|
Neptune's Daughter (1914)
Character: Duke Boris
The daughter of King Neptune takes on human form to avenge the death of her young sister, who was caught in a fishing net. However, she falls in love with the king, the man she holds responsible.
|
|
|
The Earl of Chicago (1940)
Character: Lord (uncredited)
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
|
|
|
|
|
What Do You Think? (Number Three) (1938)
Character: Party Guest / Wedding Guest (uncredited)
This short looks at the possibility that those who have passed on can communicate with us in ways we least expect.
|
|
|
Brooklyn Orchid (1942)
Character: Party Guest
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
|
|
|
Penrod's Double Trouble (1938)
Character: Dinner Guest (uncredited)
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.
|
|
|
Ship Cafe (1935)
Character: Patron (uncredited)
The singing stoker and the vamp.
|
|
|
Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
Character: Guest at Policeman's Ball (uncredited)
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
|
|
|
Frisco Lil (1942)
Character: N/A
Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love with lawyer Brewster.
|
|
|
3 Kids and a Queen (1935)
Character: Relative
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
|
|
|
Stage Door (1937)
Character: N/A
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
|
|
|
Who's Superstitious? (1943)
Character: Ship Owner (archive footage)
This short film examines the origins of several superstitions including crossing your fingers, knocking on wood, rabbit's feet, and breaking champagne bottles to christen ships, plus the role of superstitions in the Flying Dutchman tale.
|
|
|
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940)
Character: Second Man
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
|
|
|
Frisco Kid (1935)
Character: First Man (uncredited)
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
|
|
|
The Devil Bat (1940)
Character: Martin Heath
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.
|
|
|
Incendiary Blonde (1945)
Character: New Year's Eve Party Patron (uncredited)
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
|
|
|
Dames (1934)
Character: Ounce's Receptionist #2 (uncredited)
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
|
|
|
Page Miss Glory (1935)
Character: Advertising Board Member (uncredited)
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
|
|
|
Road to Singapore (1940)
Character: Chaperone's Companion (uncredited)
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...
|
|
|
We Are Not Alone (1939)
Character: Courtroom Extra
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
|
|
|
|
|
Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)
Character: Man at Hotel Desk (uncredited)
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?
|
|
|
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Character: Luncheon Guest (uncredited)
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
|
|
|
The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
Character: Officer (Uncredited)
Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons many disguises to come to the aid of the Duchess.
|
|
|
Beauty for the Asking (1939)
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Denny breaks up with his fiancée Jean to marries wealthy Flora. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented. After sending it to twelve rich woman, only Flora decides to invest in the business. As Denny has no job, the girls give him an office at the factory. The business takes off, but Jean finds that she is still in love with Denny and Denny seems to forget he is married to Flora.
|
|
|
Music for Madame (1937)
Character: Wedding Guest (Uncredited)
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
|
|
|
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
Character: Wedding Guest
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.
|
|
|
Freshman Love (1936)
Character: Henderson (uncredited)
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.
|
|
|
Skyscraper Souls (1932)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan. Despite the devotion of longtime mistress Sarah, the ruthless David, while seeking bank mergers to protect his building, tries to seduce Sarah's secretary, Lynn. David then agrees to a plot by a bank board member to inflate his bank's stock and sell short — just before the market crashes.
|
|
|
Personal Maid's Secret (1935)
Character: Mr. William Bentley
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.
|
|
|
Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
|
|
|
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
|
|
|
Transatlantic (1931)
Character: Stateroom Guest
As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe heads the cast as Monty Greer, a suave gambler who falls in love with Judy, the daughter of immigrant lens grinder Rudolph Kramer. In trying to recover some valuable securities stolen from banker Henry Graham, Greer finds himself in the middle of a fierce gun battle in the ship's engine room. Meanwhile, Graham, who has been cheating on his wife Kay with sexy dancer Sigrid Carline, is murdered by person or persons unknown.
|
|
|
They Drive by Night (1940)
Character: Extra in Courtroom (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.
|
|
|
Crashing Through Danger (1938)
Character: Board Member
Three electrical linemen work through the hazardous conditions of the Depression Era. Sparks fly, and things become truly dangerous, when Ann comes between this band of brothers. Things get worse, after they move in together, following the death of her father, their supervisor, "Pop" Foster, from an industrial accident.
|
|
|
A Feather in Her Hat (1935)
Character: Theatergoer (uncredited)
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.
|
|
|
Man's Castle (1933)
Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
|
|
|
Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942)
Character: Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
|
|
|
The Gay Deception (1935)
Character: Walsdorf-Plaza Guest (uncredited)
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
|
|
|
Under Your Spell (1936)
Character: Sponsor (uncredited)
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.
|
|
|
|
|
My Love Came Back (1940)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through his employee Tony so that Julius can escort Amelia to every musical event in the city. The trouble begins when he cannot meet her one night and Tony goes in his place. Tony believes that Julius and Amelia are a couple and then son Paul thinks that Tony and Amelia are a couple as he is sending her the money. The worst part is that Amelia might leave classical music for swing music with classmates Dusty, Joy and the band.
|
|
|
Bathing Beauty (1944)
Character: Faculty Member (uncredited)
After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.
|
|
|
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Character: Club Patron (uncredited)
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
|
|
|
The Male Animal (1942)
Character: Meeting Guest (uncredited)
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.
|
|
|
Swing Fever (1943)
Character: Man in Gym (uncredited)
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
|
|
|
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
Character: Guest (uncredited)
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.
|
|
|
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Character: Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
|
|
|
The Night of Nights (1939)
Character: Lamb's Club Member (uncredited)
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
|
|
|
That Certain Age (1938)
Character: Guest
Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton invites Bullit to the peace and quiet of his own home to write a series of European affair articles. When Fullerton's adolescent daughter Alice develops a crush on Bullit, her suitor, boyscout Ken Warren, doesn't seem to stand a chance. Mr. and Mrs. Fullerton, Ken Warren, and even Vincent Bullit himself do their best to sway young Alice's feelings away from the older man. It's a difficult task though, as she is at 'that certain age.'
|
|
|
Smashing the Rackets (1938)
Character: Angry Businessman
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
|
|
|
Between Us Girls (1942)
Character: Play Spectator in Front Row (uncredited)
A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter.
|
|
|
Girl in 313 (1940)
Character: Extra at Fashion Show
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
Broadway Hostess (1935)
Character: Banker (uncredited)
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
|
|
|
Hold That Kiss (1938)
Character: Dog Show Attendee
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
|
|
|
Hired Wife (1940)
Character: Restaurant Patron
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.
|
|
|
The Yellow Ticket (1931)
Character: Man in Club
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
|
|
|
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
Character: Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
|
|
|
The Mad Ghoul (1943)
Character: Man in Audience (uncredited)
A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as part of a plan to steal his lover.
|
|
|
Desirable (1934)
Character: Second Playgoer
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
|
|
|
Woman Against Woman (1938)
Character: Guest at Senator Kingsley's Party
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
|
|
|
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939)
Character: Masked Party Guest (uncredited)
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
|
|
|
The Chaser (1938)
Character: Bar Association Member
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.
|
|
|
Champagne Charlie (1936)
Character: Gambling House Patron
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
|
|
|
Arrowsmith (1931)
Character: Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
|
|
|
Before I Hang (1940)
Character: Courtroom Spectator
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.
|
|
|
Two Against the World (1936)
Character: Extra in Bar (uncredited)
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.
|
|
|
Design for Living (1933)
Character: Theatre Patron (uncredited)
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
|
|
|
That Girl from Paris (1936)
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.
|
|
|
Man Of The People (1937)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
|
|
|
Duck Soup (1933)
Character: Minister (uncredited)
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
|
|
|
The Saint Takes Over (1940)
Character: Nightclub Patron
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint" the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter created by Leslie Charteris. This film focuses on the character of Inspector Henry Farnack. When Farnack is framed by a gang he is investigating, it is up to The Saint to clear his name.
|
|
|
A Chump at Oxford (1940)
Character: Dinner Guest (uncredited)
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.
|
|
|
The Major and the Minor (1942)
Character: Ball Guest (uncredited)
Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old to travel for half the price. She hides from the conductors in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor, who takes the "child" under his wing.
|
|
|
Belle of the Yukon (1944)
Character: Saloon Patron (uncredited)
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
|
|
|
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
Character: Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
|
|
|
I'm No Angel (1933)
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
|
|
|
Red-Headed Woman (1932)
Character: N/A
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.
|
|
|
Give Me Your Heart (1936)
Character: Mr. Hayle (uncredited)
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
|
|
|
My Favorite Spy (1942)
Character: Nightclub Patron
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
|
|
|
Great Guy (1936)
Character: Party Guest (Uncredited)
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
|
|
|
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
Character: Extra in Washington Party (uncredited)
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.
|
|
|
It's Love I'm After (1937)
Character: Mr. Kane
An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.
|
|
|
Guilty Hands (1931)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.
|
|
|
Going Places (1938)
Character: Customer in Store
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
|
|
|
Vogues of 1938 (1937)
Character: Mr. Mortimer - a Creditor
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plot centers around a chic boutique, whose owner, George Curson (Warner Baxter), tries hard to please his customers while keeping peace with his unhappy wife. A wealthy young woman, Wendy Van Klettering (Joan Bennett), decides to take a job as a model at the fashion house, just to amuse herself, but her presence annoys Curson, who must put together the best possible show to compete with rival fashion houses at the Seven Arts Ball. The film includes several hit songs, including the Oscar-nominated "That Old Feeling" by Sammy Fain and Lew Brown.
|
|
|
|
|
Stage Mother (1933)
Character: Shipboard Extra / Audience Extra
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
|
|
|
His Butler's Sister (1943)
Character: Train Passenger
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
|
|
|
Goin' to Town (1935)
Character: Nightclub Patron
Cleo Borden grew up in a saloon, loves the men—and the men love her—but her aspirations lead her to enter into a contract to marry a wealthy man. When he dies and leaves her all of his fortune, she soon learns that although she has money, she is not yet a lady, so she embarks on a journey to become one. She has no desire to change herself, but the man she sets her sights on does—so she obliges.
|
|
|
Crash Dive (1943)
Character: Man at Hotel Registration Desk
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
|
|
|
Satan Met a Lady (1936)
Character: Extra on Dance Floor (uncredited)
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
|
|
|
Curtain Call (1940)
Character: Dressing Room Guest
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.
|
|
|
Mr. Skitch (1933)
Character: Gambling House Patron
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
|
|
|
Change of Heart (1934)
Character: Man Reading Paper in Brisbane's Office
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.
|
|
|
The President Vanishes (1934)
Character: Legislator
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
|
|
|
The Girl in 419 (1933)
Character: Party Guest
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.
|
|
|
Kid Galahad (1937)
Character: (uncredited)
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
|
|
|
Blonde Crazy (1931)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
|
|
|
True to Life (1943)
Character: Porter House Guest (uncredited)
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
|
|
|
The Spider Woman (1943)
Character: Casino Patron (uncredited)
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".
|
|
|
Tell No Tales (1939)
Character: Guest at Lovelake's (uncredited)
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
|
|
|
They Made Her a Spy (1939)
Character: Man with Senator in the Dome Cafe
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
|
|
|
The Glass Key (1942)
Character: Man at Campaign Headquarters (uncredited)
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
|
|
|
The Nurse from Brooklyn (1938)
Character: Operating Surgeon
A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of shooting the man knows that he didn't do it, and sets out to find the real killer and clear his own name.
|
|
|
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Character: (uncredited)
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
|
|
|
The Constant Nymph (1943)
Character: Party Guest
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own grown daughter, who begins a romance with the composer which culminates in marriage but creates an emotional rivalry that affects the three.
|
|
|
Break of Hearts (1935)
Character: New Year's Eve Celebrant (uncredited)
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.
|
|
|
Island of Doomed Men (1940)
Character: Parole Board Member (uncredited)
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
|
|
|
Midnight (1939)
Character: Stephanie's Party Guest (uncredited)
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
|
|
|
|
|
Crazy House (1943)
Character: Studio Man
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
|
|
|
Zenobia (1939)
Character: Party Guest
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
|
|
|
Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940)
Character: Casino Patron
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
|
|
|
The White Angel (1936)
Character: Officer at Minister's Meeting (uncredited)
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
|
|
|
Eternally Yours (1939)
Character: Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.
|
|
|
Exposed (1938)
Character: Clerk
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.
|
|
|
First Love (1939)
Character: Ball Guest
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's hardly received with open arms, especially by her snobby cousin Barbara. When the entire family is invited to a major social ball, Barbara sees to it that Connie is forced to stay home. With the aid of her uncle, who acts as her fairy godfather, Connie makes it to the ball and meets her Prince Charming in Ted Drake, her cousin's boyfriend.
|
|
|
I Sell Anything (1934)
Character: $300 Bidder at Antiques Auction (uncredited)
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
|
|
|
If You Could Only Cook (1935)
Character: Howard - Member of Board of Directors (uncredited)
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
|
|
|
Tell Your Children (1938)
Character: Henry Harper (uncredited)
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.
|
|
|
Laugh and Get Rich (1931)
Character: Mr. Bellweather - Party Guest (uncredited)
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
|
|
|
Female (1933)
Character: Board Member (Uncredited)
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
|
|
|
Huddle (1932)
Character: Dinner Dance Guest (uncredited)
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.
|
|
|
It's in the Air (1935)
Character: Man in Lobby (uncredited)
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
|
|
|
Three Who Loved (1931)
Character: Mr. Dale
A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling.
|
|
|
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy -- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.
|
|
|
Sorority House (1939)
Character: Governor Morley
A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.
|
|
|
Mr. Lucky (1943)
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
|
|
|
The Daredevil Drivers (1938)
Character: Mr. Farnsworth (uncredited)
To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.
|
|
|
At the Circus (1939)
Character: Governor (uncredited)
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to find the thief and get the money back.
|
|
|
The Dark Horse (1932)
Character: Convention Delegate
The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake organizes the office and coaches Hicks to answer every question by pausing and then saying, "Well yes, but then again no." Blake will sell Hicks as dumb but honest. Russell refuses to marry Blake, while Joe keeps people away from Blake's office. Blake teaches Hicks a speech by Lincoln. At the debate when the conservative candidate Underwood recites the same speech, Blake exposes him as a plagiarist. Hicks is presented for photo opportunities and gives his yes-and-no answer to any question, including whether he expects to win.
|
|
|
Missing Witnesses (1937)
Character: Man in Lane's Outer Office (uncredited)
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
|
|
|
Holiday (1938)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!
|
|
|
The Lady Objects (1938)
Character: Mr. Broderick
A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get his career as an architect off the ground. They separate, and the man begins making extra money by singing in a nightclub. When he is unjustly accused of murder, it is up to his estranged wife to defend him in court.
|
|
|
Sergeant Madden (1939)
Character: Doctor in Hospital
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
|
|
|
Raffles (1939)
Character: Extra at Ambassador Club
Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the weekend with her parents, Lord and Lady Melrose. A necklace presents an irresistible temptation, but also in attendance is Scotland Yard's finest, finally on the trail.
|
|
|
Imitation of Life (1934)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
|
|
|
The Under-Pup (1939)
Character: Extra in audience
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
|
|
|
The Lodger (1944)
Character: N/A
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
|
|
|
Weird Woman (1944)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals. Norman's stuck-up friends also sense Paula's strangeness, and soon their meddling gossip and suspicious scheming push the poor woman to use her magic to defend herself and her husband – and maybe even to kill! Or is it just the power of suggestion...?
|
|
|
A Lost Lady (1934)
Character: Extra at Dance (uncredited)
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
|
|
|
Buck Rogers (1939)
Character: Member of War Council
Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas to keep them in suspended animation until a rescue party can arrive. However, an avalanche covers the craft and the two are in suspended animation for 500 years. When they are found, they awake to find out that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Lieutenant Wilma Deering, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane and with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces, they eventually do and Earth is free of Kane's grip.
|
|
|
|
|
Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)
Character: Nightclub Dance Extra
Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?
|
|
|
Honolulu Lu (1941)
Character: Tourist
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
|
|
|
Mama Steps Out (1937)
Character: Man at Ship's Party
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.
|
|
|
Broadway Gondolier (1935)
Character: Man Leaving Opera / Dancer
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
|
|
|
Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939)
Character: Dowager's Husband (uncredited)
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.
|
|
|
Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)
Character: Wedding Guest
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
|
|
|
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
|
|
|
Parole Girl (1933)
Character: Nightclub Patron
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.
|
|
|
I Married a Witch (1942)
Character: N/A
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.
|
|
|
Live, Love and Learn (1937)
Character: Extra in Gallery (uncredited)
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.
|
|
|
The Ship That Died (1938)
Character: Board of Inquiry Member (uncredited)
This MGM An Historical Mystery short traces the final voyage of the Mary Celeste, a ship discovered at sea, in December 1872, devoid - for no discernible reason - of crew, passengers and captain. At "the famed nautical court of Gibraltar", investigators propose three hypotheses.
|
|
|
Edison, the Man (1940)
Character: Party Guest
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
|
|
|
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Character: Dancer in Bette Davis Number (uncredited)
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
|
|
|
Libeled Lady (1936)
Character: Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
|
|
|
Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
Character: Man in Stage Wing with Charles (Uncredited)
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well. He soon leaves his wife so the two can go off together.
|
|
|
Kentucky (1938)
Character: Dancer
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
|
|
|
The Wet Parade (1932)
Character: Dinner Guest (uncredited)
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
|
|
|
Chained (1934)
Character: Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.
|
|
|
Sunny (1941)
Character: Mr. Runnymeade
Sunny is a 1941 film American film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sunny. It stars Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Edward Everett Horton, Grace Hartman, Paul Hartman, Frieda Inescort, and Helen Westley.
|
|
|
The Awful Truth (1937)
Character: Lucy's Attorney (uncredited)
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
|
|
|
Night After Night (1932)
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.
|
|
|
Breakfast for Two (1937)
Character: Man in Waiting Room (uncredited)
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.
|
|
|
In Old Missouri (1940)
Character: Townsman
The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son and a socialite wife who wants a divorce. He begs the Weavers to trade places with him and fix things up.
|
|
|
A Man to Remember (1938)
Character: Medical Association Board Member (uncredited)
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
|
|
