Jack Rice

Jack Rice

Born: May 14, 1893
Died: December 14, 1968
in Michigan, USA

Movies for Jack Rice...

Title: Checkmate
Released: September 17, 1960
Type: TV
Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS Television from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes and was produced by Jack Benny's production company, "JaMco Productions" in co-operation with Revue Studios. Guest stars included Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, and Lee Marvin, among many other commensurately prominent performers.
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Title: Dennis the Menace
Released: October 4, 1959
Type: TV
This 1959-1963 television situation comedy series follows the lives of the Mitchell family, Henry, Alice, and their only child Dennis, an energetic, trouble-prone, mischievous, but well-meaning boy, who often tangles with his peace-and-quiet-loving neighbor George Wilson, a retired salesman, or, later, with George's brother John, a writer. Dennis is basically a good, well-intentioned boy who always tries to help people, but who winds up making situations worse – often at Mr. Wilson's expense.
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Title: 77 Sunset Strip
Released: October 10, 1958
Type: TV
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
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Title: Hey, Jeannie!
Character: Agency Man
Released: September 8, 1956
Type: TV
Hey, Jeannie! is an American situation comedy starring Jeannie Carson as a young Scottish woman living in New York City. Twenty-six episodes aired on CBS from September 8, 1956 to May 4, 1957 in the Saturday slot following The Gale Storm Show and preceding the western series Gunsmoke. Six additional episodes aired in 1958 in syndication. Reruns of Hey, Jeannie! aired during the summer of 1960 under the title The Jeannie Carson Show.
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Crashing Las Vegas
Title: Crashing Las Vegas
Character: Desk Clerk/Dream Judge/Dream Warden
Released: April 27, 1956
Type: Movie
An electric shock enables Satch to predict numbers, so the Bowery Boys are off to Las Vegas to win enough money at the roulette wheels to let their landlady buy an apartment building. Witnessing his winning streak, some gangsters decide to move in and find out his "system" for beating the odds.
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Title: The 20th Century Fox Hour
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.
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Title: The Millionaire
Character: Room Clerk
Released: January 19, 1955
Type: TV
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
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The Marksman
Title: The Marksman
Character: Clerk
Released: April 10, 1953
Type: Movie
Mike Martin becomes a deputy marshal and takes on a gang of cattle rustlers.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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The Pride of St. Louis
Title: The Pride of St. Louis
Character: Voorhees
Released: May 2, 1952
Type: Movie
The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Title: I Love Lucy
Character: Floorwalker (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1951
Type: TV
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
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Bargain Madness
Title: Bargain Madness
Character: Floorwalker (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1951
Type: Movie
In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, women battle for bargains in a department store.
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Shakedown
Title: Shakedown
Character: Floorwalker (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
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Beware of Blondie
Title: Beware of Blondie
Character: Ollie Shaw
Released: April 13, 1950
Type: Movie
Mr. Dithers leaves Dagwood in charge of the office for a short period. Poor old Dagwood manages to gum things up when he falls for a confidence scam engineered by the duplicitous Toby Clifton. He even finds himself in a compromising position that seriously endangers his future connubial happiness with his wife Blondie. Once again, it's up to Blondie to straighten out the mess.
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The Good Humor Man
Title: The Good Humor Man
Character: Roger, Bridegroom (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
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Take One False Step
Title: Take One False Step
Character: Good Humor Man (uncredited)
Released: August 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested.
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The Sickle or the Cross
Title: The Sickle or the Cross
Character: Radio Engineer
Released: July 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Reds imprison him and send in his place a spy who is his double, but who is instructed to come out for Communism. The spy is accepted in Burnside's home town, and he reports to local Communist headquarters, where James John, prominent local businessman but in reality a Red agent, has instructions to assist him in all details of his mission. He does a series of personal appearances and radio interviews and talk shows, using an anti-Communist approach.
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Blondie's Big Deal
Title: Blondie's Big Deal
Character: Ollie
Released: March 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Dagwood accidentally discovers a non-flammable paint. Bad guys Dillon and Stack steal it before he can give it to his boss Radcliffe. To show off his invention, Dagwood paints Radcliffe's house with it and is disgraced when the house burns down!
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Blondie's Secret
Title: Blondie's Secret
Character: Ollie
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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Blondie's Reward
Title: Blondie's Reward
Character: Ollie Merton
Released: June 3, 1948
Type: Movie
After bungling a real-estate transaction, Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is demoted to office boy by his flustered boss Radcliffe (Jerome Cowan). Number 23 in the long-running Blondie series.
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The Return of the Whistler
Title: The Return of the Whistler
Character: George
Released: March 18, 1948
Type: Movie
When a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down
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Blondie's Anniversary
Title: Blondie's Anniversary
Character: Ollie Shaw
Released: December 18, 1947
Type: Movie
Blondie finds a valuable watch that has been hidden by hubby Dagwood. She assumes that it's a surprise wedding gift, but the truth is that Dagwood has been guarding the watch on behalf of a client who bought the gift for his own wife, which soon leads to trouble with his boss, a loan shark, and crooked building contractors.
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They Won't Believe Me
Title: They Won't Believe Me
Released: July 16, 1947
Type: Movie
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
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Dark Delusion
Title: Dark Delusion
Character: Floorwalker (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 1947
Type: Movie
Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents' dismay. Soon he's drawing up plans to marry the girl and setting up private practice in a smaller town.
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A Likely Story
Title: A Likely Story
Character: Senator's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1947
Type: Movie
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
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Blondie's Holiday
Title: Blondie's Holiday
Character: Ollie Shaw
Released: April 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Dagwood gets a raise due to a new contract with a bank manager. Blondie misunderstanding the amount of the raise pledges more than they can afford to Dagwood's high school reunion organizer who was also Dagwood's high school sweetheart. To make matters worse Dagwood becomes involved with a gang running a gambling establishment.
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Do or Diet
Title: Do or Diet
Character: Florence's Brother
Released: February 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Edgar's boss gives him a few days off as a reward for being promoted. His wife, Florence, mother-in-law and brother-in-law, think he has been fired for being too fat and, over his fruitless objections, put him on a strenuous reducing program that nearly kills him.
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The Pilgrim Lady
Title: The Pilgrim Lady
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: January 22, 1947
Type: Movie
Dennis Carter, the head of a detective agency, and his secretary, Henrietta Rankin, get involved in the murder of a scandal-peddling, blackmailing radio commentator, and evidence point toward Henrietta. Dennis sets out to clear her and also find the real culprits.
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Blondie's Big Moment
Title: Blondie's Big Moment
Character: Ollie Merton
Released: January 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood has mixed emotions about his wife's theatrical aspirations and eventually he decides to get her to quit. As usual - disaster ensues.
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The Best Years of Our Lives
Title: The Best Years of Our Lives
Character: Apartment Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
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Blondie Knows Best
Title: Blondie Knows Best
Character: Ollie Shaw (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1946
Type: Movie
Dagwood Bumstead poses as his boss Mr. Dithers so that a big business deal can be consummated while Dithers avoids nearsighted process server Jim Gray. The upshot of all this is that Dagwood ends up in a lunatic asylum, forcing Blondie to come to the rescue.
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Motor Maniacs
Title: Motor Maniacs
Character: Florence's Brother
Released: July 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Edgar learns that an old, rich, oil-man flame (Tom Kennedy) of his mother-in-law (Dot Farley) is coming to claim his bride. Meanwhile, his brother-in-law (Jack Rice) has bought an interest in an outboard motor that is supposed to run all day on a cupful of gas. The suitor says he will finance it if the test is a success. Edgar is accidently pulled into the lake with the motor and it works well, but the "rich" beau says he will finance it as soon as he can find somebody to finance the drilling of his first oil well.
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Blondie's Lucky Day
Title: Blondie's Lucky Day
Character: Ollie Shaw (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Not only must Blondie put on a brave face when her husband Dagwood is fired for the umpteenth time by Mr. Dithers, but she must also tolerate the attention paid to Dagwood by pretty WAC Mary Jane McDermott. A whiz in business matters, Mary Jane sets up Dag in his own business, which replenishes the Bumstead coffers but which drives Blondie into a jealous frenzy.
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Meet Me on Broadway
Title: Meet Me on Broadway
Character: Grannis (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club. Eddie and his girlfriend, actress Ann Stallings, hope the production will launch their legitimate Broadway careers. But complications arise when Maxine Whitaker, daughter of a wealthy rival club owner, becomes romantically interested in charming Eddie.
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Life with Blondie
Title: Life with Blondie
Character: Ollie Shaw (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for the Navy. From there she becomes the favorite calendar gal. All the attention to the dog, makes Dagwood feel that his position as master of the house is jeopardized. Meanwhile all the attention catches the greedy eyes of gangsters who try and abduct Daisy!
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The Big Beef
Title: The Big Beef
Character: Florence's Brother
Released: October 19, 1945
Type: Movie
Edgar invites his boss home for a steak dinner, but the steak hasn't arrived. A pushy book salesman does arrives and this causes Edgar a few problems and several slow-burns. The double-take slow-burn comes when the meat arrives in the form of a live, 1000-pound steer.
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Sunset in El Dorado
Title: Sunset in El Dorado
Character: Mr. Hollingsworth
Released: September 29, 1945
Type: Movie
The story involves a rather odd flashback by Dale who is visiting El Dorado, home of her grandmother. She dreams about her grandmother's adventures including a romance with a cowboy who looks very much like Roy. Roy, of course, also exists in the present for Dale.
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You Drive Me Crazy
Title: You Drive Me Crazy
Character: Florence's Brother
Released: September 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Edgar lets his brother-in-law borrow his car (mistake no.1), and soon gets a call from Brother that the car won't start. Edgar borrow's his neighbor's car (mistake no.2) to go haul in his stranded vehicle, and immediately wrecks it. He then goes to buy a replacement car for his neighbor from "Miracle Sam - The Used Car Man" (mistakes no.3 through no.8) and drives off without insurance. Meanwhile...Brother has gotten Edgar's car started, and anybody not anticipating the upcoming two-car wipeout collision between the cars driven by Edgar and Brother are watching their first Edgar Kennedy short.
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It's Your Move
Title: It's Your Move
Character: Jack, Florence's Brother
Released: August 10, 1945
Type: Movie
Edgar's landlord wants to sell the house Edgar is renting. He has to come up with the money in two weeks or the landlord will sell it out from under him.
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The Naughty Nineties
Title: The Naughty Nineties
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1945
Type: Movie
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
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Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion
Title: Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion
Character: Mr. Obie
Released: May 10, 1945
Type: Movie
Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
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Eve Knew Her Apples
Title: Eve Knew Her Apples
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1945
Type: Movie
Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She refuses and goes to Las Vegas. When she finds them there hunting her down, she manages to escape them by hiding in the car of a newspaper reporter. She comes out of hiding while he is driving, but everything she says is misconstrued, making him believe that she is a recently-escaped convict, "The Singing Widow". He plans to use this as a story to get back into the good graces of his editor. Through some comic mishaps, he learns who she really is. He then decides to take her back to Hollywood to collect the reward for her return. But now love has entered the mix, and must be resolved with his job and her engagement to another.
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Leave It to Blondie
Title: Leave It to Blondie
Character: Ollie Shaw (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1945
Type: Movie
Older but no wiser, Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead enter a songwriting contest. It's all part of a plan to cover charity checks that they've signed separately but can't cover. Along the way, Blondie's blood boils when Dagwood gets innocently mixed up with beautiful music teacher Rita Rogers.
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Her Lucky Night
Title: Her Lucky Night
Character: Percy
Released: February 9, 1945
Type: Movie
In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.
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Under Western Skies
Title: Under Western Skies
Character: Neil Mathews
Released: January 19, 1945
Type: Movie
An Arizona teacher (Noah Beery Jr.) saves a vaudeville star (Martha O'Driscoll) and her troupe from a bandit (Leo Carrillo).
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Feather Your Nest
Title: Feather Your Nest
Character: Florence's Brother
Released: October 23, 1944
Type: Movie
Edgar is so anxious to get brother out of the house that when a prospective fiancée arrives on the scene, Edgar reluctantly pays for an engagement ring.
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The Mark of the Whistler
Title: The Mark of the Whistler
Character: Mailman (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1944
Type: Movie
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.
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Goin' to Town
Title: Goin' to Town
Character: Clark
Released: September 1, 1944
Type: Movie
General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical joke being played on them.
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Louisiana Hayride
Title: Louisiana Hayride
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: July 13, 1944
Type: Movie
A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings.
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Radio Rampage
Title: Radio Rampage
Character: Florence's Brother
Released: March 28, 1944
Type: Movie
When the family radio goes on the fritz, Edgar, naturally, decides to fix it himself in order to save a few bucks. That Edgar will destroy the house doing this simple project is a foregone conclusion.
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Prunes and Politics
Title: Prunes and Politics
Character: Brother-in-Law
Released: January 7, 1944
Type: Movie
Edgar is running for county supervisor against his mother-in-law. Edgar, whose campaign is going nowhere, decides to try some dirty-tricks style tactics but, as usual, everything backfires on him.
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Crazy House
Title: Crazy House
Character: Dentist
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
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So's Your Uncle
Title: So's Your Uncle
Character: Designer
Released: September 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not approve of their relationship.
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Passport to Suez
Title: Passport to Suez
Character: Hotel Night Clerk
Released: August 19, 1943
Type: Movie
The Lone Wolf goes undercover in Egypt to foil a Nazi plot to bomb and disable the Suez canal, which is vital to England's war effort.
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So This Is Washington
Title: So This Is Washington
Character: Golf Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is a good substitute for rubber--Abner's homemade licorice.
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Honeymoon Lodge
Title: Honeymoon Lodge
Character: Surprised Man in Train Station
Released: July 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
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Hot Foot
Title: Hot Foot
Character: Brother-in-Law
Released: May 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Edgar Kennedy, in order to attend a prizefight without his brother-in-law, pretends to be sick with intentions of sneaking off later. As usual, his best-laid plan takes another direction. His mother-in-law gives him a foot bath in a tub with what turns out to be quick-setting cement. His pal Sam drills a hole in the cement to blow the cement off with explosives, with a typical-Kennedy result... disaster.
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Gildersleeve's Bad Day
Title: Gildersleeve's Bad Day
Character: Hotel Clerk Charlie (uncredited)
Released: May 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Gildersleeve has jury duty.
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Hold Your Temper
Title: Hold Your Temper
Character: Edgar's Brother-in-Law
Released: February 5, 1943
Type: Movie
When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums.
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Reveille with Beverly
Title: Reveille with Beverly
Character: Davis (uncredited)
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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Duck Soup
Title: Duck Soup
Character: Florence's Brother
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Edgar mistakenly believes that his family wants to kill him to collect his life insurance.
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Lucky Legs
Title: Lucky Legs
Character: Jewelry Salesman
Released: October 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.
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The Secret Code
Title: The Secret Code
Character: Fred, Jensen's Clerk
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
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Cooks and Crooks
Title: Cooks and Crooks
Character: Sally's Brother
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
A client offers mail-order private detective Edgar $5,000 for finding $50,000 in a kitchen wall of a residence he claims to own.
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Brooklyn Orchid
Title: Brooklyn Orchid
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk
Released: January 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
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A Quiet Fourth
Title: A Quiet Fourth
Character: Sally's Brother
Released: December 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Edgar decides the 4th of July fireworks celebration in town is too much for his nerves, and he and his wife Sally and her brother will take a nice drive out into the countryside and have a nice, peaceful picnic. His first mistake is inviting the sons of his neighbor to go with them, and his second is picking an Army artillery firing range as the location of the picnic.
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New York Town
Title: New York Town
Character: Oliver (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
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Niagara Falls
Title: Niagara Falls
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
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I'll Fix It
Title: I'll Fix It
Character: Edgar's Brother-in-law
Released: October 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Edgar decides to do a home plumbing job himself.
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Westward Ho-Hum
Title: Westward Ho-Hum
Character: Sally's Brother
Released: September 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Edgar, his wife and his brother-in-law are riding through the desert in a convertible to see a restaurant that Edgar has purchased sight unseen. They camp in a ghost town and Edgar sees a "Gold Nugget Restaurant" sign and it dawns on him that is his purchase. Inside, Edgar runs into two outlaws who force him to drive them to the next town. Unknown to Edgar, Sally lassos the renegades out of the back seat, while Edgar drives on in his (usual) blissful state of ignorance.
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Men of the Timberland
Title: Men of the Timberland
Character: MacGregor's Secretary
Released: May 6, 1941
Type: Movie
Tim MacGregor, unscrupulous lumber operator, obtains by bribery a contract to cut a vast quantity of timber from land owned by Kay Handley, rich débutante. When Dick O'Hara, forestry inspector, demands a postponement, MacGrgeor refuses and sends his henchman, Jean Collet, to obtain the services of the famous "bull-of-the-woods" Andy Jensen and his partner "Lucky." Kay arrives and gives her permission to cut the timber, defying Dick. Dick, with his two assistants, Withers and "Tex," begins a survey of the timber stand. When Dick and Tex finally reveal MacGrgeor as a crook, Collet is sent to kill "Tex" and obtain the reports. A fight ensues and "Lucky" is killed by one of Collet's flying knives. Kay then admits that Dick is right and helps him trap Collet. Dick and Andy force a confession from Collet and MacGregor is exposed.
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Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Title: Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Character: Rogers' Assistant (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.
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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Title: The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Character: Salesman Helping Lanyard
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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The Flag of Humanity
Title: The Flag of Humanity
Character: Dr. Louis Appia (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of how Clara Barton helped found the American Red Cross.
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He Stayed for Breakfast
Title: He Stayed for Breakfast
Character: Marianne's Chauffeur
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.
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Foreign Correspondent
Title: Foreign Correspondent
Character: Donald (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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The Lady in Question
Title: The Lady in Question
Character: Gaston (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
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We Who Are Young
Title: We Who Are Young
Character: Savoy-Carlton Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
A man violates company policy by getting married.
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Turnabout
Title: Turnabout
Character: Second Photographer (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
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Five Little Peppers at Home
Title: Five Little Peppers at Home
Character: Bainbridge
Released: February 8, 1940
Type: Movie
The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner becomes ill.
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Danger On Wheels
Title: Danger On Wheels
Character: Parker
Released: February 2, 1940
Type: Movie
During a test, a race car using an experimental oil fueled engine blows up, killing the driver. Lucky Taylor, a stunt driver, is initially blamed for the accident, but is later cleared. He thinks the engine design has a real chance to win races, but the racing association has banned it since the accident. He devises a scheme to have a car equipped with the engine entered into a race, without race officials-- or the engine designer's sassy daughter -- finding out about it.
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The Shadow
Title: The Shadow
Character: Taylor
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
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Money To Burn
Title: Money To Burn
Character: Thorne
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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Blondie Brings Up Baby
Title: Blondie Brings Up Baby
Character: Detective with Mason (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Lang (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Sabotage
Title: Sabotage
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1939
Type: Movie
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
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Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Title: Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Character: Mr. Barker
Released: August 22, 1939
Type: Movie
The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. In this one the family inherits co-ownership in a copper mine.
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The Flying Irishman
Title: The Flying Irishman
Character: Airplane Owner Selling It to Corrigan
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
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Twelve Crowded Hours
Title: Twelve Crowded Hours
Character: Professor Busby (uncredited)
Released: February 23, 1939
Type: Movie
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
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The Mad Miss Manton
Title: The Mad Miss Manton
Character: Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1938
Type: Movie
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
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The Jitters
Title: The Jitters
Character: Undetermined Secondary Role
Released: July 1, 1938
Type: Movie
When his wife dances with the dancing instructor, Errol gets jealous and decides to take dancing lessons himself.
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Ears of Experience
Title: Ears of Experience
Character: The Valet
Released: January 28, 1938
Type: Movie
In a misguided effort to get a raise and promotion from his boss, Edgar Kennedy's wife and her father talk him into leasing a swank house and putting on the ritz. A valet comes with the house and he spends a lot of time trying to soften Kennedy;s rough edges, but when he becomes to insistent about giving his master a bath, the always-irritable Kennedy throws the valet in the hot tub, clothes and all. Meanwhile, his father-in-law has been putting the squeeze on Edgar's boss, telling him that Edsgar has fallen heir to so much money he is going to buy out the business and fire his boss. So the boss comes to Edgars's home and fires him.
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I Met My Love Again
Title: I Met My Love Again
Character: Professor George B. Stockwell (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1938
Type: Movie
In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows infatuated with handsome writer Michael Shaw, and they marry and move to Paris. Years later, after Michael's accidental death, Julie and her daughter move back to Vermont to live with her aunt and Julie finds Ives, now a professor, disinterested in resuming their romantic relationship.
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Rhythm Wranglers
Title: Rhythm Wranglers
Character: Ranch Guest
Released: December 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Ray Whitley and his Bar-Six musical cowboys apply for work at the Bar-X ranch. The owner refuses at first but gives in when his niece intercedes. When the owner of the Lazy Q hears the music, she steps foot on the Bar-X for the first time in years. Ray and the girl get the two owners together and they decide to marry and merge the ranches.
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Harris in the Spring
Title: Harris in the Spring
Character: George
Released: December 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Band leader Phil Harris, through a misunderstanding, finds himself with a job as a professional escort, and a date to take a rich young society girl to a night club. She picks the club where the Harris band is playing. Phil is kept busy trying to keep the band from telling the girl who he really is, and to keep the girl distracted enough so she won't notice he is leading the band.
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Easy Living
Title: Easy Living
Character: Man in Ball's Outer Office (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
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Shall We Dance
Title: Shall We Dance
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
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Grandma's Buoys
Title: Grandma's Buoys
Character: Captain Von Pelter
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Tom and Harry are sailors on a yacht, and go ashore for a few beers and whatever else may come up. What comes up is a brawl between them and the barflies in the waterfront saloon they go to. They are aided by an elderly lady and her knitting needles.
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Mummy's Boys
Title: Mummy's Boys
Character: Second Officer
Released: October 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse."
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Walking on Air
Title: Walking on Air
Character: Sponsor (uncredited)
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.
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Dummy Ache
Title: Dummy Ache
Character: Florence's Brother
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Misunderstandings, mishaps, and hijinks ensue. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division in 2013.
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Rhythm on the Range
Title: Rhythm on the Range
Character: Train Station Smoocher
Released: July 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters
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Silly Billies
Title: Silly Billies
Character: Cavalry Officer
Released: March 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.
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Love on a Bet
Title: Love on a Bet
Character: Passenger Waiting for Washroom
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.
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Will Power
Title: Will Power
Character: Brother
Released: March 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Edgar thinks he finally has a plan that will force his lazy, mooching brother-in-law to get a job. First, Edgar has some friends help him to stage a fake heart attack. Then, while he is supposed to be recovering, he taps into a source of mystical will power to do the rest.
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Gasoloons
Title: Gasoloons
Character: Florence's Brother
Released: January 3, 1936
Type: Movie
While filling up with gas, a carload of passengers notices that the service station is up for sale. They decide to buy the station and try to run it themselves - but they aren't very good at it.
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Foolish Hearts
Title: Foolish Hearts
Character: McKenzie
Released: December 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A little entry from the RKO shorts department serving also as an audition-type (stick 'em in one of these and see if they appeal to a real audience, and make a buck or two at the same time)film for studio contractees and budding starlets. And, surrounded and supported by veteran character actors, such as Jack Norton, Jack Rice and Harrison Green, the likes of Tony Martin, Phyllis Brooks and Lucille Ball usually looked pretty good. And soon made for themselves, with studio help, rather nice Hollywood careers.
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In Love at 40
Title: In Love at 40
Character: Florence's Brother
Released: August 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Edgar falls in love with another woman.
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A Quiet Fourth
Title: A Quiet Fourth
Released: August 8, 1935
Type: Movie
An RKO comedy short featuring Betty Grable who gets secretly married while her family is trying to fix her up with someone wealthy.
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Woman Wanted
Title: Woman Wanted
Character: Man Walking With Cane in Hotel (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
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Edgar Hamlet
Title: Edgar Hamlet
Character: Florence's Brother
Released: July 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A quiet day at home is interrupted by arguments over Shakespearean speeches.
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Alibi Bye Bye
Title: Alibi Bye Bye
Character: Desk Clerk
Released: June 14, 1935
Type: Movie
The story, if you want to call it that is about a husband who tells his wife he's going hunting but actually sneaks off to fool around in Atlantic City. While the wife, says she's going to Washington D.C. but is also sneaking off the Atlantic City. once there the husband goes to a scenic photographer who fakes pictures to cover for straying spouses. Later the pictures are delivered to the hotel where all parties literally run into each other!
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Break of Hearts
Title: Break of Hearts
Character: New Year's Eve Celebrant (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.
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Brick-a-Brac
Title: Brick-a-Brac
Character: Brother
Released: January 18, 1935
Type: Movie
In this episode of the "Mr. Average Man" series, Edgar Kennedy lays bricks.
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The Dancing Millionaire
Title: The Dancing Millionaire
Character: Dancing Academy Manager
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition
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Poisoned Ivory
Title: Poisoned Ivory
Character: Florence's Brother
Released: November 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Edgar's wife, Florence, because of an incident with her brother, her husband, and parts from her brother's photogenic set, mistakenly thinks that she accidentally poisoned Edgar instead of giving him his real medicine.
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His Greatest Gamble
Title: His Greatest Gamble
Character: Gambling Casino Patron (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
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Contented Calves
Title: Contented Calves
Character: Stocking Company Representative
Released: August 6, 1934
Type: Movie
An add campaign for stockings embarrasses the girls.