Thurston Hall

Thurston Hall

Born: May 8, 1882
Died: February 20, 1958
in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Thurston Hall (May 10, 1882 – February 20, 1958) was an American film actor. He appeared in 250 films between 1915 and 1957 and is probably best remembered for his portrayal, during the later stages of his career, of often pompous or blustering authority figures.

Hall's best-known television role was as Mr. Schuyler, the boss of Cosmo Topper (played by Leo G. Carroll), in the 1950s television series, Topper (1953–1956).

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Title: Maverick
Character: Judge
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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Affair in Reno
Title: Affair in Reno
Character: J.B. Del Monte
Released: February 15, 1957
Type: Movie
The story of a PR man hired by a millionaire to go to Reno to prevent his daughter from marrying an opportunistic gambler.
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Title: The Adventures of Hiram Holliday
Character: Harrison Prentice
Released: October 3, 1956
Type: TV
The Adventures of Hiram Holliday is an American adventure sitcom
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The Go-Getter
Title: The Go-Getter
Character: Mr. Higgins
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
The Go-Getter (1956)
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Title: The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Released: October 15, 1954
Type: TV
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October 1954 until May 1959, 166 episodes originally aired on ABC television network. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known as Fort Apache. He and his German shepherd dog, Rin Tin Tin, helped the soldiers to establish order in the American West. Texas-born actor James Brown appeared as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters. Co-stars included veteran actor Joe Sawyer and actor Rand Brooks from Gone with the Wind fame.
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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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Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
Title: Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
Character: James M. Townsend
Released: March 29, 1954
Type: Movie
In 1857 Edwin L. Drake is sent to investigate an oil seep in a creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania. Overcoming many other obstacles, Drake's innovation to shield the well from water entry by using a drive pipe finally allows drilling to proceed until striking oil in August, 1859. His perseverance yields many barrels of oil a day, and immediately brings about the start of the oil industry.
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Title: Topper
Released: October 9, 1953
Type: TV
Topper is an American fantasy sitcom based on the 1937 film of the same name. The series was broadcast on CBS from October 9, 1953 to July 15, 1955, and stars Leo G. Carroll in the title role.
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Title: Letter to Loretta
Character: Judge
Released: September 20, 1953
Type: TV
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.
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The Band Wagon
Title: The Band Wagon
Character: Colonel Tripp (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1953
Type: Movie
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
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Title: The Abbott and Costello Show
Released: December 5, 1952
Type: TV
Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations arise leading to slapstick and puns.
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The WAC From Walla Walla
Title: The WAC From Walla Walla
Character: Col. Mayfield
Released: October 10, 1952
Type: Movie
An unsophisticated country girl accidentally joins the army.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Judge
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Title: Hopalong Cassidy
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Hopalong Cassidy was television's first western program. The series aired on NBC and stared William Boyd as the cowboy Hopalong Cassidy.
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It Grows on Trees
Title: It Grows on Trees
Character: Mr. Sleamish
Released: September 2, 1952
Type: Movie
The Baxters are a typical happy American family trying to live on too little money. Mrs. Polly Baxter acquires two mysterious trees that got into a nursery shipment by mistake. They turn out to be money trees. After initial problems, Polly decides to spend the money.
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Title: My Little Margie
Released: June 16, 1952
Type: TV
My Little Margie is an American situation comedy starring Gale Storm and Charles Farrell that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to 1955.
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Carson City
Title: Carson City
Character: Charles Crocker
Released: June 13, 1952
Type: Movie
Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker, who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by railroad. Silent Jeff Kincaid is the railroad engineer. However there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis.
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Skirts Ahoy!
Title: Skirts Ahoy!
Character: Thatcher Kinston
Released: May 28, 1952
Type: Movie
Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn't long marches or several weeks in a small boat, but their love life.
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Night Stage to Galveston
Title: Night Stage to Galveston
Character: Colonel James Bellamy
Released: March 18, 1952
Type: Movie
A former Texas Ranger teams up with some of his old colleagues to rid the state of corruption in their new police force.
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One Big Affair
Title: One Big Affair
Character: Mr. G
Released: February 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Lawyer Jimmy Donovan thinks a bicycle tour through Mexico is just the thing to keep him out of trouble until his client arrives. But when school teacher Jean Harper misses her tour bus, all of a sudden Jimmy is in for much more than he bargained for.
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Title: Dangerous Assignment
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: TV
A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star Brian Donlevy originated the role on radio in the '40s.
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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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Whirlwind
Title: Whirlwind
Character: Big Jim Lassiter
Released: April 16, 1951
Type: Movie
A singing postal inspector (Gene Autry) and his partner (Smiley Burnette) save a woman's (Gail Davis) estate from fraud.
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Knights of the Bath
Title: Knights of the Bath
Character: Master of the House (archive footage)
Released: April 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Short film cobbled from the Abbott & Costello feature In Society for the home movie market.
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Belle Le Grand
Title: Belle Le Grand
Character: Parkington
Released: January 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Upon her release from prison for a murder she didn't commit, a woman finds that her younger sister has been placed in an orphanage. Determined to do whatever it takes to get her out, she eventually becomes the proprietor of a notorious gambling establishment.
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The Bandit Queen
Title: The Bandit Queen
Character: Governor
Released: December 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Zara Montalve, half Spanish and half America, returns to her native California in time to see her parents murdered for their hacienda and gold by Sheriff Jim Harding and his gang. Posing as Lola Belmont, an American visiting from Detroit, teams up with Joaquin Murietta, posing as Carlos Del Rio, to form a Robin-Hood type band that takes vengeance on the gang and restores stolen gold to its rightful owners, aided by militia leader Dan Hinsdale.
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One Too Many
Title: One Too Many
Character: Kenneth Simes
Released: December 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A once-famous concert pianist has had her career ruined by her alcoholism. Her husband and a member of Alcoholics Anonymous try to help her recover.
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Chain Gang
Title: Chain Gang
Character: John McKelvey, news publisher
Released: November 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts masquerades as a prison guard to document inhuman conditions.
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Bright Leaf
Title: Bright Leaf
Character: Phillips
Released: June 16, 1950
Type: Movie
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
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Federal Agent at Large
Title: Federal Agent at Large
Character: 'Big Bill' Dixon
Released: March 12, 1950
Type: Movie
A crime ring is smuggling gold from Mexico across the border in the US. The Customs Service sends an agent to Mexico to try to infiltrate the ring and stop the smuggling.
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Belle of Old Mexico
Title: Belle of Old Mexico
Character: Horatio Huntington
Released: March 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Wealthy Kip Artmitage III (Robert Rockwell) honors his late wartime friend's request to look after the friend's "little sister."
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Tell It to the Judge
Title: Tell It to the Judge
Character: Sen. Caswell (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1949
Type: Movie
Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her divorce makes her unfit for the job. This evolves into situations, happening in Florida, New England, Washington D.C., and the Adirondacks, such as the misunderstood husband trying to win back his wife, and the misunderstood wife trying to make her husband jealous, and one case of mistaken identity after another, after another.
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Bride for Sale
Title: Bride for Sale
Character: Trisby
Released: November 12, 1949
Type: Movie
Nora Shelley is a tax expert for the accounting company which is led by Paul Martin. She thinks she can find a suitable husband by inspecting their clients' tax documents. Martin finds out and tries to dissuade her from this approach, later enlisting the help of his friend Steve Adams, who tries to woo Shelley.
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Square Dance Jubilee
Title: Square Dance Jubilee
Character: G.K.
Released: November 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Two talent scouts for a New York-based country music TV show called "Square Dance Jubilee" are sent out West to get authentic western singing acts. They find what they're looking for, but also get mixed up in cattle rustling and murder.
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Rim of the Canyon
Title: Rim of the Canyon
Character: Big Tim Hanlon
Released: July 1, 1949
Type: Movie
20 years ago, 3 men robbed a stage and hid $30,000. They were caught and sent to prison by Marshal Steve Autry. 20 years later, the men bust out of prison and return to the ghost town where they stashed their treasure searching. Steve's grandson picks up where Steve left off to foil the plans of the outlaws.
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The Fountainhead
Title: The Fountainhead
Character: Businessman at Party (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1949
Type: Movie
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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Stagecoach Kid
Title: Stagecoach Kid
Character: Peter Arnold
Released: June 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Crooked ranch foreman Thatcher sends his two henchmen, Parnell and Clint, out to murder his boss, wealthy Peter Arnold who has just arrived to retire on his ranch, bringing in tow his daughter, tomboy Jessie, who despises western life and can't wait to run off back to San Francisco. Stagecoach line owner Dave Collins and his sidekick Chito show up just in time to deter the attackers. Collins isn't done yet, though, as a gold shipment sent on one of his stages is stolen by Parnell and Clint, one of whom is recognized by Jessie, attempting to escape back to the west coast. Collins has his hands full trying to retrieve the stolen gold, and dealing with Jessie, who's fallen head-over-heels in love with him.
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Manhattan Angel
Title: Manhattan Angel
Character: Everett H. Burton
Released: March 17, 1949
Type: Movie
Gloria Cole and Eddie Swenson are working to keep an old fire house, now being used as a youth center, from being razed to make room for a new skyscraper in Manhattan.
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Rusty Saves a Life
Title: Rusty Saves a Life
Character: Counsellor Frank A. Gibson
Released: February 3, 1949
Type: Movie
Rusty, portrayed by a very busy canine thespian named Flame, does exactly what the film's title says he does. But before this prophecy can be fulfilled, the story spends a great deal of time with young Danny Mitchell (Ted Donaldson), who briefly turns to juvenile delinquency when he's denied an expected inheritance
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Blondie's Secret
Title: Blondie's Secret
Character: George Whiteside
Released: December 23, 1948
Type: Movie
Dagwood prepares for a long-delayed vacation with the family. His boss Mr. Radcliffe has promised the Bumsteads that there'll be no more postponements for their holiday. But when something comes up that requires Dagwood's presence, Radcliffe hires a couple of thugs to steal Blondie and Dagwood's luggage so that they'll have to stay in town. And that's only the beginning of the frantic fun.
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Miraculous Journey
Title: Miraculous Journey
Character: Kendricks
Released: September 17, 1948
Type: Movie
The passengers and crew of an airplane are stranded in an unfamiliar jungle. Unknown to most of the survivors is a criminal among them who caused the crash.
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Up in Central Park
Title: Up in Central Park
Character: Governor Motley
Released: July 9, 1948
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.
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Three Daring Daughters
Title: Three Daring Daughters
Character: Howie Howard, Louise's Assistant (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
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It Had to Be You
Title: It Had to Be You
Character: Ned Harrington
Released: December 7, 1947
Type: Movie
A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
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Mourning Becomes Electra
Title: Mourning Becomes Electra
Character: Dr. Blake
Released: November 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conniving wife Christine and daughter Lavinia vie for the love of a handsome captain with a dark secret while well-meaning neighbor Peter sets his sights on Lavinia.
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The Unfinished Dance
Title: The Unfinished Dance
Character: Mr. Ronsell
Released: September 19, 1947
Type: Movie
A young dance student accidentally cripples a teacher she doesn't like.
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Black Gold
Title: Black Gold
Character: Colonel Caldwell
Released: September 16, 1947
Type: Movie
A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Title: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Character: Bruce Pierce
Released: September 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
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The Son of Rusty
Title: The Son of Rusty
Character: Franklyn B. Gibson
Released: August 7, 1947
Type: Movie
The fourth film in Columbia's "Rusty" series is a lecture against gossiping. A young army veteran comes to town, and Danny and his friends learn that he had spent time in a military stockade for an infraction of a regulation. Danny's friends spread the story all over town. The seriousness of the minor infraction grows with each telling. As a sidebar, Rusty finds a mate and becomes a father.
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Swing the Western Way
Title: Swing the Western Way
Character: Jasper Jim Bandy
Released: June 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Swing the Western Way
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Welcome Stranger
Title: Welcome Stranger
Character: Congressman Beeker
Released: June 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once he meets teacher Trudy Mason, Pearson is delighted to stay. The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancé. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy?
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The Farmer's Daughter
Title: The Farmer's Daughter
Character: Wilbur Johnson
Released: March 26, 1947
Type: Movie
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
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Three Little Girls in Blue
Title: Three Little Girls in Blue
Character: Col. Clay
Released: September 3, 1946
Type: Movie
Three sisters go to Atlantic City with hopes of finding rich husbands.
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Dangerous Business
Title: Dangerous Business
Character: B.J. Calhoun
Released: June 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Two young lawyers open an office together. They are hired to defend a utilities magnate who claims he has been framed. He is kidnapped by a gangster, and a battle royal ensues when the lawyers try to rescue him.
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Two Sisters from Boston
Title: Two Sisters from Boston
Character: Mr. Lawrence Tyburt Patterson, Sr.
Released: June 6, 1946
Type: Movie
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
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She Wrote the Book
Title: She Wrote the Book
Character: Horace Van Cleve
Released: May 31, 1946
Type: Movie
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. When she arrives she gets a bump on the head which brings on a form of amnesia and she begins to believe she is the author of the book. Hijinks and adventures follow.
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One More Tomorrow
Title: One More Tomorrow
Character: Thomas Rufus Collier II
Released: May 24, 1946
Type: Movie
Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party — until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the ownership of The Bantam, a liberal magazine that opposes everything his family represents. As Tom and Christie's relationship deepens, love blooms and he proposes to her. Realizing that she could never fit in with Tom's social circle, Christie says no, a decision she later regrets. But Tom isn't left alone for long — scheming gold-digger Cecelia Henry wastes no time in catching Tom on the rebound and forcing him into a disastrous marriage.
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Without Reservations
Title: Without Reservations
Character: Henry Baldwin
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
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Colonel Effingham's Raid
Title: Colonel Effingham's Raid
Character: Ed - the Mayor
Released: January 24, 1946
Type: Movie
The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. He begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to save the square.
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Saratoga Trunk
Title: Saratoga Trunk
Character: Mr. Pound (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1945
Type: Movie
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
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Song of the Prairie
Title: Song of the Prairie
Character: Jerome Wingate
Released: September 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Joan Wingate's wealthy father doesn't want his daughter to go into show business. As they vacation in the west she gets a job with Dan Tyler's show and uses Wingate money to keep him afloat. Sandwiched in between the numerous musical numbers they try to keep her father away from the show. But he eventually finds out and decides they will return east
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West of the Pecos
Title: West of the Pecos
Character: Col. Lambeth
Released: August 10, 1945
Type: Movie
Heading west for his health, Colonel Lambeth takes his daughter Rill along. Lost on the desert they are saved by Pecos and Chito. The Colonel hires the two and the Lambeths soon find themselves mixed up in Pecos' trouble. Pecos has killed Sawtelle's brother and Sawtelle as head of the vigilantes is after him.
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The Gay Senorita
Title: The Gay Senorita
Character: J.J. Frentiss
Released: August 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Romance with a lovely senorita convinces a contractor to abandon his plans to take over a Mexican housing district.
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Lady on a Train
Title: Lady on a Train
Character: Josiah Waring
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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Blonde from Brooklyn
Title: Blonde from Brooklyn
Character: "Colonel" Hubert Farnsworth
Released: June 21, 1945
Type: Movie
A brash young singer and an unemployed "jukebox girl" hire an elderly Confederate "colonel" to teach them to be "southern" so they can land a radio gig for sponsor Plantation Coffee. Comedy.
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Don Juan Quilligan
Title: Don Juan Quilligan
Character: First Judge
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.
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Thrill of a Romance
Title: Thrill of a Romance
Character: J.P. Bancroft (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1945
Type: Movie
A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.
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Brewster's Millions
Title: Brewster's Millions
Character: Colonel Drew
Released: April 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns that he has inherited $8 million from a distant relative. But there's a catch: he must spend $1 million of that money in less than two months before his 30th birthday in order to inherit the rest.
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Bring on the Girls
Title: Bring on the Girls
Character: Rutledge
Released: March 30, 1945
Type: Movie
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.
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Something for the Boys
Title: Something for the Boys
Character: Colonel Jefferson L. Calhoun (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1944
Type: Movie
The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who gets radio through her teeth!), inherit southern plantation Magnolia Manor, which alas proves to be a "termite trap" and tax liability. Fortunately, Sgt. Rocky Fulton from a nearby army camp appears with a plan to convert the place to a hotel for army wives; but to pay bills until then, they decide to put on a show. Of course, romantic and military complications intervene...
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Ever Since Venus
Title: Ever Since Venus
Character: Edgar Pomeroy
Released: September 14, 1944
Type: Movie
The American Beauty Association is about to hold its annual trade show in New York City and songwriter "Tiny" Lewis (Billy Gilbert) has just sold a song to Ina Ray Hutton ('Ina Ray Hutton'), the leader of an all-girl band headlining the show. Lewis shares an apartment with Bradley Miller ('Ross Hunter') and Michele (Fritz Feld), an artist, and Miller has just invented a non-staining lipstick called "Rosebud." Preparing to get a booth at the show, Miller is told by J. Webster Hackett (Alan Mowbray), a very devious "Cosmetics King,", intent on selling a big lipstick order to buyer Edgar Pomeroy (Thurston Hall), that it will cost him a $1000 to join the association and get a booth, which is about $999 more than Miller and his roomies have between them. But Miller's beauty-parlor girl friend, Janet Wilson ('Ann Savage'), meets factory-owner P. G. Grimble (Hugh Herbert), and money is soon no issue. (IMDb)
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In Society
Title: In Society
Character: Mr. Van Cleve
Released: August 16, 1944
Type: Movie
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly
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Song of Nevada
Title: Song of Nevada
Character: John Barrabee
Released: August 5, 1944
Type: Movie
When John Barrabbee's plane makes an emergency landing, he wanders off and joins Roy's cattle drive. Later he learns he was killed when his plane resumed its flight and crashed. He also learns his daughter is going to sell his ranch and marry a man he dislikes. So he gives Roy a job on the ranch and sends him off to see if he can prevent both of these events while he remains in hiding. Written by Maurice VanAuken Western girl moves east and influenced badly by her snobby fiance. She returns to sell her deceased father's ranch. The father isn't really dead, though; he's hoping that his friend Roy can restore the girl's western values. Songs include "New Moon Over Nevada," "A Cowboy has to Yodel in the Morning," and "The Harum Scarum Baron of the Harmonium." Written by Ed Stephan
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Wilson
Title: Wilson
Character: Senator Edward H. 'Big Ed' Jones
Released: August 1, 1944
Type: Movie
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations.
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The Great Moment
Title: The Great Moment
Character: Senator Borland
Released: July 18, 1944
Type: Movie
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
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Goodnight, Sweetheart
Title: Goodnight, Sweetheart
Character: Judge James Rutherford
Released: June 17, 1944
Type: Movie
A journalist attacks the campaign of a mayoral candidate who has gained the endorsement of a rival newspaper.
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Cover Girl
Title: Cover Girl
Character: Tony Pastor (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1944
Type: Movie
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
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Here Comes Elmer
Title: Here Comes Elmer
Character: P. J. Ellis
Released: November 15, 1943
Type: Movie
This musical comedy stars radio star Al Pearce has a double role playing himself and Elmer Blurt, the leader of a small-town band that struggles toward stardom in the big city. Their journey begins when Elmer decides to eject their female singer because she isn't really right. Unfortunately, her angry father is their sponsor and when he finds out, he withdraws all support.
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Footlight Glamour
Title: Footlight Glamour
Character: Randolph Wheeler
Released: September 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Mr. Dithers is trying to encourage a businessman to build a war-time manufacturing plant on land he owns while Dagwood tries to prevent the businessman from learning his daughter is involved in a local theatre production.
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Hoosier Holiday
Title: Hoosier Holiday
Character: Henry P. Fairchild
Released: September 13, 1943
Type: Movie
During World War II three brothers go to enlist in the Air Force, but since they're farmers they're told they're needed at home more than in the service. Determined to join up, they enlist the aid of a pretty young girl whose father is head of the local draft board.
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I Dood It
Title: I Dood It
Character: Kenneth 'Ken' Cawlor
Released: September 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Constance Shaw, a Broadway dance star, and Joseph Rivington Reynolds, a keen fan of hers, marry after she breaks up with her fiancé. Connie thinks Joseph owns a gold mine, but he actually works as a presser at a hotel valet shop. When everyone learns what he really is, Joseph is banned from the theater. When he sneaks in again, he learns of a plot to set off a bomb in the adjoining munitions warehouse.
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This Land Is Mine
Title: This Land Is Mine
Character: Mayor Henry Manville
Released: May 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
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Crash Dive
Title: Crash Dive
Character: Senator from Texas
Released: April 22, 1943
Type: Movie
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
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He Hired the Boss
Title: He Hired the Boss
Character: Mr. Bates
Released: April 2, 1943
Type: Movie
A shy bookkeeper accidentally discovers that the company where he works is targeted in a series of late-night robberies.
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Title: Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Character: Sen. Henry Babcock
Released: March 24, 1943
Type: Movie
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.
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The Youngest Profession
Title: The Youngest Profession
Character: Mr. Drew
Released: February 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents to the extent of hiring Dr. Hercules, the strong man from a side show to pay attention to her mother in order to make her father jealous, despite the good advice received from Walter Pidgeon.
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One Dangerous Night
Title: One Dangerous Night
Character: Inspector Crane
Released: January 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Reformed jewel thief the Lone Wolf investigates the murder of a playboy who was blackmailing three socialites.
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The Hard Way
Title: The Hard Way
Character: Harry (Uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
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The Great Gildersleeve
Title: The Great Gildersleeve
Character: Governor Jonathan Stafford
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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Counter-Espionage
Title: Counter-Espionage
Character: Insp. Crane
Released: September 3, 1942
Type: Movie
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.
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Call of the Canyon
Title: Call of the Canyon
Character: Grantley B. Johnson
Released: August 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.
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Her Cardboard Lover
Title: Her Cardboard Lover
Character: Mr. Garthwaite - Barling's Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1942
Type: Movie
A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.
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Twin Beds
Title: Twin Beds
Character: Horace Touchstone
Released: April 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.
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Hello, Annapolis
Title: Hello, Annapolis
Character: Capt. Wendall
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl.
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The Great Man's Lady
Title: The Great Man's Lady
Character: Mr. Sempler
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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Shepherd of the Ozarks
Title: Shepherd of the Ozarks
Character: James Maloney
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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Rings on Her Fingers
Title: Rings on Her Fingers
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother and uncle of a pretty girl in order to separate millionaires from their money. They convince Susan she has an opportunity to fulfill all her dreams, and the trio heads for Palm Beach. Susan meets John Wheeler who says he is shopping for a sailboat. Believing that he is a millionaire, Warren and May sell him a boat that doesn't belong to them, and make off with his $15,000 life savings. Looking for greener pastures, they work themselves into the family of wealthy Tod Fenwick, who falls for Sue, posing as "Linda Worthington". But John shows up as a guest of Fenwick and he tells "Linda", not knowing she was part of the scam, that he has a detective after the fake captain that sold him the boat...
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The Night Before the Divorce
Title: The Night Before the Divorce
Character: Bert Harriman
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Marital comedy with a dash of murder.
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Sleepytime Gal
Title: Sleepytime Gal
Character: Mr. Adams
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Bessie Cobb, cake decorator in the kitchen of one of Miami's swankier hotels, is the central figure in an elaborate scheme by Chick Patterson, bell captain, who believes he can not only enrich Bessie, but himself, his fiancée, and the kitchen's three screwball chefs, Chef Popodopolis, Chef Petrovich and Chef Barzumium. He plans to enter Bessie in the singing contest sponsored by band-leader Danny Marlowe for a large recording company looking for new talent.. Chick has a recording made of Bessie's voice and substitutes it for that of "Sugar" Caston, who is being sponsored by a big-time gangster and is set up to win. But members of a rival gang, out to get "Sugar", mistake Besiie for her.
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Pacific Blackout
Title: Pacific Blackout
Character: Williams
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
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Remember the Day
Title: Remember the Day
Character: Gov. Teller
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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Design for Scandal
Title: Design for Scandal
Character: Northcott
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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Tuxedo Junction
Title: Tuxedo Junction
Character: Doug Gordon
Released: November 25, 1941
Type: Movie
The Weaver Brothers and Elviry have migrated from their usual hard-scrabble digs in the Ozarks and have taken up truck-farming.
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Secrets of the Lone Wolf
Title: Secrets of the Lone Wolf
Character: Inspector Crane
Released: November 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers.
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Swing It Soldier
Title: Swing It Soldier
Character: Oscar Simms- Wheezies Sponsor
Released: November 7, 1941
Type: Movie
In this musical comedy, a pregnant disc jockey misses her husband who is fighting overseas. Stressed out by the situation and her job, she decides to take some time off and convinces her twin sister to trade places with her. The switcheroo causes the soldier her husband appointed as her unofficial guardian no end of confusion.
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Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Title: Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Character: Huntley (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1941
Type: Movie
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
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Hold That Ghost
Title: Hold That Ghost
Character: Alderman Birch (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
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Accent on Love
Title: Accent on Love
Character: T. J. Triton
Released: July 11, 1941
Type: Movie
A young man of privilege abandons his thankless job as a company vice-president, walks out on his spoiled wife, and joins the working classes, leading to his romance with a European immigrant.
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In the Navy
Title: In the Navy
Character: Lead Senator (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.
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She Knew All the Answers
Title: She Knew All the Answers
Character: J. D. Sutton
Released: May 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side but complications ensue.
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Washington Melodrama
Title: Washington Melodrama
Character: Sen. Morton
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl's murder.
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The Great Lie
Title: The Great Lie
Character: Oscar Worthington James
Released: April 5, 1941
Type: Movie
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
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Repent at Leisure
Title: Repent at Leisure
Character: Jay Buckingham
Released: April 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, except her husband.
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The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Title: The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Character: Inspector Crane
Released: March 6, 1941
Type: Movie
A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder.
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Flight from Destiny
Title: Flight from Destiny
Character: Dean Somers
Released: February 8, 1941
Type: Movie
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
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Life with Henry
Title: Life with Henry
Character: Mr. Woodring (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
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Four Mothers
Title: Four Mothers
Character: Mr. Davis (uncredited)
Released: January 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
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Where Did You Get That Girl?
Title: Where Did You Get That Girl?
Character: Stuyvesant, Four Star Record Co. President
Released: January 3, 1941
Type: Movie
In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording contract. The trouble is, the composer's works are never played without another band member doctoring them up to make them swingier. Fortunately, the composer isn't too averse to the changes as he has just won the heart of the beauty who sings his revamped songs.
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The Invisible Woman
Title: The Invisible Woman
Character: Hudson
Released: December 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.
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Kiddie Kure
Title: Kiddie Kure
Character: Bill "Old Man" Morton
Released: November 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Rich 'Old Man' Bill Morton is a hypochondriac. After bringing new sugar pills to Bill Morton's house, his physician, Doctor Malcolm Scott suggested to Bill Morton's wife that adopting a child might help cure Mister Morton of his delusions. After overhearing their conversation, Bill Morton quickly invited the "Our Gang" members, (as they were at the front come to the door, offering to work and pay for a broken window pane, that had just occurred) to a lunch, in order to sour his wife's thoughts of adopting any children. Then, the unexpected occurs as Alfalfa's two twin little brothers, Tisket and Tasket got to Bill Morton's medications' table, they ate up a majority of them, leading Bill Morton to call his physician, Malcolm Scott back to his house, immediately! When, Doctor Malcolm Scott return to Bill Morton's house, he laughs at what he hears and then tells Bill Morton they are worthless sugar pills, teaching a lesson to Bill Morton he is not sick at all.
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Friendly Neighbors
Title: Friendly Neighbors
Character: The Governor
Released: November 17, 1940
Type: Movie
The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the eleven-film "Weaver Brothers and Elviry" comedy-drama series. The singing hayseed family's journey begins when a drought destroys their farm. The young travelers soon hook up with a band of tramps and end up in a small town that has been nearly destroyed by the floods that occasionally roar through it. The Weavers' are moved by the townsfolk's plight and so decide to stay a spell and help out.
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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Title: The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Character: Inspector Crane
Released: November 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.
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City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: Max Leonard
Released: September 21, 1940
Type: Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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The Golden Fleecing
Title: The Golden Fleecing
Character: Charles Engel
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
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The Great McGinty
Title: The Great McGinty
Character: Mr. Maxwell
Released: August 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
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Millionaires in Prison
Title: Millionaires in Prison
Character: Harold Kellogg
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
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The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Title: The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Character: Inspector Crane
Released: May 30, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.
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Alias the Deacon
Title: Alias the Deacon
Character: Jim Cunningham
Released: May 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game.
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In Old Missouri
Title: In Old Missouri
Character: John Pittman Sr.
Released: April 17, 1940
Type: Movie
The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son and a socialite wife who wants a divorce. He begs the Weavers to trade places with him and fix things up.
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Virginia City
Title: Virginia City
Character: Gen. George Meade (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
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Blondie on a Budget
Title: Blondie on a Budget
Character: Brice
Released: February 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.
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The Blue Bird
Title: The Blue Bird
Character: Father Time
Released: January 15, 1940
Type: Movie
An ungrateful girl and her little brother are transported in their dreams by a fairy to a wonderland, tasked with finding the mythical blue bird of happiness, meeting friends and foes along the way.
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Money To Burn
Title: Money To Burn
Character: Ellis
Released: December 31, 1939
Type: Movie
In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a whopping $50,000.
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First Love
Title: First Love
Character: Anthony Drake
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's hardly received with open arms, especially by her snobby cousin Barbara. When the entire family is invited to a major social ball, Barbara sees to it that Connie is forced to stay home. With the aid of her uncle, who acts as her fairy godfather, Connie makes it to the ball and meets her Prince Charming in Ted Drake, her cousin's boyfriend.
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Jeepers Creepers
Title: Jeepers Creepers
Character: M.K. Durant
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Sentenced to toil on a family's land, a greedy man discovers coal and secretly buys the property.
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Sued for Libel
Title: Sued for Libel
Character: David Hastings
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
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Dancing Co-Ed
Title: Dancing Co-Ed
Character: Henry W. Workman
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
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The Day the Bookies Wept
Title: The Day the Bookies Wept
Character: Col. March
Released: September 13, 1939
Type: Movie
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
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Hawaiian Nights
Title: Hawaiian Nights
Character: T.C. Hartley
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Bandleader Tim Hartley's father objects strongly to his son's occupation choice and packs him off to Hawaii to manage the family hotel holdings. This proves to be a wrong move as Hawaiia has more bands than it does pineapples.
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The Star Maker
Title: The Star Maker
Character: Mr. Proctor
Released: August 25, 1939
Type: Movie
This is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and producer.
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Each Dawn I Die
Title: Each Dawn I Die
Character: Hanley
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Title: Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Character: Sam Bailey
Released: July 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard a slave ship on the high seas, the bartering of natives for slavery in a tropical paradise, and battle scenes between enraged California settlers and the Mexican Army.
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Million Dollar Legs
Title: Million Dollar Legs
Character: Gregory Melton Sr.
Released: July 13, 1939
Type: Movie
At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his girl Susie; he schemes to revive crew boat racing. Sinking boats, no money, and his own waistline stand in his way. Can they win the big race with State University?
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Ex-Champ
Title: Ex-Champ
Character: Mr. Courtney
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
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Dodge City
Title: Dodge City
Character: Twitchell (uncredited)
Released: April 8, 1939
Type: Movie
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Title: Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Character: Senator
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Title: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Character: Mr. Archibald Bel-Goodie
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
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Going Places
Title: Going Places
Character: Col. Withering
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
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Out West with the Hardys
Title: Out West with the Hardys
Character: H.R. Bruxton (uncredited)
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
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Spring Madness
Title: Spring Madness
Character: Charles Platt
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher (Lew Ayres) and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott" (Burgess Meredith), plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson (Maureen O'Sullivan).
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Hard to Get
Title: Hard to Get
Character: John Atwater
Released: November 5, 1938
Type: Movie
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.
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Campus Confessions
Title: Campus Confessions
Character: William Atterbury, Sr.
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
This comical campus romance showcases the fancy footwork of All-American basketball player Hank Luisetti while it tells the story of a dean's son who does his very best to become a good student. When he fails, he turns to playing basketball and befriends Luisetti, which makes him quite popular. This doesn't sit well with the dean, who wants academics to be more important than sports.
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The Affairs of Annabel
Title: The Affairs of Annabel
Character: Major
Released: September 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for publicity.
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Professor Beware
Title: Professor Beware
Character: J.J. Van Buren
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Title: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Character: Grant
Released: July 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
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Fast Company
Title: Fast Company
Character: Dist. Atty. MacMillen
Released: July 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
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Squadron of Honor
Title: Squadron of Honor
Character: Bob Metcalf
Released: June 28, 1938
Type: Movie
Squadron of Honor takes place during an American Legion convention, with newsreel shots of the genuine article interspersed among the reenacted scene. A murder is committed, and young legionnaire Blane (Don Terry) wants to find out who's responsible. The cops are convinced that pacifistic munitions executive Metcalf (Thurston Hall) committed the crime, but in fact Metcalf has been framed by pro-war armaments manufacturer Kimball (Robert Warwick).
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The Main Event
Title: The Main Event
Character: Captain Phillips
Released: June 22, 1938
Type: Movie
FBI agent Mac Richards takes his girlfriend, Helen Phillips, to a world championship boxing match only to learn that the event has been canceled because the titleholder has been kidnapped. Mac is entrusted with the ransom money, but the kidnappers discover that his fellow agents have surrounded the train station locker where the money was to be dropped and order the champ's manager to have the money delivered by an usher to a different location. With Helen disguised as the usher and Mac driving a cab, the pair set off to deliver the money. The gang isn't taking any chances, though - they waylay the cab and take both the ransom money and Helen to their hideout. Now Mac and his fellow agents must rescue both the champ and his sweetheart before they come to harm.
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Extortion
Title: Extortion
Character: Prof. Tisdelle
Released: May 9, 1938
Type: Movie
In this B potboiler, a college professor finds himself suspected of a murder on his school's campus.
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Women Are Like That
Title: Women Are Like That
Character: Claudius King
Released: April 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.
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There's Always a Woman
Title: There's Always a Woman
Character: District Attorney
Released: April 20, 1938
Type: Movie
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.
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No Time To Marry
Title: No Time To Marry
Character: Pettensall
Released: February 5, 1938
Type: Movie
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficulties in their competitive pursuit of a "big scoop".
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Murder in Greenwich Village
Title: Murder in Greenwich Village
Character: Charles Cabot
Released: November 3, 1937
Type: Movie
A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a struggling advertisement photographer. Now they must keep up the appearance of being engaged as a bumbling detective snoops around, and their initial distaste for each other blossoms into romance.
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Counsel for Crime
Title: Counsel for Crime
Character: Sen. Maddox
Released: October 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Otto Kruger once again plays a dynamic, bombastic attorney in Columbia's Counsel for Crime. Kruger plays William Mellon, a shifty shyster whose underhanded methods loses him the love of his sweetheart Anne (Nana Bryant), who subsequently marries a powerful senator (Thurston Hall). What Mellon doesn't know is that Anne has borne him a son, whom the senator has adopted. Reaching adulthood, Paul (Douglass Montgomery) opts for a legal career himself, taking a clerical job with his own father's firm. In typical "B"-picture, Mellon is charged with murdering one of his more odious clients -- and Paul is appointed prosecuting attorney in the case.
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It Can't Last Forever
Title: It Can't Last Forever
Character: Fulton
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
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Venus Makes Trouble
Title: Venus Makes Trouble
Character: Harlan Darrow
Released: May 14, 1937
Type: Movie
A fast-talking, street-wise con-man forsakes the tank-towns of Pennsylvania for the greener pastures in Manhattan, and gains fame-and-fortune as New York City's number one merchandise promoter. A model and a society girl provide some complications along the way.
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I Promise to Pay
Title: I Promise to Pay
Character: Police Captain Hall
Released: April 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A man goes to a loan shark to finance his family's vacation.
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Oh, Doctor
Title: Oh, Doctor
Character: 'Doc' Erasmus Thurston
Released: March 31, 1937
Type: Movie
A hypochondriac is afraid he will die before he gets an inheritance that will "cure" him.
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We Have Our Moments
Title: We Have Our Moments
Character: Frank Rutherford
Released: March 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
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Parole Racket
Title: Parole Racket
Character: Editor Jamison
Released: March 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Following a long investigation, Police Detective-Lieutenant Anthony "Tony" Roberts becomes convinced that there is some powerful unknown-master-mind leader behind the gangs of crooks who are terrorizing the city, and it has something to do with paroled convicts. He sets up a scheme with his supervisor to have himself shamed by being demoted to a patrolman and then caught in the act of receiving bribe-money from a racketeer. He is convicted and sent to prison, and the manner in which his parole is arranged leads him, dangerously, to the secret-head of the gang.
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Women of Glamour
Title: Women of Glamour
Character: Mr. Stark
Released: March 9, 1937
Type: Movie
A girl with a reputation falls for a wealthy playboy.
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Don't Tell the Wife
Title: Don't Tell the Wife
Character: Major Manning
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
After being released from prison, con man Thurston Hall gathers his gang of cronies--along with innocent chump Guy Kibbee--to help him sell worthless stock in a New Mexico gold mine.
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Lady from Nowhere
Title: Lady from Nowhere
Character: James Gordon Barnes
Released: December 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A manicurist witnesses a gangland murder. Realizing there was a witness to their crime, the killer tries to track her down and silence her.
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Theodora Goes Wild
Title: Theodora Goes Wild
Character: Arthur Stevenson
Released: November 12, 1936
Type: Movie
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.
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Killer at Large
Title: Killer at Large
Character: Inspector O'Hara
Released: October 27, 1936
Type: Movie
A master of disguise poses as a wax figure to rob a safe of its jewels.
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The Man Who Lived Twice
Title: The Man Who Lived Twice
Character: Dr. Clifford L. Schuyler
Released: September 25, 1936
Type: Movie
A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.
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Two-Fisted Gentleman
Title: Two-Fisted Gentleman
Character: Pop
Released: August 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Mickey, is a prizefighter whose bright career hits the skids when he comes under the guidance of Ginger, a female fight promoter, when he becomes involved with June Prentice and her high-society crowd.
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Shakedown
Title: Shakedown
Character: T. Gregory Stuart
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.
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Trapped by Television
Title: Trapped by Television
Character: John Curtis
Released: June 15, 1936
Type: Movie
An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.
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The King Steps Out
Title: The King Steps Out
Character: Major
Released: May 27, 1936
Type: Movie
Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.
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Roaming Lady
Title: Roaming Lady
Character: E. J. Reid
Released: May 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Joyce Reid, a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as passengers her dashing aviator sweetheart, Dan Bailey and and her munitions-producing father, E. J. Reid and an assortment of the usual south-seas characters along with some Asians with varying agendas. The cargo included a shipment of bombs and machine guns. She soon finds herself being held hostage and they will free her only if Dan agrees to pilot a bombing plane for some Chinese bandits.
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Devil's Squadron
Title: Devil's Squadron
Character: Major Metcalf
Released: April 30, 1936
Type: Movie
In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies, his daughter is left to run the company. The company seems to be producing dangerous prototypes, so the woman decides to close the company.
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Pride of the Marines
Title: Pride of the Marines
Character: Col. Gage
Released: April 2, 1936
Type: Movie
A Marine sacrifices his adopted son and his girlfriend so that they might find a new and more prosperous life.
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Don't Gamble with Love
Title: Don't Gamble with Love
Character: Martin Gage
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to start a family wife feels the need to change their situation. Situation is changed and husband gets a new job and then a promotion but is tricked into a bad business deal and wants to go back to his old life.
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The Lone Wolf Returns
Title: The Lone Wolf Returns
Character: Inspector Crane
Released: December 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanyard also known as the Lone Wolf once retired from the "trade" but relapses back into his old habits when he is tempted by the emerald pendant of beautiful socialite Marcia Stewart. The trouble (?) is that he falls for the belle and he soon gets more interested in getting the girl than the jewels that adorn her. What he wants now is to return the pendant but a rival gang interfere and force him to take part in a big-time caper.
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Too Tough to Kill
Title: Too Tough to Kill
Character: Jim Whitney
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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One Way Ticket
Title: One Way Ticket
Character: Mr. Ritchie
Released: November 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A convict marries the warder's daughter after his escape and she eventually persuades him to finish his sentence.
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Crime and Punishment
Title: Crime and Punishment
Character: Editor
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A man is haunted by a murder he's committed.
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Guard That Girl
Title: Guard That Girl
Character: Dr. Silas Hudson
Released: November 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Attorney Joshua Scranton hires "Budge" Edwards and Larry Donovan, who has just bought into Edwards' detective agency, to protect Estelle Hudson, a client of his who is to inherit three-million dollars the next Thursday. He tells them he has reason to believe the girl is in danger from five relatives who stand to benefit from her death.
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A Feather in Her Hat
Title: A Feather in Her Hat
Character: Sir Elroyd Joyce
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.
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Case of the Missing Man
Title: Case of the Missing Man
Character: Boyle
Released: October 20, 1935
Type: Movie
After an argument with his newspaper's city editor, press-photographer Jimmy Hudson quits his job and takes up free-lancing as a street-photographer for a living. He stumbles across the robbing of a jewelry store and takes a picture of one of the robbers as he is leaving the scene-of-the-crime in which murder has also been committed. At the risk of his own life, over the protests of his sweetheart, he sets a trap to catch the crook.
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Metropolitan
Title: Metropolitan
Character: T. Simon Hunter
Released: October 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.
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She Couldn't Take It
Title: She Couldn't Take It
Character: Party Guest
Released: October 8, 1935
Type: Movie
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
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The Public Menace
Title: The Public Menace
Character: Captain of Ocean Liner
Released: September 30, 1935
Type: Movie
1935 comedy in which an immigrant (Jean Arthur), a reporter (George Murphy) and a gangster (Douglass Dumbrille) cross paths.
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The Girl Friend
Title: The Girl Friend
Character: George S. Harmon
Released: September 27, 1935
Type: Movie
An actor and two songwriters become rural con men.
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Atlantic Adventure
Title: Atlantic Adventure
Character: City Editor Rutherford
Released: August 25, 1935
Type: Movie
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
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The Black Room
Title: The Black Room
Character: Col. Paul Hassel
Released: July 15, 1935
Type: Movie
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron. The older grows to be a selfish, slovenly man, who inherits the castle at his father's death and becomes ruler over the formerly happy villagers. He enjoys his power until he learns his younger brother is returning from abroad and, afraid of the prophecy, he determines to murder his sibling, hide his body in the "black room" - an old torture chamber sealed away behind the fireplace - and then impersonate him, right down to his withered arm. In this way he hopes to not only avoid the prophecy, but also escape consequences of his other criminal deeds and obtain marriage to a local girl of the nobility...
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Love Me Forever
Title: Love Me Forever
Character: Maurizio
Released: June 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him.
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After the Dance
Title: After the Dance
Character: District Attorney
Released: June 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot, a hostile convict (Jack La Rue) forces Jerry to help him escape, so Jerry takes to the streets himself. Nightclub entertainer Anne Taylor (Nancy Carroll) meets him, and convinces her boss Louis (Arthur Hohl) to hire him as her partner.
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Hooray for Love
Title: Hooray for Love
Character: Jason Thatcher
Released: June 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A wealthy young man falls hard for a beautiful showgirl, and her wily father quickly realizes the naïve boy would make the perfect investor for his daughter's new show. Comedy with music.
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A Burglar to the Rescue
Title: A Burglar to the Rescue
Character: The Banker, Steve Corley
Released: September 7, 1931
Type: Movie
He is working on the books to cover his crimes, when a visitor arrives with a gun. In the conversation that ensues, it is revealed that the visitor is an escaped convict that was a former employee of the bank. He was railroaded to prison to cover the crooked banker's crime. As with other entries in this series, there is a shadow projected every so often with a voice forecasting what is to come.
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The Great Well
Title: The Great Well
Character: Peter Starling
Released: March 1, 1924
Type: Movie
In India a major tries to cash in on a dry oil well but shoots himself when the oil returns.
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The Royal Oak
Title: The Royal Oak
Character: Colonel Ancketell
Released: October 1, 1923
Type: Movie
King Charles flees and hides in a huge oak tree when the troops loyal to Oliver Cromwell close in. The royal entourage is disguised, and the king's sweetheart masquerades as Charles. Only when she is brought before Cromwell is it discovered the switch has been made.
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Fair Lady
Title: Fair Lady
Character: Italian banker
Released: March 19, 1922
Type: Movie
Countess Margherita is a Sicilian girl who is about to be married, but Caesar Maruffi, the head of a criminal syndicate, wants her for himself. He arranges to have the bridegroom assassinated, and Norvin Blake, a young American (Robert Elliott), almost loses his life in his attempt to save him.
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The Iron Trail
Title: The Iron Trail
Character: Curtis Gordon
Released: October 29, 1921
Type: Movie
Alaskan railroad magnate Curtis Gordon hires engineer Dan Appleton to design a railroad route up the Salmon River to the rich gold country. Gordon turns down the engineer's proposed route in favor of his own, and Appleton quits. Murray O'Neil, a rival builder, hires him and falls in love with his sister Eliza, while Appleton courts Natalie, Gordon's stepdaughter. Following Appleton's plan, O'Neil lays the trail with a bridge crossing the river in face of Gordon's opposition.
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The Spitfire of Seville
Title: The Spitfire of Seville
Released: July 21, 1919
Type: Movie
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The Weaker Vessel
Title: The Weaker Vessel
Released: June 30, 1919
Type: Movie
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The Exquisite Thief
Title: The Exquisite Thief
Character: Algernon P. Smythe
Released: April 28, 1919
Type: Movie
Blue Jean Billie (Dean), a prosperous young woman crook who lives apart from the denizens of the underworld, has pulled off many robberies of the high society world with the help of her pal Shaver Michael (De Grasse). Billie gains admission to the Vanderhoof dinner at which the engagement of their daughter to Lord Chesterton (Hall) will be announced. While the dinner is in progress, Billie gags and handcuffs special officer Detective Wood (Ross), and proceeds to make a wholesale robbery of the guests. She flees in an automobile and none succeed in tracking her save Lord Chesterton. She makes a prisoner of him, but a police raid follows and she must flee. Once more Lord Chesterton succeeds in following her and again she makes him her prisoner, but she learns to trust and love him. The special agent and Shaver Michael arrive at the scene with resulting complications, but a happy end results for all.
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Who Will Marry Me?
Title: Who Will Marry Me?
Character: Jerome Van Tyne
Released: January 27, 1919
Type: Movie
Rosie Sanguinetti's parents arrange her marriage, against her will, to Antonio Mosconi, "Tony the Barber." At the wedding ceremony in her Little Italy, New York neighborhood, Rosie flees to the settlement house where she meets Jerry Van Tyne, a wealthy young man who agrees, in a drunken state, to marry her. The next day Jerry realizes the consequences of the situation.
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The Squaw Man
Title: The Squaw Man
Character: Henry, Jim's Cousin
Released: December 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Framed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming with a young Native-American. This is the 1918 remake of the 1913 original, the first feature length Hollywood film. It is considered to be a lost film with only one reel still extant.
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The Midnight Patrol
Title: The Midnight Patrol
Character: Officer Terrence Shannon
Released: November 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Officer Terence Shannon is the head man of the Los Angeles Flying Squadron. In this capacity, Shannon does battles with ruthless opium smugglers in LA's Chinatown
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The Brazen Beauty
Title: The Brazen Beauty
Character: Kenneth Hyde
Released: September 9, 1918
Type: Movie
Jacala, a strong-willed, temperamental ranch girl, inherits her father's millions and moves from Montana to New York, determined to earn a place in society.
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We Can't Have Everything
Title: We Can't Have Everything
Character: Peter Cheever
Released: July 7, 1918
Type: Movie
A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage in order to be with the one each truly loves. But the more they untangle one knot, the faster more confusing knots appear.
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The Kaiser's Shadow
Title: The Kaiser's Shadow
Character: Hugo Wagner
Released: July 1, 1918
Type: Movie
French scientists are developing a secret weapon, a gun that uses the mysterious powers of X-ray and ultra violet rays, called a "Ray Rifle." Miss Dalton played the girl that would protect it from German spies.
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An Alien Enemy
Title: An Alien Enemy
Character: David J. Hale
Released: April 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Neysa von Igel, who is living with her supposed grandfather, Adolph Schmidt, loves America, although she believes herself to be German-born. Unknown to Neysa, when she was three years old, her father and mother, both American-born, were killed in Germany by Emil Koenig, who, in punishment, was sent to the United States to work in the interest of the government of the Fatherland, and who is now associated with Schmidt in his manufacturing enterprise. Koenig demands that Neysa work in behalf of Germany. She revolts and escapes to the home of David Hale, who had been her grandfather's attorney, but who is now in the service of the United States Government. Hale and Neysa are married and depart for France, where the girl again encounters Koenig, and, after many thrilling adventures, she kills him in self-defense. - Written by Moving Picture World synopsis, from IMDB.com
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Love Letters
Title: Love Letters
Character: John Harland
Released: December 24, 1917
Type: Movie
Naive Eileen Rodney (Dorothy Dalton) is duped by the high-minded talk of Raymond Moreland (William Conklin). But when she discovers that he wants to take her to India without the benefit of a marriage license, she balks and instead weds her guardian, John Harland (Thurston Hall). However, she had written some letters to Moreland, and these come back to haunt her when he tries to use them for blackmail.
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The Price Mark
Title: The Price Mark
Character: Dr. Daniel Melfi
Released: October 21, 1917
Type: Movie
Broke and stranded in the Big City, Paula Lee (Dorothy Dalton) willingly becomes the mistress of "love 'em and leave 'em" playboy Fielding Powell (William Conklin). In spite of himself, Powell falls in love with Paula, and just before leaving on a business trip, he promises to marry her upon his return. In the meantime, however, Paula falls in love with dedicated charity doctor D. Melfi (Thurston Hall).
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Cleopatra
Title: Cleopatra
Character: Antony
Released: October 14, 1917
Type: Movie
The story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the greatest men of Rome, Julius Caesar and Antony.
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The Show Down
Title: The Show Down
Released: August 6, 1917
Type: Movie
Inconsiderate millionaire John Benson, philanthropist Oliver North, courageous Langdon Crane, wealthy idler Robert Curtis and Lydia Benson are among the passengers on an ocean liner that is sunk by a German submarine. Carried away by the currents to a tropical island, the castaways endure hardships which bring out their true natures.