Roscoe Karns

Roscoe Karns

Born: September 6, 1891
Died: February 6, 1970
in San Bernardino, California, USA
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Roscoe Karns (September 7, 1891 – February 6, 1970) was an American actor who appeared in nearly 150 films between 1915 and 1964. He specialized in cynical, wise-cracking (and often tipsy) characters, and his rapid-fire delivery enlivened many comedies and crime thrillers in the 1930s and 1940s. Though he appeared in numerous silent films, such as Wings and Beggars of Life, his career didn't really take off until sound arrived. Arguably his best-known film role was the annoying bus passenger Oscar Shapeley, who tries to pick up Claudette Colbert in the Oscar-winning comedy It Happened One Night (1934), quickly followed by one of his best performances as the boozy press agent Owen O'Malley in Howard Hawks' Twentieth Century. (Six years later, he co-starred as one of the reporters in another Hawks classic, His Girl Friday.) In 1937, Paramount teamed him with Lynne Overman as a pair of laconic private eyes in two B comedy-mysteries, Murder Goes to College and Partners in Crime. From 1950 to 1954, Karns played the title role in the popular DuMont Television Network series Rocky King, Inside Detective. His son, character actor Todd Karns, also appeared in that series.

From 1959 to 1962, Karns was cast as Admiral Walter Shafer in seventy-three of the ninety-five episodes of the CBS military sitcom/drama series, Hennesey, starring Jackie Cooper in the title role of a United States Navy physician, and Abby Dalton as nurse Martha Hale.

His final film was another Hawks comedy, Man's Favorite Sport?, in 1964.

Karns was born in San Bernardino, California, and died in Los Angeles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roscoe Karns, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Man's Favorite Sport?
Title: Man's Favorite Sport?
Character: Major Phipps
Released: January 31, 1964
Type: Movie
Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he crosses paths with Abigail Paige, a sweetly annoying girl who has just badgered his boss into signing Roger up for an annual fishing tournament.
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Title: The Lucy Show
Character: Mr. Foley
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.
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Title: Hennesey
Released: September 28, 1959
Type: TV
Hennesey is an American military sitcom/drama television series with Jackie Cooper in the title role that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1962. Cooper played a United States Navy physician, Lt. Charles J. "Chick" Hennesey, with Abby Dalton as Navy nurse Lt. Martha Hale. In the story line, they are assigned to the hospital at the U.S. Naval Station in San Diego, California.
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Onionhead
Title: Onionhead
Character: 'Windy' Woods
Released: October 25, 1958
Type: Movie
Follow-up to Andy Griffith's big hit in "No Time for Sergeants" moves the action to the Coast Guard and WW II.
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Title: Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Character: Ed Church
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: TV
Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.
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Title: December Bride
Released: October 4, 1954
Type: TV
December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953.
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Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Title: Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Character: Officer Carmody
Released: July 16, 1948
Type: Movie
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.
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Speed to Spare
Title: Speed to Spare
Character: Kangaroo
Released: May 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Stunt driver Cliff Jordan takes a job with his old pal Jerry McGee, branch manager of an express trucking firm. Jerry is married to Mary, Cliff's former girl friend. Also working for Jerry is Pete Simmons, son of the owner Al Simmons, and office secretary Jane Chandler, who is Pete's sweetheart. Before long, Cliff has made enemies of Pusher Wilks, a trucker whose run he takes over, and also Pete, whose girl he is trying to take over. Pusher sabotages Cliff's rig at every opportunity causing several near-fatal accidents.
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Devil's Cargo
Title: Devil's Cargo
Character: Lt. Hardy
Released: April 1, 1948
Type: Movie
John Calvert takes over as the Falcon in this Poverty-Row continuation of the film series.
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The Inside Story
Title: The Inside Story
Character: Eustace Peabody
Released: March 14, 1948
Type: Movie
A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by mistake and solves a number of financial problems before it is returned.
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That's My Man
Title: That's My Man
Character: Toby Gleeton
Released: June 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.
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Vigilantes of Boomtown
Title: Vigilantes of Boomtown
Character: Bill Delaney
Released: February 15, 1947
Type: Movie
The ranch of Red Ryder (Allan Lane) and his aunt, The Duchess (Martha Wentworth), is being used as the training site for "Gentleman Jim" Corbett (George Turner) for his upcoming fight in Carson City, Nevada for the heavyweight championship against Bob Fitzsimmons (John Dehner). Molly McVey (Peggy Stewart), the daughter of a U.S. Senator, crusading against prize-fighting in Nevada, complicates matters soemwhat when she conceives the bright idea of having Corbett kidnapped, thus causing the cancellation of the fight. The two men (George Chesebro and George Lloyd) she hires to do the kidnapping also add to the complications by kidnapping Ryder instead of Corbett. Meanwhile, a gang of crooks, led by McKean (Roy Barcroft), descend on the town intent on looting the town and also making off with the fight proceeds.
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Avalanche
Title: Avalanche
Character: Red Kelly
Released: June 30, 1946
Type: Movie
Two T-men track a tax evader and his money to an Idaho ski resort, where a raven tends bar.
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I Ring Doorbells
Title: I Ring Doorbells
Character: Stubby
Released: February 28, 1946
Type: Movie
Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a playwright. Believing his grown son is in danger of marrying a gold digger, the paper's publisher assigns his new reporter to expose her.
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One Way to Love
Title: One Way to Love
Character: Hobie Simmons
Released: January 8, 1946
Type: Movie
A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and the other must write commercial jingles.
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Hi, Good Lookin'!
Title: Hi, Good Lookin'!
Character: Archie
Released: March 22, 1944
Type: Movie
An usher at a radio station studio pretends to be an executive at the station in order to help a pretty girl become a singer.
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The Navy Way
Title: The Navy Way
Character: Frankie Gimble
Released: February 26, 1944
Type: Movie
The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.
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Minstrel Man
Title: Minstrel Man
Character: Lasses White
Released: January 2, 1944
Type: Movie
Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents of veteran vaudevillian Benny Fields. The star is cast as Dixie Boy Johnson, who rises from the ranks of minstrel shows to become a top Broadway attraction. On the opening night of his greatest stage triumph, Dixie Boy's wife dies in childbirth. Profoundly shaken, he walks out of the show, leaving the baby to be raised by his showbiz pals Mae and Lasses White (Gladys George, Roscoe Karns). The kid grows up to be an attractive young woman named Caroline (Judy Clark), who follows in her dad's footsteps by billing herself as-that's right-Dixie Girl Johnson. This leads to a tearful reunion between Caroline and the father she'd long assumed to be dead. If Minstrel Man seems at times to be a dress rehearsal for Columbia's The Jolson Story (1946), it shouldn't surprising: the PRC film was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, who went on to helm Jolson Story's musical highlights.
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Old Acquaintance
Title: Old Acquaintance
Character: Charlie Archer
Released: November 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
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His Butler's Sister
Title: His Butler's Sister
Character: Fields
Released: November 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
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Riding High
Title: Riding High
Character: Shorty
Released: November 11, 1943
Type: Movie
No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell. Lamour stars as Ann Castle, a former burlesque queen who heads westward to claim her father's silver mine. Powell plays mining engineer Steve Baird, who like Ann has a vested interest in the worked-out mine. With the help of genial counterfeiter Mortimer J. Slocum (Victor Moore), Steve and Ann are able to peddle mining stock, thus saving her from bankruptcy. The stockholders are in a lynching mood when it appears that they've been flim-flammed, but a last minute "miracle" saves the day. Featured in the cast are Paramount stalwarts Cass Daley and Gil Lamb, the former doing her quasi-Martha Raye act and the latter swallowing his harmonica for the millionth time. Production values are excellent and the songs are exuberantly performed; it's only in its hackneyed plot that Riding High slows to a clip-clop.
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Stage Door Canteen
Title: Stage Door Canteen
Character: Roscoe Karns
Released: June 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
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My Son, The Hero
Title: My Son, The Hero
Character: Big-Time Morgan
Released: April 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Learning that his long-unseen son is soon to arrive for a visit, a small-time con-man enlists the help of his cronies to help him pretend to be a wealthy and important businessman. Comedy.
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You Can't Escape Forever
Title: You Can't Escape Forever
Character: 'Mac' McTurk
Released: October 10, 1942
Type: Movie
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.
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Yokel Boy
Title: Yokel Boy
Character: Al Devers
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and makes off with the money. But all ends well.
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Woman of the Year
Title: Woman of the Year
Character: Phil Whittaker
Released: February 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
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A Tragedy at Midnight
Title: A Tragedy at Midnight
Character: Cassidy
Released: February 2, 1942
Type: Movie
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
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Road to Happiness
Title: Road to Happiness
Character: Charley Grady
Released: December 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy.
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Half Shot at Sunrise
Title: Half Shot at Sunrise
Character: Henry Warren
Released: September 4, 1941
Type: Movie
After his wife walks out on him, obnoxious Roscoe takes his son to the movies and creates havoc in the theater.
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The Gay Vagabond
Title: The Gay Vagabond
Character: Arthur Dixon / Jerry Dixon
Released: May 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.
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Black Eyes and Blues
Title: Black Eyes and Blues
Character: Alfred Harmon
Released: April 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Roscoe's wife decides to divorce him and heads for Reno.
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Footsteps in the Dark
Title: Footsteps in the Dark
Character: Monahan
Released: March 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
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Petticoat Politics
Title: Petticoat Politics
Character: Joe Higgins
Released: January 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend to the Higgins girl and the son of Pa's opponent.
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Meet the Missus
Title: Meet the Missus
Character: Joe Higgins
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow.
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Ladies Must Live
Title: Ladies Must Live
Character: Pete Larrabee
Released: July 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A small town farmer, who happens to be very wealthy, meets and falls for an actress, but his friends warn him she's only interested in his money.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Irish McGurn
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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Saturday's Children
Title: Saturday's Children
Character: Willie Sands
Released: May 4, 1940
Type: Movie
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
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Double Alibi
Title: Double Alibi
Character: Jeremiah Jenkins
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
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His Girl Friday
Title: His Girl Friday
Character: McCue
Released: January 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
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That's Right - You're Wrong
Title: That's Right - You're Wrong
Character: Mal Stamp
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.
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Everything's on Ice
Title: Everything's on Ice
Character: Felix Miller
Released: October 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Comedy about a little girl who's uncle makes her an ice skating star, only to take all of her money.
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Dancing Co-Ed
Title: Dancing Co-Ed
Character: Joe Drews
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
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King of Chinatown
Title: King of Chinatown
Character: Rep Harrigan
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
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Thanks for the Memory
Title: Thanks for the Memory
Character: George Kent
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
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You and Me
Title: You and Me
Character: Cuffy
Released: June 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
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Tip-Off Girls
Title: Tip-Off Girls
Character: Tom Benson aka Tommy Logan
Released: April 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers.
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Dangerous to Know
Title: Dangerous to Know
Character: Duncan
Released: March 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.
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Scandal Street
Title: Scandal Street
Character: Austin Brown
Released: February 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in the small town of Midberg, where she boards with the Smith family. Nora is befriended by her next-door neighbor Austin Brown, who, unknown to his wife, is engaged in a moneymaking scheme with James Wilson.
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Partners in Crime
Title: Partners in Crime
Character: Sim Perkins
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.
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On Such a Night
Title: On Such a Night
Character: Joe Flynn
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence.
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Night of Mystery
Title: Night of Mystery
Character: Sergeant Heath
Released: May 21, 1937
Type: Movie
One of a series of movies based on the character Philo Vance
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Murder Goes to College
Title: Murder Goes to College
Character: Sim Perkins
Released: February 24, 1937
Type: Movie
The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the underworld trying to “beat the numbers-racket” with applied mathematics. One of the professors, Tom Barry is murdered in the Dean’s office.
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Clarence
Title: Clarence
Character: Clarence Smith
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things, and who concentrates by playing his saxophone. Clarence ingratiates himself with the wealthy and eccentric Wheeler family, though daughter Cora can't stand the boy.
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Cain and Mabel
Title: Cain and Mabel
Character: Reilly
Released: September 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.
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Three Married Men
Title: Three Married Men
Character: Peter Cary
Released: September 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Jennie Mullins and her fiancé Peter Cary are happily in love but their families are miserable about their relationship. The Carys and Mullinses have been feuding for years over the apparent failure of the Carys' business which was caused by the now-deceased Mr. Mullins. Despite familial pressure to the contrary, Jennie and Peter proceed with their wedding. Just before the wedding, Peter receives advice from his soon-to-be brothers-in-law, Jeff and Bill Mullins. Both men warn him about the drudgery of marriage, ply him with drink, and destroy his fantasy of an ideal, romantic marriage.
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Border Flight
Title: Border Flight
Character: Calico Smith
Released: May 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Farmer) in a concerning the Coast Guard and smugglers. The chief points of interest are the truly exceptional aerial sequences and Farmer's early performance.
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Woman Trap
Title: Woman Trap
Character: Mopsy
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin, whose investigation of the murder leads to a tenure as a temporary FBI agent.
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Two-Fisted
Title: Two-Fisted
Character: Chick Moran
Released: October 3, 1935
Type: Movie
A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is now out of the sport and has a drinking problem. They decide to train him for a big match, and in the process find themselves involved in romance, shady characters and a possible kidnapping.
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Front Page Woman
Title: Front Page Woman
Character: Toots O'Grady
Released: July 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.
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Alibi Ike
Title: Alibi Ike
Character: Carey
Released: June 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.
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Four Hours to Kill!
Title: Four Hours to Kill!
Character: Johnson
Released: April 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.
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The Woman in Red
Title: The Woman in Red
Character: Man in court room (uncredited)
Released: February 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust family in this horsy-set drama.
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Red Hot Tires
Title: Red Hot Tires
Character: Bud Keene
Released: February 2, 1935
Type: Movie
An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion.
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Wings in the Dark
Title: Wings in the Dark
Character: Nick Williams
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
In his dedicated pursuit of technology that will aid pilots to safely "fly blind" during adverse conditions, aerial innovator Ken Gordon is literally blinded in an accident, but this setback doesn't deter him from his goal.
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I Sell Anything
Title: I Sell Anything
Character: Monk
Released: October 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
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Shoot the Works
Title: Shoot the Works
Character: Sailor Burke
Released: July 18, 1934
Type: Movie
The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily to suit his purposes, but this time it is he who ends up the loser -- at least until he gets wise to himself.
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Twentieth Century
Title: Twentieth Century
Character: Owen O'Malley
Released: May 11, 1934
Type: Movie
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
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Come On, Marines!
Title: Come On, Marines!
Character: Spud McGurke
Released: March 23, 1934
Type: Movie
"Lucky" Davis, a ladies-man and a devil-may-care U. S. Marine Sergeant, is leading a Marine-squadron on an expedition through a Phillipine jungle where an outlaw bandit is leading a guerilla-war rebellion. Their assignment is to rescue a group of children from an island mission that has been cut off from all communication. It comes as a bit of a surprise when Davis discovers that the "children" are a group of 18-25 year-old girls blissfully bathing in a pool while awaiting rescue.
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It Happened One Night
Title: It Happened One Night
Character: Oscar Shapeley
Released: February 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A renegade reporter and a young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
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Alice in Wonderland
Title: Alice in Wonderland
Character: Tweedledee
Released: December 18, 1933
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
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The Women in His Life
Title: The Women in His Life
Character: Aloysius Lester
Released: December 8, 1933
Type: Movie
An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.
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One Sunday Afternoon
Title: One Sunday Afternoon
Character: Snappy Downer
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.
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Gambling Ship
Title: Gambling Ship
Character: Blooey
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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A Lady's Profession
Title: A Lady's Profession
Character: Tony
Released: March 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
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Today We Live
Title: Today We Live
Character: McGinnis
Released: March 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."
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Grand Slam
Title: Grand Slam
Character: Contest Radio Announcer
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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Lawyer Man
Title: Lawyer Man
Character: Merritt - Reporter (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by Gilmurry and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.
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Under-Cover Man
Title: Under-Cover Man
Character: Dannie
Released: December 2, 1932
Type: Movie
When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring that has been plaguing the police. The sister of another innocent victim joins him as they infiltrate the syndicate. Any wrong move could lead to instant death.
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If I Had a Million
Title: If I Had a Million
Character: Private O'Brien
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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They Call It Sin
Title: They Call It Sin
Character: Brad - Rehearsal Director (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1932
Type: Movie
An innocent, young, small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a crush to the big city and is left fending for herself.
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Night After Night
Title: Night After Night
Character: Leo
Released: October 29, 1932
Type: Movie
A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.
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One Way Passage
Title: One Way Passage
Character: S.S. Maloa Bartender (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
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The Crooked Circle
Title: The Crooked Circle
Character: Harry Carter
Released: September 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.
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Two Against the World
Title: Two Against the World
Character: Segall, reporter
Released: September 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A socialite finds herself involved in a murder trial that is prosecuted by her boyfriend.
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Week-End Marriage
Title: Week-End Marriage
Character: Jim Davis
Released: June 18, 1932
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner.
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The Roadhouse Murder
Title: The Roadhouse Murder
Character: Dale
Released: April 28, 1932
Type: Movie
After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news. Eric Linden, Dorothy Jordan, Bruce Cabot, Roscoe Ates, Roscoe Karns and Purnell Pratt star in this 1932 thriller, directed by J. Walter Ruben.
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Play Girl
Title: Play Girl
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1932
Type: Movie
A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.
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Stowaway
Title: Stowaway
Character: Insp. Redding
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the advances of first mate Groder. On the street and being pursued by a Policeman who thinks she is a prostitute, Mary seeks shelter on an old freighter. She is soon discovered by second mate Tommy and they quickly fall in love, but with first mate Groder lurking around will their lives work out in the end?
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Ladies of the Big House
Title: Ladies of the Big House
Character: Frank - Twenty Questions player (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
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Left Over Ladies
Title: Left Over Ladies
Character: 'Scoop'
Released: September 30, 1931
Type: Movie
Two married couples are involved in divorce proceedings; Patricia and Ronny, who are still in love with each other, and Jerry and Amy who couldn't care less for each other. Patricia's friendship with "Duchess," a tragic, aging lady well versed in making mistakes, leads her and Ronny to the avoidance of a mistake.
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Pleasure
Title: Pleasure
Character: Arnie
Released: September 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A novelist and his younger brother fall in love with the same woman.
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Laughing Sinners
Title: Laughing Sinners
Character: Fred Geer
Released: May 30, 1931
Type: Movie
Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she is saved by Carl, a Salvation Army officer. Encouraged by Carl, Ivy joins the Salvation Army. When her old flame re-enters her life, Ivy finds she is still attracted and begins another affair with him.
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Many a Slip
Title: Many a Slip
Character: Stan Price
Released: March 2, 1931
Type: Movie
Comedy centering on the question of whether a man's wife is or isn't pregnant.
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Dirigible
Title: Dirigible
Character: Sock McGuire
Released: February 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Dirigible commander Jack Braden and Navy pilot 'Frisky' Pierce fight over the glory associated with a successful expedition to the South Pole and the love of beautiful Helen, Frisky's wife. After Braden's dirigible expedition fails, Frisky tries an expedition by plane. Unfortunately he crashes and strands his party at the South Pole. Braden must decide between a risky rescue attempt by dirigible and remaining safely at home with Helen.
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The Gorilla
Title: The Gorilla
Character: Simmons
Released: November 2, 1930
Type: Movie
A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an ape. (lost film)
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The Costello Case
Title: The Costello Case
Character: Blair
Released: October 14, 1930
Type: Movie
An Irish policeman handles gangsters, a mystery woman and a wise-guy reporter.
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Man Trouble
Title: Man Trouble
Character: Scott
Released: August 24, 1930
Type: Movie
A hard-boiled nightclub owner saves a beautiful young girl from drowning. He promptly falls in love with her, but she prefers a younger, more-genteel lover.
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Little Accident
Title: Little Accident
Character: Gilbert
Released: August 3, 1930
Type: Movie
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
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Safety in Numbers
Title: Safety in Numbers
Character: Bertram Shapiro
Released: May 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Before handing over a large inheritance, a guardian hires three chorus girls to educate his charge about the "underside" of big-city life.
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Troopers Three
Title: Troopers Three
Character: Bugs
Released: February 23, 1930
Type: Movie
Eddie Haskins, a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known as 'Bugs & Sunny', and ,when they are all kicked out of a vaudeville theater in California, they enlist in the U. S. Cavalry. Eddie falls in love with Dorothy Clark, the daughter of a sergeant and, following a moonlight tryst, they are discovered by Sergeant Hank Darby who himself is in love with Dorothy. They have a fist-fight in which Eddie comes out second best. When Darby is reprimanded for fighting with an enlisted man, the troopers incorrectly think that Eddie squealed on him, and they punish him with a conspiracy of silence. Dorothy also rejects him. Eddie has a problem. Maybe a fire will break out in the stables and he can rescue Sergeant Darby.
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New York Nights
Title: New York Nights
Character: Johnny Dolan
Released: December 28, 1929
Type: Movie
Show girl Jill Deverne is married to song writer Fred Deverne, and everyone is involved in the Broadway night life and endless parties. Jill is being pursued by a gangster, and she leaves her husband after he spends the night with a floozie. Jill ends up as the gangster's moll, but she soon gets tired of the lifestyle.
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This Thing Called Love
Title: This Thing Called Love
Character: Harry Bertrand
Released: December 13, 1929
Type: Movie
A romance runs into difficulties because the girl has seen a great deal of the turbulence in her sister's household, and has no illusions about married bliss.
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Copy
Title: Copy
Character: City Editor John Mack
Released: October 11, 1929
Type: Movie
On a slow news day, the wisecracking staff of a newspaper write articles about the serious safety issues of a local excursion steamboat line.
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The Flying Fleet
Title: The Flying Fleet
Character: Shipwrecked Radio Operator (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sick, Tommy Winslow has to take his place, while the others go out and celebrate.
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The Shopworn Angel
Title: The Shopworn Angel
Character: Dance Director
Released: December 29, 1928
Type: Movie
Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.
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Jazz Mad
Title: Jazz Mad
Character: Sol Levy
Released: November 18, 1928
Type: Movie
A composer and his daughter emigrate to America in the hope that he can sell his symphony. But he meets with little success and begins to give up hope. His daughter and her friends, however, never give up hope.
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Moran of the Marines
Title: Moran of the Marines
Character: Swatty
Released: October 13, 1928
Type: Movie
Adventures of a marine in China.
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Beggars of Life
Title: Beggars of Life
Character: Lame Hoppy
Released: September 22, 1928
Type: Movie
After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.
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Win That Girl
Title: Win That Girl
Character: Johnny Norton II
Released: September 16, 1928
Type: Movie
A gridiron rivalry between two colleges is entering its third generation, and the Norton family (father and grandfather were members of teams defeated by rival squads captained by members of the Brawn family) rears Johnny Norton, 3d, to be a star football player. The lad is underweight, however, and initially shows a talent only for drop kicking. During the big game, Johnny is substituted for another player and leads his team to victory, winning for himself the love of Gloria Havens.
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Warming Up
Title: Warming Up
Character: Hippo
Released: August 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Bert, a pitcher for a baseball team in a small town, is given the opportunity to try out for a team in the big leagues. Unfortunately, he incurs the enmity of McRae, the league's leading home-run hitter. In addition, he falls for the team owner's daughter, who McRae has designs on.
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The Vanishing Pioneer
Title: The Vanishing Pioneer
Character: Ray Hearn
Released: June 23, 1928
Type: Movie
A western settlement of pioneer descendants is threatened with the loss of its water supply through the encroachments of nearby townspeople.
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The Desert Bride
Title: The Desert Bride
Character: Pvt. Terry
Released: March 26, 1928
Type: Movie
Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists while on an espionage mission. His sweetheart Diane Duval is also taken prisoner. Both are tortured by Kassim Ben Ali, leader of the Arab nationalists, but they refuse to divulge any information. They are finally rescued by French troops who storm the fortress and kill Kassim.
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The Trail of '98
Title: The Trail of '98
Character: Man on Ship (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.
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The Jazz Singer
Title: The Jazz Singer
Character: Agent (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1928
Type: Movie
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.
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Beau Sabreur
Title: Beau Sabreur
Character: Buddy
Released: January 22, 1928
Type: Movie
The film is about a desert-bound member of the French Foreign Legion who exposes a betrayer to the Legion and is then sent on a mission among the Arabs to conclude the signing of a crucial peace treaty.
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Wings
Title: Wings
Character: Lieutenant Cameron
Released: August 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
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Ten Modern Commandments
Title: Ten Modern Commandments
Character: Benny Burnaway
Released: July 27, 1927
Type: Movie
A chorus girl falls in love with a budding composer.
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You'd Be Surprised
Title: You'd Be Surprised
Character: Party Guest
Released: September 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a chance to return it by putting an empty box on a table and turning out the lights. When the lights are turned back on the box is gone, and the district attorney has a knife in his back and is quite dead. The police and the coroner arrive. There are several attempts made on the life of the coroner. Ruth Whitman is found hiding in a grandfather-clock, holding the gem box. She claims the box was pushed into her hands and she was pushed into the clock. The district attorney's butler/valet tells the coroner he saw who killed his employer and a few minutes later he is also murdered. The mystery deepens.
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The Midnight Express
Title: The Midnight Express
Character: Switch Hogan
Released: June 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Wastrel son of a railroad magnate, Jack's father becomes frustrated with his son's wild ways. To prove himself, Jack goes to work in the railroad yard as a laborer. An escaped convict, Silent Bill Brachley, steals Jack's car, and the chase leads to a meeting between Jack, the engineer of the Midnight Express, and the engineer's pretty daughter, Mary. As he is led back to jail, Brachley swears revenge.
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The Ten Commandments
Title: The Ten Commandments
Character: The Boy in the Rain (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1923
Type: Movie
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco. Two brothers, rivals for the love of Mary, also come into conflict when John discovers Dan used shoddy materials to construct a cathedral.
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Other Men's Daughters
Title: Other Men's Daughters
Character: Hubert
Released: October 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Dorothy Kane leaves home after being denounced by her father, a businessman, who is dictatorial with his family but very lavish to his female companions in the city. Dorothy unwittingly becomes involved with his nightclub friends, Lottie, Trixie, and Alaska. At a dinner party attended by elderly men and young girls, Dorothy meets her father and decides to decry him to Mrs. Kane, but later feels that it would bring much sorrow to her already neglected mother.
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The Trouper
Title: The Trouper
Released: July 23, 1922
Type: Movie
Working as a wardrobe girl in a cheap traveling stock company, Mamie Judd secretly loves Jenks, the leading man, who scarcely notices the young girl. She saves Neal Selden, son of a small-town banker, from being accused of robbery and murder, acts committed by the company's manager and leading lady.
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Her Own Money
Title: Her Own Money
Character: Jerry Woodward
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
After five years of marriage, Mildred comes to the realization that her husband, Lew, is going nowhere in the real estate business. Mildred, however, has managed to squirrel away two thousand dollars from the household budget -- enough to buy a home. But it turns out that Lew needs just that sum to avoid a financial disaster
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The Life of the Party
Title: The Life of the Party
Character: Sam Perkins
Released: November 21, 1920
Type: Movie
An attorney is thrust into wild adventures by an attractive young woman.
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The Family Honor
Title: The Family Honor
Character: Dal Tucker
Released: March 15, 1920
Type: Movie
Beverly Tucker, the daughter of an impoverished aristocratic Southern family, has scraped together her last pennies to put her brother Dal through college in the hope that he will support the family after graduation. However, Dal harbors no such ambition and instead spends his time gambling and drinking in a saloon owned by the town's mayor, Curran. During a raid led by Curran's crusading son Merle, a detective is killed and Dal is accused of the crime.
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Title: Inside Detective
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV