Bert Roach

Bert Roach

Born: August 20, 1891
Died: February 16, 1971
in Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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Egbert "Bert" Roach (August 21, 1891 – February 16, 1971) was an American film actor. He appeared in 327 films between 1914 and 1951. He was born in Washington, D.C., and died in Los Angeles, California, age 79.

Movies for Bert Roach...

The Big Parade of Comedy
Title: The Big Parade of Comedy
Character: Foster in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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The Tall Target
Title: The Tall Target
Character: Politician (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1951
Type: Movie
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.
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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1951
Type: Movie
A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Title: Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Character: Crandall (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1947
Type: Movie
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.
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The Perils of Pauline
Title: The Perils of Pauline
Character: Western Saloon Set Bartender
Released: July 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take
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Fun on a Weekend
Title: Fun on a Weekend
Character: Oswald J. Nicholl
Released: May 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.
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Duel in the Sun
Title: Duel in the Sun
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
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Decoy
Title: Decoy
Character: Bartender
Released: September 14, 1946
Type: Movie
A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before she dies.
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Title: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Character: Man Waiting (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1946
Type: Movie
Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.
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Man from Rainbow Valley
Title: Man from Rainbow Valley
Character: Mayor
Released: June 15, 1946
Type: Movie
When unscrupulous rodeo promoter Colonel Winthrop gets the idea of capturing "Outlaw" and making him a show horse, his niece Kay North tricks Monte into believing she is a writer assigned to do an article on the real horse.
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Little Giant
Title: Little Giant
Character: Joe (bartender) (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1946
Type: Movie
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
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Swingin' on a Rainbow
Title: Swingin' on a Rainbow
Character: Drunken Man (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
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Lady on a Train
Title: Lady on a Train
Released: August 3, 1945
Type: Movie
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
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Her Favorite Patient
Title: Her Favorite Patient
Character: George Hastings
Released: June 22, 1945
Type: Movie
A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and help him, and he and a macho test pilot who's fallen for her come up with a plan that involves the pilot faking an illness and being treated by her, with her uncle's "help".
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Sensations of 1945
Title: Sensations of 1945
Character: Photographer in Penny Arcade Number (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1944
Type: Movie
As dancer Ginny Walker performs on stage, a veiled woman in the audience stands up, accuses Ginny of stealing her husband and then fires a gun at her. After Ginny collapses and is taken to her dressing room, the woman, Julia Westcolt, a friend of Ginny's, dashes backstage, discards her veil, and then congratulates her friend on their successful publicity stunt. When Ginny's press agents, Gus Crane and his son Junior, visit their client backstage, she brags about her feat and chides them for not being more creative in promoting her. Horrified at Ginny's brashness, Junior, a conservative Harvard graduate, chastises her and leaves the room.
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Mardi Gras
Title: Mardi Gras
Character: Chamberlain
Released: October 1, 1943
Type: Movie
The first of a series of six two-reel "Musical Parade" shorts produced in Technicolor for the Paramount 1943-44 production season. The series would continue into 1948, and then were reissued in the early 50's. Songs included "All the Way" and "At the Mardi Gras."
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Hi Diddle Diddle
Title: Hi Diddle Diddle
Character: Fat Man
Released: August 2, 1943
Type: Movie
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.
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Quiet Please, Murder
Title: Quiet Please, Murder
Character: Hungry Library Patron
Released: March 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
Title: Happy Times and Jolly Moments
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
Title: Once Upon a Honeymoon
Character: Ship Bartender (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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Dr. Renault's Secret
Title: Dr. Renault's Secret
Character: Inn Proprietor
Released: October 19, 1942
Type: Movie
A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancée who lives with her scientist father Dr. Renault and his Ape-like manservant Noel. Several Murders coincide with Dr. Forbes arrival, with clues pointing in multiple directions.
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My Sister Eileen
Title: My Sister Eileen
Character: Pete the Drunk (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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My Favorite Spy
Title: My Favorite Spy
Character: Pedestrian in Park
Released: June 12, 1942
Type: Movie
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
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Grand Central Murder
Title: Grand Central Murder
Character: Tubby (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a slew of suspects for questioning. Mida's shady ex-flame, Turk, seems the most likely culprit, but when smart-mouthed private eye Rocky Custer -- also a suspect himself -- begins to piece together the crime, a few clues that Gunther has overlooked come to light.
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
Title: The Wife Takes a Flyer
Character: Guldschreschts
Released: April 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
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Fingers at the Window
Title: Fingers at the Window
Character: Krum
Released: April 22, 1942
Type: Movie
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
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Wedding Yells
Title: Wedding Yells
Character: Papa Biddlebump
Released: March 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).
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Hellzapoppin'
Title: Hellzapoppin'
Character: Robert T. MacChesney (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
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Three Girls About Town
Title: Three Girls About Town
Character: Advising Drunk
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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Love Crazy
Title: Love Crazy
Character: Front Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
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I'll Wait for You
Title: I'll Wait for You
Character: Jim, the Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: May 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
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The Mortal Storm
Title: The Mortal Storm
Character: Fat Song Leader in Cafe
Released: June 20, 1940
Type: Movie
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up in the turmoil.
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Women Without Names
Title: Women Without Names
Character: Ogrim - Stubborn Juror
Released: March 14, 1940
Type: Movie
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
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Another Thin Man
Title: Another Thin Man
Character: Cookie (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
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Fast and Furious
Title: Fast and Furious
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
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Nurse Edith Cavell
Title: Nurse Edith Cavell
Character: George Moulin
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Title: The Man in the Iron Mask
Character: Athos
Released: July 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Tyrannical King Louis XIV learns that he has an identical twin brother, Philippe, who was raised from birth by his late father's trusted friend D'Artagnan and his faithful musketeers, Porthos, Athos and Aramis. After Philippe falls for the king's betrothed, Spanish Princess Maria Theresa, Louis imprisons him, forcing his brother to don an iron mask that will slowly suffocate him -- and it's up to D'Artagnan to rescue him.
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Man About Town
Title: Man About Town
Character: Arab Petitioner in Show (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.
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Hotel Imperial
Title: Hotel Imperial
Character: Fat Comic (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
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Rose of Washington Square
Title: Rose of Washington Square
Character: Mr. Paunch (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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Code of the Streets
Title: Code of the Streets
Character: Joe
Released: April 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis, Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay is innocent.
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Honolulu
Title: Honolulu
Character: Grayson's Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
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They Made Me a Criminal
Title: They Made Me a Criminal
Character: Hendricks (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Title: Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr. Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments.
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Say It in French
Title: Say It in French
Character: Waiter
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
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The Great Waltz
Title: The Great Waltz
Character: Vogelhuber
Released: November 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
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The Arkansas Traveler
Title: The Arkansas Traveler
Character: Optimistic Hobo
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, a newspaper started by Mr. Allen, an old friend who is now deceased.
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Romance on the Run
Title: Romance on the Run
Character: Happy Drunk
Released: May 11, 1938
Type: Movie
A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in recovering a stolen necklace. In the process also gets involved with a secretary at the insurance company.
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Joy of Living
Title: Joy of Living
Character: German Waiter at Beer Garden (Uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
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Walking Down Broadway
Title: Walking Down Broadway
Character: Archie - Stage Manager
Released: March 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
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A Slight Case of Murder
Title: A Slight Case of Murder
Character: Speakeasy Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
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International Settlement
Title: International Settlement
Character: Lord Fauntleroy
Released: February 4, 1938
Type: Movie
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
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Mannequin
Title: Mannequin
Character: Mr. Schwartz (Uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
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The Jury's Secret
Title: The Jury's Secret
Character: Juror Hackenmeir
Released: January 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
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Beg, Borrow or Steal
Title: Beg, Borrow or Steal
Character: Mr. Ed Thompson (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 1937
Type: Movie
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and his wife, Agatha, have been separated for 15 years, but he promises to give their daughter, Joyce, a lavish wedding at his "château" in France. The fact that he doesn't have a château in France is just a minor trifle. He induces the caretaker, Bill Cherau, of a large country estate to allow it to be used for the wedding. The wedding party arrives and Bill falls madly in love with Joyce and she with him, but a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do, and her intended marriage to stuffed-shirt Horace Miller stays on the books. But Steward has a change of heart and he tells one and all that he and his friends, Von Gersdorff, Lefevre, Iznamof, Clifton Summitt and Sasch, are all frauds and crooks. Horace and his family stalk out, which is just fine with Joyce as her true love, the caretaker, is waiting on the grounds.
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Double Wedding
Title: Double Wedding
Character: Shrank
Released: October 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
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The Girl Said No
Title: The Girl Said No
Character: Sugar Plum
Released: September 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Jimmie Allen, a shady bookie, is in love with Pearl Proctor, a greedy dance hall girl. He schemes to get her back after she rejects him; and along the way, he revives a failing Gilbert and Sullivan troupe.
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Saratoga
Title: Saratoga
Character: Passenger on Train (uncredited)
Released: July 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Title: The Emperor's Candlesticks
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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The Good Old Soak
Title: The Good Old Soak
Character: Mike
Released: April 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
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God's Country and the Woman
Title: God's Country and the Woman
Character: Kewpie
Released: January 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and slowly learns the business and of his brother's dirty tricks.
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San Francisco
Title: San Francisco
Character: Freddie Duane
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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Fury
Title: Fury
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Sons o' Guns
Title: Sons o' Guns
Character: Vogel
Released: May 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
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Love Before Breakfast
Title: Love Before Breakfast
Character: The Host
Released: March 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.
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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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Guard That Girl
Title: Guard That Girl
Character: Ellwood
Released: November 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Attorney Joshua Scranton hires "Budge" Edwards and Larry Donovan, who has just bought into Edwards' detective agency, to protect Estelle Hudson, a client of his who is to inherit three-million dollars the next Thursday. He tells them he has reason to believe the girl is in danger from five relatives who stand to benefit from her death.
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Keystone Hotel
Title: Keystone Hotel
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: September 21, 1935
Type: Movie
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies. The Keystone Kops are summoned, and arrive just in time to get plastered with pastry.
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Here Comes the Band
Title: Here Comes the Band
Character: Drummer in Band
Released: August 30, 1935
Type: Movie
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
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Public Hero Number 1
Title: Public Hero Number 1
Character: Salesman on Bus Annoying Terry (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
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Traveling Saleslady
Title: Traveling Saleslady
Character: Harry
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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Shadow of Doubt
Title: Shadow of Doubt
Character: Stumbling Detective After Trenna
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
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Paris Interlude
Title: Paris Interlude
Character: Noble
Released: July 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...
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Handy Andy
Title: Handy Andy
Character: Phil (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1934
Type: Movie
A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national chain. In addition, she tries to set up her pretty young daughter with the nitwit son of the chain's owner, even though the girl is in love with the handsome son of the town doctor. Finally the druggist decides he's had enough and takes matters into his own hands.
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Half a Sinner
Title: Half a Sinner
Character: Rumplemeyer
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.
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The Thin Man
Title: The Thin Man
Character: Crying Man at Party (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1934
Type: Movie
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
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Only Yesterday
Title: Only Yesterday
Character: Rex (Uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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Secret Sinners
Title: Secret Sinners
Character: The Out of Work Actor
Released: October 19, 1933
Type: Movie
A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to another new acquaintance, a man of means, unaware that he is married and going through a messy divorce.
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Daring Daughters
Title: Daring Daughters
Character: Joby Johnson
Released: March 23, 1933
Type: Movie
A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.
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The Trial of Vince Barnett
Title: The Trial of Vince Barnett
Released: March 1, 1933
Type: Movie
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Title: Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Character: John
Released: February 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.
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Call Her Savage
Title: Call Her Savage
Character: Man Who Tries to Pick Up Nasa (Uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
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Evenings for Sale
Title: Evenings for Sale
Character: Otto Volk
Released: November 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Impoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume ball. There he meets lovely Lela Fischer and falls in love with her. A chance meeting with his former butler, brings a job offer as a gigolo.
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Love Me Tonight
Title: Love Me Tonight
Character: Emile
Released: August 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
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Bird of Paradise
Title: Bird of Paradise
Character: Hector
Released: August 12, 1932
Type: Movie
When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in and saves his life. Thus begins the romance of Johnny and Luana. Though Luana is promised to another man, Johnny whisks her away, and for a brief time the lovers live very happily together. But, when a local volcano threatens their lives, Luana knows that she must sacrifice herself to the volcanic gods in order to save her island.
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Night World
Title: Night World
Character: Tommy
Released: May 4, 1932
Type: Movie
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
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The Impatient Maiden
Title: The Impatient Maiden
Character: Mr. Gilman
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
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Hotel Continental
Title: Hotel Continental
Character: Charlie Layton
Released: February 21, 1932
Type: Movie
Scheduled for demolition, Hotel Continental has seen 50 years of romance, intrigue, and tragedy. The last night attracts many nostalgic patrons, including a gangster planning to grab the loot that he hid there many years ago.
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
Title: Murders in the Rue Morgue
Character: Paul
Released: January 27, 1932
Type: Movie
In 19th Century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
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Arrowsmith
Title: Arrowsmith
Character: Bert Tozer
Released: December 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
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Compromised
Title: Compromised
Character: Tony
Released: November 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie. The two go through contentious times with the Brock patriarch, but when Stella becomes a mother, she seems to becomes accepted, although it's used as a way to shift Sidney's and the child's affections from her. Connie comes back into their lives, now seeking to reclaim Sidney, and manipulates the situation to convince Stella that he's been seeing her. So Stella decides to get a divorce, but fortunately, Sidney becomes aware of the deception in time.
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Six Cylinder Love
Title: Six Cylinder Love
Character: Harold Rogers
Released: May 10, 1931
Type: Movie
Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for rides.
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The Bad Sister
Title: The Bad Sister
Character: Wade Trumbull
Released: March 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Marianne. Marianne returns and marries a wealthy young man, and Lindley turns his love toward Laura.
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Captain Thunder
Title: Captain Thunder
Character: Pablo
Released: December 27, 1930
Type: Movie
A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the darndest Mexican accents you've ever heard in your life. The star is Hungarian-born Victor Varconi, portraying a legendary south of the border outlaw who tries to force Canadian senorita Fay Wray to marry a rival rustler whom she despises. She pleads with the bandito so pathetically that he is moved to grant her a single wish. Without hesitation she chooses her poor but true love. The bandit king, being a somewhat honorable fellow grants the wish and without a twitch, guns down the wicked cattle thief. Fortunately the film was played for comedy, a wise decision since it probably would have garnered laughs as a straight drama anyway.
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The Princess and the Plumber
Title: The Princess and the Plumber
Character: Albert Bowers
Released: December 21, 1930
Type: Movie
A derogated prince hopes to restore his wealth and power by marrying off his daughter to royalty. Unfortunately, she has fallen in love with a young man who has been hired to fix the plumbing in their run-down castle.
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Free Love
Title: Free Love
Character: Bit Part (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.
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Viennese Nights
Title: Viennese Nights
Character: Gus Sascher
Released: November 25, 1930
Type: Movie
In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Elsa instead marries the wealthier officer Franz von Renner, in an attempt at social climbing.
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Liliom
Title: Liliom
Character: Wolf
Released: September 27, 1930
Type: Movie
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends.
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Lawful Larceny
Title: Lawful Larceny
Character: French
Released: August 17, 1930
Type: Movie
When Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she dedicates herself to recovering the money.
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The Song of the Flame
Title: The Song of the Flame
Character: Count Boris
Released: May 24, 1930
Type: Movie
This was a screen version of the 1925 operetta by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Herbert Stohart, and George Gershwin. The story of the movie is about a peasant who is known as "The Flame" who leads a revolution in Russia. This peasant who is in love with a Russian prince saves his life by agreeing to sacrifice her virginity to an evil fellow-conspirator. This was an all Technicolor musical which was had a sequence in Vitascope (a Warner Brother's wide screen process)
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Hold Everything
Title: Hold Everything
Character: Nosey Bartlett
Released: March 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.
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Down with Husbands
Title: Down with Husbands
Character: George Fuller
Released: March 8, 1930
Type: Movie
When their wives go on strike, two husbands form an organization they call the "Husbands Protective League".
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No, No, Nanette
Title: No, No, Nanette
Character: Bill Early
Released: January 3, 1930
Type: Movie
A bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show.
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Young Nowheres
Title: Young Nowheres
Character: Mr. Jesse
Released: October 20, 1929
Type: Movie
Young Nowheres is a 1929 American drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Richard Barthelmess, Marian Nixon and Bert Roach.
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So Long Letty
Title: So Long Letty
Character: Tommy Robbins
Released: October 16, 1929
Type: Movie
Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise talking employee named Letty, which causes him to leave the hotel. When he finds Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife and likes her and the way she keeps a clean house. To get a big check from Uncle Claude and to see how life is with the other, the two couples switch spouses for a week.
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The Time, the Place and the Girl
Title: The Time, the Place and the Girl
Character: Bert Holmes
Released: July 7, 1929
Type: Movie
A musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player whose swollen head is deflated when, after graduating , he takes a job as a Wall Street stock salesman. While poor at selling, he knows how to charm women and his boss has him concentrate his efforts on disposing of bad stock to gullible females, one of whom turns out to be the wife of his boss. The film is considered lost, with only its soundtrack remaining.
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The Desert Rider
Title: The Desert Rider
Character: Friar Bernardo
Released: May 11, 1929
Type: Movie
Jack Hoxie pledges to take care of a prospector's son before the man dies from shooting wounds. Jack Hoxie must find the killer before he disappears with the prospector's gold. A young woman also searches the killer for motives of her own.
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Honeymoon
Title: Honeymoon
Character: Bert
Released: December 29, 1928
Type: Movie
Two men are rivals for the same girl. When she finally agrees to marry one, the other--appearing to be magnanimous in defeat--presents his former rival with a beautiful German Shepherd dog as a wedding present. It turns out, however, that he had an ulterior motive--he had trained the pooch to allow absolutely no one to get near the young woman. Complications ensue.
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The Last Warning
Title: The Last Warning
Character: Mike Brody
Released: December 25, 1928
Type: Movie
A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.
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Show People
Title: Show People
Character: Heavyset Man in Casting Agency (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
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Telling the World
Title: Telling the World
Character: Lane
Released: June 30, 1928
Type: Movie
The journalist Don Davis becomes involved in a murder case, where Chrystal Malone is part of it. Davis follows Chrystal to China. When Chrystal arrives in China, Davis has to save her from an execution.
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A Certain Young Man
Title: A Certain Young Man
Character: Mr. Crutchley
Released: May 19, 1928
Type: Movie
An aristocratic English womanizer is forced to take a fishing trip to avoid the husbands of his conquests, meets a young American lady on the train, and follows her to Biarritz.
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Under the Black Eagle
Title: Under the Black Eagle
Character: Hans Schmidt
Released: March 24, 1928
Type: Movie
A German Shepherd Dog and the people he loves are entangled in World War One.
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The Crowd
Title: The Crowd
Character: Bert
Released: March 3, 1928
Type: Movie
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.
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The Latest from Paris
Title: The Latest from Paris
Character: Bert Blevins
Released: February 4, 1928
Type: Movie
The Latest from Paris takes place in New York's garment district, where business rivals Blogg and Littauer have been carrying on a feud for years. In the tradition of Romeo and Juliet, heroine Ann Dolan works for Blogg, while her sweetheart Joe Adams is employed by Littauer.
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The Battle of the Century
Title: The Battle of the Century
Character: Ringside spectator
Released: December 31, 1927
Type: Movie
Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.
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Twelve Miles Out
Title: Twelve Miles Out
Character: Luke
Released: July 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Jerry always wins in his rivalry with Red over women, gunrunning, and diamond smuggling. While running booze into the U.S. during Prohibition, Jerry seizes Jane's seaside home. When she tries to turn him in, he kidnaps her and her fiance John. Jane, now in love with Jerry, must watch as Jerry and Red shoot it out on board Jerry's boat.
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Tillie the Toiler
Title: Tillie the Toiler
Character: Bill
Released: June 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Tillie is a secretary always dressed in the height of fashion who tries to capture a millionaire named Pennington Fish. Once she gets a stenographic position at Mr. Simpkins's company she sets her cap for the general manager, Benjamin Franklin Whipple. Eventually Tillie announces that she is going to "catch the rich Mr. Fish by using Whipple as the worm."
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The Taxi Dancer
Title: The Taxi Dancer
Character: Charlie Cook
Released: February 5, 1927
Type: Movie
A southern girl tries her luck as a dancer in New York City.
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Tin Hats
Title: Tin Hats
Character: "Dutch" Krausmeyer
Released: November 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Three United States soldiers are lost in the Rhineland on Armistice Day and accepted as conquering overlords by a village... except for Lady Bountiful.
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The Flaming Forest
Title: The Flaming Forest
Character: Sloppy
Released: November 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Based on a James Oliver Curwood yarn, the outsized Northwest Mountie adventure The Flaming Forest stars Antonio Moreno as RCMP sergeant David Carrigan.
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Money Talks
Title: Money Talks
Character: Oscar Waters
Released: May 10, 1926
Type: Movie
Sam Starling (Owen Moore) is deep in debt, his wife Phoebe (Claire Windsor) is leaving him and still he is confident. When Phoebe boards a luxury yacht and is wooed by the captain, Sam comes aboard as a woman and tries to seduce the captain (in fact, a liquor smuggler), away from his wife.
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Don't
Title: Don't
Character: Uncle Nat
Released: November 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Don't is a 1926 silent Comedy
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The Denial
Title: The Denial
Character: Arthur
Released: March 22, 1925
Type: Movie
When Dorothy wants to marry Bob (Robert Agnew), her mother, Mildred, forbids the match. Dorothy angrily asserts that Mildred might reconsider if her own mother had forbid her marriage. The rest of the film is a flashback, as Mildred recalls her own youth, when her dictatorial mother did forbid her to marry Lyman. Lyman enlisted with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders to fight in the Spanish-American War, but was killed in battle.
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Excuse Me
Title: Excuse Me
Character: Jimmy Wellington
Released: January 19, 1925
Type: Movie
A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.
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Smouldering Fires
Title: Smouldering Fires
Character: Member of the Committee
Released: January 18, 1925
Type: Movie
A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her much younger factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.
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That's the Spirit
Title: That's the Spirit
Character: The Butler
Released: September 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Mr Green tells his wife that spiritualism is the bunk. She offers to run a seance that evening. While she does so, a crooked scientist creeps in to steal a skeleton and a chicken thief does likewise to general confusion in this Universal horror-comedy short.
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A Lady of Quality
Title: A Lady of Quality
Character: Sir Christopher Crowell
Released: January 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Clorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to a rich nobleman, Mertoun, the Duke of Osmonde. Clorinda accidentally kills Sir John when he, infuriated by her forthcoming marriage, threatens to blackmail her. She buries the body in the cellar and admits her act to the forgiving Osmonde before marrying him.
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The Flirt
Title: The Flirt
Character: Wade Trumble
Released: December 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Treats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged to Richard Lindley but is attracted to Val Corliss, who has come to town to promote oil stock. When Cora's father refuses to become involved, she forges his name on some papers, thus enabling Corliss to sell many shares.
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Accidents Will Happen
Title: Accidents Will Happen
Character: Ned's Valet
Released: August 20, 1922
Type: Movie
A comic one-act film about an insurance agent who has to sell an insurance policy to a reluctant client in order to win over the daughter of the insurance company’s boss.
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The Millionaire
Title: The Millionaire
Character: Bobo Harmsworth
Released: November 14, 1921
Type: Movie
Jack Norman is an office clerk who falls in love with co-worker Kate Blair, a stenographer. He gets fired from his job but before this can really sink in, he suddenly inherits 80 million dollars from a financier who once loved his mother. The financier, Glyde, was murdered, so Norman also inherits a load of troubles involving the blackmailers who want to killed him. In his attempt to outwit them, Norman poses as a valet, and has a friend impersonate him.
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The Rowdy
Title: The Rowdy
Character: Howard Morse
Released: September 19, 1921
Type: Movie
When retired New England skipper Captain Purcell finds Kit as a baby in a storm, he adopts the child, who grows up to be an adventurous youngster of the docks.
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Hold Your Breath
Title: Hold Your Breath
Released: August 31, 1921
Type: Movie
Charles and Bert who have defied the Volstead act are seen clambering about the roof of a building, high above a busy street. After a few hair-raising stunts that will give nervous ones in your audience a jolt. Bert demands money that Charles owes him. They end a fast chase on the roof of a building overlooking a lion's den. Here Bert slips down the roof in among the beasts and Bert lowers a flag to half mast, supposing of course this is the end of his pal. But to his astonishment Charles not only comes out alive but is seen reclining comfortably on one of the biggest lions.
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She Sighed by the Seaside
Title: She Sighed by the Seaside
Character: The Widower
Released: May 8, 1921
Type: Movie
Lifeguard Ben Turpin tries to keep order at the beach, where tennis players James Finlayson and Charles Conklin vie for the affection of Marie Prevost and get involved in antics including fishing and a wild boat ride in this Mack Sennett two-reeler. Roughly only half of the film still exists.
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A Small Town Idol
Title: A Small Town Idol
Character: Martin Brown
Released: February 13, 1921
Type: Movie
Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local villain to keep him away from pretty young Mary, the town beauty whom the villain wants for himself--he leaves town and goes to Hollywood to become an actor. He eventually returns home to town as a star, but once again finds himself the victim of the town villain, who this time abducts sweet young Mary. Sam must use all his acting skills to track down the villain and save Mary.
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Down on the Farm
Title: Down on the Farm
Character: Roach - the Farmer
Released: April 17, 1920
Type: Movie
The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.
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Under a Spell
Title: Under a Spell
Character: The Valet
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
When Neely is hypnotized to think he's a monkey, he goes on a freewheeling chase where he climbs things he wouldn't ordinarily and throws lots of things.
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Hearts and Flowers
Title: Hearts and Flowers
Character: Al
Released: June 22, 1919
Type: Movie
A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.
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Why Beaches Are Popular
Title: Why Beaches Are Popular
Character: Bert Roach
Released: May 10, 1919
Type: Movie
This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Title: Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Character: Von Hindenburg
Released: March 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
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Cold Hearts and Hot Flames
Title: Cold Hearts and Hot Flames
Released: September 20, 1916
Type: Movie
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Fatty's Magic Pants
Title: Fatty's Magic Pants
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1914
Type: Movie
'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready.
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Universal Ike Junior at the Dance of Little L.O.
Title: Universal Ike Junior at the Dance of Little L.O.
Released: August 25, 1914
Type: Movie
Universal Ike Junior at the Dance of Little L.O.