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Grandma's Buoys (1936)
Character: Harry
Tom and Harry are sailors on a yacht, and go ashore for a few beers and whatever else may come up. What comes up is a brawl between them and the barflies in the waterfront saloon they go to. They are aided by an elderly lady and her knitting needles.
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Who's Looney Now (1936)
Character: Brother
Mr. Brown is riding home from work one day with his new neighbor, Mr. Johnson. When Brown explains that he has all kinds of problems at home, Johnson wants to help him. So, when they arrive, Johnson gives Brown a demonstration of one of the tricks that he uses to get his family to act as he wishes them too. But when Brown tries out Johnson's ideas on his own, things do not go as planned.
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Just a Pain in the Parlor (1932)
Character: Servant
Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to the high brow party in progress.
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Dummy Ache (1936)
Character: Cabbie
Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Misunderstandings, mishaps, and hijinks ensue. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division in 2013.
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The Glorious Fourth (1927)
Character: Pedestrian
It's the Fourth of July and the mother of Our Gang member Joe Cobb is doing a brisk business at her fireworks stand. Briefly left in charge of the stand, Joe does his best not to blow up himself or his friends, but a poorly-aimed skyrocket owned by Allen "Farina" Hoskins triggers a somewhat premature but undeniably spectacular display of pyrotechnics.
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The Harvester (1936)
Character: Carl
In a small town in Indiana in the 1890s, the domineering and ambitious Mrs. Biddle arranges a marriage between her spoiled daughter Thelma and the town's prize catch, harvester David Langston, who is wedded to the soil. David is friends with orphan Ruth Jameson and, although she is in love with him, he eventually gives in to the machinations of Mrs. Biddle and consents to marry Thelma. Meanwhile, technological advances come to town, including its first gasoline buggy, galvanic battery, and metal bathtub fitted with running water. When Mrs. Biddle tries to convince David to give up the farming life and join her husband in real estate, Mr. Biddle, hen-pecked and dissatisfied with city life, warns David against selling his farm.
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The Dummy Owner (1938)
Character: N/A
Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of record. At first, Leon is excited, but the arrangement soon creates difficulty for him. First, he knows nothing about horses except how to bet on them, and second, when his wife finds out, she is furious.
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Too Many Highballs (1933)
Character: 2nd Traffic Cop
Harold Hobbs doesn't much like that his lazy, sponging and unemployed brother-in-law Claude and his mother-in-law live with him and his wife, Hortense, especially as the in-laws seem to rule the roost ever since they moved in. To get his in-laws out of the house, Harold has regularly left a bottle of booze for Claude to be able to entertain prospective employers. When Harold learns that on all the other occasions the employers have not showed (he assumes there probably were no prospective employers) leaving Claude to consume the booze on his own, he decides to show Claude a lesson by spiking the bottle with castor oil. Complications ensue when Joe, Harold's friend, encourages him to skip work to attend the prize fight. What Joe doesn't tell Harold is that he tells his boss that Harold needs the day off to attend to the sudden death of his brother-in-law.
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Sing Sister Sing (1935)
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
At a residence hotel, Patsy is moving in with Thelma. Thelma has prepared some rules, including singing whenever one feels quarrelsome or angry. Although Thelma tells Patsy that they'll share everything, there's precious little closet or drawer space for Patsy's clothes, little room to maneuver around Thelma in the bathroom, and then a sleepless night for Patsy when Thelma goes sleepwalking. Can they share and share alike, or will Patsy keep on singing?
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Charley My Boy! (1926)
Character: Applicant
A daughter's rich father wants to marry her off to a rich but older man. The daughter has other ideas however and sets out to find a nice young man she can fall in love with.
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At Sea Ashore (1936)
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Patsy's working at Rumplemeyer's Donut Shop in Brooklyn. By accident she catches Mr. Rumplemeyer's trousers in the donut machine as he's leaving to pick his niece who's arriving from the old country, so he gives Patsy cab fare and sends her. She forgets her purse, so when she arrives at the immigration office, she can't pay the cabbie, who tells her he'll wait while the meter runs. Inside, Patsy finally finds the high-spirited Lyda, but by then, Patsy has sneaked into the holding area and may need a passport to get out. She hides in Lyda's trunk, but with the cabbie, a suspicious immigration officer, and a traffic cop buzzing around will uncle and niece ever connect?
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The Misses Stooge (1935)
Character: Mr. Schmidt - Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician.
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Pan Handlers (1936)
Character: Man in Bathtub (uncredited)
The girls get jobs selling aluminum cookware door to door.
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The Dancing Millionaire (1934)
Character: Crusher's Manager
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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Hit and Rum (1935)
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Lew Kelly is a walking cuckoo-clock who thinks he is a judge. Leon and Eddie are two drunks who think they are drivers. They crash together, and Lew gets trapped in the middle. Leon and Eddie finally come to terms and leave Lew amidst the wreckage. The next day, Leon answers a court summons, only to find that Lew is the presiding judge, after sneaking in and taking over the job as the regular judge is absent.
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In Love at 40 (1935)
Character: Motel Desk Clerk
Edgar thinks he is in love with another woman while his wife (Florence) and her family are out of town, leading to jealousy when Florence returns and pretends she is in love with another man.
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You Said a Hatful! (1934)
Character: Train Clerk
When he learns the secret news that it will be sold today at 4pm in Kansas City, international banker J.P. Anderson sets in motion a plan to purchase the Tippycanoe Tuckahoe & Tehachapi Railroad.
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Young Onions (1932)
Character: Charlie Saunders
After several years of dull marriage, Alfred (Forrester Harvey) and Dorothy (Dorothy Granger), Dorothy is yearning for romance while Alfred just turns over and snores. Pete Boyle (Kenneth Thomson), the cad, suggests she take a trip to Mexico. THey fuss and she takes the trip, while Alfred wakes up and goes to Mailbu and chases some surf cuties. A Pre-code short.
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The Candid Camera (1932)
Character: Tom
Mrs. Townes has been refused a new car by her husband for 3 years while he's driving in cabs all over town. But when Jack Townes is exposed in a newsreel pursuing a girl on the beach, Mrs. Townes has now means to negotiate.
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Finnegan's Ball (1927)
Character: Cop (uncredited)
The Finnegan family emigrate from Ireland to the United States, but get into a dispute with their neighbors the Flannigans.
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Next Week-End (1934)
Character: N/A
Will Stanton, drunken host at his own dull dinner party, decides to leave his guests and go out to make whoopee. At a local night club, emcee Eddie Dunn introduces singer Dorothy Granger. Her singing inspires not a single reaction. The dead atmosphere is livened up when Stanton shows up and starts mussing up everybody's hair. It catches on and soon patrons are mussing each other's hair. Stanton goes into the washroom and drunkenly washes two hands - one his and one the attendant's. He takes a bottle of soap back to the dance floor and pours it out, causing all the dancers to fall on their ..well, to fall down. A seltzer spray melee follows and Stanton decides to go home. His dull wife asks Stanton to tell his dull guests if he learned anything out on the town. Stanton picks up a bottle of seltzer and starts spritzing.
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Beyond the Rockies (1932)
Character: Man at Slot Machine (uncredited)
A noted gunman takes a job on a cattle ranch to stop a band of rustlers.
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Red Haired Alibi (1932)
Character: Travers' Henchman (uncredited)
A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.
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Ghost Valley (1932)
Character: Marty
A cowboy and a beautiful girl inherit a supposedly haunted gold mine.
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Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
Character: Harp Player
After a homely married couple separately undergo plastic surgery, they unwittingly plan an extramarital affair with each other.
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Thundering Fleas (1926)
Character: Watcher of flea circus
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
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Another Wild Idea (1934)
Character: Vegetable Man
Betty's father has an invention that looks like a fancy camera; it emits an ultra-lavender ray that temporarily rids the ray's target of inhibitions. To test it, Betty's father zaps Charley hoping his newly-aberrant behavior will cause Betty to end her affections for the milquetoast. Dad's plan backfires: the invention works perfectly, Charley gets a backbone, and Betty loves her new forceful man. However, Charley's courage and lack of a superego get him in trouble with the law. He goes on trial for assaulting a bullying police officer. Is Charley going up the river leaving Betty high and dry?
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The Rainmakers (1935)
Character: Switchman
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
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Hot Tip (1935)
Character: Racetrack Spectator
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
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Fifty Million Husbands (1930)
Character: Magazine Salesman (uncredited)
An estranged couple visit their old apartment, which is now occupied by Charley and his wife. Charley's wife, however, misunderstands the purpose of their visit.
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Hasty Marriage (1931)
Character: Streetcar Conductor (uncredited)
Charley has to marry quickly or he'll lose out on a job.
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Neighborhood House (1936)
Character: Irate Movie Patron
Charley, his wife Rosina and their daughter Darla attend "Bank night" at their local movie theater, more eager to win the cash prize than see the picture. When little Darla is selected to choose the winning ticket, she draws her father's number. The crowd reacts angrily, thinking that the drawing is a fraud, forcing the child to choose another number. This one turns out to be her own ticket, after which a third drawing yields her mother's ticket. While pandemonium erupts in the audience, some gangsters arrive and raid the theater. A chase follows, resulting in the eventual capture of the crooks.
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Blind Date (1934)
Character: Milkman
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
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Strike Me Pink (1936)
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
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Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)
Character: Checker Taxi Driver (uncredited)
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.
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Heir to Trouble (1935)
Character: Cowhand Hank
Ken Armstrong (Ken Maynard) finds himself a mine owner and a daddy simultaneously when a friend dies and wills him his mine and his baby. The outlaws eying the mine try to frame the hero for the death.
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Crashing Broadway (1933)
Character: Freddie Storm
When Tad Wallace's act flops on Broadway, he joins a troop heading west. In a small town, they run into Jeffries who has just burned down the theater. When Jeffries kills Griswold, Tad has a plan to trap him by using the talents of Shakespearian actor Thorndyke.
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Something Simple (1934)
Character: Desk Clerk
Taken to a hospital, after suffering a dizzy spell, Charley is told by a 'nut', posing as a doctor, that he suffers from 'Tetra-Ethyl", and the only remedy is to sit down, relax, clear the mind and recite a nursery rhyme. The fake doctor gives Charley a package to deliver to Mr. Henderson, the "Supreme Crown of the Knights of the Brown Derby." At the hotel, hosting a convention of "Brown Derbies," Charley suffers a dizzy spell and the only place he can find to sit down is in Mr. Henderson's lap, where he recites "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Mr. Henderson, it is revealed, also suffers from "Tetra-Ethyl." Seized by an attack, Henderson sits down and tries to recite "Who Killed Cock Robin," but forgets the lines, which Charley and Henderson's daughter, Betty, sing in a song together. That, coming at the end of the second reel,is all it takes for Charley and Betty to decide to get married.
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The Big Game (1936)
Character: Gambler Betting $500
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
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Chance at Heaven (1933)
Character: Reporter #1 (uncredited)
A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.
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Sutter's Gold (1936)
Character: San Francisco Mob Leader
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Crazy Feet (1929)
Character: Actor (uncredited)
Charley intervenes in a fight between Eddie and Thelma inside her small car. Cop Kennedy misinterprets things, and Charley hides in the theatre Thelma is rehearsing in. Charley replaces Eddie as Thelma's partner in an artistic dance act, and makes a fiasco of it.
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Missing Girls (1936)
Character: Willie
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
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Sweepstakes (1931)
Character: Cantina Waiter
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
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The Nickel Nurser (1932)
Character: Messenger (uncredited)
Charley is an efficiency expert trying to teach a millionaire's daughter the value of money.
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We Who Are About to Die (1937)
Character: Agitated Citizen in Mob (uncredited)
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932)
Character: Schatze's Cabby
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
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The Bohemian Girl (1936)
Character: Drunk
Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.
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Golden Harvest (1933)
Character: Wheat Farmer (uncredited)
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.
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We're Rich Again (1934)
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.
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Red Hot Rhythm (1929)
Character: Whiffle
Walter, a songwriter who is in love with Mary, a nightclub singer, prefers to make a living by fleecing crackpot songwriters and promoting their creations. When Walter writes "At Last I'm in Love" for Mary, she promises to plug the song at the Frivolity Club, but he leaves in a huff when she flirts with Sam, a legitimate song publisher. On the street, he gives refuge to Claire, a girl accused of a theft, and hires her as his secretary. Mrs. Fioretta gives Walter a large sum to publish her song, "The Night Elmer Died," but Sam induces Mary to get Walter to stop the deal. When Walter discovers that Claire is having an affair with Sam, he returns to Mary at the club. A lost film.
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Shall We Dance (1937)
Character: Johnson (uncredited)
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
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The Headline Woman (1935)
Character: Ernie
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
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The Timid Young Man (1935)
Character: Milton's Valet
Milton, a disappointed romantic, has sworn off women. He gives a lift to a female hitchhiker, whom he happily discovers is also a hurt soul and has sworn off men. Their trip together runs into interference from an aggressive driver who later reappears after the two have set up camp. He starts putting the moves on the woman, but when Milton's ex-girlfriend shows up, she gets into a fight with the interloper and gives Milton and his new pal the chance to slip away.
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Two in the Dark (1936)
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
When Mr. X (Walter Able) wakes up in the city park with amnesia, bloody and apparently connected to a murder of a well-known producer.
Fast talking Marie Smith (Margot Grahame) takes pity on him, they solve the case and discover his identity.
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The Dentist (1932)
Character: Joe
An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion.
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Fury (1936)
Character: Baggage Clerk (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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Living on Love (1937)
Character: Man with Gorilla (uncredited)
A man and a woman, who have never met, are forced by pecuniary circumstances to share the same basement apartment in shifts.
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Your Own Back Yard (1925)
Character: Donor
Your Own Back Yard is a 1925 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 43rd Our Gang short subject released. Farina is having a very bad day, especially by his friends-very cruel playing nasty tricks, etc. Heeding his mother's advice to stay "in your own back yard," he does just that, feeding jumping beans to his chickens.
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She's Got Everything (1937)
Character: N/A
The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marry a millionaire, but Carol insists on getting a job.
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Goldie Gets Along (1933)
Character: Fred - Casting Director
A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
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Pot o' Gold (1941)
Character: Streetsweeper (uncredited)
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
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The Tip-Off (1931)
Character: Vatelli Henchman (uncredited)
A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.
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The Richest Girl in the World (1934)
Character: Pinky (uncredited)
Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't want to be considered fortune-hunters. That's why she trades identities with her secretary Sylvia before embarking on her next romance with Tony Travers. This causes numerous complications not only for Dorothy and Tony but for Sylvia, whose own husband Philip is not the most patient of men.
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Rainbow Ranch (1933)
Character: Train Passenger
An emergency at his Aunt's ranch gets Ed Randall leave from the Navy. He returns to find the water cut off and her note due the next day. When the man he seeks legal advice from is murdered, Ed is accused and he now finds himself in jail with a lynch mob forming outside.
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The Cracked Ice Man (1934)
Character: Ice Man
Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
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Going Hollywood (1933)
Character: Bartender
Sylvia is a French teacher at an all-girls school who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and thank him. However, difficult problems lie ahead when Lili gets in the way.
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