Eddie Shubert
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 10, 1898
Deathday: January 23, 1937
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Return of the Terror
1934-07-07
Return of the Terror
Overview: "The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-07
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The Dragon Murder Case
1934-08-25
The Dragon Murder Case
Overview: Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-25
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Alibi Ike
1935-06-15
Alibi Ike
Overview: Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-15
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The Goose and the Gander
1935-09-21
The Goose and the Gander
Overview: When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-21
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Song of the Saddle
1936-02-28
Song of the Saddle
Overview: Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets away. He comes back 10 years later to settle the score as the Singing Cowboy. He finds that Hook is still doing his dirty deeds on the unsuspecting people. Along the way, Frank meets the lovely Jen, who came out in the same wagon train 10 years before.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-28
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He Was Her Man
1934-06-16
He Was Her Man
Overview: A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-16
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A Lost Lady
1934-09-29
A Lost Lady
Overview: A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-29
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The Case of the Howling Dog
1934-09-22
The Case of the Howling Dog
Overview: A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-22
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The St. Louis Kid
1934-11-10
The St. Louis Kid
Overview: Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-10
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Heat Lightning
1934-03-01
Heat Lightning
Overview: A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-01
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Man Of The People
1937-01-27
Man Of The People
Overview: An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-27
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Broadway Hostess
1935-12-07
Broadway Hostess
Overview: Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-07
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The Personality Kid
1934-06-06
The Personality Kid
Overview: An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-06
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Dangerous
1935-12-25
Dangerous
Overview: Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-25
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Gentlemen Are Born
1934-11-17
Gentlemen Are Born
Overview: A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-17
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
1936-01-11
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Overview: A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-11
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The Big Noise
1936-06-22
The Big Noise
Overview: The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers, who promise dire consequences if Trent doesn't dance to their tune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-22
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Maybe It's Love
1935-01-12
Maybe It's Love
Overview: Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-12
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Friends of Mr. Sweeney
1934-07-28
Friends of Mr. Sweeney
Overview: Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-28
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While the Patient Slept
1935-03-09
While the Patient Slept
Overview: A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-09
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Boulder Dam
1936-03-07
Boulder Dam
Overview: Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-07
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The Stage Hand
1933-09-07
The Stage Hand
Overview: The story is set in the village of Oskaloosa, which is in Iowa -- Langdon's home state. A silent movie-style opening title informs us that the town needs a new fire engine, so they decide to stage a play to raise the money. (Nothing more is heard about this, but the finale involves a fire emergency at the theater.) In the opening scene the community players rehearse at the home of the director, a pompous lady named Mrs. Winters. Harry, of course, is The Stage Hand.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-07
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Libeled Lady
1936-10-09
Libeled Lady
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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Trailin' West
1936-09-04
Trailin' West
Overview: A singing secret agent tracks down renegades at President Lincoln's request.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-04
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Time Out for Romance
1937-02-10
Time Out for Romance
Overview: A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-10
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Man Hunt
1936-01-29
Man Hunt
Overview: A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-29
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The Circus Clown
1934-06-30
The Circus Clown
Overview: A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-30
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All American Chump
1936-10-16
All American Chump
Overview: A country bumpkin who's a mathematical genius falls into the hands of gangsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-16
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I Sell Anything
1934-10-20
I Sell Anything
Overview: Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-20
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The Payoff
1935-01-09
The Payoff
Overview: An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-09
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Sons o' Guns
1936-05-13
Sons o' Guns
Overview: Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-13
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Satan Met a Lady
1936-07-22
Satan Met a Lady
Overview: In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-22
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Little Big Shot
1935-09-07
Little Big Shot
Overview: A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-07
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Gypsy Sweetheart
1935-03-30
Gypsy Sweetheart
Overview: Tina, a singing Gypsy with a band of roving gypsies, is invited by Tom to come over to his mother's estate where a lawn party is in progress. She brings along her friends and a whole caravan of gypsies take over the green, telling fortunes, singing and dancing. Most of the comedy is supplied by the kleptomaniac butler, Bellingham, and his employer who humors his nutty ways...as good help seems to be hard to find.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-30
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Dinky
1935-05-11
Dinky
Overview: A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-11
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Dangerous Number
1937-01-22
Dangerous Number
Overview: Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave the groom-to-be and marry him. Shortly after the marriage, they discover that they have nothing in common. They separate. Hank decides to pick any name from the phone book and date them. That date results in a wild and frightful night for Hank, thanks to Eleanor's clever plan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-22
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Road Gang
1936-03-28
Road Gang
Overview: A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-28
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Murder in the Clouds
1934-12-15
Murder in the Clouds
Overview: Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-15
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Bullets or Ballots
1936-06-06
Bullets or Ballots
Overview: After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-06
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Fog Over Frisco
1934-06-02
Fog Over Frisco
Overview: Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-02
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Don't Bet on Blondes
1935-07-13
Don't Bet on Blondes
Overview: Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-13
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Snowed Under
1936-03-29
Snowed Under
Overview: Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer Arthur Layton sends Alice, Alan's first wife, to help him stick to business. But then Daisy, his second wife, shows up wanting her alimony. Stranded with two wives, a girlfriend, and a jug of applejack, Alan still has to finish his play!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-29
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Here Comes the Navy
1934-07-21
Here Comes the Navy
Overview: A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-21
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The Case of the Velvet Claws
1936-07-03
The Case of the Velvet Claws
Overview: Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a woman with a gun and $5000.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-03
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The Law in Her Hands
1936-05-16
The Law in Her Hands
Overview: A female lawyer sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-16
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