Charles Trowbridge

Charles Trowbridge

Born: January 9, 1882
Died: October 30, 1967
in Veracruz, Mexico
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Charles Silas Richard Trowbridge (January 10, 1882 – October 30, 1967) was an American film actor. He appeared in 233 films between 1915 and 1958.

Trowbridge was born in Veracruz, Mexico, where his father served in the diplomatic corps of the United States. He ran a coffee plantation in Hawaii before venturing into acting.

Trowbridge's Broadway credits include Dinner at Eight (1932), Ladies of Creation (1931), Congai (1928), The Behavior of Mrs. Crane (1927), We Never Learn (1927), Craig's Wife (1925), It All Depends (1925), The Backslapper (1924), The Locked Door (1924), Sweet Seventeen (1923), The Lullaby (1923), The Last Warning (1922), The Night Call (1921), Just Because (1921), The Broken Wing (1920), Why Worry? (1918), This Way Out (1917), Come Out of the Kitchen (1916) and Daddy Long Legs (1914).

Trowbridge died in Los Angeles, California.

Movies for Charles Trowbridge...

The Last Hurrah
Title: The Last Hurrah
Character: Plymouth Club Member (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1958
Type: Movie
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
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Hoodlum Empire
Title: Hoodlum Empire
Character: Commissioner Garrison
Released: April 15, 1952
Type: Movie
It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.
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The Bushwhackers
Title: The Bushwhackers
Character: Justin Stone
Released: December 7, 1951
Type: Movie
Confederate veteran Jeff Waring arrives in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil War, intending never again to use a gun. He finds that rancher Artemus Taylor and his henchmen are forcing out the settlers in order to claim their land for the incoming railroad.
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The Texas Rangers
Title: The Texas Rangers
Character: Governor of Texas (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1951
Type: Movie
It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So the Ranger Major releases two men from prison who are familiar with the movements and locations used by Bass and his men and sends them out to find him.
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Peggy
Title: Peggy
Character: Dean William Stockwell
Released: July 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy but she's smitten with a famous football star so she tries to redirect his interest to Susan.
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When Willie Comes Marching Home
Title: When Willie Comes Marching Home
Character: Gen. Merrill (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1950
Type: Movie
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
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Mr. Soft Touch
Title: Mr. Soft Touch
Character: Judge Fuller (Uncredited)
Released: July 28, 1949
Type: Movie
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.
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The Fountainhead
Title: The Fountainhead
Character: Director (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1949
Type: Movie
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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Bad Boy
Title: Bad Boy
Character: Dr. Fletcher
Released: February 22, 1949
Type: Movie
A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.
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The Paleface
Title: The Paleface
Character: Gov. Johnson
Released: December 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.
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Hollow Triumph
Title: Hollow Triumph
Character: Deputy
Released: August 18, 1948
Type: Movie
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
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Stage Struck
Title: Stage Struck
Character: Police Capt. Webb
Released: June 13, 1948
Type: Movie
A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.
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Song of My Heart
Title: Song of My Heart
Character: Jurgensen
Released: January 31, 1948
Type: Movie
The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.
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Tycoon
Title: Tycoon
Character: Señor Tobar
Released: December 27, 1947
Type: Movie
Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His task is complicated, and his ethics are compromised, when he falls in love with his boss's daughter
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Key Witness
Title: Key Witness
Character: John Ballin
Released: October 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.
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Black Gold
Title: Black Gold
Character: Judge Wilson
Released: September 16, 1947
Type: Movie
A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Title: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Character: Dr. Renshaw (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
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Michigan Kid
Title: Michigan Kid
Character: Banker John Nash
Released: August 11, 1947
Type: Movie
A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.
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The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Title: The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Released: April 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.
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The Sea of Grass
Title: The Sea of Grass
Character: George Cameron
Released: April 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
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Tarzan and the Huntress
Title: Tarzan and the Huntress
Character: King Farrod
Released: April 5, 1947
Type: Movie
A shortage of zoo animals after World War II brings beautiful animal trainer Tanya, her financial backer and her cruel trail boss to the jungle. After negotiating a quota with the native king, they take more animals than allowed. Tarzan intervenes.
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Buck Privates Come Home
Title: Buck Privates Come Home
Character: Mr. Quince
Released: April 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
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Shoot to Kill
Title: Shoot to Kill
Character: District Attorney John Forsythe
Released: March 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A gritty crime story involving a newspaper man and crooked politicians.
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Undercurrent
Title: Undercurrent
Character: Justice Putnam
Released: November 11, 1946
Type: Movie
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.
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Don't Gamble with Strangers
Title: Don't Gamble with Strangers
Character: Creighton
Released: June 22, 1946
Type: Movie
Two card sharks, pretending to be brother and sister, clean out a small-town banker, then take over a crooked gambling joint.
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Valley of the Zombies
Title: Valley of the Zombies
Character: Dr. Rufus Maynard
Released: May 26, 1946
Type: Movie
A woman falls under the hypnotic spell of a resurrected madman.
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The Hoodlum Saint
Title: The Hoodlum Saint
Character: Uncle Joe Lorrison
Released: April 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
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Smooth as Silk
Title: Smooth as Silk
Character: Fletcher Holliday
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
An attorney enraged over the prosecution of two innocent people goes on a killing spree.
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Shock
Title: Shock
Character: Dr. Franklin Harvey
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door neighbor, Janet Stewart. As Janet attempts to convince her husband of the doctor's dastardly deed, Cross shows up to advise him that Janet is in dire need of some in-depth counseling.
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They Were Expendable
Title: They Were Expendable
Character: Admiral Blackwell
Released: December 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.
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Mildred Pierce
Title: Mildred Pierce
Character: Mrs. Forrester's Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1945
Type: Movie
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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The Red Dragon
Title: The Red Dragon
Character: Prentiss
Released: August 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun.
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Faces in the Fog
Title: Faces in the Fog
Character: Mr. White
Released: November 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....
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Summer Storm
Title: Summer Storm
Character: Doctor
Released: July 14, 1944
Type: Movie
It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results.
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Hey, Rookie
Title: Hey, Rookie
Character: General Willis
Released: April 6, 1944
Type: Movie
Musical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark, so he joins the Army. There he gets the order to put on a show, Winnie Clark appears in a camp show, hears about his task and offers him his help. He thinks, she does it for her publicity only, so he doesn't want to know anything about this, till he finds out, that she has no such intentions.
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Captain America
Title: Captain America
Character: Police Commissioner Dryden
Released: February 5, 1944
Type: Movie
Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the archvillain called The Scarab, who poisons his enemies and steals a secret device capable of destroying buildings by sound vibrations.
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The Fighting Seabees
Title: The Fighting Seabees
Character: Randolph (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1944
Type: Movie
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.
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Madame Curie
Title: Madame Curie
Character: Board Member (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
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Adventures of the Flying Cadets
Title: Adventures of the Flying Cadets
Character: Maj. William Elliott [Ch. 1]
Released: September 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Four youthful cadets are implicated in a series of murders, and must attempt to clear themselves of suspicion.
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The Falcon in Danger
Title: The Falcon in Danger
Character: Palmer's Doctor (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1943
Type: Movie
Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is $100,000. The Falcon investigates and discovers a plot against the government.
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Don't You Believe It
Title: Don't You Believe It
Character: Politician
Released: July 3, 1943
Type: Movie
This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's cow did not start the great Chicago fire; Nero didn't fiddle while Rome burned; and Lady Godiva never rode naked through the streets of Coventry.
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Action in the North Atlantic
Title: Action in the North Atlantic
Character: Rear Adm. Hartridge (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Secretary of State Cordell Hull (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Title: The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Released: February 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
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Tennessee Johnson
Title: Tennessee Johnson
Character: Lansbury
Released: December 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's assassination, Johnson becomes the President and became the first U.S. president ever to be impeached.
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That Other Woman
Title: That Other Woman
Character: Linkletter
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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The Mummy's Tomb
Title: The Mummy's Tomb
Character: Dr. Petrie (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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Wake Island
Title: Wake Island
Released: August 11, 1942
Type: Movie
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
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The Magnificent Dope
Title: The Magnificent Dope
Character: Examining Doctor (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
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Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Title: Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Character: Senate President
Released: June 26, 1942
Type: Movie
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.
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Meet the Stewarts
Title: Meet the Stewarts
Character: Mr. Martin (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
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Who Is Hope Schuyler?
Title: Who Is Hope Schuyler?
Character: Judge Rossiter
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.
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Sex Hygiene
Title: Sex Hygiene
Character: Medical officer
Released: February 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Several servicemen relax by playing pool, but one of them goes off to spend time with a prostitute. Later, he discovers he has contracted a venereal disease. A graphic and frank presentation of the types and treatment of venereal disease follows.
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Over My Dead Body
Title: Over My Dead Body
Character: Honest Tom Mardley
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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Blue, White, and Perfect
Title: Blue, White, and Perfect
Character: Capt. Brown
Released: January 6, 1942
Type: Movie
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
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Design for Scandal
Title: Design for Scandal
Character: Attorney
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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Cadet Girl
Title: Cadet Girl
Character: Col. Bradley
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.
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Great Guns
Title: Great Guns
Character: Col. Ridley
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted.
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King of the Texas Rangers
Title: King of the Texas Rangers
Character: Robert Crawford
Released: October 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Tom King Jr. seeks to discover who murdered his father, a Texas Ranger; the trail leads to a network of Axis spies.
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Sergeant York
Title: Sergeant York
Character: Cordell Hull
Released: September 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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We Go Fast
Title: We Go Fast
Character: Defense Attorney
Released: September 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes that Mohr is actually a crook and goes back to flirting with her fast cop friends.
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Belle Starr
Title: Belle Starr
Character: Colonel Bright
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation among the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.
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Dressed to Kill
Title: Dressed to Kill
Character: David Earle
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
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Hurricane Smith
Title: Hurricane Smith
Character: Mark Harris
Released: July 20, 1941
Type: Movie
Rodeo rider Hurricane Smith is wrongly convicted of murder and robbery, but escapes and creates a new life, but one of the real criminals shows up to claim the loot which he believes Smith has.
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They Met in Bombay
Title: They Met in Bombay
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.
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The Nurse's Secret
Title: The Nurse's Secret
Character: Arthur Glenn
Released: May 24, 1941
Type: Movie
An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.
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Strange Alibi
Title: Strange Alibi
Character: Gov. Phelps
Released: April 19, 1941
Type: Movie
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
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The Great Lie
Title: The Great Lie
Character: Senator Ted Greenfield
Released: April 5, 1941
Type: Movie
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
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The Great Mr. Nobody
Title: The Great Mr. Nobody
Character: Grover Dillon
Released: February 15, 1941
Type: Movie
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
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Let's Make Music
Title: Let's Make Music
Character: Doctor
Released: January 17, 1941
Type: Movie
An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song.
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Four Mothers
Title: Four Mothers
Character: Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
Released: January 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
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This Thing Called Love
Title: This Thing Called Love
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
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Mysterious Doctor Satan
Title: Mysterious Doctor Satan
Character: Gov. Bronson
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer America. The only one standing in his way is Bob Wayne, who fights Satan as the enigmatic Copperhead. Mysterious Doctor Satan is a 1940 film serial named after its chief villain. Doctor Satan's main opponent is the masked mystery man, "The Copperhead", whose secret identity is Bob Wayne, a man searching for justice and revenge on Satan for the death of his step-father. The serial charts the conflict between the two as Bob Wayne pursues Doctor Satan, while the latter completes his plans for world domination.
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Trail of the Vigilantes
Title: Trail of the Vigilantes
Character: John Thornton
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
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The Son of Monte Cristo
Title: The Son of Monte Cristo
Character: Priest
Released: December 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons many disguises to come to the aid of the Duchess.
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Cherokee Strip
Title: Cherokee Strip
Character: Sen. Cross
Released: October 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, Morrell finds himself at odds with banker Coy Barrett (Victor Jory), who is actually the leader of all local criminal activities.
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Knute Rockne All American
Title: Knute Rockne All American
Character: Professor (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
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The Mummy's Hand
Title: The Mummy's Hand
Character: Dr. Petrie
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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Before I Hang
Title: Before I Hang
Character: Judge Braden
Released: September 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Title: Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Character: Atkinson
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Title: Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Character: Judge
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge.
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My Love Came Back
Title: My Love Came Back
Character: Dr. Downey
Released: July 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through his employee Tony so that Julius can escort Amelia to every musical event in the city. The trouble begins when he cannot meet her one night and Tony goes in his place. Tony believes that Julius and Amelia are a couple and then son Paul thinks that Tony and Amelia are a couple as he is sending her the money. The worst part is that Amelia might leave classical music for swing music with classmates Dusty, Joy and the band.
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Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Title: Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Character: Davis (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.
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Our Town
Title: Our Town
Character: Dr. Ferguson, the wedding minister
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community.
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Edison, the Man
Title: Edison, the Man
Character: Clark
Released: May 10, 1940
Type: Movie
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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Johnny Apollo
Title: Johnny Apollo
Character: Judge Penrose
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
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The Man with Nine Lives
Title: The Man with Nine Lives
Character: Dr. Harvey
Released: April 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are discovered and revived in hopes that Kravaal can indeed complete his cure. But human greed and weakness compound to disrupt the project.
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The House of the Seven Gables
Title: The House of the Seven Gables
Character: Judge
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
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Virginia City
Title: Virginia City
Character: Seddon - Aide to Jefferson Davis (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
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I Take This Woman
Title: I Take This Woman
Character: Dr. Morris (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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The Fatal Hour
Title: The Fatal Hour
Character: John T. Forbes
Released: January 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. Wong faces increasing danger and is nearly executed himself as the investigation develops in treachery and complexity. As Mr. Wong follows the trail of dead bodies, he uncovers a jewel smuggling ring on the San Francisco waterfront and a case much larger than the death of a police officer.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Title: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Character: Judge
Released: January 11, 1940
Type: Movie
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
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Swanee River
Title: Swanee River
Character: Mr. Foster
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Title: Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Character: Cabinet Member
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
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Smashing the Money Ring
Title: Smashing the Money Ring
Character: Judge B.A. Royer (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1939
Type: Movie
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
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Full Confession
Title: Full Confession
Character: First Doctor (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair.
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Tropic Fury
Title: Tropic Fury
Character: Dr. Taylor
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
An investigator checks into the rumors of harsh working conditions on an Amazon rubber plantation.
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Angels Wash Their Faces
Title: Angels Wash Their Faces
Character: Reform School Superintendent (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
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Each Dawn I Die
Title: Each Dawn I Die
Character: Judge
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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The Man They Could Not Hang
Title: The Man They Could Not Hang
Character: Judge Bowman
Released: August 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.
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Lady of the Tropics
Title: Lady of the Tropics
Character: Alfred Z. Harrison
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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Hotel for Women
Title: Hotel for Women
Character: Foley
Released: August 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.
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Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Title: Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Character: Gen. Fremont
Released: July 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard a slave ship on the high seas, the bartering of natives for slavery in a tropical paradise, and battle scenes between enraged California settlers and the Mexican Army.
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Undercover Doctor
Title: Undercover Doctor
Character: Lt. Watson
Released: June 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his nurse Margaret Hopkins. The FBI agent Robert Anders has to catch on to Morgan's illicit activities.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Title: Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Character: Maj. Williams (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Title: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Character: George Pollard
Released: April 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
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On Trial
Title: On Trial
Character: Harry Dean
Released: April 1, 1939
Type: Movie
An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.
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Let Us Live
Title: Let Us Live
Character: Trial Judge (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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Sergeant Madden
Title: Sergeant Madden
Character: Commissioner in 1919
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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King of Chinatown
Title: King of Chinatown
Character: Dr. Jones
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
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Cafe Society
Title: Cafe Society
Character: Mr. Tiller, the Lawyer
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
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Risky Business
Title: Risky Business
Character: Henry Jameson
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
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Boy Trouble
Title: Boy Trouble
Character: Mr. Tatum
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
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Pride of the Navy
Title: Pride of the Navy
Character: Capt. Tyler
Released: January 23, 1939
Type: Movie
A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing speedboats. They are innovative and soon the Navy comes a-knocking in hopes that he will design a fast and easily maneuverable boat to carry torpedoes.
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King of the Underworld
Title: King of the Underworld
Character: Dr. Ryan
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
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Homicide Bureau
Title: Homicide Bureau
Character: Henley - Committee Spokesman
Released: January 5, 1939
Type: Movie
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights.
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Kentucky
Title: Kentucky
Character: Doctor
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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Submarine Patrol
Title: Submarine Patrol
Character: RAdm. Joseph Maitland
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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Nancy Drew… Detective
Title: Nancy Drew… Detective
Character: Hollister
Released: November 19, 1938
Type: Movie
After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.
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Gang Bullets
Title: Gang Bullets
Character: Dexter Wayne
Released: November 10, 1938
Type: Movie
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
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The Mad Miss Manton
Title: The Mad Miss Manton
Character: Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1938
Type: Movie
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
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Smashing the Rackets
Title: Smashing the Rackets
Character: Grand Juryman
Released: August 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
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Men with Wings
Title: Men with Wings
Character: Alcott
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
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Racket Busters
Title: Racket Busters
Character: Martin's Trial Judge #2 (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
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Crime Ring
Title: Crime Ring
Character: L. Marvin
Released: July 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.
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Gangs of New York
Title: Gangs of New York
Character: District Attorney Lucas
Released: May 23, 1938
Type: Movie
An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.
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Crime School
Title: Crime School
Character: Judge Robert E. Clinton
Released: May 10, 1938
Type: Movie
In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck the knockout blow, and all are subsequently sentenced to a reformatory, cruelly run by two corrupt guards. New deputy commissioner Mark Braden arrives determined to change things, but despite the help of Frankie's sister, Mark's reform plans -- and Frankie's future -- may be sabotaged from within.
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The Invisible Menace
Title: The Invisible Menace
Character: Dr. Brooks
Released: January 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.
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The Patient in Room 18
Title: The Patient in Room 18
Character: Dr. Bahman
Released: January 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles delivers a delightfully comic performance as Lance, an outwardly normal young man obsessed with detective stories. When his obsession threatens to lapse over into lunacy, Lance is sent to the hospital for a nice long rest. It isn't long before he gets mixed up in a genuine murder mystery, using his second-hand knowhow to solve the case. Up-and-coming Ann Sheridan is quite amusing as Lance's nurse and confidante, while the murderer is played by a fellow who is usually cast as the murder victim.
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Exiled to Shanghai
Title: Exiled to Shanghai
Character: Walters
Released: December 20, 1937
Type: Movie
A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in television.
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Alcatraz Island
Title: Alcatraz Island
Character: Alcatraz Warden
Released: October 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
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Fit for a King
Title: Fit for a King
Character: Mr. Marshall
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a princess in exile, in danger of assassination; and, falling in love with "Scoops", while engaged to a prince.
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That Certain Woman
Title: That Certain Woman
Character: Dr. 'Doc' James
Released: August 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
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Sea Racketeers
Title: Sea Racketeers
Character: Maxwell Gordon
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
J. Carrol Naish plays a slimy villain again; this time he's running a casino on a ship and smuggling furs past the Coast Guard.
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Captains Courageous
Title: Captains Courageous
Character: Dr. Dick Walsh (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
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The Thirteenth Chair
Title: The Thirteenth Chair
Character: Dr. Mason
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.
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They Gave Him a Gun
Title: They Gave Him a Gun
Character: Judge
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
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Espionage
Title: Espionage
Character: Doyle
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
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Mama Steps Out
Title: Mama Steps Out
Character: American Consul
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.
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Man Of The People
Title: Man Of The People
Character: Man at Hearing (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1937
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
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Dangerous Number
Title: Dangerous Number
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: January 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave the groom-to-be and marry him. Shortly after the marriage, they discover that they have nothing in common. They separate. Hank decides to pick any name from the phone book and date them. That date results in a wild and frightful night for Hank, thanks to Eleanor's clever plan.
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Torture Money
Title: Torture Money
Character: Dr. Morgan (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1937
Type: Movie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.
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Sinner Take All
Title: Sinner Take All
Character: Coroner (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
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Mad Holiday
Title: Mad Holiday
Character: Ship's Doctor (uncredited)
Released: November 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
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Libeled Lady
Title: Libeled Lady
Character: Graham
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
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The Devil Is a Sissy
Title: The Devil Is a Sissy
Character: Doctor
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
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The Gorgeous Hussy
Title: The Gorgeous Hussy
Character: Martin Van Buren
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several of those politicians and military men who all want to marry her, except for the one with who she is truly in love.
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We Went to College
Title: We Went to College
Character: President Tomlin
Released: June 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Middle-aged couples try to reclaim their youth at a college homecoming.
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Speed
Title: Speed
Character: Doctor Attending Gadget
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Terry is the chief car tester for Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to work in publicity. Frank and Terry both want Jane to be their girl. Terry has designed a new carburetor that should bring him fame and money, but he cannot get it to work correctly. Terry and Gadget have tested it for over a year, but it still is not perfected. Emery Motors assigns Frank to help Terry with the carburetor, but Terry is not happy because Frank is an Engineer and is also vying for Jane. They finish the carburetor, and to test it, they enter a car in the Indianapolis 500 race. Terry is not yet satisfied with the carburetor before the big race even though it has passed all the tests.
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Absolute Quiet
Title: Absolute Quiet
Character: Doctor (Uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary hostage, the convicts inadvertently cause the crash-landing of a small plane ferrying Axton's political adversary, Gov. Sam Pruden, and a nosy reporter. As the long night unfolds, each person's rivalries and weaknesses are prodded by the others.
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The Great Ziegfeld
Title: The Great Ziegfeld
Character: Julian Mitchell (uncredited)
Released: April 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.
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Moonlight Murder
Title: Moonlight Murder
Character: Stage Manager
Released: March 27, 1936
Type: Movie
An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.
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Robin Hood of El Dorado
Title: Robin Hood of El Dorado
Character: Ramon de la Cuesta
Released: March 17, 1936
Type: Movie
In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw. The reward for his capture is increased as he subsequently kills the men who brutally murder his brother. Joining with bandit Three Fingered Jack, Murrieta raises an army of disaffected Mexicans and goes on a rampage against the Americans, finally forcing his erstwhile friend, Bill Warren, to lead a posse against him.
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Important News
Title: Important News
Character: Ed Rollins (uncredited)
Released: February 29, 1936
Type: Movie
In this short film, a small-town newspaper editor struggles with what to publish on his paper's front page.
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The Garden Murder Case
Title: The Garden Murder Case
Character: Inspector Colby
Released: February 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major Fenwicke-Ralston.
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Exclusive Story
Title: Exclusive Story
Character: James Witherspoon Sr.
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.
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Last of the Pagans
Title: Last of the Pagans
Character: Mine Superintendant (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Two South Sea Islanders fall in love, followed by a hurricane.
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Rendezvous
Title: Rendezvous
Character: Secretary of War Baker
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
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It's in the Air
Title: It's in the Air
Character: Alfred Drake
Released: October 10, 1935
Type: Movie
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
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I Live My Life
Title: I Live My Life
Character: Minister (Uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
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Woman Wanted
Title: Woman Wanted
Character: Assistant District Attorney (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
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Mad Love
Title: Mad Love
Character: Dr. Marbeau (Uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
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The Murder Man
Title: The Murder Man
Character: District Attorney (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
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Calm Yourself
Title: Calm Yourself
Character: Mr. Lansell
Released: June 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
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Silence
Title: Silence
Character: Mallory
Released: August 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.
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The Secret Call
Title: The Secret Call
Character: Phil Roberts
Released: July 24, 1931
Type: Movie
The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy Shannon plays Wanda Kelly, the daughter of a disgraced politician. Reduced to working as a switchboard operator, Wanda is privy to the many secrets and indiscretions of the clients of a big-city hotel. She also finds romance in the form of handsome Tom Blake (Richard Arlen). The huge cast of characters comes in handy for the film's multitude of subplots, none of which ever get their wires crossed. Peggy Shannon acquits herself nicely in her first major role, but by the end of the decade her career was in decline.
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I Take This Woman
Title: I Take This Woman
Character: Mr. Dowling
Released: June 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A wealthy New York socialite falls for and marries a cowboy while out West. Her father disinherits her, and after trying to make a go of it as a cowboy's wife, they agree to divorce and she returns back east to her family. However, she soon changes her mind and determines to get her husband back.
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Honor Among Lovers
Title: Honor Among Lovers
Character: Cunningham, Craig's Attorney (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.
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Damaged Love
Title: Damaged Love
Character: Ned Indicott
Released: January 24, 1931
Type: Movie
Determined to land Jim as her husband, footloose Nita contrives to get herself pregnant by him.
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Prohibition
Title: Prohibition
Released: January 1, 1915
Type: Movie