Buster Phelps
Also Known As: Silas Vernon Phelps Jr.
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 05, 1926
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 10, 1983
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Three on a Match
Overview: Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-29
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Little Men
Overview: The former Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for homeless boys. One of the boys, Nat, invites Dan, a street kid, to come to the school, where the boys are all loved and well cared for. Dan is a young tough, but his heart is good, and when he is accused of theft at the school, Jo continues to believe in him and that the true thief will be found out.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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The Howards of Virginia
Overview: Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-19
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Now and Forever
Overview: Freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can't accept responsibility, but Toni yearns for a family and a settled life. Then the Days 'rediscover' Jerry's young daughter Pennie, who has been living with his rich deceased wife's family. Pennie appears to be just what Jerry needs to mend his swindling ways and lead a straight life. Then a corruptible influence enters his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-31
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Little Orphan Annie
Overview: Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted daughter, Annie. While he's out west working on another fortune, Annie finds an orphaned boy on the streets and helps him find a home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-04
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The World Gone Mad
Overview: A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-15
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A Fool's Advice
Overview: An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-20
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Too Many Parents
Overview: Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart writes himself letters his father should be writing. When his hoax is discovered, Philip attempts suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-19
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Broken Dreams
Overview: Medical intern Robert Morley is distraught after his wife dies in childbirth. He's resentful of his new son and wants nothing to do with him. He leaves the child with his aunt and uncle and heads off to Europe to pursue his medical studies. Morley returns to his hometown six years later, now a successful doctor and engaged to be married to a beautiful socialite. He also feels differently about the boy and attempts to gain custody from his aunt and uncle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-19
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Laughing at Life
Overview: Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-12
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One Man's Journey
Overview: Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but always something gets in the way: an epidemic, his children's needs, or the needs of his generally ungrateful patients. Only with the passing years does he come to find that his future isn't over and his past isn't quite the failure he believed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-31
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Sailor's Luck
Overview: U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San Francisco, but Jimmy becomes jealous and tells her off when he learns Sally has entered a marathon dance contest sponsored by a lecherous snake named Baron Portola. Along with several of his Navy pals, Jimmy goes to the ballroom the night of the dance marathon, to try to change Sally's mind and win her back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-17
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The Wagons Roll at Night
Overview: An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat. While acclimating to carnival life, Matt begins a romance with Nick's sister, Mary, causing tension between Matt and Nick. The latter must also juggle his stormy relationship with glamorous circus star Flo Lorraine.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-25
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Scandal for Sale
Overview: A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-01
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Strange Wives
Overview: When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-30
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Girl Loves Boy
Overview: Bob Conrad is the playboy son of town squire Charles Conrad. Much against his dad's wishes, Bob falls in love with Dorothy McCarthy, the daughter of penniless widow Mrs. McCarthy. At the insistence of his dad, Bob weds Sally Lace. Dorothy's broken heart is mended however, when it turns out that Sally's divorce from her previous husband was never finalized.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-27
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The Blue Bird
Overview: Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-15
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Libeled Lady
Overview: When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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Mickey's Eleven
Overview: Mickey and the gang play a game of football against Stinky Davis.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-07
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I Live My Life
Overview: A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-04
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The Hot Spot
Overview: In order to capture a murderer, a reporter has his obnoxious brother-in-law confess to the crime.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-14
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Big Town Czar
Overview: When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-03
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Left Over Ladies
Overview: Two married couples are involved in divorce proceedings; Patricia and Ronny, who are still in love with each other, and Jerry and Amy who couldn't care less for each other. Patricia's friendship with "Duchess," a tragic, aging lady well versed in making mistakes, leads her and Ronny to the avoidance of a mistake.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-30
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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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Night Flight
Overview: Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-06
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Tomorrow Is Forever
Overview: In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-20
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Anna Karenina
Overview: In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-30
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