Charles Arnt

Charles Arnt

Born: August 20, 1906
Died: August 6, 1990
in Michigan City, Indiana, USA
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Charles Arnt (August 20, 1906 – August 6, 1990) was an American film actor from 1933 to 1962.

Arnt was born in Michigan City, Indiana, the son of a banker. He graduated from Phillips Academy and Princeton University. While at Princeton, he helped to found the University Playes and was president of the Princeton Triangle Club theatrical troupe. He became a banker after he graduated from college.

In the early 1930s, Arnt acted with the University Repertory Theater in Maryland. On Broadway, he appeared in Carry Nation (1932), Three Waltzes (1937), and Knickerbocker Holiday (1938).

Arnt appeared as a character actor in more than 200 films.

In 1962, Arnt retired from acting and began to import and breed Charolais cattle on a ranch in Washington state.

Arnt died in Orcas Island, Washington from pancreatic and liver cancer. He was survived by his wife, two sons, a daughter, and four grandchildren.

Movies for Charles Arnt...

Sweet Bird of Youth
Title: Sweet Bird of Youth
Character: Mayor Henricks
Released: March 21, 1962
Type: Movie
Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.
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Wild in the Country
Title: Wild in the Country
Character: Mr. Parsons (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1961
Type: Movie
A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.
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Title: Harrigan and Son
Character: Sweetzer
Released: October 14, 1960
Type: TV
Harrigan and Son is an ABC sitcom about a father-and-son team of lawyers, played by Pat O'Brien and Roger Perry as Jim Harrigan, Sr., and Jim, Jr. In supporting roles, as secretaries, are Georgine Darcy as Gypsy and Helen Kleeb as Miss Claridge. The series aired 34 episodes at 8 p.m. Eastern Time on Fridays from October 14, 1960, to September 29, 1961. It preceded ABC's cartoon series, The Flintstones. Its competition was the second half of the CBS Western, Rawhide. For the first half of the season, Harrigan and Son aired opposite the detective series Dan Raven, starring Skip Homeier. The series premiere is titled "Junior Joins the Law Firm". The finale is called "The Testimonial". Harrigan and Son was owned and produced by Desilu Production. A running gimmick in the show consisted of Harrigan, Sr., commenting on some situation in Latin, Harrigan, Jr., replying, "Which means?", and Harrigan, Sr., translating his comment, usually humorous, into English. The closing of show featured O'Brien and Perry, in silhouette behind the credits, singing the old George M. Cohan song, "Harrigan".
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Title: Hawaiian Eye
Character: Fleems
Released: October 7, 1959
Type: TV
Private Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they work both hotel security and are hired by others to look into various matters. They're helped by their trusty right-hand man Kazuo Kim who runs a taxi company and is always eager to help them.
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Title: Bourbon Street Beat
Released: October 5, 1959
Type: TV
"Bourbon Street Beat" is a private detective series produced by Warner Brothers Television which aired on the ABC network from October 5, 1959, to July 4, 1960. It featured Richard Long as Rex Randolph, Andrew Duggan as Cal Calhoun, Van Williams as Kenny Madison, and Arlene Howell as Melody Lee Mercer, the secretary at the New Orleans detective agency in which they worked. The show is set in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and revolves around the lives of Rex Randolph (Long) and Cal Calhoun (Duggan), who run a detective agency called Randolph and Calhoun — Special Services. The agency is based in the Absinthe House, a French Quarter nightclub on Bourbon Street.
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The Miracle of the Hills
Title: The Miracle of the Hills
Character: Fuzzy
Released: July 29, 1959
Type: Movie
A minister arrives at a run-down mining town to take over the church there. He finds he has his work cut out for him, especially when an earthquake causes a flood in the mineshaft and traps some of the local children.
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Title: Black Saddle
Character: Burnett
Released: January 10, 1959
Type: TV
Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 episodes on ABC from January 10, 1959 to May 6, 1960. The half-hour program was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television, and the original pilot was an episode of CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, with Chris Alcaide portraying the principal character, Clay Culhane. For syndicated reruns, Black Saddle was combined with three other Western series from the same company, Law of the Plainsman starring Michael Ansara, Johnny Ringo starring Don Durant and Mark Goddard, and the critically acclaimed creation of Sam Peckinpah, The Westerner with Brian Keith, under the umbrella title, The Westerners, with new hosting sequences by Keenan Wynn.
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Title: The Rifleman
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.
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Title: The Texan
Released: September 29, 1958
Type: TV
The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.
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Title: The Ed Wynn Show
Character: Mr. Lagenauer
Released: September 25, 1958
Type: TV
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Flood Tide
Title: Flood Tide
Character: Mr. Appleby
Released: February 1, 1958
Type: Movie
When the testimony of a crippled child sends a murder suspect to prison, a friend of the accused sets out to investigate the crime on his own.
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Title: Maverick
Character: Charlie Mason
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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Title: Maverick
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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Title: The Thin Man
Released: September 20, 1957
Type: TV
Nick Charles was a private detective who married the wealthy Nora and decided to settle down and leave the good life. Unfortunately for the couple, Nick's past frequently caught up with him and got the couple involved in mystery after mystery. The series was based on the popular MGM series of movies of the 1930's starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk starred as the televison versions of Nick and Nora which ran on NBC for two seasons from 1957-59.
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Title: Sugarfoot
Character: Judge Lawson
Released: September 17, 1957
Type: TV
Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Jack Elam is cast in occasional episodes as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a correspondence-school student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname "Sugarfoot", a designation even below that of a tenderfoot.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Mayor
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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The Veils of Bagdad
Title: The Veils of Bagdad
Character: Zapolya
Released: October 6, 1953
Type: Movie
Antar is sent by Suleiman, head of the Ottoman Empire, to Bagdad to prevent Hammam, Pasha of Bagdad, from purchasing the services of local leader Mustapha to unite the hill tribes and overthrow the emperor. The intrigue mounts as Antar falls in love with dancer Selima, who tries to avenge her father's death against Hammam's right-hand-man Kasseim, whose wife Rosanna has fallen in love with Antar!
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The Great Sioux Uprising
Title: The Great Sioux Uprising
Character: Gist
Released: July 17, 1953
Type: Movie
During the Civil War, in Wyoming, horse dealers Joan Britton and Stephen Cook are competing to supply the Union Army with horses. A Cherokee is in the area to stir up the Sioux against the Union just as Cook decides to steal a herd of Sioux horses. Ex-army doctor Jonathan Westgate opposes Cook’s unscrupulous methods as well as being Cook’s rival for the affections of Joan. It seems Westgate is the only one able to prevent a new Indian war.
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The Man Who Cheated Himself
Title: The Man Who Cheated Himself
Character: Ernest Quimby (as Charles E. Arnet)
Released: December 26, 1950
Type: Movie
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.
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He's a Cockeyed Wonder
Title: He's a Cockeyed Wonder
Character: J.B. Caldwell
Released: December 2, 1950
Type: Movie
An orange packer (Mickey Rooney) foils robbers with magic and wins the boss's (William Demarest) daughter (Terry Moore).
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The Sun Sets at Dawn
Title: The Sun Sets at Dawn
Character: Reporter, Globe Express
Released: November 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed.
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Wabash Avenue
Title: Wabash Avenue
Character: Horace Carter
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike's motor-mouthed burlesque queen, into a classier entertainer, and incidentally to make her his own. But at the last minute, Andy's revenge comes unravelled.
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Bride for Sale
Title: Bride for Sale
Character: Dobbs
Released: November 12, 1949
Type: Movie
Nora Shelley is a tax expert for the accounting company which is led by Paul Martin. She thinks she can find a suitable husband by inspecting their clients' tax documents. Martin finds out and tries to dissuade her from this approach, later enlisting the help of his friend Steve Adams, who tries to woo Shelley.
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Masked Raiders
Title: Masked Raiders
Character: Dr. Nichols
Released: August 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Texas Rangers Tim Holt and Richard Martin are dispatched to halt a gang of masked outlaws terrorizing the frontier. Infiltrating the gang, Holt and Martin learn that the raiders are operating altruistically, robbing from the rich to give to the poor.
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Any Number Can Play
Title: Any Number Can Play
Character: Joe Josephs (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1949
Type: Movie
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
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Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
Title: Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
Character: Pop Gerard
Released: March 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown.
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The Boy with Green Hair
Title: The Boy with Green Hair
Character: Mr. Hammond
Released: November 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed, Peter seeks solace in a nearby forest. To his surprise, he finds other orphans in the woods, who encourage him to spread news of the injustices of war.
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Hollow Triumph
Title: Hollow Triumph
Character: Coblenz
Released: August 18, 1948
Type: Movie
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
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Michael O'Halloran
Title: Michael O'Halloran
Character: Doc Douglas Bruce
Released: August 8, 1948
Type: Movie
A young crippled girl and her love for a teenage newsboy despite her over-protective and alcoholic mother's objections.
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Big Town Scandal
Title: Big Town Scandal
Character: Amos Peabody
Released: May 27, 1948
Type: Movie
A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
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Sitting Pretty
Title: Sitting Pretty
Character: Mr. Taylor (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
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High Wall
Title: High Wall
Character: Sidney X. Hackle
Released: December 17, 1947
Type: Movie
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.
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Big Town After Dark
Title: Big Town After Dark
Character: Amos Peabody
Released: December 12, 1947
Type: Movie
A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
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Saddle Pals
Title: Saddle Pals
Character: William Schooler
Released: June 5, 1947
Type: Movie
Autry is drawn into the plot when he's given power of attorney in a property settlement involving his old pal and a gang of land swindlers. The pal then goes on an extended vacation, leaving Autry to sort things out.
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My Favorite Brunette
Title: My Favorite Brunette
Character: Crawford
Released: March 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.
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Fall Guy
Title: Fall Guy
Character: Uncle Jim Grossett
Released: March 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A drugged man covered in blood is picked up by police. Before the cops can get answers the man escapes in search of answers to the mystery himself.
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Calendar Girl
Title: Calendar Girl
Character: Olsen
Released: January 31, 1947
Type: Movie
Around the turn of the century, two young men, Johnnie Bennett, a composer and Steve Adams, an artist, go to New York City to make their fortune. They both fall in love with the same girl, Patricia O'Neill. The artist paints a picture of her which outrages her father's sensibilities; but, as a result of the picture, she wins a chance to star in a Broadway play. She soon learns that the artist is just a trifler; and she turns to the composer, who loves her sincerely
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That Brennan Girl
Title: That Brennan Girl
Character: Fred, Natalie's 2nd Husband
Released: December 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.
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Big Town
Title: Big Town
Character: Amos Peabody
Released: August 23, 1946
Type: Movie
A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.
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Somewhere in the Night
Title: Somewhere in the Night
Character: Little Man with Glasses (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1946
Type: Movie
George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
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Without Reservations
Title: Without Reservations
Character: Salesman
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
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Blondie's Lucky Day
Title: Blondie's Lucky Day
Character: Mayor Richard Denby
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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The Hoodlum Saint
Title: The Hoodlum Saint
Character: Cy Nolan - O'Neill's Secretary
Released: April 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
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Cinderella Jones
Title: Cinderella Jones
Character: Mahoney
Released: March 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
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Just Before Dawn
Title: Just Before Dawn
Character: Attorney Allen S. Tobin (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1946
Type: Movie
In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was
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Miss Susie Slagle's
Title: Miss Susie Slagle's
Character: Mr. Johnson (as Charles E. Arnt)
Released: March 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease.
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Behind Green Lights
Title: Behind Green Lights
Character: Daniel Boone Wintergreen
Released: February 15, 1946
Type: Movie
An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a mayoral candidate. With the election just weeks away, shady and ruthless individuals muscle the medical officer into switching the corpse with another body. Lieutenant Sam Carson, one of the few good apples in the bunch must find a way to get to the bottom of it all.
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Pardon My Past
Title: Pardon My Past
Character: Clothes Salesman
Released: December 24, 1945
Type: Movie
Eddie York (MacMurray) is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble.
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She Wouldn't Say Yes
Title: She Wouldn't Say Yes
Character: Train Conductor (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem, but frowning on the impulsive, as represented by a favorite comic strip called "The Nixie." She bumps into Michael Kent, an officer and the comic strip's author. He likes her instantly and she dislikes him. He's headed to the Pacific, sees her on the train, gets off in Chicago, and with her father's help, pursues her and hatches a plan to marry her. Meanwhile, she has her own plan to get rid of him with the help of a blond patient. Will the Nixie get into her psyche?
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The Girl of the Limberlost
Title: The Girl of the Limberlost
Character: Hodges
Released: October 11, 1945
Type: Movie
Elnora Comstock lives on the edge of a great swamp and collects butterflies to sell in order to go to high school and pay for violin lessons. Her mother, Kate Comstock, hates her as she blames the girl for the father's death as he drowned in a quagmire on the way home the night the girl was born. The years-late revelation that the husband had been off courting a neighbor woman that night brings an attitude adjustment to the mother.
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Dangerous Intruder
Title: Dangerous Intruder
Character: Max Ducone
Released: August 21, 1945
Type: Movie
A female hitchiker is taken in by a family after a horrible car accident. While she recovers, she begins to unravel a murder mystery involving the woman of the house.
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Christmas in Connecticut
Title: Christmas in Connecticut
Character: Homer Higgenbottom (uncredited)
Released: July 27, 1945
Type: Movie
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.
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Sudan
Title: Sudan
Character: Khafra
Released: April 18, 1945
Type: Movie
A desert pickpocket, his sidekick, and an escaped slave help an incognito queen in danger.
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Strange Illusion
Title: Strange Illusion
Character: Professor Muhlbach
Released: March 31, 1945
Type: Movie
An adolescent believes that his widowed mother's suitor may have murdered his father.
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The Crime Doctor's Courage
Title: The Crime Doctor's Courage
Character: Butler
Released: February 27, 1945
Type: Movie
A criminal psychiatrist investigates the murder of a two-time widower.
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Double Exposure
Title: Double Exposure
Character: Sonny Tucker
Released: December 18, 1944
Type: Movie
In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to prove her own innocence.
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Dangerous Passage
Title: Dangerous Passage
Character: Daniel
Released: December 18, 1944
Type: Movie
Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but he picks a dangerous ship on which to travel.
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Greenwich Village
Title: Greenwich Village
Character: Author
Released: September 27, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
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My Pal, Wolf
Title: My Pal, Wolf
Character: Papa Eisdaar
Released: September 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A lonely child, neglected by her parents, encounters and befriends a German Shepherd, but she's unaware the animal is a military dog being trained for service in WW2.
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The Impatient Years
Title: The Impatient Years
Character: Marriage Clerk
Released: September 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Standing before a divorce court judge are Sergeant Andy Anderson and Janie Anderson asking him to dissolve their marriage. Janie's father, William Smith, objects and the judge allows him to give his version of their story. They had met in San Francisco fifteen months earlier and, after knowing each other only three days, had gotten married. Andy was sent overseas the day after the wedding and when he returns and despite the fact that Janie had borne him a son, they find they are almost strangers. Mr. Smith suggests, and the judge orders, that if they retrace their actions over the four days they knew each other they would regain their love.
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Three Little Sisters
Title: Three Little Sisters
Character: Ezra Larkin
Released: July 31, 1944
Type: Movie
The three Scott sisters, Susie, Hallie and Lily, live in the small town of Riverdale with their father Tom, a handyman whose laziness is legendary. The high-spirited sisters relieve the tedium by collaborating on Lily's correspondence with Pvt. Robert Mason, who is stationed in Arizona....
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The Seventh Cross
Title: The Seventh Cross
Character: Herr Binder (uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1944
Type: Movie
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland.
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Once Upon a Time
Title: Once Upon a Time
Character: Fred Stacy (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1944
Type: Movie
Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Flynn meets a young boy who just might save the day. Inside a small box the boy shows Flynn his pride and joy: a caterpillar named Curly that dances to Yes Sir, That's My Baby. Word quickly spreads about the amazingly talented hoofer, and the caterpillar becomes a symbol of hope for wartime America. Soon, offers are pouring in to capitalize on this sensational insect.
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Gambler's Choice
Title: Gambler's Choice
Character: Honest John McGrady
Released: April 27, 1944
Type: Movie
The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York...
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Roaring Guns
Title: Roaring Guns
Character: Colonel Chris Ferris
Released: February 19, 1944
Type: Movie
Farmers take up arms against miners whose high water pressure mining operations are destroying their farms with mud and water runoff.
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Up in Arms
Title: Up in Arms
Character: Mr. Higginbotham
Released: February 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
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In Old Oklahoma
Title: In Old Oklahoma
Character: Joe, the Train Conductor
Released: December 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen.
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Gangway for Tomorrow
Title: Gangway for Tomorrow
Character: Jim Benson
Released: November 3, 1943
Type: Movie
Five defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from the French Resistance, a frustrated race car driver, a prison warden, a former Miss America, and an intellectual who dropped out of society and saw the country as a bum.
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Young Ideas
Title: Young Ideas
Character: Station Master (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1943
Type: Movie
A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.
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Henry Aldrich Swings It
Title: Henry Aldrich Swings It
Character: Boyle
Released: June 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Teenager Henry Aldrich decides to take matters into his own hands when his high school principal forbids the student band from playing swing music.
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Gildersleeve's Bad Day
Title: Gildersleeve's Bad Day
Character: Judge Horace Hooker
Released: May 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Gildersleeve has jury duty.
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Reunion in France
Title: Reunion in France
Character: Honoré
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
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The Great Gildersleeve
Title: The Great Gildersleeve
Character: Judge Horace Hooker
Released: December 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew.
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That Other Woman
Title: That Other Woman
Character: Bailey
Released: November 13, 1942
Type: Movie
A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her which backfires after some bad advice.
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Take a Letter, Darling
Title: Take a Letter, Darling
Character: Fud Newton
Released: May 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.
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Twin Beds
Title: Twin Beds
Character: Manager
Released: April 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.
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This Gun for Hire
Title: This Gun for Hire
Character: Male Dressmaker
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
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Young America
Title: Young America
Character: Principal Rice
Released: February 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Young America is a 1942 American drama film directed by Louis King and written by Samuel G. Engel. The film stars Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Lynne Roberts, Robert Cornell, William Tracy and Roman Bohnen. The film was released on February 6, 1942, by 20th Century Fox.
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The Lady Has Plans
Title: The Lady Has Plans
Character: Pooly
Released: January 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon. This woman plans to take the place of a 'Sidney Royce', a legitimate traveler going to Lisbon as a reporter. Crossed signals allows the real Sidney to reach Portugal first, where she is pursued by those trying to obtain the plans and US government agents trying to prevent the sale.
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Paris Calling
Title: Paris Calling
Character: Lt. Lantz
Released: December 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of Nazi bombing, she returns to Paris and joins the underground movement. Nicholas Jordan, an American member of the RAF, stranded in Paris after the evacuation is also working with the Paris underground. Marianne kills her former fiancée, a pro-Nazi informant, for the traitorous state papers he is carrying, and she and Jordan try to flee over a French seaport...
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Ball of Fire
Title: Ball of Fire
Character: McNeary
Released: December 2, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
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Marry the Boss's Daughter
Title: Marry the Boss's Daughter
Character: Blodgett
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Young man from Kansas goes to New York to work for his tycoon-hero. His superiors won't listen to his ideas about business, but the boss and his daughter do.
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Great Guns
Title: Great Guns
Character: Doctor
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted.
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Hold Back the Dawn
Title: Hold Back the Dawn
Character: Mr. MacAdams
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
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We Go Fast
Title: We Go Fast
Character: Refrigerator Salesman
Released: September 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes that Mohr is actually a crook and goes back to flirting with her fast cop friends.
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Blossoms in the Dust
Title: Blossoms in the Dust
Character: G. Harrington Hedger
Released: August 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
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Dressed to Kill
Title: Dressed to Kill
Character: Hal Brennon
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
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Pot o' Gold
Title: Pot o' Gold
Character: Parks (butler)
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
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Mr. District Attorney
Title: Mr. District Attorney
Character: Herman Winkle
Released: March 27, 1941
Type: Movie
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
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Play Girl
Title: Play Girl
Character: Grady (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1941
Type: Movie
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.
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Little Men
Title: Little Men
Character: Drunk in Medicine Show
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Title: Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Character: Mr. Stubbins, Man with Pain
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.
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Buyer Beware
Title: Buyer Beware
Character: Les Carter (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1940
Type: Movie
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.
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I Love You Again
Title: I Love You Again
Character: Mr. Billings
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
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We Who Are Young
Title: We Who Are Young
Character: Eckman (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
A man violates company policy by getting married.
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Remember the Night
Title: Remember the Night
Character: Tom (as Charlie Arnt)
Released: January 19, 1940
Type: Movie
When Jack, an assistant District Attorney, takes Lee, a shoplifter caught in the act, home with him for Christmas, the unexpected happens and love blossoms.
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The Shop Around the Corner
Title: The Shop Around the Corner
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
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It Happened in Hollywood
Title: It Happened in Hollywood
Character: Jed Reed
Released: September 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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Angel's Holiday
Title: Angel's Holiday
Character: Ralph Everett
Released: June 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
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Swing High, Swing Low
Title: Swing High, Swing Low
Character: Georgie Herman
Released: March 12, 1937
Type: Movie
In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub brawl which causes Maggie to miss her ship back to the States. Now stranded, she's forced to move in with Skid and his pal Harry. She soon falls in love with Skid. Skid gets a job playing the trumpet at a local club and becomes a big success. Fame and fortune go to his head which eventually destroys his relationship with Maggie and his career.
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College Holiday
Title: College Holiday
Character: Ticket Clerk
Released: December 19, 1936
Type: Movie
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
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Sinner Take All
Title: Sinner Take All
Character: Lampier's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
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Wedding Present
Title: Wedding Present
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
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Rhythm on the Range
Title: Rhythm on the Range
Character: Dining Car Steward
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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And Sudden Death
Title: And Sudden Death
Character: Archie Sloan
Released: June 16, 1936
Type: Movie
An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone due to reckless driving.
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The Witness Chair
Title: The Witness Chair
Character: Mr. Henshaw
Released: April 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker (Douglas Dumbrille, locking the door and taking the stairs to avoid being seen by the elevator operator (Frank Jenks). The next morning, the cleaning lady finds Whittaker's dead body, an apparent suicide. Police Lieutenant Poole (Moroni Olsen) finds a letter signed by Whittaker in which the deceased states he embezzled $75,000. Soon, however, he suspects otherwise and, after investigating, arrests widower James "Jim" Trent (Walter Abel), the vice president of Whittaker.
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Spring Night
Title: Spring Night
Character: The Father
Released: September 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A short ballet with a young woman who sneaks away from a party and finds a statue of the Roman god Pan. She falls asleep and dreams it comes to life and dances with her.
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She Married Her Boss
Title: She Married Her Boss
Character: Victor Jessup
Released: September 19, 1935
Type: Movie
A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.
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Two for Tonight
Title: Two for Tonight
Character: Benny
Released: September 12, 1935
Type: Movie
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
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Stolen Harmony
Title: Stolen Harmony
Character: Clem Walters
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
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Here Is My Heart
Title: Here Is My Heart
Character: Higgins
Released: December 28, 1934
Type: Movie
A rich and famous singer disguises himself as a waiter in order to be near the woman he loves, a European princess.
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Ready for Love
Title: Ready for Love
Character: Sam Gardner
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when a young woman flees her boarding school to stay with her retired aunt, a former actress, who try as she might, has never been welcomed into the snobbish community in which she resides. The young woman too, is shunned and ends up being victimized in witchcraft trial and ducked into a pool of water.
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Ladies Should Listen
Title: Ladies Should Listen
Character: Albert, the manservant
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the man's current girlfriend is actually part of a scheme to swindle him out of some mineral rights he owns, she devises a plot to save him and expose the con artists.
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Roman Scandals
Title: Roman Scandals
Character: Caius - the Food Taster (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1933
Type: Movie
A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.