Gene Lockhart

Gene Lockhart

Born: July 17, 1891
Died: March 31, 1957
in London, Ontario, Canada
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Edwin Eugene Lockhart (July 18, 1891 – March 31, 1957) was a Canadian-American character actor, singer, and playwright. He also wrote the lyrics to a number of popular songs. He became a United States citizen in 1939.

Born in London, Ontario, the son of John Coats Lockhart and Ellen Mary (née Delaney) Lockhart, he made his professional debut at the age of six when he appeared with the Kilties Band of Canada. He later appeared in sketches with Beatrice Lillie.

Lockhart is mostly remembered for his film work. He made his film debut in the 1922 version of Smilin' Through, as the Rector, but did not make his sound debut until 1934 in the film By Your Leave, where he played the playboy Skeets. Lockhart subsequently appeared in more than 300 motion pictures. He often played villains, including a role as the treacherous informant Regis in Algiers, the American remake of Pepe le Moko, which gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He also played the suspicious Georges de la Trémouille, the Dauphin's chief counselor, in the famous 1948 film Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman. He had a great succession of "good guy" supporting roles including Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (1938) and the judge in Miracle on 34th Street (1947).

Movies for Gene Lockhart...

Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Title: Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 6, 1996
Type: Movie
Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she is best remembered for a natural and vulnerable persona which was so genuine and alluring. Her cinematic contributions produced such classics as "Casablanca," "Gaslight" and "Anastasia." But Ingrid's story goes deeper than the triumphs of her movie career.
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Jeanne Eagels
Title: Jeanne Eagels
Character: Equity Board President
Released: August 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Title: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Character: Bill Hawthorne
Released: April 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria, which resulted in an illegitimate son he's never seen. Pressed by his unhappy wife to get a higher-paying job, Rath goes to work as a public relations man for television network president Ralph Hopkins. Drawn into poisonous office politics, Tom finds he must choose his career or his family.
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Title: Telephone Time
Released: April 8, 1956
Type: TV
Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John Nesbitt who hosted the first season. Frank C. Baxter hosted the 1957 and 1958 seasons. The program was directed by Arthur Hiller.
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Carousel
Title: Carousel
Character: Starkeeper / Dr. Selden
Released: February 16, 1956
Type: Movie
Billy Bigelow has been dead for 15 years. Now outside the pearly gates, he long ago waived his right to go back to Earth for a day. He has heard that there is a problem with his family: namely with his wife Julie Bigelow, née Jordan, and his child he hasn't met. He would now like to head back to Earth to assist in rectifying the problem; but before he may go, he has to get permission from the gatekeeper by telling him his story. Adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein hit Broadway musical.
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The Vanishing American
Title: The Vanishing American
Character: Blucher
Released: November 17, 1955
Type: Movie
A woman arrives in New Mexico to claim property she's inherited and receives an education in the greedy exploitation of the local Navajo.
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Title: The 20th Century Fox Hour
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Henry Anderson
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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World for Ransom
Title: World for Ransom
Character: Alexis Pederas
Released: January 31, 1954
Type: Movie
In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder.
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The Backbone of America
Title: The Backbone of America
Character: Uncle Cedric
Released: December 29, 1953
Type: Movie
An account executive tries to find the perfect American family to use in a forthcoming advertising campaign.
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The Bells of Cockaigne
Title: The Bells of Cockaigne
Character: Pat
Released: November 17, 1953
Type: Movie
An old warehouse worker dreams of saving enough money to return to his native Ireland, but it would seem unlikely. A young man who also works there is in a bad fix, he too has little money but his baby is sick and needs medicine he can't afford. He gambles with the dock workers and loses what little he had. Meanwhile, the old man discovers he has a valuable dollar with the winning serial number in a newspaper contest.
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Francis Covers the Big Town
Title: Francis Covers the Big Town
Character: Tom Henderson
Released: June 10, 1953
Type: Movie
A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.
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The Lady Wants Mink
Title: The Lady Wants Mink
Character: Mr. Heggie
Released: March 29, 1953
Type: Movie
A woman raises mink to get the coat she's always wanted.
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Confidentially Connie
Title: Confidentially Connie
Character: Dean Edward E. Magruder
Released: March 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.
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Down Among the Sheltering Palms
Title: Down Among the Sheltering Palms
Character: Rev. Paul Edgett
Released: March 1, 1953
Type: Movie
War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and are forbidden to fraternize.
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Androcles and the Lion
Title: Androcles and the Lion
Character: Menagerie Keeper
Released: December 1, 1952
Type: Movie
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascal’s final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He’s ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.
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Face to Face
Title: Face to Face
Character: Archbold
Released: November 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, "Secret Sharer", directed by John Brahm and starring James Mason, is based on a short story by Joseph Conrad. The second tale, "Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", directed by Bretaigne Windust and starring Robert Preston, is adapted from Stephen Crane's short story.
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Apache War Smoke
Title: Apache War Smoke
Character: Cyril R. Snowden
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: Movie
An outlaw murders several Apaches and flees to a stagecoach way station with the tribe in hot pursuit. A stagecoach and its passengers have just pulled into the station, as has the stationmaster's father, a former bandit named Peso, and they all find themselves besieged by the Apaches, who want them to turn over the killer to them or they'll take the station and kill everybody. The problem is that the people in the station aren't sure just who among therm is the actual killer.
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Bonzo Goes to College
Title: Bonzo Goes to College
Character: Clarence B. Gateson
Released: September 1, 1952
Type: Movie
When Bonzo turns out to be the answer to the football teams troubles, the only solution is to enroll him college.
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Hoodlum Empire
Title: Hoodlum Empire
Character: Sen. Tower
Released: April 15, 1952
Type: Movie
It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.
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A Girl in Every Port
Title: A Girl in Every Port
Character: Garvey
Released: February 13, 1952
Type: Movie
After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Milton Hershey
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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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Alfred Renell
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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The Lady from Texas
Title: The Lady from Texas
Character: Judge George Jeffers
Released: September 1, 1951
Type: Movie
An eccentric Civil War widow is accused of being insane.
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Rhubarb
Title: Rhubarb
Character: Thaddeus J. Banner
Released: August 29, 1951
Type: Movie
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.
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Title: Tales of Tomorrow
Released: August 3, 1951
Type: TV
Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered such stories as Frankenstein, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo, and many others featuring such performers as Boris Karloff, Brian Keith, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Bruce Cabot, Franchot Tone, Gene Lockhart, Walter Abel, Leslie Nielsen, and Paul Newman. The series had many similarities to the later Twilight Zone which also covered one of the same stories, "What You Need". In total it ran for eighty-five 30-minute episodes.
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I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Title: I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Character: Jeff Brock
Released: February 17, 1951
Type: Movie
A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Evander Cobb
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Sir George
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: John Hewitt
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Samuel Fulton
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: O'Connor
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Leslie Hobbs
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: David Keeney
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Innkeeper
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Armstrong Circle Theatre
Released: June 6, 1950
Type: TV
Armstrong Circle Theatre is an American anthology drama television series which ran from 1950 to 1957 on NBC, and then until 1963 on CBS. It alternated weekly with The U.S. Steel Hour.
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The Big Hangover
Title: The Big Hangover
Character: Charles Parkford
Released: May 26, 1950
Type: Movie
A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol.
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Riding High
Title: Riding High
Character: J.P. Chase
Released: April 12, 1950
Type: Movie
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
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Title: Robert Montgomery Presents
Released: January 30, 1950
Type: TV
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.
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Breakdowns of 1949
Title: Breakdowns of 1949
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1949
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1949.
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The Inspector General
Title: The Inspector General
Character: The Mayor
Released: December 31, 1949
Type: Movie
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.
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Red Light
Title: Red Light
Character: Warni Hazard
Released: September 30, 1949
Type: Movie
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.
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Madame Bovary
Title: Madame Bovary
Character: J. Homais
Released: August 25, 1949
Type: Movie
After marrying small-town doctor Charles Bovary, Emma becomes tired of her limited social status and begins to have affairs, first with the young Leon Dupuis and later with the wealthy Rodolphe Boulanger. Eventually, however, her self-involved behavior catches up with her.
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Title: Lights Out
Released: July 19, 1949
Type: TV
Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. In 1946, NBC Television brought Lights Out to TV in a series of four specials, broadcast live and produced by Fred Coe, who also contributed three of the scripts. NBC asked Cooper to write the script for the premiere, "First Person Singular", which is told entirely from the point of view of an unseen murderer who kills his obnoxious wife and winds up being executed. Variety gave this first episode a rave review ("undoubtedly one of the best dramatic shows yet seen on a television screen"), but Lights Out did not become a regular NBC-TV series until 1949.
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The Sickle or the Cross
Title: The Sickle or the Cross
Character: James John
Released: July 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Reds imprison him and send in his place a spy who is his double, but who is instructed to come out for Communism. The spy is accepted in Burnside's home town, and he reports to local Communist headquarters, where James John, prominent local businessman but in reality a Red agent, has instructions to assist him in all details of his mission. He does a series of personal appearances and radio interviews and talk shows, using an anti-Communist approach.
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Down to the Sea in Ships
Title: Down to the Sea in Ships
Character: Andrew L. Bush
Released: February 15, 1949
Type: Movie
During a whaling expedition in the late 1800's, the aging Captain Bering Joy (Lionel Barrymore) and his new first mate, Dan Lunceford (Richard Widmark) engage in a battle of wills concerning the education of the captain's struggling grandson.
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Joan of Arc
Title: Joan of Arc
Character: Georges de la Trémouille, the King's Chief Counsellor
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
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That Wonderful Urge
Title: That Wonderful Urge
Character: Judge Parker
Released: November 20, 1948
Type: Movie
When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she's met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely claiming they're married.
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Apartment for Peggy
Title: Apartment for Peggy
Character: Prof. Edward Bell
Released: September 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.
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I, Jane Doe
Title: I, Jane Doe
Character: Arnold Matson
Released: May 25, 1948
Type: Movie
While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.
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The Inside Story
Title: The Inside Story
Character: Horace Taylor
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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Her Husband's Affairs
Title: Her Husband's Affairs
Character: Peter Winterbottom
Released: November 12, 1947
Type: Movie
Bill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret's approval of his work, instead he gets constructive (and on-target) feedback, which he hates. Things get really strange when Bill creates advertising for a wacky inventor's embalming fluid.
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The Foxes of Harrow
Title: The Foxes of Harrow
Character: Viscount Henri D'Arceneaux
Released: September 24, 1947
Type: Movie
An Irish rascal and inveterate gambler uses his considerable skills at the gaming tables of New Orleans to become fabulously rich.
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Cynthia
Title: Cynthia
Character: Dr. Fred I. Jannings
Released: August 29, 1947
Type: Movie
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
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Miracle on 34th Street
Title: Miracle on 34th Street
Character: Judge Henry X. Harper
Released: June 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.
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Honeymoon
Title: Honeymoon
Character: Consul Prescott
Released: May 17, 1947
Type: Movie
A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.
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The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Title: The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Character: Saxon
Released: January 4, 1947
Type: Movie
In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men object to her at first, she soon charms them all, especially the handsome young head of the company. Their romance gets sidetracked when she becomes involved in the Women's Suffrage movement.
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The Strange Woman
Title: The Strange Woman
Character: Isaiah Poster
Released: October 25, 1946
Type: Movie
In early 19th century New England, an attractive unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to deceive and control the men around her.
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A Scandal in Paris
Title: A Scandal in Paris
Character: Prefect of Police Richet
Released: July 19, 1946
Type: Movie
A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.
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Meet Me on Broadway
Title: Meet Me on Broadway
Character: John Whittaker
Released: January 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club. Eddie and his girlfriend, actress Ann Stallings, hope the production will launch their legitimate Broadway careers. But complications arise when Maxine Whitaker, daughter of a wealthy rival club owner, becomes romantically interested in charming Eddie.
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Leave Her to Heaven
Title: Leave Her to Heaven
Character: Dr. Saunders
Released: December 25, 1945
Type: Movie
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
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The House on 92nd Street
Title: The House on 92nd Street
Character: Charles Ogden Roper
Released: September 10, 1945
Type: Movie
The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.
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That's the Spirit
Title: That's the Spirit
Character: Jasper Cawthorne
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated by a greedy banker.
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Man from Frisco
Title: Man from Frisco
Character: Joel Kennedy
Released: June 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated ships on the West Coast, but he is hindered by the former superintendent of the shipyard, Joel Kennedy. A disappointed lover fails to deliver an important message on welds and it leads to the collapse of a new ship's superstructure and the death of a boy.
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Going My Way
Title: Going My Way
Character: Ted Haines Snr.
Released: May 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.
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Action in Arabia
Title: Action in Arabia
Character: Josef Danesco
Released: February 18, 1944
Type: Movie
Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.
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The Desert Song
Title: The Desert Song
Character: Pere FanFan
Released: December 17, 1943
Type: Movie
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.
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Madame Curie
Title: Madame Curie
Character: Bit Part (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
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Northern Pursuit
Title: Northern Pursuit
Character: Ernst Willis
Released: November 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
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Find the Blackmailer
Title: Find the Blackmailer
Character: John Michael Rhodes
Released: November 6, 1943
Type: Movie
A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird who insists upon saying that the candidate will commit a murder. When the killing occurs, the candidate is implicated, and the detective is off on a hectic pursuit of the incriminating crow and the actual murderer.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Viatcheslav Molotov
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Hangmen Also Die!
Title: Hangmen Also Die!
Character: Emil Czaka
Released: April 15, 1943
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
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Forever and a Day
Title: Forever and a Day
Character: Cobblewick
Released: January 21, 1943
Type: Movie
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
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Breakdowns of 1942
Title: Breakdowns of 1942
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
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You Can't Escape Forever
Title: You Can't Escape Forever
Character: Carl Robelink
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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The Gay Sisters
Title: The Gay Sisters
Character: Mr. Herschell Gibbon
Released: August 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married.
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Juke Girl
Title: Juke Girl
Character: Henry Madden
Released: May 30, 1942
Type: Movie
During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers and pickers struggle under the buyer who rules by monopoly, dirty contracts and violence. Steve helps organize against the buyer, leading to further escalation ending in a lynch mob.
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Steel Against the Sky
Title: Steel Against the Sky
Character: John Powers
Released: December 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
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They Died with Their Boots On
Title: They Died with Their Boots On
Character: Samuel Bacon, Esq.
Released: November 20, 1941
Type: Movie
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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Breakdowns of 1941
Title: Breakdowns of 1941
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.
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One Foot in Heaven
Title: One Foot in Heaven
Character: Preston Thurston
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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All That Money Can Buy
Title: All That Money Can Buy
Character: Squire Slossum
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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International Lady
Title: International Lady
Character: Sidney Grenner
Released: October 16, 1941
Type: Movie
Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as a music critic are both keeping their eye on Carla Nillson, a famous singer, whom they suspect of espionage. They all meet in London, then in Lisbon, and eventually in New York City, where Carla sings on the radio.
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Billy the Kid
Title: Billy the Kid
Character: Dan Hickey
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.
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The Sea Wolf
Title: The Sea Wolf
Character: Dr. Prescott
Released: March 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.
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Meet John Doe
Title: Meet John Doe
Character: Mayor Lovett
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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Keeping Company
Title: Keeping Company
Character: Mr. Hellman
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.
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A Dispatch from Reuters
Title: A Dispatch from Reuters
Character: Otto Bauer
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Title: Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Character: George Winslow
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
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We Who Are Young
Title: We Who Are Young
Character: C.B. Beamis
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
A man violates company policy by getting married.
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South of Pago Pago
Title: South of Pago Pago
Character: Lindsay
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane’s head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune in pearls, Ruby instead falls for the young chief. Together, the two save Kehane’s people and their island home from the rapacious picaroons but at the tragic cost of their own future together.
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Edison, the Man
Title: Edison, the Man
Character: Mr. Taggart
Released: May 10, 1940
Type: Movie
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Character: Stephen Douglas
Released: February 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
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His Girl Friday
Title: His Girl Friday
Character: Sheriff Hartwell
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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Geronimo
Title: Geronimo
Character: Gillespie
Released: November 26, 1939
Type: Movie
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
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Blackmail
Title: Blackmail
Character: William 'Bill' Ramey
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
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Our Leading Citizen
Title: Our Leading Citizen
Character: J.T. Tapley
Released: August 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
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Tell No Tales
Title: Tell No Tales
Character: Arno
Released: June 12, 1939
Type: Movie
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
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Bridal Suite
Title: Bridal Suite
Character: Cornelius McGill
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.
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Hotel Imperial
Title: Hotel Imperial
Character: Elias
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
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I'm from Missouri
Title: I'm from Missouri
Character: Porgie Rowe
Released: April 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to buy mules or tractors for its colonial troops. He is accompanied by his ritzy wife Julie who has high society aspirations and hopes to have her younger sister Lola Pike marry a British diplomat. Complicating matters is a business rival, Porgie Rowe, who is trying to sell tractors to the government and keeps knocking Sweeney's prize Missouri mules.
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Title: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Character: Thomas Sanders
Released: April 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
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Sweethearts
Title: Sweethearts
Character: Augustus
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Bickering husband-and-wife stage stars are manipulated into a break-up for publicity purposes.
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Bob Cratchit
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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Blondie
Title: Blondie
Character: C.P. Hazlip
Released: November 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.
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Listen, Darling
Title: Listen, Darling
Character: Arthur Drubbs
Released: October 21, 1938
Type: Movie
To stop Pinkie's widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn't love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend Buzz kidnap her in the family travel trailer to live a carefree life on the open road. They then get the idea to find Dottie a financially secure husband whom both she and Pinkie would like.
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Meet the Girls
Title: Meet the Girls
Character: Homer Watson
Released: October 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.
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Penrod's Double Trouble
Title: Penrod's Double Trouble
Character: Mr. Schofield
Released: July 23, 1938
Type: Movie
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.
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Men Are Such Fools
Title: Men Are Such Fools
Character: Bill Dalton
Released: June 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband. She rises through the ranks, becoming a copywriter, and attracts the attention of Jimmy, an amorous coworker who wants to marry her. But Jimmy is jealous of Linda's career and of Harry, a radio executive who works with Linda, and their marriage gets off to a very rough start.
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Sinners in Paradise
Title: Sinners in Paradise
Character: Senator John P. Corey
Released: May 19, 1938
Type: Movie
The survivors from a plane crash are washed up on an island where the only inhabitants are Mr. Taylor and his servant, Ping. The mismatched group must learn to get along and work together if they are to convince Taylor to let them borrow his boat and return to the main land.
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Of Human Hearts
Title: Of Human Hearts
Character: Quid
Released: February 11, 1938
Type: Movie
This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm. It is a rich story about striving for excellence, the tension of father-son rebellion, and the love of a mother that can never die.
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Algiers
Title: Algiers
Character: Regis
Released: January 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture are met with unfazed local detectives, led by Inspector Slimane, who are biding their time. Meanwhile, Pepe meets the beautiful Gaby, which arouses the jealousy of Ines.
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Something to Sing About
Title: Something to Sing About
Character: Bennett O. 'B.O.' Regan
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss.
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The Sheik Steps Out
Title: The Sheik Steps Out
Character: Samuel P. Murdock
Released: September 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.
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Too Many Wives
Title: Too Many Wives
Character: Winfield Jackson
Released: April 9, 1937
Type: Movie
An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.
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Mama Steps Out
Title: Mama Steps Out
Character: Mr. Sims
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.
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Breakdowns of 1936
Title: Breakdowns of 1936
Character: Self
Released: December 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.
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Mind Your Own Business
Title: Mind Your Own Business
Character: Bottles
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy Scouts. When Orville's editor, Crane, orders him to spice up his column, Orville's wife Melba writes a gossip column using animals as metaphors for people. Crane loves Melba's article and gives Orville a raise, and the column becomes a hit.
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Career Woman
Title: Career Woman
Character: Uncle Billy Burly
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 courtroom drama stars Claire Trevor, Isabel Jewell, Michael Whalen, Gene Lockhart, Eric Linden, Charles Middleton, Edward Brophy, Kathleen Lockhart, Guinn Williams, El Brendel, Sterling Holloway, Ray Brown, Howard Hickman, Frank McGlynn Sr., Charles Waldron Sr., Spencer Charters and Eily Malyon.
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Come Closer, Folks
Title: Come Closer, Folks
Character: Elmer Woods
Released: November 7, 1936
Type: Movie
A fast-talking pitchman working the con-games on the streets, works himself up into an executive position of a large department store, with the aide of his shill, Mae. But the owner, Elmer Woods, of the department store has a blonde-beauty daughter, Peggy, who goes to work on him.
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Wedding Present
Title: Wedding Present
Character: Archduke Gustav Ernest
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
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The Devil Is a Sissy
Title: The Devil Is a Sissy
Character: Mr. Jim Murphy
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
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The Gorgeous Hussy
Title: The Gorgeous Hussy
Character: Maj. William O'Neal
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several of those politicians and military men who all want to marry her, except for the one with who she is truly in love.
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Earthworm Tractors
Title: Earthworm Tractors
Character: George Healey
Released: July 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.
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Times Square Playboy
Title: Times Square Playboy
Character: P.H. "Ben", "Pig Head" Bancroft
Released: May 9, 1936
Type: Movie
A stock broker's small-town best friend thinks the bride-to-be and her family are gold-diggers so he does everything he can to prevent the wedding.
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Brides Are Like That
Title: Brides Are Like That
Character: John Robinson
Released: April 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not working. Bill is a dreamer, a talker and a golf player and he has a lot of ideas, but still lives off Fred. When Hazel gets engaged to Doc Jenkins, it takes a while, but Bill talks her into marrying him instead. The only problem is that now, he needs to find a job.
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The First Baby
Title: The First Baby
Character: Mr. Ellis
Released: April 2, 1936
Type: Movie
When a couple become parents for the first time, they discover grandmothers can be almost as demanding as a newborn.
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The Garden Murder Case
Title: The Garden Murder Case
Character: Edgar Lowe Hammle
Released: February 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major Fenwicke-Ralston.
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Crime and Punishment
Title: Crime and Punishment
Character: Lushin
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A man is haunted by a murder he's committed.
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Thunder in the Night
Title: Thunder in the Night
Character: Gabor
Released: September 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Officer Karl Torok's best friend, Count Alvinczy, is elected president of the Hungarian cabinet. Meanwhile, Alvinczy's wife, Madalaine, receives a message from a blackmailer, threatening her husband. When the blackmailer winds up dead, Madalaine appears to be the most likely suspect. Torok, however, knows the case is more complicated than it seems and dedicates himself to revealing the truth behind the mystery.
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Star of Midnight
Title: Star of Midnight
Character: Horatio Swayne
Released: April 19, 1935
Type: Movie
When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.
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Storm Over the Andes
Title: Storm Over the Andes
Character: Cracker
Released: April 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A war between Bolivia and Paraguay is the setting for the stories of flyers involved with both sides in the conflict.
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I've Been Around
Title: I've Been Around
Character: Sammy Ames
Released: March 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.
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Captain Hurricane
Title: Captain Hurricane
Character: Capt. Jeremiah Taylor
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain Hurricane." Brewster is smitten with neighbor Abbie Howland, but she doesn't like his temperament. After a period of retirement, a bad investment puts Brewster back at work on the sea. And when fire overtakes his ship, Hurricane proves heroic, selflessly rescuing his crew from a grisly and deadly fate.
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The Gay Bride
Title: The Gay Bride
Character: Jim Smiley (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
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By Your Leave
Title: By Your Leave
Character: Skeets
Released: November 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
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Rambling 'Round Radio Row #8
Title: Rambling 'Round Radio Row #8
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Gossip columnist Eddie Bruce introduces three musical acts, followed by a vaudeville routine.
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Paul Revere, Jr.
Title: Paul Revere, Jr.
Character: Miles Standish
Released: October 7, 1933
Type: Movie
A drunken fool by the name of Paul Revere Wilson (or Williams or something) drinks too much and imagines himself living in 1776.
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Smilin' Through
Title: Smilin' Through
Character: Village Rector
Released: February 13, 1922
Type: Movie
The story is essentially the same as the popular Jane Cowl play, with Talmadge in the dual role of Kathleen and Moonyean. Kathleen, a young Irish woman, is in love with Kenneth Wayne but is prevented from marrying him by her guardian John Carteret. John is haunted by memories of his thwarted love for Kathleen's aunt, Moonyean.
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Title: His Honor, Homer Bell
Character: Judge Homer Bell
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
His Honor, Homer Bell is a syndicated TV sitcom produced in 1955, starring Gene Lockhart as the titular character, an elected judge/practicing attorney, and widower who looks after his orphaned niece Casey (Mary Lee Dearring). Maude (Jane Moultrie), a housekeeper, also lives with them. A total of 39 episodes were produced; despite this, no video footage was known to exist for decades until 2023.