Hugh Herbert
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 09, 1884
Deathday: March 12, 1952
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Known For
It's a Great Life
1943-05-27
It's a Great Life
Overview: Dagwood Bumstead, intending to buy a house, buys a horse instead. However, Dagwood quickly gets mixed up in a fox hunt, and Blondie must save the day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-27
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Blondie in the Dough
1947-10-16
Blondie in the Dough
Overview: BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer that is difficult to refuse. Unfortunately, this creates all kinds of problems for the Bumsteads.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-16
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The Black Cat
1941-05-02
The Black Cat
Overview: Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-02
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Hook, Line and Sinker
1930-12-26
Hook, Line and Sinker
Overview: Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-26
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Kismet
1944-10-01
Kismet
Overview: Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-01
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Hollywood Hotel
1938-01-15
Hollywood Hotel
Overview: After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-15
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Sweet Adeline
1934-12-29
Sweet Adeline
Overview: In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But Sid frets as Adeline spends increasing amounts of time with the dashing Major Day.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-29
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Gold Diggers of 1935
1935-03-15
Gold Diggers of 1935
Overview: Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-15
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Dames
1934-09-01
Dames
Overview: A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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She Had to Say Yes
1933-07-15
She Had to Say Yes
Overview: Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have been using professional female entertainers to keep their clients very happy, but the clients are getting bored of them. Tommy convinces management to replace the professionals with "volunteers" from the pool of stenographers. Inevitably some clients expectations are greater than their "dates", boyfriends become unhappy, and the "voluntary" duty becomes less so over time. At first, Tommy prevents Florence from being a volunteer, but eventually the prospect of a bonus becomes too great and he encourages her to volunteer. Afterwards, Tommy considers Florence a loose woman.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-15
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The Great Waltz
1938-11-04
The Great Waltz
Overview: Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-04
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Stage Door Canteen
1943-06-24
Stage Door Canteen
Overview: A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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Four's a Crowd
1938-08-04
Four's a Crowd
Overview: A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-04
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935-10-09
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Overview: Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
Genres: Fantasy Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-09
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Hellzapoppin'
1941-12-25
Hellzapoppin'
Overview: Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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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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Fashions of 1934
1934-02-14
Fashions of 1934
Overview: When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-14
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On Our Merry Way
1948-02-03
On Our Merry Way
Overview: Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-03
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Sham Poo, the Magician
1932-11-25
Sham Poo, the Magician
Overview: Hugh Herbert and Roscoe Ates are in a bar where all the men wear fezzes. They are trying to make time with cigarette girl Dorothy Granger. Their loud celery-crunching rouses the ire of Jerry Mandy, aka Sham Poo the magician.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-25
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Sh! The Octopus
1937-12-11
Sh! The Octopus
Overview: Comedy-mystery finds Detectives Kelly and Dempsey trapped in a deserted lighthouse with a group of strangers who are being terrorized by a killer octopus AND a mysterious crime figure named after the title sea creature.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-11
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Badlands of Dakota
1941-09-15
Badlands of Dakota
Overview: In the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, brothers Jim and Bob Holliday are bumping heads over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson. While all this is going on, Wild Bill Hickok does his best to neutralize the local criminal element-and to fend off the romantic overtures of boisterous Calamity Jane.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-15
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Harold Teen
1934-04-07
Harold Teen
Overview: A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same title. With Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert,Douglass Dumbrille and Patricia Ellis.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-07
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Merry Wives of Reno
1934-04-18
Merry Wives of Reno
Overview: Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-18
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So This Is New York
1948-06-01
So This Is New York
Overview: A small town man inherits a significant fortune and takes his family to New York City whereupon they are continually shocked at the alien culture of the Big Apple.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-01
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The Lost Squadron
1932-03-12
The Lost Squadron
Overview: When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadistic director.
Genres: Drama Action War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-12
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Men Are Such Fools
1938-06-15
Men Are Such Fools
Overview: Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband. She rises through the ranks, becoming a copywriter, and attracts the attention of Jimmy, an amorous coworker who wants to marry her. But Jimmy is jealous of Linda's career and of Harry, a radio executive who works with Linda, and their marriage gets off to a very rough start.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-15
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Colleen
1936-03-21
Colleen
Overview: Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-21
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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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Gold Diggers in Paris
1938-06-11
Gold Diggers in Paris
Overview: When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-11
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Wonder Bar
1934-03-31
Wonder Bar
Overview: Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
Genres: Crime Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-31
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The Merry Frinks
1934-05-26
The Merry Frinks
Overview: An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-26
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We're in the Money
1935-08-17
We're in the Money
Overview: Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-17
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Miss Pacific Fleet
1935-12-14
Miss Pacific Fleet
Overview: A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-14
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College Coach
1933-11-04
College Coach
Overview: Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look at college football of the 1930s replete with fake grades, non-student players, and the importance of football to a college's reputation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-04
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Danger Lights
1931-01-09
Danger Lights
Overview: Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; then he finds the man was a railroader, too, and takes him under his wing. Engaged to Mary, Dan doesn't notice the growing attraction between his protégé and his intended but focuses instead on running the railroad.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-09
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Easy to Love
1934-01-13
Easy to Love
Overview: Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-13
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Friends and Lovers
1931-10-03
Friends and Lovers
Overview: British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affair, as he uses his beautiful wife to lure men into romance with her, then blackmailing them to save their careers.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-03
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One Rainy Afternoon
1936-05-13
One Rainy Afternoon
Overview: Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to kiss her. Charged with assault, the quick-thinking Philippe claims it's French tradition to do as he did, and is let go. To his surprise, Philippe learns that Monique has paid his fine. As the tabloids exploit the situation, Monique dates Philippe, until a photo appears of him kissing Yvonne.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-13
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Faithless
1932-10-15
Faithless
Overview: Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-15
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Traveling Saleslady
1935-03-28
Traveling Saleslady
Overview: A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-28
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From Headquarters
1933-11-16
From Headquarters
Overview: When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-16
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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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Marry the Girl
1937-07-13
Marry the Girl
Overview: Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is owned by and staffed with cuckoos.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-13
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Music for Millions
1944-12-18
Music for Millions
Overview: Six-year-old "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in José Iturbi's orchestra. And the orchestra is rapidly turning completely female, what with the draft. As the orchestra travels around the country, Babs' fellow orchestra members intercept and hide her War Office telegram to protect the baby.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-18
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Kansas City Princess
1934-09-14
Kansas City Princess
Overview: Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-14
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Goodbye Again
1933-09-09
Goodbye Again
Overview: Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-09
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Hit Parade of 1941
1940-10-14
Hit Parade of 1941
Overview: In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station. He begins looking for sponsors. He finds one with a department store owner who will only lend him the money if he will allow his daughter, an aspiring tap-dancer and singer, to perform on the air. This is unfortunate as she is tone-deaf. To compensate, the owner hires a real singer to dub the daughter's voice. The singer and the owner's nephew fall in love and mayhem ensues. Songs include: the Oscar nominated "Who Am I?," "Swing Low Sweet Rhythm," "In The Cool of the Evening," "Make Yourself at Home," "The Swap Shop Song," "The Trading Post," "Sally," "Ramona," "Sweet Sue," "Dinah," "Margie," and "Mary Lou."
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-14
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Convention City
1933-12-14
Convention City
Overview: Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company sales manager. T.R. Kent and George Ellerbe are two salesmen who both want the job. However, they both get into trouble: T.R. is discredited when jealous saleswoman, Arlene Dale, interferes with his attempted seduction of Honeywell's daughter, Claire, and George attempts to seduce Nancy Lorraine. The position of sales manager is bestowed upon a drunken employee as a bribe after he catches J.B. about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator." Considered a lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-14
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There's One Born Every Minute
1942-06-26
There's One Born Every Minute
Overview: A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-26
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Traveling Husbands
1931-08-15
Traveling Husbands
Overview: A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-15
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The Sin Ship
1931-04-18
The Sin Ship
Overview: A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and her "minister" husband are really bank robbers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-18
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1942-10-01
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Overview: In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-01
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We Went to College
1936-06-19
We Went to College
Overview: Middle-aged couples try to reclaim their youth at a college homecoming.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-19
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Diplomaniacs
1933-04-28
Diplomaniacs
Overview: Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the Oopadoop nation also enter, hearing the usual barbershop banter about foreign debts, they force them to be ambassadors of their nation at the Peace conference in Geneva. Ammunition industry executive Winkelreid is scheming to prevent their mission becoming an success, but the vamp Dolores aboard the ship fails, falling in love with Nilly, and so does Fifi, the toughest person of the world in Paris, falling for Glub. Although Winkelreid is able to steal their secret papers, Nilly and Glub don't give up after being reminded by constant observation of their Indians and enter the Peace conference, which turns out to be a battlefield...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-28
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One Way to Love
1946-01-08
One Way to Love
Overview: A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and the other must write commercial jingles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-08
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Million Dollar Legs
1932-07-08
Million Dollar Legs
Overview: A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-08
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The Singing Marine
1937-07-03
The Singing Marine
Overview: Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest, however, sets him up for trouble in romance, in his career, and with the Corps.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-03
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Sing Me a Love Song
1936-12-25
Sing Me a Love Song
Overview: A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-25
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A Little Bit of Heaven
1940-10-10
A Little Bit of Heaven
Overview: A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a big-bucks contract, which allows her and her family to move into a posh apartment, with all the usual problems that accompany sudden wealth.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-10
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Slightly Tempted
1940-10-18
Slightly Tempted
Overview: A con man tries to sell phony stocks to unwary investors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-18
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Hello, Sucker
1941-06-01
Hello, Sucker
Overview: A young couple buy a bankrupt vaudeville booking agency, and try to make it a success.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-01
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The Family Next Door
1939-03-30
The Family Next Door
Overview: Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her smart aleck son Sammy hears that an electric railroad line is to be built through town, she decides that the family can become rich by purchasing the lots along the right of way. Patriarch George Pierce laughs at the idea, but when Rose and Sammy learn that Cora Stewart, the wealthy town widow, has withdrawn her savings from the bank, they jump to the conclusion that she is interested in buying the lots, and mother and son secretly invest the family bank roll in the land.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-30
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Top of the Town
1937-04-17
Top of the Town
Overview: In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-17
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Fog Over Frisco
1934-06-02
Fog Over Frisco
Overview: Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-02
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To Beat the Band
1935-11-23
To Beat the Band
Overview: An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-23
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Strictly Personal
1933-03-17
Strictly Personal
Overview: Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-17
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That Man's Here Again
1937-04-16
That Man's Here Again
Overview: An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In order to keep her near him, he wangles a job for her as a maid at the building.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-16
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Eternally Yours
1939-10-07
Eternally Yours
Overview: Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-07
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The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
1949-05-27
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
Overview: Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. As this is usually the local judge's rear-end, Freddie and friend Conchita are soon hiding out teaching school in the middle of nowhere.
Genres: Comedy Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-27
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Hollywood Newsreel
1934-03-24
Hollywood Newsreel
Overview: A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner Bros. Studios and is greeted by several stars; Margaret Lindsay, Guy Kibbee, and Dick Powell work at a gold mine; Joan Blondell, recovered from a recent illness, thanks her fans; songs from the movie Harold Teen (1934) are performed by the songwriters and the film's stars.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-24
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Footlight Parade
1933-10-21
Footlight Parade
Overview: A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-21
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Bureau of Missing Persons
1933-09-16
Bureau of Missing Persons
Overview: Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-16
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Little Accident
1939-10-26
Little Accident
Overview: A baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-26
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Meet the Chump
1941-02-14
Meet the Chump
Overview: A comedy about a man who tries to avoid giving up the $10,000,000 trust he's been administering so well that there's hardly any money left.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-14
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La Conga Nights
1940-05-31
La Conga Nights
Overview: In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when she hails his cab as she skips out on her former boarding house because she cannot pay rent.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-31
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Husbands for Rent
1927-12-31
Husbands for Rent
Overview: A newlywed couple, after six months of marriage, decides that they've made a mistake and plan to divorce. Her father, however, has other ideas and hatches a plot to make them realize that they really do love each other and should stay married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-31
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Don't Get Personal
1942-01-02
Don't Get Personal
Overview: Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored by his company, as he thinks their on-air quarreling is real. Two former associates, Jules Kinsey and J.M. Snow cross him up by substituting Susan Blair, an office secretary, for Mary and Elmer thinks the show's writer Paul Stevens is John.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-02
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Love Begins at Twenty
1936-08-22
Love Begins at Twenty
Overview: A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-22
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A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio
1935-02-02
A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio
Overview: This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bros. / First National Studios. We start at the casting office, then see Busby Berkeley and choreographer Bobby Connolly working with chorus girls on production numbers. Then come some candid shots of several contract stars. Finally we see comedian Hugh Herbert filming a scene for an upcoming release, then the various behind the scenes steps that transition the raw film in the camera into the finished product.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-02
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Caught in the Fog
1928-08-25
Caught in the Fog
Overview: Wealthy Bob visits his mother's Florida houseboat in order to remove her jewelry and stumbles upon a bobbed-hair bandit and her male accomplice, who mistake him for another burglar. A fight is broken up by the arrival of an elderly couple (still more burglars) who are posing as guests. Bob keeps his identity secret and passes himself off as the butler; the girl and her partner pretend to be the maid and the cook. A couple of idiotic detectives, arrive on the scene, closely followed by a heavy fog that traps them all on board.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-25
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Ever Since Venus
1944-09-14
Ever Since Venus
Overview: The American Beauty Association is about to hold its annual trade show in New York City and songwriter "Tiny" Lewis (Billy Gilbert) has just sold a song to Ina Ray Hutton ('Ina Ray Hutton'), the leader of an all-girl band headlining the show. Lewis shares an apartment with Bradley Miller ('Ross Hunter') and Michele (Fritz Feld), an artist, and Miller has just invented a non-staining lipstick called "Rosebud." Preparing to get a booth at the show, Miller is told by J. Webster Hackett (Alan Mowbray), a very devious "Cosmetics King,", intent on selling a big lipstick order to buyer Edgar Pomeroy (Thurston Hall), that it will cost him a $1000 to join the association and get a booth, which is about $999 more than Miller and his roomies have between them. But Miller's beauty-parlor girl friend, Janet Wilson ('Ann Savage'), meets factory-owner P. G. Grimble (Hugh Herbert), and money is soon no issue.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-14
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One Shivery Night
1950-07-13
One Shivery Night
Overview: Hugh and his partner, Julius are assigned to demolish a old mansion that's rumored to have a fortune hidden inside somewhere. When they arrive, they meet two fortune hunters who try to scare Hugh and Julius away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-13
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Pitchin' in the Kitchen
1943-09-10
Pitchin' in the Kitchen
Overview: While his wife works at a defense plant, Hugh stays home and tries to do the housework.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-10
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Who's Hugh?
1943-12-17
Who's Hugh?
Overview: Hugh's wife goes to Palm Springs to file for a divorce, and Hugh follows her to try to talk her out of it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-17
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Oh, Baby!
1944-04-17
Oh, Baby!
Overview: Hugh, who has always made no secret about his disdain for children, changes his mind when he believes that he is about to become a father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-17
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His Hotel Sweet
1944-07-09
His Hotel Sweet
Overview: Hugh stops his friend from committing suicide - and is accused of being a home-wrecker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-09
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A Knight and a Blonde
1944-11-18
A Knight and a Blonde
Overview: Hugh has difficulty eluding a sleepwalking blonde.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-18
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Woo, Woo!
1945-01-05
Woo, Woo!
Overview: Hugh Herbert forms a company to relieve other people from worrying, but a jealous husband, Harry Barris, gives him sone unexpected trouble. Following some narrow escapes, Hugh works his way out of the trouble by making the husband believe he has killed his wife, Christine McIntyre.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-05
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Wife Decoy
1945-05-18
Wife Decoy
Overview: While in a nightclub, Hugh doesn't recognize his wife, who has recently changed her hair color to blonde.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-18
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The Mayor's Husband
1945-09-20
The Mayor's Husband
Overview: Gangsters pry incriminating evidence from Hugh through the use of a gun moll.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-20
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When the Wife's Away
1946-02-01
When the Wife's Away
Overview: Hugh, branch manager of Korny Krunchies Breakfast Food, Brings the boss home to dinner on his anniversary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-01
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Get Along, Little Zombie
1946-05-09
Get Along, Little Zombie
Overview: There's a monster running around loose in the house Hugh is showing to two prospective clients.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-09
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Honeymoon Blues
1946-10-17
Honeymoon Blues
Overview: Immediately after his wedding, Hugh's boss comes to him with an important job - he is to ingratiate himself with an important client's mistress and retrieve some incriminating love letters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-17
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Hot Heir
1947-02-13
Hot Heir
Overview: Hugh innocently becomes involved with his neighbors wife, just as his rich uncle comes to visit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-13
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Nervous Shakedown
1947-03-13
Nervous Shakedown
Overview: Hugh and Dudley stay at Dr. Flint's Sanitarium, unaware that two escaped convicts are using the place for a hideout.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-13
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Should Husbands Marry?
1947-11-13
Should Husbands Marry?
Overview: Hugh's loudmouth pal crashes a dinner party Hugh is throwing for his boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-13
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Tall, Dark and Gruesome
1948-04-15
Tall, Dark and Gruesome
Overview: A crate containing a live gorilla is delivered to a mountain cabin Hugh has rented.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-15
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A Pinch in Time
1948-11-11
A Pinch in Time
Overview: A beautiful blonde has just stolen a necklace and is being pursued by the police. She plants the necklace on an unsuspecting Hugh, intending to come back for it after she has eluded the cops.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-11
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Trapped by a Blonde
1949-04-07
Trapped by a Blonde
Overview: Hugh goes on a camping trip with his brother-in-law and innocently gets involved with the sheriff's wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-07
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Super-Wolf
1949-10-13
Super-Wolf
Overview: Hugh is a dead ringer for a criminal terrorizing the city.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-13
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A Slip and a Miss
1950-09-09
A Slip and a Miss
Overview: While in court after his wife has started a divorce action, Hugh begins to give the judge his side of the story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-09
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Woo-Woo Blues
1951-07-14
Woo-Woo Blues
Overview: Hugh's former girlfriend tries to blackmail him with old love letters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-14
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Trouble In-Laws
1951-10-11
Trouble In-Laws
Overview: Hugh, an advertising man, tries to get a local strong man to endorse a breakfast food.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-11
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The Gink at the Sink
1952-06-12
The Gink at the Sink
Overview: Hugh cant find a job, so his wife goes to work, leaving him to do the household chores.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-12
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Breakdowns of 1938
1938-12-31
Breakdowns of 1938
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-31
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A Dream Comes True
1935-12-31
A Dream Comes True
Overview: A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-31
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Breakdowns of 1937
1937-12-31
Breakdowns of 1937
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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Things You Never See on the Screen
1935-12-01
Things You Never See on the Screen
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-01
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And She Learned About Dames
1934-03-27
And She Learned About Dames
Overview: Students at New York's Rovina Finishing School for Girls send their photographs to the makers of Claybury's Beauty Soap, in the hope of being chosen as "Miss Complexion of 1934." Martha Howson wins the contest, which includes a trip to Hollywood and a tour of the Warner Brothers lot with Lyle Talbot. When she gets to the studio, all she wants to do is meet Dick Powell, star of the new Warner Brothers film Dames (1934).
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-27
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The Lady's from Kentucky
1939-04-27
The Lady's from Kentucky
Overview: Good-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard times. His one out is a marker for half-ownership in a young thoroughbred, which he quickly calls in. He discovers the other owner to be a young woman from an old horse racing family who wants to protect her colt almost as much as Marty wants to rush him into big races for a fast buck. While they clash, Marty soon comes to understand the human bond with the horses and what it means to be a thoroughbred.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-27
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You're Telling Me
1942-05-03
You're Telling Me
Overview: Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less eccentric aunt Fannie Handley, who is married to one of the company owners. After mixing up the script pages to the various radio programs, Hubert sets out to get the name of a returning explorer on a contract for the radio station. Other than the title, this film has no connection at all to the 1934 W.C. Fields film of the same title even though some sources give the plot of the Fields' film as the plot of this film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-03
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A Song Is Born
1948-10-19
A Song Is Born
Overview: The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-19
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Havana Rose
1951-09-15
Havana Rose
Overview: Ambassador Rico DeMarco is in Washington trying to raise a five-million dollar loan for his country, Lower Salamia. Filbert Filmore and his domineering wife are about to sign on the dotted line for the loan when DeMarco's vivacious daughter, Estelita, upsets the deal by accidentally knocking hot coffee over the papers---and Mrs. Fillmore, who leaves the house in a huff. When word of the difficulties filters back home it's Viva la Revolution. But Estelita, disguised as a fortune teller tries to convince astrology believer Fillmore that the stars are propitious for his making the loan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-15
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Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
1936-08-05
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
Overview: Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being the desert playground for the movie stars, the women are introduced to the cavalcade of stars vacationing in Palm Springs at the time.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-05
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Private Affairs
1940-07-05
Private Affairs
Overview: A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-05
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Good Badminton
1934-11-24
Good Badminton
Overview: This Vitaphone short has Hugh Herbert tossing in some comedy lines while Walter Pidgeon relates the history of the new-fad (in 1936) game of Badminton. Ace badminton players Bill Hurley and George F. (Jess) Willard, not to be confused with boxer Jess Willard, play the fast-and-furious game.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-24
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A Day at Santa Anita
1937-05-22
A Day at Santa Anita
Overview: Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-22
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The Girl from Manhattan
1948-10-01
The Girl from Manhattan
Overview: A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his boarding house to the hilt. In her efforts to help him keep his boarding house, she becomes involved with a handsome young minister and his superior, an older bishop.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-01
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