Beverly Roberts
Biography: Beverly Roberts was only a teenager when she was accepted for dramatic training. Years later, she began singing in venues, including nightclubs. One fateful night, a talent scout from a movie studio heard her beautiful voice and so began the next chapter in her life. She acted with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Al Jolson, Humphrey Bogart, and Pat O'Brien. She decided to return to great love--singing, as well as acting on stage and television.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 19, 1914
Deathday: July 13, 2009
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The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
1938-12-15
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Overview: In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up helping her to combat an epidemic that rages through the mountain communities. The doctor she works for prefers traditional herbs to modern medicine.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-15
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Buried Alive
1939-11-06
Buried Alive
Overview: A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-06
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China Clipper
1936-08-11
China Clipper
Overview: An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-11
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Two Against the World
1936-07-11
Two Against the World
Overview: Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-11
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Tenth Avenue Kid
1938-08-22
Tenth Avenue Kid
Overview: In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the location of the loot his father stashed during a robbery.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-22
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God's Country and the Woman
1937-01-16
God's Country and the Woman
Overview: Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and slowly learns the business and of his brother's dirty tricks.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-16
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The Perfect Specimen
1937-10-23
The Perfect Specimen
Overview: Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wishes until a chance encounter with Mona Carter leads him into the outside world.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-23
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The Singing Kid
1936-04-10
The Singing Kid
Overview: Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-10
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Call of The Yukon
1938-04-18
Call of The Yukon
Overview: Adventuring author Jean Williams is living in the wilds of Alaska alongside the Eskimo people gathering material for her novel. She befriends several animals who become her loyal friends such as a pair of bear cubs whose mother has been killed by hunter Gaston Rogers, a talking raven and the bereaved collie Firefly who will not leave the grave of her master, a game warden killed in the line of duty. The community is imperiled by a pack of wolves and wild dogs, led by a wild dog called Swift Lightning, who are killing all the reindeer. With the supply of fresh meat gone, the Eskimos are migrating to lands with more food. Hunter Gaston agrees to take Jean to Nenana, Alaska, along with his furs by dog sled. Jean, who despises Gaston as being more savage and blood thirsty than the four-legged predators, is followed by her loyal animals.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-18
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Hot Money
1936-07-18
Hot Money
Overview: Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-18
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West of Shanghai
1937-10-30
West of Shanghai
Overview: American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord.
Genres: War Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-30
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Flirting with Fate
1938-12-02
Flirting with Fate
Overview: A troupe of traveling entertainers become stranded in Paraguay.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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Expensive Husbands
1937-11-27
Expensive Husbands
Overview: Unable to get work in her home country, Laurine Lynne (Beverly Roberts) travels to Vienna where her press agent, Joe Craig (Allyn Joslyn), convinces her to marry royalty. The lucky fellow is Prince Rupert (Patric Knowles), an impoverished nobleman now working as a waiter. Do the two of them fall in love despite this marriage of convenience?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-27
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The Daredevil Drivers
1938-02-12
The Daredevil Drivers
Overview: To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-12
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Sons o' Guns
1936-05-13
Sons o' Guns
Overview: Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-13
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First Offenders
1939-04-12
First Offenders
Overview: A crusading and reform-minded District Attorney gives up his position in order to open establish a farm that gives juvenile delinquents and first-offenders a place to straighten out their lives before they reach the point of no return. He meets much resistance from various segments of the law and the citizens.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-12
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Her Husband's Secretary
1937-02-26
Her Husband's Secretary
Overview: A businessman buys trouble when he hires his wife"s best friend as his secretary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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Main Street Lawyer
1939-11-02
Main Street Lawyer
Overview: A prosecutor's career and his adopted daughter's happiness hang in the balance when he is blackmailed by a gangster.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-02
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I Was a Convict
1939-03-06
I Was a Convict
Overview: In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they are all released, the magnate appoints them both as executives in his company.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-06
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Tropic Fury
1939-09-01
Tropic Fury
Overview: An investigator checks into the rumors of harsh working conditions on an Amazon rubber plantation.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-01
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Making the Headlines
1938-03-31
Making the Headlines
Overview: Angry, because he is making too many headlines with his gang-busting activities, the police chief transfers Lt. Lewis Nagel to the sleepy suburban town of Fairview, where he is followed by reporter Steve Withers because he knows Nagel will find a story.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-31
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