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A Guy, a Gal and a Pal (1945)
Character: Norton
A young woman devises a clever scheme to secure a train reservation by pretending to be married to a stranger.
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Brooklyn Orchid (1942)
Character: Jonathan McFeeder
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
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Who's Looney Now (1936)
Character: Herbert Brown
Mr. Brown is riding home from work one day with his new neighbor, Mr. Johnson. When Brown explains that he has all kinds of problems at home, Johnson wants to help him. So, when they arrive, Johnson gives Brown a demonstration of one of the tricks that he uses to get his family to act as he wishes them too. But when Brown tries out Johnson's ideas on his own, things do not go as planned.
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Foolish Hearts (1935)
Character: Jimmy
A little entry from the RKO shorts department serving also as an audition-type (stick 'em in one of these and see if they appeal to a real audience, and make a buck or two at the same time)film for studio contractees and budding starlets. And, surrounded and supported by veteran character actors, such as Jack Norton, Jack Rice and Harrison Green, the likes of Tony Martin, Phyllis Brooks and Lucille Ball usually looked pretty good. And soon made for themselves, with studio help, rather nice Hollywood careers.
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The Awful Tooth (1938)
Character: Dr. Schultz
When one of the Our Gang kids finds money under his pillow after losing a tooth, all the kids decide to get rich by having all their teeth pulled.
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One Too Many (1934)
Character: N/A
Wife tries to do something about her husband's fondness for the bottle.
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Hired Husband (1947)
Character: Mr. Drinkwater
The millionairess aunt of Errol's previously married wife is coming to visit, and since the aunt is dead set against divorce, the wife prevails upon Errol to pose as the butler, and brings back her inebriated first husband to pose as her current mate.
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The Super Snooper (1934)
Character: N/A
Andy is a rich and well-respected man. But he's concerned what sort of boyfriend his daughter might have gotten as she's talking marriage and her previous boyfriends were very short-term and he didn't like them very much. So, when he learns where this boyfriend works, he goes undercover as a porter there to spy on him. Unfortunately, he ends up befriending the wrong folks and thinks the boyfriend is a crook...when it's really these new 'friends' who are jewel thieves.
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A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940)
Character: Alonzo Smith
Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, the defeated racketeer-politician, has Earl Carroll and several of his acts kidnapped, figuring the kidnapping coup will cause Jones to be laughed out of office. In Carroll's absence his assistant, Ramona Lisa, and his press agent, Barney Nelson put on the show themselves with the remaining talent, the chorus girls and also pressing into the entertainment cigarette girls, cloakroom girls, the doorman and others including oil heiresses Brenda Gusher and Cobina Gusher. Carroll and the other prisoners make their escape when a kidnapped juggling act sends their captors down in a barrage of beer bottles.
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Ship Cafe (1935)
Character: Mr. Randall (uncredited)
The singing stoker and the vamp.
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The Women Men Marry (1937)
Character: Wilhelm Peebles (uncredited)
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
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Calling All Cars (1935)
Character: Duke Costello
A reporter out to break up a criminal gang finds time to make a play for a mobster's girlfriend.
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Forgotten Faces (1936)
Character: Drunk
Harry Ashton is a superstitious gambling house owner, who relies on sprigs of heliotrope as his good luck charm. One day, Harry catches his wife, Cleo with another man. Harry shoots him and takes his 18 month old daughter, Sally to best friend, Sgt. Donovan to find her a good home. Harry turns himself in and gets life in prison. 17 years pass, Cleo is on the brinks of losing her job as a burlesque dancer. Cleo decides to blackmail the McBrides (Sally's devoted adoptive parents). Harry discovers this and promises his warden that while on parole he will protect Sally. Harry trades places with the McBride's butler. While working, Harry discovers a letter addressed to the McBrides from Cleo asking to meet with her. Harry meets with Cleo instead and they begin to fight...
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Let's Make Music (1941)
Character: Drunk
An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song.
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)
Character: Parker
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
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Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)
Character: Hotel Manager (uncredited)
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?
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Malice in the Palace (1949)
Character: Emir of Schmoe (uncredited)
Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn from the thieves that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the contraband jewel. They journey to the stronghold of Shmo where they disguise as Santa Clauses and scare the ruler into giving them the diamond.
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The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Character: Second Member Ale and Quail Club
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
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My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937)
Character: First Drunk at Red Apple Inn (uncredited)
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
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The Falcon Strikes Back (1943)
Character: Second Hobo (uncredited)
The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic lodge. From here he uncovers a phony war bond operation.
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Fixing a Stew (1934)
Character: Pete
Leon Erroll drinks too much, in the opinion of his mother-in-law, Dot Farley. So she arranges for everyone around him to talk in non-sequiturs until he decides to sober up permanently.
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No Hands on the Clock (1941)
Character: Bartender at The Nugget Room
A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
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Variety Girl (1947)
Character: Busboy at Brown Derby
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
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Taxi, Mister (1943)
Character: Reginald Van Nostrum - the Drunk
The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.
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One More Spring (1935)
Character: Drunk
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
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Two O'Clock Courage (1945)
Character: Drunk at Blue Room Bar (uncredited)
A cab driver nearly hits a man with amnesia, then helps him unravel his past, only to discover he's a murder suspect as she falls for him.
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The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940)
Character: Drunk
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.
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Shadows Over Chinatown (1946)
Character: Cosgrove
In San Francisco's Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing relatives and uncovers a murder for insurance scheme.
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Going Highbrow (1935)
Character: Sinclair
A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy.
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Hold That Kiss (1938)
Character: Mallory
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
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Love Is a Headache (1938)
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
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Linda, Be Good (1947)
Character: Jim Benson
A writer decides to join a burlesque show so that she can write an authentic expose of the business.
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939)
Character: Charlie Fenton - the Party Drunk (uncredited)
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
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Sweet Music (1935)
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York.
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Captain Tugboat Annie (1945)
Character: Shiftless
This tale of two tugboats focuses upon the rivalries between two operators competing to win a major shipping contract. Meanwhile a tugboat office secretary and an ex-con who wants to go straight, fall in love. Tugboat Annie is put in charge of a child violinist. When a waterfront fire breaks out, the two warring captains join forces to put it out.
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The Farmer's Daughter (1940)
Character: Shimmy Conway
Broadway producer Nicksie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clarice Sheldon, in the lead role and rehearse out of town. The crew set up on a family farm, and all is well until the leading man falls for the farmer's daughter, Patience Bingham.
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Pacific Blackout (1941)
Character: Drunk
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
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Dr. Renault's Secret (1942)
Character: Mr. Austin
A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancée who lives with her scientist father Dr. Renault and his Ape-like manservant Noel. Several Murders coincide with Dr. Forbes arrival, with clues pointing in multiple directions.
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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)
Character: James R. Smoke
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
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City of Chance (1940)
Character: Mr. Murphy
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
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Man Alive (1945)
Character: William T. Lafferty
A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.
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Moonlight in Havana (1942)
Character: George
A talented baseball player discovers he can only sing beautifully when he has a cold, leading a nightclub manager to hilariously attempt to keep him sick while featuring a host of musical performances.
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Stolen Harmony (1935)
Character: Phillips (uncredited)
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
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My Favorite Spy (1942)
Character: Orchid Room Drunk
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
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The Bank Dick (1940)
Character: A. Pismo Clam
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.
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Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
Character: J. Mortimer 'Mousy' Slade
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
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The Naughty Nineties (1945)
Character: Drunk at the Gilded Cage (uncredited)
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
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Meet the Girls (1938)
Character: Fletcher
Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.
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Dr. Socrates (1935)
Character: Drunk in Park
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
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Finishing School (1934)
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the director of the school and her mother oppose such a relationship.
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The Scarlet Clue (1945)
Character: Willie Rand
Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
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The Way of All Flesh (1940)
Character: Barber
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
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Jezebel (1938)
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
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The Fleet's In (1942)
Character: Kellogg
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
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The Big Noise (1944)
Character: Drunk on Train
During World War II Stan and Ollie find themselves as improbable bodyguards to an eccentric inventor and his strategically important new bomb.
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Once Upon a Time (1944)
Character: Man In Barber Chair (uncredited)
Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Flynn meets a young boy who just might save the day. Inside a small box the boy shows Flynn his pride and joy: a caterpillar named Curly that dances to Yes Sir, That's My Baby. Word quickly spreads about the amazingly talented hoofer, and the caterpillar becomes a symbol of hope for wartime America. Soon, offers are pouring in to capitalize on this sensational insect.
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Going My Way (1944)
Character: Mr. Lilly (uncredited)
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.
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Ride on Vaquero (1941)
Character: N/A
The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army regiment, to help break up a kidnap ring. On his way to Las Tables with his pal, Gordito, he makes a stop at the Martinez Rancho, where they learn that his friend Carlos has been kidnapped, from his wife Marquerita. At the Crystal Palace Saloon, Cisco runs into an old girlfriend, Sally, who he once jilted for a tight-rope walker, but she doesn't betray him when the sheriff and an army officer enter searching for Cisco.
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Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)
Character: Byline Conners, Reporter San Francisco Star
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.
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Meet the Missus (1937)
Character: Mr. Norton
A small town Ohio barber accompanies his ditzy wife to Atlantic City, where she competes in the Happy Noodle Company's Mrs. America Contest.
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Prairie Chickens (1943)
Character: Henry Lewis-Clark III
Two unemployed cowhands help a pill-popping rancher find the nasty varmint who's been rustling cattle.
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The Kansan (1943)
Character: Saloon Drunk
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
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Marked Woman (1937)
Character: Drunk
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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Society Smugglers (1939)
Character: Prentis
The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds.
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Crazy House (1943)
Character: Drunk
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.
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Make Your Own Bed (1944)
Character: Drunk
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.
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His Night Out (1935)
Character: Dr. Singer
When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by the gang.
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Hold That Blonde! (1945)
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another girl for a cure. He fastens his interest upon Sally Martin, who happens to be engaged upon helping some crooks steal a valuable necklace. Complications include two scantily attired individuals, one of them drunk, clinging to the cornice of a skyscraper and a large band of crooks in quest of the precious jewels.
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Woman Haters (1934)
Character: Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
The stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with the fair sex. Larry marries a girl anyway and attempts to hide the fact from Moe and Curly as they take a train trip.
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Opened by Mistake (1940)
Character: Al, the Bartender
A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.
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It Ain't Hay (1943)
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
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.
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Rhythm and Weep (1946)
Character: Mr. Walsh
The Stooges are actors who can't hold a job, so they decide to jump off a high building and end it all. On the roof top they meet three pretty dancers with the same idea. Before they can jump, they meet a millionaire Broadway producer who hires them all for his next show. The rehearsal goes so well that he doubles their salary, but it all comes to naught when they discover that the "producer" is an escaped patient from Dr. Dippy's retreat.
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Time Out for Romance (1937)
Character: Crapshooter
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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Grand Jury Secrets (1939)
Character: Doyle
A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room session.
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The Preview Murder Mystery (1936)
Character: Comedy Director (Uncredited)
Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and refuses to let anyone leave, the studio’s publicity head and his secretary attempt to solve the murders themselves.
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Dr. Broadway (1942)
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
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Louisiana Purchase (1941)
Character: Jester
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
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Everybody's Doing It (1938)
Character: Harry The Drunk
Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.
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The Gilded Lily (1935)
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her best friend, reporter Peter Dawes, who secretly loves her. When Peter learns that the already-engaged Charles has hurt Marilyn, he fabricates an article casting her as the "No Girl" who refused to marry a callous aristocrat. But when the publicity brings Marilyn unexpected fame, and Charles returns, she is forced to choose between the two men.
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Nocturne (1946)
Character: Charlie (uncredited)
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.
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Page Miss Glory (1935)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
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Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934)
Character: King's Physician
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
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The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Character: Drunk at Henderson Club (uncredited)
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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Strange Confession (1945)
Character: Jack
A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in the death of the scientist's son.
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The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
Character: 'Janssen' Passenger (uncredited)
As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or so wounded sailors who were left behind when able bodied men were evacuated to Australia.
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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
Character: Country Club Man Ordering Champagne (uncredited)
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
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Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Character: Second Bandleader (uncredited)
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
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Broadway Gondolier (1935)
Character: Man on Ship with Pipe
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
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Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat (1944)
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk
To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.
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The Ghost Breakers (1940)
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.
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The Spoilers (1942)
Character: Mr. Skinner
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.
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Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Character: Customer in Bette Davis Number (uncredited)
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
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Fashion Model (1945)
Character: Herbert
When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a lowly stock boy.
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Thanks for the Memory (1938)
Character: Bert Monroe
Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
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The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Character: Actor in 'The Girl from Missouri' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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So's Your Uncle (1943)
Character: Drunk
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not approve of their relationship.
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News Is Made at Night (1939)
Character: Drunk
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
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