
Birthday:
09-16-1926
Deathday:
09-24-2005 (79 years)
Birthplace:
Dallas, Texas, USA
Biography
Thomas Ross "Tommy" Bond was an American actor. A native of Dallas, Texas, Bond was best known for his work as a child actor for two different nonconsecutive periods on Our Gang (Little Rascals) comedies, and also for being the first actor to portray the role of "Superman's pal" Jimmy Olsen on screen.
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Honky Donkey
Act like Tommy
event1934 star_border 7.2
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Rich kid Wally brings the gang back home to play, along with their mule.
Our Gang - Comedy Festival
Act like Butch
event2001
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Featuring the most riotous Rascals of all. This hilarious comedy compilation spans more than twenty years of classic Our Gang comedies to tickle your funny bone and includes rarely seen silent footage. See Alfalfa sing "The Barber of Seville" at the "Our Gang Follies" and Chubby grease Wheezer with Limburger, plus a 1930s bicycle commercial starring Spanky and a 1950s reunion on "You Asked for It". Come join Spanky, Buckwheat, Jackie, Mickey, Farina, Darla, Froggy, Mary, Joe Cobb and many more for the marathon of mirthful moments with the Little Rascals, a must-have for your comedy collection.
Alimony Aches
Act like Ronald, May's Son
event1935
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Ex-wife remarries, doesn't tell husband so he'll still pay alimony.
The Cracked Ice Man
event1934
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Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
I Love to Singa
Act like Owl Jolson (voice)
event1936 star_border 6.8
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I Love to Singa depicts the story of a young owl who wants to sing jazz, instead of the classical music that his German parents wish him to perform. The plot is a lighthearted tribute to Al Jolson's film The Jazz Singer.
Rushin' Ballet
Act like Butch
event1937 star_border 6.8
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While trying to track down Butch, Spanky and Alfalfa get caught up in a dance recital.
Knee Action
event1937
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Andy takes his newest invention, a knee-action washing machine, before a group of potential investors, but his idiot stepson proceeds to disrupt the demonstration.
Hot Rod
Act like Jack Blodgett
event1950 star_border 5.7
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A young man builds a hot rod despite the disapproval of his father, a Juvenile Court judge. Circumstantial evidence points to the innocent teenager when his car is involved in a hit-and-run accident and he must reconcile with his father.
Mister Smarty
Act like Smaller Bowzer Son
event1936
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Mr. Bowser believes that he'll be able to clean the house better than his wife can.
Hollywood Capers
Act like Beans (voice) (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 5.1
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W.C.Fields enters the Warmer Bros. Studio. Beans tries to drive in, but the guard throws him and his car against a tree. Charlie Chaplin drives in, followed by Oliver Hardy on foot - but we see that it's really Beans in disguise. Oliver Owl is directing a picture; Beans sneaks onto the stage. He's watching from a catwalk when someone knocks him off, into the middle of the scene. Beans is thrown off the set, right into the set of a Frankenstein movie. He accidentally brings the robotic monster to life, and it crashes into the original studio, eating the camera. Beans tries to stop the monster, but is sent flying. He lands against a wind machine. which chops up the monster.
Atom Man vs. Superman
Act like Jimmy Olsen
event1950 star_border 5.6
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Superman battles Lex Luthor, who is using a teleportation device and a new identity as Atom Man in his criminal plans.
Boom Boom
Act like Beans (voice)
event1936 star_border 6.3
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World War I, apparently. There is a series of quick blackout gags, including a soldier that throws the pin...
Westward Whoa
Act like Beans (voice)
event1936 star_border 5
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Porky Pig and his friends Beans, Little Kitty and Ham and Ex, travel as pioneers toward the western frontier. As their wagon travels across the prairie, Ham and Ex cause trouble by pretending to be Indians. Then the real Indians show up!
Wild Poses
Act like Tommy
event1933 star_border 7.8
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Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.
The Phantom Ship
Act like Beans (voice / uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5.5
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Uncle Beans and the kids are off to visit a haunted ship ('The Phantom') trapped in the ice, hoping to find pirate treasure. They encounter all manner of ghosts and goblins, but eventually find what they've been looking for. When Beans tries to warm up by throwing some chairs in a stove and lighting it, he thaws out a pair of pirates that chase the trio around. They treasure-seekers are eventually forced back into their plane and they decide to fly away.
Mike Fright
Act like Tommy
event1934 star_border 5.8
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The gang attends a radio station amateur show.
Came the Brawn
Act like Butch
event1938 star_border 6.5
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Alfalfa enters a rigged wrestling match against the Masked Marvel, unaware that neighborhood bully Butch has secretly donned the disguise of his opponent.
Mush and Milk
Act like Tommy
event1933 star_border 6.8
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When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.
Big Town Scandal
Act like Waldo 'Dum Dum' Riggs
event1948 star_border 5
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A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
Page Miss Glory
Act like Abner (voice) (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.4
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A bellhop in the best hotel of a small town awaiting the arrival of Miss Glory dreams he has to page her at a first class hotel in New York. In time he is awakened by the manager, because Miss Glory's car has arrived.
Man from Frisco
Act like Russ Kennedy
event1944 star_border 6
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Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated ships on the West Coast, but he is hindered by the former superintendent of the shipyard, Joel Kennedy. A disappointed lover fails to deliver an important message on welds and it leads to the collapse of a new ship's superstructure and the death of a boy.
Superman
Act like Jimmy Olsen
event1948 star_border 6
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Superman comes to Earth as a child and grows up to be his home's first superhero with his first major challenge being to oppose The Spider Lady.
The Major Lied 'Til Dawn
Act like Little Boy (voice)
event1938 star_border 5.5
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We open on a big game hunter telling a little boy (a caricture of child star Freddie Bartholomew) stories about hunting in the jungles of Africa. He tells him a story about a day he was hunting there. The game hunter gets help from African natives to catch some animals, with some odd results. Sight gags include an elephant who can't remember something he was supposed to do, and the game hunter riding a elephant and having to "shift gears" like an automobile to get up a steep hill.
City Streets
Act like Tommy Devlin
event1938
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When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" Joe Carmine. Joe convinces Father Ryan to let him informally adopt her. Joe and Winnie live together with Tommy Devlin and his grandmother, Mrs. Devlin, and a dog Winnie names Muriel. Joe sells his shop to pay for an unsuccessful operation on Winnie's legs. This bankrupts Carmine, who then earns a meager living selling fruits and vegetables on the streets. Winnie is sent to live in an orphanage, and Carmine is discouraged from continuing his relationship with her. Carmine is so distraught by grief that he slowly begins to die. Winnie is brought to him by Father Ryan, and she finds the strength to stand and walk to his bedside and sings his favorite song, "Santa Maria." Later, after Winnie has acquired full use of her legs, Joe, in his new catering truck, takes the children on a picnic in the country.
Hideaway
Act like Oscar Peterson
event1937 star_border 4
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A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out.
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Act like Joey Pepper
event1939 star_border 6.2
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The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. In this one the family inherits co-ownership in a copper mine.
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Act like Joey Pepper
event1940 star_border 6.7
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The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
Five Little Peppers at Home
Act like Joey Pepper
event1940 star_border 6.3
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The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner becomes ill.
Adventure in Washington
Act like Peewee Haynes
event1941 star_border 6.5
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A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.
Twice Blessed
Act like Horace
event1945 star_border 6
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Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been raised separately since their parents divorced seven years earlier. Each envies the lifestyle of the other; and they decide, without telling Jeff or Mary, to switch families for a day or two. They soon find that it is harder to do what the other person is expected to do, and that looking alike is not enough. When they find that their charade may bring their parents back together, they agree to continue it. A major complication begins when Alice, Jeff's girlfriend and co-worker, finds out the real story.
Out West with the Peppers
Act like Joey Pepper
event1940 star_border 5.7
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When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But adjusting to a new home and community isn't easy for the brood. Third entry in the "Five Little Peppers" series of four films.
Gobs of Trouble
event1935
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Two sailors decide to settle down and get married, and live to regret it.
A Little Bit of Heaven
Act like Jerry
event1940 star_border 1
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A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a big-bucks contract, which allows her and her family to move into a posh apartment, with all the usual problems that accompany sudden wealth.
Party Fever
Act like Butch
event1938 star_border 6
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Alfalfa, Butch and Waldo compete for Mayor For A Day. Whoever becomes Mayor gets to take Darla to the Strawberry Festival.
Let's Talk Turkey
Act like Little Otto
event1939 star_border 5
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It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her scowling family, and Abner has no idea how to proceed. The film's narrator has us cut away to the kitchen of chef M.O. Cullen who demonstrates the proper way to carve the bird, spoon out the stuffing, and lay out the platter. Back to Abner, who's missed Cullen's lesson, so he makes a fine mess. Can this marriage survive?
Beauty and the Bus
Act like Little Boy Who Draws Winning Ticket (uncredited)
event1933
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The girls win a car in a raffle.
Don't Look Now
Act like Cuckoo Clock / Dan Cupid / Devil Boy (voice) (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5.7
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It's St. Valentine's Day. Cupid is having fun arranging, while a young devil is making mischief sabotaging, love affairs.
Dog Daze
Act like Butch
event1939 star_border 4.6
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The Gang owes 37 cents to Butch, so they try to raise money by rounding up stray dogs for the reward, but nearly get busted for dognapping.
A Cartoonist's Nightmare
Act like Beans (voice) (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.5
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A cartoonist falls asleep at the drawing board and into the clutches of his own villains, until Beans the Cat comes to the rescue.
Captain Spanky's Show Boat
Act like Butch
event1939 star_border 6
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An abandoned old show boat is moored in a lazy creek. The Our Gang put the old vessel back to use when they stage a show featuring "Darla's Dancin' Dandies" and a "meller dramer" entitled "Out in the Snow You Go." All is not smooth sailing however, as Butch seeks revenge for having been excluded from the cast.
Libeled Lady
Act like Waif (uncredited)
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.
Our Gang: Inside the Clubhouse
Act like Himself / Tommy / Butch
event1984
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A behind the scenes look at Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies, complete with interviews from several former cast and crew members of the series.
Framing Youth
Act like Butch
event1937 star_border 7.2
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Alfalfa and Butch are competing in an amateur radio contest, and Butch tries to fix it so that he will win.
Fishy Tales
Act like Butch
event1937 star_border 7.2
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Alfalfa tries to back out of a fight by pretending to be incapacitated.
Washee Ironee
Act like Tommy
event1934 star_border 6.8
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Rich boy Waldo gets his clothes dirty playing football with the gang just before he has to go to his mother's society party. The gang tries to help him clean up.
Gas House Kids Go West
Act like Chimp
event1947 star_border 6
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The second of three "Bowery Boys" rip-offs produced by bargain-basement Producers Releasing Corporation.
The Gas House Kids in Hollywood
Act like Chimp
event1947 star_border 6
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The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood.
This Land Is Mine
Act like Pug-nosed School Bully
event1943 star_border 7.1
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Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
Champagne Waltz
Act like Otto, Singing Student
event1937
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In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitten by Elsa, Buzzy hides his identity and association with the club -- whose owner intends to buy out the Palace property. When Elsa accidentally learns who Buzzy really is, it appears he may have to return to America alone.
Rosalie
Act like Mickey (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.5
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West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.
Forgotten Babies
Act like Tommy
event1933 star_border 7
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While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting.
Silly Billies
Act like Student
event1936 star_border 8
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The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.
Bubbling Troubles
Act like Butch
event1940 star_border 6.5
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To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.
The Little Ranger
Act like Butch
event1938 star_border 6
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Alfalfa imagines himself as a western movie hero battling with Butch for Darla's heart.
Football Romeo
Act like Butch
event1938 star_border 6.5
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Darla pretends to like Butch, hoping to motivate Alfalfa into a better performance in the football game against Butch's team.
Hi'–Neighbor!
Act like Tommy
event1934 star_border 7.9
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The gang decides to build their own fire engine.
For Pete's Sake!
Act like Tommy
event1934 star_border 7.7
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The kids try to raise money to buy a doll for Marianne.
Practical Jokers
Act like Butch
event1938 star_border 6
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Butch has been playing practical jokes on the gang, but now they get their turn.
Bedtime Worries
Act like Tommy
event1933 star_border 7.2
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Spanky's parents are trying unsuccessfully to get Spanky to spend a peaceful first night in his own room.
The First Round-Up
Act like Tommy
event1934 star_border 6.5
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The gang packs up for a camping trip to Cherry Creek two miles from their home, but to them it is the wilderness. After night falls, the hooting owls and croaking frogs conjure up visions of spooks. When a thunderstorm hits, they all scurry for home.
Cousin Wilbur
Act like Butch
event1939 star_border 6
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Alfalfa introduces his prissy, snooty cousin Wilbur to the gang. He instantly gets on everyone's bad side. Especially Alfalfa.
New York Town
Act like Willie (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 10
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Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
Tokyo Joe
Act like Fingerprint Sergeant
event1949 star_border 6.1
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An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
The Calling of Dan Matthews
Act like Tommy (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 3
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Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
Duel Personalities
Act like Butch
event1939 star_border 6
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While under a hypnotic spell, Alfalfa thinks he's one of the Three Musketeers and challenges Butch to a duel.
Intruder in the Dust
Act like Minor Role (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 7.3
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Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.
The Kid from Borneo
Act like Tommy
event1933 star_border 6.9
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The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie, Dorothy, and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo."
Alpine Antics
Act like Beans (voice) (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6
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Prologue: various animals enjoy winter sports. Beans sees a notice of a ski race, and decides to enter. But so does a bad guy (who looks more than a little like Disney's Pete). The bad guy sabotages the other contestants in various ways, takes short cuts, etc. But Beans manages to tie up the bad guy in his own trip line. A duck riding a dachshund knocks the bad guy out for a while; he and Beans trade places a few more times before Beans wins the race, just barely.
Block-Heads
Act like Neighbor's Son
event1938 star_border 7
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It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan who has now been returned to the States and invites him back to his home.
I'll Take Vanilla
Act like Junior
event1934
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Ice-cream vendor Charley gets mixed up with a cute girl and her snotty nephew.
You Said a Hatful!
Act like Kid on train
event1934
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When he learns the secret news that it will be sold today at 4pm in Kansas City, international banker J.P. Anderson sets in motion a plan to purchase the Tippycanoe Tuckahoe & Tehachapi Railroad.
Kid Millions
Act like Boy in the Barge
event1934 star_border 6.5
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A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
Glove Taps
Act like Butch
event1937 star_border 6.5
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Butch challenges Alfalfa to a fight.
Auto Antics
Act like Butch
event1939 star_border 6.5
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The "Our Gang" kids enter the Kidmobile Race Classic and must rescue their dog from the pound.
Any Number Can Play
Act like Mike
event1949 star_border 6.9
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When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
Next Time We Love
Act like Pesky Kid
event1936 star_border 6.2
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A young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.
E! True Hollywood Story
(1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 8.1
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E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and also well-known public figures. Among the topics covered on the program include salacious re-tellings of Hollywood secrets, show-biz scandals, celebrity murders and mysteries, porn-star biographies, and "where-are-they-now?" investigations of former child stars. It frequently features in-depth interviews, actual courtroom footage, and dramatic reenactments. When aired on the E! network, episodes will be updated to reflect the current life or status of the subject.
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