Bobby Barber
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bobby Barber (December 18, 1894 – May 24, 1976) was an American actor who appeared in over 100 films. Barber is notable for his work as a foil for Abbott and Costello on and off screen. Barber was often used by Bud Abbott and Lou Costello as a form of "court jester" on the set of their films. It was his job to keep the energy level up with pranks and practical jokes. Sometimes, he even suddenly appeared on camera during a take to break up the cast and crew. In Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Costello answers a knock at the door expecting to see large actor Lon Chaney Jr. Instead, the very short Barber walks in wearing a funny hat with a feather. In another outtake from that film, Bela Lugosi, in full Dracula regalia, is solemnly descending a staircase to meet Abbott and Costello when all of a sudden the actors and crew burst out laughing. Lugosi, annoyed, turns around to see Barber following right behind him, mimicking his steps. Barber also appeared in bit parts, such as a delivery boy, waiter, bellhop, or man on the street, often uncredited in movies, and in many of Abbott and Costello's films and about half their television shows. Sometimes his likeness was in a picture on a wall or a "wanted" poster in a post office. His final film appearance was in Lou Costello's last movie, The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959). His film career included bit parts in over 100 (known) feature films.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 17, 1894
Deathday: May 24, 1976
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The Lady Eve
1941-02-25
The Lady Eve
Overview: It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-25
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You Can't Ration Love
1944-02-28
You Can't Ration Love
Overview: In this WW II musical, a group of lovely college co-eds, realizing that there is a shortage of single young men, decide to begin rationing their dates so that all of them can have some fun. This is beneficial for the campus wimp who suddenly finds himself the hottest property on campus.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-28
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Dodsworth
1936-09-23
Dodsworth
Overview: A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-23
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History Is Made at Night
1937-03-05
History Is Made at Night
Overview: An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-05
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Hit the Ice
1943-06-02
Hit the Ice
Overview: After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers, where they meet an old friend and his band.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-02
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947-09-01
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Overview: Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-01
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Soup to Nuts
1930-09-28
Soup to Nuts
Overview: Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out; things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-28
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Carefree
1938-09-02
Carefree
Overview: Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with him. When he tries to use hypnosis to strengthen her feelings for Steven, things get complicated.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-02
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Having Wonderful Time
1938-07-01
Having Wonderful Time
Overview: Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-01
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Alimony Aches
1935-06-29
Alimony Aches
Overview: Ex-wife remarries, doesn't tell husband so he'll still pay alimony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-29
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The Monster and the Girl
1941-02-28
The Monster and the Girl
Overview: After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-28
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And Now Tomorrow
1944-11-22
And Now Tomorrow
Overview: Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't work. Her sister is carrying on an affair with her fiance Jeff. Vance tries a new serum which causes Emily to faint... Will it work this time?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-22
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The Midnight Story
1957-06-04
The Midnight Story
Overview: Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with finding the killer; he suspects Sylvio Malatesta. Ordered off the case, Joe turns in his badge and investigates alone. Soon he is a close friend of the Malatesta family, all delightful people, especially lovely cousin Anna. Uncertain whether Sylvio is guilty or innocent, Joe is now torn between old and new loyalties.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-04
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Fight for Your Lady
1937-11-05
Fight for Your Lady
Overview: Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-05
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Super-Sleuth
1937-07-16
Super-Sleuth
Overview: A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-16
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Lady on a Train
1945-08-03
Lady on a Train
Overview: While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-03
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Vivacious Lady
1938-05-13
Vivacious Lady
Overview: College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-13
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Rainbow Island
1944-10-05
Rainbow Island
Overview: Three merchant seamen fleeing the Japanese take refuge on a Pacific island, where they come across a doctor and his daughter who take care of the natives, a hostile tribe that wants to kill the sailors for trespassing on their sacred ground.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-05
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I Love a Soldier
1944-07-12
I Love a Soldier
Overview: During World War II in San Francisco, Eve Morgan and her single girlfriends spend their days welding ships and their nights dancing with soldiers and sailors shipping out that night. Eve is determined to avoid any romantic entanglements until the war is over she refuses to spend her days and nights worrying about getting bad news about a man she has fallen for. But she doesn't count on meeting a soldier who is determined to change her mind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-12
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Across the Wide Missouri
1951-10-12
Across the Wide Missouri
Overview: In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.
Genres: Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-12
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Let's Dance
1950-11-29
Let's Dance
Overview: Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and jobless in New York, she runs into an old flame, her USO partner Donald Elwood, who agrees to help her fight for custody of the child.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-29
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Topper Takes a Trip
1938-12-29
Topper Takes a Trip
Overview: Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs. Parkhurst takes Mrs. Topper on a trip to France where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce. With help of a gold-digging French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too easy.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-29
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Spring Parade
1940-09-27
Spring Parade
Overview: In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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The Sky's the Limit
1943-07-13
The Sky's the Limit
Overview: Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, pursuing her in the guise of a carefree drifter.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-13
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Anchors Aweigh
1945-08-13
Anchors Aweigh
Overview: Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-13
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Breakfast for Two
1937-10-22
Breakfast for Two
Overview: After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-22
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I Don't Remember
1935-12-25
I Don't Remember
Overview: Amnesiac can't find the other half of his winning sweepstakes ticket.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-25
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The Leather Pushers
1940-09-13
The Leather Pushers
Overview: A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle prize. He later regrets his actions, however, when the boxer becomes an honest champion.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-13
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Matri-Phony
1942-07-02
Matri-Phony
Overview: The stooges are potters in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Octopus Grabus. When the emperor orders all beautiful red-headed women to be brought before him so he can select a wife, Diana, a pretty red-head, seeks refuge with the stooges. Some soldiers find Diana's hiding place and they are all brought to the palace where the stooges escape and try to pass of Curly as Diana, having broken the emperor's glasses. Their ruse fails and they're caught by the palace guards as they try to escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-02
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Vigilantes of Boomtown
1947-02-15
Vigilantes of Boomtown
Overview: The ranch of Red Ryder (Allan Lane) and his aunt, The Duchess (Martha Wentworth), is being used as the training site for "Gentleman Jim" Corbett (George Turner) for his upcoming fight in Carson City, Nevada for the heavyweight championship against Bob Fitzsimmons (John Dehner). Molly McVey (Peggy Stewart), the daughter of a U.S. Senator, crusading against prize-fighting in Nevada, complicates matters soemwhat when she conceives the bright idea of having Corbett kidnapped, thus causing the cancellation of the fight. The two men (George Chesebro and George Lloyd) she hires to do the kidnapping also add to the complications by kidnapping Ryder instead of Corbett. Meanwhile, a gang of crooks, led by McKean (Roy Barcroft), descend on the town intent on looting the town and also making off with the fight proceeds.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-15
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The Wheeler Dealers
1963-11-14
The Wheeler Dealers
Overview: Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but, in the end, she falls for his charm.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-14
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Calcutta
1946-12-20
Calcutta
Overview: Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-20
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Pot o' Gold
1941-04-03
Pot o' Gold
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
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I'm No Angel
1933-10-06
I'm No Angel
Overview: The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-06
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We're Only Human
1935-12-27
We're Only Human
Overview: A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-27
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Walking on Air
1936-09-11
Walking on Air
Overview: A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-11
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Everybody's Doing It
1938-01-14
Everybody's Doing It
Overview: Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.
Genres: Crime Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-14
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The Villain Still Pursued Her
1940-10-11
The Villain Still Pursued Her
Overview: Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-11
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Africa Screams
1949-05-04
Africa Screams
Overview: When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking that his friend Stanley knows all there is to know about Africa, they are abducted and ordered to lead Diana and her henchmen to an African tribe in search of a fortune in jewels.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-04
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
1949-05-26
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Overview: Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-26
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Professor Beware
1938-07-29
Professor Beware
Overview: Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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Practically Yours
1944-12-20
Practically Yours
Overview: In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly remembering his days back home walking his dog Piggy. Instead of his dog Piggy he is thought to be in love with Peggy, a girl he worked with. The usual farce ensues after he returns home alive and tries to play along with the mistake to save embarrassment for all.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-20
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Pest from the West
1939-06-16
Pest from the West
Overview: A millionaire vacationing in Mexico falls for a local girl and sets out to win her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-16
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To Kill a Mockingbird
1962-12-20
To Kill a Mockingbird
Overview: Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-20
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The Preview Murder Mystery
1936-02-28
The Preview Murder Mystery
Overview: Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and refuses to let anyone leave, the studio’s publicity head and his secretary attempt to solve the murders themselves.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-28
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The Life of the Party
1930-10-25
The Life of the Party
Overview: Two female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-25
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
1948-06-15
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
Overview: Baggage handlers Bud and Lou accidentally stumble upon Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula and the Wolf Man.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-15
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Nothing But Pleasure
1940-01-19
Nothing But Pleasure
Overview: To save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-19
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Sensation Hunters
1945-10-12
Sensation Hunters
Overview: A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-12
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Hollywood Boulevard
1936-08-20
Hollywood Boulevard
Overview: With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-20
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The Joker is Wild
1957-09-26
The Joker is Wild
Overview: A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-26
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Smartest Girl in Town
1936-11-27
Smartest Girl in Town
Overview: A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-27
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Modern Times
1936-02-05
Modern Times
Overview: A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-05
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Beyond the Blue Horizon
1942-06-25
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Overview: A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woman, she is taken back to the United States to claim her inheritance. There are several people, with vested interests, who stand to gain something if she is shown not to be the missing heir.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-25
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Broadway Melody of 1940
1940-02-09
Broadway Melody of 1940
Overview: Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-09
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Here Comes Mr. Zerk
1943-07-23
Here Comes Mr. Zerk
Overview: Harry, a famous scientist, is mistaken for an escaped lunatic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-23
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Primrose Path
1940-03-22
Primrose Path
Overview: Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-22
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Horse Feathers
1932-08-19
Horse Feathers
Overview: Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-19
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
1951-04-12
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Overview: As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.
Genres: Comedy Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-12
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Laura
1944-10-11
Laura
Overview: A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-11
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All by Myself
1943-06-11
All by Myself
Overview: Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who of course is unaware of it. But unknown to Jean, Mark has become engaged to singer Val. When Jean finds out she tries to save face by saying that she is also engaged, and then uses a little social blackmail to get psychiatrist Bill Perry to pretend to be her fiancé for an evening out with Mark and Val.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-11
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King of the Texas Rangers
1941-10-03
King of the Texas Rangers
Overview: Tom King Jr. seeks to discover who murdered his father, a Texas Ranger; the trail leads to a network of Axis spies.
Genres: Action Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-03
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They Knew What They Wanted
1940-10-19
They Knew What They Wanted
Overview: While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accepts his marriage proposal.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-19
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Stranger on the Third Floor
1940-08-16
Stranger on the Third Floor
Overview: Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-16
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Second Chorus
1941-01-03
Second Chorus
Overview: Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-03
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Road to Singapore
1940-03-22
Road to Singapore
Overview: Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-22
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Undertow
1949-12-03
Undertow
Overview: Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge. Before this can take place, Brady is framed for murder, and forced to hide out in the home of Peggy Dow. With the help of Dow and a policeman friend, Brady searches for the real murderer. Watch carefully in Undertow and you'll spot new Universal contractee "Roc" Hudson as a plainclothes detective.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-03
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Earl Carroll Vanities
1945-04-05
Earl Carroll Vanities
Overview: Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual "Vanities" provided story material for three Hollywood films: Murder at the Vanities (34), A Night at Earl Carroll's (40) and Earl Carroll Vanities (45). This last film was produced by Republic Pictures, a bread-and-butter studio specializing in Westerns and serials; Republic had made musicals before, but few of them were expensive enough to allow for lavish production numbers. Earl Carroll Vanities is likewise rather threadbare, though some of the individual musical highlights aren't bad. The plot, such as it is, concerns financially strapped nightclub owner Eve Arden, who finagles Earl Carroll into staging one of his revues at her club.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-05
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Reveille with Beverly
1943-02-04
Reveille with Beverly
Overview: Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-04
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Cracked Nuts
1941-07-02
Cracked Nuts
Overview: A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked attorney and two con men...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-02
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Dizzy Pilots
1943-09-24
Dizzy Pilots
Overview: The Three Stooges, as the Wrong Brothers, aid the war effort by inventing a new plane in this below-average two-reel comedy. Actually, they are attempting to avoid the draft but when their plane, the Buzzard, fails miserably, they march off to war. Richard Fiske, formerly a busy supporting player in Stooges comedies, appears courtesy of stock footage from the earlier Boobs in Arms (1940). Ironically, Fiske had himself been drafted and would be killed in action in France in August of 1944.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-24
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A Lady Takes a Chance
1943-08-19
A Lady Takes a Chance
Overview: A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-19
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The Night of June 13
1932-09-17
The Night of June 13
Overview: Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudie is having an affair with her husband, John, and vows revenge on Trudie. John explains to Trudie Elna's condition and plan. Trudie, being good-hearted tells John that she'll move. One evening, John returns late from work to discover Elna dead. John burns Elna's suicide note to protect Trudie. This results in John being charged for murder and put on trial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-17
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Powder Town
1942-06-07
Powder Town
Overview: Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr., Marion Martin and Mary Gordon.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-07
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Cipher Bureau
1938-10-25
Cipher Bureau
Overview: The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-25
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A Date with the Falcon
1942-01-16
A Date with the Falcon
Overview: In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-16
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My Favorite Spy
1942-06-12
My Favorite Spy
Overview: The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-12
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Crazy House
1943-10-08
Crazy House
Overview: Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-08
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Hi Diddle Diddle
1943-08-02
Hi Diddle Diddle
Overview: When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-02
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Presenting Lily Mars
1943-04-29
Presenting Lily Mars
Overview: Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-29
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The Gay Falcon
1941-10-24
The Gay Falcon
Overview: Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-24
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From This Day Forward
1946-03-02
From This Day Forward
Overview: A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-02
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Roxie Hart
1942-02-20
Roxie Hart
Overview: A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-20
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Road to Utopia
1946-02-27
Road to Utopia
Overview: While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-27
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Man of a Thousand Faces
1957-08-15
Man of a Thousand Faces
Overview: The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-15
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
1950-08-05
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
Overview: Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-05
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Doughboys
1930-08-30
Doughboys
Overview: Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he accidentally volunteers for the army. Luckily, Mary's signed up to entertain the troops. Unluckily, Elmer's sergeant likes Mary, too. And worst of all, they're all about to ship out for France.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-30
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In the Navy
1941-05-30
In the Navy
Overview: Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-30
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Hold That Ghost
1941-08-08
Hold That Ghost
Overview: Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-08
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The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
1947-10-08
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Overview: Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-08
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Who Done It?
1942-10-30
Who Done It?
Overview: Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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Two Sisters from Boston
1946-06-06
Two Sisters from Boston
Overview: Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-06
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Swing Fever
1943-11-01
Swing Fever
Overview: Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-01
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Great Guy
1936-12-01
Great Guy
Overview: A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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I Walk Alone
1947-12-31
I Walk Alone
Overview: Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. 14 years later, Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay to divert Frankie from his intended goal.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-31
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Riff-Raff
1947-06-28
Riff-Raff
Overview: A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oilfields when he hides a valuable map in plain sight.
Genres: Drama Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-28
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All in Fun
1928-10-21
All in Fun
Overview: Movie comedy with Jerry Mandy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-21
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Pep Up
1929-02-24
Pep Up
Overview: Cliff presents his girl with a poodle at a party. His jealous rival plants bugs on both the dog and Cliff.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-24
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