
Birthday:
12-13-1918
Deathday:
01-19-1951 (32 years)
Birthplace:
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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Pillow to Post
Act like Earl 'Slim' Clark
event1945 star_border 5.5
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With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. She finally gets one tentative sale with the Black Hills Oil Co., but Earl wants dinner with her. With the shortage of housing due to the war, Jean needs a military husband to get a place to stay in Clayfield, which is next to Camp Clay. She gets Lt. Mallory to act as her husband just to register. Then things go wrong as his commanding officer is there and believes them to be married. It gets worse as Don's mother shows up and then Jean's father.
Johnny Eager
Act like Policeman (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.1
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A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
There's Something About a Soldier
Act like Lt. Burroughs
event1943 star_border 4.8
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Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.
Two-Faced Woman
Act like Minor Role (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.4
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A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
The Vanishing Virginian
Act like James Weldon 'Shirley (as Douglass Newland)
event1942 star_border 6
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The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.
Cinderella Jones
Act like Soldier
event1946 star_border 3.3
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Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
Law of the Northwest
Act like Paul Darcy (as Douglas Drake)
event1943
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Briefly switching gears in 1942 and 1943, western star Charles Starrett made a handful of "northerns" in which he played a Canadian mountie. In Law of the Northwest, Steve King (Starrett) supervises a road-construction project designed to transport war materials to the Aleutians. Problems arise when a crooked contractor decides that his interests are more important than the war effort.
Robin Hood of the Range
Act like Ned Harding (as Douglass Drake)
event1943 star_border 4
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Inasmuch as western star Charles Starrett gained screen fame as the Robin Hood-like "Durango Kid", it stands to reason that Starrett would head the cast of Robin Hood of the Range. The star plays Steve Marlowe, the foster son of railroad manager Henry Marlowe (Kenneth McDonald). When it becomes apparent that the railroad is using underhanded methods to drive local homesteaders off their land, Steve adopts the guise of "The Vulcan", a legendary champion of justice.
Mr. Skeffington
Act like Johnny Mitchell
event1944 star_border 6.7
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A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Act like Military Policeman Keeney
event1943 star_border 5.8
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A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
Redhead from Manhattan
Act like Marty Britt
event1943 star_border 4.7
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Lupe VĂ©lez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
Married Bachelor
Act like Devlin (as Douglass Newland) (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5.8
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A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentric professor) in order to pay off a debt to a gangster.
Sunday Punch
Act like 'Baby' Fitzroy (as Douglass Newland)
event1942 star_border 5
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Ma Galestrum (Connie Gilchrist) is a boardinghouse owner whose tenants are a group of aspiring boxers. When her young niece, Judy (Jean Rogers), comes to stay for a visit, college dropout Ken Burke (William Lundigan) and Swedish janitor Ole (Dan Dailey Jr.) immediately fall for her charms. Ken considers going back to college for Judy, but his fight promoter is less than thrilled with this idea. Meanwhile, Ole is determined to meet Ken in the ring to vie for Judy's heart.
Laugh Your Blues Away
Act like Jimmy Westerly (as Douglas Drake)
event1942
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Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her son with the daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher.
Hollywood Canteen
Act like Busboy (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 7.3
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Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
Rio Rita
Act like Control Man (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.8
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Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
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