Edward Arnold

Edward Arnold

Born: February 17, 1890
Died: April 26, 1956
in New York City, New York, USA
Edward Arnold was born as Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider in 1890, on the Lower East Side of New York City, the son of German immigrants, Elizabeth (Ohse) and Carl Schneider. Arnold began his acting career on the New York stage and became a film actor in 1916. A burly man with a commanding style and superb baritone voice, he was a popular screen personality for decades, and was the star of such film classics as Diamond Jim (1935) (a role he reprised in Le roman de Lillian Russell (1940)) Arnold appeared in over 150 films and was President of The Screen Actors Guild shortly before his death in 1956.

Movies for Edward Arnold...

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Title: Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 29, 2013
Type: Movie
Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers from some of the biggest movies in history . You'll see stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Ronald Reagan, Marlene Dietrich, Boris Karloff, Edward G. Robinson, Errol Flynn and more. They're not so perfect after all when these flubbed moments are caught on film!
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Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It With You
Title: Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It With You
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 9, 2008
Type: Movie
The director's son gives interesting anecdotes about Frank Capra's making of the 1938 hit comedy, "You Can't Take It With You."
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Title: Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Zeigfield Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck.
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Title: James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Title: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Character: (in "Johnny Eager") (archive footage)
Released: May 21, 1982
Type: Movie
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.
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That's Entertainment!
Title: That's Entertainment!
Character: (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: June 21, 1974
Type: Movie
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
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Miami Exposé
Title: Miami Exposé
Character: Oliver Tubbs
Released: September 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A police detective baits killer gamblers with a mob witness (Patricia Medina) in the Everglades.
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The Ambassador's Daughter
Title: The Ambassador's Daughter
Character: Ambassador William Fisk
Released: July 26, 1956
Type: Movie
While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to her father that soldiers can be gentlemen, too.
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The Houston Story
Title: The Houston Story
Character: Paul Atlas
Released: February 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A Texas oil driller schemes to steal millions of dollars in oil.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Lieutenant Shipley
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Jock Fathian
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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A Star Is Born World Premiere
Title: A Star Is Born World Premiere
Character: Self
Released: September 28, 1954
Type: Movie
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.
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Twelve Angry Men
Title: Twelve Angry Men
Character: Juror #10
Released: September 20, 1954
Type: Movie
Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 September 1954, the drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title and again for a feature film, 12 Angry Men (1957). The episode garnered three Emmy Awards for writer Rose, director Franklin Schaffner and Robert Cummings as Best Actor.
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Living It Up
Title: Living It Up
Character: The Mayor of New York
Released: July 15, 1954
Type: Movie
Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris (Martin), diagnoses him with radiation poisoning and gives Homer three weeks to live. A reporter for a New York newspaper, hears of Homer's plight and convinces her editor, to provide an all-expenses paid trip to New York.
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Man of Conflict
Title: Man of Conflict
Character: J.R. Compton
Released: November 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Young man comes home to get ready to take over the family company, only to find that his father has been corrupted by power. In addition, he falls for the daughter of one of his father's poverty-stricken workers.
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City That Never Sleeps
Title: City That Never Sleeps
Character: Penrod Biddel
Released: June 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night, Angel Face decides she's had enough vacillation, and crooked lawyer Biddel has an illegal mission for Johnny that could put him in a financial position to act. But other, conflicting schemes are also in progress...
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Title: General Electric Theater
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: John Prescott / Mayor Underwood
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Title: Cavalcade of America
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
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Ellis in Freedomland
Title: Ellis in Freedomland
Character: The Range (voice)
Released: June 15, 1952
Type: Movie
Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the second half is focused on the "Spring Sales Event," called "Freedomland."
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Belles on Their Toes
Title: Belles on Their Toes
Character: Sam Harper
Released: May 2, 1952
Type: Movie
The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha, and even Ernestine find romance.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Dear Brat
Title: Dear Brat
Character: Senator Wilkins
Released: May 30, 1951
Type: Movie
Mirian Wilkins, the teenage daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge of her father, elects him to the position of honorary president. When the family's new gardener, Baxter, turns out to be a notorious ex-convict who was sentenced to prison by Senator Wilkins when he was a judge, Wilkins considers firing him until his daughter points out that would be an unwise decision considering the position her father held on society.
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The Skipper Surprised His Wife
Title: The Skipper Surprised His Wife
Character: Adm. Homer Thorndyke
Released: June 29, 1950
Type: Movie
A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship.
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Annie Get Your Gun
Title: Annie Get Your Gun
Character: Pawnee Bill
Released: May 17, 1950
Type: Movie
Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
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The Yellow Cab Man
Title: The Yellow Cab Man
Character: Martin Creavy
Released: March 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that he meets the lovely Ellen of the Yellow Cab Co., he also meets the crooked lawyer named Creavy. Pirdy is an inventor and when Creavy learns about elastic-glass, his new invention, he makes plans to steal the process. With the help of another con man named Doksteader, and the boys, he will steal this million dollar invention no matter who gets hurt.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Dear Wife
Title: Dear Wife
Character: Judge Wilkins
Released: November 15, 1949
Type: Movie
In this sequel to Dear Ruth, teenaged Miriam starts a political campaign to nominate Bill Seacroft, her brother-in-law, for state senator in opposition to the local political machine. Unknown to Miriam, said machine nominates her father, Judge Wilkins. As support grows for Bill, the presence of rival candidates under one roof poses problems, especially for Ruth, wife to Bill and daughter of the judge.
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Big Jack
Title: Big Jack
Character: Mahoney
Released: April 12, 1949
Type: Movie
Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Title: Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Character: Joe Lorgan
Released: March 9, 1949
Type: Movie
The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team. But K.C. turns outs to be a beautiful woman who really knows her baseball. Second baseman Dennis Ryan promptly falls in love. But his playboy roommate Eddie O'Brien has his own notions about how to treat the new lady owner and some unsavory gamblers have their own ideas about how to handle Eddie.
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John Loves Mary
Title: John Loves Mary
Character: Sen. James McKinley
Released: February 4, 1949
Type: Movie
After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he's missed her. And that he's married.
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Command Decision
Title: Command Decision
Character: Congressman Arthur Malcolm
Released: December 23, 1948
Type: Movie
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Juror #10
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self - Guest Host
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Wallflower
Title: Wallflower
Character: Andrew J. Linnett
Released: June 13, 1948
Type: Movie
Two stepsisters become rivals for the same handsome bachelor. Comedy.
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Big City
Title: Big City
Character: Judge Martin O. Abercrombie
Released: March 25, 1948
Type: Movie
A young orphan in New York's Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men--a minister, a cantor, and a cop.
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Three Daring Daughters
Title: Three Daring Daughters
Character: Robert Nelson
Released: February 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
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Blow-Ups of 1947
Title: Blow-Ups of 1947
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1947
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.
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The Hucksters
Title: The Hucksters
Character: David 'Dave' Lash
Released: July 17, 1947
Type: Movie
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
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Dear Ruth
Title: Dear Ruth
Character: Judge Harry Wilkins
Released: June 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Lt. William Seacroft, on leave from the Italian front, arrives at the New York home of Ruth Wilkins, with whom he has been corresponding. Unknown to both Ruth and Bill, Ruth's younger sister, Miriam, has been writing the letters and signing Ruth's name as part of a program to keep up soldiers' morale. Although Ruth has just gotten engaged to a coworker, she agrees to see Bill and pretend she wrote the letters.
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My Brother Talks to Horses
Title: My Brother Talks to Horses
Character: Mr. Charles G. Bledsoe
Released: February 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John carries on a romance with the lovely Martha.
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The Mighty McGurk
Title: The Mighty McGurk
Character: Mike Glenson
Released: January 2, 1947
Type: Movie
A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan recently arrived in the United States. Director John Waters' 1946 period comedy, set in New York's Bowery, stars Wallace Beery, Dean Stockwell, Aline MacMahon, Edward Arnold, Cameron Mitchell, Dorothy Patrick, Aubrey Mather, Clinton Sundberg, Milton Parsons, Morris Ankrum and Oliver Blake.
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Blow-Ups of 1946
Title: Blow-Ups of 1946
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1946.
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Three Wise Fools
Title: Three Wise Fools
Character: Theodore Findley
Released: September 26, 1946
Type: Movie
An orphan girl melts the hearts of three crusty old men.
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Janie Gets Married
Title: Janie Gets Married
Character: Charles Conway
Released: June 22, 1946
Type: Movie
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.
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No Leave, No Love
Title: No Leave, No Love
Character: Hobart Canford Stiles
Released: March 10, 1946
Type: Movie
A soldier returns with his pal from fighting in the Pacific during World War II only to discover his fiancee has married someone else. However, he falls in love with a woman at the hotel at which he is staying.
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Week-End at the Waldorf
Title: Week-End at the Waldorf
Character: Martin Edley
Released: October 4, 1945
Type: Movie
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
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The Hidden Eye
Title: The Hidden Eye
Character: Capt. Duncan Maclain
Released: August 31, 1945
Type: Movie
A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.
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Ziegfeld Follies
Title: Ziegfeld Follies
Character: Lawyer (segment Pay the Two Dollars)
Released: August 26, 1945
Type: Movie
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.
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Main Street After Dark
Title: Main Street After Dark
Character: Lt. Lorrgan
Released: January 12, 1945
Type: Movie
A police detective (Edward Arnold) uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket (Selena Royle) and her gang.
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Mrs. Parkington
Title: Mrs. Parkington
Character: Amory Stilham
Released: October 12, 1944
Type: Movie
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
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Kismet
Title: Kismet
Character: The Grand Vizier
Released: October 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
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Janie
Title: Janie
Character: Charles Conway
Released: September 2, 1944
Type: Movie
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.
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Standing Room Only
Title: Standing Room Only
Character: T.J. Todd
Released: January 7, 1944
Type: Movie
During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the housing shortage, are unable to find hotel rooms. In desperation, they pretend to be married and hire themselves out as a butler and maid in order to secure lodgings. Comedy.
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The Youngest Profession
Title: The Youngest Profession
Character: Burton V. Lyons
Released: February 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents to the extent of hiring Dr. Hercules, the strong man from a side show to pay attention to her mother in order to make her father jealous, despite the good advice received from Walter Pidgeon.
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Eyes in the Night
Title: Eyes in the Night
Character: Duncan 'Mac' Maclain
Released: October 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
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The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Title: The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Character: Elliot Fulton
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
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Inflation
Title: Inflation
Character: The Devil
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
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Johnny Eager
Title: Johnny Eager
Character: John Benson Farrell
Released: December 9, 1941
Type: Movie
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
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Design for Scandal
Title: Design for Scandal
Character: Judson M. 'J.M.' / 'Judsy' Blair
Released: December 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
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Unholy Partners
Title: Unholy Partners
Character: Merrill Lambert
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.
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All That Money Can Buy
Title: All That Money Can Buy
Character: Daniel Webster
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.
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Nothing But the Truth
Title: Nothing But the Truth
Character: T.T. Ralston
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Gwen Saunders teams up with her uncle's employee, Steve Bennett, in an attempt to double her $10,000 investment in the family firm. If she can reach the $20,000 mark, her uncle, T.T. Ralston, will match the figure. Steve bets that if he can spend an entire day without telling a lie, Ralston and his business partners must double Gwen's money. Bennett then earns the enmity of everyone involved in his attempt to win the bet.
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Title: The Lady from Cheyenne
Character: James 'Jim' Cork
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
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Meet John Doe
Title: Meet John Doe
Character: D.B. Norton
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
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The Penalty
Title: The Penalty
Character: Martin 'Stuff' Nelson
Released: March 13, 1941
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI agent and a cabby, the boy sees it all. Fortunately the courts intervene and send the lad off to live with a family of farmers.
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Lillian Russell
Title: Lillian Russell
Character: Diamond Jim Brady
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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Johnny Apollo
Title: Johnny Apollo
Character: Robert Cain Sr.
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
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The Earl of Chicago
Title: The Earl of Chicago
Character: Quentin 'Doc' Ramsey
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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Slightly Honorable
Title: Slightly Honorable
Character: Vincent Cushing
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Jim Taylor
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Man About Town
Title: Man About Town
Character: Sir John Arlington
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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Land of Liberty
Title: Land of Liberty
Character: Diamond Jim Brady (edited from 'Diamond Jim')
Released: June 15, 1939
Type: Movie
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
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Let Freedom Ring
Title: Let Freedom Ring
Character: Jim Knox
Released: February 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
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Idiot's Delight
Title: Idiot's Delight
Character: Achille Weber
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Anthony P. Kirby
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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The Crowd Roars
Title: The Crowd Roars
Character: Jim Cain
Released: August 6, 1938
Type: Movie
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.
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Blossoms On Broadway
Title: Blossoms On Broadway
Character: Ira Collins
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
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The Toast of New York
Title: The Toast of New York
Character: Jim Fisk
Released: July 22, 1937
Type: Movie
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
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Easy Living
Title: Easy Living
Character: J.B. Ball
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
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John Meade's Woman
Title: John Meade's Woman
Character: John Meade
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she meets "lumber king" John Meade. John takes her in for a hot meal and sends her roses the next day. John is engaged to penniless society beauty Caroline Haig, who is in love with Rodney Bentley and is marrying John for his money. A jovial millionaire without a conscience, John orders his long-time employee, Tim Mathews, to report to Chicago from the lumber mills and announces he is leaving the lumber business for wheat. Although Tim insists they reforest their lumber lands, John ignores his plea. For laughs, John invites Teddy and Tim to his engagement party at Caroline's wealthy friend's estate. Teddy, realizing John is engaged to a woman who does not love him, drowns her tears in liquor and embarrasses Caroline.
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Come and Get It
Title: Come and Get It
Character: Barney Glasgow
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
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Meet Nero Wolfe
Title: Meet Nero Wolfe
Character: Nero Wolfe
Released: July 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his comfortable home; here he relies on others to do the legwork in pinpointing who among a number of suspects is responsible for two sudden deaths, which the authorities at first are not convinced were murders.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: Johan (John) Sutter
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Crime and Punishment
Title: Crime and Punishment
Character: Inspector Porfiry
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A man is haunted by a murder he's committed.
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Remember Last Night?
Title: Remember Last Night?
Character: Danny Harrison
Released: October 28, 1935
Type: Movie
After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed.
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Diamond Jim
Title: Diamond Jim
Character: Diamond Jim
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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The Glass Key
Title: The Glass Key
Character: Paul Madvig
Released: June 15, 1935
Type: Movie
When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-hand man, must decide which side he is on.
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Cardinal Richelieu
Title: Cardinal Richelieu
Character: Louis XIII
Released: April 18, 1935
Type: Movie
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
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Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Title: Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Character: Mr. 'Feydie' Feydak
Released: January 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeking to convince her to write her biography as a feature for his magazine. One of Marion's old beaus, now running for U.S. Senator from their home state, also comes calling.
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The President Vanishes
Title: The President Vanishes
Character: Secretary of War Wardell
Released: November 17, 1934
Type: Movie
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
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Wednesday's Child
Title: Wednesday's Child
Character: Ray Phillips
Released: October 26, 1934
Type: Movie
A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.
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Million Dollar Ransom
Title: Million Dollar Ransom
Character: Vincent Shelton
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
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Hide-Out
Title: Hide-Out
Character: Det. Lt. 'Mac' MacCarthy
Released: August 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is fully prepared to shoot his way out when the cops come calling, but he is softened by the daughter's affections.
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Thirty Day Princess
Title: Thirty Day Princess
Character: Richard M. Gresham
Released: May 18, 1934
Type: Movie
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.
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Sadie McKee
Title: Sadie McKee
Character: Jack Brennan
Released: May 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
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Unknown Blonde
Title: Unknown Blonde
Character: Frank Rodie
Released: April 23, 1934
Type: Movie
An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
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Madame Spy
Title: Madame Spy
Character: Schultz
Released: February 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigned to spy on him. When he is told to uncover a leak, he vows revenge on his wife.
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Roman Scandals
Title: Roman Scandals
Character: Emperor Valerius
Released: November 27, 1933
Type: Movie
A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
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Duck Soup
Title: Duck Soup
Character: Politician (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1933
Type: Movie
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
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I'm No Angel
Title: I'm No Angel
Character: Big Bill Barton
Released: October 6, 1933
Type: Movie
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
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Her Bodyguard
Title: Her Bodyguard
Character: Orson Bitzer
Released: July 21, 1933
Type: Movie
The "sugar daddy" of a Broadway star hires a bodyguard to protect her from thieves out to steal the jewels he's given her and also from the attentions of other men, most notably the producer of the show in which she's starring. However, soon the bodyguard and the star begin to become attracted to each other.
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Secret of the Blue Room
Title: Secret of the Blue Room
Character: Commissioner Forster
Released: July 20, 1933
Type: Movie
According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.
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Jennie Gerhardt
Title: Jennie Gerhardt
Character: Sen. Brander
Released: June 8, 1933
Type: Movie
This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.
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The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Title: The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Character: Inspector Ennis
Released: June 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and womanizer behind the scenes. Intoxicated at a party, he punches a reporter who threatens to expose his hypocrisy, and accidentally kills him. Dolan panics and skips town, winding up on a farm that serves as a home for disabled children run by kindhearted Peggy. As the cynical Dolan falls for Peggy, he begins to change his ways.
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The Barbarian
Title: The Barbarian
Character: Achmed Pasha
Released: May 12, 1933
Type: Movie
An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.
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The White Sister
Title: The White Sister
Character: Father Saracinesca
Released: March 17, 1933
Type: Movie
An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.
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Whistling in the Dark
Title: Whistling in the Dark
Character: Jake Dillon
Released: January 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.
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Rasputin and the Empress
Title: Rasputin and the Empress
Character: Doctor Remezov
Released: December 23, 1932
Type: Movie
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
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Afraid to Talk
Title: Afraid to Talk
Character: Jig Skelli
Released: November 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
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Three on a Match
Title: Three on a Match
Character: Ace
Released: October 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
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Okay, America!
Title: Okay, America!
Character: Duke Morgan
Released: September 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
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Murder in the Pullman
Title: Murder in the Pullman
Released: May 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Noted team of detective and criminologist solve the murder of a new bride, in her compartment, on the train on which they are travelling.
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He Who Gets Slapped
Title: He Who Gets Slapped
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1924
Type: Movie
Up-and-coming scientist Paul Benedict is betrayed by his mentor, the Baron Regnard, who not only steals discoveries but also his wife Marie. Benedict, reeling from his pain, joins a circus sideshow in order to become the most famous clown in France. He becomes infatuated with Consuelo, a showgirl, who has become the recipient of affections by the Baron.
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A Broadway Saint
Title: A Broadway Saint
Character: Mr. Frewen
Released: July 21, 1919
Type: Movie
Dick Vernon (Montagu Love) lives in New York but hasn't succumbed to the city's vices. When his vacation comes up, he goes to Boonsburg to visit his uncle (George Bunny) and aunts (Emily Fitzroy and Annie Laurie Spence). He finds small-town life far more wicked than living in the big city. A theatrical troupe comes to town, and Dick finds his match in chorus girl Mazie Chateaux (Helen Weir). Dick's uncle inherits a huge sum of money and insists that his nephew take him to New York and entertain him. Dick, knowing what his uncle expects, takes him through a number of wild adventures, but he is happy to put all that behind him and settle down with Mazie. (Janiss Garza)
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Phil-for-Short
Title: Phil-for-Short
Character: Tom Wentworth
Released: June 2, 1919
Type: Movie
A feisty, independent young woman, Damophilia Illington ("Phil" for short, hence the title), the daughter of a progressive university professor, is devastated by the sudden death of her father. The town's banker, an arrogant stuffed shirt, wants to marry Phil and has himself declared her guardian. Not wanting to marry him, she quickly leaves town and lands a job at a nearby university as an assistant to a professor of Greek literature (an area in which her father trained her) who is bitter and resentful after the breakup of his engagement to a woman who, it turned out, had been lying to him. "Phil", however, is determined to win him over.
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The Return of Eve
Title: The Return of Eve
Character: Seymour Purchwell
Released: October 16, 1916
Type: Movie
Believing that over-civilization was destroying the race, Eli Tapper, an eccentric millionaire, took two unrelated orphan children, a boy and a girl, and placed them in a wilderness, there in the care of an old tutor, David Winters, to grow up as a new Adam and Eve, and become path-breakers of a better race.
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Sherlock Holmes
Title: Sherlock Holmes
Character: Moriarty Henchman In Striped Cap
Released: June 30, 1916
Type: Movie
When a couple of scammers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will to discover the whereabouts of letters whose dissemination could cause a scandal affecting the royal family, Sherlock Holmes decides to take over the case. (Considered lost, a copy was found in 2014, in the vaults of the Cinémathèque Française.)
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The Misleading Lady
Title: The Misleading Lady
Character: Sidney Parker
Released: January 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Helen Steele, who has theatrical aspirations, has been told by Sidney Parker that, owing to her lack of stage experience he cannot entertain her proposition of giving her the leading part in his new production, "The Siren." Believing that she can get Parker to consent if she is persuasive enough, Helen has her fiancé, Henry Tracey, invite the theatrical manager to the party to be given by John W. Cannell so that she may work upon him. At the affair Helen manages to obtain Parker's consent to give her a trial it she is successful in having Jack Craigen, a friend of Cannell, who has been living in Patagonia for a long time and who is a woman hater, propose to her.