Edward Everett Horton

Edward Everett Horton

Born: March 17, 1886
Died: September 29, 1970
in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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Edward Everett Horton Jr. (March 18, 1886 – September 29, 1970) was an American character actor. He had a long career in film, theater, radio, television, and voice work for animated cartoons. Horton began his stage career in 1906, singing and dancing and playing small parts in vaudeville and in Broadway productions. In 1919, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he began acting in Hollywood films. His first starring role was in the comedy Too Much Business (1922), but he portrayed the lead role of an idealistic young classical composer in the drama Beggar on Horseback (1925). In the late 1920s, he starred in two-reel silent comedies for Educational Pictures, and made the transition to talking pictures with Educational in 1929. As a stage-trained performer, he found more film work easily, and appeared in some of Warner Bros.' early talkies, including The Terror (1928) and Sonny Boy (1929).

Horton initially used his given name, Edward Horton, professionally. His father persuaded him to adopt his full name professionally, reasoning that other actors might be named Edward Horton, but only one named Edward Everett Horton. Horton soon cultivated his own special variation of the time-honored double take (an actor's reaction to something, followed by a delayed, more extreme reaction). In Horton's version, he would smile ingratiatingly and nod in agreement with what just happened; then, when realization set in, his facial features collapsed entirely into a sober, troubled mask.

Horton starred in many comedy features in the 1930s, usually playing a mousy fellow who put up with domestic or professional problems to a certain point, and then finally asserted himself for a happy ending. He is best known, however, for his work as a character actor in supporting roles. These include The Front Page (1931), Trouble in Paradise (1932), Alice in Wonderland (1933), The Gay Divorcee (1934, the first of several Astaire/Rogers films in which Horton appeared), Top Hat (1935), Danger - Love at Work (1937), Lost Horizon (1937), Holiday (1938), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Pocketful of Miracles (1961), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and Sex and the Single Girl (1964). His last role was in the comedy film Cold Turkey (1971), in which his character communicated only through facial expressions.

Movies for Edward Everett Horton...

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Title: The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.
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Cold Turkey
Title: Cold Turkey
Character: Hiram C. Grayson
Released: February 19, 1971
Type: Movie
Reverend Brooks leads the town in a contest to stop smoking for a month, But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts, from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.
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Title: Nanny and the Professor
Released: January 21, 1970
Type: TV
Nanny and the Professor is an American fantasy situation comedy created by AJ Carothers and Thomas L. Miller for 20th Century Fox Television. During pre-production, the proposed title was Nanny Will Do.
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2000 Years Later
Title: 2000 Years Later
Character: Evermore
Released: March 11, 1969
Type: Movie
A satirical film on fads in the US. A TV host on a late night show tries to convince his viewers that they should return to Rome and Roman ways.
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Title: The Name of the Game
Character: Philip Armistead
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
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The Perils of Pauline
Title: The Perils of Pauline
Character: Caspar Coleman
Released: August 2, 1967
Type: Movie
Pauline becomes involved in a series of adventures around the world and is aided by her ever present friend, George.
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Title: Batman
Character: Chief Screaming Chicken
Released: January 12, 1966
Type: TV
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.
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Title: F Troop
Released: September 14, 1965
Type: TV
F Troop is a satirical American television sitcom that originally aired for two seasons on ABC-TV. It debuted in the United States on September 14, 1965 and concluded its run on April 6, 1967 with a total of 65 episodes. The first season of 34 episodes was filmed in black-and-white, but the show switched to color for its second season.
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Sex and the Single Girl
Title: Sex and the Single Girl
Character: The Chief
Released: December 25, 1964
Type: Movie
A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.
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Title: The Cara Williams Show
Released: September 23, 1964
Type: TV
The Cara Williams Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 18,1964 to April 15, 1965. The series centers on a married couple who has to keep their relationship secret because the company for which they work prohibit staff couples.
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The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
Title: The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
Character: Narrator
Released: June 1, 1964
Type: Movie
An animated version of the story about an emperor who tried to change all the round objects in his kingdom into oblong ones
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One Got Fat
Title: One Got Fat
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: December 1, 1963
Type: Movie
This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and recklessly.
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Title: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Character: Mr. Dinckler
Released: November 7, 1963
Type: Movie
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Grover Leander Smith
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Wilbur Starlington
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Title: The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
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Title: Saints and Sinners
Character: Mr. Hollister
Released: September 17, 1962
Type: TV
Saints and Sinners is an American drama series that aired on NBC during the 1962-63 television season. The program stars Nick Adams as newspaper reporter Nick Alexander. Saints and Sinners was created by Adrian Spies, who worked as a journalist before becoming a screenwriter.
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Pocketful of Miracles
Title: Pocketful of Miracles
Character: Hudgins
Released: December 18, 1961
Type: Movie
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
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Title: The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: TV
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
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The Wonderful World of Trains
Title: The Wonderful World of Trains
Character: Professor Hotbox
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A promotional film made by the Lionel Train company to display the various toy trains available and featuring the Suzari Puppets.
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Title: The Bullwinkle Show
Character: Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator (voice)
Released: November 19, 1959
Type: TV
A variety show, with the main feature being the serialized adventures of the two title characters, the anthropomorphic moose Bullwinkle and flying squirrel Rocky. The main adversaries in most of their adventures are the Russian-like spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. Supporting segments include Dudley Do-Right, Peabody's Improbable History, and Fractured Fairy Tales, among others.
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Title: Fractured Fairy Tales
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 19, 1959
Type: TV
With a zany ensemble cast of princesses, fairy godmothers, evil queens and trolls, Fractured Fairy Tales presents your favorite childhood stories with a silly modern twist.
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Title: Dennis the Menace
Character: Uncle Ned Matthews
Released: October 4, 1959
Type: TV
This 1959-1963 television situation comedy series follows the lives of the Mitchell family, Henry, Alice, and their only child Dennis, an energetic, trouble-prone, mischievous, but well-meaning boy, who often tangles with his peace-and-quiet-loving neighbor George Wilson, a retired salesman, or, later, with George's brother John, a writer. Dennis is basically a good, well-intentioned boy who always tries to help people, but who winds up making situations worse – often at Mr. Wilson's expense.
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The Story of Mankind
Title: The Story of Mankind
Character: Sir Walter Raleigh
Released: November 8, 1957
Type: Movie
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
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Title: The Lux Show
Character: Self
Released: September 26, 1957
Type: TV
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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Title: Matinee Theater
Released: October 31, 1955
Type: TV
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.
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Title: December Bride
Released: October 4, 1954
Type: TV
December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953.
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Title: The George Gobel Show
Character: Self
Released: October 2, 1954
Type: TV
The George Gobel Show is an American television series hosted George Gobel that aired on NBC from 1954 to 1960.
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Title: Max Liebman Presents
Released: September 12, 1954
Type: TV
Max Liebman Presents, is an American television anthology series. A total of 28 episodes aired from 9/12/1954 to 6/9/1956 on the National Broadcasting Company.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Mr. Parkinson
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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Title: I Love Lucy
Character: Mr. Ritter
Released: October 15, 1951
Type: TV
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
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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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Title: The Philco Television Playhouse
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: TV
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self - Guest Host
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Her Husband's Affairs
Title: Her Husband's Affairs
Character: J.B. Cruikshank
Released: November 12, 1947
Type: Movie
Bill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret's approval of his work, instead he gets constructive (and on-target) feedback, which he hates. Things get really strange when Bill creates advertising for a wacky inventor's embalming fluid.
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Down to Earth
Title: Down to Earth
Character: Messenger 7013
Released: August 21, 1947
Type: Movie
Upset about a new Broadway musical's mockery of Greek mythology, the goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth and lands a part in the show. She works her charms on the show's producer and he incorporates her changes into the show. Unfortunately, her changes also produce a major flop.
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The Ghost Goes Wild
Title: The Ghost Goes Wild
Character: Eric
Released: August 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a genuine ghost during a seance. Things come to a head during his trial, where the invisible ghost takes the witness stand on Our Hero's behalf.
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Earl Carroll Sketchbook
Title: Earl Carroll Sketchbook
Character: Dr. Milo Edwards
Released: August 22, 1946
Type: Movie
An aspiring singer and her lover, a songwriter who has desperately resorted to writing radio jingles, have many conflicts on their road to success...
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Faithful in My Fashion
Title: Faithful in My Fashion
Character: Hiram Dilworthy
Released: August 21, 1946
Type: Movie
A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge promotion where they used to work together - and has become engaged to another man.
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Cinderella Jones
Title: Cinderella Jones
Character: Keating
Released: March 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
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Lady on a Train
Title: Lady on a Train
Character: Mr. Haskell
Released: August 3, 1945
Type: Movie
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
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Steppin' in Society
Title: Steppin' in Society
Character: Judge Avery Webster
Released: July 9, 1945
Type: Movie
In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly esteemed racketeer.
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The Town Went Wild
Title: The Town Went Wild
Character: Everett Conway
Released: December 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother.
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Brazil
Title: Brazil
Character: Everett St. John Everett
Released: November 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of US films made by Brazilian singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typical screwball-comedy fashion, the plot is set in motion by authoress Nicky Henderson, who has hit the best-seller charts with her latest tome, Why Marry a Latin? While researching her next book in Rio De Janeiro, she finds out "why" when she meets handsome songwriter Miguel Soares. Upon learning about Nicky's book, Miguel decides to teach her a few lessons in the affairs of the heart. Edward Everett Horton is also on hand, twittering his way through the role of a well-meaning buttinsky. Thanks to the "Good Neighbor" policy of the 1940s, South American musicals were a glut on the market, but Brazil was good enough on its own merits to pay its way at the box office.
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San Diego I Love You
Title: San Diego I Love You
Character: Philip McCooley
Released: September 29, 1944
Type: Movie
A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
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Arsenic and Old Lace
Title: Arsenic and Old Lace
Character: Mr. Witherspoon
Released: September 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
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Summer Storm
Title: Summer Storm
Character: Count "Piggy" Volsky
Released: July 14, 1944
Type: Movie
It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results.
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Her Primitive Man
Title: Her Primitive Man
Character: Orrin
Released: May 29, 1944
Type: Movie
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
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The Gang's All Here
Title: The Gang's All Here
Character: Peyton Potter
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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Thank Your Lucky Stars
Title: Thank Your Lucky Stars
Character: Farnsworth
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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Forever and a Day
Title: Forever and a Day
Character: Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
Released: January 21, 1943
Type: Movie
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
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Springtime in the Rockies
Title: Springtime in the Rockies
Character: McTavish
Released: November 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.
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I Married an Angel
Title: I Married an Angel
Character: Peter
Released: July 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A playboy drops his many girlfriends when he falls in love with a grounded angel.
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The Magnificent Dope
Title: The Magnificent Dope
Character: Horace Hunter
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
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Weekend for Three
Title: Weekend for Three
Character: Fred Stonebraker
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet Jim turns genuinely dismayed once Randy arrives and turns out to be an insufferable, boorish braggart with bad manners and little self-awareness. That dismay turns to outright annoyance when Jim realizes Randy thinks he has come to stay for the weekend. How much damage to a marriage can one unwanted guest do in the space of one weekend?
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The Body Disappears
Title: The Body Disappears
Character: Professor Shotesbury
Released: November 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible by eccentric college professor Reginald Shotesbury. An unbelievable series of events is revealed by several witnesses testifying in a "mystery trial" to determine the reason for DeHaven's "disappearance".
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Title: Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Character: Messenger 7013
Released: August 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
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Bachelor Daddy
Title: Bachelor Daddy
Character: Joseph Smith
Released: June 4, 1941
Type: Movie
The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.
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Sunny
Title: Sunny
Character: Henry Bates
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Sunny is a 1941 film American film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sunny. It stars Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Edward Everett Horton, Grace Hartman, Paul Hartman, Frieda Inescort, and Helen Westley.
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Ziegfeld Girl
Title: Ziegfeld Girl
Character: Noble Sage
Released: April 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
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You're the One
Title: You're the One
Released: February 19, 1941
Type: Movie
100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character.
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That's Right - You're Wrong
Title: That's Right - You're Wrong
Character: Tom Village
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.
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The Gang's All Here
Title: The Gang's All Here
Character: Treadwell
Released: March 4, 1939
Type: Movie
John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company. Aided by his butler, his Cockney assistant and his (initially) unwilling wife, Forrest sets out on the trail of the thieves.
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Paris Honeymoon
Title: Paris Honeymoon
Character: Ernest Figg
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A Texas millionaire travels to Europe to meet his girlfriend, a European countess. He stops in a rustic mountain village and meets a beautiful peasant girl. He falls in love with her, then must decide if he wants her or the rich countess.
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Little Tough Guys in Society
Title: Little Tough Guys in Society
Character: Oliver
Released: November 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A society matron invites the gang to her estate as playmates for her spoiled brat son.
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Holiday
Title: Holiday
Character: Nick Potter
Released: May 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!
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College Swing
Title: College Swing
Character: Hubert Dash
Released: April 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Gracie Alden tries to graduate from college to get an inheritance.
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Title: Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Character: Marquis De Loiselle
Released: March 25, 1938
Type: Movie
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him.
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Hitting a New High
Title: Hitting a New High
Character: Lucius B. Blynn
Released: December 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.
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The Great Garrick
Title: The Great Garrick
Character: Tubby
Released: October 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.
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Angel
Title: Angel
Character: Graham
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.
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The Perfect Specimen
Title: The Perfect Specimen
Character: Mr. Grattan
Released: October 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wishes until a chance encounter with Mona Carter leads him into the outside world.
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Danger – Love at Work
Title: Danger – Love at Work
Character: Howard Rogers
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
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Wild Money
Title: Wild Money
Character: P.E. Dodd
Released: July 9, 1937
Type: Movie
A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping conspiracy. He quickly phones the paper and they order him to follow up on the story and stay off the phone so the reporter (whom he secretly has a crush on) can use it.
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Shall We Dance
Title: Shall We Dance
Character: Jeffrey Baird
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
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Oh, Doctor
Title: Oh, Doctor
Character: Edward J. Billop
Released: March 31, 1937
Type: Movie
A hypochondriac is afraid he will die before he gets an inheritance that will "cure" him.
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The King and the Chorus Girl
Title: The King and the Chorus Girl
Character: Count Humbert Evel Bruger
Released: March 27, 1937
Type: Movie
A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl.
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Lost Horizon
Title: Lost Horizon
Character: Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
Released: March 3, 1937
Type: Movie
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
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The Man in the Mirror
Title: The Man in the Mirror
Character: Jeremy Dilke
Released: October 15, 1936
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he always wanted to but never could.
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Let's Make a Million
Title: Let's Make a Million
Character: Harrison Gentry
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.
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Hearts Divided
Title: Hearts Divided
Character: John
Released: June 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
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Nobody's Fool
Title: Nobody's Fool
Character: Will Wright
Released: June 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A naive country boy goes to New York City, where he gets mixed up with real estate swindlers.
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The Singing Kid
Title: The Singing Kid
Character: Davenport Rogers
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
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Her Master's Voice
Title: Her Master's Voice
Character: Ned Farrar
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Besieged by his adoring female fans, radio celebrity Ned "The Fireside Troubadour" Farrar hides out at the home of his wife Queena's imperious Aunt Min. Pretending to be Aunt Min's handyman, he performs his tasks so well that she refuses to let him leave.
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Your Uncle Dudley
Title: Your Uncle Dudley
Character: Dudley Dixon
Released: December 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A paint store owner turns his attention to civic affairs while his business falls apart.
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Things You Never See on the Screen
Title: Things You Never See on the Screen
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
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His Night Out
Title: His Night Out
Character: Homer B. Bitts
Released: October 1, 1935
Type: Movie
When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by the gang.
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Little Big Shot
Title: Little Big Shot
Character: Mortimer Thompson
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
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Top Hat
Title: Top Hat
Character: Horace Hardwick
Released: August 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
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The Private Secretary
Title: The Private Secretary
Character: Rev. Robert Spalding
Released: August 26, 1935
Type: Movie
A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.
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Going Highbrow
Title: Going Highbrow
Character: Augie Winterspoon
Released: July 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.
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In Caliente
Title: In Caliente
Character: Harold Brandon
Released: May 25, 1935
Type: Movie
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
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$10 Raise
Title: $10 Raise
Character: Hubert T. Wilkins
Released: May 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A timid, overworked and underpaid bookkeeper needs a $10 raise to marry his sweetheart...
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The Devil Is a Woman
Title: The Devil Is a Woman
Character: Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
Released: May 3, 1935
Type: Movie
In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted
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All the King's Horses
Title: All the King's Horses
Character: Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A Hollywood actor visits a mythical country where he looks like the king and confuses the queen.
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The Night Is Young
Title: The Night Is Young
Character: Baron Szereny
Released: January 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
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Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Title: Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Character: Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
Released: January 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeking to convince her to write her biography as a feature for his magazine. One of Marion's old beaus, now running for U.S. Senator from their home state, also comes calling.
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The Merry Widow
Title: The Merry Widow
Character: Ambassador Popoff
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
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The Gay Divorcee
Title: The Gay Divorcee
Character: Egbert Fitzgerald
Released: October 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.
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Ladies Should Listen
Title: Ladies Should Listen
Character: Paul Vernet
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the man's current girlfriend is actually part of a scheme to swindle him out of some mineral rights he owns, she devises a plot to save him and expose the con artists.
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Kiss and Make-Up
Title: Kiss and Make-Up
Character: Marcel Caron
Released: July 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the effects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, and wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher... after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.
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Smarty
Title: Smarty
Character: Vernon
Released: May 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attorney Vernon Thorpe secures a divorce for her, and Vicki and Vernon are soon married. Vicki's yen for wearing revealing clothes and a penchant for inviting ex-husband to dinner soon provokes the easily-provoked Vernon into belting one on her himself. She goes to Tony's apartment, where Tony is entertaining Bonnie, who is not all that entertained by the presence of Vicki, especially after Vicki shows every intent of moving in and staying.
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Sing and Like it
Title: Sing and Like it
Character: Adam Frink - Producer
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue
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Success at Any Price
Title: Success at Any Price
Character: Harry Fisher
Released: March 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market crashes.
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The Poor Rich
Title: The Poor Rich
Character: Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
Released: February 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced to move into the dilapidated house. When Albert receives a letter from old acquaintances Lord and Lady Fetherstone advising the Spottiswoods of their impending visit to the manor, the cousins are at wit's end as to how to exercise non-existent skills required to make the old house acceptable for guest reception.
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Easy to Love
Title: Easy to Love
Character: Eric
Released: January 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.
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Design for Living
Title: Design for Living
Character: Max Plunkett
Released: December 29, 1933
Type: Movie
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
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Alice in Wonderland
Title: Alice in Wonderland
Character: Mad Hatter
Released: December 18, 1933
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
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The Way to Love
Title: The Way to Love
Character: Professor Gaston Bibi
Released: October 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets Madeleine, who works at a circus.
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It's a Boy
Title: It's a Boy
Character: Dudley Leake
Released: June 6, 1933
Type: Movie
"It's a Boy" stars Horton as Dudley Leake, who is betrothed to Mary Bogle (the very pretty Wendy Barrie). Shortly before the wedding, Dudley blurts a confession to his friend and best man, Jim Skippett: 20 years ago, Dudley had a brief affair with a certain Miss Piper, but he's never heard from her since then. Next day, who should suddenly appear? A youth about 19 or 20 years old, claiming to be named Joe Piper. Is he Horton's son, or is Skippett playing a practical joke?
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A Bedtime Story
Title: A Bedtime Story
Character: Victor Dubois
Released: April 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.
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Soldiers of the King
Title: Soldiers of the King
Character: Sebastian Marvello
Released: March 13, 1933
Type: Movie
When Cicely Courtneidge's mother (also played by Miss Courtneidge, albeit in heavy makeup), retires, Cicely succeeds as Queen of the Marvellos, a family of music-hall performers. However, when young Dorothy Hyson begins an affair with a young soldier, Miss Courtneidge is trapped between her responsibilities and memories of her affair years ago with another young soldier.
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Trouble in Paradise
Title: Trouble in Paradise
Character: François Filiba
Released: October 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
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Roar of the Dragon
Title: Roar of the Dragon
Character: Busby
Released: July 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain Carson, who becomes involved with a woman who "belongs" to Voronsky. Carson must contend with the bandits outside and the conflicting personalities of those trapped inside the inn, as well as dealing with spies among the inn's personnel.
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But the Flesh Is Weak
Title: But the Flesh Is Weak
Character: Sir George Kelvin
Released: April 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A poor-but-charming father and son try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.
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The Great Junction Hotel
Title: The Great Junction Hotel
Character: The Groom
Released: October 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A Masquers' Club spoof short. Newly-weds spend their wedding night in a run-down hotel, watched over by an under-employed house detective. When the bride goes missing, the groom (Horton) is chief suspect number one. Fortunately, the cops are completely incompetent.
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The Age for Love
Title: The Age for Love
Character: Horace Keats
Released: October 17, 1931
Type: Movie
A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and marries a woman who does.
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Smart Woman
Title: Smart Woman
Character: Billy Ross
Released: September 12, 1931
Type: Movie
A society man's loving, devoted wife, upon learning that he has been unfaithful and is planning to leave her for the other woman, strategically pretends to be having an affair of her own. The woman's friends gladly assist in the deception.
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Six Cylinder Love
Title: Six Cylinder Love
Character: Monty Winston
Released: May 10, 1931
Type: Movie
Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for rides.
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The Front Page
Title: The Front Page
Character: Bensinger
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.
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Lonely Wives
Title: Lonely Wives
Character: Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
Released: February 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line. When an actor-impersonator comes to see him, the two switch lives.
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Kiss Me Again
Title: Kiss Me Again
Character: Rene
Released: January 7, 1931
Type: Movie
An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that marriage would be a mistake. The officer goes off to war and she becomes an opera star.
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Reaching for the Moon
Title: Reaching for the Moon
Character: Roger, the Valet
Released: December 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic. He then loses his fortune in the market crash and feels he has also lost his girl.
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Once a Gentleman
Title: Once a Gentleman
Character: Oliver
Released: September 1, 1930
Type: Movie
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Holiday
Title: Holiday
Character: Nick Potter
Released: July 3, 1930
Type: Movie
A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.
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Wide Open
Title: Wide Open
Character: Simon Haldane
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.
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Take the Heir
Title: Take the Heir
Released: January 15, 1930
Type: Movie
A butler impersonates his tippler boss and falls for a beautiful young maid. However, a notorious gold-digger, who thinks the butler is the wealthy young man he's impersonating, sets her sights on him.
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The Aviator
Title: The Aviator
Character: Robert Street
Released: December 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Misadventures of a bogus flyer.
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The Sap
Title: The Sap
Character: The Sap, Bill Small
Released: November 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A small town dimwit takes the blame for his brother-in-law's crime.
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Sonny Boy
Title: Sonny Boy
Character: Crandall Thorpe
Released: April 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Sonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into kidnapping him because she is terrified that her husband will take the boy out of the country after the divorce.
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Ask Dad
Title: Ask Dad
Character: Dad
Released: February 16, 1929
Type: Movie
Tommy, home from school, is infatuated with his father's secretary, so he goes to their office to try to tell her.After quoting much poetry, he finds she loves another, causing more quotes.
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Vacation Waves
Title: Vacation Waves
Character: Eddie Davis
Released: September 15, 1928
Type: Movie
Eddie and his wife rent a boat and plan a relaxing weekend fishing. Unfortunately, her mother and bratty kid brother show up and insist on coming along, sending relaxation right to the bottom of the ocean.
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The Terror
Title: The Terror
Character: Ferdinand Fane
Released: September 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".
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Horse Shy
Title: Horse Shy
Character: Eddie Hamilton
Released: May 19, 1928
Type: Movie
Despite his fear of horses, Eddie Hamilton takes part in a fox hunt, in order to impress the daughter of his host, Colonel Calhoun.
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Behind the Counter
Title: Behind the Counter
Character: Eddie Baxter
Released: March 3, 1928
Type: Movie
Eddie, a prim store salesman, gets locked in overnight and battles hoodlums.
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Dad's Choice
Title: Dad's Choice
Character: Eddie
Released: January 7, 1928
Type: Movie
Eddie wants to marry a girl, but her father is strongly opposed to it. For her sake, she convinces him to at least meet Eddie.
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Call Again
Title: Call Again
Character: Eddie
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Edward Everett Horton is scheduled to go on a date with Duane Thompson. She, being only 25, is a schoolgirl at Aileen Manning's girl's school. Horton becomes trapped in the school, trying to avoid headmistress and cops.
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Scrambled Weddings
Title: Scrambled Weddings
Character: Eddie Howe
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Edward Everett Horton and Ruth Dwyer are in love and expect to get married as soon as one of them mentions it to the other. In the meantime, Lolita Lee accepts Horton's proposal, which he doesn't recall making, and Miss Dwyer is invited to be a bridesmaid. So he tells Miss Dwyer that it's Stanley Taylor she's marrying, and hopes no one spills the beans before Taylor shows up in a false beard to spike the proceedings.
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Find the King
Title: Find the King
Character: Edward Fairchild
Released: November 5, 1927
Type: Movie
In this two-reel comedy, Edward Everett Horton is the pampered scion of a family, raised by a couple of prissy aunts. He does card tricks. Through various machinations, he winds up running a saloon out west, where he charms one of the two tough guys in town by taking away his tie and fixing a bow tie to him; the other, Jack Curtis, he bests at poker "for keeps!" and wins the heart of local good girl Violet Bird.
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No Publicity
Title: No Publicity
Character: Eddie Howard
Released: August 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Cameraman Eddie is sent to photograph a socialite at a private lecture on morals. The young woman's guardian will have none of it however, and Eddie resorts to a number of deceptions in order to get a picture.
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The Whole Town's Talking
Title: The Whole Town's Talking
Character: Chester Binney
Released: December 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Chester Binney, a wounded war veteran, erroneously believes he is carrying a silver plate in his head and must avoid all excitement. He returns to his hometown, and there his former employer, George Simmons, attempts to arrange a match between Chester (who is to inherit a fortune) and his daughter Ethel. Ethel, however, finds Chester unexciting as a lover; and to enliven the affair, the father invents a lurid past for the boy by displaying a signed photograph of Rita Renault, a famous movie star. Rita, accompanied by her jealous husband, Jack Shields, arrives in the town for a personal appearance. By chance, Jack discovers the photograph of Rita, presumably the property of Chester, and when he sees his wife kissing Chester, a running fight ensues.
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Poker Faces
Title: Poker Faces
Character: Jimmy Whitmore
Released: September 5, 1926
Type: Movie
In order to secure a lucrative contract, a businessman hires a woman to pose as his wife at a business dinner when his own wife can't make it. Unfortunately, the woman he hires is the wife of an insanely jealous prizefighter.
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La Bohème
Title: La Bohème
Character: Benoit - Janitor
Released: March 13, 1926
Type: Movie
It is 1830 in Paris and the rent is due, but the money is not there. An article here, a painting there and a monkey with a cup gives them enough money for the rent, but not for food. Fortunately, Musette from downstairs has enough food for everyone including Mimi - the poor little waif from next door who Rodolphe has met. But Count Paul also has his lusting eye on Mimi and uses her embroidery to get close to her. Rodolphe and Mimi fall in love and Mimi works endlessly to support Rodolphe who is writing his play with a new found passion. He does not know that he has been discharged from writing for 'Dog and Cat Fanciers'. Mimi wants to get his play produced and Count Paul offers to help, but there is a terrible fight when Rodolphe thinks that Mimi is faithless to him with Count Paul. After the fight, he seeks out a doctor as she is sick, but she has left when Rodolphe returns and will stay away until his play is finished.
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Beggar on Horseback
Title: Beggar on Horseback
Character: Neil McRae
Released: June 5, 1925
Type: Movie
Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the courage to seek love over comfort?
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Helen's Babies
Title: Helen's Babies
Character: Uncle Harry
Released: October 11, 1924
Type: Movie
A young man, who has vowed never to marry and doesn't particularly like children, is left in charge of his two very young nieces. At first they drive him to distraction, but then he begins to warm to them, and also to a beautiful young local girl.
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To the Ladies
Title: To the Ladies
Character: Leonard Beebe
Released: October 6, 1924
Type: Movie
Three clerks for the Kincaid Piano Company -- Leonard Beebe, Chester Mullin, and Tom Baker are in competition for a promotion to factory manager.
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The Man Who Fights Alone
Title: The Man Who Fights Alone
Character: Bob Alten
Released: September 15, 1924
Type: Movie
John Marble, a construction engineer is stricken by paralysis and begins to envision the growth of love between his wife Marion and his best friend, Bob Alten. Bent on suicide, however, the shock of seeing his wife and child endangered on a broken bridge shakes him to recover from his illness and discover that his suspicions were all imaginary.
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Flapper Wives
Title: Flapper Wives
Released: February 23, 1924
Type: Movie
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Title: Ruggles of Red Gap
Character: Ruggles
Released: October 7, 1923
Type: Movie
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.