Biography: Born Arthur Veary Treacher in Brighton, East Sussex, England, he was the son of a lawyer. He established a stage career after returning from World War I, and by 1928, he had come to America as part of a musical-comedy revue called Great Temptations. When his film career began in the early 1930s, Treacher was Hollywood's idea of the perfect butler, and he headlined as the famous butler Jeeves in Thank You, Jeeves! (1936) and Step Lively, Jeeves! (1937)--based on the P.G. Wodehouse character. He played a butler in numerous other films including: Personal Maid's Secret (1935), Mister Cinderella (1936), Bordertown (1935), and Curly Top (1935). By the mid 1960s, Treacher was a regular guest on The Merv Griffin Show (1962). The image of the proper Englishman served him well, and during his later years, he lent his name to a fast-food chain known as Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 22, 1894
Deathday: December 14, 1975
Popularity:
1964-12-17
Overview: Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in their lives but also spreads happiness.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-17
Popularity:
1939-03-17
Overview: A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-17
Popularity:
1936-12-25
Overview: Chin-Ching gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall. She falls asleep in his car which winds up on a ship headed for America. Susan Parker, also on the ship, marries Randall to give Chin-Ching a family.
Genres: Music Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-25
Popularity:
1936-07-22
Overview: In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-22
Popularity:
1935-07-26
Overview: Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones". As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself falling in love with Mary.
Genres: Family Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-26
Popularity:
1944-08-16
Overview: Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-16
Popularity:
1943-01-21
Overview: In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-21
Popularity:
1937-09-03
Overview: A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-03
Popularity:
1938-02-27
Overview: A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-27
Popularity:
1943-02-19
Overview: A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-19
Popularity:
1950-06-06
Overview: The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-06
Popularity:
1935-02-16
Overview: A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust family in this horsy-set drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-16
Popularity:
1934-02-14
Overview: When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-14
Popularity:
1935-10-09
Overview: Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
Genres: Fantasy Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-09
Popularity:
1936-10-04
Overview: Jeeves tries to keep his young master out of trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-04
Popularity:
1945-06-01
Overview: A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated by a greedy banker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-01
Popularity:
1934-06-09
Overview: A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-09
Popularity:
1935-10-28
Overview: After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-28
Popularity:
1949-09-22
Overview: Opera singer Prudence Budell, overhears truck driver Johnny Donnetti singing opera, and persuades her opera company to give him a chance in her new opera. They fall in love, but on meeting his colleague Mary while visiting Johnny's work, Prudence becomes convinced Johnny is in love with her.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-22
Popularity:
1942-03-05
Overview: Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-05
Popularity:
1934-12-23
Overview: A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-23
Popularity:
1940-04-23
Overview: Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a model. She soon catches the eye of socialite Bob Vincent, whose mother is hosting a ball at the family mansion. To promote Madame Lucy's dress line, Mr. Smith arranges for his models to be invited to the ball.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-23
Popularity:
1935-06-14
Overview: A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-14
Popularity:
1945-03-31
Overview: Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage. When Sherry is distraught just before performing at her school, a visiting Broadway producer encourages her by telling her positive things about her sister. Soon afterwards, Sherry decides to make a surprise trip to New York to visit Josephine - but what she finds there is not at all what she expected
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-31
Popularity:
1935-08-09
Overview: An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-09
Popularity:
1935-12-28
Overview: Brit Amelia Blake travels to America to join her son Alfred. Fate forces her to hitchhike to California, a perilous journey that she shares with kind young Judy Martin. When Judy and another fellow traveler discover the unfortunate truth about Alfred, they struggle to spare Amelia's feelings.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-28
Popularity:
1936-10-22
Overview: Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriweather for much longer.The comedy comes fast and frantic in Mister Cinderella, from Hal Roach Studios.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-22
Popularity:
1936-01-24
Overview: A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To avoid discovery, he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-24
Popularity:
1936-06-20
Overview: Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
Genres: Drama Romance Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-20
Popularity:
1947-05-15
Overview: Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-15
Popularity:
1936-05-08
Overview: An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-08
Popularity:
1947-07-17
Overview: Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becoming involved in middle-East tribal wars.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-17
Popularity:
1945-05-18
Overview: Universal cowboy star Rod Cameron plays Geoffrey, conductor of a high-toned symphony orchestra. Secretly harboring the desire to become a swingin' jazz trumpeter, Geoffrey takes a job at a "hot" Broadway nightclub. Here he meets and falls in love with café songstress Donna (Frances Raeburn), who has led her family to believe that she's studying for a classical-music career. Meanwhile, a comedy-relief romance develops between Geoffrey's snooty valet Chumley (Arthur Treacher) and Donna's best pal Pat (Jacqueline De Wit). For those not interested in the plot (what there is of it), Swing Out, Sister includes specialty numbers by organist Selika Pettiford and the Lou Diamond Quintet.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-18
Popularity:
1939-12-08
Overview: In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-08
Popularity:
1962-01-01
Overview: In a series of vignettes, we see how to "win" a barroom fight by such tactics as going limp, garlic breath, screaming, enlisting the help of a large, intimidating friend, etc.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
Popularity:
1964-01-01
Overview: The Independent League of Loners, known as the ILL, has studied the problem of excess camaraderie and has formulated this happy guide to solitude. A case study of person types to avoid.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
Popularity:
1938-10-28
Overview: Jane's dad (Tombes) is an oil field worker who comes into a fortune and is then pushed into society by his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-28
Popularity:
1934-06-21
Overview: Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety. But the robbery goes awry and Mike finds himself on the run from the police, pretending to be a famous singer whose gimmick is wearing a mask in public.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-21
Popularity:
1935-01-18
Overview: Charles Dickens' timeless tale of an ordinary young man who lives an extraordinary life, filled with people who help and hinder him.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-18
Popularity:
1938-09-09
Overview: George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for Larry Taylor, a teacher, and gets expelled.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-09
Popularity:
1939-05-26
Overview: A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-26
Popularity:
1937-08-02
Overview: Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-02
Popularity:
1935-12-30
Overview: A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-30
Popularity:
1934-11-02
Overview: Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
Popularity:
1937-10-15
Overview: Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.
Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-15
Popularity:
1935-11-22
Overview: When Brighton Lorrimore returns home with his new bride, Phyllis, his family makes their disappointment in his choice obvious. Facing bankruptcy and the loss of their mansion and social position, they had hoped that Brighton would marry wealthy heiress and family friend, Edith Gilbert.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-22
Popularity:
1944-02-01
Overview: The son of a strict Navy officer falls for the daughter of a musical-comedy star.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-01
Popularity:
1945-01-26
Overview: Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-26
Popularity:
1935-07-06
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
Popularity:
1935-04-18
Overview: The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
Genres: History Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-18
Popularity:
1934-09-08
Overview: A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-08
Popularity:
1935-10-26
Overview: A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins' 1935 film stars Ruth Donnelly, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull, Frank Albertson, Arthur Treacher, Ronnie Crosby, Henry O'Neill, Lillian Kemble Cooper and Gordon Elliott.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-26
Popularity:
1935-06-07
Overview: A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-07
Popularity:
1954-05-05
Overview: Edgar Bergen and his dummy, Charlie McCarthy, join Alice on her adventure in Wonderland.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-05
Popularity:
1993-08-31
Overview: There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led at the box office — ahead of Gable and Cooper. Her films saved a movie studio from bankruptcy, and a President credited her with raising the morale of Depression-weary Americans. Her earliest movies gave a foretaste of her talents and soon would become the songs and dances that helped make those movies immortal.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-31
Popularity:
1935-02-08
Overview: A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-08
Popularity:
1962-09-14
Overview: A Gene Deitch cartoon about driving.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-14
Popularity:
1963-09-19
Overview: A Gene Deitch cartoon about dogs and their inferior owners.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-19
Popularity:
1935-07-17
Overview: The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-17
Popularity:
1940-01-13
Overview: Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-13
Popularity:
1937-06-30
Overview: A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-30
Popularity:
1934-05-24
Overview: Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws him a big Hollywood star-studded party so that he might use the lions in his next movie. But, his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-24
Popularity:
1935-10-04
Overview: A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-04
Popularity:
1934-03-08
Overview: A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling out with the syndicate, she considers the marriage proposal of blueblood Garry Madison. Can such a match work despite snobbery and old associations?
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-08
Popularity:
1935-07-27
Overview: Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-27
Popularity:
1929-12-30
Overview: Gertrude Lawrence plays a singer in Paris during World War I. After stealing from Tony (Walter Petrie), an American artist, the two fall in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-30
Popularity:
1948-10-31
Overview: This musical tells the tales of two movie extras who abscond to an expensive resort with their costumes and pretend to be aristocrats. Included in the film are ice skating numbers and songs.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-31
Popularity:
1936-11-06
Overview: A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
Popularity:
1937-07-02
Overview: An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
Popularity:
1935-03-16
Overview: Nick Kerry (Tullio Carminati) is a rich rounder who holds tremendous fascination over women......mainly because he is rich and has his own yacht. At Monte Carlo one evening he romances Kay Routledge (Lilian Harvey), a romantic young and gullible American girl. She takes the dilettante seriously and when he sails away on his yacht, she is heartbroken. But the memory of her haunts him, and brings him back from India and the arms of another woman,Countess Margot de Legere (Tala Birell),only to find Kay now engaged to his friend. Oh, what's a rich guy to do?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-16
Popularity:
1935-04-20
Overview: An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
Popularity:
1934-01-31
Overview: Count Romansky is a newspaper columnist who specializes in romance issues. When he loses his job, he opens up a school where he instructs his pretty pupils on affairs of the heart.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-31
Popularity:
1938-12-09
Overview: A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was apparently a wacky spoof of the crime movies that were so popular in the 1930s. It seems to be completely forgotten today, except by major film buffs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-09
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