Henry O'Neill

Henry O'Neill

Born: August 9, 1891
Died: May 18, 1961
in Orange, New Jersey, USA
Henry O'Neill (1891–1961) was an American film actor known for playing gray-haired fathers, lawyers, and similarly roles during the 1930s and 1940s.

O'Neill began his acting career on the stage, after dropping out of college to join a traveling theatre company. He served in the military in World War I, then returned to the stage.

In the early 1930s he began appearing in films, including The Big Shakedown, Santa Fe Trail, Anchors Aweigh, The Green Years, and The Reckless Moment. His last film was The Wings of Eagles.

Henry O'Neill died in 1961 at the age of 69.

Movies for Henry O'Neill...

The Wings of Eagles
Title: The Wings of Eagles
Character: Capt. Spear
Released: January 31, 1957
Type: Movie
The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.
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Untamed
Title: Untamed
Character: Squire O'Neill
Released: March 1, 1955
Type: Movie
When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.
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The Sun Shines Bright
Title: The Sun Shines Bright
Character: Joe D. Habersham
Released: May 2, 1953
Type: Movie
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.
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Scarlet Angel
Title: Scarlet Angel
Character: Morgan Caldwell
Released: June 20, 1952
Type: Movie
After robbing a sea captain in New Orleans, a beautiful saloon girl flees and assumes a dead woman's identity.
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Scandal Sheet
Title: Scandal Sheet
Character: Charlie Barnes
Released: January 16, 1952
Type: Movie
A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.
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The Family Secret
Title: The Family Secret
Character: Donald Muir
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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The People Against O'Hara
Title: The People Against O'Hara
Character: Judge Keating
Released: September 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.
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The Flying Missile
Title: The Flying Missile
Character: Thomas A. Scott
Released: December 24, 1950
Type: Movie
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
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The Milkman
Title: The Milkman
Character: Bradley, Sr.
Released: October 17, 1950
Type: Movie
A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.
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Convicted
Title: Convicted
Character: Detective Dorn
Released: August 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
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The Second Woman
Title: The Second Woman
Character: Ben Sheppard
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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No Man of Her Own
Title: No Man of Her Own
Character: Mr. Harkness
Released: February 21, 1950
Type: Movie
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
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Holiday Affair
Title: Holiday Affair
Character: Mr. Crowley
Released: December 12, 1949
Type: Movie
Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him fired. They spend the afternoon together, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, when he finds out, but delights her young son Timmy, who quickly takes to Steve.
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The Reckless Moment
Title: The Reckless Moment
Character: Tom Harper
Released: December 9, 1949
Type: Movie
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
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Strange Bargain
Title: Strange Bargain
Character: Timothy Hearne
Released: November 5, 1949
Type: Movie
Bookkeeper Sam Wilson learns from his boss, Malcolm Jarvis, that he is losing his job because the company is closing down. Jarvis then makes a strange proposition, saying he intends to commit suicide but wants Sam to make it look like a murder, in order for his wife and son to inherit Jarvis's life insurance. Sam declines, but when he goes to see Jarvis and finds his dead body, he reluctantly goes along with the scheme.
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You're My Everything
Title: You're My Everything
Character: Prof. Adams
Released: July 22, 1949
Type: Movie
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.
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Alias Nick Beal
Title: Alias Nick Beal
Character: Judge Ben Hobbs
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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Leather Gloves
Title: Leather Gloves
Character: Dudley
Released: November 11, 1948
Type: Movie
A fallen prizefighter must choose between two women from vastly different walks of life.
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The Return of October
Title: The Return of October
Character: President Hotchkiss
Released: October 26, 1948
Type: Movie
A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.
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Little Mister Jim
Title: Little Mister Jim
Character: Chaplain
Released: April 1, 1947
Type: Movie
After his mother's death, a young boy tries to help his father stop drinking.
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The Beginning or the End
Title: The Beginning or the End
Character: Gen. Thomas F. Farrell
Released: February 19, 1947
Type: Movie
The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.
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Three Wise Fools
Title: Three Wise Fools
Character: Prof. Horace Appleby
Released: September 26, 1946
Type: Movie
An orphan girl melts the hearts of three crusty old men.
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The Green Years
Title: The Green Years
Character: Canon Roche
Released: July 4, 1946
Type: Movie
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.
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Bad Bascomb
Title: Bad Bascomb
Character: Gov. Winton
Released: May 26, 1946
Type: Movie
A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl.
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Character: Mr. Taylor
Released: May 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
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The Hoodlum Saint
Title: The Hoodlum Saint
Character: Lewis J. Malbery
Released: April 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
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Anchors Aweigh
Title: Anchors Aweigh
Character: Admiral Hammond
Released: August 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl with musical aspirations, and before Joe can stop him, promises to get her an audition with José Iturbi. But the trouble really starts when Joe realizes he's falling for his buddy's girl.
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Dangerous Partners
Title: Dangerous Partners
Character: Duffy
Released: June 7, 1945
Type: Movie
A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.
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Keep Your Powder Dry
Title: Keep Your Powder Dry
Character: Maj. Gen. Lee Rand
Released: April 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
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Between Two Women
Title: Between Two Women
Character: Larry Goff - Theatrical Agent (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1945
Type: Movie
A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.
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This Man's Navy
Title: This Man's Navy
Character: Lt. Cmdr. Roger Graystone
Released: January 4, 1945
Type: Movie
During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an unauthorized and premature attack on a German submarine but the bomb misses and the submarine fires back, hitting the airship. Trumpet takes over the controls and sinks the submarine, The pilot faces a court-martial for disobeying orders but the older man takes the blame for his actions. Weaver transfers to the Ferry Command, and while on assignment in Burma, his aircraft crashes in Japanese territory. Trumpet rushes to the scene with a rescue team. Both are successfully brought out and are decorated for their heroism. Afterward, Weaver indicates that he will be returning to the lighter-than-air service in Lakehurst, to reunite with his "father".
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Dark Shadows
Title: Dark Shadows
Character: Dr. Everett Colner
Released: December 16, 1944
Type: Movie
A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a killer.
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Nothing But Trouble
Title: Nothing But Trouble
Character: Mr. Hawkley
Released: December 6, 1944
Type: Movie
Two bumbling servants are hired by a dizzy society matron to cook and serve a meal to visiting royalty.
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Barbary Coast Gent
Title: Barbary Coast Gent
Character: Colonel Watrous
Released: September 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
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Two Girls and a Sailor
Title: Two Girls and a Sailor
Character: John Dyckman Brown II
Released: June 14, 1944
Type: Movie
A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him.
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Main Street Today
Title: Main Street Today
Character: Vance Clark
Released: March 25, 1944
Type: Movie
This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.
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Rationing
Title: Rationing
Character: Senator Edward White
Released: March 24, 1944
Type: Movie
A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing.
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The Heavenly Body
Title: The Heavenly Body
Character: Professor Stowe
Released: March 23, 1944
Type: Movie
The beautiful wife of a tweedy astronomer becomes convinced that her astrologer's prediction of a new dream man in her life will come true.
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A Guy Named Joe
Title: A Guy Named Joe
Character: Col. Sykes
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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Lost Angel
Title: Lost Angel
Character: Professor Josh Pringle
Released: December 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.
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Whistling in Brooklyn
Title: Whistling in Brooklyn
Character: Inspector Holcomb
Released: December 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.
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Girl Crazy
Title: Girl Crazy
Character: Mr. Danny Churchill, Sr.
Released: November 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the Dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray, who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college open than falling for Danny's romantic line. At least at first...
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Best Foot Forward
Title: Best Foot Forward
Character: Maj. Roger W. Reeber
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.
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Thousands Cheer
Title: Thousands Cheer
Character: Captain in Frank Morgan Skit (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. Eddie's also plagued by fear of having an accident during his family's trapeze act in the army variety show, which also features a gallery of MGM stars.
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For God and Country
Title: For God and Country
Character: Captain Chaplain
Released: May 15, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of the U.S. Army Chaplain Service as dramatized in the stories of three chaplains, Father Michael O'Keefe, Arnold Miller, and Tom Manning.
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Title: Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Character: Warden Kenneson
Released: May 8, 1943
Type: Movie
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
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Air Raid Wardens
Title: Air Raid Wardens
Character: Rittenhause
Released: April 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
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The Human Comedy
Title: The Human Comedy
Character: Charles Steed
Released: March 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
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Stand by for Action
Title: Stand by for Action
Character: Cmdr. Stone M.C
Released: December 31, 1942
Type: Movie
U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas.
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White Cargo
Title: White Cargo
Character: The Reverend Dr. Roberts
Released: December 12, 1942
Type: Movie
In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who'd seen it all, Langford, a new manager sent from England for a four-year stint, and Tondelayo, a siren of great beauty who desires silk and baubles. Witzel is gruff and seasoned, certain that Langford won't be able to cut it. Langford responds with determination and anger, attracted to Tondelayo because of her beauty, her wiles, and to get at Witzel. Manipulation, jealousy, revenge, and responsibility play out as alliances within the triangle shift.
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Tortilla Flat
Title: Tortilla Flat
Character: Father Ramon
Released: May 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.
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This Time for Keeps
Title: This Time for Keeps
Character: Arthur Freeman
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
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Born to Sing
Title: Born to Sing
Character: Frank Eastman
Released: February 18, 1942
Type: Movie
A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs.
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The Bugle Sounds
Title: The Bugle Sounds
Character: Lt. Col. Harry Seton
Released: January 30, 1942
Type: Movie
An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post.
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Johnny Eager
Title: Johnny Eager
Character: A.J. Verne
Released: December 9, 1941
Type: Movie
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
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Shadow of the Thin Man
Title: Shadow of the Thin Man
Character: Major Jason I. Sculley
Released: November 21, 1941
Type: Movie
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
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Honky Tonk
Title: Honky Tonk
Character: Pearl
Released: October 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
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Blossoms in the Dust
Title: Blossoms in the Dust
Character: Judge
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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Whistling in the Dark
Title: Whistling in the Dark
Character: Philip Post
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiancé, and a friend, to further this goal. Wally, 'The Fox', is a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder, and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot.
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Down in San Diego
Title: Down in San Diego
Character: Col. Halliday
Released: August 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego, and suspect that a foreign espionage ring is at work trying to find out military secrets.
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The Get-Away
Title: The Get-Away
Character: Warden Alcott
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
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Billy the Kid
Title: Billy the Kid
Character: Tim Ward
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.
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Men of Boys Town
Title: Men of Boys Town
Character: Mr. Maitland
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
Title: The Trial of Mary Dugan
Character: Galway
Released: February 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Mary Dugan is a young woman accused of murdering her billionaire lover. In the process, his defense lawyer acts wrongly against them, and is replaced by a young lawyer, the brother of the accused
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Santa Fe Trail
Title: Santa Fe Trail
Character: Cyrus Brody
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
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Knute Rockne All American
Title: Knute Rockne All American
Character: Doctor
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
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Service with the Colors
Title: Service with the Colors
Character: Colonel Nelson
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Service with the Colors is a 1940 American short drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason. This drama is "dedicated to the soldiers of the United States Army." Men with diverse backgrounds enlist in the army and are all assigned to the same post. Some adapt easily to army life, while others have trouble making the adjustment. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 13th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).
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Money and the Woman
Title: Money and the Woman
Character: Mr. Mason
Released: August 17, 1940
Type: Movie
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: District Attorney (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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Young America Flies
Title: Young America Flies
Character: Dr. Webster
Released: July 13, 1940
Type: Movie
World War II propaganda film from Warner Brothers.
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'Til We Meet Again
Title: 'Til We Meet Again
Character: Dr. Cameron
Released: April 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Title: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Character: Dr. Lentz
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
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Castle on the Hudson
Title: Castle on the Hudson
Character: District Attorney
Released: February 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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Calling Philo Vance
Title: Calling Philo Vance
Character: Markham
Released: February 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
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The Fighting 69th
Title: The Fighting 69th
Character: Colonel
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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Invisible Stripes
Title: Invisible Stripes
Character: Parole Officer Masters
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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Four Wives
Title: Four Wives
Character: Dr. Clinton Forrest, Sr.
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
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A Child Is Born
Title: A Child Is Born
Character: Dr. Lee
Released: December 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
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Everybody's Hobby
Title: Everybody's Hobby
Character: Thomas 'Tom' Leslie
Released: August 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A hobby-mad family makes their obsessions pay off.
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Angels Wash Their Faces
Title: Angels Wash Their Faces
Character: A.H. Remson
Released: August 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
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The Right Way
Title: The Right Way
Character: Mr. Martin
Released: July 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A young boy whose father is dead joins a secret society that, unknown to him, has subversive motives. His mother realizes the menace represented by the society, and in a vision her husband warns her to protect their son. She explains to him the danger in the type of patriotic business practiced by the club, and he agrees.
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Juarez
Title: Juarez
Character: General Miguel Miramon
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
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The Man Who Dared
Title: The Man Who Dared
Character: Matthew Carter
Released: June 3, 1939
Type: Movie
An elderly grandfather proves to be heroic when he takes a stand against local city corruption.
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Sons of Liberty
Title: Sons of Liberty
Character: Member of Continental Congress
Released: May 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Set during the American Revolution, this colorful 2 reel short tells the story of Haym Salomon, American patriot and financier of the American Revolution.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Title: Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Character: Attorney Kellogg
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Lucky Night
Title: Lucky Night
Character: Calvin Jordan
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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Dodge City
Title: Dodge City
Character: Colonel Dodge
Released: April 8, 1939
Type: Movie
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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Wings of the Navy
Title: Wings of the Navy
Character: Prologue Speaker
Released: February 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Title: Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Character: Sen. H. Baldwin
Released: February 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
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Brother Rat
Title: Brother Rat
Character: Colonel Ramm
Released: October 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.
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Girls on Probation
Title: Girls on Probation
Character: Judge
Released: October 22, 1938
Type: Movie
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
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The Chaser
Title: The Chaser
Character: Mr. Calhoun
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Title: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Character: Judge
Released: July 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
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Racket Busters
Title: Racket Busters
Character: Governor
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
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White Banners
Title: White Banners
Character: Sam Trimble
Released: June 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.
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Yellow Jack
Title: Yellow Jack
Character: Gorgas
Released: May 19, 1938
Type: Movie
A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed's search for the cause of "Yellow Jack" or Yellow Fever and those who risked their lives in the pursuit.
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Jezebel
Title: Jezebel
Character: General Theopholus Bogardus
Released: March 26, 1938
Type: Movie
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
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Gold Is Where You Find It
Title: Gold Is Where You Find It
Character: Judge
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Henry Wells
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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First Lady
Title: First Lady
Character: George Mason
Released: December 4, 1937
Type: Movie
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.
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Submarine D-1
Title: Submarine D-1
Character: Admiral Thomas
Released: November 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock battle over pretty Ann Sawyer. At sea and underwater, however, our two heroes are inseparable.
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The Life of Emile Zola
Title: The Life of Emile Zola
Character: Colonel Picquart
Released: September 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.
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Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Title: Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Character: D.M. Gateway
Released: August 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.
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The Singing Marine
Title: The Singing Marine
Character: Captain Skinner
Released: July 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest, however, sets him up for trouble in romance, in his career, and with the Corps.
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The Go-Getter
Title: The Go-Getter
Character: Commander Tisdale
Released: May 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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Draegerman Courage
Title: Draegerman Courage
Character: Dr. Thomas Haslett
Released: May 15, 1937
Type: Movie
After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.
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Marked Woman
Title: Marked Woman
Character: Arthur Sheldon
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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Green Light
Title: Green Light
Character: Dr. Endicott
Released: February 20, 1937
Type: Movie
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility.
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The Great O'Malley
Title: The Great O'Malley
Character: Defense Attorney
Released: February 13, 1937
Type: Movie
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
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Rainbow on the River
Title: Rainbow on the River
Character: Father Josef
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
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Anthony Adverse
Title: Anthony Adverse
Character: Father Xavier
Released: August 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
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Two Against the World
Title: Two Against the World
Character: Jim Carstairs
Released: July 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
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The White Angel
Title: The White Angel
Character: Dr. Scott
Released: June 25, 1936
Type: Movie
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
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The Big Noise
Title: The Big Noise
Character: Charlie Caldwell
Released: June 22, 1936
Type: Movie
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers, who promise dire consequences if Trent doesn't dance to their tune.
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Bullets or Ballots
Title: Bullets or Ballots
Character: Ward Bryant
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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The Golden Arrow
Title: The Golden Arrow
Character: Mr. Appleby
Released: May 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.
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Road Gang
Title: Road Gang
Character: George Winston
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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Boulder Dam
Title: Boulder Dam
Character: Mr. Agnew
Released: March 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
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The Walking Dead
Title: The Walking Dead
Character: District Attorney Werner
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
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The Story of Louis Pasteur
Title: The Story of Louis Pasteur
Character: Dr. Emile Roux
Released: February 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.
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Freshman Love
Title: Freshman Love
Character: President Simpkins
Released: January 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
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Personal Maid's Secret
Title: Personal Maid's Secret
Character: Mr. Wilton Palmer
Released: October 26, 1935
Type: Movie
A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins' 1935 film stars Ruth Donnelly, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull, Frank Albertson, Arthur Treacher, Ronnie Crosby, Henry O'Neill, Lillian Kemble Cooper and Gordon Elliott.
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Dr. Socrates
Title: Dr. Socrates
Character: Greer
Released: October 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
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The Case of the Lucky Legs
Title: The Case of the Lucky Legs
Character: District Attorney C. Manchester
Released: October 5, 1935
Type: Movie
A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.
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Special Agent
Title: Special Agent
Character: District Attorney Roger Quinn
Released: September 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify
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We're in the Money
Title: We're in the Money
Character: Stephen Dinsmore
Released: August 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
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Bright Lights
Title: Bright Lights
Character: J.C. Anderson
Released: July 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: Mr. Tuthill
Released: June 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Oil for the Lamps of China
Title: Oil for the Lamps of China
Character: Edward Hartford
Released: June 8, 1935
Type: Movie
An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.
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Black Fury
Title: Black Fury
Character: John W. Hendricks
Released: May 18, 1935
Type: Movie
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
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Dinky
Title: Dinky
Character: Col. Barnes
Released: May 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
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Alias Mary Dow
Title: Alias Mary Dow
Character: Henry Dow
Released: May 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
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The Florentine Dagger
Title: The Florentine Dagger
Character: Victor Ballau
Released: March 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
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While the Patient Slept
Title: While the Patient Slept
Character: Elihu Dimuck
Released: March 9, 1935
Type: Movie
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
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Living on Velvet
Title: Living on Velvet
Character: Harold Thornton
Released: March 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of money enters their life, their differences come to light.
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The Great Hotel Murder
Title: The Great Hotel Murder
Character: Mr. Claude Harvey
Released: February 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.
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Sweet Music
Title: Sweet Music
Character: Louis Trumble
Released: February 23, 1935
Type: Movie
A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York.
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A Trip Through A Hollywood Studio
Title: A Trip Through A Hollywood Studio
Character: Director (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1935
Type: Movie
This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bros. / First National Studios. We start at the casting office, then see Busby Berkeley and choreographer Bobby Connolly working with chorus girls on production numbers. Then come some candid shots of several contract stars. Finally we see comedian Hugh Herbert filming a scene for an upcoming release, then the various behind the scenes steps that transition the raw film in the camera into the finished product.
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Bordertown
Title: Bordertown
Character: Attorney J.L. Chase (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1935
Type: Movie
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
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The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
Title: The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
Character: Fernand de Marnay
Released: December 24, 1934
Type: Movie
A writer discovers he's being used as a pawn by greedy businessmen.
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The Secret Bride
Title: The Secret Bride
Character: Jim Lansdale
Released: December 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, they decide to keep their marriage secret. The political intrigue becomes more involved, and no one is quite what they seem. Soon Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life.
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Murder in the Clouds
Title: Murder in the Clouds
Character: John Brownell
Released: December 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.
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Flirtation Walk
Title: Flirtation Walk
Character: Gen. John "Jack" Brent Fitts
Released: December 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her.
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Gentlemen Are Born
Title: Gentlemen Are Born
Character: Mr. Harper
Released: November 17, 1934
Type: Movie
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
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Madame du Barry
Title: Madame du Barry
Character: Duc de Choiseul
Released: October 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon, former street waif Madame du Barry charms her way into the heart of gouty King Louis XV.
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Big Hearted Herbert
Title: Big Hearted Herbert
Character: Goodrich Sr.
Released: October 6, 1934
Type: Movie
After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
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Side Streets
Title: Side Streets
Character: George Richards
Released: August 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.
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The Man with Two Faces
Title: The Man with Two Faces
Character: Inspector Crane
Released: August 4, 1934
Type: Movie
Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a theatrical producer she comes home incoherent and Vance is found dead in the vanished producer's hotel suite
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Midnight Alibi
Title: Midnight Alibi
Character: Ardsley
Released: July 12, 1934
Type: Movie
An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.
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The Key
Title: The Key
Character: Dan
Released: June 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
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Now I'll Tell
Title: Now I'll Tell
Character: Tommy Doran
Released: June 7, 1934
Type: Movie
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.
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The Personality Kid
Title: The Personality Kid
Character: Stephens
Released: June 6, 1934
Type: Movie
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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Fog Over Frisco
Title: Fog Over Frisco
Character: Oren Porter
Released: June 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
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Twenty Million Sweethearts
Title: Twenty Million Sweethearts
Character: Lemuel Tappan
Released: May 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous agent Rush Blake makes singing waiter Buddy Clayton a big radio star while Peggy Cornell, who has lost her own radio show, helps Buddy.
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Upperworld
Title: Upperworld
Character: Banker Making Toast at Banquet
Released: April 19, 1934
Type: Movie
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
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Wonder Bar
Title: Wonder Bar
Character: Richard
Released: March 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
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Journal of a Crime
Title: Journal of a Crime
Character: Doctor
Released: March 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
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Midnight
Title: Midnight
Character: Edgar V. Ingersoll
Released: March 7, 1934
Type: Movie
Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Garboni, just as Saxon was to sit in the electric chair.
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I've Got Your Number
Title: I've Got Your Number
Character: Mr. John P. Schuyler
Released: February 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
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Fashions of 1934
Title: Fashions of 1934
Character: Duryea
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
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Bedside
Title: Bedside
Character: Dr. William Chester
Released: January 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.
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Massacre
Title: Massacre
Character: J.R. Dickinson
Released: January 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reservation of his youth, only to discover that his people are dying of various diseases and are being systematically cheated of their possessions and basic rights by crooked Indian agents. He heads to Washington in hopes of righting these wrongs, only to experience prejudice and hatred all along the way.
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The Big Shakedown
Title: The Big Shakedown
Character: Mr. Sheffner
Released: January 6, 1934
Type: Movie
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
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The House on 56th Street
Title: The House on 56th Street
Character: Baxter - the Laywer (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1933
Type: Movie
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.
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Lady Killer
Title: Lady Killer
Character: Ramick
Released: December 9, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.
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Son of a Sailor
Title: Son of a Sailor
Character: Naval Officer
Released: November 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
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The World Changes
Title: The World Changes
Character: Orin Nordholm Sr.
Released: November 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
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From Headquarters
Title: From Headquarters
Character: Inspector Donnelly
Released: November 16, 1933
Type: Movie
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
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The Kennel Murder Case
Title: The Kennel Murder Case
Character: Dubois (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
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I Loved a Woman
Title: I Loved a Woman
Character: Mr. Farrell
Released: September 23, 1933
Type: Movie
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.