Jay Ward
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Birthday: August 15, 1921
Deathday: April 22, 2002
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Harrigan's Kid
1943-03-01
Harrigan's Kid
Overview: A former jockey teaches a newcomer the dirty tricks of the track.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-01
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The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
1938-12-15
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Overview: In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up helping her to combat an epidemic that rages through the mountain communities. The doctor she works for prefers traditional herbs to modern medicine.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-15
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As Husbands Go
1934-01-27
As Husbands Go
Overview: Lucille Lingard and her friend Emmie bid farewell to their European friends on their last night in Paris. Lucille has fallen for the debonair Ronald Derbyshire and dreads returning to her mundane Midwestern hometown in Iowa and her stolid husband Charles. Back in America, Lucille plans to get a divorce and is delighted when Ronald show up. However, he and Charles unexpectedly become close friends, and Ronald admits that he does not find Lucille as attractive as he did in Paris. He leaves the next day and Lucille stays with her husband, won over once more to her family life.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-27
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Goodbye Again
1933-09-09
Goodbye Again
Overview: Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-09
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Keeper of the Flame
1943-04-01
Keeper of the Flame
Overview: Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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Reducing
1931-01-03
Reducing
Overview: Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-03
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To the Last Man
1933-09-15
To the Last Man
Overview: In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when Colby gets out of prison he heads there also seeking revenge. The head of the Hayden family tries to avoid more killing but the inevitable showdown has to occur, complicated by Lynn Hayden and Ellen Colby's plans to marry.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-15
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Pot o' Gold
1941-04-03
Pot o' Gold
Overview: Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-03
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Love Finds Andy Hardy
1938-07-22
Love Finds Andy Hardy
Overview: Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-22
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
1939-07-07
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Overview: Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-07
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The Man Who Dared
1933-06-30
The Man Who Dared
Overview: An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami on February 15, 1933.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-30
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Emma
1932-01-02
Emma
Overview: After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-02
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Edison, the Man
1940-05-10
Edison, the Man
Overview: 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.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-10
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Captains Courageous
1937-06-25
Captains Courageous
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-25
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Hold That Girl
1934-03-23
Hold That Girl
Overview: "That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Tony Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her into one jam after another, especially when she poses as an exotic dancer to get the goods on a gangster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-23
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Big Hearted Herbert
1934-10-06
Big Hearted Herbert
Overview: After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-06
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In Spite of Danger
1935-03-08
In Spite of Danger
Overview: Bill Crane, race-car driver has an accident while racing and finds himself unable to return to the fast-paced racetrack. Looking for another occupation he meets a girl, Sally Sullivan, who runs a roadside lunch-wagon and she helps him get a job as a truck driver. They fall in love and get married. He gets a contract to haul a load of dynamite and, when coming down a steep mountain, he finds his truck's brakes have been sabotaged, just as were the brakes on his race-car.
Genres: Action Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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Pilgrimage
1933-07-12
Pilgrimage
Overview: A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-12
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