Kathryn Sheldon
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 22, 1879
Deathday: December 25, 1975
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Ladies of the Chorus
1948-12-30
Ladies of the Chorus
Overview: Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and Peggy takes her place. When Peggy falls in love with wealthy Randy, May fears class differences may lead to misery.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-30
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The Invisible Man
1933-11-03
The Invisible Man
Overview: After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-03
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Vicki
1953-10-05
Vicki
Overview: A supermodel gets murdered. While investigating the case the story of a waitress turned glamor girl is revealed.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-05
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Rushin' Ballet
1937-04-24
Rushin' Ballet
Overview: While trying to track down Butch, Spanky and Alfalfa get caught up in a dance recital.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-24
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Arizona Bound
1941-07-19
Arizona Bound
Overview: The Rough Riders are called in to help save Master's stage line. Taggart has his gang robbing the stages and shooting the drivers. When Buck drives the next stage, Taggart's men rob it and then make it look like Roberts is part of the gang. Written by Maurice Van Auken
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-19
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The Bridge of Sighs
1936-02-14
The Bridge of Sighs
Overview: Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-14
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Below the Deadline
1936-06-07
Below the Deadline
Overview: After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-07
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Tango
1936-02-13
Tango
Overview: Believing his wife to be unfaithful, a husband deserts her and his child. Destitute, the woman is forced to take a job as a tango dancer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-13
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Dr. Socrates
1935-10-19
Dr. Socrates
Overview: Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-19
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Parachute Battalion
1941-09-12
Parachute Battalion
Overview: Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien and Buddy Ebsen.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-12
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Quick Money
1937-12-10
Quick Money
Overview: Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years. Accompanying him is his personal secretary, Ambrose Ames. Despite it being purely a vacation to get some rest and relaxation, the leading citizens of the town welcome him back with some official gatherings. Mayor Jonas Tompkins, who never liked Bluford, holds no grudges against him and too welcomes him with open arms. Although Bluford had no intention of making the news public, the townsfolk learn that he has indeed come back to do business, specifically develop a summer resort in Glenwood to rival that of the best summer resorts worldwide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-10
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Brilliant Marriage
1936-03-25
Brilliant Marriage
Overview: When a wealthy heiress discovers the terrible family secret that has been hidden from her since birth, her world is turned upside down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-25
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Circus Girl
1937-03-01
Circus Girl
Overview: A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-01
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Wells Fargo
1937-12-31
Wells Fargo
Overview: In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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Condemned Women
1938-03-18
Condemned Women
Overview: A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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Zenobia
1939-04-21
Zenobia
Overview: A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-21
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Four Girls in White
1939-01-27
Four Girls in White
Overview: Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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Desirable
1934-09-08
Desirable
Overview: A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-08
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Mary Jane's Pa
1935-04-27
Mary Jane's Pa
Overview: Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-27
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Convict's Code
1939-01-18
Convict's Code
Overview: On parole after three years in prison, a football player encounters the man who framed him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-18
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Within the Law
1939-03-17
Within the Law
Overview: A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-17
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Boys' Reformatory
1939-05-01
Boys' Reformatory
Overview: A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-01
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I Married a Witch
1942-10-30
I Married a Witch
Overview: A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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The Magnificent Ambersons
1942-07-10
The Magnificent Ambersons
Overview: The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-10
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Society Fever
1935-07-15
Society Fever
Overview: A mother starts to get worried when she finds out that some wealthy friends have been invited to dinner with her somewhat screwball family.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-15
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Sunset Trail
1939-02-24
Sunset Trail
Overview: Disguising himself as a milquetoast Easterner who writes Western novels, Hoppy enrolls in a dude ranch in order to unmask the murderer of the owner's husband.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-24
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940-02-22
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Overview: Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-22
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Out West with the Peppers
1940-06-30
Out West with the Peppers
Overview: When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But adjusting to a new home and community isn't easy for the brood. Third entry in the "Five Little Peppers" series of four films.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-30
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Summer Stock
1950-08-31
Summer Stock
Overview: To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister. At first reluctant she has them do farm chores in exchange for food. Her reluctance becomes attraction when she falls in love with the director, Joe, who happens to be her sister's fiance.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-31
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The Lady from Cheyenne
1941-04-11
The Lady from Cheyenne
Overview: Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-11
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Young People
1940-08-30
Young People
Overview: Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-30
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Rock Island Trail
1950-05-18
Rock Island Trail
Overview: A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-18
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Girls of the Big House
1945-11-02
Girls of the Big House
Overview: A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-02
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Our Leading Citizen
1939-08-23
Our Leading Citizen
Overview: Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-23
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Dinky
1935-05-11
Dinky
Overview: A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-11
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Carnival
1935-02-15
Carnival
Overview: "Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
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Father Steps Out
1941-07-19
Father Steps Out
Overview: Story concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent on an R&R vacation by his doctor, falling off his private train-car and landing in a hobo jungle occupied by Faylen and Hall, and being cured of all his ills, while reporter Jimmy Dugan (Frank Albertson) poses as a doctor in order to get an exclusive story about the railroad takeover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-19
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Miss V from Moscow
1942-11-23
Miss V from Moscow
Overview: Set in the shadows of wartime Paris, this 1940s drama directed by Albert Herman stars Lola Lane, Noel Madison and Howard Banks. When a Soviet secret agent discovers her uncanny resemblance to a dead Nazi spy, she infiltrates the enemy and works to save U.S. ships from German submarines. Assisting her on her mission are French underground agents, along with an American serving in the British armed forces.
Genres: War Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-23
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I'm from the City
1938-08-05
I'm from the City
Overview: Pete Pepper is a shy, timid circus performer who is scared to death of horses, but rides like a whirlwind when he has been hypnotized by "Ollie" Finch. Pete is entered as a competitor in a wild-west cross-country obstacle race...and has to ride without being hypnotized.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-05
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The Happy Time
1952-10-30
The Happy Time
Overview: A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-30
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Rockin' Thru the Rockies
1940-03-08
Rockin' Thru the Rockies
Overview: The stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show west. When hostile Indians run the horses run off they are stranded. They must contend with a snow storm and a marauding bear as well the Indians. After almost killing each other ice fishing they solve their problems by rigging up a sail on the wagon and sailing west.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
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Public Deb No. 1
1940-09-13
Public Deb No. 1
Overview: When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-13
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Maid of Salem
1937-02-12
Maid of Salem
Overview: When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-12
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Gold Rush Maisie
1940-07-26
Gold Rush Maisie
Overview: Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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Rings on Her Fingers
1942-03-20
Rings on Her Fingers
Overview: Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother and uncle of a pretty girl in order to separate millionaires from their money. They convince Susan she has an opportunity to fulfill all her dreams, and the trio heads for Palm Beach. Susan meets John Wheeler who says he is shopping for a sailboat. Believing that he is a millionaire, Warren and May sell him a boat that doesn't belong to them, and make off with his $15,000 life savings. Looking for greener pastures, they work themselves into the family of wealthy Tod Fenwick, who falls for Sue, posing as "Linda Worthington". But John shows up as a guest of Fenwick and he tells "Linda", not knowing she was part of the scam, that he has a detective after the fake captain that sold him the boat...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-20
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No Way Out
1950-08-16
No Way Out
Overview: Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-16
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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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Marie Antoinette
1938-08-26
Marie Antoinette
Overview: The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-26
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The Blue Veil
1951-10-26
The Blue Veil
Overview: A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-26
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Every Sunday
1936-11-28
Every Sunday
Overview: Edna's grandfather is a conductor of a small orchestra that gives concerts in the park every Sunday. Because of lack of audience the city officials want to cancel these concerts. To stop this from happening, Judy and Edna gather a crowd the following Sunday; and to keep its attention, they themselves perform with the orchestra. Edna sings an aria and Judy sings 'Americana'.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-28
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Arbor Day
1936-05-02
Arbor Day
Overview: Truant officers mistake 2 midgets for members of the gang.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-02
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