Lona Andre
Also Known As: Launa Anderson, Lona André
Biography: From Wikipedia Lona Andre (March 2, 1915 – September 18, 1992) was an American film actress. Born Launa Anderson in Nashville, Tennessee, Andre attracted attention with her first films in Hollywood and was named as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1932. After winning the Paramount Panther Woman Contest, she was signed to a movie contract by Paramount Pictures. When Paramount did not renew her option, Andre worked as a freelance artist. During the 1930s she appeared frequently in films, usually as the lead in "B" pictures, and by the end of the decade had starred in more than fifty films. In 1934 Andre was part of the cast of School For Girls along with Toby Wing, Lois Wilson, Sidney Fox, and Dorothy Lee and in 1936 appeared alongside Laurel and Hardy in their feature film Our Relations. In June 1935, Andre eloped to Santa Barbara, California to marry MGM actor Edward Norris. Andre filed for an annulment action four days after her marriage in Tijuana, Mexico. She was later married to salesman, James T. Bolling, and was divorced from him in March 1947. In 1938 Andre set a world's golfing record for women by shooting 156 holes of golf in 11 hours and 56 minutes on the Lake Norconian, California course. Her best round was 91 for 18 holes and her worst was 115. Her acting career was greatly diminished during the 1940s, and she made her last film appearance in 1949 in Two Knights From Brooklyn. After her film career ended she became a successful businesswoman and never returned to acting. She was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: March 02, 1915
Age: 110 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: September 18, 1992
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Our Relations
Overview: Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-15
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Pilot X
Overview: Aircraft are being shot down by a large black plane with a big "X" painted on the wing. The chief suspects are invited for the weekend to an old dark mansion.
Genres: Action Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
Overview: Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of contemporary comedians. Hosted by Dom DeLuise.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-05
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One Run Elmer
Overview: Elmer owns a gas station out in the California desert. Soon he has a business rival in Jim, who opens up another station, and is also trying to steal Elmer's girlfriend. She plays both rivals against the other and, because she is a baseball fan, both Elmer and Jim try to show each other up in the big local baseball game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-22
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The Timid Young Man
Overview: Milton, a disappointed romantic, has sworn off women. He gives a lift to a female hitchhiker, whom he happily discovers is also a hurt soul and has sworn off men. Their trip together runs into interference from an aggressive driver who later reappears after the two have set up camp. He starts putting the moves on the woman, but when Milton's ex-girlfriend shows up, she gets into a fight with the interloper and gives Milton and his new pal the chance to slip away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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Three on a Limb
Overview: Scoutmaster Elmer Brown loses his heart to the pretty carhop who works in a drive-in diner. Complicating his romantic longings is her policeman fiancé. When he tries to eliminate Elmer by giving him traffic tickets for every conceivable violation, the girl takes pity on the martyred Elmer and they drive off together. She informs him that she is also fending off another suitor, Oscar; and to make matters worse, her father is backing the cop while her mother promotes Oscar. Eventually all three men wind up competing for her hand at a chaotic wedding ceremony that ends with Elmer winning his beloved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-03
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Slaves in Bondage
Overview: Mary Lou manages to escape abduction by a prostitution ring. She tells the Chief of Detectives they were planning to take her to the Berrywood road house, a well-known den of iniquity. Jim Murray and beautician Belle Harris are using her beauty shop to recruit floozies for their road house circuit. Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon, is falling in love with young reporter wanna-be Phillip, but Murray gets jealous and makes life rough for him. Meanwhile Dona begins to figure out the racket, but becomes threatened by Murray's unwanted advances.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-24
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Sunset Murder Case
Overview: Small-time showgirl poses as a stripper to infiltrate a nightclub whose owner is believed responsible for her father's murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-11
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Lucky Terror
Overview: A sharpshooter in a traveling sideshow is falsely accused of murdering a local miner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-20
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College Humor
Overview: A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
Genres: Action Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-05
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Happiness C.O.D.
Overview: A young man, hard-pressed to pay off his mortgage and support his family, decides that he'll get money any way he can--honestly or otherwise.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-14
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High Hat
Overview: An opera singer whose career is on the wane finds newfound fame doing popular songs on the radio.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Confessions of a Vice Baron
Overview: On the eve of his execution, a vice-rackets bigshot recalls his various exploits in crimes such as abortion and white slavery, in which he frequently operated under an alias.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-30
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By Your Leave
Overview: A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-09
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Custer's Last Stand
Overview: Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous historical incident.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-02
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Trailing Trouble
Overview: When mild mannered Friendly Fields is sent to the Blair ranch to work, he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw Blackie Burke. When a drought develops and the ranchers look for new grazing land, he plays the part and forces them to give he best plot to his boss Miss Blair. But no sooner than his mother arrives to expose the hoax, the real Blackie also arrives.
Genres: Comedy Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-27
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Gobs of Trouble
Overview: Two sailors decide to settle down and get married, and live to regret it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-12
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Woman Unafraid
Overview: A dedicated and compassionate policewoman risks her job by offering refuge to a young mother with mob associations. Crime drama.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-27
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Two Heads on a Pillow
Overview: A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-02
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Too Much Harmony
Overview: A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-23
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Skybound
Overview: Captain John Kent is a pilot in charge of the border patrol. Two crooks who head up a smuggling operation, Morley and his associate Faber, are trying to outwit Kent. The smugglers hope that they can influence Kent's younger brother Doug to help them, and they employ an attractive singer in an attempt to win Doug over.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-22
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International House
Overview: Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-27
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The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Overview: Compilation of the mismatched but immortal pair's various films and shorts.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-14
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Murder at the Vanities
Overview: Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack is offering to let him see the show from an unusual viewpoint after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered woman and Bill immediately suspects Eric of the crime.
Genres: Music Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-18
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The Merry Widow
Overview: A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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The Old-Fashioned Way
Overview: The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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Let’s Be Ritzy
Overview: Complications ensue when a young married couple pretend to be something they're not.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-01
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The Woman Accused
Overview: Jeffrey and Glenda are two lovers about to embark on a three-day cruise to nowhere. Their plan is to be married on board by the ship's captain. As Glenda is packing to leave, she receives a threatening phone call from her obsessed, former lover Leo. Glenda confronts Leo and tells him that it's over. Leo, a high-powered attorney calls a hit man to have Jeffrey eliminated. Glenda knocks Leo over the head before he can give the hit man a name. Leo is dead. Glenda sneaks back into her apartment, goes off on the cruise with Jeffrey and pretends that all is swell. Leo's partner, Stephen Bessemer, suspects Glenda and follows her to the ship. Bessemer stages a mock trial aboard the ship and cleverly draws a confession from Glenda. Jeffrey, also an attorney, represents Glenda when she is arrested upon arriving on shore. A skeptical district attorney, and the fact that Jeffrey horsewhips the star witness (the hit man), combine to get Glenda completely off the hook.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-17
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Pick-up
Overview: The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-24
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Border Brigands
Overview: Canadian Mountie goes undercover to catch his brother's killers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-31
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The Girl in 419
Overview: A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-26
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Take a Chance
Overview: Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair of pickpockets, played on Broadway by Jack Haley and Sid Silvers and on film by James Dunn and Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-25
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Ghost Valley Raiders
Overview: Donald Barry, not yet Donald "Red" Barry, heads the cast of the Republic western Ghost Valley Raiders. A federal marshal, Barry is assigned to put an end to the activities of a stagecoach-robbery gang. That's why he spends most of the film pretending to be an outlaw himself. Stunt specialist Yakima Canutt plays a secondary villain, and also doubles for Barry in the dicier action scenes.
Genres: Western Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-23
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Custer's Last Stand
Overview: The feature length version of the serial by the same name. A mystical medicine arrow, the key to a lost gold treasure, is lost in one of many Indian attacks. It is recovered by the only two survivors, a Major and his daughter, who become the targets of those who wish to possess it. General George Armstrong Custer and army scout Kid Cardigan attempt to stop the ensuing war over the arrow, but fail in their efforts, which becomes the historic Custer's Last Stand.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-02
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The Case of the Baby-Sitter
Overview: The baby sitter is none other than veteran Hollywood tough guy Tom Neal. A private detective, Neal is hired to keep an eye on the child of married couple George Meeker and Rebel Randall. Actually, Meeker and Randall are jewel thieves, and their "baby" is their stolen loot. Neal eventually catches on when he realizes that this is the quietest child on earth. Running a scant 41 minutes, Case of the Baby Sitter was designed to be shown in tandem with another Screen Guild Productions "briefie," The Hat Box Mystery: the films were shot back to back, with Tom Neal and Pamela Blake starring in both.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-26
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Come On, Marines!
Overview: "Lucky" Davis, a ladies-man and a devil-may-care U. S. Marine Sergeant, is leading a Marine-squadron on an expedition through a Phillipine jungle where an outlaw bandit is leading a guerilla-war rebellion. Their assignment is to rescue a group of children from an island mission that has been cut off from all communication. It comes as a bit of a surprise when Davis discovers that the "children" are a group of 18-25 year-old girls blissfully bathing in a pool while awaiting rescue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-23
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Race Suicide
Overview: A District Attorney decides to go after a doctor who is targeting young women and talking them into having illegal abortions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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The Great Hospital Mystery
Overview: A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-14
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Pardon My Sarong
Overview: A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-07
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School for Girls
Overview: After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-22
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Confessions of a Vice Baron
Overview: On the eve of his execution, a vice-rackets bigshot recalls his various exploits in crimes such as abortion and white slavery, in which he frequently operated under an alias.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-30
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The Mysterious Rider
Overview: The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles to their land. When Harkness gets a better offer, he steals Benton's receipt for the money and Benton is jailed. To fight back, Benton escapes jail at night to become the Phantom.
Genres: Western Action Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-30
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Lost in the Stratosphere
Overview: Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries. But when one of the pilots loses a girl he really cared for, he cannot forgive his friend. Soon afterwards, they must work together on their most dangerous mission yet.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-14
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You're the One
Overview: 100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-19
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A Night at Earl Carroll's
Overview: Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, the defeated racketeer-politician, has Earl Carroll and several of his acts kidnapped, figuring the kidnapping coup will cause Jones to be laughed out of office. In Carroll's absence his assistant, Ramona Lisa, and his press agent, Barney Nelson put on the show themselves with the remaining talent, the chorus girls and also pressing into the entertainment cigarette girls, cloakroom girls, the doorman and others including oil heiresses Brenda Gusher and Cobina Gusher. Carroll and the other prisoners make their escape when a kidnapped juggling act sends their captors down in a barrage of beer bottles.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-06
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