Otto Kruger

Otto Kruger

Born: September 6, 1885
Died: September 6, 1974
in Toledo, Ohio, USA
Otto Kruger (1885–1974) was an American actor who began his career in 1915. His career was most prolific during the 1930s and 1940s.

Movies for Otto Kruger...

Sex and the Single Girl
Title: Sex and the Single Girl
Character: Dr. Anderson
Released: December 25, 1964
Type: Movie
A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.
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Della
Title: Della
Character: Walter Garrick
Released: August 8, 1964
Type: Movie
Della Chappell is a very wealthy and incredibly reclusive woman. When a big company wants to develop some land that Della owns, the town sends out Barney Stafford to talk to her. She invites Barney over to negotiate the proposal. Barney soon takes a liking to Della's equally reclusive daughter Jenny Chappell. After spending some time with Jenny, he realizes that Della has a dark secret, one that keeps them from the outside world.
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Title: Sam Benedict
Released: September 15, 1962
Type: TV
Sam Benedict is an American legal drama that aired on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963. The series was created and executive produced by E. Jack Neuman. Sam Benedict is based on real-life lawyer Jacob W. "Jake" Erlich, who served as technical consultant for the series.
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Title: The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Character: The King (segment "The Singing Bone")
Released: August 7, 1962
Type: Movie
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining amongst the sea of dry, non-fiction books they write and he sets about collecting oral-tradition fairy tales to put into print. Their life story is countered with reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."
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Title: Dr. Kildare
Character: Louis Conrad
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: TV
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
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Title: Checkmate
Character: George Emery
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: Thriller
Character: Bert Farrington
Released: September 13, 1960
Type: TV
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.
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Cash McCall
Title: Cash McCall
Character: Will Atherson
Released: January 20, 1960
Type: Movie
Wealthy hotshot Cash McCall makes his money by purchasing unsuccessful businesses, whipping them into shape and then selling them for a huge profit. When Cash comes across Austen Plastics, a small manufacturing corporation on its last legs, he realizes it might be a gamble to buy the company. But when Cash finds out that the company's owner is the father of his old flame, Lory, he buys the business just to get a second chance at romance.
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Title: The Rebel
Character: Ben Tully
Released: October 4, 1959
Type: TV
The Rebel is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was one of the few Goodson-Todman Productions outside of their game show ventures. Beginning in December 2011, The Rebel reruns began to air Saturday mornings on Me-TV.
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The Young Philadelphians
Title: The Young Philadelphians
Character: John Marshall Wharton
Released: May 21, 1959
Type: Movie
Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations of his colleagues and his own obligation to defend his friend Chester on a murder count.
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Title: The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
Released: September 26, 1958
Type: TV
Make way for the reluctant detective. It's Ellery Queen, the suave, debonair and brilliant hero of the new, live, full-hour detective show. George Nader plays the stalwart writer turned investigator.
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The Colossus of New York
Title: The Colossus of New York
Character: Dr. William Spensser
Released: June 26, 1958
Type: Movie
A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results...
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: J. J. Gideon
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: August Dalgran
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Judge Norris
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Timothy Balfour Sr.
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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The Last Command
Title: The Last Command
Character: Stephen F. Austin
Released: August 3, 1955
Type: Movie
During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans. They don't heed his advice since he's a Mexican citizen, married to the daughter of the Mexican vice-governor of the province and a friend to General Santa Anna since the days they had fought together for Mexico's independence. After serving as president for 22 years, Santa Anna has become too powerful and arrogant. He rules Mexico with an iron fist and he would not allow Texas to self-govern. Bowie sides with the Texans in their bid for independence and urges a cautious strategy, given Santa Anna's power and cunning. Despite the disagreement between the Texicans and Bowie regarding the right strategy they ask Bowie to lead them in a last-ditch stand, at Alamo, against General Santa Anna's numerically superior forces.
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The Desert Song
Title: The Desert Song
Character: General Birabeau
Released: May 7, 1955
Type: Movie
Live television version of the classic musical.
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Black Widow
Title: Black Widow
Character: Gordon Ling
Released: October 28, 1954
Type: Movie
A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Walter Farrington
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Judge Mitchell
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Magnificent Obsession
Title: Magnificent Obsession
Character: Edward Randolph
Released: August 7, 1954
Type: Movie
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s only resuscitator while a local hero, Dr. Phillips, dies waiting for the life-saving device. Merrick then tries to right his wrongs with the doctor’s widow, Helen, falling in love with her in the process.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Charles
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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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: The Boss
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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High Noon
Title: High Noon
Character: Judge Percy Mettrick
Released: June 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
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Valentino
Title: Valentino
Character: Mark Towers
Released: March 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Italian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling between his career and the woman he loves.
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Payment on Demand
Title: Payment on Demand
Character: Ted Prescott
Released: February 3, 1951
Type: Movie
David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David has taken up with a younger woman, Joyce decides to make the most of this separation by taking a solo trip to the Caribbean. However, just before diving into a vacation fling, she runs into Emily, an old chum whose own divorce has left her embittered. Joyce then debates giving married life one last chance.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Self - Host
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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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Walter Travis
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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711 Ocean Drive
Title: 711 Ocean Drive
Character: Carl Stephans
Released: July 1, 1950
Type: Movie
The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!
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Title: Lights Out
Released: July 19, 1949
Type: TV
Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. In 1946, NBC Television brought Lights Out to TV in a series of four specials, broadcast live and produced by Fred Coe, who also contributed three of the scripts. NBC asked Cooper to write the script for the premiere, "First Person Singular", which is told entirely from the point of view of an unseen murderer who kills his obnoxious wife and winds up being executed. Variety gave this first episode a rave review ("undoubtedly one of the best dramatic shows yet seen on a television screen"), but Lights Out did not become a regular NBC-TV series until 1949.
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Title: Suspense
Released: January 6, 1949
Type: TV
Suspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the radio program of the same name which ran from 1942 to 1962. Like many early television programs, the show was broadcast live from New York City. It was sponsored by the Auto-Lite corporation, and each episode was introduced by host Rex Marshall, who promoted Auto-Lite spark plugs, car batteries, headlights, and other car parts. Some of the early scripts were adapted from Suspense radio scripts, while others were original for television. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens all had stories adapted for the series, while contemporary authors such as Roald Dahl and Gore Vidal also contributed. Many notable actors appeared on the program, including Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Franchot Tone, Robert Emhardt, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, and many more. The program was a live television series, but most episodes were recorded on kinescope. However, only about 90 of the 260 episodes survive today.
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Title: Suspense
Character: Chester Crabtree
Released: January 6, 1949
Type: TV
Suspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the radio program of the same name which ran from 1942 to 1962. Like many early television programs, the show was broadcast live from New York City. It was sponsored by the Auto-Lite corporation, and each episode was introduced by host Rex Marshall, who promoted Auto-Lite spark plugs, car batteries, headlights, and other car parts. Some of the early scripts were adapted from Suspense radio scripts, while others were original for television. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens all had stories adapted for the series, while contemporary authors such as Roald Dahl and Gore Vidal also contributed. Many notable actors appeared on the program, including Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Franchot Tone, Robert Emhardt, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, and many more. The program was a live television series, but most episodes were recorded on kinescope. However, only about 90 of the 260 episodes survive today.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Spencer de Witt Roland
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Lulu Belle
Title: Lulu Belle
Character: Harry Randolph
Released: August 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his fiancée and career to marry Lulu Bell. When his money runs out, Lulu Belle goes to work in a New Orleans club run by tough gambler Mark Brady. She tries to send George back to Natchez by pretending that she has fallen for prize-fighter Butch Cooper but George, in a fit of jealousy, drives a handful of forks into Butch's face. He is sent to prison and Lulu goes to New York with millionaire Harry Randolph, who makes her the singing sensation of Broadway and asks her to marry him. She refuses when she learns that George has been released from prison, realizing that he is the only man she ever truly loved.
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Romance on the High Seas
Title: Romance on the High Seas
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
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Smart Woman
Title: Smart Woman
Character: D.A. Bradley Wayne
Released: April 30, 1948
Type: Movie
A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.
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Love and Learn
Title: Love and Learn
Character: Andrew Wyngate
Released: May 2, 1947
Type: Movie
A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.
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Duel in the Sun
Title: Duel in the Sun
Character: Mr. Langford
Released: December 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
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The Fabulous Suzanne
Title: The Fabulous Suzanne
Character: Hendrick Courtney Sr.
Released: December 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the restaurant, she use the same system for investing her money. Her stock broker tries to dissuade her, but she persists and her investments increases her wealth.
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Woman Who Came Back
Title: Woman Who Came Back
Character: Rev. Jim Stevens
Released: December 13, 1945
Type: Movie
A young woman is tormented by the belief that she is the victim of a witch's curse.
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Allotment Wives
Title: Allotment Wives
Character: Whitey Colton
Released: November 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.
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On Stage Everybody
Title: On Stage Everybody
Character: James Carlton
Released: July 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
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The Chicago Kid
Title: The Chicago Kid
Character: John Mitchell
Released: June 29, 1945
Type: Movie
The story of Joe Ferrill, whose efforts to raise enough money so that his imprisoned father can live comfortably upon release come to naught when the elder Ferrill dies behind bars. Vowing revenge on Society, Joe aligns himself with a bunch of gangsters. He intends to use his mob connections to get even with auditor John Mitchell, the man whose testimony sent Joe's dad to the Big House. But Joe hasn't counted on falling in love with Mitchell's pretty daughter Chris.
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The Jungle Captive
Title: The Jungle Captive
Character: Dr. Stendahl
Released: June 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Once again Paula the ape woman is brought back to life, this time by a mad doctor and his disfigured assistant, who also kidnaps a nurse in order to have a female blood donor.
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Wonder Man
Title: Wonder Man
Character: District Attorney R.J. O'Brien
Released: June 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summons his bookworm twin, Edwin Dingle, to Prospect Park so that he can help the police nail Jackson.
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The Great John L.
Title: The Great John L.
Character: Richard Martin
Released: May 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Portrait of legendary fighter John L. Sullivan, aka "The Boston Strong Boy", and his meteoric rise to become the first gloved World Heavyweight Champion. But the famed boxer is no match for the two women with holds on him, love struck actress Kathy Harkness and the real love of his life, beautiful but unyielding Anne Livingstone.
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Escape in the Fog
Title: Escape in the Fog
Character: Paul Devon
Released: April 5, 1945
Type: Movie
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.
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Earl Carroll Vanities
Title: Earl Carroll Vanities
Character: Earl Carroll
Released: April 5, 1945
Type: Movie
Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual "Vanities" provided story material for three Hollywood films: Murder at the Vanities (34), A Night at Earl Carroll's (40) and Earl Carroll Vanities (45). This last film was produced by Republic Pictures, a bread-and-butter studio specializing in Westerns and serials; Republic had made musicals before, but few of them were expensive enough to allow for lavish production numbers. Earl Carroll Vanities is likewise rather threadbare, though some of the individual musical highlights aren't bad. The plot, such as it is, concerns financially strapped nightclub owner Eve Arden, who finagles Earl Carroll into staging one of his revues at her club.
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Murder, My Sweet
Title: Murder, My Sweet
Character: Jules Amthor
Released: December 14, 1944
Type: Movie
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
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Storm Over Lisbon
Title: Storm Over Lisbon
Character: Alexis Vanderlyn
Released: October 16, 1944
Type: Movie
A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman.
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They Live in Fear
Title: They Live in Fear
Character: Matthew Van Camp
Released: October 6, 1944
Type: Movie
After witnessing the killing of a professor in concentration camp "Dachau" German student Paul emigrates to the USA. Here an American fellow student endangers Paul's new American existence and his family's which stayed in Germany.
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Cover Girl
Title: Cover Girl
Character: John Coudair
Released: March 22, 1944
Type: Movie
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
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Knickerbocker Holiday
Title: Knickerbocker Holiday
Character: Roosevelt
Released: March 17, 1944
Type: Movie
The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn) arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyvesant is hardly the fun-loving type, and one of his first official acts is to call for the death of Brom Broeck (Nelson Eddy), a newspaper publisher well-known for his fearless exposes of police and government corruption. However, Broeck hasn't done anything that would justify the death penalty, so Stuyvesant waits (without much patience) for Broeck to step out of line. Broeck is romancing a beautiful woman named Tina Tienhoven (Constance Dowling), whose sister Ulda (Shelley Winters) happens to be dating his best friend, Ten Pin (Johnnie "Scat" Davis). After Stuyvesant's men toss Broeck in jail on a trumped-up charge, Stuyvesant sets his sights on winning Tina's affections.
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Tarzan's Desert Mystery
Title: Tarzan's Desert Mystery
Character: Paul Hendrix
Released: December 26, 1943
Type: Movie
A letter from Jane, who is nursing British troops, asks Tarzan's help in obtaining a malaria serum extractable from jungle plants. Tarzan and Boy set out across the desert looking for the plants. Along the way they befriend a stranded American lady magician.
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Stage Door Canteen
Title: Stage Door Canteen
Character: Otto Kruger
Released: June 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
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Night Plane from Chungking
Title: Night Plane from Chungking
Character: Albert Pasavy
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a European of unknown nationality, a missionary a French officer, and a White Russian. There is also an ancient Chinese lady on an important diplomatic mission to Indian and her traveling companion. The trip is halted when Japanese planes bomb the road and hit a munitions truck and kill many Chinese soldiers. The Chinese commander puts the wounded soldiers on the bus and directs it to a nearby secret airport where the officer in charge is an American attached to the Chinese Air Force.
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Corregidor
Title: Corregidor
Character: Dr. Jan Stockman
Released: March 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.
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Power of the Press
Title: Power of the Press
Character: Howard Raskin
Released: January 29, 1943
Type: Movie
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.
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Hitler's Children
Title: Hitler's Children
Character: Colonel Henkel
Released: January 6, 1943
Type: Movie
This lurid exposé of the Hitler Youth follows the woes of an American girl declared legally German by the Nazi government.
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Secrets of a Co-Ed
Title: Secrets of a Co-Ed
Character: James Reynolds
Released: October 26, 1942
Type: Movie
An attorney's immature college-student daughter becomes romantically involved with a mobster, unaware that a nightclub singer also loves him - or that her father is secretly the mob's leader.
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Friendly Enemies
Title: Friendly Enemies
Character: Anton Miller
Released: June 21, 1942
Type: Movie
During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has taken the US side against Germany regarding the war, while the other stays stubbornly loyal to "the old country". His stubbornness results in tragedy for his old friend and a lesson in the consequences of blind loyalty.
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Saboteur
Title: Saboteur
Character: Charles Tobin
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
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The Men in Her Life
Title: The Men in Her Life
Character: Victor
Released: October 30, 1941
Type: Movie
A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life. She marries her first husband, her mentor and instructor, primarily out of gratitude. After his death, she marries an American thinking that can be her escape from the world of ballet. But she leaves him to return the dancing. She has a child but does not tell her husband. When her daughter is two-years-old, the husband finds out and takes the child to America. The ballerina continues to dance until her best dancing days have gone by.
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Mercy Island
Title: Mercy Island
Character: Dr. Sanderson
Released: October 9, 1941
Type: Movie
The beautiful Florida Keys provide the setting of this adventure that tells the tale of a fun-filled fishing trip that becomes a nightmare when the charter boat is wrecked on an isolated island. Unfortunately, there are very few provisions and the group must fend for themselves. They are eventually assisted by a hermit, but before that one of the group goes insane, and another is eaten by an alligator.
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The Big Boss
Title: The Big Boss
Character: Jim Maloney
Released: April 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Why did the Governor want to resign?
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A Dispatch from Reuters
Title: A Dispatch from Reuters
Character: Dr. Magnus
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
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The Man I Married
Title: The Man I Married
Character: Heinrich Hoffman
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.
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Seventeen
Title: Seventeen
Character: Sylvanus Baxter, Sr.
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A high-school student in a small town becomes smitten with the sophisticated new girl who's just arrived from Chicago. Based on Booth Tarkington's story.
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Title: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Character: Dr. Emil Von Behring
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
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Another Thin Man
Title: Another Thin Man
Character: Van Slack
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
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Scandal Sheet
Title: Scandal Sheet
Character: Jim Stevenson
Released: October 16, 1939
Type: Movie
The crimes of a tabloid publisher are exposed by a reporter, his secret illegitimate son.
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A Woman is the Judge
Title: A Woman is the Judge
Character: Steven Graham
Released: October 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Twenty years earlier, Mary Cabot had lost contact with her infant daughter Justine. Now a grown woman, Justine accidentally shoots a man who'd impugned the reputation of her mother, whom she's never met. As luck would have it, the presiding judge at Justine's trial is none other than Mary Cabot.
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The Zero Hour
Title: The Zero Hour
Character: Julian Forbes
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.
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Black Eyes
Title: Black Eyes
Character: Ivan Ivanovich Petroff
Released: April 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Ivan Petrov has one weakness in his life, and one love: his little black-eyed daughter, Tania. In fact, his entire career is devoted to her future happiness, though Tania remains ignorant as to his vocation. Done with cool deliberation, Petrov's all-consuming fear is that one day his lovely daughter will discover his true profession, and despise him for it...
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The Gang's All Here
Title: The Gang's All Here
Character: Mike Chadwick
Released: March 4, 1939
Type: Movie
John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company. Aided by his butler, his Cockney assistant and his (initially) unwilling wife, Forrest sets out on the trail of the thieves.
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Disbarred
Title: Disbarred
Character: Tyler Craden
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing to be without an income,is impressed by the way Joan Carroll handled a small-town murder, poses as a real estate agent and offers to get her into a law firm of a friend of his. Placed in the office of Roberts, running a front for Cradon, Joan is taught every trick of the trade. With her cases all prepared for her, she goes from one courtroom victory to another, soon becoming the darling of the underworld and the despair of all law-enforcing authorities.
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Thanks for the Memory
Title: Thanks for the Memory
Character: Gil Morrell
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
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Exposed
Title: Exposed
Character: William Reardon
Released: November 5, 1938
Type: Movie
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.
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I Am the Law
Title: I Am the Law
Character: Eugene Ferguson
Released: August 25, 1938
Type: Movie
With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.
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Housemaster
Title: Housemaster
Character: Charles Donkin
Released: January 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils.
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Star of the Circus
Title: Star of the Circus
Character: Garvin
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
English-language version or remake of the German film, TRUXA (1937).
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The Barrier
Title: The Barrier
Character: Stark
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Gale, a store owner, lives in an Alaskan village with his grown ward, Necia, whom he had rescued years before from her murderer father, Captain Bennett. Now Bennett, disguised as Ben Stark, has arrived in the village seeking vengeance and his daughter.
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Counsel for Crime
Title: Counsel for Crime
Character: William Mellon
Released: October 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Otto Kruger once again plays a dynamic, bombastic attorney in Columbia's Counsel for Crime. Kruger plays William Mellon, a shifty shyster whose underhanded methods loses him the love of his sweetheart Anne (Nana Bryant), who subsequently marries a powerful senator (Thurston Hall). What Mellon doesn't know is that Anne has borne him a son, whom the senator has adopted. Reaching adulthood, Paul (Douglass Montgomery) opts for a legal career himself, taking a clerical job with his own father's firm. In typical "B"-picture, Mellon is charged with murdering one of his more odious clients -- and Paul is appointed prosecuting attorney in the case.
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They Won't Forget
Title: They Won't Forget
Character: Michael Gleason
Released: July 14, 1937
Type: Movie
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.
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Glamorous Night
Title: Glamorous Night
Character: King Stefan
Released: April 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Based on Ivor Novello's hit stage play: an opera singer and her gypsy friends try to rescue their king from the clutches of a would-be dictator.
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Dracula's Daughter
Title: Dracula's Daughter
Character: Dr. Jeffrey Garth
Released: May 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
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Living Dangerously
Title: Living Dangerously
Character: Dr. David Stanley Norton
Released: March 8, 1936
Type: Movie
The dramatic story of a normal, intelligent man of good principles driven to contemplate thoughts of murder.
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Lady of Secrets
Title: Lady of Secrets
Character: David Eastman
Released: February 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.
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Two Sinners
Title: Two Sinners
Character: Henry Vane
Released: September 12, 1935
Type: Movie
An ex-convict gets released after shooting a fellow who made a play for his wife. When he meets Sleeper, his life takes a change for the better, but along with her comes the boisterous little Collins, for whom she is a governess.
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Vanessa: Her Love Story
Title: Vanessa: Her Love Story
Character: Ellis Herries
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
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Chained
Title: Chained
Character: Richard I. Field
Released: August 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.
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Springtime for Henry
Title: Springtime for Henry
Character: Henry Dewlip
Released: August 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A rakish fellow involves himself with a married woman. Later his secretary endeavors to win him away with the promise of a more stable relationship. The rake is tempted, but then decides he prefers the married woman, which is fine with her husband who has an eye for the secretary.
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Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island
Character: Doctor Livesey
Released: August 17, 1934
Type: Movie
In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure.
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Paris Interlude
Title: Paris Interlude
Character: Sam
Released: July 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...
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Men in White
Title: Men in White
Character: Dr. Levine
Released: April 6, 1934
Type: Movie
A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating room more important than attending a cocktail party. He soon drifts into an affair with a pretty nurse who shares his passion for healing.
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The Crime Doctor
Title: The Crime Doctor
Character: Dan Gifford
Released: March 14, 1934
Type: Movie
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder.
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The Women in His Life
Title: The Women in His Life
Character: Kent 'Barry' Barringer
Released: December 8, 1933
Type: Movie
An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.
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Gallant Lady
Title: Gallant Lady
Character: Phillip Lawrence
Released: December 7, 1933
Type: Movie
Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.
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The Prizefighter and the Lady
Title: The Prizefighter and the Lady
Character: Willie Ryan
Released: November 10, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
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Ever in My Heart
Title: Ever in My Heart
Character: Hugo Wilbrandt
Released: October 28, 1933
Type: Movie
World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.
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Beauty for Sale
Title: Beauty for Sale
Character: Mr. Sherwood
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.
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Turn Back the Clock
Title: Turn Back the Clock
Character: Ted Wright
Released: August 25, 1933
Type: Movie
While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made different choices twenty years earlier.
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Mr. Intruder
Title: Mr. Intruder
Released: October 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A magazine editor gets a good story when he comes home to find his wife with his best friend.
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The Home Girl
Title: The Home Girl
Released: December 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A short film featuring the debut of actress Miriam Hopkins.
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Under the Red Robe
Title: Under the Red Robe
Character: Henri de Cocheforet
Released: November 12, 1923
Type: Movie
A young man is tasked by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu to capture one of the cardinal's enemies but falls in love with his target's sister. The film marks the last motion picture appearance by stage actor Robert B. Mantell who plays Cardinal Richelieu and the only silent screen performance of opera singer John Charles Thomas.