Barbara Pepper
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Barbara Pepper (born Marion B. Pepper; May 31, 1915 – July 18, 1969) was an American stage, television, radio, and film actress. She is best known as the first "Doris Ziffel" on the sitcom Green Acres. Pepper was born in New York City, the daughter of actor David Mitchell "Dave" Pepper, and his wife, Harrietta S. Pepper. At age 16 she started life in show business with Goldwyn Girls, a musical stock company where she met lifelong friend Lucille Ball. Pepper began making movies. Among her later film parts were small roles in My Fair Lady and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. She also performed radio parts. In 1943, she married actor Craig Reynolds (né Harold Hugh Enfield), and the couple later had two sons. After Reynolds died in 1949 in a California motorcycle accident, Pepper was left to raise their children alone. She never remarried. After gaining weight, her roles were mostly confined to small character parts on television, including several appearances on I Love Lucy, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Petticoat Junction, and The Jack Benny Program. She made four appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of Martha Dale, mother of the title character, in the 1957 episode "The Case of the Vagabond Vixen". A long-time friend of Lucille Ball, Barbara was considered for the role of Ethel Mertz on "I Love Lucy," but was passed over due to the fact that she was reportedly a drinker. William Frawley ("Fred Mertz") was, likewise, reportedly, a drinker and was already cast. It was felt that having two drinkers in the cast might eventually cause difficulties so they auditioned and found Vivian Vance to play Ethel instead. She may be best remembered as the first Doris Ziffel on Petticoat Junction in 1964, although her character's name on the "Genghis Keane" episode of Petticoat Junction was Ruth Ziffel. Her role as Doris Ziffel continued on Green Acres from 1965 to 1968, until heart ailments finally forced her to leave that weekly series. Veteran actress Fran Ryan replaced her on Green Acres, which would continue to run for another three years. Her final performance was in the 1969 film Hook, Line & Sinker, in which she played Jerry Lewis's secretary.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 31, 1915
Deathday: July 18, 1969
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Manpower
1941-08-09
Manpower
Overview: Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-09
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They Made Me a Criminal
1939-01-21
They Made Me a Criminal
Overview: A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-21
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The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
1938-12-15
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Overview: In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up helping her to combat an epidemic that rages through the mountain communities. The doctor she works for prefers traditional herbs to modern medicine.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-15
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The Music Man
1962-06-19
The Music Man
Overview: A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.
Genres: Comedy Family Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-19
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The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
1945-08-17
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
Overview: George Sanders stars in this engrossing melodrama about a very domineering sister who holds a tight grip on her brother -- especially when he shows signs of falling in love.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-17
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Inferno
1953-08-12
Inferno
Overview: When selfish and arrogant millionaire Donald Carson fractures his leg during a desert vacation, his wife, Geraldine, leaves with their friend Joseph Duncan to supposedly get help. However, the two of them are really lovers who are leaving Carson to die in the heat. Slowly, Carson realizes he is on his own and vows revenge on the traitorous couple. Having had a privileged life, Carson must now use his wits to stay alive.
Genres: Adventure Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-12
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Who's Minding the Store?
1963-11-28
Who's Minding the Store?
Overview: Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-28
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Show Boat
1936-05-17
Show Boat
Overview: Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Genres: Music Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-17
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The Rogues' Tavern
1936-06-04
The Rogues' Tavern
Overview: A mad killer is on the loose in a hotel on a dark, gloomy night.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-04
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Kiss Me, Stupid
1964-12-22
Kiss Me, Stupid
Overview: While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for overnight lodging and enlists a local waitress/call girl to pose as his wife in order to placate Dino's urges.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-22
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A Maid Made Mad
1943-03-19
A Maid Made Mad
Overview: Andy innocently becomes involved with a female customer; his wife jumps to the wrong conclusion and walks out on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-19
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Birth of the Blues
1941-11-07
Birth of the Blues
Overview: Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-07
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A Child Is Waiting
1963-02-13
A Child Is Waiting
Overview: Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, suspiciously regards Dr. Clark's stern training methods. She becomes emotionally involved with 12-year-old Reuben Widdicombe, who has been abandoned by his divorced parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-13
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Flight at Midnight
1939-08-28
Flight at Midnight
Overview: Spinner McGee, devil-may-care mail pilot volunteers his courage and skill for the task of raising $100,000 to save the small airport owned by Pop Hussey from being condemned.
Genres: Action Romance Music Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-28
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Framed
1940-02-23
Framed
Overview: A young newspaper reporter finds himself framed for murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-23
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Our Daily Bread
1934-10-02
Our Daily Bread
Overview: John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-02
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Murder, He Says
1945-06-23
Murder, He Says
Overview: Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie Fleagle, Pete begins to suspect that she and her two sons have murdered the surveyor. Pete then believes that Mamie is slowly poisoning wealthy Grandma Fleagle, who has put a vital clue to her fortune in a nonsensical embroidered sampler.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-23
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Girls in Chains
1943-05-17
Girls in Chains
Overview: A fired teacher finds work at a girls reform school and helps a detective on a case.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-17
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Forty Naughty Girls
1937-09-24
Forty Naughty Girls
Overview: Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.
Genres: Mystery Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-24
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The Singing Vagabond
1935-12-16
The Singing Vagabond
Overview: Tex rides to the rescue when badguys led by LaCrosse and Utah Joe kidnap Lettie.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-16
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1937-04-16
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Overview: The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-16
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Waterfront Lady
1935-10-04
Waterfront Lady
Overview: When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-04
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Hollywood Stadium Mystery
1938-02-21
Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Overview: A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-21
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Army Girl
1938-08-11
Army Girl
Overview: A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to modern changes, is killed.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-11
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The Sagebrush Troubadour
1935-12-02
The Sagebrush Troubadour
Overview: Before he was murdered Grandpa Martin found a gold mine. He failed to record it and now everyone is looking for Martin's old horse that can lead them to it. When under-cover Texas Ranger Autry arrives to investigate, he is accused of the murder and finds the Sheriff after him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-02
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What Becomes of the Children?
1936-12-04
What Becomes of the Children?
Overview: Get ready for a roller-coaster trip of emotion with this campy collection from the golden age of Hollywood! Originally intended to warn America's youth of the perils of drugs, sex, and alcohol, these outlandish and unintentionally hilarious tales have heartache, tragedy, crime, and even insanity, lurking around every corner!
Genres: Drama Crime Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-04
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The Girl Downstairs
1938-12-23
The Girl Downstairs
Overview: A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-23
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Taming the Wild
1936-02-14
Taming the Wild
Overview: Madcap society girl June Bolton has a talent for trouble. Trying to evade a subpoena in connection with one of her misadventures, she winds up in jail and has to be bailed out by the family attorney, Dick Clayton. But June is soon in trouble again, this time involved with a mob boss and a shady lady. Exasperated by his wealthy client's reckless escapades, Clayton determines to quit... until he realizes he has fallen in love with the little madcap.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-14
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Many Unhappy Returns
1937-10-14
Many Unhappy Returns
Overview: Ford Sterling is married to a very jealous wife, who has a hobby of collecting French dolls. In order to keep her appeased and unsuspecting. he buys her an expensive doll for her birthday. But before he can give it to her, he gets mixed up with the blonde at the cigar-store, the doll gets burned up, and his wife is also burned up about many things.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-14
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The Crooked Way
1949-04-22
The Crooked Way
Overview: A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-22
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The Big Game
1936-10-09
The Big Game
Overview: A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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Too Many Wives
1937-04-09
Too Many Wives
Overview: An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-09
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Sappy Pappy
1942-10-30
Sappy Pappy
Overview: Andy, the owner of a bicycle shop, gets involved with one of his customers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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Wide Open Faces
1938-04-18
Wide Open Faces
Overview: A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-18
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Wanted: Jane Turner
1936-12-04
Wanted: Jane Turner
Overview: Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-04
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Let 'em Have It
1935-05-15
Let 'em Have It
Overview: Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-15
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The Lady in the Morgue
1938-04-22
The Lady in the Morgue
Overview: A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-22
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The D.I.
1957-05-30
The D.I.
Overview: Gunnery Sergeant Jim Moore is one of the toughest Drill Instructors on Parris Island. But he's got a thorn in his side: Pvt. Owens, who always seems to foul up when the pressure's on. Convinced that "there's a man underneath that baby powder," Sgt. Moore drives Owens to the point of desertion. Making things worse, Capt. Anderson has given Moore three days to make the scared private into Marine material, "or I'll personally cut the lace off his panties and ship him out!" Adding to the pressure, Moore also juggles a budding romance with a shop girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-30
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M'Liss
1936-07-27
M'Liss
Overview: The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteacher.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-27
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One Thrilling Night
1942-06-05
One Thrilling Night
Overview: A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver under their bed.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-05
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The Fuller Brush Girl
1950-09-15
The Fuller Brush Girl
Overview: A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-15
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The Big Shot
1937-07-23
The Big Shot
Overview: A small-town veterinarian inherits $2 million from an uncle he barely knew. His attempts to help mankind don't go smoothly.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-23
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You Can't Buy Luck
1937-04-30
You Can't Buy Luck
Overview: When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-30
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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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So This Is Washington
1943-08-01
So This Is Washington
Overview: Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is a good substitute for rubber--Abner's homemade licorice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-01
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Aerial Gunner
1943-03-20
Aerial Gunner
Overview: Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-20
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South of Tahiti
1941-10-17
South of Tahiti
Overview: Three men survive a plane crashes on an uncharted Pacific island, south of Tahiti. One falls in love with the the daughter of the tribe's leader, heiress to the throne after the death of her brother, who is as savage as her pet leopard. The others try to devise a plan to rob the tribe's gold.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-17
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Mummy's Boys
1936-10-02
Mummy's Boys
Overview: Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-02
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Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
1944-04-01
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
Overview: High-school student Henry Aldrich hopes to improve his grades by finding a sweetheart for his unmarried teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-01
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A Star Is Born
1954-10-01
A Star Is Born
Overview: A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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Castle on the Hudson
1940-02-17
Castle on the Hudson
Overview: A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-17
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Three Sons o' Guns
1941-08-02
Three Sons o' Guns
Overview: Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-02
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Bachelor Mother
1939-06-30
Bachelor Mother
Overview: Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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The Women
1939-09-01
The Women
Overview: A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-01
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Of Mice and Men
1939-12-24
Of Mice and Men
Overview: An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-24
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Portia on Trial
1937-11-08
Portia on Trial
Overview: Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton). Ironically, Portia herself had once had a relationship with Earle Condon, but Earle's father, powerful publisher John Condon (Clarence Kolb), forced them apart. She has a pretty good idea of what is going on in Elizabeth's head, since she herself was on the verge of killing Earle Condon when his father ruthlessly took custody of her illegitimate son. As Portia toils and strains to free her client, she carries on a romance with Dan Foster (Walter Abel) -- the attorney for the prosecution. LA Law and The Practice have nothing on this one!
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-08
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Dark Meeting
1956-01-05
Dark Meeting
Overview: Billie hires an odd man as the new pin boy at her bowling alley, but quickly fires him because of his violent outbursts. Shortly thereafter, she finds out he's a murderer who escaped from prison, which makes his later, sudden, after hours appearance at the bowling alley feel more than a little threatening.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-05
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Winterset
1936-12-03
Winterset
Overview: A man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly executed.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-03
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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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The Snake Pit
1948-11-04
The Snake Pit
Overview: Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-04
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Unmasked
1950-01-30
Unmasked
Overview: The editor of a sleazy tabloid newspaper has been borrowing money from his lover, the wife of a rich theatrical producer, and promises to marry her when she gets a divorce. However, the husband refuses to grant her a divorce, and takes back all the money and jewelry he has given her. The editor sees her husband leaving her apartment and, seeing his opportunity, kills her, takes all his IOUs (and the jewelry) and frames the husband for the murder.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-30
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Foreign Correspondent
1940-08-16
Foreign Correspondent
Overview: American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-16
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Forced Landing
1935-12-02
Forced Landing
Overview: In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers are kidnappers who are trying to locate a hidden cache of loot. Unfortunately, something goes wrong during the trip and the pilots must land the plane in the Arizona desert during a terrible storm. There all of the passengers and crew find cramped accommodations in a lonely farmhouse where murder, mystery and mayhem occur.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-02
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The Westland Case
1937-10-30
The Westland Case
Overview: A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-30
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Trouble Chasers
1945-05-02
Trouble Chasers
Overview: A pair of gangsters are under the mistaken impression that three goofballs know the location of a valuable stolen necklace.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-02
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The Return of Frank James
1940-08-10
The Return of Frank James
Overview: Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-10
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The Bramble Bush
1960-02-24
The Bramble Bush
Overview: A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-24
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Auntie Mame
1958-12-04
Auntie Mame
Overview: Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-04
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Terror Trail
1946-11-21
Terror Trail
Overview: The Durango Kid (Charles Starrett) returns to Ret Butte intending to sell his cattle ranch. Saloon owner, Duke Catlett (Lane Chandler) is the secret owner of a sheep flock which graze on the cattle lands--leaving them useless for cattle. A range war looms between the cattlemen and sheepherders.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-21
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Carry Harry
1942-09-03
Carry Harry
Overview: After getting into a compromising situation with a woman and her angry boyfriend, Harry uses a fire escape to hide in a friend's apartment, but finds that he climbed into the woman's one by mistake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-03
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Blonde and Groom
1943-04-16
Blonde and Groom
Overview: Harry's buddy comes over with his fiance. Harry's wife calls on the phone, hears a woman's voice and gets the wrong idea.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-16
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Let's Face It
1943-08-04
Let's Face It
Overview: A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money. Three customers of the "fat farm" scheme to get back at their philandering husbands by hiring the soldier and two of his buddies as "escorts" for the weekend. Complications ensue when the husbands show up unexpectedly.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-04
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Three Sons
1939-10-13
Three Sons
Overview: A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-13
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Roman Scandals
1933-11-27
Roman Scandals
Overview: A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-27
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Ghost Buster
1952-03-07
Ghost Buster
Overview: Gil Lamb, window washer at the "Daily Record" has aspirations of becoming a reporter and marrying Carol Hughes, the city editor's secretary. When he hears of the disappearance of a town millionaire's nephew, he sets out, disguised as a nurse, for the millionaire's mansion to solve the case
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-07
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Music for Madame
1937-10-08
Music for Madame
Overview: An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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My Favorite Spy
1942-06-12
My Favorite Spy
Overview: The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-12
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My Blue Heaven
1950-09-15
My Blue Heaven
Overview: Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby. Finally they acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-15
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So This Is Love
1953-07-15
So This Is Love
Overview: Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-15
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The Eddie Cantor Story
1953-12-25
The Eddie Cantor Story
Overview: Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radio and movie comic.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-25
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Colorado Sunset
1939-07-30
Colorado Sunset
Overview: When his well-meaning sidekick (Smiley Burnette) buys a cow farm instead of a cattle ranch, singing cowpoke Gene Autry prepares to embrace the dairy business. But with a corrupt association bent on driving up milk prices, it's up to newly elected Sheriff Gene to clean up the mess. Country music icon Patsy Montana sings "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart," while radio crooners the Texas Rangers perform alongside Autry.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-30
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Frisco Waterfront
1935-12-03
Frisco Waterfront
Overview: As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his opponent. A flashback traces his career from unemployed veteran to dockworker to lawyer. A side thread traces his tortured relationship with his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-03
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Off the Record
1939-01-21
Off the Record
Overview: After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-21
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Once Upon a Time
1944-06-29
Once Upon a Time
Overview: Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Flynn meets a young boy who just might save the day. Inside a small box the boy shows Flynn his pride and joy: a caterpillar named Curly that dances to Yes Sir, That's My Baby. Word quickly spreads about the amazingly talented hoofer, and the caterpillar becomes a symbol of hope for wartime America. Soon, offers are pouring in to capitalize on this sensational insect.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-29
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Sailor's Lady
1940-07-05
Sailor's Lady
Overview: Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-05
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Sex Kittens Go to College
1960-08-24
Sex Kittens Go to College
Overview: Collins College needs a new department head for their science department, so Doctors Carter and Zorch consult Thinko, the campus computer, and come up with Dr. Mathilda West, who has degrees in lots of things, but turns out to be disruptively attractive as well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-24
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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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The Chaser
1938-07-29
The Chaser
Overview: A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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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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The Naughty Nineties
1945-06-20
The Naughty Nineties
Overview: In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-20
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Forgotten Girls
1940-03-15
Forgotten Girls
Overview: A disillusioned factory worker is charged with the attempted murder of her mother's lover.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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Strictly Dynamite
1934-05-11
Strictly Dynamite
Overview: A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-11
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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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It's Only Money
1962-11-20
It's Only Money
Overview: Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out a friend, he is drawn into a mystery involving a missing heir in a rich family. He begins to notice little things, like how much those family portraits look like him. Surely..no..he can't be...can he ?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-20
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