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The Turmoil (1924)
Character: Bobby Lamhorn
Industrialist James Sheridan, Sr., once a laborer, insists on moulding the careers of his three sons; however, he loses James, Jr., in a flood disaster, and Roscoe suffers a mental breakdown. Realizing his mistake, he begins to insure the happiness of the third son, Bibbs, by bringing him together with Mary, the girl he loves.
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The Quiet Gun (1957)
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
A mild mannered sheriff must fight both a hired gun and local anti-Indian bigotry in a small frontier town.
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The Dangerous Maid (1923)
Character: Captain Harrington
Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself as him. Captain Prothero captures her, but he has fallen for Barbara's charms so he lets her go. As a result they are both arrested and imprisoned.
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The Best Man (1964)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.
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The Big Sleep (1946)
Character: Casino Patron (uncredited)
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
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Hell's Island (1955)
Character: Casino Patron (uncredited)
Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Character: Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
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Union Pacific (1939)
Character: Card Player (uncredited)
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Ashes of Vengeance (1923)
Character: Phillipe
This historical piece, set in the Huguenot days of France, is Norma Talmadge's 37th feature film and the longest to date at two hours. The plot involves a man forced into servitude who falls in love with the sister of his persecutor. It was Ms. Talmadge's fourth involvement with director, Frank Lloyd and the cast included future star, Wallace Beery.
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Three for the Show (1955)
Character: Bit Role (uncredited)
This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late husband's songwriting partner, Gower Champion, but the new marriage is thrown for a loop when Lemmon, her first husband, turns up very much alive and eager to see Grable.
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The Garment Jungle (1957)
Character: Buyer (uncredited)
Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union, Walter has hired Artie Ravidge, a hood who uses strong-arm tactics to keep the employees in line.
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Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
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Humoresque (1947)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
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The Lady Eve (1941)
Character: Party Guest (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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Slightly Scarlet (1956)
Character: N/A
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol "Solly" Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. Seductive Dorothy will do anything to get what she wants, which includes having a good time with Ben-- whom June is now in love with.
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The FBI Story (1959)
Character: Graduation Audience Member (uncredited)
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
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Flamingo Road (1949)
Character: N/A
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
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An Affair to Remember (1957)
Character: Ballet Audience Member (uncredited)
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
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The Other Woman's Story (1925)
Character: N/A
Robert Marshall’s dying utterance seems to point to Colman Colby (Robert Frazer) as his killer. Colby is arrested and at trial all testimony points to his guilt. But as the jury deliberates, the unfairly named “other woman” (Helen Lee Worthing) sets out to prove his innocence.
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Remember the Night (1940)
Character: Courtroom Spectator (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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I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)
Character: Benefit Guest (uncredited)
Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.
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The Thin Man (1934)
Character: Apartment Clerk (uncredited)
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
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Sinner Take All (1936)
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
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Broad Daylight (1922)
Character: Davy Sunday
A young woman agrees to marry the son of a well-known man in order to get a chance to take revenge on her new father-in-law, who she believes framed her own father who is now in prison.
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The Idle Rich (1929)
Character: Frank Thayer
Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her family, part of "the great middle class" (as blowhard nephew Henry keeps reminding us), is happy for Joan, but reluctant to take charity from Will. He moves in with them, and they keep resisting, until one day he takes drastic action.
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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
Character: Secret Service Man (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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Small Town Girl (1953)
Character: Party Guest
Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge's daughter Cindy to let him leave for one night, so that he can visit Lisa on her birthday. After that he goes on the town with Cindy and she falls in love with him. But Dr. Schemmer wants his son to become her husband.
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The Last Hurrah (1958)
Character: Banquet Guest (uncredited)
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
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Lover Come Back (1961)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.
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Gypsy (1962)
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Rose Hovick lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.
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New Moon (1940)
Character: Party Guest
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
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The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
Character: Clerk (uncredited)
Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, Sam Laxter and Frank Oafley, inherit his estate on the condition old caretaker Schuster and his cat Clinker are kept on. When cat-hating Sam threatens Clinker, Perry steps in and learns Laxter's death was suspicious and the family fortune and diamonds are missing. Schuster's found dead in his basement apartment, Laxter's nurse Louise is murdered with Schuster's crutch, and circumstantial evidence brings Doug to trial for Louise's death. Mason's investigation produces a surprise witness who turns the trial around. Written by Sister Grimm
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Houseboat (1958)
Character: Country Club Patron (uncredited)
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
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Phffft (1954)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of bringing them together.
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
Character: Sardi's Patron (uncredited)
Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. While housewife Kate settles into suburban life, Larry continues to enjoy the theater and party scene of New York.
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She Devil (1957)
Character: N/A
Biochemists give fruit-fly serum to a dying woman, with side effects.
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A Blueprint for Murder (1953)
Character: Restaurant Patron (Uncredited)
Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that the death of her stepchild, Polly, has been attributed to poisoning, he suspects that Lynn is after his late brother's estate, and killing everyone in her way.
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Born to Be Bad (1950)
Character: Charity Ball Guest (Uncredited)
Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.
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Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.
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Tales of Terror (1962)
Character: Wine Society Member ("The Black Cat") (uncredited)
Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.
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A Star Is Born (1954)
Character: Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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Slightly French (1949)
Character: Nightclub Charity Guest (uncredited)
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.
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Seven Thieves (1960)
Character: Casino Patron
A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.
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This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)
Character: Gambling House Patron (Uncredited)
A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover goes into hiding, she checks in to the hospital for extensive surgery to recover her eyesight. There she is treated by a handsome young doctor. As expected not only does the doctor successfully open her eyes, he also opens her heart for him.
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Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Character: Salesman at Men's Shop (uncredited)
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
Character: Convention Delegate (uncredited)
The story of Franklin Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and especially his wife Eleanor) cope with his illness. From being stricken while vacationing at Campobello to his triumphant nominating speech for Al Smith's presidency in 1924, the story follows the various influences on his life and his determination to recover.
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Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961)
Character: Plane Passenger (uncredited)
Francis is desperate: her parents want to force her to come with them on vacation to Hawaii - just during the two weeks when her beloved "Moondoggy" is home from College. When he suggests her to go for it, she's even more in panic - doesn't he care to be with her? So she sets out for Hawaii in the worst mood. On the plane she meets the sociable Abby, who gives her the advice to forget about Jeff - and regrets it shortly after, when Francis follows the advice and steals her boyfriend Eddie, a famous dancer. But then Jeff discovers he's missing Francis...
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How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
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It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven't been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship.
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Daybreak (1931)
Character: (uncredited)
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
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Madam Satan (1930)
Character: N/A
A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.
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Parrish (1961)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up.
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Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
Character: Office Worker (uncredited)
A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.
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Cleopatra (1934)
Character: Scribe
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
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Point Blank (1967)
Character: Conventioneer (uncredited)
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
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The Baron of Arizona (1950)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical evidence that makes a foundling girl the Baroness of Arizona. Reavis marries the girl and presses his claim to the entire Arizona territory.
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Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Character: Town Councilman (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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The Unsuspected (1947)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.
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Crime, Inc. (1945)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his information, but is released and helps to expose the syndicate.
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Vicki (1953)
Character: Man (uncredited)
A supermodel gets murdered. While investigating the case the story of a waitress turned glamor girl is revealed.
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Summer and Smoke (1961)
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
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