Brian Donlevy

Brian Donlevy

Born: February 9, 1901
Died: April 6, 1972
in Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland], UK
Brian Donlevy  (February 9, 1901 – April 5, 1972) was an Ulster-born American film actor, noted for playing tough guys from the 1930s to the 1960s. He usually appeared in supporting roles. Among his best known films are Beau Geste (1939) and The Great McGinty (1940). For his role as Sergeant Markoff in Beau Geste he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His obituary in The Times newspaper in the United Kingdom stated that "any consideration of the American 'film noir' of the 1940s would be incomplete without him".

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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Title: Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck.
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Title: James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
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Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Title: Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Character: Professor Bernard Quatermass (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips from Hammer productions and interviews with actors, actresses, directors and producers who worked on these films.
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Title: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Character: (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
Released: May 21, 1982
Type: Movie
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.
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Pit Stop
Title: Pit Stop
Character: Grant Willard
Released: May 14, 1969
Type: Movie
Rick Bowman, a drag racing street punk, comes to the attention of crafty businessman Grant Willard. Willard bails him out of jail and offers him sponsorship as a stock car driver. Bowman accepts and enters the demolition derby-adjacent world of "figure eight" racing. As Bowman moves up in the ranks, his regard for his friends slips-- giving way to outright obsession with becoming the best.
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Arizona Bushwhackers
Title: Arizona Bushwhackers
Character: Mayor Joe Smith
Released: March 1, 1968
Type: Movie
During the Civil War, a Confederate spy takes a job as marshal of a small western town as a cover for his espionage activities. However, he soon finds out that a local businessman is selling weapons to a band of rampaging Indians.
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Rogue's Gallery
Title: Rogue's Gallery
Character: Detective Lee
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A private eye gets in trouble when he tries to help a woman in distress.
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Five Golden Dragons
Title: Five Golden Dragons
Character: Dragon #3
Released: August 3, 1967
Type: Movie
While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden Dragons and the local mobsters.
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Hostile Guns
Title: Hostile Guns
Character: Marshal Willett
Released: July 1, 1967
Type: Movie
US Marshal Gid McCool leads a wagon train of convicted felons to Huntsville prison. The only female among the crooks is the dancehall girl Laura Mannon, McCool's former flame. When McCool cannot be swayed from completing his lawful duty, Laura tries to endear herself to shotgun rider Mike Reno in hopes he will set her free.
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Gammera the Invincible
Title: Gammera the Invincible
Character: Gen. Terry Arnold
Released: December 15, 1966
Type: Movie
An atomic explosion awakens Gammera, a giant fire breathing turtle monster from his millions of years of hibernation.
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Title: Family Affair
Released: September 12, 1966
Type: TV
Family Affair is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do civil engineer and bachelor Bill Davis as he attempted to raise his brother's orphaned children in his luxury New York City apartment. Davis' traditional English gentleman's gentleman, Mr. Giles French, also had adjustments to make as he became saddled with the responsibility of caring for 15-year-old Cissy and the 6-year-old twins, Jody and Buffy. The show ran for 138 episodes. Family Affair was created and produced by Don Fedderson, also known for My Three Sons and The Millionaire.
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Waco
Title: Waco
Character: Ace Ross
Released: September 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Preacher Sam Stone and his new beautiful wife Jill stand by the grave of Sheriff Billy Kelly, who died trying to bring law-and-order to Emporia, Wyoming. Among the mourners are businessman George Gates, mayor Ned West and his daughter Patricia. The mayor rejects Gates' suggestion that he release gunfighter Waco from jail to clean up the town. When Patricia is attacked by a cowboy after leaving her boyfriend Scotty Moore, the mayor finally decides it is time accept the governor;s offer of amnesty for Waco. Jill Stone's first reaction, when learning that Waco has been released, is to leave town before Waco finds out that she, his former fiancée, has married the town preacher while Waco was in jail. Town boss Joe Gore is not overjoyed, either, but Ike and Pete Jenner eagerly await the chance to shoot Waco for the death of their brother. Written by Les Adams
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The Fat Spy
Title: The Fat Spy
Character: George Wellington
Released: May 11, 1966
Type: Movie
A mostly-deserted island, which is believed to be the home to the fountain of youth, is off the coast of Florida. The island gets some visitors in the form of a teenage boy band, "the Wild Ones", and their gang of swimsuit-clad young people, who head there in a crowded powerboat ostensibly for a scavenger hunt.
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How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Title: How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Character: B.D. 'Big Deal' MacPherson
Released: July 14, 1965
Type: Movie
When he's stationed in Tahiti, a sailor hires a witch doctor to keep an eye on his girlfriend.
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Curse of the Fly
Title: Curse of the Fly
Character: Henri Delambre
Released: May 1, 1965
Type: Movie
The son of the inventor of a matter-transporter, which turned him into a monster when he tried to transport himself along with a tiny housefly, continues to pursue his father's experiment, while his own two sons attempt to extricate him, themselves and the family name from further disaster and scandal.
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Title: The Big Parade of Comedy
Character: Kurt Devlynne in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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The Pigeon That Took Rome
Title: The Pigeon That Took Rome
Character: Col. Sherman Harrington
Released: June 19, 1962
Type: Movie
An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results.
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The Errand Boy
Title: The Errand Boy
Character: Tom 'T.P.' Paramutual
Released: November 28, 1961
Type: Movie
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.
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Title: Target: The Corruptors!
Released: September 29, 1961
Type: TV
Target: The Corruptors! is an American crime drama series starring Stephen McNally which aired on ABC from September 29, 1961 to June 8, 1962. The series was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television.
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Girl In Room 13
Title: Girl In Room 13
Character: Steve Marshall
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A letter summons American detective Steve Marshall to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in search of fugitive murderess Louise Dunning. Marshall contacts Louise and learns that she murdered her husband only in self-defense. In the meantime, Marshall is set up as a pawn in a counterfeiting ring (they were the ones who sent him the letter), and unwittingly helps the police capture the criminals. Louise decides to remain in Brazil.
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Never So Few
Title: Never So Few
Character: Gen. Sloan
Released: December 7, 1959
Type: Movie
A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.
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Title: The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Character: John Ridges
Released: September 21, 1959
Type: TV
The DuPont Show with June Allyson is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from September 21, 1959 to April 3, 1961 with rebroadcasts continuing until June 12, 1961. The series was hosted by actress June Allyson.
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Juke Box Rhythm
Title: Juke Box Rhythm
Character: George Manton
Released: August 1, 1959
Type: Movie
An European princess visiting America helps a record producer organize a big concert.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Jed Reston
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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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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Cowboy
Title: Cowboy
Character: Doc Bender, Trailhand
Released: January 23, 1958
Type: Movie
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...
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Escape from Red Rock
Title: Escape from Red Rock
Character: Bronc Grierson
Released: December 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Pursued by a posse, a rancher and a young woman, partners in crime, are chased into Indian country.
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Title: DuPont Show of the Month
Character: Constable Dale
Released: September 29, 1957
Type: TV
DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour anthology drama series hosted by June Allyson, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including Oliver Twist, The Prince and the Pauper, Billy Budd, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: General Roger Brandon
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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Quatermass II
Title: Quatermass II
Character: Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Released: May 24, 1957
Type: Movie
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Fred Childress
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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A Cry in the Night
Title: A Cry in the Night
Character: Ed Bates
Released: August 17, 1956
Type: Movie
A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.
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The Quatermass Xperiment
Title: The Quatermass Xperiment
Character: Bernard Quatermass
Released: August 26, 1955
Type: Movie
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
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The Big Combo
Title: The Big Combo
Character: Joe McClure
Released: February 13, 1955
Type: Movie
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Sam Marvin
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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Woman They Almost Lynched
Title: Woman They Almost Lynched
Character: Charles Quantrill
Released: March 20, 1953
Type: Movie
Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're prepared to hang any troublemaker, Yankee or Confederate, who stirs the townsfolk up.
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Ride the Man Down
Title: Ride the Man Down
Character: Bide Marriner
Released: November 25, 1952
Type: Movie
After Celia's father dies, a war erupts over control of his land.
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Hoodlum Empire
Title: Hoodlum Empire
Character: Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
Released: April 15, 1952
Type: Movie
It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.
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Title: Dangerous Assignment
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: TV
A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star Brian Donlevy originated the role on radio in the '40s.
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Slaughter Trail
Title: Slaughter Trail
Character: Capt. Dempster
Released: October 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Three outlaws rob the stage and then flee. When their horses give out they murder some Indians to get fresh ones. But this puts the Indians on the war path and they have to take refuge in an Army fort to avoid them. The Indians then arrive offering peace if the three men are turned over to them. The fort's commanding Officer wants peace but the rules say the men must be tried in a white man's court leaving the Indians no choice but to attack.
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Fighting Coast Guard
Title: Fighting Coast Guard
Character: Cmdr. McFarland
Released: May 31, 1951
Type: Movie
Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.
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Kansas Raiders
Title: Kansas Raiders
Character: Quantrill
Released: November 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Dan Carmody
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: Daniel J. McGinty
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 Williams
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: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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Shakedown
Title: Shakedown
Character: Nick Palmer
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
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Title: Robert Montgomery Presents
Released: January 30, 1950
Type: TV
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.
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The Lucky Stiff
Title: The Lucky Stiff
Character: John J. Malone
Released: May 26, 1949
Type: Movie
A lawyer spooks gangsters by faking a framed singer's electrocution.
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Impact
Title: Impact
Character: Walter Williams
Released: March 20, 1949
Type: Movie
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
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Command Decision
Title: Command Decision
Character: Brigadier General Clifton I. Garnet
Released: December 23, 1948
Type: Movie
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Jim
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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A Southern Yankee
Title: A Southern Yankee
Character: Kurt Devlynn
Released: August 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union's secret service during the Civil War.
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Killer McCoy
Title: Killer McCoy
Character: Jim Caighn
Released: December 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerful right arm. He becomes successful at boxing, however he has an alcoholic father.
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Heaven Only Knows
Title: Heaven Only Knows
Character: Adam 'Duke' Byron
Released: September 12, 1947
Type: Movie
Also released as Montana Mike, Heaven Only Knows is an offbeat western with fantasy overtones. Hard-bitten gambling boss Brian Donlevy rules his frontier community with brawn and bullets. To his dismay, Donlevy discovers that he has a guardian angel (Robert Cummings), who shows up in the guise of an Eastern tenderfoot. The angel has been sent from Above to save Donlevy's soul, and to that end encourages the one-time villain to squire a minister's daughter (Jorja Curtwright) rather than his usual dance-hall girls. Donlevy is also given tips on winning against his enemies without resorting to gunplay. The gambler finally redeems himself with Heaven by rescuing the angel from a lynch mob (how can you lynch an angel?) Heaven Only Knows deserves an "E" for Effort for bringing a fresh twist to the venerable western genre.
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Kiss of Death
Title: Kiss of Death
Character: Assistant D.A. Louis D'Angelo
Released: August 27, 1947
Type: Movie
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
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The Trouble with Women
Title: The Trouble with Women
Character: Joe McBride
Released: June 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.
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Song of Scheherazade
Title: Song of Scheherazade
Character: Capt. Vladimir Gregorovitch
Released: February 26, 1947
Type: Movie
A beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.
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The Beginning or the End
Title: The Beginning or the End
Character: Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
Released: February 19, 1947
Type: Movie
The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.
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Two Years Before the Mast
Title: Two Years Before the Mast
Character: Richard Henry Dana
Released: November 22, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy).
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Canyon Passage
Title: Canyon Passage
Character: George Camrose
Released: July 17, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
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Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Title: Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Character: Tony Minnetti
Released: June 14, 1946
Type: Movie
Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bootlegger Donlevy who helps them get their boy friends back.
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Character: Trampas
Released: May 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
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Duffy's Tavern
Title: Duffy's Tavern
Character: Brian Donlevy
Released: September 28, 1945
Type: Movie
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.
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An American Romance
Title: An American Romance
Character: Stefan Dubechek aka Steve Dangos
Released: April 16, 1944
Type: Movie
A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.
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Twenty Years After
Title: Twenty Years After
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Title: The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Character: Governor McGinty
Released: December 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
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Stalingrad
Title: Stalingrad
Character: Narrator (English version)
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
Soviet documentary film.
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Hangmen Also Die!
Title: Hangmen Also Die!
Character: Dr. Franticek Svoboda
Released: April 15, 1943
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
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Stand by for Action
Title: Stand by for Action
Character: Lieut. Cmdr. Martin Roberts
Released: December 31, 1942
Type: Movie
U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas.
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Nightmare
Title: Nightmare
Character: Daniel Shane
Released: November 10, 1942
Type: Movie
An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.
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The Glass Key
Title: The Glass Key
Character: Paul Madvig
Released: September 8, 1942
Type: Movie
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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Wake Island
Title: Wake Island
Character: Maj. Geoffrey Caton
Released: August 11, 1942
Type: Movie
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
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A Gentleman After Dark
Title: A Gentleman After Dark
Character: Harry Melton
Released: April 16, 1942
Type: Movie
A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now blackmailing their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.
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The Great Man's Lady
Title: The Great Man's Lady
Character: Steely Edwards
Released: April 15, 1942
Type: Movie
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
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Two Yanks in Trinidad
Title: Two Yanks in Trinidad
Character: Vince Barrows
Released: March 26, 1942
Type: Movie
The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the army, Tim to escape Vince's wrath and Vince to get his lunch-hooks on Tim. Both of our heroes run afoul of Army discipline and protocol in general, and tough top sergeant Valentine (Donald MacBride).
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The Remarkable Andrew
Title: The Remarkable Andrew
Character: General Andrew Jackson
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
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Birth of the Blues
Title: Birth of the Blues
Character: Memphis
Released: November 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
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South of Tahiti
Title: South of Tahiti
Character: Bob
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Three men survive a plane crashes on an uncharted Pacific island, south of Tahiti. One falls in love with the the daughter of the tribe's leader, heiress to the throne after the death of her brother, who is as savage as her pet leopard. The others try to devise a plan to rob the tribe's gold.
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Hold Back the Dawn
Title: Hold Back the Dawn
Character: Movie Actor (uncredited)
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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Billy the Kid
Title: Billy the Kid
Character: Jim Sherwood
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.
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I Wanted Wings
Title: I Wanted Wings
Character: Capt. Mercer
Released: March 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps: a wealthy playboy, a college jock, and an auto mechanic. Love interest is supplied by a female photographer and a sultry blonde.
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Brigham Young
Title: Brigham Young
Character: Angus Duncan
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
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When the Daltons Rode
Title: When the Daltons Rode
Character: Grat Dalton
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
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The Great McGinty
Title: The Great McGinty
Character: Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
Released: August 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
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Destry Rides Again
Title: Destry Rides Again
Character: Kent
Released: November 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job.
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Allegheny Uprising
Title: Allegheny Uprising
Character: Ralph Callendar
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indians who are armed with rifles supplied by white traders.
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Behind Prison Gates
Title: Behind Prison Gates
Character: Agent Norman Craig / Red Murray
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
An agent for the state attorney general poses as a convict to learn about bank loot.
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Beau Geste
Title: Beau Geste
Character: Sergeant Markoff
Released: July 24, 1939
Type: Movie
When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the brothers must fight for their lives as they plot mutiny against tyranny and defend a desert fortress against a brutal enemy.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Sid Campeau
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Jesse James
Title: Jesse James
Character: Barshee
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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Sharpshooters
Title: Sharpshooters
Character: Steve Mitchell
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Ace newsreel cameraman is working in a mythical European country when the king is assassinated. He gets his negatives out of the country and finds the young crown prince who is also in danger.
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We're Going to Be Rich
Title: We're Going to Be Rich
Character: Yankee Gordon
Released: July 3, 1938
Type: Movie
A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally become wealthy.
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Battle Of Broadway
Title: Battle Of Broadway
Character: Chesty Webb
Released: April 22, 1938
Type: Movie
The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son's romance with a showgirl. Director George Marshall's 1938 comedy stars Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Raymond Walburn, Hattie McDaniel, Lynn Bari, Robert Kellard, Jane Darwell, Andrew Tombes, Esther Muir and Frank Moran.
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In Old Chicago
Title: In Old Chicago
Character: Gil Warren
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
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Born Reckless
Title: Born Reckless
Character: Bob Kane
Released: June 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion race-car driver, Bob Kane, joins with his friends Lee and "Dad" Martin in a fight for the street rights of a big city.
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This Is My Affair
Title: This Is My Affair
Character: Batiste Duryea
Released: May 28, 1937
Type: Movie
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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Midnight Taxi
Title: Midnight Taxi
Character: Charles 'Chick' Gardner
Released: April 4, 1937
Type: Movie
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
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Crack-Up
Title: Crack-Up
Character: Ace Martin
Released: December 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.
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36 Hours to Kill
Title: 36 Hours to Kill
Character: Frank Evers
Released: July 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
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High Tension
Title: High Tension
Character: Steve Reardon
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
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Half Angel
Title: Half Angel
Character: Duffy Giles
Released: May 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.
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Human Cargo
Title: Human Cargo
Character: Packy Campbell
Released: May 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.
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13 Hours by Air
Title: 13 Hours by Air
Character: James Evarts
Released: April 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves on the run from the law.
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Strike Me Pink
Title: Strike Me Pink
Character: Vance
Released: January 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
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Another Face
Title: Another Face
Character: Broken Nose Dawson / Spencer Dutro III
Released: December 20, 1935
Type: Movie
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!
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Mary Burns, Fugitive
Title: Mary Burns, Fugitive
Character: Spike
Released: November 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
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Barbary Coast
Title: Barbary Coast
Character: Knuckles Jacoby
Released: October 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Jim Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. She goes after him, Chamalis goes after her with intent to harm Carmichael.
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A Modern Cinderella
Title: A Modern Cinderella
Character: Charlie the Chauffeur
Released: November 5, 1932
Type: Movie
Anita Ragusa, the daughter of a costume company owner, delivers a dress for a costume ball at the last minute. The snobbish customer doesn't like the design at first, but agrees to let Anita model it for her to decide whether to keep it. Charlie, a drunk partygoer, sees Anita in the dress and invites her to attend the festivities. She reluctantly agrees and sings for the other guests.
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Ireno
Title: Ireno
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Singer Irene is in Reno for a divorce, though her friend Bob tries to convince her it's all a mistake. Then husband Cliff shows up.
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Mother's Boy
Title: Mother's Boy
Character: Harry O'Day
Released: July 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Young Irish lad Tommy O'Day lives in a poor section of New York's Lower East Side, and is blessed with a beautiful singing voice. After an argument with his father, who accuses him of stealing the family's life savings, Tommy leaves home and gets a job singing in a cabaret. He is successful and soon lands the lead in a Broadway revue. On opening night, just as he is about to go on stage, he receives word that his mother, who he has not seen since he left home, is dying and wants to see him.
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Two Americans
Title: Two Americans
Character: Unknown
Released: June 22, 1929
Type: Movie
Presents Lincoln's difficulties with Gen. McClellan and Secretary of State Seward, over the selection of a commander of the Army of the Potomac. Lincoln asserts his leadership and appoints Gen. Grant.
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Gentlemen of the Press
Title: Gentlemen of the Press
Character: Kelly - Reporter (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1929
Type: Movie
A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.
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A Man of Quality
Title: A Man of Quality
Character: Richard Courtney
Released: October 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Jack Banning is a motorcycle cop by day and undercover agent by night. Disguising himself as "Strongarm Samson," Banning infiltrates a gang of smugglers headed by Richard Courtney.
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Monsieur Beaucaire
Title: Monsieur Beaucaire
Character: unknown
Released: August 11, 1924
Type: Movie
The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and flees to England when Louis XV insists that the two marry. He goes undercover as Monsieur Beaucaire, the barber of the French Ambassador, and finds that he enjoys the freedom of a commoner’s life. After catching the Duke of Winterset cheating at cards, he forces him to introduce him as a nobleman to Lady Mary, with whom he has become infatuated. When Lady Mary is led to believe that the Duke of Chartres is merely a barber she loses interest in him. She eventually learns that he is a nobleman after all and tries to win him back, but the Duke of Chartres opts to return to France and Princess Henriette who now returns his affection.
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Damaged Hearts
Title: Damaged Hearts
Character: Jim Porter
Released: February 21, 1924
Type: Movie
Orphaned as children, David and his sister are sent to live with separate families, where both are abused, and his sister dies. Filled with hostility, David now an adult, goes on a mission to seek vengeance on the adopting family.
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Jamestown
Title: Jamestown
Character: Minor Role (Uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The founding of the first English colony at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1612 and the many problems that confronted the struggling colonists are depicted.
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The School for Wives
Title: The School for Wives
Character: Ralph
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
School for Wives is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Conway Tearle, Sigrid Holmquist, and Peggy Kelly. It provided an early role for the future star Brian Donlevy. Based on Leonard Merrick's 1907 melodramatic novel The House of Lynch, it was not well-received by critics.