Hal Le Roy
Also Known As: John LeRoy Schotte, Hal LeRoy
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: December 10, 1913
Age: 111 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 02, 1985
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Mr. Broadway
Overview: Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-12
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Harold Teen
Overview: A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same title. With Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert,Douglass Dumbrille and Patricia Ellis.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-07
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Use Your Imagination
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-02
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Wonder Bar
Overview: Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
Genres: Crime Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-31
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Rhythmitis
Overview: A doctor develops pills that make Hal a great tap dancer. Lola Green sees Hal dancing in a drugstore and asks him to join her vaudeville show. Everything is fine until Hal's pills disappear.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-13
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Ups and Downs
Overview: An elevator operator and an engaged girl in love dodge the girl's fiancee and attempt to win over her father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-09
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Public Jitterbug No. 1
Overview: The government has set up a special agency to stamp out what it considers the number one public menace: the jitterbug. They aren't after the many followers, but the primary perpetrator of the jitterbug, who they've coined "Public Jitterbug No. 1". Hal Sturges is one of several agents working on the case who goes undercover as a dancer in Broadway haunts to find and capture Public Jitterbug No. 1. In his investigation, Hal runs across the beautiful Betty, a seemingly innocent bystander. Hal and Betty fall for each other. However Betty is unaware that Hal is a federal agent, and Hal is unaware that Betty is Public Jitterbug No. 1. Will their roles as agent and public menace number one take priority over their roles of man and woman?
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-09
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Start Cheering
Overview: After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-03
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Private Lessons
Overview: Hal LeRoy is hired as a tap teacher at Dawn O'Day's dancing school to give private lessons to female students. The school's manager, as well as some of his students, spreads false stories that Hal's lessons involve more than just tap dancing. He is fired and starts his own dancing school in the same building as O'Day's. Hal and Dawn now realize that their relationship was more than just business.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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Picture Palace
Overview: In this Vitaphone Broadway Brevity musical short, Hal and Dawn work at the same vaudeville theater, where he's an usher, she's a chorus girl. When they both get fired, they form an act and vow to get back to their old theater, as performers.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-10
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Hollywood Newsreel
Overview: A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner Bros. Studios and is greeted by several stars; Margaret Lindsay, Guy Kibbee, and Dick Powell work at a gold mine; Joan Blondell, recovered from a recent illness, thanks her fans; songs from the movie Harold Teen (1934) are performed by the songwriters and the film's stars.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-24
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Tip Tap Toe
Overview: Hal and Mitzi have known each other since they were babies. Tap dancer Hal now works as a window dresser in Blake's Department Store, owned by Mitzi's dad. Mr. Blake hates jazz music and dancing. He refuses to let Mitzi marry Hal, because Hal's ambition is to be a dancer on stage. When Mitzi reveals a secret about Mrs. Blake's past, her father soon changes his tune.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-21
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Too Many Girls
Overview: Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football players join the college team, and the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players, Clint, falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers he is her bodyguard, she decides to go back East. The bodyguards follow her, leaving the team in the lurch.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-08
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The High School Hoofer
Overview: Leroy's dance is an eccentric one performed to the tune "Dinah", played to a fast, jazzy beat, and his feet certainly keep up. More than that, while he is dancing, he looks like a John Held Jr. cartoon from the New Yorker, a young sheik who wears clothes in a manner than makes him look like he is posing languidly at an absurd angle, even while he is moving fast. There are a couple of cuts to focus on his feet, and he is very good.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-14
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Wash Your Step
Overview: It's all about Hal Le Roy's expertise at selling (washing machines). He tap dances inside your home or on your front steps.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-07
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The Knight Is Young
Overview: June never leaves her apartment, which has a view of an advertising sign of a knight in shining armor. She is two weeks behind in her rent and believes that if she leaves the apartment, the landlord will never let her back in. The only way she gets food is when her friend, singer Earlayne Schools, brings it to her. One evening June sees Hal, a tap-dancing sign painter, painting over her knight. She explains her predicament, and he does his best to help her out.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-29
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The Prisoner of Swing
Overview: Musical satire based on Anthony Hope's Ruritanian novel "The Prisoner of Zenda" in which a commoner takes the place of a lookalike king.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-11
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Syncopated City
Overview: Hal and a theater manager see people watching a building excavation for entertainment. They suggest that city employees entertain their customers, including a singing tax collector. Hal becomes the Mayor's assistant.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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Main Street Follies
Overview: A New york producer sends a spy to a nightclub to report back on the musical acts.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-11
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