Mary Doran
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Birthday: September 08, 1910
Deathday: September 06, 1995
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The Criminal Code
1931-01-03
The Criminal Code
Overview: After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-03
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Three on a Match
1932-10-29
Three on a Match
Overview: Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-29
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The Divorcee
1930-04-19
The Divorcee
Overview: When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, she decides to pay him back in kind.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-19
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Under Eighteen
1932-01-02
Under Eighteen
Overview: Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-02
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Party Husband
1931-06-06
Party Husband
Overview: Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its premature end. Fellow Ziegfield alum Mary Doran plays the coquette whose intended conquest of the free-thinking hubby (James Rennie) starts to throw the couple’s “understanding” awry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-06
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Breach of Promise
1932-10-23
Breach of Promise
Overview: A pre-Code drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-23
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Exposure
1932-08-20
Exposure
Overview: A reporter runs into a pretty young girl who has inherited her father's failing business. She wants to give it up, but he tries to convince her to make a go of it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-20
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The Final Edition
1932-02-12
The Final Edition
Overview: A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-12
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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
1932-05-28
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Overview: A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-28
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Hard to Handle
1933-01-28
Hard to Handle
Overview: A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-28
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New York Nights
1929-12-28
New York Nights
Overview: Show girl Jill Deverne is married to song writer Fred Deverne, and everyone is involved in the Broadway night life and endless parties. Jill is being pursued by a gangster, and she leaves her husband after he spends the night with a floozie. Jill ends up as the gangster's moll, but she soon gets tired of the lifestyle.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-28
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Corn on the Cop
1934-04-28
Corn on the Cop
Overview: A 1934 Warner Brothers Vitaphone short, "Corn on the Cop." In this one, two hobos launch a get-rich scheme by trying to sell axle grease marketed as salve for relief from corns and bunions. The idea, unfortunately, goes awry. Starring Harry Gribbon with Shemp Howard, Boyd Davis, and Mary Doran.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-28
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Sing Sing Nights
1934-12-14
Sing Sing Nights
Overview: A respected war correspondent is found murdered, with three bullets--from three different guns--in him. Three different men are arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, but only one can be the actual killer. A criminologist sets out to find who is really guilty.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Sunset Range
1935-04-02
Sunset Range
Overview: Grant hides stolen money in the luggage of Bonnie Shea who is moving west. Later when he and his men arrive to retrieve the money, they also kidnap Bonnie. This sends Reasonin' Bates and his cowhands on their horses after the gangsters in their cars.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-02
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The Sins of the Children
1930-06-27
The Sins of the Children
Overview: A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-27
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The Border Patrolman
1936-06-20
The Border Patrolman
Overview: When a border patrolman catches their spoiled daughter smoking in a no-smoking area, parents hire him to watch over her. She then runs over to Mexico and gets involved with jewel thieves and he has to go save her.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-20
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Miss Pinkerton
1932-05-27
Miss Pinkerton
Overview: Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerton, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-27
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The Bridge of Sighs
1936-02-14
The Bridge of Sighs
Overview: Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-14
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Union Depot
1932-01-14
Union Depot
Overview: Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-14
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Remote Control
1930-11-15
Remote Control
Overview: A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-15
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They Learned About Women
1930-01-30
They Learned About Women
Overview: Jack and Jerry are doing okay between profession baseball and Vaudeville. That is, until love and gold-diggers get in the way.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-30
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
1929-06-08
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Overview: A woman is tried for the murder of her lover. Director Bayard Veiller's 1929 courtroom drama stars Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, Lilyan Tashman and H. B. Warner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-08
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Their Own Desire
1929-12-27
Their Own Desire
Overview: Lally is a rich girl whose father writes books and plays polo. After 23 years of marriage her father decides to divorce Lally's mother and remarry to soon-to-be-divorced Beth Cheever. This sours Lally on all men. While on vacation with her mother she meets Jack, who succeeds in stealing her heart. Then Lally discovers that Jack is the son of Beth Cheever, the woman who is to marry her father.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-27
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Ex-Bad Boy
1931-07-15
Ex-Bad Boy
Overview: A man gets in trouble with his girlfriend when a beautiful movie star and her fiance come to his small town.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-15
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Beauty and the Boss
1932-04-09
Beauty and the Boss
Overview: An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-09
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The Broadway Melody
1929-02-08
The Broadway Melody
Overview: The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-08
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The Girl in the Show
1929-08-30
The Girl in the Show
Overview: In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors decide to marry and settle down. The lead actor helps set up the rest of the troupe with some performances. He then destroys the new marriage. Later the woman and the head actor fall in love. He then gives her the lead role in his newest show.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-30
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Murder in the Fleet
1935-05-24
Murder in the Fleet
Overview: A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.
Genres: Drama Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-24
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Merry Wives of Reno
1934-04-18
Merry Wives of Reno
Overview: Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-18
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Our Blushing Brides
1930-07-19
Our Blushing Brides
Overview: Jerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But, while Connie and Franky are reckless with their affections — one bedding a married man and the other marrying a scoundrel — Jerry is determined to remain practical. As she mothers her wounded, heartbroken friends, she stalwartly but foolishly resists the advances of the good-hearted and affluent Tony Jardine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-19
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Their Mad Moment
1931-07-12
Their Mad Moment
Overview: Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir Harry Congers, but in love with Basque peasant Esteban Cristera. Deciding on a final fling before wedlock, Emily goes to Esteban's village in the mountains, but is wounded in a car accident. Recuperating, she learns about the hardships endured by Basque women from Esteban's grandmother and former girlfriend, Stancia, and decides to return to Sir Harry in Biarritz.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-12
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Ridin' for Justice
1932-01-04
Ridin' for Justice
Overview: More a romantic melodrama than a true Western, this Buck Jones vehicle from Columbia starred Jones as Buck Randall, a carefree cowboy whose popularity with the local saloon girls becomes the talk of the town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-04
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A Girl's Best Years
1936-12-25
A Girl's Best Years
Overview: A woman reporter is hired by an author-songwriter to help him avoid additional breach-of-promise suits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-25
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Iron Man
1931-04-29
Iron Man
Overview: Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-29
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Miss Pacific Fleet
1935-12-14
Miss Pacific Fleet
Overview: A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-14
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Tonight at Twelve
1929-09-29
Tonight at Twelve
Overview: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tonight at Twelve is a 1929 American drama film directed by Harry A. Pollard and written by Matt Taylor, Harry A. Pollard and Owen Davis. It is based on the 1928 play Tonight at 12 by Owen Davis. The film stars Madge Bellamy, Robert Ellis, Margaret Livingston, Vera Reynolds, Norman Trevor and Hallam Cooley. The film was released on September 29, 1929, by Universal Pictures.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-29
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Manhattan Serenade
1929-12-21
Manhattan Serenade
Overview: An homage to NYC in the form of a short travelogue.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-21
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Lord Byron of Broadway
1930-02-28
Lord Byron of Broadway
Overview: A talented songwriter gets his inspiration for songs from others and not from within himself. He is oblivious that he may harm other people when he uses their stories or their love for himself.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-28
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Crimes Square
1931-03-26
Crimes Square
Overview: When a crook decides to go straight, his jealous cast off moll exposes him to the police.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-26
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Grand Slam
1933-02-22
Grand Slam
Overview: A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-22
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The Blonde Bomber
1936-11-28
The Blonde Bomber
Overview: The Palooka gang is out of money again, and Knobby and Johnny try to raise some quick cash by selling phony watches. Their first sale is their last, when a burly customer realizes he's been had. Next stop, Joe, Knobby and Punchy load up at a local diner, and Knobby has a scheme to skip out on the bill. Of course, the diner owner turns out to be their watch customer, and the boys make a hasty exit with the manager's waitress girlfriend in tow. Knobby books Palooka into a local vaudeville house to put on some exhibition bouts. Of course, their friend from the diner is in the audience, with a bag of rotten tomatoes, and he's more than willing to come on stage when Knobby asks for a volunteer to box with Joe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-28
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Fifty Fathoms Deep
1931-08-20
Fifty Fathoms Deep
Overview: In this high-seas adventure, a woman creates a great rift between old friends: an experienced older diver, and his younger protege. They become enemies when a gold-digger marries the latter. She soon leaves him in favor of a wealthy yachtsman. She is aboard his boat when an accident occurs. The two divers must salvage the costly boat before it sinks.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-20
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Saturday's Millions
1933-09-30
Saturday's Millions
Overview: Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-30
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The Silver Lining
1932-04-16
The Silver Lining
Overview: A women in prison tale. One's rich, one's poor. Can they prosper after prison?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-16
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Love Me Tonight
1932-08-18
Love Me Tonight
Overview: A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-18
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The Miracle Woman
1931-07-17
The Miracle Woman
Overview: After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-17
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The River Woman
1928-12-01
The River Woman
Overview: A drama of the underworld of the old Mississippi River
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-01
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Half a Bride
1928-06-16
Half a Bride
Overview: Patience Winslow is an impulsive heiress who marries a much-older man whom she really doesn't love. While honeymooning on her yacht without her new husband, Patience is marooned on a desert island with handsome Captain Edmunds. Her head full of notions that she's gleaned from radio dramas and pulp novels, Patience demands that she and Edmunds enter into an in-name-only marriage, observing the responsibilities and proprieties of matrimony without the sexual entanglements. Complications naturally arise.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-16
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The Third Alarm
1930-11-16
The Third Alarm
Overview: The story of the firemen at Engine House No.8, where widower Frank "Dad" Brooks is the beloved veteran and whose children, Milly and Jimmie, are especially fond of firemen Dan and "Beauty" Johnson. The problem of the day is concern whether or not Brooks is going to qualify for a pension...until a three-alarm inferno breaks out at the orphanage.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-16
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Naughty Marietta
1935-03-29
Naughty Marietta
Overview: In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-29
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Movie Crazy
1932-09-23
Movie Crazy
Overview: After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-23
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