Tommy Ryan
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Department: Acting
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Earl of Puddlestone
Overview: When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decides to get back at them by making them believe that his family has "royal" connections.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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The Covered Trailer
Overview: The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil unwittingly sabotages their plans by telling insurance representative Wells that Joe is only forty-four, not forty-five, and is therefore ineligible to collect the annuity insurance that was to pay for the cruise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-10
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Tenth Avenue Kid
Overview: In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the location of the loot his father stashed during a robbery.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-22
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Prairie Moon
Overview: Gene takes care of three tough kids sent west from Chicago after their father died and left them a cattle ranch. They help him catch a bunch of rustlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-07
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Mickey the Kid
Overview: A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-03
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Should Husbands Work?
Overview: Joe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework. A Higgins Family comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-26
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Make a Wish
Overview: While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiancé Walter Mays refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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Top Banana
Overview: Jerry Biffle is the star of the Blendo Soap Program. He has been invited to participate in an autograph-signing party for his new book at an important department store. Jerry meets Sally Peters, one of the department store models, and makes her part of his TV troupe. As part of his campaign to court Sally, Jerry gets Cliff Lane, the tenor of his TV company, to sing to her over the phone. When Sally and Cliff meet, they fall in love, with Biffle ignorant of the complications.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-22
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Ball of Fire
Overview: A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-02
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My Wife's Relatives
Overview: It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the romance between Ellis' son Bill and Joe's daughter Jean. Refusing, Joe quits his job and sets up his own candy company. It's a money-losing enterprise until Joe's wife Lil loses her diamond ring in a batch of candy and offers a $5000 reward to anyone who can retrieve the ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-20
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Money To Burn
Overview: In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a whopping $50,000.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-31
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Grandpa Goes To Town
Overview: Joe and Lil Higgins invest their life savings in a frontier hotel. Upon arrival, the family discovers that the establishment is smack dab in the middle of a ghost town that hasn't seen a human face in years.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-13
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Street of Missing Men
Overview: An ex-con vows vengeance on the newspaper responsible for putting him behind bars, but has a change of heart when another racketeer threatens to bring the paper down..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-24
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That Brennan Girl
Overview: Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-23
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The Magnificent Rogue
Overview: A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-07
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Our Gang Follies of 1938
Overview: Alfalfa gives up being "King of the Crooners" to sing opera, but a nightmare of being under the thumb of an evil producer sends him back to his roots.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-18
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The Prince of Broadway
Overview: "The Prince of Broadway" George Burke, heavyweight boxing champion of the world, trains by drinking and dancing all night. After he is knocked out, his manager tears up his contract and tells him he is through. His sweetheart, actress Nancy Lee rescues him from the gutter and asks her admirer, Wade Turner to take him to his ranch to get back in shape. Wade, jealous of George, tells his foreman, Buck Marshall, to hinder George's comeback. Wade’s neighbor, former champ Jim Jeffries offers to help George get back into condition. Trying for the advantage Wade tells Nancy that George is not training, but when she goes out to the ranch, she uncovers the conspiracy. George regains the championship and wins Nancy's hand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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