Ernest Wood
Also Known As: Ernest D. Wood
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Atchison, Kansas, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 17, 1887
Age: 138 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 13, 1942
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Dining Out
Overview: Comedy about a man who, reluctantly, spends an evening with his wife at home rather then going out drinking with his friend. When that friend later mistakes the wife for the girl he's been carousing with, it all gets a bit messy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-14
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Not Damaged
Overview: A fortune teller informs a hopeless romantic that she'll be meeting a mysterious, tall, dark stranger. Initially skeptical, the young lady latterly concedes when the soothsayer's premonitions begin to ring true.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-25
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Take Me Home
Overview: Chorus girl Peggy Lane, finds a small part in a new show for David North, a stages-truck country boy. At rehearsal, David meets Delerys Devore, the show's star, and she quickly offers him a larger part in her act. Quite taken with David, Delerys invites him to her home on the pretext that Peggy will be there; when Peggy does not show up, David leaves, infuriating his hostess. Derelys has Peggy fired the next day, and in reprisal Peggy goads her into a Carmenesque fight backstage just before the show. Derelys is unable to go on stage, and Peggy takes her place, becoming the hit of the show. Peggy and David are later married and give up show business, finding contentment living on a farm.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-13
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Over Thereabouts
Overview: Hapless pilot Billy manages to raise himself from KP duty to flying ace. He manages to wreck havoc on the German Air Force and return home a hero!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-11
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Get 'Em Young
Overview: A butler is persuaded to pretend to be a man's wife so that he can inherit a million dollars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-31
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False Pretenses
Overview: A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-21
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A Sweet Pickle
Overview: A Sweet Pickle is a 1925 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-25
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Atlantic Adventure
Overview: When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-25
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Scotch
Overview: Scotch is a 1930 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-19
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Sweethearts on Parade
Overview: Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands. They meet Bill and Hank, who make them reconsider whether they really need millionaires to be happy.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-12
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Parole Girl
Overview: A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-04
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Ambassador Bill
Overview: An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-13
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A Bedtime Story
Overview: Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-22
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
Overview: Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-15
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Broadway Gondolier
Overview: A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-27
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I'll Take Romance
Overview: Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-17
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Naughty But Nice
Overview: Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-23
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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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Atta Boy
Overview: Monty Milde, would-be newspaper reporter, stumbles into a high-profile kidnapping mystery.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-10
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Call It Luck
Overview: A London taxicab driver cashes in on a big sweepstakes ticket and becomes the prey of a confidence-gang that sells him a nag of a cavalry horse on the claim that it is a brother to a current Derby winner.
Genres: Crime Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-09
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A Perfect Gentleman
Overview: Monty Banks gets involved in tracking down a stolen fortune, his adventures culminating in a whirlwind, gag-filled climax at sea.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-15
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Roaring Timber
Overview: Jim Sherwood , toughest logging boss in the timber country, takes on his toughest assignment when he agrees to cut an enormous volume of timber for Andrew MacKinley, who has to deliver the timber within sixty days.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-03
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Horse Shoes
Overview: A Monty Banks comedy that includes the 'Undressing in the Upper Berth' routine
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-17
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Sob Sister
Overview: Jane Ray, a very clever reporter of crimes of passion, or "sob sister," for a New York tabloid, begins to feel depressed by the sordidness of her latest assignment, the investigation of a young woman's murder by her husband. Despite her growing distaste for her profession, Jane gets her story and, with typical ingenuity, frustrates her competitors' attempts to follow her lead.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-25
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