Johnny Arthur

Johnny Arthur

Born: May 18, 1883
Died: December 31, 1951
in Scottdale, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for Johnny Arthur...

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Title: The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.
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Sakima and the Masked Marvel
Title: Sakima and the Masked Marvel
Character: Mura Sakima
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Feature version of the 1943 serial "The Masked Marvel", q.v., edited for television syndication and 16mm rental only.
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Title: It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Character: Apartment Manager (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1947
Type: Movie
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
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The Masked Marvel
Title: The Masked Marvel
Character: Mura Sakima
Released: November 6, 1943
Type: Movie
A team of two-fisted insurance investigators (one of whom disguises himself as The Masked Marvel) endeavor to discover and thwart the loathsome saboteur Sakima.
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Nazty Nuisance
Title: Nazty Nuisance
Character: Suki Yaki
Released: August 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Germany's Adolf Hitler, with his Axis-stooges, Italy's Mussolini and Japan's Suki Yama, although he tried to avoid taking them, is on his way, via submarine, to a tropical country to negotiate a treaty with the High Chief Paj Mab. However, an American P.T-boat crew is already there and have some plans for schickenbit-grubber and his buddies.
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A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
Title: A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
Character: Riley
Released: May 7, 1942
Type: Movie
A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.
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Shepherd of the Ozarks
Title: Shepherd of the Ozarks
Character: Doolittle
Released: March 26, 1942
Type: Movie
Aluminum magnate James J. Maloney, Sr. meets with government officials to discuss the war effort and the need to end price-fixing. After the meeting, Maloney receives word that his son Jimmy, a playboy turned Army flight instructor, is lost with his navigator, Scully, somewhere in the Ozarks. While Maloney rushes to find his son, Jimmy and Scully crash land in the small town of Weaverville, where the mayor and his wife, Abner and Elviry Weaver, are trying to impress upon the citizens that they are better off in the mountains than in the big city
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Always Tomorrow: The Portrait of an American Business
Title: Always Tomorrow: The Portrait of an American Business
Character: Larry Larabee
Released: November 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Feature length promotional film presented by The Coca-Cola Company during World War II, focuses on a small town bottler as he looks back on his company's past and plans for an optimistic future.
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Dreams
Title: Dreams
Character: Second Dreamer (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1940
Type: Movie
This entry in MGM's Passing Parade series looks at the meaning of dreams, including one by Abraham Lincoln that foretold his death.
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Li'l Abner
Title: Li'l Abner
Character: Montague
Released: November 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
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Road to Singapore
Title: Road to Singapore
Character: Timothy Willow (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...
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Fugitives for a Night
Title: Fugitives for a Night
Character: Tootsies, Car Rental Man
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Kirby's Office Aide (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Halfway to Hollywood
Title: Halfway to Hollywood
Character: Johnny
Released: July 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Johnny writes a screenplay, then gets Tom and his wife to star with him in his amateur production. Their production is about their boss, who walks in on a screening of the finished product, puts "two and two" together and is infuriated....until the footage reveals the truth behind Tom and Johnny's co-worker...who is collecting workman's comp for his "injuries".
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Danger on the Air
Title: Danger on the Air
Character: Aiken
Released: June 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.
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One Wild Night
Title: One Wild Night
Character: Sales Clerk (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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Feed 'em and Weep
Title: Feed 'em and Weep
Character: Darla's father
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
It's Mr. Hood's birthday and he's looking forward to a quiet celebration with his family. But Darla's friends show up with living presents, eat his dinner, argue about Tarzan and Alfalfa croons a special song for the unhappy man.
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Exiled to Shanghai
Title: Exiled to Shanghai
Character: Poppolas
Released: December 20, 1937
Type: Movie
A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in television.
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Blossoms On Broadway
Title: Blossoms On Broadway
Character: P. T. Quinterfield Jr.
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
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Something to Sing About
Title: Something to Sing About
Character: Mr. Daviani (as John Arthur)
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss.
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Make a Wish
Title: Make a Wish
Character: Antoine
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiancé Walter Mays refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block.
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Night 'n' Gales
Title: Night 'n' Gales
Character: Arthur Hood, Darla's father
Released: July 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Because of a storm, the Gang has to stay overnight at Darla's house, and they drive her father crazy.
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Pick a Star
Title: Pick a Star
Character: Newlywed
Released: May 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
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It Happened Out West
Title: It Happened Out West
Character: Professor Thad Crookshank
Released: May 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Bank employee assigned to tell Arizona rancher her property is no good gets suspicious when her foreman agrees. Turns out his banker boss and the foreman know there's silver on that property.
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Under Cover of Night
Title: Under Cover of Night
Character: Dr. Busby - Coroner
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.
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Ellis Island
Title: Ellis Island
Character: Kip Andrews
Released: November 4, 1936
Type: Movie
It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a million dollars in cash. They are soon apprehended and sent to prison for ten years but the money is not recovered. Flash forward to 1936 when all three men have been released from prison and are about to be deported back to where they came from via the Deportation department at Ellis Island. They arrive by the ferry boat and already on hand to bid them adieu, and possibly learn where they stashed the missing money, is gang leader Dude and his three henchmen, Nails, Moxie and Bugs, and also Kendrich's niece Betty Parker there to bid old Uncle Ted a fond goodbye. Also on Ellis Island is a crook called Solo, who has an upper hand as he has stolen the credentials of a Treasury Agent named Peter James and has access to the prisoners, and has cut a deal with Kendrichs to get him off of Ellis Island.
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Stage Struck
Title: Stage Struck
Character: Oscar Freud
Released: September 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.
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The King Steps Out
Title: The King Steps Out
Character: Chief of the Secret Police
Released: May 27, 1936
Type: Movie
Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Title: The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Character: Mr. Frankenstein (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
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An All American Toothache
Title: An All American Toothache
Character: Dental Professor
Released: January 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.
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Freshman Love
Title: Freshman Love
Character: Mr. Fields
Released: January 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Title: The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Character: Mr. Wentworth
Released: January 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.
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The Bride Comes Home
Title: The Bride Comes Home
Character: Otto
Released: December 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in her than in their publishing venture.
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Too Tough to Kill
Title: Too Tough to Kill
Character: Willie Dent
Released: December 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents.
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Things You Never See on the Screen
Title: Things You Never See on the Screen
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
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Rendezvous
Title: Rendezvous
Character: Code Room Clerk (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
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It's in the Air
Title: It's in the Air
Character: Jones, Photographer
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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Doubting Thomas
Title: Doubting Thomas
Character: Ralph Twiller
Released: July 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
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Traveling Saleslady
Title: Traveling Saleslady
Character: Melton
Released: March 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
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Anniversary Trouble
Title: Anniversary Trouble
Character: Spanky's Father
Released: March 13, 1935
Type: Movie
The gang's treasury is entrusted to Spanky, who accidentally gets it mixed up with his father's money.
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Hell in the Heavens
Title: Hell in the Heavens
Character: Clarence Perkins
Released: December 12, 1934
Type: Movie
During World War I, an American pilot vows to bring down the German ace responsible for his friend's death.
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The Ghost Walks
Title: The Ghost Walks
Character: Homer Erskine
Released: December 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A ghostly and deadly dinner party, which at first turns out to be an elaborate staging of a new play for the benefit of a Broadway producer, becomes a true mystery when the players start to go missing.
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Dames
Title: Dames
Character: Billings
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
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Many Happy Returns
Title: Many Happy Returns
Character: Davis
Released: June 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual Gracie Allen logic---while distracted Papa is trying to get younger daughter, beauty contest winner Florence, married before she can head to Hollywood and get into the movies.
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Convention City
Title: Convention City
Character: Leonard Travis
Released: December 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
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Penrod and Sam
Title: Penrod and Sam
Character: Mr. Bassett
Released: October 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale. But there’s also plenty of time to play pranks, put on a carnival, experience the pangs of first love, and romp with Duke, the world’s best dog.
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It's a Wise Child
Title: It's a Wise Child
Character: Otho Peabody
Released: April 10, 1931
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.
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Going Wild
Title: Going Wild
Character: Simpkins
Released: December 21, 1930
Type: Movie
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what Story looks like. So they get free room and meals at the Palm Inn and everything is going well until they want Story to fly in the race on Saturday. Rollo has never even be up in a plane, never mind fly one, so he must figure a way out. But the girls have everything bet on his winning the race. Written by Tony Fontana
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Cheer Up and Smile
Title: Cheer Up and Smile
Character: Andy
Released: June 22, 1930
Type: Movie
When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especially his recent girlfriend, who just broke up with him, he becomes an overnight sensation.
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Bridal Night
Title: Bridal Night
Released: June 11, 1930
Type: Movie
A couple is stranded in a supposedly haunted house.
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Paper Hanging with Johnny Arthur
Title: Paper Hanging with Johnny Arthur
Released: April 30, 1930
Type: Movie
A penny-pinching house-holder attempts to put up wallpaper without professional help.
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Down with Husbands
Title: Down with Husbands
Character: Henry Sweet
Released: March 8, 1930
Type: Movie
When their wives go on strike, two husbands form an organization they call the "Husbands Protective League".
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She Couldn't Say No
Title: She Couldn't Say No
Released: February 15, 1930
Type: Movie
A night club singer falls for a gangster.
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Personality
Title: Personality
Character: Sandy Jenkins
Released: February 14, 1930
Type: Movie
Directed by Victor Heerman. With Sally Starr, Johnny Arthur, Blanche Friderici, Frank Hammond.
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The Aviator
Title: The Aviator
Character: Hobart
Released: December 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Misadventures of a bogus flyer.
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Show of Shows
Title: Show of Shows
Character: Hero - Performer in 'The Pirate' (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
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Adam's Eve
Title: Adam's Eve
Character: Adam
Released: October 12, 1929
Type: Movie
Johnny gets drunk at his bachelor party. He intends to "sleep it off" in the apartment of his best man, but mistakenly goes to the apartment of two women instead.
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A Hint to Brides
Title: A Hint to Brides
Character: The Newlywed Husband
Released: July 13, 1929
Type: Movie
When a newly married couple go back to their apartment, they discover a robbery is in progress.
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Divorce Made Easy
Title: Divorce Made Easy
Character: Percy Deering
Released: July 6, 1929
Type: Movie
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The Gamblers
Title: The Gamblers
Character: George Cowper
Released: June 29, 1929
Type: Movie
A father-and-son team of cons gamble their firm’s assets. The son is caught investing money that doesn't belong to him and is indicted on a swindling charge. The plot gets spicy when the District Attorney handling the case is his former sweetheart's husband. This situation gives the DA an opportunity to prosecute his romantic rival.
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The Desert Song
Title: The Desert Song
Character: Benny Kidd
Released: April 8, 1929
Type: Movie
French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert. Their dashing, daredevil leader is the mysterious "Red Shadow". Margot Bonvalet, a lovely, sassy French girl, is soon to be married at the fort to Birabeau's right-hand man, Captain Fontaine. Birabeau's son Pierre, in reality the Red Shadow, loves Margot, but pretends to be a milksop to preserve his secret identity. Margot tells Pierre that she secretly yearns to be swept into the arms of some bold, dashing sheik, perhaps even the Red Shadow himself. Pierre, as the Red Shadow, kidnaps Margot and declares his love for her.
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On Trial
Title: On Trial
Character: Stanley Glover
Released: December 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful and decides to defend him. However, he is very inexperienced.
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Scared Silly
Title: Scared Silly
Released: November 13, 1927
Type: Movie
The guests at a dinner party in a mansion are spooked when a creepy "spirtualist" decides to stay for dinner.
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The Draw-Back
Title: The Draw-Back
Character: Horace Hayseed
Released: April 10, 1927
Type: Movie
A dim witted, scrawny fellow from the country finds college full of bullies that trick him into various painful situations with the dean. His wife mistakes him for a prize athlete, and he's put on the football team. The big game includes unusual things like a mud hole on the field and a wasp nest substituting for the ball.
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Honest Injun
Title: Honest Injun
Character: Johnny Peppercorn
Released: July 3, 1926
Type: Movie
Johnny Arthur has been ordered to spend a year out west to toughen him up, so he and butler George Davis head out. The cowboys at the ranch don't like him, so Johnny and they play practical jokes on each other. However, when Virginia Vance is kidnapped, it turns out to be real desperadoes.
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Home Cured
Title: Home Cured
Character: The Hypochondriac
Released: March 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Johnny is a hypochondriac and he spends all of his time fussing over his health instead of paying attention to his lovely wife. The wife and the family doctor pretend he is going to die -- and behave in a heartless fashion that gets him to lose his temper and get out of his sickbed forever.
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My Stars
Title: My Stars
Character: Johnny
Released: January 17, 1926
Type: Movie
Johnny tries hard to impress his girl, but she seems to be much more interested in movie stars.
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Cleaning Up
Title: Cleaning Up
Character: The Husband
Released: November 22, 1925
Type: Movie
While his wife is away, the husband attempts to clean the house which ends up being a disaster. The house is completely destroyed by an overflowing bathtub, fire in the kitchen, feathers from the pillows everywhere, and a dog decides to chase a cat around the house wiping out what the water and fire didn't damage already.
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The Tourist
Title: The Tourist
Character: Johnny - The Tourist
Released: September 20, 1925
Type: Movie
The Tourist is a 1925 Comedy short.
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The Monster
Title: The Monster
Character: Johnny Goodlittle
Released: March 16, 1925
Type: Movie
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.
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Mademoiselle Midnight
Title: Mademoiselle Midnight
Character: Carlos de Quiros
Released: April 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by Napoleon III at Empress Eugenie's insistence to Mexico. Renee is kept locked at the hacienda at night by her father to prevent her following in her grandmother's wayward footsteps. She falls in love with a visiting American (Monte Blue) but is also pursued by the craven outlaw Manuel Corrales. Miss Murray gets to do some of her trademark dancing, but this one isn't a comedy, despite comic relief provided by Johnny Arthur.
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The Unknown Purple
Title: The Unknown Purple
Character: Freddie Goodlittle
Released: October 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Inventor Peter Marchmont has discovered a purple light that renders the user invisible. On his release from prison, Marchmont, disguised as Victor Cromport, uses the light to revenge himself against his former wife, Jewel, and her partner, James Dawson, who framed him for theft. Making himself invisible, Marchmont gradually ruins Dawson. He so wins Jewel's confidence and love that she is willing to kill Dawson at Marchmont's request. Finally, Marchmont leaves the scheming couple to their own misery and marries Jewel's sister, Ruth Marsh.