
Birthday:
06-28-1885
Deathday:
03-17-1976 (90 years)
Birthplace:
Ashtabula, Ohio, USA
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Knocking them Cold
event1930
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Idle chit-chat from some out-of-work actors in a boarding house.
Blondie Goes to College
Act like L.L. Snookie Wadsworth
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.
Charlie Chan at the Olympics
Act like Chief of Homicide E. R. Scott
event1937 star_border 6.7
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Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!
Money To Burn
Act like Brown
event1939
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In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a whopping $50,000.
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Act like Joe Brayden, Night Watchman
event1947 star_border 6.5
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Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women. Encountering a roadblock, Morgan takes over and persuades the party to spend the night at an unoccupied beach house. The police close in as one by one, the others learn that Morgan is a killer.
Hi'ya, Chum
Act like Jerry MackIntosh, Cook
event1943 star_border 6
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Entertainers get stranded in a small boomtown, and open up a restaurant.
Phantom Lady
Act like Mac - Bartender
event1944 star_border 7
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A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
The Singing Sheriff
Act like Jonas
event1944 star_border 8
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In this comic western, a Broadway star leaves his musical revue to go West and help out his troubled friend. While there, the performer finds himself forced into becoming the town sheriff. Mayhem ensues, but somehow, the crooner manages to round up a band of killers.
Badman's Territory
Act like Doc Quillan
event1946 star_border 5.8
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After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
A Close Call for Ellery Queen
Act like Bates
event1942 star_border 5.2
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Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.
Larceny, Inc.
Act like Oscar Engelhart
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...
Can't Help Singing
Act like Sad Sam
event1944 star_border 5.1
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With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
Hoppy's Holiday
Act like Frank Patton
event1947
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Hoppy, California, and Lucky travel to Mesa City for a short vacation. California buys new clothes and carrying his old ones in a suitcase, bumps into escaping bank robbers in the dark. His suitcase gets switched with that of the robbers and he is seen with the money. Hoppy must find the money that has mysteriously disappeared and also the robbers so that he can clear California who is now in jail.
The Jackpot
Act like Pritchett (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.9
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Bill Lawrence wins a bevy or prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them all in order to pay the taxes he's incurred.
The Mad Ghoul
Act like Mortician Eagan
event1943 star_border 6
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A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as part of a plan to steal his lover.
Lady Scarface
Act like Art Seidel, Hotel Detective
event1941 star_border 5.1
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A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.
King of Burlesque
Act like Slattery
event1936 star_border 5.9
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Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who helps make Baxter a success. His head turned by sudden fame, Baxter falls under the spell of a society woman (Mona Barrie) who has theatrical aspirations of her own. She marries Baxter, then convinces him to produce a string of "artistic" plays rather than his extravagant musical revues. The plays are flops, and the woman haughtily divorces Baxter. Faithful Alice Faye, who'd gone to London when her ex-beau was married, returns to the penniless Baxter. She and her burlesque buddies team up to pull Baxter out of his rut and put him on top again.
Down Mexico Way
Act like Mayor Tubbs
event1941
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Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately from Autry's regular B-western series as an A-picture attraction. The story gets under way when a pair of con artists, Gibson (Sidney Blackmer) and Allen (Joe Sawyer), breeze into the town of Sage City claiming to be movie producers. The two scoundrels promise to film a movie in the little burg on the condition that the townsfolk pony up the necessary production fees.
Murder in the Blue Room
Act like Dr. Carroll
event1944 star_border 5
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A young woman, a trio of singers, and a mystery writer are among the guests at a house long-considered to be haunted.
Frontier Gal
Act like Judge Prescott
event1945 star_border 4.4
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Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a saloon owned by singer Lorena Dumont (Yvonne de Carlo). The two seem a good, albeit tempestuous match, although Johnny has no plans to marry -- Lorena has other ideas and a shotgun wedding ensues.
The Wild Man of Borneo
Act like 'Doc' Dunbar
event1941 star_border 6.5
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A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.
Sis Hopkins
Act like Mayor
event1941 star_border 6
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An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
Wolf of New York
Act like Sylvester Duncan
event1940 star_border 7
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A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
San Fernando Valley
Act like Cyclone Kenyon
event1944
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A ranch owner fires his ranch hands and brings in women to replace them. The owner's daughter wants the male hands back and comes up with a plan to do it.
A Stranger in Town
Act like Roscoe Swade
event1943 star_border 6.5
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In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.
Patrick the Great
Act like Sam Bassett
event1945 star_border 4
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A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware his teenage son has already been given the part.
Swing Fever
Act like Dr. Clyde L. Star
event1943 star_border 5
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Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
Hot Money
Act like Willie
event1936 star_border 4
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Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.
Doubting Thomas
Act like Huxley Hossefrosse
event1935 star_border 7
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A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
Ticket to Paradise
Act like Nirney
event1936 star_border 6
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A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.
Five of a Kind
Act like Dr. Bruno
event1938 star_border 4.2
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Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.
Here Comes Cookie
Act like Botts
event1935 star_border 7.2
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A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
Act like Ted Held
event1949 star_border 4.7
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Period musical about a song plugger who vows to turn an opera composer's music into popular hits.
Riding on Air
Act like Eddie Byrd
event1937 star_border 5
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Smugglers are using a device for controlling airplanes in flight, and newspaper reporters from Chicago are vying for the story. Reporter Elmer Lane is out to scoop rival reporter Betty Harrison, and capture her heart in the process.
Meet the Boy Friend
Act like J. Ardmore Potts
event1937 star_border 6
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A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as "America's Boyfriend" decides to wed a Swedish actress. His manager doesn't want this because he is afraid of Tony losing female fans so he takes up a 300 hundred thousand dollar insurance policy if Tony does in fact wed. Tony soon meets a girl name June Delaney on a bus who doesn't swoon over him like other girls. He falls for her but doesn't know her true identity.
Oklahoma Annie
Act like Mayor
event1952 star_border 8
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A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.
Boy Trouble
Act like Mr. Svively
event1939 star_border 5
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A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
Always in Trouble
Act like James C. Darlington
event1938 star_border 6
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Jane's dad (Tombes) is an oil field worker who comes into a fortune and is then pushed into society by his wife.
Battle of Broadway
Act like Judge Hutchins
event1938 star_border 4.2
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The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son's romance with a showgirl. Director George Marshall's 1938 comedy stars Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Raymond Walburn, Hattie McDaniel, Lynn Bari, Robert Kellard, Jane Darwell, Andrew Tombes, Esther Muir and Frank Moran.
I Dood It
Act like Mr. Alfred Spelvin
event1943 star_border 3.5
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Constance Shaw, a Broadway dance star, and Joseph Rivington Reynolds, a keen fan of hers, marry after she breaks up with her fiancé. Connie thinks Joseph owns a gold mine, but he actually works as a presser at a hotel valet shop. When everyone learns what he really is, Joseph is banned from the theater. When he sneaks in again, he learns of a plot to set off a bomb in the adjoining munitions warehouse.
You Came Along
Act like Drunk
event1945 star_border 7
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War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with several girls in every town on the tour. After some amusing escapades, Bob and Ivy become romantically involved, agreeing it's "just fun up in the air." Then Ivy finds out the real reason why it shouldn't be anything more.
Sally, Irene and Mary
Act like Judge
event1938 star_border 6
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Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.
Romance on the Run
Act like J.W. Ridgeway
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 Judge Brandon
event1938
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A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy.
Beat the Band
Act like 'Prof' Enrico Blanchetti / Mr. Dillingham
event1947 star_border 4
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Singer Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.
What a Life
Act like Prof. Abernathy
event1939
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Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.
Bathing Beauty
Act like Jefferson Statling - Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 5.8
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After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.
Christmas Eve
Act like Auctioneer
event1947 star_border 5.3
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The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?
Moulin Rouge
Act like McBride
event1934 star_border 7
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A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. However, her husband won't let her. When she hears that a popular French singer named "Raquel" is coming to New York, she decides to go to Raquel with a plan--unbeknownst to her husband, "Raquel" is actually her sister, and her plan is for them to switch places so she can fulfill her dream of going back on the stage. However, things don't go quite as planned.
A Wonderful Life
event1950
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Sponsored by The Protestant Film Commission, this religiously-affiliated tale centers around citizen Henry Wood (played by Oscar winner James Dunn from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"), who loved family and church, gave to the needy, and donated most of his money to charity. Now deceased, his somewhat neglected daughter reflects on his past and ponders that age-old question, did he indeed have such "a wonderful life"?
It Had to Happen
Act like Dooley
event1936 star_border 5.5
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A poor boy rises to power in politics.
The Country Beyond
Act like Sen. Rawlings
event1936
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A Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman suspects his girlfriend's father of theft and murder.
Thanks a Million
Act like Mr. Grass
event1935 star_border 6
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A show troupe is engaged by Judge Culliman, who is running for Governor, to enhance his political campaign. When the inebriated Judge has to be replaced in doing his campaign speech by the troupe crooner, Eric Land, his political backers decide that they want him to run for Governor in the Judge's place. Romance, music, political corruption and the election results follow.
Stage Struck
Act like Burns Heywood
event1936 star_border 4
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A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.
Easy Living
Act like E.J. Hulgar
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.
Too Busy to Work
Act like Wilbur Wentworth
event1939
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The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
Reveille with Beverly
Act like Mr. Smith (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.
One Wild Night
Act like William Nolan
event1938 star_border 5.5
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Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
Texas
Act like Tennessee
event1941 star_border 6.5
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Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.
Last of the Duanes
Act like Sheriff Frank Taylor
event1941 star_border 6
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Based on Zane Grey's tale of a man who gains an unfair reputation as a gunfighter while out to avenge his father's death.
Music Is Magic
Act like Ben Pomeroy
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.
The Devil Is a Sissy
Act like Muldoon - a Policeman
event1936 star_border 6.9
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A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Act like Sidney - Columnist
event1933 star_border 5.7
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Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?
Nick Carter, Master Detective
Act like Robinson
event1939 star_border 5.7
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Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
Balalaika
Act like Wilbur Allison (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 4.2
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A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
Village Barn Dance
Act like James Rutherford Sr.
event1940
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Dan Martin, an unemployed college graduate, drifts into the town of Lyndale, only to learn that the town and everything in it are dominated by Minerva Withers, a tight-fisted, old skinflint whose welcome does not extend to tramps.
A Desperate Adventure
Act like Cosmo Carrington
event1938
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In this romantic comedy, a passionate French painter nearly goes berserk when he learns that his well-meaning friends have stolen one of his paintings so it can be exhibited.
Screw Drivers of 1940
Act like Mr. Screwdriver
event1940
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Film-within-a-film: two men eating lunch at restaurant see another Shell Oil film entitled "The Largest Club in the World" with Lew Lehr and Don Wilson. Humorous driving and pedestrian safety film shot on the streets of Los Angeles.
Bedtime Story
Act like Pierce
event1941 star_border 5.9
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A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there
Here Comes Trouble
Act like Adams
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.
Time Out for Romance
Act like James Blanchard
event1937 star_border 5.6
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A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
In Old Missouri
Act like Attorney
event1940 star_border 5.5
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The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son and a socialite wife who wants a divorce. He begs the Weavers to trade places with him and fix things up.
Captain Caution
Act like Sad Eyes
event1940 star_border 5.3
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When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
Coney Island
Act like Horace Carter
event1943 star_border 5.3
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Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
Don't Fence Me In
Act like Cartwright
event1945 star_border 4.3
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Wildcat Kelly has been dead and buried for years. Or has he? Dale is a reporter for an Eastern magazine who comes West to find out the true story of Kelly, of whom Gabby seems to have mysterious knowledge.
Charter Pilot
Act like W.J. Brady
event1940 star_border 6
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US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.
Sing and Be Happy
Act like Thomas Lane
event1937
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Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.
Week-End Pass
Act like Constable
event1944
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A run-away socialite "Babs" Bradley (Martha O'Driscoll), using an alias, wants to join the WACs, finds romance with a shipyard worker, Johnny Adams (Noah Beery Jr.), while dodging sheriffs, policemen and others who are searching for her.
Honeymoon Lodge
Act like Judge Wilkins
event1943
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Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
G.I. Honeymoon
Act like Reverend Horace
event1945
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In this romantic comedy, set during WW II, an newlywed army couple are unable to consummate their marriage, as on their wedding night the husband is called away to sentry duty. Later they try again, but as he has just completed a 37-mile hike, he finds himself too tired to work up any enthusiasm for conjugal bliss. Fortunately, the bride's understanding aunt intervenes with the young man's colonel and the frustrated couple is at last able to share a night of love.
Between Us Girls
Act like Doctor
event1942 star_border 6
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A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter.
Fair Warning
Act like J. C. Farnham
event1937 star_border 6
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In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
Don't Get Personal
Act like James M. Snow
event1942 star_border 3
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Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored by his company, as he thinks their on-air quarreling is real. Two former associates, Jules Kinsey and J.M. Snow cross him up by substituting Susan Blair, an office secretary, for Mary and Elmer thinks the show's writer Paul Stevens is John.
Third Finger, Left Hand
Act like Mr. Kelland
event1940 star_border 6.8
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Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
The Go-Getter
Act like Mr. Symington
event1956
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The Go-Getter (1956)
Meet John Doe
Act like Spencer
event1941 star_border 7.3
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As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
Bring on the Girls
Act like Dr. Spender
event1945 star_border 6.1
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A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.
His Butler's Sister
Act like Brophy
event1943 star_border 7.1
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Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
A Dangerous Game
Act like Silas Biggsby
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.
Obliging Young Lady
Act like First Train Conductor
event1942 star_border 5
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A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
Big City
Act like Inspector Matthews (as Andrew J. Tombes)
event1937 star_border 7.4
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Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
Alex in Wonderland
Act like Mr. J.D. Swinnerton
event1940
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In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks like Alex is going to be around for a while, much to Fred's displeasure. Alex in is New York to look for a job and he sees an ad for a champagne salesman. He decides to crash a swank party given by railroad tycoon J.D. Swinnerton and his wife. Alex has his own zany way of getting an introduction to the man. Mayhem ensues when several of the guests come as Robin Hood and one of them is a jewel thief.
Hi Diddle Diddle
Act like Doorman
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.
Two Guys from Texas
Act like The Texan
event1948 star_border 6
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Two vaudevillians on the run from crooks try to pass themselves off as cowboys.
Borrowing Trouble
Act like Uncle George
event1937 star_border 6
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The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
Du Barry was a Lady
Act like Mr. McGowan
event1943 star_border 6.1
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Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Crazy House
Act like Horace L. Gregory
event1943 star_border 5
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Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
They All Kissed the Bride
Act like Crane
event1942 star_border 5.8
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Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book on some of her tough ways. With no time for men, the effect an attractive stranger has on her at her sister's wedding is unnerving. When it turns out this is the hated writer, she starts seriously to lose her bearings. Surely it can't become Maggie and Mike?
Sing While You Dance
Act like Gorman
event1946
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Susan Kent, hoping to establish herself as a song-plugger, tries to obtain a second song from a young songwriter, Johnny Crane, after his first song becomes a hit. While pursuing her objective, she falls in love with Johnny, and lands in jail, but she acquires the song, the job, and Johnny.
Reckless Age
Act like Mr. Cook
event1944
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Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
The Holy Terror
Act like Commander Otis
event1937 star_border 1
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Corky is the daughter of an officer in the Naval Air Service who, while putting on musical shows for the troops, uncovers a group of spies.
Hellzapoppin'
Act like Max Kane (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.
Road to Morocco
Act like Oso Bucco (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.9
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Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
Goin' to Town
Act like Parker
event1944
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General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical joke being played on them.
It Ain't Hay
Act like Big-Hearted Charlie
event1943 star_border 6.4
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Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
Two Sisters from Boston
Act like Recording Session Director (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6
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Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
Rhapsody in Blue
Act like Mr. Million
event1945 star_border 6.4
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Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
World Premiere
Act like Nixon
event1941 star_border 5
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A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity for his latest project. He decides to have three men pose as spies, disrupting the opening, but things don't go quite as planned...there are actual spies also present!
Men of Steel
Act like J.J. Stevens
event1938
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Employees of The Homey Foamy Washing Machine Company decide to put on a musical show. The Board of Directors attempt to get the employees to get back to work
Louisiana Purchase
Act like Dean Albert Manning
event1941 star_border 6.6
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A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
Act like Sheriff Grogan
event1950
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A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey Pennyworth's hometown.
How To Be Very, Very Popular
Act like Police Sgt. Moon
event1955 star_border 4.7
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Two strippers on the run hide out in a college fraternity. Director Nunnally Johnson's 1955 musical comedy stars Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Tommy Noonan, Orson Bean, Fred Clark, Alice Pearce, Rhys Williams, Willard Waterman, Leslie Parrish and Jesslyn Fax.
The Meanest Man in the World
Act like Judge
event1943 star_border 6.4
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Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice and tries to convince the world he's a ruthless heel. Suddenly he's the most popular lawyer in town -- but he could lose his fiancée.
I Dream of Jeanie
Act like R.E. Howard
event1952 star_border 3.6
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The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.
45 Fathers
Act like Judge
event1937 star_border 1
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An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can.
Checkers
Act like Tobias Somers
event1937
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A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
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