Zasu Pitts
Biography: Zasu Pitts was an American actress who starred in many silent dramas and comedies, transitioning successfully to mostly comedy films with the advent of sound films. She may be best known for her performance in Erich von Stroheim's epic silent film Greed. Based on her performance, von Stroheim labeled Pitts "the greatest dramatic actress". He also featured her in his films The Honeymoon (1928), The Wedding March (1928), War Nurse (1930) and Walking Down Broadway, released as Hello, Sister! (1933). However, for the most part, with the advent of sound Pitts was mostly relegated to comedy parts. A bitter disappointment was when she was replaced in the classic war drama All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) by Beryl Mercer after her initial appearance in previews drew unintentional laughs, despite her intense performance. She had viewers rolling in the aisles in Finn and Hattie (1931), The Guardsman (1931), Blondie of the Follies (1932), Sing and Like It (1934) and Ruggles of Red Gap (1935). In 1936 and 1937 she portrayed Hildegarde Withers in two movies, succeeding Edna May Oliver as the spinster sleuth, but they were not well received. In the 1950s she started focusing on television. This culminated in her best known series role, playing second banana to Gale Storm on CBS's The Gale Storm Show (1956) (also known as Oh, Susannah) in the role of Elvira Nugent ("Nugie"), the shipboard beautician. In 1961, Pitts was cast opposite Earle Hodgins in the episode "Lonesome's Gal" on the ABC sitcom, Guestward, Ho!, set on a dude ranch in New Mexico. In 1962, Pitts appeared in an episode of CBS's Perry Mason, "The Case of the Absent Artist". Her final role was as Gertie, the switchboard operator in the Stanley Kramer comedy epic It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 02, 1894
Deathday: June 07, 1963
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Greed
1924-12-04
Greed
Overview: A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-04
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Blondie of the Follies
1932-09-01
Blondie of the Follies
Overview: New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for Blondie, as well, to join the cast and gain the advantages. But the friendship goes awry when Lottie's sweetheart, wealthy Larry Belmont, falls for Blondie and she for him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-01
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The Thrill of It All
1963-07-17
The Thrill of It All
Overview: A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-17
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963-11-07
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Overview: A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-07
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Thunder Mountain
1925-10-11
Thunder Mountain
Overview: Sam Martin grows up in the Kentucky hills with a preacher as his closest friend and father figure. The young man goes away and gets an education, and when he returns home, he wants to build a school so that others can learn, too.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-11
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13 Washington Square
1928-01-28
13 Washington Square
Overview: In this comedy, a wealthy matron is terribly upset when she learns that her socialite son is planning to marry a blue collar girl.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-28
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The Squealer
1930-08-20
The Squealer
Overview: A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her husband, however, believes her reason was that she wanted him out of the way so she could have his best friend.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-20
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Ruggles of Red Gap
1935-03-08
Ruggles of Red Gap
Overview: In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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Life with Father
1947-09-13
Life with Father
Overview: A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-13
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The Talk of the Town
1918-09-28
The Talk of the Town
Overview: Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her hand on a book called "How to Attract the Opposite Sex," she takes its advice to heart. She uses her newly found wiles on Lawrence Tabor (William Stowell) and gets him to marry her. Only after the wedding does she tell him she married him just to get away from her family, and that she intends to do exactly as she pleases.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-28
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Francis
1950-02-08
Francis
Overview: The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his right mind. In the process of all this, the mule assisted in uncovering a spy, Mareen, who pretended to be lost among the jungles, but was actually...
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-08
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The Big Gamble
1931-09-04
The Big Gamble
Overview: A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the one-year suicide clause has elapsed.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-04
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52nd Street
1937-11-19
52nd Street
Overview: The story of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-19
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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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The Honeymoon
1929-12-31
The Honeymoon
Overview: Sequel to von Stroheim's The Wedding March released only in Europe. The only known copy was destroyed in a fire at the Cinémathèque Française in 1959.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-31
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The Dummy
1929-03-09
The Dummy
Overview: The title character is office-boy Barney. Pretending to be a deaf-mute, Barney tries to trump his detective boss Walter Babbing by tracking down the person who kidnapped Peggy Meredith, the daughter of wealthy Agnes and Trumbull Meredith.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-09
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Patsy
1921-02-01
Patsy
Overview: Patsy is the awkward sister of the lovely Grace. She is also in love with Grace's boyfriend. Mother shows favoritism towards Grace, and father is too accommodating to stand up for Patsy, although he knows she is picked on. When they are all at supper, Grace runs away on a motorboat with a millionaire playboy. During a deep talk with Grace's boyfriend, Patsy reveals that she is in love with somebody who doesn't know she exists.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-01
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Wife Savers
1928-01-07
Wife Savers
Overview: While stationed in Switzerland, soldiers Louis and Rodney fall in love with local damsel Colette, much to the dismay of Colette's self-appointed boyfriend General Lavoris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-07
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It All Came True
1940-04-06
It All Came True
Overview: After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-06
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The Locked Door
1929-11-16
The Locked Door
Overview: On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and determines to intervene.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-16
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Dear Miss Gloria
1946-01-01
Dear Miss Gloria
Overview: A short subject, intended as the first of a series, where Gloria Swanson plays "Miss Gloria," advice columnist to the lovelorn.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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On the Loose
1931-12-26
On the Loose
Overview: Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mud. The driver stops and offers to buy them some new clothes. They accept the offer and later agree to go on a date.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-26
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Oh, Yeah!
1929-10-19
Oh, Yeah!
Overview: A couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with the fright-yard bulls and other drifters, find romance in the persons of two waitresses at the camp restaurant. American-slang rules the dialogue to the point non-USA viewers need a slang-glossary to follow the dialogue.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-19
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1934-10-28
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Overview: The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure. Miss Lucy and Bob get married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-28
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Changing Husbands
1924-06-22
Changing Husbands
Overview: A bored rich housewife wants to go on the stage, but her husband won't let her. When she meets a despairing actress who looks exactly like her, she suggests they swap places for a little while, giving the actress a break while the rich husband is out of town. But the rich husband comes back early, causing havoc for the actress, plus the rich housewife is finding herself attracted to the actress's boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-22
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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 Guardsman
1931-10-20
The Guardsman
Overview: An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a year, are already showing signs of strain in their marriage. The actor believes his wife is capable of infidelity and sets out to prove this is so. Disguising himself as the kind of man he believes she fancies (a Russian military officer), the actor woos his wife while she believes her husband to be out of town.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-20
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What Happened to Jones
1926-02-08
What Happened to Jones
Overview: On the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided by the police, he escapes into a Turkish bath on ladies night, ending up disguised in drag and with difficult explanations to make.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-08
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This Could Be the Night
1957-05-14
This Could Be the Night
Overview: To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-14
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The Plot Thickens
1936-12-11
The Plot Thickens
Overview: A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-11
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Once in a Lifetime
1932-10-02
Once in a Lifetime
Overview: Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-02
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Shopworn
1932-03-25
Shopworn
Overview: A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-25
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Hollywood
1923-08-19
Hollywood
Overview: Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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Monte Carlo
1930-08-27
Monte Carlo
Overview: A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-27
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The Bad Sister
1931-03-29
The Bad Sister
Overview: Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Marianne. Marianne returns and marries a wealthy young man, and Lindley turns his love toward Laura.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-29
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Strangers of the Evening
1932-05-14
Strangers of the Evening
Overview: Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-14
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The Crooked Circle
1932-09-25
The Crooked Circle
Overview: A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-25
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Forty Naughty Girls
1937-09-24
Forty Naughty Girls
Overview: Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.
Genres: Mystery Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-24
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Mad Holiday
1936-11-13
Mad Holiday
Overview: A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-13
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A Little Princess
1917-11-05
A Little Princess
Overview: Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-05
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Meet the Baron
1933-10-20
Meet the Baron
Overview: A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-20
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So's Your Aunt Emma!
1942-04-17
So's Your Aunt Emma!
Overview: A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-17
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Make Me a Star
1932-07-01
Make Me a Star
Overview: A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-01
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Going Highbrow
1935-07-06
Going Highbrow
Overview: A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-06
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Denver and Rio Grande
1952-05-16
Denver and Rio Grande
Overview: Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotages the entire operation in the hopes that they can get their tracks laid first and get the money from the railroad.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-16
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The Bashful Bachelor
1942-03-19
The Bashful Bachelor
Overview: Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-'em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum is also too timid to propose to Geraldine, so he involves Abner in a "rescue" effort which nearly gets both of them killed. They try again, and this time Geraldine is impressed. Lum writes a proposal note, but Abner, by mistake, delivers it to the Widder Abernathy, who has been ready to remarry for years. This puts Lum in a peck of trouble until the sheriff appears with the Widder's long-gone and hiding husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-19
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Niagara Falls
1941-10-17
Niagara Falls
Overview: The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-17
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Broadway Limited
1941-06-13
Broadway Limited
Overview: A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought in for it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-13
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The Lottery Bride
1930-09-29
The Lottery Bride
Overview: Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-29
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Sin Takes a Holiday
1930-11-10
Sin Takes a Holiday
Overview: Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from ugly duckling to uninhibited swan and even contemplates having an affair with a man she meets during a trip to Paris.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-10
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Westward Passage
1932-05-27
Westward Passage
Overview: A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-27
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Pretty Ladies
1925-09-06
Pretty Ladies
Overview: Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One thing leads to another, they fall in love and get married. Al becomes a famous songwriter and Maggie stays home and has children. One day Al is hired to write a big number for Selma Larson, one of the Follies' most beautiful stars, and falls for her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-06
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The Squall
1929-05-09
The Squall
Overview: A fiesty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-09
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Passion Flower
1930-12-06
Passion Flower
Overview: A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-06
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Sing and Like it
1934-04-20
Sing and Like it
Overview: While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-20
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Let's Face It
1943-08-04
Let's Face It
Overview: A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money. Three customers of the "fat farm" scheme to get back at their philandering husbands by hiring the soldier and two of his buddies as "escorts" for the weekend. Complications ensue when the husbands show up unexpectedly.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-04
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Spring Tonic
1935-06-27
Spring Tonic
Overview: Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-27
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Mexican Spitfire at Sea
1942-03-13
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Overview: An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-13
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The Gay Bride
1934-12-14
The Gay Bride
Overview: Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Professional Sweetheart
1933-06-09
Professional Sweetheart
Overview: Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor and his nutty henchmen pick her a public-relations "sweetheart" from fan mail, who turns out to be a hayseed.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-09
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Seed
1931-05-14
Seed
Overview: Bart is a clerk for a publishing company; he has written a novel. His wife Peggy and he have five children. Bart's former girlfriend Mildred is manager of the company's Paris office. She manages to get the novel published and talks Bart into marrying her after he divorces Peggy. Initially successful, Bart must turn to writing trash to keep Mildred in money. When he sees how well his four sons and daughter Margaret have grown without his help, he asks Peggy to let them all come live with him and Mildred. Peggy agrees, but the arrival of his beloved children puts Mildred's future in jeopardy. Written by Ed Stephan
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-14
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Teenage Millionaire
1961-08-01
Teenage Millionaire
Overview: A teenager whose father is a millionaire radio station owner secretly records a song and plays it on one of his father's stations. It becomes a hit.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-01
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Uncle Joe
1941-10-18
Uncle Joe
Overview: A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried parents to live with her uncle on his Iowa farm.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-18
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Destry Rides Again
1932-04-17
Destry Rides Again
Overview: The story about a man framed for a crime he didn't commit, who returns to wreak havoc following his release from prison.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-17
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Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
1933-10-18
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
Overview: Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-18
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Weekend for Three
1941-12-12
Weekend for Three
Overview: Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet Jim turns genuinely dismayed once Randy arrives and turns out to be an insufferable, boorish braggart with bad manners and little self-awareness. That dismay turns to outright annoyance when Jim realizes Randy thinks he has come to stay for the weekend. How much damage to a marriage can one unwanted guest do in the space of one weekend?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-12
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The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
1941-11-28
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Overview: An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-28
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Mr. Skitch
1933-12-22
Mr. Skitch
Overview: After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
Genres: Romance Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-22
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13 Hours by Air
1936-04-30
13 Hours by Air
Overview: Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves on the run from the law.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-30
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The Meanest Gal in Town
1934-01-12
The Meanest Gal in Town
Overview: A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-12
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Nurse Edith Cavell
1939-08-31
Nurse Edith Cavell
Overview: British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-31
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Two Alone
1934-01-26
Two Alone
Overview: Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-26
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River's End
1930-11-01
River's End
Overview: Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith. When they catch up with him in the farthest reaches of Northern Canada, Keith turns out to be a dead ringer for Conniston. On the way back, the sled overturns, Keith grabs the gun and leaves them to die in the snow. After second thoughts he comes back and brings them to safety at an RCMP emergency cabin. Conniston dies of a frozen lung and Keith takes his place.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-01
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The Devil's Holiday
1930-05-09
The Devil's Holiday
Overview: Beautiful manicurist Hallie Hobart sets her sights on handsome David Stone, the son of wealthy wheat farmer Ezra Stone. Professing to hate men, Hallie is only interested in luring David in for a lucrative business deal. David easily falls in love, but older brother Mark brands Hallie a gold-digger. To get even with the straight-laced Stone family, Hallie accepts David's marriage proposal.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-09
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Finn and Hattie
1931-02-04
Finn and Hattie
Overview: The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who wears the pants in the family - it's their daughter Mildred. Her parents often proclaim she is a genius - but she is just smarter than them, which wouldn't be too hard! On the train, Finn meets shyster Harry who sizes Finn up as a sucker and quickly wires his partner Bessie, aka "The Princess" to make Finn's acquaintance and take him for everything he has.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-04
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The Trial of Vivienne Ware
1932-05-01
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Overview: Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-01
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Is My Face Red?
1932-06-17
Is My Face Red?
Overview: William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his showgirl gal-pal, Peggy. Eventually Bill's reckless tattling gets him in deep trouble with friends and enemies, putting his career and life in jeopardy.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-17
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Hello, Sister!
1933-04-14
Hello, Sister!
Overview: Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-14
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Her First Mate
1933-08-03
Her First Mate
Overview: A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-03
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Roar of the Dragon
1932-07-08
Roar of the Dragon
Overview: A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain Carson, who becomes involved with a woman who "belongs" to Voronsky. Carson must contend with the bandits outside and the conflicting personalities of those trapped inside the inn, as well as dealing with spies among the inn's personnel.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-08
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The Bargain of the Century
1933-04-08
The Bargain of the Century
Overview: Comedy short with ZaSuPitts and Thelma Todd. After accidentally getting a policeman friend fired, the girls must come up with some way to get him re-hired or be stuck with him as an unwanted roommate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-08
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The Fast Set
1924-10-20
The Fast Set
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-20
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Sealskins
1932-02-06
Sealskins
Overview: In their first comedy two-reeler of 1932, vivacious Thelma Todd and fluttery ZaSu Pitts learn that the royal seal of a foreign country has been stolen and promptly set out to catch it -- a sea lion.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-06
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Asleep in the Feet
1933-01-21
Asleep in the Feet
Overview: The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-21
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Show Business
1932-08-20
Show Business
Overview: The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-20
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Risky Business
1926-10-04
Risky Business
Overview: A domineering mother sets out to break up the romance and possible marriage of her daughter, Cecily Stoughton, with Ted Pyncheon by several contrived devices and bringing in other candidates more to her liking.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-04
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Beyond Victory
1931-04-03
Beyond Victory
Overview: Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-03
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Madison Square Garden
1932-11-04
Madison Square Garden
Overview: Eddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of loyalty. When his manager Doc Williams is offered the opportunity to stage a match at Madison Square Garden, but only if he gets rid of his stable of fighters, Eddie fabricates an alibi and stages a walkout on Doc.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-04
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Steady Company
1932-03-13
Steady Company
Overview: Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and ZaSu Pitts supply the laughs.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-13
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Catch-As Catch-Can
1931-08-22
Catch-As Catch-Can
Overview: Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-22
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Casey at the Bat
1927-03-08
Casey at the Bat
Overview: Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York scout signs him up, so Casey and his equally dishonest manager go to the big leagues. Eventually, the scout and manager conspire to get him drunk and bet against him for a crucial game with the pennant at stake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-08
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Red Noses
1932-03-18
Red Noses
Overview: Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-18
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Penrod and Sam
1931-10-01
Penrod and Sam
Overview: Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale. But there’s also plenty of time to play pranks, put on a carnival, experience the pangs of first love, and romp with Duke, the world’s best dog.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-01
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Lazybones
1925-11-06
Lazybones
Overview: Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he discovers that he loves the grown-up girl.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-06
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A Woman of Experience
1931-07-08
A Woman of Experience
Overview: It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she will make an excellent spy.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-08
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Tish
1942-09-17
Tish
Overview: In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-17
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Maids a la Mode
1933-03-04
Maids a la Mode
Overview: Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-04
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The Affair of Susan
1935-09-01
The Affair of Susan
Overview: Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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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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Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!
1933-10-01
Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!
Overview: A lawyer devises a plan to fake a breach of contract suit against a wealthy womanizer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-01
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The Other Half
1919-08-18
The Other Half
Overview: Social drama about a friendship that is pressurized by class differences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-18
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The Vanishing Frontier
1933-03-13
The Vanishing Frontier
Overview: Its 1850 and California is under ruthless military rule. Kirby Tornell's rancho has been taken over by soldiers and when two of Kirby's men are captured, he goes there to free them. He meets the General's daughter there and attracted to her, repeatedly returns to see her. Eventually he is captured and now his men must try and rescue him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-13
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How Could You, Jean?
1918-06-29
How Could You, Jean?
Overview: A lost Film. Mary Pickford plays a socialite who, having lost her fortune, takes a job as a Swedish cook. She falls in love with a chauffeur who, lo and behold, is a slumming millionaire.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-29
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Three Wise Fools
1923-08-19
Three Wise Fools
Overview: Sydney Fairchild, the daughter of a woman who was once loved by three bachelors, surprises the men with a visit. Findley, Trumbull, and Gaunt honor their former sweetheart's last request by becoming Sydney's guardians.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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The Great Love
1926-06-28
The Great Love
Overview: Struggling young doctor in a rural community, Dr. Lawrence Tibbits, cures Norma, a circus elephant, when she is injured in a fire. The circus moves on, but Norma, who has become quite attached to the young doctor, keeps coming back, trampling everything in her way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-28
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Souls for Sale
1923-04-22
Souls for Sale
Overview: A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-22
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A Modern Musketeer
1917-12-30
A Modern Musketeer
Overview: A young man grows restless living in a small Kansas town, dreaming of the adventures of the Three Musketeers. So in hopes of becoming a modern D'Artagnan, he mounts his steed (a Model T Ford) and sets out across the West in search of excitement and adventure.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-30
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Out All Night
1933-04-08
Out All Night
Overview: A "mama's boy" falls for a spinster who takes care of children at a department store nursery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-08
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A Daughter of Luxury
1922-01-01
A Daughter of Luxury
Overview: When a lawsuit deprives a rich woman, Mary Fenton, of her wealth, she decides to impersonate another woman, Mary Cosgrove. The situation becomes sticky when Cosgroge turns up and demands Fenton be arrested.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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War Mamas
1931-11-14
War Mamas
Overview: During WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-14
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The Soilers
1932-10-29
The Soilers
Overview: Zasu and Thelma are working their way through college by selling magazine subscriptions. Finding little success going door-to-door, the pair decide to use their charms to sell to men at their places of work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-29
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The Pajama Party
1931-10-03
The Pajama Party
Overview: After running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at her mansion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-03
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The Old Bull
1932-06-04
The Old Bull
Overview: Thelma and Zazu are on a leisurely excursion in a borrowed car. Thelma lets Zazu drive. When she brakes to avoid a bull pulled along by three rustics, her foot gets stuck and the car crashes through a barn. The barn's owner won't let them leave without paying damages. The gals hoof it, walking in a large circle to arrive back at the farmer's house after dark. While outside his door, they hear a radio broadcast to beware a lion escaped from a wintering circus. Can Thelma and Zasu reclaim the car while avoiding the angry farmer, his prize bull, and the renegade lion?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-04
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Strictly Unreliable
1932-04-30
Strictly Unreliable
Overview: Zasu inadvertently turns Thelma's vaudeville act into a shambles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-30
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Sneak Easily
1932-12-10
Sneak Easily
Overview: Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-10
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Let's Do Things
1931-06-06
Let's Do Things
Overview: Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-06
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One Track Minds
1933-05-20
One Track Minds
Overview: Thelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-20
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Alum and Eve
1932-09-24
Alum and Eve
Overview: When Thelma is stopped by a cop for speeding, she tries to get out of it by telling him that she and Zasu are on their way to the hospital.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-24
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The Wedding March
1928-10-06
The Wedding March
Overview: A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-06
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A Society Sensation
1918-09-22
A Society Sensation
Overview: A wealthy society playboy falls in love with the daughter of a poor fisherman. After Valentino shot to fame, A Society Sensation was cut down to a meek 24 minutes so the lead would be in every scene. Title cards tried to make up for the lost scenes.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-22
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She Gets Her Man
1935-08-05
She Gets Her Man
Overview: Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally wrecks their plans, resulting in fame for Esmeralda as the crime-fighting "Tiger Woman," but also further complications.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-05
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The Secret Witness
1931-12-12
The Secret Witness
Overview: A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder.
Genres: Drama Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-12
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Naughty But Nice
1939-06-23
Naughty But Nice
Overview: Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-23
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Their Big Moment
1934-08-17
Their Big Moment
Overview: Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-17
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No, No, Nanette
1930-01-03
No, No, Nanette
Overview: A bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-03
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Miss Polly
1941-11-14
Miss Polly
Overview: A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-14
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War Nurse
1930-11-22
War Nurse
Overview: Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-22
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Monte Carlo
1926-03-01
Monte Carlo
Overview: Three girls from a small town win a trip to Monte Carlo. The trip was sponsored by their local newspaper, which sends along its ace reporter Bancroft as their "chaperone".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-01
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1917-09-22
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Overview: Behind in the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm and barely managing to feed seven hungry mouths, mother sends young Rebecca off to Riverboro to be raised by her wealthy Aunt Miranda. The little girl is treated like a prisoner by her strict Aunt, yet she gamely does her best to get an education. When spoiled girls at school mock the spirited Rebecca as "missy poor-house," she soon makes them come to eat their words. Despite many difficulties, Rebecca manages to help the less fortunate and spread joy in Riverboro, dreaming that her reward will come when she is "all growed up." This version is notable for having been adapted by famed female screenwriter Frances Marion.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-22
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'49–'17
1917-10-15
'49–'17
Overview: A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experience in this rather fanciful silent Western. The make-believe turns serious when a real gold mine is discovered nearby and a local girl is kidnapped by a nasty gambler.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-15
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Heart of Twenty
1920-06-20
Heart of Twenty
Overview: Katie Abbott, despairing of being a wallflower, is about to attempt suicide in the village pond when she is rescued by a young stranger.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-20
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Mickey the Kid
1939-07-03
Mickey the Kid
Overview: A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-03
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Private Scandal
1934-05-11
Private Scandal
Overview: "Private Scandal" is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Vera Caspary, Garrett Fort and Bruce Manning. The film stars ZaSu Pitts, Phillips Holmes, Mary Brian, Ned Sparks, Lew Cody, June Brewster, and Harold Waldridge. The film was released on May 11, 1934 by Paramount Pictures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-11
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The Argyle Case
1929-08-17
The Argyle Case
Overview: A multimillionaire is murdered, and his will leaves all his money to a beautiful young blonde. The murdered man's son thinks something is fishy, and a homicide cop sets out to find out who was behind the man's death. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-17
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A Lady's Name
1918-12-10
A Lady's Name
Overview: Bright young novelist Mabel Vere is engaged to Gerald Wantage, a prig who angrily objects when she advertises for a husband in order to elicit ideas for her new book. Mabel's roommate, Maud Bray, a physical culture expert, frightens away the less desirable suitors, while the writer responds to the more interesting letters, and soon becomes embroiled in a number of adventures.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-10
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Broken Lullaby
1932-01-19
Broken Lullaby
Overview: A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does not assuage his guilt. He travels to Germany to meet the man's family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-19
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Breakfast in Hollywood
1946-02-26
Breakfast in Hollywood
Overview: The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film derived from the popular ABC radio show of the 1940s. This film features Tom Breneman, the radio show's host, as well as Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Zasu Pitts, Billie Burke and Hedda Hopper. Musical performances are provided by Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, along with Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-26
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Their Mad Moment
1931-07-12
Their Mad Moment
Overview: Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir Harry Congers, but in love with Basque peasant Esteban Cristera. Deciding on a final fling before wedlock, Emily goes to Esteban's village in the mountains, but is wounded in a car accident. Recuperating, she learns about the hardships endured by Basque women from Esteban's grandmother and former girlfriend, Stancia, and decides to return to Sir Harry in Biarritz.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-12
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Back Street
1932-08-04
Back Street
Overview: A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-04
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Twin Beds
1929-07-14
Twin Beds
Overview: A young husband just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-14
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Love Birds
1934-05-04
Love Birds
Overview: ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the California desert. Their lonely lives become much more crowded when a drifter discovers gold on the property—though all he’s found is Slim’s missing filling. (adapted from MoMA capsule)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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The Silent Partner
1955-12-21
The Silent Partner
Overview: When a great film director accepts an Academy Award, he reflects on a comedian he worked with in the early film days, owing his success to him, not realizing that man is now destitute, watching the show on TV from a barstool. Part of the Screen Directors Playhouse series, sponsored by Kodak, and in association with Screen Directors Guild.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-21
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Hot Tip
1935-08-20
Hot Tip
Overview: An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-20
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Francis Joins the WACS
1954-07-30
Francis Joins the WACS
Overview: Peter Stirling (with his old friend the talking mule) is recalled to active duty...in the WACs!
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-30
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Secrets of the Night
1924-11-12
Secrets of the Night
Overview: Robert Andrews hosts a large party and there stages his own murder, to keep bank examiner Alfred Austin from examining the records of his bank.
Genres: Drama Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-12
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No, No, Nanette
1940-12-19
No, No, Nanette
Overview: Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-19
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She Whoops To Conquer
1933-01-01
She Whoops To Conquer
Overview: Both the maid and the youngest daughter are after the same man who wants nothing to do with either of them.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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1925 Studio Tour
1925-04-09
1925 Studio Tour
Overview: A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-09
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Honey
1930-03-29
Honey
Overview: A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-29
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Three on a Honeymoon
1934-03-22
Three on a Honeymoon
Overview: This romantic comedy takes place on an ocean liner. One of the few unattached passengers is heiress Joan Foster. Joan finds herself in the arms of the ship's second officer. Little does she know that he has been hired by her father to keep other men away from her.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-22
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Mannequin
1926-01-11
Mannequin
Overview: Adapted from the Fannie Hurst story of the same name, Mannequin is the story of Joan Herrick, kidnapped in infancy from her wealthy parents and raised by a slatternly slum woman. The film is still extant.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-11
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Little Accident
1930-08-03
Little Accident
Overview: On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-03
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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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The Perfect Marriage
1947-01-24
The Perfect Marriage
Overview: A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-24
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The Great Divide
1925-02-15
The Great Divide
Overview: Alone and unprotected in an isolated wilderness cabin, Ruth Jordan is discovered by three drunken brutes who begin to barter for her. In desperation, she appeals to Stephen Ghent, the least degraded of the desperadoes, promising herself to him if he saves her from the others. Ghent buys off Shorty with a chain of gold nuggets and knocks Dutch senseless. Ghent then sends Dutch off with Shorty and takes Ruth to the next town, where he forces her to marry him. During the 3-day ride across the desert to Ghent's gold mine, the idealistic Ruth learns that he is a man of rough passions.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-15
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Free Love
1930-12-01
Free Love
Overview: A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-01
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Paris
1929-11-07
Paris
Overview: Irène Bordoni is cast as Vivienne Rolland, a Parisian chorus girl in love with Massachusetts boy Andrew Sabbot (Jason Robards Sr.) Andrew's snobbish mother Cora (Louise Closser Hale) tries to break up the romance. Jack Buchanan likewise makes his talking-picture debut as Guy Pennell, the leading man in Vivienne's revue. No film elements of Paris are known to exist, although the complete soundtrack survives on Vitaphone disks. The sound tape reels for this film survives at UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-07
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Buck Privates
1928-01-29
Buck Privates
Overview: Pvt. Smith, an American soldier stationed in a German town during the occupation of Germany after World War I, falls in love with the daughter of the town's leading citizen. The problem is that his sworn enemy, Sgt. Butts, also has designs on the girl. Butts comes up with a plan to get rid of his competition and get the girl for himself, but things don't go quite the way he planned.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-29
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Old Shoes
1925-04-08
Old Shoes
Overview: A widowed woman marries her husband's brother, who soon proves to be a tyrant stepfather to his adopted son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-08
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For the Defense
1922-06-04
For the Defense
Overview: Singer Anna Woodstock loses her voice, but a visit to a hypnotist, Dr. Joseph Kasimir, brings it back. What Anna doesn't realize is that her illness was purely psychosomatic and Kasimir is a swindler.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-04
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The Big Parade of Comedy
1964-09-02
The Big Parade of Comedy
Overview: Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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They Just Had to Get Married
1933-01-05
They Just Had to Get Married
Overview: Molly Hull, a maid, and Sam Sutton, a butler, are bequeathed a million dollars, and they encounter many problems and difficulties as they try to become the newest members of the idle rich.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-05
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This Thing Called Love
1929-12-13
This Thing Called Love
Overview: A romance runs into difficulties because the girl has seen a great deal of the turbulence in her sister's household, and has no illusions about married bliss.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-13
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Wanted!
1937-08-23
Wanted!
Overview: A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves are captured.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-23
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Her Private Life
1929-08-25
Her Private Life
Overview: A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-25
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Mary of the Movies
1923-05-27
Mary of the Movies
Overview: Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, and gets to meet 40 actors, actresses and directors, none of whom tip big enough to enable Mary to earn enough money to pay for an operation. Will Mary become an actress and make some big money?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-27
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Better Times
1919-07-13
Better Times
Overview: Ezra Scroggs is a shiftless gambler who has let his hotel, the Lakeview, fall on hard times. Finally his daughter Nancy gets fed up seeing all the business go to his rival, Si Whittaker at the Majestic, and she decides to do something about it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-13
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Tea- With a Kick!
1923-08-26
Tea- With a Kick!
Overview: The tale of Bonnie Day, a rambunctious young lady who is rankled when she is expelled from college for serving tea in her room. She goes on to open up a tearoom in a fancy hotel, saving all the profits to pay the legal fees for her father who has been unjustly jailed. Mr. Day's rival has embroiled him in a crooked stock deal and made him appear to be the guilty party. Meanwhile, Bonnie is in the midst of a romantic dilemma; her Aunt Pearl wants her to wed Napoleon Dobbings, but Bonnie much prefers helpful young lawyer Art Binger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-26
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Poor Men's Wives
1923-01-28
Poor Men's Wives
Overview: Drama of two girls who married into different layers of society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-28
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Sunny Side Up
1926-08-02
Sunny Side Up
Overview: Sunny sings in the streets to obtain funds for a country outing. A theatre owner hears her and takes her up. During a fishing trip Sunny is about to accept the theatre owner's proposal of marriage when his estranged wife turns up...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-02
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Disneyland '59
1959-06-15
Disneyland '59
Overview: Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail, and the Submarine Voyage, a project so massive that it was called "The Second Opening of Disneyland". Highlights include a mammoth, star-studded parade and the official launching of the Disneyland submarines by U.S. Navy officers. Among the guests are then-Vice-President Richard Nixon and family, Clint Eastwood, and Meredith Willson, who leads the Disneyland band in his own "76 Trombones." Sponsored by Kodak, the commercial spokespersons include Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-15
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The Goldfish
1924-03-30
The Goldfish
Overview: A newly married husband and wife make an agreement that should either of them want to terminate their relationship then a bowl with goldfish would be presented to the other signalling the end of their marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-30
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Sins of the Fathers
1928-12-28
Sins of the Fathers
Overview: A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs off with another man. His wife finds out what happened. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-28
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The Unexpected Father
1932-01-03
The Unexpected Father
Overview: A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's calculating, money-hungry fiancée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-03
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Lum and Abner
1949-07-18
Lum and Abner
Overview: Chester Lauck and Norris Goff tried to bring their highly successful radio show to TV but it didn’t happen. In this failed pilot Abner is on the phone with Mose and says he’ll meet him and Opie Cates to go fishing. Lum comes into the store with a letter from the IRS. He goes to burn it in the stove and sees Abner’s fishing tackle.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-18
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Seeing It Through
1920-01-01
Seeing It Through
Overview: Swindled out of her small property by crooked money lender Bogrum, Betty Lawrence turns to large estate owner and old friend Jim Carrington. On a tip supplied by Bolter, Bogrum's secretary, Jim investigates and after Bogrum's crooked dealings are exposed, and he is imprisoned, Betty and Carrington join their property through matrimony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Early to Wed
1926-04-25
Early to Wed
Overview: Tommy and Daphne Carter, a young married couple, following the advice of a pretentious friend, decide to impress their friends by appearing to be prosperous. Their efforts end in disillusionment when Tommy loses his job and their furniture is collected for nonpayments. However, by feasting a millionaire with a borrowed dinner and accommodating him for the night in a borrowed bed, they gain his sympathy; and he offers the young husband a substantial position.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-25
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Wages for Wives
1925-12-15
Wages for Wives
Overview: Nell Bailey, taking a lesson from the married lives of her sister, Luella Logan, and her mother, agrees to marry Danny Kester provided that he will split his paycheck 50-50 with her. When, after marriage, he refuses to honor the agreement, she goes on strike, getting her sister and mother to join in. The three deserted husbands have a difficult time but hate to give in. A vamp complicates matters, but everything is straightened out in the end with each side meeting the other halfway. —Pamela Short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-15
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Uneasy Money
1917-06-02
Uneasy Money
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-02
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Tillie of the Nine Lives
1917-06-19
Tillie of the Nine Lives
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-19
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