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Signing 'em Up (1933)
Character: Movie director
An all-star short designed to promote the National Recovery Act.
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Maids a la Mode (1933)
Character: Furniture Man (uncredited)
Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.
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The Pajama Party (1931)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
After running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at her mansion.
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Slightly Static (1935)
Character: Radio Station Technician (uncredited)
Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.
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Bum Voyage (1934)
Character: Ship's Passenger at Party (uncredited)
The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is inhabited by a gorilla.
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Mr. Bride (1932)
Character: Ship Passenger
Charley's boss "rehearses" for his honeymoon--with Charley.
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Circus Rookies (1928)
Character: Mr. Magoo
Francis Byrd is in love with circus acrobat, and daughter of the show's owner, La Belle, and tries to join the show to be near her. However, his rival Oscar Thrust is the keeper of a "Man-Eating Gorilla" named Bimbo, who's a featured act.
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Sealskins (1932)
Character: Mr. Jarvis - Lonely Hearts Advisor (uncredited)
In their first comedy two-reeler of 1932, vivacious Thelma Todd and fluttery ZaSu Pitts learn that the royal seal of a foreign country has been stolen and promptly set out to catch it -- a sea lion.
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Spite Marriage (1929)
Character: Man in Audience Next to Elmer
An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
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We Live Again (1934)
Character: Siberian Guard (uncredited)
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
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Scarface (1932)
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
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Broadway Serenade (1939)
Character: Santa Claus (uncredited)
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
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Wild and Woolly (1937)
Character: Referee (uncredited)
Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden anniversary. Not unexpectedly, things go astray when a bank robber hopes to cash in on the excitement, but fortunately his plans are thwarted by the towns newly elected sheriff (Brennan)...who's a reformed crook himself!
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The Thin Man (1934)
Character: Witness (uncredited)
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
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The Upland Rider (1928)
Character: Ross Cheswick
The honest John Graham and the crooked Ross Cheswick battle for supremacy. Despite Cheswick's unscrupulous methods, Dan and his handsome bronco Tarzan win the Big Race for Graham. Dan's prize: Graham's lovely daughter Sally.
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Casey at the Bat (1927)
Character: McGraw
Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York scout signs him up, so Casey and his equally dishonest manager go to the big leagues. Eventually, the scout and manager conspire to get him drunk and bet against him for a crucial game with the pennant at stake.
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A Fool's Advice (1932)
Character: Obediah
An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.
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Big Business (1937)
Character: Townsman Investor
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
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The Unholy Night (1929)
Character: The Butler
When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.
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The Rage of Paris (1938)
Character: Mr. Smythe (uncredited)
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
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Caravan (1934)
Character: Card Player (Uncredited)
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
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Footlights and Fools (1929)
Character: Stage manager
Moore plays the "dual" role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl in France to acquire a new persona.
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Grand Hotel (1932)
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
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Zenobia (1939)
Character: Townsman
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
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Loose Ankles (1930)
Character: Circus Cafe Ringmaster
A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the approval of three of her stuffed-shirt relatives, and without scandal. Otherwise, the estate goes to the cat and dog hospital. Ann, not needing the money, rebels by seeking scandal with a gigolo.
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Fury (1936)
Character: Court Bailiff (uncredited)
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)
Character: Museum Exhibit Attendee (uncredited)
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants.
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The Wagon Show (1928)
Character: Sayre
Colonel Beldan runs a Wild West show. When Beldan's star attraction switches to his unscrupulous competitor Vicarino, the young Bob Mason takes the opportunity to take over the job with his horse 'Tarzan'.
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Timber War (1935)
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
The owners of a lumber mill hire an investigator to find out who is sabotaging their mill.
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A Woman of Affairs (1928)
Character: Gendarme (uncredited)
Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Neville have long been smitten with each other, but her father disapproves of the relationship, resulting in her eventual marriage to David. It's not long after their wedding, however, that tragedy strikes, sending Diana on a downward spiral. When Neville reappears in her life, will he be able to save her from her own misery?
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Movie Crazy (1932)
Character: The Director
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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The Devil-Doll (1936)
Character: Gendarme (uncredited)
Respected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond, however, is consumed with hatred for those who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.
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Madame X (1929)
Character: Gendarme at Trial (uncredited)
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her three year old son again despite her earnest attempts to make amends. For many years the mother seeks refuge overseas and in Absinthe. In the end, her son, a young and promising lawyer unknowingly defends her in court. Ruth Chatterton gives a marvelous performance in this early talkie in her portrayal of Madame X.
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Air Fright (1933)
Character: Passenger (uncredited)
The girls are stewardesses on an experimental flight.
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