Jed Prouty
Biography: From Wikipedia Jed Prouty (April 6, 1879 – May 10, 1956) was an American film actor. Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Prouty was a vaudeville performer before becoming a film actor. Mostly appearing in comedies, he occasionally performed a serious character role, for instance a small part as an oily publicist in A Star is Born (1937).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 05, 1879
Deathday: May 10, 1956
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The Old Homestead
1942-08-17
The Old Homestead
Overview: In this entry in the "Weaver Family" series, the town of Farmington is being plagued by a crime wave. The angry citizens are ready to impeach the mayor, June Weaver, and the police chief, Leon Weaver. To end the crime and preserve her career, June feigns corruption and hires a real gangster to get rid of the local mobs. Unfortunately, a bona fide crooked councilman intervenes and makes real mob connections causing an earnest journalist to launch a front page attack.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-17
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Sophie Lang Goes West
1937-09-10
Sophie Lang Goes West
Overview: Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a jewel disappears, decides to head for California only to get into more trouble.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-10
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942-03-27
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Overview: A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-27
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Why Leave Home?
1929-10-01
Why Leave Home?
Overview: Fox musical.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-01
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The Conquest of Canaan
1921-07-10
The Conquest of Canaan
Overview: Joe Louden is an outcast in the small town of Canaan, and is especially disliked by Judge Pike. There is one inhabitant, however, who is fond of Joe -- the pretty but poor Ariel Tabor. But she inherits some money and goes to Paris with her father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-10
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Sonny Boy
1929-04-18
Sonny Boy
Overview: Sonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into kidnapping him because she is terrified that her husband will take the boy out of the country after the divorce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-18
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Sadie Love
1919-10-19
Sadie Love
Overview: Society miss Sadie Love has just wed Prince Luigi Pallavincini when she gets a phone call from Jimmie Wakely, a suitor she has not seen in a year. She allows him to come by and declare his love but doesn't bother telling him she has just gotten married. Without giving it much thought, she decides she likes Wakely better and runs off with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-19
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Guilty Bystander
1950-04-20
Guilty Bystander
Overview: A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-20
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No Place to Go
1927-10-30
No Place to Go
Overview: Starry-eyed heiress Mary Astor yearns for a "cave man" who will treat her rough and make her like it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-30
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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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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1939-06-02
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Overview: The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-02
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The Texas Rangers
1936-08-28
The Texas Rangers
Overview: Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-28
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Love Time
1934-11-03
Love Time
Overview: Newly arrived in the nineteenth century court of Emperor Francis 1st of Austria Countess Valerie happens to overhear a young pianist and advises him to play with more feeling, for he is playing a piece by Franz Schubert, her favorite composer. Unknown to Valerie, the man is Schubert, and he playfully keeps his identity a secret. Valerie visits Franz the next day, and he teaches her to play the violin part of a new song he has written, and she hopes for romance though he still longs for his lost love Caroline. But as a week passes, he forgets Caroline and returns Valerie's affections. When Franz is evicted, there is much tumult, but he is finally called to court where his music is celebrated, and Valerie and he are reunited.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-03
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Hollywood Cavalcade
1939-10-13
Hollywood Cavalcade
Overview: Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-13
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Experience
1921-08-07
Experience
Overview: Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure and hangs out at the Primrose Path with the likes of Temptation and Intoxication. Back home, Youth's mother dies, and Love tries unsuccessfully to reach him. When Youth's money runs out his newfound friends all leave him and he sinks into a life of drug addiction, aided by Habit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-07
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Kick In
1922-12-17
Kick In
Overview: After serving time in Sing Sing, Chic Hewes wants to go straight, but when he refuses to be a stool pigeon for the cops, they hound him mercilessly. Hewes witnesses a car accident in which Jerry Brandon, the son of the district attorney, runs over a child. He also meets Molly, the D.A.'s daughter. Because he feels the child's mother was treated unfairly, Hewes decides to pull one last heist to square things.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-17
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The Great Adventure
1921-01-06
The Great Adventure
Overview: An artist pretends to be a valet to escape a woman's advances. He marries another woman but must keep painting in secret to make enough money.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-06
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Special Investigator
1936-05-08
Special Investigator
Overview: A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-08
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Don Juan's 3 Nights
1926-09-04
Don Juan's 3 Nights
Overview: A concert pianist who is popular with women tries to discourage a teenage admirer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-04
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The Jones Family in Hollywood
1939-06-02
The Jones Family in Hollywood
Overview: Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-02
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Manhattan Tower
1932-12-01
Manhattan Tower
Overview: The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-01
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The Crime Nobody Saw
1937-03-12
The Crime Nobody Saw
Overview: Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-12
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The Duke of West Point
1938-12-29
The Duke of West Point
Overview: A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-29
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Big Business
1937-06-18
Big Business
Overview: A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-18
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Unexpected Uncle
1941-11-07
Unexpected Uncle
Overview: An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-07
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The Big Bluff
1933-12-02
The Big Bluff
Overview: In order to show up a rival, a snobbish woman throws a party and hires an actor to pretend to be from British royalty who is an "old friend".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-02
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Happy Go Lucky
1936-12-13
Happy Go Lucky
Overview: A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold the experimental airplane that he was flying. Foreign gangsters, the missing flyers girlfriend, and the U.S. military wants him, dead or alive.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-13
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Remedy for Riches
1940-11-29
Remedy for Riches
Overview: A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr. Christian" series of six films.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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Goodbye Broadway
1938-04-01
Goodbye Broadway
Overview: Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singers, a trained dog and an educated seal. Harry Clark, the clerk at the rundown Swanzey Hotel, insults Pat and the latter uses the $4000, that he and Molly have been saving for years to buy a retirement farm, to buy the hotel so he can fire Harry. Local skinflint, J.A. Higgins wants the hotel as he knows the state has intentions to buy it for a museum, but Pat won't sell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-01
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Dangerous Holiday
1937-06-06
Dangerous Holiday
Overview: A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-06
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College Holiday
1936-12-19
College Holiday
Overview: College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-19
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Small Town Boy
1937-09-24
Small Town Boy
Overview: Henry Armstrong was past being a spring chicken, still believes in Santa Claus and the maxim that "honesty is the best policy", but lack of money keeps him from marrying Molly and buying a little home, and his is threatened with the loss of the petty job he has had for four years with old Curtis French, Molly's uncle, because he can not sell enough insurance policies. And, then, he finds a thousand dollar bill. His honesty makes him advertise the find, but no one claims the money. When he is convinced that the owner will not turn up and that the money is his to keep, he becomes a changed, more aggressive and self-confident person. He begins to make sales as fast as he can make the pitch and he insists that he and Molly be married at once. While getting dressed for the ceremony, he places the $1000 bill in one of his father's old suits, and Pa Armstrong, trying to raise money to buy his son a wedding present, sells the suit to a passing junk man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-24
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Love on a Budget
1938-03-04
Love on a Budget
Overview: This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-04
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Go West, Young Lady
1941-11-27
Go West, Young Lady
Overview: A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-27
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Life Begins in College
1937-10-01
Life Begins in College
Overview: When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be on the team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-01
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Business and Pleasure
1932-02-24
Business and Pleasure
Overview: On a Mediterranean cruise, Earl Tinker, a manufacturer of razor blades, is the target of a femme fatale in the pay of a business rival, and he becomes embroiled in a feud between two Arab tribes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-24
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Little Miss Nobody
1936-06-05
Little Miss Nobody
Overview: A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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The Devil's Holiday
1930-05-09
The Devil's Holiday
Overview: Beautiful manicurist Hallie Hobart sets her sights on handsome David Stone, the son of wealthy wheat farmer Ezra Stone. Professing to hate men, Hallie is only interested in luring David in for a lucrative business deal. David easily falls in love, but older brother Mark brands Hallie a gold-digger. To get even with the straight-laced Stone family, Hallie accepts David's marriage proposal.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-09
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The Age for Love
1931-10-17
The Age for Love
Overview: A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and marries a woman who does.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-17
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Exile Express
1939-05-27
Exile Express
Overview: A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-27
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Danger on the Air
1938-06-30
Danger on the Air
Overview: Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-30
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The Florodora Girl
1930-05-31
The Florodora Girl
Overview: A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-31
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Night Nurse
1931-07-16
Night Nurse
Overview: Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-16
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His Brother's Wife
1936-08-07
His Brother's Wife
Overview: Epidemiologist Cliff Claybourne falls in love with Rita Wilson in a gambling house. They want to marry but Cliff's brother is convinced Rita is no good and forces Cliff to fulfill his agreement to do research in Africa in exchange for paying gambling debt. Rita, Cliff and brother are furious with each other, but Rita and Cliff are still in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-07
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Strangers May Kiss
1931-04-04
Strangers May Kiss
Overview: After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casual romance with journalist Alan. Against the advice of her happily married aunt Celia -- who encourages her to demand a serious commitment -- Lisbeth continues to see Alan, even after she hears he may have a wife in France. When Alan's work sends him abroad, a lovesick Lisbeth struggles to understand her feelings.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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A Trip to Paris
1938-05-06
A Trip to Paris
Overview: The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-06
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His Captive Woman
1929-02-03
His Captive Woman
Overview: Cabaret dancer Anna Janssen kills her sugardaddy and escapes to a South Seas island on the yacht of a wealthy admirer. Stolid, conscientious Tom McCarthy, a New York detective, is sent after Anna and arrests her, chartering a steamer to bring her back to the United States. The steamer sinks, and Anna and Tom are stranded on a small island. They fall in love, and Tom's influence brings about a benign change in Anna's character. They are rescued, however, and Anna is placed on trial for her life. Tom takes the stand in her defense and informs the judge of Anna's conversion in the solitude of the island. The judge instructs Tom to marry Anna and then sentences them to life--on the island where they found happiness together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-03
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Skyway
1933-08-29
Skyway
Overview: A cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where her father is president.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-29
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Black Sheep
1935-08-01
Black Sheep
Overview: On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized by a jewel thief. The young man turns out to be his son he's not seen since infancy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-01
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Too Busy to Work
1939-11-17
Too Busy to Work
Overview: The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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Souls for Sale
1923-04-22
Souls for Sale
Overview: A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-22
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Ella Cinders
1926-06-06
Ella Cinders
Overview: Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-06
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Everybody's Acting
1926-10-04
Everybody's Acting
Overview: Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the troupe adopted and raised her. When grown, she has become the leading lady in a San Francisco stock-company. She meets and falls in love with Ted, the millionaire son of a rich widow, but she thinks he is only a tax-cab driver. His mother objects to the romance and looks into Doris' past. She learns that her father had murdered, in a fit of jealousy, her mother, and tells Doris what she has found out. The four actors who had raised her had never told her how she happened to become an orphan. They persuade Ted's mother to send him on a voyage to the Orient in order to get him away from Doris. But they neglected to tell the mother they had also booked passage for Doris on the same ship.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-04
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You Can't Have Everything
1937-08-02
You Can't Have Everything
Overview: Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-02
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Scarlet Saint
1925-11-08
Scarlet Saint
Overview: Heroine Fidele Tridon has grown up with the knowledge that her father has promised her in marriage to Baron Kurt Badeau. When Fidele comes of age, the Baron shows up expecting to claim his young bride. In the interim, however, Fidele has fallen in love with wealthy horseman Philip Collett.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-08
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Quick Millions
1939-08-25
Quick Millions
Overview: In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-25
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It's a Great Life
1929-12-06
It's a Great Life
Overview: Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As expected, things are going wrong with every act until Casey comes out to help Babe with her song. They are a hit, but in the final act, Casey again comes out and this time the president sees her act and fires both her and Babe on the spot. Benny is able to book Casey, Babe and Dean into Vaudeville and their act is popular. But before they have their shot at stardom, Dean and Babe leave Casey and the act.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-06
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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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His Greatest Gamble
1934-08-10
His Greatest Gamble
Overview: A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-10
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True to the Navy
1930-05-25
True to the Navy
Overview: Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets her eyes on Bull's Eye McCoy a gunner who refuses to settle down.
Genres: Action Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-25
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Champagne Charlie
1936-05-06
Champagne Charlie
Overview: The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-06
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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940-11-02
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Overview: Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-02
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I'll Tell the World
1939-03-09
I'll Tell the World
Overview: This 40-minute short, produced for MacFadden Publications, is basically a plug for the selling power of ads placed in the pages of "Liberty Magazine," a MacFadden publication.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-09
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Hold 'Em Jail
1932-08-19
Hold 'Em Jail
Overview: Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-19
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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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It Happened in Flatbush
1942-05-28
It Happened in Flatbush
Overview: A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-28
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Barnyard Follies
1940-10-05
Barnyard Follies
Overview: A country orphanage puts on a show with some musicians to save their 4H club from being shut down by greedy politicians.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-05
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Every Saturday Night
1936-03-13
Every Saturday Night
Overview: First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-13
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Educating Father
1936-05-23
Educating Father
Overview: Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-23
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Father Steps Out
1941-07-19
Father Steps Out
Overview: Story concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent on an R&R vacation by his doctor, falling off his private train-car and landing in a hobo jungle occupied by Faylen and Hall, and being cured of all his ills, while reporter Jimmy Dugan (Frank Albertson) poses as a doctor in order to get an exclusive story about the railroad takeover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-19
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Keep Smiling
1938-08-12
Keep Smiling
Overview: Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-12
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Everybody's Baby
1939-03-24
Everybody's Baby
Overview: The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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Music in the Air
1934-12-13
Music in the Air
Overview: A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-13
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Murder on the Blackboard
1934-06-15
Murder on the Blackboard
Overview: There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-15
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Life Begins at Forty
1935-03-22
Life Begins at Forty
Overview: A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-22
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She Had to Say Yes
1933-07-15
She Had to Say Yes
Overview: Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have been using professional female entertainers to keep their clients very happy, but the clients are getting bored of them. Tommy convinces management to replace the professionals with "volunteers" from the pool of stenographers. Inevitably some clients expectations are greater than their "dates", boyfriends become unhappy, and the "voluntary" duty becomes less so over time. At first, Tommy prevents Florence from being a volunteer, but eventually the prospect of a bonus becomes too great and he encourages her to volunteer. Afterwards, Tommy considers Florence a loose woman.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-15
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One Hundred Men and a Girl
1937-09-05
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Overview: The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold Stokowski to lead them in a concert that leads to a radio contract.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-05
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Mug Town
1942-12-18
Mug Town
Overview: Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-18
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Young as You Feel
1940-02-16
Young as You Feel
Overview: Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-16
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The Secret Call
1931-07-24
The Secret Call
Overview: The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy Shannon plays Wanda Kelly, the daughter of a disgraced politician. Reduced to working as a switchboard operator, Wanda is privy to the many secrets and indiscretions of the clients of a big-city hotel. She also finds romance in the form of handsome Tom Blake (Richard Arlen). The huge cast of characters comes in handy for the film's multitude of subplots, none of which ever get their wires crossed. Peggy Shannon acquits herself nicely in her first major role, but by the end of the decade her career was in decline.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-24
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Roar of the Press
1941-04-17
Roar of the Press
Overview: While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-17
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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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Two Weeks Off
1929-05-11
Two Weeks Off
Overview: Frances, a salesgirl, is planning a summer vacation at the beach with a girlfriend, who also works at her store. Just as she is getting ready to leave home, Dave, a handsome young plumber, arrives to repair a leaky faucet. Her vacation turns into a bust when it rains at the beach, but a hunky lifeguard shows up to brighten her day. Then, of all people, Dave the plumber shows up, too. Complications ensue.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-11
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A Star Is Born
1937-04-27
A Star Is Born
Overview: Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-27
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The Gold Diggers
1923-09-22
The Gold Diggers
Overview: Stephen Lee doesn't want his nephew Wally Sanders to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, because he believes all chorus girls to be ruthless gold diggers, always chasing after the men's money. Violet's friend Jerry La Mar decides to 'gold dig' Stephen, to show him what a nice and unselfish girl Violet is, but then she realizes that she's really in love with Stephen Lee....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-22
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Walking Down Broadway
1938-03-11
Walking Down Broadway
Overview: Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-11
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Paid
1930-12-30
Paid
Overview: Mary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her conviction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-30
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The Purchase Price
1932-07-23
The Purchase Price
Overview: Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-23
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Obliging Young Lady
1942-04-01
Obliging Young Lady
Overview: A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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The Fall of Eve
1929-06-17
The Fall of Eve
Overview: Tom Ford, Jr., keeps secret his romance with his father's secretary, Eve Grant. Ford, Sr., enlists Eve to entertain out-of-town buyer Mr. Mack. When Mack's wife insists on joining the nightclub party, Eve is introduced as Mrs. Ford. While listening to a radio broadcast from the nightclub, Mrs. Ford is alarmed by the announcement that a certain dance tune has been requested by "Mr. and Mrs. Tom Ford." Ford enlists his son to help extricate him from his difficulties with the boorish couple. Tom agrees to help if Ford, Sr., will consent to his marriage. After the party moves to the Ford home, the intoxicated Mr. Mack and his corpulent wife decide to stay the night. As they are about to retire, Mrs. Ford returns and calls the police, having seen an unfamiliar figure raiding her icebox. Tom explains the situation to everyone's satisfaction and introduces Eve as his bride.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-17
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Under Your Spell
1936-11-06
Under Your Spell
Overview: A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
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Navy Wife
1935-09-17
Navy Wife
Overview: A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-17
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Miss Nobody
1926-06-27
Miss Nobody
Overview: The father of an heiress dies broke leaving her destitute without inheritance. She falls in with a group of hobos traveling incognito cross country dressed as a man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-27
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Scattergood Rides High
1942-05-08
Scattergood Rides High
Overview: When Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a harness race Scattergood tells Martin's son Dan that he will send him to college if he forgets about taking over his father's business, which was heavily mortgaged and has been put up for auction after Knox's death. The boy reluctantly agrees, but when he discovers that his favorite horse Starlight is sick, he decides to bring the animal back to health and then enter him in the Governor's Race, whose $5000 prize would enable Dan to pay off his father's mortgage and keep the business in the family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-08
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Bachelor Daddy
1941-06-04
Bachelor Daddy
Overview: The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-04
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Back to Nature
1936-08-14
Back to Nature
Overview: The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-14
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Hot Water
1937-09-24
Hot Water
Overview: The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-24
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Borrowing Trouble
1937-12-10
Borrowing Trouble
Overview: The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-10
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Safety in Numbers
1938-05-30
Safety in Numbers
Overview: The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-30
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Down on the Farm
1938-10-11
Down on the Farm
Overview: Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-11
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I Believed in You
1934-04-09
I Believed in You
Overview: An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of good fortune. Unfortunately, the agitator soon finds himself in trouble with the cops. Meanwhile the writer attempts to become a Greenwich Village Bohemian type. She and her new friends are all starving for their art until a kindly gent offers them financial assistant. They refuse on principle. Tragedy pays a call when the writer learns that her boyfriend has been untrue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-09
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The Secret of Madame Blanche
1933-02-03
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Overview: A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-03
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The Big Parade of Comedy
1964-09-02
The Big Parade of Comedy
Overview: Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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70,000 Witnesses
1932-09-09
70,000 Witnesses
Overview: College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-09
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The Knockout
1925-08-23
The Knockout
Overview: A Lambert Hillyer silent romantic love triangle boxing sports lumberjack logging melodrama about a world champion boxer who must retire due to an arm injury. He becomes a lumberjack, and becomes involved with the daughter of the owner, but rivals sabotage their operation, and the boxer has to return to the ring to save the owner from bankruptcy and win the hand of the daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-23
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Bred in Old Kentucky
1926-11-21
Bred in Old Kentucky
Overview: Katie O'Doone is left a worthless, run-down estate and a thoroughbred race horse. She mortgages the property in order to get the money needed to enter her horse in the Derby. Dennis Reilly, a wealthy sportsman, also has a horse in the race and his jockey accidentally runs Reilly's horse into Kate's horse, causing her horse to lose. She swears vengeance on O'Reilly. She is forced to go to work for a crooked bookie, Jake Trumbull, and a crooked competitor of Reilly's,Tod Cuyler, who plan on switching a dead-ringer horse for Reilly's favored-to-win horse, and clean up betting against Reilly's horse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-21
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One Hour Late
1934-12-14
One Hour Late
Overview: A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to propose marriage to her.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Jimmy and Sally
1933-11-04
Jimmy and Sally
Overview: Jimmy is a wiseguy press agent whose efforts to promote a meat-packing firm come to naught. Our hero is fired from his job, whereupon his sweetheart Sally steps in, immediately succeeding where Jimmy had failed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-04
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The Coast of Folly
1925-09-21
The Coast of Folly
Overview: Silent film drama...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-21
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Off to the Races
1937-02-05
Off to the Races
Overview: The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-05
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Look Who's Laughing
1941-11-21
Look Who's Laughing
Overview: Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufacturer to build a factory in the small town of Wistful Vista. Based on the "Fibber McGee and Molly" radio series
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-21
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Mr. Bell
1947-03-13
Mr. Bell
Overview: This is 1947 biography movie about how Alexander Graham Bell and his partner Thomas Augustus Watson invented the first discernible speech, transmitted over a telephone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-13
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Can This Be Dixie?
1936-11-13
Can This Be Dixie?
Overview: A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-13
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The Girl of the Golden West
1923-05-03
The Girl of the Golden West
Overview: Not realizing he is a bandit The Girl, owner of the Polka Saloon, falls in love with Ramerrez. Trapped by a snowstorm Ramerrez is forced to stay the night with The Girl. Upon discovering the situation jealousy drives dancer Nina Micheltorena to reveal his identity and whereabouts to Sheriff Jack Rance, who also loves The Girl. Ramerrez is shot trying to escape, and though she denies his presence she shelters him. Drops of blood prove lead to his discovery. Taking a chance The Girl wins both their freedom in a poker game with the sheriff. However incited by Nina, vigilantes are about to lynch Ramerrez when the sheriff interferes, explains his bargain, and restores him to The Girl.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-03
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Name the Woman
1928-05-25
Name the Woman
Overview: Directed by Erle C. Kenton. With Anita Stewart, Huntley Gordon, Gaston Glass, Chappell Dossett.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-25
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