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Service with the Colors (1940)
Character: Colonel Nelson
Service with the Colors is a 1940 American short drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason. This drama is "dedicated to the soldiers of the United States Army." Men with diverse backgrounds enlist in the army and are all assigned to the same post. Some adapt easily to army life, while others have trouble making the adjustment. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 13th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).
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The Right Way (1939)
Character: Mr. Martin
A young boy whose father is dead joins a secret society that, unknown to him, has subversive motives. His mother realizes the menace represented by the society, and in a vision her husband warns her to protect their son. She explains to him the danger in the type of patriotic business practiced by the club, and he agrees.
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A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio (1935)
Character: Director (uncredited)
This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bros. / First National Studios. We start at the casting office, then see Busby Berkeley and choreographer Bobby Connolly working with chorus girls on production numbers. Then come some candid shots of several contract stars. Finally we see comedian Hugh Herbert filming a scene for an upcoming release, then the various behind the scenes steps that transition the raw film in the camera into the finished product.
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Rainbow on the River (1936)
Character: Father Josef
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
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Sons of Liberty (1939)
Character: Member of Continental Congress
Set during the American Revolution, this colorful 2 reel short tells the story of Haym Salomon, American patriot and financier of the American Revolution.
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For God and Country (1943)
Character: Captain Chaplain
The story of the U.S. Army Chaplain Service as dramatized in the stories of three chaplains, Father Michael O'Keefe, Arnold Miller, and Tom Manning.
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Dark Shadows (1944)
Character: Dr. Everett Colner
A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a killer.
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The Man Who Dared (1939)
Character: Matthew Carter
An elderly grandfather proves to be heroic when he takes a stand against local city corruption.
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Main Street Today (1944)
Character: Vance Clark
This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.
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Keep Your Powder Dry (1945)
Character: Maj. Gen. Lee Rand
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
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Four Wives (1939)
Character: Dr. Clinton Forrest, Sr.
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
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The Go-Getter (1937)
Character: Commander Tisdale
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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Murder in the Clouds (1934)
Character: John Brownell
Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.
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Girl Crazy (1943)
Character: Mr. Danny Churchill, Sr.
Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the Dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray, who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college open than falling for Danny's romantic line. At least at first...
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Midnight (1934)
Character: Edgar V. Ingersoll
Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Garboni, just as Saxon was to sit in the electric chair.
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Freshman Love (1936)
Character: President Simpkins
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
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Personal Maid's Secret (1935)
Character: Mr. Wilton Palmer
A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins' 1935 film stars Ruth Donnelly, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull, Frank Albertson, Arthur Treacher, Ronnie Crosby, Henry O'Neill, Lillian Kemble Cooper and Gordon Elliott.
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The World Changes (1933)
Character: Orin Nordholm Sr.
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
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Lucky Night (1939)
Character: Calvin Jordan
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.
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The Great O'Malley (1937)
Character: Defense Attorney
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
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The Get-Away (1941)
Character: Warden Alcott
A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943)
Character: Warden Kenneson
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
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A Child Is Born (1939)
Character: Dr. Lee
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
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Green Light (1937)
Character: Dr. Endicott
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility.
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They Drive by Night (1940)
Character: District Attorney (uncredited)
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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I Loved a Woman (1933)
Character: Mr. Farrell
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
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This Time for Keeps (1942)
Character: Arthur Freeman
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
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Alias Nick Beal (1949)
Character: Judge Ben Hobbs
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
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The Man with Two Faces (1934)
Character: Inspector Crane
Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a theatrical producer she comes home incoherent and Vance is found dead in the vanished producer's hotel suite
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Racket Busters (1938)
Character: Governor
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
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The Big Shakedown (1934)
Character: Mr. Sheffner
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
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Convicted (1950)
Character: Detective Dorn
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
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Thousands Cheer (1943)
Character: Captain in Frank Morgan Skit (uncredited)
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. Eddie's also plagued by fear of having an accident during his family's trapeze act in the army variety show, which also features a gallery of MGM stars.
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Untamed (1955)
Character: Squire O'Neill
When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.
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Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Character: Ward Bryant
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
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Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
Character: A.H. Remson
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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The House on 56th Street (1933)
Character: Baxter - the Laywer (uncredited)
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.
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The Beginning or the End (1947)
Character: Gen. Thomas F. Farrell
The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.
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The Fighting 69th (1940)
Character: Colonel
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
Character: Judge
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
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Now I'll Tell (1934)
Character: Tommy Doran
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.
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Invisible Stripes (1939)
Character: Parole Officer Masters
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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The Green Years (1946)
Character: Canon Roche
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.
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The Trial of Mary Dugan (1941)
Character: Galway
Mary Dugan is a young woman accused of murdering her billionaire lover. In the process, his defense lawyer acts wrongly against them, and is replaced by a young lawyer, the brother of the accused
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The Bugle Sounds (1942)
Character: Lt. Col. Harry Seton
An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post.
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Billy the Kid (1941)
Character: Tim Ward
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.
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Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)
Character: Lemuel Tappan
Unscrupulous agent Rush Blake makes singing waiter Buddy Clayton a big radio star while Peggy Cornell, who has lost her own radio show, helps Buddy.
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Wonder Bar (1934)
Character: Richard
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
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Bordertown (1935)
Character: Attorney J.L. Chase (uncredited)
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
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Special Agent (1935)
Character: District Attorney Roger Quinn
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify
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Dangerous Partners (1945)
Character: Duffy
A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.
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The Chaser (1938)
Character: Mr. Calhoun
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
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Black Fury (1935)
Character: John W. Hendricks
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
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Sweet Music (1935)
Character: Louis Trumble
A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York.
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Holiday Affair (1949)
Character: Mr. Crowley
Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him fired. They spend the afternoon together, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, when he finds out, but delights her young son Timmy, who quickly takes to Steve.
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Madame du Barry (1934)
Character: Duc de Choiseul
Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon, former street waif Madame du Barry charms her way into the heart of gouty King Louis XV.
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Two Against the World (1936)
Character: Jim Carstairs
Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
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The Reckless Moment (1949)
Character: Tom Harper
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
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Johnny Eager (1941)
Character: A.J. Verne
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
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Lost Angel (1943)
Character: Professor Josh Pringle
Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.
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Men of Boys Town (1941)
Character: Mr. Maitland
Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.
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A Guy Named Joe (1943)
Character: Col. Sykes
A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to Earth by heavenly General with a new assignment.
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Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
Character: Judge
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
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Flirtation Walk (1934)
Character: Gen. John "Jack" Brent Fitts
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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The Secret Bride (1934)
Character: Jim Lansdale
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, they decide to keep their marriage secret. The political intrigue becomes more involved, and no one is quite what they seem. Soon Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life.
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The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
Character: Dr. Emile Roux
A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.
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The Virginian (1946)
Character: Mr. Taylor
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
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No Man of Her Own (1950)
Character: Mr. Harkness
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
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Anthony Adverse (1936)
Character: Father Xavier
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
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Rationing (1944)
Character: Senator Edward White
A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing.
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Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
Character: John Dyckman Brown II
A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him.
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Santa Fe Trail (1940)
Character: Cyrus Brody
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
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Side Streets (1934)
Character: George Richards
A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.
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Honky Tonk (1941)
Character: Daniel Wells
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
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Boulder Dam (1936)
Character: Mr. Agnew
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
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I've Got Your Number (1934)
Character: Mr. John P. Schuyler
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
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Draegerman Courage (1937)
Character: Dr. Thomas Haslett
After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.
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Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Character: Major Jason I. Sculley
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
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Fashions of 1934 (1934)
Character: Duryea
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
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Tortilla Flat (1942)
Character: Father Ramon
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.
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The Golden Arrow (1936)
Character: Mr. Appleby
A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.
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Dr. Socrates (1935)
Character: Greer
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
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The Great Hotel Murder (1935)
Character: Mr. Claude Harvey
Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.
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The Singing Marine (1937)
Character: Captain Skinner
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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Barbary Coast Gent (1944)
Character: Colonel Watrous
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
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Journal of a Crime (1934)
Character: Doctor
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
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Jezebel (1938)
Character: General Theopholus Bogardus
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
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Stand by for Action (1942)
Character: Cmdr. Stone M.C
U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas.
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First Lady (1937)
Character: George Mason
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.
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Road Gang (1936)
Character: George Winston
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
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Yellow Jack (1938)
Character: Gorgas
A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed's search for the cause of "Yellow Jack" or Yellow Fever and those who risked their lives in the pursuit.
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We're in the Money (1935)
Character: Stephen Dinsmore
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
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Bedside (1934)
Character: Dr. William Chester
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.
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Alias Mary Dow (1935)
Character: Henry Dow
A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
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Upperworld (1934)
Character: Banker Making Toast
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
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Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
Character: Judge
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
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From Headquarters (1933)
Character: Inspector Donnelly
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
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This Man's Navy (1945)
Character: Lt. Cmdr. Roger Graystone
During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an unauthorized and premature attack on a German submarine but the bomb misses and the submarine fires back, hitting the airship. Trumpet takes over the controls and sinks the submarine, The pilot faces a court-martial for disobeying orders but the older man takes the blame for his actions. Weaver transfers to the Ferry Command, and while on assignment in Burma, his aircraft crashes in Japanese territory. Trumpet rushes to the scene with a rescue team. Both are successfully brought out and are decorated for their heroism. Afterward, Weaver indicates that he will be returning to the lighter-than-air service in Lakehurst, to reunite with his "father".
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The Heavenly Body (1944)
Character: Professor Stowe
The beautiful wife of a tweedy astronomer becomes convinced that her astrologer's prediction of a new dream man in her life will come true.
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Marked Woman (1937)
Character: Arthur Sheldon
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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The Second Woman (1950)
Character: Ben Sheppard
In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Ellen is strongly attracted to Jeff, who's being plagued by unexplainable accidents, major and minor. Bad luck, persecution...or paranoia? Warned that Jeff could be dangerous, Ellen fears that he's in danger, as the menacing atmosphere darkens.
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The White Angel (1936)
Character: Dr. Scott
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
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Gentlemen Are Born (1934)
Character: Mr. Harper
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
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Down in San Diego (1941)
Character: Col. Halliday
A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego, and suspect that a foreign espionage ring is at work trying to find out military secrets.
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The Big Noise (1936)
Character: Charlie Caldwell
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers, who promise dire consequences if Trent doesn't dance to their tune.
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Son of a Sailor (1933)
Character: Naval Officer
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
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Strange Bargain (1949)
Character: Timothy Hearne
Bookkeeper Sam Wilson learns from his boss, Malcolm Jarvis, that he is losing his job because the company is closing down. Jarvis then makes a strange proposition, saying he intends to commit suicide but wants Sam to make it look like a murder, in order for his wife and son to inherit Jarvis's life insurance. Sam declines, but when he goes to see Jarvis and finds his dead body, he reluctantly goes along with the scheme.
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'Til We Meet Again (1940)
Character: Dr. Cameron
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
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Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Character: Admiral Hammond
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
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White Cargo (1942)
Character: The Reverend Dr. Roberts
In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who'd seen it all, Langford, a new manager sent from England for a four-year stint, and Tondelayo, a siren of great beauty who desires silk and baubles. Witzel is gruff and seasoned, certain that Langford won't be able to cut it. Langford responds with determination and anger, attracted to Tondelayo because of her beauty, her wiles, and to get at Witzel. Manipulation, jealousy, revenge, and responsibility play out as alliances within the triangle shift.
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The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)
Character: District Attorney C. Manchester
A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.
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Between Two Women (1945)
Character: Larry Goff - Theatrical Agent (uncredited)
A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.
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The Family Secret (1951)
Character: Donald Muir
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
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While the Patient Slept (1935)
Character: Elihu Dimuck
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
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You're My Everything (1949)
Character: Prof. Adams
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.
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The Milkman (1950)
Character: Bradley, Sr.
A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.
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The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Character: Colonel Picquart
Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.
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Massacre (1934)
Character: J.R. Dickinson
Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reservation of his youth, only to discover that his people are dying of various diseases and are being systematically cheated of their possessions and basic rights by crooked Indian agents. He heads to Washington in hopes of righting these wrongs, only to experience prejudice and hatred all along the way.
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The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
Character: Dubois (uncredited)
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
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Nothing But Trouble (1944)
Character: Mr. Hawkley
Two bumbling servants are hired by a dizzy society matron to cook and serve a meal for visiting royalty.
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Air Raid Wardens (1943)
Character: Rittenhause
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
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The Human Comedy (1943)
Character: Charles Steed
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
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Submarine D-1 (1937)
Character: Admiral Thomas
Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock battle over pretty Ann Sawyer. At sea and underwater, however, our two heroes are inseparable.
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The Key (1934)
Character: Dan
A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
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Brother Rat (1938)
Character: Colonel Ramm
Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.
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Whistling in the Dark (1941)
Character: Philip Post
The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiancé, and a friend, to further this goal. Wally, 'The Fox', is a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder, and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot.
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The Personality Kid (1934)
Character: Stephens
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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The Walking Dead (1936)
Character: District Attorney Werner
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
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Best Foot Forward (1943)
Character: Maj. Roger W. Reeber
Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.
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Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)
Character: Inspector Holcomb
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.
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Scarlet Angel (1952)
Character: Morgan Caldwell
After robbing a sea captain in New Orleans, a beautiful saloon girl flees and assumes a dead woman's identity.
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Stranded (1935)
Character: Mr. Tuthill
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Fog Over Frisco (1934)
Character: Oren Porter
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
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White Banners (1938)
Character: Sam Trimble
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.
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Wells Fargo (1937)
Character: Henry Wells
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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Born to Sing (1942)
Character: Frank Eastman
A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs.
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Big Hearted Herbert (1934)
Character: Goodrich Sr.
After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
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Lady Killer (1933)
Character: Ramick
An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.
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Little Mister Jim (1947)
Character: Chaplain
After his mother's death, a young boy tries to help his father stop drinking.
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939)
Character: Sen. H. Baldwin
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
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Bad Bascomb (1946)
Character: Gov. Winton
A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl.
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Juarez (1939)
Character: General Miguel Miramon
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
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Wings of the Navy (1939)
Character: Prologue Speaker
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
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Dodge City (1939)
Character: Colonel Dodge
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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Leather Gloves (1948)
Character: Dudley
A fallen prizefighter must choose between two women from vastly different walks of life.
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Dinky (1935)
Character: Col. Barnes
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
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Midnight Alibi (1934)
Character: Ardsley
An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.
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Living on Velvet (1935)
Character: Harold Thornton
A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of money enters their life, their differences come to light.
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Calling Philo Vance (1940)
Character: Markham
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
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Bright Lights (1935)
Character: J.C. Anderson
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
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The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
Character: Lewis J. Malbery
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
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Scandal Sheet (1952)
Character: Charlie Barnes
A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.
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The Return of October (1948)
Character: President Hotchkiss
A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.
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The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
Character: Joe D. Habersham
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.
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