Kenneth Howell
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 21, 1913
Deathday: September 28, 1966
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Known For
Pride of the Bowery
1940-12-15
Pride of the Bowery
Overview: Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain and with other campers. He also becomes involved in trying to help one of his friends get out of trouble.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-15
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Off to the Races
1937-02-05
Off to the Races
Overview: The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-05
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Nice Girl?
1941-02-21
Nice Girl?
Overview: Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice girl" image when an associate of her father comes to town on his way to study Australian Aboriginal tribes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-21
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Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.
1940-10-01
Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.
Overview: The Dead End Kids smash a spy ring in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men. Billy, the leader of the Dead End Kids, learns that his scientist father has been captured by the "Order of the Flaming Torch." This group of fifth columnists plans to use America's biggest brains to destroy the country from within. When the saboteurs outwit the gang's street smarts, the kids have no choice but to ask the FBI for help. The feds send in their own teenage contingent -- The Junior G-Men! Now the two groups must form an uneasy alliance, before the Order of the Flaming Torch can turn the U.S.A. into Amerika, the Evil Empire!
Genres: Thriller Action Drama Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-01
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The Jones Family in Hollywood
1939-06-02
The Jones Family in Hollywood
Overview: Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-02
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The Wrong Way Out
1938-12-24
The Wrong Way Out
Overview: Two young people get married and run away, even though their parents advise them to build up their savings first. After they get settled they can barely make ends meet. When opportunity suddenly presents itself, they start on a downward spiral of crime.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-24
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The Little Red Schoolhouse
1936-03-02
The Little Red Schoolhouse
Overview: Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-02
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Love on a Budget
1938-03-04
Love on a Budget
Overview: This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-04
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Sweater Girl
1942-07-13
Sweater Girl
Overview: College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.
Genres: Comedy Music Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-13
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Girls' School
1938-09-30
Girls' School
Overview: Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a monitor's report submitted by reluctant Natalie Freeman, a poor girl attending on scholarship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-30
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Flicker Fever
1935-09-20
Flicker Fever
Overview: A family of out-of-work vaudeville performers are finding hard times in the east, so after hearing about the success of a fellow player in Hollywood, they decide to relocate to the movie capitol. Unfortunately, they find themselves equally unemployed there, staying at a n apartment complex filled with similar hopefuls. One day, an offer for an interview at a large studio for the eldest daughter is made, so the father goes on a frantic search, finally locating her at a pool party where he pushes one of the young men in the water, only to find out that the lad was the son of the studio boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-20
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A Trip to Paris
1938-05-06
A Trip to Paris
Overview: The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-06
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Girls' Town
1942-03-06
Girls' Town
Overview: A West Coast version of "Stage Door", set at a Hollywood boarding house for young women hoping for movie careers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-06
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Too Busy to Work
1939-11-17
Too Busy to Work
Overview: The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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Old Man Rhythm
1935-08-02
Old Man Rhythm
Overview: Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-02
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Henry Aldrich for President
1941-10-17
Henry Aldrich for President
Overview: Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-17
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The Iron Master
1933-02-04
The Iron Master
Overview: The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the foreman of his foundry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-04
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On Their Own
1940-05-17
On Their Own
Overview: The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-17
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The Eagle and the Hawk
1933-05-06
The Eagle and the Hawk
Overview: The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-06
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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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Educating Father
1936-05-23
Educating Father
Overview: Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-23
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Four Days Wonder
1936-12-03
Four Days Wonder
Overview: Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity, Judy insists upon playing sleuth, dragging teenaged astronomer Tom Fenton (Kenneth Howell) into her Sherlock shenanigans.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-03
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Hurry, Charlie, Hurry
1941-06-13
Hurry, Charlie, Hurry
Overview: In this comedy, the marital conflicts between a meek banker and his nagging wife are chronicled.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-13
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Everybody's Baby
1939-03-24
Everybody's Baby
Overview: The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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Junior G-Men
1940-11-01
Junior G-Men
Overview: A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
Genres: Adventure Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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Big Business
1937-06-18
Big Business
Overview: A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-18
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Pardon My Pups
1934-01-25
Pardon My Pups
Overview: Mary Lou is excited because today is her older brother Sonny's birthday. Sonny wants a motorcycle, but his father has decided to buy him a dog instead, mainly because he himself wants to have a dog that he can take hunting. After a dispute with his father, Sonny leaves home. As he walks along a railroad track, he finds a frightened lost dog, and soon he begins to feel differently about dogs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-25
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In Old Amarillo
1951-05-15
In Old Amarillo
Overview: A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap. He plans to ruin the cattlemen's plans to ship water by train and to seed the clouds for rain. Roy is sent by a packing house to investigate.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-15
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What's to Do?
1933-11-23
What's to Do?
Overview: Sonny Rogers has just gotten elected class president, he's a star baseball player, and has a cute girlfriend. But, thanks to the conniving of his rival, Harry Vanderpool, he and his whole family are going to have to move to Seattle! Sonny needs the help of his pals and his pesky little sister, Mary Lou, to get out of this one.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-23
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Young as You Feel
1940-02-16
Young as You Feel
Overview: Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-16
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Saturday's Millions
1933-09-30
Saturday's Millions
Overview: Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-30
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Scattergood Rides High
1942-05-08
Scattergood Rides High
Overview: When Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a harness race Scattergood tells Martin's son Dan that he will send him to college if he forgets about taking over his father's business, which was heavily mortgaged and has been put up for auction after Knox's death. The boy reluctantly agrees, but when he discovers that his favorite horse Starlight is sick, he decides to bring the animal back to health and then enter him in the Governor's Race, whose $5000 prize would enable Dan to pay off his father's mortgage and keep the business in the family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-08
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Her First Beau
1941-05-08
Her First Beau
Overview: 15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-08
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Hot Water
1937-09-24
Hot Water
Overview: The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-24
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Back to Nature
1936-08-14
Back to Nature
Overview: The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-14
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Every Saturday Night
1936-03-13
Every Saturday Night
Overview: First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-13
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Safety in Numbers
1938-05-30
Safety in Numbers
Overview: The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-30
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Down on the Farm
1938-10-11
Down on the Farm
Overview: Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-11
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Borrowing Trouble
1937-12-10
Borrowing Trouble
Overview: The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-10
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I Give My Love
1934-07-17
I Give My Love
Overview: After accidentally killing her no-good husband, Judy makes her true love promise not to tell her small son about his imprisoned mother. She is released ten years later...
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-17
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Quick Millions
1939-08-25
Quick Millions
Overview: In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-25
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She Had to Choose
1934-10-01
She Had to Choose
Overview: A young actress hits Hollywood determined to be a movie star and runs into a lot of roadblocks along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-01
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