Kenneth Brown
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 20, 1932
Age: 93 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 17, 1997
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Cinderella Swings It
Overview: Scattergood Baines, Coldriver's most popular citizen, neighborly counselor and sly old fox, entices a Broadway producer to Coldriver to see the gay musical extravaganza Baines is staging for the benefit of the U.S.O. He is also promoting the singing career of his latest local protégé, Betty Palmer. There are a few problems but the Sage of Coldriver manages to keep pulling the right strings.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-22
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In the Navy
Overview: Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-30
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Overview: Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beaten up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. W. C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-10
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Spring Parade
Overview: In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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Sandy Is a Lady
Overview: Mary and Joe Phillips' attempts to improve their financial status are alternately aided and endangered by the antics of their two-year-old, Sandy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-21
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Man from Montana
Overview: A sheriff tries to prevent a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-05
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The Under-Pup
Overview: A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-31
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Spotlight Scandals
Overview: A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success eventually leads them to Broadway, but things start to go awry.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-24
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Melody Lane
Overview: In this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and fortune but find themselves in trouble when a radio sponsor finds himself accused of kidnapping a girl. Songs include: "Septimus Winner," "Peaceful Ends the Day," "Cherokee Charlie," "Let's Go to Calicabu," "Swing-a-Bye My Baby," "Changeable Heart," "If It's a Dream Don't Wake Me," "Since the Farmer in the Dell," "Caliacau," and "Listen to the Mockingbird."
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-09
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A Lady Takes a Chance
Overview: A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-19
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Johnny Doughboy
Overview: As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-31
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First Aid
Overview: This Pete Smith Specialty is a semihumorous look at basic first aid techniques for mishaps that often occur around the house. It was produced in cooperation with the Beverly Hills First Aid Unit of the American Red Cross Disaster Service. —David Glagovsky
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-02
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One Mysterious Night
Overview: After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-21
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36 Hours
Overview: When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-04
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