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How to Avoid Friendship (1964)
Character: Narrator
The Independent League of Loners, known as the ILL, has studied the problem of excess camaraderie and has formulated this happy guide to solitude. A case study of person types to avoid.
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Mister Cinderella (1936)
Character: Watkins, Randolph's Butler
Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriweather for much longer.The comedy comes fast and frantic in Mister Cinderella, from Hal Roach Studios.
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Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling (1993)
Character: Self (archive footage)
There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led at the box office — ahead of Gable and Cooper. Her films saved a movie studio from bankruptcy, and a President credited her with raising the morale of Depression-weary Americans. Her earliest movies gave a foretaste of her talents and soon would become the songs and dances that helped make those movies immortal.
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School for Romance (1934)
Character: Diana's suitor
Count Romansky is a newspaper columnist who specializes in romance issues. When he loses his job, he opens up a school where he instructs his pretty pupils on affairs of the heart.
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Self Defense... for Cowards (1962)
Character: Narrator
In a series of vignettes, we see how to "win" a barroom fight by such tactics as going limp, garlic breath, screaming, enlisting the help of a large, intimidating friend, etc.
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The Battle of Paris (1929)
Character: Harry
Gertrude Lawrence plays a singer in Paris during World War I. After stealing from Tony (Walter Petrie), an American artist, the two fall in love.
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Step Lively, Jeeves! (1937)
Character: Jeeves
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
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Let's Live Tonight (1935)
Character: Ozzy Featherstone
Nick Kerry (Tullio Carminati) is a rich rounder who holds tremendous fascination over women......mainly because he is rich and has his own yacht. At Monte Carlo one evening he romances Kay Routledge (Lilian Harvey), a romantic young and gullible American girl. She takes the dilettante seriously and when he sails away on his yacht, she is heartbroken. But the memory of her haunts him, and brings him back from India and the arms of another woman,Countess Margot de Legere (Tala Birell),only to find Kay now engaged to his friend. Oh, what's a rich guy to do?
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Personal Maid's Secret (1935)
Character: Owen
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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Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
Character: Arthur Treacher
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
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Stowaway (1936)
Character: Atkins
Chin-Ching gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall. She falls asleep in his car which winds up on a ship headed for America. Susan Parker, also on the ship, marries Randall to give Chin-Ching a family.
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Under Your Spell (1936)
Character: Botts
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Character: Epilogue
Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
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Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)
Character: Snelling
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
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Anything Goes (1936)
Character: Sir Evelyn Oakleigh
A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To avoid discovery, he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law.
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Going Highbrow (1935)
Character: Waiter
A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy.
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Hollywood Party (1934)
Character: Durante's Butler (uncredited)
Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws him a big Hollywood star-studded party so that he might use the lions in his next movie. But, his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.
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Remember Last Night? (1935)
Character: Clarence Phelps
After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed.
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The Daring Young Man (1935)
Character: Col. Baggott
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
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Desirable (1934)
Character: Butler
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
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Bridal Suite (1939)
Character: Lord Helfer
A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.
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That's the Spirit (1945)
Character: Masters
A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated by a greedy banker.
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Here Comes the Groom (1934)
Character: Butler
Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety. But the robbery goes awry and Mike finds himself on the run from the police, pretending to be a famous singer whose gimmick is wearing a mask in public.
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She Had to Eat (1937)
Character: Carter
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
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Swing Out, Sister (1945)
Character: Chumley
Universal cowboy star Rod Cameron plays Geoffrey, conductor of a high-toned symphony orchestra. Secretly harboring the desire to become a swingin' jazz trumpeter, Geoffrey takes a job at a "hot" Broadway nightclub. Here he meets and falls in love with café songstress Donna (Frances Raeburn), who has led her family to believe that she's studying for a classical-music career. Meanwhile, a comedy-relief romance develops between Geoffrey's snooty valet Chumley (Arthur Treacher) and Donna's best pal Pat (Jacqueline De Wit). For those not interested in the plot (what there is of it), Swing Out, Sister includes specialty numbers by organist Selika Pettiford and the Lou Diamond Quintet.
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Up the River (1938)
Character: Darby Randall
A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was apparently a wacky spoof of the crime movies that were so popular in the 1930s. It seems to be completely forgotten today, except by major film buffs.
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Satan Met a Lady (1936)
Character: Anthony Travers
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
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Fashions of 1934 (1934)
Character: The Duchess' Butler (uncredited)
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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Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
Character: Agitator
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
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Delightfully Dangerous (1945)
Character: Jeffers
Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage. When Sherry is distraught just before performing at her school, a visiting Broadway producer encourages her by telling her positive things about her sister. Soon afterwards, Sherry decides to make a surprise trip to New York to visit Josephine - but what she finds there is not at all what she expected
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The Little Princess (1939)
Character: Bertie Minchin
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
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Barricade (1939)
Character: Upton Ward
In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
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Hitch Hike Lady (1935)
Character: Mortimer Wingate
Brit Amelia Blake travels to America to join her son Alfred. Fate forces her to hitchhike to California, a perilous journey that she shares with kind young Judy Martin. When Judy and another fellow traveler discover the unfortunate truth about Alfred, they struggle to spare Amelia's feelings.
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Mad About Music (1938)
Character: Tripps
A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.
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Hearts Divided (1936)
Character: Sir Harry
Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
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Heidi (1937)
Character: Andrews
Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.
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Curly Top (1935)
Character: The Butler
Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones". As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself falling in love with Mary.
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Fun on a Weekend (1947)
Character: Benjamin O. Moffatt
Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.
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The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)
Character: Major Warringforth
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.
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Forever and a Day (1943)
Character: Second Air Raid Watcher
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
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The Woman in Red (1935)
Character: Major Albert Casserly (uncredited)
A professional equestrian marries a polo player from a once-wealthy family, only to face the scorn of his snobbish relatives. When she becomes entangled in a murder trial, she must choose between protecting her reputation and saving the man she loves.
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The Nitwits (1935)
Character: Man with Tennis Equipment
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
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The Winning Ticket (1935)
Character: Horse Race Announcer
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
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Orchids to You (1935)
Character: Roger Morton
An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.
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In Society (1944)
Character: Pipps, Butler
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.
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The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948)
Character: Hotel Managing Director
This musical tells the tales of two movie extras who abscond to an expensive resort with their costumes and pretend to be aristocrats. Included in the film are ice skating numbers and songs.
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That Midnight Kiss (1949)
Character: Hutchins
Opera singer Prudence Budell, overhears truck driver Johnny Donnetti singing opera, and persuades her opera company to give him a chance in her new opera. They fall in love, but on meeting his colleague Mary while visiting Johnny's work, Prudence becomes convinced Johnny is in love with her.
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You Can't Have Everything (1937)
Character: Bevins
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
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Always in Trouble (1938)
Character: Rogers
Jane's dad (Tombes) is an oil field worker who comes into a fortune and is then pushed into society by his wife.
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No More Ladies (1935)
Character: Lord Knowleton
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
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I Live My Life (1935)
Character: Gallup, Mrs. Gage's Butler
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
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The Key (1934)
Character: Merriman
A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
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Gambling Lady (1934)
Character: Pryor (uncredited)
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling out with the syndicate, she considers the marriage proposal of blueblood Garry Madison. Can such a match work despite snobbery and old associations?
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Slave Girl (1947)
Character: Thomas Griswold
Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becoming involved in middle-East tribal wars.
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Love That Brute (1950)
Character: Quentin, Hanley's Butler
The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.
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Forsaking All Others (1934)
Character: Johnson (Uncredited)
A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.
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Mary Poppins (1964)
Character: Constable
In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
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Splendor (1935)
Character: Major Ballinger
When Brighton Lorrimore returns home with his new bride, Phyllis, his family makes their disappointment in his choice obvious. Facing bankruptcy and the loss of their mansion and social position, they had hoped that Brighton would marry wealthy heiress and family friend, Edith Gilbert.
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My Lucky Star (1938)
Character: Whipple
George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for Larry Taylor, a teacher, and gets expelled.
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Thin Ice (1937)
Character: Nottingham
A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.
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National Velvet (1945)
Character: Race Patron
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse.
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Irene (1940)
Character: Bretherton
Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a model. She soon catches the eye of socialite Bob Vincent, whose mother is hosting a ball at the family mansion. To promote Madame Lucy's dress line, Mr. Smith arranges for his models to be invited to the ball.
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Bright Lights (1935)
Character: Wilbur
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
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