
Birthday:
09-17-1908
Deathday:
05-23-1993 (84 years)
Birthplace:
Edmonton, London, England, UK
Biography
Bernard Sell was born on September 17, 1908 in Edmonton, London, England as Bernard Cecil Sell. He was an actor, known for "Crazy Knights (1944)", "Elmer (1976)" and "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952)". He died on May 23, 1993 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Viva Las Vegas
Act like Cowboy (uncredited)
event1964 star_border 6.2
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Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser.
Marjorie Morningstar
Act like First-Nighter (uncredited)
event1958 star_border 6.2
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While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.
Cimarron
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1960 star_border 6.1
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The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Act like Man Outside Hotel (uncredited)
event1969 star_border 6.2
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After returning to Los Angeles from a group therapy session, documentary filmmaker Bob Sanders and his wife, Carol, find themselves becoming vigilante couples counselors, offering unsolicited advice to their best friends, Ted and Alice Henderson. Not wanting to be rude, the Hendersons play along, but some latent sexual tension among the four soon comes bubbling to the surface, and long-buried desires don't stay buried for long.
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Act like Reunion Guest (uncredited)
event1967 star_border 6.8
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A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business.
Send Me No Flowers
Act like Country Club Member (uncredited)
event1964 star_border 6.7
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At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man's diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two more weeks to live. Wanting to take care of his wife Judy, he doesn't tell her and tries to find her a new husband. When he finally does tell her, she quickly finds out he's not dying at all (while he doesn't) and she believes it's just a lame excuse to hide an affair, so she decides to leave him.
House of Strangers
event1949 star_border 6.9
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Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business practices. Three of the sons take over the business but kick their father out. Max, a lawyer, is the only son that stays loyal to his father.
The Undercover Man
event1949 star_border 6.2
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Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.
The Cincinnati Kid
Act like Poker Game Spectator (uncredited)
event1965 star_border 7
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An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
Gunpoint
event1966 star_border 6
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A young, determined sheriff and his posse chase a gang of murderous train robbers, and a kidnapped woman into New Mexico.
Storm Warning
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.6
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A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.
Move Over, Darling
Act like Hotel Guest (uncredited)
event1963 star_border 6.5
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Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.
The Eddy Duchin Story
Act like Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
event1956 star_border 6.2
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The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.
Law of the Lawless
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1964 star_border 6.1
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A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
Bedtime Story
Act like Casino Patron (uncredited)
event1964 star_border 6.1
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Benson, is a Casanova who tricks women into having sex with him before leaving them. He is content with his game until he meets Jamison, a real operator who poses as an exiled prince and not only gets women to share his bed but also to give him money to help him fund his supposed counter-revolution.
Babes in Toyland
Act like Villager (uncredited)
event1961 star_border 5.8
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All roads lead to magical, merry Toyland as Mary Contrary and Tom Piper prepare for their wedding! But villainous Barnaby wants Mary for himself, so he kidnaps Tom, setting off a series of comic chases, searches, and double-crosses! The "March Of The Wooden Soldiers" helps put Barnaby in his place, and ensures a "happily ever after" for Tom and Mary!
God Is My Co-Pilot
Act like Gil Bright (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 7
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Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into China. In China, he persuades General Chennault to let him fly with the famed Flying Tigers, the heroic band of airmen who'd been fighting the Japanese long before Pearl Harbor. Scott gets his chance to fight, ultimately engaging in combat with the deadly Japanese pilot known as Tokyo Joe.
The Devil's Hairpin
event1957 star_border 5
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Cocky car racer Nick Jargin has retired since he nearly caused the death of his brother at a hairpin bend on a circuit. He now holds a trendy café who keeps him busy full time until one day, Tony Boari, a new champion racer, challenges him.
How to Marry a Millionaire
Act like Wedding Guest (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 6.8
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Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
Rock Around the Clock
Act like Club Patron (uncredited)
event1956 star_border 6
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A frustrated big-band promoter runs in to rock-and-rollers Bill Haley and the Comets at a small-town dance. He quickly becomes their manager and, with the help of Alan Freed, hopes to bring the new sound to the entire country. But will a conniving booking agent, with a personal ax to grind with the manager, conspire to keep the band from making the big time?
Warning Shot
event1967 star_border 6.5
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Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.
13 West Street
Act like Neighbor (uncredited)
event1962 star_border 5.5
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Walt Sherill is attacked and beat down by a group of juvenile delinquents on his way home from work one night. The boys who attacked him are not previously known by the police and are therefore hard to track down. As Sherill starts getting impatient he begins his own investigation. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Koleski does his best to track down the culprits.
Illegal
Act like Paramedic (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 6.4
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A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
To Catch a Thief
Act like Casino Patron (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 7.3
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An ex-thief is accused of enacting a new crime spree, so to clear his name he sets off to catch the new thief, who’s imitating his signature style.
Elmer
event1976 star_border 8
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Elmer is a huge hound dog with a big problem - he's quite old, but he thinks he's a pup. This gets poor Elmer into plenty of trouble.
Gambling House
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.1
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A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Act like Club Patron
event1964 star_border 6
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Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives Robbo a large sum, believing he has avenged her father's death, the gangster donates to an orphanage, cementing his reputation as a softhearted hood.
The Graduate
Act like Party Guest (uncredited)
event1967 star_border 7.6
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Benjamin, a recent college graduate very worried about his future, finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Act like Wedding Guest (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 7.3
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Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
Phffft
Act like Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 6.2
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Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of bringing them together.
Period of Adjustment
Act like Wedding Guest (uncredited)
event1962 star_border 5.7
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A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.
Ocean's Eleven
Act like Casino Patron (uncredited)
event1960 star_border 6.4
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Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
Act like Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
event1968 star_border 5.8
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Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.
Divorce American Style
Act like Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
event1967 star_border 5.8
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After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
Guys and Dolls
Act like Wedding Guest (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 6.6
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Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.
A Star Is Born
Act like Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 7.1
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A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
The Last Hurrah
Act like Man at Campaign HQ (uncredited)
event1958 star_border 7.1
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In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
Crazy Knights
Act like Dave Hammon
event1944 star_border 4.7
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Also known as Ghost Crazy. Three goofballs run up against ghosts and a giant gorilla in a haunted house.
Hollywood or Bust
Act like Casino Patron
event1956 star_border 6.1
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The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins a car, claiming that he won it too. Trying to steal the car, Steve tells Malcolm that he lives in Hollywood, next to Anita Ekberg's. When Malcom hears that, they both set out for Hollywood and the adventure begins...
Not With My Wife, You Don't
Act like Party Guest (uncredited)
event1966 star_border 6
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During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott has been killed in a plane crash. She soon discovers Scott is alive, but remains happily married to Curtis until Scott re-enters their lives 14 years later.
Pat and Mike
Act like Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 6.3
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Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.
It's Always Fair Weather
Act like Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 7.1
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Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven't been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship.
Advise & Consent
Act like Senator (uncredited)
event1962 star_border 7.2
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Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
The Spirit of St. Louis
Act like Aircraft Mechanic (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 6.6
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Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his 1927 New York to Paris flight the first solo trans-Atlantic crossing.
Let's Do It Again
Act like Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 4
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Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The Stuarts agree to get divorced, and each tries to move on to a new love: Gary with socialite Deborah Randolph (Karin Booth) and Connie with businessman Frank McGraw (Aldo Ray). However, they start to realize that they still have strong feelings for each other. The Stuarts must make a decision before their divorce is final.
Around the World in Eighty Days
Act like Extra (uncredited)
event1956 star_border 6.6
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Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Dangerous When Wet
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 6
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The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe, comes to town and suggests they could swim the English Channel. Sponsored by "Liquapep" and coached by Windy, the family arrive in Europe. There it is decided that daughter Katie is the only one strong enough to enter the contest. But while she should be focused on the difficult and risky task ahead, Katie is pursed by dashing Frenchman, André Lanet... This comedic musical is well remembered for the scene when Katie dreams she is swimming with cartoon characters Tom & Jerry!
Seven Thieves
Act like Casino Patron (uncredited)
event1960 star_border 6.5
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A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.
Slightly Dangerous
Act like Usher at concert (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 5.8
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Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
Batman
Act like Official (uncredited)
event1966 star_border 6.4
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The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
Around the World
Act like Soldier
event1943 star_border 5
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Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
A Guy Named Joe
Act like Co-Pilot (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.5
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A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to Earth by heavenly General with a new assignment.
The Opposite Sex
Act like Club Patron (uncredited)
event1956 star_border 5.2
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Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back. The Opposite Sex is a remake of the 1939 comedy The Women.
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Act like Gambler (uncredited)
event1960 star_border 5.9
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Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
Act like Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
event1961 star_border 6
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Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate.
Kiss of Death
Act like Policeman (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 7
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An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Act like Hood (uncredited)
event1967 star_border 6.3
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Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
Love Nest
Act like Club Patron (Uncredited)
event1951 star_border 5.7
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Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further upsetting Connie but pleasing Jim's friend Ed. Tenant Charley, who marries tenant Eadie, loans money to Jim to help him keep the building, money which this Casanova obtains from rich widows.
A Blueprint for Murder
Act like Detective (Uncredited)
event1953 star_border 6.1
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Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that the death of her stepchild, Polly, has been attributed to poisoning, he suspects that Lynn is after his late brother's estate, and killing everyone in her way.
Tender Is the Night
Act like Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
event1962 star_border 5.2
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Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroughly enraptured, he forsakes his career in medicine for life as a playboy, until one day Dick is charmed by Rosemary Hoyt, an American traveling abroad. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to someone else sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them both.
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Act like Party Guest (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 5
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In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.
The Merry Widow
Act like Hotel Guest (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 5.8
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Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Marshovia on a visit, Crystal Radek change places with her secretary Kitty. Following them to Paris, Danilo has a hard time wooing the widow after meeting an attractive young woman at a nightclub, the same Crystal Radek who presents herself as Fifi the chorus girl. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
The Big Steal
Act like Departing Passenger (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.5
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Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.
The Legend of Lylah Clare
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1968 star_border 6.1
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A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
The Twilight Zone
Act like Café Patron (uncredited) (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 8.4
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A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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