
Birthday:
12-18-1889
Deathday:
02-27-1951 (61 years)
Birthplace:
Moscow, Russia
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Act like Store Vice-President (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 7
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American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him.
The Swan
Act like Father Hyacinth
event1925 star_border 6
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The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on Melville Baker's 1923 Broadway play adaptation, The Swan, of Ferenc Molnar's play A Hattyu Vigjatek Harom Felvonasbarn. This film was directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, a recent Russian immigrant working for Famous Players-Lasky. Buchowetzki had directed pictures in Russia, Sweden, and Germany. The story of this film was remade in 1930 as One Romantic Night, an early talkie for Lillian Gish, and in Technicolor as a 1956 vehicle for Grace Kelly.
The Night Bird
Act like Mario
event1928 star_border 6
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A boxer falls in love with a girl he meets in the park.
The Mask of Dimitrios
Act like Bulgarian Policeman (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 7
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A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
Tempest
Act like The Guard
event1928 star_border 6.4
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In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls in love with a princess, who spurns him. When he is caught in her room, he is stripped of his rank and thrown into prison. Then comes the Red Terror, and the tables are turned.
Roberta
event1935 star_border 7
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Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt, owner of a posh fashion house run by her assistant, Stephanie. There they meet the singer Scharwenka (alias Huck's old friend Lizzie), who gets the band a job. Meanwhile, Madame Roberta passes away and leaves the business to John and he goes into partnership with Stephanie.
Invisible Agent
Act like Verichen (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.8
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The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
Experiment Perilous
Act like Ballet Master (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 5.6
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In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.
The Sunset Derby
Act like Peddler
event1927
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After suffering a fall during a race, rider Jimmy Burke loses his nerve. But with the help of his girlfriend Molly Gibson, Jimmy regains his confidence just in time to achieve victory during the Big Race.
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Act like Dr. Otto Von Brom
event1940 star_border 7.6
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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.
The Last Command
Act like Serge (the valet)
event1928 star_border 7.3
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A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
Angel
event1937 star_border 6.8
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While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.
Man on the Flying Trapeze
Act like Cellmate (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 5.9
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Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.
Marquis Preferred
Act like Jacques
event1929
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Menjou is a gentleman for sale to the daughter of any millionaire who will pay his debts and support him in the style to which he is accustomed.
Intrigue
Act like Ship's Captain (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 5
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Dishonorably discharged from the Army Air Corps, Brad Dunham (George Raft) disconsolately decides to try his luck with Shanghai's postwar black market. Teaming with the treacherous Tamara Baranoff (June Havoc), Dunham prospers in his newly-found illicit profession, much to the dismay of his best friend, reporter Mark Andrews (Tom Tully). When Tamara has the troublesome Andrews murdered, Dunham realizes the folly of his behavior and works overtime to squash the black market for good and all.
Downstairs
Act like Servant (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.9
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In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive. The servants seem to enjoy their time together, and some even fall in love, as head butler Albert and maid Anna have done. But when lecherous new chauffeur Karl Schneider enters the house, affairs and blackmail follow, and the harmony of the home is slowly destroyed.
Don Ricardo Returns
Act like Captain Martinez
event1946
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After being shanghaied in a plot to have him declared dead and take over his ranchero and other properties, Don Ricardo, disguised as a peon, returns to Old California, and begins the fight to reclaim what is his.
The Nickel-Hopper
Act like Paddy's father
event1926 star_border 7
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Dance hall Romeos and an irresponsible father create comic complications in the life of a nickel-per-whirl taxi dancer.
Desperate
Act like Villager (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.5
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An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.
Spring Night
Act like The Chef
event1935 star_border 4
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A short ballet with a young woman who sneaks away from a party and finds a statue of the Roman god Pan. She falls asleep and dreams it comes to life and dances with her.
Tropic Holiday
Act like Felipe
event1938 star_border 5.5
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A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border.
Paris Honeymoon
Act like Judge
event1939 star_border 3
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A Texas millionaire travels to Europe to meet his girlfriend, a European countess. He stops in a rustic mountain village and meets a beautiful peasant girl. He falls in love with her, then must decide if he wants her or the rich countess.
Air Devils
Act like The President
event1938 star_border 3
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Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.
Café Metropole
Act like First Cashier (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.9
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An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
King of the Arena
Act like Baron Petroff
event1933
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Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has sent Ken Kenton to investigate. Ken joins the show but when he realizes that Bargoff is involved, Bargoff has fled and taken Mary Hiller as a hostage. The trail leads to Baron Petroff who concocted the deadly chemical and Ken quickly finds himself the Baron's prisoner.
6 Hours to Live
Act like Monsieur Thereux
event1932 star_border 5
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A murder victim is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his killer in that time.
The Arizona Terror
Act like Emilio Vasquez
event1931
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Captain Porter's scheme is to buy livestock and then have his men show up later to kill the buyer and retrieve the money. When his men kill the next victim, he frames the Arizonian for the murder. The Arizonian escapes the law and joins up with the outlaw Vasquez. Knowing Porter's scheme, he plans to trap him by using Vasquez as the next buyer.
Two Arabian Knights
Act like Skipper
event1927 star_border 6
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During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beautiful harem girl. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation in 2016.
Blood and Sand
Act like Minor Role (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.4
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Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.
I'll Give a Million
Act like Citizen
event1938 star_border 5.7
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After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
One More Spring
Act like Russian
event1935 star_border 5.7
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Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
Let's Fall in Love
Act like Trent
event1933 star_border 7.5
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A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.
Hungarian Rhapsody
Act like Gypsy King
event1930
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Liszt's 'Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2'. One of a series of shorts consisting of silent, staged stories, played out against popular pieces of classical music.
Sweepstakes
Act like Russian Cook
event1931 star_border 4.5
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A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
Paddy O'Day
Act like Popushka Petrovitch
event1936 star_border 7
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A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.
Midnight
Act like Footman (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.4
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An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
Juarez
Act like (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.5
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The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
We Live Again
Act like Judge
event1934 star_border 6.5
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Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
Everything Happens at Night
Act like Woodcutter
event1939 star_border 4.1
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Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
Sergeant Madden
Act like Vidal
event1939 star_border 6
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A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
The Flying Deuces
Act like Innkeeper
event1939 star_border 6.4
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Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. When they’re arrested for soon trying to desert the Legion—they escape a firing squad by stealing an aircraft.
Dracula
Act like Innkeeper (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 7.2
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British estate agent Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a castle in London. After Dracula enslaves Renfield and drives him to insanity, the pair sail to London together and Dracula, a secret vampire, begins preying on London socialites.
Strange People
Act like Edwards - the Caretaker
event1933 star_border 4.5
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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.
Chinatown After Dark
Act like Mr. Varonoff
event1931 star_border 3.7
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The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.
Espionage
Act like Foreign Spy
event1937 star_border 6.5
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Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
A Girl in Every Port
Act like Maria Buenjolla's Lover
event1928 star_border 6.3
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Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young woman come between them?
The Adventurer
Act like Somaroff
event1928
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American mining engineer Jim McClellan is in love with Dolores de Silva, daughter of the deposed president of a Latin American country. He becomes involved in the revolution....
Morocco
Act like Colonel Alexandre Barratière (uncredited)
event1930 star_border 6.3
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Mogador, Morocco. Late 1920s. A complex romance develops between a womanizing Legionnaire and a disillusioned Parisian cabaret singer.
Macao
Act like Russian Doorman (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 6.2
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Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and still woo the attractive singer/petty crook, Julie Benson?
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Act like Staff Officer
event1943 star_border 6.5
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Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.
Mockery
Act like Cossack Whipping Sergei (uncredited)
event1927 star_border 6.7
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There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to help her get there, and to tell anyone they might meet that he is her husband.
The Son of Monte Cristo
Act like Prince Paul Pavlov
event1940 star_border 6.2
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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.
Second Chorus
Act like Sergei (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5.8
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Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
Champagne Waltz
Act like Ivanovitch
event1937
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In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitten by Elsa, Buzzy hides his identity and association with the club -- whose owner intends to buy out the Palace property. When Elsa accidentally learns who Buzzy really is, it appears he may have to return to America alone.
Woman Trap
Act like Bit Role
event1929 star_border 5.2
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In Woman Trap, Hal Skelly is hard-bitten police sergeant Dan Malone, whose mission in life is to rid his community of gangsters. The revelation that Dan's own brother Ray is the secret head of all local criminal activities does not weaken Dan's resolve in the least. The barely relevant title is a reference to "heroine" Kitty Evans, the wife of a minor gang functionary. Screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz, presumably on a dare, makes a brief appearance as a crime reporter.
Fugitive Road
Act like Police Captain
event1934
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An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.
The Soldier and the Lady
Act like Innkeeper
event1937 star_border 6.5
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In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.
Camille
Act like Camille's Father
event1927 star_border 1
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Based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
House of Horror
Act like Chauffeur
event1929
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House of Horror is a 1929 American comedy-horror mystery film directed by Benjamin Christensen. The film stars Louise Fazenda and Chester Conklin and was released in both a silent and sound version which featured a Vitaphone soundtrack with talking sequences, music and sound effects. Both the silent and sound versions of House of Horror are now presumed lost.
Du Barry, Woman of Passion
Act like Bit role (voice)
event1930 star_border 5.4
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Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position as she saunters through the woods, and attracted by a pool of water, she disrobes and plunges in. Cosse de Brissac, a handsome private in the King's Guards, comes to her rescue and they become sweethearts. Meanwhile, Jean Du Barry, a shrewd roué, takes note of her at the millinery shop and tricks her into staying at La Gourda's, where she soon becomes a favorite among the men.
The Gay Desperado
Act like Theatre Manager
event1936 star_border 2.8
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Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (along with Jane, an heiress) so he can learn to become more like the American movie gangsters he admires.
Mark of the Vampire
Act like Innkeeper
event1935 star_border 6.1
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Sir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications pointing to a vampire assault. The victim's friend, Baron Otto, and the physician who analyzes the body are certain that the vampire is the mysterious Count Mora, or perhaps his daughter, but receive little help from the law. Professor Zelen, an expert in the occult, is called in to assist with the investigation.
Flight to Nowhere
Act like Joseph Herman Ruehl
event1946 star_border 4.7
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A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets.
Disraeli
Act like Count Borsinov
event1929 star_border 5.1
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Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.
Woman of the Year
Act like Russian Guest (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.9
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Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Suez
Act like Jewl Merchant (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5.2
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Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
Break of Hearts
Act like Bassoonist (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 5.5
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Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.
Mata Hari
Act like Jacques (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 6.2
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A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
Du Barry was a Lady
Act like Flunky
event1943 star_border 6.1
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Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Madame Curie
Act like Proud Papa (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 7.2
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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.
Mission to Moscow
Act like Barkov (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 5.2
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Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Valencia
Act like Cafe Owner
event1926
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"Felipe, a sailor falls madly in love with Valencia, a Spanish dancing girl, who is sought after by Don Fernando, the governor. When Felipe deserts his ship, the Don throws him in prison, but Valencia obtains his release and shares his disgrace and exile." Moving Picture World, 8 Jan 1927, p. 144.
The Merry Frinks
Act like Katzelmalov, the Second Russian
event1934 star_border 3.7
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An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
A Royal Scandal
Act like Russian General (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 6.9
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Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
A Song to Remember
Act like Russian Governor (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 6.2
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Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.
Two Sisters from Boston
Act like Russian Opera Team Member (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6
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Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
Freaks
Act like Jean (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 7.8
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A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Paris
Act like Rocco
event1926 star_border 7
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The power of love in the violent underground world of the Apaches in Paris in the early 20th century.
The Mad Empress
Act like Dr. Samuel Basch
event1939 star_border 5.6
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The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I of Mexico and his struggles against Benito Juarez.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Act like Mirakle's Sideshow Barker (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.1
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In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
Reunion in France
Act like Vigouroux (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.4
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Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
We Americans
Act like Mr. Albertini
event1928
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We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes that he handled so well, director Edward H. Sloman concentrates on the trials and tribulations of three first-generation American families: The Jewish Levines, the German Schmidts and the Italian Albertinis.
Ramona
Act like Juan Canito
event1928 star_border 6.4
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Based on the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of 1884 about a young woman of partial Native American descent, who experiences love and loss in 1800s California.
Yolanda and the Thief
Act like Major Domo
event1945 star_border 5.7
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Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing her tangled business affairs. Riggs decides to materialize as the girl's "angel", gains her unquestioning confidence, and helps himself to the deluded girl's millions. Just as he and his partner are about to flee Patria with their booty, Riggs realizes he has fallen in love with the girl and returns the money, together with a note that is part confession and part love letter. But the larcenous duo's escape from Patria turns out to be more difficult than they could ever have imagined.
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