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Hey! Hey! USA (1938)
Character: Bertie Schultz
While working as a porter Benjamin Twist mistakenly ends up on a cruise ship heading for the USA. Upon landing on the American coast Twist takes up work as a professor.
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It's a Gift (1934)
Character: Norman Bissonette
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.
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Alcatraz Island (1937)
Character: Boy (uncredited)
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)
Character: Tommy Perkins
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
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Dangerous Holiday (1937)
Character: Hollywood Child Actor
A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
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Captains Courageous (1937)
Character: Boy on Ship (uncredited)
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
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The Cherokee Strip (1937)
Character: Barty Walton
A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee.
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A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
Character: Freckle-Faced Kid (uncredited)
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
Character: Shoeshine Boy (uncredited)
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Love Is on the Air (1937)
Character: Mouse
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Character: Cheering Boy (uncredited)
After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new senator soon finds himself battling political corruption.
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Roarin' Guns (1936)
Character: Buddy Morgan
Tim Corwin- an agent for the Cattlemen's Association- is assigned to look into a range war between settlers and powerful cattle baron Walton.
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The Longest Night (1936)
Character: Albert Wilson
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
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Marry the Girl (1937)
Character: Stuttering child
Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is owned by and staffed with cuckoos.
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These Three (1936)
Character: Boy on Merry-Go-Round (uncredited)
Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students enroll, one of whom is a trouble-maker who tells a scandalous lie that threatens to destroy the trio's lives.
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Pepper (1936)
Character: Jimmy
Young Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to take her gang to Coney Island and prevents his daughter from marrying a phony aristocrat.
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Broken Toys (1935)
Character: Sailor Doll (voice)
A sailor doll, thrown into a toy dump, rallies the demoralized dolls that were already there.
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Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)
Character: Boy with News of Baby
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
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Over the Wall (1938)
Character: Jimmy Davis
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
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The Rawhide Terror (1934)
Character: Jimmy Brent
Twelve renegades dressed as Indians kill the parents of two brothers. The brothers who have similar birth marks then separate. Ten years later a man known as the Rawhide Terror is murdering the renegades who are now town citizens. Everyone is after the Rawhide Terror and the two brothers are destined to meet again.
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Happy Days (1936)
Character: Jimmy Dugan
Pinhead is ridiculed by the other boys on the way to the fishing hole.
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Little Men (1934)
Character: Tommy Bangs
The former Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for homeless boys. One of the boys, Nat, invites Dan, a street kid, to come to the school, where the boys are all loved and well cared for. Dan is a young tough, but his heart is good, and when he is accused of theft at the school, Jo continues to believe in him and that the true thief will be found out.
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The Plough and the Stars (1936)
Character: Young Boy (uncredited)
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.
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Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts (1937)
Character: Buzzy Willis, Boy Scout
Tex is after the gang that robbed a train of a gold shipment. He suspects Dorman is the culprit and is hiding their gold at his mine. When Stubby sees Dorman's henchman Stark cash in some gold nuggets, Tex tricks Dorman into moving the gold. He hopes to round them up with the help of the posse and the local Boy Scout Troop.
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When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
Character: Boy (uncredited)
A waitress destined for a better life falls in love with a handsome stranger, only to find that he is already married.
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Hittin' the Trail (1937)
Character: Billy Reed
When he swaps horses with the Tombstone Kid — a wrongly accused man on the run from the law — singing cowboy Tex Randall gets arrested by the local sheriff in a case of mistaken identity.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Character: Schoolboy
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
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Off the Record (1939)
Character: Boy (uncredited)
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
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A Girl of the Limberlost (1934)
Character: Billy
Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she was born. She finds her comfort with Margaret and Westley Sinton, a childless neighboring couple, who help her with her school costs, as does the wealthy Mrs. Parker, who takes an interest in the talented young girl. She meets and falls in love with Phillip Ammon, the nephew of Dr. Ammon, but learns that he is already engaged. The money that Elnora has saved for her college education is stolen, and when Mrs. Comstock goes to retrieve it from a suspect, she also learns of the duplicity of her husband, who had been courting a neighboring woman on the night he drowned. She begs forgiveness of Elnora, and the romance of Elnora and Phillip also begins to flourish.
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Sutter's Gold (1936)
Character: First Newsboy
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Paddy O'Day (1936)
Character: Street Boy
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.
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Piccadilly Jim (1936)
Character: Ogden Pett
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches' which is based upon the Pett's. But this upsets the Pett's so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.
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Sins of Man (1936)
Character: Little Boy
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
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Silver Queen (1942)
Character: Doc Stonebraker's Boy (uncredited)
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
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The Way of All Flesh (1940)
Character: Timothy as a Child
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
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The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1935)
Character: Shocky
Right after the Civil War, an ex-Union soldier sets out to become a schoolmaster in his small town, even though many locals still harbor a resentment against "Yankees". He goes up against the town bully, who both want the same girl, and his troubles multiply when a vicious band of nightriders set out to drive him out of town.
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Mystery Plane (1939)
Character: Young Tommy
An American pilot with a top-secret invention is kidnapped by foreign agents.
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My Bill (1938)
Character: Football Player Who Beats It (uncredited)
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
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Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939)
Character: Urchin (uncredited)
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
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Fisherman's Wharf (1939)
Character: Rudolph
Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in San Francisco until Carlo's widowed sister-in-law, Stella, shows up with her brat-son, Rudolph, and takes over. Poor Toma gets his feelings hurt and the idea he "isn't wanted" and runs away
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Conflict (1936)
Character: Tommy
Pat's ability as a logging/mining camp fighter sets him up to box prizefighter Corrigan. Unknown to his supporters, he's actually in collusion with Corrigan to throw the fight - until he runs into reporter Maude.
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Maid of Salem (1937)
Character: Little Boy (Uncredited)
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
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In Love with Life (1934)
Character: One of The Meglin Kiddies
Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that football and other sports play in the curriculum, and soon finds himself dead broke when publishers show no interest in the dry material he brings to them. He meets a young boy, Laury and his mother, Sharon in the park and is quite taken with them. He gets a job-prospect letter, as a private tutor, and applies at once. His employer is Mr. Morley, a surly, sour, mean-tempered old man who informs John he is to act as a tutor for his grandson, who turns out to be Laury. Sharon, Morleys daughter had eloped against her father's wishes and was abandoned by her husband after Laury's birth.
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Streamline Express (1935)
Character: N/A
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
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Streamline Express (1935)
Character: Wilbur (uncredited)
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
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Beloved Enemy (1936)
Character: Irish Boy (Uncredited)
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.
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Tovarich (1937)
Character: Urchin Stealing Groceries
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
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Nancy Drew… Detective (1938)
Character: Spud Murphy (uncredited)
After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.
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Hunted Men (1938)
Character: Boy
Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. Joe escapes through a window and hails a taxi, but when he gets nervous at the sound of sirens, he jumps out. Hardware salesman Peter Harris accidentally hits Joe with his car, and unharmed, Joe seizes this opportunity to hide in Peter's car. Peter is so drunk that Joe is able to con him into believing that he is Charles Edwards, a fellow hardware man who was with him at a convention, and in the guise of friendship, accompanies Peter to his suburban home. The next morning, Joe gets antsy and wants to leave, but Peter's family, his wife Mary, young son Robert and daughter Jane all entreat him to stay.
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Hunted Men (1938)
Character: G-Men Club Treasurer
Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. Joe escapes through a window and hails a taxi, but when he gets nervous at the sound of sirens, he jumps out. Hardware salesman Peter Harris accidentally hits Joe with his car, and unharmed, Joe seizes this opportunity to hide in Peter's car. Peter is so drunk that Joe is able to con him into believing that he is Charles Edwards, a fellow hardware man who was with him at a convention, and in the guise of friendship, accompanies Peter to his suburban home. The next morning, Joe gets antsy and wants to leave, but Peter's family, his wife Mary, young son Robert and daughter Jane all entreat him to stay.
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Murder on the Blackboard (1934)
Character: School Boy (uncredited)
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.
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Indianapolis Speedway (1939)
Character: Haskill's Son
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
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Our Daily Bread (1934)
Character: Boy (uncredited)
John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.
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The Devil's Party (1938)
Character: Young Jerry
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
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Reformatory (1938)
Character: Fibber Regan
A new inmate at a juvenile reformatory tries to organize a mass breakout.
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The Man from Hell (1934)
Character: Timmy McCarrol
A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough western town where he finds trouble everywhere.
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Arizona Bad Man (1935)
Character: Dave Dunston
The daughter of a notorious cattle thief falls for a stranger at a dance. The stranger is really a lawman who is after her father.
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Emergency Squad (1940)
Character: Jimmy
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
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Chained (1934)
Character: Boy Fishing on Dock (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.
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We Have Our Moments (1937)
Character: Child (uncredited)
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
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