Kenneth MacKenna
Also Known As: Leo Mielziner Jr., Leo Mielziner
Biography: Kenneth MacKenna (born Leo Mielziner Jr.) was an American actor and film director.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Canterbury, New Hampshire, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: August 19, 1899
Age: 125 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 15, 1962
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Judgment at Nuremberg
Overview: In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-18
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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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Those We Love
Overview: Director Robert Florey's 1932 melodrama about a woman who suspects her husband of infidelity stars Mary Astor, Kenneth MacKenna, Tommy Conlon, Lilyan Tashman, Hale Hamilton, Cecil Cunningham and Virginia Sale.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-11
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Men Without Women
Overview: Made during the early days of sound cinema, this tense submarine adventure is an intriguing example of a hybrid silent-talkie. A disgraced English sub commander changes his name to Burke and joins the American Navy. When the U.S. submarine on which he is serving as a torpedo launcher begins to sink, Burke must make the ultimate sacrifice to save as many crew men as possible..
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-08
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The Man Who Came Back
Overview: A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-11
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13 West Street
Overview: Walt Sherill is attacked and beat down by a group of juvenile delinquents on his way home from work one night. The boys who attacked him are not previously known by the police and are therefore hard to track down. As Sherill starts getting impatient he begins his own investigation. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Koleski does his best to track down the culprits.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-23
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Sin Takes a Holiday
Overview: Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from ugly duckling to uninhibited swan and even contemplates having an affair with a man she meets during a trip to Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-10
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The Virtuous Sin
Overview: Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-24
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Miss Bluebeard
Overview: Director Frank Tuttle's 1925 silent mistaken-identity comedy, adapted from the 1923 play "Little Miss Bluebeard", stars Bebe Daniels.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-26
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Man Trouble
Overview: A hard-boiled nightclub owner saves a beautiful young girl from drowning. He promptly falls in love with her, but she prefers a younger, more-genteel lover.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-24
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Sensation Hunters
Overview: Dale Jordan is first accepted by the aristocratic first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pacific liner until they discover she is a member of a troupe of cabaret girls led by Trixie Snell en route for the Bull Ring Cabaret in Panama City.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-30
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Temple Tower
Overview: The film depicts the character of Bulldog Drummond, a British adventurer and is based on the novel Temple Tower by Herman Cyril McNeile. Bulldog Drummond goes up against a group of jewel thieves led by Blackton and a Masked Strangler they double-crossed who wants revenge.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-12
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South Sea Rose
Overview: A French girl raised in the south seas is brought to prim and proper New England by her New England born and bred sea captain husband. She wears short skirts and shocks the puritanical New Englanders in her new home with her wild candid ways...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-09
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A Kiss in the Dark
Overview: Based on a Frederick Lonsdale Broadway play.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-06
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The American Venus
Overview: A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most competitive rival in the cosmetics business. Chip Armstrong, a hot-shot public relations man, quits the employ of Hugo Niles and goes to work for Gray, persuading Mary to enter the Miss America contest at Atlantic City, with the intention of using her to endorse her father's cold cream should she win. Mary breaks her engagement with Horace. When it appears that she will win the contest, Hugo lures her home on the pretext that her father is ill, and she misses the contest. Chip and Mary return to Atlantic City, discovering that the new Miss America has told the world that she owes all her success to Gray's cold cream. On this note, Chip and Mary decide to get married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-31
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The Lunatic at Large
Overview: Offering a ride to a millionaire, Sam Smith (Leon Errol) agrees to trade places with his passenger for financial reasons. Only when the men in the white coats put the collar on him does Sam realize that the "millionaire" was actually an escaped mental patient.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-02
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Crazy That Way
Overview: Young heiress Ann Jordan and her fiancè Frank Oakes would be happy except for the constant appearance of Robert Metcalf, who follows her or them everywhere. This continues into their time at the country club, even interfering with tennis games. The two boys are constantly arguing, and Ann grows weary of them both, and after a knock down, drag out fight that destroys the Jordan garden, they realize she has fallen for an older man, Jack Gardner, an engineering friend of her father.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-20
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