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Bars and Stripes (1937)
Character: Bill Forrest
This "tabloid musical" short showcases bandleader Dick Winslow and singer Veola Vonn in a plot similar to O'Henry's "The Cop and the Anthem."
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The Continental Twist (1961)
Character: M. Dubois
Sam Butera and the Witnesses perform several Twist numbers to save a small New Orleans nightclub and raise the bail to get Louis Prima out of jail.
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Mystery Sea Raider (1940)
Character: Messenger
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
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Fatal Judgement (1988)
Character: Old Man
A Massachusetts nurse (Patty Duke) is accused of exercising Fatal Judgment in this made-for-TV movie. While tending a seriously ill cancer patient, the nurse administered a generous dose of morphine. The patient died, which is why the woman is now on trial for murder.
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Collector’s Item (1957)
Character: N/A
Mr. Prentiss is an appraiser at his firm, the House of Prentiss. He is about to go to Florida to appraise a vast collection of a recently deceased collector, Van der Locken, when he receives an unwanted visit from Ivor Hager, who informs him of "The Left Fist of David," a valuable but mysterious art object that was stolen from a Mexican church. An unsold TV Pilot
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Donovan's Kid (1979)
Character: Gambler #1
Timothy Donovan, a con-man, returns to San Francisco to see his wife and daughter. Realizing his family is under the control of his wife's domineering uncle, Timothy Donovan teams up with a fellow con-man to free them.
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Airport (1970)
Character: Mr. Schultz
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
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Seed (1931)
Character: Johnny Carter
Bart is a clerk for a publishing company; he has written a novel. His wife Peggy and he have five children. Bart's former girlfriend Mildred is manager of the company's Paris office. She manages to get the novel published and talks Bart into marrying her after he divorces Peggy. Initially successful, Bart must turn to writing trash to keep Mildred in money. When he sees how well his four sons and daughter Margaret have grown without his help, he asks Peggy to let them all come live with him and Mildred. Peggy agrees, but the arrival of his beloved children puts Mildred's future in jeopardy. Written by Ed Stephan
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Swing Shift Maisie (1943)
Character: Flyer Lieutenant (Uncredited)
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
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All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960)
Character: Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
An ambitious farm girl rushes into marriage with a rich man, almost destroying four lives in the process.
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Death Sentence (1974)
Character: Barman
A juror on a murder trial begins to believe that the man charged with the crime is innocent — and that the real killer is her own husband.
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Sarah and Son (1930)
Character: Servant's Son (Uncredited)
A ne'er-do-well husband, after years of abusing his wife, disappears with their son, and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wife, now a world-famous opera singer, finally has enough time and money to begin a search for him.
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Love, Live & Laugh (1929)
Character: Mike
Any movie that starts Jewish entertainer George Jessel as an Italian accordionist named Luigi can't be all bad. In love with the beautiful Margharita (Lila Lee), Luigi lands a job in the music store owned by the girl's uncle. Ultimately, however, our hero does the Pagliacci act when Margharita evinces a preference for handsome Pasquale (David Rollins). The film's best scene takes place in a nursery full of talented tots, a sequence that undoubtedly reminded Jessel of his days with Gus Edwards' "Schoolroom" act. Exercising his droit du seigneur, Georgie Jessel sings the title tune.
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Do Not Disturb (1965)
Character: One-Man Band
American Mike Harper, sent to do business in England, moves there with his wife, Janet. But she soon becomes convinced that Mike is carrying on with his attractive new assistant, Claire. Mike also has been spending a considerable amount of time with his British bachelor buddies. Vexed and lonely, Claire hires charming antiques expert Paul to decorate the Harper home and maybe make Mike jealous in the process.
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Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
Character: Student (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.
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Divorce American Style (1967)
Character: Card Player (uncredited)
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
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There's Always Tomorrow (1934)
Character: Dick White
Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee.
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The Benny Goodman Story (1956)
Character: Gil Rodin
Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny begins by joining the Ben Pollack traveling band.
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Bombardier (1943)
Character: Navigator
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.
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Manhattan Heartbeat (1940)
Character: Bus Driver
A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better.
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Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Character: Tinkler
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
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So Big! (1932)
Character: Young Roelf Pool
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
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Frankie and Johnny (1966)
Character: Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Johnny is a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. After a fortune-teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck, the appearance of a new 'lady luck' soon causes a cat fight with Johnny's girlfriend, Frankie.
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French Leave (1948)
Character: Concertina Player
Merchant seaman Skitch Kilroy (Jackie Cooper) and "Pappy" Reagan (Jackie Coogan)arrive in Marseilles, eager to resume their combative rivalry for Mimi. But they are ordered by their skipper Muldoon (Ralph Sanford) to remain on board and guard against theft of foodstuffs by a black market gang.
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Love Thy Neighbor (1940)
Character: Bellboy
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
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Avalanche (1928)
Character: Jack Dunton (age 12)
An otherwise honest gambler, played by Jack Holt, begins to cheat at cards in order to put his son John Darrow through mining school in this lavish Zane Grey adaptation produced by Paramount. The callow foster-son pays back the noble gesture by running off with Holt's mistress, Olga Baclanova.
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King Creole (1958)
Character: Eddie Burton
Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at his night club The Blue Shade. Danny refuses, but Fields won't take no for an answer.
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A Tragedy at Midnight (1942)
Character: Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
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Flirtation Walk (1934)
Character: Cadet (uncredited)
A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her.
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Two-Minute Warning (1976)
Character: Man with Toupee
A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly and the SWAT commander, learn of the plot and rush to the scene.
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Persons in Hiding (1939)
Character: Page (uncredited)
During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
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Embryo (1976)
Character: Forbes
A scientist doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days.
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Gypsy (1962)
Character: Burlesque House Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Rose Hovick lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.
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The Human Side (1934)
Character: Phil Sheldon
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
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Navy Blue and Gold (1937)
Character: Seaman Messenger (uncredited)
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
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Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
Character: Cadet (uncredited)
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.
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The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
Character: Slippery Sid
A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws to fend off the greedy townspeople and soon find themselves facing a surly gang of sharpshooters.
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Movie Movie (1978)
Character: Reporter / Tinkle Johnson
Three movie genres of the 1930s, boxing films, WWI aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals, are satirized using the same cast.
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Laughter in Hell (1933)
Character: Ed Perkins, as a boy
In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
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First Monday in October (1981)
Character: Court Barber
For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.
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The Secret Heart (1946)
Character: Photographer
Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother, Chase, and stepmother, Lee, work to help Penny process her grief through psychotherapy and revisiting their past, but only the revelation of long-buried family secrets -- including her mother's secret lover and the true nature of her father's death -- can bring Penny out of her intense despair.
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The Blue Dahlia (1946)
Character: Dick (Piano Player at Party) (uncredited)
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
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Bachelor Bait (1934)
Character: Lionel Wells (uncredited)
After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
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Tom Sawyer (1930)
Character: Joe Harper
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be pirates and, being believed drowned, attending their own funeral. The boys also witness a murder and Tom and his friend Becky Thatcher are pursued by the vengeful murderer.
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The Love-Ins (1967)
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
A college professor falls in with the counterculture crowd in San Francisco after resigning from his position in solidarity with two expelled hippie students.
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The Swinger (1966)
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.
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Grand Old Girl (1935)
Character: One of Gerry's Friends
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
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The Good Fairy (1935)
Character: Messenger (uncredited)
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.
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Sudden Money (1939)
Character: Messenger
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.
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The Impatient Maiden (1932)
Character: Irish Neighbor's Son (uncredited)
A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
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Female (1933)
Character: First Office Boy (Uncredited)
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
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The Shootist (1976)
Character: Streetcar Driver
Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son. However, it is not Books' fate to die in peace, as he becomes embroiled in one last valiant battle.
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One Exciting Adventure (1934)
Character: Bell Boy
One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream.
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The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Character: Poker Player (uncredited)
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
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Doctors' Wives (1971)
Character: Manuel, the Bartender (uncredited)
The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and booze.
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A Night at the Ritz (1935)
Character: Messenger (uncredited)
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
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Funny Lady (1975)
Character: Fritz
Famous singer Fanny Brice has divorced her first husband Nicky Arnstein. During the Great Depression she has trouble finding work as an artist, but meets Billy Rose, a newcomer who writes lyrics and owns a nightclub.
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Dancing Co-Ed (1939)
Character: Man on Motorcycle (uncredited)
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
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Winter Carnival (1939)
Character: Orchestra Leader
A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.
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Shipmates Forever (1935)
Character: Accordionist (uncredited)
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.
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Baby Face (1933)
Character: Office Boy (uncredited)
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
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The Bad Sister (1931)
Character: Paper Boy (uncredited)
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Marianne. Marianne returns and marries a wealthy young man, and Lindley turns his love toward Laura.
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