Clarence Muse

Clarence Muse

Born: October 13, 1889
Died: October 13, 1979
in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Clarence Muse (October 14, 1889 – October 13, 1979) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, composer, and lawyer. He was inducted in the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1973. Muse was the first Negro to "star" in a film. He acted for more than sixty years appearing in more than 150 movies.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Alexander and Mary Muse, he studied at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and received an international law degree in 1911. He was acting in New York by the 1920s, during the Harlem Renaissance with two Harlem theatres, Lincoln Players and Lafayette Players.

Muse moved to Chicago for a while, and then moved to Hollywood and performed in Hearts in Dixie (1929), the first all-black movie. For the next fifty years, he worked regularly in minor and major roles. While with the Lafayette Players, Muse worked under the management of producer Robert Levy on productions that helped black actors to gain prominence and respect. In regards to the Lafayette Theatre's staging of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Muse said the play was relevant to black actors and audiences "because, in a way, it was every black man's story. Black men too have been split creatures inhabiting one body.". Muse appeared as an opera singer, minstrel show performer, vaudeville and Broadway actor; he also wrote songs, plays, and sketches. In 1943, he became the first African American Broadway director with Run Little Chillun.

Muse was also the co-writer of several notable songs. In 1931, with Leon René and Otis René, Muse wrote "When It's Sleepy Time Down South", also known as "Sleepy Time Down South". The song was sung by Nina Mae McKinney in the movie Safe in Hell (1931), and later became a signature song of Louis Armstrong.

He was the major star in Broken Earth (1936), which related the story of a black sharecropper whose son miraculously recovers from fever through the father's fervent prayer. Shot on a farm in the South with nonprofessional actors (except for Muse), the film's early scenes focused in a highly realistic manner on the incredible hardship of black farmers, with plowing scenes. In 1938, Muse co-starred with boxer Joe Louis in Spirit of Youth, the fictional story of a champion boxer which featured an all black cast. Muse and Langston Hughes wrote the script for Way Down South (1939).

Muse performed in Broken Strings (1940), as a concert violinist who opposes the desire of his son to play "swing". From 1955-56, Muse was a regular on the weekly TV version of Casablanca, playing Sam the pianist (a part he was under consideration for in the original Warner Brothers film), and in 1959, he played Peter, the Honey Man, in Porgy and Bess.

He appeared on Disney's TV miniseries The Swamp Fox. Other film credits include Buck and the Preacher (1972), The World's Greatest Athlete (1973) and as Gazenga's Assistant, "Snapper" in Car Wash (1976). His last acting role was in The Black Stallion (1979).

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The Black Stallion
Title: The Black Stallion
Character: Snoe
Released: October 13, 1979
Type: Movie
While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.
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Passing Through
Title: Passing Through
Character: Papa Harris
Released: August 6, 1977
Type: Movie
Eddie Warmack, an African American jazz musician, is released from prison for the killing of a white gangster. Not willing to play for the mobsters who control the music industry, including clubs and recording studios, Warmack searches for his mentor and grandfather, the legendary jazz musician Poppa Harris.
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Car Wash
Title: Car Wash
Character: Snapper
Released: October 22, 1976
Type: Movie
This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.
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Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Title: Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
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A Dream for Christmas
Title: A Dream for Christmas
Character: Donald Freeland
Released: December 24, 1973
Type: Movie
A Southern minister is assigned to a poor church in California where the congregation is drifting away and the church itself is scheduled for demolition.
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The World's Greatest Athlete
Title: The World's Greatest Athlete
Character: Gazenga's Assistant
Released: February 14, 1973
Type: Movie
Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he can reverse the school's athletic fortunes. An African vacation with his assistant (Tim Conway) answers Archer's prayers when he spots the athletically gifted Nanu (Jan-Michael Vincent). Sam counts on Nanu's remarkable abilities to put the team back on the winning track. This upbeat farce boasts an impressive cast of comedians.
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Buck and the Preacher
Title: Buck and the Preacher
Character: Cudjo
Released: March 17, 1972
Type: Movie
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
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Porgy and Bess
Title: Porgy and Bess
Character: Peter
Released: June 24, 1959
Type: Movie
Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular characters, crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, and the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
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Jungle Safari
Title: Jungle Safari
Character: Kyba
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Feature version of the 1945 Universal serial, JUNGLE QUEEN.
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Title: The 20th Century Fox Hour
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.
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Title: Casablanca
Released: September 27, 1955
Type: TV
This was the first attempt by Warner Brothers to make the movie classic into a series. It was part of a revolving group of shows that included Kings Row on a show called Warner Brothers Presents.
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She Couldn't Say No
Title: She Couldn't Say No
Character: Diaper Delivery Man
Released: February 15, 1954
Type: Movie
An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.
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The Sun Shines Bright
Title: The Sun Shines Bright
Character: Uncle Zack
Released: May 2, 1953
Type: Movie
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.
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Jamaica Run
Title: Jamaica Run
Character: Mose
Released: April 21, 1953
Type: Movie
Promoter William Montague wants to buy the estate owned by the Daceys, Mrs. Dacey and her daughter Ena and son Todd, in order to build a resort hotel. When they turn him down, he produces a couple of distant relatives, Janice and Robert Clayton, and sets about to prove that the estate rightfully belongs to them. The identity of the rightful heirs is thought to be buried in a sunken ship off of the Jamaican shore and the search begins, led by a schooner skipper, Patrick Fairlie, who is in love with Ena.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Phil
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Caribbean
Title: Caribbean
Character: Quashy
Released: September 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid of Dick Lindsay, to help him invade MacAllister's fortified island. The latter falls in love with MacAllister's daughter,Christine.
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The Las Vegas Story
Title: The Las Vegas Story
Character: Train Porter (uncredited)
Released: January 30, 1952
Type: Movie
When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.
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My Forbidden Past
Title: My Forbidden Past
Character: Pompey
Released: April 25, 1951
Type: Movie
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
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Apache Drums
Title: Apache Drums
Character: Jehu
Released: April 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.
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Katie Did It
Title: Katie Did It
Character: Mose
Released: November 26, 1950
Type: Movie
Katherine Standish, who has been brought up in a strict manner in a prudish New England town, falls in love with a city slicker commercial artist, Peter Van Arden. The romance blossoms until Katie falls victim of some false information, and becomes convinced that Peter is already married and the father of two children.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Albert
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Riding High
Title: Riding High
Character: Whitey
Released: April 12, 1950
Type: Movie
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
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The Great Dan Patch
Title: The Great Dan Patch
Character: Voodoo
Released: July 22, 1949
Type: Movie
David Palmer, a young chemist, returns to his father's Indiana farm, to marry a local school teacher, Ruth Treadwell. David meets again his father's horse-trainer, Ben Lathrop, whose daughter, Cissy, has left high school to help her father. Palmer marries and becomes wealthy through an invention, and is able to indulge his socially-ambitious wife. His father dies and Palmer returns to Indiana, where his interest in harness-racing is rekindled, as is his interest in Cissy Lathrop.
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An Act of Murder
Title: An Act of Murder
Character: Mr. Pope
Released: December 5, 1948
Type: Movie
A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.
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Unconquered
Title: Unconquered
Character: Jason
Released: October 10, 1947
Type: Movie
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.
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Joe Palooka in the Knockout
Title: Joe Palooka in the Knockout
Character: Smoky
Released: September 20, 1947
Type: Movie
The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby Walsh, the manager of Joe Palooka trying to talk his way out of a traffic citation, and the story leading to that point is told in flashback as narrated by Walsh. Heavyweight champion Joe, after knocking out an opponent who later died in his dressing room, feels responsible and threatens to give up boxing. But the dead fighter's fiance thinks he died as the result of a drug that was given to him by a gang of gamblers, who made a rich haul betting on Palooka. Joe, Knobby and the police unite to run down the gamblers, but not before Joe also is nearly murdered by the same means...a poisoned mouthpiece. Elyse Knox is along as Joe's sweetheart Anne Howe, although Anne and Joe had long been married in the comic strip.
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Welcome Stranger
Title: Welcome Stranger
Character: Clarence, Train Waiter (uncredited)
Released: June 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once he meets teacher Trudy Mason, Pearson is delighted to stay. The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancé. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy?
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A Likely Story
Title: A Likely Story
Character: Porter (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1947
Type: Movie
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
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My Favorite Brunette
Title: My Favorite Brunette
Character: Second Man on Death Row (uncredited)
Released: March 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.
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Two Smart People
Title: Two Smart People
Character: Train Porter
Released: June 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Con woman Ricki Woodner and detective Bob Simms follow a prison-bound swindler Ace Connors on his five-day gourmet binge.
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Jungle Terror
Title: Jungle Terror
Character: Lightin'
Released: June 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Re-edited feature film version of the 1937 serial, Jungle Menace.
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Scarlet Street
Title: Scarlet Street
Character: Ben - Bank Janitor (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
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She Wouldn't Say Yes
Title: She Wouldn't Say Yes
Character: Porter (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem, but frowning on the impulsive, as represented by a favorite comic strip called "The Nixie." She bumps into Michael Kent, an officer and the comic strip's author. He likes her instantly and she dislikes him. He's headed to the Pacific, sees her on the train, gets off in Chicago, and with her father's help, pursues her and hatches a plan to marry her. Meanwhile, she has her own plan to get rid of him with the help of a blond patient. Will the Nixie get into her psyche?
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God Is My Co-Pilot
Title: God Is My Co-Pilot
Character: Frank (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into China. In China, he persuades General Chennault to let him fly with the famed Flying Tigers, the heroic band of airmen who'd been fighting the Japanese long before Pearl Harbor. Scott gets his chance to fight, ultimately engaging in combat with the deadly Japanese pilot known as Tokyo Joe.
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Without Love
Title: Without Love
Character: Train Porter
Released: March 22, 1945
Type: Movie
In World War II Washington DC, scientist Pat Jamieson's assistant, Jamie Rowan, enters a loveless marriage with him. Struggles bring them closer together.
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Jungle Queen
Title: Jungle Queen
Character: Kyba
Released: January 22, 1945
Type: Movie
A young girl journeys to Africa to find her father, an explorer who vanished in the jungle.
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San Diego I Love You
Title: San Diego I Love You
Character: Porter (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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In the Meantime, Darling
Title: In the Meantime, Darling
Character: Henry
Released: September 22, 1944
Type: Movie
A young bride who comes from a rich family has a hard time adjusting to life in a boarding house with other soldiers and their wives. Her spoiled ways cause resentment from the other wives and problems with her husband.
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The Soul of a Monster
Title: The Soul of a Monster
Character: Entertainer (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1944
Type: Movie
A man recovers on his death bed after his wife makes a mysterious pact with a strange woman. But is he really alive?
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Double Indemnity
Title: Double Indemnity
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: July 6, 1944
Type: Movie
A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.
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Stars on Parade
Title: Stars on Parade
Character: Carter (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1944
Type: Movie
In this musical showcase, two aspiring stars attempt to wow a pair of talent scouts with their stellar abilities. Songs include "My Heart Isn't in It" (Jack Lawrence), "It's Love, Love, Love" (Mack David, Joan Whitney, Alex Kramer), "When They Ask about You" (Sammy Stept), "Jumpin' at the Jubilee" (Ben Carter, Mayes Marshall), "Taking Care of You" (Lou Brown, Harry Akst), "Where Am I Without You?" (Don Raye, Gene De Paul), "Two Hearts in the Dark" (Dave Franklin), "Somewhere This Side of Heaven," "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel."
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Jam Session
Title: Jam Session
Character: Henry
Released: April 13, 1944
Type: Movie
A young woman from Kansas (Ann Miller) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of a movie career.
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The Racket Man
Title: The Racket Man
Character: George the Butler
Released: January 18, 1944
Type: Movie
A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees to help the FBI break up a black market ring by pretending to have been kicked out of service and to have resumed his old life of crime.
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Over the Wall
Title: Over the Wall
Character: Sam
Released: December 25, 1943
Type: Movie
A prison Chaplain is forced to leave his post for health reasons, but fate provides him with another chance to reform an escaped convict.
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Flesh and Fantasy
Title: Flesh and Fantasy
Character: Jeff (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts murder. The third is about a man who literally meets the girl of his dreams.
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Johnny Come Lately
Title: Johnny Come Lately
Character: Butler
Released: September 3, 1943
Type: Movie
Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilton a standout. Cagney himself, had genuine affection for this film, and listed it among his top five movie-making experiences at a retrospective the year before he died.
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Heaven Can Wait
Title: Heaven Can Wait
Character: Jasper (uncredited)
Released: August 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.
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Honeymoon Lodge
Title: Honeymoon Lodge
Character: Porter
Released: July 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
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The Sky's the Limit
Title: The Sky's the Limit
Character: Colonial Club Doorman (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, pursuing her in the guise of a carefree drifter.
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Title: Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Character: George
Released: March 24, 1943
Type: Movie
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.
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Shadow of a Doubt
Title: Shadow of a Doubt
Character: Pullman Porter
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Just when Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton, is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderful news: Her uncle and namesake, Charlie Oakley, is coming to visit. However, as secrets about him come to the fore, Charlotte’s admiration turns into suspicion.
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The Black Swan
Title: The Black Swan
Character: Margaret's Servant (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1942
Type: Movie
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.
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Strictly in the Groove
Title: Strictly in the Groove
Character: Durham's Valet (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
College student, cattle baron, confused love story.
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The Talk of the Town
Title: The Talk of the Town
Character: Supreme Court Doorkeeper (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1942
Type: Movie
When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson and accidental murder. Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley... which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap.
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Tales of Manhattan
Title: Tales of Manhattan
Character: Grandpa (Robeson sequence)
Released: August 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.
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Tough as They Come
Title: Tough as They Come
Character: Eddie
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and try to stop them.
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Twin Beds
Title: Twin Beds
Character: George
Released: April 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.
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Among the Living
Title: Among the Living
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
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Belle Starr
Title: Belle Starr
Character: Bootblack in Saloon (uncredited)
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation among the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.
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Gentleman from Dixie
Title: Gentleman from Dixie
Character: Jupe
Released: September 2, 1941
Type: Movie
A man is released from prison after serving time for a murder he didn't commit. He goes to live with his brother and his family on their Louisiana ranch, where they're raising horses to compete in an important race.
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The Flame of New Orleans
Title: The Flame of New Orleans
Character: Samuel, Carriage Driver
Released: July 7, 1941
Type: Movie
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
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Kisses for Breakfast
Title: Kisses for Breakfast
Character: Old Jeff
Released: July 5, 1941
Type: Movie
A newlywed develops amnesia and can't remember his wife.
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Love Crazy
Title: Love Crazy
Character: Robert - Hat Check Man at Party
Released: May 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
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Invisible Ghost
Title: Invisible Ghost
Character: Evans the Butler
Released: April 25, 1941
Type: Movie
The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.
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Adam Had Four Sons
Title: Adam Had Four Sons
Character: Sam (uncredited)
Released: March 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie even more. At the same time, Emilie falls in love with Adam. The boys grow up, but Adam insists that Emilie stay on as part of the family. Her relationships with both the boys and Adam become strained after one son marries a gold-digging viper named Hester. Written by Daniel Bubbeo
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Chad Hanna
Title: Chad Hanna
Character: Henry Prince
Released: December 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.
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Murder Over New York
Title: Murder Over New York
Character: Party Server
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
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That Gang of Mine
Title: That Gang of Mine
Character: Ben
Released: September 23, 1940
Type: Movie
A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The man agrees to let the boy ride his horse in a race, but first the gang must get enough money to pay for the race's entry fees.
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Maryland
Title: Maryland
Character: Reverend Bitters
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
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Sporting Blood
Title: Sporting Blood
Character: Jeff
Released: July 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the big race looms nearer, Myles is distracted to discover that he really loves Linda.
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Zanzibar
Title: Zanzibar
Character: Bino
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
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Alice in Movieland
Title: Alice in Movieland
Character: Train Porter
Released: March 3, 1940
Type: Movie
In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment after disappointment, and she needs the unexpected encouragement of her grandmother and an aging, former star whom she meets at a talent night. Finally, she gets a call to be an extra, and she's so hopeful that the regulars decide to make a fool of her. Is this the end of Alice's dream? Not if the porter has anything to say about it.
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Broken Strings
Title: Broken Strings
Character: Arthur Williams
Released: January 1, 1940
Type: Movie
After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing music to classical.
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Way Down South
Title: Way Down South
Character: Uncle Caton
Released: July 21, 1939
Type: Movie
In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.
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Secrets of a Nurse
Title: Secrets of a Nurse
Character: 'Tiger', Lee's Handler
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.
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Prison Train
Title: Prison Train
Character: Train Steward / Sam
Released: October 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Gangsters plan an assassination of a rival while he rides the train carrying him to prison.
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The Toy Wife
Title: The Toy Wife
Character: Brutus
Released: June 10, 1938
Type: Movie
A Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors.
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Spirit of Youth
Title: Spirit of Youth
Character: Frankie Walburn
Released: April 1, 1938
Type: Movie
The story of the rise of boxer Joe Thomas, which paralleled the life of Joe Louis.
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Jungle Menace
Title: Jungle Menace
Character: Lightning
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.
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Deep South
Title: Deep South
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
1937 short film nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Short Subject, Two Reel.
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High Hat
Title: High Hat
Character: Congo MacRosenbloom
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
An opera singer whose career is on the wane finds newfound fame doing popular songs on the radio.
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Mysterious Crossing
Title: Mysterious Crossing
Character: Lincoln
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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Daniel Boone
Title: Daniel Boone
Character: Pompey
Released: October 16, 1936
Type: Movie
In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.
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Spendthrift
Title: Spendthrift
Character: Restaurant Table Captain
Released: July 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the humbled (and impoverished) Fonda finds true love in the arms of Pat Paterson, who cares nothing for material things.
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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
Character: Sam
Released: May 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
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The Broken Earth
Title: The Broken Earth
Character: The Farmer
Released: April 16, 1936
Type: Movie
A farmer and tiller of the soil comes from the fields to find his young son dying. He prays to the Lord to save his only child.
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Laughing Irish Eyes
Title: Laughing Irish Eyes
Character: Deacon
Released: March 4, 1936
Type: Movie
An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.
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Muss 'em Up
Title: Muss 'em Up
Character: William
Released: February 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attractive secretary, Amy Hutchins. Paul admits his dog was shot by extortionists to show they mean business, and shows Tip some threatening notes they sent. That night, Paul's ward, Corinne, is kidnapped by two gangsters and her driver is found dead the next morning. The kidnappers contact Tip demanding $200,000, which is delivered according to instructions. Awaiting the return of Corrine, Tip learns her fiancé, Gene Leland, is an ex-convict, and he also investigates why a thug, Maratti, was found prowling around the grounds, and why Paul's brother-in-law, Jim Glenray, was seen leaving the estate late the night before. And when the chauffeur is murdered with Amy's gun as he was about to confess some complicity, Tip has to piece together various clues to pinpoint the culprits.
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So Red the Rose
Title: So Red the Rose
Character: Cato
Released: December 20, 1935
Type: Movie
During the American Civil War, Valette Bedford waits patiently for her husband Duncan Bedford, to return home, praying that she will not become a widow.
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East of Java
Title: East of Java
Character: First Mate Johnson
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.
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Harmony Lane
Title: Harmony Lane
Character: Old Joe
Released: October 22, 1935
Type: Movie
The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.
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O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Title: O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Character: Jeff
Released: September 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.
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After the Dance
Title: After the Dance
Character: Cook
Released: June 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot, a hostile convict (Jack La Rue) forces Jerry to help him escape, so Jerry takes to the streets himself. Nightclub entertainer Anne Taylor (Nancy Carroll) meets him, and convinces her boss Louis (Arthur Hohl) to hire him as her partner.
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Alias Mary Dow
Title: Alias Mary Dow
Character: 'Rufe'
Released: May 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
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Red Hot Tires
Title: Red Hot Tires
Character: Bud's Truck Partner
Released: February 2, 1935
Type: Movie
An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion.
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Broadway Bill
Title: Broadway Bill
Character: Whitey
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
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Kid Millions
Title: Kid Millions
Character: Native (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
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Black Moon
Title: Black Moon
Character: 'Lunch' McClaren
Released: June 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
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The Personality Kid
Title: The Personality Kid
Character: Shamrock
Released: June 6, 1934
Type: Movie
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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A Very Honorable Guy
Title: A Very Honorable Guy
Character: Black Man
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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Massacre
Title: Massacre
Character: Sam
Released: January 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reservation of his youth, only to discover that his people are dying of various diseases and are being systematically cheated of their possessions and basic rights by crooked Indian agents. He heads to Washington in hopes of righting these wrongs, only to experience prejudice and hatred all along the way.
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Flying Down to Rio
Title: Flying Down to Rio
Character: Caddy in Haiti (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.
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Fury of the Jungle
Title: Fury of the Jungle
Character: Sunrise
Released: October 23, 1933
Type: Movie
Joan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the rapacious Taggart Taggart, however, has been involved with the beautiful native girl Chita. Chita now feels nothing but hatred for Joan, creating a deadly triangle that leads to an explosive ending.
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The Wrecker
Title: The Wrecker
Character: Chauffeur
Released: July 10, 1933
Type: Movie
The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan (Jack Holt). While he's off on another assignment, Regan's wife Mary (Genevieve Tobin) and supposed best friend Cummings (Sidney Blackmer) engage in some heavy petting. About to wash his hands of his faithless wife and his back-stabbing chum, our hero is compelled to save both their lives when they're pinned under the wreckage of a collapsed schoolhouse. George E. Stones supplies some good-natured ethnic humor as Regan's junk-dealer pal Shapiro.
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-12
Title: Hollywood on Parade No. A-12
Character: Self
Released: June 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A Hollywood on Parade short....
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The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Title: The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Character: Masseur
Released: June 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and womanizer behind the scenes. Intoxicated at a party, he punches a reporter who threatens to expose his hypocrisy, and accidentally kills him. Dolan panics and skips town, winding up on a farm that serves as a home for disabled children run by kindhearted Peggy. As the cynical Dolan falls for Peggy, he begins to change his ways.
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The Mind Reader
Title: The Mind Reader
Character: Sam
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Chandler, a con-man, and his helper Frank decide to create a clairvoyant act for the carny circuit, as a little research reveals Ameicans spent $125 million on mind-readers and astrology. The carny, renamed Chandra, falls for one of his marks, Sylvia, but their love is tested when he brings tragedy to other peoples' lives and she asks him to go straight.
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From Hell to Heaven
Title: From Hell to Heaven
Character: Sam
Released: February 24, 1933
Type: Movie
The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in different ways.
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Frisco Jenny
Title: Frisco Jenny
Character: Voice of Singer (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the custody of a wealthy married couple. Years later, thanks to the protection of a corrupt politician, she becomes the main "madame" of San Francisco, in addition to participating in various illegal activities.
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Laughter in Hell
Title: Laughter in Hell
Character: Abraham Jackson
Released: January 12, 1933
Type: Movie
In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
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The Death Kiss
Title: The Death Kiss
Character: Shoeshine Man
Released: December 5, 1932
Type: Movie
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
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If I Had a Million
Title: If I Had a Million
Character: Death Row Singing Prisoner (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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Man Against Woman
Title: Man Against Woman
Character: Smoke Johnson
Released: November 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Johnny McCloud, a tough police inspector given more to fisticuffs than investigating has the hots for torch-singer Lola Parker, but Miss Parker is much taken with a good-looking crook named George Perry. This does not bother McCloud, as he not only gets his man behind bars but takes the man's woman also.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
Title: Washington Merry-Go-Round
Character: Clarence
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
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The Cabin in the Cotton
Title: The Cabin in the Cotton
Character: A Blind Negro
Released: September 26, 1932
Type: Movie
Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.
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Hell's Highway
Title: Hell's Highway
Character: Rascal
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.
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Big City Blues
Title: Big City Blues
Character: Nightclub Singer (uncredited)
Released: September 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
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White Zombie
Title: White Zombie
Character: Coach driver
Released: July 28, 1932
Type: Movie
In Haiti, a wealthy landowner convinces a sorcerer to lure the American woman he has fallen for away from her fiance, only to have the madman decide to keep the woman for himself, as a zombie.
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Winner Take All
Title: Winner Take All
Character: Rosebud, the Trainer
Released: July 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves to return to the ring. Can their romance survive the distance?
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Is My Face Red?
Title: Is My Face Red?
Character: Horatio
Released: June 17, 1932
Type: Movie
William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his showgirl gal-pal, Peggy. Eventually Bill's reckless tattling gets him in deep trouble with friends and enemies, putting his career and life in jeopardy.
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Attorney for the Defense
Title: Attorney for the Defense
Character: Jefferson Q. Leffingwell
Released: May 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.
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Night World
Title: Night World
Character: Tim Washington, the Doorman
Released: May 4, 1932
Type: Movie
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
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Lena Rivers
Title: Lena Rivers
Character: Curfew
Released: March 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Young Lena Rivers, who was born out of wedlock, goes to live with a rich uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle's wife and daughter make no secret of their dislike of Lena and that they don't want her in their family.
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The Wet Parade
Title: The Wet Parade
Character: Taylor Tibbs
Released: March 26, 1932
Type: Movie
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
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The Woman from Monte Carlo
Title: The Woman from Monte Carlo
Character: Tombeau
Released: January 9, 1932
Type: Movie
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party. The strain of command on the older captain and his new, young wife is very great.
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Prestige
Title: Prestige
Character: Nham
Released: December 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.
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X Marks the Spot
Title: X Marks the Spot
Character: Eustace Brown
Released: December 13, 1931
Type: Movie
The story begins in 1923 where after an accident, a newspaper reporter needs to raise $5,000 to pay for an operation, otherwise his young sister will be crippled for life. The desperate reporter is finally able to get the cash from a shady acquaintance, Riggs. Eight years later in New York, circumstances conspire to place the reporter as the number one suspect in the murder of a showgirl. With no witness or alibi, the reporter devises a plan to smoke out the real culprit. A meeting is arranged under the cover of night and to the surprise of both men, the murderer is Riggs. Out of gratitude for past generosity to his sister, the reporter agrees not to expose Riggs, however unwittingly leads the police to him! Riggs is found guilty, and a dramatic scene in the courthouse ensues.
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Safe in Hell
Title: Safe in Hell
Character: Newcastle
Released: December 12, 1931
Type: Movie
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the scum of the earth, Gilda will soon find out that she has found refuge in hell.
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The Secret Witness
Title: The Secret Witness
Character: Jeff - Building Janitor
Released: December 12, 1931
Type: Movie
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder.
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Secret Service
Title: Secret Service
Character: Jonas Polk
Released: November 14, 1931
Type: Movie
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain.
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Huckleberry Finn
Title: Huckleberry Finn
Character: Jim
Released: August 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences like school and shoes, plans to run away. His scapegrace, abusive father intervenes; Tom and black Jim help him escape; and (departing from the novel) all three raft down the Mississippi, where they're joined by two likable rogues and meet pretty orphans Ella and Mary Jane. The latter may change Huck's mind about girls...
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The Fighting Sheriff
Title: The Fighting Sheriff
Character: Curfew
Released: May 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A dying Jack makes Bob and Flash promise not to tell his sister that he was an outlaw. When Bob confronts Flash with his muffler found at the stage holdup, Flash tells Mary that Bob killed her brother. Believing he can now marry Mary, he plans one more robbery. But the jealous Tiana overhears and runs for the Sheriff.
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Dirigible
Title: Dirigible
Character: Clarence
Released: February 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Dirigible commander Jack Braden and Navy pilot 'Frisky' Pierce fight over the glory associated with a successful expedition to the South Pole and the love of beautiful Helen, Frisky's wife. After Braden's dirigible expedition fails, Frisky tries an expedition by plane. Unfortunately he crashes and strands his party at the South Pole. Braden must decide between a risky rescue attempt by dirigible and remaining safely at home with Helen.
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The Last Parade
Title: The Last Parade
Character: Alabam' / Singing Voice of Condemned Man (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1931
Type: Movie
During the war two friends love the same nurse. After the war one becomes a detective, the other a racketeer.
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Derelict
Title: Derelict
Character: Driver (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Two rival seamen fight for both a promotion to a captaincy in their shipping line and the attentions of a Havana saloon singer. Sparks fly as they both try to out do each other in obtaining what they know their opposite is after. In the end they will need to work together in order to save the day.
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Deep South
Title: Deep South
Released: October 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Short subject from Pathe based on the writings of Grantland Rice, primarily remembered for his elegant approach to sportswriting. This was one of the last of the Van Beuren Corporation's "Song Sketches," along with another "The Voice of the Sea."
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Outside the Law
Title: Outside the Law
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: September 18, 1930
Type: Movie
Fingers is planning a half-million-dollar bank robbery in gang boss Cobra Collins' territory. Fingers' moll Connie tries to bluff Cobra into thinking the hit won't be for another week when the call comes through saying it's now.
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Rain or Shine
Title: Rain or Shine
Character: Nero
Released: August 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune back to her ragtag band of ragged shoeleather performers.
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The Thoroughbred
Title: The Thoroughbred
Character: Stablehand
Released: August 9, 1930
Type: Movie
Riley and Donovan, racehorse owners and trainers who have been rivals and enemies for years, seek to befriend Tod Taylor, a jockey, and Ham, a retainer. Tod elects to work for Riley, incurring the enmity of rival jockeys. Riley's daughter, Colleen, sympathizes with Tod and cares for his bruises. Trying to befriend Donovan, Tod wins a match between Riley's colt, Reckless, and Donovan's best horse; and many more victories bolster his confidence. His head is turned by Margie, a come-on girl for Drake, a gambler. She precipitates his dissipation, and Tod is induced to throw the race to avoid a jail sentence.
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Swing High
Title: Swing High
Character: Singer
Released: May 18, 1930
Type: Movie
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, a singing soldier of fortune, sings along with Maryan's act. Ruth, Maryan's partner, quits to get married; and Joe, who is jealous of Garry, replaces her with Trixie, his former assistant. When Garry announces his engagement to Maryan, Trixie persuades him to join a strip poker game in a drunken state and "compromises" him in the presence of his fiancée. Grief-stricken, Maryan falls during her act, and Garry, robbed of circus funds, is arrested. In spite of her injuries, Maryan, learning of Trixie's treachery, performs the act with her and forces a confession by threatening to drop her; Garry is released and is welcomed back to the show.
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Honey
Title: Honey
Character: Black Revivalist
Released: March 29, 1930
Type: Movie
A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.
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A Royal Romance
Title: A Royal Romance
Character: Rusty
Released: March 17, 1930
Type: Movie
A young writer, John Hale, inherits a fortune and moves into an alleged-haunted castle with his servant "Rusty." He discovers the 'hauntee' to be Countess von Baden, hiding in a secret chamber with her son, whom the court has awarded to her divorced husband.
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Guilty?
Title: Guilty?
Character: Jefferson
Released: March 3, 1930
Type: Movie
A Senator, accused of bribery on circumstantial evidence and sent to prison, decides to commit suicide so that his daughter will feel free to marry the son of a judge. A story told through the eyes of ten people, all familiar with the victim and all with varying versions.
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New York Nights
Title: New York Nights
Character: Cabaret Singer (uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1929
Type: Movie
Show girl Jill Deverne is married to song writer Fred Deverne, and everyone is involved in the Broadway night life and endless parties. Jill is being pursued by a gangster, and she leaves her husband after he spends the night with a floozie. Jill ends up as the gangster's moll, but she soon gets tired of the lifestyle.
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Hallelujah
Title: Hallelujah
Character: Church Member (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1929
Type: Movie
A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.
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Election Day
Title: Election Day
Character: Farina's father
Released: January 12, 1929
Type: Movie
This film revolves around Election Day, a day on which Jay R. and Joe are fighting to get votes. They warn the kids that they'll be socked in the jaw if they don't vote for them, but the kids are just trying to go about their business, namely Farina. His mother wants him to deliver laundry to her clients, but he can't go anywhere without being harassed by the gang. To escape them, he dons several costumes including that as an older woman, a dancer, and a scarecrow.
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Hearts in Dixie
Title: Hearts in Dixie
Character: Nappus
Released: January 2, 1929
Type: Movie
Nappus sends his grandson north for schooling to shelter him from their community.
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The Custard Nine
Title: The Custard Nine
Released: November 6, 1921
Type: Movie
Virgil Custard leads Vickburg, Mississippi's black baseball team through assorted farcical adventures.