Paul Porcasi
Also Known As: Paul Porcassi
Biography: From Wikipedia. Paul Porcasi (1 January 1879 – 8 August 1946) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 142 films between 1917 and 1945. He was born in Palermo, Sicily. Porcasi was memorable as "Nick the Greek" in Universal's Broadway (1929). Porcasi performed infrequently on Broadway from 1916 to 1928. He ended his theatrical career in the smash hit "Broadway" as Nick Verdis that ran from 16 September 1926 to 11 February 1928 (603 performances) at the Broadhurst Theatre. French actress Yola d'Avril portrayed his daughter, Madame Feronde in MGM's adventure film Tarzan and His Mate. Porcasi died on 8 August 1946 in Hollywood, California.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1879
Age: 146 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 08, 1946
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It Started with Eve
Overview: A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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Charlie Chan in Egypt
Overview: While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-04
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When Strangers Marry
Overview: In this action-drama, a railroad worker plys his trade at the straits of Malay. He begins a steamy affair with a spoiled rich girl. His romantic rival tries to break them and keep the railroad from being completed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-25
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Café Metropole
Overview: An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-28
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Quiet Please, Murder
Overview: A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-19
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The Criminal Code
Overview: After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-03
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The Florentine Dagger
Overview: A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-30
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Say It Again
Overview: Bob Howard, a WWI wounded soldier in a army hospital, meets and falls in love with Princess Elena. When the Armistice is signed, he is quickly shipped back home to America. Returning to Europe, he is mistaken as a Crown Prince traveling to be married to a Princess from another country. The Princess-bride, intended for another man, is his Elena.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-31
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Smart Money
Overview: Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-11
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British Agent
Overview: In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-15
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The Border Legion
Overview: Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the gang's boss is wounded, they kidnap Kells and force him to remove the bullet. Not allowed to leave and being a wanted man, he joins the gang. Now wanted as a gang member also, he nevertheless plans a raid that will lead the entire gang into a trap.
Genres: Action Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-05
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Overview: Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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The Three Sisters
Overview: A 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Paul Sloane and starring Louise Dresser, Tom Patricola and Kenneth MacKenna. It was distributed by Fox Film Corporation five years before they would become Twentieth Century Fox. It is unknown whether a print of the film still exists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-20
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Crime School
Overview: In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck the knockout blow, and all are subsequently sentenced to a reformatory, cruelly run by two corrupt guards. New deputy commissioner Mark Braden arrives determined to change things, but despite the help of Frankie's sister, Mark's reform plans -- and Frankie's future -- may be sabotaged from within.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-10
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Under Eighteen
Overview: Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-02
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I Loved a Woman
Overview: The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-23
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The Leathernecks Have Landed
Overview: Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherneck buddy "Tubby" Waters killed, hothead "Woody" Davis infiltrates a gang of Shanghai gunrunners to bring the culprit to justice.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-17
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Terror Aboard
Overview: An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-14
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Star Spangled Rhythm
Overview: Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-05
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The Kid from Spain
Overview: Eddie and his Mexican friend Ricardo are expelled from college after Ricardo put Eddie in the girl's dormitory when he was drunk. Per chance Eddie gets mixed up in a bank robbery and is forced to drive the robbers to safety. To get rid of him they force him to leave the USA for Mexico, but a cop is following him. Eddie meets Ricardo there, Ricardo helps him avoid being arrested by the cop when he introduces Eddie as the great Spanish bullfighter Don Sebastian II. The problem is, the cop is still curious and has tickets for the bullfight. Eddie's situation becomes more critical, when he tries to help Ricardo to win the girl he loves, but she's engaged to a "real" Mexican, who is, unknown to her father, involved in illegal business. While trying to avoid all this trouble, Eddie himself falls in love with his friend's girl friend's sister Rosalie, who also want to see the great Don Sebastian II to kill the bull in the arena.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-17
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Swing Hostess
Overview: An out-of-work band singer gets a job at a jukebox company and makes a hit.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-08
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Bought!
Overview: Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-22
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Caliente Love
Overview: Poor Walter Catlett messes up the wedding of Joyce Compton and, after botching his suicide attempt, rides along on her honeymoon at Aguas Caliente. Can he get for himself some CALIENTE LOVE at the Casino, or will someone give him the sound thrashing he needs?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-09
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Cynara
Overview: A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-24
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Gigolettes of Paris
Overview: Silent screen favorite Madge Bellamy starred in this low-budget melodrama written and directed by character actor Alphonse Martell. In love with a rich customer, Count Albert Valraine (Theodore Von Eltz), salesgirl Suzanne Ricord accepts his engagement ring, but when she fails to understand "the rules of the game," as he puts it, the caddish Valraine demands that she return the bauble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-05
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A Parisian Romance
Overview: The Baron is an aging, cynical lady's man. He has a key-chain with about 50 keys to different women' apartments in Paris. He selects one at random to see who he will sleep with at night. His adversary is a young Parisian artist (the next Picasso), Victor. Victor believes in love and he's going to marry his girlfriend Claudette as soon as he sells his first painting. The Baron seduces Claudette, seemingly to teach Victor a lesson. However, as might be predicted, he soon falls in love with Claudette himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-01
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Down to the Sea
Overview: Greek sponge divers in Tarpon Springs, Florida duel over diving methods and fight over the same girl, and only one will survive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-30
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Big Time Or Bust
Overview: Newlywed carnival performers decide to try their luck in New York, but their marriage begins to crumble when their careers take separate paths.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-10
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The Good Bad Girl
Overview: A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-20
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La Cucaracha
Overview: Señor Martinez, a famous theater owner, visits a local café in Mexico because of its reputation for good food and to audition the famous dancer who performs there. Martinez tells the café owner that if the dancer is as good as he has heard, he will offer the dancer a contract to perform in his theater. The café's female singer hears about this and is determined that he won't leave the café without her.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-31
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Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Overview: Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an international criminal.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-05
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Born Reckless
Overview: In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-11
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I Dream Too Much
Overview: Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love, Jonathan encourages the talented Annette to sing — yet when his own attempt at an opera fails, Jonathan lashes out at Annette's success. Despite her husband's jealousy, Annette embarks on a successful career that allows her to secretly fund Jonathan's opera, bringing their marriage to a crisis.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-29
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Wake Up and Dream
Overview: The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-01
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Argentine Nights
Overview: An all-girl band flees to Argentina to avoid their creditors. Comedy with songs.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-06
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Gentleman's Fate
Overview: A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-07
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Men Are Such Fools
Overview: An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is having an affair with a local lowlife; when he turns up dead, the husband is jailed for his murder, even though he protests his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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Tarzan and His Mate
Overview: Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-20
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Svengali
Overview: A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
Genres: Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-20
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Hi, Gaucho!
Overview: The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-10
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While Paris Sleeps
Overview: To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-08
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Doctors' Wives
Overview: The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one couple. Their troubles begin when the doctor makes a housecall to a seductive woman with designs upon him. His suspicious wife follows him and spies on him. She thinks they are getting romantic when he is actually trying to extricate himself from his predatory patient. She decides to get revenge with his best friend, but nothing happens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-14
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I Was an Adventuress
Overview: Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-10
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Havana Widows
Overview: Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-18
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Casablanca
Overview: In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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Madame X
Overview: An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-01
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I'll Give a Million
Overview: After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-27
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The Devil's in Love
Overview: The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commander over the love of Loretta Young. Jory escapes prosecution by heading for parts unknown, but when a deadly illness strikes his old fort, he returns to aid his comrades. He is arrested, but clears himself of the murder charge and ends up with Young. Devil's in Love is distinguished by the surprise appearance of Bela Lugosi, who shows up unbilled as a relentless prosecuting attorney in the courtroom scenes.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-21
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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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Baby Face Harrington
Overview: Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2."
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-12
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His Greatest Gamble
Overview: A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-10
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Stars Over Broadway
Overview: An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-23
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The Gay Divorcee
Overview: Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-12
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Juarez
Overview: The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-10
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Lady of the Tropics
Overview: Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-11
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Everything Happens at Night
Overview: Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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Under-Cover Man
Overview: When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring that has been plaguing the police. The sister of another innocent victim joins him as they infiltrate the syndicate. Any wrong move could lead to instant death.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-02
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Doctors Don't Tell
Overview: Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics.
Genres: Action Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-22
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Rags to Riches
Overview: A framed cabby rounds up fur thieves and saves his opera-singer girlfriend.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-31
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Footlight Parade
Overview: A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-21
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The Unknown Guest
Overview: Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-22
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Morocco
Overview: Mogador, Morocco. Late 1920s. A complex romance develops between a womanizing Legionnaire and a disillusioned Parisian cabaret singer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-14
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Overview: Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-09
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Brother Orchid
Overview: When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-07
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Devil and the Deep
Overview: Naval commander Charles Sturm has made life miserable for his wife Diana due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. His obsessive behavior soon drives her to the arms of a handsome lieutenant. When Charles learns of their affair, he plots revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-12
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A Lady's Morals
Overview: Romantic biography of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind and her famous affairs.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-08
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The Payoff
Overview: An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-09
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Waterfront Lady
Overview: When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-04
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A Night at the Ritz
Overview: A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-23
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Torrid Zone
Overview: A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-18
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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Overview: Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-12
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The Lady Consents
Overview: Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-07
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Stowaway
Overview: On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the advances of first mate Groder. On the street and being pursued by a Policeman who thinks she is a prostitute, Mary seeks shelter on an old freighter. She is soon discovered by second mate Tommy and they quickly fall in love, but with first mate Groder lurking around will their lives work out in the end?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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Road to Happiness
Overview: A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-19
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Enter Madame
Overview: Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-04
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Flying Down to Rio
Overview: A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-22
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The Bride Wore Red
Overview: A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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Big Town Girl
Overview: When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-03
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Party Husband
Overview: Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its premature end. Fellow Ziegfield alum Mary Doran plays the coquette whose intended conquest of the free-thinking hubby (James Rennie) starts to throw the couple’s “understanding” awry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-06
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Maytime
Overview: An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-26
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Saturday's Millions
Overview: Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-30
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Muss 'em Up
Overview: Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attractive secretary, Amy Hutchins. Paul admits his dog was shot by extortionists to show they mean business, and shows Tip some threatening notes they sent. That night, Paul's ward, Corinne, is kidnapped by two gangsters and her driver is found dead the next morning. The kidnappers contact Tip demanding $200,000, which is delivered according to instructions. Awaiting the return of Corrine, Tip learns her fiancé, Gene Leland, is an ex-convict, and he also investigates why a thug, Maratti, was found prowling around the grounds, and why Paul's brother-in-law, Jim Glenray, was seen leaving the estate late the night before. And when the chauffeur is murdered with Amy's gun as he was about to confess some complicity, Tip has to piece together various clues to pinpoint the culprits.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-13
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King Kong
Overview: Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-15
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Broadway
Overview: A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
Genres: Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-27
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Seventh Heaven
Overview: A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-25
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Red Haired Alibi
Overview: A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-21
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The Death Kiss
Overview: When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-05
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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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The Great Flirtation
Overview: An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-15
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A Woman Commands
Overview: In order to keep his lover, Maria Draga, in luxury, Captain Alex Pastitsch contracts huge debts which threaten his military career. To save Alex's career, his superior officer, Colonel Strádimirovitsch has an idea of how to fix it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-12
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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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Chained
Overview: Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-31
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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Overview: La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Color). It features a young, pre-stardom 13-year-old Judy Garland singing "La Cucaracha" with her two sisters (billed as "The Garland Sisters"). In the film, Hollywood stars participate in a Mexican-themed revue and festival in Santa Barbara. Andy Devine, the "World's Greatest Matador," engages in a bullfight with a dubious bovine supplied by Buster Keaton, and musical numbers are provided by Joe Morrison and The Garland Sisters. Comedy bits and dance numbers are also featured.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-07
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Crash Donovan
Overview: A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-01
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Coming Out Party
Overview: In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young man, but the strong-willed girl initially demurs until the night of her debut. Her social adviser fills the debutante’s dance card with partners, which inflames the violinist.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-09
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The Secret of Madame Blanche
Overview: A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-03
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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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I'll Remember April
Overview: The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-01
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The Passionate Plumber
Overview: Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-06
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Go Into Your Dance
Overview: An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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Trouble for Two
Overview: A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called The Suicide Club, and so he seeks to become a member.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-29
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Such Men Are Dangerous
Overview: A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that spurned him on their wedding night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-09
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Vacation from Love
Overview: A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-29
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Derelict
Overview: Two rival seamen fight for both a promotion to a captaincy in their shipping line and the attentions of a Havana saloon singer. Sparks fly as they both try to out do each other in obtaining what they know their opposite is after. In the end they will need to work together in order to save the day.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-22
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Melody Parade
Overview: The owner and staff of a Hollywood nightclub struggle to keep their establishment from closing.
Genres: Romance Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-27
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Million Dollar Baby
Overview: A husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest run by a movie studio that's looking for "a new Shirley Temple".
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-29
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The Devil's Mate
Overview: A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to find out the identity of the man behind the killings.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-20
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He Couldn't Take It
Overview: Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process server. He serves process on a gangster and exposes a criminal conspiracy while trying to stop his long-suffering girlfriend from taking a vacation with her lecherous boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-15
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Murder on the Roof
Overview: This primarily two-set programmer has a has-been criminal lawyer, Anthony Sommers (William V. Mong) wrongly accused of murder and follows the efforts of his daughter, Molly Sommers (Dorothy Revier), a nightclub singer and two newspapers reporters, Ted Palmer (David Newell) and the inaptly-named Drinkwater (Raymond Hatton), posing as a drunk, to clear him.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-29
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Hail the Conquering Hero
Overview: Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-09
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