Glenda Farrell

Glenda Farrell

Born: June 30, 1904
Died: May 1, 1971
in Enid, Oklahoma, USA
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Glenda Farrell (June 30, 1904 – May 1, 1971) was an American actress of film, television, and theater. She is best known for her role as Torchy Blane in the Warner Bros. Torchy Blane film series and the Academy Award-nominated films Little Caesar (1931), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), and Lady for a Day (1933). With a career spanning more than 50 years, Farrell appeared in over 100 films and television series, as well as numerous Broadway plays. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 8, 1960, and won an Emmy Award for best supporting actress for her performance in the television series Ben Casey in 1963.

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Tiger by the Tail
Title: Tiger by the Tail
Character: Sarah Harvey
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Vietnam war hero, accused of murdering his brother, recruits his socialite girlfriend to hunt for the real killer.
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Title: The Name of the Game
Character: Woman
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
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Title: Felony Squad
Released: September 12, 1966
Type: TV
Twenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western metropolis.
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The Disorderly Orderly
Title: The Disorderly Orderly
Character: Dr. Jean Howard
Released: December 16, 1964
Type: Movie
Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice when you're hopelessly squeamish. So he settles for the job of orderly at the Whitestone Sanitarium, a career move that's guaranteed to keep the patients – and viewers – in stitches!
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Title: Bewitched
Released: September 17, 1964
Type: TV
Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.
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Title: The Bing Crosby Show
Released: September 14, 1964
Type: TV
The Bing Crosby Show is a 28-episode situation comedy television program starring crooner, film star, iconic phenomenon, and businessman Bing Crosby and actress Beverly Garland as a middle-aged couple, Bing and Ellie Collins, rearing two teenaged daughters during the early 1960s. In the format, Crosby portrayed a former entertainer turned architectural designer with a penchant for singing, and each episode usually contained at least one song. Produced by Crosby's own company, affiliated with Desilu Studios and subsequently CBS Paramount Television, the series aired on ABC from September 14, 1964, to April 19, 1965. Rebroadcasts continued until June 14. The roles of the daughters Janice and Joyce Collins were played by Carol Faylen and Diane Sherry, respectively. Top Warner Bros. character actor Frank McHugh appeared as Willie Walters, the Collins's live-in handyman. Christopher Riordan and Pamela Austin appeared twice on the program, Riordan as an unnamed "Neighbor" and Austin as Clarissa Roberts. Guest stars included Herbert Anderson, Frankie Avalon, Jack Benny, Jimmy Boyd, Macdonald Carey, Vikki Carr, Dennis Day, Roger Ewing, Glenda Farrell, Joan Fontaine, Kathy Garver, George Gobel, Kathryn Grant, Pat Harrington, Jr., Phil Harris, Charles Lane, Nobu McCarthy, Gary Morton, Ken Murray, Lloyd Nolan, Ruth Roman, and James Shigeta.
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Kissin' Cousins
Title: Kissin' Cousins
Character: Ma Tatum
Released: March 6, 1964
Type: Movie
An Army officer returns to the Smoky Mountains and tries to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. Once he gets there, he discovers he has a look-alike cousin.
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Title: The Fugitive
Character: Mrs. Maggie Lambert
Released: September 17, 1963
Type: TV
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
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The Inner Panic
Title: The Inner Panic
Character: Mrs. Stevenson
Released: September 19, 1962
Type: Movie
A young man who suffers from a speech impediment is having a hard time landing his first job after graduating from high school. His mother intervenes without his knowledge and helps him find employment. He quickly gains confidence and some control over his stuttering and falls for a young woman who works at the same company.
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Title: Ben Casey
Released: October 2, 1961
Type: TV
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.
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Title: Dr. Kildare
Character: Vera Dennis
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: TV
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
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Title: The Defenders
Character: Edna Holley
Released: September 16, 1961
Type: TV
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
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A String of Beads
Title: A String of Beads
Released: February 7, 1961
Type: Movie
An ordinary girl's life is radically changed by the mistaken receipt of a $60,000 strand of pearls.
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Title: Route 66
Released: October 7, 1960
Type: TV
Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays on CBS from October 7, 1960 to March 20, 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for the first two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock. Maharis was ill for much of the third season, during which time Tod was shown traveling on his own. Tod met Lincoln Case, played by Glenn Corbett, late in the third season, and traveled with him until the end of the fourth and final season. Among the series more notable aspects were the featured Corvette convertible, and the program's instrumental theme song, which became a major pop hit.
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Title: The Islanders
Character: Mrs. Dan King
Released: October 2, 1960
Type: TV
The Islanders is an American adventure television series which aired on ABC from 1960 to 1961, starring William Reynolds, James Philbrook, and Diane Brewster. At the beginning of the series, Sandy Wade and Zack Malloy, co-owners of a Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft, start their one-plane airline in the Moluccas or Spice Islands of the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Throughout the series they experience a variety of adventures where seemingly harmless charter flights put them into danger. They are frequently aided in their endeavours by the unusually-named Wilhelmina ”Steamboat Willy” Vanderveer and Shipwreck Callighan. The Islanders, primarily sponsored by Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield cigarettes, aired at 9:30 Eastern time on Sunday evenings opposite The Jack Benny Program and Candid Camera on CBS and the second half of The Dinah Shore Show and the last season of The Loretta Young Show on NBC. William Reynolds stated in an interview, "The series went from being sort of like a Terry and the Pirates or a Maverick type of concept to becoming just a bunch of people skulking around. It wasn't very good." After The Islanders, Philbrook co-starred in the 1962-1963 season as a magazine publisher and the love interest of Loretta Young in her short-lived The New Loretta Young Show, which aired Mondays on CBS. Reynolds went on to star in two other ABC series,The Gallant Men, a World War II series, and The FBI with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr..
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Queen of the Orange Bowl
Title: Queen of the Orange Bowl
Character: Mrs. Rausch
Released: January 13, 1960
Type: Movie
A young beauty queen comes to New York City and joins the beatnik set. She falls in love with a young advertising copywriter, but he refuses to take their romance seriously.
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Middle of the Night
Title: Middle of the Night
Character: Mrs. Mueller
Released: May 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 60s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a romance with divorced 24-year-old receptionist Betty. The relationship is dismissed by his daughter, Lillian, discouraged by his sister, Evelyn, and denounced by Betty's mother. But when Jerry begins to mention marriage, even Betty is forced to confront her ambivalence.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Mrs. Elizabeth Farragut
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: The 20th Century Fox Hour
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.
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The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
Title: The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
Character: Mrs. Nesbit
Released: October 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and wealthy but unstable Harry Thaw (Farley Granger). She marries Thaw, but White’s continued pursuit puts him in the path of Thaw’s volatile temper. Inspired by true events that occurred at the turn of the 20th century.
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Susan Slept Here
Title: Susan Slept Here
Character: Maude Snodgrass
Released: July 28, 1954
Type: Movie
On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Maizel. Knowing Christopher is working on a juvenile delinquent script, the sergeant brings by delinquent Susan thinking she will inspire Christopher while providing a place for her to spend the holidays outside of juvenile hall.
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Secret of the Incas
Title: Secret of the Incas
Character: Mrs. Winston
Released: June 6, 1954
Type: Movie
Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) is a tourist guide determined to make his fortune by finding the Sunburst, an Inca treasure.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Mrs. Brady
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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Girls in the Night
Title: Girls in the Night
Character: Alice Haynes
Released: January 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Juvenile delinquents (Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Harvey Lembeck) trap a neighborhood hoodlum in New York.
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Apache War Smoke
Title: Apache War Smoke
Character: Fanny Webson
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: Movie
An outlaw murders several Apaches and flees to a stagecoach way station with the tribe in hot pursuit. A stagecoach and its passengers have just pulled into the station, as has the stationmaster's father, a former bandit named Peso, and they all find themselves besieged by the Apaches, who want them to turn over the killer to them or they'll take the station and kill everybody. The problem is that the people in the station aren't sure just who among therm is the actual killer.
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Title: Tales of Tomorrow
Released: August 3, 1951
Type: TV
Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered such stories as Frankenstein, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo, and many others featuring such performers as Boris Karloff, Brian Keith, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Bruce Cabot, Franchot Tone, Gene Lockhart, Walter Abel, Leslie Nielsen, and Paul Newman. The series had many similarities to the later Twilight Zone which also covered one of the same stories, "What You Need". In total it ran for eighty-five 30-minute episodes.
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Title: Your Show of Shows
Released: February 25, 1950
Type: TV
Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC, from February 25, 1950, until June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Other featured performers were Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Bill Hayes, Judy Johnson, The Hamilton Trio and the soprano Marguerite Piazza. José Ferrer made several guest appearances on the series. The series was telecast from the now-demolished International Theatre at 5 Columbus Circle and the Century Theater, now demolished, in New York. During 2002, Your Show of Shows was ranked #30 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Irene
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Mrs. Endsley
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Lucille Sears
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Claire
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Lulu Belle
Title: Lulu Belle
Character: Molly Benson
Released: August 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his fiancée and career to marry Lulu Bell. When his money runs out, Lulu Belle goes to work in a New Orleans club run by tough gambler Mark Brady. She tries to send George back to Natchez by pretending that she has fallen for prize-fighter Butch Cooper but George, in a fit of jealousy, drives a handful of forks into Butch's face. He is sent to prison and Lulu goes to New York with millionaire Harry Randolph, who makes her the singing sensation of Broadway and asks her to marry him. She refuses when she learns that George has been released from prison, realizing that he is the only man she ever truly loved.
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Mary Lou
Title: Mary Lou
Character: Winnie Winford
Released: January 23, 1948
Type: Movie
Airline hostess Ann Parker is fired for being undignified when she sang to calm the passengers during a storm. Mike Connors, publicity man for Frankie Carle's orchestra, invites her to try out as the band's vocalist since the regular singer, Mary Lou, had just quit the band on the eve of an engagement at a swanky New York night club. Encouraged by her boyfriend, Steve Roberts, Ann lands the job and assumes the name of "Mary Lou", a trademark almost for Frankie Carle singers. But the departed Mary Lou shows up and threatens to sue if she is not rehired. Ann returns to her former job. Meanwhile, Steve locates the woman who was the original Mary Lou with the band, and urges Mike to keep the current Mary Lou off the bandstand until he can return with Ann.
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I Love Trouble
Title: I Love Trouble
Character: Hazel Bixby
Released: January 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.
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Heading For Heaven
Title: Heading For Heaven
Character: Nora Elkins
Released: December 6, 1947
Type: Movie
A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't long to live.
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Ever Since Venus
Title: Ever Since Venus
Character: Babs Cartwright
Released: September 14, 1944
Type: Movie
The American Beauty Association is about to hold its annual trade show in New York City and songwriter "Tiny" Lewis (Billy Gilbert) has just sold a song to Ina Ray Hutton ('Ina Ray Hutton'), the leader of an all-girl band headlining the show. Lewis shares an apartment with Bradley Miller ('Ross Hunter') and Michele (Fritz Feld), an artist, and Miller has just invented a non-staining lipstick called "Rosebud." Preparing to get a booth at the show, Miller is told by J. Webster Hackett (Alan Mowbray), a very devious "Cosmetics King,", intent on selling a big lipstick order to buyer Edgar Pomeroy (Thurston Hall), that it will cost him a $1000 to join the association and get a booth, which is about $999 more than Miller and his roomies have between them. But Miller's beauty-parlor girl friend, Janet Wilson ('Ann Savage'), meets factory-owner P. G. Grimble (Hugh Herbert), and money is soon no issue. (IMDb)
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Klondike Kate
Title: Klondike Kate
Character: Molly
Released: December 16, 1943
Type: Movie
A young man in Alaska finds himself accused of murder, and must fight to clear his name.
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A Night for Crime
Title: A Night for Crime
Character: Susan Cooper
Released: February 18, 1943
Type: Movie
A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth solving yet another mystery among Hollywood's famous.
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City Without Men
Title: City Without Men
Character: Billie LaRue
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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The Talk of the Town
Title: The Talk of the Town
Character: Regina Bush
Released: August 20, 1942
Type: Movie
When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson and accidental murder. Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley... which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap.
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Twin Beds
Title: Twin Beds
Character: Sonya Cherupin
Released: April 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.
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Johnny Eager
Title: Johnny Eager
Character: Mae Blythe Edwarnowsky
Released: December 9, 1941
Type: Movie
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
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Breakdowns of 1939
Title: Breakdowns of 1939
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
Title: Torchy Runs for Mayor
Character: Torchy Blane
Released: May 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Title: Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Character: Torchy Blane
Released: February 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
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Breakdowns of 1938
Title: Breakdowns of 1938
Character: Torchy Blaine (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Torchy Gets Her Man
Title: Torchy Gets Her Man
Character: Torchy Blane
Released: November 12, 1938
Type: Movie
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
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Exposed
Title: Exposed
Character: 'Click' Stewart
Released: November 5, 1938
Type: Movie
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.
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The Road to Reno
Title: The Road to Reno
Character: Sylvia Shane
Released: August 1, 1938
Type: Movie
An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
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Prison Break
Title: Prison Break
Character: Jean Fenderson
Released: July 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Story of a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemplary behavior in prison ensures that he is up for early parole. He realizes, however, that his movements will be limited, and he will be unable to join and wed his beloved. The only solution is to escape and hunt down the real killer, himself.
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Stolen Heaven
Title: Stolen Heaven
Character: Rita
Released: May 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Two attractive jewel thieves, one female (Olympe Bradna), one male (Gene Raymond) escape together after their latest escapade and hide out in the home of an aged concert pianist (Lewis Stone). To cover their tracks and keep the old man from turning them in, the thieves pretend to arrange his comeback concert. The artifice becomes reality, the pianist makes a triumphant return, and the thieves reform. This 1938 film is not a remake of 1932's Stolen Heaven, which wove an entirely different story about a suicide pact.
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Blondes at Work
Title: Blondes at Work
Character: Torchy Blane
Released: February 5, 1938
Type: Movie
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
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Hollywood Hotel
Title: Hollywood Hotel
Character: Miss Jones, 'Jonesy'
Released: January 15, 1938
Type: Movie
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
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Breakdowns of 1937
Title: Breakdowns of 1937
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.
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The Adventurous Blonde
Title: The Adventurous Blonde
Character: Torchy Blane
Released: November 13, 1937
Type: Movie
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
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Breakfast for Two
Title: Breakfast for Two
Character: Carol Wallace
Released: October 22, 1937
Type: Movie
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.
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Sunday Night at the Trocadero
Title: Sunday Night at the Trocadero
Character: Glenda Farrell
Released: October 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment.
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You Live and Learn
Title: You Live and Learn
Character: Mamie Wallis
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
American chorus-girl Mamie Wallace (Farrell) travels to Paris with a ramshackle touring musical revue. The company runs out of money, and it looks as though Mamie and her dancing colleagues are going to be stranded in Europe with no way home. Luckily, she meets a handsome, well-spoken Englishman Peter Millett (Hulbert), who falls in love with her and proposes marriage. Under the impression that he is a man of means, she readily accepts, imagining an entrée to English high society. The couple return to England and Mamie discovers to her horror that not only is her new home a decrepit farmhouse out in the sticks, but that Peter is a widower and his three children also come as part of the package.
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Dance Charlie Dance
Title: Dance Charlie Dance
Character: Fanny Morgan
Released: July 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise, when he is sued for plagiarism.
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Fly Away Baby
Title: Fly Away Baby
Character: Torchy Blane
Released: June 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
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Smart Blonde
Title: Smart Blonde
Character: Torchy Blane
Released: January 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
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Breakdowns of 1936
Title: Breakdowns of 1936
Character: Self
Released: December 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.
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Gold Diggers of 1937
Title: Gold Diggers of 1937
Character: Genevieve Larkin
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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Here Comes Carter
Title: Here Comes Carter
Character: Verna Kennedy
Released: October 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
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High Tension
Title: High Tension
Character: Edith McNeil
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
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Nobody's Fool
Title: Nobody's Fool
Character: Ruby Miller
Released: June 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A naive country boy goes to New York City, where he gets mixed up with real estate swindlers.
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The Law in Her Hands
Title: The Law in Her Hands
Character: Dorothy Davis
Released: May 16, 1936
Type: Movie
A female lawyer sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.
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Snowed Under
Title: Snowed Under
Character: Daisy Lowell
Released: March 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer Arthur Layton sends Alice, Alan's first wife, to help him stick to business. But then Daisy, his second wife, shows up wanting her alimony. Stranded with two wives, a girlfriend, and a jug of applejack, Alan still has to finish his play!
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Miss Pacific Fleet
Title: Miss Pacific Fleet
Character: Mae O'Brien
Released: December 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".
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Things You Never See on the Screen
Title: Things You Never See on the Screen
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
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Little Big Shot
Title: Little Big Shot
Character: Jean
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
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We're in the Money
Title: We're in the Money
Character: Dixie Tilton
Released: August 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
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In Caliente
Title: In Caliente
Character: Clara
Released: May 25, 1935
Type: Movie
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
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Go Into Your Dance
Title: Go Into Your Dance
Character: Molly Howard
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
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Traveling Saleslady
Title: Traveling Saleslady
Character: Claudette
Released: March 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
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Gold Diggers of 1935
Title: Gold Diggers of 1935
Character: Betty Hawes
Released: March 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
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The Secret Bride
Title: The Secret Bride
Character: Hazel Normandie
Released: December 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, they decide to keep their marriage secret. The political intrigue becomes more involved, and no one is quite what they seem. Soon Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life.
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Kansas City Princess
Title: Kansas City Princess
Character: Marie Callahan
Released: September 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
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The Personality Kid
Title: The Personality Kid
Character: Joan
Released: June 6, 1934
Type: Movie
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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Merry Wives of Reno
Title: Merry Wives of Reno
Character: Bunny
Released: April 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
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Heat Lightning
Title: Heat Lightning
Character: Mrs. Tifton
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
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I've Got Your Number
Title: I've Got Your Number
Character: Bonnie aka Madame Francis
Released: February 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
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Dark Hazard
Title: Dark Hazard
Character: Valerie 'Val' Wilson
Released: January 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.
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Hi, Nellie!
Title: Hi, Nellie!
Character: Gerry
Released: January 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
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The Big Shakedown
Title: The Big Shakedown
Character: Lily 'Lil' Duran
Released: January 6, 1934
Type: Movie
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
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Man's Castle
Title: Man's Castle
Character: Fay La Rue
Released: November 20, 1933
Type: Movie
An unemployed man turns to crime when he gets his girlfriend pregnant.
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Havana Widows
Title: Havana Widows
Character: Sadie Appleby
Released: November 18, 1933
Type: Movie
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
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Bureau of Missing Persons
Title: Bureau of Missing Persons
Character: Belle Howard Saunders
Released: September 16, 1933
Type: Movie
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
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Lady for a Day
Title: Lady for a Day
Character: Missouri Martin
Released: September 13, 1933
Type: Movie
Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York's high society. Upon receiving unexpected word from Louise (who hasn't seen Annie since infancy) that she is en route to America with her new fiancé and his father, a count, so the three of them can meet her, Annie panics, despairing that her beloved daughter will be destroyed by the deception.
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
Title: Mary Stevens, M.D.
Character: Glenda Carroll
Released: July 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
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Gambling Ship
Title: Gambling Ship
Character: Jeanne Sands
Released: June 23, 1933
Type: Movie
Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new name. On the train, he meets Eleanor and they fall in love. Eleanor is afraid to tell Ace she's a soiled dove and Ace doesn't tell Eleanor of his shady past. Old enemies won't let Ace begin his new life, and old commitments's won't free Eleanor of her sordid ties. Ace's old life and Eleanor's deception collide with the typical results. But love conquers all!
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How to Break 90 #2: Position and Back Swing
Title: How to Break 90 #2: Position and Back Swing
Character: The Golfer's Wife
Released: June 9, 1933
Type: Movie
Bobby Jones magnanimously demonstrates two specific aspects of a good drive: Position and back swing.
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The Keyhole
Title: The Keyhole
Character: Dot
Released: March 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
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Girl Missing
Title: Girl Missing
Character: Kay Curtis
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.
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Grand Slam
Title: Grand Slam
Character: Blondie
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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Mystery of the Wax Museum
Title: Mystery of the Wax Museum
Character: Florence Dempsey
Released: February 18, 1933
Type: Movie
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
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The Match King
Title: The Match King
Character: Babe
Released: December 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Title: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Character: Marie Woods
Released: November 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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Three on a Match
Title: Three on a Match
Character: Vivian's Friend (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
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Life Begins
Title: Life Begins
Character: Florette Darien
Released: September 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
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Scandal for Sale
Title: Scandal for Sale
Character: Stella
Released: April 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
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Little Caesar
Title: Little Caesar
Character: Olga Stassoff
Released: January 25, 1931
Type: Movie
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?