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Youth on Parole (1937)
Character: Police Inspector
Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they get out, they join forces to track down the real thieves.
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A Million Me's (1930)
Character: N/A
Lee at the piano singing a fragment of a blues when a young man enters her home with a pile of records: - Hello Miss Morse. I've brought over those records you just made for us. Oh, they're great. We'll be able to make the movie next week. Lee replies: I don't think so.
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Kentucky Moonshine (1938)
Character: Mortimer Hilton
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
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Hit the Hay (1945)
Character: J. Bellingham Parks
An unsophisticated farm girl pursues a career as an opera singer.
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My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942)
Character: Mr. Whitman
A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940)
Character: Attorney Cluett
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
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Bachelor Mother (1939)
Character: Hargraves
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.
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Lady with Red Hair (1940)
Character: Prosecuting Attorney Winter (uncredited)
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
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The Road to Glory (1936)
Character: Relief captain
The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Character: Flood a Newsman (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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The Longest Night (1936)
Character: Mr. Grover, Head Buyer for the Store
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
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Her Husband's Affairs (1947)
Character: Dr. Frazee
Bill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret's approval of his work, instead he gets constructive (and on-target) feedback, which he hates. Things get really strange when Bill creates advertising for a wacky inventor's embalming fluid.
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Dimples (1936)
Character: Mr. St. Clair
Dimples Appleby lives with her pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket. A rich lady makes it possible for the girl to go legit.
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Stronger Than Desire (1939)
Character: Assistant D.A. Galway
An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
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The Night of January 16th (1941)
Character: District Attorney
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial.
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The Fountainhead (1949)
Character: Dean Who Expels Roark (uncredited)
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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Undercover Doctor (1939)
Character: Courtney Weld
Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his nurse Margaret Hopkins. The FBI agent Robert Anders has to catch on to Morgan's illicit activities.
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The Women in His Life (1933)
Character: Judge Malone
An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.
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Black Legion (1937)
Character: Barham
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
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Queen of the Mob (1940)
Character: Mr. Edmonds - Bank Manager
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
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Portia on Trial (1937)
Character: Judge
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners, who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon. Ironically, Portia herself had once had a relationship with Earle Condon, but Earle's father, powerful publisher John Condon, forced them apart. She has a pretty good idea of what is going on in Elizabeth's head, since she herself was on the verge of killing Earle Condon when his father ruthlessly took custody of her illegitimate son. As Portia toils and strains to free her client, she carries on a romance with Dan Foster -- the attorney for the prosecution. LA Law and The Practice have nothing on this one!
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Army Girl (1938)
Character: Maj. Thorndike
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to modern changes, is killed.
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Shadow of a Woman (1946)
Character: Dr. Nelson Norris
Brooke's brief marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that he is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in order to claim his inheritance.
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Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)
Character: Brewster
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
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Every Saturday Night (1936)
Character: Mr. Mewell
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.
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Should Ladies Behave (1933)
Character: Oscar McFarrey
A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daughter.
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Always Together (1947)
Character: Dr. Peters (uncredited)
An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors.
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They Shall Have Music (1939)
Character: Inspector Johnson (uncredited)
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
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Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
Character: Director
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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Her Price (1918)
Character: Robert Carroll
Marcia Calhoun, a talented but penniless singer, leaves her Southern home hoping to study opera in New York. Her instructor, Professor Didot, promises her a contract on the condition that she receive formal training in Italy for one year. Didot introduces Marcia to millionaire Philip Bradley, who offers to pay for her studies if she will accompany him to Italy as his mistress. Desperate for money, she agrees, but several months later, Philip abandons her.
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Champagne Charlie (1936)
Character: Board Member
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
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Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)
Character: Ted Harvey (uncredited)
Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
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The Farmer's Daughter (1940)
Character: Schuyler (uncredited)
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: Judge
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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Anne of Green Gables (1934)
Character: Dr. Terry (uncredited)
Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and to the local villagers.
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Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)
Character: Joe Kinney
While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.
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Red Salute (1935)
Character: Louis Martin
The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Mexico--hoping that she will forget her "Red" boyfriend--by a young, handsome soldier named Jeff who, while somewhat of a goof-up, the general believes is still better for her.
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Across the Pacific (1942)
Character: Col. Hart
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveler Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
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Remember the Day (1941)
Character: Committeeman
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
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Crash Dive (1943)
Character: Officer
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
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The Big Store (1941)
Character: George Hastings
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
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It Can't Last Forever (1937)
Character: U.S. Attorney
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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Crack-Up (1936)
Character: Daniel D. Harrington
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.
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Sins of Man (1936)
Character: Minister
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
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Whipsaw (1935)
Character: Justice Department Chief Hughes
Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfriend, Vivian Palmer. Federal agent Ross McBride goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and, suspecting Vivian can lead him to the jewels, comes to her aid when she is chased by a rival gang. The two flee to the Midwest with both gangs in pursuit, but Vivian is not as gullible as Ross thinks.
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Danger – Love at Work (1937)
Character: Hilton, an attorney
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
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The Awful Truth (1937)
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
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The Public Pays (1936)
Character: Moran (uncredited)
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement and the courage of a local businessman.
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Private Number (1936)
Character: Rawlings
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler also has an infatuation for the young girl but his intentions are not that good.
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She Gets Her Man (1945)
Character: Dr. Bleaker
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.
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Lucky Jordan (1942)
Character: George Hunnicutt
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
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Once Upon a Time (1944)
Character: Dunhill (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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His Greatest Gamble (1934)
Character: Detective Connors (uncredited)
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
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Sister Kenny (1946)
Character: Dr. Gideon (uncredited)
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
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Law of the Underworld (1938)
Character: Assistant District Attorney Bob Barton
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution
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Strangers All (1935)
Character: Prosecuting Attorney
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
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A Star Is Born (1937)
Character: Academy Award Presenter (uncredited)
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
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Slightly Dangerous (1943)
Character: Stanhope
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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Dangerous Number (1937)
Character: Police Sergeant
Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave the groom-to-be and marry him. Shortly after the marriage, they discover that they have nothing in common. They separate. Hank decides to pick any name from the phone book and date them. That date results in a wild and frightful night for Hank, thanks to Eleanor's clever plan.
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I Love You Again (1940)
Character: Mr. Edward Littlejohn Sr.
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
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Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
Character: Senator
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.
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Here Comes Trouble (1948)
Character: Attorney Martin Stafford
A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Character: Chauncey Smith
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
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Flight for Freedom (1943)
Character: Airport Official (uncredited)
A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.
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Rose of Washington Square (1939)
Character: District Attorney
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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Time Out for Romance (1937)
Character: Harmon
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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It Could Happen to You (1937)
Character: District Attorney
A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigrants are prepared for American citizenship. The school's European teacher dreams of a fascist America. Based on a story by Nathanael West and Samuel Ornitz, who was one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the McCarthy Era.
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Stella Dallas (1937)
Character: Arthur W. Morley (uncredited)
A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
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Air Raid Wardens (1943)
Character: Captain Biddle
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
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Half Angel (1936)
Character: District Attorney
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.
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You're in the Army Now (1941)
Character: Lt. Colonel Rogers
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
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Paid to Dance (1937)
Character: Charles Kennedy
Government undercover agents William Dennis and Joan Barclay are working to solve the disappearances of girls working as "taxi-dancers" from dance halls operated by Jack Miranda and his henchman Nifty.
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The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
Character: Agitating Orator (uncredited)
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
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Whistling in the Dark (1941)
Character: Jennings
Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a perfect murder.
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Rascals (1938)
Character: Dr. Cecil Carter
A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite who has amnesia. She works as a fortune teller and raises enough money for an operation to regain her memory.
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Midnight Taxi (1937)
Character: Agent J. W. McNeary
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
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Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Character: Mr. Horton - Hotel Manager (uncredited)
An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.
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Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
Character: George Hathaway
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored by a rival soap company.
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20,000 Men a Year (1939)
Character: Gerald Grant
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
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Night Waitress (1936)
Character: District Attorney
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of the latter, including Helen's unwelcome suitor Martin Rhodes, are after a mysterious, valuable hidden "cargo"; when violence erupts, Helen finds herself innocently involved, and is soon on the run from both cops and crooks.
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Another Face (1935)
Character: Bill Branch
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!
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Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Character: Filson
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
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Welcome Stranger (1947)
Character: Mr. Daniels
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his temporary replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young, singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once Pearson meets teacher Trudy Mason, he is delighted to stay. The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancé. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy?
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Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944)
Character: N/A
Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific.
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Cry Wolf (1947)
Character: Davenport
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family.
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Crime of the Century (1946)
Character: Andrew Madison
Ex-convict Hank Rogers is searching for his brother Jim, a newspaperman, and becomes involved with a group of people trying to conceal the death of the president of a large corporation so they can profit financially. With the aid of the dead man's daughter, Audrey Brandon, Hank exposes the crooks.
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The Magnificent Dope (1942)
Character: Peters
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
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So's Your Uncle (1943)
Character: John L. Curtis
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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Strange Alibi (1941)
Character: Prosecutor
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
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