Jimmy Conlin
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jimmy Conlin (October 14, 1884 – May 7, 1962) was an American character actor who appeared in almost 150 films in his 32-year career. Conlin was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1884, and his acting career started out in vaudeville, where he and his first wife Myrtle Glass played the Keith-Albee-Orpheum circuits billed as "Conlin & Glass", a song-and-dance team. They also starred together in two short films, Sharps and Flats (1928) and Zip! Boom! Bang! (1929) for Vitaphone. Conlin made another comedy short without Glass in 1930 (A Tight Squeeze), but his film career started for good in 1933, and for the next 27 years, with the single exception of 1951, every year saw the release of at least one film in which Conlin appeared – at the height of his career, often more than a dozen of them. Recognizable by his small size and odd appearance, Conlin played all sorts of small roles and bit parts, many times not receiving an onscreen credit. In the 1940s, Conlin was part of Preston Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors, appearing in nine films written and directed by Sturges. His roles in Sturges' films were often sizable and often came with good billing. One of his best performances came in Sturges' The Sin of Harold Diddlebock in 1946, when he played "Wormy", the racetrack tout who convinces Harold Lloyd to have his first drink, setting off the events of the film. The loyalty between Sturges and Conlin ran both ways, and when the former golden boy of Hollywood fell on hard times, Conlin remained a friend, stayed in contact, and helped out in any way he could. Conlin did not make many television appearances, but he did have a regular role as a bartender on Duffy's Tavern, a syndicated series from 1954. He made his final film in 1959, when he played a habitual criminal in Anatomy of a Murder.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 13, 1884
Deathday: May 07, 1962
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The Town Went Wild
1944-12-15
The Town Went Wild
Overview: Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-15
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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1947-04-04
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Overview: Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-04
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The Palm Beach Story
1942-08-28
The Palm Beach Story
Overview: A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-28
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Fallen Angel
1945-11-15
Fallen Angel
Overview: An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-15
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Christmas in July
1940-10-25
Christmas in July
Overview: An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-25
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The Great McGinty
1940-08-01
The Great McGinty
Overview: Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-01
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Hail the Conquering Hero
1944-08-09
Hail the Conquering Hero
Overview: Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-09
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1944-01-14
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Overview: Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the royal throne, and rescue his beloved Amara from the iron fist of his treacherous enemy.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-14
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The Great Rupert
1950-03-01
The Great Rupert
Overview: Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-01
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Whistle Stop
1946-01-25
Whistle Stop
Overview: When beautiful Mary returns to her "whistle stop" hometown, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-25
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The Remarkable Andrew
1942-03-05
The Remarkable Andrew
Overview: When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-05
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Tulsa
1949-04-13
Tulsa
Overview: It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-13
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The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
1959-08-06
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
Overview: In one of his rare performances without Bud Abbott, Lou Costello plays a delivery boy who invents a machine which turns his girlfriend into a giantess.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-06
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Sideshow
1950-06-18
Sideshow
Overview: A Treasury Department agent on the trail of an international jewel smuggling ring joins a carnival that he thinks the gang is using as a front. He finally locates the jewels hidden as the eyes of wax figures.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-18
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Knock on Any Door
1949-02-22
Knock on Any Door
Overview: An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-22
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It's a Joke, Son!
1947-01-15
It's a Joke, Son!
Overview: Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una Merkel) who appears to have a good chance to beat the political hack backed by the machine. Claghorn is in to siphon votes and ensure his wife's opponent will win and is expected to run a campaign that will defeat himself and his wife. But, he runs to win and the machine's henchies abduct him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-15
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College Humor
1933-07-05
College Humor
Overview: A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
Genres: Action Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-05
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Sharps and Flats
1928-07-15
Sharps and Flats
Overview: Jimmy Conlin and Myrtle Glass perform a short vaudeville routine.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-15
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Operation Haylift
1950-05-05
Operation Haylift
Overview: A pilot devises a plan to airlift hay to thousands of ranch cattle stranded and dying due to severe winter weather.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-05
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No Place to Go
1939-09-23
No Place to Go
Overview: An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he befriends a neighborhood child with a troubled family life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-23
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Rolling Home
1946-11-01
Rolling Home
Overview: An elderly rodeo rider, his young grandson and their injured horse help transform the lives of various citizens in a small town. Released in 1946.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-01
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Footlight Parade
1933-10-21
Footlight Parade
Overview: A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-21
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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
1944-09-18
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Overview: A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-18
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The Hucksters
1947-07-17
The Hucksters
Overview: A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-17
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Rose Marie
1936-01-31
Rose Marie
Overview: An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother.
Genres: Romance Adventure Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-31
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Blue Skies
1946-10-15
Blue Skies
Overview: Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who can't stay committed to anything in life for very long.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-15
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The Bride Comes Home
1935-12-25
The Bride Comes Home
Overview: A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in her than in their publishing venture.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-25
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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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Petticoat Larceny
1943-07-17
Petticoat Larceny
Overview: An 11 year old radio star decides to throw in her scripts and go undercover to get a better feel for her roles, but when she is kidnapped, trouble soon follows in this comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-17
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Cross Country Cruise
1934-01-16
Cross Country Cruise
Overview: A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
Genres: Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-16
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The Man Who Found Himself
1937-04-02
The Man Who Found Himself
Overview: Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger killed in a plane that Jim crashes was a married woman, the resulting scandal prompts the hospital to put Jim on probation. His pride wounded, Jim takes to the open road and enjoys the simpler life of a vagabond. In Los Angeles--where he is arrested for vagrancy and put to work on a road crew--Jim runs into old pal Dick Miller, who gets him a job as a mechanic for Roberts Aviation. But maintaining his anonymity becomes more difficult, particularly when a pretty nurse, Doris King, decides to make Jim's redemption her personal crusade.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-02
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Hazard
1948-05-28
Hazard
Overview: A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-28
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Smashing the Rackets
1938-08-08
Smashing the Rackets
Overview: Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-08
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Living on Love
1937-11-12
Living on Love
Overview: A man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-12
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Dixie
1943-06-23
Dixie
Overview: A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie." The film is based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the classic song "Dixie."
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-23
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She Learned About Sailors
1934-06-28
She Learned About Sailors
Overview: Shanghai nightclub singer Jean falls in love to a sailor, but after his ship left Shanghai, he is of the opinion that he cannot support her in the States, so he writes her in a letter, that he will not see her again, but two practical jokers intercept it and write another with an opposite content. Jean comes to the states, but her sailor doesn't acknowledge her, but the two don't give up trying to bring Jean and sailor back together.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-28
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939-11-22
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Overview: Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-22
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City Limits
1934-04-14
City Limits
Overview: The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of business, personal and physical problems, meets up with a pair of hoboes from whom he starts to learn how to really enjoy life in ways he never knew were possible.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-14
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Cocoanut Grove
1938-05-20
Cocoanut Grove
Overview: Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
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He Couldn't Say No
1938-03-19
He Couldn't Say No
Overview: A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.
Genres: Crime Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-19
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On Dangerous Ground
1951-12-13
On Dangerous Ground
Overview: A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-13
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The Seven Little Foys
1955-09-30
The Seven Little Foys
Overview: Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. While they continue to tour the circuit, they begin a family and before long have seven little Foys to clutter the wings. After tragedy threatens to stall Eddie's career, he comes to realize that his little terrors are worth their weight in gold. - Chris Stone
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-30
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Prejudice
1949-10-17
Prejudice
Overview: Joe Hanson, who believes himself to be tolerant of other races and religions, gradually comes to realize that he is prejudiced against many of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-17
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Idiot's Delight
1939-01-27
Idiot's Delight
Overview: A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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Nancy Drew... Reporter
1939-02-18
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Overview: While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-18
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Summer Storm
1944-07-14
Summer Storm
Overview: It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-14
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Let's Make Music
1941-01-17
Let's Make Music
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
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Two Girls on Broadway
1940-04-19
Two Girls on Broadway
Overview: Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives. Remake of The Broadway Melody (1929).
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-19
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Crashing Hollywood
1938-01-07
Crashing Hollywood
Overview: A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-07
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Torchy Blane in Panama
1938-05-07
Torchy Blane in Panama
Overview: Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
Genres: Crime Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-07
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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
1940-09-06
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Overview: A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-06
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Dick Tracy's Dilemma
1947-05-20
Dick Tracy's Dilemma
Overview: Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-20
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The Lady Eve
1941-02-25
The Lady Eve
Overview: It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-25
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Calling Philo Vance
1940-02-03
Calling Philo Vance
Overview: Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-03
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
1939-05-13
Torchy Runs for Mayor
Overview: Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-13
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Taxi, Mister
1943-04-16
Taxi, Mister
Overview: The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-16
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Edison, the Man
1940-05-10
Edison, the Man
Overview: In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-10
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It Happened Tomorrow
1944-03-31
It Happened Tomorrow
Overview: A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-31
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Anatomy of a Murder
1959-07-01
Anatomy of a Murder
Overview: Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-01
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Second Chorus
1941-01-03
Second Chorus
Overview: Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-03
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Mourning Becomes Electra
1947-11-19
Mourning Becomes Electra
Overview: Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conniving wife Christine and daughter Lavinia vie for the love of a handsome captain with a dark secret while well-meaning neighbor Peter sets his sights on Lavinia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-19
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Captains Courageous
1937-06-25
Captains Courageous
Overview: Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-25
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King of the Lumberjacks
1940-04-13
King of the Lumberjacks
Overview: Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-13
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My Little Chickadee
1940-02-09
My Little Chickadee
Overview: While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-09
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The Forest Rangers
1942-10-21
The Forest Rangers
Overview: Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-21
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Prison Farm
1938-06-17
Prison Farm
Overview: Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-17
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Florian
1940-06-05
Florian
Overview: Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-05
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Angels Over Broadway
1940-10-02
Angels Over Broadway
Overview: Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for one last night on the town. He is pulled into a poker game by conman Bill O'Brien and singer Nina Barone, but when they discover the dropped note, they resolve to turn the tables, get Engle his $3,000 and save his life.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-02
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Madame Spy
1942-12-11
Madame Spy
Overview: Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins keeping company with known Nazi functionaries, notably the sinister Mr. Peter. Suspecting that his own wife may be the elusive “Madame Spy” wanted by American authorities, Bannister is in for quite a few surprises.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-11
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The Way of All Flesh
1940-07-05
The Way of All Flesh
Overview: Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-05
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Over the Wall
1938-04-02
Over the Wall
Overview: When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-02
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And Sudden Death
1936-06-16
And Sudden Death
Overview: An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone due to reckless driving.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-16
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Broadway Musketeers
1938-10-08
Broadway Musketeers
Overview: Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nightclub performer.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-08
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Bring on the Girls
1945-03-30
Bring on the Girls
Overview: A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-30
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The Jazz Singer
1953-02-14
The Jazz Singer
Overview: A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-14
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
1947-06-05
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Overview: Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for the winter. The owner has given him the "only" key to the front door. But there are six other keys, and peculiar characters, some of them up to no good, keep turning up as the mystery deepens.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-05
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Ridin' on a Rainbow
1941-01-24
Ridin' on a Rainbow
Overview: When the showboat hits town, two men use the parade as a distraction to rob the bank. Their accomplice is Pop, the clown from the showboat. He leaves the money on the boat and tells his daughter Patsy to bring it to him at a later stop on the river. Gene's investigation of a bank robbery takes him to the showboat where he becomes a performer. Gene and Frog try to find the money while helping Patsy and her father.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-24
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A Shot in the Dark
1941-04-05
A Shot in the Dark
Overview: A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-05
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Sullivan's Travels
1941-11-30
Sullivan's Travels
Overview: Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
Genres: Comedy Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-30
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It Happens Every Thursday
1953-04-22
It Happens Every Thursday
Overview: New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. But their schemes to increase circulation get them in over their heads.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-22
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Hitler's Madman
1943-06-10
Hitler's Madman
Overview: In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-10
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New York Town
1941-10-31
New York Town
Overview: Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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Woman of the Year
1942-02-05
Woman of the Year
Overview: Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-05
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Obliging Young Lady
1942-04-01
Obliging Young Lady
Overview: A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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Slightly Dangerous
1943-04-01
Slightly Dangerous
Overview: Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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The Inspector General
1949-12-31
The Inspector General
Overview: An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-31
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$1,000 a Touchdown
1939-10-04
$1,000 a Touchdown
Overview: A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-04
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Grand Slam
1933-02-22
Grand Slam
Overview: A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-22
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The Adventurous Blonde
1937-11-13
The Adventurous Blonde
Overview: The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
Genres: Romance Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-13
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Blondes at Work
1938-02-05
Blondes at Work
Overview: When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-05
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The Accusing Finger
1936-11-17
The Accusing Finger
Overview: A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
Genres: Crime Action Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-17
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The Gay Falcon
1941-10-24
The Gay Falcon
Overview: Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-24
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Old Acquaintance
1943-11-27
Old Acquaintance
Overview: Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-27
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Hard to Get
1938-11-05
Hard to Get
Overview: When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-05
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The Shining Hour
1938-11-18
The Shining Hour
Overview: A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-18
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What, No Cigarettes
1945-07-13
What, No Cigarettes
Overview: There is movement afoot in Edgar Kennedy's house, where he lives with his wife Florence, and reluctantly with Florence's mother and brother. Without Edgar's consent, Florence, mother and brother have decided that Edgar will temporarily move in with brother, while mother will temporarily move in with Florence, giving mother's room to her visiting brother, Wilbur. Uncle Wilbur, an entrepreneur, promises to set brother up in one of his companies, making Edgar's dream come true of getting brother out of his house. But chain smoking Uncle Wilbur vows to renege on his promise unless Edgar can get him some cigarettes after he himself runs out. Edgar may have some problems as there is a cigarette shortage, every smoker clamoring for what few supplies there are. If Edgar can't get cigarettes, he may have to resort to Plan B, which may not be as easy as he imagines. Regardless, lazy brother may do whatever he can to thwart Edgar's plans if only to remain unemployed and in Edgar's house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-13
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Lost in a Harem
1944-12-01
Lost in a Harem
Overview: Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-01
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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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Mannequin
1938-01-21
Mannequin
Overview: Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-21
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Comet Over Broadway
1938-12-03
Comet Over Broadway
Overview: Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-03
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Swing Shift Maisie
1943-10-01
Swing Shift Maisie
Overview: Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-01
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Out of the Fog
1941-06-14
Out of the Fog
Overview: A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-14
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Rose Bowl
1936-11-30
Rose Bowl
Overview: Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is barely a substitute, and Ossie at a powerhouse-football school, where he is an instant star and all-American candidate. They leave behind Cheers Reynolds, who is fond of Paddy, who works in her family's drugstore, but she loves Ossie almost as much as he loves himself. Paddy makes friends with team fullback Dutch Schultz, who accompanies him on vacation, and they arrive back in Bellport just as Ossie is also coming home on break. Florence Taylor is also in town on a film junket. Unknown to any of the others, Paddy and Florence had gone to high school together. Back at school and three years later, Paddy and Dutch learn that their football team could get invited to the coveted Rose Bowl to play against Ossie's team, if it could get enough publicity (pre-BCS days) that would attract a large crowd...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-30
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Handy Andy
1934-07-19
Handy Andy
Overview: A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national chain. In addition, she tries to set up her pretty young daughter with the nitwit son of the chain's owner, even though the girl is in love with the handsome son of the town doctor. Finally the druggist decides he's had enough and takes matters into his own hands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-19
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