Biography: American actor.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 27, 1916
Deathday: April 10, 1990
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1938-04-28
Overview: A young beauty queen travels to New York to further her modelling career, but contracts syphilis after being tricked into a sexual encounter. She is torn between the prospect of a slow, intensive but proven therapy and a supposed miracle cure.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-28
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1947-10-18
Overview: A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-18
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1943-04-24
Overview: An Our Gang salute to the armed forces.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-24
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1942-04-22
Overview: In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-22
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1942-05-01
Overview: Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a slew of suspects for questioning. Mida's shady ex-flame, Turk, seems the most likely culprit, but when smart-mouthed private eye Rocky Custer -- also a suspect himself -- begins to piece together the crime, a few clues that Gunther has overlooked come to light.
Genres: Mystery Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-01
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1942-01-24
Overview: This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short explores the origins of various customs such as shaking hands, kissing, and why ships are christened.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-24
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1942-12-31
Overview: Radio sleuth Wally 'The Fox' Benton travels to Georgia with his fiancé Carol to be married; and to help Carol's college chum, Ellamae Downs, solve a mystery involving a murdered man, old Fort Dixon, and buried treasure.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-31
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1958-12-02
Overview: Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow, investigates the murder of a New Orleans bandleader.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-02
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1938-08-05
Overview: An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-05
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1947-11-05
Overview: A rancher tries to convince an Indian tribe to relocate so their land can be used to provide water for Kansas City.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-05
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1944-12-22
Overview: Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involved in becoming pilots. Not all of them succeed, and tragedy awaits for some.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-22
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1947-03-01
Overview: Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to use her as an undercover agent to expose a conman.
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-01
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1949-04-16
Overview: Inspired by the popular '40s radio show of the same title, director Irving Brecher's 1949 comedy stars William Bendix as a hard-working husband-and-father with no shortage of family problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-16
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1939-03-30
Overview: Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her smart aleck son Sammy hears that an electric railroad line is to be built through town, she decides that the family can become rich by purchasing the lots along the right of way. Patriarch George Pierce laughs at the idea, but when Rose and Sammy learn that Cora Stewart, the wealthy town widow, has withdrawn her savings from the bank, they jump to the conclusion that she is interested in buying the lots, and mother and son secretly invest the family bank roll in the land.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-30
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1941-12-31
Overview: A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-31
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1942-02-01
Overview: The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-01
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1939-06-30
Overview: A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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1942-03-01
Overview: Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-01
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1938-09-02
Overview: A budding entrepreneur nearly loses everything after his get-rich quick scheme selling "flunk" insurance to his fellow students goes terribly awry.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-02
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1939-04-13
Overview: Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis, Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay is innocent.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-13
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1963-01-01
Overview: The wealthy widow of a famed humanitarian blames herself for his accidental death and becomes an alcoholic recluse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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1942-05-09
Overview: This short looks at the illness anthropophobia, the fear of people. In 1901, young Catherine Starr, who lives in a small English coastal town, has an argument with her fiancé. He leaves her house, goes off to serve in the Boer War, and dies of malaria. Catherine blames herself for his death and fears others will also blame her. She does not leave her house for forty years. Groceries are delivered to the house, but no one sees who retrieves them. When the Nazis bomb her house in September 1941, she is forced to cope with the outside world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-09
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1942-10-28
Overview: Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.
Genres: Drama Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-28
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1938-10-28
Overview: A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-28
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1938-10-13
Overview: Undeniably talented on the gridiron, Bob Potter is equally undeniably an arrogant pain in the posterior. So swell-headed does Potter become that he can never admit to himself that his blocking-back teammate Larry Royal is equally responsible for Bob's success. To teach his pal a lesson, Larry feigns an injury and pulls out of the Big Game, forcing Bob to have a go at it alone.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-13
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1941-12-09
Overview: This Best Short Subject Academy Award winning film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It chronicles how the people of "Main Street America", the country's military forces, and its industrial base were completely transformed when the decision was made to gear up for war. Original footage is interspersed with contemporary newsreels and stock footage.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-09
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1942-02-01
Overview: Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-01
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1942-06-20
Overview: This Crime Does Not Pay short shows how cooperation among all the nations of the Americas helps the war effort. In this case, a US government agent travels to Chile and Colombia. He works with local authorities to try to thwart an Axis plan to ship stolen ammunition.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-20
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1942-03-01
Overview: A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-01
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1941-09-06
Overview: This short film shows how the war department utilizes a Ph.D., a chimp, and three dogs to help design aptitude tests for men applying for work.
Genres: War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-06
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1942-02-28
Overview: This Crime Does Not Pay series entry dramatizes the idea that during wartime, people should not discuss anything related to their work when in public. A casual remark can be overheard by an enemy agent and used to sabotage the war effort. In this short, the story involves shipments of parts to a defense plant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-28
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1943-12-24
Overview: A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to Earth by heavenly General with a new assignment.
Genres: Drama Romance War Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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1942-04-17
Overview: Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-17
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1943-10-01
Overview: Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-01
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