A.S. Byron
Also Known As: Pop, A.S. "Pop" Byron
Biography: A.S. 'Pop' Byron was born on January 30, 1876 in Barnesville, Ohio, USA as Aquilla Stewart Byron. He was an actor, known for Devil on Deck (1932), Lady and Gent (1932) and Two for Tonight (1935). He was married to Kathryn Keys. He died on February 5, 1943 in Hollywood, California, USA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ohio, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 30, 1876
Age: 149 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 05, 1943
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
Overview: Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-24
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Young People
Overview: Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-30
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The Arkansas Traveler
Overview: The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, a newspaper started by Mr. Allen, an old friend who is now deceased.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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If I Had a Million
Overview: An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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Two-Fisted
Overview: A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is now out of the sport and has a drinking problem. They decide to train him for a big match, and in the process find themselves involved in romance, shady characters and a possible kidnapping.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-03
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The Best Man Wins
Overview: A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-14
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Two for Tonight
Overview: A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-12
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Devil on Deck
Overview: John Moore, a young sea captain has a romance with Kay Wheeler, daughter of a trusted trader, "Pop" Wheeler, on a Pacific island. He also acquire the enmity of "Shanghai" Morgan, a notorious sea captain who shanghais his crew and his women.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-01
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Love and Hisses
Overview: As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-21
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Wells Fargo
Overview: In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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Walking on Air
Overview: A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-11
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Men Without Names
Overview: A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-29
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You Said a Mouthful
Overview: Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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Broadway Serenade
Overview: A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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Menace
Overview: A psychotic man stalks three innocent people whom he believes are responsible for his brother's death.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-22
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Union Pacific
Overview: One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-05
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Second Fiddle
Overview: Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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Bride of Frankenstein
Overview: Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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She Married Her Boss
Overview: A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-19
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Opened by Mistake
Overview: A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-10
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Golden Gloves
Overview: An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-02
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The Crime of Helen Stanley
Overview: An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-20
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Time Out for Romance
Overview: A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-10
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Emergency Squad
Overview: Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-05
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Overview: A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-09
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The Return of Frank James
Overview: Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-10
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Love Is News
Overview: When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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Lillian Russell
Overview: Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-24
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The Merry Widow
Overview: A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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Life Begins
Overview: A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-10
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The Countess of Monte Cristo
Overview: A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow extra takes on the role of her servant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-18
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The Big Shot
Overview: A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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The Crash
Overview: Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-09
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The Penguin Pool Murder
Overview: New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-09
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Central Park
Overview: Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-10
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She Married Her Boss
Overview: A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-19
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Wives Never Know
Overview: The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J. Hugh Ramsay, author of the bestselling book, "Marriage—The Living Death".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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Hideaway Girl
Overview: An unfortunate marriage and a bogus Count are the ingredients for this musical.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-20
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