New York
Title: The Saint in New York
Character: Speakeasy Patron (Uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.
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Joy of Living
Title: Joy of Living
Character: Man in Margaret's Dressing Room (Uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
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Night Spot
Title: Night Spot
Character: Nightclub Patron
Released: February 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.
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What Do You Think? (Number Three)
Title: What Do You Think? (Number Three)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1938
Type: Movie
This short looks at the possibility that those who have passed on can communicate with us in ways we least expect.
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Navy Blue and Gold
Title: Navy Blue and Gold
Character: Man at Graduation Dance (uncredited)
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
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Portia on Trial
Title: Portia on Trial
Character: Party Guest
Released: November 8, 1937
Type: Movie
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton). Ironically, Portia herself had once had a relationship with Earle Condon, but Earle's father, powerful publisher John Condon (Clarence Kolb), forced them apart. She has a pretty good idea of what is going on in Elizabeth's head, since she herself was on the verge of killing Earle Condon when his father ruthlessly took custody of her illegitimate son. As Portia toils and strains to free her client, she carries on a romance with Dan Foster (Walter Abel) -- the attorney for the prosecution. LA Law and The Practice have nothing on this one!
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Music for Madame
Title: Music for Madame
Character: Wedding Guest (Uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
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The Life of the Party
Title: The Life of the Party
Character: Party Guest
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
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Topper
Title: Topper
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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She Had to Eat
Title: She Had to Eat
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
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Marked Woman
Title: Marked Woman
Character: Dancing Club Patron (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1937
Type: Movie
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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Smart Blonde
Title: Smart Blonde
Character: Club Patron (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
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Dodsworth
Title: Dodsworth
Character: Ship Passenger (Uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
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One Rainy Afternoon
Title: One Rainy Afternoon
Character: First Nighter (Uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to kiss her. Charged with assault, the quick-thinking Philippe claims it's French tradition to do as he did, and is let go. To his surprise, Philippe learns that Monique has paid his fine. As the tabloids exploit the situation, Monique dates Philippe, until a photo appears of him kissing Yvonne.
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Small Town Girl
Title: Small Town Girl
Character: Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Paddy O'Day
Title: Paddy O'Day
Character: Club Patrovitch Patron
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.
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A Feather in Her Hat
Title: A Feather in Her Hat
Character: Party Guest / Theatregoer (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.
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It's in the Air
Title: It's in the Air
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1935
Type: Movie
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
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Here Comes the Band
Title: Here Comes the Band
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1935
Type: Movie
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
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Shanghai
Title: Shanghai
Character: Night Club Patron
Released: July 19, 1935
Type: Movie
A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.
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Imitation of Life
Title: Imitation of Life
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
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The Richest Girl in the World
Title: The Richest Girl in the World
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1934
Type: Movie
Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't want to be considered fortune-hunters. That's why she trades identities with her secretary Sylvia before embarking on her next romance with Tony Travers. This causes numerous complications not only for Dorothy and Tony but for Sylvia, whose own husband Philip is not the most patient of men.
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Million Dollar Ransom
Title: Million Dollar Ransom
Character: Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
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Gambling Lady
Title: Gambling Lady
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling out with the syndicate, she considers the marriage proposal of blueblood Garry Madison. Can such a match work despite snobbery and old associations?
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Hi, Nellie!
Title: Hi, Nellie!
Character: Graham's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
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Mr. Skitch
Title: Mr. Skitch
Character: Gamblilng House Patron
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
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The Secret of Madame Blanche
Title: The Secret of Madame Blanche
Character: Supper Club Guest (Uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
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Movie Crazy
Title: Movie Crazy
Character: Dinner Party Guest (Uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
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Under Eighteen
Title: Under Eighteen
Character: Penthouse Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.
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Men of Chance
Title: Men of Chance
Character: Racetrack Spectator
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A gambler falls for a fake countess.
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The Cheat
Title: The Cheat
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: November 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff wants to stop spending while he completes business deals that could make them rich. One night, on a hunch, she bets and loses big at a casino, then she doubles her problems with more impulsive decisions. Hardy Livingston, a wealthy Casanova just back from the Orient, makes a play for her. Elsa dallies with Hardy, but soon, his insistence and her dire financial affairs seem destined to lead to adultery. Who's the cheat?
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One Night at Susie's
Title: One Night at Susie's
Character: Man in Courthouse Corridor (Uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.
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On With the Show!
Title: On With the Show!
Character: Man in Audience (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1929
Type: Movie
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?
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Souvenirs
Title: Souvenirs
Character: The Sea Captain
Released: February 15, 1928
Type: Movie
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West of Chicago
Title: West of Chicago
Character: Bud Moore
Released: September 3, 1922
Type: Movie
West of Chicago is a 1922 American silent western film directed by Scott R. Dunlap and starring Buck Jones, Renée Adorée and Philo McCullough.
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Playing with Fire
Title: Playing with Fire
Character: Jack Taylor
Released: December 19, 1921
Type: Movie
Enid Gregory, a pianist at the Melody Shop, a music store on Broadway, is content with her snappy, routine existence until Janet Fenwick, a society girl whose father committed suicide under a cloud of financial disgrace, comes to Enid's boardinghouse.
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Her Five-Foot Highness
Title: Her Five-Foot Highness
Released: April 12, 1920
Type: Movie
When Texas ranch owner Ellen inherits the estate of her long-lost uncle, the Duke of Wilshire, her unscrupulous attorney, Wesley Saunders, who has been plotting to seize control of her ranch, decides to capitalize on the opportunity.
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The Forged Bride
Title: The Forged Bride
Character: Dick Van Courtland
Released: March 8, 1920
Type: Movie
Professional forger Bill Butters realizes one day that the police are closing in on him, and convinces his daughter Peggy to flee.
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The Peddler of Lies
Title: The Peddler of Lies
Character: James Kirkland
Released: March 1, 1920
Type: Movie
At a party thrown at the Metcalf estate, the Marquise D'Irancy's Sultana diamond disappears when the lights go out during a power failure. Suspected of the crime is William Kirkland, the wastrel son of the wealthy Kirkland family, but William's sister Diana comes to his defense. Aiding her in the investigation is Clamp, a wandering peddler.
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Upstairs and Down
Title: Upstairs and Down
Released: June 8, 1919
Type: Movie
Alice Chesterton is described as a "Baby Vamp" by the social set and engaged to boring Tom Carey. She flirts with many of the male guests idling at the Ives' Long Island house party, then encourages Terence O'Keefe, a playboy polo player from Ireland, to rendezvous with her in the city; they are seen together at the "Midnight Frolic". Because of this, Mrs. Ives convinces Alice's newly-arrived sister Betty to look after Alice.