El Brendel
Also Known As: Elmer Goodfellow "El" Brendel, Elmer Goodfellow Brendel
Biography: El Brendel (born Elmer Goodfellow Brendel), nicknamed "The Synthetic Swede", was an American stage, film, and television actor. Although of German and Irish parentage, he adopted the comedic persona of a Swede who speaks fractured English.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: March 24, 1890
Age: 135 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 09, 1964
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-4
Overview: Songwriter Mack Gordon introduces flagpole sitter Shipwreck Kelly, who hoists some girls aloft with him and shows them sights around Hollywood.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-22
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Man of the Forest
Overview: Nancy Raynor (Georgia Hale) is arriving from the East to see her dying uncle. Clint Beasley (Oland) and his gang are determined to kidnap her before she reaches him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-27
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Wings
Overview: Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
Genres: Drama Action War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-12
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The Big Trail
Overview: Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth Cameron and plans his revenge on the harsh scoundrels who murdered a friend of his in the past.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-01
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The She-Creature
Overview: A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-01
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Happy Landing
Overview: Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-23
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Ten Modern Commandments
Overview: A chorus girl falls in love with a budding composer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-27
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Just Imagine
Overview: New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.
Genres: Comedy Music Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-23
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Sunny Side Up
Overview: Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-25
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God's Country and the Woman
Overview: Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and slowly learns the business and of his brother's dirty tricks.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-16
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Mr. Lemon Of Orange
Overview: A fast and uproarious farce of gunmen, gun molls, and the Swedish boy's night out.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-22
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Women of All Nations
Overview: Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go to Sweden and compete for the love of Else. Next they go to Nicaragua and help earthquake victims. Then to Egypt where Else is now in Prince Hassan's harem.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-31
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Delicious
Overview: A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-27
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Happy Days
Overview: Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep financial trouble, and she calls all the boats former stars to join in a big show to rescue it.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-16
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West of Broadway
Overview: A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry him, and weds an admitted gold-digger he's just met after a night of drinking and partying.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-28
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Machine Gun Mama
Overview: Two Americans stranded in Mexico with an elephant try to sell their animal to a traveling carnival. Low-budget comedy with songs and a misleading title.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-18
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The Spider
Overview: Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe’s clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant? After the police restrain the audience from leaving, Lowe uses his magical powers to help expose the killer. Watch for the terrific séance scene where weird ghost-like creatures float above the stage.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-23
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Gallant Sons
Overview: When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-15
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Ay Tank Ay Go
Overview: Boy loves girl, but she's on the other side in a hillbilly feud.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-04
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Paris Model
Overview: A new dress plays a key role in the lives of four women who are not acquainted with each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-10
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Hot Pepper
Overview: In this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and begin fighting over her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-15
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New Movietone Follies of 1930
Overview: Minimum plot. Maximum stars of early cinema. Rich young Conrad Sterling (William Collier Jr.) is in love with struggling actress Mary Mason (Miriam Seeger). To prove his love, he hires Mary and the entire company of the show in which she is appearing to entertain his weekend guests at his lavish mansion.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-04
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The Meanest Gal in Town
Overview: A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-12
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Little Miss Broadway
Overview: An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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Disorderly Conduct
Overview: When motorcycle cop Dick Fay gives a ticket to Phyllis Crawford, her father's graft-fed influence leads to his demotion to foot patrolman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-20
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Call a Messenger
Overview: A tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he takes a job as a messenger with the post office. He finds that he likes it, and when his brother is released from prison, attempts to help his brother go straight. However, the two of them get mixed up with a local gangster, who has plans to start robbing post office branches and using the messenger and his brother to do it.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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I'm from Arkansas
Overview: A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-31
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Defective Detectives
Overview: El and Harry are two office cleaners turned detectives who are assigned to chase a gangster, but they end up catching the husband and wife they are supposed to protect from him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-03
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Risky Business
Overview: Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-03
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You Never Know Women
Overview: On her way to the theater, Vera, star of a Russian vaudeville troupe, is rescued from a falling girder by Eugene Foster, a wealthy broker who persists in his efforts to win the girl. Foster engages the troupe to perform at his home, and Vera, stunned by a fall, awakens to find Foster pleading his love, while Norodin, her partner who loves her, sees them embrace. Norodin, who performs an underwater stunt, asks Vera not to be present for his act and causes her to believe him dead; heartbroken, Vera tells Foster of her mistake; and enraged, he attempts to seize her. The magician appears, pins Foster to the wall with knives, and advises him to leave before the last blade is thrown.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-20
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Hot for Paris
Overview: Rough sea dog John Patrick Duke has a weakness for women and strong drink. Little does he know that he won a million dollars on Longchamp with the horses. Earlier, he caused a riot in a French hotel. He therefore thinks he is being pursued when officials try to inform him of that cash prize. In the end, John and his friend Axel are forced to take the money. This allows them to have a party with their French friends. The film is believed to be lost.
Genres: Music Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-22
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My Lips Betray
Overview: In a make-believe, mittleuropean kingdom, a vivacious but dim country girl sings in a beer garden for her rent money. Meanwhile, the king is facing bankruptcy for his little nation, unless he marries a rich but undesirable queen of another comic opera principality. Eventually he takes in the struggling young singer, and they fall in love, despite possible ruin.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-04
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The Cock-Eyed World
Overview: Two Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-19
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The House of Fear
Overview: A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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Sweet Spirits of the Nighter
Overview: Officers Brendel and Kennedy are dispatched to a house where scientists are conducting experiments to revive the dead.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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Pick a Peck of Plumbers
Overview: After backing over a police motorcycle, Axel and Elmer are fined $100 and given 48 hours to come up with the money or go to jail. Knowing nothing about plumbing, they answer Mr. Skunkem's ad for plumber's assistants, and are sent to the Dinwitty estate to recover a diamond ring from a drain pipe. In due course they destroy the bathroom, and switch the gas and water lines, disrupting Mrs. Dinwitty's bridge party, Vanillia's dinner preparation, and the gardener's lawn watering.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-23
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Six Cylinder Love
Overview: Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for rides.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-10
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The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
Overview: Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. As this is usually the local judge's rear-end, Freddie and friend Conchita are soon hiding out teaching school in the middle of nowhere.
Genres: Comedy Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-27
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Captain Caution
Overview: When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-09
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Valley of the Giants
Overview: A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-17
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Code of the Streets
Overview: Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis, Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay is innocent.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-13
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The Stolen Jools
Overview: Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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Pistol Packin' Nitwits
Overview: Harry and his pal protect a pretty saloonkeeper from a gang of thugs.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-04
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Okay, José
Overview: A Salesman tries to locate a notorious Mexican bandit.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-07
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What, No Men?
Overview: A bill collector and a policeman are captured by a group of mad scientists and taken to an all-female Indian tribe for study.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-05
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Love at First Fright
Overview: A family of hillbillies mistake a radio announcer for their long-lost relative.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-25
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Career Woman
Overview: A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 courtroom drama stars Claire Trevor, Isabel Jewell, Michael Whalen, Gene Lockhart, Eric Linden, Charles Middleton, Edward Brophy, Kathleen Lockhart, Guinn Williams, El Brendel, Sterling Holloway, Ray Brown, Howard Hickman, Frank McGlynn Sr., Charles Waldron Sr., Spencer Charters and Eily Malyon.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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The Last Trail
Overview: Based on a Zane Grey story, The Last Trail stars virile cowboy hero George O'Brien in a largely anti-heroic role. Escaping from a posse, the "good bad man" (O'Brien) boards an Eastbound train, where he strikes up a friendship with a genial gangster (J. Carroll Naish). Later on, the cowboy returns to the West as a member of the gangster's gang. He poses as the heir to a vast cattle ranch, never dreaming that he really is the heir. When the truth is revealed, the wayward cowboy switches to the side of the Law, while another of the gangster's flunkeys (Claire Trevor) reveals herself to be an honest newspaperwoman -- and thus a suitable candidate for romance.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-25
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The Super Snooper
Overview: Two dimwitted detectives investigate the robbery of an express company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-25
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I Spied for You
Overview: Ole discovers Nazi spies planning to take over the ship he's working on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-30
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Yumpin' Yiminy!
Overview: El uknowingly becomes the assistant to a jewel thief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-07
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Ready, Willing but Unable
Overview: El accidentally hits a mannequin with his automobile; believing he's killed a man, he and Tom set out to dispose of the body.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-30
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The Blitz Kiss
Overview: Gardeners El and Tom find themselves drafted in the army and struggle to make good.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-01
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Olaf Laughs Last
Overview: El tries to save his girlfriend, disinterested in him, from a gang of kidnappers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-18
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Phoney Cronies
Overview: Three klutzy moving men end up in a museum that may or may not be haunted - slapstick hijinks ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-27
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Ham and Yeggs
Overview: A vamp pursues El, who's inherited $500,000.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-28
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His Wedding Scare
Overview: El and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her former husbands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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Boobs in the Night
Overview: Auxiliary home defense workers El and Monte are sent to a spooky house where they come across a mad scientist and his assistant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-25
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A Rookie's Cookie
Overview: El, a rookie cop, falls for a girl who is being hounded by a racketeer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-08
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Snooper Service
Overview: Harry and El, private sleuths, are hired to follow a beautiful showgirl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-03
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The Golden Calf
Overview: In this pygmalionesque musical, a drab secretary leads a boring life until a good friend intervenes. The friend begins a total make-over upon her friend. First she slathers her in mud-packs, and then she encases her in lovely silk dresses. Soon the plain woman is transformed into an extraordinary beauty. It is no surprise that her boss, not knowing her true identity, falls hopelessly in love with her. Singing, dancing and romancing ensues. Songs include: "A Picture No Artist Can Paint," "You Gotta Be Modernistic," "I'm Telling the World About You," "Maybe Someday," and "Can I Help It."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-16
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If I Had My Way
Overview: Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his buddies, her father, is killed. Buzz and Pat, along with their chum Axel Swensen, head to New York to look for the girl's uncle. The trio soon unexpectedly become owners of a tired restaurant.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-05
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Handle with Care
Overview: Bill Gordon (James Dunn), whose lot-in-life is rising, falls in love with Helen Barlow (Boots Mallory), who is raising two cute motherless children who nearly wreck her romance when they can't understand why grown-ups kiss...and other complications.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-25
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Frozen Justice
Overview: Drama set in Alaska
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-13
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Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
Overview: Several members of MGM's 'galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-01
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The Holy Terror
Overview: Corky is the daughter of an officer in the Naval Air Service who, while putting on musical shows for the troops, uncovers a group of spies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-05
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Too Many Crooks
Overview: Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Davis, Lloyd Hughes, George Bancroft, El Brendel, William V. Mong, John St. Polis, and Otto Matieson. It was released on April 2, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1927-04-02
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The Campus Flirt
Overview: A product of wealth and high society, Patricia Mansfield is sent to Colton College by her father, who hopes to eradicate her snobbish veneer. On the train, Pat meets Denis Adams, a prominent athlete who is working his way through school as coach of the girls' track team; he introduces her to track star Charlie Paddock. Through efforts to keep her associates in place, Pat sinks deeper into the mire of antagonism; her only friends are Harriet Porter and Knute Knudson, the Swedish janitor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-18
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Rolled Stockings
Overview: Though billed second, the stunningly beautiful Louise Brooks is the focal point of the campus comedy Rolled Stockings. It's the old one about two collegiate brothers, Jim and Ralph Treadway (James Hall, Richard Arlen), in love with the same girl, Carol Fleming (Brooks).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-18
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Arizona Bound
Overview: Dave Saulter, a rambling young cowboy drifts into a small western town the day a big gold shipment is leaving by stagecoach. Two different people plan to rob the stagecoach...Buck O'Hara, the driver who is very trusted, and a stranger, Texas Jack. Dave gets involved and is accused of being one of the robbers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-09
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Radio Scout
Overview: A radio station's janitor is sent to the Kentucky Hills to round-up some hillbilly talent. He poses as a hillbilly (from the Minnesota sector) to gain their confidence.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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