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So Your Wife Wants to Work (1956)
Character: Co-Worker (uncredited)
Joe McDoakes' wife Alice wants to return to work to add income to the household. Joe would rather she stay at home to tend to domestic duties. When Alice threatens to return to her old job, a reluctant Joe agrees to her request to get her a job at his office. How will this work out?
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So You Want to Learn to Dance (1953)
Character: Dance Attendee
Joe McDoakes is invited by his boss to a swanky dance. Joe admits he can't dance and the boss gives him a lesson in the office.
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So You Want to Know Your Relatives (1954)
Character: Good-Doer Club Member (uncredited)
Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many of his black sheep relations reveal the skeletons in the family closet.
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So You Want to Be a V.P. (1955)
Character: (uncredited)
Joe McDoakes is employed as the seventh vice-president in a firm that only makes promotions from the employee ranks.
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Born to Be Bad (1950)
Character: Charity Ball Guest (Uncredited)
Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.
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Hell's Island (1955)
Character: Casino Patron (uncredited)
Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
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An Annapolis Story (1955)
Character: Naval Officer (uncredited)
Two brothers, both cadets at Annapolis, fall in love with the same girl.
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The Apartment (1960)
Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Character: Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
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Union Pacific (1939)
Character: Telegrapher (uncredited)
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Tension (1949)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Warren Quimby manages a drugstore while trying to keep his volatile wife, Claire, happy. However, when Claire leaves him for a liquor store salesman, Warren can no longer bear it. He decides to assume a new identity in order to murder his wife's lover without leaving a trace. Along the way, his plans are complicated by an attractive neighbor, as well as a shocking discovery that opens up a new world of doubts and accusations.
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The Enforcer (1951)
Character: N/A
After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.
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Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
Character: Dignitary (uncredited)
After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.
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Destination Moon (1950)
Character: Businessman at Meeting (uncredited)
A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon. From their base in the Mojave Desert, they construct and successfully launch a spacecraft named "Luna" that contains a cargo of four astronauts. But a critical miscalculation of needed power to escape the moon's gravitational pull may put the astronauts' lives in danger.
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My Man Godfrey (1957)
Character: Scavenger Hunter (uncredited)
The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and noticing his obviously good manners, gets him the job. He proves a great success, but keeps his past to himself. When an old flame turns up Irene's sister Cordelia starts making waves.
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Trapped (1949)
Character: Agent in Pursuit Car (uncredited)
Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.
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All Through the Night (1942)
Character: Club Patron
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
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A Place in the Sun (1951)
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
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They Won't Believe Me (1947)
Character: N/A
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
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Woman on the Run (1950)
Character: Optometrist (uncredited)
Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Aided by a newspaperman, Danny Leggett, Eleanor sets out to locate her husband. The killer is also looking for him, and keeps close tabs on Eleanor.
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Some Like It Hot (1959)
Character: Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Two musicians witness a mob hit and need to quickly find a way out of Chicago. Their only opportunity comes in the form of joining an all-girl band as they prepare to leave on a tour. The two disguise themselves as women and struggle to keep their identities secret as the gangsters close in.
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The Tunnel of Love (1958)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A series of misunderstandings leaves a married man believing he has impregnated the owner of an adoption agency, and that she will be his and his wife's surrogate.
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Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Character: Patron at 21 (uncredited)
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
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Romance on the High Seas (1948)
Character: Wedding Guest
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
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Texas Carnival (1951)
Character: Man in Lobby (uncredited)
A Texas carnival showmen team is mistaken for a cattle baron and his sister.
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Viva Las Vegas (1964)
Character: Maitre 'd (uncredited)
Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser.
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Go Naked in the World (1961)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
A domineering San Francisco businessman is determined to put an end to his son's romance with a high-priced hooker.
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North West Mounted Police (1940)
Character: Telegrapher
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
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Flamingo Road (1949)
Character: N/A
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
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House of Wax (1953)
Character: Museum Patron (uncredited)
A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner demands the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.
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The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
Character: Worshiper
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.
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Keeper of the Flame (1943)
Character: N/A
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
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Dodsworth (1936)
Character: Ship Passenger (uncredited)
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
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Sunday in New York (1963)
Character: Maitre 'd (uncredited)
An innocent upstarter visits her airline pilot brother and meets a stranger she tries to seduce.
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The Gun Runners (1958)
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled in gunrunning scheme to get money to pay off debts. Sort of a sea-going film noir with bad girl, smarmy villain, and the "innocent" drawn into wrong side of law by circumstances.
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Stage Struck (1948)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.
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The Las Vegas Story (1952)
Character: Casino Patron (uncredited)
When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.
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Three Daring Daughters (1948)
Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
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Nightfall (1956)
Character: Fashion Show Spectator (uncredited)
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
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An Affair to Remember (1957)
Character: Ship Passenger (uncredited)
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
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Affair in Trinidad (1952)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.
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Looking for Love (1964)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.
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Young Man with Ideas (1952)
Character: Court Stenographer (uncredited)
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
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Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Character: Barrister (uncredited)
An ailing barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where the unconvincing testimony of the defendant's wife becomes a subject of confusion.
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Tender Is the Night (1962)
Character: Night Club Patron (uncredited)
1920s, the French Riviera: wealthy expatriate Nicole Warren's mental illness strains her marriage to psychiatrist Dick. A young American actress named Rosemary Hoyt arrives and is drawn into their circle, becoming romantically involved with the older, married Dick and disrupting the fragile balance of the group. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to another sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them all.
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North by Northwest (1959)
Character: Man at Auction (uncredited)
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
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Lover Come Back (1961)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.
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Gypsy (1962)
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee.
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The Best of Everything (1959)
Character: Leading Man in Play (uncredited)
An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.
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I Passed for White (1960)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A young woman falls in love and marries, but withholds from her husband information about her family.
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Who Killed Doc Robbin? (1948)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a mad doctor and a murderous gorilla.
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She Devil (1957)
Character: N/A
Biochemists give fruit-fly serum to a dying woman, with side effects.
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The Stooge (1951)
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in the audience to be the butt of Bill's jokes. After Ted begins to steal the show, Bill's girlfriend and his pals advise him to make Ted an equal partner.
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The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans to teach him to sing opera but comes to regret this rash decision when the singers fall in love.
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Black Widow (1954)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
When a young stage hopeful is found dead, suspicion falls on her mentor, a successful Broadway producer.
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Harper (1966)
Character: Bar Patron (uncredited)
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
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Torch Song (1953)
Character: Man in Audience (uncredited)
Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn't take criticism from anyone. Yet there is one individual, Tye Graham, a blind pianist who may be able to break through her tough exterior.
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Chicago Syndicate (1955)
Character: Gambler (Uncredited)
An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with their own agenda.
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Remember the Night (1940)
Character: Court Reporter (uncredited)
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.
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Rock Around the Clock (1956)
Character: Club Patron (uncredited)
A frustrated big-band promoter runs in to rock-and-rollers Bill Haley and the Comets at a small-town dance. He quickly becomes their manager and, with the help of Alan Freed, hopes to bring the new sound to the entire country. But will a conniving booking agent, with a personal ax to grind with the manager, conspire to keep the band from making the big time?
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Some Came Running (1958)
Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.
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Brainstorm (1965)
Character: Executive (uncredited)
Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.
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House of Strangers (1949)
Character: Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Ruthless Italian-American banker Gino Monetti is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business practices. Three of them take over the business but kick their father out. Max, a lawyer, is the only son that remains loyal.
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It Started with a Kiss (1959)
Character: Charity Raffle Guest (uncredited)
While on leave in New York, a serviceman both weds a chorus girl and wins a red convertible in a charity raffle. Both his wife and the car turn out to be problematic.
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Please Murder Me (1956)
Character: Trail Spectator (uncredited)
A lawyer tries to exact justice on a woman he defended in court -- a woman whom he found out was guilty after getting her off.
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Seven Thieves (1960)
Character: Guest at Ball
A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.
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High Society (1956)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.
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The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
Character: Restaurant Guest (uncredited)
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
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My Forbidden Past (1951)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
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It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven't been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship.
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Too Hot to Handle (1938)
Character: Coast Guard Radio Operator (uncredited)
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America, her opinion of him begins to change.
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City for Conquest (1940)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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The Country Girl (1954)
Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
An actor on the skids is given one more chance to regain his stardom, as well as his self-respect, yet his alcoholism may prevent that from happening.
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Seminole Uprising (1955)
Character: N/A
An angry Seminole chief wages war after his tribe is relocated from Florida to the American West.
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The Chase (1966)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
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Imitation of Life (1959)
Character: Actor at Audition
In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.
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Let's Do It Again (1953)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The Stuarts agree to get divorced, and each tries to move on to a new love: Gary with socialite Deborah Randolph (Karin Booth) and Connie with businessman Frank McGraw (Aldo Ray). However, they start to realize that they still have strong feelings for each other. The Stuarts must make a decision before their divorce is final.
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Holiday for Lovers (1959)
Character: Restaurant patron
Clifton Webb as a strict, conservative father heads the cast of this 1959 comedy, about an American family vacationing in South America. Directed by Henry Levin, the film also features Jane Wyman, Jill St. John, Carol Lynley, Paul Henreid, Gary Crosby, Henny Backus, Wally Brown, Gardner McKay and Jose Greco.
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Guys and Dolls (1955)
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.
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The Harder They Fall (1956)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.
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Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937)
Character: Nightclub Patron
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment.
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A Global Affair (1964)
Character: Man at Dog Show (uncredited)
Bob Hope becomes surrogate father to a baby found abandoned at the United Nations. Director Jack Arnold's 1964 comedy also stars Yvonne De Carlo, Robert Sterling, John McGiver and Lilo Pulver.
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Move Over, Darling (1963)
Character: Department Store Employee (uncredited)
Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.
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Hollow Triumph (1948)
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
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Come Fill the Cup (1951)
Character: Steve - Newspaperman (uncredited)
Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering alcoholics.
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Hangover Square (1945)
Character: N/A
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a crime. On the advice of Dr. Middleton, Bone agrees to relax, going to a music performance by singer Netta Longdon. Riveted by Netta, Bone agrees to write songs for her rather than his own concerto. However, Bone soon grows jealous of Netta and worries about controlling himself during his spells.
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