Birthday:
04-08-1900
Deathday:
07-20-1974 (74 years)
Birthplace:
Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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Allen Jenkins (April 9, 1900 – July 20, 1974) was an American character actor on stage, screen and television. He was born Alfred McGonegal on Staten Island, New York.
He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In his first stage appearance, he danced next to James Cagney in a chorus line for an off-Broadway musical called Pitter-Patter. He made five dollars a week. He also appeared one thousand times in Broadway plays between 1924 and 1962, including The Front Page with Lee Tracy (1928). His big break came when he replaced Spencer Tracy for three weeks in the Broadway play The Last Mile.
He was called to Hollywood by Darryl F. Zanuck and signed first to Paramount Pictures and shortly afterwards to Warner Bros. He originated the character of Frankie Wells in the Broadway production of Blessed Event and reprised the role in the film adaptation, both in 1932. With the advent of talking pictures, he made a career out of playing comic henchmen, stooges, policemen and other "tough guys" in numerous films of the 1930s and 1940s, especially for Warner Bros. He was labeled the "greatest scene-stealer of the 1930s" by the New York Times. He voiced the character of "Officer Dibble" on the Hanna-Barbera television cartoon Top Cat and was a regular on the 1956-1957 television situation comedy Hey, Jeannie! (1956), starring Jeannie Carson. He was also a guest star on The Red Skelton Show, I Love Lucy, Playhouse 90, The Ernie Kovacs Show, Zane Grey Theater, and The Sid Caesar Show. Eleven days before his death he made his final appearance, at the end of Billy Wilder's 1974 film adaptation of The Front Page.
He went public with his alcoholism and was the first actor to speak in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate about it. He helped start the first Alcoholics Anonymous programs in California prisons for women.
Jenkins, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien and Frank McHugh were the original members of the so-called "Irish Mafia". He was the seventh member of the Screen Actors Guild.
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Allen Jenkins (April 9, 1900 – July 20, 1974) was an American character actor on stage, screen and television. He was born Alfred McGonegal on Staten Island, New York.
He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In his first stage appearance, he danced next to James Cagney in a chorus line for an off-Broadway musical called Pitter-Patter. He made five dollars a week. He also appeared one thousand times in Broadway plays between 1924 and 1962, including The Front Page with Lee Tracy (1928). His big break came when he replaced Spencer Tracy for three weeks in the Broadway play The Last Mile.
He was called to Hollywood by Darryl F. Zanuck and signed first to Paramount Pictures and shortly afterwards to Warner Bros. He originated the character of Frankie Wells in the Broadway production of Blessed Event and reprised the role in the film adaptation, both in 1932. With the advent of talking pictures, he made a career out of playing comic henchmen, stooges, policemen and other "tough guys" in numerous films of the 1930s and 1940s, especially for Warner Bros. He was labeled the "greatest scene-stealer of the 1930s" by the New York Times. He voiced the character of "Officer Dibble" on the Hanna-Barbera television cartoon Top Cat and was a regular on the 1956-1957 television situation comedy Hey, Jeannie! (1956), starring Jeannie Carson. He was also a guest star on The Red Skelton Show, I Love Lucy, Playhouse 90, The Ernie Kovacs Show, Zane Grey Theater, and The Sid Caesar Show. Eleven days before his death he made his final appearance, at the end of Billy Wilder's 1974 film adaptation of The Front Page.
He went public with his alcoholism and was the first actor to speak in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate about it. He helped start the first Alcoholics Anonymous programs in California prisons for women.
Jenkins, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien and Frank McHugh were the original members of the so-called "Irish Mafia". He was the seventh member of the Screen Actors Guild.
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42nd Street
Act like Mac Elroy
event1933 star_border 6.9
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A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
Blondie Johnson
Act like Louie
event1933 star_border 6.1
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A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
Pillow Talk
Act like Harry
event1959 star_border 7.1
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Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.
Lady on a Train
Act like Danny (Waring chauffeur)
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.
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
Act like Self
event1936 star_border 6
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A behind-the-scenes look at the massive preparation in the production of Cosmopolitan's lavish musical comedy romance, 'Cain and Mabel."
Marked Woman
Act like Louie
event1937 star_border 6.5
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In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
Brother Orchid
Act like Willie 'The Knife' Corson
event1940 star_border 6.4
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When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
A Slight Case of Murder
Act like Mike
event1938 star_border 6.1
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Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
Dead End
Act like Hunk
event1937 star_border 7
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Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Act like Barney Sykes
event1932 star_border 7.8
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A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
Ball of Fire
Act like Garbage Man
event1941 star_border 7.4
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A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
Three on a Match
Act like Dick
event1932 star_border 6.2
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Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Chained for Life
Act like Hinkley
event1952 star_border 4.1
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A Siamese twin kills the husband who left her. The courts have to decide if she is convicted of murder, how can they punish her sister, who had nothing to do with the crime?
Blessed Event
Act like Frankie Wells
event1932 star_border 6.5
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A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
The Senator Was Indiscreet
Act like Farrell
event1947 star_border 5.4
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A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.
A Date with the Falcon
Act like Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke
event1942 star_border 6.5
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In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.
They All Kissed the Bride
Act like Johnny Johnson
event1942 star_border 5.8
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Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book on some of her tough ways. With no time for men, the effect an attractive stranger has on her at her sister's wedding is unnerving. When it turns out this is the hated writer, she starts seriously to lose her bearings. Surely it can't become Maggie and Mike?
Employees' Entrance
Act like Sweeney, store detective (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 6.3
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Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."
Destry Rides Again
Act like Gyp Watson
event1939 star_border 7.2
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Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
The Gay Falcon
Act like Jonathan G. 'Goldie' Locke
event1941 star_border 6.2
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Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.
The Falcon Takes Over
Act like Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke
event1942 star_border 6
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While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.
Footsteps in the Dark
Act like Wilfred
event1941 star_border 6.9
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A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
Going Places
Act like Droopy
event1938 star_border 6.2
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A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Act like Okay
event1938 star_border 7.2
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A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
Dive Bomber
Act like Lucky James
event1941 star_border 6.3
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A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Act like Vermin Witowski
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.
Five Came Back
Act like Pete
event1939 star_border 6.3
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Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course. Crashing into jungles known to be inhabited by head hunters, pilots Bill and Joe race against time to fix the engines and attempt a take off. The situation brings out the best and worst in the stranded dozen as they create a makeshift runway and prepare to escape before the natives attack. But damage to the plane and low fuel reserves means that only 5 people can be carried to safety.
Swing Your Lady
Act like Shiner Ward
event1938 star_border 4.2
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Promoter Ed Hatch comes to the Ozarks with his slow-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos whom he pits against a hillbilly Amazon blacksmith, Sadie Horn. Joe falls in love with her and won't fight. At least not until Sadie's beau Noah shows up.
Jimmy the Gent
Act like Lou
event1934 star_border 6.2
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An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
Act like Howard 'Harvard' Quinlan
event1947 star_border 4
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The baby sitter is none other than veteran Hollywood tough guy Tom Neal. A private detective, Neal is hired to keep an eye on the child of married couple George Meeker and Rebel Randall. Actually, Meeker and Randall are jewel thieves, and their "baby" is their stolen loot. Neal eventually catches on when he realizes that this is the quietest child on earth. Running a scant 41 minutes, Case of the Baby Sitter was designed to be shown in tandem with another Screen Guild Productions "briefie," The Hat Box Mystery: the films were shot back to back, with Tom Neal and Pamela Blake starring in both.
Eyes in the Night
Act like Marty
event1942 star_border 6
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Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
Sh! The Octopus
Act like Dempsey
event1937 star_border 5.7
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Comedy-mystery finds Detectives Kelly and Dempsey trapped in a deserted lighthouse with a group of strangers who are being terrorized by a killer octopus AND a mysterious crime figure named after the title sea creature.
Racket Busters
Act like Skeets Wilson
event1938 star_border 5.1
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A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
The Big Wheel
Act like George
event1949 star_border 5.8
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The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father's legacy and achieve his own successes.
Time Out for Rhythm
Act like Off-Beat Davis
event1941 star_border 6.2
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A producer and his partner clash over two women in show business.
The Big Shakedown
Act like Lefty
event1934 star_border 5.6
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Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
The Mayor of Hell
Act like Mike
event1933 star_border 7.1
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Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
Tortilla Flat
Act like Portagee Joe
event1942 star_border 5.4
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Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.
Maisie Gets Her Man
Act like 'Pappy' Goodring
event1942 star_border 6.5
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Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
For Those Who Think Young
Act like Col. Leslie Jenkins
event1964 star_border 5.2
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A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.
The Hat Box Mystery
Act like 'Harvard'
event1947 star_border 4.2
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Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentally hidden in the box and the woman is killed. Susan is charged with murder, but Russ and his less-than-useful associate, Harvard, get on the case and prove that the fatal shot was fired by the killer from across the street.
The Mind Reader
Act like Frank
event1933 star_border 6.3
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Con-man Chandler and his partner Frank decide to start a clairvoyant act. Chandler falls for Sylvia, one of their marks, but their relationship is challenged when his deception impacts others' lives and Sylvia urges him to reform.
Lawyer Man
Act like Izzy Levine
event1932 star_border 5.8
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Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by Gilmurry and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.
Bodyhold
Act like Slats Henry
event1949 star_border 3
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A plumber with a girlfriend turns pro wrestler for a crooked promoter.
Bedside
Act like Sam Sparks
event1934 star_border 5.6
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Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.
The Case of the Howling Dog
Act like Sgt. Holcomb
event1934 star_border 6.5
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A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.
Gold Diggers in Paris
Act like Duke 'Dukie' Dennis
event1938 star_border 5.5
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When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love.
Three Men on a Horse
Act like Charlie
event1936 star_border 6.2
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A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
Happiness Ahead
Act like Chuck
event1934 star_border 6
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Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.
Let's Go Navy!
Act like CPO Mervin Longnecker
event1951 star_border 7
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The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors.
The Case of the Lucky Legs
Act like Spudsy Drake
event1935 star_border 6
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A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.
The Merry Frinks
Act like Emmett Frink
event1934 star_border 3.7
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An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
Hard to Handle
Act like radio announcer
event1933 star_border 6.6
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A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
Ready, Willing and Able
Act like J. Van Courtland
event1937 star_border 5.2
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Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
The Singing Kid
Act like Joe Eddy
event1936 star_border 4
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Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
Miss Pacific Fleet
Act like Bernard 'Kewpie' Wiggins
event1935 star_border 4
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A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".
Tomorrow at Seven
Act like Dugan
event1933 star_border 6
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People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace".
The Inside Story
Act like Eddie
event1948 star_border 6.5
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A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by mistake and solves a number of financial problems before it is returned.
Sweet Music
Act like Barney Cowan
event1935 star_border 5.7
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A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York.
Dance Charlie Dance
Act like Alf Morgan
event1937 star_border 6
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A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise, when he is sued for plagiarism.
I'd Rather Be Rich
Act like Fred
event1964 star_border 5.8
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An updated remake of It Started With Eve (1941). A young heiress is summoned to the bedside of her dying grandfather. The man's last wish is to meet her fiance, but problems arise when the fiance is delayed and a young chemical engineer is persuaded to take his place. When the grandfather suddenly (and secretly) recovers, he uses the situation to his advantage - playing matchmaker in an attempt to ensure his granddaughter's happiness.
Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Act like Steve McBride
event1939 star_border 6
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Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
Cain and Mabel
Act like Dodo
event1936 star_border 6.2
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A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.
Fools for Scandal
Act like Dewey Gibson
event1938 star_border 6.2
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An incognito Hollywood star (Carole Lombard) in Paris meets a penniless nobleman (Fernand Gravet) who follows her to London.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Act like Cop (uncredited)
event1963 star_border 7
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A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
The St. Louis Kid
Act like Buck Willetts
event1934 star_border 5.8
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Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.
Page Miss Glory
Act like Petey
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.
Broadway Hostess
Act like Fishcake Carter
event1935 star_border 5.2
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Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Act like Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1983 star_border 6.5
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Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Fun on a Weekend
Act like Joe Morgan
event1947 star_border 7
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Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.
Heart of the North
Act like Bill Hardsock
event1938 star_border 3.7
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A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.
The Irish in Us
Act like Carbarn Hammerschlog
event1935 star_border 7.7
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A boxer and his policeman brother feud over a police captain's daughter.
The Keyhole
Act like Hank Wales
event1933 star_border 4.9
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A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
Marry the Girl
Act like Specs
event1937 star_border 5
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Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is owned by and staffed with cuckoos.
A Night at the Ritz
Act like Gyp
event1935 star_border 3
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A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
I Live for Love
Act like Mac
event1935 star_border 4.8
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A failed actor finds success as a radio singer.
Professional Sweetheart
Act like O'Connor
event1933 star_border 5
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Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor and his nutty henchmen pick her a public-relations "sweetheart" from fan mail, who turns out to be a hayseed.
Havana Widows
Act like Herman Brody
event1933 star_border 5.8
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Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
Easy Come, Easy Go
Act like Nick
event1947
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Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
Go West, Young Lady
Act like Hank
event1941 star_border 6.9
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A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
Oklahoma Annie
Act like Lou
event1952 star_border 8
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A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.
Hard to Get
Act like Roscoe
event1938 star_border 6
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When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.
I've Got Your Number
Act like John 'Johnny'
event1934 star_border 6
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Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
The Perfect Specimen
Act like Pinky
event1937 star_border 5.7
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Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wishes until a chance encounter with Mona Carter leads him into the outside world.
Whirlpool
Act like Mac
event1934 star_border 6.1
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An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.
The Silk Express
Act like Robert 'Rusty' Griffith
event1933 star_border 4.7
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As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton corners the market with plans to drive up the price. Determined to fulfill his contracts, manufacturer Donald Kilgore imports $3 million worth of silk to Seattle and accompanies it by special train to New York. But when his secretary is found murdered, Kilgore soon discovers Myton has planted three killers on board with orders to stop the express and its passengers dead in their tracks.
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2006 star_border 6
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Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.
The Spy in the Green Hat
Act like Enzo 'Pretty' Stilletto
event1967 star_border 6.5
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"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.
A Day at Santa Anita
event1937 star_border 5
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Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races.
Ever Since Eve
Act like Jake Edgall
event1937 star_border 5.8
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Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews, accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
The Singing Marine
Act like Sergeant Mike
event1937 star_border 4
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Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest, however, sets him up for trouble in romance, in his career, and with the Corps.
Wonder Man
Act like Chimp
event1945 star_border 6.6
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Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summons his bookworm twin, Edwin Dingle, to Prospect Park so that he can help the police nail Jackson.
Sing Me a Love Song
Act like Chris Cross
event1936
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A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs.
Meet Me on Broadway
Act like Deacon McGill
event1946 star_border 7
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Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club. Eddie and his girlfriend, actress Ann Stallings, hope the production will launch their legitimate Broadway careers. But complications arise when Maxine Whitaker, daughter of a wealthy rival club owner, becomes romantically interested in charming Eddie.
The WAC From Walla Walla
Act like Mr. Redington
event1952
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An unsophisticated country girl accidentally joins the army.
Twenty Million Sweethearts
Act like Pete
event1934 star_border 6
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Unscrupulous agent Rush Blake makes singing waiter Buddy Clayton a big radio star while Peggy Cornell, who has lost her own radio show, helps Buddy.
Meet the Wildcat
Act like Max Schwydel
event1940
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Magazine photographer Ann Larkin is snapping photos at Mexico's National Museum when she sees Brod Williams steal a painting from its frame. Convinced that Brod is the notorious art thief known as "The Wildcat," Ann follows him into the street and accuses him of being the thief. Even though the police attest that Brod is a New York City police detective, Ann remains dubious.
The Case of the Curious Bride
Act like Spudsy
event1935 star_border 6
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After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married into wealth. The case escalates when the police find the body of Moxley and charge her with the murder.
Crazy Over Horses
Act like Weepin' Willie
event1951 star_border 5.5
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The boys get mixed up with a race horse & crooked gamblers
Naughty But Nice
Act like Joe Dirk
event1939 star_border 6.2
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Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
Sweepstakes Winner
Act like Xerxes 'Tip' Bailey
event1939 star_border 3.7
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A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.
While the Patient Slept
Act like Police Sgt. Jim Jackson
event1935 star_border 6.4
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A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
Sins of Man
Act like Crusty
event1936
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Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
Bureau of Missing Persons
Act like Detective Joe Musik
event1933 star_border 5.6
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Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
Stage Door Canteen
Act like Allen Jenkins
event1943 star_border 6.1
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A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
Tin Pan Alley
Act like Casey
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.
Margie
Act like Kenneth
event1940
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Newlyweds Bret (Tom Brown) and Margie (Nan Grey) both aspire to show-biz careers: he wants to be a songwriter, while she is desirous of becoming a radio scripter. Inevitably, Bret and Margie quarrel and break up, only to be reunited by their efforts to snag "banana king" Gomez (Mischa Auer) for a lucrative radio contract. The old 1920s tune "Margie" is heard throughout the proceedings, frequently fitted out with ludicrous new lyrics ("Bananas! We're Always Thikin' of Bananas!" etc.) by a zany songwriting team (Eddie Quillan and Wally Vernon).
Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!
Act like Ed aka The Weasel
event1940 star_border 5.7
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In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads for her elopement. The two begin traveling together and get further mixed up with a fleeing bank robber, a crazy tourist camp, and other troubles. Songs include: "Oh Johnny, How You Can Love," "Maybe I Like What You Like," "Swing Chariot Swing," and "Make Up Your Mind."
Breakdowns of 1936
Act like Self
event1936
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Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.
The Dark Horse
Act like Willis Trimble
event1946
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Story of a war veteran, who is persuaded by a machine politico to run for alderman. He finds that disreputable politicians are using his war record to push through some shady legislation, so he renounces these hacks.
Talent Scout
Act like Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6
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A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Blow-Ups of 1947
Act like Self
event1947 star_border 6.3
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Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.
The Front Page
Act like Telegrapher
event1974 star_border 7.3
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A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.
Wild Harvest
Act like Higgins
event1947
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Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup money. Farmer's niece Fay falls for Joe. He puts her off. To get back she marries Jim whom she prods into high-grading the grain (skimming off some for private sale). The last payment on Joe's machinery is due just as he discover's what his buddy has been doing.
Grand Hotel
Act like Hotel Meat Packer (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.9
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Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
Breakdowns of 1938
Act like Shiner Ward / Duke Dennis (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5
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Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Three Cheers for the Girls
Act like Marine Sergeant in Chorus (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.2
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This short film showcases six production numbers from various Warner Bros. musicals.
Breakdowns of 1937
Act like Self
event1937 star_border 6
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Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.
Things You Never See on the Screen
Act like Self
event1935 star_border 5
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Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
Breakdowns of 1940
Act like Self
event1940 star_border 4
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Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.
Rackety Rax
Act like Mike Dumphy
event1932 star_border 5
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Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.
Complicated Women
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2003 star_border 6.7
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Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
Singin' in the Corn
Act like Glenn Cummings
event1946
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Judy McCoy, a fortune teller with a circus, learns she has inherited some property and heads west to collect. When she arrives in the desert ghost town, she learns that a stipulation in the will is that she has to return the property to the rightful owners, an Indian tribe, before she gets the remaining inheritance
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Act like Self (archive footage)
event1988 star_border 6
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Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
King Kong
Act like Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 7.6
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Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!
Act like Joe Bonney
event1967 star_border 5.5
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In this comedy, an aspiring singer finds herself single and pregnant. The story begins when she is rushed to the hospital to give birth. She is joined by three men; all of them want to marry her. The story of her pregnancy and her rise to stardom are told in flashback.
Behave Yourself!
Act like Police Plainclothesman
event1951 star_border 6.1
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A young man takes in a dog that turns out to be wanted by mobsters.
The Girl Habit
Act like Tony Maloney
event1931
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A Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him.
Getting Away from It All
Act like Doorman
event1972
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Two city couples decide to leave the hectic urban life and retreat to the country, but find that rural living isn't quite what they thought it would be.
My Wife's an Angel
event1943
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Two bumbling, small-time detectives are hired by a client to locate showgirls for an upcoming musical. However, the girls they find are homely and unattractive, but that soon changes when they discover a machine that turns them into beautiful chorus girls.
December Bride
(1 ep.)
event1954 star_border 5.5
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December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953.
Batman
Act like Little Al (1 ep.)
event1966 star_border 7.3
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Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.
Top Cat
Act like Officer Dibble (voice) (30 ep.)
event1961 star_border 7.5
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Top Cat, known as T.C. to his alley cat friends, is a mischievous prankster who lives in a trash can in the alley ways of New York City. He and his alley-cat cohorts think of get rich schemes and assorted pranks which are mostly involving and aimed at Officer Dibble, their nemesis and friend. T.C. manages to get out of his tight situations with hilarity and charm and even helps Dibble on occasion who is underscored by his overbearing sergeant...
Bewitched
(3 ep.)
event1964 star_border 7.9
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Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.
General Electric Theater
(1 ep.)
event1953 star_border 6
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General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
Ben Casey
(1 ep.)
event1961 star_border 5.6
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Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.
Racket Squad
(1 ep.)
event1951 star_border 6
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Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department.
The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
Honey West
Act like Gate Guard (1 ep.)
event1965 star_border 7
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After her father's death, Honey West takes over his high-tech private-detective firm, assisted by rugged Sam Bolt--and her pet ocelot Bruce.
Mr. & Mrs. North
(1 ep.)
event1952 star_border 4.3
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Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry North, a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good amateur detective, and his wife, Pamela, as they solve crimes in New York City.
Hey, Jeannie!
Act like Al Murray (26 ep.)
event1956 star_border 5.5
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Hey, Jeannie! is an American situation comedy starring Jeannie Carson as a young Scottish woman living in New York City. Twenty-six episodes aired on CBS from September 8, 1956 to May 4, 1957 in the Saturday slot following The Gale Storm Show and preceding the western series Gunsmoke. Six additional episodes aired in 1958 in syndication. Reruns of Hey, Jeannie! aired during the summer of 1960 under the title The Jeannie Carson Show.
The Duke
Act like Johnny (1 ep.)
event1954
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The Duke is an American comedy series that aired on NBC from July to September 1954.
Wagon Train
Act like Mr. Gillespie (1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 6.3
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The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series.
The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
Adam-12
Act like Jobey (1 ep.)
event1968 star_border 7.1
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Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.
Four Star Playhouse
Act like Fingers (1 ep.)
event1952 star_border 6.1
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Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine.
Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino.
The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
The Red Skelton Show
Act like Muggsy (2 ep.)
event1951 star_border 7.3
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The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades, from 1951 to 1971. It was second to Gunsmoke and third to The Ed Sullivan Show in the ratings during that time. Skelton, who had previously been a radio star, had appeared in several motion pictures as well. Although his television series is largely associated with CBS, where it appeared for more than fifteen years, it actually began and ended on NBC. During its run, the program received three Emmy Awards, for Skelton as best comedian and the program as best comedy show during its initial season, and an award for comedy writing in 1961.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Act like Enzo 'Pretty' Stilletto (1 ep.)
event1964 star_border 7.2
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Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the auspices of the U.N.
Their immediate superior is Mr. Waverly.
Together they operate out of a secret base beneath the streets of New York City, and accesses through several cover business such as Del Floria's Tailor Shop and the Masque Club.
This secret intelligence service is called U.N.C.L.E.
United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.
Studio 57
(1 ep.)
event1954
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Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956.
I Love Lucy
Act like Policeman (3 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.
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