Barbara Kent
Also Known As: Barbara Cloutman
Biography: Canadian born Barbara Kent (born Barbara Cloutman), who resettled, with her family, in California in 1913, was an actress in Hollywood films from 1926 to 1942.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Gadsby, Alberta, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: December 16, 1907
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 13, 2011
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Feet First
Overview: An ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-30
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His Destiny
Overview: Wrongfully convicted rancher Jack Bowen (Neal Hart), imprisoned through the machinations of Dick Thompson (William Quinn), escapes from prison just as the warden (Charles Wellesley) is about to pardon him. Caught after rescuing the warden’s daughter, Betty (Barbara Kent) from her runaway carriage, Bowen is released despite the escape attempt and moves to Calgary to compete in the Stampede. Thompson tries to have Bowen killed during the competition but failing that takes Betty as a hostage and flees. Bowen, Betty’s father and others give chase.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-10
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Flesh and the Devil
Overview: When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-25
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Welcome Danger
Overview: A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-12
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Indiscreet
Overview: A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-25
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Lonesome
Overview: Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-20
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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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Swellhead
Overview: Baseball player Terry McCall is a very good baseball player, who doesn't mind bragging about his skills on the baseball diamond and also his off-the-field skills at wooing and winning women. An accident causes his luck to turn bad and results in him turning blind, but he later regains his sight after being instrumental in saving the life of Mickey Malone, the team's young mascot. He then promises Mary Malone, Mickey's sister, for whose affection he has been competing with a teammate, that he is through showing off and bragging. But, in the end, he is still blowing smoke.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-04
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Chinatown After Dark
Overview: The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-15
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Vanity Fair
Overview: An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-15
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The Shakedown
Overview: The life of a less-than successful professional boxer changes when he takes in an orphan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-09
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No Man's Law
Overview: A wild stallion (Rex the Wonder Horse) becomes the protector of a prospector and his foster daughter as two thugs plot to steal their claim.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-01
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The Pride of the Legion
Overview: After suffering a traumatic injury, a policeman resigns from the force and, after he's saved from a suicide attempt, goes to work at a café frequented by gangsters.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-17
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The Drop Kick
Overview: College football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when he pays an innocent visit to a woman whose husband kills himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-25
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Her Forgotten Past
Overview: A compulsive gambler, thought to have been killed in an automobile crash, reappears when his wife remarries.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-01
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Dumb-bells in Ermine
Overview: In a small town in Virginia, Faith Corey, daughter of a socially prominent family, meets and falls in love with Jerry Malone, a prizefighter, though her straitlaced mother wants her to marry Siegfried, a spellbinding "missionary reformer." Though Grandma Corey promotes the romance with the prizefighter, Mike, the fighter's hardboiled, wisecracking manager, tries to keep them apart; following a quarrel, Faith reconciles herself to marrying Siegfried, but when he invites a group of "weak sisters" to a revival meeting, he is disgraced when one accuses him of her downfall. Finally, with Mike's advice, Jerry wins back Faith and they are united with the family's blessings.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-10
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Grief Street
Overview: A reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who is found strangled to death in his theater dressing room with its door and window locked from the inside.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-01
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Guard That Girl
Overview: Attorney Joshua Scranton hires "Budge" Edwards and Larry Donovan, who has just bought into Edwards' detective agency, to protect Estelle Hudson, a client of his who is to inherit three-million dollars the next Thursday. He tells them he has reason to believe the girl is in danger from five relatives who stand to benefit from her death.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-02
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Beauty Parlor
Overview: Film follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by a true gentleman of means, the other of whom lets herself become a pawn of operators of a call-girl ring.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-15
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Old Man Rhythm
Overview: Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-02
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The Small Bachelor
Overview: What must a man do in order to put an end to his bachelorhood? For George Finch, one of nature's white mice and probably the worst artist ever to put brush to canvas, there are many obstacles. Undoubtedly the greatest is his beloved Molly's fearsome stepmother, Mrs. Waddington, who has her eye on an eligible English lord for a son-in-law. Luckily, George has an ally in sharp-witted Hamilton Beamish, an old family friend of the Waddingtons, not to mention George's butler, Mullett, and his light-fingered girlfriend, Fanny, whose valuable skills are of particular interest to the would-be father-in-law.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-06
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The Night Ride
Overview: Just after newsman Rooker and Ruth Kearns are married he covers a double murder during a bank robbery. Cigarettes at the scene implicate gangster Tony Garotta. Garotta kidnaps Rooker and another reporter, intending to kill them.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-12
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Freighters of Destiny
Overview: A young man seeks vengeance on the outlaws who killed his father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-29
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Blondie Meets the Boss
Overview: Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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Reckless Decision
Overview: The teenage daughter of a puritanical Reverend promises him she will not marry until she is older, but after a night of heavy drinking she wakes up to find she has a husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Oliver Twist
Overview: An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-28
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Under Age
Overview: Fresh out of reform school, a bunch of delinquent girls fall in with a gang of crooks and are put to work as "hostesses" in a number of mob-controlled bars and cafes. The girls are expected to string along male customers so that the latter will squander their money on watered-down drinks and fixed poker games. When one gullible New Yorker is clipped to the tune of $18,000 worth of diamonds, the Law closes in.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-23
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That's My Daddy
Overview: A wealthy bachelor lies his way out of a speeding ticket by telling the cops he's on his way to visit his baby girl in hospital - ever helpful, they accompany him whereupon a little girl attaches herself to him, with hilarious results.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-19
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Self Defense
Overview: Katy Devoux runs a gambling-drinking joint in British Columbia. She is a fair-playing business woman, but is ashamed of the source of her income, so she has had her daughter Nona raised in the states. Jeff Bowman, an unprincipled scoundrel and business rival, arranges for her daughter to come to town in hope of bringing shame to the mother. He overplays his hand and is killed by Tim Reed, a faithful retainer of Katy's and in love with Nona. The plea is self defense.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-15
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The Fleet's In
Overview: Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-24
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What Men Want
Overview: A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-12
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No Living Witness
Overview: An assistant district attorney tries to stop his girlfriend's father from being swindled out of his money by a crooked lawyer in a racetrack scam.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-13
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The Lone Eagle
Overview: During WWI to prove his mettle against a charge of cowardice to everyone including his girl Mimi, American pilot Lieutenant Billy Holmes accepts an assignment with the Royal Flying Corps. He downs a German aircraft piloted by the brother of squadron leader Lebrun. Out of bitterness Lebrun challenges him to a dogfight from which Billy emerges victorious restoring his lustre and reputation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-18
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Prowlers of the Night
Overview: Sheriff Jack Norton is badly wounded in a gun battle with bandits and is helped by Anita Parsons, the daughter, as he later learns, of the bandit leader. Torn between his love for the girl and his devotion to duty, Jack decides the latter is too strong to resist.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-21
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