Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 04, 1888
Deathday: December 05, 1941
Popularity:
1935-04-25
Overview: Lew Kelly is a walking cuckoo-clock who thinks he is a judge. Leon and Eddie are two drunks who think they are drivers. They crash together, and Lew gets trapped in the middle. Leon and Eddie finally come to terms and leave Lew amidst the wreckage. The next day, Leon answers a court summons, only to find that Lew is the presiding judge, after sneaking in and taking over the job as the regular judge is absent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-25
Popularity:
1936-03-09
Overview: Charley, his wife Rosina and their daughter Darla attend "Bank night" at their local movie theater, more eager to win the cash prize than see the picture. When little Darla is selected to choose the winning ticket, she draws her father's number. The crowd reacts angrily, thinking that the drawing is a fraud, forcing the child to choose another number. This one turns out to be her own ticket, after which a third drawing yields her mother's ticket. While pandemonium erupts in the audience, some gangsters arrive and raid the theater. A chase follows, resulting in the eventual capture of the crooks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-09
Popularity:
1932-02-03
Overview: A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-03
Popularity:
1935-10-25
Overview: Milton, a disappointed romantic, has sworn off women. He gives a lift to a female hitchhiker, whom he happily discovers is also a hurt soul and has sworn off men. Their trip together runs into interference from an aggressive driver who later reappears after the two have set up camp. He starts putting the moves on the woman, but when Milton's ex-girlfriend shows up, she gets into a fight with the interloper and gives Milton and his new pal the chance to slip away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
Popularity:
1936-09-10
Overview: A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-10
Popularity:
1926-07-18
Overview: After a homely married couple separately undergo plastic surgery, they unwittingly plan an extramarital affair with each other.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-18
Popularity:
1936-08-23
Overview: Mr. Brown is riding home from work one day with his new neighbor, Mr. Johnson. When Brown explains that he has all kinds of problems at home, Johnson wants to help him. So, when they arrive, Johnson gives Brown a demonstration of one of the tricks that he uses to get his family to act as he wishes them too. But when Brown tries out Johnson's ideas on his own, things do not go as planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-23
Popularity:
1932-04-25
Overview: Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to the high brow party in progress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-25
Popularity:
1927-06-26
Overview: It's the Fourth of July and the mother of Our Gang member Joe Cobb is doing a brisk business at her fireworks stand. Briefly left in charge of the stand, Joe does his best not to blow up himself or his friends, but a poorly-aimed skyrocket owned by Allen "Farina" Hoskins triggers a somewhat premature but undeniably spectacular display of pyrotechnics.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-26
Popularity:
1936-04-18
Overview: In a small town in Indiana in the 1890s, the domineering and ambitious Mrs. Biddle arranges a marriage between her spoiled daughter Thelma and the town's prize catch, harvester David Langston, who is wedded to the soil. David is friends with orphan Ruth Jameson and, although she is in love with him, he eventually gives in to the machinations of Mrs. Biddle and consents to marry Thelma. Meanwhile, technological advances come to town, including its first gasoline buggy, galvanic battery, and metal bathtub fitted with running water. When Mrs. Biddle tries to convince David to give up the farming life and join her husband in real estate, Mr. Biddle, hen-pecked and dissatisfied with city life, warns David against selling his farm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-18
Popularity:
1938-01-08
Overview: Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of record. At first, Leon is excited, but the arrangement soon creates difficulty for him. First, he knows nothing about horses except how to bet on them, and second, when his wife finds out, she is furious.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-08
Popularity:
1931-03-22
Overview: Karl Dane & George K. Arthur trading places while dining.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-22
Popularity:
1931-10-16
Overview: A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-16
Popularity:
1935-12-17
Overview: Ken Armstrong (Ken Maynard) finds himself a mine owner and a daddy simultaneously when a friend dies and wills him his mine and his baby. The outlaws eying the mine try to frame the hero for the death.
Genres: Action Western Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-17
Popularity:
1935-03-02
Overview: At a residence hotel, Patsy is moving in with Thelma. Thelma has prepared some rules, including singing whenever one feels quarrelsome or angry. Although Thelma tells Patsy that they'll share everything, there's precious little closet or drawer space for Patsy's clothes, little room to maneuver around Thelma in the bathroom, and then a sleepless night for Patsy when Thelma goes sleepwalking. Can they share and share alike, or will Patsy keep on singing?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-02
Popularity:
1932-03-12
Overview: Charley is an efficiency expert trying to teach a millionaire's daughter the value of money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-12
Popularity:
1926-01-24
Overview: A daughter's rich father wants to marry her off to a rich but older man. The daughter has other ideas however and sets out to find a nice young man she can fall in love with.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-24
Popularity:
1936-04-04
Overview: Patsy's working at Rumplemeyer's Donut Shop in Brooklyn. By accident she catches Mr. Rumplemeyer's trousers in the donut machine as he's leaving to pick his niece who's arriving from the old country, so he gives Patsy cab fare and sends her. She forgets her purse, so when she arrives at the immigration office, she can't pay the cabbie, who tells her he'll wait while the meter runs. Inside, Patsy finally finds the high-spirited Lyda, but by then, Patsy has sneaked into the holding area and may need a passport to get out. She hides in Lyda's trunk, but with the cabbie, a suspicious immigration officer, and a traffic cop buzzing around will uncle and niece ever connect?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-04
Popularity:
1936-04-24
Overview: The girls camp out in the woods for a publicity stunt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-24
Popularity:
1934-01-27
Overview: Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-27
Popularity:
1932-12-09
Overview: An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-09
Popularity:
1933-02-10
Overview: Harold Hobbs doesn't much like that his lazy, sponging and unemployed brother-in-law Claude and his mother-in-law live with him and his wife, Hortense, especially as the in-laws seem to rule the roost ever since they moved in. To get his in-laws out of the house, Harold has regularly left a bottle of booze for Claude to be able to entertain prospective employers. When Harold learns that on all the other occasions the employers have not showed (he assumes there probably were no prospective employers) leaving Claude to consume the booze on his own, he decides to show Claude a lesson by spiking the bottle with castor oil. Complications ensue when Joe, Harold's friend, encourages him to skip work to attend the prize fight. What Joe doesn't tell Harold is that he tells his boss that Harold needs the day off to attend to the sudden death of his brother-in-law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-10
Popularity:
1941-04-03
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
Popularity:
1932-05-13
Overview: A cowboy and a beautiful girl inherit a supposedly haunted gold mine.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-13
Popularity:
1935-04-20
Overview: Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
Popularity:
1935-09-07
Overview: Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-07
Popularity:
1936-02-29
Overview: The girls get jobs selling aluminum cookware door to door.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-29
Popularity:
1937-01-08
Overview: John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-08
Popularity:
1932-07-08
Overview: A noted gunman takes a job on a cattle ranch to stop a band of rustlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-08
Popularity:
1937-11-12
Overview: A man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-12
Popularity:
1934-10-06
Overview: A college football team recruits a tough convict.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-06
Popularity:
1936-03-01
Overview: Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-01
Popularity:
1933-12-22
Overview: The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and thank him. However, difficult problems lay ahead when Lili gets in the way.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-22
Popularity:
1934-07-20
Overview: A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-20
Popularity:
1936-08-14
Overview: In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-14
Popularity:
1931-07-10
Overview: A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-10
Popularity:
1936-01-24
Overview: Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-24
Popularity:
1933-07-25
Overview: An emergency at his Aunt's ranch gets Ed Randall leave from the Navy. He returns to find the water cut off and her note due the next day. When the man he seeks legal advice from is murdered, Ed is accused and he now finds himself in jail with a lynch mob forming outside.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-25
Popularity:
1936-06-05
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
Popularity:
1939-09-13
Overview: A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-13
Popularity:
1937-12-31
Overview: The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marry a millionaire, but Carol insists on getting a job.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
Popularity:
1926-07-18
Overview: The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-18
Popularity:
1931-12-16
Overview: It's in three distinct segments. The first and probably best involves Charley, his girlfriend, and her father foolish her mother and the suitor she prefers into getting Charley into the house for dinner. In the later two segments, in which Charley must get married within minutes to get a job, and then tries to go on a picnic with his new family, are both also packed with laughs and timed with an almost musical brilliance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-16
Popularity:
1934-12-14
Overview: The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
Popularity:
1936-01-10
Overview: Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-10
Popularity:
1930-05-23
Overview: An estranged couple visit their old apartment, which is now occupied by Charley and his wife. Charley's wife, however, misunderstands the purpose of their visit.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-23
Popularity:
1936-12-18
Overview: Tom and Harry are sailors on a yacht, and go ashore for a few beers and whatever else may come up. What comes up is a brawl between them and the barflies in the waterfront saloon they go to. They are aided by an elderly lady and her knitting needles.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
Popularity:
1935-08-29
Overview: Edgar falls in love with another woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-29
Popularity:
1933-10-27
Overview: A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-27
Popularity:
1937-05-07
Overview: Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-07
Popularity:
1934-06-16
Overview: Betty's father has an invention that looks like a fancy camera; it emits an ultra-lavender ray that temporarily rids the ray's target of inhibitions. To test it, Betty's father zaps Charley hoping his newly-aberrant behavior will cause Betty to end her affections for the milquetoast. Dad's plan backfires: the invention works perfectly, Charley gets a backbone, and Betty loves her new forceful man. However, Charley's courage and lack of a superego get him in trouble with the law. He goes on trial for assaulting a bullying police officer. Is Charley going up the river leaving Betty high and dry?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-16
Popularity:
1933-09-21
Overview: A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-21
Popularity:
1936-07-10
Overview: Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Misunderstandings, mishaps, and hijinks ensue. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division in 2013.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-10
Popularity:
1932-09-25
Overview: A quirky short about Love and Liars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-25
Popularity:
1929-11-23
Overview: A 1929 film by Leo McCarey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-23
Popularity:
1929-09-07
Overview: Charley intervenes in a fight between Eddie and Thelma inside her small car. Cop Kennedy misinterprets things, and Charley hides in the theatre Thelma is rehearsing in. Charley replaces Eddie as Thelma's partner in an artistic dance act, and makes a fiasco of it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-07
Popularity:
1932-10-21
Overview: A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-21
Popularity:
1936-10-09
Overview: A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
Popularity:
1935-10-25
Overview: Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
Popularity:
1933-01-27
Overview: A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-27
Popularity:
1935-08-20
Overview: An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-20
Popularity:
1934-04-13
Overview: A pair of barbers attempt to solve a kidnapping.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-13
Popularity:
1937-09-10
Overview: Errol's wife goes back to work, despite his objections.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-10
Popularity:
1935-05-14
Overview: When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-14
Popularity:
1934-05-05
Overview: Ice-cream vendor Charley gets mixed up with a cute girl and her snotty nephew.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-05
Popularity:
1934-07-07
Overview: Charley meets his new boss--who has a lovely daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-07
Popularity:
1933-06-01
Overview: When Tad Wallace's act flops on Broadway, he joins a troop heading west. In a small town, they run into Jeffries who has just burned down the theater. When Jeffries kills Griswold, Tad has a plan to trap him by using the talents of Shakespearian actor Thorndyke.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-01
Popularity:
1934-09-08
Overview: Taken to a hospital, after suffering a dizzy spell, Charley is told by a 'nut', posing as a doctor, that he suffers from 'Tetra-Ethyl", and the only remedy is to sit down, relax, clear the mind and recite a nursery rhyme. The fake doctor gives Charley a package to deliver to Mr. Henderson, the "Supreme Crown of the Knights of the Brown Derby." At the hotel, hosting a convention of "Brown Derbies," Charley suffers a dizzy spell and the only place he can find to sit down is in Mr. Henderson's lap, where he recites "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Mr. Henderson, it is revealed, also suffers from "Tetra-Ethyl." Seized by an attack, Henderson sits down and tries to recite "Who Killed Cock Robin," but forgets the lines, which Charley and Henderson's daughter, Betty, sing in a song together. That, coming at the end of the second reel,is all it takes for Charley and Betty to decide to get married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-08
Popularity:
1934-10-13
Overview: When he learns the secret news that it will be sold today at 4pm in Kansas City, international banker J.P. Anderson sets in motion a plan to purchase the Tippycanoe Tuckahoe & Tehachapi Railroad.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-13
Popularity:
1935-11-09
Overview: When Charley can't pay his bill at a restaurant, he is forced to become a waiter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-09
Popularity:
1936-03-28
Overview: Charley's somewhat prudish wife pretends to be a party girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-28
Popularity:
1936-10-01
Overview: A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-01
Popularity:
1936-02-14
Overview: Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-14
Popularity:
1936-04-17
Overview: When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-17
Popularity: