Rita La Roy
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 02, 1901
Deathday: February 17, 1993
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Name the Woman
1934-07-25
Name the Woman
Overview: Directed by Albert S. Rogell. With Richard Cromwell, Arline Judge, Rita La Roy, Charles C. Wilson.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-25
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Blonde Venus
1932-09-23
Blonde Venus
Overview: In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-23
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Hot Saturday
1932-10-28
Hot Saturday
Overview: A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-28
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The Mandarin Mystery
1936-12-23
The Mandarin Mystery
Overview: Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-23
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One Is Guilty
1934-05-03
One Is Guilty
Overview: Police Inspector Steve Trent is called to the Radford Arms, a high-rise apartment building that has been taken over by a bank and its apartments now-unoccupied.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-03
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Midnight Mystery
1930-06-01
Midnight Mystery
Overview: A fog-shrouded house provides the setting for this early talkies thriller.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-01
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You're My Everything
1949-07-22
You're My Everything
Overview: In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-22
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A Holy Terror
1931-07-19
A Holy Terror
Overview: Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may know something about it. En route he crashes his plane into Jerry's bathroom; she falls in love with him which makes her suitor Steve jealous.
Genres: Western Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-19
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Masquerade
1929-07-14
Masquerade
Overview: The second version of Louis Joseph Vance's 1907 mystery melodrama The Brass Bowl. The story of a wealthy world traveler and his evil lookalike, the master criminal Anisty.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-14
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Come Across
1938-05-14
Come Across
Overview: A bank robber pulls off a heist and comes out with a good haul. However, he winds up being forced to give most of it to his gangland "friends" to hide him from the police, and who now turn their backs on him when his money runs out.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-14
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Don't Be Nervous
1929-07-06
Don't Be Nervous
Overview: Gangster leader Nick the Sheik is released from jail and manages to run into "collector of rare coins" Vernon Snodgrass, who looks exactly like him. With the cops after Nick AND Nick's old girlfriend wanting to get the romance cooking, you can imagine the confusion that ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-06
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Conspiracy
1930-08-10
Conspiracy
Overview: Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric mystery writer Winthrop Clavering help unravel the truth about the murder.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-10
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Sin Takes a Holiday
1930-11-10
Sin Takes a Holiday
Overview: Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from ugly duckling to uninhibited swan and even contemplates having an affair with a man she meets during a trip to Paris.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-10
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From Hell to Heaven
1933-02-24
From Hell to Heaven
Overview: The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in different ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-24
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Hold That Woman!
1940-06-28
Hold That Woman!
Overview: A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang that has stolen diamonds from a Hollywood movie star has stashed them inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
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The Gay Diplomat
1931-08-22
The Gay Diplomat
Overview: Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-22
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Condemned Women
1938-03-18
Condemned Women
Overview: A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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Traveling Husbands
1931-08-15
Traveling Husbands
Overview: A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-15
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Lovin' the Ladies
1930-04-06
Lovin' the Ladies
Overview: A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to fall for with each other and get engaged within a month.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-06
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Whirlpool
1934-04-10
Whirlpool
Overview: An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-10
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Lady from Nowhere
1936-12-23
Lady from Nowhere
Overview: A manicurist witnesses a gangland murder. Realizing there was a witness to their crime, the killer tries to track her down and silence her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-23
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Bachelor's Affairs
1932-06-26
Bachelor's Affairs
Overview: A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry but the man soon regrets his rash move when she's constantly bored and looking for dancing and excitement, leaving him feel his age. He conspires with a loyal friend to find a suitable man she might run away with so he can divorce her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-26
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The Delightful Rogue
1929-09-21
The Delightful Rogue
Overview: A modern-day pirate vies with a society playboy for the love of a dancer.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-21
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While Paris Sleeps
1932-05-08
While Paris Sleeps
Overview: To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-08
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Smashing the Rackets
1938-08-08
Smashing the Rackets
Overview: Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-08
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The Honor of the Press
1932-07-13
The Honor of the Press
Overview: Cub reporter Daniel Greely gets a job on a big city newspaper. A string of robberies occur and the owner of the paper blames the police for not rounding up the crooks. Daniel discovers that a coded message in the newspaper's editor's box tips the crooks about each robbery.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-13
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Flight from Glory
1937-08-20
Flight from Glory
Overview: Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens, Richard Lane, Douglas Walton, Paul Guilfoyle, Solly Ward, Walter Miller and Rita LaRoy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-20
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The Secret Witness
1931-12-12
The Secret Witness
Overview: A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder.
Genres: Drama Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-12
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Sinners in the Sun
1932-05-13
Sinners in the Sun
Overview: A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-13
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Chiselers of Hollywood
1930-12-29
Chiselers of Hollywood
Overview: Three sisters come to Hollywood to be movie stars. Complications arise when two of them fall in love with the same man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-29
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Fixer Dugan
1939-04-21
Fixer Dugan
Overview: Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-21
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Border G-Man
1938-06-24
Border G-Man
Overview: A federal agent goes undercover in order to capture a gang that's been smuggling munitions and horses near the Texas border.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-24
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The Yellow Ticket
1931-10-30
The Yellow Ticket
Overview: A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-30
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Hollywood Boulevard
1936-08-20
Hollywood Boulevard
Overview: With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-20
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Check and Double Check
1930-10-02
Check and Double Check
Overview: Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-02
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Amateur Daddy
1932-04-10
Amateur Daddy
Overview: Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on Fred's deathbed request to go to Scotch Valley and take care of his surviving wife and children. When Jim arrives in the small town, he is told that there are two Fred Smith families in Scotch Valley, the rich Smiths and the poor Smiths. Jim assumes that the Smiths he is looking for are the poor ones, and is directed to a house where four children live in poverty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-10
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Fugitive Lady
1934-12-10
Fugitive Lady
Overview: In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-10
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Sergeant York
1941-09-27
Sergeant York
Overview: Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-27
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Left Over Ladies
1931-09-30
Left Over Ladies
Overview: Two married couples are involved in divorce proceedings; Patricia and Ronny, who are still in love with each other, and Jerry and Amy who couldn't care less for each other. Patricia's friendship with "Duchess," a tragic, aging lady well versed in making mistakes, leads her and Ronny to the avoidance of a mistake.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-30
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Leathernecking
1930-09-12
Leathernecking
Overview: Chick Evans is a Marine private in Honolulu, Hawaii. He falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon, and begins to scheme as to how to win her over.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-12
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So Big!
1932-04-30
So Big!
Overview: A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-30
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The Love Trap
1929-08-04
The Love Trap
Overview: A chorus girl loses her job and thus the room she owes back rent on, and ends up being rescued from the street by a dashing rich man. But his family isn't over-accepting of chorus girls joining their family.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-04
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Hollywood Speaks
1932-06-25
Hollywood Speaks
Overview: The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the awful truth about entertainment business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-25
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Mountain Music
1937-06-18
Mountain Music
Overview: Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her enthusiasm offsets that small deficit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-18
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Lilies of the Field
1930-01-05
Lilies of the Field
Overview: Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-05
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Dynamite
1929-12-13
Dynamite
Overview: Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia's wealth is in jeopardy because her trust fund will expire if she is not married by a certain date. To satisfy that condition, Cynthia arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit. She pays him so he can provide for his little sister. But at the last minute, Derk is freed when the true criminal is discovered. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she doesn't know and doesn't want to.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-13
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