Leon Belasco

Leon Belasco

Born: October 11, 1902
Died: June 1, 1988
in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
Leon Belasco (born Leonid Simeonovich Berladsky; 11 October 1902 - 1 June 1988) was a Russian-American musician and actor.

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Woman of the Year
Title: Woman of the Year
Character: Dimitri Subakov
Released: July 28, 1976
Type: Movie
The story of the tumultuous marriage of a gruff sportswriter and a sophisticated international reporter who work together on the same newspaper.
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Superdad
Title: Superdad
Character: Limousine Driver
Released: December 14, 1973
Type: Movie
A dad tries to impress the daughter -- a soon-to-be college student he thinks is hanging around with a bad crowd.
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Playmates
Title: Playmates
Character: Man at Concert
Released: October 3, 1972
Type: Movie
Two divorced men meet and become friends, but unbeknownst to each other, start dating each other's ex-wives.
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The Art of Love
Title: The Art of Love
Character: Prince
Released: June 30, 1965
Type: Movie
Struggling artist fakes his own death so his works will increase in value.
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Title: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Character: Maxim Radish
Released: September 22, 1964
Type: TV
Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the auspices of the U.N. Their immediate superior is Mr. Waverly. Together they operate out of a secret base beneath the streets of New York City, and accesses through several cover business such as Del Floria's Tailor Shop and the Masque Club. This secret intelligence service is called U.N.C.L.E. United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.
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Title: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Character: Rozzi
Released: October 4, 1963
Type: TV
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
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Title: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Character: Thin Russian
Released: October 4, 1963
Type: TV
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
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Title: The Lucy Show
Character: Concert Master
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.
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Title: The Lucy Show
Character: Violinist
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.
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Title: The Lucy Show
Character: Maitre D'
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.
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Title: The Beverly Hillbillies
Character: Victor Gregory
Released: September 26, 1962
Type: TV
Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
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Can-Can
Title: Can-Can
Character: Arturo
Released: March 9, 1960
Type: Movie
Parisian nightclub owner Simone Pistache is known for her performances of the can-can, which attracts the ire of the self-righteous Judge Philipe Forrestier. He hatches a plot to photograph her in the act but ends up falling for her — much to the chagrin of her boyfriend, lawyer François Durnais.
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Jalopy
Title: Jalopy
Character: The Professor
Released: February 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Slip has entered the Boys' rattletrap car in a souped-up jalopy race, but has no chance of winning until Satch, with the aid of a scientist acquaintance, comes up with a chemical concoction that acts as a super-fuel; but a rival entrant in the race learns of this and tries to get the formula for himself.
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Gobs and Gals
Title: Gobs and Gals
Character: Peter
Released: May 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Two sailors (Robert Hutton) mail love letters from a remote weather station, enclosing photos of their chief (Cathy Downs).
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The Fabulous Senorita
Title: The Fabulous Senorita
Character: Señor Gonzales
Released: March 31, 1952
Type: Movie
A Cuban businessman's daughter elopes with a professor instead of marrying a banker's son.
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Title: I Love Lucy
Character: Clerk
Released: October 15, 1951
Type: TV
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
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Cuban Fireball
Title: Cuban Fireball
Character: Hunyabi
Released: March 5, 1951
Type: Movie
Cuban Fireball is a vehicle for the combustible talents of Estelita Rodriguez, here cast as "herself." The plot finds Estelita arriving in Los Angeles to claim a multimillion-dollar inheritance. To fend off fortune hunters, she disguises herself as a meek little old lady.
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Bomba and the Hidden City
Title: Bomba and the Hidden City
Character: Raschid
Released: September 24, 1950
Type: Movie
A nature photographer and his guide meet a corrupt emir with a dirty secret. Only jungle-dwelling Bomba knows the truth.
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Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
Title: Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
Character: Hassam--Auctioneer
Released: August 5, 1950
Type: Movie
Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid.
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The Flame and the Arrow
Title: The Flame and the Arrow
Character: Arturo of Milan / Players' Impressario / Court Announcer (uncredited)
Released: July 7, 1950
Type: Movie
Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.
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Love That Brute
Title: Love That Brute
Character: François Ducray aka Frenchy
Released: June 6, 1950
Type: Movie
The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.
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Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Title: Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Character: Beauty Salon Manager (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1950
Type: Movie
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.
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Bagdad
Title: Bagdad
Character: Beggar
Released: November 23, 1949
Type: Movie
An Arab sheik's daughter (Maureen O'Hara) avenges his death, blamed on Hassan (Paul Christian) and his Black Riders.
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Everybody Does It
Title: Everybody Does It
Character: Hugo
Released: October 24, 1949
Type: Movie
Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her. While organising a concert for her he meets glamorous Cecil Carver. She in turn discovers Leonard has a splendid voice, and encourages him to use it for reasons very much her own.
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Love Happy
Title: Love Happy
Character: Mr. Lyons
Released: October 12, 1949
Type: Movie
The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds.
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Every Girl Should Be Married
Title: Every Girl Should Be Married
Character: Violinist
Released: December 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an elaborate scheme to trap him into marriage
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For the Love of Mary
Title: For the Love of Mary
Character: Igor
Released: September 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
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I, Jane Doe
Title: I, Jane Doe
Character: Duroc
Released: May 25, 1948
Type: Movie
While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.
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Three Daring Daughters
Title: Three Daring Daughters
Character: Ship Bandleader (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Title: It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Character: Musician (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1947
Type: Movie
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
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Philo Vance Returns
Title: Philo Vance Returns
Character: Alexis Karnoff
Released: April 14, 1947
Type: Movie
Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend, Philo Vance, to help find the killer.
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Little Iodine
Title: Little Iodine
Character: Simkins
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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Suspense
Title: Suspense
Character: Pierre Yasha
Released: June 15, 1946
Type: Movie
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate...
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Swing Parade of 1946
Title: Swing Parade of 1946
Character: Pete
Released: March 19, 1946
Type: Movie
A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down.
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Yolanda and the Thief
Title: Yolanda and the Thief
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: November 22, 1945
Type: Movie
Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing her tangled business affairs. Riggs decides to materialize as the girl's "angel", gains her unquestioning confidence, and helps himself to the deluded girl's millions. Just as he and his partner are about to flee Patria with their booty, Riggs realizes he has fallen in love with the girl and returns the money, together with a note that is part confession and part love letter. But the larcenous duo's escape from Patria turns out to be more difficult than they could ever have imagined.
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Easy to Look At
Title: Easy to Look At
Character: Phillipe
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
In this musical, a talented aspiring costume designer leaves her small town to seek her fortune in the Big Apple. The girl, who is also a singer, soon begins establishing herself in the fashion industry, but when a rival accuses her of stealing a pattern, her career is nearly destroyed. Fortunately, a handsome, romantic hero is around to help her clear her name. Songs include: "Come Along My Heart", "That does It", "Swing Low Sweet Lariat" and "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?".
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Hollywood and Vine
Title: Hollywood and Vine
Character: Cedric Borris
Released: April 25, 1945
Type: Movie
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star.
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Earl Carroll Vanities
Title: Earl Carroll Vanities
Character: Baron Dashek
Released: April 5, 1945
Type: Movie
Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual "Vanities" provided story material for three Hollywood films: Murder at the Vanities (34), A Night at Earl Carroll's (40) and Earl Carroll Vanities (45). This last film was produced by Republic Pictures, a bread-and-butter studio specializing in Westerns and serials; Republic had made musicals before, but few of them were expensive enough to allow for lavish production numbers. Earl Carroll Vanities is likewise rather threadbare, though some of the individual musical highlights aren't bad. The plot, such as it is, concerns financially strapped nightclub owner Eve Arden, who finagles Earl Carroll into staging one of his revues at her club.
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Storm Over Lisbon
Title: Storm Over Lisbon
Character: Fado Singer
Released: October 16, 1944
Type: Movie
A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman.
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The Gang's All Here
Title: The Gang's All Here
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
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Casablanca
Title: Casablanca
Character: Dealer at Rick's (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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That Other Woman
Title: That Other Woman
Character: Hotel Waiter
Released: November 13, 1942
Type: Movie
A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her which backfires after some bad advice.
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Road to Morocco
Title: Road to Morocco
Character: Yusef (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
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The Mummy's Tomb
Title: The Mummy's Tomb
Character: Ali (archive footage / uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
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Henry Aldrich, Editor
Title: Henry Aldrich, Editor
Character: Leon Brink
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of mysterious fires. A mild, timid little fellow named Nero Smith shows up to tip off Henry as to the time and place of the next conflagration. Henry prints the story-and is immediately accused of being the firebug himself!
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Holiday Inn
Title: Holiday Inn
Character: Flower Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: July 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and his manager.
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Night in New Orleans
Title: Night in New Orleans
Character: Waiter in Tavern (Uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
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Kid Glove Killer
Title: Kid Glove Killer
Character: Chris Spyro - Cook (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.
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The Night Before the Divorce
Title: The Night Before the Divorce
Character: Leo
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Marital comedy with a dash of murder.
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Roxie Hart
Title: Roxie Hart
Character: The Ritz Waiter (uncredited)
Released: February 20, 1942
Type: Movie
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.
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Over My Dead Body
Title: Over My Dead Body
Character: Pierre
Released: January 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.
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Design for Scandal
Title: Design for Scandal
Character: Alexander Raoul
Released: December 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
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The Night of January 16th
Title: The Night of January 16th
Character: Flight Steward (uncredited)
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial.
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Niagara Falls
Title: Niagara Falls
Character: Head Waiter
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
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Nothing But the Truth
Title: Nothing But the Truth
Character: Dr. Zarak
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Gwen Saunders teams up with her uncle's employee, Steve Bennett, in an attempt to double her $10,000 investment in the family firm. If she can reach the $20,000 mark, her uncle, T.T. Ralston, will match the figure. Steve bets that if he can spend an entire day without telling a lie, Ralston and his business partners must double Gwen's money. Bennett then earns the enmity of everyone involved in his attempt to win the bet.
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Hold Back the Dawn
Title: Hold Back the Dawn
Character: Mr. Spitzer (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
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They Dare Not Love
Title: They Dare Not Love
Character: Pierre
Released: May 16, 1941
Type: Movie
An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes him realize his mistake in leaving. He makes a deal with the Nazis to return in exchange for some Austrian prisoners, but discovers that the Nazis are not to be trusted.
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I'll Wait for You
Title: I'll Wait for You
Character: Mr. Lapagos, the Tailor
Released: May 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
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Abdul the Bulbul Ameer
Title: Abdul the Bulbul Ameer
Character: Ivan Stravinsky / Ivan's Attache (voice)
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
The familiar song is adapted into a cartoon short. Abdul The Bulbul-Ameer, a rotund Arab, gets into a brawl with Ivan Skavinski Scavar, a preening Russian Cossack, over an offense to Abdul's pride. Groucho Marx and a newsreel crew provide running commentary as the pair pummel each other and the surrounding square.
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Tall, Dark and Handsome
Title: Tall, Dark and Handsome
Character: Alfredo Herrera
Released: January 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
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Where Did You Get That Girl?
Title: Where Did You Get That Girl?
Character: Hayden
Released: January 3, 1941
Type: Movie
In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording contract. The trouble is, the composer's works are never played without another band member doctoring them up to make them swingier. Fortunately, the composer isn't too averse to the changes as he has just won the heart of the beauty who sings his revamped songs.
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Comrade X
Title: Comrade X
Character: Comrade Baronoff
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
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Spring Parade
Title: Spring Parade
Character: Violinist Orchestra Leader
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
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The Mummy's Hand
Title: The Mummy's Hand
Character: Ali
Released: September 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful daughter, they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest and the living mummy Kharis who are the guardians of Ananka’s tomb.
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The Lady in Question
Title: The Lady in Question
Character: Barber (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
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Lucky Partners
Title: Lucky Partners
Character: Nick #1
Released: August 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
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My Favorite Wife
Title: My Favorite Wife
Character: Waiter - Pacific Club Poolside (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on an island with another man.
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It's a Date
Title: It's a Date
Character: Captain of Waiters (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.
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I Take This Woman
Title: I Take This Woman
Character: Pancho (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1940
Type: Movie
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
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Legion of Lost Flyers
Title: Legion of Lost Flyers
Character: 'Frenchy' Rogian
Released: November 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of pilots, because of unsavory or unearned reputations, establish an outpost squadron of their own, led by "Loop" Gillian, running charter-flights and hauling supplies in the frozen wastelands of Alaska. The operation does not go without misadventures, foul-ups, and a bit of treachery tossed in.
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On Your Toes
Title: On Your Toes
Character: Mishka - Slave in Ballet
Released: October 14, 1939
Type: Movie
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
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Lady of the Tropics
Title: Lady of the Tropics
Character: Assistant to Manager
Released: August 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
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Man About Town
Title: Man About Town
Character: Arab Petitioner in Show (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.
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Good Girls Go to Paris
Title: Good Girls Go to Paris
Character: Nightclub Violinist (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
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The Flying Irishman
Title: The Flying Irishman
Character: Russian Commentator
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
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Broadway Serenade
Title: Broadway Serenade
Character: 'Squeaker'
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
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Beauty for the Asking
Title: Beauty for the Asking
Character: Beauty Shop Owner (uncredited)
Released: February 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Denny breaks up with his fiancée Jean to marries wealthy Flora. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented. After sending it to twelve rich woman, only Flora decides to invest in the business. As Denny has no job, the girls give him an office at the factory. The business takes off, but Jean finds that she is still in love with Denny and Denny seems to forget he is married to Flora.
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Fisherman's Wharf
Title: Fisherman's Wharf
Character: Luigi
Released: February 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in San Francisco until Carlo's widowed sister-in-law, Stella, shows up with her brat-son, Rudolph, and takes over. Poor Toma gets his feelings hurt and the idea he "isn't wanted" and runs away
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Topper Takes a Trip
Title: Topper Takes a Trip
Character: Bellboy
Released: December 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs. Parkhurst takes Mrs. Topper on a trip to France where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce. With help of a gold-digging French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too easy.
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The Saint in New York
Title: The Saint in New York
Character: Driver (Uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.