Henry Armetta

Henry Armetta

Born: July 3, 1888
Died: October 21, 1945
in Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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Henry Armetta (born Enrico Armetta, July 4, 1888 – October 21, 1945) was an Italian-born American character actor who appeared in at least 150 American films, starting in silents around 1915 to 1946, when his last film was released posthumously.

Henry Armetta (born Enrico Armetta, July 4, 1888 – October 21, 1945) was an Italian-born American character actor who appeared in at least 150 American films, starting in silents around 1915 to 1946, when his last film was released posthumously.

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Colonel Effingham's Raid
Title: Colonel Effingham's Raid
Character: Jimmy Economy
Released: January 24, 1946
Type: Movie
The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. He begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to save the square.
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Anchors Aweigh
Title: Anchors Aweigh
Character: Hamburger Man
Released: August 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl with musical aspirations, and before Joe can stop him, promises to get her an audition with José Iturbi. But the trouble really starts when Joe realizes he's falling for his buddy's girl.
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Penthouse Rhythm
Title: Penthouse Rhythm
Character: Cafe Owner Joe
Released: June 22, 1945
Type: Movie
Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline
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A Bell for Adano
Title: A Bell for Adano
Character: Errante - Cart Man
Released: June 21, 1945
Type: Movie
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life.
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Once Upon a Time
Title: Once Upon a Time
Character: Barber (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1944
Type: Movie
Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Flynn meets a young boy who just might save the day. Inside a small box the boy shows Flynn his pride and joy: a caterpillar named Curly that dances to Yes Sir, That's My Baby. Word quickly spreads about the amazingly talented hoofer, and the caterpillar becomes a symbol of hope for wartime America. Soon, offers are pouring in to capitalize on this sensational insect.
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Title: Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Character: Mike Zaloris
Released: June 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
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Stage Door Canteen
Title: Stage Door Canteen
Character: Henry Armetta
Released: June 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
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The Big Store
Title: The Big Store
Character: Guiseppi
Released: June 20, 1941
Type: Movie
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
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Caught in the Act
Title: Caught in the Act
Character: Mike Ripportella
Released: January 17, 1941
Type: Movie
On the day of his daughter's wedding, a good-natured construction worker (Henry Armetta) is suspected by his wife of being involved with another woman, wrongly implicates his company's boss as a racketeer, and is arrested by police for running a shakedown operation. Comedy.
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You're Not So Tough
Title: You're Not So Tough
Character: Salvatore
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
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We Who Are Young
Title: We Who Are Young
Character: Tony
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
A man violates company policy by getting married.
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The Man Who Talked Too Much
Title: The Man Who Talked Too Much
Character: Tony Spirella
Released: July 16, 1940
Type: Movie
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters. Director Vincent Sherman's 1940 crime melodrama stars George Brent, William Lundigan, Richard Barthelmess, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Marc Lawrence, Henry Armetta, George Tobias, John Litel, Alan Baxter, Louis Jean Heydt, Clarence Kolb, Sam McDaniel and Mary Gordon.
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The Escape
Title: The Escape
Character: Guiseppi Peronni
Released: October 5, 1939
Type: Movie
An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.
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Dust Be My Destiny
Title: Dust Be My Destiny
Character: Nick Spelucci
Released: September 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
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I Stole a Million
Title: I Stole a Million
Character: Nick Respina
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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The Lady and the Mob
Title: The Lady and the Mob
Character: V. Zambrogio
Released: April 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
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Winner Take All
Title: Winner Take All
Character: Papa Luigi Gambini
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a waiter makes a lucky hit and wins a benefit prizefight, gamblers rig some fights for him; but a reporter arranges for a real boxer to put him in his place.
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Fisherman's Wharf
Title: Fisherman's Wharf
Character: Beppo
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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Road Demon
Title: Road Demon
Character: Papa Luigi Gambini
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
At the Indianapolis Speedway mobsters try to bump off a young racer just as they did his dad. Junk yard owner tap dances.
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Submarine Patrol
Title: Submarine Patrol
Character: Luigi
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
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Speed to Burn
Title: Speed to Burn
Character: Papa Gambini
Released: June 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse.
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Everybody Sing
Title: Everybody Sing
Character: Signor Vittorino
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Boisterous teen Judy Bellaire is expelled from her all-female boarding school for convincing her fellow school chorus members to sing a classical piece with a modern swing beat. She returns to her dysfunctional home, dejected, but, with the encouragement of her family's cook, Judy decides to follow her dream and audition for a Broadway musical.
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Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
Title: Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
Character: Spadoni
Released: November 26, 1937
Type: Movie
In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the gangster's strong-arm tactics nearly cause a singer to lose his fiancée. A wide variety of entertainers appear including cowboy crooner Gene Autry, baseball hero Joe DiMaggio, and big band stars Cab Calloway, Ted Lewis, and the Kay Thompson Singers. Songs include "Mamma I Wanna Make Rhythm," "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round," "Heaven?," "I Owe You," and "It's Round-up Time in Reno."
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Make a Wish
Title: Make a Wish
Character: Moreta
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiancé Walter Mays refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block.
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Top of the Town
Title: Top of the Town
Character: Bacciagalluppi
Released: April 17, 1937
Type: Movie
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
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The Magnificent Brute
Title: The Magnificent Brute
Character: Buzell
Released: October 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes of his landlady at the boarding house and falls in love with a gold-digger. His best friend also finds himself smitten by the seductive young woman. But when the one of the workers fritters away a collection that had been taken up for the wife of a deceased co-worker on a foolish bet, he and the vamp take off until the good-hearted landlady intervenes and convinces them to stay and take their lumps.
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Two in a Crowd
Title: Two in a Crowd
Character: Toscani
Released: October 3, 1936
Type: Movie
When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress Julia Wayne needs the whole $1,000, and so does sportsman Larry Stevens. Since compromise will serve neither of their needs, they are stalemated - until complications arise.
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Poor Little Rich Girl
Title: Poor Little Rich Girl
Character: Tony
Released: July 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored by a rival soap company.
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The Crime of Dr. Forbes
Title: The Crime of Dr. Forbes
Character: Luigi
Released: July 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Injured scientist Eric Godfrey asks his protege to give him a fatal dose of opiates to end his misery. When he dies the doctor is accused of murder.
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Let's Sing Again
Title: Let's Sing Again
Character: Joe Pasquale
Released: May 7, 1936
Type: Movie
An orphan (Eight-year-old boy soprano Bobby Breen) gets a chance to sing opera in New York.
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Carnival Day
Title: Carnival Day
Released: January 11, 1936
Type: Movie
It's carnival time, crowds gather for horse races and the games and food of a midway. Bobby the singing jockey will be riding the favorite Stardust, and if they win, the prize money will enable Bobby to ask Maggie, a carnival florist, to marry him. Tony, an exuberant balloon man, happens on a plot to hobble Stardust. Tony has bet his business on the race's outcome. How will Stardust do?
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Magnificent Obsession
Title: Magnificent Obsession
Character: Tony
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
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3 Kids and a Queen
Title: 3 Kids and a Queen
Character: Tony Orsatti
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
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Manhattan Moon
Title: Manhattan Moon
Character: Tony
Released: July 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Night club owner Dan Moore is trying to collect a debt owed to him by playboy Reggie Van Dorn, but Reggie is a playboy with no money but lots of social connections. In lieu of the cash, Dan gets Reggie to introduce him to the swells of high society. They go to the opera and, after hearing Yvonne Malloy sing, Dan falls in love with her. Reggie introduces them, but the introduction is to Yvonne's double and stand-in, Toots. This leads to many complications for all concerned.
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Dinky
Title: Dinky
Character: Tony Karamazo
Released: May 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
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Princess O'Hara
Title: Princess O'Hara
Character: Spidoni
Released: March 31, 1935
Type: Movie
When King's beloved horse dies, Princess tries to purchase a new nag, and that's how she inadvertently gets her hands on a "stolen" race horse. Our heroine nearly ends up with a lengthy prison term before the story is resolved during the climactic Big Race.
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Straight from the Heart
Title: Straight from the Heart
Character: Ice Cream Man
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.
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I've Been Around
Title: I've Been Around
Character: Italian
Released: March 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.
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After Office Hours
Title: After Office Hours
Character: Italian Diner Owner
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.
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The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
Title: The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
Character: Laurent
Released: December 24, 1934
Type: Movie
A writer discovers he's being used as a pawn by greedy businessmen.
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Imitation of Life
Title: Imitation of Life
Character: The Painter
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
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Cheating Cheaters
Title: Cheating Cheaters
Character: Prof. Tony Verdi
Released: November 5, 1934
Type: Movie
The Palmers, an apparently wealthy family, move into the house next door to the Lazarres. However, the Palmers are actually a gang of thieves plotting to rob the Lazarres.
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The Merry Widow
Title: The Merry Widow
Character: Turk (uncredited)
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
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Two Heads on a Pillow
Title: Two Heads on a Pillow
Character: Enrico Populopullini
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
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Wake Up and Dream
Title: Wake Up and Dream
Character: Giovanni Cellini
Released: October 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
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Gift of Gab
Title: Gift of Gab
Character: Janitor
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
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Embarrassing Moments
Title: Embarrassing Moments
Character: Morganza
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it looks as though Jerry's latest prank has resulted in the death of his best friend.
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Hide-Out
Title: Hide-Out
Character: Shuman
Released: August 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is fully prepared to shoot his way out when the cops come calling, but he is softened by the daughter's affections.
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Romance in the Rain
Title: Romance in the Rain
Character: Tulio
Released: August 13, 1934
Type: Movie
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
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One Night of Love
Title: One Night of Love
Character: Cafe Owner
Released: July 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
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Kiss and Make-Up
Title: Kiss and Make-Up
Character: Banquet Chairman
Released: July 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the effects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, and wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher... after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.
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Half a Sinner
Title: Half a Sinner
Character: The Barber
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.
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Let's Talk It Over
Title: Let's Talk It Over
Character: Tony
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.
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The Black Cat
Title: The Black Cat
Character: The Sergeant
Released: May 7, 1934
Type: Movie
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
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Good Time Henry
Title: Good Time Henry
Character: Henry
Released: May 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Henry is lured by old pal Hale into a night on the town despite fears that his wife will discover their hijinks.
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The Poor Rich
Title: The Poor Rich
Character: Tony
Released: February 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced to move into the dilapidated house. When Albert receives a letter from old acquaintances Lord and Lady Fetherstone advising the Spottiswoods of their impending visit to the manor, the cousins are at wit's end as to how to exercise non-existent skills required to make the old house acceptable for guest reception.
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The Cat and the Fiddle
Title: The Cat and the Fiddle
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: February 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
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Cross Country Cruise
Title: Cross Country Cruise
Character: The Italian
Released: January 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
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Too Much Harmony
Title: Too Much Harmony
Character: Mr. Gallotti
Released: September 23, 1933
Type: Movie
A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."
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Hello Pop
Title: Hello Pop
Character: Italian Musician
Released: September 16, 1933
Type: Movie
A stage director is trying to put on a musical/comedy revue, but has to contend with temperamental musicians, an inept stage crew and his three idiot sons.
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Her First Mate
Title: Her First Mate
Character: Socrates
Released: August 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas.
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Laughing at Life
Title: Laughing at Life
Character: Fruit Vendor
Released: July 12, 1933
Type: Movie
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
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The Devil's Brother
Title: The Devil's Brother
Character: Matteo
Released: May 5, 1933
Type: Movie
Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.
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So This Is Africa
Title: So This Is Africa
Character: Street Cleaner
Released: April 21, 1933
Type: Movie
Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.
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So This Is Africa
Title: So This Is Africa
Character: Street Cleaner (uncredited)
Released: April 21, 1933
Type: Movie
Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.
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The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
Title: The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
Character: Captain Silva
Released: April 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.
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What! No Beer?
Title: What! No Beer?
Character: Tony
Released: February 10, 1933
Type: Movie
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.
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Rasputin and the Empress
Title: Rasputin and the Empress
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1932
Type: Movie
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
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Central Park
Title: Central Park
Character: Tony, Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
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A Farewell to Arms
Title: A Farewell to Arms
Character: Bonello the Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.
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Men Of America
Title: Men Of America
Character: Tony Garboni
Released: November 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Bank robbers and killers cause mayhem in a small western town.
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Prosperity
Title: Prosperity
Character: Henry a Barber
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.
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Deception
Title: Deception
Character: Nick
Released: November 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Modest programmer denotes a young man's rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn't realize have been "fixed", and ensuing romantic turbulence.
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Hat Check Girl
Title: Hat Check Girl
Character: Water Wagon Driver (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Gerry Marsh is a hat-check girl in a nightclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and others before she falls in love with millionaire playboy Buster Collins. Gerry is supported by her girlfriend Jessie.
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Okay, America!
Title: Okay, America!
Character: Sam
Released: September 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
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Speak Easily
Title: Speak Easily
Character: Tony
Released: August 13, 1932
Type: Movie
A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.
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Bachelor's Affairs
Title: Bachelor's Affairs
Character: Tony - Cosmetician (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry but the man soon regrets his rash move when she's constantly bored and looking for dancing and excitement, leaving him feel his age. He conspires with a loyal friend to find a suitable man she might run away with so he can divorce her.
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Red-Headed Woman
Title: Red-Headed Woman
Character: Waiter Warning Bill of Lipstick (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.
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Week Ends Only
Title: Week Ends Only
Character: Washroom Attendant
Released: June 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she meets a handsome, sophisticated and wealthy fellow who hires her to help him spice up his weekend parties. She begins helping him and regains her lost wealth and posh lifestyle.
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Huddle
Title: Huddle
Character: Mr. Amatto
Released: May 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.
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The Doomed Battalion
Title: The Doomed Battalion
Character: Angelo
Released: April 30, 1932
Type: Movie
During World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the Italian army.
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Scarface
Title: Scarface
Character: Pietro - Barber (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1932
Type: Movie
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio "Tony" Camonte, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
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Steady Company
Title: Steady Company
Character: Tony Capri
Released: March 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and ZaSu Pitts supply the laughs.
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Arsène Lupin
Title: Arsène Lupin
Character: Sheriff's Man
Released: February 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris, he even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon to catch him.
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The Passionate Plumber
Title: The Passionate Plumber
Character: Bouncer
Released: February 6, 1932
Type: Movie
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.
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The Unholy Garden
Title: The Unholy Garden
Character: Nick the Goose
Released: October 6, 1931
Type: Movie
At a hotel in the middle of the Sahara, an old man and his daughter try to keep the location of a hidden treasure from a collection of thieves and criminals staying at the hotel who are determined to get it. A suave gentleman thief arrives at the hotel one day with his own plan to get the loot, but complications ensue when he begins to fall for the daughter.
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Hush Money
Title: Hush Money
Character: Bootlegger (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Story of a girl who tries to live down the past and marries a wealthy man. Blackmail attempt by old associate foiled by friendly detective.
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Five and Ten
Title: Five and Ten
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: June 13, 1931
Type: Movie
John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though grand, is falling apart due to his constant working. Wife and mother Jenny is lonely. Son Avery hates his job. Daughter Jennifer is snubbed by classmate Muriel and her friends. At a charity bazaar, Jennifer meets Berry and sparks are evident. However, he is engaged to Muriel and Muriel will make sure that she, and only she, marries Berry. After the marriage, Berry still thinks of Jennifer as Jennifer thinks of Berry. Avery laments about the state of his family since they were happy in Kansas City.
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Just a Gigolo
Title: Just a Gigolo
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: June 6, 1931
Type: Movie
A playboy pretends to be a paid escort in order to court--and test the moral character of--a young British socialite. Comedy.
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Laughing Sinners
Title: Laughing Sinners
Character: Tony
Released: May 30, 1931
Type: Movie
Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she is saved by Carl, a Salvation Army officer. Encouraged by Carl, Ivy joins the Salvation Army. When her old flame re-enters her life, Ivy finds she is still attracted and begins another affair with him.
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Strangers May Kiss
Title: Strangers May Kiss
Character: Waiter
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casual romance with journalist Alan. Against the advice of her happily married aunt Celia -- who encourages her to demand a serious commitment -- Lisbeth continues to see Alan, even after she hears he may have a wife in France. When Alan's work sends him abroad, a lovesick Lisbeth struggles to understand her feelings.
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A Tailor-Made Man
Title: A Tailor-Made Man
Character: Peter, Tailor
Released: March 28, 1931
Type: Movie
John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs his way into a high society party. After meeting wealthy businessman Abraham Nathan, John Paul quickly rises to the top of Nathan's company. Suffering during The Depression, John Paul helps Nathan save his company with a radical program of cooperative ownership between workers and management. Meanwhile, John Paul makes an enemy of Gustav, who is engaged to Tanya - the daughter of Mr. Huber, owner of the tailor shop. John Paul maintains a friendship with Tanya, provoking jealousy in Gustav. Gustav threatens to reveal John Paul's plain origins to Nathan, and John Paul briefly resigns from Nathan's company. However, John Paul's plan is a success, and Nathan hires him back immediately. Tanya leaves Gustav and ends up with John Paul.
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Moonlight and Monkey Business
Title: Moonlight and Monkey Business
Character: Tony
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
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Romance
Title: Romance
Character: Theater Manager Beppo
Released: August 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.
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Little Accident
Title: Little Accident
Character: Rudolpho Amendelara
Released: August 3, 1930
Type: Movie
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
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The Sins of the Children
Title: The Sins of the Children
Character: Tony
Released: June 27, 1930
Type: Movie
A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.
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Lovin' the Ladies
Title: Lovin' the Ladies
Character: Signore Sagatelli
Released: April 6, 1930
Type: Movie
A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to fall for with each other and get engaged within a month.
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The Girl Said No
Title: The Girl Said No
Character: Grove Cafe Waiter
Released: March 15, 1930
Type: Movie
A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar, bound and gagged.
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The Ship from Shanghai
Title: The Ship from Shanghai
Character: Sailor (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1930
Type: Movie
On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control.
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The Climax
Title: The Climax
Character: Anton Donatelli
Released: January 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Young Italian girl wants to become a great opera singer.
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Sunny Side Up
Title: Sunny Side Up
Character: Italian Husband (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1929
Type: Movie
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.
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The Trespasser
Title: The Trespasser
Character: Barber (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1929
Type: Movie
A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ensure the child's welfare, which starts gossip that she is a "kept woman."
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Jazz Heaven
Title: Jazz Heaven
Character: Tony
Released: November 3, 1929
Type: Movie
A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.
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Love, Live & Laugh
Title: Love, Live & Laugh
Character: Tony
Released: November 2, 1929
Type: Movie
Any movie that starts Jewish entertainer George Jessel as an Italian accordionist named Luigi can't be all bad. In love with the beautiful Margharita (Lila Lee), Luigi lands a job in the music store owned by the girl's uncle. Ultimately, however, our hero does the Pagliacci act when Margharita evinces a preference for handsome Pasquale (David Rollins). The film's best scene takes place in a nursery full of talented tots, a sequence that undoubtedly reminded Jessel of his days with Gus Edwards' "Schoolroom" act. Exercising his droit du seigneur, Georgie Jessel sings the title tune.
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Half Marriage
Title: Half Marriage
Character: Henry
Released: October 12, 1929
Type: Movie
A young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home from the city where she's been studying art and encourage the attentions of Tom, a persistent suitor. Judy and her jealous husband have an argument that leads her back to the city, a drunken, amorous Tom and a tragedy.
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Madame X
Title: Madame X
Character: Hotel Owner (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1929
Type: Movie
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her three year old son again despite her earnest attempts to make amends. For many years the mother seeks refuge overseas and in Absinthe. In the end, her son, a young and promising lawyer unknowingly defends her in court. Ruth Chatterton gives a marvelous performance in this early talkie in her portrayal of Madame X.
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Lady of the Pavements
Title: Lady of the Pavements
Character: Papa Pierre
Released: January 22, 1929
Type: Movie
Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a "girl of the streets" than her. Outraged, Diane decides to grant his wish, and enlists the services of a Spanish singer/dancer from a disreputable nightclub to pose as a sophisticated, convent-educated singer, and surreptitiously arranges for her to meet Karl.
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In Old Arizona
Title: In Old Arizona
Character: Barber (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Army Sergeant Mickey Dunn sets out in pursuit of the Cisco Kid, a notorious if kind-hearted and charismatic bandit of the Old West. The Kid spends much of his loot on Tonia, the woman he loves, not realizing that she is being unfaithful to him in his absence. Soon, with her oblivious paramour off plying his trade, Tonia falls in with Dunn, drawn by the allure of a substantial reward for the Kid's capture -- dead or alive. Together, they concoct a plan to ambush and do away with the Cisco Kid once and for all.
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Homesick
Title: Homesick
Character: Bicycle Rider
Released: December 16, 1928
Type: Movie
Babe, a lonely servant girl in California, puts a "husband wanted" ad in the newspaper...
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The Red Dance
Title: The Red Dance
Character: Prisoner (uncredited)
Released: December 2, 1928
Type: Movie
Tasia (Dolores del Río), a beautiful dancer lower class of Russia, falls heir to the throne Prince, Grand Duke Eugene (Charles Farrell), but only admired from a distance. At the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, the Duke falls in captivity and this allows Tasia be near him.
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Street Angel
Title: Street Angel
Character: Mascetto
Released: April 9, 1928
Type: Movie
A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.
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A Girl in Every Port
Title: A Girl in Every Port
Character: Bartender in Panama (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1928
Type: Movie
Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young woman come between them?
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7th Heaven
Title: 7th Heaven
Released: September 10, 1927
Type: Movie
A dejected Parisian sewer worker feels his prayers have been answered when he falls in love with a street waif.
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The Desert's Price
Title: The Desert's Price
Character: Shepherd
Released: December 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Returning from college, Wils McCann discovers that the long-standing feud between his family and their neighbors is actually the fault of the nasty Martin brothers. In love with neighbor girl Julia Starke, Wils succeeds in setting the record straight and disarming the villainous brothers.
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The Marble Heart
Title: The Marble Heart
Released: March 5, 1916
Type: Movie
Therese Roger, daughter of a West Indian planter, whose parents are murdered while she is a baby, becomes the adopted daughter of her aunt, Madame Roger, keeper of a haberdashery shop in one of the smaller villages in southern France. She grows up with Camille, Madame Roger's son, a sickly, sexless creature, whom she ultimately marries in deference to her aunt's wishes.