Michael Whalen

Michael Whalen

Born: June 30, 1902
Died: April 14, 1974
in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for Michael Whalen...

Title: My Three Sons
Character: Dr. Burke
Released: September 29, 1960
Type: TV
A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.
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Title: The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Released: September 19, 1960
Type: TV
The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from September 1960 to September 1961. Barbara Stanwyck served as hostess, and starred in all but four of the half-hour productions. The four she did not star in were actually pilot episodes of potential series programs which never materialized. Stanwyck won the Emmy Award in 1961 for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series. Three of the shows in which Stanwyck starred were an attempt at spinning off a dramatic series of her own, in which she appeared as "Josephine Little", an American woman running an import-export shop in Hong Kong. The series, produced at Desilu Studios, was directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The Barbara Stanwyck Show lasted one season. It aired at 10 p.m. Eastern on Mondays opposite Jackie Cooper's military sitcom Hennesey on CBS and the second half of Gardner McKay's Adventures in Paradise on ABC.
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Elmer Gantry
Title: Elmer Gantry
Character: Rev. Phillips (uncredited)
Released: July 7, 1960
Type: Movie
When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a passionate preacher. The two make a successful onstage pair, and their chemistry extends to romance. Both the show and their relationship are threatened, however, when one of Gantry's ex-lovers decides that she has a score to settle with the charismatic performer.
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Missile to the Moon
Title: Missile to the Moon
Character: Dirk Green
Released: November 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Two escaped convicts are found hiding in a rocketship built by a renegade inventor, who forces them to become the crew for a trip to the Moon. Also on board, as inadvertent stowaways, are his assistant and his secretary; and none of them are aware that the inventor is actually a Lunarian explorer sent to Earth by the dying Lunar civilization and the only remaining male member of that civilization.
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Title: Tombstone Territory
Character: Mayor Fred Donolon
Released: October 16, 1957
Type: TV
Tombstone Territory is an American Western series starring Pat Conway and Richard Eastham. The series' first two seasons aired on ABC from 1957 to 1959. The third and final season aired in syndication from 1959 until 1960.
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The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
Title: The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
Character: Prof. King
Released: December 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A marine biologist and a government agent investigate mysterious deaths and rumors of a sea monster in a secluded ocean cove, and find themselves involved with a marine biology professor conducting secretive experiments, international spies trying to steal his secrets, a radioactive light on the sea bottom, and the malevolent thing which guards it.
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Title: Highway Patrol
Released: October 3, 1955
Type: TV
Highway Patrol was a syndicated, fictional police action series produced from 1955 to 1959, concerning the activities of the highway patrol and their leader, Dan Matthews (who held no rank). Although filmed in and around the Los Angeles area, the state setting for the stories was never identified, and city and street names were fictionalized.
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Outlaw Treasure
Title: Outlaw Treasure
Character: Maj. Cooper
Released: May 15, 1955
Type: Movie
When two outlaw gangs team up to rob gold shipments, the U.s. Army sends their ace-troubleshooter, Dan Parker, to the area. Sam Casey, the mystery-man behind the gangs, kills Parker's father, and this induces his sweetheart, Rita Starr, to side with the law-and-order faction. An attempt by Casey to kill Rita is foiled by Parker, which leads to a widespread gun-battle. Written by Les Adams
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The Silver Star
Title: The Silver Star
Character: Shakespeare
Released: April 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A third generation deputy sheriff doubts whether or not he has the guts for the job that killed both his father and grandfather. His doubts are re-enforced when three vicious gunmen arrive in town. From the original 35mm widescreen negative.
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Waco
Title: Waco
Character: Banker Barnes
Released: February 24, 1952
Type: Movie
After killing a man in self defense over a poker game, Wild Bill Elliott turns outlaw in order to escape a lynch mob.
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The Living Bible
Title: The Living Bible
Character: Pharisee
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Witness the story of Jesus, beginning with his birth in Bethlehem, to his crucifixion, death, and triumphant resurrection.
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Title: The Adventures of Boston Blackie
Released: September 8, 1951
Type: TV
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Title: The Adventures of Boston Blackie
Character: Doctor
Released: September 8, 1951
Type: TV
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G.I. Jane
Title: G.I. Jane
Character: James Simpkins
Released: July 6, 1951
Type: Movie
A civilian, ordered to report to his draft board, slips off into a dream about the army life ahead of him. He is assigned to a remote desert post where the soldiers crave female companionship. He forges orders that brings a platoon of WACs who are forbidden to fraternize with the soldiers.
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According to Mrs. Hoyle
Title: According to Mrs. Hoyle
Character: Rev. Haverford
Released: May 20, 1951
Type: Movie
A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters.
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Kentucky Jubilee
Title: Kentucky Jubilee
Character: Touhy
Released: May 18, 1951
Type: Movie
A film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film. There, he gets kidnapped.
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Mask of the Dragon
Title: Mask of the Dragon
Character: Maj. Clinton
Released: March 10, 1951
Type: Movie
A private eye and his girlfriend avenge his buddy, stabbed over a jade dragon.
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Fingerprints Don't Lie
Title: Fingerprints Don't Lie
Character: Police Commissioner Frank Kelso
Released: February 23, 1951
Type: Movie
A fingerprint expert figures out who killed the mayor.
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Title: The Living Christ
Character: Simon the Zealot
Released: January 7, 1951
Type: TV
The first ever made for TV miniseries documents the story of Jesus Christ from birth to resurrection.
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King of the Bullwhip
Title: King of the Bullwhip
Character: Thurman
Released: December 20, 1950
Type: Movie
A whip-cracking federal marshal goes under cover as a masked bandit to ferret out a gold-bullion thief.
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Title: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Character: Joe Bagley
Released: October 12, 1950
Type: TV
Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Peterson
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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Cody of the Pony Express
Title: Cody of the Pony Express
Character: Maj. Walker (uncredited)
Released: April 6, 1950
Type: Movie
Buffalo Bill Cody battles a gang of outlaws secretly headed by an unscrupulous lawyer.
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Everybody's Dancin'
Title: Everybody's Dancin'
Character: Mr. London
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Dance-hall owner Dick Lane is in dire need of some big-name acts or he will lose his business. Several country-western stars come to his rescue by agreeing to appear on a TV special to be broadcast from his club.
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Sarumba
Title: Sarumba
Character: Señor Valdez
Released: January 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Sailor meets singer in Cuba. He's due to ship out, but hits it off with her, so he sticks around. Trouble brewing on many fronts - singer's best friend doesn't like the sailor, and singer has another suitor anyway. Rich guy takes her to all the fancy Cuban sports events - jai-alai, horse racing. Much more glamorous than spending time with Sailor. Can he win her over before he gets in trouble for letting his ship sail without him?
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Tough Assignment
Title: Tough Assignment
Character: 'Hutch' Hutchison
Released: November 15, 1949
Type: Movie
A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with his wife, photographer Margie (Marjorie Steele). Margie insists on taking pictures of everywhere they go, and so as she's walking into a butcher shop she poses for Dan - while at the same time three thugs make their way quickly out after beating up the proprietors. Soon Margie and Dan are involved in investigating an illegal meat operation that rustles cattle and forces butchers to buy it - or else. Dan gets beaten up a couple of times, but is undaunted in pursuing the great story - and hey, he's only got 64 minutes to do so, he'd best get cracking!
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Title: The Lone Ranger
Character: Sheriff McClelland
Released: September 15, 1949
Type: TV
The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. Fred Foy served as both narrator and announcer of the radio series from 1948 to its finish and became announcer of the television version when story narration was dropped there. This was by far the highest-rated television program on the ABC network in the early 1950s and its first true "hit".
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Title: The Lone Ranger
Character: Monk Gow
Released: September 15, 1949
Type: TV
The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. Fred Foy served as both narrator and announcer of the radio series from 1948 to its finish and became announcer of the television version when story narration was dropped there. This was by far the highest-rated television program on the ABC network in the early 1950s and its first true "hit".
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Treasure of Monte Cristo
Title: Treasure of Monte Cristo
Character: Lt. Michael Perry
Released: August 27, 1949
Type: Movie
A San Francisco lawyer uses a woman to lure a merchant seaman worth a legendary fortune.
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Sky Liner
Title: Sky Liner
Character: Ben Howard
Released: July 28, 1949
Type: Movie
Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies, complete with secret documents, poison and elaborate plans to engage in international espionage!
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Wild Weed
Title: Wild Weed
Character: Jonathan Treanor
Released: July 20, 1949
Type: Movie
A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
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Omoo-Omoo the Shark God
Title: Omoo-Omoo the Shark God
Character: 'Chips'
Released: June 9, 1949
Type: Movie
The curse of a shark god follows a group of people who have violated a sacred jungle idol.
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Batman and Robin
Title: Batman and Robin
Character: Private Investigator Dunne [Chs. 2, 9, 12]
Released: May 26, 1949
Type: Movie
This 15-chapter serial pits Batman and Robin against The Wizard, who uses a device that allows him to control machinery to hold the city hostage.
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Son of a Badman
Title: Son of a Badman
Character: Doc Jarvis
Released: April 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Lash and Fuzzy come to town to unmask the mysterious outlaw kingpin, El Sombre.
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Highway 13
Title: Highway 13
Character: Frank Denton
Released: December 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Hank Wilson is a driver for a truck for a big transportation company which is in financial straits. He is in love with Doris Lacy, a waitress at the truck-stop where the company has its truck fleet serviced. Frequent accidents near the place leads the company to hire a private detective to investigate, and when the detective is murdered Hank is arrested as a suspect. The insurance company that covers the fleet has him released and he is sent back to work with instructions to investigate the accidents on his own. The trail leads to the uncle of Doris, and one of the part-owners of the company.
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Shep Comes Home
Title: Shep Comes Home
Character: 'Chance' Martin
Released: December 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Little Larry Havens, whose father died in WWII, runs away from home to keep from being separated from "Shep," his father's dog. In Arizona, he is befriended by a kindly Mexican, Manuel Ortiz, who he is able to repay in time, with the aid of Sheriff "Cap" Weatherby, when Ortiz is suspected of crimes committed by local gangsters. "Shep" is instrumental in saving Ortiz from a lynching, and Larry, "Shep" and Ortiz all find a home with a couple they have befriended.
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Parole, Inc.
Title: Parole, Inc.
Character: Kid Redmond
Released: November 24, 1948
Type: Movie
A federal agent's life is in danger when he's exposed while investigating a parole scheme.
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Thunder in the Pines
Title: Thunder in the Pines
Character: Pete
Released: November 11, 1948
Type: Movie
Loggers Jeff Collins and Boomer Benson compete for a mail-order bride by means of a timber-cutting contest.
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Blonde Ice
Title: Blonde Ice
Character: Stanley Mason, Attorney
Released: July 24, 1948
Type: Movie
A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.
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The Gas House Kids in Hollywood
Title: The Gas House Kids in Hollywood
Character: Lance Carter
Released: August 23, 1947
Type: Movie
The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood.
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Tahiti Honey
Title: Tahiti Honey
Character: Lt. John Barton
Released: April 6, 1943
Type: Movie
The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe ('Dennis O'Keefe (I)' ), are stranded in Tahiti at the time of the fall of France to the Nazis. Suzette "Suzie" Durand (Simone Simon). a French-American girl singing in a nightclub is consumed with a desire to go to the United States. Things go from bad to worse for the band,. and they are faced with the necessity of either taking a girl singer into the group,which they all regard as bad luck, or starving. The band insists that she be dropped as soon as they can earn enough to catch a bot home. But Mickey falls in love with Suzie, and smuggles her on board the ship.
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The Dawn Express
Title: The Dawn Express
Character: Robert Norton
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.
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I'll Sell My Life
Title: I'll Sell My Life
Character: Mordecai Breen
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
A woman hoping to raise cash to pay for an operation to restore her blind brother's eyesight finds herself implicated in a nightclub murder.
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Sign of the Wolf
Title: Sign of the Wolf
Character: Rod Freeman
Released: March 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Two German shepherds and their mistress (Grace Bradley) crash-land in Canada by a fox breeder's (Michael Whalen) farm.
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Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Title: Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Character: Dr. James Rogers
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.
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They Asked For It
Title: They Asked For It
Character: Howard Adams
Released: May 20, 1939
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into the strange death of an old hermit who lived on the fringe of town.
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Outside These Walls
Title: Outside These Walls
Character: Dan Sparling
Released: May 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.
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Inside Story
Title: Inside Story
Character: Barney Callahan
Released: March 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an old-fashioned Christmas on a farm..
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Pardon Our Nerve
Title: Pardon Our Nerve
Character: Dick Malone
Released: February 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party. They talk a waiter into playing the part and a series of accidents and tricks sends him on a boxing career.
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The Mysterious Miss X
Title: The Mysterious Miss X
Character: Keith Neville
Released: January 10, 1939
Type: Movie
After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town.
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While New York Sleeps
Title: While New York Sleeps
Character: Barney Callahan
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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Time Out for Murder
Title: Time Out for Murder
Character: Barney Callahan
Released: September 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A bank runner is accused of killing a woman for whom he deposited a large amount. Reporter and bank official investigate.
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Speed to Burn
Title: Speed to Burn
Character: Matt Kerry
Released: June 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse.
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Island in the Sky
Title: Island in the Sky
Character: Michael Fraser
Released: April 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office.
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Walking Down Broadway
Title: Walking Down Broadway
Character: Peter Claybourne
Released: March 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
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Change of Heart
Title: Change of Heart
Character: Anthony Murdock
Released: January 14, 1938
Type: Movie
While Carol Murdock is becoming the golf-champion at the country club, husband Anthony is all wrapped up in his business and rants a lot about how much time his wife spends playing gold, thereby neglecting their home and him. Carol teams up with golfer Phillip Reeves and they win a tournament together, and Reeves becomes infatuated with Carol. Anthony rants some more and Carol packs up and starts the divorce proceedings. Anthony fights back by taking up golf himself.
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Wee Willie Winkie
Title: Wee Willie Winkie
Character: Lt. Brandes aka 'Coppy'
Released: July 30, 1937
Type: Movie
In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he commands in northern India.
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The Lady Escapes
Title: The Lady Escapes
Character: Michael Hilton
Released: July 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy.
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Time Out for Romance
Title: Time Out for Romance
Character: Bob Reynolds
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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Woman-Wise
Title: Woman-Wise
Character: Tracey Browne
Released: January 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
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Career Woman
Title: Career Woman
Character: Barry Conant
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 courtroom drama stars Claire Trevor, Isabel Jewell, Michael Whalen, Gene Lockhart, Eric Linden, Charles Middleton, Edward Brophy, Kathleen Lockhart, Guinn Williams, El Brendel, Sterling Holloway, Ray Brown, Howard Hickman, Frank McGlynn Sr., Charles Waldron Sr., Spencer Charters and Eily Malyon.
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The Man I Marry
Title: The Man I Marry
Character: Ken Durkin
Released: October 31, 1936
Type: Movie
A wealthy young man writes a play under a different name to prove to his overbearing mother that he can succeed on his own.
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Sing, Baby, Sing
Title: Sing, Baby, Sing
Character: Ted Blake
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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Poor Little Rich Girl
Title: Poor Little Rich Girl
Character: Richard Barry
Released: July 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored by a rival soap company.
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White Fang
Title: White Fang
Character: Gordon Weedon Scott
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
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The Country Doctor
Title: The Country Doctor
Character: Tony Luke
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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Song and Dance Man
Title: Song and Dance Man
Character: Alan Davis
Released: March 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
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Professional Soldier
Title: Professional Soldier
Character: George Foster
Released: December 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned.