
Birthday:
09-29-1893
Deathday:
06-09-1974 (80 years)
Birthplace:
Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
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The Hard Man
Act like Card Player (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 4.8
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A Texas Ranger turns deputy sheriff; a woman wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband.
Rockabilly Baby
Act like Coach Ed Stone
event1957 star_border 6
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The mysterious Mrs. Eleanor Carter moves to Springville with her two teenage children Jimmy and Cathy. Eleanor makes friends with the town's social leader Mrs. Wellington, who supports her idea for a town youth center, and she is aided by Tom Griffith, the high school principal. At the town's annual picnic, to which Eleanor has bought a band, the town busy-body Eunice reveals what she had learned from Eleanor's past.
Broken Arrow
Act like Amos (1 ep.)
event1956 star_border 5
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Broken Arrow is a Western series which ran on ABC-TV in prime time from 1956 through 1958 on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Eastern time. Repeat episodes were shown by ABC on Sunday afternoons during the 1959–60 season. Selected repeats were then shown once again in prime time during the summer of 1960.
Cheyenne
Act like Young (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 5.8
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Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero.
CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
Wiretapper
Act like Mr. Wiggins
event1955 star_border 5.1
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A cash-strapped electrical engineer with a criminal past vows to go straight when he marries his longtime girlfriend, but he has second thoughts when the mob offers big money for his wiretapping services.
Fangs of the Wild
Act like Mac
event1954
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A young boy living at a mountain lodge witnesses a murder, and is then targeted himself by the killer.
Public Defender
Act like Thomas Geer (1 ep.) • (1 ep.)
event1954 star_border 6
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The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955, a season and a half.
Fangs of the Arctic
Act like MacGregor - Trading Post Owner
event1953 star_border 5.5
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Canadian Mounties Corporal Rod Webb and Constable Mike Kelly, along with Rod's dog Chinook, are sent to the Blackfoot Crossing country to find a killer.
Kansas City Confidential
Act like Mr. Collins (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 7.1
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An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
Arctic Flight
Act like Squid Tucker
event1952 star_border 6.8
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Mike Wein, an Alaskan bush pilot operating the the Bering Sea area, makes friends with John W. Wetherby, posing as a wealthy United States businessman. But, in reality, he is a Russian spy on his way to Siberia carrying microfilms of the United States' defense installations.
Adventures of Superman
Act like Prof. Pepperwinkle (3 ep.)
event1952 star_border 6.7
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Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!"
Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"
Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
The Unknown Man
event1951 star_border 4.8
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A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
I Love Lucy
Act like Man On Platform (uncredited) (1 ep.)
event1951 star_border 7.9
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Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
Goodbye, My Fancy
Act like Reporter (Uncredited)
event1951 star_border 5.9
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Agatha has fond memories of her romance with college president Dr. James Merrill, when she was a student and he was her professor, and wants to see if there is still a spark between them.
The Lone Ranger
Act like John Walker (1 ep.) • (1 ep.)
event1949 star_border 6.6
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The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. Fred Foy served as both narrator and announcer of the radio series from 1948 to its finish and became announcer of the television version when story narration was dropped there. This was by far the highest-rated television program on the ABC network in the early 1950s and its first true "hit".
California
Act like Eddie (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.5
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"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.
This Gun for Hire
Act like Machinist (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.9
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Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
The Westerner
Act like Prisoner (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 7
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Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
Susan and God
Act like Exiting Theater Patron (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.5
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A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.
Johnny Apollo
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.8
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Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
I Stole a Million
Act like Charlie (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6
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A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
Stronger Than Desire
Act like Second Reporter on Telephone (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.8
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An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
Tell No Tales
Act like Marty (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.3
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A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
The Hardys Ride High
Act like Taxi Driver (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6
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Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2 million dollars. In order to claim the inheritance, he and his family must leave for Detroit. The disinherited heir Philip 'Phil' Westcott, adopted son of the deceased relative, has to leave the fabulous mansion Detroit. But the playboy Phil ain't going down without a fight. He decides on a charm offensive. First with Polly Benedict and foremost Andrew 'Andy' Hardy, the son of Judge Hardy.
Over the Goal
Act like Sound Techincian
event1937 star_border 3
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The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as well as costing the college a donation which would save the school from closing.
Murder with Pictures
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5.1
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Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...
Hollywood Boulevard
Act like Radio Master of Ceremonies (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 2.5
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With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Women Are Trouble
Act like Granger
event1936 star_border 6
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A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.
The Princess Comes Across
Act like Jones, American Newsreel Man (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.1
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A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
Absolute Quiet
Act like Dallas Airport Radio Operator (Uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5.5
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Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary hostage, the convicts inadvertently cause the crash-landing of a small plane ferrying Axton's political adversary, Gov. Sam Pruden, and a nosy reporter. As the long night unfolds, each person's rivalries and weaknesses are prodded by the others.
Sutter's Gold
Act like Lewis's Secretary
event1936
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Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Act like Reporter
event1935
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A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
The Gay Deception
Act like Auctioneer (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.4
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A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
Page Miss Glory
Act like Miss Glory's Radio Announcer (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.3
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A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
Woman Wanted
Act like Second Juror Talking to Mike (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.3
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Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
The Daring Young Man
Act like Cripps - Star Reporter
event1935
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The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
Men Without Names
Act like Reporter
event1935 star_border 6
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A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
Carnival
Act like Barker
event1935
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"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
The Payoff
Act like Radio Sports Broadcaster (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 4.9
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An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
Let's Talk It Over
Act like Golf Professional
event1934
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A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.
The Thin Man
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 7.5
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A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Change of Heart
Act like Brisbane's Assistant
event1934 star_border 6.2
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Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.
Stand Up and Cheer!
Act like Vaudevillian
event1934 star_border 4.8
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President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.
Six of a Kind
Act like Clerk in Newspaper Office
event1934 star_border 5.8
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The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney takes another road and is himself arrested in Nevada.
This Side of Heaven
Act like Pete - the Photographer (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 7
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A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
Going Hollywood
Act like Freddie
event1933 star_border 5.5
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The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and thank him. However, difficult problems lay ahead when Lili gets in the way.
Lady Killer
event1933 star_border 6.7
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An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.
The Big Bluff
event1933
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In order to show up a rival, a snobbish woman throws a party and hires an actor to pretend to be from British royalty who is an "old friend".
Meet the Baron
Act like Bus Tour Guide (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 4.3
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A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
I Loved a Woman
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 4.8
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The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
Sailor's Luck
Act like Nugent Busby
event1933 star_border 5
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U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San Francisco, but Jimmy becomes jealous and tells her off when he learns Sally has entered a marathon dance contest sponsored by a lecherous snake named Baron Portola. Along with several of his Navy pals, Jimmy goes to the ballroom the night of the dance marathon, to try to change Sally's mind and win her back.
King of the Jungle
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5
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A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Act like Reporter in Crowd (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.5
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Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
Me and My Gal
Act like Radio Salesman (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.5
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Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
Faithless
Act like Reporter
event1932 star_border 6.8
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Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
The Most Dangerous Game
Act like Passenger on Yacht (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.9
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When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.
Horse Feathers
Act like Football Broadcaster (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.9
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Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.
What Price Hollywood?
Act like Assistant Director Jimmy (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.7
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Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
The Dark Horse
Act like Bellhop
event1932 star_border 7.2
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The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake organizes the office and coaches Hicks to answer every question by pausing and then saying, "Well yes, but then again no." Blake will sell Hicks as dumb but honest. Russell refuses to marry Blake, while Joe keeps people away from Blake's office. Blake teaches Hicks a speech by Lincoln. At the debate when the conservative candidate Underwood recites the same speech, Blake exposes him as a plagiarist. Hicks is presented for photo opportunities and gives his yes-and-no answer to any question, including whether he expects to win.
The Final Edition
Act like Dan Cameron
event1932 star_border 5
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A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate.
The Guilty Generation
Act like Skid
event1931 star_border 6
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The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.
The Vice Squad
Act like Tony - Waiter
event1931 star_border 7
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A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
The Front Page
Act like Wilson
event1931 star_border 6.6
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Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.
Kiki
Act like Eddie
event1931 star_border 4.5
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A young Frenchwoman is determined to get into and stay in show business, no matter what. Then she's determined to win a recently divorced man's heart... again, no matter what.
Lightnin'
Act like Monte Winslow
event1930 star_border 3.7
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Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing wives so they can pretend to be in California while establishing residency in Nevada. When Lightnin' refuses to sell his share of the hotel to a gang of crooks, Mary is coerced into divorcing her husband so that she can sign over the deed herself.
The Fighting Blade
Act like Lord Trevor (as Phillip Tead)
event1923
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In the war-like times of Oliver Cromwell, in and around 'olde Oxford towne', Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbrook, Dutch soldier-of-fortune and sword-for-hire, stands ready to defend his lady-love, the fair Thomsine Musgrove, and prove his nettle, and that his blade is made of the finest metal.
She Loves and Lies
Act like Bob Brummell (as Phillips Tead)
event1920
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When Marie Callender is left a fortune by a wealthy old admirer on the condition that she marry the man she loves, Marie targets Ernest Lismore but is too shy to ask him to marry her. Instead, Marie disguises herself as an elderly woman of considerable wealth and offers to bail Ernest out of his impending bankruptcy in exchange for marriage, with the understanding that if Ernest ever falls in love with another woman she will grant him a divorce. Then Marie disguises herself as June Dayne in order to make her husband fall in love with her. She succeeds, and when Ernest confesses his love for another woman, Marie discards her disguise and Ernest discovers that the woman with whom he is in love is his own wife.
The Lost Paradise
Act like Billy Hopkins (as Phillips Tead)
event1914
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Unknown to Reuben Warren, the foreman of an ironworks, his invention, the volta-dynamo, was stolen years earlier by his employer, Knowlton, and is the foundation for the iron magnate's financial empire. Reuben is in love with Knowlton's daughter Margaret, who is engaged to Ralph Standish, the son of Reuben's deceased mentor. A strike against inhumane working conditions at the mill coincides with the discovery of Knowlton's theft by Reuben, who confronts the employer with proof of his treachery. Margaret later breaks her engagement to Ralph and proclaims her love for Reuben. As Margaret's husband, Reuben now owns half of the mill and gladly meets the strikers' demands. -From TCM.com Database, powered by the AFI.
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