
Birthday:
02-26-1895
Deathday:
05-27-1960 (65 years)
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Edward Brophy was an American character actor, voice artist, and comedian. Small of build, balding, and raucous-voiced, he frequently portrayed dumb cops and gangsters, both serious and comic.
He is best remembered for his roles in the Falcon film series and for voicing Timothy Q. Mouse in Dumbo.
His screen debut was in Yes or No. He appeared in The Champ, Freaks, The Thin Man, The Thin Man Goes Home (1944). He also made several appearances in the films of director John Ford.
He is best remembered for his roles in the Falcon film series and for voicing Timothy Q. Mouse in Dumbo.
His screen debut was in Yes or No. He appeared in The Champ, Freaks, The Thin Man, The Thin Man Goes Home (1944). He also made several appearances in the films of director John Ford.
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Estrellados
Act like Assistant Director (uncredited)
event1930
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A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is the Spanish version of Free and Easy (1930) with Hispanic/Spanish-speaking actors.
Hideaway Girl
Act like Bugs Murphy
event1936
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An unfortunate marriage and a bogus Count are the ingredients for this musical.
The Thin Man
Act like Joe Morelli
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.
It Happened Tomorrow
Act like Jake Shomberg
event1944 star_border 6.7
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A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
Dumbo
Act like Timothy Q. Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 7
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Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles.
The Cameraman
Act like Man in Bathhouse Stall with Buster (uncredited)
event1928 star_border 7.9
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A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
The Price of Freedom
Act like Man in restaurant (uncredited)
event1949
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The son of a newspaper editor visits his uncle in Germany and learns how government control gradually took away the freedom of the people. He returns and influences his father to print news items which will lead the people of their community to see the world situation as it is instead of as they want to believe it is.
A Slight Case of Murder
Act like Lefty
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.
Mad Love
Act like Rollo
event1935 star_border 6.9
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An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
The Last Gangster
Act like Fats Garvey
event1937 star_border 6.3
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A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and make him disclose the location of the loot he hid before going to the slammer.
The Invisible Woman
Act like Bill
event1940 star_border 5.7
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Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Act like Corbett
event1939 star_border 6.7
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Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
The Thin Man Goes Home
Act like Brogan
event1944 star_border 7.1
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On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
The Champ
Act like Tim
event1931 star_border 7.1
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A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.
Bundle of Joy
Act like Dance Contest Judge
event1956 star_border 6.4
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Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the folks inside mistake her for the mother. Fisher, well-meaning, but obtuse, tries to help her out with the baby, and the buds of romance begin to appear. Meanwhile old Merlin, the owner of the store, thinks he just might be a grandfather...
Golden Boy
Act like Roxy Lewis
event1939 star_border 6.4
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Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
The Gay Falcon
Act like Detective Bates
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.
Great Guy
Act like Pete Reilly
event1936 star_border 6.2
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A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
Act like Detective
event1931 star_border 5.4
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Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica gets married first. Angelica, in turn, finds every man she knows too dull and predictable, and for this reason prefers to stay single. Jeff then tries to make Angelica interested in the mild-mannered and timid Reggie Irving passing him off as a notorious playboy to intrigue her. He asks his friend Polly to teach Reggie "how to treat a woman right", but he turns to be a disastrous learner.
The Falcon's Adventure
Act like Goldie Locke
event1946 star_border 6.1
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A society sleuth rescues a kidnapped woman, then is framed for murder.
The Falcon in San Francisco
Act like Goldie Locke
event1945 star_border 6.1
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While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl whose nurse has been recently murdered.
Larceny, Inc.
Act like Weepy Davis
event1942 star_border 7
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Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...
The Whole Town's Talking
Act like 'Slugs' Martin
event1935 star_border 6.8
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Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Act like Arty
event1946
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A couple of gamblers pressure the local night club owner to rig things so the local college rowing crew will lose their upcoming race.
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Act like Gates Patrolman Cecil Felton
event1947 star_border 7.1
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A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
Arson, Inc.
Act like Pete Purdy
event1949 star_border 5.9
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An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.
Evelyn Prentice
Act like Eddie Delaney
event1934 star_border 6.6
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A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.
Pier 23
Act like Prof. Shicker
event1951 star_border 5.2
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Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the three films was evenly divided into two half-hour "episodes," and each starred Hugh Beaumont as San Francisco-based amateur sleuth Dennis O'Brien. In Pier 23, O'Brien first tackles the case of a wrestler who has died of a suspicious heart attack after refusing to lose a match. He then agrees to help a priest talk an escaped criminal into returning to prison.
The Last Hurrah
Act like Ditto Boland
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.
Remember Last Night?
Act like Maxie
event1935 star_border 4.6
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After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed.
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Act like Officer Slattery
event1941 star_border 5
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A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
Broadway
Act like Porky
event1942 star_border 5.5
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Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
Sleepers West
Act like George Trautwein
event1941 star_border 6.3
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Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
Renegade Girl
Act like Bob Crandall
event1946 star_border 4.2
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A special agent hunts a female outlaw out West.
Doughboys
Act like Sgt. Brophy
event1930 star_border 6
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Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he accidentally volunteers for the army. Luckily, Mary's signed up to entertain the troops. Unluckily, Elmer's sergeant likes Mary, too. And worst of all, they're all about to ship out for France.
Danger Zone
Act like Prof. Frederick Simpson Schicker
event1951 star_border 4.2
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A San Francisco man is paid to bid on a saxophone and escort a woman to a yacht party.
Flesh
Act like Dolan
event1932 star_border 5.6
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Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
Gold Diggers in Paris
Act like Mike Coogan
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.
Trapped by G-Men
Act like Lefty
event1937
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Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.
Varsity Show
Act like Mike Barclay
event1937 star_border 6
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Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.
A Scream in the Dark
Act like Eddie Tough
event1943 star_border 3.5
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A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella.
Show Them No Mercy!
Act like Buzz
event1935 star_border 7
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A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
Girl on the Spot
Act like Fingers Foley
event1946
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Eleven Gilbert & Sullivan numbers are melded within the murder-mystery plot of "Girl on the Spot", with a result that either G&S and/or the plot are always seemingly on stage-wait or in the wings awaiting a cue. Lois Collier is the girl-on-the-spot of the title because she was on the scene of a murder. The police conclude she didn't do it and they use her to set a trap for the real killer, a G&S addict, by financing a Broadway production starring Collier.
Mister Cinderella
Act like Detective McNutt
event1936 star_border 6
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Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriweather for much longer.The comedy comes fast and frantic in Mister Cinderella, from Hal Roach Studios.
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
Act like Sid
event1936 star_border 4
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An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge.
Society Lawyer
Act like Max
event1939 star_border 5.1
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Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help of nightclub singer Pat Abbott and crime boss Tony Gazotti (a former client), Durant launches his own investigation of the murder in order to prove his friend's innocence
Shadow of Doubt
Act like Wilcox
event1935 star_border 6.2
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When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
Blossoms On Broadway
Act like Prussic
event1937 star_border 4
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A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
Calling Philo Vance
Act like Ryan
event1940 star_border 5.8
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Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
The Girl Said No
Act like Pick
event1937 star_border 5.5
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Jimmie Allen, a shady bookie, is in love with Pearl Proctor, a greedy dance hall girl. He schemes to get her back after she rejects him; and along the way, he revives a failing Gilbert and Sullivan troupe.
A Night of Adventure
Act like Steve
event1944 star_border 4.9
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A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges.
I'll Remember April
Act like Shadow
event1945 star_border 4
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The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
Jim Hanvey, Detective
Act like Romo
event1937 star_border 5.9
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Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the emerald, but he discovers that finding it was the easy part; the difficult part is getting it back to its rightful owner, and he winds up involved in a murder in which an innocent man is framed.
The Hit Parade
Act like Mulrooney
event1937 star_border 4
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Agent Pete Garland is fired by society singer Monica Barrett after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds fits in better with her social status. To get even, Pete wants to make an unknown singer into a star. He finds Ruth Allison, drives her hard through rehearsals and makes her a star. But she is worried about her past, something she hasn't told Pete: She's an ex-convict and jumped bail in order to keep her partners in crime out of it. Further she's in love with Pete, but feels that he's still carrying a torch for Monica. When Monica's popularity is decreasing, Pete is able to get Ruth a stint on the program, the result is Monica is fired and Ruth get her job, but Monica takes revenge by revealing Ruth's past. Ruth considers it is best for her to disappear before being arrested, but she has become a star in public opinion. Will she get Pete or will she go to prison again?
Hold That Kiss
Act like Al
event1938 star_border 6.5
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Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
Sporting Blood
Act like Newsreel Cameraman (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 5.5
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A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.
Spendthrift
Act like Bill McGuire
event1936 star_border 5
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A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the humbled (and impoverished) Fonda finds true love in the arms of Pat Paterson, who cares nothing for material things.
All Through the Night
Act like Joe Denning
event1942 star_border 7
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Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
Cover Girl
Act like Joe - Bartender (non crédité)
event1944 star_border 6.4
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A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
Remote Control
Act like Al
event1930 star_border 4.7
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A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
Romance on the Run
Act like Whitey Whitehouse
event1938
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A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in recovering a stolen necklace. In the process also gets involved with a secretary at the insurance company.
Vacation from Love
Act like Barney Keenan
event1938
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A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy.
Hide-Out
Act like Det. Britt
event1934 star_border 7.1
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Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is fully prepared to shoot his way out when the cops come calling, but he is softened by the daughter's affections.
Wedding Present
Act like Squinty
event1936 star_border 6.5
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Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
Passport Husband
Act like Spike
event1938 star_border 6
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At the Club Habana, Henry Cabot, a bumbling busboy, is infatuated with the club's dancer, Conchita Montez. As Tiger Martin, the leader of a gang of thieves, gives Conchita a diamond bracelet, he is arrested. After Tiger is deported, Duke Selton, of Tiger's gang, pays a visit to Conchita and tells her he believes that Blackie Bennet, the leader of a rival gang, is responsible for tipping off the police about Tiger's citizenship.
The Bride Came C.O.D.
Act like Hinkle
event1941 star_border 7.1
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A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.
Wonder Man
Act like Torso
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.
Paris Interlude
Act like Ham
event1934 star_border 3.5
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Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...
Skyscraper Souls
Act like Man in Elevator (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.6
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After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan. Despite the devotion of longtime mistress Sarah, the ruthless David, while seeking bank mergers to protect his building, tries to seduce Sarah's secretary, Lynn. David then agrees to a plot by a bank board member to inflate his bank's stock and sell short — just before the market crashes.
The Great Profile
Act like Sylvester
event1940 star_border 6.3
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An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Act like Buck Moseby
event1939 star_border 5.8
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Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
Broadway to Hollywood
Act like Joe Mannion
event1933 star_border 4.6
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In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.
She Gets Her Man
Act like Flash
event1935
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Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally wrecks their plans, resulting in fame for Esmeralda as the crime-fighting "Tiger Woman," but also further complications.
Kid Nightingale
Act like Mike Jordon
event1939 star_border 5.5
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A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
What! No Beer?
Act like Spike Moran
event1933 star_border 5.4
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When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.
Strike Me Pink
Act like Killer
event1936 star_border 6.6
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Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
West Point
Act like Team Manager (Uncredited)
event1928 star_border 7.4
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Arrogant and wise-cracking Brice Wayne enrolls at the United States Military Academy at West Point and adjusts to life as a plebe. He tries out for the plebe football team, where he excels and shows up the varsity team. However, his ego is unrivaled, especially in competition with upperclassman Bob Sperry. At the same time, Brice meets a local girl named Betty Channing who cheers for him at football practices.
China Seas
Act like Wilbur Timmons
event1935 star_border 6.3
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Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!
Alias the Deacon
Act like Stuffy
event1940
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A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game.
A Dangerous Affair
Act like Nelson
event1931
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Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook. After the two men verbally duel over a variety of details, they hunker down to business, that of solving the murder of a lawyer who was in the midst of reading a will to a motley collection of heirs.
Steel Against the Sky
Act like Pete Evans
event1941 star_border 5
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Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
Our Blushing Brides
Act like Joe Munsey
event1930 star_border 5.9
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Jerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But, while Connie and Franky are reckless with their affections — one bedding a married man and the other marrying a scoundrel — Jerry is determined to remain practical. As she mothers her wounded, heartbroken friends, she stalwartly but foolishly resists the advances of the good-hearted and affluent Tony Jardine.
Thieves Fall Out
Act like Rork
event1941 star_border 5.5
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Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.
The Slowest Gun in the West
Act like The Bartender
event1960 star_border 2
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The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff. Fletcher is so cowardly the townsfolk are sure that the local outlaws will be too proud to gun him down. This proves to be the case, and the outlaws hire their own cowardly gunfighter, Chicken Farnsworth, to go up against The Silver Dollar Kid. Written by Jim Beaver
Air Force
Act like Marine Sgt. J.J. Callahan
event1943 star_border 6.4
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The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
The Great Gambini
Act like Butch
event1937 star_border 6
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A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.
Here Comes Trouble
Act like Crowley
event1936
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Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks.
Destroyer
Act like Engineer Casey
event1943 star_border 6.6
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Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
Roaring City
Act like 'Professor' Fredrick Simpson Schicka
event1951 star_border 5.5
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A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murder.
All American Chump
Act like Pudgy Murphy
event1936 star_border 5.8
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A country bumpkin who's a mathematical genius falls into the hands of gangsters.
Kelly the Second
Act like Ike Arnold
event1936 star_border 6
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A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.
$1,000 a Minute
Act like Benny Dolan
event1935 star_border 5.5
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Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
Come On, Leathernecks!
Act like Max 'Curly' Maxwell
event1938 star_border 5
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The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and join the Marines.
Pardon Our Nerve
Act like Nosey Nelson
event1939
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Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party. They talk a waiter into playing the part and a series of accidents and tricks sends him on a boxing career.
A Dangerous Game
Act like Bugsy (misspelled Bugs in on-screen credits)
event1941 star_border 5
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Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at an isolated mentally-ill hospital, where the patients range from slightly daffy to criminally insane, and they don't know which is which. A gang is out to steal a fortune inherited by one of the patients and, before Dick and Andy solve the case, several patients are transferred to the cemetery. And 'tiddlie-winks" are indeed involved.
Oh, Doctor
Act like Meg Smith
event1937
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A hypochondriac is afraid he will die before he gets an inheritance that will "cure" him.
For Love or Money
Act like Sleeper
event1939
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To dim-bulb accountants find themselves working for a bookie in this comedy. Their jobs and their lives are placed in jeopardy when they accidently fumble $50,000 worth of the bookie's cash over to the secretary who wastes no time in spending $44,000 of it in less than 8 hours. The bookkeepers are given 36 hours to get all of the money back by their infuriated boss.
Buy Me That Town
Act like Ziggy
event1941 star_border 6
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A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the town to use as a hideout. The leader of the gang begins to have a change of heart after he begins falling for a local girl.
Swing Parade of 1946
Act like Moose
event1946 star_border 4.2
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A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down.
Gambling Ship
Act like Cuthbert Innocent
event1938
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A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage.
The Poor Rich
Act like Flannigan
event1934
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Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced to move into the dilapidated house. When Albert receives a letter from old acquaintances Lord and Lady Fetherstone advising the Spottiswoods of their impending visit to the manor, the cousins are at wit's end as to how to exercise non-existent skills required to make the old house acceptable for guest reception.
Dance, Girl, Dance
Act like Dwarfie
event1940 star_border 6.4
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Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
Those Three French Girls
Act like Yank
event1930 star_border 4
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An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.
Sequoia
Act like Forest Ranger Pete (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6
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A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends.
Madame Spy
Act like Mike Reese
event1942 star_border 6
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Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins keeping company with known Nazi functionaries, notably the sinister Mr. Peter. Suspecting that his own wife may be the elusive “Madame Spy” wanted by American authorities, Bannister is in for quite a few surprises.
The Kid from Kokomo
Act like Eddie Black
event1939 star_border 6
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Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career searching for his parents, so Murphy hires two jailbirds to play his long lost parents to keep him in the ring.
Hello Pop
Act like Brophy
event1933 star_border 9
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A stage director is trying to put on a musical/comedy revue, but has to contend with temperamental musicians, an inept stage crew and his three idiot sons.
Paid
Act like Burglar (uncredited)
event1930 star_border 6.8
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Mary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her conviction.
The Beast of the City
Act like Police Dispatcher (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.9
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Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his own corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.
I Live My Life
Act like Pete (Uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.4
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A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
The Soldier and the Lady
Act like Packer
event1937 star_border 6.5
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In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.
Yes or No
Act like Tom Martin
event1920 star_border 5.5
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Two wives, one rich, one poor, each find themselves tempted by romantic seducers, and each faces the dilemma of remaining true to the husband who neglects her or of falling into the arms of another.
The Sign on the Door
Act like Newspaper Photographer (uncredited)
event1921
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A 1921 film directed by Herbert Brenon.
Career Woman
Act like Doc Curley
event1936 star_border 6
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A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 courtroom drama stars Claire Trevor, Isabel Jewell, Michael Whalen, Gene Lockhart, Eric Linden, Charles Middleton, Edward Brophy, Kathleen Lockhart, Guinn Williams, El Brendel, Sterling Holloway, Ray Brown, Howard Hickman, Frank McGlynn Sr., Charles Waldron Sr., Spencer Charters and Eily Malyon.
Beer and Pretzels
Act like Theater Manager (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.8
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Ted Healy and his Stooges are fired and evicted from a theatre because Ted is annoying women working there. They then get jobs as waiters at a nightclub. Chaos and a few musical numbers ensue.
Death on the Diamond
Act like Grogan
event1934 star_border 7
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Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nears the end, Pop's star players begin to be killed, on and off the field. Can Larry romance Pop's daughter, win enough games, and still have time to stop a murderer before he strikes more than three times?
Golden Gloves
Act like Potsy Brill
event1940 star_border 5
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An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.
Lady Bodyguard
Act like Harry Gargan
event1943 star_border 4
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A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a paid-for-a-year $1000 policy. High-risk Terry agrees. George MacAlister fires his secretary, Miss Tracy, just as she is typing up the policy and she, for spite, changes the amount from a thousand dollars to one million dollars. A.C. delivers the policy, without noticing the difference, to Terry at a party at the Frolics Club, a cheap joint wedged between a burlesque house and a flop house hotel. Three characters, an elderly hat-check "girl" known as Mother Hodges; Avery Jamieson, a broken-down actor; and bartender Harry Gargan are named beneficiaries. When the company discovers the error, A.C. is sent to get back the policy and, pending that, don't let Terry make any test flights.
Prosperity
Act like Ice Cream Salesman (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 4.7
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Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.
See My Lawyer
Act like Otis Fillmore
event1945 star_border 6
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Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub owner, B. J. Wagonhorn, refuses to let them go. In reprisal, they start hurling insults at the nightclub patrons… a ploy that soon has them facing multiple lawsuits… to the delight of three struggling attorneys, Charlie Rodman, Bettty Wilson and Arthur Lane.
A Free Soul
Act like Slouch (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 6.1
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An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
Naughty Marietta
Act like Zeke
event1935 star_border 5.1
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In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
Penthouse Rhythm
Act like Bailey
event1945
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Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline
Sandy Gets Her Man
Act like Fireman Junior
event1940 star_border 4
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A young widow lets her baby be the deciding factor as to which eligible bachelor she should marry.
Freaks
Act like Rollo Brother
event1932 star_border 7.8
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A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
I'll Fix It
Act like Tilly Tilson
event1934
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A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs. But when he tries to fix his adored kid brother's place on the school football team, he meets his match in school-teacher Anne Barry.
Spring Fever
Act like Golf Game Spectator (uncredited)
event1927 star_border 6.9
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Kelly's employer, Waters, is such a keen golfer that he asks Kelly to help him improve his game at an exclusive country club.
The Passionate Plumber
Act like Man Outside Beauty Parlor (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6
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Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.
Speak Easily
Act like Reno
event1932 star_border 5.8
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A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.
People Will Talk
Act like Pete Ranse
event1935 star_border 3
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Henry and Clarice Wilkins have been married twenty-three years and are a model suburban couple who have never had a quarrel. But when their daughter, Peggy, and her husband, Bill Trask, have a squabble, Clarice has a plan to show the daughter just how distasteful domestic bickering appears; She enters into an agreement with Henry that they will fake a fuss to serve as an object lesson. Clarice's will to play the game and her sense of humor play out at about the same time when Henry's remarks become more pointed as the charade goes on. Their fake fight is soon a real barn-burner.
The Big Guy
Act like Dippy
event1939
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A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.
Woman Trap
Act like George Meade (as Ed Brophy)
event1936
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A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin, whose investigation of the murder leads to a tenure as a temporary FBI agent.
Breakdowns of 1942
Act like Self
event1942 star_border 6
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Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
The Millionaire
Act like Preliminary Feeney (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 5
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An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
Mr. & Mrs. North
(2 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.
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