Charles Halton

Charles Halton

Born: March 16, 1876
Died: April 16, 1959
in Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Charles Halton was an American stage, screen, and television character actor.

Movies for Charles Halton...

Friendly Persuasion
Title: Friendly Persuasion
Character: Village Elder
Released: November 25, 1956
Type: Movie
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?
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Title: The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Released: September 7, 1956
Type: TV
The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958. Its setting was the 1830s-era Louisiana Territory. The series was an adaptation of the book Tempered Blade, by Monte Barrett. The series stars Scott Forbes as the real-life adventurer Jim Bowie. The series initially portrayed Jim Bowie as something of an outdoors-man, riding his horse through the wilderness near his home in Opelousas, where he would stumble across someone needing his assistance. He was aided by the Bowie Knife, his ever-present weapon. He designed it in the first episode, The Birth of the Blade.
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A Star Is Born
Title: A Star Is Born
Character: Paymaster (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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The Moonlighter
Title: The Moonlighter
Character: Clemmons Usqubaugh
Released: September 19, 1953
Type: Movie
Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) is caught cattle rustling and promptly jailed. The public is outraged, but, since Wes always worked at night, they don't know what he looks like. Still, they break into the prison and lynch a hobo they think is Wes, while the actual culprit sneaks off to see his old flame, Rela (Barbara Stanwyck), who has recently taken up with his straitlaced brother, Tom (William Ching). But Tom is envious of his outlaw brother, and he decides to join Wes in a life of crime.
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Title: City Detective
Released: September 7, 1953
Type: TV
Crime drama starring Rod Cameron as 43-year-old Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police lieutenant.
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The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
Title: The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
Character: The Dean (uncredited)
Released: August 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis - women, especially Pansy Hammer. Pansy's father, even though and maybe because she says she's in dreamville, does not share her affection for Dobie. An English essay which almost revolutionizes English instruction, and Dobie's role in a chemistry lab explosion convinces Mr. Hammer he is right. Pansy is sent off broken-hearted to an Eastern school, but with the help of Happy Stella Kolawski's all-girl band, several hundred students and an enraged police force, Dobie secures Pansy's return to Grainbelt.
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A Slight Case of Larceny
Title: A Slight Case of Larceny
Character: Willard Maibrunn
Released: June 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Two nitwits decide to open a gas station.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Welfare Man
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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Carrie
Title: Carrie
Character: Factory Foreman
Released: July 17, 1952
Type: Movie
Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.
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Here Comes the Groom
Title: Here Comes the Groom
Character: Cusick
Released: September 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
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Title: The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Released: April 15, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.
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Gasoline Alley
Title: Gasoline Alley
Character: S.D. Pettit
Released: January 2, 1951
Type: Movie
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
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Gasoline Alley
Title: Gasoline Alley
Character: Pettit
Released: January 2, 1951
Type: Movie
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
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Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle
Title: Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle
Character: Merkle - the Shyster
Released: November 4, 1950
Type: Movie
Joe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law.
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When Willie Comes Marching Home
Title: When Willie Comes Marching Home
Character: Mr. Fettles (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1950
Type: Movie
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
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The Traveling Saleswoman
Title: The Traveling Saleswoman
Character: Clumhill
Released: February 15, 1950
Type: Movie
The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product.
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The Nevadan
Title: The Nevadan
Character: Red Sand Bank Manager (uncredited)
Released: January 11, 1950
Type: Movie
A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.
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The Sickle or the Cross
Title: The Sickle or the Cross
Character: Dr. Short
Released: July 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Reds imprison him and send in his place a spy who is his double, but who is instructed to come out for Communism. The spy is accepted in Burnside's home town, and he reports to local Communist headquarters, where James John, prominent local businessman but in reality a Red agent, has instructions to assist him in all details of his mission. He does a series of personal appearances and radio interviews and talk shows, using an anti-Communist approach.
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The Daring Caballero
Title: The Daring Caballero
Character: Ed J. Hodges
Released: June 13, 1949
Type: Movie
Daring Cabellero was the third of producer Phil Krasne's Cisco Kid "B" westerns. Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo return as Cisco and Pancho, roles they'd carry over into a popular 1950s TV series. Once more stumbling into a dangerous situation, Cisco and Pancho risk their own necks by saving an innocent man from hanging. Eventually, our heroes learn that a corrupt political machine is behind the killing. Leading lady Kippie Valez is cast as "herself," which must have meant more in 1949 than it does today. Unlike the subsequent TV series, Daring Caballero does not end with the leading actors reciting their standard mantra "Oh, Pancho! Oh, Cisco!"
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Hideout
Title: Hideout
Character: Gabriel Wotter
Released: March 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Philip Ford's crime thriller stars Lloyd Bridges as a city attorney who comes to the dawning realization that a jewelry heist may be behind the discovery of a dead body in the park -- and that the culprit may be one of the town's leading citizens (Ray Collins). Unfortunately, his investigation is hampered by his girlfriend and ex-secretary (Lorna Gray), who could very well be in cahoots with the bad guys.
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3 Godfathers
Title: 3 Godfathers
Character: Oliver Latham
Released: December 31, 1948
Type: Movie
Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.
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My Dear Secretary
Title: My Dear Secretary
Character: Mr. Kilbride (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1948
Type: Movie
A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, however, when he turns out to be an erratic, immature playboy. Opposites attract, of course, but not without sub-plots that touch on competitiveness within marriage and responsibility.
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Summer Holiday
Title: Summer Holiday
Character: Mr. Lipska (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family. He is in love with the girl next-door, Muriel, but her father isn't too happy with their puppy-love, since Richard always share his revolutionary ideas with her.
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If You Knew Susie
Title: If You Knew Susie
Character: Pringle (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker.
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Title: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Character: Mr. Mittwick - High School Principal (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.
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The Ghost Goes Wild
Title: The Ghost Goes Wild
Character: T. O'Connor Scott
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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Singin' in the Corn
Title: Singin' in the Corn
Character: Obediah Davis
Released: December 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Judy McCoy, a fortune teller with a circus, learns she has inherited some property and heads west to collect. When she arrives in the desert ghost town, she learns that a stipulation in the will is that she has to return the property to the rightful owners, an Indian tribe, before she gets the remaining inheritance
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The Best Years of Our Lives
Title: The Best Years of Our Lives
Character: Prew
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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It's a Wonderful Life
Title: It's a Wonderful Life
Character: Carter (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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Sister Kenny
Title: Sister Kenny
Character: Mr. Smith (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1946
Type: Movie
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
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Three Little Girls in Blue
Title: Three Little Girls in Blue
Character: Hoskins
Released: September 3, 1946
Type: Movie
Three sisters go to Atlantic City with hopes of finding rich husbands.
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Because of Him
Title: Because of Him
Character: Mr. Dunlap
Released: January 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star.
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The Fighting Guardsman
Title: The Fighting Guardsman
Character: Picot
Released: January 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A French Baron robs Louis XVI like Robin Hood.
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She Went to the Races
Title: She Went to the Races
Character: Dr. Collyer
Released: November 4, 1945
Type: Movie
A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy.
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Mama Loves Papa
Title: Mama Loves Papa
Character: Appleby
Released: August 8, 1945
Type: Movie
A loose remake of the 1935 comedy of the same name. Thanks to the efforts of his social-climbing wife Jessie, furniture store employee Wilbur Todd is tossed headfirst into the world of small-town politics. Sized up as a patsy by crooked politician Kirkwood, poor Wilbur is plied with champagne as part of Kirkwood's scheme to land a sweetheart playground-equipment contract.
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Midnight Manhunt
Title: Midnight Manhunt
Character: Henry Miggs
Released: July 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
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Rhapsody in Blue
Title: Rhapsody in Blue
Character: Mr. Kast
Released: June 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Title: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Character: Mr. Barker (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1945
Type: Movie
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
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The Town Went Wild
Title: The Town Went Wild
Character: Mr. Tweedle
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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Wilson
Title: Wilson
Character: Colonel House
Released: August 1, 1944
Type: Movie
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations.
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Shadows in the Night
Title: Shadows in the Night
Character: Doc Stacey
Released: July 27, 1944
Type: Movie
A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.
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Address Unknown
Title: Address Unknown
Character: Censorial Pipsqueak
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.
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It Happened Tomorrow
Title: It Happened Tomorrow
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1944
Type: Movie
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
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Rationing
Title: Rationing
Character: Ezra Weeks
Released: March 24, 1944
Type: Movie
A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing.
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Up in Arms
Title: Up in Arms
Character: Dr. Roger B. Freyheisen
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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Whispering Footsteps
Title: Whispering Footsteps
Character: Harry Hammond
Released: December 30, 1943
Type: Movie
An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.
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Government Girl
Title: Government Girl
Character: Wilkins - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1943
Type: Movie
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
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That Other Woman
Title: That Other Woman
Character: Smith
Released: November 13, 1942
Type: Movie
A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her which backfires after some bad advice.
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You Can't Escape Forever
Title: You Can't Escape Forever
Character: Charley Gates (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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My Sister Eileen
Title: My Sister Eileen
Character: Mr. Hawkins - Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes to succeed on the stage. The two end up living in a dismal basement apartment in Greenwich Village, where a parade of odd characters are constantly breezing in and out. The women also meet up with magazine editor Bob Baker, who takes a personal interest in helping both with their career plans.
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Across the Pacific
Title: Across the Pacific
Character: A.V. Smith
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveller Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
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Henry Aldrich, Editor
Title: Henry Aldrich, Editor
Character: Elias Noonan
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of mysterious fires. A mild, timid little fellow named Nero Smith shows up to tip off Henry as to the time and place of the next conflagration. Henry prints the story-and is immediately accused of being the firebug himself!
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Priorities on Parade
Title: Priorities on Parade
Character: 2nd Examiner
Released: July 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Band leader Johnny Draper auditions his band, the Dixie Pixies, at the Eagle Aircraft Co., hoping to be hired to play for the workers in the plant. However, personnel manager E. V. Hartley can only offer them regular jobs, and when Johnny inspires the Dixie Pixies to work in the plant, lead singer and dancer Donna D'Arcy leaves the band for a singing job at the Club Martel in downtown Los Angeles.
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There's One Born Every Minute
Title: There's One Born Every Minute
Character: Trumbull
Released: June 26, 1942
Type: Movie
A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.
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Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Title: Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Character: Dan Crane
Released: June 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Stuve
Released: June 11, 1942
Type: Movie
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.
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In Old California
Title: In Old California
Character: Mr. Hayes
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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Whispering Ghosts
Title: Whispering Ghosts
Character: Mark Gruber
Released: May 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the decade-old murder of a sea captain.
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Saboteur
Title: Saboteur
Character: Second Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
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To Be or Not to Be
Title: To Be or Not to Be
Character: Producer Dobosh
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 Adventures of Martin Eden
Title: The Adventures of Martin Eden
Character: Mr. Cotton
Released: February 26, 1942
Type: Movie
Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published.
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H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Title: H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Character: Walter Kaufman
Released: December 4, 1941
Type: Movie
A man who lived his life as he was told he should, not as he would have chosen to, is brought out of his shell by a beautiful young woman.
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Look Who's Laughing
Title: Look Who's Laughing
Character: Cudahy
Released: November 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufacturer to build a factory in the small town of Wistful Vista. Based on the "Fibber McGee and Molly" radio series
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One Foot in Heaven
Title: One Foot in Heaven
Character: Haskins (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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Unholy Partners
Title: Unholy Partners
Character: Phil Kaper
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.
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Three Girls About Town
Title: Three Girls About Town
Character: Doc - Coroner
Released: October 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
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Lady Scarface
Title: Lady Scarface
Character: Mr. Pinchback
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.
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The Smiling Ghost
Title: The Smiling Ghost
Character: Ames Bentley
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.
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Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
Title: Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
Character: Rufus Smith (auctioneer)
Released: August 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed to death. Ellery Queen gets to the bottom of the mystery.
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I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island
Title: I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island
Character: Commandant
Released: August 4, 1941
Type: Movie
A ship's officer is sentenced to Devil's Island for murder after a fatal brawl.
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Three Sons o' Guns
Title: Three Sons o' Guns
Character: Claude Haddock
Released: August 2, 1941
Type: Movie
Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.
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Dance Hall
Title: Dance Hall
Character: Mr. Frederick Newmeyer
Released: July 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Singer Lili Brown is attracted to dance hall manager Duke till she realizes he does that to all the girls. Nice guy Duke sets her up with composer Joe Brooks.
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A Very Young Lady
Title: A Very Young Lady
Character: Oliver Brixton
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications.
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Million Dollar Baby
Title: Million Dollar Baby
Character: John Parkinson
Released: May 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Title: The Lady from Cheyenne
Character: Judge
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
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Mr. District Attorney
Title: Mr. District Attorney
Character: Hazelton - Barrett's Aide
Released: March 27, 1941
Type: Movie
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
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Tobacco Road
Title: Tobacco Road
Character: Mayor
Released: February 20, 1941
Type: Movie
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
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The Great Mr. Nobody
Title: The Great Mr. Nobody
Character: Mr. Bixby
Released: February 15, 1941
Type: Movie
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
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Blonde Inspiration
Title: Blonde Inspiration
Character: Mr. Packer (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Title: Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Character: Mr. Deever
Released: January 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No". Later that day, they separately discover that, due to a legal complication, they are not legally married.
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Behind the News
Title: Behind the News
Character: Neil Saunders
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter with a penchant for sticking his neck out too far. Frank Albertson costars as a cub reporter fresh out of journalism school, whose presence is resented by Nolan and his fellow workers. But it is Albertson who, after running afoul of the law, is instrumental in breaking up a ring of racketeers. Behind the News was remade by Republic as Headline Hunters (55).
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Little Nellie Kelly
Title: Little Nellie Kelly
Character: Second Judge (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
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Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Title: Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Character: Alec Severn
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
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The Westerner
Title: The Westerner
Character: Mort Borrow
Released: September 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
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Calling All Husbands
Title: Calling All Husbands
Character: Hadley Weaver
Released: September 7, 1940
Type: Movie
A henpecked husband and his bossy wife are due for a surprise when the wife's former boyfriend unexpectedly turns up.
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Young People
Title: Young People
Character: Moderator
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.
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Foreign Correspondent
Title: Foreign Correspondent
Character: Bradley
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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Stranger on the Third Floor
Title: Stranger on the Third Floor
Character: Albert Meng
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
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I Love You Again
Title: I Love You Again
Character: Mr. Leonard Harkspur Sr. (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
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Lucky Partners
Title: Lucky Partners
Character: Chamber of Commerce Official
Released: August 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Farnsworth (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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Lillian Russell
Title: Lillian Russell
Character: Dr' Dobbins
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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Gangs of Chicago
Title: Gangs of Chicago
Character: Bromo
Released: May 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
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20 Mule Team
Title: 20 Mule Team
Character: Henry Adams
Released: May 3, 1940
Type: Movie
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
Title: The Doctor Takes a Wife
Character: Dr. Streeter
Released: April 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
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The Man with Nine Lives
Title: The Man with Nine Lives
Character: Doctor in Front Row in Final Scene (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are discovered and revived in hopes that Kravaal can indeed complete his cure. But human greed and weakness compound to disrupt the project.
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Dr. Cyclops
Title: Dr. Cyclops
Character: Dr. Rupert Bulfinch
Released: April 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.
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Virginia City
Title: Virginia City
Character: Ralston - Virginia City Banker (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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The Ghost Comes Home
Title: The Ghost Comes Home
Character: Mr. Stark - Steamship Official (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Title: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Character: Sensenbrenner
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
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The Shop Around the Corner
Title: The Shop Around the Corner
Character: Detective
Released: January 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Printer (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
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Swanee River
Title: Swanee River
Character: Pond
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
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Reno
Title: Reno
Character: Augustus Welch
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
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No Place to Go
Title: No Place to Go
Character: Ben Bradford
Released: September 23, 1939
Type: Movie
An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he befriends a neighborhood child with a troubled family life.
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Dust Be My Destiny
Title: Dust Be My Destiny
Character: Pawnshop Owner (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Title: Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Character: Uncle Redley
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
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Lady of the Tropics
Title: Lady of the Tropics
Character: Manager of Rubber Company
Released: August 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
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Indianapolis Speedway
Title: Indianapolis Speedway
Character: Mayor
Released: August 5, 1939
Type: Movie
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
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News Is Made at Night
Title: News Is Made at Night
Character: Lt. Governor Elmer Hinge
Released: July 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
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Young Mr. Lincoln
Title: Young Mr. Lincoln
Character: Hawthorne (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1939
Type: Movie
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
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They Asked For It
Title: They Asked For It
Character: Dr. Tyler
Released: May 20, 1939
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into the strange death of an old hermit who lived on the fringe of town.
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Ex-Champ
Title: Ex-Champ
Character: Trilby
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
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They Made Her a Spy
Title: They Made Her a Spy
Character: Beldon
Released: April 14, 1939
Type: Movie
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
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Dodge City
Title: Dodge City
Character: Surrett's Lawyer
Released: April 8, 1939
Type: Movie
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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Sudden Money
Title: Sudden Money
Character: Mr. Wixby
Released: March 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.
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Nancy Drew... Reporter
Title: Nancy Drew... Reporter
Character: Newspaper Publicity Man (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1939
Type: Movie
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
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Jesse James
Title: Jesse James
Character: Heywood
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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Federal Man-Hunt
Title: Federal Man-Hunt
Character: Damon Lauber
Released: December 27, 1938
Type: Movie
By a daring ruse and inside help, Pete Rennick, a noted criminal behind bars on federal charges, escapes from the prison, and all of the law-agencies and local police are out to catch him with roadblocks and every car searched, but the escapee gets away. Bill Hasford, a private detective, investigating a racket finds it leads to the wanted man, and has the biggest adventure of his career.
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The Girl Downstairs
Title: The Girl Downstairs
Character: Ambassador (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him.
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The Mad Miss Manton
Title: The Mad Miss Manton
Character: Popsie (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1938
Type: Movie
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
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A Man to Remember
Title: A Man to Remember
Character: Atty. Clyde Perkins (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
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Room Service
Title: Room Service
Character: Dr. Glass
Released: September 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Broke Gordon Miller tries to land a backer for his new play while he has to deal with with the hotel manager trying to evict him and his cast.
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I Am the Law
Title: I Am the Law
Character: George Leander
Released: August 25, 1938
Type: Movie
With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.
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I'll Give a Million
Title: I'll Give a Million
Character: Mayor
Released: July 27, 1938
Type: Movie
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
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Penrod's Double Trouble
Title: Penrod's Double Trouble
Character: Mr. Bitts
Released: July 23, 1938
Type: Movie
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.
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The Saint in New York
Title: The Saint in New York
Character: Vincent Nather
Released: May 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Title: Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Character: Monsieur de la Coste (uncredited)
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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Penrod and His Twin Brother
Title: Penrod and His Twin Brother
Character: Mr. Rodney H. Bitts, Sr.
Released: February 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.
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Gold Is Where You Find It
Title: Gold Is Where You Find It
Character: Turner (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
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Penitentiary
Title: Penitentiary
Character: Leonard Nettleford
Released: February 5, 1938
Type: Movie
The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.
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Blossoms On Broadway
Title: Blossoms On Broadway
Character: Dr. Gilgallon
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
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Trouble at Midnight
Title: Trouble at Midnight
Character: Everett Benson
Released: October 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Noah Beery Jr. stars as Kirk Cameron in the modern-day western Trouble at Midnight. Freshly discharged from WWI, Cameron goes into the dairy-farming business, only to be hounded by his chief creditor, flint-hearted banker Everett Benson (Charles Halton). Despite his uncharitable feelings for Benson, Cameron falls in love with Catherine (Catherine Hughes), the banker's daughter.
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Partners in Crime
Title: Partners in Crime
Character: Silas Wagon
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.
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Dead End
Title: Dead End
Character: Whitey (Uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.
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Talent Scout
Title: Talent Scout
Character: M.B. Carter
Released: July 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
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Pick a Star
Title: Pick a Star
Character: Julius Klawheimer
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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Woman Chases Man
Title: Woman Chases Man
Character: Mr. Judd
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.
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Ready, Willing and Able
Title: Ready, Willing and Able
Character: Brockman
Released: March 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
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Penrod and Sam
Title: Penrod and Sam
Character: Mr. Rodney H. Bitts
Released: February 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.
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Stolen Holiday
Title: Stolen Holiday
Character: Le Grande
Released: February 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.
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Black Legion
Title: Black Legion
Character: Osgood
Released: January 30, 1937
Type: Movie
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
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Gold Diggers of 1937
Title: Gold Diggers of 1937
Character: Dr. Bell
Released: December 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.
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Sing Me a Love Song
Title: Sing Me a Love Song
Character: Mr. Willard (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs.
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More Than a Secretary
Title: More Than a Secretary
Character: Mr. Crosby
Released: December 10, 1936
Type: Movie
When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.
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Come and Get It
Title: Come and Get It
Character: Jed Hewitt
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
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Broadway Ballyhoo
Title: Broadway Ballyhoo
Character: Optometrist (uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1935
Type: Movie
In this musical short, three barkers for a New York City sightseeing bus drum up customers with songs and nightclub tours.
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Storm at Daybreak
Title: Storm at Daybreak
Character: Villager (uncredited)
Released: June 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.
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Honor Among Lovers
Title: Honor Among Lovers
Character: Wilkes
Released: February 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.
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Laughter
Title: Laughter
Character: Winslow, Gibson's Secretary (Uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1930
Type: Movie
Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows tired of their sedate life, she refuses the attentions of her longtime friend, the volatile sculptor Ralph Le Saint. When pianist Paul Lockridge arrives from Paris, he begs Peggy to run away with him to France, where they can share adventure and a full life -- but complications arise for Peggy when Gibson's attractive daughter visits.
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The Adventurer
Title: The Adventurer
Character: Austin
Released: February 15, 1917
Type: Movie
A young girl is trying to live an honest life in a crooked city. Caught up with a crook that might be the son of a millionaire and other crooked people, she must attempt to reform things, or at least one person.