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Beans for Two (1918)
Character: Jimmy
A farce in which a couple unwittingly save up money for the same thing. Without knowing it, a man and a woman both save up money for a gramophone. Buying beans earns many “savings points”, so both of them stock up on beans. At the end, the couple is left with an enormous amount of beans, and two gramophones.
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When the Wife's Away (1926)
Character: N/A
Mistaken identity and female impersonation take place when indigents Billy Winthrop (George K. Arthur) and Ethel Winthrop (Dorothy Reviere) rent a fashionable apartment for a few days in order to impress rich uncle Hiram (Tom Ricketts.) Complications and misunderstanding arise.
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A Youth of Fortune (1916)
Character: Peters
At the urging of his wealthy grandfather, Willie O'Donovan is sent to boarding school by his preoccupied parents, neither of whom shows much interest in the lad. At school, where he falls in love with Mary, a country girl, Willie hears that his grandfather has died and left him $50,000,000 to be managed by whomever Willie is living with on his eighteenth birthday. Mr. and Mrs. O'Donovan, who are in the midst of divorce, both hire private detectives to bring Willie back to them, but after a series of close calls, Willie manages to avoid the detectives and take refuge at the home of Mary's mother.
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The Bookworm Turns (1917)
Character: N/A
At the start of his career Harry Depp appeared often in short comedies, and was employed by Mack Sennett’s Keystone Company in 1916-17. Very little information is available on The Bookworm Turns but, as Depp was particularly well-known for appearing in movies that required him to don female clothing, we might expect to see him in drag at some point in this one.
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Easy Payments (1919)
Character: Jimmy
Jimmy, who buys everything on the Easy Payment plan, wants to marry Betty, whose dad believes Cash Is King.
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American Spoken Here (1940)
Character: Customer (uncredited)
This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American slang.
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The Haunted House (1917)
Character: N/A
Young Anne who lives with her stern uncle, is considered strange by the gossips of her village because she spends much of her time in the woods, where she has imaginary conversations with her deceased mother. When Jimmy, a crook is wounded after a robbery, he eludes the sheriff by hiding in a deserted mansion, unaware that the mansion is said to be haunted.
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The Women Men Marry (1937)
Character: Buyer (uncredited)
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
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Turn Off the Moon (1937)
Character: Tailor (uncredited)
Department store owner J. Elliott Dinwiddy has waited fifteen years for the perfect astrological moment to propose to his secretary, Myrtle Tweep. His astrological advisor, Dr. Wakefield, has told him that if he can unite a boy and a girl in true love before midnight, he can propose to Myrtle the following night. Fate then brings unemployed dancer Caroline Wilson into the music department of Dinwiddy's, where she meets handsome songwriter Terry Keith.
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Swing It Professor (1937)
Character: Trustee
A music professor is fired from his job for not knowing enough about modern "swing" music. He goes to Chicago to learn more about the subject in hopes of getting his job back, but he winds up getting mixed up with gangsters.
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Bill Cracks Down (1937)
Character: Smalley, the Lawyer
William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he finds "Tons' Walker, a strong and burly steel worker running the company, per his late-father's will request. He also finds that his father's will specifies the Junior will change his name to Bill Hall and work in the family steel mill for a year under the fake name. Walker's job is to make a man out of the son. The son is not overjoyed by this prospect. Neither is Walker.
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Motor Madness (1937)
Character: N/A
After winning a qualifying trial for a big speed-boat race in Santa Monica, California, Joe Dunn is offered a bribe, by gamblers, not to take part in the race and is so incensed that he starts a fight which lands him in jail. The girl he loves, Peggy McNeil, takes his place, but crashes into a buoy and is seriously injured---and Joe goes to desperate lengths to raise money for the services of a famous surgeon.
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The Big Show-Off (1945)
Character: G. Whitmore Peabody
A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in order to impress a pretty nightclub singer (Dale Evans).
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Find the Witness (1937)
Character: Dr. Rice (uncredited)
A newspaper reporter covering a famous magician's eroding marriage must later prove that the subject was responsible for his wife's murder.
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Here Comes Cookie (1935)
Character: Village Banker (uncredited)
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.
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The Go-Getter (1937)
Character: J. Brown #3 (uncredited)
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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The Lady and the Monster (1944)
Character: Bank Teller (Uncredited)
A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.
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Slander House (1938)
Character: Higginbotham
Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client.
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Panic on the Air (1936)
Character: Gordon's Secretary
A sports announcer and a friend investigate after a pitcher misses a series. When they discover that gangsters are trying to find a hidden fortune, they use the radio show to foil the plan.
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Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Character: Uncle Buren (uncredited)
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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Ice-Capades (1941)
Character: Reporter
Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Character: Hat Salesman / Secretary (uncredited)
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
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Golden Hoofs (1941)
Character: Clerk
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.
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And Sudden Death (1936)
Character: Collins
An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone due to reckless driving.
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I've Always Loved You (1946)
Character: Neighbor
A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.
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East Side of Heaven (1939)
Character: Executive (uncredited)
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
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Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941)
Character: Bigsby
A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the law makes him an easy target for the police. When the body disappears, Blackie must find it to prove his innocence.
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Forty Little Mothers (1940)
Character: Harry - Judge's Secretary
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
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Fatal Lady (1936)
Character: American Tourist (uncredited)
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
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One More Spring (1935)
Character: Husband (uncredited)
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
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The Lady Eve (1941)
Character: Man with Glasses on Ship (uncredited)
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
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Road to Alcatraz (1945)
Character: House Manager
The police think a young lawyer (Robert Lowery) killed his partner, but he was drugged when it happened.
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Inez from Hollywood (1924)
Character: Scoop Smith
Inez Laranotta is an actress who is notorious for her vamp roles and for the wild parties she attends. But images are deceiving -- the parties (and police raids) are staged by Inez's press agent, and she is actually very devoted to her innocent younger sister, Fay Bartholdi.
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The Port of 40 Thieves (1944)
Character: Train Conductor
A widow confesses she murdered her husband and kills two more people before her stepdaughter and an attorney prove her wrong.
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Earthworm Tractors (1936)
Character: Johnson's Bookkeeper
A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.
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Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
Character: Grocery Clerk
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.
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The Crime of the Century (1933)
Character: Police Stenographer (uncredited)
Driven to desperation by his young and extravagant wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has arranged a perfect crime; now he begs the police to lock him up before he can commit it.
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Mystery Sea Raider (1940)
Character: Mousey Little Man
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
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Atlantic Adventure (1935)
Character: Reporter
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
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Love Is News (1937)
Character: Salesman (uncredited)
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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The Love Girl (1916)
Character: The Boy Next Door
A girl is hypnotized and kidnapped by the swami her aunt is devoted to.
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Colleen (1936)
Character: Noggin's Assistant (uncredited)
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
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City of Chance (1940)
Character: Bridge Player
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
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Ghosts on the Loose (1943)
Character: John G. Elwood (uncredited)
The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.
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Quincy Adams Sawyer (1922)
Character: Cobb Twin
Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.
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History Is Made at Night (1937)
Character: N/A
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
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The Man I Married (1940)
Character: Man
An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.
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Danger Ahead (1940)
Character: Jones
The Royal Mounties are called in when one of the armored cars owned by Maxwell, containing a gold shipment, disappears with driver George Hill suspected of trying to get away with the gold. Actually, Maxwell and two henchmen had poured acid on the brake lines, causing the car to crash. Genevieve, daughter of the Mountie chief, suspects Maxwell and Thomas Hatch, president of the bank shipping the gold, but she quickly becomes more trouble than help to Sergeant Renfrew in charge of the investigation. Renfrew and Constable Kelly drive the next shipment but Maxwell plans to make them crash the same way as Hill did. Renfrew steers the vehicle into a hillside and this gives him an idea of what happened to the other car.
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It Can't Last Forever (1937)
Character: Fight Spectator
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
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Desperate Cargo (1941)
Character: Crouse - Small Male Passenger
When two showgirls decide to leave South America and head for home, they sweet talk the purser of a clipper ship into giving them berths. In the course of the voyage, a band of thieves attempts to take over the ship and make off with its cash cargo. The heroic purser has other ideas and weighs in to save the day.
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The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947)
Character: N/A
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.
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Sailors on Leave (1941)
Character: Shore Patrolman (uncredited)
If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.
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Rowdy Ann (1919)
Character: The Foreman
Ann is one tough cowgirl. After she beats up Hank, her parents send her East to college, hoping she'll come back a lady.
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The Saint in New York (1938)
Character: Shooting Witness (Uncredited)
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.
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Men Without Souls (1940)
Character: Male Secretary (uncredited)
A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.
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Tell No Tales (1939)
Character: Robert E. Moore (uncredited)
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
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Sunset in El Dorado (1945)
Character: Milktoast
The story involves a rather odd flashback by Dale who is visiting El Dorado, home of her grandmother. She dreams about her grandmother's adventures including a romance with a cowboy who looks very much like Roy. Roy, of course, also exists in the present for Dale.
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Swanee River (1939)
Character: Dresser
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.
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Gallant Sons (1940)
Character: Husband with Birdcage (uncredited)
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
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Black Magic (1944)
Character: Charles Edwards
Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult.
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Top of the Town (1937)
Character: Secretary
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
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Broadway Big Shot (1942)
Character: Ben Marlo
This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious convict. The zealous journalist, also a star quarterback on the town college team, decides to become a convict himself. He gets into the prison, becomes president of the prisoners' union, does his interview, successfully woo's the warden's daughter, and gets out in time to publish his story before anyone else does. His career is off to a tremendous start.
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One Wild Night (1938)
Character: Pharmacist (uncredited)
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.
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Remember the Night (1940)
Character: Jury Member (uncredited)
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.
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Nobody's Money (1923)
Character: Eddie Maloney
Two newspapermen who wrote a successful book using a phony author have to come up with a real person when the book is a huge success. Ailing literary agent Jack Holt takes the job while his safe cracking friend tags along for the ride. Jack falls in love with the Governor's daughter just as the Governor is about to be blackmailed by the evil Drisco, who has planted $20,000 in the Governor's safe.
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Desire (1936)
Character: Gibson's Clerk (uncredited)
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.
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Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
Character: Mr. Jones - Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.
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That Brennan Girl (1946)
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.
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Time Out for Romance (1937)
Character: News Dealer (uncredited)
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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Dr. Broadway (1942)
Character: Customer (uncredited)
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
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I Live My Life (1935)
Character: Clerk with Glasses (Uncredited)
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
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The Living Ghost (1942)
Character: Homer Hawkins (as Harry Depps)
A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie.
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Heart of the Rio Grande (1942)
Character: Mr. Simpson
As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a millioniare, and the other is the disgruntled ex-foreman that Gene replaced, now just a ranch hand. Gene eventually gets the daughter straightened out but has to fire the ex-foreman and this leads to trouble when he returns intent on revenge.
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Honolulu Lu (1941)
Character: Dentist
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
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Love's Young Scream (1928)
Character: N/A
Young lovers pursued by her father -- and then a series of sight gags based on the mayhem of their auto ride.
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Phantom Killer (1942)
Character: Lester P. Cutler
Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there are hundreds of witnesses who have also seen him emceeing benefits at the exact same time as the murders.
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Alibi for Murder (1936)
Character: Julius Scott (Uncredited)
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.
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Fashion Model (1945)
Character: Harvey Van Alyn
When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a lowly stock boy.
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Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Character: Catterson - the Chemist (uncredited)
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
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The Mortal Storm (1940)
Character: 2nd Colleague
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.
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