Jesse De Vorska
Also Known As: Jesse Dvorska, Jess Devorska, Jesse Divorsky
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kovno, Russian Empire [now Kaunas, Lithuania]
Adult: No
Birthday: July 13, 1898
Age: 126 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 27, 1999
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The Last Parade
Overview: During the war two friends love the same nurse. After the war one becomes a detective, the other a racketeer.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-31
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Blessed Event
Overview: A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-10
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Wine, Women and Song
Overview: The story of aging chorus girl Frankie Arnette, who'll do anything for publicity. Fiercely ambitious, Frankie even promises that if she is given a leading role in an upcoming Broadway musical, prominent producer Morgan Andrews will be allowed to enjoy the "attentions" of her own daughter Marilyn. But Marilyn is in love with likeable Ray Joyce, and wants no part of her mother's intrigues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-27
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Why Girls Say No
Overview: A short comedy by Leo McCarey about a Jewish father who is worried about his daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-21
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Goldie
Overview: Sailor Spike dates girls whose names he finds in an address book. Each girl has the same tatoo, placed there by another sailor Bill. When Spike meets Bill they become friends. In Calais Spike meets Goldie. Bill warns him against her, but Spike ignores the warning until he finds Bill's tatoo on Goldie as well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-27
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The Spider
Overview: Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe’s clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant? After the police restrain the audience from leaving, Lowe uses his magical powers to help expose the killer. Watch for the terrific séance scene where weird ghost-like creatures float above the stage.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-23
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Transatlantic
Overview: As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe heads the cast as Monty Greer, a suave gambler who falls in love with Judy, the daughter of immigrant lens grinder Rudolph Kramer. In trying to recover some valuable securities stolen from banker Henry Graham, Greer finds himself in the middle of a fierce gun battle in the ship's engine room. Meanwhile, Graham, who has been cheating on his wife Kay with sexy dancer Sigrid Carline, is murdered by person or persons unknown.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-19
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Call the Wagon
Overview: Young Dick is pursuing pretty young Mary, but so are a lot of other young men. Dick decides to impersonate her butler and uses that position to keep all of Mary's suitors out of the house so he can work on her himself. When his ruse is discovered, he is thrown out of the house. That, however, doesn't stop him. He gets the maid to help him concoct a story about Mary actually being bald and having false teeth, hoping to drive them away. It works, but it doesn't quite have the effect he intended it to.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-30
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Don't Tell Everything
Overview: Max and his son Asher are invited to a party, where Max meets a rich widow, but Asher keeps annoying all of the guests, so Max refuses to speak to him. 10 days later he has married the widow, but hasn't told her about Asher. Asher doesn't like the situation either, and enters the home disguised as the new maid, that leeds to a growing suspicion of his step mother, who has her own little secret.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-02
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Dancers in the Dark
Overview: A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-11
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Bad Girl
Overview: A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-13
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Taxi!
Overview: Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-29
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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Overview: A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-28
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Ma's Pride and Joy
Overview: This Mack Sennett produced short has Donald Novis playing Danny O'Brien, a young singer whose mother takes him to a talent agent office where she demands that the owners listen to him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-14
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Around the Corner
Overview: 18-year-old Rosie Kaplan O'Grady was found as an abandoned baby by O'Grady, an Irish policeman, and Kaplan, a Jewish pawnbroker, and raised by them as their own. She is being courted by two men; prizefighter Terry Callahan and a rich socialite, Tommy Sinclair and has to choose between them.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-25
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Me and My Gal
Overview: Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-04
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