Phyllis Crane
Biography: From Wikipedia Phyllis Crane (August 7, 1914 – October 12, 1982) was a Canadian-born American film actress. She appeared in over 45 films between 1928 and 1937. Crane signed with Columbia Pictures in 1934. Modern viewers will recognize Crane from her appearances in several early Three Stooges films, such as Three Little Pigskins, Uncivil Warriors, and Pop Goes the Easel. Perhaps her most famous role was as Professor Nichols' daughter in Hoi Polloi.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 07, 1914
Deathday: October 12, 1982
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Crashing Hollywood
1931-04-05
Crashing Hollywood
Overview: Crashing Hollywood is a 1931 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-05
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The Bridge of Sighs
1936-02-14
The Bridge of Sighs
Overview: Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-14
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Elmer, the Great
1933-04-29
Elmer, the Great
Overview: Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-29
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Pop Goes the Easel
1935-03-29
Pop Goes the Easel
Overview: The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-29
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Uncivil Warriors
1935-04-26
Uncivil Warriors
Overview: Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-26
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A Pain in the Pullman
1936-06-27
A Pain in the Pullman
Overview: The stooges are small time actors traveling by train to an engagement. Along with their pet monkey, they manage to spoil the trip for quite a few of the other passengers including the conductor and a big movie star. Eventually their antics get out of hand and they are literally tossed off the train.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-27
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Three Hollywood Girls
1931-01-04
Three Hollywood Girls
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-04
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Three on a Limb
1936-01-03
Three on a Limb
Overview: Scoutmaster Elmer Brown loses his heart to the pretty carhop who works in a drive-in diner. Complicating his romantic longings is her policeman fiancé. When he tries to eliminate Elmer by giving him traffic tickets for every conceivable violation, the girl takes pity on the martyred Elmer and they drive off together. She informs him that she is also fending off another suitor, Oscar; and to make matters worse, her father is backing the cop while her mother promotes Oscar. Eventually all three men wind up competing for her hand at a chaotic wedding ceremony that ends with Elmer winning his beloved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-03
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Hot Paprika
1935-12-12
Hot Paprika
Overview: A bank clerk, who mistakenly believes he has three months to live, quits his job, runs off to the island of Paprika, gets involved with a flirty cantina dancer, and becomes entangled in a revolution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-12
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The Lure of Hollywood
1931-07-05
The Lure of Hollywood
Overview: Two aspiring actresses encounter mishaps during a shoot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-05
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Alias Mary Dow
1935-05-01
Alias Mary Dow
Overview: A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-01
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Hoi Polloi
1935-08-29
Hoi Polloi
Overview: A professor bets that he can turn the stooges into gentlemen. After many attempts to teach them etiquette, he brings them to a fancy society party. The stooges' new found manners don't last very long, and the party quickly degenerates. By the end, the other guests have adopted stooge-like behavior and the stooges leave as gentlemen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-29
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It's a Cinch
1932-12-31
It's a Cinch
Overview: When a dance instructor is tricked into facing a prize fighter in the boxing ring, his girlfriend devises a plan to turn the odds in his favor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-31
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Keep Laughing
1932-01-24
Keep Laughing
Overview: Keep Laughing is a 1932 Comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-24
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So This Is College
1929-11-08
So This Is College
Overview: Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-08
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The Girl Who Came Back
1935-09-20
The Girl Who Came Back
Overview: A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-20
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Ay Tank Ay Go
1936-12-04
Ay Tank Ay Go
Overview: Boy loves girl, but she's on the other side in a hillbilly feud.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-04
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Young Bride
1932-04-08
Young Bride
Overview: A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-08
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College Lovers
1930-10-05
College Lovers
Overview: Romance on a college campus.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-05
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Racing Romance
1927-08-01
Racing Romance
Overview: Racing Romance is a 1927 Action film. According to a brief article in the St. Petersburg, FL Evening Independent newspaper, the film was centered in the world of automobile racing. The article also noted that racing sequences in the film were shot at the "world famous Culver City Race track," which referred to the Culver City Speedway, a popular racing venue that opened in mid-Jun 1924 and was located adjacent to Washington Blvd., close to M-G-M and other movie studios. Apparently it's a lost film.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-01
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The Girl Said No
1930-03-15
The Girl Said No
Overview: A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar, bound and gagged.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-15
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The Captain Hits the Ceiling
1935-07-09
The Captain Hits the Ceiling
Overview: Franklin gets into a disagreement with a tough sea captain. However, he doesn't find out until later that the captain is his fiance's father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-09
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Ten Cents a Dance
1931-01-30
Ten Cents a Dance
Overview: A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-30
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Every Night at Eight
1935-08-02
Every Night at Eight
Overview: Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-02
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Blind Date
1934-07-20
Blind Date
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
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Murder in the Fleet
1935-05-24
Murder in the Fleet
Overview: A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.
Genres: Drama Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-24
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Why Be Good?
1929-02-28
Why Be Good?
Overview: A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-28
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Coquette
1929-03-30
Coquette
Overview: A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-30
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Below the Deadline
1936-06-07
Below the Deadline
Overview: After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-07
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Aloha
1931-04-26
Aloha
Overview: In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-26
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Men in Black
1934-09-28
Men in Black
Overview: The stooges are three doctors who graduated medical school by being in it for too many years. They come across such problems as an overly chirpy nurse, a mental patient, and a combination to a safe swallowed by the hospital superintendent in the course of their attempt to get through the day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-28
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Three Little Pigskins
1934-12-08
Three Little Pigskins
Overview: The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football players. Hired to play for his team, they blow the big game and get it in the end. Lucille Ball has a nice part as a gun moll.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-08
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Midnight Blunders
1936-12-13
Midnight Blunders
Overview: The evil Dr. Wong abducts prominent scientist Dr. Edwin Millstone. Bumbling bank guards Tom and Monte search through Chinatown to find Dr. Wong and rescue the professor.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-13
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Stolen Kisses
1929-02-23
Stolen Kisses
Overview: A crotchety old coot wants his son and daughter-in-law to have kids so he can have grandchildren, but so far they haven't done so. In a somewhat ham-handed attempt to bring them closer together so they'll be in the mood to give them the grandchildren he wants, he winds up bringing them to the point where they're considering divorcing. He decides to change his tactics in order to achieve his goal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-23
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Stage Frights
1935-06-01
Stage Frights
Overview: Two bumbling detectives help a stage actress who has been receiving threatening letters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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Fashion News
1928-11-06
Fashion News
Overview: Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-06
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Hold the Baby
1930-11-09
Hold the Baby
Overview: short subject comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-09
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My Man Godfrey
1936-09-02
My Man Godfrey
Overview: Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-02
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The Forward Pass
1929-11-10
The Forward Pass
Overview: Marty Reid, the star quarterback at Sanford College, is constantly singled out by the opposition for punishment, and he swears to his pal, Honey Smith, and to Coach Wilson that he will quit the game forever. Ed Kirby, who dislikes Reid, calls him yellow, and Wilson gets Patricia Carlyle, the college vamp, to induce Reid to play. At a sorority dance, where only football players can cut in, Kirby persecutes Reid by dancing with Pat, and as a result Reid does apply to play in the game.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-10
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Madam Satan
1930-09-20
Madam Satan
Overview: A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-20
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