Romaine Callender
Also Known As: Alfred Romaine Callender, A. Romaine Callender
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sheffield, England, UK
Birthday: February 17, 1883
Deathday: February 05, 1976
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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You're Telling Me
Overview: Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less eccentric aunt Fannie Handley, who is married to one of the company owners. After mixing up the script pages to the various radio programs, Hubert sets out to get the name of a returning explorer on a contract for the radio station. Other than the title, this film has no connection at all to the 1934 W.C. Fields film of the same title even though some sources give the plot of the Fields' film as the plot of this film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-03
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Overview: A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-20
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36 Hours to Kill
Overview: Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-24
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And So They Were Married
Overview: A bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention of getting married again, they begin to fall for each other. Their children, however, are determined to see that the "romance" never gets off the ground and do everything they can to see that they are kept apart.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-10
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It Happened Tomorrow
Overview: A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-31
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Sharpshooters
Overview: Ace newsreel cameraman is working in a mythical European country when the king is assassinated. He gets his negatives out of the country and finds the young crown prince who is also in danger.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-18
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The Floor Below
Overview: Patricia O'Rourke, a good-natured prankster who works as a copy girl for the Sentinel , angers her co-worker Stubbs and is about to lose her job when the managing editor offers her one more chance. Her assignment is to explain the clue that links the Hope Mission, a derelict home run by millionaire Hunter Mason and his secretary, Monty Latham, with a series of local robberies. When Hunter discovers Patricia in his office, he assumes that she is a crook in need of reforming and takes her into his home to be cared for by his mother.....
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-10
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One Wild Night
Overview: Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-02
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Alibi for Murder
Overview: A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-23
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Wuthering Heights
Overview: The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy -- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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Victory
Overview: A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-21
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High Tension
Overview: Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-10
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Everybody's Baby
Overview: The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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It's a Date
Overview: An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-22
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Susan and God
Overview: A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-07
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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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Second Chorus
Overview: Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-03
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Lucky Legs
Overview: Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-01
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Honolulu Lu
Overview: While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-11
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
Overview: Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
Genres: War Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-28
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Life Begins with Love
Overview: A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He disguises himself and gets a job as a laborer at a day-care center. He finds himself attracted to the owner, a pretty young girl determined to make life better for her charges, and he soon begins to question his own priorities.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-06
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Flight from Destiny
Overview: After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-08
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Road to Utopia
Overview: While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-27
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If You Could Only Cook
Overview: An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-30
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The Lady and the Lug
Overview: In this comedic short, a reporter wins a boxer's contract and decides to stage an exhibition fight for a society ladies' Milk Fund benefit bazaar.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-22
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Appointment for Love
Overview: Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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Wild and Woolly
Overview: Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden anniversary. Not unexpectedly, things go astray when a bank robber hopes to cash in on the excitement, but fortunately his plans are thwarted by the towns newly elected sheriff (Brennan)...who's a reformed crook himself!
Genres: Comedy Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-19
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Mademoiselle Fifi
Overview: In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer holds the coach over, social standings are leveled and integrity and spirit are put to the test.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-28
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Kisses for Breakfast
Overview: A newlywed develops amnesia and can't remember his wife.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-05
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Pepper
Overview: Young Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to take her gang to Coney Island and prevents his daughter from marrying a phony aristocrat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-08
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45 Fathers
Overview: An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-26
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My Wife
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-18
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