
Birthday:
02-10-1911
Deathday:
12-12-1946 (35 years)
Birthplace:
Fairfield, Iowa, USA
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Adventure's End
Act like Stantul, Black Sailor
event1937 star_border 5
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Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being wooed by the first mate.
Earl of Puddlestone
Act like Homer
event1940
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When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decides to get back at them by making them believe that his family has "royal" connections.
Dressed to Kill
Act like Sam
event1941 star_border 6.4
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A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
Kentucky Blue Streak
Act like Waiter
event1935 star_border 4
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A nosy reporter (Nugent) befriends the dumb Coughlin and pushes the Governor to commute his sentence. Now, Coughlin can ride his family's pride and joy in the Kentucky Derby. BUT, the mean old Warden cancels all paroles--and the idiot decides to escape (even though he's only got 10 more months to serve). So, the reporter has a hunch and goes to see if he can find Coughlin--and the Warden deputizes him!! At this point you might wonder if the boy will make good and win the big race
Reap the Wild Wind
Act like Chinkapin
event1942 star_border 6.4
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The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
The Scarlet Clue
Act like Ben Carter
event1945 star_border 5.9
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Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
Dark Alibi
Act like Benjamin Brown
event1946 star_border 6.1
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After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had been forged. Charlie then proceeds to find the true bank robbers.
Crash Dive
Act like Oliver Cromwell Jones
event1943 star_border 6.2
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A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
Ride on Vaquero
Act like Watchman Bullfinch
event1941 star_border 4.2
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The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army regiment, to help break up a kidnap ring. On his way to Las Tables with his pal, Gordito, he makes a stop at the Martinez Rancho, where they learn that his friend Carlos has been kidnapped, from his wife Marquerita. At the Crystal Palace Saloon, Cisco runs into an old girlfriend, Sally, who he once jilted for a tight-rope walker, but she doesn't betray him when the sheriff and an army officer enter searching for Cisco.
Maryland
Act like Shadrach Jones
event1940 star_border 6.2
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A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
Little Old New York
Act like Noah
event1940 star_border 4
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Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
Born to Sing
Act like 'Eight Ball'
event1942 star_border 5
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A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs.
Riverboat Rhythm
Act like Benjamin
event1946 star_border 5
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A financially-strapped showboat captain struggles to stay in business.
Chad Hanna
Act like Bell Boy
event1940 star_border 6
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Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.
The Daring Young Man
Act like Pinky
event1942 star_border 4.3
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Jonathan Peckinpaw feels he's failed in his patriotic duty when he's rejected by the army, but he sees a chance to redeem himself by exposing a secret ring of Nazi spies.
Stars on Parade
Act like Ben Carter Choir Leader
event1944
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In this musical showcase, two aspiring stars attempt to wow a pair of talent scouts with their stellar abilities. Songs include "My Heart Isn't in It" (Jack Lawrence), "It's Love, Love, Love" (Mack David, Joan Whitney, Alex Kramer), "When They Ask about You" (Sammy Stept), "Jumpin' at the Jubilee" (Ben Carter, Mayes Marshall), "Taking Care of You" (Lou Brown, Harry Akst), "Where Am I Without You?" (Don Raye, Gene De Paul), "Two Hearts in the Dark" (Dave Franklin), "Somewhere This Side of Heaven," "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel."
Thru Different Eyes
Act like Henry
event1942
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A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case.
Tin Pan Alley
Act like Boy
event1940 star_border 5
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Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
Safari
Act like Happy
event1940 star_border 4
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Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Linda finds unplanned adventure in her sudden love for Jim, ultimately forsaking her future with the Baron for the joys of true love.
Redhead from Manhattan
Act like Mark Anthony Brown
event1943 star_border 4.7
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Lupe Vélez 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.
Bowery to Broadway
Act like No-More
event1944
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Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud erupts.
This Is the Life
Act like Ben Carter
event1944 star_border 5
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18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice training, but she is pursuing Major Hilary Jarret, an Army surgeon with whom she has become infatuated. Her departure depresses her childhood friend Jimmy Plum. Dr. Plum devises an errand on which to send his love-sick son to New York, where Jimmy discovers Angela thinks she is Jarret's fiancée. Jimmy also renews acquaintances with a group of show people, including Sally McGuire, who attempts to console him. Jimmy meets Jarret's divorced wife, Harriet, famed photographer. Jimmy engineers a meeting of Jarret and Harriet with Angela present, which forms the beginning of an understanding that Jarret is not for her. Jimmy is inducted into the Army.
Lady on a Train
Act like Maxwell
event1945 star_border 6.5
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While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
Mister Big
Act like Ben Carter - Choir Leader
event1943 star_border 2.2
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Students at the Davis School of the Theatre are assigned "Antigone" as their class play, but they conspire to do a swing musical instead.
Young America
Act like Abraham
event1942
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Young America is a 1942 American drama film directed by Louis King and written by Samuel G. Engel. The film stars Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Lynne Roberts, Robert Cornell, William Tracy and Roman Bohnen. The film was released on February 6, 1942, by 20th Century Fox.
South to Karanga
Act like Higgins
event1940
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Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder and intrigue on the way.
Sleepers West
Act like Lender Jones, a Porter
event1941 star_border 6.3
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Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
The Harvey Girls
Act like John Henry
event1946 star_border 6.5
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On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
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