George Barbier

George Barbier

Born: November 17, 1864
Died: July 19, 1945
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for George Barbier...

Blonde Ransom
Title: Blonde Ransom
Character: Uncle William Morrison
Released: May 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Vicki Morrison is the niece of the irascible old scoundrel Uncle William Morrison. When Vicki's boyfriend and owner of a Broadway nightclub Duke Randall needs $63,000 in a hurry, Vicki fakes her own kidnapping to raise the ransom money from her uncle. Things get sticky when the phony abduction turns real.
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Her Lucky Night
Title: Her Lucky Night
Character: J.L. Wentworth
Released: February 9, 1945
Type: Movie
In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.
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Week-End Pass
Title: Week-End Pass
Character: Commander 'Pops' Bradley
Released: February 14, 1944
Type: Movie
A run-away socialite "Babs" Bradley (Martha O'Driscoll), using an alias, wants to join the WACs, finds romance with a shipyard worker, Johnny Adams (Noah Beery Jr.), while dodging sheriffs, policemen and others who are searching for her.
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Hello, Frisco, Hello
Title: Hello, Frisco, Hello
Character: Col. Weatherby
Released: March 26, 1943
Type: Movie
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.
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Thunder Birds
Title: Thunder Birds
Character: Col. Cyrus P. 'Gramps' Saunders
Released: October 28, 1942
Type: Movie
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse, competes with Britt for the affections of Kay Saunders, the daughter of a local rancher. Despite their differences, Britt makes sure Sutton passes his training and becomes a combat pilot -- even though he loses Kay to the young man in the process.
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The Magnificent Dope
Title: The Magnificent Dope
Character: James Roger Barker
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
Title: Yankee Doodle Dandy
Character: Erlanger
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
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Song of the Islands
Title: Song of the Islands
Character: Jefferson Harper Sr.
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O'Brien. But Jeff falls in love with O'Brien's daughter, Eileen, and even his father can't break them up after he arrives and himself falls under the spell of island splendor.
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
Title: The Man Who Came to Dinner
Character: Dr. Bradley
Released: December 24, 1941
Type: Movie
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
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Marry the Boss's Daughter
Title: Marry the Boss's Daughter
Character: J.W. Barrett
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Young man from Kansas goes to New York to work for his tycoon-hero. His superiors won't listen to his ideas about business, but the boss and his daughter do.
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Week-End in Havana
Title: Week-End in Havana
Character: Walter McCracken
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains waivers from all of the passengers with the exception of Nan Spencer, a department store salesgirl who wants her vacation now, not later. Jay is instructed to take Nan to Havana, set her up in the best hotel, and keep her entertained. She visits a nightclub where the star attraction is Rosita Rivas and meets Rosita's worthless manager, Monte Blanca, who makes a play for her. Trouble also comes in the form of Jay's fiancée, Terry McCracken, when a romance develops between Nan and Jay.
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Sing Another Chorus
Title: Sing Another Chorus
Character: Mr. Peyton
Released: September 19, 1941
Type: Movie
In this musical, an idealistic college graduate is bitten by the show business bug after he finds success writing and producing the campus variety show. Wanting to launch his career, he convinces his father to allow him to create a production using the workers at the old man's clothing factory. Unfortunately, the young man is naive and an unscrupulous producer bilks his father's advance money from him.
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Million Dollar Baby
Title: Million Dollar Baby
Character: Marlin
Released: May 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
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Repent at Leisure
Title: Repent at Leisure
Character: Robert Cornelius Baldwin
Released: April 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, except her husband.
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The Return of Frank James
Title: The Return of Frank James
Character: Judge
Released: August 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
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Village Barn Dance
Title: Village Barn Dance
Character: Uncle Si
Released: January 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Dan Martin, an unemployed college graduate, drifts into the town of Lyndale, only to learn that the town and everything in it are dominated by Minerva Withers, a tight-fisted, old skinflint whose welcome does not extend to tramps.
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Remember?
Title: Remember?
Character: Mr. McIntyre
Released: December 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff's work puts a strain on the marriage and a divorce is planned. Sky uses an experimental memory loss drug to make Linda and Jeff forget their rough times (and the fact that they were married) and they fall in love all over again.
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Smuggled Cargo
Title: Smuggled Cargo
Character: C.P. Franklin
Released: August 21, 1939
Type: Movie
When a sudden cold snap hits the Imperial Valley in California, orange growers fear that frost will kill their crops. Orange Growers Association president John Clayton assures his fellow farmers that he will help them obtain the oil needed to keep warming fires burning.
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News Is Made at Night
Title: News Is Made at Night
Character: Clanahan
Released: July 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
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S.O.S Tidal Wave
Title: S.O.S Tidal Wave
Character: Uncle Dan Carter
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.
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Wife, Husband and Friend
Title: Wife, Husband and Friend
Character: Major Blair
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
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Sweethearts
Title: Sweethearts
Character: Benjamin Silver
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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Straight, Place and Show
Title: Straight, Place and Show
Character: Mr. Drake
Released: September 30, 1938
Type: Movie
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
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Hold That Co-ed
Title: Hold That Co-ed
Character: Maj. Hubert Breckenridge
Released: September 16, 1938
Type: Movie
An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.
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My Lucky Star
Title: My Lucky Star
Character: George Cabot Sr
Released: September 9, 1938
Type: Movie
George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for Larry Taylor, a teacher, and gets expelled.
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Little Miss Broadway
Title: Little Miss Broadway
Character: Fiske
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
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Hold That Kiss
Title: Hold That Kiss
Character: Mr. Piermont
Released: May 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
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The Adventures of Marco Polo
Title: The Adventures of Marco Polo
Character: Kublai Khan
Released: April 7, 1938
Type: Movie
The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.
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Tarzan's Revenge
Title: Tarzan's Revenge
Character: Roger Reed
Released: January 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Eleanor and her parents are hunting big game, acompanied by her wimpish fiance.
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A Girl with Ideas
Title: A Girl with Ideas
Character: John Morton
Released: November 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
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It's Love I'm After
Title: It's Love I'm After
Character: William West
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.
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Hotel Haywire
Title: Hotel Haywire
Character: I. Ketts
Released: June 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Parkhouse plays a practical joke on a poker-playing buddy by sending him home with a lady's chemise stuffed in his coat pocket. The gag backfires, whereupon Parkhouse finds himself in hot water with his own wife. Threatened with divorce, Parkhouse is advised by a zany astrologer to frame Mrs. P. in a compromising situation at the Hotel Haywire, enlisting amateur detectives Bert and Genevieve Sterns in his scheme.
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Waikiki Wedding
Title: Waikiki Wedding
Character: J.P. Todhunter
Released: March 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii. He gets the company to sponsor a contest in which the winner gets a Hawaiian vacation and is obligated to write articles on the islands which, when published, will constitute a publicity coup for the company. Unfortunately, Georgia Smith, the winner, feels lonely and isolated in the Islands and wants to return to the States. With help from buddy Shad Buggle Tony tries to romantically divert Georgia without letting her know his true motivation.
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On the Avenue
Title: On the Avenue
Character: Commodore Caraway
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
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Three Married Men
Title: Three Married Men
Character: Mr. Cary
Released: September 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Jennie Mullins and her fiancé Peter Cary are happily in love but their families are miserable about their relationship. The Carys and Mullinses have been feuding for years over the apparent failure of the Carys' business which was caused by the now-deceased Mr. Mullins. Despite familial pressure to the contrary, Jennie and Peter proceed with their wedding. Just before the wedding, Peter receives advice from his soon-to-be brothers-in-law, Jeff and Bill Mullins. Both men warn him about the drudgery of marriage, ply him with drink, and destroy his fantasy of an ideal, romantic marriage.
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Spendthrift
Title: Spendthrift
Character: Uncle Morton Middleton
Released: July 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the humbled (and impoverished) Fonda finds true love in the arms of Pat Paterson, who cares nothing for material things.
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Early to Bed
Title: Early to Bed
Character: Horace B. Stanton
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
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The Princess Comes Across
Title: The Princess Comes Across
Character: Captain Nicholls
Released: May 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
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Wife vs. Secretary
Title: Wife vs. Secretary
Character: J.D. Underwood
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.
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The Preview Murder Mystery
Title: The Preview Murder Mystery
Character: Jerome Hewitt
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist works with the Director, the Producer and the police, to discover who is behind the threats.
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The Milky Way
Title: The Milky Way
Character: Wilbur Austin
Released: February 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.
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Here Comes Cookie
Title: Here Comes Cookie
Character: Harrison Allen
Released: September 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
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Hollywood Extra Girl
Title: Hollywood Extra Girl
Character: Crusades Actor (uncredited)
Released: August 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A short semi-documentary about a "typical extra girl" on a DeMille film.
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The Crusades
Title: The Crusades
Character: Sancho, King of Navarre
Released: August 21, 1935
Type: Movie
King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.
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Old Man Rhythm
Title: Old Man Rhythm
Character: John Roberts Sr.
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.
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Broadway Gondolier
Title: Broadway Gondolier
Character: Music Critic Hayward
Released: July 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
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Hold 'Em Yale
Title: Hold 'Em Yale
Character: Mr. Van Cleve
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.
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Life Begins at Forty
Title: Life Begins at Forty
Character: Col. Joseph Abercrombie
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
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McFadden´s Flats
Title: McFadden´s Flats
Character: Mr. Hall
Released: March 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Dan McFadden builds an apartment house in a working-class neighborhood on New York's East Side called "McFadden's Flats." At the same time, Dan and his wife Nora send their tomboyish daughter Molly to an expensive girls' school to teach her etiquette. Molly only agrees to go after her sweetheart, Sandy MacTavish, convinces her she should. When Dan is unable to complete the apartments because of a lack of money, Sandy's father Jock, a Scottish barber and Dan's best friend, secretly backs Dan's loan at the bank, even though Jock is known for his penny-pinching ways.
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College Rhythm
Title: College Rhythm
Character: John P. Stacey
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After graduation they carry their their feud and collegiate ideas over into the department store business.
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The Merry Widow
Title: The Merry Widow
Character: King Achmet
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
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She Loves Me Not
Title: She Loves Me Not
Character: J. Thorval Jones
Released: August 31, 1934
Type: Movie
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
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Ladies Should Listen
Title: Ladies Should Listen
Character: Joseph Flamberg
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the man's current girlfriend is actually part of a scheme to swindle him out of some mineral rights he owns, she devises a plot to save him and expose the con artists.
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The Cat's-Paw
Title: The Cat's-Paw
Character: Jake Mayo
Released: August 7, 1934
Type: Movie
Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate with no chance of winning. Their plan backfires as he wins and embarks upon a reform crusade.
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Elmer and Elsie
Title: Elmer and Elsie
Character: John Kincaid
Released: August 4, 1934
Type: Movie
A milquetoast trucker is bullied by his domineering wife.
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Many Happy Returns
Title: Many Happy Returns
Character: Horatio Allen
Released: June 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual Gracie Allen logic---while distracted Papa is trying to get younger daughter, beauty contest winner Florence, married before she can head to Hollywood and get into the movies.
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Journal of a Crime
Title: Journal of a Crime
Character: Chautard
Released: March 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Title: Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Character: MacCready
Released: January 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
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Tillie and Gus
Title: Tillie and Gus
Character: Captain Fogg
Released: October 13, 1933
Type: Movie
Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry franchise and a boat. The only way to keep the franchise is to win a race against Pratt's boat.
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Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!
Title: Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!
Character: Jasper B. Ogden
Released: October 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A lawyer devises a plan to fake a breach of contract suit against a wealthy womanizer.
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This Day and Age
Title: This Day and Age
Character: Judge Maguire
Released: August 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged high-school students turns into vigilante crusaders hell-bent on punishing the wrongdoers. Memorable pre-Code moment: the students torturing a gangster by dangling him over a pit filled with rats.
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Turn Back the Clock
Title: Turn Back the Clock
Character: Pete Evans
Released: August 25, 1933
Type: Movie
While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made different choices twenty years earlier.
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Mama Loves Papa
Title: Mama Loves Papa
Character: Mr. Kirkwood
Released: July 14, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.
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Sunset Pass
Title: Sunset Pass
Character: Judge
Released: May 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A US marshal goes undercover to bust up a bunch of rustlers.
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Under the Tonto Rim
Title: Under the Tonto Rim
Character: Weston
Released: April 7, 1933
Type: Movie
Western comedy.
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A Lady's Profession
Title: A Lady's Profession
Character: James Garfield
Released: March 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
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Hello, Everybody!
Title: Hello, Everybody!
Character: Mr. Blair
Released: February 17, 1933
Type: Movie
The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole town, depends on Kate to hold everything together. The power company wants to build a dam which will require flooding many of the farms; Kate is holding out; if Kate sells, everyone else will sell; if Kate refuses, the rest of the town will refuse as well. Randolph Scott meets Kate's beautiful sister, Sally Blane, at a dance. Randolph Scott, as it turns out, is an agent for the power company. Kate thinks he's just using Sally; Sally believes that he truly likes her. Randolph comes to the farm and appears to woo Kate. Kate remains unconvinced about selling out, but falls for Randolph.
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No Man of Her Own
Title: No Man of Her Own
Character: Mr. Randall
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
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Evenings for Sale
Title: Evenings for Sale
Character: Henrich Fischer
Released: November 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Impoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume ball. There he meets lovely Lela Fischer and falls in love with her. A chance meeting with his former butler, brings a job offer as a gigolo.
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The Big Broadcast
Title: The Big Broadcast
Character: Clapsaddle
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.
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The Phantom President
Title: The Phantom President
Character: Boss Jim Ronkton
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course, they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public spokesman; at first, he even fools Blair's girlfriend Felicia, providing a romantic complication. As election eve approaches, the conspirators face the problem of what to do with Varney...who has difficult decisions of his own to make.
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Madame Racketeer
Title: Madame Racketeer
Character: Warden George Waddell
Released: July 23, 1932
Type: Movie
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.
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Skyscraper Souls
Title: Skyscraper Souls
Character: Norton
Released: July 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Skyscraper Souls is a Pre-Code 1932 drama film starring Warren William and Maureen O'Sullivan. The film was directed by Edgar Selwyn and is based upon the novel Skycraper by Faith Baldwin. The film depicts the aspirations and lives of several people in the Seacoast National Bank Building. Among them is David Dwight, the womanizing bank owner who keeps his estranged wife happy by paying her bills. His secretary Sarah wants him to get a divorce so they can marry.
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Million Dollar Legs
Title: Million Dollar Legs
Character: Mr. Baldwin
Released: July 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
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The Strange Case of Clara Deane
Title: The Strange Case of Clara Deane
Character: Richard Ware
Released: May 6, 1932
Type: Movie
A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a criminal...
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The Broken Wing
Title: The Broken Wing
Character: Luther Farley
Released: March 25, 1932
Type: Movie
In a little Mexican village by the American border. However powerful big shot Captain Innocencio (a misnomer indeed!)is, he proves unable to charm Lolita, the shapely daughter of his neighbor, a big-time rancher. Lolita expects better than this awkward unprepossessing showoff! Besides the fortune-teller she consults tells her her true love will get into her life after a terrible storm. This very night a violent storm does break out and an American pilot, whose plane is caught in it, is forced to make an emergency landing next to where she lives. The gringo - by the name of Phil Marvin - is both dashing and good-looking. Good news for Lolita but bad news for Innocencio who is not ready to bow that easily...
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One Hour with You
Title: One Hour with You
Character: Police Commissioner
Released: March 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
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Strangers in Love
Title: Strangers in Love
Character: Mr. Merrow
Released: March 5, 1932
Type: Movie
Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when the latter dies.
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No One Man
Title: No One Man
Character: Alfred Newbold
Released: January 22, 1932
Type: Movie
When the boyfriend of a rich, bored socialite dies from a weak heart, she finds herself attracted to the doctor who treated him, a hard-working idealist decidedly different from the usual spoiled society rich kids she is used to.
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Touchdown!
Title: Touchdown!
Character: Jerome Gehring
Released: November 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs.
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Girls About Town
Title: Girls About Town
Character: Mr. Webfield
Released: November 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.
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24 Hours
Title: 24 Hours
Character: Hector Champion
Released: October 3, 1931
Type: Movie
A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.
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The Smiling Lieutenant
Title: The Smiling Lieutenant
Character: King Adolf XV
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
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The Sap from Syracuse
Title: The Sap from Syracuse
Character: Senator Powell
Released: July 26, 1930
Type: Movie
Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foils two crooks trying to get their hands on her lucrative nickel mine.
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The Big Pond
Title: The Big Pond
Character: Mr. Billings
Released: May 3, 1930
Type: Movie
A singing Frenchman meets an American heiress and gets a job at her father's chewing-gum factory.