Hobart Cavanaugh

Hobart Cavanaugh

Born: September 21, 1886
Died: April 27, 1950
in Virginia City, Nevada, USA
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Hobart Cavanaugh (September 22, 1886 – April 26, 1950) was an American character actor in films and on stage.

He was born in Virginia City, Nevada on September 22, 1886. Cavanaugh attended the University of California.

He worked in vaudeville, teaming with Walter Catlett at some point. He appeared in numerous Broadway productions, including the original 1919 musical Irene and the long-running 1948 musical As the Girls Go.

He made his film debut in San Francisco Nights (1928). Over the next few years he established himself as a supporting actor, and although many of his roles were small and received no film credit, he played more substantial roles in films such as I Cover the Waterfront (1933) and Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933). By the mid-1930s, he was appearing in more prestigious productions, such as A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), Captain Blood (1935), Wife vs. Secretary (1936) and A Letter to Three Wives (1949). He continued playing small, often comical roles until the end of his life, mostly as downtrodden or henpecked little men. His last performance was in Stella (1950); he knew he did not have long to live and collapsed twice on set, but was determined to see it through. By the end of his life, he had appeared in more than 180 films.

He died following an operation at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. He was survived by his wife Florence and a daughter.

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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 6, 1975
Type: Movie
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Stella
Title: Stella
Character: Tim Gross
Released: July 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Screwball black comedy about a wacky family that forgets where they've buried a corpse.
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A Letter to Three Wives
Title: A Letter to Three Wives
Character: Mr. Manleigh
Released: January 20, 1949
Type: Movie
A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.
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Up in Central Park
Title: Up in Central Park
Character: Mayor Oakley
Released: July 9, 1948
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.
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Best Man Wins
Title: Best Man Wins
Character: Amos
Released: May 6, 1948
Type: Movie
Jim Smiley has a frog that can jump further than anyone else's frog, and Jim becomes obsessed with entering the frog in all of the local jumping-frog contests, not realizing that his obsession is about to cost him his marriage.
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The Inside Story
Title: The Inside Story
Character: Mr. Mason
Released: March 14, 1948
Type: Movie
A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by mistake and solves a number of financial problems before it is returned.
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My Girl Tisa
Title: My Girl Tisa
Character: Sigmund
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
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Driftwood
Title: Driftwood
Character: Judge Beckett
Released: September 15, 1947
Type: Movie
An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.
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Easy Come, Easy Go
Title: Easy Come, Easy Go
Character: Higgins
Released: March 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
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Doctor Jim
Title: Doctor Jim
Character: Mayor
Released: January 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Dr. Jim Gateson, a country doctor who has counselled and ministered to his community for 30 years, is being honored with a surprise testimonial dinner. The scenario then flashes back through three decades, commencing with the young GP first hanging up his shingle, serving at the front during WWI, home life being disrupted by telephone calls from those in need, and competition from a new medic in town who doesn't make country calls.
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Little Iodine
Title: Little Iodine
Character: Mr. Tremble
Released: October 19, 1946
Type: Movie
Little Iodine does her best to break up the marriage of her parents, ruin a romance and cost her father his job.
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Margie
Title: Margie
Character: Mr. Angus MacDuff
Released: October 15, 1946
Type: Movie
A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.
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Faithful in My Fashion
Title: Faithful in My Fashion
Character: Mr. Wilson
Released: August 21, 1946
Type: Movie
A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge promotion where they used to work together - and has become engaged to another man.
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Black Angel
Title: Black Angel
Character: Jake
Released: August 2, 1946
Type: Movie
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
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The Hoodlum Saint
Title: The Hoodlum Saint
Character: Antique Clock Dealer (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
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The Spider Woman Strikes Back
Title: The Spider Woman Strikes Back
Character: Bill Stapleton
Released: March 22, 1946
Type: Movie
A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant.
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Cinderella Jones
Title: Cinderella Jones
Character: George
Released: March 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
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Don Juan Quilligan
Title: Don Juan Quilligan
Character: Mr. Rostigaff
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.
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I'll Remember April
Title: I'll Remember April
Character: Joe Billings
Released: April 1, 1945
Type: Movie
The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
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Roughly Speaking
Title: Roughly Speaking
Character: The Teacher (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1945
Type: Movie
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
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Guest in the House
Title: Guest in the House
Character: Mr. Blossom
Released: December 8, 1944
Type: Movie
Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother, Douglas, who is happily married to Ann. Evelyn then sets forth to break up the happy marriage and win the love of Douglas.
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Kismet
Title: Kismet
Character: Moolah
Released: October 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
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San Diego I Love You
Title: San Diego I Love You
Character: Mr. McGregor (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1944
Type: Movie
A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
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Louisiana Hayride
Title: Louisiana Hayride
Character: Malcolm Cartwright
Released: July 13, 1944
Type: Movie
A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings.
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What a Woman
Title: What a Woman
Character: Mailman (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1943
Type: Movie
An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.
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Gildersleeve on Broadway
Title: Gildersleeve on Broadway
Character: Homer
Released: October 28, 1943
Type: Movie
On a trip to New York, a small-town blowhard gets caught between a wealthy widow and a gold digger.
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A Scream in the Dark
Title: A Scream in the Dark
Character: Leo Stark
Released: October 15, 1943
Type: Movie
A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella.
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Title: Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Character: Clark
Released: October 1, 1943
Type: Movie
An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometown.
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Dangerous Blondes
Title: Dangerous Blondes
Character: Edward E. 'Pop' Philpot
Released: September 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.
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The Kansan
Title: The Kansan
Character: Josh Hudkins
Released: September 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
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The Man from Down Under
Title: The Man from Down Under
Character: Boots
Released: August 4, 1943
Type: Movie
An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.
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Pilot #5
Title: Pilot #5
Character: Boat Owner
Released: June 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A small group of Allied soldiers and airmen on Java are being bombed by Japanese 'planes daily. With only one working fighter of their own, and five pilots anxious to fly it, the Dutch commander chooses George Collins to fly a mission to drop a 500-lb bomb on the Japanese carrier lying offshore. As the flight progresses, the commander asks the other pilots to tell him about George. They recount his rise from brilliant law student, through the time he became involved in the corrupt machine of his state's Governor, and his attempts to redeem himself, both in his own eyes, and in Fredie, his long-time love.
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Taxi, Mister
Title: Taxi, Mister
Character: Police Fingerprint Man
Released: April 16, 1943
Type: Movie
The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.
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The Human Comedy
Title: The Human Comedy
Character: Drunk at Bar (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
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Whistling in Dixie
Title: Whistling in Dixie
Character: Mr. Panky
Released: December 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Radio sleuth Wally 'The Fox' Benton travels to Georgia with his fiancé Carol to be married; and to help Carol's college chum, Ellamae Downs, solve a mystery involving a murdered man, old Fort Dixon, and buried treasure.
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Stand by for Action
Title: Stand by for Action
Character: Carpenter's Mate 'Chips'
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: Arresting Plainclothesman (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1942
Type: Movie
A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.
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The Magnificent Dope
Title: The Magnificent Dope
Character: Albert Gowdy
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
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Jackass Mail
Title: Jackass Mail
Character: Gospel Jones
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
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Lady in a Jam
Title: Lady in a Jam
Character: Reporter
Released: June 19, 1942
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.
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My Favorite Spy
Title: My Favorite Spy
Character: Jules
Released: June 12, 1942
Type: Movie
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
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Land of the Open Range
Title: Land of the Open Range
Character: Pinky Gardner
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A land owner's will leaves his ranch to anyone who has served at least two years in prison.
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The Remarkable Andrew
Title: The Remarkable Andrew
Character: Teller / Witness
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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A Tragedy at Midnight
Title: A Tragedy at Midnight
Character: Charles Miller
Released: February 2, 1942
Type: Movie
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
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Our Wife
Title: Our Wife
Character: Shipboard Passenger (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1941
Type: Movie
A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
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Down in San Diego
Title: Down in San Diego
Character: Telegraph Clerk (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego, and suspect that a foreign espionage ring is at work trying to find out military secrets.
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Thieves Fall Out
Title: Thieves Fall Out
Character: David Tipton
Released: May 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.
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Reaching for the Sun
Title: Reaching for the Sun
Character: Front Office Man
Released: May 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.
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Horror Island
Title: Horror Island
Character: Professor Jasper Quinley
Released: March 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A down-on-his luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.
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I Wanted Wings
Title: I Wanted Wings
Character: Mickey
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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Santa Fe Trail
Title: Santa Fe Trail
Character: Barber Doyle
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
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The Great Plane Robbery
Title: The Great Plane Robbery
Character: Homer Pringle
Released: December 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the client alive after he is taken hostage by former henchmen.
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Charter Pilot
Title: Charter Pilot
Character: Horace Sturgeon
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.
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Street of Memories
Title: Street of Memories
Character: Mr. Foster
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe Mason suffers from amnesia and is often in trouble. Catherine Foster befriends him and they marry. After a jolt jogs his memory, he remembers that he is the son of a rich businessman from Chicago, but he can't remember anything recent.
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Hired Wife
Title: Hired Wife
Character: William
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.
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Public Deb No. 1
Title: Public Deb No. 1
Character: Mr. Schlitz
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
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Stage to Chino
Title: Stage to Chino
Character: J. Horatio Boggs
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.
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Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
Title: Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
Character: Gimpy Darnell
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him. However, he changes his mind when he falls in love with another woman--but he can't stop the man trying to kill him because he doesn't know who he is.
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You Can't Fool Your Wife
Title: You Can't Fool Your Wife
Character: Potts
Released: May 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.
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An Angel from Texas
Title: An Angel from Texas
Character: Mr. Robelink
Released: April 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
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Shooting High
Title: Shooting High
Character: Clem Perkle
Released: April 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.
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The Ghost Comes Home
Title: The Ghost Comes Home
Character: Ambrose Bundy
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
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Home Movies
Title: Home Movies
Character: Party Guest Wearing Bowtie (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.
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Four Wives
Title: Four Wives
Character: Mr. Jenkins (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
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See Your Doctor
Title: See Your Doctor
Character: Brother-in-Law
Released: December 16, 1939
Type: Movie
A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man has when he seeks treatment at the doctor's office.
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A Child Is Born
Title: A Child Is Born
Character: Mr. Herbert West
Released: December 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
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Reno
Title: Reno
Character: Abe Compass
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
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That's Right - You're Wrong
Title: That's Right - You're Wrong
Character: Dwight Cook
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.
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The Covered Trailer
Title: The Covered Trailer
Character: E. L. Beamish
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil unwittingly sabotages their plans by telling insurance representative Wells that Joe is only forty-four, not forty-five, and is therefore ineligible to collect the annuity insurance that was to pay for the cruise.
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Chicken Wagon Family
Title: Chicken Wagon Family
Character: Henri Fippany
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
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I Stole a Million
Title: I Stole a Million
Character: Jenkins's Assistant
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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Career
Title: Career
Character: Jim Bronson
Released: July 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early friendship falls apart when they woo the same woman.
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The House of Fear
Title: The House of Fear
Character: Minor Role
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
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Daughters Courageous
Title: Daughters Courageous
Character: Tourist (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
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Naughty But Nice
Title: Naughty But Nice
Character: Clark's Piano Tuner (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
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Tell No Tales
Title: Tell No Tales
Character: Charlie Daggett
Released: June 12, 1939
Type: Movie
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
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Rose of Washington Square
Title: Rose of Washington Square
Character: Whitey Boone
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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Zenobia
Title: Zenobia
Character: Mr. Dover
Released: April 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
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The Adventures of Jane Arden
Title: The Adventures of Jane Arden
Character: "Killer"
Released: March 18, 1939
Type: Movie
Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her mission becomes more dangerous when her identity is discovered early on by one of the gang leaders.
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Never Say Die
Title: Never Say Die
Character: Druggist
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?
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How to Sub-Let
Title: How to Sub-Let
Character: Mr. Mustavas
Released: January 29, 1939
Type: Movie
A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.
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Idiot's Delight
Title: Idiot's Delight
Character: Frueheim
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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Cowboy from Brooklyn
Title: Cowboy from Brooklyn
Character: Mr. "Pops" Jordan
Released: July 9, 1938
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
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Carnival Queen
Title: Carnival Queen
Character: Profesor Silva
Released: October 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A young woman not only inherits her late father's estate, she also gets control of a carnival on the edge of bankruptcy in this comedy. Intrigued by carnival life, the woman disguises herself and joins up. She hopes to see how she might save it. She has many adventures and even becomes a magician's assistant.
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Reported Missing
Title: Reported Missing
Character: 'Ab' Steele
Released: August 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed.
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Night Key
Title: Night Key
Character: Petty Louie
Released: April 18, 1937
Type: Movie
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
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The Great O'Malley
Title: The Great O'Malley
Character: Reporter Pinky Holden
Released: February 13, 1937
Type: Movie
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
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Girl Overboard
Title: Girl Overboard
Character: Joseph L. 'Joe' Gray
Released: February 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A beautiful girl on a passenger ship is suspected of murder.
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The Mighty Treve
Title: The Mighty Treve
Character: Mr. Davis
Released: January 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
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Mysterious Crossing
Title: Mysterious Crossing
Character: Ned J. Stebbins
Released: December 27, 1936
Type: Movie
While crossing on the train ferry to New Orleans, roving reporter Addison Francis Murphy borrows money from singing hillbilly "Carolina," then loses it all in a crap game. Outside on deck, Murphy sees two men shaking hands, and after he looks away, hears a splash of water and discovers both men have disappeared...
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Sing Me a Love Song
Title: Sing Me a Love Song
Character: Mr. Barton (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs.
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Three Smart Girls
Title: Three Smart Girls
Character: Wilbur Lamb
Released: December 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The three Craig sisters Penny, Kay, and Joan, go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
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Love Letters of a Star
Title: Love Letters of a Star
Character: Chester Blodgett
Released: November 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to mention yachts and sea planes all wrapped up in an efficient 66 minutes of screen time with Henry Hunter, Polly Rowles and C. Henry Gordon in the leads, and Lewis R. Foster sitting in the director’s chair.
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Here Comes Carter
Title: Here Comes Carter
Character: Mel Winter
Released: October 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
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Cain and Mabel
Title: Cain and Mabel
Character: Milo
Released: September 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.
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Stage Struck
Title: Stage Struck
Character: Wayne
Released: September 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.
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Love Begins at Twenty
Title: Love Begins at Twenty
Character: Jacob 'Jake' Buckley
Released: August 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
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Two Against the World
Title: Two Against the World
Character: Tippy Mantus
Released: July 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
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The Golden Arrow
Title: The Golden Arrow
Character: DeWolfe
Released: May 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.
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Colleen
Title: Colleen
Character: Noggin
Released: March 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
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Wife vs. Secretary
Title: Wife vs. Secretary
Character: Joe Farnsworth
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.
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The Lady Consents
Title: The Lady Consents
Character: Mr. Yardley
Released: February 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized.
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A Dream Comes True
Title: A Dream Comes True
Character: Himself (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1935
Type: Movie
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
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Captain Blood
Title: Captain Blood
Character: Dr. Bronson
Released: December 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
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Dr. Socrates
Title: Dr. Socrates
Character: Stevens
Released: October 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Philostrate
Released: October 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
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I Live for Love
Title: I Live for Love
Character: Townsend
Released: September 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A failed actor finds success as a radio singer.
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Page Miss Glory
Title: Page Miss Glory
Character: Joe Bonner
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
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We're in the Money
Title: We're in the Money
Character: Max
Released: August 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
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Broadway Gondolier
Title: Broadway Gondolier
Character: Music Critic Gilmore
Released: July 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
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Don't Bet on Blondes
Title: Don't Bet on Blondes
Character: Philbert O. Slemp
Released: July 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
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While the Patient Slept
Title: While the Patient Slept
Character: Eustace Federie
Released: March 9, 1935
Type: Movie
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
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Wings in the Dark
Title: Wings in the Dark
Character: Mac
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
In his dedicated pursuit of technology that will aid pilots to safely "fly blind" during adverse conditions, aerial innovator Ken Gordon is literally blinded in an accident, but this setback doesn't deter him from his goal.
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Bordertown
Title: Bordertown
Character: Harry
Released: January 23, 1935
Type: Movie
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
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I Am a Thief
Title: I Am a Thief
Character: Daudet
Released: November 24, 1934
Type: Movie
A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.
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The St. Louis Kid
Title: The St. Louis Kid
Character: Richardson
Released: November 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.
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The Firebird
Title: The Firebird
Character: Emile, Brandt's Valet
Released: November 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Prohibited from seeing her actor sweetheart Herman Brandt by her tyrannical parents, sweet young Vienesse lass Mariette defies authority by regularly visiting Brandt's downstairs apartment. The lovers' signal is a song called "The Firebird," which Brandt sings whenever he wants Mariette to visit him. When the actor is murdered, poor Mariette and her parents are prime suspects. But the truth is a bit more complicated than that, involving as it does a haughty aristocrat, a powerful diplomat and a most unusual "candid camera" device.
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I Sell Anything
Title: I Sell Anything
Character: Stooge
Released: October 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
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Madame du Barry
Title: Madame du Barry
Character: Professor de la Vauguyon
Released: October 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon, former street waif Madame du Barry charms her way into the heart of gouty King Louis XV.
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A Lost Lady
Title: A Lost Lady
Character: Robert
Released: September 29, 1934
Type: Movie
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
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Kansas City Princess
Title: Kansas City Princess
Character: Alderman Sam Warren
Released: September 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
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Housewife
Title: Housewife
Character: George Wilson
Released: August 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.
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The Key
Title: The Key
Character: Homer, Tennant's Aide
Released: June 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
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Now I'll Tell
Title: Now I'll Tell
Character: Freddie Stanton
Released: June 7, 1934
Type: Movie
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.
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A Modern Hero
Title: A Modern Hero
Character: Henry Mueller
Released: April 21, 1934
Type: Movie
A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.
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A Very Honorable Guy
Title: A Very Honorable Guy
Character: Benny
Released: April 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
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Merry Wives of Reno
Title: Merry Wives of Reno
Character: Derwent
Released: April 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
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Harold Teen
Title: Harold Teen
Character: Pop
Released: April 7, 1934
Type: Movie
A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same title. With Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert,Douglass Dumbrille and Patricia Ellis.
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Wonder Bar
Title: Wonder Bar
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
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Jimmy the Gent
Title: Jimmy the Gent
Character: Fake Worthingham
Released: March 9, 1934
Type: Movie
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
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I've Got Your Number
Title: I've Got Your Number
Character: Happy Dooley
Released: February 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
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Fashions of 1934
Title: Fashions of 1934
Character: Inventor on Ship (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
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Mandalay
Title: Mandalay
Character: Purser (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
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Dark Hazard
Title: Dark Hazard
Character: George Mayhew
Released: January 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.
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Hi, Nellie!
Title: Hi, Nellie!
Character: Fullerton
Released: January 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
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Easy to Love
Title: Easy to Love
Character: Hotel desk clerk
Released: January 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.
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Moulin Rouge
Title: Moulin Rouge
Character: Drunk
Released: January 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. However, her husband won't let her. When she hears that a popular French singer named "Raquel" is coming to New York, she decides to go to Raquel with a plan--unbeknownst to her husband, "Raquel" is actually her sister, and her plan is for them to switch places so she can fulfill her dream of going back on the stage. However, things don't go quite as planned.
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Convention City
Title: Convention City
Character: Wendell Orchard
Released: December 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
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Havana Widows
Title: Havana Widows
Character: Mr. Otis, Invincible Insurance
Released: November 18, 1933
Type: Movie
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
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From Headquarters
Title: From Headquarters
Character: Muggs Manton
Released: November 16, 1933
Type: Movie
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
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Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Title: Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Character: Peanuts Dinwiddie
Released: November 2, 1933
Type: Movie
Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?
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My Woman
Title: My Woman
Character: Mr. Miller
Released: October 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
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Too Much Harmony
Title: Too Much Harmony
Character: Piano Tuner
Released: September 23, 1933
Type: Movie
A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."
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Bureau of Missing Persons
Title: Bureau of Missing Persons
Character: Mr. Harris (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1933
Type: Movie
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
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Goodbye Again
Title: Goodbye Again
Character: Mr. Clayton
Released: September 9, 1933
Type: Movie
Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?
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The Devil's Mate
Title: The Devil's Mate
Character: Parkhurst
Released: August 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to find out the identity of the man behind the killings.
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No Marriage Ties
Title: No Marriage Ties
Character: Smith
Released: August 11, 1933
Type: Movie
An unemployed reporter, fired because of his drinking, takes a job at an advertising agency. Drama.
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Headline Shooter
Title: Headline Shooter
Character: Happy
Released: July 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
Title: Mary Stevens, M.D.
Character: Alf Simmons
Released: July 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
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The Mayor of Hell
Title: The Mayor of Hell
Character: Mr. Gorman
Released: June 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
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Private Detective 62
Title: Private Detective 62
Character: Harcourt S. Burns
Released: June 10, 1933
Type: Movie
A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.
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I Cover the Waterfront
Title: I Cover the Waterfront
Character: One Punch McCoy
Released: May 19, 1933
Type: Movie
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
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Picture Snatcher
Title: Picture Snatcher
Character: James Peters - Drunken Reporter (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
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State Fair
Title: State Fair
Character: Professor Fred Coin (Uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1933
Type: Movie
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
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The Wall Street Mystery
Title: The Wall Street Mystery
Character: Martin Hill
Released: November 4, 1931
Type: Movie
When the apparent murder of two stockbrokers are discovered in their Wall Street office. Police Inspector Crane summons forensic expert Dr. Crabtree to the crime scene. A beautiful woman found in the closet, a frightened African-American elevator operator, and a suspicious business associate are among the witnesses questioned.
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The Poor Fish
Title: The Poor Fish
Character: Harry
Released: June 7, 1930
Type: Movie
Harry comes home unexpectedly and overhears his wife calling another man 'sweetheart' on the telephone. It turns out that both men are avid fishermen. They leave, so Daisy calls Mr. Gill at the Aquarium and asks if he likes fish. He doesn't, so she invites him over.
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Sympathy
Title: Sympathy
Character: William Maxwell
Released: August 29, 1929
Type: Movie
Hobart Cavanaugh & Harry Shannon out on a date without their wives.
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San Francisco Nights
Title: San Francisco Nights
Character: Tommie
Released: May 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Young lawyer John Vickery is in love with his wife, but he thinks she is in love with another man...