Ernest Cossart
Also Known As: Emil Gottfried von Holst
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: September 24, 1876
Age: 148 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 21, 1951
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The Jolson Story
Overview: At the turn of the 20th century, young Asa Yoelson decides to go against the wishes of his cantor father and pursue a career in show business. Gradually working his way up through the vaudeville ranks, Asa — now calling himself Al Jolson — joins a blackface minstrel troupe and soon builds a reputation as a consummate performer. But as his career grows in size, so does his ego, resulting in battles in business as well as in his personal life.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-10
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Tower of London
Overview: In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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The Great Ziegfeld
Overview: At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever-bigger, more spectacular shows
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-08
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The Scoundrel
Overview: A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-30
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Tonight and Every Night
Overview: An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-09
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Tom Brown's School Days
Overview: When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy's preparatory school in England, he puts into place a policy of strict punishment for unruliness and bulying. Arnold finds an ally in Tom Brown (Jimmy Lydon), a new student who is subjected to hazing and abuse by a group of older boys and is pressured by his friends to keep quiet about it. Fed up, he leads his fellow classmates in an underground rebellion against their tormentors. But certain unspoken rules still apply at the school and Brown loses his hero status when he is accussed of breaking the Rugby code of silence.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-26
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Angel
Overview: While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-29
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Overview: Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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Cluny Brown
Overview: Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-02
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Love from a Stranger
Overview: Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-15
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Kings Row
Overview: Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-02
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Skylark
Overview: As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at the moment when she is trying to decide what to do, she meets a handsome attorney, and their innocent flirtation begins to turn into something a bit more serious.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-21
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Desire
Overview: Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-11
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A Bill of Divorcement
Overview: Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-31
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Love Letters
Overview: When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. The writer of the letters fell in love with the woman he wrote to and wants to become her second husband even if she did murder husband number one. Singleton doesn't remember the murder or anything about the first 22 years of her life as Victoria Remington. Then at her second wedding she wonders why she said "I take you, Roger," instead of "I take you, Allen."
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-26
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Never Say Die
Overview: Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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The Magnificent Fraud
Overview: A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-19
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My American Wife
Overview: Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian fighter Lafe Cantillon (Fred Stone). Lafe's social-climbing sister-in-law (Billie Burke) insists that her daughter Mary wed a titled European, Count Ferdinand (Francis Lederer). Much to Lafe's delight, Mary isn't assimilated into Continental high society; instead, she instructs Count Ferdinand in the virtues of good, old-fashioned American democracy. And, of, course, the Count and Lafe become great chums when the "furriner" proves that he can ride a bucking bronco with the best of 'em.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-06
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Murder with Pictures
Overview: Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-24
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The Light That Failed
Overview: A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-24
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Two for Tonight
Overview: A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-12
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Zaza
Overview: A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-29
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Knickerbocker Holiday
Overview: The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn) arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyvesant is hardly the fun-loving type, and one of his first official acts is to call for the death of Brom Broeck (Nelson Eddy), a newspaper publisher well-known for his fearless exposes of police and government corruption. However, Broeck hasn't done anything that would justify the death penalty, so Stuyvesant waits (without much patience) for Broeck to step out of line. Broeck is romancing a beautiful woman named Tina Tienhoven (Constance Dowling), whose sister Ulda (Shelley Winters) happens to be dating his best friend, Ten Pin (Johnnie "Scat" Davis). After Stuyvesant's men toss Broeck in jail on a trumped-up charge, Stuyvesant sets his sights on winning Tina's affections.
Genres: Music Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-17
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Kitty Foyle
Overview: A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-27
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Letter of Introduction
Overview: An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-05
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Palm Springs
Overview: A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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The Lady Fights Back
Overview: Engineer Owen Merrill travels to the Pacific Northwest where he plans to build a dam. He stays at the Salmon Club, run by attractive Heather McHale. When Heather learns Owen's purpose, she explains that the club has a government lease on the river in order to preserve the area's good salmon fishing. Owen argues that the dam will create jobs, but Heather deplores the loss of beauty....
Genres: Action Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-01
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John Loves Mary
Overview: After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he's missed her. And that he's married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-04
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Lady of the Tropics
Overview: Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-11
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Three Smart Girls
Overview: The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-20
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Carnival Queen
Overview: A young woman not only inherits her late father's estate, she also gets control of a carnival on the edge of bankruptcy in this comedy. Intrigued by carnival life, the woman disguises herself and joins up. She hopes to see how she might save it. She has many adventures and even becomes a magician's assistant.
Genres: Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-02
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Champagne Waltz
Overview: In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitten by Elsa, Buzzy hides his identity and association with the club -- whose owner intends to buy out the Palace property. When Elsa accidentally learns who Buzzy really is, it appears he may have to return to America alone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-05
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Top of the Town
Overview: In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-17
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Accent on Youth
Overview: A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-23
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The Girl of the Limberlost
Overview: Elnora Comstock lives on the edge of a great swamp and collects butterflies to sell in order to go to high school and pay for violin lessons. Her mother, Kate Comstock, hates her as she blames the girl for the father's death as he drowned in a quagmire on the way home the night the girl was born. The years-late revelation that the husband had been off courting a neighbor woman that night brings an attitude adjustment to the mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-11
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It's Your America
Overview: This short--long rumored to have been directed by John Ford--was produced by the US government specifically for veterans returning home from World War II, showing them what their responsibilities as citizens were now that they were returning to civilian life.
Genres: Drama War Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-25
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Charley's Aunt
Overview: In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-01
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As Good as Married
Overview: When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-09
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One Foot in Heaven
Overview: Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-01
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