Astrid Allwyn
Also Known As: Astrid Allwyn Christofferson, Astrid Allyn, Astrid Christofferson
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: South Manchester, Connecticut, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 27, 1905
Age: 119 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: March 31, 1978
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Overview: After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-19
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Hands Across the Table
Overview: A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-18
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Dimples
Overview: Dimples Appleby lives with her pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket. A rich lady makes it possible for the girl to go legit.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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Charlie Chan's Secret
Overview: Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of Honolulu. Mysteriously, Colby reappears at his mansion only to be murdered soon after. When his body is discovered during a seance, everyone in attendance becomes a suspect, and it's up to Chan to find the murderer before he or she strikes again.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-10
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Stowaway
Overview: Chin-Ching gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall. She falls asleep in his car which winds up on a ship headed for America. Susan Parker, also on the ship, marries Randall to give Chin-Ching a family.
Genres: Music Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-25
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Follow the Fleet
Overview: When the US Navy fleet docks at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister, Connie. But it's not all smooth sailing—Bake has a habit of losing Sherry's jobs for her and, despite Connie's dreams, Bilge is not ready to settle down.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-20
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Love Affair
Overview: Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-17
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The Night Mayor
Overview: Opportunistic film seeking to capitalize on a scandal in New York mayor Jimmy Walker's office before his name was out of the newspapers. Tracy plays a mayor who has a penchant for the night life, sports, the theater, and an actress, Knapp. When scandal rocks his administration, Tracy has his girl friend marry Dillaway, a writer friend, so that the press will leave him alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-18
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The White Parade
Overview: The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in order to become nurses and join the White Parade. It is told mainly through the character of June Arden who finds romance with Ronald Hall III on the way, with side stories of the other girls who find failure, success, laughs and tears on the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-16
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The Lone Wolf Strikes
Overview: Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-26
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Honeymoon in Bali
Overview: Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-29
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Lady with a Past
Overview: A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-19
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No Hands on the Clock
Overview: A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-01
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It Could Happen to You
Overview: A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigrants are prepared for American citizenship. The school's European teacher dreams of a fascist America. Based on a story by Nathanael West and Samuel Ornitz, who was one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the McCarthy Era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-28
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Beggars in Ermine
Overview: John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-21
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Monte Carlo Nights
Overview: A man wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of the real killer. The problem is that he only has one clue to go on.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-20
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Unexpected Uncle
Overview: An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-07
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International Crime
Overview: The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque. In this version, Lamont Cranston is an amateur detective and host of a radio show with his assistant Phoebe (not Margo) Lane. Cabbie Moe Shrevnitz and Commissioner Weston also appear.
Genres: Mystery Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-23
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Way Down East
Overview: A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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City of Missing Girls
Overview: A female reporter goes undercover to investigate the series of mysterious disappearances of young women, who were all linked to a local drama school.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-27
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Miracles for Sale
Overview: A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-10
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Love Takes Flight
Overview: A commercial pilot romances both a Hollywood actress and a female aviator. 1937.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-05
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Reno
Overview: A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Hello, Sister!
Overview: Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-14
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It's A Small World
Overview: Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which fleeces travelers through corrupt law enforcement.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-12
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Murder Goes to College
Overview: The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the underworld trying to “beat the numbers-racket” with applied mathematics. One of the professors, Tom Barry is murdered in the Dean’s office.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-24
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The Girl from Calgary
Overview: A French-Canadian girl is a champion bronc rider and is also a nightclub singer. An ambitious young man sees her act one night and is struck by her talent, realizing that she is good enough to become a Broadway star. He convinces her to accompany him to New York, where she indeed does become a Broadway star. However, the young man finds himself being squeezed out by greedy Broadway producers who see the talented young girl as their own personal gold mine.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-23
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Cracked Nuts
Overview: A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked attorney and two con men...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-02
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One More Spring
Overview: Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
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Melody for Three
Overview: Dr. Christian takes an interest in a young boy, a violin prodigy, whose mother is a divorced music teacher. His interest isn't just in the boy's music career--he believes it would be best for the boy to have his parents back together, and sets out to do just that.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-19
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Love Affair
Overview: A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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Servants' Entrance
Overview: Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda falls in love with humble chauffeur Eric Landstrom.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-25
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Puddin' Head
Overview: On the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Harold L. Montgomery, Sr. discovers that he gave the wrong survey to the builders...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-25
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The Iron Master
Overview: The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the foreman of his foundry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-04
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Hit Parade of 1943
Overview: When amateur songwriter Jill Wright moves from the Midwest to New York City, she is dismayed to discover that Rick Farrell, the owner of Miracle Publishing Co., has claimed as his own the song she submitted to his company. One of the many films made at Republic with a year attached to the "Hit Parade" title, which came from the "Hit Parade" radio program sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-26
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Gangs of Chicago
Overview: A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-18
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The Westland Case
Overview: A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-30
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The Leather Pushers
Overview: A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle prize. He later regrets his actions, however, when the boxer becomes an honest champion.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-13
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Mystery Liner
Overview: Police try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-15
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All of Me
Overview: A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-01
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Accent on Youth
Overview: A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-23
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Star for a Night
Overview: Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-28
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Meet the Missus
Overview: Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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Venus Makes Trouble
Overview: A fast-talking, street-wise con-man forsakes the tank-towns of Pennsylvania for the greener pastures in Manhattan, and gains fame-and-fortune as New York City's number one merchandise promoter. A model and a society girl provide some complications along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-14
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Flying Hostess
Overview: The story of the training and adventures of several airline stewardesses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Overview: Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-22
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Woman-Wise
Overview: A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-22
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Hat Check Girl
Overview: Gerry Marsh is a hat-check girl in a nightclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and others before she falls in love with millionaire playboy Buster Collins. Gerry is supported by her girlfriend Jessie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-08
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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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West of Broadway
Overview: A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry him, and weds an admitted gold-digger he's just met after a night of drinking and partying.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-28
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