Douglas Leavitt

Douglas Leavitt

Born: January 7, 1883
Died: March 3, 1960
in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Movies for Douglas Leavitt...

Campus Rhythm
Title: Campus Rhythm
Character: Uncle William 'Willie' Aloysius Smith
Released: November 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Radio singer Joan Abbott, known as the "Crunchy-Wunchy Thrush", does not want to renew her contract with the cereal sponsor, as she wants to go to college. But her guardian, her Uncle Willie signs the contract in order to pay off his own debts. But this time Joan won't take no for an answer and enrolls under an assumed name. When Joan goes missing, the radio institutes a search for Joan via a publicity stunt.
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Title: Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Character: Monty King
Released: June 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
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Two Señoritas from Chicago
Title: Two Señoritas from Chicago
Character: Sam Grohman
Released: June 10, 1943
Type: Movie
The Two Senoritas from Chicago are Gloria and Maria. When their goofy pal Daisy Baker passes off a discarded Portuguese play manuscript as her own, producer Rupert Shannon agrees to bankroll the production. With stars in their eyes, Gloria and Maria pretend to be a pair of Portuguese musical comedy stars, thereby winning parts in the new production. The fun begins when the play's original authors sell the same manuscript to a rival producer.
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It's a Great Life
Title: It's a Great Life
Character: Bromley
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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Law of the Northwest
Title: Law of the Northwest
Character: George Bradley
Released: May 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Briefly switching gears in 1942 and 1943, western star Charles Starrett made a handful of "northerns" in which he played a Canadian mountie. In Law of the Northwest, Steve King (Starrett) supervises a road-construction project designed to transport war materials to the Aleutians. Problems arise when a crooked contractor decides that his interests are more important than the war effort.
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Redhead from Manhattan
Title: Redhead from Manhattan
Character: Joe
Released: May 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
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She Has What It Takes
Title: She Has What It Takes
Character: Paul Miloff
Released: April 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoodwink Broadway play producer in starring her in a planned-show that is a tribute to her supposed mother.
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Murder in Times Square
Title: Murder in Times Square
Character: Henry Trigg
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
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Reveille with Beverly
Title: Reveille with Beverly
Character: Mr. Ross
Released: February 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
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Power of the Press
Title: Power of the Press
Character: Whiffle (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1943
Type: Movie
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.
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A Blitz on the Fritz
Title: A Blitz on the Fritz
Released: January 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Harry is a patriotic citizen who starts a scrap drive but he soon encounters a group of Nazi spies and their hideout.
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A Night to Remember
Title: A Night to Remember
Character: Coal Man
Released: December 10, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.
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You Were Never Lovelier
Title: You Were Never Lovelier
Character: Juan Castro
Released: November 19, 1942
Type: Movie
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.
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Cactus Caballeros
Title: Cactus Caballeros
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Harry and Joey are reluctantly out to capture "Black Pedro" the bandit.
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Cupid Takes a Holiday
Title: Cupid Takes a Holiday
Character: Owner
Released: February 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Because his family has a history of insanity that breaks out when a family member hasn't married by the time they are 25 years old, Nikolai Nikolaevich visits a matrimonial firm searching for a bride. But all the candidates are either too fat, too young, too old, too skinny or too ugly,and he turns them all down.
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Who's Crazy
Title: Who's Crazy
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Harry (Harry Gribbon) and Beulah are married when the story begins. However, Harry has plenty of evidence that Beulah might be cheating on him...but he's VERY slow to notice the signs. However, when Harry tries to catch his wife in the act with another man, police catch him climbing the fire escape and assume he's some kissing bandit. This leads to a visit with the police psychologist.
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The Affairs of Pierre
Title: The Affairs of Pierre
Released: August 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A French language teacher finds a fortune in lost jewellery, manages to trace the owner and returns them. His picture is splashed all over the papers prompting several people to report him as a crook in a case of mistaken identity, causing him all sorts of trouble with the police.
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Her Accidental Hero
Title: Her Accidental Hero
Released: May 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Harry Gribbon is a masseur. He's sent out on a couple of jobs. After the first one goes poorly, it's on to the next. Before he can get there, he's mistaken for a fall guy in a fake accident racket ring.
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His Pest Girl
Title: His Pest Girl
Character: Mr. Jones
Released: April 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Tim Ryan teams with his wife, Irene, playing a salesman who runs into a saleswoman with an identical sales case.
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Wrongorilla
Title: Wrongorilla
Character: Bray - the Circus Owner
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Jack Haley joins the circus.