Hugh Herbert

Hugh Herbert

Born: August 9, 1884
Died: March 12, 1952
in Binghamton, New York, USA

Movies for Hugh Herbert...

The Gink at the Sink
Title: The Gink at the Sink
Character: Hugh
Released: June 12, 1952
Type: Movie
Hugh cant find a job, so his wife goes to work, leaving him to do the household chores.
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Trouble In-Laws
Title: Trouble In-Laws
Character: Hugh Herbert
Released: October 11, 1951
Type: Movie
Hugh, an advertising man, tries to get a local strong man to endorse a breakfast food.
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Havana Rose
Title: Havana Rose
Character: Filbert Fillmore
Released: September 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Ambassador Rico DeMarco is in Washington trying to raise a five-million dollar loan for his country, Lower Salamia. Filbert Filmore and his domineering wife are about to sign on the dotted line for the loan when DeMarco's vivacious daughter, Estelita, upsets the deal by accidentally knocking hot coffee over the papers---and Mrs. Fillmore, who leaves the house in a huff. When word of the difficulties filters back home it's Viva la Revolution. But Estelita, disguised as a fortune teller tries to convince astrology believer Fillmore that the stars are propitious for his making the loan.
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Woo-Woo Blues
Title: Woo-Woo Blues
Character: Hugh Herbert
Released: July 14, 1951
Type: Movie
Hugh's former girlfriend tries to blackmail him with old love letters.
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A Slip and a Miss
Title: A Slip and a Miss
Character: Hugh Herbert
Released: September 9, 1950
Type: Movie
While in court after his wife has started a divorce action, Hugh begins to give the judge his side of the story.
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One Shivery Night
Title: One Shivery Night
Character: Hugh
Released: July 13, 1950
Type: Movie
Hugh and his partner, Julius are assigned to demolish a old mansion that's rumored to have a fortune hidden inside somewhere. When they arrive, they meet two fortune hunters who try to scare Hugh and Julius away.
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Super-Wolf
Title: Super-Wolf
Character: Aunt Fanny / Dave McGurk alias Dave the Drip
Released: October 13, 1949
Type: Movie
Hugh is a dead ringer for a criminal terrorizing the city.
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The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
Title: The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
Character: Doctor
Released: May 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. As this is usually the local judge's rear-end, Freddie and friend Conchita are soon hiding out teaching school in the middle of nowhere.
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Trapped by a Blonde
Title: Trapped by a Blonde
Character: Hugh
Released: April 7, 1949
Type: Movie
Hugh goes on a camping trip with his brother-in-law and innocently gets involved with the sheriff's wife.
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A Pinch in Time
Title: A Pinch in Time
Released: November 11, 1948
Type: Movie
A beautiful blonde has just stolen a necklace and is being pursued by the police. She plants the necklace on an unsuspecting Hugh, intending to come back for it after she has eluded the cops.
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A Song Is Born
Title: A Song Is Born
Character: Professor Twingle
Released: October 19, 1948
Type: Movie
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.
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The Girl from Manhattan
Title: The Girl from Manhattan
Character: Aaron Goss
Released: October 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his boarding house to the hilt. In her efforts to help him keep his boarding house, she becomes involved with a handsome young minister and his superior, an older bishop.
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So This Is New York
Title: So This Is New York
Character: Mr. Trumball
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A small town man inherits a significant fortune and takes his family to New York City whereupon they are continually shocked at the alien culture of the Big Apple.
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Tall, Dark and Gruesome
Title: Tall, Dark and Gruesome
Character: Hugh Sherlock, playwright
Released: April 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A crate containing a live gorilla is delivered to a mountain cabin Hugh has rented.
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On Our Merry Way
Title: On Our Merry Way
Character: Eli Hobbs
Released: February 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?
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Should Husbands Marry?
Title: Should Husbands Marry?
Character: Hugh
Released: November 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Hugh's loudmouth pal crashes a dinner party Hugh is throwing for his boss.
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Blondie in the Dough
Title: Blondie in the Dough
Character: Liewellyn Simmons
Released: October 16, 1947
Type: Movie
BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer that is difficult to refuse. Unfortunately, this creates all kinds of problems for the Bumsteads.
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Nervous Shakedown
Title: Nervous Shakedown
Character: Mr. Penn
Released: March 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Hugh and Dudley stay at Dr. Flint's Sanitarium, unaware that two escaped convicts are using the place for a hideout.
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Hot Heir
Title: Hot Heir
Character: Hugh Herbert
Released: February 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Hugh innocently becomes involved with his neighbors wife, just as his rich uncle comes to visit.
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Honeymoon Blues
Title: Honeymoon Blues
Character: Hugh 'Hughie' Herbert
Released: October 17, 1946
Type: Movie
Immediately after his wedding, Hugh's boss comes to him with an important job - he is to ingratiate himself with an important client's mistress and retrieve some incriminating love letters.
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Get Along, Little Zombie
Title: Get Along, Little Zombie
Character: Hugh
Released: May 9, 1946
Type: Movie
There's a monster running around loose in the house Hugh is showing to two prospective clients.
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When the Wife's Away
Title: When the Wife's Away
Character: Hugh
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Hugh, branch manager of Korny Krunchies Breakfast Food, Brings the boss home to dinner on his anniversary.
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One Way to Love
Title: One Way to Love
Character: Eustace P. Trumble
Released: January 8, 1946
Type: Movie
A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and the other must write commercial jingles.
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The Mayor's Husband
Title: The Mayor's Husband
Character: Hugh Herbert
Released: September 20, 1945
Type: Movie
Gangsters pry incriminating evidence from Hugh through the use of a gun moll.
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Wife Decoy
Title: Wife Decoy
Character: Hughie Hawkins
Released: May 18, 1945
Type: Movie
While in a nightclub, Hugh doesn't recognize his wife, who has recently changed her hair color to blonde.
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Woo, Woo!
Title: Woo, Woo!
Released: January 5, 1945
Type: Movie
Hugh Herbert forms a company to relieve other people from worrying, but a jealous husband, Harry Barris, gives him sone unexpected trouble. Following some narrow escapes, Hugh works his way out of the trouble by making the husband believe he has killed his wife, Christine McIntyre.
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Music for Millions
Title: Music for Millions
Character: Uncle Ferdinand
Released: December 18, 1944
Type: Movie
Six-year-old "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in José Iturbi's orchestra. And the orchestra is rapidly turning completely female, what with the draft. As the orchestra travels around the country, Babs' fellow orchestra members intercept and hide her War Office telegram to protect the baby.
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A Knight and a Blonde
Title: A Knight and a Blonde
Character: Hugh
Released: November 18, 1944
Type: Movie
Hugh has difficulty eluding a sleepwalking blonde.
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Kismet
Title: Kismet
Character: Feisal
Released: October 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
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Ever Since Venus
Title: Ever Since Venus
Character: P.G. Grimble
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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His Hotel Sweet
Title: His Hotel Sweet
Character: Hugh 'Hughie' Herbert
Released: July 9, 1944
Type: Movie
Hugh stops his friend from committing suicide - and is accused of being a home-wrecker.
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Oh, Baby!
Title: Oh, Baby!
Character: Elmer 'Picklepuss' Burns
Released: April 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Hugh, who has always made no secret about his disdain for children, changes his mind when he believes that he is about to become a father.
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Who's Hugh?
Title: Who's Hugh?
Character: Hugh Herbert
Released: December 17, 1943
Type: Movie
Hugh's wife goes to Palm Springs to file for a divorce, and Hugh follows her to try to talk her out of it.
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Pitchin' in the Kitchen
Title: Pitchin' in the Kitchen
Character: Adam Spiggott
Released: September 10, 1943
Type: Movie
While his wife works at a defense plant, Hugh stays home and tries to do the housework.
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Stage Door Canteen
Title: Stage Door Canteen
Character: Hugh Herbert
Released: June 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
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It's a Great Life
Title: It's a Great Life
Character: Timothy Brewster
Released: May 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Dagwood Bumstead, intending to buy a house, buys a horse instead. However, Dagwood quickly gets mixed up in a fox hunt, and Blondie must save the day.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Title: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Character: Marcus P. Throckmorton
Released: October 1, 1942
Type: Movie
In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
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There's One Born Every Minute
Title: There's One Born Every Minute
Character: Lemuel P. Twine / Abner Twine / Colonel Cladius Zebediah Twine
Released: June 26, 1942
Type: Movie
A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.
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You're Telling Me
Title: You're Telling Me
Character: Hubert Abercrombie Gumm
Released: May 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less eccentric aunt Fannie Handley, who is married to one of the company owners. After mixing up the script pages to the various radio programs, Hubert sets out to get the name of a returning explorer on a contract for the radio station. Other than the title, this film has no connection at all to the 1934 W.C. Fields film of the same title even though some sources give the plot of the Fields' film as the plot of this film.
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Don't Get Personal
Title: Don't Get Personal
Character: Elmer Whippet / Oscar Whippet
Released: January 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored by his company, as he thinks their on-air quarreling is real. Two former associates, Jules Kinsey and J.M. Snow cross him up by substituting Susan Blair, an office secretary, for Mary and Elmer thinks the show's writer Paul Stevens is John.
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Hellzapoppin'
Title: Hellzapoppin'
Character: Quimby
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
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Badlands Of Dakota
Title: Badlands Of Dakota
Character: Rocky Plummer
Released: September 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Set in the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, the story finds brothers Jim and Bob Holliday (Stack and Broderick Crawford) dukeing it out over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson (Ann Rutherford). While all this is going on, Wild Bill Hickok (Richard Dix) does his best to neutralize the local criminal element-and to fend off the romantic overtures of boisterous Calamity Jane (Frances Farmer).
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Hello, Sucker
Title: Hello, Sucker
Character: Hubert Worthington Clippe
Released: June 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A young couple buy a bankrupt vaudeville booking agency, and try to make it a success.
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The Black Cat
Title: The Black Cat
Character: Mr. Penny
Released: May 2, 1941
Type: Movie
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
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Meet the Chump
Title: Meet the Chump
Character: Hugh Mansfield
Released: February 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A comedy about a man who tries to avoid giving up the $10,000,000 trust he's been administering so well that there's hardly any money left.
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Slightly Tempted
Title: Slightly Tempted
Character: Professor Ross
Released: October 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A con man tries to sell phony stocks to unwary investors.
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Hit Parade of 1941
Title: Hit Parade of 1941
Character: Ferdinand Farraday
Released: October 14, 1940
Type: Movie
In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station. He begins looking for sponsors. He finds one with a department store owner who will only lend him the money if he will allow his daughter, an aspiring tap-dancer and singer, to perform on the air. This is unfortunate as she is tone-deaf. To compensate, the owner hires a real singer to dub the daughter's voice. The singer and the owner's nephew fall in love and mayhem ensues. Songs include: the Oscar nominated "Who Am I?," "Swing Low Sweet Rhythm," "In The Cool of the Evening," "Make Yourself at Home," "The Swap Shop Song," "The Trading Post," "Sally," "Ramona," "Sweet Sue," "Dinah," "Margie," and "Mary Lou."
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The Villain Still Pursued Her
Title: The Villain Still Pursued Her
Character: Frederick Healy
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.
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A Little Bit of Heaven
Title: A Little Bit of Heaven
Character: Pop Loring
Released: October 10, 1940
Type: Movie
A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a big-bucks contract, which allows her and her family to move into a posh apartment, with all the usual problems that accompany sudden wealth.
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Private Affairs
Title: Private Affairs
Character: Angus McPherson
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
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La Conga Nights
Title: La Conga Nights
Character: Henry I. Dibble Jr. / Faith Dibble / Hope Dibble / Charity Dibble / Prudence Dibble / Mrs. Henry I. Dibble Jr. / Henry I. Dibble Sr.
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when she hails his cab as she skips out on her former boarding house because she cannot pay rent.
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Little Accident
Title: Little Accident
Character: Herbert Pearson
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her.
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Eternally Yours
Title: Eternally Yours
Character: Benton
Released: October 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.
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The Lady's from Kentucky
Title: The Lady's from Kentucky
Character: Mousey Johnson
Released: April 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Good-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard times. His one out is a marker for half-ownership in a young thoroughbred, which he quickly calls in. He discovers the other owner to be a young woman from an old horse racing family who wants to protect her colt almost as much as Marty wants to rush him into big races for a fast buck. While they clash, Marty soon comes to understand the human bond with the horses and what it means to be a thoroughbred.
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The Family Next Door
Title: The Family Next Door
Character: George Pierce
Released: March 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her smart aleck son Sammy hears that an electric railroad line is to be built through town, she decides that the family can become rich by purchasing the lots along the right of way. Patriarch George Pierce laughs at the idea, but when Rose and Sammy learn that Cora Stewart, the wealthy town widow, has withdrawn her savings from the bank, they jump to the conclusion that she is interested in buying the lots, and mother and son secretly invest the family bank roll in the land.
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Breakdowns of 1938
Title: Breakdowns of 1938
Character: Silas Jenkins / Maurice Giraud (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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The Great Waltz
Title: The Great Waltz
Character: Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher
Released: November 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
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Four's a Crowd
Title: Four's a Crowd
Character: Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace
Released: August 4, 1938
Type: Movie
A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.
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Men Are Such Fools
Title: Men Are Such Fools
Character: Harvey Bates
Released: June 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband. She rises through the ranks, becoming a copywriter, and attracts the attention of Jimmy, an amorous coworker who wants to marry her. But Jimmy is jealous of Linda's career and of Harry, a radio executive who works with Linda, and their marriage gets off to a very rough start.
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Gold Diggers in Paris
Title: Gold Diggers in Paris
Character: Maurice Giraud
Released: June 11, 1938
Type: Movie
When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love.
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Hollywood Hotel
Title: Hollywood Hotel
Character: Chester Marshall
Released: January 15, 1938
Type: Movie
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
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Breakdowns of 1937
Title: Breakdowns of 1937
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.
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Sh! The Octopus
Title: Sh! The Octopus
Character: Kelly
Released: December 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Comedy-mystery finds Detectives Kelly and Dempsey trapped in a deserted lighthouse with a group of strangers who are being terrorized by a killer octopus AND a mysterious crime figure named after the title sea creature.
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The Perfect Specimen
Title: The Perfect Specimen
Character: Killigrew Shaw
Released: October 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wishes until a chance encounter with Mona Carter leads him into the outside world.
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Marry the Girl
Title: Marry the Girl
Character: John B. Radway
Released: July 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is owned by and staffed with cuckoos.
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The Singing Marine
Title: The Singing Marine
Character: Aeneas Phinney
Released: July 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest, however, sets him up for trouble in romance, in his career, and with the Corps.
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A Day at Santa Anita
Title: A Day at Santa Anita
Character: Hugh Herbert (uncredited)
Released: May 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races.
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Top of the Town
Title: Top of the Town
Character: Hubert
Released: April 17, 1937
Type: Movie
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
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That Man's Here Again
Title: That Man's Here Again
Character: Thomas J. Jesse
Released: April 16, 1937
Type: Movie
An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In order to keep her near him, he wangles a job for her as a maid at the building.
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Sing Me a Love Song
Title: Sing Me a Love Song
Character: Siegfried Hammerschlag
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs.
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Love Begins at Twenty
Title: Love Begins at Twenty
Character: Horatio Gillingwater
Released: August 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
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Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
Title: Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
Released: August 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being the desert playground for the movie stars, the women are introduced to the cavalcade of stars vacationing in Palm Springs at the time.
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We Went to College
Title: We Went to College
Character: Ellery Standish
Released: June 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Middle-aged couples try to reclaim their youth at a college homecoming.
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One Rainy Afternoon
Title: One Rainy Afternoon
Character: Toto
Released: May 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to kiss her. Charged with assault, the quick-thinking Philippe claims it's French tradition to do as he did, and is let go. To his surprise, Philippe learns that Monique has paid his fine. As the tabloids exploit the situation, Monique dates Philippe, until a photo appears of him kissing Yvonne.
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Colleen
Title: Colleen
Character: Cedric Ames
Released: March 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
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A Dream Comes True
Title: A Dream Comes True
Character: Himself (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1935
Type: Movie
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
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Miss Pacific Fleet
Title: Miss Pacific Fleet
Character: Mr. J. August Freytag
Released: December 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".
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Things You Never See on the Screen
Title: Things You Never See on the Screen
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
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To Beat the Band
Title: To Beat the Band
Character: Hugo Twist / Elizabeth Twist
Released: November 23, 1935
Type: Movie
An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Snout
Released: October 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
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We're in the Money
Title: We're in the Money
Character: Homer Bronson
Released: August 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
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Traveling Saleslady
Title: Traveling Saleslady
Character: Elmer
Released: March 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
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Gold Diggers of 1935
Title: Gold Diggers of 1935
Character: T. Mosley Thorpe
Released: March 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
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A Trip Through A Hollywood Studio
Title: A Trip Through A Hollywood Studio
Character: Himself (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1935
Type: Movie
This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bros. / First National Studios. We start at the casting office, then see Busby Berkeley and choreographer Bobby Connolly working with chorus girls on production numbers. Then come some candid shots of several contract stars. Finally we see comedian Hugh Herbert filming a scene for an upcoming release, then the various behind the scenes steps that transition the raw film in the camera into the finished product.
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Sweet Adeline
Title: Sweet Adeline
Character: Rupert Rockingham
Released: December 29, 1934
Type: Movie
In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But Sid frets as Adeline spends increasing amounts of time with the dashing Major Day.
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Good Badminton
Title: Good Badminton
Character: Hugh
Released: November 24, 1934
Type: Movie
This Vitaphone short has Hugh Herbert tossing in some comedy lines while Walter Pidgeon relates the history of the new-fad (in 1936) game of Badminton. Ace badminton players Bill Hurley and George F. (Jess) Willard, not to be confused with boxer Jess Willard, play the fast-and-furious game.
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Kansas City Princess
Title: Kansas City Princess
Character: Junior Ashcraft
Released: September 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
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Dames
Title: Dames
Character: Ezra Ounce
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
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Fog Over Frisco
Title: Fog Over Frisco
Character: Izzy Wright
Released: June 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
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The Merry Frinks
Title: The Merry Frinks
Character: Joe 'Poppa' Frink
Released: May 26, 1934
Type: Movie
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
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Merry Wives of Reno
Title: Merry Wives of Reno
Character: Colonel Fitch
Released: April 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
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Harold Teen
Title: Harold Teen
Character: Ed Rathburn
Released: April 7, 1934
Type: Movie
A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same title. With Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert,Douglass Dumbrille and Patricia Ellis.
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Wonder Bar
Title: Wonder Bar
Character: Corey Pratt
Released: March 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
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And She Learned About Dames
Title: And She Learned About Dames
Character: Himself
Released: March 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Students at New York's Rovina Finishing School for Girls send their photographs to the makers of Claybury's Beauty Soap, in the hope of being chosen as "Miss Complexion of 1934." Martha Howson wins the contest, which includes a trip to Hollywood and a tour of the Warner Brothers lot with Lyle Talbot. When she gets to the studio, all she wants to do is meet Dick Powell, star of the new Warner Brothers film Dames (1934).
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Hollywood Newsreel
Title: Hollywood Newsreel
Character: Himself
Released: March 24, 1934
Type: Movie
A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner Bros. Studios and is greeted by several stars; Margaret Lindsay, Guy Kibbee, and Dick Powell work at a gold mine; Joan Blondell, recovered from a recent illness, thanks her fans; songs from the movie Harold Teen (1934) are performed by the songwriters and the film's stars.
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Fashions of 1934
Title: Fashions of 1934
Character: Joe Ward
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
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Easy to Love
Title: Easy to Love
Character: Detective
Released: January 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.
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Convention City
Title: Convention City
Character: Hotstetter
Released: December 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
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From Headquarters
Title: From Headquarters
Character: Manny Wales
Released: November 16, 1933
Type: Movie
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
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College Coach
Title: College Coach
Character: Barnett
Released: November 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look at college football of the 1930s replete with fake grades, non-student players, and the importance of football to a college's reputation.
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Footlight Parade
Title: Footlight Parade
Character: Charlie Bowers
Released: October 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
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Bureau of Missing Persons
Title: Bureau of Missing Persons
Character: Detective Hank Slade
Released: September 16, 1933
Type: Movie
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
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Goodbye Again
Title: Goodbye Again
Character: Harvey Wilson
Released: September 9, 1933
Type: Movie
Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?
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She Had to Say Yes
Title: She Had to Say Yes
Character: Luther Haines
Released: July 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have been using professional female entertainers to keep their clients very happy, but the clients are getting bored of them. Tommy convinces management to replace the professionals with "volunteers" from the pool of stenographers. Inevitably some clients expectations are greater than their "dates", boyfriends become unhappy, and the "voluntary" duty becomes less so over time. At first, Tommy prevents Florence from being a volunteer, but eventually the prospect of a bonus becomes too great and he encourages her to volunteer. Afterwards, Tommy considers Florence a loose woman.
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Diplomaniacs
Title: Diplomaniacs
Character: Chinaman
Released: April 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the Oopadoop nation also enter, hearing the usual barbershop banter about foreign debts, they force them to be ambassadors of their nation at the Peace conference in Geneva. Ammunition industry executive Winkelreid is scheming to prevent their mission becoming an success, but the vamp Dolores aboard the ship fails, falling in love with Nilly, and so does Fifi, the toughest person of the world in Paris, falling for Glub. Although Winkelreid is able to steal their secret papers, Nilly and Glub don't give up after being reminded by constant observation of their Indians and enter the Peace conference, which turns out to be a battlefield...
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Strictly Personal
Title: Strictly Personal
Character: Hugo Wetzel
Released: March 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.
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Sham Poo, the Magician
Title: Sham Poo, the Magician
Character: Tourist
Released: November 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Hugh Herbert and Roscoe Ates are in a bar where all the men wear fezzes. They are trying to make time with cigarette girl Dorothy Granger. Their loud celery-crunching rouses the ire of Jerry Mandy, aka Sham Poo the magician.
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Faithless
Title: Faithless
Character: Peter M. Blainey
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
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Million Dollar Legs
Title: Million Dollar Legs
Character: Secretary of the Treasury
Released: July 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
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The Lost Squadron
Title: The Lost Squadron
Character: Sergeant Fritz
Released: March 12, 1932
Type: Movie
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadistic director.
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Friends and Lovers
Title: Friends and Lovers
Character: McNellis
Released: October 3, 1931
Type: Movie
British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affair, as he uses his beautiful wife to lure men into romance with her, then blackmailing them to save their careers.
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Traveling Husbands
Title: Traveling Husbands
Character: Hymie Schwartz
Released: August 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.
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The Sin Ship
Title: The Sin Ship
Character: Charlie
Released: April 18, 1931
Type: Movie
A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and her "minister" husband are really bank robbers.
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Laugh and Get Rich
Title: Laugh and Get Rich
Character: Joe Austin
Released: March 27, 1931
Type: Movie
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
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Hook, Line and Sinker
Title: Hook, Line and Sinker
Character: Hotel House Detective
Released: December 26, 1930
Type: Movie
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.
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Danger Lights
Title: Danger Lights
Character: Professor
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; then he finds the man was a railroader, too, and takes him under his wing. Engaged to Mary, Dan doesn't notice the growing attraction between his protégé and his intended but focuses instead on running the railroad.
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Caught in the Fog
Title: Caught in the Fog
Character: Detective Riley
Released: August 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Wealthy Bob visits his mother's Florida houseboat in order to remove her jewelry and stumbles upon a bobbed-hair bandit and her male accomplice, who mistake him for another burglar. A fight is broken up by the arrival of an elderly couple (still more burglars) who are posing as guests. Bob keeps his identity secret and passes himself off as the butler; the girl and her partner pretend to be the maid and the cook. A couple of idiotic detectives, arrive on the scene, closely followed by a heavy fog that traps them all on board.