Lita Chevret
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Birthday: May 27, 1908
Deathday: May 23, 2001
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The Murder Man
1935-07-12
The Murder Man
Overview: Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-12
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Follow the Fleet
1936-02-20
Follow the Fleet
Overview: When the US Navy fleet docks at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister, Connie. But it's not all smooth sailing—Bake has a habit of losing Sherry's jobs for her and, despite Connie's dreams, Bilge is not ready to settle down.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-20
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One Hour with You
1932-03-23
One Hour with You
Overview: Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-23
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The Fatal Hour
1940-01-15
The Fatal Hour
Overview: When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. Wong faces increasing danger and is nearly executed himself as the investigation develops in treachery and complexity. As Mr. Wong follows the trail of dead bodies, he uncovers a jewel smuggling ring on the San Francisco waterfront and a case much larger than the death of a police officer.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-15
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Symphony of Six Million
1932-04-29
Symphony of Six Million
Overview: A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to continue working is severely tested. Based on a novel by Fannie Hurst.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-29
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Girl Crazy
1932-03-24
Girl Crazy
Overview: New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his friend Slick, a professional gambler and his wife Kitty, to help him. Slick decides to go there in a cab, driven by shy Jimmy. Jimmy's younger sister Tessie also travels there. There Danny has fallen in love with Molly, but troubles arise for him when the local heavy decides that he doesn't like the ranch and announces running for sheriff. Danny and Slick got the idea that Jimmy would be the ideal candidate, especially because of the fact that the heavy has announced he would kill another sheriff. With some help Jimmy is elected, but Molly leaves Danny with a New York shyster for Mexico. Mitzi, Danny, Kitty, Patsy - Jimmy's sweetheart as well as Jimmy and Slick follow her to win her heart back for Danny, but they are followed by the local heavy and his friend.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-24
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Criminal Lawyer
1937-01-29
Criminal Lawyer
Overview: Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a rebuke. On the same night in court, Madge Carter is on trial for disorderly conduct, and Brandon volunteers to defend her, and proves the case against her if a frame-up. Finding that she is penniless, Brandon hires her as his secretary, and falls in love with her. Brandon is appointed district attorney and has ambitions of becoming the state governor. Having dinner at Betty's home, she maneuvers him, while he is drunk, into marrying her. Later, Madge is a witness when Larkin shoots down a fellow gangster. By threatening Brandon's life, he forces her to commit perjury at his trial, and say he fired in self-defense. Brandon, the prosecuting attorney (who has had his marriage to Betty annulled) knows she is lying but doesn't know why.
Genres: Action Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-29
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Daring Daughters
1933-03-23
Daring Daughters
Overview: A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-23
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The Women
1939-09-01
The Women
Overview: A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-01
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Rebellious Daughters
1938-07-01
Rebellious Daughters
Overview: Girl moves out of her parents house against their wishes. Gets a job in a dress shop, gets mixed up with dirty pictures and blackmail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-01
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Westward Passage
1932-05-27
Westward Passage
Overview: A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-27
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The Pay-Off
1930-10-14
The Pay-Off
Overview: A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing. The thug, resentful of the couple, plans to organize a mutiny against the gang's boss, but when he is killed in a botched robbery, the police focus their attention on the young couple.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-14
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The Locked Door
1929-11-16
The Locked Door
Overview: On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and determines to intervene.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-16
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Laugh and Get Rich
1931-03-27
Laugh and Get Rich
Overview: An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-27
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Moonlight and Monkey Business
1930-11-15
Moonlight and Monkey Business
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-15
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Words and Music
1929-08-18
Words and Music
Overview: Phil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college student.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-18
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Rockabye
1932-11-25
Rockabye
Overview: A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-25
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The Big Flash
1932-11-05
The Big Flash
Overview: Would-be photographer Harry gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a prominent gangster and his girl. Harry and another photographer first visit the gangster's girl, and then wait at the scene of an expected robbery. But before they can get the pictures they want, they must first distract a policeman whose presence would otherwise deter the gangster from appearing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-05
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Tanned Legs
1929-11-10
Tanned Legs
Overview: Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet. Mama and Papa are set to rights fairly quickly, but Janet's the one with real problems. It seems she sent some compromising love letters to a worthless cad, and now the bounder wants to use the letters for blackmail. Peggy's friend Roger and his flapper sweetheart Tootie hatch an elaborate plan to retrieve the incriminating letters and salvage Janet's reputation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-10
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Three Who Loved
1931-07-03
Three Who Loved
Overview: A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-03
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Champagne Charlie
1936-05-06
Champagne Charlie
Overview: The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-06
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Loose Relations
1933-06-11
Loose Relations
Overview: The stereotype in old movies and TV shows is that the man hates his mother-in-law. Well, in "Loose Relations" it doesn't follow this convention, as Andy Clyde is actually happy that his mother-in-law is coming to stay with them and he plans on fixing up a place for her to stay. In a funny scene, when he tells his neighbors, they offer his an axe and a gun!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-11
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Rio Rita
1929-09-15
Rio Rita
Overview: Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita, though he suspects that her brother is the bandit.
Genres: Romance Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-15
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Everything’s Rosie
1931-05-22
Everything’s Rosie
Overview: A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-22
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Feeling Rosy
1933-04-30
Feeling Rosy
Overview: Andy Clyde is in desperate need of a vacation, and it's not exactly helping the stress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-30
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Sandflow
1937-02-14
Sandflow
Overview: Director Leslie Selander exhibits the sure-handed expertise that would endear him to latter-day western cultists in his 1937 formula western Sandflow. Buck Jones plays the son of a crooked land dealer. Seeking redemption, Jones rides through the west to compensate every rancher who was cheated by his dad.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-14
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Espionage
1937-02-26
Espionage
Overview: Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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Knight Duty
1933-05-06
Knight Duty
Overview: Harry is a hobo, one step ahead of the law. After accidentally foiling a purse snatcher, he cadges a ride on a flatbed truck, is knocked out when a wax figure falls on him during the ride, and is carried into a museum by someone thinking he's another manikin. Inside, it takes him a while to figure out that he's among dummies. Then, two enterprising jewel thieves arrive to steal the museum director's priceless ruby. Cops are on hand as well: when the ruby goes missing, Harry may be the perfect fall guy. Can Harry stay away from the cops, foil the theft, and behave heroically in front of the museum director's daughter, the same woman whose purse he saved that morning?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-06
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Call Her Savage
1932-11-24
Call Her Savage
Overview: A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-24
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Kept Husbands
1931-02-22
Kept Husbands
Overview: A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-22
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My Little Chickadee
1940-02-09
My Little Chickadee
Overview: While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-09
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The Philadelphia Story
1940-12-05
The Philadelphia Story
Overview: When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-05
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Midnight Limited
1940-03-20
Midnight Limited
Overview: The Phantom Robber gets a fortune in jewels and some valuable papers from a robbery on the crack train "The Midnight Limited" and Val Lennon and his pretty assistant, Joan Marshall, are on his trail. But the Phantom strikes three more times and adds murder to his list. Val decides to use himself as bait, although Chief Harrigan and Joan beg him not to risk his life. But Val, disguised as a wealthy Canadian, boards the train for a rendezvous with a killer.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-20
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The Cuckoos
1930-05-04
The Cuckoos
Overview: Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-04
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Are These Our Children?
1931-11-13
Are These Our Children?
Overview: A tale of juvenile delinquency, about a high-school student neglecting his studies, partying hard, falling in with the wrong crowd and finally finding himself on trial for murder committed during a robbery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-13
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Camille
1936-12-26
Camille
Overview: Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-26
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Afraid to Talk
1932-11-17
Afraid to Talk
Overview: Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-17
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The Girl from Missouri
1934-08-03
The Girl from Missouri
Overview: Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes to Eadie, only to then commit suicide due to bankruptcy. Fellow millionaire T. R. Paige defends Eadie when the police question her for having Cousins' jewelry -- but when she becomes enamored with his son, Tom, Paige declares Eadie a gold digger.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-03
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Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1934-11-02
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Overview: Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a married woman, who was jealous of his flirtations with his old moll, night club singer Sally Marsh, who had agreed for one last night with Lother, to get her younger brother Ned out of the Lother's clutches because he has faked Lother's name on a check to pay his gambling debts. Then there is Sally's new flame Jimmy Brett, a con man and gentlemen thief, who has out-tricked Lother in a fixed poker game, and is, together with shorty, after the ladies jewels. Inspector McKinney suspects Joe Saunders, a recently released convict, who was arrested due to some tips by Lother, but Ned and Sally insist that they committed the crime alone.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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The Woman Between
1931-08-08
The Woman Between
Overview: Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-08
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Good Time Henry
1934-05-03
Good Time Henry
Overview: Henry is lured by old pal Hale into a night on the town despite fears that his wife will discover their hijinks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-03
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Goldie Gets Along
1933-01-27
Goldie Gets Along
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
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Double Harness
1933-07-21
Double Harness
Overview: After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-21
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Ladies of the Jury
1932-02-02
Ladies of the Jury
Overview: Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox juror.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-02
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What Price Hollywood?
1932-06-24
What Price Hollywood?
Overview: Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-24
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The Road to Reno
1938-08-01
The Road to Reno
Overview: An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-01
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The Royal Bed
1931-01-15
The Royal Bed
Overview: The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming general.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-15
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Romance in the Rain
1934-08-13
Romance in the Rain
Overview: The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-13
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Bravest of the Brave
1938-08-06
Bravest of the Brave
Overview: This short film looks at the life of Michel Ney, who fought at Napoleon's side and was made a Marshall of France.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-06
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After Tomorrow
1932-03-06
After Tomorrow
Overview: In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney's is cold, Pete's is clingy. Sidney's mother is looking for her own happiness, no matter how much that search harms her daughter and long-suffering husband; and, the longer the engagement lingers, the more pressure Pete's mom puts on Sidney to break it off and set her son free. "After Tomorrow" is Pete and Sidney's favorite song, but with illness, poverty, and temptation: will that good day ever come?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-06
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Ship Cafe
1935-11-09
Ship Cafe
Overview: The singing stoker and the vamp.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-09
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Go Into Your Dance
1935-04-20
Go Into Your Dance
Overview: An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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Charlie Chan's Courage
1934-07-06
Charlie Chan's Courage
Overview: Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-06
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