Frank Faylen

Frank Faylen

Born: December 8, 1905
Died: August 2, 1985
in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Frank Faylen (born Francis Charles Ruf) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He is best remembered for his movie performances as the cynical male nurse in The Lost Weekend (1945) and Ernie the taxi driver in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), as well as for his portrayal of long-suffering grocer Herbert T. Gillis on the 1950s television sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

Movies for Frank Faylen...

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Title: James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
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Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
Title: Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
Character: Herbert T. Gillis
Released: May 10, 1977
Type: Movie
Thirty-minute reunion of the classic series that includes Bob Denver and title star Dwayne Hickman.
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Title: Quincy, M.E.
Character: Janus
Released: October 3, 1976
Type: TV
Quincy, M.E. is an American television series from Universal Studios pert in several of the later episodes.
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Funny Girl
Title: Funny Girl
Character: Keeney
Released: September 19, 1968
Type: Movie
The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedian and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld girl, her subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.
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Title: That Girl
Released: September 8, 1966
Type: TV
That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an aspiring actress, who moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York to try to make it big in New York City. Ann has to take a number of offbeat "temp" jobs to support herself in between her various auditions and bit parts. Ted Bessell played her boyfriend Donald Hollinger, a writer for Newsview Magazine; Lew Parker and Rosemary DeCamp played Lew Marie and Helen Marie, her concerned parents. Bernie Kopell, Ruth Buzzi and Reva Rose played Ann and Donald's friends. That Girl was developed by writers Bill Persky and Sam Denoff, who had served as head writers on The Dick Van Dyke Show earlier in the 1960s.
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When the Boys Meet the Girls
Title: When the Boys Meet the Girls
Character: Phin Gray
Released: October 10, 1965
Type: Movie
A playboy helps a young woman turn her father's Nevada ranch into a haven for divorcees.
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Title: My Mother the Car
Released: September 14, 1965
Type: TV
The story of the relationship between a man and his mother, the latter having been reincarnated as a 1928 Porter automobile.
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The Monkey's Uncle
Title: The Monkey's Uncle
Character: Mr. Dearborne
Released: August 18, 1965
Type: Movie
College whiz-kid Merlin Jones concocts a method for teaching advanced information to a chimpanzee, then creates a flying machine of his own design, ultimately raising havoc on the campus.
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Fluffy
Title: Fluffy
Character: Catfish
Released: June 27, 1965
Type: Movie
A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, including an African lion.
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Title: The Great Adventure
Character: O'Brien
Released: September 27, 1963
Type: TV
The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, narrated each week by Van Heflin, and featuring theme music by Richard Rodgers, presented a weekly one-hour dramatization of the lives of famous Americans and important historical events in American History.
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Title: Petticoat Junction
Character: Ralph
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: TV
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
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Title: The Beverly Hillbillies
Released: September 26, 1962
Type: TV
Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
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North to Alaska
Title: North to Alaska
Character: Arnie (uncredited)
Released: November 7, 1960
Type: Movie
After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally from France.
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Title: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Character: Herbert T. Gillis
Released: September 29, 1959
Type: TV
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and several episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories of the same name, written by Max Shulman, who had also written a feature film adaptation of his short stories for MGM in 1953, The Affairs of Dobie Gillis. The series revolved around the life of teenager/young adult Dobie Gillis, who, along with his best friend, beatnik Maynard G. Krebs, struggles against the forces of his life - high school, the military, college, and his parents - as he aspires to attain both wealth and dates with girls. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was produced by Martin Manulis Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Creator Shulman also wrote the theme song in collaboration with Lionel Newman.
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Title: Man with a Camera
Released: October 10, 1958
Type: TV
Man with a Camera is an American 1950s television crime drama starring Charles Bronson. Former combat cameraman Mike Kovac (Bronson) is now a freelance photographer in New York City, specializing in difficult and dangerous assignments where he can get the kinds of pictures that other photographers can't, or won't take. He sometimes gets help, often reluctantly, from his contact in the police department, Lt. Donovan, and advice from his immigrant father Anton. Throughout the 1950s, Bronson spent most of his early acting career performing in TV shows as well as small parts in films, until he landed the lead in this ABC series. This is the only series in which he played the lead role. He would go on to have supporting roles either as a guest star or a recurring character in dozens of TV shows after this series was cancelled.
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Title: Wanted: Dead or Alive
Character: Sheriff Earl Tipton
Released: September 6, 1958
Type: TV
Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television. The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.
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Title: Maverick
Character: Red Harrison
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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Dino
Title: Dino
Character: Frank Mandel
Released: July 21, 1957
Type: Movie
A juvenile delinquent on parole receives support from a social worker and a girl from a slum.
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Title: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Character: Sheriff Cotton Wilson
Released: May 30, 1957
Type: Movie
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Three Brave Men
Title: Three Brave Men
Character: Enos Warren
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A lawyer takes the case of a Navy clerk who sues after he's fired for suspected Communist beliefs.
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Everything But the Truth
Title: Everything But the Truth
Character: 'Mac' McMillan
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Upset with the prevarications of the adult world, Willie launches a truth-telling campaign at school, with the blessings of his pretty teacher Joan Madison.
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7th Cavalry
Title: 7th Cavalry
Character: Sgt. Kruger
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers's body after Little Big Horn.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Doc Alvarez
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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Away All Boats
Title: Away All Boats
Character: Chief Phillip P. 'Pappy' Moran
Released: August 16, 1956
Type: Movie
The story of USS 'Belinda', a U.S. naval ship, and its crew during the battle of the Pacific 1943-1945, as it prepares for action and landing troops on enemy beachheads.
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Terror at Midnight
Title: Terror at Midnight
Character: Fred Hill
Released: April 27, 1956
Type: Movie
A newly promoted police sergeant discovers his girlfriend my be involved with a gang of car thieves.
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Title: Telephone Time
Released: April 8, 1956
Type: TV
Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John Nesbitt who hosted the first season. Frank C. Baxter hosted the 1957 and 1958 seasons. The program was directed by Arthur Hiller.
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The McConnell Story
Title: The McConnell Story
Character: Sfc. Sykes
Released: September 29, 1955
Type: Movie
Joe McConnell was sure that he was meant to be a pilot, but was stuck as a restless army private. It seemed that his ambition was blocked at every step.
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The Looters
Title: The Looters
Character: Stan Leppich
Released: April 30, 1955
Type: Movie
A rescue team is dispatched to look for the survivors of a plane crash in the Colorado Rockies. They find the survivors--and also find $250,000 in cash among the debris.
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The Lone Gun
Title: The Lone Gun
Character: Fairweather
Released: April 25, 1954
Type: Movie
Cruze arrives in town and when he stands up to the three Moran brothers, he gets appointed Marshal. First the brothers kill a rancher while framing another man. But when the jailer is murdered, Cruze gets evidence the Morans did it. He tries to raise a posse to chase them down but the townsmen refuse to go. So he rides off by himself to face the three of them.
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Riot in Cell Block 11
Title: Riot in Cell Block 11
Character: Commissioner Haskell
Released: February 18, 1954
Type: Movie
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
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Red Garters
Title: Red Garters
Character: Billy Buckett
Released: February 9, 1954
Type: Movie
A spirited cast kicks up its heels in a lively musical spoof of cowboy films crammed with spur-jangling tunes by Jay Livingstone and Ray Evans and decked out with colorfully stylized, Oscar.-nominated sets. Rosemary Clooney heads up the high-kicking, red-gartered girls of the Red Dog Saloon. They can-can. but she won't-won't unless Jason (Jack Carson) asks her to get hitched. Guy Mitchell and Gene Barry are gun-totin' polecats who think they've got a feud to settle. And Frank Faylen and Buddy Ebsen are among the folks who hope the gunslingers get itchy fingered - so they can hold a town barbecue during the funeral!
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99 River Street
Title: 99 River Street
Character: Stan Hogan
Released: August 21, 1953
Type: Movie
A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Farber
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Hangman's Knot
Title: Hangman's Knot
Character: Cass Browne
Released: November 15, 1952
Type: Movie
In 1865, a troop of Confederate soldiers led by Major Matt Stewart attack the wagon of gold escorted by Union cavalry and the soldiers are killed. The only wounded survivor tells that the war ended one month ago, and the group decides to take the gold and meet their liaison that knew that the war ended but did not inform the troop. The harsh Rolph Bainter kills the greedy man and the soldiers flee in his wagon driven by Major Stewart. When they meet a posse chasing them, Stewart gives wrong information to misguide the group; however, they have an accident with the wagon and lose the horses. They decide to stop a stagecoach and force the driver to transport them, but the posse returns and they are trapped in the station with the passenger. They realize that the men are not deputies and have no intention to bring them to justice but take the stolen gold.
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The Lusty Men
Title: The Lusty Men
Character: Al Dawson
Released: October 24, 1952
Type: Movie
Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of this rough sport.
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The Sniper
Title: The Sniper
Character: Anderson
Released: May 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far distances. In an attempt to get caught, he writes an anonymous letter to the police begging them to stop him.
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My Favorite Spy
Title: My Favorite Spy
Character: Newton
Released: December 25, 1951
Type: Movie
A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy.
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Detective Story
Title: Detective Story
Character: Det. Gallagher
Released: November 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
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Passage West
Title: Passage West
Character: Curly
Released: October 1, 1951
Type: Movie
In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed by preacher Jacob Karns. Tensions and hardships grow as the travelers continue to trek toward California across dry, desolate country.
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Title: Racket Squad
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: TV
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
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Fourteen Hours
Title: Fourteen Hours
Character: Walter, room service waiter
Released: April 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.
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Copper Canyon
Title: Copper Canyon
Character: Mullins
Released: November 15, 1950
Type: Movie
A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them, under the impression that he is the legendary Colonel Desmond. It seems they're wrong; but Johnny's show comes to Coppertown and Johnny romances lovely gambler Lisa Roselle, whom the miners believe is at the center of their troubles.
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The Eagle and the Hawk
Title: The Eagle and the Hawk
Character: Red' Hyatt - Danzeeger's Foreman
Released: October 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Todd Crayden is assigned a suicide mission South of the Border, to smuggle a government agent into Mexico...
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Title: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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Convicted
Title: Convicted
Character: Convict Ponti
Released: August 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
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Title: The Bob Hope Show
Character: Self
Released: April 9, 1950
Type: TV
The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC rotated with other variety shows in a Sunday night block known as "The Colgate Comedy Hour" (Sept. 1950 to Dec. 1955). Also known as, "The Chevy Show with Bob Hope." When the first special debuted in October of 1950 it was the most expensive television program made up to that point - costing an astronomical $1,500 a minute to produce. Bob Hope had his own television show and radio show at the same time. For the next three seasons, The Bob Hope Show was broadcast once a month on Tuesday nights, giving Milton Berle a week off. Bob ended his radio show in April, 1956. Bob Hope also had another show by a similar name, "The Bob Hope Show (All Star Revue)". In addition, he performed in "Specials" for many years. It is the longest running variety program in television's history with a record of 45 years of televised entertainment.
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Francis
Title: Francis
Character: Sergeant Chillingbacker
Released: February 8, 1950
Type: Movie
The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his right mind. In the process of all this, the mule assisted in uncovering a spy, Mareen, who pretended to be lost among the jungles, but was actually...
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The Nevadan
Title: The Nevadan
Character: Jeff
Released: January 11, 1950
Type: Movie
A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.
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Whispering Smith
Title: Whispering Smith
Character: Whitey Du Sang
Released: December 9, 1948
Type: Movie
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa).
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Blood on the Moon
Title: Blood on the Moon
Character: Jake Pindalest
Released: November 11, 1948
Type: Movie
Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute. When Garry arrives, however, it soon becomes clear that Riling has not been entirely forthright. Garry uncovers Riling's plot to dupe local rancher John Lufton out of a fortune. When Lufton's firecracker of a daughter, Amy, gets involved, Garry must choose between his old loyalties and what he knows to be right.
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Race Street
Title: Race Street
Character: Phil Dickson
Released: September 11, 1948
Type: Movie
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
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Hazard
Title: Hazard
Character: Oscar
Released: May 28, 1948
Type: Movie
As part of a bet, a compulsive gambler agrees to marry the winner, a professional gambler. Before he can "collect," she skips town. The gambler hires a private detective to track her down so he can collect his "winnings."
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Road to Rio
Title: Road to Rio
Character: Trigger
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks.
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Variety Girl
Title: Variety Girl
Character: Frank Faylen
Released: August 29, 1947
Type: Movie
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
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The Perils of Pauline
Title: The Perils of Pauline
Character: Mr. Joe Gurt
Released: July 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take
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The Trouble with Women
Title: The Trouble with Women
Character: Geeger
Released: June 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.
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Welcome Stranger
Title: Welcome Stranger
Character: Bill Walters
Released: June 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once he meets teacher Trudy Mason, Pearson is delighted to stay. The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancé. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy?
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Easy Come, Easy Go
Title: Easy Come, Easy Go
Character: Boss
Released: March 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
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California
Title: California
Character: Whitey
Released: February 21, 1947
Type: Movie
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.
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Suddenly It's Spring
Title: Suddenly It's Spring
Character: Harold Michaels
Released: February 13, 1947
Type: Movie
A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.
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It's a Wonderful Life
Title: It's a Wonderful Life
Character: Ernie
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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Cross My Heart
Title: Cross My Heart
Character: Fingerprint Expert
Released: December 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.
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Two Years Before the Mast
Title: Two Years Before the Mast
Character: Hansen
Released: November 22, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy).
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Blue Skies
Title: Blue Skies
Character: Mack
Released: October 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who can't stay committed to anything in life for very long.
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Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Title: Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Character: Federal Agent
Released: June 14, 1946
Type: Movie
Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bootlegger Donlevy who helps them get their boy friends back.
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The Well Groomed Bride
Title: The Well Groomed Bride
Character: Cabbie
Released: May 17, 1946
Type: Movie
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship.
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The Blue Dahlia
Title: The Blue Dahlia
Character: Man Recommending Motel
Released: April 16, 1946
Type: Movie
Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
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To Each His Own
Title: To Each His Own
Character: Babe
Released: March 12, 1946
Type: Movie
During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she devotes her life to loving him from afar.
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Masquerade in Mexico
Title: Masquerade in Mexico
Character: Brooklyn (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 1945
Type: Movie
An American singer stranded in Mexico is hired by a banker to distract a Mexican matador who is making a play for the banker's wife. They hatch a scheme whereby she pretends to be a Spanish countess.
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The Lost Weekend
Title: The Lost Weekend
Character: 'Bim' Nolan
Released: November 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.
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Incendiary Blonde
Title: Incendiary Blonde
Character: Hotel Clerk (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: Brooklyn Boy (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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You Came Along
Title: You Came Along
Character: Bellboy (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1945
Type: Movie
War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with several girls in every town on the tour. After some amusing escapades, Bob and Ivy become romantically involved, agreeing it's "just fun up in the air." Then Ivy finds out the real reason why it shouldn't be anything more.
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Bring on the Girls
Title: Bring on the Girls
Character: Sailor
Released: March 30, 1945
Type: Movie
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.
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Bombalera
Title: Bombalera
Character: Houlihan
Released: February 9, 1945
Type: Movie
1945 film nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Short Subject, Two Reel
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The Canterville Ghost
Title: The Canterville Ghost
Character: Lieutenant John Kane
Released: July 20, 1944
Type: Movie
The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.
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Address Unknown
Title: Address Unknown
Character: Jimmie Blake
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.
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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Title: Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Character: Taxi Driver #2 (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1944
Type: Movie
Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he sees her. Andy is clueless. On the train Andy meets Kay and Dr. Standish who are both headed for Wainwright. Andy likes Kay, but Dr. Standish also seems to take an interest in her. Things are going well at College with Kay, but the blonde is nice one minute and ignores Andy the next. When Andy finds out that the blonde is really identical twins, he tries to help them out with their father but gets caught at their rooming house after midnight.
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And the Angels Sing
Title: And the Angels Sing
Character: Holman
Released: April 25, 1944
Type: Movie
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an offer of ten dollars to sing at a dubious night club on the edge of town where a band led by Happy Marshall is playing.
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See Here, Private Hargrove
Title: See Here, Private Hargrove
Character: M.P. (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1944
Type: Movie
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic training at Fort Bragg with the self-serving help of a couple of buddies intent on cutting themselves in on that extra income.
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Standing Room Only
Title: Standing Room Only
Character: Cabbie
Released: January 7, 1944
Type: Movie
During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the housing shortage, are unable to find hotel rooms. In desperation, they pretend to be married and hire themselves out as a butler and maid in order to secure lodgings. Comedy.
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A Guy Named Joe
Title: A Guy Named Joe
Character: Major (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to Earth by heavenly General with a new assignment.
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The Gang's All Here
Title: The Gang's All Here
Character: Marine Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
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The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Title: The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Character: Speed Dugan
Released: November 5, 1943
Type: Movie
A woman of twenty-one opens her grandfather's will left to her thirteen years earlier, per his instructions. Murder soon follows.
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Corvette K-225
Title: Corvette K-225
Character: Shipyard Painter
Released: September 29, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
Title: Thank Your Lucky Stars
Released: September 25, 1943
Type: Movie
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
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Nazty Nuisance
Title: Nazty Nuisance
Character: Seaman Benson
Released: August 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Germany's Adolf Hitler, with his Axis-stooges, Italy's Mussolini and Japan's Suki Yama, although he tried to avoid taking them, is on his way, via submarine, to a tropical country to negotiate a treaty with the High Chief Paj Mab. However, an American P.T-boat crew is already there and have some plans for schickenbit-grubber and his buddies.
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Young Ideas
Title: Young Ideas
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1943
Type: Movie
A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.
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Yanks Ahoy
Title: Yanks Ahoy
Character: Quartermaster Jenkins
Released: June 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub.
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Get Going
Title: Get Going
Character: Hank
Released: June 21, 1943
Type: Movie
Judy King, newly arrived in Washington, applies for a secretary job with a government agency and while being interviewed by Bob Carlton, an agent with the bureau, jokingly hints she may be a spy. While investigating her, he clears Judy and falls in love with her... and then uncovers a real Nazi spy ring.
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Prairie Chickens
Title: Prairie Chickens
Character: Clem
Released: May 21, 1943
Type: Movie
Two unemployed cowhands help a pill-popping rancher find the nasty varmint who's been rustling cattle.
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Good Morning, Judge
Title: Good Morning, Judge
Character: Ben Pollard
Released: May 7, 1943
Type: Movie
A songwriter is sued for libel, and when he gets to court he discovers that his girlfriend is the plaintiff's attorney.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Reporter (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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Taxi, Mister
Title: Taxi, Mister
Character: Henchman Silk
Released: April 16, 1943
Type: Movie
The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.
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The Falcon Strikes Back
Title: The Falcon Strikes Back
Character: Cecil, a Hobo (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic lodge. From here he uncovers a phony war bond operation.
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Slightly Dangerous
Title: Slightly Dangerous
Character: Gateman (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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Dixie Dugan
Title: Dixie Dugan
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.
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Silver Skates
Title: Silver Skates
Character: Eddie
Released: February 26, 1943
Type: Movie
The management of touring ice show faces mounting debts.
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Fall In
Title: Fall In
Character: Capt. Gillis
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.
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Across the Pacific
Title: Across the Pacific
Character: Sidewalk Toy Vendor (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveller Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
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The Palm Beach Story
Title: The Palm Beach Story
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry (Geraldine), decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
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Somewhere I'll Find You
Title: Somewhere I'll Find You
Character: Soldier Driving Jeep
Released: August 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east.
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Wake Island
Title: Wake Island
Released: August 11, 1942
Type: Movie
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
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A-Haunting We Will Go
Title: A-Haunting We Will Go
Character: Train Detective (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.
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The Pride of the Yankees
Title: The Pride of the Yankees
Character: Yankee Third Base Coach (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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Tough as They Come
Title: Tough as They Come
Character: Collector
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and try to stop them.
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Maisie Gets Her Man
Title: Maisie Gets Her Man
Character: Stage Manager (Uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
Title: Yankee Doodle Dandy
Character: Sergeant on Parade (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
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Whispering Ghosts
Title: Whispering Ghosts
Character: Curly
Released: May 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the decade-old murder of a sea captain.
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About Face
Title: About Face
Character: Bartender Jerry
Released: April 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.
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Mokey
Title: Mokey
Character: Police Desk Sergeant
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A newlywed tries to deal with her troubled stepchild.
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Star Spangled Rhythm
Title: Star Spangled Rhythm
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
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Joe Smith, American
Title: Joe Smith, American
Character: Man in Waiting Room with Matches (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
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Steel Against the Sky
Title: Steel Against the Sky
Character: Egg Man in Diner (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
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H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Title: H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Character: Marine Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1941
Type: Movie
A man who lived his life as he was told he should, not as he would have chosen to, is brought out of his shell by a beautiful young woman.
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Top Sergeant Mulligan
Title: Top Sergeant Mulligan
Character: Pat Dolan
Released: October 16, 1941
Type: Movie
Frank Faylen and Charlie Hall (a longtime Laurel & Hardy foil) star as Dolan and Doolittle, a pair of goofy druggists who join the army to escape the wrath of bill collector Mulligan
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Sergeant York
Title: Sergeant York
Character: But! Boy (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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Let's Go Collegiate
Title: Let's Go Collegiate
Character: Speed Dorman
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing team it's ever had. Unfortunately, he gets drafted into the army before he's able to join the team. Two of the team's members get the bright idea of passing off a burly truck driver as the "athlete". Complications ensue.
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Tanks a Million
Title: Tanks a Million
Character: Pvt. Skivic
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a photographic memory. Inexplicably promoted to sergeant, Doubleday becomes the bane of topkick Sgt. Ames' (Joe Sawyer) existence.
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Blossoms in the Dust
Title: Blossoms in the Dust
Character: Man with Man Carrying Dead Child
Released: August 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
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Father Steps Out
Title: Father Steps Out
Character: Tall Hobo 'King', aka The King of Siam
Released: July 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Story concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent on an R&R vacation by his doctor, falling off his private train-car and landing in a hobo jungle occupied by Faylen and Hall, and being cured of all his ills, while reporter Jimmy Dugan (Frank Albertson) poses as a doctor in order to get an exclusive story about the railroad takeover.
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The Reluctant Dragon
Title: The Reluctant Dragon
Character: Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Released: June 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be ferocious. Along the way, he is given a tour of Walt Disney Studios, and learns about the animation process.
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Thieves Fall Out
Title: Thieves Fall Out
Character: Pick
Released: May 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.
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Model Wife
Title: Model Wife
Character: Master of Ceremonies
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
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Footsteps in the Dark
Title: Footsteps in the Dark
Character: Gus a Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
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Come Live with Me
Title: Come Live with Me
Character: Waiter
Released: January 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
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East of the River
Title: East of the River
Character: Tour Guide (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
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Just a Cute Kid
Title: Just a Cute Kid
Character: Benny
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
When he has to pay a debt to a fearsome money lender, a man accepts the help of a friend who takes him to a scientist where he can sell his body, but things get worse than expected.
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City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: Band Conductor and Emcee (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1940
Type: Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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No Time for Comedy
Title: No Time for Comedy
Character: Cab Driver
Released: September 14, 1940
Type: Movie
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Driver in Cafe (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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Pop Always Pays
Title: Pop Always Pays
Character: Minerva Auto Loan Cashier
Released: June 21, 1940
Type: Movie
A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money. This 1940 comedy stars Leon Errol, Marjorie Gateson, Dennis O'Keefe, Adele Pearce and Walter Catlett.
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Blame It on Love
Title: Blame It on Love
Character: Studio Electrician
Released: June 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A short film put out by the Hotpoint Company to demonstrate their Electric Ranges.
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Brother Orchid
Title: Brother Orchid
Character: Parkway Biltmore Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
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La Conga Nights
Title: La Conga Nights
Character: Jeepers Peepers
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when she hails his cab as she skips out on her former boarding house because she cannot pay rent.
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Edison, the Man
Title: Edison, the Man
Character: Galbreath
Released: May 10, 1940
Type: Movie
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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Saturday's Children
Title: Saturday's Children
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1940
Type: Movie
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
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Curtain Call
Title: Curtain Call
Character: Spike Malone
Released: April 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Character: Tim
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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Alice in Movieland
Title: Alice in Movieland
Character: Master of Ceremonies (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1940
Type: Movie
In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment after disappointment, and she needs the unexpected encouragement of her grandmother and an aging, former star whom she meets at a talent night. Finally, she gets a call to be an extra, and she's so hopeful that the regulars decide to make a fool of her. Is this the end of Alice's dream? Not if the porter has anything to say about it.
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Castle on the Hudson
Title: Castle on the Hudson
Character: Guard Who is Slugged (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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The Fighting 69th
Title: The Fighting 69th
Character: Engineer Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
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Married and in Love
Title: Married and in Love
Character: Jim Carter, Man in Bar
Released: January 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Two married couples become engulfed in a storm of emotional fury when Doctor Leslie Yates runs into writer Doris Wilding, his old college flame, whom he has not seen in ten years. After reminiscing about their past, Doris and Leslie make a dinner date with their respective spouses. On the eve of the Yates's dinner party, Leslie's wife Helen brings home a magazine article written by Doris, which sparks Leslie's memory of his separation from her.
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Invisible Stripes
Title: Invisible Stripes
Character: Steve - Henchman on Bank Job (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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Gone with the Wind
Title: Gone with the Wind
Character: Soldier Aiding Dr. Meade (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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Nick Carter, Master Detective
Title: Nick Carter, Master Detective
Character: Pete Foley - 1st pilot
Released: December 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
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Reno
Title: Reno
Character: J. Hezmer Briggs
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
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No Place to Go
Title: No Place to Go
Character: Pete Shaffer
Released: September 23, 1939
Type: Movie
An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he befriends a neighborhood child with a troubled family life.
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Slapsie Maxie's
Title: Slapsie Maxie's
Character: Tiger Dorsey
Released: September 16, 1939
Type: Movie
In this comedic short, when a waiter accidentally knocks out boxing champ Tiger Dorsey in Slapsie Maxie's restaurant, Maxie arranges a boxing match between the reluctant waiter and the champ.
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Thunder Afloat
Title: Thunder Afloat
Character: Recruiting Officer (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
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Waterfront
Title: Waterfront
Character: Skids Riley
Released: July 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A hard-living dockworker finds religion until his brother is murdered.
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Five Came Back
Title: Five Came Back
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Twelve people are aboard Coast Air Line's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course. Crashing into jungles known to be inhabited by head hunters, pilots Bill and Joe race against time to fix the engines and attempt a take off. The situation brings out the best and worst in the stranded dozen as they create a makeshift runway and prepare to escape before the natives attack. But damage to the plane and low fuel reserves means that only 5 people can be carried to safety.
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It's a Wonderful World
Title: It's a Wonderful World
Character: Peters - Stagehand (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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Lucky Night
Title: Lucky Night
Character: Play Palace Announcer (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.
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Women in the Wind
Title: Women in the Wind
Character: Chuck - the Mechanic (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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The Flying Irishman
Title: The Flying Irishman
Character: New York Mechanic
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Title: The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Character: Adjutant (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
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You Can't Get Away with Murder
Title: You Can't Get Away with Murder
Character: Boat Tour Guide (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.
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Twelve Crowded Hours
Title: Twelve Crowded Hours
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
Released: February 23, 1939
Type: Movie
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
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Idiot's Delight
Title: Idiot's Delight
Character: Ed
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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Crime Rave
Title: Crime Rave
Released: January 13, 1939
Type: Movie
When a crime wave hits town, bank robbers find haven in Errol's home.
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No Time To Marry
Title: No Time To Marry
Character: Waxler
Released: February 5, 1938
Type: Movie
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficulties in their competitive pursuit of a "big scoop".
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The Invisible Menace
Title: The Invisible Menace
Character: Private of the Guard
Released: January 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.
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Headin' East
Title: Headin' East
Character: Joe
Released: December 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A cattle rancher comes to the aid of farmers by heading to NYC to stop the racketeers hijacking their produce shipments.
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Wine, Women and Horses
Title: Wine, Women and Horses
Character: Horse Buyer
Released: September 11, 1937
Type: Movie
An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.
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Back in Circulation
Title: Back in Circulation
Character: James Maxwell - a Reporter (uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
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Ever Since Eve
Title: Ever Since Eve
Character: Bandit Leader at Monteray Tavern (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
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They Won't Forget
Title: They Won't Forget
Character: Reporter
Released: July 14, 1937
Type: Movie
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.
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Dance Charlie Dance
Title: Dance Charlie Dance
Character: Ted Parks
Released: July 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise, when he is sued for plagiarism.
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Title: The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Character: Charlie Downs
Released: June 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.
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Kid Galahad
Title: Kid Galahad
Character: Barney
Released: May 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
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San Quentin
Title: San Quentin
Character: Convict Envying Hoffman (uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.
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The Go-Getter
Title: The Go-Getter
Character: Country club man #2 (uncredited)
Released: May 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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The Cherokee Strip
Title: The Cherokee Strip
Character: Joe Brady
Released: May 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee.
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Marked Woman
Title: Marked Woman
Character: Cabbie #2 (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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Midnight Court
Title: Midnight Court
Character: Reporter
Released: March 6, 1937
Type: Movie
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
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Smart Blonde
Title: Smart Blonde
Character: Ambulance Driver (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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King of Hockey
Title: King of Hockey
Character: Swede
Released: December 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
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Night Waitress
Title: Night Waitress
Character: Policeman at Torre's
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of the latter, including Helen's unwelcome suitor Martin Rhodes, are after a mysterious, valuable hidden "cargo"; when violence erupts, Helen finds herself innocently involved, and is soon on the run from both cops and crooks.
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All American Chump
Title: All American Chump
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1936
Type: Movie
A country bumpkin who's a mathematical genius falls into the hands of gangsters.
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China Clipper
Title: China Clipper
Character: Weatherman (uncredited)
Released: August 11, 1936
Type: Movie
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
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Bullets or Ballots
Title: Bullets or Ballots
Character: Gatley - Pinball Racketeer (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1936
Type: Movie
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
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Border Flight
Title: Border Flight
Character: Jimmie
Released: May 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Farmer) in a concerning the Coast Guard and smugglers. The chief points of interest are the truly exceptional aerial sequences and Farmer's early performance.
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Road Gang
Title: Road Gang
Character: Radio Dispatcher
Released: March 28, 1936
Type: Movie
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
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Double Exposure
Title: Double Exposure
Character: Press Photographer (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1935
Type: Movie
An aspiring photographer and his bumbling assistant go to great lengths to take a picture of a beautiful actress whose wealthy husband does not want her photographed.