Ethel Sykes
Also Known As: Ethyl Sykes
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kapowsin, Washington, USA
Birthday: June 12, 1906
Deathday: January 01, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Gents of Leisure
Overview: Chester and Vernon are a couple of loafers who find a dollar and treat themselves to a meal, unaware that the dollar has fallen out of their money pouch. They must eat and run, and the plot escalates to an all out train chase in the best slapstick fashion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-09
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Into Society and Out
Overview: This amusing and diverting comedy depicts the trials and tribulations of a French nobleman to win the hand of a rich American girl. He is about to succeed when Fate, in the form of two tramps, steps in and he has to abdicate in favor of the higher power.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-04
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Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
Overview: A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-01
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Uppercutlets
Overview: Walter Catlett wants to join a fight club.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-23
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The Brain Busters
Overview: Billy Gilbert and Vince Barnett moved over to the remnants of the Christie Brothers for a series of short subjects in which they played variations on Laurel & Hardy. Here, in this short subject, they get hired to run a used car lot and steal a car for James Morton.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-09
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The Florodora Girl
Overview: A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-31
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Give Me Your Heart
Overview: An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-17
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Blind Date
Overview: A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-20
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The Big Squeal
Overview: Andy Wilson (Andy Clyde), a millionaire pig farmer from Kansas, comes to Chicago (unless New York has a stock yard district)looking for his girl friend, Natalie (Dorothy Christy) who had left the Sunflower state as she did not care much for the company of pigs and/or pig handlers, although Andy wasn't rich when she left, else she would have most likely been a bit more tolerant. Andy runs into his old friend Jake (Billy Bevan), who has been married for about a year to another belle from Kansas, that Andy hasn't met.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-09
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It Happened One Night
Overview: A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-22
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Hitch Hike To Heaven
Overview: A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his family relationships at risk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-12
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Why Pay Rent?
Overview: Elmer fixes up a room for his just-married, freeloading brother-in-law and wife. When the newlyweds show up, Henry brings a surprise in the form of stepson Junior. The apartment is now too small, so Henry decides that they'll buy a lot and build a do-it-yourself home, a disaster in the making when Junior switches the house's part numbers. It doesn't help matters that Elmer, Henry and the wives are all incompetent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-04
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Lady Be Careful
Overview: Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that he can "thaw" icy beauty-contest winner Billie (Mary Carlisle). What follows is a series of misunderstandings, arguments and reconciliations, all wrapped up in a happy-ever-after conclusion.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-03
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Half-Baked Relations
Overview: A courtroom comedy! In this short we follow suspect Mr. Wilson (Clyde) as he explains the events leading to him hitting brother-in-law Homer Healy (Jack Shutta) with a monkey wrench. This was Andy Clyde's last short film for Educational Pictures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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Imitation of Life
Overview: A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-23
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Big Brown Eyes
Overview: Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-03
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