Glenn Tryon
Biography: From Wikipedia Glenn Tryon (August 2, 1898 – April 18, 1970) was an American film actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He appeared in 67 films between 1923 and 1951. He was born in Julietta, Idaho and was married to actress Jane Frazee from 1942 to 1947. They had one son, Timothy Tryon. Glenn Tryon was also married to actress Lillian Hall (1896–1959). Tryon died on April 18, 1970 in Orlando, Florida.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 01, 1898
Deathday: April 18, 1970
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The Haunted Honeymoon
1925-03-29
The Haunted Honeymoon
Overview: The Haunted Honeymoon is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Fred Guiol and Ted Wilde, starring Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey with Janet Gaynor in one of her first films. One of the first comedies to parody horror films, it was produced by Hal Roach and released by Pathé Exchange.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-29
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Home Town Story
1951-05-18
Home Town Story
Overview: Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the state legislature. He takes over his uncle's newspaper to take on big business as an enemy of the people. Miss Martin works in the "Herald" newspaper office. When tragedy strikes, Blake must re-examine his views.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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The Denver Dude
1927-02-13
The Denver Dude
Overview: A cowboy begins to do such un-cowboylike things as dressing up and taking baths in order to impress a pretty young girl. He sees that a citified "dandy" is also after the girl, and the dude seems to be scoring some points with his "civilized" demeanor.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-13
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Thundering Landlords
1925-06-21
Thundering Landlords
Overview: Thundering Landlords is a 1925 short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-21
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Madame Sans Jane
1925-08-09
Madame Sans Jane
Overview: A young couple want to marry, but the girl's father doesn't like her beau. To separate them, the father arranges to send the girl on a sea voyage along with a female companion. But the beau, dressed as a woman, manages to fool the father into hiring him as the companion, and they all board the ship together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-09
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Along Came Auntie
1926-07-25
Along Came Auntie
Overview: A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-25
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Her Dangerous Path
1923-08-12
Her Dangerous Path
Overview: Her Dangerous Path
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-12
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The Midnight Special
1930-12-07
The Midnight Special
Overview: A thrilling drama of young love and the great sacrifice made by railroad workers that we may travel in safety. (Print ad- Evening News, Tonawanda, N.Y. 4 February 1931)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-07
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Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
1930-12-01
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
Overview: Andy Clyde plays football with the Sennett girls; Mary Pickford's miniature golf course is shown.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-01
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
1926-12-26
45 Minutes from Hollywood
Overview: A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-26
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Lonesome
1928-06-20
Lonesome
Overview: Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-20
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The Goofy Age
1924-12-10
The Goofy Age
Overview: The hero's loved one is threatened with marriage with a rival, due to the machinations of her mother. The simplest solution of the situation is to marry her, and upon being reminded of it, the hero lays plans for a hurried ceremony in the goldfish store where he works. But as it is a case of true love, things don't move smoothly. Customers interrupt and so forth, as the justice of the peace tries to spiel off the fateful words. The culminating disaster is when firemen smash in the door, but a simple solution presents itself and the lovers, justice of the peace and witnesses make off with the hook and ladder wagon and the knot is tied before they are caught.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-10
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The Big Idea
1924-01-12
The Big Idea
Overview: Inventor Ignatius Pollard develops a new "Pavement Polisher" to clean the streets, but a demonstration of the device does not go as planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-12
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The Pride of the Legion
1932-10-17
The Pride of the Legion
Overview: After suffering a traumatic injury, a policeman resigns from the force and, after he's saved from a suicide attempt, goes to work at a café frequented by gangsters.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-17
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Say It with Babies
1926-05-16
Say It with Babies
Overview: Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own expense. On Sunday, he and his wife go on a picnic with the neighbors and hoe comes home on his day of rest with three traffic tickets and numerous stings from the hornets he failed to amuse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-16
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Dragnet Patrol
1931-12-14
Dragnet Patrol
Overview: A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-14
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Ship A Hooey!
1932-08-06
Ship A Hooey!
Overview: Daisy is visiting her sailor boyfriend Glenn aboard a submarine when it leaves port. Fearful of what may happen if an officer discovers a woman on board, she is hidden in a big chest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-06
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A College Racket
1931-06-14
A College Racket
Overview: Some college students attend a nightclub, "The Pirate's Den", that the Dean of the college has declared off-limits to students. They start to wreck it in their playful mood when another student arrives disguised as the Dean, and they all vacate the premises. The student tells the proprietor that if he will returns the I.O.U.s signed by a student, he will see to it that the students visit his place every night. He, of course, is the student who signed the tab. But the real Dean then shows up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-14
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How to Handle Women
1928-10-14
How to Handle Women
Overview: When Leonard Higgins, a cartoonist, meets Prince Hendryx, ruler of the small nation of Vulgaria, he offers to help save the country by advertising the nonexistent crop, the peanut.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-14
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Meet the Missus
1924-12-07
Meet the Missus
Overview: A young married couple (Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey) with no money and lots of time for fighting try to impress the husbands boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-07
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Dames Ahoy
1930-02-09
Dames Ahoy
Overview: Three sailors go searching for a girl who swindled one of them out of half his pay.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-09
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Smithy
1924-01-19
Smithy
Overview: After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employment. He finds a job on a construction site, where he helps to build a house, and soon causes havoc amongst the other workers. The construction company owner leaves for a week, and tells his secretary to send a letter to Mr. Smith telling him to complete the construction of the house while he (the owner) is away. The letter is accidently sent to Smithy who manages to complete the house. When the owner returns the house is complete, and Smithy is commended until the last support beam is removed...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-19
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Long Pants
1926-01-31
Long Pants
Overview: Glenn's first attempt at wearing long trousers and being a man about town goes swimmingly as he quickly falls for a vivacious young widow who accidentally runs him down. But his father feels she is beyond his abilities and competes for her attention.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-31
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Skinner Steps Out
1929-11-24
Skinner Steps Out
Overview: William Henry Skinner's young wife has great confidence in her husband's abilities and is ambitious for his success. He informs her of his importance at the office; but in reality he is an insignificant employee on a small salary, and when refused a raise, he hasn't the courage to tell his wife. Distressed at her husband's shabby appearance, "Honey" persuades him to buy a dress suit, and at a charity bazaar she pushes him to the front so that he dominates the affair and comes to the attention of the dignitaries. Skinner forces himself upon the attention of his employer and the employer's chief rival, whose admiration he wins when he bluffs him out of a poker pot. In spite of Skinner's efforts to prevent it, the rival companies are consolidated; and impressed by his spirit and enthusiasm, his superiors promote him to sales manager.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-24
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A Hero for a Night
1927-12-18
A Hero for a Night
Overview: Cab driver falls for rich model.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-18
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Variety Girl
1947-08-29
Variety Girl
Overview: Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-29
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Broadway
1929-05-27
Broadway
Overview: A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
Genres: Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-27
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King of Jazz
1930-04-20
King of Jazz
Overview: Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers—all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson.
Genres: Animation Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-20
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For the Love of Fanny
1931-12-27
For the Love of Fanny
Overview: Glenn (Glenn Tryon), is trying to get into a secret fraternity in order to impress his girlfriend, Fanny (Helen Mann). But his rival is the president of the fraternity and has some very special plans for Glenn. The latter soon finds himself crooning a love song to two tough policeman. and being instructed to convince his blond sweet patootie, Fanny, that he prefers a brunette sweet patootie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-27
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Two-Time Mama
1927-01-29
Two-Time Mama
Overview: The story involves various misunderstandings and entanglements that occur between two married couples, the Browns (Glenn Tryon & Vivien Oakland) and the Dazzles (Tyler Brooke & Anita Garvin). The two couples have apartments across the hall from one another, and all four plan to attend a costume ball together. But after each husband expresses unhappiness with his wife's costume the women angrily refuse to go to the party. The two husbands decide to go "stag" and pick up dates, but when Mrs. Brown changes her mind about attending, and Mr. Dazzle and Mr. Brown switch costumes, mix-ups result.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-29
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George White's Scandals
1945-10-09
George White's Scandals
Overview: Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-09
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Papa Be Good!
1925-01-01
Papa Be Good!
Overview: The innocent flirtations of the two couples living in a city tenement eventually lead to a zany showdown in the court room.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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Daybreak
1931-05-02
Daybreak
Overview: An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-02
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Rule 'Em and Weep
1932-05-02
Rule 'Em and Weep
Overview: King Bool returns to Bulvania to claim his throne and his girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-02
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Whose Baby Are You?
1925-04-25
Whose Baby Are You?
Overview: When baby-care-book author Glenn Tryon has an abandoned baby dumped on him during a train trip, he discovers he should have read a book on the subject as well as having written one.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-25
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Tangled Destinies
1932-10-17
Tangled Destinies
Overview: An airliner makes a forced landing at night in the desert. The passengers and crew take refuge in a nearby deserted house. Soon some of the passengers are found murdered, and one of the passengers reveals himself to be a detective who was guarding one of the murdered passengers, who was carrying a bag of diamonds--which is now missing. The detective must find out which of the passengers is the killer.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-17
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The Secret Menace
1931-12-28
The Secret Menace
Overview: An old prospector discovers a bonanza mine of gold on the Diamond Dude Ranch. He tells two men about it and they kill him, and then make plans to acquire the ranch. They run into trouble when the owners put up a fight.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-28
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Painting the Town
1927-08-07
Painting the Town
Overview: Glenn Tryon and Patsy Ruth Miller, headed the cast of Universal's Painting the Town. In his first starring role, Tryon is cast as bucolic inventor Hector Whitmore, who falls for flirtatious city gal Patsy Deveau (Miller). Misinterpreting her fluttering eyelashes as a sign of true and lasting love, Hector follows Patsy to New York, much to the dismay of the girl's wealthy fiance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-07
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The Poor Nut
1927-08-06
The Poor Nut
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-06
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Honeymoon Beach
1932-10-22
Honeymoon Beach
Overview: Glenn Tryon is at his Bachelor's Dinner, attended only by a dozen of his girl friends, prior to marrying Connie Watts but Ma Watts has plans for Connie to marry playboy Billy Bevan, who is unaware of Ma's intentions, as is Blondie who has plans of her own regarding Billy. The laughs here are only slightly less scarce than the chicken in the boarding house chicken-and-dumplings in "True Grit."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-22
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Neck and Neck
1931-11-04
Neck and Neck
Overview: Bill Grant is a small-time gambler who spends more time embellishing his accomplishments than actually doing anything. He has a small run of good luck when he wins a racehorse during a poker game. This enables him to enjoy the lifestyle he has been bragging about for so long. While in high society, he falls for Norma, whose father is big in racing circles.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-04
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Barnum Was Right
1929-09-22
Barnum Was Right
Overview: Freddie owns a failing old hotel. To attract new business he spreads the rumor that there's pirate treasure hidden somewhere in the building.
Genres: Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-22
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It's a Joy!
1923-12-30
It's a Joy!
Overview: 'Snub' Pollard as a eccentric movie director.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-30
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Tell It to a Policeman
1925-05-24
Tell It to a Policeman
Overview: Two young lovers (Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey) are at home when a policeman (James Finlayson) comes to the door and begins telling them his life story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-24
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The Sky Spider
1931-10-01
The Sky Spider
Overview: The three Morgan brothers, Glenn, Jim and Buddy are all air mail pilots. The plane flown by Jim is shot down by Hugh Jeffries for the money it carries. Another flight is made by Buddy followed by Jeffries intending to shoot him down also...
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-01
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Two Girls Wanted
1927-09-11
Two Girls Wanted
Overview: Marianna Miller, who together with her sister Sarah pounds the pavements, looking for a job. After a period of starvation and deprivation Marianna is hired as secretary to duplicitous businessman Philip Hancock.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-11
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The Wages of Tin
1925-01-04
The Wages of Tin
Overview: aka Billy, the Ford Buster
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-04
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Flaming Flappers
1925-12-27
Flaming Flappers
Overview: Mother - The hand that rocks the family - and rocks it often! A family comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-27
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The Battling Orioles
1924-10-06
The Battling Orioles
Overview: A young barber's girlfriend falls into the clutches of a shady nightclub owner and his cohorts, who plan to get her involved in their nefarious schemes. When his efforts to rescue her prove futile, he enlists the help of his father, who was at one time a professional baseball player, and his former teammates to save her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-06
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The Soilers
1923-11-24
The Soilers
Overview: During the Alaska gold rush, a miner hits the motherlode, but a corrupt sheriff jumps his claim, leading to a tremendous fight.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-24
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