
Birthday:
02-20-1921
Deathday:
02-18-1945 (23 years)
Birthplace:
Akron, Ohio, USA
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Laddie
Act like Leon Stanton
event1935
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A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
Manhattan Melodrama
Act like Jim Wade as a Boy
event1934 star_border 7
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The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Stella Dallas
Act like Con Morrison - Grown Up
event1937 star_border 6.9
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After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Act like Billy Wiggs
event1934 star_border 6
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The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure. Miss Lucy and Bob get married.
When a Man's a Man
Act like Newsboy Jimmy
event1935 star_border 6
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A landslide has diverted water from the Baldwin ranch to Cambert's. With their cattle dying, Cambert refuses to let them have any water. Easterner Larry Knight takes a job with the Baldwins and he has a plan to divert the water back to the Baldwin ranch. But Phil, jealous of Kitty's attraction to Larry, lets Cambert know of the scheme.
No Greater Glory
Act like Boka
event1934 star_border 6.7
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A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
Romance in Manhattan
Act like Frank Dennis
event1935 star_border 7.8
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Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop-on-the-beat Murphy, Sylvia hides Karel from the immigration authorities and ultimately falls in love with him. In addition to Karel's illegal-alien status, the plot is complicated by a crooked lawyer and a group of well-meaning welfare workers who endeavor to place Sylvia's kid brother Frank in a foster home.
Uncle Joe
Act like Bob
event1941 star_border 6
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A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried parents to live with her uncle on his Iowa farm.
Battle of Greed
Act like Danny Storm
event1937 star_border 4
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When silver is found in Virginia City, Lawyer John Storm leads a group from Indiana west. He soon has to defend them all in court against a company that is after their claims. Fighting a crooked Judge, he gets a mis-trial by telling how much each of the jurors was bribed. Then he gets the Governor to appoint a new Judge. But just as the retrial opens, the Judge learns his daughter has been kidnaped.
Dinky
Act like Cadet Lane
event1935 star_border 6.7
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A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
Boys Town
Act like Paul Ferguson
event1938 star_border 6.7
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Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
Call a Messenger
Act like Bob Prichard
event1939
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A tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he takes a job as a messenger with the post office. He finds that he likes it, and when his brother is released from prison, attempts to help his brother go straight. However, the two of them get mixed up with a local gangster, who has plans to start robbing post office branches and using the messenger and his brother to do it.
Only Yesterday
Act like Jim Jr.
event1933 star_border 6.8
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On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
The Escape
Act like Jim Rogers
event1939 star_border 5.5
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An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.
Wells Fargo
Act like Nick Pryor Jr.
event1937 star_border 5.1
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In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
County Fair
Act like Buddy Williams
event1937 star_border 6
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Racetrack drama about a young jockey accused of drugging his horse.
Nurse Edith Cavell
Act like Jean Rappard
event1939 star_border 6.4
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British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
Show Them No Mercy!
Act like Boy at Service Station (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 7
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A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
Tough as They Come
Act like Gene Bennett
event1942
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The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and try to stop them.
Winter Carnival
Act like Larry Grey
event1939 star_border 6
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A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.
The Awakening of Jim Burke
Act like Jimmy Burke
event1935
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After his divorced wife dies, Jim Burke takes their son who she had been raising and he hasn't seen in many years. Jim Burke is a tough, hard-nosed construction boss on engineering projects, and he is looking forward to molding Little Jim into his own image. Jim Burke is more than a little bit dismayed and a whole lot disgusted when Little Jim arrives and it doesn't take Big Jim long to figure out that Little Jim...ain't nothing but a sissy. Little Jim is fond of practicing on his violin and reading and studying. What's a poor father to do?
Corvette K-225
Act like Rating
event1943 star_border 6.2
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The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
Military Academy
Act like Cadet Dewey
event1940 star_border 5.5
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Tommy Lewis, the son of a big time racketeer, is enrolled in military school under an assumed name as protection from the notoriety of his father. Tommy is assigned to share a room with Dick Hill, an egotistical school athlete, and Sandy Blake, a pampered rich boy. Even though all three boys are potentially good lads, each has a handicap that he must overcome.
I'll Fix It
Act like Bobby Grimes
event1934
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A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs. But when he tries to fix his adored kid brother's place on the school football team, he meets his match in school-teacher Anne Barry.
The Hard Way
Act like Boy (Uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.6
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Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
Beloved
Act like Charles Hausmann, as a boy
event1934
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Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
The Daily Show
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 6.4
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The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.
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