Esther Muir
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 11, 1903
Deathday: August 01, 1995
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A Day at the Races
1937-06-11
A Day at the Races
Overview: Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-11
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Joy Ride
1928-01-01
Joy Ride
Overview: Comedy sketch in which a pair of hapless guys try to pick up a couple of girls. The girls perform a song, then depart. When the guys attempt to follow, their car breaks down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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Wine, Women and Song
1933-03-27
Wine, Women and Song
Overview: The story of aging chorus girl Frankie Arnette, who'll do anything for publicity. Fiercely ambitious, Frankie even promises that if she is given a leading role in an upcoming Broadway musical, prominent producer Morgan Andrews will be allowed to enjoy the "attentions" of her own daughter Marilyn. But Marilyn is in love with likeable Ray Joyce, and wants no part of her mother's intrigues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-27
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The Girl and the Gambler
1939-06-15
The Girl and the Gambler
Overview: An outlaw kidnaps a dancer and her lover in order to win a bet.
Genres: Western Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-15
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Sunset Murder Case
1938-11-11
Sunset Murder Case
Overview: Small-time showgirl poses as a stripper to infiltrate a nightclub whose owner is believed responsible for her father's murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-11
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The Law West of Tombstone
1938-11-18
The Law West of Tombstone
Overview: A blustering gunfighter talks himself into the position of mayor in a small western town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-18
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Sweepings
1933-04-14
Sweepings
Overview: Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-14
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So This Is Africa
1933-04-21
So This Is Africa
Overview: Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-21
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City Girl
1938-01-07
City Girl
Overview: In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she leaves her honest boyfriend the district attorney to take up with a notorious gangster who lavishes her with stolen furs and fabulous diamonds. She has no idea that the crook is only using her as a pawn in his scheme to learn the DA's secrets. When she finally does learn the truth, she gives up her life for truth, justice and love.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-07
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Public Stenographer
1934-01-09
Public Stenographer
Overview: A stenographer who works at a large hotel finds herself caught in the middle of a major swindle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-09
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High Hat
1937-01-01
High Hat
Overview: An opera singer whose career is on the wane finds newfound fame doing popular songs on the radio.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Western Jamboree
1938-12-02
Western Jamboree
Overview: Knowing that is contains valuable helium gas, a gang of bad guys first tries to purchase the ranch which Gene straw-bosses. When that fails, they lay a hidden pipeline to snag the gas.
Genres: Romance Western Action Adventure Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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Battle of Broadway
1938-04-22
Battle of Broadway
Overview: The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son's romance with a showgirl. Director George Marshall's 1938 comedy stars Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Raymond Walburn, Hattie McDaniel, Lynn Bari, Robert Kellard, Jane Darwell, Andrew Tombes, Esther Muir and Frank Moran.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-22
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Sailor's Luck
1933-03-17
Sailor's Luck
Overview: U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San Francisco, but Jimmy becomes jealous and tells her off when he learns Sally has entered a marathon dance contest sponsored by a lecherous snake named Baron Portola. Along with several of his Navy pals, Jimmy goes to the ballroom the night of the dance marathon, to try to change Sally's mind and win her back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-17
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Misbehaving Husbands
1940-12-20
Misbehaving Husbands
Overview: Marital comedy in which a department store mannequin is mistaken for "the other woman".
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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The Gay Deception
1935-09-13
The Gay Deception
Overview: A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-13
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On Again—Off Again
1937-07-09
On Again—Off Again
Overview: This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-09
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It Always Happens
1935-09-14
It Always Happens
Overview: While on a business trip, Andy accidentially gets into a compromising position with the wife of a client.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-14
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X Marks the Spot
1942-11-04
X Marks the Spot
Overview: A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his prime suspect is murdered as well, and he finds himself framed for the crime. As more witnesses get murdered, he finds himself on the run from both the police and former Prohibition violators who seem to have found a new racket.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-04
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Racing Luck
1935-11-19
Racing Luck
Overview: Racehorse-owner Dan Morgan is ruled off the track and out of racing when his horse is doped by a rival owner who knows that Dan's horse can win a high-stakes race. Trying to clear his name, Dan runs into many difficulties and incidents, including a blazing barn filled with valuable horses, before he is able to gather the needed evidence against the guilty man.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-19
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I'll Take Romance
1937-11-17
I'll Take Romance
Overview: Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-17
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Three Comrades
1938-06-02
Three Comrades
Overview: A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-02
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A Dangerous Affair
1931-09-29
A Dangerous Affair
Overview: Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook. After the two men verbally duel over a variety of details, they hunker down to business, that of solving the murder of a lawyer who was in the midst of reading a will to a motley collection of heirs.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-29
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Caravan
1934-12-30
Caravan
Overview: A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-30
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939-03-29
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Overview: In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-29
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Fury
1936-06-05
Fury
Overview: Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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Under Suspicion
1937-11-22
Under Suspicion
Overview: Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his millions away to various charitable causes. Naturally, this arouses hostility amongst Bailey's friends, relatives and associates, some of whom have murder on their minds.
Genres: Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-22
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Here's to Romance
1935-10-04
Here's to Romance
Overview: Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-04
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Stolen Paradise
1940-12-16
Stolen Paradise
Overview: Robert Gordon, a sheltered 18-year-old youth reared in a Catholic school, believes he has a vocation for the priesthood. He is taken to live with his father in his palatial Florida home. There he falls in love with his step-sister, Patricia Morrow, ten years his senior. He runs away and joins the R.A.F. Shot down in battle, he is rescued and taken to a monastery where he renounces the world to study for the priesthood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-16
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The Mayor of 44th Street
1942-10-15
The Mayor of 44th Street
Overview: In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out. Unfortunately, the local gang of hood's leader resists his attempts. More trouble ensues when the dancer helps a convict gain parole by hiring him. It later turns out that the ex-con is only interested in trying to use the agency as a front for extortion. Songs include the Oscar nominated "When There's a Breeze on Lake Louise," "Your Face Looks Familiar," "Heavenly, Isn't He?" "Let's Forget It," "You're Bad For Me," and "A Million Miles From Manhattan."
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-15
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Unknown Blonde
1934-04-23
Unknown Blonde
Overview: An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-23
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Honky Tonk
1941-10-01
Honky Tonk
Overview: Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Genres: Western Drama Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-01
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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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That's Entertainment, Part II
1976-05-16
That's Entertainment, Part II
Overview: Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-16
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I Love That Man
1933-07-07
I Love That Man
Overview: Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across the country until they decide to settle down in a small town and give up their life of crime. He goes into business and all seems to be going well until some ex-partners he double crossed show up in town demanding the money he cheated them out of.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-07
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Romance in the Dark
1938-03-24
Romance in the Dark
Overview: A baritone aids a young servant in making her dream of singing professionally come true.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-24
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His Weak Moment
1933-10-13
His Weak Moment
Overview: A comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-13
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