George Sidney
Also Known As: Sammy Greenfield
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nagynichal, Hungary
Adult: No
Birthday: March 18, 1876
Age: 149 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 29, 1945
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Manhattan Melodrama
Overview: The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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Rafter Romance
Overview: A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-01
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The Heart of New York
Overview: A poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighborhood after he sells his new invention.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-26
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Millionaires
Overview: Meyer Rubens and his wife, Esther, own a pressing-shop in New York's Lower East Side. Esther wants to move on up to the Upper West Side. She has a rich sister, Reba, who persuades Meyer to invest in the worthless oil stock sold by her husband. The stock proves to be not worthless and Meyer and Esther become overnight millionaires. But Reba thinks Meyer, who has no taste for high society, is holding her sister back socially, so she devises some schemes that involve catching Meyer in a compromising situation with other women, so her sister can file for a divorce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-01
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Radio Dough
Overview: Two partners in a clothing store decide they want to become radio performers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-05
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Running Hollywood
Overview: Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-27
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Caught Cheating
Overview: Joe Cabrone vows to kill Sam after believing him to be having an affair with his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-21
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The Cohens and the Kellys in Scotland
Overview: The Cohens and the Kellys travel to Scotland to buy plaid in the hopes that a prince will start a new fashion trend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-01
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The Cohens and the Kellys in Africa
Overview: Cohen and Kelly families go to Africa to buy elephant tusks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-21
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In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
Overview: A sequel of sorts, the Jewish ethnic comedy characters of Potash and Perlmutter return from their 1923 debut film, also produced by Goldwyn, but with a different actor for Potash.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-28
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Partners Again
Overview: Goldwyn produced a 1923 film adaptation of Potash and Perlmutter, and a 1924 sequel called In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter. In Partners Again the two are in the automobile industry -- This is a lost Film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-15
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Give and Take
Overview: The owner of a fruit cannery is facing financial ruin as a result of a strike. Unbeknownst to him, his son is the person who is organizing it.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-23
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For the Love of Mike
Overview: Three men join forces to raise an adopted son. A lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-31
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The Life of Riley
Overview: Silent comedy film directed by William Beaudine..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-03
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Sweet Daddies
Overview: Stage comedian Patrick O'Brien is fired from his job because of his drinking celebration of his son, Jimmy, graduating from college. After the show he meets his son on a cabaret and there meets Abel Finklestein and his daughter, Miriam, and the two fathers form a business alliance, suspected of being bootlegging. They are arrested but are released after it is found they were importing molasses - but Miriam has to promise to marry Sam Berkowitz to secure the release. Jimmy and both fathers are unhappy with this turn of events. This film is lost.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-06-12
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The Prince of Pilsen
Overview: Frederick, Prince of Pilsen, rebelling against his coming marriage with Princess Bertha of Thorwald, meets Hans Wagner, a brewer, and his daughter Nellie. The brewer, mistaking the prince for the son of a friend, asks him to join in a banquet. Hans becomes intoxicated, dresses up in a uniform, and is then mistaken by a coachman for the prince and brought to the palace
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-02
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Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
Overview: The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-05
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The Good Old Soak
Overview: A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-23
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The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
Overview: The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-27
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The Stolen Jools
Overview: Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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Diamond Jim
Overview: A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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The Auctioneer
Overview: Simon, a young Jewish man emigrating to the US, adopts the daughter of a dying woman on the ship. After he settles in the US, he eventually builds up a successful business as a pawnbroker and auctioneer. His adopted daughter Ruth falls in love with a young Wall Street broker, and her father invests his fortune in the young man's firm. However, a crooked broker at the firm causes Simon to lose all his money, and he must start all over again. He sets out to track down the crooked broker and get his money back.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-16
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Rolling Along
Overview: Two incompetent bus drivers attempt to exact revenge on their no nonsense boss. Hilarity ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-30
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Stable Mates
Overview: Two bankers, thrown out of work by the Depression, find jobs on a western ranch.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-05
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Fishing for Trouble
Overview: George and Charlie go fishing - but things don't turn out exactly as planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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Ten Baby Fingers
Overview: Two men find a baby they think is abandoned.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-26
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Back to the Soil
Overview: Two friends decide to become gold prospectors, and wind up discovering an outlaw's buried treasure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-10
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Plumbing for Gold
Overview: George and Charlie get jobs as plumbers assistants; on their first assignment, they reduce a house to shambles in search of a lost ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-29
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The Latest from Paris
Overview: The Latest from Paris takes place in New York's garment district, where business rivals Blogg and Littauer have been carrying on a feud for years. In the tradition of Romeo and Juliet, heroine Ann Dolan works for Blogg, while her sweetheart Joe Adams is employed by Littauer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-04
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The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
Overview: The Jewish Nate Cohen and the Irish-Catholic Patrick Kelly are business partners who are constantly fighting. When they find out that Nate's daughter Sadye and Patrick's son Pat Jr. are getting married in Paris, the two and their wives take an ocean liner to France to stop the marriage. When they get there, they find that the situation has radically changed, and not for the better.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-15
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-8
Overview: In the Hollywood Hall of Fame - a wax museum - the figure of Eddie Borden comes to life and introduces us to various stars in effigy. Pining over the effigy of Clara Bow, her husband Rex Bell suggests that Eddie get on with Betty Boop. Betty asks Eddie to accompany her in a rendition of "My Silent Love."
Genres: Horror Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-10
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We Americans
Overview: We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes that he handled so well, director Edward H. Sloman concentrates on the trials and tribulations of three first-generation American families: The Jewish Levines, the German Schmidts and the Italian Albertinis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-06
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Around the Corner
Overview: 18-year-old Rosie Kaplan O'Grady was found as an abandoned baby by O'Grady, an Irish policeman, and Kaplan, a Jewish pawnbroker, and raised by them as their own. She is being courted by two men; prizefighter Terry Callahan and a rich socialite, Tommy Sinclair and has to choose between them.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-25
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The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
Overview: Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-15
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The Cohens and Kellys
Overview: Jacob Cohen, who owns a dry goods store, and Patrick Kelly, an Irish cop, are constantly at loggerheads, feuding over anything and everything. Kelly's son, Tim, and Cohen's daughter, Nannie, fall in love despite the bickering of their parents; when they cannot get parental consent for their marriage, they secretly wed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-28
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