Helen Mack
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Helen Mack (November 12, 1913 – August 13, 1986) was an American actress. Mack started her career as a child actress in silent films, moving on to Broadway plays, and touring the vaudeville circuit. Her greater success as an actress was as a leading lady in the 1930s. Eventually Mack transitioned into performing on radio, and then into writing, directing, and producing some of the best known radio shows during the Golden Age of Radio. Later in life, Mack billed herself as a professional writer, writing for Broadway, stage, and television. Her career spanned the infancy of the motion picture industry, the beginnings of Broadway, the final days of Vaudeville, the transition to "talking pictures", the Golden Age of Radio, and the rise of television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helen Mack, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: November 13, 1913
Deathday: August 13, 1986
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His Girl Friday
1940-01-18
His Girl Friday
Overview: Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-18
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The Milky Way
1936-02-07
The Milky Way
Overview: Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-07
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She
1935-07-12
She
Overview: Leo Vincey, told by his dying uncle of a lost land visited 500 years ago by his ancestor, heads out with family friend Horace Holly to try to discover the land and its secret of immortality, said to be contained within a mystic fire. Picking up Tanya, a guide's daughter, in the frozen Russian arctic, they stumble upon Kor, revealed to be a hidden civilization ruled over by an immortal queen, called She, who believes Vincey is her long-lost lover John Vincey, Leo's ancestor.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-12
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The Son of Kong
1933-12-22
The Son of Kong
Overview: Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.
Genres: Adventure Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-22
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Girls of the Road
1940-07-24
Girls of the Road
Overview: A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-24
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Kiss and Make-Up
1934-07-13
Kiss and Make-Up
Overview: Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the effects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, and wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher... after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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Four Hours to Kill!
1935-04-11
Four Hours to Kill!
Overview: A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-11
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Mystery of the White Room
1939-03-17
Mystery of the White Room
Overview: A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-17
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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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Divorce
1945-08-18
Divorce
Overview: A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-18
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King of the Newsboys
1938-03-18
King of the Newsboys
Overview: A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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The Return Of Peter Grimm
1935-09-13
The Return Of Peter Grimm
Overview: The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-13
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While Paris Sleeps
1932-05-08
While Paris Sleeps
Overview: To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-08
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Blind Adventure
1933-08-18
Blind Adventure
Overview: Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they try to unravel the mystery, enlisting the aid of a cat burglar named Holmes, who they bump into along the way.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-18
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Sweepings
1933-04-14
Sweepings
Overview: Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-14
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Secrets of a Nurse
1938-12-02
Secrets of a Nurse
Overview: This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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The Wrong Road
1937-10-11
The Wrong Road
Overview: A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-11
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I Promise to Pay
1937-04-21
I Promise to Pay
Overview: A man goes to a loan shark to finance his family's vacation.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-21
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You Belong to Me
1934-09-08
You Belong to Me
Overview: When vaudeville performer Florette Faxon is left penniless with her six-year-old son Jimmy, she relies on the friendship of fellow performer Bud Hannigan to help her get a job. Bud is reluctant to become her partner, as he has proven to himself to be unreliable in relationships, but he tells her to call him whenever she needs help. While working in a beer garden, Florette meets Hap Stanley, an avaricious performer who marries her to get the rights to perform her show routine. Hap dislikes Jimmy and eventually convinces Florette to send him away to school. Both Jimmy and Florette are broken-up over being apart, but Jimmy pretends it is what he wants so Florette can be happy with Hap.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-08
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The Last Train from Madrid
1937-06-11
The Last Train from Madrid
Overview: The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-11
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Fit for a King
1937-09-01
Fit for a King
Overview: Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a princess in exile, in danger of assassination; and, falling in love with "Scoops", while engaged to a prince.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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All of Me
1934-02-01
All of Me
Overview: A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-01
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The Struggle
1931-12-10
The Struggle
Overview: A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-10
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Fargo Express
1933-11-20
Fargo Express
Overview: When Mort loses his and Ken's money at poker, Goss gets him to rob the stage. He is captured, identified by his palomino horse. Ken tries to clear him by robbing a stage while riding a palomino, but he also gets caught.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-20
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I Stand Accused
1938-10-29
I Stand Accused
Overview: Fred, a young lawyer fresh out of school, climbs quickly to success as the mouthpiece for a gangland mob. His friend Paul, however, reaches equally quick success - in the district attorney's office. Inevitably, they meet on opposite sides of the courtroom.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-29
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You Can't Buy Luck
1937-04-30
You Can't Buy Luck
Overview: When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-30
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The Silent Witness
1932-02-07
The Silent Witness
Overview: A London nobleman (Lionel Atwill) takes the blame and stands trial after his son strangles a lover (Greta Nissen).
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-07
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Power Dive
1941-06-04
Power Dive
Overview: The story concentrated on a group of test pilots, busily experimenting with a revolutionary all-plastic airplane. Ace flyboy Brad Farrell (Richard Arlen) is determined to prove the practicality of the new aircraft, designed by Professor Blake (Thomas Ross), father of Brad's sweetheart Carol (Jean Parker). Back on solid ground, Brad must vie for Carol's attentions with his own brother, engineer Doug Farrell (Don Castle).
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-04
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Calling All Marines
1939-09-20
Calling All Marines
Overview: Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they welcome home Judy's brother, Marine Sergeant Marvin Fox.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-20
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College Rhythm
1934-11-23
College Rhythm
Overview: The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After graduation they carry their their feud and collegiate ideas over into the department store business.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-23
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Melody Cruise
1933-06-22
Melody Cruise
Overview: A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-22
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Gambling Ship
1938-12-16
Gambling Ship
Overview: A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-16
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Captain Hurricane
1935-03-01
Captain Hurricane
Overview: Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain Hurricane." Brewster is smitten with neighbor Abbie Howland, but she doesn't like his temperament. After a period of retirement, a bad investment puts Brewster back at work on the sea. And when fire overtakes his ship, Hurricane proves heroic, selflessly rescuing his crew from a grisly and deadly fate.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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The Lemon Drop Kid
1934-09-27
The Lemon Drop Kid
Overview: The Lemon Drop Kid is a fast-talking racetrack bum who swindles $100 from an old, ailing man. He takes it on the lam with his sidekick, The Professor.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-27
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Success
1923-02-25
Success
Overview: The often-told film story of a drunken actor hitting the skids, making a comeback, and helping his grown daughter in the bargain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-25
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Zaza
1923-10-21
Zaza
Overview: Zaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he will fall for her. But during one performance, while Zaza is singing on a swing, her rival cuts the rope and she falls. Zaza is badly injured and she makes Dufresne's acquaintance. A romance quickly springs up and he installs her in a villa. Their happiness is marred, however, when his wife appears.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-21
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The California Trail
1933-03-24
The California Trail
Overview: Santa Fe Stuart, leading a relief train bringing food to the peasants, gets caught up in the Commandante and his brother the Mayor's effort to starve out the peasants. Thrown in jail and about to be hung, he escapes and joins the peasants in their fight against the brothers and their troops...
Genres: Western Crime Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-24
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Strange Holiday
1945-10-19
Strange Holiday
Overview: An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-19
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Under the Red Robe
1923-11-12
Under the Red Robe
Overview: A young man is tasked by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu to capture one of the cardinal's enemies but falls in love with his target's sister. The film marks the last motion picture appearance by stage actor Robert B. Mantell who plays Cardinal Richelieu and the only silent screen performance of opera singer John Charles Thomas.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-12
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Christopher Bean
1933-11-17
Christopher Bean
Overview: When the painter Christopher Bean dies, some unscrupulous art dealers try to get several of his paintings cheaply from a family who have no idea of their value.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-17
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Pied Piper Malone
1924-02-04
Pied Piper Malone
Overview: Pied Piper Malone (1924)
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-04
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