Robert Paige
Biography: Robert Paige (born John Arthur Page December 2, 1911 in Indianapolis, Indiana, died Dec 21,1987) was a TV star and Universal Pictures leading man who made 65 films in his lifetime and was the only actor ever allowed to sing on film with Deanna Durbin (in 1944's Can't Help Singing). He was a graduate of West Point and was related to Admiral David Beatty, hero of the World War I Battle of Jutland. Paige began his screen career in 1934. His handsome features and assured speaking voice earned him prominent roles in motion pictures, such as Cain and Mabel with Clark Gable and Marion Davies. In 1936, to avoid confusion with another rising leading man, John Payne, Paige briefly adopted the screen name "David Carlyle." He worked primarily for Warner Brothers and Republic Pictures during this period. In 1938 he signed a contract with Columbia Pictures, which changed his screen name to Robert Paige. Columbia cast him in "B" features and starred him in one serial, Flying G-Men. When the Columbia contract lapsed, Paige moved to Paramount Pictures and finally found a home in 1941 at Universal Pictures. Robert Paige quickly became one of Universal's reliable stars, playing romantic leads. He is prominent in many of Universal's comedies and musicals, including those of Abbott and Costello, Olsen and Johnson, Gloria Jean, and Hugh Herbert. He had a good singing voice and a flair for comedy, and the studio capitalized on these talents. Beginning in 1943 Universal gave Paige important roles in its biggest productions, but by then he was so established as a B-picture lead that he never quite graduated to mega-stardom. Paige, along with other contract players, left Universal after a corporate shakeup in 1946. He became an independent film producer in 1947 and entered the new field of television. He was the last permanent host of NBC's variety series The Colgate Comedy Hour, and won an Emmy in 1955 for "Best Male Personality" (a category that no longer exists). In the 1960s he became a TV newscaster in Los Angeles. Paige continued to work in occasional films through 1963; his last two films were The Marriage-Go-Round (1961) and Bye Bye Birdie (1963). From 1966 to 1970 Paige was a newscaster and political correspondent for ABC News in Los Angeles. He left the news desk to become Deputy Supervisor of Los Angeles under Baxter Ward, and then moved into the public relations field. He retired in the late 1970s. Robert Paige died suddenly of an aortic aneurysm in 1987.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 02, 1911
Deathday: December 21, 1987
Popularity:
Known For
Son of Dracula
1943-11-05
Son of Dracula
Overview: Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-05
Popularity:
Bye Bye Birdie
1963-04-04
Bye Bye Birdie
Overview: A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-04
Popularity:
Split Second
1953-05-02
Split Second
Overview: Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-02
Popularity:
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
1953-04-06
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
Overview: Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-06
Popularity:
Blonde Ice
1948-07-24
Blonde Ice
Overview: A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-24
Popularity:
The Flame
1947-11-24
The Flame
Overview: George McAllister, the black sheep of a wealthy family who has squandered his share of the family inheritance, lives in constant jealousy, hatred and resentment of his half-brother Barry, who has been supporting him. George gets his girlfriend, Carlotta Duval, a job as Barry's nurse, with the idea being to marry him, kill him, and inherit his money—and marrying George.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-24
Popularity:
Flying G-Men
1939-01-28
Flying G-Men
Overview: Four flying G-Men protect America against enemy spies; one of the four assumes the identity of The Black Falcon, to befuddle the saboteurs even further.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-28
Popularity:
Can't Help Singing
1944-12-25
Can't Help Singing
Overview: With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-25
Popularity:
Hellzapoppin'
1941-12-25
Hellzapoppin'
Overview: Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
Popularity:
San Antonio Rose
1941-06-20
San Antonio Rose
Overview: San Antonio Rose is an amiably wacky mini-musical evenly divided between its "official" stars, The Merry Macs, and a strong cast of supporting clowns. Robert Paige plays roadhouse operator Con Conway, whose establishment is in danger of being squeezed out by its competition. Stranded entertainers Hope Holloway (Jane Frazee) and Gabby Trent (Eve Arden) decide to revivify Conway's establishment by staging an energetic floor show built around the talented Merry Macs. A rival club owner dispatches his two top hooligans Jigsaw Kennedy (Lon Chaney Jr.) and Benny the Bounce (Shemp Howard) to wreck Conway's club by posing as waiters, but the two stupes are easily cowed into submission--by the leading ladies!
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-20
Popularity:
Smart Blonde
1937-01-02
Smart Blonde
Overview: Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-02
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
The Monster and the Girl
1941-02-28
The Monster and the Girl
Overview: After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-28
Popularity:
The Marriage-Go-Round
1961-01-06
The Marriage-Go-Round
Overview: An anthropology professor and his professor wife have the perfect marriage--until a Swedish colleague's daughter comes to visit. Not only is the little girl all grown up, but she's ready to start a family--with him!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-06
Popularity:
Jail House Blues
1942-02-01
Jail House Blues
Overview: A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-01
Popularity:
Golden Gloves
1940-08-02
Golden Gloves
Overview: An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-02
Popularity:
Shady Lady
1945-09-07
Shady Lady
Overview: A crook becomes the victim of a crafty card player who works for the District Attorney.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-07
Popularity:
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991-01-01
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Overview: A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
Popularity:
The Many Faces of Dracula
2000-01-01
The Many Faces of Dracula
Overview: Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula over the years.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
Popularity:
Rhythm in the Clouds
1937-06-21
Rhythm in the Clouds
Overview: Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-21
Popularity:
Who Killed Gail Preston?
1938-02-24
Who Killed Gail Preston?
Overview: A temperamental singer's murder leaves a nightclub full of suspects.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-24
Popularity:
Cain and Mabel
1936-09-26
Cain and Mabel
Overview: A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-26
Popularity:
Mister Big
1943-05-28
Mister Big
Overview: Students at the Davis School of the Theatre are assigned "Antigone" as their class play, but they conspire to do a swing musical instead.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-28
Popularity:
Tangier
1946-06-06
Tangier
Overview: In Tangier, disgraced American war correspondent Paul Kenyon, café dancer Rita and local entrepreneur Pepe join forces to battle a Nazi diamond smuggler.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-06
Popularity:
Meet the Boy Friend
1937-07-12
Meet the Boy Friend
Overview: A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as "America's Boyfriend" decides to wed a Swedish actress. His manager doesn't want this because he is afraid of Tony losing female fans so he takes up a 300 hundred thousand dollar insurance policy if Tony does in fact wed. Tony soon meets a girl name June Delaney on a bus who doesn't swoon over him like other girls. He falls for her but doesn't know her true identity.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-12
Popularity:
Fired Wife
1943-09-04
Fired Wife
Overview: A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-04
Popularity:
Dancing on a Dime
1940-11-01
Dancing on a Dime
Overview: Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross, Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe of promising young players rehearsing for a WPA show at the Garrick Theater in New York and are stunned when the government withdraws their funding on the day of the show's dress rehearsal. Destitute, the troupe plans to return home when Mac, the stage doorman, offers to allow four of the men, Phil, Dandy, Jack and Ted, to use the theater for a boardinghouse. After accepting Mac's offer, the men improvise bedrooms out of the set pieces and meet amateur actress Lorie Fenton from Cleveland, who is eager to audition for them. When the men learn she recently received a small inheritance, they allow her to audition, hoping she will back the show.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-01
Popularity:
Women Without Names
1940-03-14
Women Without Names
Overview: Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-14
Popularity:
How's About It
1943-01-01
How's About It
Overview: A song publisher gets sued for stealing lyrics.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
Popularity:
There's Always a Woman
1938-04-20
There's Always a Woman
Overview: An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-20
Popularity:
The Red Stallion
1947-08-16
The Red Stallion
Overview: Family film about an elderly rancher, her young grandson, and the horse that the child raises from a colt.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-16
Popularity:
I Stand Accused
1938-10-29
I Stand Accused
Overview: Fred, a young lawyer fresh out of school, climbs quickly to success as the mouthpiece for a gangland mob. His friend Paul, however, reaches equally quick success - in the district attorney's office. Inevitably, they meet on opposite sides of the courtroom.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-29
Popularity:
The Green Promise
1949-03-22
The Green Promise
Overview: A stubborn farmer is raising his children alone. When his oldest daughter gets a suitor, the father nearly goes on the rampage, but he is forced to change his tune when he is injured, leaving her in charge of the farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-22
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Melody for Two
1937-05-01
Melody for Two
Overview: A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-01
Popularity:
Homicide Bureau
1939-01-05
Homicide Bureau
Overview: After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-05
Popularity:
Her Primitive Man
1944-05-29
Her Primitive Man
Overview: An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-29
Popularity:
First Love
1939-11-10
First Love
Overview: In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's hardly received with open arms, especially by her snobby cousin Barbara. When the entire family is invited to a major social ball, Barbara sees to it that Connie is forced to stay home. With the aid of her uncle, who acts as her fairy godfather, Connie makes it to the ball and meets her Prince Charming in Ted Drake, her cousin's boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-10
Popularity:
Parole Fixer
1940-02-02
Parole Fixer
Overview: This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-02
Popularity:
The Lady Objects
1938-10-12
The Lady Objects
Overview: A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get his career as an architect off the ground. They separate, and the man begins making extra money by singing in a nightclub. When he is unjustly accused of murder, it is up to his estranged wife to defend him in court.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-12
Popularity:
The Cherokee Strip
1937-05-15
The Cherokee Strip
Overview: A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee.
Genres: Action Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-15
Popularity:
Frontier Badmen
1943-08-05
Frontier Badmen
Overview: A group of cowboys ending their cattle drive in Abilene find that cattle prices are being kept artificially low, driving down the price they'll get for their beef. They set out to change the situation.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-05
Popularity:
Once a Doctor
1937-01-23
Once a Doctor
Overview: Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both interns at Frank's hospital. Steven is the better doctor who takes blame for Jerry's mistakes.Steven has his license revoked when he is blamed for two deaths. Steven goes through years of hell trying to redeem himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-23
Popularity:
Emergency Squad
1940-01-05
Emergency Squad
Overview: Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-05
Popularity:
What's Cookin'?
1942-02-20
What's Cookin'?
Overview: J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-20
Popularity:
When G-Men Step In
1938-03-16
When G-Men Step In
Overview: Having paid for the education and legal training of his younger brother, Bruce, with the idea that he would become a lawyer and join his business, Frederick Garth, a racketeer posing as an honest businessman, is dismayed when he learns that Bruce has become a G-Man instead.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-16
Popularity:
Talent Scout
1937-07-24
Talent Scout
Overview: A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-24
Popularity:
The Last Warning
1938-12-07
The Last Warning
Overview: In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-07
Popularity:
Almost Married
1942-05-22
Almost Married
Overview: To avoid a costly breach of contract suit, a rich young man marries a nightclub singer.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-22
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Hi'ya, Chum
1943-02-25
Hi'ya, Chum
Overview: Entertainers get stranded in a small boomtown, and open up a restaurant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-25
Popularity:
Hi, Buddy
1943-02-26
Hi, Buddy
Overview: Dick Foran and Harriet Hilliard (aka Harriet Nelson) top the cast of the Universal musical quickie Hi, Buddy. Foran plays GI Dave O'Connor, who comes to the rescue when a boy's club is threatened with foreclosure. Upon learning that the money targetted for the club has been appropriated by a crooked manager, O'Connor calls upon his army buddies to stage a big, fundraising show.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-26
Popularity:
Pardon My Sarong
1942-08-07
Pardon My Sarong
Overview: A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-07
Popularity:
Get Going
1943-06-21
Get Going
Overview: Judy King, newly arrived in Washington, applies for a secretary job with a government agency and while being interviewed by Bob Carlton, an agent with the bureau, jokingly hints she may be a spy. While investigating her, he clears Judy and falls in love with her... and then uncovers a real Nazi spy ring.
Genres: Music Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-21
Popularity:
Highway Patrol
1938-06-27
Highway Patrol
Overview: Arrested for speeding by highway patrolman Bill Rolph (Robert Paige), J.W. Brady (Robert Middlemass), the president of an oil refinery, offers him the assignment to find the culprits who have wrecked his gas stations, hi-jacked his trucks and attempted to blow up his plant.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-27
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Keep 'Em Slugging
1943-03-01
Keep 'Em Slugging
Overview: A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-01
Popularity:
The Main Event
1938-06-22
The Main Event
Overview: FBI agent Mac Richards takes his girlfriend, Helen Phillips, to a world championship boxing match only to learn that the event has been canceled because the titleholder has been kidnapped. Mac is entrusted with the ransom money, but the kidnappers discover that his fellow agents have surrounded the train station locker where the money was to be dropped and order the champ's manager to have the money delivered by an usher to a different location. With Helen disguised as the usher and Mac driving a cab, the pair set off to deliver the money. The gang isn't taking any chances, though - they waylay the cab and take both the ransom money and Helen to their hideout. Now Mac and his fellow agents must rescue both the champ and his sweetheart before they come to harm.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-22
Popularity:
You're Telling Me
1942-05-03
You're Telling Me
Overview: Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less eccentric aunt Fannie Handley, who is married to one of the company owners. After mixing up the script pages to the various radio programs, Hubert sets out to get the name of a returning explorer on a contract for the radio station. Other than the title, this film has no connection at all to the 1934 W.C. Fields film of the same title even though some sources give the plot of the Fields' film as the plot of this film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-03
Popularity:
Cowboy in Manhattan
1943-05-21
Cowboy in Manhattan
Overview: Bob Allen, a struggling songwriter poses as a millionaire cowboy to win Broadway star Babs Lee.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-21
Popularity:
Crazy House
1943-10-08
Crazy House
Overview: Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-08
Popularity:
Opened by Mistake
1940-05-10
Opened by Mistake
Overview: A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-10
Popularity:
Death of a Champion
1939-08-24
Death of a Champion
Overview: Oliver Quade is a pitchman who follows state fairs that feature dog shows---which limits his territory more than a little---at which he sells encyclopedias...and does it well as he possesses a photographic memory that amazes the rubes. The Champion, in the title, is a Great Dane who has won the title at the Rubeville State Fair, and it isn't long before the Champion turns up dead, which is because somebody---motive unknown at the moment---has killed the Champion. This is repeated at other shows along the way and Quade's bright young assistant, "Small Fry", fancies himself as an amateur detective, and starts nosing around into the mystery and drags Quade along with him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-24
Popularity:
It Happened to Jane
1959-05-24
It Happened to Jane
Overview: Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the "meanest man in the world".
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-24
Popularity: