Robert Taylor

Robert Taylor

Born: August 5, 1911
Died: June 8, 1969
in Filley, Nebraska, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Robert Taylor (born Spangler Arlington Brugh; August 5, 1911 – June 8, 1969) was an American film and television actor who was one of the most popular leading men of his time.

Taylor began his career in films in 1934 when he signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He won his first leading role the following year in Magnificent Obsession. His popularity increased during the late 1930s and 1940s with appearances in A Yank at Oxford (1938), Waterloo Bridge (1940), and Bataan (1943). During World War II, he served in the United States Naval Air Corps, where he worked as a flight instructor and appeared in instructional films. From 1959 to 1962, he starred in the ABC series The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor. In 1966, he took over hosting duties from his friend Ronald Reagan on the series Death Valley Days.

Taylor was married to actress Barbara Stanwyck from 1939 to 1951. He married actress Ursula Thiess in 1954, and they had two children. A chain smoker, Taylor was diagnosed with lung cancer in October 1968. He died of the disease on June 8, 1969 at the age of 57.

Movies for Robert Taylor...

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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Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Title: Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 15, 1991
Type: Movie
Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90), a Hollywood legend.
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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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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Title: Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 10, 1972
Type: Movie
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system.
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Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Title: Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Character: Mr. Farriday: The 'In' Group
Released: April 10, 1968
Type: Movie
Mother Superior of St. Francis Academy is challenged by a modern young nun when they take the girls on a bus trip across the country.
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The Day the Hot Line Got Hot
Title: The Day the Hot Line Got Hot
Character: Anderson
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
The most ultra-secret telephone number of all is that of the "Hot'Line' that links the heads of state of the United States and Moscow. A conniving double agent manages to steal the top secret phone number and then begins to implement chaos by phoning Washington and Moscow, telling the two powers that their respective spy chiefs are traitors. It's spy versus spy, agent versus double agent, counter spy against counter-counter spy in a rapidly increasing international crisis that finds its solution on the stage of Chinese theater in Barcelona, Spain as the spy leaders, the traitorous agent, a beautiful girl, three old ladies, a young man caught up in the chain of events and a troupe of acrobats collide head on in battle.
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Title: Hondo
Released: September 8, 1967
Type: TV
Hondo is a 17-episode Western television series starring Ralph Taeger that aired in the United States on ABC during the 1967 fall season. The series was produced by Batjac Productions, Inc., Fenady Associates, Inc., and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television.
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Hondo and the Apaches
Title: Hondo and the Apaches
Character: Gallagher
Released: September 8, 1967
Type: Movie
Two episodes from the TV series "Hondo" edited together and released as a feature.
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Return of the Gunfighter
Title: Return of the Gunfighter
Character: Ben Wyatt
Released: July 9, 1967
Type: Movie
A gunfighter and a cowboy help a Mexican girl avenge the land-related murder of her parents.
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The Glass Sphinx
Title: The Glass Sphinx
Character: Prof. Karl Nichols
Released: May 31, 1967
Type: Movie
An archaeologist is in danger because of his discoveries.
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Savage Pampas
Title: Savage Pampas
Character: Captain Martín
Released: July 7, 1966
Type: Movie
An army captain in Argentina learns why his lonely men are deserting to an outlaw's gaucho gang.
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Johnny Tiger
Title: Johnny Tiger
Character: George Dean
Released: June 15, 1966
Type: Movie
Teacher George Dean (Robert Taylor) packs up his children to accept a job instructing Native American children on a Seminole reservation in Florida.
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The Night Walker
Title: The Night Walker
Character: Barry Moreland
Released: December 30, 1964
Type: Movie
A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire.
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Title: The Big Parade of Comedy
Character: Raymond Dabney in 'Personal Property' (archive footage)
Released: September 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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A House Is Not a Home
Title: A House Is Not a Home
Character: Frank Costigan
Released: August 12, 1964
Type: Movie
Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.
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Cattle King
Title: Cattle King
Character: Sam Brassfield
Released: July 8, 1963
Type: Movie
A rich landowner of Wyoming fights to prevent the Texas herds from trampling his rich meadows.
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Miracle of the White Stallions
Title: Miracle of the White Stallions
Character: Col. Podhajsky
Released: March 29, 1963
Type: Movie
In WWII Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky must protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions and make sure that they are surrendered into the right hands. But Patton's something of a horse fancier and can help...if he sees the stallions perform.
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Title: The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
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Title: The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self - Co-Host
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: TV
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
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The House of the Seven Hawks
Title: The House of the Seven Hawks
Character: John Nordley
Released: October 29, 1959
Type: Movie
A ship's captain gets mixed up with murder during the hunt for lost Nazi treasure.
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Title: The Detectives
Character: Captain Matt Holbrook
Released: October 16, 1959
Type: TV
The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The series, starring motion picture star Robert Taylor, was produced by Four Star Television.
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Killers of Kilimanjaro
Title: Killers of Kilimanjaro
Character: Robert Adamson
Released: October 1, 1959
Type: Movie
An American engineer reaches Mombasa to finish the works of an African railroad and to find his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared. While the work continues, will have to face several obstacles, especially violent local tribes, Arabs slave traders and wild animals.
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The Hangman
Title: The Hangman
Character: Mackenzie Bovard
Released: June 17, 1959
Type: Movie
A marshal nicknamed "The Hangman" because of his track record in hunting down and capturing wanted criminals traces a robbery suspect to a small town. However, the man is known and liked in the town, and the citizens band together to try to help him avoid capture.
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Party Girl
Title: Party Girl
Character: Tommy Farrell
Released: October 28, 1958
Type: Movie
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
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The Law and Jake Wade
Title: The Law and Jake Wade
Character: Jake Wade
Released: June 6, 1958
Type: Movie
Jake Wade breaks Clint Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it's clear there is some pretty deep hostility between them. They part, and Jake returns to his small-town marshal's job and his fiancée only to find he has been tracked there by Hollister. It seems they were once in a gang together and Jake knows where the proceeds of a bank hold-up are hidden. Hollister and his sidekicks make off into the hills, taking along the trussed-up marshal and his kidnapped bride-to-be to force the lawman to show them where the loot is.
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Saddle the Wind
Title: Saddle the Wind
Character: Steve Sinclair
Released: March 20, 1958
Type: Movie
Steve Sinclair is a world a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives on the scene with his new bride Joan Blake.
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Title: The Thin Man
Released: September 20, 1957
Type: TV
Nick Charles was a private detective who married the wealthy Nora and decided to settle down and leave the good life. Unfortunately for the couple, Nick's past frequently caught up with him and got the couple involved in mystery after mystery. The series was based on the popular MGM series of movies of the 1930's starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk starred as the televison versions of Nick and Nora which ran on NBC for two seasons from 1957-59.
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Tip on a Dead Jockey
Title: Tip on a Dead Jockey
Character: Lloyd Tredman
Released: September 6, 1957
Type: Movie
Broke and about to divorce his wife, a pilot joins a smuggling scheme in postwar Madrid.
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The Power and the Prize
Title: The Power and the Prize
Character: Cliff Barton
Released: September 26, 1956
Type: Movie
An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.
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D-Day the Sixth of June
Title: D-Day the Sixth of June
Character: Capt. Brad Parker
Released: May 29, 1956
Type: Movie
En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.
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The Last Hunt
Title: The Last Hunt
Character: Charlie Gilson
Released: April 30, 1956
Type: Movie
A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.
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Quentin Durward
Title: Quentin Durward
Character: Quentin Durward
Released: September 9, 1955
Type: Movie
During the 15th century reign of France's King Louis XI, a young Scottish man is sent by his English Lord to woo a French lady on his behalf. The plan goes awry when the young man falls in love with her. Based on the classic novel by Sir Walter Scott.
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Many Rivers to Cross
Title: Many Rivers to Cross
Character: Bushrod Gentry
Released: February 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.
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Rogue Cop
Title: Rogue Cop
Character: Det. Sgt. Christopher Kelvaney
Released: September 17, 1954
Type: Movie
A police detective on the take tries to catch his brother's killer.
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Valley of the Kings
Title: Valley of the Kings
Character: Mark Brandon
Released: July 21, 1954
Type: Movie
Hard-boiled archeologist Mark Brandon is searching for ancient tombs in Egypt when he is approached by beautiful Ann Mercedes, who convinces him to help her fulfill her deceased father's life's ambition - to provide solid proof of the biblical Joseph's travels in ancient Egypt. As an ex-pupil of Ann's father, Mark accepts and the two embark on a search for the tomb of the Pharoah Ra Hotep, said to have had some connection with Joseph. The trail to the tomb is fraught with intrigue, betrayal, murder, and the possibility that the tomb itself has been emptied of all its artifacts by ancient looters.
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Knights of the Round Table
Title: Knights of the Round Table
Character: Lancelot
Released: December 22, 1953
Type: Movie
In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere's love, leaving the Round Table without protection.
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All the Brothers Were Valiant
Title: All the Brothers Were Valiant
Character: Joel Shore
Released: November 13, 1953
Type: Movie
In the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls.
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Ride, Vaquero!
Title: Ride, Vaquero!
Character: Rio
Released: July 17, 1953
Type: Movie
Ranchers in New Mexico have to face Indians and bandits.
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I Love Melvin
Title: I Love Melvin
Character: Himself, Cameo Appearance in Judy's Dream
Released: March 20, 1953
Type: Movie
Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk and Melvin soon offers to do a photo spread of her. His boss, however, has no intention of using the photos. Melvin wants to marry Judy, but her father would rather she marry dull and dependable Harry Black. As a last resort, Melvin promises to get Judy's photo on the cover of the next issue of Look, a task easier said than done.
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Above and Beyond
Title: Above and Beyond
Character: Lt. Col Paul W. Tibbets
Released: January 2, 1953
Type: Movie
The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it can do tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll resulting from it will be huge. He is reluctant to be the person who will end so many lives, but as time goes on, the pressure upon him only increase.
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The Hoaxters
Title: The Hoaxters
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: December 5, 1952
Type: Movie
A 1952 American documentary film written by Herman Hoffman, about the threat posed by communism to the American way of life.
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Title: Death Valley Days
Character: Self - Host
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was broadcast on radio until 1945 and continued from 1952 to 1970 as a syndicated television series, with reruns continuing through August 1, 1975. The series was sponsored by the Pacific Coast Borax Company and hosted by Stanley Andrews, Ronald Reagan, Robert Taylor, and Dale Robertson. With the passing of Dale Robertson in 2013, all the former Death Valley Days hosts are now deceased.
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Title: Death Valley Days
Character: Shanghai Kelly
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was broadcast on radio until 1945 and continued from 1952 to 1970 as a syndicated television series, with reruns continuing through August 1, 1975. The series was sponsored by the Pacific Coast Borax Company and hosted by Stanley Andrews, Ronald Reagan, Robert Taylor, and Dale Robertson. With the passing of Dale Robertson in 2013, all the former Death Valley Days hosts are now deceased.
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Ivanhoe
Title: Ivanhoe
Character: Wilfred of Ivanhoe
Released: July 31, 1952
Type: Movie
Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.
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Westward the Women
Title: Westward the Women
Character: Buck Wyatt
Released: December 16, 1951
Type: Movie
There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.
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Quo Vadis
Title: Quo Vadis
Character: Marcus Vinicius
Released: November 8, 1951
Type: Movie
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
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Rome, the Eternal City
Title: Rome, the Eternal City
Character: Self
Released: January 21, 1951
Type: Movie
A Traveltalk style documentary look at Rome.
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Devil's Doorway
Title: Devil's Doorway
Character: Lance Poole
Released: September 15, 1950
Type: Movie
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
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Screen Actors
Title: Screen Actors
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1950
Type: Movie
This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Ambush
Title: Ambush
Character: Ward Kinsman
Released: January 13, 1950
Type: Movie
A Westerner searches for a white woman held by the Apaches.
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Conspirator
Title: Conspirator
Character: Major Michael Curragh
Released: July 28, 1949
Type: Movie
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
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The Bribe
Title: The Bribe
Character: Rigby
Released: February 3, 1949
Type: Movie
United States Federal agent Rigby travels to the Central American island Carlotta to investigate a stolen aircraft engines smuggling racket.
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The Secret Land
Title: The Secret Land
Character: Narrator
Released: October 22, 1948
Type: Movie
This documentary, filmed entirely by military photographers, recounts the U.S. Navy's 1946-47 expedition to Antarctica, known as Operation High Jump. The expedition was under the overall command of Admiral Richard E. Byrd, no stranger to the Antarctic. This was a large undertaking involving 13 ships and over 4000 thousand men. The fleet departed from Norfolk, Virginia traveling through the Panama canal and then southward to their final destination. The trip through the ice pack was fraught with danger and forced the submarine that was part of the fleet to withdraw. The trip was a success meeting all of its scientific goals.
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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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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self (archive footage)
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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High Wall
Title: High Wall
Character: Steven Kenet
Released: December 17, 1947
Type: Movie
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.
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Performers arrive in Hampshire
Title: Performers arrive in Hampshire
Character: Self
Released: December 12, 1947
Type: Movie
Movie stars are interviewed on a boat in 1947 in Hampshire, United Kingdom.
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Undercurrent
Title: Undercurrent
Character: Alan Garroway
Released: November 11, 1946
Type: Movie
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.
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Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 2
Title: Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 2
Character: Lt. Taylor
Released: December 12, 1945
Type: Movie
In this documentary short film for the U.S. Navy, proper spin and stall techniques for pilot trainees are explored. After Cadet McDribble nearly collides with a squadron of Navy planes because he has practiced spins through clouds, Lt. Taylor shows his student the proper way to deliberately stall the aircraft and to recover from spins.
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Primary Flight Training: Before You Fly
Title: Primary Flight Training: Before You Fly
Character: Lt. Taylor
Released: December 12, 1945
Type: Movie
This documentary short film is intended to instruct U.S. Navy pilot trainees in the proper preparation of their airplane and their equipment prior to flight. A chief flight instructor demonstrates the correct method of holding, carrying, and wearing the parachute, but Mac, a trainee who thinks he has all the answers already, fails to pay attention and finds himself in deep trouble. Lt. Taylor, another instructor, shows a more attentive pilot trainee through the process of inspection of the plane and engine. But for every step this trainee learns well, Mac is elsewhere showing what can happen when one doesn't pay attention.
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Primary Flight Training: First Flight, Part 2
Title: Primary Flight Training: First Flight, Part 2
Character: Lt. Taylor
Released: November 16, 1945
Type: Movie
In this continuation of a prior government documentary short film, a pilot trainee continues his first flight instruction. His instructor demonstrates the use of ailerons, elevators, and rudder to control the plane in banks and turns, and illustrates the necessity of using them simultaneously in a coordinated manner. Occasionally, a less attentive pilot, McDribble, is shown failing properly to execute the maneuvers in the prescribed manner.
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Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 1
Title: Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 1
Character: Instructor
Released: October 4, 1945
Type: Movie
In this documentary short film from the U.S. Navy, a naval flight instructor demonstrates to a pair of cadet pilot trainees the proper means of maintaining stable flight without danger of stalling. He explains the principles of lift versus weight, and how the angle of attack determines the speed and attitude necessary to avoid stalling.
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Primary Flight Training: Landings
Title: Primary Flight Training: Landings
Character: Lt. Taylor
Released: April 4, 1945
Type: Movie
In this government documentary short film, a Navy lieutenant explains the proper procedures for standard "stall" landings. Illustrating the nose-up attitude of a proper landing by means of footage of birds landing in a similar attitude, the instructor points out how wind direction is vital to landing decisions. Warnings against both "ballooning" (allowing the nose to come up too high before the plane is close enough to the ground) and "landing into the ground" (allowing the plane to lose lift before it is in the proper three-point landing attitude) follow, as well as instructions for keeping one's attention moving constantly in order to take in all variables.
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Primary Flight Training: Attitudes of Flight: Part 1
Title: Primary Flight Training: Attitudes of Flight: Part 1
Character: Lt. Taylor
Released: March 12, 1945
Type: Movie
This documentary short film is one of a series of U.S. Navy training films instructing new pilots on flight technique. In this, an instructor lectures (with live and animated film footage) pilot trainees on the initial techniques of maintaining proper aircraft attitude while in flight. Straight and level flying, climbing, turning, gliding, and slow flying all require the plane to maintain the correct physical attitude, and proper methods and the possibility of mistakes are demonstrated.
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Primary Flight Instruction: Stearman N2-S Part 1
Title: Primary Flight Instruction: Stearman N2-S Part 1
Character: Lt. Taylor
Released: January 1, 1945
Type: Movie
In this government documentary short film for the U.S. Navy, pilot trainees are instructed in the basics of take-off preparation, including the plane captain's inspection and the checklists of notations from prior flights of the same aircraft. Instructor Lt. Taylor gives one trainee a lesson in the aerodynamics of wing construction and how airflow creates lift on the wings when the engine propels it through the air.
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Primary Flight Training: Taxiing and Take-offs
Title: Primary Flight Training: Taxiing and Take-offs
Character: Instructor
Released: January 1, 1945
Type: Movie
In this government documentary short film, a U.S. Navy flight instructor demonstrates to a young pilot trainee the proper methods for taxiing an aircraft at an airfield. He also illustrates proper take-off procedure and many of the common mistakes made during both these activities. The dangers of getting too close to other planes whose engines are running are also show. A young cadet named McDribble is presented with evidence of his failures to follow procedure and given punishment duty.
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The Fighting Lady
Title: The Fighting Lady
Character: Narrator
Released: December 21, 1944
Type: Movie
Oscar winner William Wyler directed this 1944 "newsdrama," narrated by Lieut. Robert Taylor, USNR (Bataan), and photographed in zones of combat by the U.S. Navy. The film follows one of the many new aircraft carriers built since Pearl Harbor, known as THE FIGHTING LADY in honor of all American carriers, as it goes into action against the Japanese in the Pacific Ocean in 1943. See the ship and its pilots undergo their baptism of fire, attacking the Japanese base on Marcus Island. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.
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Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense
Title: Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense
Character: Lt. Robert Taylor
Released: March 13, 1944
Type: Movie
Two young pilot trainees arrive for primary flight training and meet their instructor, Navy pilot Lt. Taylor. Lt. Taylor talks to the men about the necessity of becoming practiced in the way of the aircraft in such a way as to enable them to rely on their senses much of their time in the air, as reliance on instruments can be confusing for beginning pilots. He explains that, at first, flying will be like walking or riding a bicycle were first learned -- by trial and error and following strict instructions. But with practice, eventually the pilot's senses will take over and much of the process of flying will rely more on his feel for the plane and less on rote following of instructions.
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Song of Russia
Title: Song of Russia
Character: John Meredith
Released: February 10, 1944
Type: Movie
American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova while they travel throughout the country on a 40-city tour. Along the way, they see happy, healthy, smiling, free Soviet citizens, blissfully living the Communist dream. This bliss is destroyed by the German invasion.
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Bataan
Title: Bataan
Character: Sgt. Bill Dane
Released: June 3, 1943
Type: Movie
During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces and allow Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin to rebuild the bridge and advance, the group struggles with not only hunger, sickness and gunfire, but also the knowledge that there is likely no relief on the way.
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The Youngest Profession
Title: The Youngest Profession
Character: Robert Taylor
Released: February 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents to the extent of hiring Dr. Hercules, the strong man from a side show to pay attention to her mother in order to make her father jealous, despite the good advice received from Walter Pidgeon.
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Stand by for Action
Title: Stand by for Action
Character: Lieut. Gregg Masterman
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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Her Cardboard Lover
Title: Her Cardboard Lover
Character: Terry Trindale
Released: July 16, 1942
Type: Movie
A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.
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Johnny Eager
Title: Johnny Eager
Character: Johnny Eager
Released: December 9, 1941
Type: Movie
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
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When Ladies Meet
Title: When Ladies Meet
Character: Jimmy Lee
Released: August 29, 1941
Type: Movie
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.
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Billy the Kid
Title: Billy the Kid
Character: Billy Bonney
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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Flight Command
Title: Flight Command
Character: Ens. Alan Drake
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable to land due to heavy fog. On his first day on the job, his poor shooting skills results in the Hellcats losing an air combat competition. His fellow pilots accept him anyways but they think he's crossed the line when they erroneously conclude that while their CO Billy Gray is away, Drake has an affair with his wife Lorna. Drake is now an outcast and is prepared to resign from the Navy but his extreme heroism in saving Billy Gray's life turns things around.
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Escape
Title: Escape
Character: Mark Preysing
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Title: A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Character: Self
Released: October 24, 1940
Type: Movie
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created.
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Trifles of Importance
Title: Trifles of Importance
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Part of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series, this short shows how three seemingly unimportant things can affect people. The first is how the number 7 affects a student accused of theft charges. The second segment shows that a person's doodles can reveal personality traits. The final segment shows why certain items are on men's suits, such as lapels.
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Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Title: Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Character: Self
Released: May 29, 1940
Type: Movie
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.
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Waterloo Bridge
Title: Waterloo Bridge
Character: Roy Cronin
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate.
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Remember?
Title: Remember?
Character: Jeff Holland
Released: December 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff's work puts a strain on the marriage and a divorce is planned. Sky uses an experimental memory loss drug to make Linda and Jeff forget their rough times (and the fact that they were married) and they fall in love all over again.
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Lady of the Tropics
Title: Lady of the Tropics
Character: William 'Bill' Carey
Released: August 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
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From the Ends of the Earth
Title: From the Ends of the Earth
Character: Self
Released: May 28, 1939
Type: Movie
An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at the time. Such as The Women, Thunder Afloat, Siren of the Tropics, Ninotchka, Northwest Passage, and At the Circus.
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Lucky Night
Title: Lucky Night
Character: Bill Overton
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.
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Stand Up and Fight
Title: Stand Up and Fight
Character: Blake Cantrell
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
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The Crowd Roars
Title: The Crowd Roars
Character: 'Killer' McCoy
Released: August 6, 1938
Type: Movie
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.
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Hollywood Goes to Town
Title: Hollywood Goes to Town
Character: Self
Released: July 7, 1938
Type: Movie
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre. We see the street leading to the theatre transformed to suggest a garden that might be seen in a French palace. This includes the placement of trees and other foliage, as well as large statues along the route. Grandstands are set up so fans can see their favorite stars as they arrive for the premiere. Finally, the proverbial "galaxy of stars" arrives in their limousines. Fanny Brice and Pete Smith make remarks at the microphone set up on the carpet outside the theatre.
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Three Comrades
Title: Three Comrades
Character: Erich Lohkamp
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.
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A Yank at Oxford
Title: A Yank at Oxford
Character: Lee Sheridan
Released: February 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
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The Romance of Celluloid
Title: The Romance of Celluloid
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are presented. They include: the production of celluloid aka film stock, the materials used in the production of which include cotton and silver; construction crews who build sets including those to look like cities, towns and villages around the world; a visit with Jack Dawn who demonstrates the process of creating a makeup design; the screen testing process, where many an acting hopeful gets his/her start; the work of the candid camera man, the prying eyes behind the movie camera; a visit with Adrian, who designs the clothes worn by many of the stars on screen; and a visit with Herbert Stothart as he conducts his musical score for Conquest (1937). These behind the scenes looks provide the opportunity to get acquainted with the cavalcade of MGM stars and their productions that will grace the silver screen in the 1937/38 movie season.
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Broadway Melody of 1938
Title: Broadway Melody of 1938
Character: Steve Raleigh
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse, she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with to ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.
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This Is My Affair
Title: This Is My Affair
Character: Lt. Richard L. Perry
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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Personal Property
Title: Personal Property
Character: Raymond Dabney
Released: March 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without knowing she is engaged to his brother.
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Camille
Title: Camille
Character: Armand Duval
Released: December 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.
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The Gorgeous Hussy
Title: The Gorgeous Hussy
Character: 'Bow' Timberlake
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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His Brother's Wife
Title: His Brother's Wife
Character: Chris Claybourne
Released: August 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Epidemiologist Cliff Claybourne falls in love with Rita Wilson in a gambling house. They want to marry but Cliff's brother is convinced Rita is no good and forces Cliff to fulfill his agreement to do research in Africa in exchange for paying gambling debt. Rita, Cliff and brother are furious with each other, but Rita and Cliff are still in love.
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Private Number
Title: Private Number
Character: Richard Winfield
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler also has an infatuation for the young girl but his intentions are not that good.
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Small Town Girl
Title: Small Town Girl
Character: Dr. Robert 'Bob' Dakin
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
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Magnificent Obsession
Title: Magnificent Obsession
Character: Dr. Robert Merrick
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Title: La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 1935
Type: Movie
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Color). It features a young, pre-stardom 13-year-old Judy Garland singing "La Cucaracha" with her two sisters (billed as "The Garland Sisters"). In the film, Hollywood stars participate in a Mexican-themed revue and festival in Santa Barbara. Andy Devine, the "World's Greatest Matador," engages in a bullfight with a dubious bovine supplied by Buster Keaton, and musical numbers are provided by Joe Morrison and The Garland Sisters. Comedy bits and dance numbers are also featured.
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Broadway Melody of 1936
Title: Broadway Melody of 1936
Character: Robert Gordon
Released: September 18, 1935
Type: Movie
Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon will recognize her--and her talent. Gordon is too busy sparring with a dirt-dishing gossip columnist to notice, but his wisecracking, heart-of-gold secretary certainly does. She and Irene must use their wits to show him what he's missing!
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Murder in the Fleet
Title: Murder in the Fleet
Character: Lieutenant Tom Randolph
Released: May 24, 1935
Type: Movie
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.
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West Point of the Air
Title: West Point of the Air
Character: 'Jasky' Jaskarelli
Released: March 23, 1935
Type: Movie
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
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Times Square Lady
Title: Times Square Lady
Character: Steve Gordon
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir and seize control.
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Society Doctor
Title: Society Doctor
Character: Dr. Ellis
Released: January 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their rivalry in the operating room.
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Buried Loot
Title: Buried Loot
Character: Albert 'Al' Douglas (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1935
Type: Movie
An embezzler who expects to serve his time in prison and then pick up his buried loot is in for a surprise.
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A Wicked Woman
Title: A Wicked Woman
Character: Bill Renton
Released: December 7, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.
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There's Always Tomorrow
Title: There's Always Tomorrow
Character: Arthur White
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee.
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The Spectacle Maker
Title: The Spectacle Maker
Character: The Duchess's Paramour
Released: September 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious Technicolor.
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Handy Andy
Title: Handy Andy
Character: Lloyd Burmeister
Released: July 19, 1934
Type: Movie
A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national chain. In addition, she tries to set up her pretty young daughter with the nitwit son of the chain's owner, even though the girl is in love with the handsome son of the town doctor. Finally the druggist decides he's had enough and takes matters into his own hands.
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Film Stars Help Greece
Title: Film Stars Help Greece
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Hollywood holds a star-studded event, all proceeds went to Greece.