
Birthday:
04-17-1887
Deathday:
07-13-1942 (55 years)
Birthplace:
Atchison, Kansas, USA
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Dining Out
event1930
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Comedy about a man who, reluctantly, spends an evening with his wife at home rather then going out drinking with his friend. When that friend later mistakes the wife for the girl he's been carousing with, it all gets a bit messy.
Not Damaged
event1930
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A fortune teller informs a hopeless romantic that she'll be meeting a mysterious, tall, dark stranger. Initially skeptical, the young lady latterly concedes when the soothsayer's premonitions begin to ring true.
Take Me Home
Act like Al Marks
event1928
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Chorus girl Peggy Lane, finds a small part in a new show for David North, a stages-truck country boy. At rehearsal, David meets Delerys Devore, the show's star, and she quickly offers him a larger part in her act. Quite taken with David, Delerys invites him to her home on the pretext that Peggy will be there; when Peggy does not show up, David leaves, infuriating his hostess. Derelys has Peggy fired the next day, and in reprisal Peggy goads her into a Carmenesque fight backstage just before the show. Derelys is unable to go on stage, and Peggy takes her place, becoming the hit of the show. Peggy and David are later married and give up show business, finding contentment living on a farm.
Over Thereabouts
Act like Horace Voyce
event1925
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Hapless pilot Billy manages to raise himself from KP duty to flying ace. He manages to wreck havoc on the German Air Force and return home a hero!
Get 'Em Young
Act like Lawrence Lavendar Virgin, a female impersonator
event1926 star_border 5
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A butler is persuaded to pretend to be a man's wife so that he can inherit a million dollars.
False Pretenses
Act like Tiffany Cortland
event1935 star_border 5
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A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. Complications ensue.
A Sweet Pickle
Act like Jack Roebuck
event1925
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A Sweet Pickle is a 1925 Comedy short.
Atlantic Adventure
Act like Smith - Second Drunk on Ship
event1935 star_border 5.5
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When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
Scotch
Act like Jack
event1930
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Scotch is a 1930 comedy short.
Sweethearts on Parade
Act like Denham
event1930 star_border 1
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Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands. They meet Bill and Hank, who make them reconsider whether they really need millionaires to be happy.
Parole Girl
Act like Davison - 1st Store Manager
event1933 star_border 5.8
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A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.
Ambassador Bill
Act like Northfield Slater
event1931 star_border 5.7
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An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.
A Bedtime Story
Act like Robert
event1933 star_border 8
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Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Act like Beauchard - Hotel Manager
event1932 star_border 6.7
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Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
Broadway Gondolier
Act like Hotel Clerk
event1935 star_border 5.4
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A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
I'll Take Romance
Act like Hotel Clerk
event1937 star_border 5
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Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.
Naughty But Nice
Act like First Headwaiter (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.2
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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.
High Tension
Act like Jewelry Salesman
event1936 star_border 5.4
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Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
Atta Boy
Act like Craven, the reporter
event1926
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Monty Milde, would-be newspaper reporter, stumbles into a high-profile kidnapping mystery.
Call It Luck
Act like Sid Carter
event1934 star_border 6
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A London taxicab driver cashes in on a big sweepstakes ticket and becomes the prey of a confidence-gang that sells him a nag of a cavalry horse on the claim that it is a brother to a current Derby winner.
A Perfect Gentleman
Act like George Cooper
event1928 star_border 7
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Monty Banks gets involved in tracking down a stolen fortune, his adventures culminating in a whirlwind, gag-filled climax at sea.
Roaring Timber
Act like Slim Bagnell
event1937 star_border 5
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Jim Sherwood , toughest logging boss in the timber country, takes on his toughest assignment when he agrees to cut an enormous volume of timber for Andrew MacKinley, who has to deliver the timber within sixty days.
Horse Shoes
Act like Henry Baker Jr
event1927
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A Monty Banks comedy that includes the 'Undressing in the Upper Berth' routine
Sob Sister
Act like Dave
event1931
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Jane Ray, a very clever reporter of crimes of passion, or "sob sister," for a New York tabloid, begins to feel depressed by the sordidness of her latest assignment, the investigation of a young woman's murder by her husband. Despite her growing distaste for her profession, Jane gets her story and, with typical ingenuity, frustrates her competitors' attempts to follow her lead.
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