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Dizzy Dames (1935)
Character: Dad Hackett
A musical comedy in a theatrical boarding house.
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Tarnished Lady (1931)
Character: Stock Speculator
Nancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity ever since her father's death. Although she loves writer DeWitt Taylor, who is indifferent to amassing a fortune, her mother urges her to marry stockbroker Norman Cravath instead. Nancy acquiesces to her mother's wishes but, despite the fact her new husband does everything he can to please her, she is miserable in her marriage.
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Five Minutes from the Station (1930)
Character: Mr. Mason
When Bert Adams brings his boss, Mr. Mason, home for dinner, he and his wife Carrie hope Mason will take the opportunity to announce that Bert will be promoted to fill a new vacancy in the company's shipping department. But Mr. Mason has other plans for that vacancy, and for Bert.
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Ladies in Distress (1938)
Character: Fred Morgan
Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her town's criminal element. Josephine enlists the aid of home town boy Braddock (Robert Livingston), a pretty tough customer himself, to take on the crooks.
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Helldorado (1935)
Character: 'Clarion' Editor
Arthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her fiance, wealthy J. F. Van Avery after he helps them to replace the top of their convertible when it begins to rain. As they approach a bridge, Art notices a few stalled cars, and when the storm worsens, the bridge washes away, leaving Art, Glenda, Van and several others stranded in a canyon.
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Tongues of Flame (1924)
Character: Boland
The Native American Siwash people have been displaced from their land and live on a reservation. The wealthy Mr. Boland attempts to buy the reservation from the Siwash for dubious reasons.
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Wide Open Faces (1938)
Character: L.D. Crawford
A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.
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Public Wedding (1937)
Character: H. Theodore "Pop" Lane III
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' absconds with the proceeds, arranging a substitute. The bride, Flip Lane (Jane Wyman), much to her surprise, finds herself really married to a handsome stranger, whose career as an artist she decides to manage, much to his dismay.
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So This Is London (1939)
Character: Hiram Draper
American (Churchill) in London dislikes England until his daughter (Lehmann) falls for the son (Granger) of the Lord (Drayton) with whom he wants to conclude a business deal.
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Six Cylinder Love (1923)
Character: George Stapleton
After buying a car, Richard Burton finds that his wife and daughter have become unreasonably extravagant, and is surrounded by sponging friends.
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Sing Sing Nights (1934)
Character: Governor Duane
A respected war correspondent is found murdered, with three bullets--from three different guns--in him. Three different men are arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, but only one can be the actual killer. A criminologist sets out to find who is really guilty.
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Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
Character: (archive footage)
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
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Kentucky Moonshine (1938)
Character: J.B.
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
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Let’s Be Ritzy (1934)
Character: R.M. Pembrook
Complications ensue when a young married couple pretend to be something they're not.
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The Rainmakers (1935)
Character: Simon Parker
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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Dames (1934)
Character: Harold Ellsworthy Todd
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
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Page Miss Glory (1935)
Character: Mr. Yates
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
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Hard to Handle (1933)
Character: Col. H.D.X. Wells (uncredited)
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
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The Avenger (1933)
Character: Forster
A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.
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Heroes for Sale (1933)
Character: Mr. Winston
Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized but courageous man who will experience, in the years to come, the pain of misfortune but also the happiness of success and hope and love for other human beings.
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Dimples (1936)
Character: Colonel Loring
Dimples Appleby lives with her pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket. A rich lady makes it possible for the girl to go legit.
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False Faces (1932)
Character: Dr. J.B. Parker
The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicago as a "prestigious" plastic surgeon to the stars. However, Brenton's silver tongue can't cover up his dubious methods, and an investigation into his practice is launched by the examining board of plastic surgeons. A delirious film à clef based on the loathsome career of Henry J. Schireson, the self-styled “King of Quacks”.
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Racing Lady (1937)
Character: Judge
A shrewd millionaire who owns races horses for publicity for his automobile business, claims ownership of a female horse trainer's thoroughbred in order to get the trainer.
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Okay, America! (1932)
Character: Jacob Baron
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
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Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
Character: Mayor James Dooley
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
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Air Eagles (1931)
Character: Windy J. Bailey
Two former WWI aces from opposite sides, Bill Ramsey and Otto Shumann, in the best tradition of Eddie Rickenbacker and the Red Baron, barnstorm their way across the Poverty Row skies of middle-America while competing for daredevil honors and the favors of the lovely Eve.
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Wild and Woolly (1937)
Character: Edward Ralston
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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Under Your Spell (1936)
Character: Judge
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
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Stagecoach (1939)
Character: Ellsworth H. Gatewood
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
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Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)
Character: Mr. Harper
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
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In Old Chicago (1938)
Character: Senator Colby
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
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This Reckless Age (1932)
Character: Banker (uncredited)
Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their son Bradley comes home from college with ideas that they consider to be outrageous. His parents would like him to get involved with Mary Burke, a prim and proper young lady. More complications ensue because Bradley's sister Lois is attracted to the flapper lifestyle, but she isn't sure whether she can handle its emotional demands.
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Cross-Country Romance (1940)
Character: Colonel Conway
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
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Master of Men (1933)
Character: Mr. Walling
One of ten films that Fay Wray made in 1993 (including King Kong), Master of Men casts her as Kay Walling, a woman who is being ignored by her husband, Buck (played by Jack Holt). Buck owns a prosperous steel mill and they make a very good living, but he is ambitious and wants more. To this end, he is devoting considerable amounts of time to expanding his finances -- and doing quite well. Not satisfied with his success, he journeys to New York, where his wrangling further increases his bank account. Unfortunately, his stock with his wife is dropping steadily. Jealous and unhappy, she fights back by giving one of Buck's business rivals details about what he is up to.
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The Mouthpiece (1932)
Character: Rocco Trial Judge (Uncredited)
A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.
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The Big Stampede (1932)
Character: Governor Lew Wallace
Deputy Sheriff John Steele recruits bandit Sonora Joe to help him find out who's been bumping off all the local lawmen and rustling the cattle.
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Danger on the Air (1938)
Character: Caesar Kluck
Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.
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The Little Giant (1933)
Character: Donald Hadley Cass
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
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$10 Raise (1935)
Character: Mr. Bates
A timid, overworked and underpaid bookkeeper needs a $10 raise to marry his sweetheart...
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Elmer, the Great (1933)
Character: Colonel Moffitt
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
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Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
Character: Judge
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
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Vagabond Lady (1935)
Character: R.D. Spear
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
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Hero for a Day (1939)
Character: E.A. Dow
When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense.
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Turnabout (1940)
Character: Julian Marlowe
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
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American Madness (1932)
Character: O'Brien (uncredited)
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
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My Sin (1931)
Character: Mr. Osgood
A prostitute living in Panama shoots her pimp and is charged with murder. The lawyer who gets her off fronts her money to start a new life in NY where she becomes a successful business woman and meets wealthy businessman, Harry Davenport. He knows nothing of her past. Then someone from the past shows up. Will she be exposed? Will she follow through on her plan to marry?
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Black Gold (1936)
Character: J.C. Anderson
Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron J.C. Anderson sets his sights on their territory. When longtime driller Dan O'Reilly falls to his death from a well tower sabotaged by Anderson's strong-arm thugs, his teenage son 'Fishtail' inherits the property and the troubles that come with it. With the help of his geologist pal, Hank Langford, the boy fights to bring in a gusher before the deed to the well-site expires.
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He Couldn't Say No (1938)
Character: Senator Mabby
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.
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Colleen (1936)
Character: Logan
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
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Bunker Bean (1936)
Character: Professor Ed Balthazer
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
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Scandal for Sale (1932)
Character: Bunnyweather
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
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The Mysterious Rider (1933)
Character: Mark King
The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles to their land. When Harkness gets a better offer, he steals Benton's receipt for the money and Benton is jailed. To fight back, Benton escapes jail at night to become the Phantom.
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A Fool's Advice (1932)
Character: Mayor Martin Sloan
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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Frontier Marshal (1934)
Character: Hiram Melton
Thinly veiled reworking of the Wyatt Earp story with the renamed Michael Wyatt rolling into Tombstone, becoming acquainted, teaming up, and cleaning up the town with the help of “Doc” Warren and saloon singer Queenie La Verne, while sweet young maiden Mary Reid waits patiently on the sidelines.
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20 Mule Team (1940)
Character: 'Jackass' Brown
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932)
Character: Speaker of the House
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
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Week Ends Only (1932)
Character: A.S. Carr
A recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she meets a handsome, sophisticated and wealthy fellow who hires her to help him spice up his weekend parties. She begins helping him and regains her lost wealth and posh lifestyle.
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The Billion Dollar Scandal (1933)
Character: The Warden
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.
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I Love That Man (1933)
Character: Mordant - Casket Buyer
Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across the country until they decide to settle down in a small town and give up their life of crime. He goes into business and all seems to be going well until some ex-partners he double crossed show up in town demanding the money he cheated them out of.
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Madame Butterfly (1932)
Character: Mr. Sharpless
Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years later, having married again in America, and tells Cho-Cho that their affair is over. She has had a child in his absence, who is sent to her family, before she kills herself.
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Should Husbands Work? (1939)
Character: Barnes
Joe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework. A Higgins Family comedy
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If I Had a Million (1932)
Character: Warden (uncredited)
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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Redhead (1934)
Character: Mr. Brown
A girl marries a playboy from a rich family, expecting a life of comfort and luxury. However, her new father-in-law turns his ne'er-do-well son out into the street with no money, and promises the girl that if she can make a man out of her new husband, the father will give her $10,000 and see that she gets a quick divorce.
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The Dark Hour (1936)
Character: Paul Bernard
A pair of detectives investigates the murder of an elderly millionaire who was the target of blackmail and death threats and find that there is no shortage of suspects, many of them in the victim's own family.
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On Your Toes (1939)
Character: Donald Henderson
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
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Parnell (1937)
Character: The O'Gorman Mahon
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
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I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now (1940)
Character: Senator Henry Lowell
In this low-budget musical, two sets of politically ambitious parents attempt to pair up their youngsters who unfortunately despise each other and only pretend to like each other to please their parents. On the nights they are to go out, they sneak out with their respective true loves. It all works well until the unwilling couple find themselves falling in love for real. songs include: "I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now", and "Got Romance".
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The Singing Marine (1937)
Character: J. Montgomery Madison
Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest, however, sets him up for trouble in romance, in his career, and with the Corps.
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Golden Harvest (1933)
Character: Eben Martin
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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The Way of All Flesh (1940)
Character: Reginald L. Morten
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
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Hi, Nellie! (1934)
Character: Graham
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
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Doctor Bull (1933)
Character: Herbert Banning
In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!
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Only Yesterday (1933)
Character: Goodheart (Uncredited)
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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Laughter in Hell (1933)
Character: Mike Slaney
In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
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The Crooked Circle (1932)
Character: Col. Walters
A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.
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From Hell to Heaven (1933)
Character: Toledo Jones
The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in different ways.
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Secrets of a Secretary (1931)
Character: Mr. Merritt
Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.
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Coronado (1935)
Character: Walter Marvin
Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego track, in a tent-city with her father. Otto, and ditzy sister, Violet, June Wray is a singer with the Eddy Duchin Orchestra appearing to the hotel. Johnny Marvin, an aspiring songwriter and the son of a wealthy automobile manufacturer, is staying at the hotel and, from they moment June and Johnny meet, they fall instantly in love. Trouble arises when Johnny's father objects to the romance, and complications and help arrive in the form of two Marine-hating sailors,Chuck Hornbostel and "Pinky" Falls, when Chuck marries June's ditzy sister.
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Bachelor Bait (1934)
Character: "Big" Barney Nolan
After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
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Babbitt (1934)
Character: Judge Virgil 'Verge' Thompson
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.
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Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)
Character: New Moses
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
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Down in 'Arkansaw' (1938)
Character: Judge
A government representative travels to the backwoods of Arkansas to convince the people there of the benefits to them of a proposed dam on their river.
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The Washington Masquerade (1932)
Character: Senator Bitler (as Burton Churchill)
An honest, talented and well respected attorney defeats a corrupt incumbent U.S. Senator. After a very good start he has to face the subtle temptations and innocent looking traps of Washington.
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You May Be Next! (1936)
Character: J.J. Held
Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Character: The Judge
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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Sweethearts (1938)
Character: Sheridan
The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.
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Sing and Be Happy (1937)
Character: John Mason
Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.
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Private Jones (1933)
Character: Roger Winthrop
After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter of his family and is employed by businessman Roger Winthrop, his sister Helen's boss.
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Afraid to Talk (1932)
Character: Mayor William 'Billy' Manning
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
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Two Seconds (1932)
Character: The Warden
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne) dupe a high rise riveter (Edward G. Robinson) into marriage so she can live off of him. But when he loses his job and his marbles, she ends up supporting him with money from her side man--and misses no opportunity to rub it in his face that she's now supporting him in his emasculated state. As the animosity grows and things get more and more unbearable, he is eventually driven to desperate measures.
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So This Is Africa (1933)
Character: President
Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.
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Kid Millions (1934)
Character: Harrison Larrabee
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
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The Dark Horse (1932)
Character: William A. Underwood
The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake organizes the office and coaches Hicks to answer every question by pausing and then saying, "Well yes, but then again no." Blake will sell Hicks as dumb but honest. Russell refuses to marry Blake, while Joe keeps people away from Blake's office. Blake teaches Hicks a speech by Lincoln. At the debate when the conservative candidate Underwood recites the same speech, Blake exposes him as a plagiarist. Hicks is presented for photo opportunities and gives his yes-and-no answer to any question, including whether he expects to win.
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The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
Character: Judge Bradshaw
A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.
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Judge Priest (1934)
Character: Senator Horace Maydew
Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity.
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College Coach (1933)
Character: Otis
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look at college football of the 1930s replete with fake grades, non-student players, and the importance of football to a college's reputation.
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The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
Character: Oliver Wendell Henderson
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
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Murder in the Private Car (1934)
Character: Luke Carson
Ruth Raymond works on the telephone switchboard of a large NYC office building. One day, a private detective informs her that she is actually the daughter of railroad tycoon Luke Carson, and that she had been kidnapped as a baby 14 years ago by Luke's vindictive brother Elwood, and placed with strangers.
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Take the Stand (1934)
Character: Mr. Jerome Burbank
A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.
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Quick Money (1937)
Character: Bluford H. Smythe
Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years. Accompanying him is his personal secretary, Ambrose Ames. Despite it being purely a vacation to get some rest and relaxation, the leading citizens of the town welcome him back with some official gatherings. Mayor Jonas Tompkins, who never liked Bluford, holds no grudges against him and too welcomes him with open arms. Although Bluford had no intention of making the news public, the townsfolk learn that he has indeed come back to do business, specifically develop a summer resort in Glenwood to rival that of the best summer resorts worldwide.
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Daughters Courageous (1939)
Character: Judge Henry Hornsby
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
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Employees' Entrance (1933)
Character: Bradford (uncredited)
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."
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The County Chairman (1935)
Character: Elias Rigby
Based on George Ade's play which, in part, was based on an incident in a 1902 election in Wyoming, with women's-right-to-vote playing a large role. Here, Jim Hackler, local party-boss in a Wyoming county, has to decide to do what's right and lose the election, or what's wrong and win it.
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Saturday's Children (1940)
Character: Mr. 'B.N.' Norman, Office Manager
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
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Friends of Mr. Sweeney (1934)
Character: Franklyn P. Brumbaugh
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!
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Menace (1934)
Character: Norman Bellamy
A psychotic man stalks three innocent people whom he believes are responsible for his brother's death.
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Taxi! (1931)
Character: Judge West (uncredited)
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
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The Wet Parade (1932)
Character: Roger's Uncle Dick (uncredited)
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
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The Big Brain (1933)
Character: Col. Higginbotham
A small-town barber finds himself short of stature but a giant in the world of stock promotion. As his bank account grows, Stone's ethics diminish, and soon he's playing fast and loose with other people's money. Disgruntled investor Fay Wray is the one who finally blows the whistle on the prevaricating hair-snipper.
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Three of a Kind (1936)
Character: 'Con' Cornelius
A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society.
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