June Collyer
Also Known As: June Erwin, Dorothea Heermance
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: August 19, 1906
Age: 118 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: March 16, 1968
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Main Street to Broadway
Overview: In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-12
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Murder by Television
Overview: James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send agents to acquire the invention any way they can. On the night of his initial broadcast Houghland is mysteriously murdered in the middle of his demonstration and it falls to Police Chief Nelson to determine who the murderer is from the many suspects present.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-01
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The Love Doctor
Overview: Gerald Sumner, a young physician and confirmed bachelor, opens his office and finds that he is without patients until a fond mother brings him her son, Bud Woodbridge, whose malady Sumner diagnoses as "love sickness."
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-06
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Hollywood Handicap
Overview: A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They raise money to run the horse in the Hollywood Derby at Santa Anita race track. Many Hollywood personalities attend the event.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-28
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The Three Sisters
Overview: A 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Paul Sloane and starring Louise Dresser, Tom Patricola and Kenneth MacKenna. It was distributed by Fox Film Corporation five years before they would become Twentieth Century Fox. It is unknown whether a print of the film still exists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-20
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Hangman's House
Overview: Forced by her mean-spirited father, Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien, to marry a man she doesn't love, Connaught O'Brien gives up hope of ever with her true love, Dermot McDermot. After her father dies and a hunted rebel leader returns to town, however, Connaught finds a renewed hope that the tides of oppression will shift and she might again find happiness. This silent romantic drama, set in Ireland, is the first film in which a then-unknown John Wayne is clearly visible.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-13
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The Ghost Walks
Overview: A ghostly and deadly dinner party, which at first turns out to be an elaborate staging of a new play for the benefit of a Broadway producer, becomes a true mystery when the players start to go missing.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-01
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Lost in the Stratosphere
Overview: Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries. But when one of the pilots loses a girl he really cared for, he cannot forgive his friend. Soon afterwards, they must work together on their most dangerous mission yet.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-14
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East Side, West Side
Overview: Director Allan Dwan’s excellent use of New York locations enlivens a rags-to-riches tale that fully exploits star George O’Brien’s championship boxing prowess.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-09
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Extravagance
Overview: Alice Kendall is the darling of her social set, the sons and daughters of millionaires, although Alice's mother has impoverished herself to provide Alice with the luxuries she expects as her right. Mom blows what's left of her fortune to provide the best trousseau that money can buy when Alice marries Fred Garlan, and then wishes Fred lots of luck. Now, Alice is trying to coax Fred into buying her a new sable coat while Fred is busily trying to borrow enough money to keep his business afloat.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-09
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Honeymoon Lane
Overview: Based on Dowling's 1925 stage vehicle of the same name, the story is set in motion when the king of the mythical European nation of Bulgravia visits an American health resort. Hero Tim Dugan appoints himself the king's unofficial protector, saving him from the larcenous designs of crooked gambler Arnold Bookstein.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-25
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Charley's Aunt
Overview: A student is pressured into pretending to be a classmate's Aunt so he can act as a false chaperone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-25
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Before Midnight
Overview: A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-18
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A Face in the Fog
Overview: A mysterious killer known as The Fiend uses an unusual bullet as his trademark for his murders.
Genres: Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-01
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Alexander Hamilton
Overview: The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-12
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Cheaters
Overview: A criminal gang is after a rich man's money. A female member of the gang gets the bright idea of getting him to marry her, then getting a healthy settlement after a quick divorce.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-11
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Kiss Me Again
Overview: An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that marriage would be a mistake. The officer goes off to war and she becomes an opera star.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-07
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Sweet Kitty Bellairs
Overview: Kitty Bellairs, a flirtatious young woman of 18th Century England, cuts a swath of broken hearts and romantic conquests as she visits a resort with her sister.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-05
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The Drums of Jeopardy
Overview: A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-01
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Four Sons
Overview: A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-13
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The River of Romance
Overview: Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses a duel. As this is the only way in the South to settle a dispute between gentlemen, Tom's father is so infuriated by his behavior that Tom has no other choice but leave. Away from Magnolia Landing, Tom learns bravery and returns seven years later as "the notorious Colonel Blake", the terror of the Lower Mississippi.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-28
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Illusion
Overview: A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated with socialite Hilda Schmittlap. Meanwhile his vaudeville partner, Claire, has chosen a new partner, but her "heart isn't in it" because she is disconsolate over Carlee. Curious about her new act, Carlee attends a performance and sees Claire nearly killed when she fails to substitute fake bullets for real ones. Rushing to her aid, Carlee realizes how much Claire means to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-21
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The Brat
Overview: A society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon her behavior has forever altered their snobbish ways.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-23
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Not Quite Decent
Overview: On her way to New York for her first stage appearance, Linda Cunningham meets Mame Jarrow, a nightclub singer; Linda later drops by to hear Mame sing, accompanied by their angel, Paul Nicholson, a wealthy roué. Mame gradually comes to realize that Linda is her own daughter, from whom she was separated years before by pious relatives. Using all her wiles, Mame attempts to keep Linda from falling prey to Nicholson, and when all else fails, she sends for Jerry Connor, Linda's small town sweetheart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-02
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Dude Ranch
Overview: Chester Carr, owner of a dude ranch in the Rockies, caters to guests seeking the thrill of the Wild West. Among his guests are the wealthy Spruce Meadows and his daughter Susan. But the West isn't wild anymore and most of Carr's guests are bored and about to leave. He is in despair when a caravan carrying a broke-down-and-out troupe of actors---Jennifer, Judd, Mrs. Merridew and her daughter, Alice---crashes down the hill and wrecks the hotel sign.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-16
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A Man from Wyoming
Overview: A story about a man from Wyoming who enlists in the Army and is sent to the front during World War I. There he saves the life of an American society girl working in the Ambulance Corps. Afterwards at a rest camp, they meet again, fall in love, and are secretly married.
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-12
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Broadway Nights
Overview: Fannie joins Johnny to perform a music-hall act which becomes a success, until two Broadway producers catch the act and offer Fannie a job on their latest show; however, they have no place for Johnny, so Fannie turns down the offer. (Film considered lost.)
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-15
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Me, Gangster
Overview: Told in the form of a diary, the story details the rise and fall of gangster boss Jimmy Williams.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-20
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Damaged Love
Overview: Determined to land Jim as her husband, footloose Nita contrives to get herself pregnant by him. This film is lost.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1931-01-24
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Woman Wise
Overview: In Jedda, Persia, American consul George Gage, known as a woman hater, is shocked when his newly arrived assistant, "Billie Baxter," whom he assumes will be a man, turns out to be an attractive woman. Despite his formerly anti-female leanings, George finds himself falling in love with Billie and is jealous when his womanizing friend, Brad Wilson, arrives in Jedda and makes a play for her. At the same time, when the ruling Pasha, Abdul Mustapha, meets Billie, he also becomes smitten and tries to have her brought to his harem. Despite their rivalry, George and Brad join forces and save Billie from the Pasha, after which she decides that George is the man she loves and wants to marry. Considered a lost film.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-08
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Jackie Knows All
Overview: A story about love, real estate, and mind reading.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-07
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Revenge at Monte Carlo
Overview: Following President Alarcon's ouster from rule in the mythical republic of Luvania, a group of aristocrats plot in Monte Carlo for Alarcon's return and sign a manifesto pedging their fortunes to that cause. After Francisco Hernandez's father and brother are arrested as conspirators, secret intelligence chief Mendez offers Hernandez the chance to save their lives if he secures the manifesto in Monte Carlo.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-25
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Sunday Night at the Trocadero
Overview: A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-02
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