Jerry Mandy

Jerry Mandy

Born: June 4, 1892
Died: May 1, 1945
in Utica, New York, USA

Movies for Jerry Mandy...

Crazy House
Title: Crazy House
Character: Bank Robber
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
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Background to Danger
Title: Background to Danger
Character: Italian on Train
Released: July 3, 1943
Type: Movie
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
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X Marks the Spot
Title: X Marks the Spot
Character: Janitor (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his prime suspect is murdered as well, and he finds himself framed for the crime. As more witnesses get murdered, he finds himself on the run from both the police and former Prohibition violators who seem to have found a new racket.
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Brooklyn Orchid
Title: Brooklyn Orchid
Character: Louie
Released: January 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
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Don Winslow of the Navy
Title: Don Winslow of the Navy
Character: Tangita Jim [Chs. 2, 10]
Released: January 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, near Pearl Harbor, where a ring of saboteurs is trying to destroy ships carrying supplies to the troops stationed in the islands and sabotage the war effort under orders from an unknown leader.
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Appointment for Love
Title: Appointment for Love
Character: Paul (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.
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Sea Raiders
Title: Sea Raiders
Character: Tony - Grocer
Released: October 13, 1941
Type: Movie
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
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One Night in the Tropics
Title: One Night in the Tropics
Character: Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia. The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey, and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe, who sends two enforcers - Abbott and Costello - to ensure that the wedding occurs as planned.
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East of the River
Title: East of the River
Character: Mr. Lombardo, a Diner (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
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Boys of the City
Title: Boys of the City
Character: Cook
Released: July 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
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Turnabout
Title: Turnabout
Character: Remisoff - First Photograper (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
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Kid Nightingale
Title: Kid Nightingale
Character: Stincowski - Leader of Sextet (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1939
Type: Movie
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
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Naughty But Nice
Title: Naughty But Nice
Character: First Waiter (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
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Four Daughters
Title: Four Daughters
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue.
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Hawaii Calls
Title: Hawaii Calls
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: March 12, 1938
Type: Movie
After being nabbed while trying to stow away on board an ocean liner en route to Hawaii, young Bobby Breen sings for his travel fare and, along with sidekick Pua, turns detective to recover stolen naval documents from crooks
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Behind the Mike
Title: Behind the Mike
Character: First Violinist
Released: September 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor.
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The Great O'Malley
Title: The Great O'Malley
Character: Italian Umbrella Salesman (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1937
Type: Movie
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
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On the Avenue
Title: On the Avenue
Character: Luigi
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
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Time Out for Romance
Title: Time Out for Romance
Character: Joe, the Greek Restaurant Owner
Released: February 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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Spendthrift
Title: Spendthrift
Character: Enrico
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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Fatal Lady
Title: Fatal Lady
Character: Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1936
Type: Movie
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
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The Singing Kid
Title: The Singing Kid
Character: Stagehand (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
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Give Us This Night
Title: Give Us This Night
Character: Fisherman
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
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King of Burlesque
Title: King of Burlesque
Character: Frankie
Released: January 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who helps make Baxter a success. His head turned by sudden fame, Baxter falls under the spell of a society woman (Mona Barrie) who has theatrical aspirations of her own. She marries Baxter, then convinces him to produce a string of "artistic" plays rather than his extravagant musical revues. The plays are flops, and the woman haughtily divorces Baxter. Faithful Alice Faye, who'd gone to London when her ex-beau was married, returns to the penniless Baxter. She and her burlesque buddies team up to pull Baxter out of his rut and put him on top again.
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Just My Luck
Title: Just My Luck
Character: Nick--Cafe Owner
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
Homer Crow, fired from his laboratory job at the Dunn-Wright Rubber Company, is sure that his formula for an indestructible rubber, called Durex, will be a success. Others are also, and Honer endures many obstacles, prat-falls and staged accidents while striving to protect his inventions.
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Rainbow's End
Title: Rainbow's End
Character: Ranch Cook
Released: July 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A rancher's son finds himself helping another rancher who is at odds with his father--all because of the father's crooked partner.
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I'll Tell the World
Title: I'll Tell the World
Character: Tony
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
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Strange People
Title: Strange People
Character: Tony Scabolotto - the Barber
Released: June 16, 1933
Type: Movie
All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstration of how convictions can be made on circumstantial evidence. During the proceedings, a phony murder is quickly revealed as the real thing.
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Sailor's Luck
Title: Sailor's Luck
Character: Rico
Released: March 17, 1933
Type: Movie
U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San Francisco, but Jimmy becomes jealous and tells her off when he learns Sally has entered a marathon dance contest sponsored by a lecherous snake named Baron Portola. Along with several of his Navy pals, Jimmy goes to the ballroom the night of the dance marathon, to try to change Sally's mind and win her back.
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Sham Poo, the Magician
Title: Sham Poo, the Magician
Character: Sham Poo
Released: November 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Hugh Herbert and Roscoe Ates are in a bar where all the men wear fezzes. They are trying to make time with cigarette girl Dorothy Granger. Their loud celery-crunching rouses the ire of Jerry Mandy, aka Sham Poo the magician.
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Gigolettes
Title: Gigolettes
Character: Chef
Released: May 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Desperate for cash, three friends take a job running a run-down night club.
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The Promoter
Title: The Promoter
Character: Referee
Released: May 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Benny Rubin promotes a wrestling show but ends up wrestling Constantine "Strangler" Romanoff himself.
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Extra! Extra!
Title: Extra! Extra!
Released: April 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Frank McHugh appears with Mae Busch, Jerry Mandy and others in this prohibition-time RKO Pathe short directed by Harry Sweet.
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Easy to Get
Title: Easy to Get
Character: Waiter
Released: December 7, 1931
Type: Movie
In the third of Pathe's Gay Girls comedy series, Harry Myers is a married man who strings one of them along until his wife Isabel Withers, comes along. Later one of them gets a job as a co-respondent in a divorce suit, and Myers is the divorce-seeking husband.
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Mama Loves Papa
Title: Mama Loves Papa
Character: Minister (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Widow Martha and widower Brandon plan to marry; their teenaged children do their slapstick best to interfere. One of "The Boy Friends" series.
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The Panic Is On
Title: The Panic Is On
Character: Charley's Neighbor (uncredited)
Released: August 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Charley's in love with the daughter of a financier who wants her to insist that Chas have a pile of cash before she marries him. But, the Depression is everywhere: Charley's behind on his rent and nearly everyone he meets is down on their luck. After reading a "how to" book on the power of a forceful will, Charley applies the lessons with mixed results, but he does land a job that includes delivering a shake-down letter to his girlfriend's father. Is the naïve Charley going to end up in jail?
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A Holy Terror
Title: A Holy Terror
Character: Louie, the Barber (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may know something about it. En route he crashes his plane into Jerry's bathroom; she falls in love with him which makes her suitor Steve jealous.
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Let's Do Things
Title: Let's Do Things
Character: Dr. Mandy (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
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Love Fever
Title: Love Fever
Character: Worker in Manhole (uncredited)
Released: April 11, 1931
Type: Movie
An actress is rehearsing a death scene in her apartment, but her neighbors all think it's the real thing.
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The Doorway to Hell
Title: The Doorway to Hell
Character: Gimpy, Gangster
Released: October 18, 1930
Type: Movie
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
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Girl Shock
Title: Girl Shock
Character: Dr. Lorenzo
Released: August 23, 1930
Type: Movie
Charley suffers a hysterical reaction whenever a woman touches him; a psychiatrist attempts to help him overcome his panicked reflex.
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The Sap
Title: The Sap
Character: The Wop
Released: November 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A small town dimwit takes the blame for his brother-in-law's crime.
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Love, Live & Laugh
Title: Love, Live & Laugh
Character: Barber
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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All in Fun
Title: All in Fun
Released: October 21, 1928
Type: Movie
Movie comedy with Jerry Mandy.
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Hold 'Em Yale
Title: Hold 'Em Yale
Character: Jaime's Valet
Released: May 14, 1928
Type: Movie
A young man from Argentina goes to Yale where he plays football and falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter.
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Love and Learn
Title: Love and Learn
Character: Gardener
Released: January 14, 1928
Type: Movie
In love with political candidate Anthony Cowles, heroine Nancy Blair gets wind of the opposition's scheme to ruin Cowles' reputation. At the risk of her own good name, Nancy decides to turn the tables on the crooked politicos by framing Cowles' opponent in a compromising situation. Things don't go quite as planned.
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The Gay Defender
Title: The Gay Defender
Character: Chombo
Released: December 10, 1927
Type: Movie
Real-life outlaw Joaquin Murietta, who (according to this film, anyway) is a latter-day Robin Hood, dedicated to driving land-grabbers and corrupt politicians out of Spanish California.
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Underworld
Title: Underworld
Character: Paloma
Released: August 20, 1927
Type: Movie
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
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Why Girls Love Sailors
Title: Why Girls Love Sailors
Character: Sailor
Released: July 17, 1927
Type: Movie
Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain but the captain's wife catches him. Stan and his girl beat a hasty retreat as the captain's wife fires off a parting shot.
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Eve's Love Letters
Title: Eve's Love Letters
Character: Mr. X / Sir Oliver Hardy
Released: May 28, 1927
Type: Movie
Agnes Ayres was apparently a star of feature film who is top billed in this one-off Hal Roach short. She does well as the woman at the centre of the story, but it's pretty plain that it's actually the comic mind and performing talents of Stan Laurel, who plays her butler, that make this two-reel short shine.
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Forgotten Sweeties
Title: Forgotten Sweeties
Released: April 10, 1927
Type: Movie
Thurston's former sweetheart has married a big brute, and they move in down the hall from him.
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Casey at the Bat
Title: Casey at the Bat
Character: Florist (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York scout signs him up, so Casey and his equally dishonest manager go to the big leagues. Eventually, the scout and manager conspire to get him drunk and bet against him for a crucial game with the pennant at stake.
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
Title: 45 Minutes from Hollywood
Character: Imbibing Trashman
Released: December 26, 1926
Type: Movie
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
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Raggedy Rose
Title: Raggedy Rose
Character: The Chauffeur
Released: November 6, 1926
Type: Movie
Rose, who works for a penny-pinching junk dealer, dreams of romance with wealthy bachelor Ted Tudor.
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You'd Be Surprised
Title: You'd Be Surprised
Character: Hot Dog Salesman
Released: September 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a chance to return it by putting an empty box on a table and turning out the lights. When the lights are turned back on the box is gone, and the district attorney has a knife in his back and is quite dead. The police and the coroner arrive. There are several attempts made on the life of the coroner. Ruth Whitman is found hiding in a grandfather-clock, holding the gem box. She claims the box was pushed into her hands and she was pushed into the clock. The district attorney's butler/valet tells the coroner he saw who killed his employer and a few minutes later he is also murdered. The mystery deepens.
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Crazy Like a Fox
Title: Crazy Like a Fox
Character: Hospital Orderly (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
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Merry Widower
Title: Merry Widower
Character: Mahatma
Released: August 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Julius loses his wife to Rudy because he's too busy going on hunting trips. But when she arranges to meet with a fortune teller, Julius hatches a plan to win her back.
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Thundering Fleas
Title: Thundering Fleas
Character: Sheldon, the groom
Released: July 18, 1926
Type: Movie
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
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Don Key (Son of Burro)
Title: Don Key (Son of Burro)
Character: Second Office Boy
Released: May 23, 1926
Type: Movie
The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they can find a writer for a smash comedy. An aspiring writer is awaiting outside the office and the producer agrees to see him. He listens while the writer tells his story and acts the numerous parts. The story is rotten, but the producer lets him escape while vowing vengeance on any other author who would read his story aloud.
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Behind the Front
Title: Behind the Front
Character: Limburger soldier
Released: February 22, 1926
Type: Movie
During World War I a young man joins the army and winds up befriending another young recruit, not knowing that it's the same pickpocket who stole his watch. After finishing basic training, the two are sent to the front lines in France, where they wind up in trouble with the MPs, getting involved with some cute French girls and "volunteering" for a dangerous front-line mission, and their antics result in their endangering the armistice.
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A Deep Sea Panic
Title: A Deep Sea Panic
Released: September 28, 1924
Type: Movie
A cruel sea captain shanghais Jimmie to work on his ship, but Jimmie's girlfriend also stows away on board, disguised as a sailor.
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Outdoor Pajamas
Title: Outdoor Pajamas
Character: Crowd Extra (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1924
Type: Movie
This funny Hal Roach comedy has Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) waking up late for his wedding so in the mad rush he ends up leaving his house only dressed in his pajamas. As he makes his way to the church he finds one disaster after another.
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Sweetie
Title: Sweetie
Character: Fruit Stand Manager
Released: April 4, 1923
Type: Movie
A Baby Peggy two-reeler