Biography: Benny Bartlett (August 16, 1924 – December 26, 1999) was an American child actor, musician, and later a member of the longest running feature-film series The Bowery Boys.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 16, 1924
Deathday: December 26, 1999
Popularity:
1948-03-07
Overview: Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-07
Popularity:
1943-02-05
Overview: The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend Danny Lyons takes his place and wins the fight, only to have Mugs believe that Danny was responsible for his kidnapping.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-05
Popularity:
1937-07-16
Overview: J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-16
Popularity:
1950-03-31
Overview: "Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-31
Popularity:
1941-08-07
Overview: While attending stenographer school, Tillie Jones meets office boy Mac, who falls in love with her at first sight. Though Tillie likes Mac as a friend, she continually throws him over for handsomer men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-07
Popularity:
1938-11-11
Overview: Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-11
Popularity:
1936-08-28
Overview: Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-28
Popularity:
1951-09-09
Overview: The boys get mixed up with a race horse & crooked gamblers
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-09
Popularity:
1952-11-23
Overview: One of the Bowery Boys gains superhuman strength, and he cashes in by becoming a pro wrestler.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-23
Popularity:
1953-05-24
Overview: The Bowery Boys take on British crooks when one of them thinks he's inherited a title.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-24
Popularity:
1952-09-21
Overview: Sach learns that he has inherited a farm in rural hillbilly country, and when he and the Boys arrive there, they find themselves mixed up with a hillbilly clan named Smith who'll shoot anybody named Jones, plus a gang of bank robbers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-21
Popularity:
1949-03-17
Overview: The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's death try to get Johnny to take a dive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-17
Popularity:
1937-09-30
Overview: A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-30
Popularity:
1941-01-17
Overview: An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-17
Popularity:
1953-08-14
Overview: Slip and correspondence school pilot Sach, go to an air base to help a pal out...but find themselves in when they mistakenly sign enlistment forms. Can the Air Force turn these dodos into eagles? The guys may be airborne airheads, But just watch them find a way to ground a spy network that's infiltrated the base.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-14
Popularity:
1953-12-06
Overview: After being punched in the nose, Sach finds out that he has the ability to read minds. Slip and the gang start up a detective agency try to cash in on Sach's new powers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-06
Popularity:
1955-09-18
Overview: Slip and Sach (Bowery Boys) go to prison to help a reporter with a story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-18
Popularity:
1937-10-22
Overview: Part of Paramount Headliner: Hollywood Star Reporter series
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-22
Popularity:
1952-06-29
Overview: After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and he is promoted. During a drill that he is putting the rest of the gang through, they find a soldier left for dead on the side of the road. Slip discovers a playing card next to the marine and traces it to Jolly Joe Johnson's gambling house. They suspect that the gambling house is cheating and set out to uncover the proof.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-29
Popularity:
1936-09-24
Overview: Jennie Mullins and her fiancé Peter Cary are happily in love but their families are miserable about their relationship. The Carys and Mullinses have been feuding for years over the apparent failure of the Carys' business which was caused by the now-deceased Mr. Mullins. Despite familial pressure to the contrary, Jennie and Peter proceed with their wedding. Just before the wedding, Peter receives advice from his soon-to-be brothers-in-law, Jeff and Bill Mullins. Both men warn him about the drudgery of marriage, ply him with drink, and destroy his fantasy of an ideal, romantic marriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-24
Popularity:
1936-04-30
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
Popularity:
1942-01-30
Overview: After a payroll robbery the Mesquiteers catch up with the gang. But the members escape, the gang leader is killed, and they end up with only the leaders young son who is quickly sent to a work farm. They adopt the boy hoping to learn where the money is. Just as their kindness is about to pay off a gang member takes the boy away forcing him to retrieve the money. - Written by Maurice VanAuken
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-30
Popularity:
1938-09-18
Overview: Sons of The Legion is a film about a group of young men looking to start a squadron in their Legion Post. However, because the boy's father wrongfully received a dishonorable discharge after World War I, his father cannot join the Legion and in turn his son cannot join the squadron [wikipedia]
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-18
Popularity:
1938-11-10
Overview: A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-10
Popularity:
1939-03-30
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
Popularity:
1952-03-23
Overview: The Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys. Sach becomes a football star, and is kidnapped by gangsters to keep him out of the big game.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-23
Popularity:
1939-10-05
Overview: Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-05
Popularity:
1937-08-06
Overview: When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-06
Popularity:
1940-05-13
Overview: A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-13
Popularity:
1939-01-13
Overview: In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-13
Popularity:
1939-09-29
Overview: Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-29
Popularity:
1947-12-12
Overview: A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-12
Popularity:
1943-08-27
Overview: Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the upcoming school play. But Chuck thinks that she is too untalented and unglamorous to have a part in his production....
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-27
Popularity:
1936-01-31
Overview: Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson, an old maid with a dislike for children. Timothy eventually wins her over, and also pushes along the romance for her niece, Martha (Eleanore Whitney), with David Masters (Tom Keene).
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-31
Popularity:
1947-05-09
Overview: Near Border Flats, Don Coyote and his friend Sancho are interrupted on their way to the fiesta by a fight. A quick intervention on their part prompts ranch owner Maggie Riley to hire them. Coyote and Sancho meet her surly, younger brother Ted who is wanting Maggie to sell their cattle herd to pay off a bank loan before they lose the ranch. But when they try to drive a herd to market, a gang led by Big Foot Ferguson drives off their cowhands.
Genres: Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-09
Popularity:
1937-02-12
Overview: When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-12
Popularity:
1943-04-23
Overview: Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits the members of the gang to pose as his family. Things turn sour, however, when a local mobster finds out about Muggs' deception and threatens to expose it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-23
Popularity:
1937-02-10
Overview: A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-10
Popularity:
1948-12-10
Overview: Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-10
Popularity:
1943-04-01
Overview: A farmer from Vermont travels to New York and becomes a successful singer in a nightclub.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
Popularity:
1954-06-06
Overview: Slip, Sach and the rest of the Bowery Boys enter a haunted house, where they engage in slapstick with a gorilla, a robot and a vampire
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-06
Popularity:
1936-05-22
Overview: A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
Genres: Comedy Romance Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-22
Popularity:
1954-09-05
Overview: When a cold medicine causes Sach to be able to smell diamonds, he and the rest of the Bowery Boys are induced by a diamond dealer to accompany him to Darkest Africa in search of a legendary cache of them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-05
Popularity:
1943-04-02
Overview: A shy bookkeeper accidentally discovers that the company where he works is targeted in a series of late-night robberies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-02
Popularity:
1947-06-12
Overview: The second of three "Bowery Boys" rip-offs produced by bargain-basement Producers Releasing Corporation.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-12
Popularity:
1947-08-23
Overview: The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-23
Popularity:
1942-09-04
Overview: A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
Popularity:
1949-11-27
Overview: When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he's able to predict the future. Slip tries to make some money off of Sach by using him as a fortune teller in a carnival, until a mad scientist kidnaps Sach to use him in an intelligence-switching experiment with a monster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-27
Popularity:
1955-07-31
Overview: Slip and the gang (Bowery Boys) foil foes of the exiled, incognito king of Truania (Sig Ruman).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-31
Popularity:
1955-12-25
Overview: The boys buy a uranium mine out west, but when they get there they find that it's pretty much worthless. However, the local badmen are distrustful of these new strangers, and when they mistakenly get the impression that the mine is loaded with uranium, they hatch a scheme to get rid of the boys and take over the mine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-25
Popularity:
1949-09-25
Overview: Slip and the gang stray from newspaper work to detective work.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-25
Popularity:
1943-09-25
Overview: An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-25
Popularity:
1952-05-02
Overview: The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha, and even Ernestine find romance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-02
Popularity:
1949-07-15
Overview: When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-15
Popularity:
1941-03-14
Overview: As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-14
Popularity:
1936-10-09
Overview: Aviation action highlights this programmer which concerns foreign intrigue and a pair of WW1 buzz-boys developing a high-tech aircraft.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
Popularity:
1943-08-19
Overview: A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-19
Popularity:
1948-10-10
Overview: Slip and Sach are working as cleaners in a high rise building. They enter an office to clean it when a messenger hears them use Slip's given name, Terrance Mahoney. The messenger has a letter for "Terrance Mahonoey, Esq." and mistakenly delivers it to Slip. The letter informs Slip that he has inherited a mansion in Long Island. The boys then make their way to the mansion and find that it is inhabited by diamond smugglers. The real owner of the house shows up and helps save the day and defeat the smugglers and gives the boys the house as a reward.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-10
Popularity:
1938-02-26
Overview: Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-26
Popularity:
1938-05-06
Overview: Noted child psychologist Errol marries a widow with a nasty brat, and finds none of his theories seem to work when trapped in a pullman car on the way to his honeymoon at Niagara Falls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-06
Popularity:
1937-12-16
Overview: Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its place, Drummond is forced to delay his plans.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-16
Popularity:
1948-06-27
Overview: A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of both the police and the gamblers.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-27
Popularity:
1943-09-04
Overview: A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-04
Popularity:
1937-04-25
Overview: A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-25
Popularity:
1954-03-07
Overview: Sach is the exact double of a famous French scientist who has invented a powerful rocket fuel. Enemy agents, mistaking Sach for the scientist, attempt to kidnap him and get the formula for the fuel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-07
Popularity:
1946-06-05
Overview: A boy's tall tale about a gun puts his parents and school principal in jail.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-05
Popularity:
1949-06-06
Overview: While working in a laundromat, the boys find a baby hidden among the linen. They soon find out that the baby, who is the heir to a fortune, has been abandoned by his mother so that her two evil aunts can't cheat her and the baby out of the inheritance. The boys determine to help the woman claim her baby's rightful inheritance from her aunts, who have hired gangsters to find and eliminate the girl, the baby and anyone who helps them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-06
Popularity:
1953-02-15
Overview: Slip has entered the Boys' rattletrap car in a souped-up jalopy race, but has no chance of winning until Satch, with the aid of a scientist acquaintance, comes up with a chemical concoction that acts as a super-fuel; but a rival entrant in the race learns of this and tries to get the formula for himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-15
Popularity:
1955-01-07
Overview: The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-07
Popularity:
1954-08-01
Overview: A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-01
Popularity:
1948-04-25
Overview: Jimmy Easter is a jockey who gets shook up when he is responsible for the death of a fellow rider during a race. He gets back down to business, however, when the daughter of his ex-boss shows her faith in him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-25
Popularity:
1939-07-03
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
Popularity: