Tom Dugan

Tom Dugan

Born: January 1, 1889
Died: March 7, 1955
in Dublin, Ireland
Tom Dugan was born on January 1, 1889 in Dublin, Ireland as Thomas J. Dugan. He was an actor, known for To Be or Not to Be (1942), Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) and Good News (1947). He was married to Marie Raymond and Marie Engle. He died on March 7, 1955 in Redlands, California.

Movies for Tom Dugan...

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 6, 1975
Type: Movie
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Crashout
Title: Crashout
Character: Ed
Released: March 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison, then set out on a long, dangerous journey by foot, car, train and truck to retrieve Duff's bank loot. En route, as they touch the lives of "regular folks," each has his own rendezvous with destiny.
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The Belle of New York
Title: The Belle of New York
Character: With Wedding Gift of Stolen Silver (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1952
Type: Movie
In squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air. The object of his affections is beautiful Angela Bonfils, a mission house worker in the Bowery. He promises to reform his dissolute life, even trying to do an honest day's work.
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Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
Title: Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
Character: Barney (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1951
Type: Movie
The story of three gold-digging ladies searching for millionaires. A loose remake of Gold Diggers of 1933.
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You Never Can Tell
Title: You Never Can Tell
Character: Bus Driver (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1951
Type: Movie
Ex-police/army dog King inherits a fortune from an eccentric millionaire. But someone poisons him for his fortune. He gets to go back to earth as a human detective to bring his killer to justice and protect the girl who used to look after him.
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Father Takes the Air
Title: Father Takes the Air
Character: Benny
Released: June 17, 1951
Type: Movie
In the fifth and final movie in Monogram's "Father" series, Henry Latham and Mayor Colton dream of reliving their WWI flying careers, leading to an increasingly antagonistic competition.
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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
Title: Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
Released: May 18, 1951
Type: Movie
A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.
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The Lemon Drop Kid
Title: The Lemon Drop Kid
Character: No Thumbs Charlie
Released: April 2, 1951
Type: Movie
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.
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On the Town
Title: On the Town
Character: Officer Tracy (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
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It's a Great Feeling
Title: It's a Great Feeling
Character: Wrestling Fan in Bar (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Title: Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Character: Slappy Burke
Released: March 9, 1949
Type: Movie
The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team. But K.C. turns outs to be a beautiful woman who really knows her baseball. Second baseman Dennis Ryan promptly falls in love. But his playboy roommate Eddie O'Brien has his own notions about how to treat the new lady owner and some unsavory gamblers have their own ideas about how to handle Eddie.
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Alias Nick Beal
Title: Alias Nick Beal
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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One Sunday Afternoon
Title: One Sunday Afternoon
Character: Sign Painter
Released: December 25, 1948
Type: Movie
The third film version of James Hagan's play, this time with songs added, starring Dennis Morgan as a dentist who marries patient and loyal Dorothy Malone despite his constant infatuation with sexy flirt Janis Paige. Filmed previously in 1933 ("One Sunday Afternoon") and 1941 ("The Strawberry Blonde").
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I Surrender Dear
Title: I Surrender Dear
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1948
Type: Movie
Patty Nelson lands a job as a singer with orchestra leader Al Tyler, and tours with the band as "Patty Hart." Patty's father Russ is dismissed from his radio-station job, and the disc jockey selected to replace him is Al Tyler. Patty rushes home to keep Russ company on the air for the final few days, and Al wonders why she suddenly walked out on him. The new "Patty and Russ" radio show catches on, causing complications with Al and the radio-station bosses.
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Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Title: Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1948
Type: Movie
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.
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Half Past Midnight
Title: Half Past Midnight
Character: Bus Tour Guide Barker
Released: March 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the woman becomes the main suspect. She and the gumshoe team up and begin searching for the real killer.
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Always Together
Title: Always Together
Character: Herman Gimmick, Second Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1947
Type: Movie
An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors.
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Good News
Title: Good News
Character: Pooch
Released: December 4, 1947
Type: Movie
At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.
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Song of the Thin Man
Title: Song of the Thin Man
Character: Policeman Davis (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1947
Type: Movie
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
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The Perils of Pauline
Title: The Perils of Pauline
Character: Balloonist (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take
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The Fabulous Dorseys
Title: The Fabulous Dorseys
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1947
Type: Movie
The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey from their boyhood in Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion.
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The Pilgrim Lady
Title: The Pilgrim Lady
Character: Workman
Released: January 22, 1947
Type: Movie
Dennis Carter, the head of a detective agency, and his secretary, Henrietta Rankin, get involved in the murder of a scandal-peddling, blackmailing radio commentator, and evidence point toward Henrietta. Dennis sets out to clear her and also find the real culprits.
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The Best Years of Our Lives
Title: The Best Years of Our Lives
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
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Accomplice
Title: Accomplice
Character: Eddie Slocum
Released: September 29, 1946
Type: Movie
A private detective and his assistant are hired to find a missing husband. The seemingly easy case is complicated by a dead body.
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The Last Crooked Mile
Title: The Last Crooked Mile
Character: Novelty Counter Clerk
Released: August 9, 1946
Type: Movie
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
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It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
Title: It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A pretty blonde with a Doberman pinscher walks into a bar on April Fool's Day and asks for a bag of bones. Thus begins a merry chase in which a newspaper reporter, a drunken policeman and a hand-painted necktie help locate the missing witness in a criminal investigation.
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Johnny Comes Flying Home
Title: Johnny Comes Flying Home
Character: Watchman (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Three World War II fliers face financial obstacles threatening to ground their fledgling air-freight business.
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The Hoodlum Saint
Title: The Hoodlum Saint
Character: Buggsy
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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The Shadow Returns
Title: The Shadow Returns
Character: Shrevvy
Released: February 16, 1946
Type: Movie
The Shadow (Kane Richmond) cracks a case of missing jewels, murder and plastics.
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Her Highness and the Bellboy
Title: Her Highness and the Bellboy
Character: Waiter at Jake's Joint (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1945
Type: Movie
In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls in love with him. On a trip to New York, she hopes to find him again. While staying at one of the city's finest hotels she meets a kind-hearted bellhop who mistakes her for a maid. She invites him to be her escort, not realizing that he believes he has fallen in love with her. Every nice thing the princess does encourages him to believe that she feels the same way he does.
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Tell It to a Star
Title: Tell It to a Star
Character: Ed Smith
Released: August 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Carol (Ruth Terry), the cigarette girl at a swank Palm Springs hotel, dreams of singing in the establishment's nightclub. She gets a chance when her well-to-do uncle, "Colonel" Morgan (Alan Mowbray), and a pal blow into town ... until their visit turns out to be a con job. Carol's voice impresses the bandleader (Robert Livingston), but the hotel manager (Franklin Pangborn), still smarting from Morgan's chicanery, isn't ready to give her a chance.
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Lady on a Train
Title: Lady on a Train
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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Trail of Kit Carson
Title: Trail of Kit Carson
Character: Bartender Bart Hammond
Released: July 11, 1945
Type: Movie
Bill Harmon receives a letter from his partner, Dave MacRoy informing him of a rich gold strike in their California mine. Arriving there, Bill learns from elderly miner John Benton that Dave is dead and that he sold the mine at a strangely low price the night before his supposed accidental death. Harmon suspects murder.
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Earl Carroll Vanities
Title: Earl Carroll Vanities
Character: Waiter in Tex's Club
Released: April 5, 1945
Type: Movie
Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual "Vanities" provided story material for three Hollywood films: Murder at the Vanities (34), A Night at Earl Carroll's (40) and Earl Carroll Vanities (45). This last film was produced by Republic Pictures, a bread-and-butter studio specializing in Westerns and serials; Republic had made musicals before, but few of them were expensive enough to allow for lavish production numbers. Earl Carroll Vanities is likewise rather threadbare, though some of the individual musical highlights aren't bad. The plot, such as it is, concerns financially strapped nightclub owner Eve Arden, who finagles Earl Carroll into staging one of his revues at her club.
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The Man Who Walked Alone
Title: The Man Who Walked Alone
Character: Desk Sergeant #2
Released: March 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.
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The Kid Sister
Title: The Kid Sister
Character: Michael, the policeman
Released: February 6, 1945
Type: Movie
A madcap comedy about a kid sister who tries to steal her older sister's boyfriend. Her plan involves joining forces with a burglar to rob the unfortunate suitor's home.
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Eadie Was a Lady
Title: Eadie Was a Lady
Character: Hannegan
Released: January 24, 1945
Type: Movie
In this amiable Columbia B musical, society girl Ann Miller escapes her Back Bay family by performing in the chorus line in a burlesque house. But trouble starts when her boss (William Wright) decides to build her up as a star. One of the many bread-and-butter Columbia productions graced by the contributions of Cole’s in-house dance studio. Cole dances behind Miller in “I’m Gonna See My Baby.” --Museum of Modern Art
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Greenwich Village
Title: Greenwich Village
Character: Bootlegger
Released: September 27, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
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In Society
Title: In Society
Character: Derby Dan (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1944
Type: Movie
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly
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Take It or Leave It
Title: Take It or Leave It
Released: July 17, 1944
Type: Movie
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
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Home in Indiana
Title: Home in Indiana
Character: Soft Drink Man (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1944
Type: Movie
'Sparke' Thorton, a lad with a penchant for trouble, is sent to live with his Uncle and Aunt Bolt in Indiana after his Aunt Henrietta Bolt dies. Though he's not happy about the arrangement at first, his love of horses and his affection for a young filly that he plans to race make life bearable. He also finds romance with tomboyish 'Char' Bruce who shares his love for horses.
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Gambler's Choice
Title: Gambler's Choice
Character: Benny
Released: April 27, 1944
Type: Movie
The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York...
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Moon Over Las Vegas
Title: Moon Over Las Vegas
Character: Herman
Released: April 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.
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Up in Arms
Title: Up in Arms
Character: Pitchman
Released: February 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
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Johnny Come Lately
Title: Johnny Come Lately
Character: Cop
Released: September 3, 1943
Type: Movie
Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilton a standout. Cagney himself, had genuine affection for this film, and listed it among his top five movie-making experiences at a retrospective the year before he died.
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Coney Island
Title: Coney Island
Character: Charlie Fitch
Released: June 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
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Bataan
Title: Bataan
Character: Sam Malloy
Released: June 3, 1943
Type: Movie
During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces and allow Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin to rebuild the bridge and advance, the group struggles with not only hunger, sickness and gunfire, but also the knowledge that there is likely no relief on the way.
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Title: The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Released: February 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
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The Meanest Man in the World
Title: The Meanest Man in the World
Character: Cop in Park (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice and tries to convince the world he's a ruthless heel. Suddenly he's the most popular lawyer in town -- but he could lose his fiancée.
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No Place for a Lady
Title: No Place for a Lady
Character: Officer Rawlins
Released: February 11, 1943
Type: Movie
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.
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City Without Men
Title: City Without Men
Character: Convict Pete (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.
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You Can't Escape Forever
Title: You Can't Escape Forever
Character: Prison Trusty (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1942
Type: Movie
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.
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The Major and the Minor
Title: The Major and the Minor
Character: Con Man (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Susan Applegate, tired of New York after one year and twenty-five jobs, decides to return to her home town in Iowa. Discovering she hasn't enough money for the train fare, Susan disguises herself as a twelve-year-old and travels for half the price. Caught out by the conductors, she hides in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor who takes the "child" under his wing.
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Orchestra Wives
Title: Orchestra Wives
Character: Bus Driver (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the band's tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.
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Meet the Stewarts
Title: Meet the Stewarts
Character: Moving Man
Released: May 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
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Grand Central Murder
Title: Grand Central Murder
Character: Eric 'Schnelly the Mooch' Schneller (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a slew of suspects for questioning. Mida's shady ex-flame, Turk, seems the most likely culprit, but when smart-mouthed private eye Rocky Custer -- also a suspect himself -- begins to piece together the crime, a few clues that Gunther has overlooked come to light.
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Star Spangled Rhythm
Title: Star Spangled Rhythm
Character: Adolf Hitler (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
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To Be or Not to Be
Title: To Be or Not to Be
Character: Bronski
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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The Bugle Sounds
Title: The Bugle Sounds
Character: Sgt. Strong
Released: January 30, 1942
Type: Movie
An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post.
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Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Title: Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Character: Lou Thomas
Released: November 18, 1941
Type: Movie
The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.
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Swing It Soldier
Title: Swing It Soldier
Character: Sergeant
Released: November 7, 1941
Type: Movie
In this musical comedy, a pregnant disc jockey misses her husband who is fighting overseas. Stressed out by the situation and her job, she decides to take some time off and convinces her twin sister to trade places with her. The switcheroo causes the soldier her husband appointed as her unofficial guardian no end of confusion.
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We Go Fast
Title: We Go Fast
Character: Jonathan Doremus Dimwitt
Released: September 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes that Mohr is actually a crook and goes back to flirting with her fast cop friends.
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A Dangerous Game
Title: A Dangerous Game
Character: Clem
Released: August 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at an isolated mentally-ill hospital, where the patients range from slightly daffy to criminally insane, and they don't know which is which. A gang is out to steal a fortune inherited by one of the patients and, before Dick and Andy solve the case, several patients are transferred to the cemetery. And 'tiddlie-winks" are indeed involved.
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The Richest Man in Town
Title: The Richest Man in Town
Character: Jack Leslie
Released: August 2, 1941
Type: Movie
The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He is reformed by the daughter of one.
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Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
Title: Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
Character: McGrath
Released: March 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen asks his son Ellery to help out.
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The Monster and the Girl
Title: The Monster and the Girl
Character: Captain Alton
Released: February 28, 1941
Type: Movie
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
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Where Did You Get That Girl?
Title: Where Did You Get That Girl?
Character: Murphy
Released: January 3, 1941
Type: Movie
In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording contract. The trouble is, the composer's works are never played without another band member doctoring them up to make them swingier. Fortunately, the composer isn't too averse to the changes as he has just won the heart of the beauty who sings his revamped songs.
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So You Won't Talk?
Title: So You Won't Talk?
Character: Dude Heath
Released: October 2, 1940
Type: Movie
A shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison.
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The Boys from Syracuse
Title: The Boys from Syracuse
Character: Octavius
Released: July 30, 1940
Type: Movie
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love
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Cross-Country Romance
Title: Cross-Country Romance
Character: Pete
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
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The Ghost Breakers
Title: The Ghost Breakers
Character: Raspy Kelly
Released: June 21, 1940
Type: Movie
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.
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Saturday's Children
Title: Saturday's Children
Character: Second Carpenter (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1940
Type: Movie
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
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Johnny Apollo
Title: Johnny Apollo
Character: Tom Dugan - Prisoner (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
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Half a Sinner
Title: Half a Sinner
Character: Red Egan
Released: April 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure. Her new confidence inspires her to flirt with complete strangers. When a gangster pays unwanted attention to her, she ditches him and flees in his car, unaware that there's a corpse in the trunk. Determined to recover his stolen vehicle and its incriminating cargo the thug begins a desperate search. The oblivious Anne, comes to the aid of a handsome young man stranded alongside the road. Romance blooms, but after the shocking discovery of a body in the trunk, the duo decide they have to return the car. The bickering lovebirds head back to the city, trailed by both the angry gangster and the cops, who suspect the young couple of murder.
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Too Many Husbands
Title: Too Many Husbands
Character: Sullivan
Released: April 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.
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Virginia City
Title: Virginia City
Character: Saloon Spieler (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
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Isle Of Destiny
Title: Isle Of Destiny
Character: Sgt. Reikker
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.
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The Fighting 69th
Title: The Fighting 69th
Character: Private McManus
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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Missing Evidence
Title: Missing Evidence
Character: 'Binky' Cullen
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty.
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The Night of Nights
Title: The Night of Nights
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
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Laugh It Off
Title: Laugh It Off
Character: Rod Bates
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Four former actresses decide to restart their careers by opening up a nightclub.
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The Housekeeper's Daughter
Title: The Housekeeper's Daughter
Character: Gangster
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
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$1,000 a Touchdown
Title: $1,000 a Touchdown
Character: Popcorn Vendor
Released: October 4, 1939
Type: Movie
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
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Million Dollar Legs
Title: Million Dollar Legs
Character: Horse Player Behind Freddie (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1939
Type: Movie
At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his girl Susie; he schemes to revive crew boat racing. Sinking boats, no money, and his own waistline stand in his way. Can they win the big race with State University?
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The House of Fear
Title: The House of Fear
Character: Mike
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
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Daughters Courageous
Title: Daughters Courageous
Character: Joe (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
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Love Affair
Title: Love Affair
Character: Drunk with Christmas Tree (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
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The Lady and the Mob
Title: The Lady and the Mob
Character: Brains Logan
Released: April 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
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You Can't Get Away with Murder
Title: You Can't Get Away with Murder
Character: 'Lock' Man - Inventor (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.
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Mystery of the White Room
Title: Mystery of the White Room
Character: Hank Manley
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Title: The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Character: Police Sgt. Devan
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
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They Made Me a Criminal
Title: They Made Me a Criminal
Character: Man Behind Grandma (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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There's That Woman Again
Title: There's That Woman Again
Character: Flannigan
Released: December 24, 1938
Type: Movie
Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill's prying wife wants to help catch the crook.
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Thanks for the Memory
Title: Thanks for the Memory
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
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Youth Takes a Fling
Title: Youth Takes a Fling
Character: Bum
Released: September 22, 1938
Type: Movie
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
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Sons of the Legion
Title: Sons of the Legion
Character: Post Commander
Released: September 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Sons of The Legion is a film about a group of young men looking to start a squadron in their Legion Post. However, because the boy's father wrongfully received a dishonorable discharge after World War I, his father cannot join the Legion and in turn his son cannot join the squadron [wikipedia]
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Sing, You Sinners
Title: Sing, You Sinners
Character: Race Track Fan
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Of the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in his garage and marry Martha; but feckless Joe thinks his only road to success is through swapping and gambling. It seems the only thing all three can join in is their singing act, which Mike and Dave hate. Finally, all Joe's hopes are pinned on a race horse he's acquired swapping, but it's a bigger gamble than his family knows.
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Four Daughters
Title: Four Daughters
Character: Jake
Released: August 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue.
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There's Always a Woman
Title: There's Always a Woman
Character: Detective Flannigan (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1938
Type: Movie
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.
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The Jury's Secret
Title: The Jury's Secret
Character: D.A.'s Aide
Released: January 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
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True Confession
Title: True Confession
Character: McDougall
Released: December 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.
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She Had to Eat
Title: She Had to Eat
Character: Rusty
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
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Pick a Star
Title: Pick a Star
Character: Dimitri Hogan
Released: May 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
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Nobody's Baby
Title: Nobody's Baby
Character: Bus Conductor
Released: April 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Kitty Reily (Patsy Kelly) and Lena Marchetti (Lyda Roberti) meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompetent Lena. They keep running into each other until Kitty resigns to being friends with Lena when they become hospital nurses and share a dorm room.
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Pennies from Heaven
Title: Pennies from Heaven
Character: Crowbar Miller
Released: November 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from following his dream and going to Venice and becoming a gondolier. Instead, he becomes a street singer and, while singing in the street, meets a pretty welfare worker, Susan Sprague. She takes a dim view of Patsy's welfare under the guardianship of Larry and her grandfather and starts proceedings to have Patsy placed in an orphanage.
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Mister Cinderella
Title: Mister Cinderella
Character: Spike Nolan
Released: October 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriweather for much longer.The comedy comes fast and frantic in Mister Cinderella, from Hal Roach Studios.
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San Francisco
Title: San Francisco
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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Boulder Dam
Title: Boulder Dam
Character: Dynamite Ralph - Dam Worker (uncredited)
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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Wife vs. Secretary
Title: Wife vs. Secretary
Character: Finney
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.
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The Calling of Dan Matthews
Title: The Calling of Dan Matthews
Character: Herman
Released: December 10, 1935
Type: Movie
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
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Rendezvous
Title: Rendezvous
Character: Agent Patrick O'Reilly (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
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3 Kids and a Queen
Title: 3 Kids and a Queen
Character: Bill
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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Case of the Missing Man
Title: Case of the Missing Man
Character: Jack Clark
Released: October 20, 1935
Type: Movie
After an argument with his newspaper's city editor, press-photographer Jimmy Hudson quits his job and takes up free-lancing as a street-photographer for a living. He stumbles across the robbing of a jewelry store and takes a picture of one of the robbers as he is leaving the scene-of-the-crime in which murder has also been committed. At the risk of his own life, over the protests of his sweetheart, he sets a trap to catch the crook.
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I Live My Life
Title: I Live My Life
Character: Lecture Hall Guard
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
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The Affair of Susan
Title: The Affair of Susan
Character: Jeff Barnes
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.
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Chinatown Squad
Title: Chinatown Squad
Character: Doorman
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
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Murder in the Fleet
Title: Murder in the Fleet
Character: 'Greasy' (Uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1935
Type: Movie
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.
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Poker at Eight
Title: Poker at Eight
Character: Tommy
Released: March 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Charley Chase movie where Charley wants to go out to have a poker night with the boys but much to his chagrin his wife won't let him.
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One New York Night
Title: One New York Night
Character: Selby
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, and with the aid of Phoebe, the hotel telephone operator who takes a liking to him, and also Countess Louise Browssiloff, who innocently had left some personal belongings in the murdered man's room and is most anxious to recover the incriminating evidence, Foxhall solves the murder mystery.
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The President Vanishes
Title: The President Vanishes
Character: Nolan
Released: November 17, 1934
Type: Movie
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
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Girl o' My Dreams
Title: Girl o' My Dreams
Character: Joe Smiley
Released: November 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A conceited college track star, used to being "big man on campus", gets a jolt when he loses an election to see who is the most popular man in the school.
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The Circus Clown
Title: The Circus Clown
Character: Mac (scenes deleted)
Released: June 30, 1934
Type: Movie
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
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Let's Talk It Over
Title: Let's Talk It Over
Character: Tough Man
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.
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No More Women
Title: No More Women
Character: Greasy
Released: March 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no place on earth is big enough for both of them at the same time, even the bottom of the ocean. All day long they fight to salvage sunken gold at forty fathoms deep in the ocean, and all night long they fight over dames. This situation continues even when they both go to work for Helen Young, the owner of a tug-boat and a salvage business.
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Love Detectives
Title: Love Detectives
Character: Detective Grant
Released: February 28, 1934
Type: Movie
Two young men compete for the affections of a beautiful blonde.
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A Woman's Man
Title: A Woman's Man
Character: Pete Miller - Trainer
Released: February 6, 1934
Type: Movie
A temperamental movie star storms off the set of her latest picture in order to carry on a fling with an ambitious, publicity-hungry prizefighter.
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Palooka
Title: Palooka
Character: Whitey
Released: January 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him.
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The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Title: The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Character: Trainer (as Tommy Dugan)
Released: October 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nonsense athlete who doesn't have time for such diversions as women.
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Skyway
Title: Skyway
Character: Tug
Released: August 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where her father is president.
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Don't Bet on Love
Title: Don't Bet on Love
Character: Scotty
Released: June 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber.
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Trick for Trick
Title: Trick for Trick
Character: Albert Young
Released: April 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A magician is accused of killing his female assistant.
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Pleasure Island
Title: Pleasure Island
Released: February 24, 1933
Type: Movie
A Warner Bros Vitaphone short that promoted "Girls...Songs....Laughs." No full print exists but the Library of Congress has acquired one musical sequence.
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Grand Slam
Title: Grand Slam
Character: Harry (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
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Too Many Highballs
Title: Too Many Highballs
Character: Claude - Harold's Brother-in-Law
Released: February 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Harold Hobbs doesn't much like that his lazy, sponging and unemployed brother-in-law Claude and his mother-in-law live with him and his wife, Hortense, especially as the in-laws seem to rule the roost ever since they moved in. To get his in-laws out of the house, Harold has regularly left a bottle of booze for Claude to be able to entertain prospective employers. When Harold learns that on all the other occasions the employers have not showed (he assumes there probably were no prospective employers) leaving Claude to consume the booze on his own, he decides to show Claude a lesson by spiking the bottle with castor oil. Complications ensue when Joe, Harold's friend, encourages him to skip work to attend the prize fight. What Joe doesn't tell Harold is that he tells his boss that Harold needs the day off to attend to the sudden death of his brother-in-law.
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Hot Pepper
Title: Hot Pepper
Character: One of Flagg's Men (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1933
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and begin fighting over her.
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Big City Blues
Title: Big City Blues
Character: Red, Taxi Driver
Released: September 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
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Blessed Event
Title: Blessed Event
Character: Dick Cooper
Released: September 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
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American Madness
Title: American Madness
Character: Depositor (uncredited)
Released: August 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
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Doctor X
Title: Doctor X
Character: Sheriff
Released: August 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
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By Whose Hand?
Title: By Whose Hand?
Character: Drunk
Released: July 6, 1932
Type: Movie
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It’s up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the motley group of passengers and find the killer before he strikes again in this tense and atmospheric whodunit.
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The Big Timer
Title: The Big Timer
Character: Catfish
Released: March 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.
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The Wide Open Spaces
Title: The Wide Open Spaces
Character: Townsman in Saloon
Released: December 28, 1931
Type: Movie
A Wild West spoof by The Masquers Comedy Club of Hollywood.
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The Galloping Ghost
Title: The Galloping Ghost
Character: Jerry
Released: September 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, whose thugs try to eliminate Grange from playing. Grange's buddy Buddy is himself vulnerable to blackmail, since he has broken team rules by marrying. The crooks use all their wiles to keep Grange and Buddy from leading their team to victory.
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The Star Witness
Title: The Star Witness
Character: Deputy Brown (uncredited)
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals.
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The Vanishing Legion
Title: The Vanishing Legion
Character: Oil Co. Director Warren
Released: June 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of her own to protect her rights.
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Woman Hungry
Title: Woman Hungry
Character: Same Beeman
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The story was filmed as a silent film by MGM as The Great Divide (1925) and as an early silent/sound hybrid by First National also called The Great Divide (1929). Judith Temple has come West to Arizona for some excitement. As she says goodbye to her brother and his wife, who are returning to the East, Dr. Neil Cranford, who is in love with her, is called away to tend the broken ribs of a man injured in a barroom brawl.
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The Hot Heiress
Title: The Hot Heiress
Character: Bill Dugan
Released: March 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much to the shock of her friends and family.
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The Phantom of the West
Title: The Phantom of the West
Character: Oscar
Released: November 10, 1930
Type: Movie
A young man's father is murdered and the man convicted of the crime escapes prison, leaving a note intimating that seven local men know the real killer's true identity. The murdered man's son sets out to locate the seven men and find his father's slayer in this ten episode serial.
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Bright Lights
Title: Bright Lights
Character: Tom Avery
Released: September 21, 1930
Type: Movie
In this light-hearted musical, an early color film, a successful actress tires of the bustle and hustle of her tawdry life and settles down to what she thinks is the blissful mundaneness of married life. Unfortunately, the actual drudgery of wifedom takes her by surprise and domestic turmoil ensues.
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Night Work
Title: Night Work
Character: Johnny Harris
Released: August 3, 1930
Type: Movie
Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's designated 'Fired Man."; when a disgruntled customer demands that somebody-must-be-fired, Willie is summoned and summarily fired, only to be rehired when the now-satisfied customer has departed. Willie inadvertently adopts a four-year-old orphan at a cost of ten-dollars a week, and things go from bad to worse since Willie doesn't make ten-dollars a week. But, with the help of Mary, a beautiful young nurse, Willie manages to turn some corners and improve his lot in life, albeit with some skids along the way.
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The Medicine Man
Title: The Medicine Man
Character: Charley
Released: June 14, 1930
Type: Movie
The son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help.
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She Who Gets Slapped
Title: She Who Gets Slapped
Character: Tommy Andrews - the Husband
Released: May 15, 1930
Type: Movie
A meek husband takes lessons on how to take control of his dominating wife.
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The Bad One
Title: The Bad One
Character: Sailor
Released: May 3, 1930
Type: Movie
In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sailor and agrees to be his bride. Unfortunately, one of her former suitors suddenly shows up and a terrible fight ensues.
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Surprise
Title: Surprise
Character: Oswald
Released: March 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Tom Dugan trying to go on a date behind his wife's back gets a surprise.
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They Learned About Women
Title: They Learned About Women
Character: Tim
Released: January 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Jack and Jerry are doing okay between profession baseball and Vaudeville. That is, until love and gold-diggers get in the way.
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Hearts in Exile
Title: Hearts in Exile
Character: Orderly
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries a baron. Time passes and the two men meet each other in Siberia where they have both been exiled. When the poorer man has the opportunity to come home, he changes places with the baron so that he can return to his wife. Unbeknownst to him, she has gone to the frozen wasteland to search for him.
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The Drake Case
Title: The Drake Case
Character: Bill / Burglar
Released: September 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Talkie about a maid who is accused of killing the lady of the house
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Drag
Title: Drag
Character: Charlie Parker
Released: July 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Young David Carroll takes over the publication of a local newspaper in Vermont. Although he is attracted to Dot, "the most sophisticated girl in town," he marries Allie Parker, daughter of the couple who run the boardinghouse where he lives. Allie remains at home when David goes to New York City to sell a musical he has written. There, Dot, now a successful costume designer, uses her influence to get David's play produced. David and Dot fall in love, but she leaves for Paris when David indicates he will remain true to Allie. He sends for Allie, but when she arrives with her whole family, he decides to follow Dot to Paris.
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Broadway Babies
Title: Broadway Babies
Character: Scotty
Released: June 30, 1929
Type: Movie
Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to star. Things run afoul when jealousy, misunderstandings and sleazy men enter the picture.
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Sonny Boy
Title: Sonny Boy
Character: Mulcahy (as Tommy Dugan)
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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Kid Gloves
Title: Kid Gloves
Character: Duffy
Released: March 23, 1929
Type: Movie
When a taxi carrying socialite Ruth Darrow drives into the middle of a gun battle between hijacker Kid Gloves and a trio of bootleggers, Ruth is injured. She is taken to a nearby apartment, and The Kid helps to care for her. John Stone, Ruth's fiance and a bootlegger with a respectable front, finds them together and blackmails The Kid into marrying the girl.
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The Million Dollar Collar
Title: The Million Dollar Collar
Character: Ed Mack (as Tommy Dugan)
Released: February 9, 1929
Type: Movie
Bill Holmes rescues Rinty from a car wreck not realizing that there is a stolen $50,000 diamond necklace hidden in the dog's collar.
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Shadows of the Night
Title: Shadows of the Night
Character: Connelly
Released: October 26, 1928
Type: Movie
Gray plays a reporter trying to unravel a murder involving organized crime. Lorraine plays the heroine.
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Melody of Love
Title: Melody of Love
Character: Lefty
Released: October 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Historically significant as Universal's first 100% all-talkie, the production suffered from having a tight shooting schedule. Carl Laemmle was only able to rent the Fox Movietone sound-on-film recording system for one week, having to be filmed at night while the Fox Studio was closed down for the evenings.
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The Barker
Title: The Barker
Character: Stuttering Spieler
Released: October 2, 1928
Type: Movie
A successful carnival barker deals with the arrival of his eager son, who he'd hoped would stay far from the carnival world, his son's entanglement with a showgirl, and his own jealous mistress.
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The Midnight Taxi
Title: The Midnight Taxi
Character: Al Corvini
Released: September 1, 1928
Type: Movie
The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costello, and Myrna Loy. It is unknown whether a sound copy survives, but a silent copy with no talking is in the care of the British Film Institute. The silent print runs just under 50 minutes. According to the Library of Congress, the film survives in British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive.
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Lights of New York
Title: Lights of New York
Character: Sam
Released: July 18, 1928
Type: Movie
Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.
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Broadway Daddies
Title: Broadway Daddies
Character: Newspaper Reporter
Released: April 7, 1928
Type: Movie
Eve, a beautiful young nightclub dancer, turns down a string of wealthy and powerful suitors for Robert, a poor but ambitious young man. What Eve doesn't know is that Robert is the son of a wealthy businessman and is just pretending to be poor to see if she really loves him. However, an item in the society pages gives away Robert's true identity. Complications ensue.
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Dressed to Kill
Title: Dressed to Kill
Character: Silky Levine
Released: March 17, 1928
Type: Movie
A mob boss' gang gets suspicious about their boss' new girlfriend, a beautiful young girl who doesn't seem to be the type who'd hang out with gangsters. They're not quite certain if she's actually a police agent or just a "groupie".
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Soft Living
Title: Soft Living
Character: Hired Man
Released: February 5, 1928
Type: Movie
Nancy Woods, secretary to a divorce lawyer, is tantalized by the idea of collecting alimony payments, she marries Stockney Webb with the intention of fleecing him after the honeymoon. Realizing that he has been fooled, Webb determines to teach Nancy, whom he truly loves, a lesson in humility and wifely behavior by taking her to his cabin in the wilderness.
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Sharp Shooters
Title: Sharp Shooters
Character: Jerry
Released: January 15, 1928
Type: Movie
A "love-'em-and-leave-'em" sailor hooks up with a dance-hall girl in Paris while waiting for his ship to sail. She falls in love with him, and when his ship leaves port she decides to show up at its next stop and reunite with her lover. However, when she arrives at the ship's next destination, she discovers that her "lover" has already found another local girl to spend his time with. Complications ensue.
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My Friend from India
Title: My Friend from India
Character: Kasha Murti / Swami / Bogus Hindu Prince
Released: December 18, 1927
Type: Movie
Wealthy young man about town, Tommy Valentine (Franklin Pangborn) comes to the aid of Barbara Smith (Elinor Fair). But before he can learn anything about Barbara, her social climbing Aunt Bedelia (Ethel Wales), whisks her away. On a mission to "find the girl," Tommy looks for her everywhere. He unknowingly befriends her brother Charlie, who invites him to spend the evening in Smith's palatial home. The next morn Aunt Bedelia finds Tommy with his head wrapped in a towel and assumes him to be the Hindu prince that Charlie promised to bring to her society party. Introduced to all as a Prince from Calcutta, Tommy is forced to see the charade through. But the local con-man Charlie had previously arranged to appear at the party as the Prince shows up as well. At least Tommy is able to reconnect with Barbara, that is until the police show up with orders to arrest all fake fakirs.
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The Small Bachelor
Title: The Small Bachelor
Character: Mullett
Released: November 6, 1927
Type: Movie
What must a man do in order to put an end to his bachelorhood? For George Finch, one of nature's white mice and probably the worst artist ever to put brush to canvas, there are many obstacles. Undoubtedly the greatest is his beloved Molly's fearsome stepmother, Mrs. Waddington, who has her eye on an eligible English lord for a son-in-law. Luckily, George has an ally in sharp-witted Hamilton Beamish, an old family friend of the Waddingtons, not to mention George's butler, Mullett, and his light-fingered girlfriend, Fanny, whose valuable skills are of particular interest to the would-be father-in-law.
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The Way of All Pants
Title: The Way of All Pants
Character: Detective
Released: October 28, 1927
Type: Movie
A man delivering a pair of trousers loses his own pants, setting off a chaotic sequence of events.
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The Swell-Head
Title: The Swell-Head
Character: Malone's Manager
Released: August 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Businessman Lefty Malone decides to become a prizefight, has his head turned by instant success, falls for the wrong woman, Kitty, then realizes the error of his ways, and finds true love with Molly O'Rourke.