Anita Louise

Anita Louise

Born: January 9, 1915
Died: April 25, 1970
in New York City, New York, USA
Anita Louise (born January 9, 1915) was an American actress.

She made her acting debut on Broadway at the age of six, and within a year was appearing regularly in Hollywood films. By her late teens she was being cast in leading and supporting roles in major productions. As her stature in Hollywood grew, she was named as a WAMPAS Baby Star.

Among her film successes were Madame Du Barry, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Story of Louis Pasteur, Anthony Adverse, Marie Antoinette, The Sisters, and The Little Princess.

By the 1940s, Louise was reduced to minor roles and acted very infrequently until the advent of television in the 1950s provided her with further opportunities. In middle age she played one of her most widely seen roles as the gentle mother on My Friend Flicka.

Movies for Anita Louise...

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Title: The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 1, 1988
Type: Movie
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
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Title: The Mod Squad
Released: September 24, 1968
Type: TV
The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. It starred Michael Cole as Pete Cochren, Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, Clarence Williams III as Linc Hayes, and Tige Andrews as Captain Adam Greer. The executive producers of the series were Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas. The iconic counter-culture police series earned six Emmy nominations, four Golden Globe nominations plus one win for Peggy Lipton, one Directors Guild of America award, and four Logies. In 1997 the episode "Mother of Sorrow" was ranked #95 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
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Title: Mannix
Released: September 16, 1967
Type: TV
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.
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The Greer Case
Title: The Greer Case
Character: Mabel Seymour Greer
Released: January 31, 1957
Type: Movie
When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self - Appearing
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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Title: Matinee Theater
Released: October 31, 1955
Type: TV
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.
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Title: My Friend Flicka
Released: September 30, 1955
Type: TV
My Friend Flicka is a 39-episode western television series set at the fictitious Goose Bar Ranch in Wyoming at the turn of the 20th century. The program was filmed in color but initially aired in black and white on CBS at 7:30 p.m. Fridays from February 10, 1956, to February 1, 1957. It was a mid-season replacement for Gene Autry's The Adventures of Champion. Both series, however failed in the ratings against ABC's The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. After the initial Friday airing, viewers could still find the series on CBS Saturdays at 7 p.m. Eastern during March 1957, on Sundays at 6 p.m. from April to May 1957, and on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. from June to August 1957. NBC carried the program in color at 6:30 p.m. Sunday from September to December 1957 and at 7 p.m. Sunday from January to May 1958. In subsequent years, the series aired mostly on Saturday mornings on all networks. The Disney Channel ran it on Monday evenings in the mid-1980s. Over the years many viewers were unaware that the series produced episodes for only a single season. My Friend Flicka starred native Canadian Johnny Washbrook as Ken McLaughlin, a boy devoted to his horse Flicka, Swedish for "little girl", but actually an Arabian sorrel named Wahana. Gene Evans played the authoritarian father Rob McLaughlin, a former U.S. Army cavalry officer. Anita Louise was cast as the gentle-spirited mother, Nell. Frank Ferguson portrayed Gus Broeberg, the loyal ranch hand. Flicka is based on a novel by Mary O'Hara, written at the Remount Ranch, located between Laramie and Cheyenne, Wyoming. Some Internet sites say that the series is set in Montana, where some of the filming was done. The majority of the filming, however, was at Fox Movie Ranch. My Friend Flicka holds the distinction of having been the first television series filmed by 20th Century Fox. A 1943 film, My Friend Flicka, starred Roddy McDowall as Ken.
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Title: The Millionaire
Character: Nancy Wellington
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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Title: Letter to Loretta
Character: Self - Hostess
Released: September 20, 1953
Type: TV
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.
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Title: Letter to Loretta
Character: Laura Killian
Released: September 20, 1953
Type: TV
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.
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Title: This Is Your Life
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.
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Retreat, Hell!
Title: Retreat, Hell!
Character: Ruth Hansen
Released: February 17, 1952
Type: Movie
During the Korean War, a U.S. Marine battalion must fight its way out of a frozen mountain pass despite diminishing supplies, freezing temperatures and constant attacks by overwhelming numbers of Chinese soldiers.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Beatrice Page
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Title: Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Character: Doris Hamilton / Doris Meredith
Released: May 15, 1947
Type: Movie
"Bulldog" Drummond is vacationing in his country home in England, and his house if rifled by two thieves. After they leave he finds a card marked with some mysterious letters. Doris Meredith comes by the next day, pretending her car has broken down. Drummond knows better but plays along with her. Drummond calls Scotland Yard Inspector Holmes, and is informed that some of the letters comprise the code-name for a Yard-man who disappeared while carrying some diamonds from France to England. Doris tells Drummond the man is her brother. Drummond uses a decoy to lure the thieves out of hiding, but they adduct Doris.
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Blondie's Big Moment
Title: Blondie's Big Moment
Character: Miss Gray
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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Shadowed
Title: Shadowed
Character: Carol Johnson
Released: September 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Fred J. Johnson (Lloyd Corrigan) scores a hole-in-one but his next drive, using the lucky, initialed golf ball, soars out of bounds and lands near a spot where some counterfeiters are burying a murder victim. Then begins a series of events in which he is hounded and threatened by the killers. The consequences of his not reporting what he saw to the police lead to a climax in which is daughter is held hostage by the crooks.
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Personality Kid
Title: Personality Kid
Character: Laura Howard
Released: August 8, 1946
Type: Movie
An Army veteran finds his re-entry into civilian life easier through the efforts of his younger brother and a donkey.
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The Devil's Mask
Title: The Devil's Mask
Character: Janet Mitchell
Released: May 23, 1946
Type: Movie
A San Francisco airplane bound for South America crashes, and among the scorched debris is found a shrunken native human head, neatly packaged. The perplexed police contact a local anthropology museum about this unclaimed piece of grisly baggage, where they intersect with Jack and Doc, two private eyes, called there to meet a mysterious woman who had a case for them and wanted to meet in private.
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The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
Title: The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
Character: Lady Catherine Maitland
Released: February 21, 1946
Type: Movie
Robin Hood's swashbuckling son comes to the rescue when England's boy-king is captured by the evil, power-hungry William of Pembroke.
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The Fighting Guardsman
Title: The Fighting Guardsman
Character: Amelie de Montrevel
Released: January 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A French Baron robs Louis XVI like Robin Hood.
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Love Letters
Title: Love Letters
Character: Helen Wentworth
Released: October 26, 1945
Type: Movie
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. The writer of the letters fell in love with the woman he wrote to and wants to become her second husband even if she did murder husband number one. Singleton doesn't remember the murder or anything about the first 22 years of her life as Victoria Remington. Then at her second wedding she wonders why she said "I take you, Roger," instead of "I take you, Allen."
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Casanova Brown
Title: Casanova Brown
Character: Madge Ferris
Released: August 23, 1944
Type: Movie
Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the infant to keep her from being adopted. Isabel's parents hunt for the child and discover that Cass and Isabel are still hopelessly in love.
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Nine Girls
Title: Nine Girls
Character: Paula Canfield
Released: February 17, 1944
Type: Movie
One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on their own to unmask the killer.
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Dangerous Blondes
Title: Dangerous Blondes
Character: Julie Taylor
Released: September 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.
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Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Title: Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Character: Herself
Released: October 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."
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Harmon of Michigan
Title: Harmon of Michigan
Character: Peggy Adams
Released: September 11, 1941
Type: Movie
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
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Two in a Taxi
Title: Two in a Taxi
Character: Bonnie
Released: July 10, 1941
Type: Movie
An ambitious but financially strapped taxi driver becomes involved with mobsters to obtain money to buy a gas station.
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The Phantom Submarine
Title: The Phantom Submarine
Character: Madeleine Neilson
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
On the night before he sails in search of the steamship Arcadia's sunken gold, Paul Sinclair (Bruce Bennett)meets Madeliene Nielson (Anita Louise) in a San Francisco nightclub. On the second day at sea, Madeliene turns up as a stowaway. While diving and searching for the sunken gold, off the Phillipines, Paul discovers that a foreign-country submarine has been laying mines in order to completely cut off the Phillipines from American protection.
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The Villain Still Pursued Her
Title: The Villain Still Pursued Her
Character: Mary Wilson
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.
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Glamour for Sale
Title: Glamour for Sale
Character: Ann Powell
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.
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Wagons Westward
Title: Wagons Westward
Character: Phyllis O'Conover
Released: June 19, 1940
Type: Movie
David Cook and twin brother Tom are poles apart in disposition and traits. When their father dies, Tom goes to New Mexico to live with his Uncle Hardtack while David remains behind to care for their mother. The grown Tom becomes an outlaw while brother David becomes a government lawman. David is charged with apprehending Tom...
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Reno
Title: Reno
Character: Mrs. Joanne Ryder
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
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Main Street Lawyer
Title: Main Street Lawyer
Character: Honey Boggs
Released: November 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Story of a lawyer, gangster and a floozy.
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Hero for a Day
Title: Hero for a Day
Character: Sylvia Higgins
Released: October 6, 1939
Type: Movie
When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense.
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These Glamour Girls
Title: These Glamour Girls
Character: Daphne Graves
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
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The Gorilla
Title: The Gorilla
Character: Norma Denby
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we discover that there is more to the attorney than meets the eye, and the ape may be innocent after all. When a pretty young heiress faces peril, it's up to our heroic trio to save the day.
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The Little Princess
Title: The Little Princess
Character: Rose
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
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Going Places
Title: Going Places
Character: Ellen Parker
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
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Breakdowns of 1938
Title: Breakdowns of 1938
Character: Emmy Page (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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The Sisters
Title: The Sisters
Character: Helen Elliott Johnson
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
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Marie Antoinette
Title: Marie Antoinette
Character: Princesse de Lamballe
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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My Bill
Title: My Bill
Character: Muriel Colbrook
Released: July 8, 1938
Type: Movie
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
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Tovarich
Title: Tovarich
Character: Helene Dupont
Released: December 25, 1937
Type: Movie
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
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First Lady
Title: First Lady
Character: Emmy Page
Released: December 4, 1937
Type: Movie
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.
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That Certain Woman
Title: That Certain Woman
Character: Florence 'Flip' Carson Merrick
Released: August 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
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The Go-Getter
Title: The Go-Getter
Character: Margaret Ricks
Released: May 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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Call It a Day
Title: Call It a Day
Character: Joan Collett
Released: April 17, 1937
Type: Movie
The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.
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Green Light
Title: Green Light
Character: Phyllis Dexter
Released: February 20, 1937
Type: Movie
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility.
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Breakdowns of 1936
Title: Breakdowns of 1936
Character: Self
Released: December 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Title: Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the West Side Tennis Club affords glimpses of many stars.
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Anthony Adverse
Title: Anthony Adverse
Character: Maria
Released: August 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
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Brides Are Like That
Title: Brides Are Like That
Character: Hazel Robinson
Released: April 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not working. Bill is a dreamer, a talker and a golf player and he has a lot of ideas, but still lives off Fred. When Hazel gets engaged to Doc Jenkins, it takes a while, but Bill talks her into marrying him instead. The only problem is that now, he needs to find a job.
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The Making of a Great Motion Picture
Title: The Making of a Great Motion Picture
Released: April 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Narrated documentary of the making of Anthony Adverse (1936), featuring many clips from the actual film.
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The Story of Louis Pasteur
Title: The Story of Louis Pasteur
Character: Annette Pasteur
Released: February 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.
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A Dream Comes True
Title: A Dream Comes True
Character: Herself (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1935
Type: Movie
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
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Personal Maid's Secret
Title: Personal Maid's Secret
Character: Diana Abercrombie
Released: October 26, 1935
Type: Movie
A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins' 1935 film stars Ruth Donnelly, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull, Frank Albertson, Arthur Treacher, Ronnie Crosby, Henry O'Neill, Lillian Kemble Cooper and Gordon Elliott.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Titania
Released: October 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
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Here's to Romance
Title: Here's to Romance
Character: Lydia Lubov
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
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Lady Tubbs
Title: Lady Tubbs
Character: Wynne Howard
Released: July 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and barges into the New York social scene.
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The Firebird
Title: The Firebird
Character: Mariette Pointer
Released: November 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Prohibited from seeing her actor sweetheart Herman Brandt by her tyrannical parents, sweet young Vienesse lass Mariette defies authority by regularly visiting Brandt's downstairs apartment. The lovers' signal is a song called "The Firebird," which Brandt sings whenever he wants Mariette to visit him. When the actor is murdered, poor Mariette and her parents are prime suspects. But the truth is a bit more complicated than that, involving as it does a haughty aristocrat, a powerful diplomat and a most unusual "candid camera" device.
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Madame du Barry
Title: Madame du Barry
Character: Marie Antoinette
Released: October 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon, former street waif Madame du Barry charms her way into the heart of gouty King Louis XV.
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Judge Priest
Title: Judge Priest
Character: Ellie May Gillespie
Released: September 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity.
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I Give My Love
Title: I Give My Love
Character: Lorna March
Released: July 17, 1934
Type: Movie
After accidentally killing her no-good husband, Judy makes her true love promise not to tell her small son about his imprisoned mother. She is released ten years later...
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Cross Streets
Title: Cross Streets
Character: June Grattan
Released: July 5, 1934
Type: Movie
A man falls in love with a young woman, only to discover that she's the daughter of an ex-girlfriend who jilted him almost 20 years before.
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Most Precious Thing in Life
Title: Most Precious Thing in Life
Character: Patty O'Day
Released: June 15, 1934
Type: Movie
An unwed mother watches as her illegitimate son is raised by others. Director Lambert Hillyer's 1934 drama stars Jean Arthur, Richard Cromwell, Donald Cook, Anita Louise, Jane Darwell, Mary Forbes and Ward Bond.
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Are We Civilized?
Title: Are We Civilized?
Character: Norma Bockner
Released: June 5, 1934
Type: Movie
1934 drama of man's inhumanity to man, starring William Farnum and Anita Louise, directed by Edwin Carewe, screenplay by Harold Sherman. This film was meant to denounce Hitler prior to US involvement in WWII
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Our Betters
Title: Our Betters
Character: Bessie
Released: March 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Soon after being wed, American heiress Lady Pearl Grayston realizes her husband has married her for her money and is keeping a mistress. The two maintain a loveless marriage, a trade-off Pearl accepts in order to gain admittance to her husband's aristocratic social circle. While Pearl pursues her own affair with gigolo Pepi D'Costa, her visiting sister, Bessie, arrives and is appalled when Pearl's arrangement is revealed.
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The Phantom of Crestwood
Title: The Phantom of Crestwood
Character: Esther Wren
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
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Heaven on Earth
Title: Heaven on Earth
Character: Towhead
Released: November 27, 1931
Type: Movie
A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him.
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The Woman Between
Title: The Woman Between
Character: Helen Weston
Released: August 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.
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Everything’s Rosie
Title: Everything’s Rosie
Character: Rosie Droop
Released: May 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
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Millie
Title: Millie
Character: Constance Maitland
Released: February 6, 1931
Type: Movie
After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men - men who once devoted their time to her mother.
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The Great Meadow
Title: The Great Meadow
Character: Betty Hall
Released: January 24, 1931
Type: Movie
Pioneers and a family man leave Virginia for Kentucky during the Revolutionary War.
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The Third Alarm
Title: The Third Alarm
Character: Milly Morton
Released: November 16, 1930
Type: Movie
The story of the firemen at Engine House No.8, where widower Frank "Dad" Brooks is the beloved veteran and whose children, Milly and Jimmie, are especially fond of firemen Dan and "Beauty" Johnson. The problem of the day is concern whether or not Brooks is going to qualify for a pension...until a three-alarm inferno breaks out at the orphanage.
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Just Like Heaven
Title: Just Like Heaven
Character: Mimi
Released: October 21, 1930
Type: Movie
Tobey is a headstrong peddler who sells balloons on the streets of Paris. A traveling dog circus usurps his corner and a power struggle ensues between Tobey and the circus's beautiful ballet star, Mimi. Intent on ruining the circus's chances at success, Tobey sabotages their performances. But after a tragedy befalls Mimi, Tobey has a dramatic change of heart and views Mimi in a completely new way.
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What a Man
Title: What a Man
Character: Marion Kilbourne
Released: June 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Wade Rawlings, a former Captain in the Gold Stream Guards, has lost his fortune and has become a wanderer in the United States. He is hired as the Kilbourne-family chauffeur after Mrs. Kilbourne, whose hobby is reforming tramps, takes note of his skill as an auto-mechanic. The rest of the family objects strongly, especially 22-year-old Eileen who takes an immediate dislike to him, but Mr. Kilbourne allows him to stay on. Shortly afterward, Mr. Kilbourne is surprised to learn that Eileen has eloped and he has a new son-in-law, and even more surprised to learn this his son-in-law is the family chauffeur.
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The Florodora Girl
Title: The Florodora Girl
Character: Younger Vibart Daughter
Released: May 31, 1930
Type: Movie
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
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The Marriage Playground
Title: The Marriage Playground
Character: Blanca Wheater
Released: December 12, 1929
Type: Movie
A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their intermarriages and blend thoroughly, and you have a mixture a too-young-to-believe Frederic March will try to straighten out.
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Wonder of Women
Title: Wonder of Women
Character: Lottie
Released: July 13, 1929
Type: Movie
A German pianist is going to break up with his unfaithful wife, when he receives the message that his favourite stepchild has died. This film is believed lost.
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Square Shoulders
Title: Square Shoulders
Character: Mary Jane Williams
Released: March 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Tad's dream is to attend a military academy so he can grow up to be a great soldier and a war hero, like his father. What he doesn't know is that his father, Slag, is actually a thief and a derelict. Slag robs a factory in order to get the money to send Tad to military school, then gets a job at the academy's horse stables to be close to his son, who doesn't know he's alive.
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The Spirit of Youth
Title: The Spirit of Youth
Released: February 15, 1929
Type: Movie
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A Woman of Affairs
Title: A Woman of Affairs
Character: Young Diana (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1928
Type: Movie
Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Neville have long been smitten with each other, but her father disapproves of the relationship, resulting in her eventual marriage to David. It's not long after their wedding, however, that tragedy strikes, sending Diana on a downward spiral. When Neville reappears in her life, will he be able to save her from her own misery?
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4 Devils
Title: 4 Devils
Character: Louise as a girl
Released: October 3, 1928
Type: Movie
The circus provides the backdrop for this melodrama that chronicles the lives of four children raised within the big top. Film historian and collector William K. Everson stated that the only surviving print was lost by actress Mary Duncan who had borrowed it from Fox Studios. In the December 1974 issue of "Films in Review," he explained that Mary Duncan, one of the film's stars, wanted it to show to a group of friends in Florida. The star was aware that it was a dangerous nitrate print and assumed that Fox had others. She threw the only copy in the ocean, a mistake characterized by Everson as "a monumental blunder to rank with Balaclava, Sarajevo, and the Fall of Babylon as one of history's blackest moments."
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The Untamed Lady
Title: The Untamed Lady
Released: March 14, 1926
Type: Movie
A spoiled rich girl is brought down to earth by the man who loves her.
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The Street of Forgotten Men
Title: The Street of Forgotten Men
Character: Flower Girl (uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Easy-Money Charley, the best fake crippled beggar in New York, loses his beloved dog and adopts a dying prostitute's daughter to fill the empty place in his heart. But his fellow crooks and dissemblers mock him for sentimentality, and he disowns the child in order to bring her up secretly in the safety of a distant suburb. He brings her up as a young lady in ignorance of her true history or of his; but when he discovers that her affections have taken an unexpected slant, it brings about an end to their tranquil life, a crisis of conscience, and an opportunity for the sinister 'White-Eye' to take a hand...
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The Sixth Commandment
Title: The Sixth Commandment
Released: June 1, 1924
Type: Movie
John Brant, a devoted minister, is in love with Marian Calhoun, but must keep it a secret because she is engaged to Robert Fields. However is playing around with a variety of different women.