
Birthday:
01-30-1884
Deathday:
03-16-1964 (80 years)
Birthplace:
Paris, France
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Daisy Kenyon
Act like Coverly
event1947 star_border 6.7
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Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.
Desk Set
Act like Mr. Azae
event1957 star_border 7
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A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's research staff.
Larceny
Act like Walter Vanderline
event1948 star_border 5.7
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Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Mason falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss, who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.
Gentleman's Agreement
Act like Dr. Craigie
event1947 star_border 6.9
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A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
The Iron Curtain
Act like Dr. Harold Preston Norman, aka 'Alec'
event1948 star_border 5.8
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The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to the U.S.S.R. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada in the midst of World War II. Eventually, Gouzenko defected with 109 pages of material implicating several high level Canadian officials, outlined the steps taken to secure information about the the details of the nuclear bomb via numerous sleeper cells established throughout North America. The scandal that resulted when details of this case were publicized by American columnist Drew Pearson in early 1946 involved Canada, Britain and the United States.
The Naked City
Act like Mr. McCormick (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 7.2
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After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
The Man with a Cloak
Act like Dr. Roland
event1951 star_border 6.9
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Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.
Native Son
Act like Henry Dalton
event1951 star_border 5.6
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In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
The Sun Comes Up
Act like Victor Alvord
event1949 star_border 6.4
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Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy and his dog.
And Baby Makes Three
Act like Marvin Fletcher
event1949 star_border 4.9
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A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.
If Winter Comes
Act like Mr. Pettigrew
event1947 star_border 6.6
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The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a friendship with Effie, a young pregnant girl. As the townsfolk theorize that Mark is the baby's father, Effie - already troubled because of her impending motherhood - commits suicide, and circulating rumors lead the authorities to think Mark killed her. The innocent writer must fight to clear his name.
Bride of Vengeance
Act like Chamberlain
event1949 star_border 4.5
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The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.
Here Comes the Groom
Act like Uncle Prentiss
event1951 star_border 5.2
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Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
The Fuller Brush Man
Act like Commissioner Gordon Trist
event1948 star_border 5.8
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Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.
Affair with a Stranger
Act like Producer George W. Craig
event1953 star_border 4.3
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Depicts the rocky marriage of a young model and her Broadway playwright-husband.
Song of Surrender
Act like General Seckle
event1949
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In 1906 in Connecticut, Elisha Hunt, the 55-year-old curator of a small government museum, marries Abigail, the 19-year-old daughter of a local farmer. In addition to the differences in their ages in this May-to-December union, Elizha is a man of culture while Abigail is uneducated. Bruce Edridge, young, handsome and wealthy, comes into her life, and they fall in love. Abigail is now faced with two choices; the chance of wealth versus her present mediocre circumstances, or her love for Bruce versus her loyalty to Elisha.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Act like Amos Strickland
event1949 star_border 6.5
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Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).
Dishonored Lady
Act like Mitchell
event1947 star_border 5.7
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Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depressed Madeleine attempts suicide. When Jack Garet, her secretary and former lover, tries to blackmail her, Madeleine resigns and seeks a reclusive life. Neighbor David Cousins befriends Madeleine, but soon Courtland and Garet discover her whereabouts and disrupt her new life.
Joan of Arc
Act like Regnault de Chartres, Archbishop of Rheims and Chancellor of France
event1948 star_border 6.1
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In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
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