Matty Roubert
Biography: Matthew Roubert was born in New York in 1907 was a child star from about 1910-1921, and his father William L. Roubert was involved with "Little Matty Roubert" and his silent screen adventures. Matty's earliest film appearances were at Vitagraph and Biograph.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 22, 1907
Deathday: May 17, 1973
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The Skeleton
1912-10-23
The Skeleton
Overview: Naughty children steal an anatomy-class papier-mâché skeleton and use it to play pranks on people around town.
Genres: Comedy Family Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-23
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John Barleycorn
1914-01-01
John Barleycorn
Overview: Based on the autobiographical novel of the same name. Jack London has struggled with alcoholism most of his life. At age five he was instructed to bring a pail of beer to his father and drank some to prevent it spilling over, getting drunk for the first time. As an adult, he goes through cycles of abstinence only to return to hard drinking.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-01
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Slaves in Bondage
1937-07-24
Slaves in Bondage
Overview: Mary Lou manages to escape abduction by a prostitution ring. She tells the Chief of Detectives they were planning to take her to the Berrywood road house, a well-known den of iniquity. Jim Murray and beautician Belle Harris are using her beauty shop to recruit floozies for their road house circuit. Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon, is falling in love with young reporter wanna-be Phillip, but Murray gets jealous and makes life rough for him. Meanwhile Dona begins to figure out the racket, but becomes threatened by Murray's unwanted advances.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-24
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The Freshet
1911-11-28
The Freshet
Overview: Tom Ennis, a stalwart, sturdy fellow, is apprenticed to John Matthews, the village blacksmith, whose daughter is a likable girl. Tom falls in love with her, but her father opposes him and Meg marries one who is her father's choice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-28
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I Love a Mystery
1945-01-25
I Love a Mystery
Overview: In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the aim to kill him.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-25
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Shine On Harvest Moon
1938-12-30
Shine On Harvest Moon
Overview: A rustler's son (Roy Rogers) courts a rancher's daughter (Mary Hart) during a range war.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1938-12-30
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While New York Sleeps
1938-12-16
While New York Sleeps
Overview: Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-16
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Close Harmony
1929-04-12
Close Harmony
Overview: Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes interested in Al West, a warehouse clerk who has put together an unusual jazz band, and uses her influence to get him a place on one of the programs. Max Mindel, the house manager, has a yen for Marjorie and, discovering that she is in love with Al, gives the band notice and hires harmony singers Barney & Bey as a replacement. Marjorie makes up to both men and soon breaks up the team. Al learns of her scheme, however, and makes her confess to the singers. Barney and Bey make up, and Max gives Al and his band one more chance. Al is a sensation, and Max offers him a contract for $1,000 a week.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-12
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Saga of Death Valley
1939-11-17
Saga of Death Valley
Overview: When Tasker kills Roy Rogers he takes one of his young sons. Fifteen years later the other son Roy arrives buying a ranch in the valley where Tasker now controls the water supply. Roy organizes the ranchers for a showdown with Tasker not knowing that his brother is Tasker's chief henchman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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Broadway Hostess
1935-12-07
Broadway Hostess
Overview: Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-07
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Up Pops the Devil
1931-05-19
Up Pops the Devil
Overview: The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In order to support the family, the wife is forced to take a job as a dancer in a Broadway show. As the marriage begins to fall apart, complications ensue when she discovers that she's pregnant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-19
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The Oregon Trail
1939-07-04
The Oregon Trail
Overview: Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan has sent his henchmen, under lead-henchman Bull Bragg, to stop the wagon trains in order to maintain control of the fur trade in the area.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-04
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Frontier Pony Express
1939-04-11
Frontier Pony Express
Overview: In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St. Joseph, he plans to send forged messages to the troops on the west coast via Pony Express. First he attempts to bribe Pony Express ride Roy Rogers. When Roy refuses he turns to the outlaw Johnson and his gang and this leads to trouble.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-11
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Calling Dr. Kildare
1939-04-28
Calling Dr. Kildare
Overview: Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-28
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Vanity Street
1932-10-14
Vanity Street
Overview: A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-14
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The Marshal Of Mesa City
1939-11-03
The Marshal Of Mesa City
Overview: A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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It Happened One Night
1934-02-22
It Happened One Night
Overview: A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-22
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Hollywood Boulevard
1936-08-20
Hollywood Boulevard
Overview: With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-20
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Little Billy's Triumph
1914-01-28
Little Billy's Triumph
Overview: Little Billy wants to buy some ice cream with the dime his mother gave him, but the neighborhood bullies have other plans for that dime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-28
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The Golden Rod
1912-10-16
The Golden Rod
Overview: 1912 silent film directed by Harry C. Mathews
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-16
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Baby Sherlock
1912-07-24
Baby Sherlock
Overview: John Dobbs, an aged farmer, comes to the village with his family, and while there makes the sale of a cow for a good sum.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-24
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Tom Brown of Culver
1932-06-30
Tom Brown of Culver
Overview: Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-30
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Under Texas Skies
1940-09-29
Under Texas Skies
Overview: The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been murdered by person or persons unknown. The new sheriff (Henry Brandon) resents the arrival of the Mesquiteers, going so far as to frame Tucson on a murder charge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-29
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Adventures of Red Ryder
1940-06-28
Adventures of Red Ryder
Overview: Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
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It's in the Air
1935-10-10
It's in the Air
Overview: Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-10
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My Favorite Wife
1940-05-17
My Favorite Wife
Overview: Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on an island with another man.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-17
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Cafe Hostess
1940-01-11
Cafe Hostess
Overview: A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-11
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Shall We Dance
1937-05-07
Shall We Dance
Overview: Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-07
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Circus Day
1920-05-11
Circus Day
Overview: A young boy loves the circus and attempts to make his own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-11
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Frontier Vengeance
1940-10-10
Frontier Vengeance
Overview: Jim Sanders (Don 'Red' Barry), young cowboy, returns to his hometown for a reunion with his boyhood friend Clay Blackburn (George Offerman Jr.). Once there he learns that Clay's father, Frank Blackburn (Ivan Miller), is the unscrupulous proprietor of a stagecoach line and is out to bankrupt the line run by Joel Hunter (Griff Barnett' ), the father of Jim's sweetheart Ruth Hunter (Betty Moran). Jim is forced to lead the fight against his best friend.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-10
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Law of the Lash
1947-02-28
Law of the Lash
Overview: When Decker's gang holds up a stage, henchman Lefty takes a lady's rings. Later lefty accidentally exposes the rings buying ammunition and Cheyenne sees them. When Lefty tries to shoot Cheyenne he is captured. Now Cheyenne wants the rest of the gang and their leader.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-28
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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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Texas
1941-10-09
Texas
Overview: Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-09
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Angel's Holiday
1937-06-07
Angel's Holiday
Overview: Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-07
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The Death Kiss
1932-12-05
The Death Kiss
Overview: When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-05
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Baby Face
1933-07-13
Baby Face
Overview: A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-13
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The Garden Murder Case
1936-02-21
The Garden Murder Case
Overview: Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major Fenwicke-Ralston.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-21
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Mad Love
1935-07-12
Mad Love
Overview: An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-12
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Challenge of the Range
1949-04-02
Challenge of the Range
Overview: Charles Starrett once more dons the mask of mysterious do-gooder "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Challenge of the Range. Wandering cowboy Steve Roper (Starrett) is hired by the Farmers Association to stem the activities of a group of gunmen who are driving ranchers off their land. The most likely suspect turns out to be innocent: the real culprits are within the Association itself. With the help of the chief suspect's son, Roper brings the crooks to justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-02
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By Whose Hand?
1932-07-06
By Whose Hand?
Overview: On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It’s up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the motley group of passengers and find the killer before he strikes again in this tense and atmospheric whodunit.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-06
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Divot Diggers
1936-02-08
Divot Diggers
Overview: When the caddies at the local golf course go on strike, the gang steps in to earn some money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-08
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Wild West
1946-12-01
Wild West
Overview: Eddie and his sidekicks have been called in to help get a new telegraph line through. Dawson and his men along with his stooge Judge are out to stop them. When Eddie and the boys catch three of Dawson's men destroying telegraph equipment, the Judge releases them and this leads to the showdown between the two sides.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-01
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