|
Social Sea Lions (1940)
Character: Chess Playing Party Guest
A "Pete Smith Specialty". Three sea lions gatecrash the kitchen of a beach house, steal some goodies, then go on to cause chaos at the party.
|
|
|
The Earl of Chicago (1940)
Character: Diplomat (uncredited)
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
|
|
|
|
Wolf of New York (1940)
Character: Judge
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
|
|
|
Dance of the cookoos (1982)
Character: Banker
Dance of the Cookoos is merged a cinematic cross section with the high points from almost 100 works of Laurel & Hardy, into an original framework action
|
|
|
|
|
A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940)
Character: Mayor Brown of Pasadena
Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, the defeated racketeer-politician, has Earl Carroll and several of his acts kidnapped, figuring the kidnapping coup will cause Jones to be laughed out of office. In Carroll's absence his assistant, Ramona Lisa, and his press agent, Barney Nelson put on the show themselves with the remaining talent, the chorus girls and also pressing into the entertainment cigarette girls, cloakroom girls, the doorman and others including oil heiresses Brenda Gusher and Cobina Gusher. Carroll and the other prisoners make their escape when a kidnapped juggling act sends their captors down in a barrage of beer bottles.
|
|
|
|
Mercy Plane (1939)
Character: Benson
Air-race champions "Speed" Leslie and Branda Fowler combine to open a very profitable airplane service that flies patients to other cities for special treatment. Gangsters soon move in and offer to take over, without an invitation.
|
|
|
Kentucky Moonshine (1938)
Character: Sponsor (uncredited)
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
|
|
|
The Wrong Road (1937)
Character: Parole Board Chairman (uncredited)
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
|
|
|
Hi, Beautiful (1944)
Character: Board Member (uncredited)
Part of the series of Universal B-musicals teaming Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery Jr., this film is also a remake of the 1937 comedy Love in a Bungalow. Patty Callahan (O'Driscoll) offers residence in a model home to soldier Jeff (Beery) and soon falls in love with him. Although the pair are unmarried, they enter a marital contest intended to celebrate the "Happiest G.I. Couple." Winning the contest brings on all sorts of farcical troubles until the couple are able to be united for real. Songs include "Don't Sweetheart Me" and "Best of All."
|
|
|
Main Street Today (1944)
Character: Businessman (uncredited)
This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.
|
|
|
Flight at Midnight (1939)
Character: (uncredited)
Spinner McGee, devil-may-care mail pilot volunteers his courage and skill for the task of raising $100,000 to save the small airport owned by Pop Hussey from being condemned.
|
|
|
International Settlement (1938)
Character: Man
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
|
|
|
|
|
I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
Character: Mr. Handel (uncredited)
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
|
|
|
It's a Great Feeling (1949)
Character: Distinguished Man (uncredited)
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
|
|
|
Law and Order (1953)
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Frame Johnson's attempt to settle down in Tombstone is interrupted when a mob tries to mete out some frontier justice.
|
|
|
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)
Character: Dr. Walton
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
A Life at Stake (1955)
Character: Businessman (uncredited)
An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial and may actually be deadly.
|
|
|
Pest from the West (1939)
Character: Butler (uncredited)
A millionaire vacationing in Mexico falls for a local girl and sets out to win her. This is a reworking of Keaton's 1936 feature The Invader (An Old Spanish Custom).
|
|
|
Mark of the Gorilla (1950)
Character: Game Preserve Officer
Nazis dressed to look like Great Apes are looking for gold, and Jungle Jim must stop them.
|
|
|
We're Not Married! (1952)
Character: Governor of Mississippi (uncredited)
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.
|
|
|
Voice of the Whistler (1945)
Character: Sinclair Executive (uncredited)
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
|
|
|
Tim Tyler's Luck (1937)
Character: The Doctor
A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country. He meets up with Laura, who is after Spider Webb who has framed her brother. Webb causes the death of Tim's father, but is eventually tracked down.
|
|
|
The Missing Juror (1944)
Character: District Attorney (Uncredited)
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
|
|
|
The Dark Corner (1946)
Character: Mr. Bryson (uncredited)
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
|
|
|
Serenade (1956)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico where he meets a sweet farm girl.
|
|
|
How the West Was Won (1962)
Character: Auction Guest (uncredited)
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
|
|
|
|
|
Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
Character: Shipwreck Inquiry Board Member
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
|
|
|
Over 21 (1945)
Character: Meredith (uncredited)
A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.
|
|
|
I've Always Loved You (1946)
Character: Music Critic
A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.
|
|
|
It Should Happen to You (1954)
Character: Military Publicity Function Attendee (uncredited)
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.
|
|
|
Champion (1949)
Character: Speaker at Benefit (uncredited)
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
|
|
|
The Spellbinder (1939)
Character: Second Marriage License Clerk (uncredited)
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?
|
|
|
Father of the Bride (1950)
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
|
|
|
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Character: Toots Shor's Patron (uncredited)
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
|
|
|
Bride by Mistake (1944)
Character: Business Man
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
|
|
|
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Character: Club Patron (uncredited)
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
|
|
|
Pat and Mike (1952)
Character: Golf Official (uncredited)
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.
|
|
|
The Razor's Edge (1946)
Character: Dr. Maturin
An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
|
|
|
Flying G-Men (1939)
Character: Marvin Brewster / The Professor
Four flying G-Men protect America against enemy spies; one of the four assumes the identity of The Black Falcon, to befuddle the saboteurs even further.
|
|
|
The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959)
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Lauter) running for sheriff of the town. When Ed is killed by hired guns of the corrupt incumbent Bat is determined to settle the score with violence but he is convinced by the townspeople that the best way to avenge his brother's death is by taking Ed's place on the ballot. Bat agrees and wins the election but his new role on the right side of the law will lead him to unexpected confrontations as he finds himself torn between his loyalties to his friends and his duties as sheriff.
|
|
|
A Girl's Best Years (1936)
Character: Attorney (uncredited)
A woman reporter is hired by an author-songwriter to help him avoid additional breach-of-promise suits.
|
|
|
Saddlemates (1941)
Character: Colonel Langley
The Three Mesquiteers, as army scouts, soothe hostilities between the Army and Indians after both have been riled by someone with a hidden agenda - a renegade chief, who is found to be masquerading as an Army interpreter.
|
|
|
The Opposite Sex (1956)
Character: Backstage Guest at Benefit (uncredited)
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back. The Opposite Sex is a remake of the 1939 comedy The Women.
|
|
|
|
|
Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
Character: Tearoom Customer (uncredited)
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
|
|
|
Louisa (1950)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.
|
|
|
Bannerline (1951)
Character: N/A
A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.
|
|
|
Hit Parade of 1941 (1940)
Character: Undetermined Secondary Role
In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station. He begins looking for sponsors. He finds one with a department store owner who will only lend him the money if he will allow his daughter, an aspiring tap-dancer and singer, to perform on the air. This is unfortunate as she is tone-deaf. To compensate, the owner hires a real singer to dub the daughter's voice. The singer and the owner's nephew fall in love and mayhem ensues. Songs include: the Oscar nominated "Who Am I?," "Swing Low Sweet Rhythm," "In The Cool of the Evening," "Make Yourself at Home," "The Swap Shop Song," "The Trading Post," "Sally," "Ramona," "Sweet Sue," "Dinah," "Margie," and "Mary Lou."
|
|
|
Shakedown (1950)
Character: Mr. Spencer (uncredited)
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
|
|
|
|
|
Funny Face (1957)
Character: Fashion Show Guest (uncredited)
A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.
|
|
|
A Woman's Secret (1949)
Character: Mr. Emory (Uncredited)
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect.
|
|
|
She Knew All the Answers (1941)
Character: Broker
A rich playboy wants to marry a chorus girl, but he'll lose his fortune if his trustee doesn't approve of his sweetheart. She decides to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side, but complications ensue.
|
|
|
Hold That Kiss (1938)
Character: Dog Show Judge
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
|
|
|
Greenwich Village (1944)
Character: N/A
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
|
|
|
Gilda (1946)
Character: American Cartel Member (uncredited)
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
|
|
|
Turnabout (1940)
Character: Carter (uncredited)
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.
|
|
|
The Apache Kid (1941)
Character: U. S. Road Commissioner
Don "Red" Barry, Republic's answer to Jimmy Cagney, stars in The Apache Kid. Barry plays Pete Dawson, a pugnacious cowboy who dons a mask and becomes a stagecoach robber. It's all in a good cause, however: Dawson is stealing from the town boss (Leroy Mason) who has ripped off a group of miners. Heroine Lynn Merrick is the daughter of the local judge, so naturally she misunderstands Barry's motives, at least until fadeout time.
|
|
|
No Man of Her Own (1950)
Character: Train Passenger (uncredited)
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
|
|
|
Anything Goes (1956)
Character: Audience Spectator
Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'discovers' the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises the prize role to the girl they selected without informing the other until they head back across the Atlantic by liner - with each man having brought his choice along! It becomes a stormy crossing as each man has to tell his 'find' that she might not get the role after all.
|
|
|
Woman Against Woman (1938)
Character: Fisher - Holland's Associate in Courtroom
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
|
|
|
Yankee Pasha (1954)
Character: Reil
Tale of an adventurer trying to rescue a damsel kidnapped by pirates.
|
|
|
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Character: Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)
Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Several years later, he visits her at school, while still concealing his identity, and—despite their large age difference—they soon fall in love.
|
|
|
Remember? (1939)
Character: Surprise Party Guest
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff's work puts a strain on the marriage and a divorce is planned. Sky uses an experimental memory loss drug to make Linda and Jeff forget their rough times (and the fact that they were married) and they fall in love all over again.
|
|
|
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939)
Character: Angus Palmer (uncredited)
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
|
|
|
Mission to Moscow (1943)
Character: Isolationist (uncredited)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
|
|
|
Them! (1954)
Character: Government Official
As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent — and the world.
|
|
|
The Phantom Thief (1946)
Character: Dr. Purcell Nash
Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. "Blackie" out to help his pal, "Runt," recover some jewels, finds himself involved in the homicides, and also finds himself as the prime suspect, and now has to find the real culprit in order to clear himself. So "Blackie,", a man of many talents and already a proved magician from cases past, shows he knows a little bit about dancing skeletons, walking phantoms and spiritualism himself, and holds a séance to unmask the murderer.
|
|
|
Designing Woman (1957)
Character: Fashion Show Attendee
A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.
|
|
|
Mandrake the Magician (1939)
Character: Professor Houston
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
|
|
|
Bewitched (1945)
Character: Judge
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
|
|
|
|
Bewitched (1945)
Character: Judge (uncredited)
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
|
|
|
The Joker is Wild (1957)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.
|
|
|
The Merry Widow (1952)
Character: Reception Guest (uncredited)
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Marshovia on a visit, Crystal Radek change places with her secretary Kitty. Following them to Paris, Danilo has a hard time wooing the widow after meeting an attractive young woman at a nightclub, the same Crystal Radek who presents herself as Fifi the chorus girl. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
|
|
|
Bunco Squad (1950)
Character: Bunco Victim (uncredited)
Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, lining up rich widow Jessica Royce as his latest mark, sets up a false paranormal society with other charlatans to convince the credulous Jessica that her late son is speaking to her through their sham seances. When the plan leads to murder, Johnson and McManus must bring the group down before they kill again.
|
|
|
Laura (1944)
Character: Man (uncredited)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
|
|
|
Mandrake the Magician (1940)
Character: Professor Houston
Feature version of the American serial film, produced for export only, never exhibited in the USA, and believed to be a lost film.
|
|
|
Canyon City (1943)
Character: Judge Gleason
A mystery man, identifying himself as the outlaw Nevada Kid, and his comical sidekick, help the townspeople of Canyon City solve a series of murders, robberies, and threats to destroy their new power dam in the first days of electrification of the wild west.
|
|
|
A Chump at Oxford (1940)
Character: Banker
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.
|
|
|
Al Capone (1959)
Character: Pallbearer at Colosimo's Funeral (uncredited)
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest "business," but moves inexorably toward his downfall and ignominious end.
|
|
|
Prairie Stranger (1941)
Character: Jud Evans
Charles Starrett is once more cast as frontier doctor Steve Monroe in Columbia's Prairie Stranger. In the company of his comic sidekick, mail-order intern Bones (Cliff Edwards), Dr. Monroe sets up his shingle in a small Nevada town. When business is slow, Monroe and Bones take jobs as ranch-hands on a cattle spread, and while thus employed try to solve a series of mysterious livestock poisonings.
|
|
|
Too Late for Tears (1949)
Character: Dr. Adams (uncredited)
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
|
|
|
Thundering Trails (1943)
Character: Arthur Howland
In this western, the Three Mesquiteers team up with a Texas Ranger to round up the outlaws who forced the ranger's younger brother into becoming a criminal.
|
|
|
The Arizona Kid (1939)
Character: Union Army Officer
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.
|
|
|
Florian (1940)
Character: Officer
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
|
|
|
Bright Victory (1951)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
|
|
|
Hoppy Serves a Writ (1943)
Character: Ben Hollister
Posing as a cattle buyer, Hoppy crosses over into Oklahoma where the Jordan brother's and their outlaw gang operate outside the law. After receiving an unfriendly reception when he finds them, he, California, and Johnny rustle their cattle and drive across the river into Texas. He hopes they will cross over to retrieve their cattle and then he can arrest them.
|
|
|
Tender Is the Night (1962)
Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
1920s, the French Riviera: wealthy expatriate Nicole Warren's mental illness strains her marriage to psychiatrist Dick. A young American actress named Rosemary Hoyt arrives and is drawn into their circle, becoming romantically involved with the older, married Dick and disrupting the fragile balance of the group. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to another sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them all.
|
|
|
The Last Hurrah (1958)
Character: Banker at Plymouth Club (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.
|
|
|
They Won't Forget (1937)
Character: Dougherty - Publisher (uncredited)
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.
|
|
|
Meet John Doe (1941)
Character: Legislator (uncredited)
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
|
|
|
New Moon (1940)
Character: Commandant
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
|
|
|
Party Girl (1958)
Character: Party Guest at Rico's (uncredited)
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
|
|
|
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Character: Judge at Margot's Trial (uncredited)
When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.
|
|
|
Call Me Madam (1953)
Character: Ball Guest (uncredited)
Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.
|
|
|
Our Wife (1941)
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
|
|
|
|
|
Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride (1940)
Character: Henry Walker
Gene inherits a meat-packing plant, then faces stiff competition from snooty Ann Randolph, rival owner determined to do him in.
|
|
|
The Far Country (1954)
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Canadian town.
|
|
|
Frenchie (1950)
Character: Saloon Patron (uncredited)
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
|
|
|
The Big Sleep (1946)
Character: Furtive Man (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.
|
|
|
The Dead Don't Dream (1948)
Character: Sheriff Tompson
Hoppy, California and Lucky arrive at a remote inn, where Lucky expects to be married - but finds the bride-to-be in distress over her uncle, who has suddenly disappeared from the inn. Then Hoppy finds the uncle's body in the shaft of his nearby mine...
|
|
|
The Lady and the Mob (1939)
Character: District Attorney
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
|
|
|
Road Agent (1952)
Character: Jeff Adams
Brand controls the only road to the cattle market and is charging exorbitant rates. Tim and Chito rob Brand to recover only their overcharge, but accidentally end up with all of Brand's money......
|
|
|
They Were Expendable (1945)
Character: Navy Captain (uncredited)
After a demonstration of new PT boats, Navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.
|
|
|
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Character: Country Club Member (uncredited)
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
|
|
|
Walking Down Broadway (1938)
Character: Attorney
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
|
|
|
Swanee River (1939)
Character: Critic
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
|
|
|
Black Widow (1954)
Character: Man in Hallway (uncredited)
When a young stage hopeful is found dead, suspicion falls on her mentor, a successful Broadway producer.
|
|
|
Joy Scouts (1939)
Character: Scoutmaster
The Boys Scouts give a demonstration of their camping skills, but Our Gang are excluded from participating because they are not yet old enough. Undeterred, the kids head off on their own unsupervised camping adventure, with comically disastrous results.
|
|
|
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
Character: Bank Executive
George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a three year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
|
|
|
Flight Command (1940)
Character: Captain
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable to land due to heavy fog. On his first day on the job, his poor shooting skills results in the Hellcats losing an air combat competition. His fellow pilots accept him anyways but they think he's crossed the line when they erroneously conclude that while their CO Billy Gray is away, Drake has an affair with his wife Lorna. Drake is now an outcast and is prepared to resign from the Navy but his extreme heroism in saving Billy Gray's life turns things around.
|
|
|
Auntie Mame (1958)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.
|
|
|
Test Pilot (1938)
Character: Pilot in Cafe (uncredited)
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
|
|
|
Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945)
Character: Prof. Harry Hargraves
Claire Forrest seeks her kidnapped scientist father, hidden somewhere on Mystery Island. He is held and forced to work on diabolical inventions by Captain Mephisto, a costumed villain.
|
|
|
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.
|
|
|
Night Spot (1938)
Character: Mr. Van Pelt
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.
|
|
|
Cimarron (1960)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
|
|
|
Island of Doomed Men (1940)
Character: Chairman of Parole Board (uncredited)
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
|
|
|
The Great Gambini (1937)
Character: Butler
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.
|
|
|
The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
Character: Night Club Patron (uncredited)
Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
Second Fiddle (1939)
Character: Jack
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
|
|
|
Broken Lance (1954)
Character: Lawyer (uncredited)
Tensions erupt within an Arizona cattle baron's household when his three sons vie for control of the ranch.
|
|
|
Easy Living (1937)
Character: Husband (uncredited)
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
|
|
|
Ain't Misbehavin' (1955)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.
|
|
|
Sea Devils (1937)
Character: Coast Guard Commandant (uncredited)
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.
|
|
|
|
|
It Started with a Kiss (1959)
Character: Charity Raffle Guest (uncredited)
While on leave in New York, a serviceman both weds a chorus girl and wins a red convertible in a charity raffle. Both his wife and the car turn out to be problematic.
|
|
|
|
|
Seven Thieves (1960)
Character: Guest at Ball (uncredited)
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.
|
|
|
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Character: Passerby (uncredited)
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.
|
|
|
Flight for Freedom (1943)
Character: Capt. Knowles (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.
|
|
|
That's Right – You're Wrong (1939)
Character: Producer (Uncredited)
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.
|
|
|
The Chance of a Lifetime (1943)
Character: Chairman of Parole Board (Uncredited)
A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
|
|
|
Period of Adjustment (1962)
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.
|
|
|
The Girl on the Front Page (1936)
Character: Politician
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
|
|
|
The Miami Story (1954)
Character: N/A
Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to help eliminate the biggest crime syndicate in the city.
|
|
|
Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
Character: Wilbur
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
|
|
|
It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
Character: Street Passerby in Roller Skating Number (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.
|
|
|
Wyoming Mail (1950)
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized gang with one of the mail's supposed guardians in their pay. Prizefighter Steve Davis, a former army intelligence man, is hired to track down the gang and save the Territorial Mail Service. Steve goes undercover in territorial prison, leans Morse Code from a fellow prisoner, breaks jail, infiltrates the gang...and finds time to romance dance-hall singer Mary, who proves to have hidden depths...
|
|
|
|
|
Something to Live For (1952)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actress Jenny Carey whose developing career is threatened by an increasing dependence on alcohol. Alan's growing interest in Jenny strains his marriage to Edna, with whom he has two children.
|
|
|
Stella Dallas (1937)
Character: Stephen's Business Friend (uncredited)
A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
|
|
|
|
|
Hollywood Story (1951)
Character: Producer (uncredited)
An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director.
|
|
|
Horizons West (1952)
Character: Poker Player (uncredited)
Brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas after the Civil War. Ambitious Dan turns to rustling and then shady land deals to build an empire. Being held for a murder, he is rescued from a lynch mob by Neil, who is now the Marshal, but there is eventually a falling out between the brothers, good triumphing over evil.
|
|
|
Perils of Nyoka (1942)
Character: Prof. Douglas Campbell
Professor Campbell's expedition into the hills of Libya obtains a papyrus which might reveal the hiding place of the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates, containing lost medical secrets. Also in the region is intrepid Nyoka Gordon, still seeking her father, lost on a previous expedition. She alone can translate the papyrus, which directs our heroes through deadly perils (including the Tunnel of Bubbling Death) into the land of the Tuaregs. Opposing them are Vultura, Queen of the Desert, and her Arab ally Cassib, both greedy for the treasure...
|
|
|
Leather Burners (1943)
Character: Bart Gailey
As rustled cattle have mysteriously disappeared, Johnny sends for his friend Hoppy, Hoppy arrives and immediately suspects Dan Slack. Realizing his telegram about Slack was intercepted, he locks up the operator Lafe knowing he can escape. Tailing Lafe he finds a secret entrance to a mine and inside finds the missing cattle. But Slack's men also find him just as the cattle are stampeded through the mine shaft.
|
|
|
Lady in the Death House (1944)
Character: Judge (uncredited)
As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.
|
|
|
At the Circus (1939)
Character: Captain (uncredited)
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to find the thief and get the money back.
|
|
|
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
Character: Military Officer at Experiment
Test space rockets exploding at liftoff and increased reporting of UFO sightings culminate in a direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead, extra-galactic civilization to invade Earth from impervious flying saucers, using ray-weapons of mass destruction.
|
|
|
|
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
Character: Military Officer at Experiment (uncredited)
Test space rockets exploding at liftoff and increased reporting of UFO sightings culminate in a direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead, extra-galactic civilization to invade Earth from impervious flying saucers, using ray-weapons of mass destruction.
|
|
|
Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman.
|
|
|
Silent Conflict (1948)
Character: Randall
One of Hoppy's Bar 20 ranch hands is tricked into participating in nefarious activities after being subjected to hypnosis.
|
|
|
Tahiti Honey (1943)
Character: Commander (uncredited)
The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe ('Dennis O'Keefe (I)' ), are stranded in Tahiti at the time of the fall of France to the Nazis. Suzette "Suzie" Durand (Simone Simon). a French-American girl singing in a nightclub is consumed with a desire to go to the United States. Things go from bad to worse for the band,. and they are faced with the necessity of either taking a girl singer into the group,which they all regard as bad luck, or starving. The band insists that she be dropped as soon as they can earn enough to catch a bot home. But Mickey falls in love with Suzie, and smuggles her on board the ship.
|
|
|
Song of Revolt (1937)
Character: Nobleman (uncredited)
This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", came to be written during the French Revolution.
|
|
|
Air Devils (1938)
Character: Capt. Hawthorne
Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.
|
|
|
The Country Girl (1954)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
An actor on the skids is given one more chance to regain his stardom, as well as his self-respect, yet his alcoholism may prevent that from happening.
|
|
|
The Baron of Arizona (1950)
Character: Board Member - Department of Interior (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.
|
|
|
Sabotage (1939)
Character: (uncredited)
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
|
|
|
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
Character: Ball Guest (uncredited)
Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
|
|
|
Say It in French (1938)
Character: Dr. Van Gulden
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
|
|
|
Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.
|
|
|
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942)
Character: N/A
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.
|
|
|
Wells Fargo (1937)
Character: Minor Role
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
|
|
|
Let's Do It Again (1953)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The Stuarts agree to get divorced, and each tries to move on to a new love: Gary with socialite Deborah Randolph (Karin Booth) and Connie with businessman Frank McGraw (Aldo Ray). However, they start to realize that they still have strong feelings for each other. The Stuarts must make a decision before their divorce is final.
|
|
|
Men Against the Sky (1940)
Character: Banker
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.
|
|
|
Crime, Inc. (1945)
Character: Grand Juror (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.
|
|
|
Santa Fe Saddlemates (1945)
Character: Inspector Burke
Governor Price sends Sunset Carson to investigate a smuggling ring which is baffling the Border Patrol. Newspaper woman Ann Morton is working incognito in the saloon waiting for a break on ...
|
|
|
The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their marriage.
|
|
|
The Strange Door (1951)
Character: N/A
The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly confrontation in his dungeon deathtrap.
|
|
|
Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
Character: Newspaperman (uncredited)
New York City newspaper The Day is in trouble. Even though editor Ed Hutcheson has worked hard running the paper, its circulation has been steadily declining. Now the publisher's widow wants to sell the paper, which will most likely mean its end. Hutcheson's only hope is to finish his exposé on a dangerous gangster before the sale is finalized.
|
|
|
Fool's Gold (1946)
Character: Colonel Jed Landy
The son of an Army friend is about the join an outlaw gang. Hoppy prevents this and brings the gang to justice.
|
|
|
Dangerous Crossing (1953)
Character: Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
A honeymoon aboard an ocean liner is cut short when the bride finds herself suddenly alone, and unable to convince anyone of her husband’s existence.
|
|
|
Body and Soul (1947)
Character: Weigh-in Official (uncredited)
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
|
|
|
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
Character: Elevator Passenger (uncredited)
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.
|
|
|
Cowboys from Texas (1939)
Character: Texas Governor
Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.Texas has opened up land for homesteaders. Clay Allison wants their land and has his men led by Plummer try to start a range war between them and the ranchers. With each side suspecting the other of their problems, the Mesquiteers realize someone else is responsible. Stony suspects Plummer and fakes leaving the Mesquiteers to join Plummer's gang hoping to find out who it is.
|
|
|
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Character: Mr. Harkwright - Mine Operator
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
|
|
|
Hidden Valley Outlaws (1944)
Character: Governor Walker (uncredited)
Lawyer Leland is using land rights to kick the ranchers off their land. When Wild Bill and Gabby arrive to help the ranchers, he has actor Percel frame them for murder and then incites the townsmen to lynch them.
|
|
|
Edison, the Man (1940)
Character: Broker
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
|
|
|
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Character: Criterion Theater Manager
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.
|
|
|
Undercurrent (1946)
Character: Senator Pelli (uncredited)
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.
|
|
|
How to Eat (1939)
Character: Joe's Dinner Guest
Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his stock everyman and slightly bumbling character Joe Doakes to dramatize such situations. Situations that can impede digestion include receiving bad news resulting in stress, being in love, and feeling scared. Snacking or nibbling between meals can ruins one's appetite at meal time. Having the correct posture while eating is important for digestion; finding the right posture can be difficult in certain circumstances, such as being on a picnic or eating in bed (specifically for men when using trays). Sharing tables with staring strangers may also impede digestion. And it's difficult to digest food when one can't get any of it.
|
|
|
The Spider's Web (1938)
Character: Police Commissioner Stanley Kirk
Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The Octopus, who intends to replace the government of the United States.
|
|
|
Calling Wild Bill Elliott (1943)
Character: Judge Richards
When territorial governor Steven Nichols (Herbert Heyes) terrorizes the population with violence and heavy taxes, the Culver family stands up to him, but after the family patriarch is murdered, wandering gunslinger Wild Bill Elliott (Wild Bill Elliott) is falsely accused of the crime.
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
Vertigo (1958)
Character: Diner at Ernie's (uncredited)
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
|
|
|
Thunder Afloat (1939)
Character: Naval Aide (uncredited)
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
|
|
|
The Fighting Seabees (1944)
Character: Navy Surgeon (uncredited)
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.
|
|
|
The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
Character: Rich Man (uncredited)
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
|
|
|
Monkey Business (1952)
Character: Board Member (uncredited)
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
|
|
|
In Old Missouri (1940)
Character: Holt
The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son and a socialite wife who wants a divorce. He begs the Weavers to trade places with him and fix things up.
|
|
