André Cheron
Also Known As: Andre Cheron, André Louis Duval
Biography: André Cheron was born on August 24, 1880 in St Germain en Laye, France as André Louis Duval. He was an actor, known for Emma (1932), Garde la bombe (1930) and Sea Legs (1930). He died on January 26, 1952 in San Francisco, California..
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 24, 1880
Deathday: January 26, 1952
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Gender: Male
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The bluffer
Overview: Parallel French-speaking version of Warners' "High Pressure" (1932), a comedy satire on fast-talking promoters, crazy inventors, and stock market hype. The story line comes from Kandel's stage play "Hot Money," which had played on Broadway a month or two in 1931, before Warners bought screen rights and changed the title.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-11-03
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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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The Fighting Demon
Overview: Richard Talmadge plays John Drake, a safe expert who gets work managing a safe company in South America. On the way to his new job, he gets into a fight with Dynamite Diaz (Dick Sutherland), a prize fighter who thinks that Drake has flirted with his wife (Peggy Shaw). Drake has found love on board, but it's with Dolores D'Arcy (Lorraine Eason), the daughter of a banker (Charles Hill Mailes). Once he lands in South America, however, he discovers the job was a fake and is robbed of his money and passport.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-24
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Evening Clothes
Overview: Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more sophisticated man. D'Artois retaliates by moving to the city and learning the proper social graces. His new life style proves to be too expensive for him, and at the end he is left with nothing but one suit of evening clothes and his now contrite wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-19
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Fashions of 1934
Overview: When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-14
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Keep the Bomb
Overview: Garde la bombe is the French speaking version of a Charley Chase comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-15
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Night World
Overview: "Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-04
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The Veiled Woman
Overview: A woman tells a girl who's just been rescued from a notorious rake, four stories of men from her own life, one of whom she had to kill to protect herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-14
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The House on 56th Street
Overview: A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-23
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Emma
Overview: After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-02
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Kid Galahad
Overview: Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-29
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The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Overview: A Russian prince goes to Monte Carlo just after World War I with money supplied to him by Parisian Russians. He wins but the casino operators want him to honor the tradition of returning to the tables.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-14
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Romance of Radium
Overview: Romance of Radium is a 1937 American short film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This short film tells the story of the discovery of radium and how it is used in medicine. In 1937, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (One-Reel) at the 10th Academy Awards
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-23
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The Girl from 10th Avenue
Overview: When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decide to give their marriage a chance. Their landlady, a one-time Floradora girl, offers to help Miriam become refined. Successful again, Geoffrey is approached ("if only we were free") by Valentine. Miriam tells Valentine off in no uncertain terms. Geoffrey moves into his club where Valentine's husband tells him he is a fool to leave Miriam
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
Overview: A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-22
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Artists and Models Abroad
Overview: Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the 'Hotel de Navarre' in furnishing accommodations for his group, but the proprietor's wife locks them out. In his search for funds, Buck meets Patricia Harper, the fourth-richest girl in the world, but he isn't aware of that and thinks she is penniless. Patricia joins his troupe as a lark, and her father, James Harper, also pretends he is broke. Through some chicanery, Buck gets jobs for the girls as models at the Palace of Feminine Arts at the Paris International Exposition. James Harper borrows the priceless Napoleaon necklace to have a copy made for his daughter, but Buck thinks he stole it.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-20
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The White Cockatoo
Overview: In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-29
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Hot Pepper
Overview: In this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and begin fighting over her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-15
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Sea Legs
Overview: Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a replacement for a wealthy slacker who must serve his country to receive a $2 million inheritance, a scheme concocted by attorney Gabriel Grabowski. All his shipmates, except Hyacinth Nitouche, assume that he is indeed the wastrel he purports to be. Doyle falls in love with Adrienne, the most beautiful of the captain's daughters, and wins her affections by treating his comrades in her teashop. Admiral O'Brien, grandfather of the man Doyle is impersonating, comes to visit, and mistaking him for a civilian, Doyle throws him overboard and to everybody's surprise is complimented on his vigilance. But his real identity is exposed by some American sailors, and he is suspected of killing young O'Brien; he is cleared of suspicion, however, and is reinstated by the admiral, thereby gaining Adrienne's love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-01
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True Heaven
Overview: Phillip Gresson is in the employ of the British secret service, while heroine Judith is a spy for the Enemy. Hoping to gain possession of the usual Secret Plans, Judith pretends to be in love with Phillip. Only after nursing the seriously wounded Phillip back to health does Judith come to the realization that she genuinely loves him.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-17
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Men of Chance
Overview: A gambler falls for a fake countess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-26
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The Marriage Clause
Overview: A Broadway actress becomes a star due to the guidance of her director. The two fall in love, but are prevented from marrying due to a clause put into her contract by her producer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-12
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Two-Faced Woman
Overview: A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-31
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Careless Lady
Overview: Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-02
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The Solitaire Man
Overview: An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-22
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Kiki
Overview: Kiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job singing and dancing at a nearby theater. While she is there, she invites herself into the life of the revue's manager, with whom she has fallen in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-04
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Folies Bergère
Overview: Alternate-language French version of Folies Bergère de Paris (1935).
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-09
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I'll Tell the World
Overview: Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-20
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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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City in Darkness
Overview: Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-15
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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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Colleen
Overview: Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-21
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Gold Diggers in Paris
Overview: When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-11
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They Had to See Paris
Overview: Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-18
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Champagne Charlie
Overview: The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-06
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Mama Steps Out
Overview: A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-05
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Navy Secrets
Overview: After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investigation, his fiancee meets one of his fellow officers, becomes romantically interested in him, and joins him in trying to get an envelope, believed to contain rare stamps, to its intended recipient, only to end up in a web of intrigue involving foreign-accented men who are unusually interested in that simple envelope.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-08
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Midnight
Overview: An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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Espionage
Overview: Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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Man of the World
Overview: A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-24
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Out West with the Peppers
Overview: When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But adjusting to a new home and community isn't easy for the brood. Third entry in the "Five Little Peppers" series of four films.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-30
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I Sell Anything
Overview: Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-20
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Here's to Romance
Overview: Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-04
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Pilgrimage
Overview: A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-12
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That Girl from Paris
Overview: Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-31
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Slightly Scarlet
Overview: Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French Riviera. Aware that Lucy is a phony, jewel-thief Malatroff blackmails Lucy into helping him steal the valuable necklace owned by the young wife of phlegmatic American businessman Sylvester Corbett.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-22
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Oh, for a Man!
Overview: Disenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up her career to marry him. But Barney grows disenchanted himself at being known as the husband of a diva and itches to get back to his life of crime and manliness.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-28
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Rose of the Golden West
Overview: Juan is about to elope with the convent-bred Elena, when he is chosen to assassinate the governor who is about to hand California over to the Russians. Since the governor also happens to be Elena's father, this puts him in quite a fix.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-25
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Service for Ladies
Overview: Albert Leroux, headwaiter at an exclusive Paris hotel, falls hopelessly in love with Elizabeth Foster, an American heiress, though he is convinced that she will never admire a waiter.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-06
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Hush Money
Overview: Story of a girl who tries to live down the past and marries a wealthy man. Blackmail attempt by old associate foiled by friendly detective.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-05
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His Private Life
Overview: Story of a Frenchman who seduces women all over Paris, but he meets his match in a proper American tourist. He does everything he can to seduce her, but he will only find romance when he does so on her terms!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-17
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The Kiss
Overview: An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-15
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The King of Kings
Overview: The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-19
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The Widow from Monte Carlo
Overview: In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-19
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Strangers May Kiss
Overview: After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casual romance with journalist Alan. Against the advice of her happily married aunt Celia -- who encourages her to demand a serious commitment -- Lisbeth continues to see Alan, even after she hears he may have a wife in France. When Alan's work sends him abroad, a lovesick Lisbeth struggles to understand her feelings.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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Through the Breakers
Overview: Through the Breakers, the 1928 Joseph C. Boyle silent South Seas tropical island seafaring romantic love triangle melodrama about a London socialite who loves a man who is assigned to be a plantation manager on a South Seas island. She agrees to join him after a year, but puts it off, but later winds up shipwrecked on the same island. An island girl there is in love with him, but when he refuses to reciprocate her love and returns to his old sweetheart, she chooses to commit suicide rather than marry one of her own kind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-28
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Boudoir diplomatique
Overview: The ambassador of a Ruritanian land charges his attache with cozying up to the wife of the war minister, to get her to change her husband's mind about a treaty he opposes. Complications both political and romantic ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-06-19
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Don't Bet on Blondes
Overview: Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-13
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Lopez, le bandit
Overview: Lopez and his gang attack a ranch where he finds a man who once saved his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-09-01
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The Aviator
Overview: Alain's uncle sends him to France to toughen him with his aviator friend Pierre. He meets Suzanne on the voyage and fights for her love against José in an airplane.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-01-30
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Let's Live Tonight
Overview: Nick Kerry (Tullio Carminati) is a rich rounder who holds tremendous fascination over women......mainly because he is rich and has his own yacht. At Monte Carlo one evening he romances Kay Routledge (Lilian Harvey), a romantic young and gullible American girl. She takes the dilettante seriously and when he sails away on his yacht, she is heartbroken. But the memory of her haunts him, and brings him back from India and the arms of another woman,Countess Margot de Legere (Tala Birell),only to find Kay now engaged to his friend. Oh, what's a rich guy to do?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-16
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