Tim Ryan
Biography: Tim Ryan was an American performer who is probably best known today as a film actor. Ryan and his wife, Irene who later played Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies, were a show business team that performed on Broadway, film and radio. They made some short films for Educational Pictures in the mid-1930s based on their vaudeville act. They were married from 1922 to 1942. Even after their divorce in 1942, the couple occasionally worked together. In the 1940s, Ryan found opportunities at Monogram Pictures where he acted in films as well as wrote screenplays. In films of the 1940s and the early 1950s, Ryan appeared on screen playing numerous roles as cops, newspaper editors and detectives.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 04, 1899
Deathday: October 22, 1956
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Detour
1945-11-30
Detour
Overview: The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-30
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From Here to Eternity
1953-08-28
From Here to Eternity
Overview: In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-28
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Peaceful Relations
1936-06-19
Peaceful Relations
Overview: An Educational Pictures comedy starring the husband and wife team of Tim and Irene Ryan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-19
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Two Latins from Manhattan
1941-10-02
Two Latins from Manhattan
Overview: Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arrive when the real Cuban sisters show up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-02
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Melody Lane
1941-12-09
Melody Lane
Overview: In this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and fortune but find themselves in trouble when a radio sponsor finds himself accused of kidnapping a girl. Songs include: "Septimus Winner," "Peaceful Ends the Day," "Cherokee Charlie," "Let's Go to Calicabu," "Swing-a-Bye My Baby," "Changeable Heart," "If It's a Dream Don't Wake Me," "Since the Farmer in the Dell," "Caliacau," and "Listen to the Mockingbird."
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-09
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Dark Alibi
1946-05-25
Dark Alibi
Overview: After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had been forged. Charlie then proceeds to find the true bank robbers.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-25
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Bedtime Story
1941-12-25
Bedtime Story
Overview: A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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The Shanghai Chest
1948-07-11
The Shanghai Chest
Overview: Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all three murder sites, and all three victims were connected with the conviction and execution of an evidently innocent man.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-11
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The Golden Eye
1948-08-29
The Golden Eye
Overview: A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable money-making machine. However, the owner, instead of being happy about his now profitable business, insists to Charlie that something is fishy and that someone is out to murder him. Charlie and his "crew" travel to the mine, pretending to be tourists staying at a nearby dude ranch so as not to arouse suspicion, and discover that the owner may well be right--it looks like the mine is being used as a cover for criminal activities, and that someone is indeed out to murder him.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-29
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Pardon My Stripes
1942-01-26
Pardon My Stripes
Overview: Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a touchdown during a critical game, his error earns him the accolade of "Dope of the Year" award. Gambler Big George Kilraine (Harold Huber) hires him to take the $107,000 winnings of the gambler's syndicate on the game to Chicago. On the way the money bag falls out of the airplane and lands in the state penitentiary. Herry now has to figure out how to get into the prison and get the money out of the prison.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-26
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Fashion Model
1945-03-02
Fashion Model
Overview: When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a lowly stock boy.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-02
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Detective Kitty O'Day
1944-05-13
Detective Kitty O'Day
Overview: Convinced that she has what it takes to be a detective, inquisitive secretary Kitty O'Day gets her chance to put her sleuthing skills to the test when her investment broker boss is mysteriously murdered. But Kitty's investigation hits a snag when Inspector Miles Clancy begins to suspect that she's the culprit.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-13
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A Tragedy at Midnight
1942-02-02
A Tragedy at Midnight
Overview: The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-02
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Wife Wanted
1946-11-02
Wife Wanted
Overview: Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby, they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people. Carole, unknowingly, is used as bait for one of their victims, Walter Desmond, who "commits suicide." Reporter William Tyler thinks otherwise.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-02
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Butch Minds the Baby
1942-03-20
Butch Minds the Baby
Overview: Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe crackers when he has to also look after the baby of one of the criminals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-20
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The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943-11-05
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Overview: A woman of twenty-one opens her grandfather's will left to her thirteen years earlier, per his instructions. Murder soon follows.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-05
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Adventures of Kitty O'Day
1945-01-19
Adventures of Kitty O'Day
Overview: A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-19
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Shadow of Suspicion
1944-09-23
Shadow of Suspicion
Overview: Brash ladies' man James Dale and his partner, wisecracking Everett Northrup, are sent by Cartell & Co. jewelers to safeguard the arrival of the famous Stonehaven necklace at one of its branch offices, recently the victim of a jewel robbery.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-23
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Alias Nick Beal
1949-03-04
Alias Nick Beal
Overview: After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
Genres: Drama Crime Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-04
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Melody Parade
1943-08-27
Melody Parade
Overview: The owner and staff of a Hollywood nightclub struggle to keep their establishment from closing.
Genres: Romance Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-27
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The Buster Keaton Story
1957-05-01
The Buster Keaton Story
Overview: An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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Here Come the Marines
1952-06-29
Here Come the Marines
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
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The Courtship of Andy Hardy
1942-03-03
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
Overview: While Judge Hardy handles a couple's divorce, Andy takes a shine to their shy daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-03
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And the Angels Sing
1944-04-25
And the Angels Sing
Overview: The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an offer of ten dollars to sing at a dubious night club on the edge of town where a band led by Happy Marshall is playing.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-25
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Sarong Girl
1943-06-11
Sarong Girl
Overview: A dancer in a girlie show plots revenge when a judge orders her show closed.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-11
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Shamrock Hill
1949-02-01
Shamrock Hill
Overview: A young girl holds a special place in her heart for a place called Shamrock HIll, and she tries to stop it from having a television station built on it.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-01
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Lucky Devils
1941-01-03
Lucky Devils
Overview: Lucky Devils casts the mismatched duo as a pair of intrepid newsreel cameramen. When they're not risking their lives coverning the Hot Spots of the world, Dick (Arlen) and Andy (Devine) busy themselves romancing Norma (Dorothy Lovett) and Gwendy (Janet Shaw), respectively.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-03
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Reveille with Beverly
1943-02-04
Reveille with Beverly
Overview: Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-04
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Hot Rhythm
1944-04-22
Hot Rhythm
Overview: Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, and meet Mary Adams (Dona Drake), who wants to break into radio as a soloist for a band.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-22
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Pot o' Gold
1941-04-03
Pot o' Gold
Overview: Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-03
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The Asphalt Jungle
1950-05-12
The Asphalt Jungle
Overview: Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-12
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Crazy Over Horses
1951-09-09
Crazy Over Horses
Overview: The boys get mixed up with a race horse & crooked gamblers
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-09
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Champion
1949-04-09
Champion
Overview: An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-09
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Force of Evil
1950-08-24
Force of Evil
Overview: Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-24
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Nazi Agent
1942-03-01
Nazi Agent
Overview: Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-01
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Kansas City Kitty
1944-08-24
Kansas City Kitty
Overview: A piano teacher and her roommate decide invest their savings in a music publishing company. Comedy with music.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-24
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One Big Happy Family
1935-11-15
One Big Happy Family
Overview: When Tim Ryan's leading lady walks out in a small hillbilly town, the leading lady he selects -- at gunpoint -- is dumb bell Irene Ryan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-15
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The Wacky Family
1936-09-04
The Wacky Family
Overview: Tim has just been promoted to sales manager and his boss says he will be out to visit Tim and Irene in their new country home to see how his employees live. But Irene's wacky family----Ma, Pa and Brother---have moved in with them and converted the home into a hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-04
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Just Plain Folks
1936-03-13
Just Plain Folks
Overview: In a burlesque of the radio program "One Man's Family", Tim pays a visit to his fiancée, Irene Carr, to meet her family. He is ignored, insulted and relieved of his cash for a raffle in which he is not allowed to participate, and is finally deserted when Irene and all of her family walk out of the house and leave him all alone. This happens after two of her cousins stage a wrestling match, and a food-fight at the dinner table.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-13
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The Cruel Tower
1956-10-28
The Cruel Tower
Overview: The story of a bunch of hard-drinking steeplejacks.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-28
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Swingin' on a Rainbow
1945-09-01
Swingin' on a Rainbow
Overview: A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-01
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The Man in the Trunk
1942-09-19
The Man in the Trunk
Overview: The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-19
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His Pest Girl
1937-04-30
His Pest Girl
Overview: Tim Ryan teams with his wife, Irene, playing a salesman who runs into a saleswoman with an identical sales case.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-30
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The Big Courtship
1937-02-19
The Big Courtship
Overview: An Educational Pictures short starring Tim and Irene Ryan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-19
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Merton of the Movies
1947-10-11
Merton of the Movies
Overview: In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-11
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Ball of Fire
1941-12-02
Ball of Fire
Overview: A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-02
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The Sultan's Daughter
1943-12-16
The Sultan's Daughter
Overview: A sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-16
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Swing Out the Blues
1943-12-23
Swing Out the Blues
Overview: The film is partly a parody of The Goodwill Court, a popular radio problem hosted by advice-dispenser "Mr. Anthony". The host of a "What's your problem?" radio hour tries to smooth the romantic path of singer Rich Cleveland (Haymes) and his socialite wife Penelope (Lynn Merrick). The fly in the ointment is Dena Marshall (Janis Carter), who has set her sights on the handsome Rich.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-23
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Brother Orchid
1940-06-07
Brother Orchid
Overview: When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-07
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This Gun for Hire
1942-04-24
This Gun for Hire
Overview: Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-24
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Hi, Beautiful
1944-12-18
Hi, Beautiful
Overview: Part of the series of Universal B-musicals teaming Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery Jr., this film is also a remake of the 1937 comedy Love in a Bungalow. Patty Callahan (O'Driscoll) offers residence in a model home to soldier Jeff (Beery) and soon falls in love with him. Although the pair are unmarried, they enter a marital contest intended to celebrate the "Happiest G.I. Couple." Winning the contest brings on all sorts of farcical troubles until the couple are able to be united for real. Songs include "Don't Sweetheart Me" and "Best of All."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-18
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Swingtime Johnny
1944-02-04
Swingtime Johnny
Overview: The Andrews Sisters take a hiatus from show business to aid the war effort. They take on jobs at a pipe-organ plant now making artillery shells. But they still find time for plenty of singing and dancing.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-04
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Crazy Knights
1944-12-08
Crazy Knights
Overview: Also known as Ghost Crazy. Three goofballs run up against ghosts and a giant gorilla in a haunted house.
Genres: Comedy Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-08
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Rockin' in the Rockies
1945-04-17
Rockin' in the Rockies
Overview: Rancher Rusty Williams is away at agricultural college and leaves his spread in the hands of his older cousin Shorty. Shorty wants to do more than run a ranch, however -- he wants to prospect for gold, but he has no money. He recruits a pair of partners in the guise of two runaway vagrants and a pair of backers in two stranded singers. But then Rusty shows up, and his four somewhat bumbling hired hands manage to compound Larry and Curly's deep ineptitude, and Rusty wants them all out of his hair.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-17
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Don't Get Personal
1942-01-02
Don't Get Personal
Overview: Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored by his company, as he thinks their on-air quarreling is real. Two former associates, Jules Kinsey and J.M. Snow cross him up by substituting Susan Blair, an office secretary, for Mary and Elmer thinks the show's writer Paul Stevens is John.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-02
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Hullabaloo
1940-10-25
Hullabaloo
Overview: A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-25
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Third Finger, Left Hand
1940-10-11
Third Finger, Left Hand
Overview: Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-11
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Red, Hot and Blue
1949-09-05
Red, Hot and Blue
Overview: In her attempts to make a splash on Broadway, a lively would-be-actress lands herself in hot water with the mob.
Genres: Music Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-05
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Private Eyes
1953-12-06
Private Eyes
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
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Fighting Trouble
1956-09-16
Fighting Trouble
Overview: An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.
Genres: Crime Adventure Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-16
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News Hounds
1947-08-13
News Hounds
Overview: Slip and Sach are working for a local newspaper as a reporter and photographer, respectively. Slip wants to get the goods on a local gambling ring that is fixing sporting events, so he and Sach go undercover to expose the ring.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-13
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Sky Dragon
1949-04-27
Sky Dragon
Overview: All the passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, and when they wake up, it is discovered that a quarter-million dollars is missing. Charlie Chan--and, of course, his #1 son--must discover the identity of the person who doped the passengers and stole the money.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-27
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Redhead from Manhattan
1943-05-06
Redhead from Manhattan
Overview: Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-06
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Blondie Goes to College
1942-01-15
Blondie Goes to College
Overview: Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-15
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Jiggs and Maggie Out West
1950-04-23
Jiggs and Maggie Out West
Overview: Monogram's Bringing Up Father series, based on the popular comic strip by George McManus, hit a high point of sorts with 1950's Jiggs and Maggie Out West. Joe Yule Sr. (Mickey Rooney's father) and Rene Riano are perfectly cast as nouveau riche Jiggs and Maggie, who head thataway when Maggie inherits a goldmine. As usual, Maggie spends her time trying to climb the frontier social ladder, while down-to-earth Jiggs is more interested in finding a plate of corned beef and cabbage.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-23
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Fargo
1952-09-07
Fargo
Overview: The brother (House Peters Jr.) of rancher Bill Martin (Bill Elliott) is killed in a stampede started by cattleman. Bill returns to the Fargo country to take his brother's place and is welcomed by law-abiding cattleman MacKenzie (Jack Ingram)) and his daughter Kathy (Phyllis Coates). The leader of the ruthless cattle interests are townsman Austin (Arthur Space) and his henchmen Red (Myron Healey), Link (Robert J. Wilke) and Albord (Terry Frost). Bill has the idea of putting up barbed wire to keep the herds from been driven over the land cultivated by the farmers. He, aided by Tad Sloan (Fuzzy Knight), produces the wire by make-shift methods, but it proves effective. The cattleman charge in court that the wire is dangerous to their herds but lose the case. Austin orders his men to seize Bill, bale him in strands of the wire, and throw him on the stage of the town hall during a fall festival. Bill doesn't take kindly to this and it precipitates open war.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-07
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Three Girls About Town
1941-10-23
Three Girls About Town
Overview: Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-23
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The Marksman
1953-04-10
The Marksman
Overview: Mike Martin becomes a deputy marshal and takes on a gang of cattle rustlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-10
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Devil Pays Off
1941-11-10
Devil Pays Off
Overview: A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
Genres: Crime War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-10
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Dead Men Tell
1941-03-28
Dead Men Tell
Overview: When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-28
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Bringing Up Father
1946-11-23
Bringing Up Father
Overview: Based on the comic strip by George McManus about the adventures of the social-climbing Maggie and her long-suffering husband Jiggs. In this film, one of Maggie's society friends enlists her help in evicting an undesirable tenant, who turns out to be Jiggs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-23
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Get Hep to Love
1942-10-02
Get Hep to Love
Overview: Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-02
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Blue, White, and Perfect
1942-01-06
Blue, White, and Perfect
Overview: In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-06
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Harmon of Michigan
1941-09-11
Harmon of Michigan
Overview: A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-11
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I Wake Up Screaming
1941-10-31
I Wake Up Screaming
Overview: A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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Forgotten Women
1949-07-17
Forgotten Women
Overview: A tale of three women who hang out in a bar and bend the ear of Harry the bartender. Kate Allison drinks to forget playboy Andy Emerson, whom she might have married if her husband, John Allison hadn't come home before the divorce was final, which is no big deal as actors Norris and Douglas were pretty much interchangeable anyway; Ruth Marshall is reunited with husband Richard Marshall on the pleas of their son in the divorce court of Judge Donnell; and Clair Dunning makes up with husband Bill Dunning after they meet in the bar. Most of what passes for action is a couple of car wrecks, understandable considering the amount of sauce consumed in Harry's bar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-17
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All That I Have
1951-10-01
All That I Have
Overview: As a wealthy retired surgeon nears the end of his life, he begins to distribute his wealth to those in need, stating that "all that I have belongs to God." His nephews bring him to court to determine his mental competence in the hopes of stopping him from disposing of all his money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-01
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Stand by for Action
1942-12-31
Stand by for Action
Overview: U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas.
Genres: Action Drama War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-31
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Stand By All Networks
1942-10-29
Stand By All Networks
Overview: An intrepid radio reporter sets out to track down and expose Nazi agents.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-29
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Miss Mink of 1949
1949-02-11
Miss Mink of 1949
Overview: Winning a mink coat brings nothing but trouble to a couple on a budget.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-11
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Body and Soul
1947-11-11
Body and Soul
Overview: Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-11
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This Time for Keeps
1942-03-01
This Time for Keeps
Overview: A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-01
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Where Did You Get That Girl?
1941-01-03
Where Did You Get That Girl?
Overview: In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording contract. The trouble is, the composer's works are never played without another band member doctoring them up to make them swingier. Fortunately, the composer isn't too averse to the changes as he has just won the heart of the beauty who sings his revamped songs.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-03
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True to Life
1943-12-24
True to Life
Overview: A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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Ice-Capades
1941-08-19
Ice-Capades
Overview: Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-19
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Will You Stop?
1937-09-10
Will You Stop?
Overview: Tim (Tim Ryan) has written what he thinks is a great skit about Antony and Cleopatra for the department store's annual employee show, but the boss insists on his goofy daughter (Irene Ryan) playing Cleopatra opposite Tim's Antony.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-10
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Half Past Midnight
1948-03-01
Half Past Midnight
Overview: A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the woman becomes the main suspect. She and the gumshoe team up and begin searching for the real killer.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-01
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I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now
1940-10-19
I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now
Overview: In this low-budget musical, two sets of politically ambitious parents attempt to pair up their youngsters who unfortunately despise each other and only pretend to like each other to please their parents. On the nights they are to go out, they sneak out with their respective true loves. It all works well until the unwilling couple find themselves falling in love for real. songs include: "I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now", and "Got Romance".
Genres: Adventure Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-19
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Jiggs and Maggie in Society
1947-12-12
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
Overview: Maggi continues her forever-ever efforts to crash Manhattan's top society, while Jiggs still mingles with his old construction cronies at the bar of Dinty Moore on 10th Avenue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-12
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Private Affairs
1940-07-05
Private Affairs
Overview: A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-05
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Riding High
1943-11-11
Riding High
Overview: No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell. Lamour stars as Ann Castle, a former burlesque queen who heads westward to claim her father's silver mine. Powell plays mining engineer Steve Baird, who like Ann has a vested interest in the worked-out mine. With the help of genial counterfeiter Mortimer J. Slocum (Victor Moore), Steve and Ann are able to peddle mining stock, thus saving her from bankruptcy. The stockholders are in a lynching mood when it appears that they've been flim-flammed, but a last minute "miracle" saves the day. Featured in the cast are Paramount stalwarts Cass Daley and Gil Lamb, the former doing her quasi-Martha Raye act and the latter swallowing his harmonica for the millionth time. Production values are excellent and the songs are exuberantly performed; it's only in its hackneyed plot that Riding High slows to a clip-clop.
Genres: Western Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-11
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Two Sisters from Boston
1946-06-06
Two Sisters from Boston
Overview: Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-06
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A Man Betrayed
1941-03-07
A Man Betrayed
Overview: Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).
Genres: Drama Crime Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-07
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Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
1950-06-04
Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
Overview: A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey Pennyworth's hometown.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-04
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Blondie's Holiday
1947-04-10
Blondie's Holiday
Overview: Dagwood gets a raise due to a new contract with a bank manager. Blondie misunderstanding the amount of the raise pledges more than they can afford to Dagwood's high school reunion organizer who was also Dagwood's high school sweetheart. To make matters worse Dagwood becomes involved with a gang running a gambling establishment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-10
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The Luck of the Irish
1948-09-15
The Luck of the Irish
Overview: Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-15
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Strictly in the Groove
1942-11-20
Strictly in the Groove
Overview: College student, cattle baron, confused love story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-20
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Maisie Was a Lady
1941-01-10
Maisie Was a Lady
Overview: Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-10
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French Fried Frolic
1949-12-08
French Fried Frolic
Overview: Wally and Tim pose as the husbands of two French women so they'll receive their dowry from their eccentric uncle, but mayhem ensues when first their wives show up and then the actual husbands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-08
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Jiggs and Maggie in Court
1948-12-12
Jiggs and Maggie in Court
Overview: Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon character in the George McManus comic strip "Bringing Up Father." She visits McManus in his studio office and tries to persuade him to stop drawing the syndicated comic-strip. He tells her he will...in 1959. Maggie, not getting any younger, retains counsel and takes McManus to court.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-12
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