
Birthday:
06-19-1885
Deathday:
01-25-1963 (77 years)
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You're Telling Me
Act like Driscoll
event1942
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Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less eccentric aunt Fannie Handley, who is married to one of the company owners. After mixing up the script pages to the various radio programs, Hubert sets out to get the name of a returning explorer on a contract for the radio station. Other than the title, this film has no connection at all to the 1934 W.C. Fields film of the same title even though some sources give the plot of the Fields' film as the plot of this film.
The Ghost Ship
Act like Charles Roberts
event1943 star_border 6.3
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Captain Stone's newly recruited officer, Tom Merriam, idolizes his senior who treats him like a friend. But when a couple of his crew members die mysteriously, Tom starts doubting Stone's authority.
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Act like Chamberlain (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.2
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A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
Two Latins from Manhattan
Act like Charles Miller
event1941 star_border 5
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Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arrive when the real Cuban sisters show up.
A Foreign Affair
Act like Giffin
event1948 star_border 7.1
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In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her.
Blondie in the Dough
Act like Premier Biscuit Board Member (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.5
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BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer that is difficult to refuse. Unfortunately, this creates all kinds of problems for the Bumsteads.
The Reckless Moment
Act like Tall Man in Post Office (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.8
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After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
Eve Knew Her Apples
Act like Mr. Birch (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.2
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Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She refuses and goes to Las Vegas. When she finds them there hunting her down, she manages to escape them by hiding in the car of a newspaper reporter. She comes out of hiding while he is driving, but everything she says is misconstrued, making him believe that she is a recently-escaped convict, "The Singing Widow". He plans to use this as a story to get back into the good graces of his editor. Through some comic mishaps, he learns who she really is. He then decides to take her back to Hollywood to collect the reward for her return. But now love has entered the mix, and must be resolved with his job and her engagement to another.
The Judge Steps Out
Act like Court Clerk (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 7
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A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Act like Young Lawyer (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 7.5
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Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Junior Army
Act like Maj. E.C. Carter - Academy Commandant
event1942 star_border 5.7
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An English refugee and a street thug go to military school together.
Harvard Here I Come
Act like Professor Hayworth
event1941 star_border 5
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Slapsie Rosenbloom receives an award from the satirical Harvard Lampoon for his well-known stupidity. Instead of being enraged, Slapsie Maxie is delighted by the "honor", and promptly tries to enroll at the ivy-league university. Upon arriving on campus, he is pounced upon by a group of eccentric scientists led by Professor Alvin, who is convinced that Rosenbloom is the "missing link" that science has long been searching for.
The Crime Doctor's Warning
Act like Dr. Forday Booth (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.5
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A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders.
The Wreck of the Hesperus
Act like Gov. Lincoln
event1948 star_border 6.3
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The story of an ex-sea captain who uses devious means to make his salvage company a success. Based on Longfellow's famous poem.
Reveille with Beverly
Act like Colonel Humphrey (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 7
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Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
Blondie Goes to College
Act like Man Who Lost Gold Football Charm
event1942 star_border 6.4
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Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too.
Hello, Annapolis
Act like Executive Officer
event1942 star_border 10
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Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl.
Ride 'Em Cowboy
Act like Doctor (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.8
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Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
Born to the Saddle
Act like Judge Trumbull
event1953 star_border 5
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A naïve, recently-orphaned young man discovers he's being used as a pawn in a crooked gambler's plan to rig a July 4 horserace. Western.
Terror by Night
Act like "Inspector MacDonald" (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.6
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Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.
You'll Never Get Rich
Act like Colonel Shiller
event1941 star_border 6.6
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A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection.
Ma and Pa Kettle
Act like Mr. Simpson
event1949 star_border 7.2
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The Kettles and their fifteen children are about to be evicted from their rundown rustic home when Pa wins the grand prize by coming up with a new tobacco slogan. Birdie Hicks is jealous of the family's new wealth, which includes a completely automated modern home, and accuses Pa of stealing the slogan. Reporter Kim Parker proves Birdie wrong and marries Tom Kettle.
Samson and Delilah
Act like First Priest of Dagon
event1949 star_border 6.5
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When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Act like Mr. Coleman (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 5.5
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In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
So Proudly We Hail
Act like Colonel Mason (Uncredited)
event1943 star_border 5.5
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During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
Roaming Lady
Act like Swanson
event1936 star_border 5
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Joyce Reid, a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as passengers her dashing aviator sweetheart, Dan Bailey and and her munitions-producing father, E. J. Reid and an assortment of the usual south-seas characters along with some Asians with varying agendas. The cargo included a shipment of bombs and machine guns. She soon finds herself being held hostage and they will free her only if Dan agrees to pilot a bombing plane for some Chinese bandits.
Fun on a Weekend
Act like Jefferson Van Orsdale Sr. (Uncredited)
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.
The Secret Heart
Act like Sheriff
event1946 star_border 6.3
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Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother, Chase, and stepmother, Lee, work to help Penny process her grief through psychotherapy and revisiting their past, but only the revelation of long-buried family secrets -- including her mother's secret lover and the true nature of her father's death -- can bring Penny out of her intense despair.
My Favorite Brunette
Act like Mr. Dawson (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.7
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Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.
Bright Leaf
Act like Official (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 5.9
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Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
Father of the Bride
Act like Engagement Party Guest (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 7
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Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
Captain Eddie
Act like Mr. Frost
event1945 star_border 6
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WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
The Senator Was Indiscreet
Act like Politico
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.
Corn on the Cop
Act like Bob
event1934 star_border 6
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A 1934 Warner Brothers Vitaphone short, "Corn on the Cop." In this one, two hobos launch a get-rich scheme by trying to sell axle grease marketed as salve for relief from corns and bunions. The idea, unfortunately, goes awry. Starring Harry Gribbon with Shemp Howard, Boyd Davis, and Mary Doran.
Meet the Stewarts
Act like Mr. Brighton (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6
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A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
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