
Birthday:
10-17-1896
Deathday:
02-17-1987 (90 years)
Birthplace:
Rockville, Connecticut, USA
Biography
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Hal K. Dawson (October 17, 1896 – February 17, 1987) was an American actor. The films he performed in include: Dr. Socrates, My American Wife, Libeled Lady, Wells Fargo,, Broadway Melody of 1940, Star Dust, The Doctor Takes a Wife, Washington Melodrama, Week-End in Havana,, Guest Wife, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Chicken Every Sunday, Bonzo Goes to College and The Benny Goodman Story.
He died on February 17, 1987, in Loma Linda, California aged 90.
Hal K. Dawson (October 17, 1896 – February 17, 1987) was an American actor. The films he performed in include: Dr. Socrates, My American Wife, Libeled Lady, Wells Fargo,, Broadway Melody of 1940, Star Dust, The Doctor Takes a Wife, Washington Melodrama, Week-End in Havana,, Guest Wife, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Chicken Every Sunday, Bonzo Goes to College and The Benny Goodman Story.
He died on February 17, 1987, in Loma Linda, California aged 90.
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Blondie's Big Moment
Act like Mr. Little (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 4.8
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Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood has mixed emotions about his wife's theatrical aspirations and eventually he decides to get her to quit. As usual - disaster ensues.
The Tin Star
Act like Andy Miller
event1957 star_border 7
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An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.
Easy Living
Act like Jeweler (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 7
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J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Park Row
Act like Mr. Wiley
event1952 star_border 6.7
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In New York's 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner.
Café Metropole
Act like Arthur Cleveland Thorndyke
event1937 star_border 6.9
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An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
Superman and the Mole-Men
Act like Chuck Weber
event1951 star_border 5.3
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Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground home of a race of small, furry people who then come to the surface at night to look around. The fact that they glow in the dark scares the townfolk, who form a mob, led by the vicious Luke Benson, intent on killing the strange people. Only Superman has a chance to prevent this tragedy.
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Act like Pedestrian at Burglary Site (uncredited)
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.
The Captive City
Act like Clyde Nelson
event1952 star_border 6.1
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A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.
Blondie in the Dough
Act like Mr. Tyler, the Grocer (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.
Wedding Present
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.
You're My Everything
Act like Ticket Seller (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 3.3
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In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.
Mama Runs Wild
Act like Bank Robber (uncredited)
event1937
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Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank robbers after walking into the bank during the robbery and one of the robbers, in taking money from her purse, left his fingerprints on the purse. She is made an honorary police captain and, with her society sisters sets about "keeping lawlessness" out of the town. From that point on, life becomes miserable for her hen-pecked husband Calvin (Ernest Truex).
Song of the Islands
Act like John Rodney
event1942 star_border 6.2
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With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O'Brien. But Jeff falls in love with O'Brien's daughter, Eileen, and even his father can't break them up after he arrives and himself falls under the spell of island splendor.
The Rat Race
Act like Bo Kerry
event1960 star_border 6.6
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An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.
Guest Wife
Act like Dennis
event1945 star_border 6.2
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Christopher Price, a small-town bank executive, continues to be loyal to and idolize his boyhood friend, Joseph Jefferson Parker, a famous war correspondent. But Chris's wife, Mary, is none to fond of Joe and tired of her husband's idolizing. On the eve of the Price's second-honeymoon trip to New York City, Joe arrives and tells Chris that he needs someone to pose as his wife in order to fool his boss in NYC, who thinks Joe got married to an overseas woman while on an assignment. Chris pushes Mary into posing as Joe's wife. In New York, this leads to many complications and misunderstandings, with Mary finally deciding to teach Chris and Joe a lesson by making them believe she is in love with Joe.
Danger – Love at Work
Act like Mike, the chauffeur
event1937 star_border 7.3
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A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
Danger Street
Act like Stevens
event1947 star_border 4
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Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.
Face of a Fugitive
Act like Jackson (uncredited)
event1959 star_border 5.4
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A man who was falsly accused for murder escapes the sheriffs and starts a new life in a town at the border of the States to Mexico. But he cannot settle in peace as his chasers are trying to find him.
The Best Years of Our Lives
Act like Man at Airport (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 7.8
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It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
Public Enemy's Wife
Act like Daugherty
event1936 star_border 5.8
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Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claims that she had no knowledge of Gene's criminal activity, but FBI agent Lee Laird doesn't buy it.
My American Wife
Act like Stephen Cantillon
event1936
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Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian fighter Lafe Cantillon (Fred Stone). Lafe's social-climbing sister-in-law (Billie Burke) insists that her daughter Mary wed a titled European, Count Ferdinand (Francis Lederer). Much to Lafe's delight, Mary isn't assimilated into Continental high society; instead, she instructs Count Ferdinand in the virtues of good, old-fashioned American democracy. And, of, course, the Count and Lafe become great chums when the "furriner" proves that he can ride a bucking bronco with the best of 'em.
Funny Girl
Act like Doorman at Keeney's (uncredited)
event1968 star_border 7.2
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The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.
Chicken Every Sunday
Act like Jake Barker
event1949 star_border 6
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A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.
Rich Man, Poor Girl
Act like Mr. Allen
event1938 star_border 5.9
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A millionaire courts a working-class woman.
The Great Victor Herbert
Act like George Faller
event1939 star_border 5
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In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert. Very little of Herbert's life story is incorporated in the screenplay (a closing title actually apologizes for the film's paucity of cold hard facts); instead, the writers allow the famed composer's works to speak for themselves. In the tradition of one of his own operettas, Herbert spends most of his time patching up the shaky marriage between tenor John Ramsey (Allan Jones) and Louise Hall (Mary Martin). Many of Herbert's most famous compositions are well in evidence, including "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life", "March of the Toys" and "Kiss Me Again", the latter performed con brio by teenaged coloratura Susanna Foster. Evidently, the producers were able to secure the film rights for the Herbert songs, but not for the stage productions in which they appeared, which may explain such bizarre interpolations as having a song from Naughty Marietta.
Dr. Socrates
Act like Mel Towne
event1935 star_border 6.4
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Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
Teacher's Pet
Act like Bill (uncredited)
event1958 star_border 6.8
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A rugged city editor poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor.
The Firebird
Act like Assistant Stage Manager
event1934 star_border 5.5
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Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old daughter Mariette. One day, as Carola leaves the building, Brandt catches her in the stairwell and proposes she "visit" him at his apartment after everyone has gone to bed. Shocked and offended at his brazenness, she complains to the building manager, who orders Brandt to leave. He refuses, so the Pointers decide that they will move out instead. While they're packing, the police show up at their apartment with some bad news--Brandt has been found murdered, shot in the head. Inspector Muller, the detective investigating the murder, discovers that there is more to this case than meets the eye.
On Again—Off Again
Act like Sanford
event1937 star_border 7
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This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!
Love and Hisses
Act like Music store clerk
event1937
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As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Act like Charlie
event1940 star_border 6.5
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A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Act like Harry Selby (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 7
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An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.
Wells Fargo
Act like Ormsby - N.Y. Herald Correspondent
event1937 star_border 5.1
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In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
Vogues of 1938
Act like Jim - Ticket Seller in Boston
event1937 star_border 5.3
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An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plot centers around a chic boutique, whose owner, George Curson (Warner Baxter), tries hard to please his customers while keeping peace with his unhappy wife. A wealthy young woman, Wendy Van Klettering (Joan Bennett), decides to take a job as a model at the fashion house, just to amuse herself, but her presence annoys Curson, who must put together the best possible show to compete with rival fashion houses at the Seven Arts Ball. The film includes several hit songs, including the Oscar-nominated "That Old Feeling" by Sammy Fain and Lew Brown.
The Nurse from Brooklyn
Act like Tommy Tucker
event1938 star_border 6
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A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of shooting the man knows that he didn't do it, and sets out to find the real killer and clear his own name.
Boy Meets Girl
Act like Wardrobe Attendant
event1938 star_border 6.2
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Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...
Music Is Magic
Act like Jim Watson (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 4
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An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
Three for the Show
Act like Theatre Treasuer (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 6
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This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late husband's songwriting partner, Gower Champion, but the new marriage is thrown for a loop when Lemmon, her first husband, turns up very much alive and eager to see Grable.
Greenwich Village
Act like Cashier
event1944 star_border 6
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In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Act like Producer
event1942 star_border 6.5
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Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.
Paddy O'Day
Act like Motorist
event1936 star_border 7
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A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.
The Ice Follies of 1939
Act like Publicity Man
event1939 star_border 5.6
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Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Act like Man in Balcony (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7
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In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
Rose of Washington Square
Act like Chump
event1939 star_border 5.7
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Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
A Night at the Movies
Act like Mr. Pennelly (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.3
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A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more short films that would be produced in New York. In this comedic short, a man and his wife suffer through a night at the movies. The film was nominated for an Academy Award at the 10th Academy Awards, held in 1937, for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
Swanee River
Act like Drunken Man on Riverboat
event1939 star_border 6.5
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Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
Blackmail
Act like Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.4
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A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
There Goes My Heart
Act like Camera Clerk (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 7.2
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An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
Kentucky
Act like Auction Clerk
event1938 star_border 5.7
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Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
Pack Up Your Troubles
Act like Booking Agent
event1939 star_border 6.2
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Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
The Last Hurrah
Act like Managing Editor (uncredited)
event1958 star_border 7.1
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In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
Foxfire
Act like Tourist (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 6
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A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.
A Likely Story
Act like Dr. Fraser (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 4.2
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A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
International Settlement
Act like Master of Ceremonies
event1938 star_border 5
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In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
Washington Melodrama
Act like Logan
event1941 star_border 5
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An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl's murder.
Merton of the Movies
Act like Gus Blanchard - Agent (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.8
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In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.
Broadway Melody of 1940
Act like O'Grady (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.7
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Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
Blondie on a Budget
Act like Bank Teller (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6
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Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.
Libeled Lady
Act like Harvey Allen
event1936 star_border 7.3
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When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
The Alligator People
Act like Conductor
event1959 star_border 5.6
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Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely mansion in a remote section of swampland tenanted by snakes, alligators, a drunken one-armed lout, a mysterious doctor, and a cold-hearted elderly woman who lives alone in a brooding manse.
How to Read
Act like Annoying Club Member (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5.2
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Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.
We Who Are Young
Act like Salesman
event1940 star_border 5.8
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A man violates company policy by getting married.
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Act like Dr. Tom Hedges
event1937 star_border 6
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Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
Gateway
Act like Reporter
event1938 star_border 6.5
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Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
One Mile from Heaven
Act like Information Clerk
event1937 star_border 6.7
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A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.
Tin Pan Alley
Act like Hotel Clerk
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.
Lillian Russell
Act like Chauffeur
event1940 star_border 6.1
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Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
Hotel for Women
Act like Dave Moore
event1939 star_border 6
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Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.
Two Girls on Broadway
Act like License Bureau Clerk (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.8
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Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives. Remake of The Broadway Melody (1929).
This Thing Called Love
event1940 star_border 8
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Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
Little Men
Act like Telegraph Operator
event1940 star_border 6.1
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Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.
Millionaires in Prison
Act like Mike, a Reporter (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6
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A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
The Great Profile
Act like Ticket Seller
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.
Cracked Nuts
Act like Sawhorse Man
event1941
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A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked attorney and two con men...
Three Girls About Town
Act like Guest
event1941 star_border 5.3
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Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
The Fleet's In
Act like Bert
event1942 star_border 7
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Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
How to Sub-Let
Act like Real Estate Agent
event1939 star_border 3.5
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A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.
We're on the Jury
Act like John Weatherman
event1937 star_border 5.8
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A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.
I Stole a Million
Act like (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6
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A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
My Favorite Spy
Act like Eberle
event1942 star_border 5.2
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The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
Obliging Young Lady
Act like Bore in Pullman Car with Linda (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5
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A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
Rhubarb
Act like Mr. Fisher
event1951 star_border 5.5
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Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.
Slightly French
Act like Whitaker (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 7.2
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A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.
Second Honeymoon
Act like Andy
event1937 star_border 5.8
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Raoul McLish stops over in Miami Beach where he runs into his ex-wife, Vicky Benton, and her new husband Bob, a belt manufacturer. At first Bob enjoys Raoul's presence - in part because Vicky is his not Raoul's and in part because Raoul is a lot of fun. The fun wears thin for Bob as his seriousness and possessiveness take over. When Bob leaves for a few days to settle a labor dispute at his factory, Vicky and Raoul spend time together, Winchell's column implies untoward behavior, Bob barks at Vicky, and that gets her back up. Can things be sorted out? Help comes from Raoul's upright valet, McTavish, and a principled cigarette girl, Joy, whom Raoul picks up.
Week-End in Havana
Act like Mr. Marks
event1941 star_border 6.6
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A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains waivers from all of the passengers with the exception of Nan Spencer, a department store salesgirl who wants her vacation now, not later. Jay is instructed to take Nan to Havana, set her up in the best hotel, and keep her entertained. She visits a nightclub where the star attraction is Rosita Rivas and meets Rosita's worthless manager, Monte Blanca, who makes a play for her. Trouble also comes in the form of Jay's fiancée, Terry McCracken, when a romance develops between Nan and Jay.
Star Dust
Act like Cargo, Wellman's Assistant
event1940 star_border 4.7
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When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.
Hi Diddle Diddle
Act like Minister
event1943 star_border 6.8
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When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.
Safety in Numbers
Act like Cameraman
event1938
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The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
Public Deb No. 1
Act like Layout Man
event1940 star_border 4.2
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When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Mr. Lucky
Act like Draft Board Doctor (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.9
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A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Act like Bill
event1939 star_border 2
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Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
An American Dream
Act like Apartment House Guard
event1966 star_border 4.6
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Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personality. During a vicious argument with his wife, Deborah, Stephen snaps and pushes her from his high-rise apartment to her death. He manages to convince the authorities that she killed herself, then reignites an old affair with singer Cherry McMahon -- which doesn't sit well with her jealous mobster boyfriend, Nicky.
Hellzapoppin'
Act like Photographer at Pool (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 7.1
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Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
Young Man with Ideas
Act like Mr. Cumberly (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 4.7
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A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
Lydia
Act like Hotel Desk Clerk
event1941 star_border 6.4
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Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.
China Clipper
Act like Airplane Designer (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5.6
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An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
She Had to Eat
Act like Mr. McIntire - Telegraph Clerk (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5
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An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
You Gotta Stay Happy
Act like Night Clerk
event1948 star_border 6.5
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Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. She then persuades him to take her to California.
Keep Smiling
Act like Casting Director
event1938
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Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.
The Touch of Satan
Act like Mr. Gentry
event1971 star_border 2.8
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A murderous and decrepit old woman resides on a California walnut farm with her family. On a whim, a traveler named Jodie makes a brief side trip to the farm, where he meets and falls in love with Melissa, the proverbial farmer's daughter. Jodie and Melissa grow closer as Melissa begins to reveal the strange, dark history of her family.
The Glenn Miller Story
Act like Used Car Salesman (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 6.9
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A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.
Baby Face Morgan
Act like J.B. Brown
event1942 star_border 4.4
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When crime boss Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers, learns that Morgan has a son named Edward living in the country with his mother. Rogers has naïve Edward brought to the city and installs him as the head of Acme Protective Agency. Good-hearted Eddy assumes his company provides insurance, rather than extortion-- But don't be too hard on the guy, he still doesn't know he's Baby Face Morgan, the most feared gangster in the city!
A Lawless Street
Act like Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 5.4
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A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.
Two Bright Boys
Act like Boswell
event1939
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A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.
The Magnificent Dope
Act like Charlie
event1942 star_border 7.2
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Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
The Female Animal
Act like Assistant Director Eddie (uncredited)
event1958 star_border 5.6
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Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house. Vanessa's sexy, alcoholic adult daughter Penny accidentally meets Chris, who rescues her from an 'octopus' boyfriend. Before you know it, Chris is involved with both mother and daughter, and his only way out is to take a job in a Mexican picture about man-eating orchids...
The Yellow Mountain
Act like Sam Torrence
event1954 star_border 5.1
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A formula brawling-buddies western where one goes bad and then returns to the fold. Pete Menlo owns some gold claims in Nevada where he is joined by his old friend Andy Martin. Crooked mine-owner Bannon wants to merge their interests so they can create a monopoly but is turned down. Pete is interested in "Nevada" Wray, daughter of mine-owner "Jackpot" Wray, but she has eyes only for Andy. The rejected Pete joins forces with Bannon and they learn that, because of location, "Jackpot" Wray may be the owner of all the gold in the respective veins. Bannon and his men try to get rid of Andy.
Meet the Stewarts
Act like Waiter (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6
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A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
The Mad Martindales
Act like Hotel clerk
event1942 star_border 5
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A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
You and Me
Act like Information Clerk (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.7
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Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
Everybody's Old Man
Act like Jameson
event1936
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An elderly businessman thinking about aging and death takes time off to help teach a dead friend's children about life and business.
The Adventures of Champion
Act like Jim Custer (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 5.3
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The Adventures of Champion follow a wild stallion named Champion, who remarkably becomes friends with a young boy named Ricky North.The show followed the boy and the horse as they went on crazy adventures in the Southern West during the late 1800s.
Adam-12
Act like Watchman (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.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Act like Secretary (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 7.7
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A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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