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The Clown (1916)
Character: Piffle
Severely injured after saving the son of Judge Jonathan Le Roy from a team of runaway horses circus clown, Piffle is taken to recover at the Le Roy home where he falls in love with the judge’s daughter, Millicent. She however loves another, Dick Ordway and is secretly carrying his child. When he is reported to have perished in the desert Piffle steps forward to save Millicent’s reputation by being husband and father. Millicent agrees but the judge insists Piffle leave the circus and become a banker. Piffle acquiesces but when Dick reappears many complications ensue.
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Rough and Ready Reggie (1917)
Character: Reggie
After effeminate Reggie is picked on by the men at his club, a rough and ready ancestor appears to him and inspires him to become the ultimate he-man.
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A.N.T.A. Album of 1955 (1955)
Character: Self
A closed-circuit television special produced to raise funds for the relief agency CARE telecast live from the Adelphi Theatre in New York.
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Breakdowns of 1949 (1949)
Character: Self
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1949.
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Carolina Blues (1944)
Character: Phineas / Elliott / Hiriam / Horatio / Aunt Martha / Aunt Minerva Carver
When he loses his lead singer, bandleader Kay Kyser can't find a replacement he likes.
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The Cartoon Collection (1988)
Character: Hunter (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
Compilation of cartoons raising money for the National Children's Home charity. Featuring Mickey Mouse ("The Simple Things"), Bugs Bunny ("Duck Rabbit Duck"), Tom and Jerry ("The Bowling Alley Cat"), Pluto ("Canine Casanova"), Sylvester and Tweety ("Hyde and Go Tweet"), The Pink Panther ("Sky Blue Pink"), Donald Duck ("Drip Dippy Donald"), Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner ("Hot Rod and Reel") and Daffy Duck ("Ain't That Ducky").
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The Life of the Party (1937)
Character: Oliver Goodwin
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
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We're Not Married! (1952)
Character: Melvin Bush
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.
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Duffy's Tavern (1945)
Character: Michael O'Malley
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.
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Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
Character: Bronco Billy
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
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Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
Character: J. J. Hobart
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.
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Gift of Gab (1934)
Character: Colonel Horatios Trivers
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
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Radio City Revels (1938)
Character: Plummer
A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly under his own name. Comedy.
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Swing Time (1936)
Character: Pop Cardetti
Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky.
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
Character: Aloysius T. McKeever
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
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It's in the Bag! (1945)
Character: Victor Moore
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
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We're on the Jury (1937)
Character: J. Clarence "Pudgy" Beaver
A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.
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Chimmie Fadden Out West (1915)
Character: Chimmie Fadden
Chimmie is sent to Death Valley CA as part of a railroad scheme. He's to pretend to have discovered gold there, then set a new transcontinental record heading east. It doesn't quite work out that way.
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True to Life (1943)
Character: Pop Porter
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
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Chimmie Fadden (1915)
Character: Chimmie Fadden
Bowery hooligan Chimmie is saved from false arrest by socialite dogooder Fanny. She takes in him, his brother and mother as servants. His brother schemes to steal the good lady's silver.
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Meet the Missus (1937)
Character: Otis Foster
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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On Our Merry Way (1948)
Character: Ashton Carrington
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?
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Heads Up (1930)
Character: Skippy Dugan
Jack Mason of the Coast Guard Academy meets Mary at the graduation ball and falls in love with her, though the girl's mother finds wealthy Rex Cutting a more proper choice for her daughter. On a yachting cruise arranged by Mrs. Trumbull, Jack is not invited. Meanwhile, Mary suspects Rex of picking up contraband beyond the 12-mile limit and refuses his proposal of marriage, while Betty, her impish sister, drives Skippy to distraction in the galley, where he has installed an automatic kitchen that does most of his work. Jack smuggles himself aboard but is forcibly ejected at port by a coast guard, and Mrs. Trumbull discourages his attempt to elope with Mary; but on a subsequent cruise, he hides himself in a lifeboat with two aides. When the captain stops to take on a cargo of rum, Jack and his aides take over the vessel, and a battle ensues. The yacht is wrecked on an island, and Jack proves his heroism, while Rex reveals his true colors and is identified as a fugitive bootlegger.
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Riding High (1943)
Character: Mortimer J. Slocum
No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell. Lamour stars as Ann Castle, a former burlesque queen who heads westward to claim her father's silver mine. Powell plays mining engineer Steve Baird, who like Ann has a vested interest in the worked-out mine. With the help of genial counterfeiter Mortimer J. Slocum (Victor Moore), Steve and Ann are able to peddle mining stock, thus saving her from bankruptcy. The stockholders are in a lynching mood when it appears that they've been flim-flammed, but a last minute "miracle" saves the day. Featured in the cast are Paramount stalwarts Cass Daley and Gil Lamb, the former doing her quasi-Martha Raye act and the latter swallowing his harmonica for the millionth time. Production values are excellent and the songs are exuberantly performed; it's only in its hackneyed plot that Riding High slows to a clip-clop.
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The Heat's On (1943)
Character: Hubert Bainbridge
Broadway star Fay Lawrence (West) is a temperamental diva who is reluctantly persuaded by a Broadway producer (Gaxton) to star in his latest production.
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Ain't That Ducky (1945)
Character: Hunter (voice) (uncredited)
Daffy Duck hears a duckling crying, arousing Daffy, so he asks the duckling why he is so sad. The duckling is short-tempered and cried, until the hunter succeeded in stealing the satchel reads a note finding out why the duckling is so sad.
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She's Got Everything (1937)
Character: Waldo Eddington
The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marry a millionaire, but Carol insists on getting a job.
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Louisiana Purchase (1941)
Character: Sen. Oliver P. Loganberry
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
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A Kiss in the Dark (1949)
Character: Horace Willoughby
Eric Phillips's manager buys him a building with tenants, one of whom catches his eye.
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Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Character: Barkley Cooper
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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Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
Character: Lawyer's Client (segment "Pay the Two Dollars")
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.
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Dangerous Nan McGrew (1930)
Character: Muldoon
Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lodge of wealthy Mrs. Benson. Nan is invited to put on a show for the benefit of Mrs. Benson's Christmas-Eve guests. While performing her boop-a-doop songs, Eustace Macy, the saxophone-tooting nephew of Mrs. Benson falls in love with Nan. And, then, the villain, the bank-robbing Doc Foster, makes his entrance. Can Dawes of the Royal Mounted be seen slushing in pursuit behind the gangster? Could Be.
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The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Character: Plumber
When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.
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Romance in the Rain (1934)
Character: J. Franklyn Blank
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
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