Hale Hamilton

Hale Hamilton

Born: February 27, 1883
Died: May 19, 1942
in Topeka, Kansas, USA

Movies for Hale Hamilton...

Edison, the Man
Title: Edison, the Man
Character: Broker
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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The Adventures of Marco Polo
Title: The Adventures of Marco Polo
Character: Maffeo Polo (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1938
Type: Movie
The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.
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3 Kids and a Queen
Title: 3 Kids and a Queen
Character: Ralph
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
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I Live My Life
Title: I Live My Life
Character: Uncle Carl
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
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Calm Yourself
Title: Calm Yourself
Character: Mr. M.B. Kent
Released: June 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
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The Nitwits
Title: The Nitwits
Character: Winfield Lake
Released: June 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
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Let 'em Have It
Title: Let 'em Have It
Character: Senator Reilly
Released: May 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.
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Hold 'Em Yale
Title: Hold 'Em Yale
Character: Mr. Wilmot
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.
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After Office Hours
Title: After Office Hours
Character: Henry King Patterson
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.
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The Woman in Red
Title: The Woman in Red
Character: Wyatt Furness
Released: February 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust family in this horsy-set drama.
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Grand Old Girl
Title: Grand Old Girl
Character: Killaine
Released: January 15, 1935
Type: Movie
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
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The Marines Are Coming
Title: The Marines Are Coming
Character: Colonel Gilroy
Released: November 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Expelled from his lieutenancy in the Marine Corps, Bill Traylor reenlists as a private. His unit is sent to a Latin American country where a rebel leader called The Torch promotes insurrection. There Traylor encounters again Captain Benton, the man responsible for his disgrace and his rival for the love of a girl.
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Big Hearted Herbert
Title: Big Hearted Herbert
Character: Mr. Havens
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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The Girl from Missouri
Title: The Girl from Missouri
Character: Charlie Turner
Released: August 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes to Eadie, only to then commit suicide due to bankruptcy. Fellow millionaire T. R. Paige defends Eadie when the police question her for having Cousins' jewelry -- but when she becomes enamored with his son, Tom, Paige declares Eadie a gold digger.
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Dr. Monica
Title: Dr. Monica
Character: Dr. Brent
Released: June 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.
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Good Time Henry
Title: Good Time Henry
Character: Hale
Released: May 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Henry is lured by old pal Hale into a night on the town despite fears that his wife will discover their hijinks.
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City Park
Title: City Park
Character: Herbert Ransome
Released: May 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The old men meet a young girl, broke, hungry and discouraged, in the park. Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome (Henry B. Walthall) bluffs his way into obtaining enough money to support the welfare of the girl,Rose Wentworth (Sally Blane), and his two cronies. He sends for the girl's former sweetheart, who turns out to be a crook.
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The Quitter
Title: The Quitter
Character: Maj. Stephen Winthrop
Released: February 5, 1934
Type: Movie
When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hard-fighting champion of the working-class into an upscale society paper catering to the rich and powerful. Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another man's identity and is still living there.
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Twin Husbands
Title: Twin Husbands
Character: Colonel Gordon Lewis
Released: November 29, 1933
Type: Movie
The film begins with a guy waking up from a bump on the head. The people around him try in vain to convince him that five years have passed and that he's a rich guy. However, none of this makes sense to the character played by Miljan AND none of it makes any sense to the audience...none. After this plot is quickly abandoned, the film begins to get better. It seems that a wife and her business partner are trying to use Miljan as a double for her estranged and missing husband.
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Sitting Pretty
Title: Sitting Pretty
Character: Vinton (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1933
Type: Movie
Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon proprieter, joins them.
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Curtain at Eight
Title: Curtain at Eight
Character: J.K. Manning
Released: October 1, 1933
Type: Movie
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
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The Wolf Dog
Title: The Wolf Dog
Character: Norman Bryan
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
The story of a boy, a dog, and a man. The boy discovers he is heir to a shipping line, and travels to Los Angeles, accompanied by inventor/radio operator Bob Whitlock and Irene Blaine. Their journey is aided by Pal, a wolf dog.
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One Man's Journey
Title: One Man's Journey
Character: Dr. Tillinghast
Released: August 31, 1933
Type: Movie
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but always something gets in the way: an epidemic, his children's needs, or the needs of his generally ungrateful patients. Only with the passing years does he come to find that his future isn't over and his past isn't quite the failure he believed.
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Strange People
Title: Strange People
Character: J.E.Burton - the Attorney
Released: June 16, 1933
Type: Movie
All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstration of how convictions can be made on circumstantial evidence. During the proceedings, a phony murder is quickly revealed as the real thing.
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Black Beauty
Title: Black Beauty
Character: Harlan Bledsoe
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Black Beauty is being trained to run in the steeplechase race, upon which the Cameron family has staked its fortune. However, the horse is injured racing for a doctor when its owner is hurt, and it looks like it won't recover in time to compete in the race.
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Parole Girl
Title: Parole Girl
Character: Anthony 'Tony' Grattan
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.
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Reform Girl
Title: Reform Girl
Character: Santor Putnam
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daughter.
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Employees' Entrance
Title: Employees' Entrance
Character: Commodore Franklin Monroe
Released: February 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."
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The Billion Dollar Scandal
Title: The Billion Dollar Scandal
Character: Mr. Jackson
Released: January 6, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.
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Manhattan Tower
Title: Manhattan Tower
Character: David Witman
Released: December 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.
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Call Her Savage
Title: Call Her Savage
Character: Cyrus Randall (Uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Title: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Character: Rev. Allen
Released: November 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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Three on a Match
Title: Three on a Match
Character: Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
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A Successful Calamity
Title: A Successful Calamity
Character: John Belde
Released: September 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
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The Most Dangerous Game
Title: The Most Dangerous Game
Character: Bill Woodman (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1932
Type: Movie
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.
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Those We Love
Title: Those We Love
Character: Blake
Released: September 11, 1932
Type: Movie
Director Robert Florey's 1932 melodrama about a woman who suspects her husband of infidelity stars Mary Astor, Kenneth MacKenna, Tommy Conlon, Lilyan Tashman, Hale Hamilton, Cecil Cunningham and Virginia Sale.
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Life Begins
Title: Life Begins
Character: Dr. Cramm
Released: September 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
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Two Against the World
Title: Two Against the World
Character: Mr. Gordon Mitchell
Released: September 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A socialite finds herself involved in a murder trial that is prosecuted by her boyfriend.
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Love Affair
Title: Love Affair
Character: Bruce Hardy
Released: March 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses.
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A Fool's Advice
Title: A Fool's Advice
Character: George Diamond
Released: February 20, 1932
Type: Movie
An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.
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The Champ
Title: The Champ
Character: Tony Carleton
Released: November 21, 1931
Type: Movie
A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.
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The Cuban Love Song
Title: The Cuban Love Song
Character: John
Released: November 18, 1931
Type: Movie
A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry.
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Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
Title: Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
Character: Mike Kelly
Released: October 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome engineer.
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New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
Title: New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
Character: Charles Harper
Released: October 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Wallingford is a con-man whose specialty is taking money from suckers. His partners are Schnozzle, a pickpocket and car thief; and Blackie, who has played the game for years.
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Murder at Midnight
Title: Murder at Midnight
Character: Phillip Montrose
Released: September 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologist Phillip Montrose is on hand to help the police. When Kennedy quickly ends up dead as well, the police think it's a tidy murder-suicide, but the family lawyer knows of a letter that voiced Kennedy's suspicions about someone who was out to get him. Soon, the cops are on the trail of a ruthless and clever killer who is one step ahead of even Montrose.
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Rebound
Title: Rebound
Character: Lyman Patterson
Released: August 28, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman struggles to rekindle the affection of her husband.
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The Great Lover
Title: The Great Lover
Character: Stapleton
Released: July 18, 1931
Type: Movie
An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.
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Never the Twain Shall Meet
Title: Never the Twain Shall Meet
Character: Mellenger
Released: May 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Dan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to as "the icebox" by his news reporter friend. As one of his ships returns to San Francisco, Dan learns that the Captain has contracted Leprosy and asks Dan to be the guardian of his South Sea island daughter Tamea. Dan soon learns that Tamea wants him and will do nothing without a kiss. But Tamea soon learns that she is different than Dan and Maisie and that makes her angry. Dan decides to go and live on the island with Tamea, but soon finds out that Paradise is not everything that he thought it was.
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Strangers May Kiss
Title: Strangers May Kiss
Character: Andrew
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casual romance with journalist Alan. Against the advice of her happily married aunt Celia -- who encourages her to demand a serious commitment -- Lisbeth continues to see Alan, even after she hears he may have a wife in France. When Alan's work sends him abroad, a lovesick Lisbeth struggles to understand her feelings.
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A Tailor-Made Man
Title: A Tailor-Made Man
Character: Mr. Stanlaw
Released: March 28, 1931
Type: Movie
John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs his way into a high society party. After meeting wealthy businessman Abraham Nathan, John Paul quickly rises to the top of Nathan's company. Suffering during The Depression, John Paul helps Nathan save his company with a radical program of cooperative ownership between workers and management. Meanwhile, John Paul makes an enemy of Gustav, who is engaged to Tanya - the daughter of Mr. Huber, owner of the tailor shop. John Paul maintains a friendship with Tanya, provoking jealousy in Gustav. Gustav threatens to reveal John Paul's plain origins to Nathan, and John Paul briefly resigns from Nathan's company. However, John Paul's plan is a success, and Nathan hires him back immediately. Tanya leaves Gustav and ends up with John Paul.
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The Drums of Jeopardy
Title: The Drums of Jeopardy
Character: Martin Kent
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death.
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Dance, Fools, Dance
Title: Dance, Fools, Dance
Character: Selby
Released: February 7, 1931
Type: Movie
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, his naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.
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Beau Ideal
Title: Beau Ideal
Character: Major LeBaudy
Released: January 25, 1931
Type: Movie
An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
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Paid
Title: Paid
Character: District Attorney Demarest
Released: December 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Mary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her conviction.
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Common Clay
Title: Common Clay
Character: Judge Samuel Filson
Released: August 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Young Ellen Neal gets work as a servant with the wealthy Fullerton family. She falls in love with the Fullerton's handsome young son. But he leaves her with child, and when she attempts to gain recognition for her child, the Fullerton family treats her as a blackmailer. But a surprise awaits them all.
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Good Intentions
Title: Good Intentions
Character: Franklin Graham
Released: June 29, 1930
Type: Movie
When love came the way of this gentleman crook he turned to the right---only to be caught in the swirling eddy of his criminal past! (original ad)
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The Telephone Girl
Title: The Telephone Girl
Character: Mark
Released: March 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Telephone operator Kitty O'Brien can't help but get involved in the problems of her customers. Right now she is concerning herself with the well-being of Tom Blake, the honest son of crooked political boss Jim Blake.
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Summer Bachelors
Title: Summer Bachelors
Character: Beverly Greenway
Released: December 18, 1926
Type: Movie
Derry Thomas is a pretty girl from a good family who earns her own living, but is disillusioned about marriage and is firmly set against ever getting married. Nothing against men, just marriage. She is drawn into the company of some rich businessmen whose wives have gone away for the summer. Parties follow in New York nightclubs, road-houses, country clubs and fashionable estates. Situations and contradictions follow.
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The Great Gatsby
Title: The Great Gatsby
Character: Tom Buchanan
Released: November 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
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Tin Gods
Title: Tin Gods
Character: Dr. McCoy
Released: September 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Tin Gods is a lost 1926 silent film drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky, released by Paramount Pictures, and based on the play Tin Gods by William Anthony McGuire. Allan Dwan directed and Thomas Meighan starred.
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The Greater Glory
Title: The Greater Glory
Character: Leon Krum
Released: May 2, 1926
Type: Movie
A story of Vienna following World War I, in which the butchers became millionaires and the aristocrats became beggars, told against a background of mother-love and sacrifice.
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The Manicure Girl
Title: The Manicure Girl
Character: James Morgan
Released: July 6, 1925
Type: Movie
A manicurist in the beauty shop of a large metropolitan hotel, is engaged to Antonio Luca an electrician. However she a meets James Morgan a wealthy guest who wants to go out with her, but she declines so he sends her ten dollars for theater tickets.
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His Children's Children
Title: His Children's Children
Character: Rufus Kayne
Released: November 4, 1923
Type: Movie
Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch reminisces about his rough beginnings in post-Civil War railroading, son Rufus rides rough waters as a wealthy financier, and his wife and three daughters muddle through their New York high society life.
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In His Brother's Place
Title: In His Brother's Place
Character: Nelson Drake / J. Barrington Drake
Released: July 14, 1919
Type: Movie
Twins Nelson and J. Barrington Drake return home for the celebration of their parents' 50th wedding anniversary. Barrington is a wealthy oilman, but Nelson is a pastor in a small rural church, who is struggling to increase his ever-shrinking flock, Barrington tells him that his problem could be solved with the right type of salesmanship, and proceeds to map out a plan to do just that. However, a case of mistaken identity--and a scheme by two of the church's deacons to take over all of the church property--throws a wrench into his plans.
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Full of Pep
Title: Full of Pep
Character: Jimmy Baxter
Released: May 26, 1919
Type: Movie
Returning from a selling trip, Jimmy Baxter, the fastest salesman at his father's munitions company, notices a pretty girl smiling at him in the station. Since her train soon leaves, all Jimmy learns about her is information on her luggage: her initials and destination, the Central American republic Santo Dinero.
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Opportunity
Title: Opportunity
Released: July 1, 1918
Type: Movie
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Her Painted Hero
Title: Her Painted Hero
Character: A Matinee Idol
Released: November 20, 1915
Type: Movie
A stage-struck young woman becomes an heiress, and hopes to use her new-found wealth to fulfill a fantasy.