Louis Calhern

Louis Calhern

Born: February 18, 1895
Died: May 12, 1956
in Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
Carl Henry Vogt (February 19, 1895 – May 12, 1956), known professionally as Louis Calhern, was an American stage and screen actor. For portraying Oliver Wendell Holmes in the film The Magnificent Yankee (1950), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Calhern began working in silent films for director Lois Weber in the early 1920s; the most notable being The Blot in 1921. A 1921 newspaper article commented, "The new arrival in stardom is Louis Calhern, who, until Miss Weber engaged him to enact the leading male role in What's Worth While?, had been playing leads in the Morosco Stock company of Los Angeles."

In 1923 Calhern left the movies, but would return to the screen eight years later after the advent of sound pictures. He was primarily cast as a character actor in films while he continued to play leading roles on the stage. He reached his peak in the 1950s as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player. Among his many memorable screen roles were Ambassador Trentino in the Marx Brothers classic Duck Soup (1933) and three that he appeared in at MGM in 1950: a singing role as Buffalo Bill in the film version of the musical Annie Get Your Gun, the double-crossing lawyer and sugar-daddy to Marilyn Monroe in John Huston's film noir The Asphalt Jungle, and his Oscar-nominated performance as Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Magnificent Yankee (re-creating his role from the Broadway stage). He was also praised for his portrayal of the title role in the John Houseman production of Julius Caesar (adapted from the Shakespeare play) in 1953, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Calhern also played the role of the devious George Caswell, the manipulative board member of Tredway Corporation in the 1954 production of Executive Suite.

Calhern's other film roles included the grandfather in The Red Pony (1949), adapted from the novel by John Steinbeck and starring Robert Mitchum, and the spy boss of Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock suspense classic Notorious (1946). A performance as Uncle Willie in High Society (1956), a musical remake of The Philadelphia Story, turned out to be his final film.

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Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Title: Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Character: Self (from The Asphalt Jungle [1950]) (archive footage)
Released: April 19, 1986
Type: Movie
Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love goddess. But even though she scaled heights few could even dream of, she was one of the loneliest of stars.
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Title: That's Entertainment, Part II
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 16, 1976
Type: Movie
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
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High Society
Title: High Society
Character: Uncle Willie
Released: July 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Childhood friends Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven got married and quickly divorced. Now Tracy is about to marry again, this time to a shrewd social-climbing businessman. C.K. still loves her. Spy magazine blackmails Tracy's family by threatening to reveal her playboy father's exploits if not allowed to cover the wedding. A remake of the 1940 rom com The Philadelphia Story.
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Forever, Darling
Title: Forever, Darling
Character: Charles Y. Bewell
Released: February 9, 1956
Type: Movie
Susan and Lorenzo have been married for over five years and they are starting to drift apart. So into her life comes an angel, which only Susan can see, to tell her that there will be trouble ahead if they do not work out their problems. Lorenzo is developing insecticide #383 at Finlay Vega Chemical Co. and plans to test it on a camping trip that he takes with Susan, but the trip becomes an obstacle course for him.
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The Prodigal
Title: The Prodigal
Character: Nahreeb
Released: May 6, 1955
Type: Movie
A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the High Priest as well.
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Blackboard Jungle
Title: Blackboard Jungle
Character: Jim Murdock
Released: March 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
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Athena
Title: Athena
Character: Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain
Released: November 4, 1954
Type: Movie
A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.
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Betrayed
Title: Betrayed
Character: Gen. Ten Eyck
Released: September 7, 1954
Type: Movie
Screen superstars Clark Gable ("Gone With The Wind," "It Happened One Night") and sultry bombshell Lana Turner ("Peyton Place," "The Postman Always Rings Twice") team-up in this intriguing WWII drama. Suspected of being a Nazi spy, Dutch-resistance member Turner is given a last chance mission to redeem herself. Gable is an intelligence agent of the exiled Dutch government, who falls in love with her. Co-starring Victor Mature ("My Darling Clementine") and Oscar-nominee Louis Calhern ("The Asphalt Jungle").
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The Student Prince
Title: The Student Prince
Character: King of Karlsberg
Released: June 15, 1954
Type: Movie
A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.
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Men of the Fighting Lady
Title: Men of the Fighting Lady
Character: James A. Michener
Released: May 7, 1954
Type: Movie
A writer visits an aircraft carrier during the Korean war to learn more about it and the way it's run. He also gets to find out more about the Navy and Marine aviators themselves, their internal and external conflicts and dangers of their job.
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Executive Suite
Title: Executive Suite
Character: George Nyle Caswell
Released: April 30, 1954
Type: Movie
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.
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Rhapsody
Title: Rhapsody
Character: Nicholas Durant
Released: April 16, 1954
Type: Movie
A rich, young beauty, Louise Durant, follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he studies violin at the conservatory. A piano student at the conservatory falls madly in love with Louise. The violinist loves his music first and Louise second. The pianist loves Louise first and his music second. Louise must ultimately choose which man she wants.
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Main Street to Broadway
Title: Main Street to Broadway
Character: Self
Released: October 12, 1953
Type: Movie
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
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Latin Lovers
Title: Latin Lovers
Character: Grandfather Eduardo Santos
Released: August 12, 1953
Type: Movie
An heiress searches for true love while vacationing in Brazil.
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Julius Caesar
Title: Julius Caesar
Character: Julius Caesar
Released: June 4, 1953
Type: Movie
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
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Remains to Be Seen
Title: Remains to Be Seen
Character: Benjamin Goodman
Released: May 15, 1953
Type: Movie
A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.
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Confidentially Connie
Title: Confidentially Connie
Character: Opie Bedloe
Released: March 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.
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The Bad and the Beautiful
Title: The Bad and the Beautiful
Character: Georgia Lorrison's Father (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1952
Type: Movie
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
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The Prisoner of Zenda
Title: The Prisoner of Zenda
Character: Col. Zapt
Released: November 4, 1952
Type: Movie
An Englishman vacationing in Ruritania is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king after the monarch is drugged and kidnapped.
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We're Not Married!
Title: We're Not Married!
Character: Freddie Melrose
Released: July 11, 1952
Type: Movie
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.
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Washington Story
Title: Washington Story
Character: Charles W. Birch
Released: July 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A reporter (Patricia Neal) suspects the "nice guy" image of a respected Congressman (Van Johnson) is all a facade and sets out to uncover the truth.
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Invitation
Title: Invitation
Character: Simon Bowker
Released: January 29, 1952
Type: Movie
A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.
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The Man with a Cloak
Title: The Man with a Cloak
Character: Charles Theverner
Released: November 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.
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It's a Big Country
Title: It's a Big Country
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern. Stories are framed by the lecture of a university professor. In one tale a Boston resident becomes angry when the census forgets to record her presence. Another sketch chronicles the achievements of African Americans while still another pays tongue-in-cheek tribute to Texas.
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The Magnificent Yankee
Title: The Magnificent Yankee
Character: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Released: December 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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Two Weeks with Love
Title: Two Weeks with Love
Character: Horatio Robinson
Released: November 10, 1950
Type: Movie
The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez but Patti is at a disadvantage because her parents think she is too young for boys. But with Patti singing at an amateur show and a dance, her adventures in quest of Armendez ends happily.
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Devil's Doorway
Title: Devil's Doorway
Character: Verne Coolan
Released: September 15, 1950
Type: Movie
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
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A Life of Her Own
Title: A Life of Her Own
Character: Jim Leversoe
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.
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Annie Get Your Gun
Title: Annie Get Your Gun
Character: Col. Buffalo Bill Cody
Released: May 17, 1950
Type: Movie
Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
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The Asphalt Jungle
Title: The Asphalt Jungle
Character: Alonzo D. Emmerich
Released: May 12, 1950
Type: Movie
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
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Nancy Goes to Rio
Title: Nancy Goes to Rio
Character: Gregory Elliott
Released: March 10, 1950
Type: Movie
Mother and daughter compete over same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man.
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The Red Danube
Title: The Red Danube
Character: Colonel Piniev
Released: October 14, 1949
Type: Movie
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
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The Red Pony
Title: The Red Pony
Character: Grandfather
Released: March 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Peter Miles stars as Tom Tiflin, the little boy at the heart of this John Steinbeck story set in Salinas Valley. With his incompatible parents -- the city-loving Fred and country-happy Alice -- constantly bickering, Tom looks to cowboy Billy Buck for companionship and paternal love.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Arch of Triumph
Title: Arch of Triumph
Character: Boris Morosov
Released: February 17, 1948
Type: Movie
In the winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally and stalks his old Nazi enemy Haake with murder in mind. One rainy night, Ravic meets Joan Madou, a kept woman cast adrift by her lover's sudden death. Against Ravic's better judgment, they become involved in a doomed affair.
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Notorious
Title: Notorious
Character: Captain Paul Prescott
Released: August 21, 1946
Type: Movie
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
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Up in Arms
Title: Up in Arms
Character: Colonel Ashley
Released: February 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Title: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Character: Don Andre - The Viceroy
Released: February 11, 1944
Type: Movie
A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.
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Nobody's Darling
Title: Nobody's Darling
Character: Curtis Farnsworth
Released: August 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the upcoming school play. But Chuck thinks that she is too untalented and unglamorous to have a part in his production....
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Heaven Can Wait
Title: Heaven Can Wait
Character: Randolph Van Cleve
Released: August 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Title: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Character: Dr. Brockdorf
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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I Take This Woman
Title: I Take This Woman
Character: Dr. Martin Sumner Duveen
Released: February 2, 1940
Type: Movie
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Title: Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Character: Arthur Aldrich
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
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5th Ave Girl
Title: 5th Ave Girl
Character: Dr. Kessler
Released: September 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.
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Juarez
Title: Juarez
Character: LeMarc
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
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Fast Company
Title: Fast Company
Character: Elias Z. 'Eli' Bannerman
Released: July 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
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The Life of Emile Zola
Title: The Life of Emile Zola
Character: Major Dort
Released: September 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.
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Her Husband Lies
Title: Her Husband Lies
Character: Joe Sorrell
Released: March 13, 1937
Type: Movie
J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his beautiful wife Natalie, a nightclub singer who retired when they married. Spade's younger brother "Chick" wires Spade from Seattle that he has quit gambling for a job in real estate and is about to marry a nice girl named Betty. Relieved to find his kid brother is straight, Spade sends him $10,000 cash as a wedding present. When a woman posing as a pregnant wife comes to Spade for a loan, Spade gives it to her. Later, when Steve Burdick, the woman's supposed husband, brags in a bar that he made a fool of Spade, Spade's hit man, Trigger, kills Burdick. Tired of Spade's gambling, Natalie books a return engagement at Cafe Nocturne, telling him that she is a singer rather than a wife now.
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The Gorgeous Hussy
Title: The Gorgeous Hussy
Character: Leroy Sunderland
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several of those politicians and military men who all want to marry her, except for the one with who she is truly in love.
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The Last Days of Pompeii
Title: The Last Days of Pompeii
Character: Prefect Allus Martius
Released: October 18, 1935
Type: Movie
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
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Woman Wanted
Title: Woman Wanted
Character: Smiley
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
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The Arizonian
Title: The Arizonian
Character: Sheriff Jake Mannen
Released: June 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.
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Sweet Adeline
Title: Sweet Adeline
Character: Major Jim Day
Released: December 29, 1934
Type: Movie
In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But Sid frets as Adeline spends increasing amounts of time with the dashing Major Day.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Character: De Villefort Jr.
Released: September 6, 1934
Type: Movie
After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to revenge himself on them.
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The Affairs of Cellini
Title: The Affairs of Cellini
Character: Ottaviano
Released: August 24, 1934
Type: Movie
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
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The Man with Two Faces
Title: The Man with Two Faces
Character: Stanley Vance
Released: August 4, 1934
Type: Movie
Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a theatrical producer she comes home incoherent and Vance is found dead in the vanished producer's hotel suite
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Duck Soup
Title: Duck Soup
Character: Ambassador Trentino
Released: November 12, 1933
Type: Movie
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
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Diplomaniacs
Title: Diplomaniacs
Character: Winkelreid
Released: April 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the Oopadoop nation also enter, hearing the usual barbershop banter about foreign debts, they force them to be ambassadors of their nation at the Peace conference in Geneva. Ammunition industry executive Winkelreid is scheming to prevent their mission becoming an success, but the vamp Dolores aboard the ship fails, falling in love with Nilly, and so does Fifi, the toughest person of the world in Paris, falling for Glub. Although Winkelreid is able to steal their secret papers, Nilly and Glub don't give up after being reminded by constant observation of their Indians and enter the Peace conference, which turns out to be a battlefield...
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The World Gone Mad
Title: The World Gone Mad
Character: Christopher Bruno
Released: April 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.
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Strictly Personal
Title: Strictly Personal
Character: Jack Magruder
Released: March 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.
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The Woman Accused
Title: The Woman Accused
Character: Leo Young
Released: February 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Jeffrey and Glenda are two lovers about to embark on a three-day cruise to nowhere. Their plan is to be married on board by the ship's captain. As Glenda is packing to leave, she receives a threatening phone call from her obsessed, former lover Leo. Glenda confronts Leo and tells him that it's over. Leo, a high-powered attorney calls a hit man to have Jeffrey eliminated. Glenda knocks Leo over the head before he can give the hit man a name. Leo is dead. Glenda sneaks back into her apartment, goes off on the cruise with Jeffrey and pretends that all is swell. Leo's partner, Stephen Bessemer, suspects Glenda and follows her to the ship. Bessemer stages a mock trial aboard the ship and cleverly draws a confession from Glenda. Jeffrey, also an attorney, represents Glenda when she is arrested upon arriving on shore. A skeptical district attorney, and the fact that Jeffrey horsewhips the star witness (the hit man), combine to get Glenda completely off the hook.
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Frisco Jenny
Title: Frisco Jenny
Character: Steve Dutton
Released: January 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the custody of a wealthy married couple. Years later, thanks to the protection of a corrupt politician, she becomes the main "madame" of San Francisco, in addition to participating in various illegal activities.
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Title: 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Character: Joe Finn
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
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Afraid to Talk
Title: Afraid to Talk
Character: Asst. District Attorney John Wade
Released: November 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
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They Call It Sin
Title: They Call It Sin
Character: Ford Humphries
Released: November 5, 1932
Type: Movie
An innocent, young, small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a crush to the big city and is left fending for herself.
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Night After Night
Title: Night After Night
Character: Dick Bolton
Released: October 29, 1932
Type: Movie
A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.
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Okay, America!
Title: Okay, America!
Character: Mileaway Russell
Released: September 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
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Blonde Crazy
Title: Blonde Crazy
Character: 'Dapper Dan' Barker
Released: September 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
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The Road to Singapore
Title: The Road to Singapore
Character: Dr. George March
Released: September 2, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman's life falls to pieces when she's caught cheating on her husband.
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Stolen Heaven
Title: Stolen Heaven
Character: Steve Perry
Released: February 20, 1931
Type: Movie
A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he's been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to work. As the police swarm into the seedy tenement, she decides to help him, and the two form an uneasy alliance culminating in a suicide pact.
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The Last Moment
Title: The Last Moment
Character: Harry Gaines
Released: June 7, 1923
Type: Movie
The Last Moment is a silent film now considered lost.
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The Blot
Title: The Blot
Character: Phil West
Released: September 4, 1921
Type: Movie
Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and plentiful food, while the Griggses have hardly any. When the professor's rich student Phil West falls for beautiful Griggs daughter Amelia and also befriends the poor Reverend Gates (a young man who is also in love with Amelia), he observes the difference in his life and theirs and tries to help make a difference.
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Too Wise Wives
Title: Too Wise Wives
Character: David Graham
Released: May 22, 1921
Type: Movie
An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame.
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What's Worth While?
Title: What's Worth While?
Character: 'Squire' Elton
Released: February 27, 1921
Type: Movie
A rich woman and a poor man fall in love, but they face the opposition of her family.