Georges Metaxa
Also Known As: George Radu Metaxa, George-Radu Metaxa
Biography: Character actor of genteel demeanor in US films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bucharest, Romania
Birthday: September 11, 1899
Deathday: December 08, 1950
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Swing Time
Overview: Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-28
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The Mask of Dimitrios
Overview: A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-23
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Submarine Base
Overview: Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-20
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Kissing Time
Overview: An American woman visits a small South American town where she quickly falls for a charming lieutenant.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-16
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Secrets of a Secretary
Overview: Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-05
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Sheik to Sheik
Overview: A radio salesman gets knocked out by a golf ball and dreams he's in the desert where he sells radios to sheiks.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-10
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
Overview: A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-25
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Paris Calling
Overview: Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of Nazi bombing, she returns to Paris and joins the underground movement. Nicholas Jordan, an American member of the RAF, stranded in Paris after the evacuation is also working with the Paris underground. Marianne kills her former fiancée, a pro-Nazi informant, for the traitorous state papers he is carrying, and she and Jordan try to flee over a French seaport...
Genres: Action Adventure Romance War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-04
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Background to Danger
Overview: An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
Genres: Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-03
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The West Side Kid
Overview: Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her time to parties; his daughter Gloria is in one scandal after another, changing husbands as often as her moods, and son Jerry spends his time getting drunk and chasing women. Sam hires gangster Johnny April to bump him off but Johnny, liking the old man, defers the killing and sets about making the family appreciate Sam.
Genres: Drama Action Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-23
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Hi Diddle Diddle
Overview: When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-02
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Scotland Yard Investigator
Overview: A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.
Genres: Mystery Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-30
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