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The Pretty Pretender (1937)
Character: N/A
Trying to get into a big Broadway show, a nightclub singer pretends she's a glamorous foreign star.
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Hard to Handle (1933)
Character: Vocalist with Ralph Blackman's Band (uncredited)
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
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Paramount on Parade (1930)
Character: Marine ('The Montmartre Girl')
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
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The Sophomore (1929)
Character: Tom Weck
Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this nostalgic slice of college, replete with songs, romance, prom dances and the inevitable big football game.
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Good News (1930)
Character: Tom
A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.
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Eagle Squadron (1942)
Character: Bell, RAF pilot
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
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Soup to Nuts (1930)
Character: Richard Carlson
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out; things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.
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Queen High (1930)
Character: Dick Johns
The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve their partnership, he proposes that instead the two of them play a single poker hand: the loser to become the winner's personal manservant for a year.
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Sweetie (1929)
Character: Biff Bentley
Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her.
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Keep 'Em Flying (1941)
Character: Cadet (uncredited)
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for.
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Flight Command (1940)
Character: Lieut. Frost
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable to land due to heavy fog. On his first day on the job, his poor shooting skills results in the Hellcats losing an air combat competition. His fellow pilots accept him anyways but they think he's crossed the line when they erroneously conclude that while their CO Billy Gray is away, Drake has an affair with his wife Lorna. Drake is now an outcast and is prepared to resign from the Navy but his extreme heroism in saving Billy Gray's life turns things around.
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King of Jazz (1930)
Character: Bridegroom ('Bridal Veil' / 'A Bench in the Park')
A large-scale revue musical built around Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, presenting a series of musical performances, sketches, and staged tableaux in early two-color Technicolor, emblematic of Hollywood’s early sound-era “all-star” musical productions.
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Reform Girl (1933)
Character: David Carter
A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daughter.
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Honey (1930)
Character: Burton Crane
A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.
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Buck Privates (1941)
Character: Corporal (uncredited)
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.
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Follow the Leader (1930)
Character: Jimmie Moore
A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show. When he kidnaps the show's star, she gets her opportunity, as the understudy, to play the role and become a star herself.
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Hot Saturday (1932)
Character: Joe
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
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Love Among the Millionaires (1930)
Character: Jerry Hamilton
A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon, and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with he and his family in Palm Springs.
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