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Bigger and Better (1930)
Character: Grady 'Alabam' Sutton
On the train trip home from school, all the kids except Dave talk about taking a vacation trip to Lake Arrowhead; Dave wants a summer job. Alabam suggests that his uncle might hire Dave at a department store. The uncle likes Dave's attitude and tells Alabam and Mickey they should work there too. Reluctantly, Alabam takes a sales assignment in ladies' accessories, where he's charming but clueless. Mickey, lazy and on the take, sees the store detective helping himself to a chocolate bar, so he wants that job. Dave learns the hard way that the customer is always right, Mickey puts the cuffs on the wrong customer, and Lake Arrowhead looks very far away.
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Love Pains (1932)
Character: Alabam
Mickey and Grady are left behind when a new kid comes to town and all the girls fall for him.
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10,000 Horses Singing (1952)
Character: Mr. Caslon
James Dean and John Forsythe star in this story of a wealthy orphan who meets a shy airline owner aboard a plane and later discovers that a corpse has been stowed there.
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The Pharmacist (1933)
Character: Cuthbert Smith
A henpecked but stoic pharmacist tries to maintain his precarious balance while dealing with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family.
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Air-Tight (1931)
Character: Alabam
The college aerial club is at the airfield to inaugurate a new glider. Alabam gets a lot of teasing for being a "land lizard," never wanting to fly. Mary takes him aside to boost his spirits and offers to take his photo if he'll sit on a glider parked nearby. Dave is ready to take the club's glider up, but Mickey hooks the wrong rope to his car and pulls Alabam into the air. He hasn't a clue what to do; below, Mickey and Dave try to shout instructions while the glider's owner gives chase. What goes up . . .
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Ocean Swells (1934)
Character: Grady
A old lady and her 2 girls go husband hunting at a luxury resort.
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Turn Off the Moon (1937)
Character: Truelove Spencer
Department store owner J. Elliott Dinwiddy has waited ten years for the perfect astrological moment to propose to his secretary, Myrtle Tweep. His astrological advisor, Dr. Wakefield, has told him that if he can unite a boy and a girl in true love before midnight, he can propose to Myrtle the following night at 3:15 a.m. and she will accept. Fate brings unemployed dancer Caroline Wilson into the music department of Dinwiddy's, where she meets handsome songwriter Terry Keith. Keith has been writing music for Dinwiddy's Silver Jubilee show and has allowed Dinwiddy's nephew, Truelove Spencer, to take all the credit. That night, Terry comes into Dinwiddy's to work on the music and finds Caroline asleep in the Honeymoon Cottage, the section of the department store Spencer supervises. Posing as a man named "Pinky," Dinwiddy promises Caroline that Spencer will hire her as the bride of the Honeymoon Cottage and invites her to live there.
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Contented Calves (1934)
Character: Grady Sutton - Attorney at Law
An add campaign for stockings embarrasses the girls.
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Love Fever (1931)
Character: Alabam
An actress is rehearsing a death scene in her apartment, but her neighbors all think it's the real thing.
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Doctor's Orders (1930)
Character: Alabam
Alabam is lovesick. He tells Mickey how he can't get close to the girl of his dreams; he's overheard by Dave, a smooth operator, who insists that Alabam leave everything to him. He contrives to have Alabam and Mickey wreck Alabam's car in the girl's front yard, then he arrives, posing as a doctor, asking the residents of the house if they'll let the injured boy come inside while the doctor examines him. Meanwhile, Mickey gets a look at the girl's cousin and feigns injury so that now both lads are in beds upstairs while Dave, the doctor, conjures foul-tasting treatments. The fly in the ointment is the girl's crusty uncle, who may stand between the lads and their true loves.
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Ladies Last (1930)
Character: Alabam
The boys boycott the girls when they insist that the boys wear tuxedos to a big dance.
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The Undie-World (1934)
Character: Grady
A gangster is smitten with the two girls in the next apartment. With the help of his violinist friend he gets acquainted with the girls by posing as a musician.
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Rough Necking (1934)
Character: Grady
The Blondes and Redheads series, June's father forbids her to see her boyfriend, so she sneaks him into the house disguised as a woman. One of her father's friends, however, falls in love with the mysterious young "woman".
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The Dancing Millionaire (1934)
Character: Ronnie Graff - the Dancing Millionaire
The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition
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Blood and Thunder (1931)
Character: Alabam (uncredited)
Mickey overhears the gang rehearsing a play and thinks it's real.
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Call a Cop! (1931)
Character: Alabam
The boyfriends rush into action when the girlfriends think there's a burglar in the house.
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The Knockout (1932)
Character: Alabam
When Mickey accidentally knocks out a local boxing champ, he is forced to take the fighter's place in a bout.
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You're Telling Me (1932)
Character: Alabam Sutton
In this The Boy Friends series short, college students Mickey and Alabam stay at a city friend's place for what they tell him will be one night - though it stretches into several months.
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Too Many Women (1932)
Character: Alabam
College baseball player Mickey Daniels can't keep his mind on the game when he's got an eye for the ladies.
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Hollywood Trouble (1935)
Character: Marvin Guppy
An oil-rich rube who aspires to stardom is bilked by a phony acting school.
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Bridal Bail (1934)
Character: Grady
When a theater offers a free wedding to a couple, confusion reigns.
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Wig-Wag (1935)
Character: Grady / Millicent
When Dorothy jilts her fiancee, he tries to make her jealous by getting a friend of his to dress like a woman and pose as his new girlfriend.
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Flirting in the Park (1933)
Character: Clark
A day at the park starts out well when two couples enter a boat race, but things start going south when the boys lose their shirts and one of the girls loses her dress.
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Husbands' Reunion (1933)
Character: Elmer
A couple of young newlyweds are enjoying their marital bliss when they have an unexpected house guest: an ex-husband, played by Catlett. It doesn't take much time before he wears out his welcome and the two men battle it out. They end up having to take the shenanigans to court and having the judge sort out the mess.
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See You Tonight (1933)
Character: Brady Womper
A society woman falls for a man she meets on the beach. The man decides to teach her a lesson by masquerading as his butler.
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Beat the Band (1947)
Character: Harold
Singer Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.
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Hit the Hay (1945)
Character: Wilbur W. Whittlesey III
An unsophisticated farm girl pursues a career as an opera singer.
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The Kick-Off! (1931)
Character: Alabam
Gangsters kidnap the team's football coach in order to throw the game; Grady and Mickey try to win the game.
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Mama Loves Papa (1931)
Character: Alabam'
Widow Martha and widower Brandon plan to marry; their teenaged children do their slapstick best to interfere. One of "The Boy Friends" series.
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Stage Door (1937)
Character: Butch
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
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Salty O'Rourke (1945)
Character: Floorwalker (uncredited)
A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.
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Grissly's Millions (1945)
Character: Robert Palmor, Jr.
An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.
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4 for Texas (1963)
Character: Bank Clerk
In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000 from an outlaw named Matson. Once in Galveston, however, their rivalry continues, as Thomas joins up with Elya Carlson and Jarret with Maxine Richter. But Matson is still on the loose, and a scheming banker threatens both Thomas and Jarrett.
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Come Blow Your Horn (1963)
Character: Clothing Store Manager (uncredited)
The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.
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Dragonwyck (1946)
Character: Astor House Clerk (uncredited)
For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.
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My Fair Lady (1964)
Character: Ascot Extra / Guest at Ball (uncredited)
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
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Stone of Silver Creek (1935)
Character: Jimmy
In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough but goodhearted proprietor of the Bonanza, the only gambling establishment in otherwise God-fearing Silver Creek. Noel Francis, who used to play blonde schemers in Warner Bros. gangster films, earns second billing as the casino's equally goodhearted chanteuse.
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In Name Only (1939)
Character: Paul Graham (uncredited)
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
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The Affairs of Martha (1942)
Character: Justin Peacock Jr.
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
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Torrid Zone (1940)
Character: Sam
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
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Three Girls About Town (1941)
Character: Meeting Doorman
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
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Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
Character: Gildersleeve
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
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Romance on the High Seas (1948)
Character: Ship Radio Operator (uncredited)
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
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Laddie (1935)
Character: Peter Dover
A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
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Ace of Aces (1933)
Character: Party Guest with Newspaper (uncredited)
A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change.
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The Mad Whirl (1925)
Character: Bit Part
A teenager with permissive parents gets too caught up in wild parties and the fast life.
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My Dear Secretary (1948)
Character: Sylvan Scott
A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, however, when he turns out to be an erratic, immature playboy. Opposites attract, of course, but not without sub-plots that touch on competitiveness within marriage and responsibility.
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The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
Character: Secretary to District Attorney
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
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This Reckless Age (1932)
Character: "Stepladder" Schultz (uncredited)
Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their son Bradley comes home from college with ideas that they consider to be outrageous. His parents would like him to get involved with Mary Burke, a prim and proper young lady. More complications ensue because Bradley's sister Lois is attracted to the flapper lifestyle, but she isn't sure whether she can handle its emotional demands.
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The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
Character: Bob (uncredited)
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
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The Magnificent Rogue (1946)
Character: George Sheffield
A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
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The Sophomore (1929)
Character: Cupie - Freshman Fraternity Brother (uncredited)
Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this nostalgic slice of college, replete with songs, romance, prom dances and the inevitable big football game.
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Cadet Girl (1941)
Character: Elmer - Train Passenger (uncredited)
A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.
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My Man Godfrey (1936)
Character: Charlie Van Rumple (uncredited)
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.
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Since You Went Away (1944)
Character: Soldier Hunting for Susie Fleming (uncredited)
In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.
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Alice Adams (1935)
Character: Frank Dowling
In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?
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Having Wonderful Time (1938)
Character: Gus
Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.
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Captain Eddie (1945)
Character: Lester Thomas
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
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Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
Character: Elmer / Storekeeper
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936)
Character: Mat Burdon
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
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She Knew All the Answers (1941)
Character: Ogleby
Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side but complications ensue.
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Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1944)
Character: George
A young girl rents an apartment from a man who has recently enlisted in the Marines. The trouble is that he's given out keys to a half-dozen of his friends, and they all keep dropping in.
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Always Together (1947)
Character: Jack, the Soda Jerk (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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Welcome Danger (1929)
Character: Man at Party (silent version) (scenes deleted)
A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.
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College Humor (1933)
Character: Timid Freshman
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997)
Character: Self (archive footage)
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.
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My Dog Shep (1946)
Character: John H. Latham
An orphan boy on his way to live with his uncle picks up a stray dog, and the two become fast friends. However, the uncle doesn't want the dog, and when chickens are found dead, the uncle accuses the dog of killing them. The boy decides that it's time he and the dog hit the road so they run away, and meet up with an elderly man who also ran away from a home where he believed he wasn't wanted either.
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It's a Wonderful World (1939)
Character: Lupton Peabody
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.
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Tickle Me (1965)
Character: Mr. Dabney
A singing rodeo rider hires on at an expensive all-women dude ranch and beauty spa. He falls for a pretty fitness trainer who is constantly threatened by a gang who wants her late grandfather's cache of gold hidden in a ghost town.
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Sing Your Way Home (1945)
Character: Ship's Book Shop Clerk
A war journalist escorts a spirited teen band back to NYC post-WWII, turning the journey into a musical comedy filled with memorable performances.
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The Great Moment (1944)
Character: Homer Quimby
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
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City of Chance (1940)
Character: R.O. Champion
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
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Partners in Time (1946)
Character: Cedric Weehunt / Caleb Weehunt
Squire Skimp has a new plan to swindle the people of Pine Ridge. However, Lum has something more important on his mind. He has to tell a young engaged couple on the verge of breaking up the story of how the Jot 'em Down store first started (through flashbacks). Based on characters from the popular "Lum and Abner" radio program of the time.
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Vivacious Lady (1938)
Character: Culpepper
College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.
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Millionaires in Prison (1940)
Character: Jock, Vander's Nephew (uncredited)
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
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The Bank Dick (1940)
Character: Og Oggilby
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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Young Ideas (1943)
Character: Undetermined Minor Role (unconfirmed)
A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.
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Too Many Girls (1940)
Character: Football Coach
Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football players join the college team, and the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players, Clint, falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers he is her bodyguard, she decides to go back East. The bodyguards follow her, leaving the team in the lurch.
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Song of the Prairie (1945)
Character: William Van Welby
Joan Wingate's wealthy father doesn't want his daughter to go into show business. As they vacation in the west she gets a job with Dan Tyler's show and uses Wingate money to keep him afloat. Sandwiched in between the numerous musical numbers they try to keep her father away from the show. But he eventually finds out and decides they will return east
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Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
Character: Driver
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
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A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)
Character: Malcolm Scott
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
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Pillow to Post (1945)
Character: Alex, Coast Oil Flunky (uncredited)
With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. She finally gets one tentative sale with the Black Hills Oil Co., but Earl wants dinner with her. With the shortage of housing due to the war, Jean needs a military husband to get a place to stay in Clayfield, which is next to Camp Clay. She gets Lt. Mallory to act as her husband just to register. Then things go wrong as his commanding officer is there and believes them to be married. It gets worse as Don's mother shows up and then Jean's father.
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Sky Murder (1940)
Character: Buster - Chris' Boyfriend
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
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Sailor's Holiday (1929)
Character: Sailor Extra in Cafe (uncredited)
Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor.
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The Bashful Bachelor (1942)
Character: Cedric Wiehunt
Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-'em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum is also too timid to propose to Geraldine, so he involves Abner in a "rescue" effort which nearly gets both of them killed. They try again, and this time Geraldine is impressed. Lum writes a proposal note, but Abner, by mistake, delivers it to the Widder Abernathy, who has been ready to remarry for years. This puts Lum in a peck of trouble until the sheriff appears with the Widder's long-gone and hiding husband.
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Dr. Socrates (1935)
Character: Grocery Clerk
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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Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
Character: Horace, the Counterman at Joe's Diner (uncredited)
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
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The More the Merrier (1943)
Character: Diner Counterman (uncredited)
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
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The Bounty Killer (1965)
Character: Minister
Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violence. Willie discovers the easy money in bounty killing and must choose between that violent lifestyle and the love of a beautiful saloon singer.
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Wild Babies! (1932)
Character: Songwriter Alabam' Sutton
Two aspiring songwriters have a weird nightmare about the jungle.
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The Fabulous Suzanne (1946)
Character: Mastenson
Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the restaurant, she use the same system for investing her money. Her stock broker tries to dissuade her, but she persists and her investments increases her wealth.
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They Made Her a Spy (1939)
Character: Quiet Man on Train
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
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Hard to Get (1938)
Character: Stanley Potter
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.
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Only Yesterday (1933)
Character: Charlie Smith (Uncredited)
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)
Character: Restaurant Diner
Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east.
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Jiggs and Maggie in Court (1948)
Character: Mr. Twiddle
Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon character in the George McManus comic strip "Bringing Up Father." She visits McManus in his studio office and tries to persuade him to stop drawing the syndicated comic-strip. He tells her he will...in 1959. Maggie, not getting any younger, retains counsel and takes McManus to court.
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Whispering Ghosts (1942)
Character: Jonathan Flack
A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the mysterious decade-old murder of a sea captain.
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The Freshman (1925)
Character: Student Who Goes to Dean (uncredited)
Harold Lamb is so excited about going to college that he has been working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning a special way of introducing himself that he saw in a movie. When he arrives at Tate University, he soon becomes the target of practical jokes and ridicule. With the help of his one real friend Peggy, he resolves to make every possible effort to become popular.
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Living It Up (1954)
Character: Gift Shop Clerk (uncredited)
Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris (Martin), diagnoses him with radiation poisoning and gives Homer three weeks to live. A reporter for a New York newspaper, hears of Homer's plight and convinces her editor, to provide an all-expenses paid trip to New York.
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I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
Character: Funeral Director
Harold Fine is a self-described square - a 35-year-old Los Angeles lawyer who's not looking forward to middle age nor his upcoming wedding. His life changes when he falls in love with Nancy, a free-spirited, innocent, and beautiful young hippie. After Harold and his family enjoy some of her "groovy" brownies, he decides to "drop out" with her and become a hippie too. But can he return to his old life when he discovers that the hippie lifestyle is just a little too independent and irresponsible for his tastes?
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Myra Breckinridge (1970)
Character: Kid Barlow
Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck and, claiming to be Myron's widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.
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Philo Vance's Gamble (1947)
Character: Willetts
Private Detective Philo Vance gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery concerning the disappearance of an emerald that has been smuggled into the United States.
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Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
Character: The Wrong Eddie
The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed by the enemy during a battle. After the war is over, Stan and Ollie venture to New York City, where they begin a quest to reunite Eddie's little daughter with her rightful family. The task proves both monumental and problematic as the boys discover just how many people in New York have the last name Smith.
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Casanova Brown (1944)
Character: Best Man
Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the infant to keep her from being adopted. Isabel's parents hunt for the child and discover that Cass and Isabel are still hopelessly in love.
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A Bell for Adano (1945)
Character: Pfc. Edward - Algiers Mail Clerk
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life.
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Bachelor Bait (1934)
Character: Don Belden / Diker
After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
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Her Lucky Night (1945)
Character: Joe
In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.
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A Star Is Born (1954)
Character: Artie Carver (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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Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
Character: School Board President
A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
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Love Takes Flight (1937)
Character: Donald
A commercial pilot romances both a Hollywood actress and a female aviator. 1937.
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The Flying Irishman (1939)
Character: Clothing Store Sales Clerk
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
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Goin' to Town (1944)
Character: Cedric
General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical joke being played on them.
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Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Character: Bertram Kraler
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
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Joy of Living (1938)
Character: Florist (Uncredited)
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
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So This Is College (1929)
Character: Football Game Spectator (uncredited)
Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.
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Three Sons (1939)
Character: Grimson
A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business.
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What a Woman (1943)
Character: Mr. Clark
An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.
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Nine Girls (1944)
Character: Photographer
One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on their own to unmask the killer.
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Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966)
Character: Mr. Cubberson
Blacklisted by the major airlines for endlessly chasing female staff, pilot Rick Richards returns to Hawaii to set up a helicopter charter company with his friend Danny. Having a girl on every island is a good way to get business but it becomes clear that romance and flying don't always mix.
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Waikiki Wedding (1937)
Character: Everett Todhunter
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii. He gets the company to sponsor a contest in which the winner gets a Hawaiian vacation and is obligated to write articles on the islands which, when published, will constitute a publicity coup for the company. Unfortunately, Georgia Smith, the winner, feels lonely and isolated in the Islands and wants to return to the States. With help from buddy Shad Buggle Tony tries to romantically divert Georgia without letting her know his true motivation.
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Father Takes a Wife (1941)
Character: Tailor Fitter
A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate.
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Lucky Partners (1940)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
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Something for a Lonely Man (1968)
Character: Male Secretary
The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west in hopes of starting a new life, only to find the town that they founded is to be bypassed by the railroad.
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Palm Springs (1936)
Character: Bud
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
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Four Jacks and a Jill (1942)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Karanina "Nina" Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little Aregal Cafe, with herself as the vocalist, by pretending she once knew the King or Aregal back in the old country. Steve shows up pretending to be the King of Aregal, and complicates the growing romance between Nina and Nifty. When Steve runs off with Opa, the real King of Aregal (also Steve) appears and complicates things again.
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Why Be Good? (1929)
Character: Guest at Junior's First Party (uncredited)
A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.
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Flying Blind (1941)
Character: Chester Gimble
A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.
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Let's Go Native (1930)
Character: Diner (uncredited)
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
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She Went to the Races (1945)
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy.
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Two Minutes to Play (1936)
Character: Hank Durkee
Martin Granville Jr., a star track-and-field athlete, has intentions of going to Claxton College, but changes his mind when he meets Pat Meredith, a co-ed at a rival college, changes his mind team and goes to college there, just as his father Martin Granville Sr., an alum of the school, had wished. But his father has ordered him not to play football. "Dad" Granville, has offered a $100,000 endowment to his old school, not knowing his son has joined the football team, but is going to withdraw it if his son plays in the Big Game against Claxton.
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Movie Crazy (1932)
Character: Man Afraid of Mice (Uncredited)
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
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White Christmas (1954)
Character: Mr. Herring (uncredited)
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.
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The Chase (1966)
Character: Mr. Siftifieus (uncredited)
The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
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High Gear (1931)
Character: Alabam
The gang is out for a drive on a Sunday afternoon. When it starts to rain, they take shelter in an abandoned building. Unbeknownst to them, it is actually a gangster's hideout.
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Doctors Don't Tell (1941)
Character: Dr. Piper
Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics.
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The Naked Dawn (1955)
Character: N/A
Santiago, a jolly modern bandito, has just lost his partner when he happens on the isolated farm of young Manuel and Maria Lopez...
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A Royal Scandal (1945)
Character: Boris (uncredited)
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)
Character: Clarence, a Guest
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
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He Stayed for Breakfast (1940)
Character: Salesman
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
Character: Chester Dalrymple (uncredited)
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
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Air Hostess (1949)
Character: Ned Jenkins
The Hansen School for Air Hostesses, operated by Celia Hansen, welcomes a new group of students; a librarian named Ruth Jackson; Lorraine Carter, a nurse; and Jennifer White, whose husband was an aviator killed in World War II. Ruth meets a smart-alec pilot, Dennis Hogan, but complications arise as Lorraine also has an interest in him. Jennifer meets a war-buddy of her husband, Fred MacCoy. All three women, with each other's help, makes it through to graduation day.
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Brown of Harvard (1926)
Character: One of the Dickeys (uncredited)
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.
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Blondie Meets the Boss (1939)
Character: Camera Store Clerk (uncredited)
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
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Hot Saturday (1932)
Character: Archie
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
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The Great Bank Robbery (1969)
Character: Rev. Simms
A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.
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Pigskin Parade (1936)
Character: Mortimer Higgins
Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a hillbilly farmhand and his sister. The hillbilly farmhand's ability to throw melons enables him to become their star passing ace.
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Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)
Character: George Wilkins, Jr.
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
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Grand Canyon (1949)
Character: Halfnote
A film company is shooting a western on location when the star breaks his leg. A local mule herder, who had never acted before, is "shanghaied" into taking over the role. Complications ensue.
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Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
Character: Recital Guest (uncredited)
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
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King of the Royal Mounted (1936)
Character: RCMP Const. Slim Callum
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant King protects a girl who has come to claim a mine left by her father. An evil lawyer plans to keep the mine for himself.
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We Have Our Moments (1937)
Character: Clem Porter
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
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Wild Company (1930)
Character: Anita's Boyfriend
The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.
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The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (1933)
Character: Pledge
A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nonsense athlete who doesn't have time for such diversions as women.
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Naughty But Nice (1939)
Character: Mr. Mankton (uncredited)
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
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Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
Character: Claude Neselrode
Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.
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She's Dangerous (1937)
Character: Drunk at Nightclub Bar
A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.
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A Man to Remember (1938)
Character: Raymond (uncredited)
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
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