George Chandler

George Chandler

Born: June 30, 1898
Died: June 10, 1985
in Waukegan, Illinois, USA
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George Chandler (June 30, 1898 – June 10, 1985), born in Waukegan, Illinois, was an American actor. He made his screen debut in 1928, ultimately appearing, throughout his career, in over 140 films, usually in smaller supporting roles. Chandler is perhaps best known for playing the character of Uncle Petrie Martin on the television series Lassie.

Early in his performing career he had a vaudeville act, billed as "George Chandler, the Musical Nut", which featured comedy and his violin. He served in the United States Army during World War I.

In addition to many film roles throughout the years 1928-1979, Chandler appeared, from 1951 onward, in numerous television series.

He was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild in 1960.

George Chandler died in Panorama City, California, the result of cancer, on June 10, 1985. He was 86.

Movies for George Chandler...

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
Title: The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
Character: Elderly Man
Released: June 27, 1979
Type: Movie
Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy duo gets involved in an army supply theft case -- and, of course, gets in lots of comic trouble along the way!
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Every Which Way but Loose
Title: Every Which Way but Loose
Character: Clerk at D.M.V.
Released: December 16, 1978
Type: Movie
Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who leads him on a screwball chase across the American Southwest. Nothing's in the way except a motorcycle gang, some cops, and legendary brawler Tank Murdock.
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The Bastard
Title: The Bastard
Character: Seadog
Released: May 22, 1978
Type: Movie
Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved in the events leading to the American Revolution. (Episodes 1 and 2 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
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Title: CHiPs
Released: September 15, 1977
Type: TV
Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives.
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Griffin and Phoenix
Title: Griffin and Phoenix
Character: Old Man
Released: February 27, 1976
Type: Movie
Griffin has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Instead of quietly facing his death, he decides to have fun in the time remaining. At a college class on death, he meets Phoenix, who has terminal leukemia.
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Title: Switch
Character: Capt. Roberts
Released: September 9, 1975
Type: TV
Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation. It was broadcast on the CBS network for three seasons between September 9, 1975 and August 20, 1978, bumping the Hawaii Five-O detective series to Friday nights.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 6, 1975
Type: Movie
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Capone
Title: Capone
Character: Robert E. Crowe
Released: April 16, 1975
Type: Movie
Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run his Prohibition-era alcohol sales operation. Capone rises through the ranks of Torrio's gang and eventually takes over. On top, he works to consolidate his power by eliminating his enemies, fixing elections to his advantage and getting rich. In his spare time, Capone courts the principled Iris Crawford.
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Escape to Witch Mountain
Title: Escape to Witch Mountain
Character: Grocer
Released: March 21, 1975
Type: Movie
Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Jason, a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony escape to witch mountain, while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.
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It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
Title: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
Character: Jonathan Kent
Released: February 21, 1975
Type: Movie
TV adaptation of the campy 1960s Broadway musical about the Man of Steel, his friends, his enemies, and his self-image problems.
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Title: Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974–1975 season. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper reporter who investigated mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly those that law enforcement authorities would not follow up. These often involved the supernatural or even science fiction, including fantastic creatures.
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Title: The Waltons
Released: September 14, 1972
Type: TV
The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
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Pickup on 101
Title: Pickup on 101
Character: Pawnshop owner
Released: May 1, 1972
Type: Movie
An elderly wanderer, a sexy young girl running away from home and a folk singer looking for stardom hitch-hike their way cross-country, trying to get to California.
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Title: Alias Smith and Jones
Released: January 5, 1971
Type: TV
Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of cousin outlaws trying to reform. The governor offers them a conditional amnesty, as he wants to keep the pact under wraps for political reasons. The condition is that they will still be wanted— until the governor can claim they have reformed and warrant clemency.
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Title: Here's Lucy
Character: Winston Shelby
Released: September 23, 1968
Type: TV
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Title: Adam-12
Character: Ed Mooney
Released: September 21, 1968
Type: TV
Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.
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Title: Adam-12
Character: George Atchison
Released: September 21, 1968
Type: TV
Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.
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Title: Mannix
Released: September 16, 1967
Type: TV
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.
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Title: Ironside
Character: George Bentley
Released: March 28, 1967
Type: TV
When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.
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Title: Run, Buddy, Run
Released: September 12, 1966
Type: TV
Run, Buddy, Run is an American situation comedy starring Jack Sheldon, which ran on CBS from September 12, 1966, until January 2, 1967.
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The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
Title: The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
Character: Judge Harley Nast
Released: January 20, 1966
Type: Movie
Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.
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Title: Batman
Character: Grampa
Released: January 12, 1966
Type: TV
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.
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Apache Uprising
Title: Apache Uprising
Character: Jace Asher
Released: December 29, 1965
Type: Movie
Various stage coach passengers and outlaws travelling through Indian country are forced to join forces against the Apaches.
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Title: Laredo
Released: September 16, 1965
Type: TV
Laredo is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from September 16, 1965, to April 7, 1967. Laredo stars Neville Brand, William Smith, Peter Brown, and Philip Carey as Texas Rangers. It is set on the Mexican border about Laredo, Texas. The program was produced by Universal Television. The pilot episode of Laredo aired on NBC's The Virginian under the title, "We've Lost a Train". It was released theatrically in 1969 under the title Backtrack. Three episodes from the first season of the series were edited into the 1968 feature film Three Guns for Texas.
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Title: Green Acres
Released: September 15, 1965
Type: TV
Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. Produced by Filmways as a sister show to Petticoat Junction, the series was first broadcast on CBS, from September 15, 1965 to April 27, 1971. Receiving solid ratings during its six-year run, Green Acres was cancelled in 1971 as part of the "rural purge" by CBS. The sitcom has been in syndication and is available in DVD and VHS releases. In 1997, the two-part episode "A Star Named Arnold is Born" was ranked #59 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
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Title: Run for Your Life
Character: Fred Mackey
Released: September 13, 1965
Type: TV
Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had previously explored the "man on the move" concept with The Fugitive.
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Law of the Lawless
Title: Law of the Lawless
Character: Martin
Released: May 13, 1964
Type: Movie
A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
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Dead Ringer
Title: Dead Ringer
Character: George, Chauffeur
Released: February 19, 1964
Type: Movie
The working class twin sister of a callous wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.
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Title: Kraft Suspense Theatre
Character: Doc Baines
Released: October 10, 1963
Type: TV
Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall specials once monthly. Como's production company, Roncom Films, also produced Kraft Suspense Theatre. Writer, editor, critic and radio playwright Anthony Boucher served as consultant on the series. Later syndicated under the title Crisis, it was one of the few suspense series telecast in color at the time. While most of NBC's shows were in color then, all-color network line-ups did not become the norm until the 1966-67 season.
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Title: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Released: October 4, 1963
Type: TV
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
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Title: Petticoat Junction
Character: Dr. Barton Stuart
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: TV
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
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Title: Ichabod and Me
Released: September 26, 1961
Type: TV
Ichabod and Me is a 36-episode American situation comedy series set in a small New England town and starring Robert Sterling and George Chandler. It aired on CBS from September 26, 1961, to June 5, 1962, and was produced by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, in association with Jack Benny's "JaMco Productions". Photos are not of George Chandler or Robert Sterling; Leon Ames is one of those pictured.
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The Slowest Gun in the West
Title: The Slowest Gun in the West
Character: Simpson
Released: May 7, 1960
Type: Movie
The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff. Fletcher is so cowardly the townsfolk are sure that the local outlaws will be too proud to gun him down. This proves to be the case, and the outlaws hire their own cowardly gunfighter, Chicken Farnsworth, to go up against The Silver Dollar Kid. Written by Jim Beaver
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Old Man
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Title: Bonanza
Character: Gus Schultz
Released: September 12, 1959
Type: TV
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Reverend Jess Lincoln
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: The Donna Reed Show
Released: September 24, 1958
Type: TV
Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the children.
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Gunsight Ridge
Title: Gunsight Ridge
Character: Gus Withers
Released: September 1, 1957
Type: Movie
An undercover agent takes the job of sheriff in order to find the men responsible for a series of stagecoach robberies.
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Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Captain Billy
Released: March 18, 1957
Type: TV
Jim Hardie helps Wells Fargo agents battle the bad guys.
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Spring Reunion
Title: Spring Reunion
Character: Zimmie (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.
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Title: Wire Service
Character: Hoggard
Released: October 4, 1956
Type: TV
Wire Service is an American drama series that aired on ABC as part of its 1956-57 season lineup.
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Good-bye, My Lady
Title: Good-bye, My Lady
Character: Reporter
Released: May 12, 1956
Type: Movie
An old man and a young boy who live in the southeastern Mississippi swamps are brought together by the love of a dog.
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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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Title: Playwrights '56
Released: October 4, 1955
Type: TV
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Partygoer
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Kings Row
Released: September 13, 1955
Type: TV
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Silas Hubbard
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Released: September 6, 1955
Type: TV
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.
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Apache Ambush
Title: Apache Ambush
Character: Chandler
Released: August 24, 1955
Type: Movie
Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mexican bandits.
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Title: Studio 57
Character: Mr. Ederly
Released: September 21, 1954
Type: TV
Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956.
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Title: Lassie
Character: Uncle Petrie Martin
Released: September 12, 1954
Type: TV
Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy family adventures in the American countryside, teaching each other about love, nature and commitment.
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Title: Lassie
Released: September 12, 1954
Type: TV
Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy family adventures in the American countryside, teaching each other about love, nature and commitment.
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Title: Summer Playhouse
Released: July 6, 1954
Type: TV
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The High and the Mighty
Title: The High and the Mighty
Character: Ben Sneed
Released: July 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.
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Rails Into Laramie
Title: Rails Into Laramie
Character: Grimes
Released: April 14, 1954
Type: Movie
A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
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Island in the Sky
Title: Island in the Sky
Character: Rene
Released: September 5, 1953
Type: Movie
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while awaiting rescue.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Keeley
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Ichabod Adams
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Meet Me at the Fair
Title: Meet Me at the Fair
Character: Deputy Leach
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions (the result of political graft) are being investigated by new appointee Zerelda Wing, who doesn't know that her fiancée is one of the politicians responsible. Tad wants to stay with his new friend Doc, who is attracted to Zerelda, to the discomfiture of his old flame Clara...all amid nostalgic musical numbers.
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Hans Christian Andersen
Title: Hans Christian Andersen
Character: Farmer
Released: December 19, 1952
Type: Movie
A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.
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The WAC From Walla Walla
Title: The WAC From Walla Walla
Character: Jud Canova
Released: October 10, 1952
Type: Movie
An unsophisticated country girl accidentally joins the army.
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Title: The Ford Television Theatre
Character: Hiram
Released: October 2, 1952
Type: TV
This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
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Title: Cavalcade of America
Character: Proprietor
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
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Somebody Loves Me
Title: Somebody Loves Me
Character: Stagehand
Released: September 24, 1952
Type: Movie
Backstage musical biography of nightclub star Blossom Seeley that charts her rocky relationship with vaudeville singer Benny Fields.
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Title: Adventures of Superman
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
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My Man and I
Title: My Man and I
Character: Bartender Frankie
Released: September 5, 1952
Type: Movie
In California, a Mexican-American is falsely accused of killing the farmer he was working for after the racist farmer stiffed his immigrant employee with a bad check.
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The Narrow Margin
Title: The Narrow Margin
Character: Accomplice Running Newsstand (uncredited)
Released: May 3, 1952
Type: Movie
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a tense train ride.
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This Woman Is Dangerous
Title: This Woman Is Dangerous
Character: Dr. Bill Ryan (Uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1952
Type: Movie
A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover goes into hiding, she checks in to the hospital for extensive surgery to recover her eyesight. There she is treated by a handsome young doctor. As expected not only does the doctor successfully open her eyes, he also opens her heart for him.
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Rose of Cimarron
Title: Rose of Cimarron
Character: Deputy Sheriff
Released: January 28, 1952
Type: Movie
A white girl raised by Indians sets out to find out who murdered her adoptive parents.
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Westward the Women
Title: Westward the Women
Character: Mackeral Face (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1951
Type: Movie
There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.
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Title: Dragnet
Character: Forrest Simple
Released: December 16, 1951
Type: TV
Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
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Across the Wide Missouri
Title: Across the Wide Missouri
Character: Gowie
Released: October 12, 1951
Type: Movie
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Bartender
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 Whip Hand
Title: The Whip Hand
Character: Jed (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.
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Title: The Adventures of Kit Carson
Released: August 11, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. It stars Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson. Don Diamond co-starred as "El Toro", Carson's Mexican companion.
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Title: Racket Squad
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: TV
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
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Kansas Raiders
Title: Kansas Raiders
Character: Willie
Released: November 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Eustace Peabody
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: Edgar
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: Joe
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
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: Mr. Hollis
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: Fred
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: Newspaper Man
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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Pretty Baby
Title: Pretty Baby
Character: Henderson
Released: September 16, 1950
Type: Movie
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
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Triple Trouble
Title: Triple Trouble
Character: 'Squirrely' Davis, convict
Released: August 13, 1950
Type: Movie
Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives orders to his gang outside via a short-wave radio stashed somewhere in the prison.
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The Happy Years
Title: The Happy Years
Character: Johnny
Released: July 7, 1950
Type: Movie
Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.
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The Next Voice You Hear...
Title: The Next Voice You Hear...
Character: Motorcycle Officer (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1950
Type: Movie
The Next Voice You Hear... (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the world. It stars James Whitmore and Nancy Davis as Joe and Mary Smith, a typical American couple. It was based on a short story of the same name by George Sumner Albee.
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Perfect Strangers
Title: Perfect Strangers
Character: Lester Hubley
Released: March 11, 1950
Type: Movie
Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the woman in the dock is innocent. Separated from their normal lives, jurors Terry Scott and David Campbell start to fall in love.
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Singing Guns
Title: Singing Guns
Character: Smitty, Piano Player
Released: February 28, 1950
Type: Movie
Notorious stagecoach robber Rhiannon is unintentionally appointed as deputy when he saves the sheriff's life and must wear two hats between his new job that he enjoys and his old occupation that he misses.
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Title: Robert Montgomery Presents
Character: Ichabod Lewis
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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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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Once More, My Darling
Title: Once More, My Darling
Character: Motel Proprietor
Released: September 10, 1949
Type: Movie
An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to the boyfriend of a young debutante from Bel Air.
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The House Across the Street
Title: The House Across the Street
Character: Carl's Boss (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1949
Type: Movie
Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses to desist in printing stories linking a gangster, Matthew Keever, to a murder. But Joslin, aided by Kit Williams, a newspaper woman with whom he is in love, investigate the murder case on their own time.
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Canadian Pacific
Title: Canadian Pacific
Character: Telegraph Operator
Released: May 19, 1949
Type: Movie
A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.
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Homicide
Title: Homicide
Character: Police Photographer
Released: April 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?
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Knock on Any Door
Title: Knock on Any Door
Character: Cashier (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1949
Type: Movie
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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The Paleface
Title: The Paleface
Character: Patient #1
Released: December 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.
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Title: The Philco Television Playhouse
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: TV
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
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The Girl from Manhattan
Title: The Girl from Manhattan
Character: Monty
Released: October 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his boarding house to the hilt. In her efforts to help him keep his boarding house, she becomes involved with a handsome young minister and his superior, an older bishop.
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Race Street
Title: Race Street
Character: Herman (Waiter) (uncredited)
Released: September 11, 1948
Type: Movie
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
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Sons of Adventure
Title: Sons of Adventure
Character: Billy Wilkes
Released: September 1, 1948
Type: Movie
This western mystery offers a behind-the-scenes look at movie making. The trouble begins when a cowboy star is mysteriously killed on the set. A detective investigates and becomes determined to save the prime suspect. Despite the terrible danger he faces, the investigator does not stop until the real culprit has been apprehended and justice is served.
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Hollow Triumph
Title: Hollow Triumph
Character: Aubrey - Assistant
Released: August 18, 1948
Type: Movie
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
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Silver River
Title: Silver River
Character: Mr. Rice (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1948
Type: Movie
Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.
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The Hunted
Title: The Hunted
Character: Joe, the Bartender
Released: April 7, 1948
Type: Movie
A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims she's being framed.
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The Miracle of the Bells
Title: The Miracle of the Bells
Character: Max
Released: March 27, 1948
Type: Movie
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.
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If You Knew Susie
Title: If You Knew Susie
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker.
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Reaching from Heaven
Title: Reaching from Heaven
Character: Bert Kestner (as Geo. Chandler)
Released: February 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in front of the church. The stranger is helped mentally and physically by the minister and congregation members, who help him regain his self-confidence and also to accept the death of his wife as she was about to embark from Europe, as a displaced person, to join him in America.
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Road to Rio
Title: Road to Rio
Character: Ship's Steward
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks.
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The Judge Steps Out
Title: The Judge Steps Out
Character: Train Station Agent (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
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Nightmare Alley
Title: Nightmare Alley
Character: Hobo at Stan's Left Hand (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Stanton Carlisle joins a seedy carnival, working with "Mademoiselle Zeena" and her alcoholic husband, Pete.
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Magic Town
Title: Magic Town
Character: Bus Driver
Released: October 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.
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So You Want to Be in Pictures
Title: So You Want to Be in Pictures
Character: Assistant Director Sammy (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
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Saddle Pals
Title: Saddle Pals
Character: Pickpocket Dippy
Released: June 5, 1947
Type: Movie
Autry is drawn into the plot when he's given power of attorney in a property settlement involving his old pal and a gang of land swindlers. The pal then goes on an extended vacation, leaving Autry to sort things out.
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Dead Reckoning
Title: Dead Reckoning
Character: Louis Ord
Released: January 16, 1947
Type: Movie
Sergeant Johnny Drake runs away rather than receive the Medal of Honor, so his buddy Captain 'Rip' Murdock gets permission to investigate, and love and death soon follow.
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The Missing Lady
Title: The Missing Lady
Character: Shrevvie
Released: August 17, 1946
Type: Movie
While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible sleuth Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow (Kane Richmond) finds himself being blamed for the crime. It doesn't help the Shadow's claims of innocence when more bodies begin piling up. Good thing he knows exactly who's guilty among an increasingly smaller group of suspects.
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The Last Crooked Mile
Title: The Last Crooked Mile
Character: Roller Coaster Operator
Released: August 9, 1946
Type: Movie
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
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Rendezvous with Annie
Title: Rendezvous with Annie
Character: Sergeant Harrington (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1946
Type: Movie
A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two people knowing he was home for a few hours. When she learns that she is pregnant, she does not disclose that her husband had paid her a visit as to not get him into trouble. The townspeople are unanimous in their condemnation of her. But, after his discharge, he enlists the aid of a nightclub singer, the only other person who knew he came home.
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Lover Come Back
Title: Lover Come Back
Character: Bit Role
Released: June 21, 1946
Type: Movie
A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.
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Suspense
Title: Suspense
Character: Joe's Pal at Sandwich Counter (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1946
Type: Movie
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate...
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Behind the Mask
Title: Behind the Mask
Character: Shrevvie
Released: May 25, 1946
Type: Movie
Falsely accused of murdering a crooked newspaper reporter, suave detective Lamont Cranston -- aka the Shadow -- vows to track down the real killer.
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The French Key
Title: The French Key
Character: Roomer (uncredited)
Released: May 18, 1946
Type: Movie
Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.
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The Glass Alibi
Title: The Glass Alibi
Character: Bartender
Released: April 27, 1946
Type: Movie
Eying a large inheritance, a reporter marries a rich woman with failing health. When she begins feeling healthy after the wedding, the reporter takes drastic measures to make sure his wife dies.
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The Kid from Brooklyn
Title: The Kid from Brooklyn
Character: Reporter
Released: March 21, 1946
Type: Movie
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. Speed's crooked manager decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter. Burleigh doesn't realize that all of his opponents have been asked to take a dive. Thinking he really is a great fighter, Burleigh develops a swelled head which puts a crimp in his relationship with pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle. He may finally get his comeuppance when he challenges Speed for the title.
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Strange Impersonation
Title: Strange Impersonation
Character: J W Rinse, plaintiffs' atty.
Released: March 16, 1946
Type: Movie
A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her scheming assistant intentionally scars her face, her almost-fiancee appears to have deserted her and she finds herself being blackmailed by a women she accidentally knocked down with her car.
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The Mask of Diijon
Title: The Mask of Diijon
Character: Diner Counterman (Uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1946
Type: Movie
A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt.
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Little Giant
Title: Little Giant
Character: O'Brien (salesman)
Released: February 22, 1946
Type: Movie
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
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A Guy Could Change
Title: A Guy Could Change
Character: Gus, Photographer
Released: January 27, 1946
Type: Movie
A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.
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Strange Confession
Title: Strange Confession
Character: Harper
Released: October 5, 1945
Type: Movie
A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in the death of the scientist's son.
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The Shanghai Cobra
Title: The Shanghai Cobra
Character: Joe
Released: September 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie Chan investigates.
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Tell It to a Star
Title: Tell It to a Star
Character: Al Marx
Released: August 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Carol (Ruth Terry), the cigarette girl at a swank Palm Springs hotel, dreams of singing in the establishment's nightclub. She gets a chance when her well-to-do uncle, "Colonel" Morgan (Alan Mowbray), and a pal blow into town ... until their visit turns out to be a con job. Carol's voice impresses the bandleader (Robert Livingston), but the hotel manager (Franklin Pangborn), still smarting from Morgan's chicanery, isn't ready to give her a chance.
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Lady on a Train
Title: Lady on a Train
Released: August 3, 1945
Type: Movie
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
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Patrick the Great
Title: Patrick the Great
Character: Bellboy
Released: May 4, 1945
Type: Movie
A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware his teenage son has already been given the part.
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It's in the Bag!
Title: It's in the Bag!
Character: 1st Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Released: April 21, 1945
Type: Movie
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
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Without Love
Title: Without Love
Character: Elevator Operator
Released: March 22, 1945
Type: Movie
In World War II Washington DC, scientist Pat Jamieson's assistant, Jamie Rowan, enters a loveless marriage with him. Struggles bring them closer together.
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This Man's Navy
Title: This Man's Navy
Character: Bert Bland
Released: January 4, 1945
Type: Movie
During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an unauthorized and premature attack on a German submarine but the bomb misses and the submarine fires back, hitting the airship. Trumpet takes over the controls and sinks the submarine, The pilot faces a court-martial for disobeying orders but the older man takes the blame for his actions. Weaver transfers to the Ferry Command, and while on assignment in Burma, his aircraft crashes in Japanese territory. Trumpet rushes to the scene with a rescue team. Both are successfully brought out and are decorated for their heroism. Afterward, Weaver indicates that he will be returning to the lighter-than-air service in Lakehurst, to reunite with his "father".
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The Great Morgan
Title: The Great Morgan
Character: Roger the Valet (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, interspersed with a repeated loop of a scene from some melodrama. (Contains in their entirety the shorts, "Musical Masterpieces," "Our Old Car," and "Badminton," as well as clips from other projects)
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Goin' to Town
Title: Goin' to Town
Character: Jameson
Released: September 1, 1944
Type: Movie
General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical joke being played on them.
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Bride by Mistake
Title: Bride by Mistake
Character: Armed Guard
Released: July 26, 1944
Type: Movie
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
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3 Men in White
Title: 3 Men in White
Character: Attendant (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1944
Type: Movie
Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves in competition. So, it's another diagnosis competition. Lee's assignment is a small girl who falls ill whenever she eats candy. Red has to cure a girl's mother of a debilitating case of arthritis. But when Red needs Lee's help, will either one live with Gillespie's choice?
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It Happened Tomorrow
Title: It Happened Tomorrow
Character: Bob
Released: March 31, 1944
Type: Movie
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
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Swing Fever
Title: Swing Fever
Character: Hamburger Vendor
Released: November 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
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Swing Fever
Title: Swing Fever
Character: Hamburger Vendor (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Title: Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Character: Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1943
Type: Movie
An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometown.
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Swing Shift Maisie
Title: Swing Shift Maisie
Character: Fred (Uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
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Don't Be a Sucker!
Title: Don't Be a Sucker!
Released: June 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces.
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Gildersleeve's Bad Day
Title: Gildersleeve's Bad Day
Character: Mailman (uncredited)
Released: May 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Gildersleeve has jury duty.
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Lady of Burlesque
Title: Lady of Burlesque
Character: Jake, stage hand (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1943
Type: Movie
After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.
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The Ox-Bow Incident
Title: The Ox-Bow Incident
Character: Jimmy Carnes (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1943
Type: Movie
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Title: The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Released: February 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
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The Powers Girl
Title: The Powers Girl
Character: Harry, Nancy's Boyfriend (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.
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The Great Gildersleeve
Title: The Great Gildersleeve
Character: Messenger
Released: December 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew.
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A Night to Remember
Title: A Night to Remember
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: December 10, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.
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That Other Woman
Title: That Other Woman
Character: Man Carrying Rifle in Woods
Released: November 13, 1942
Type: Movie
A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her which backfires after some bad advice.
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The Forest Rangers
Title: The Forest Rangers
Character: Keystone Cop (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.
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Scattergood Survives a Murder
Title: Scattergood Survives a Murder
Character: Sam Caldwell
Released: October 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.
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Isle of Missing Men
Title: Isle of Missing Men
Character: Ship's bartender
Released: September 18, 1942
Type: Movie
A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husband is being held as a convict on the island.
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Pardon My Sarong
Title: Pardon My Sarong
Character: George Peabody (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.
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Night in New Orleans
Title: Night in New Orleans
Character: Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
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The Great Man's Lady
Title: The Great Man's Lady
Character: Forbes
Released: April 15, 1942
Type: Movie
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
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Obliging Young Lady
Title: Obliging Young Lady
Character: Skip - the Bellboy
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
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Roxie Hart
Title: Roxie Hart
Character: Amos Hart
Released: February 20, 1942
Type: Movie
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.
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Castle in the Desert
Title: Castle in the Desert
Character: The Bus Driver
Released: February 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and inhabited by an eccentric, reclusive historian and his wife, a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia. Once there, he finds the request's legitimacy denied by all who are present, but still necessary as one houseguest has already been murdered, the other guests are at each other's throat, and the Borgia-related chatelain is suspected...
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Remember the Day
Title: Remember the Day
Character: Telegraph clerk
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
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Hellzapoppin'
Title: Hellzapoppin'
Character: Movie Cameraman (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
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Design for Scandal
Title: Design for Scandal
Character: First Cabbie
Released: December 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
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Miss Polly
Title: Miss Polly
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.
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Three Sons o' Guns
Title: Three Sons o' Guns
Character: Tailor
Released: August 2, 1941
Type: Movie
Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.
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Reaching for the Sun
Title: Reaching for the Sun
Character: Jerry
Released: May 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.
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Model Wife
Title: Model Wife
Character: Mr. Williams
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
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Repent at Leisure
Title: Repent at Leisure
Character: Bus Conductor
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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Sleepers West
Title: Sleepers West
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
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Western Union
Title: Western Union
Character: Herb
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
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Tobacco Road
Title: Tobacco Road
Character: Hotel Desk Clark
Released: February 20, 1941
Type: Movie
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
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Arizona
Title: Arizona
Character: Haley
Released: December 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.
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The Mad Doctor
Title: The Mad Doctor
Character: Elevator Operator (Uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
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Trail of the Vigilantes
Title: Trail of the Vigilantes
Character: Railroad Station Attendant
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
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Charter Pilot
Title: Charter Pilot
Character: Bob, the soundman
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.
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Melody Ranch
Title: Melody Ranch
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: September 15, 1940
Type: Movie
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Title: Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Character: Parkersville Counterman (uncredited)
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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The Return of Frank James
Title: The Return of Frank James
Character: Roy
Released: August 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
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Edison, the Man
Title: Edison, the Man
Character: Gold Exchange Clerk
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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Shooting High
Title: Shooting High
Character: Charley
Released: April 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
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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Broadway Melody of 1940
Title: Broadway Melody of 1940
Character: Mr. Jones (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Title: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Character: First Clerk
Released: January 11, 1940
Type: Movie
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
Title: Thou Shalt Not Kill
Character: Johnny
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)
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The Light That Failed
Title: The Light That Failed
Character: First Man (Voice)
Released: December 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
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The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Title: The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Character: Pay Orderly (uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.
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20,000 Men a Year
Title: 20,000 Men a Year
Character: Soda Jerker
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Everything's on Ice
Title: Everything's on Ice
Released: October 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Comedy about a little girl who's uncle makes her an ice skating star, only to take all of her money.
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I Stole a Million
Title: I Stole a Million
Character: Herbert (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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Beau Geste
Title: Beau Geste
Character: Legionnaire Cordier (uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1939
Type: Movie
When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the brothers must fight for their lives as they plot mutiny against tyranny and defend a desert fortress against a brutal enemy.
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Title: Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Character: Cameraman (uncredited)
Released: July 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants.
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Second Fiddle
Title: Second Fiddle
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
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Young Mr. Lincoln
Title: Young Mr. Lincoln
Character: Loafer (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1939
Type: Movie
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
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The Jones Family in Hollywood
Title: The Jones Family in Hollywood
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
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Exile Express
Title: Exile Express
Character: Marvln McGee
Released: May 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
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It's a Wonderful World
Title: It's a Wonderful World
Character: Photographer at Ferry Landing (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.
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Calling Dr. Kildare
Title: Calling Dr. Kildare
Character: Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Released: April 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?
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The Flying Irishman
Title: The Flying Irishman
Character: Airport Gas Attendant
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
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Everybody's Baby
Title: Everybody's Baby
Character: G. Randolph (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
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Blondie Meets the Boss
Title: Blondie Meets the Boss
Character: Laundryman (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
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King of the Turf
Title: King of the Turf
Character: 2nd Tout
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a job around horses; his biggest hobby. When he finds out the real identity of Mason, Goldie takes care of him. The two find an occasion to buy a horse for only two dollars, and start entering competitions. Goldie is an instant celebrity, but his mom reads the newspapers and tracks him down. Mason is very surprised to see her, his ex-wife, and even more astonished to hear that Goldie is his own son. However, Goldie must go back to school and so they decide to keep the secret. Since Goldie does not want to leave Mason behind, he goes to the bookies and fixes the next race, hoping to disappoint Goldie by asking him to lose on purpose.
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Jesse James
Title: Jesse James
Character: Roy
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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While New York Sleeps
Title: While New York Sleeps
Character: Gus - Piano Player
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
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The Shining Hour
Title: The Shining Hour
Character: Press Agent (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
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The Cowboy and the Lady
Title: The Cowboy and the Lady
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
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The Mad Miss Manton
Title: The Mad Miss Manton
Character: Newspaper Staff (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1938
Type: Movie
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
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There Goes My Heart
Title: There Goes My Heart
Character: Tailor (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
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Straight, Place and Show
Title: Straight, Place and Show
Character: Cabbie
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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Three Loves Has Nancy
Title: Three Loves Has Nancy
Character: Jim, the Baggage Master (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
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Gateway
Title: Gateway
Character: Reporter
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
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Men with Wings
Title: Men with Wings
Character: Cody
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
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Three Comrades
Title: Three Comrades
Character: First comic with singer (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.
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One Wild Night
Title: One Wild Night
Character: Rutherford (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
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Rascals
Title: Rascals
Character: Waiting Room Patient
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite who has amnesia. She works as a fortune teller and raises enough money for an operation to regain her memory.
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Joy of Living
Title: Joy of Living
Character: Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
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In Old Chicago
Title: In Old Chicago
Character: Onlooker (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
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Mannequin
Title: Mannequin
Character: 'Swing' Magoo (Uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
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Big Town Girl
Title: Big Town Girl
Character: Red Evans
Released: December 3, 1937
Type: Movie
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.
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Nothing Sacred
Title: Nothing Sacred
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Released: November 25, 1937
Type: Movie
When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.
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Danger – Love at Work
Title: Danger – Love at Work
Character: Garage attendant
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
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Hot Water
Title: Hot Water
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
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Small Town Boy
Title: Small Town Boy
Character: Bill Clipper
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Henry Armstrong was past being a spring chicken, still believes in Santa Claus and the maxim that "honesty is the best policy", but lack of money keeps him from marrying Molly and buying a little home, and his is threatened with the loss of the petty job he has had for four years with old Curtis French, Molly's uncle, because he can not sell enough insurance policies. And, then, he finds a thousand dollar bill. His honesty makes him advertise the find, but no one claims the money. When he is convinced that the owner will not turn up and that the money is his to keep, he becomes a changed, more aggressive and self-confident person. He begins to make sales as fast as he can make the pitch and he insists that he and Molly be married at once. While getting dressed for the ceremony, he places the $1000 bill in one of his father's old suits, and Pa Armstrong, trying to raise money to buy his son a wedding present, sells the suit to a passing junk man.
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Wake Up and Live
Title: Wake Up and Live
Character: Janitor
Released: August 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
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Soak the Poor
Title: Soak the Poor
Character: Briggs (uncredited)
Released: August 21, 1937
Type: Movie
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices up with the consumers paying the freight.
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One Mile from Heaven
Title: One Mile from Heaven
Character: Herman
Released: August 18, 1937
Type: Movie
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.
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The Go-Getter
Title: The Go-Getter
Character: Business card printer (uncredited)
Released: May 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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Charlie Chan at the Olympics
Title: Charlie Chan at the Olympics
Character: Ship's Radio Operator
Released: May 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!
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Woman Chases Man
Title: Woman Chases Man
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.
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They Gave Him a Gun
Title: They Gave Him a Gun
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
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A Star Is Born
Title: A Star Is Born
Character: Deliveryman (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
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Fair Warning
Title: Fair Warning
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
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Time Out for Romance
Title: Time Out for Romance
Character: Simpson
Released: February 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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The Accusing Finger
Title: The Accusing Finger
Character: Reporter
Released: November 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
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Libeled Lady
Title: Libeled Lady
Character: Bellhop
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
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Sworn Enemy
Title: Sworn Enemy
Character: Lunch Stand Man (uncredited)
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
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Sing, Baby, Sing
Title: Sing, Baby, Sing
Character: Hospital Interne
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
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Women Are Trouble
Title: Women Are Trouble
Character: Reporter
Released: July 31, 1936
Type: Movie
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.
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High Tension
Title: High Tension
Character: Man at Honolulu Dock
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
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Fury
Title: Fury
Character: Milton Jackson
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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The Princess Comes Across
Title: The Princess Comes Across
Character: Film Man (uncredited)
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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Speed
Title: Speed
Character: 'Shorty', Bystander at Barn Dance
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Terry is the chief car tester for Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to work in publicity. Frank and Terry both want Jane to be their girl. Terry has designed a new carburetor that should bring him fame and money, but he cannot get it to work correctly. Terry and Gadget have tested it for over a year, but it still is not perfected. Emery Motors assigns Frank to help Terry with the carburetor, but Terry is not happy because Frank is an Engineer and is also vying for Jane. They finish the carburetor, and to test it, they enter a car in the Indianapolis 500 race. Terry is not yet satisfied with the carburetor before the big race even though it has passed all the tests.
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The Country Doctor
Title: The Country Doctor
Character: Greasy
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
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Here Comes Trouble
Title: Here Comes Trouble
Character: Purser Brooks
Released: February 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks.
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Stars Over Broadway
Title: Stars Over Broadway
Character: Charlie
Released: November 23, 1935
Type: Movie
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
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Mary Burns, Fugitive
Title: Mary Burns, Fugitive
Character: Stadium Cashier
Released: November 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
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It's in the Air
Title: It's in the Air
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1935
Type: Movie
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
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Flicker Fever
Title: Flicker Fever
Character: Bob Adams
Released: September 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A family of out-of-work vaudeville performers are finding hard times in the east, so after hearing about the success of a fellow player in Hollywood, they decide to relocate to the movie capitol. Unfortunately, they find themselves equally unemployed there, staying at a n apartment complex filled with similar hopefuls. One day, an offer for an interview at a large studio for the eldest daughter is made, so the father goes on a frantic search, finally locating her at a pool party where he pushes one of the young men in the water, only to find out that the lad was the son of the studio boss.
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Broadway Gondolier
Title: Broadway Gondolier
Character: Photographer
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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Don't Bet on Blondes
Title: Don't Bet on Blondes
Character: Henry Purdy (Uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
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The Murder Man
Title: The Murder Man
Character: Sol Hertzberger
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
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Front Page Woman
Title: Front Page Woman
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: July 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.
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Star of Midnight
Title: Star of Midnight
Character: Witness (uncredited)
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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While the Patient Slept
Title: While the Patient Slept
Character: Evening Bulletin Reporter (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1935
Type: Movie
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
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The Woman in Red
Title: The Woman in Red
Character: First Reporter (uncredited)
Released: February 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust family in this horsy-set drama.
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The Payoff
Title: The Payoff
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: January 9, 1935
Type: Movie
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
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Music in the Air
Title: Music in the Air
Character: Assistant Stage Manager
Released: December 13, 1934
Type: Movie
A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.
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Happiness Ahead
Title: Happiness Ahead
Character: Window Washer
Released: October 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.
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Big Hearted Herbert
Title: Big Hearted Herbert
Character: Murphy (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1934
Type: Movie
After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
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He Was Her Man
Title: He Was Her Man
Character: Highway Service Station Counterman
Released: June 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
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Fog Over Frisco
Title: Fog Over Frisco
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: June 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
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Rough Necking
Title: Rough Necking
Character: Joe Cuttlehammer Jr.
Released: April 24, 1934
Type: Movie
The Blondes and Redheads series, June's father forbids her to see her boyfriend, so she sneaks him into the house disguised as a woman. One of her father's friends, however, falls in love with the mysterious young "woman".
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Dark Hazard
Title: Dark Hazard
Character: Soapy Sam Lambert
Released: January 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.
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Hi, Nellie!
Title: Hi, Nellie!
Character: Sullivan
Released: January 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
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Lady Killer
Title: Lady Killer
Released: December 9, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.
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Son of a Sailor
Title: Son of a Sailor
Character: Sailor
Released: November 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
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The Kennel Murder Case
Title: The Kennel Murder Case
Character: Reporter at Police Station (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
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Footlight Parade
Title: Footlight Parade
Character: Pharmacist (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
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Bureau of Missing Persons
Title: Bureau of Missing Persons
Character: Homer Howard
Released: September 16, 1933
Type: Movie
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
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Elmer, the Great
Title: Elmer, the Great
Character: Cubs Player (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
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The Mind Reader
Title: The Mind Reader
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Chandler, a con-man, and his helper Frank decide to create a clairvoyant act for the carny circuit, as a little research reveals Ameicans spent $125 million on mind-readers and astrology. The carny, renamed Chandra, falls for one of his marks, Sylvia, but their love is tested when he brings tragedy to other peoples' lives and she asks him to go straight.
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The Keyhole
Title: The Keyhole
Character: Joe - Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
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The Fatal Glass of Beer
Title: The Fatal Glass of Beer
Character: Chester Snavely
Released: March 3, 1933
Type: Movie
The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."
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Parachute Jumper
Title: Parachute Jumper
Character: Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1933
Type: Movie
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
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Me and My Gal
Title: Me and My Gal
Character: Eddie Collins
Released: December 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
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Afraid to Talk
Title: Afraid to Talk
Character: Pete (bellhop)
Released: November 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
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The Sport Parade
Title: The Sport Parade
Character: Pullman Ticket Agent (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1932
Type: Movie
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
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Blessed Event
Title: Blessed Event
Character: Hanson
Released: September 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Title: The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: May 28, 1932
Type: Movie
A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.
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The Tenderfoot
Title: The Tenderfoot
Character: Beggar (Uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth learns that her boss is attempting to swindle Jones and pulls a successful coup d'etat producing a play that she stars in.
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The Famous Ferguson Case
Title: The Famous Ferguson Case
Character: Depot Loafer (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
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Union Depot
Title: Union Depot
Character: Panhandler Wanting One Dollar (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
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The Wide Open Spaces
Title: The Wide Open Spaces
Character: Townsman in Saloon
Released: December 28, 1931
Type: Movie
A Wild West spoof by The Masquers Comedy Club of Hollywood.
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The Great Junction Hotel
Title: The Great Junction Hotel
Character: The Elevator Operator
Released: October 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A Masquers' Club spoof short. Newly-weds spend their wedding night in a run-down hotel, watched over by an under-employed house detective. When the bride goes missing, the groom (Horton) is chief suspect number one. Fortunately, the cops are completely incompetent.
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Sob Sister
Title: Sob Sister
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Jane Ray, a very clever reporter of crimes of passion, or "sob sister," for a New York tabloid, begins to feel depressed by the sordidness of her latest assignment, the investigation of a young woman's murder by her husband. Despite her growing distaste for her profession, Jane gets her story and, with typical ingenuity, frustrates her competitors' attempts to follow her lead.
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Up Pops the Duke
Title: Up Pops the Duke
Released: September 20, 1931
Type: Movie
Up Pops the Duke is a 1931 Comedy short.
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The Woman Between
Title: The Woman Between
Character: Sweet - a Waiter
Released: August 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.
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A Holy Terror
Title: A Holy Terror
Character: Joe, Western Union Clerk (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may know something about it. En route he crashes his plane into Jerry's bathroom; she falls in love with him which makes her suitor Steve jealous.
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Too Many Cooks
Title: Too Many Cooks
Character: Ned
Released: July 18, 1931
Type: Movie
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.
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The Lure of Hollywood
Title: The Lure of Hollywood
Released: July 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Two aspiring actresses encounter mishaps during a shoot.
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The Back Page
Title: The Back Page
Character: The Aspiring Reporter
Released: May 24, 1931
Type: Movie
The Back Page is a 1931 Comedy short.
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Everything’s Rosie
Title: Everything’s Rosie
Character: Jail Guard
Released: May 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
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Crashing Hollywood
Title: Crashing Hollywood
Released: April 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Crashing Hollywood is a 1931 Comedy short.
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Man of the World
Title: Man of the World
Character: Fred
Released: March 24, 1931
Type: Movie
A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle.
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Doctors' Wives
Title: Doctors' Wives
Character: Dr. Roberts
Released: March 14, 1931
Type: Movie
The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one couple. Their troubles begin when the doctor makes a housecall to a seductive woman with designs upon him. His suspicious wife follows him and spies on him. She thinks they are getting romantic when he is actually trying to extricate himself from his predatory patient. She decides to get revenge with his best friend, but nothing happens.
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Only Saps Work
Title: Only Saps Work
Character: Elevator Operator
Released: December 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis Sr., the film casts Errol as James Wilson, a kleptomaniac who starts with picking pockets and ends up robbing a bank. Wilson's friend Lawrence Payne (Richard Arlen) inadvertently aids our hero during one of his heists, ending up in deep doo-doo with the law. Before Wilson is able to extricate Payne from his dilemma for the sake of heroine Barbara Tanner (Mary Brian), he pauses long enough to pose as a private eye -- and even gives bellboy Oscar (Stu Erwin) tips on how to spot a crook! If only all of Leon Errol's feature films had been as consistently hilarious as Only Saps Work.
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The Florodora Girl
Title: The Florodora Girl
Character: Georgie Smith
Released: May 31, 1930
Type: Movie
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
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In Gay Madrid
Title: In Gay Madrid
Character: Enrique
Released: May 17, 1930
Type: Movie
Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls. His father hopes to instill a more serious attitude in his son by transferring him to a school in the rural town of Santiago. At Santiago, his father's old friend is to be his guardian. When Ricardo arrives at Santiago he joins a fraternity, and continues his carefree lifestyle while serenading and courting his guardian's daughter, Carmina.
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The Light of Western Stars
Title: The Light of Western Stars
Character: Slig Whalen
Released: April 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees, who happens to be Ruth Hammond, sister of his dead friend, arriving to take charge of the Hammond ranch. Revolted by his rough proposal,she fires him as the Hammond foreman and she proceeds to the ranch. Stack informs her he has purchased the ranch for the payment of the back-due taxes, and she relents and rehires Dick and his friends to aid her in her fight against Stack.
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Devil-May-Care
Title: Devil-May-Care
Character: Timid Royalist (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1929
Type: Movie
A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.
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The Cloud Dodger
Title: The Cloud Dodger
Character: Post Commander
Released: September 30, 1928
Type: Movie
Speeding to his own wedding, Wilson is arrested by a sharp-eyed cop and thrown in the slammer for 30 days. This is ample time for the heroine's aunt to arrange a marriage between the girl and a wealthy snob.