Henry Slate
Also Known As: Henry Sonken
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: June 15, 1910
Deathday: August 11, 1996
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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You're in the Navy Now
Overview: When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teakettle's veterans will afford him enough help to accomplish the ship's goals. Unfortunately, he finds the crew and its officers share his novice status or only have experience in diesel engines.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-23
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Rhubarb
Overview: Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-29
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Miss Sadie Thompson
Overview: Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she manages to stir up the blood of every marine on the base.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-23
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Winged Victory
Overview: Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involved in becoming pilots. Not all of them succeed, and tragedy awaits for some.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-22
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Looking for Love
Overview: An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-05
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Loan Shark
Overview: A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factory suffer violence at the hands of the loan sharkers, a union leader and the factory owner try to recruit ex-con Joe Gargan to infiltrate to the gang. At first Joe does not want to get involved, but changes his mind when his brother-in-law dies at the hands of a savage loan shark hood. Joe works his way into the mob, but in order to keep his cover, Joe can't tell anyone what he is up to. This results in him being disowned by his sister and girl friend.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-23
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Murphy's Romance
Overview: Emma, a divorced single mother seeking to start her life over, moves to a small town in Arizona. She befriends Murphy, the older local pharmacist, but things turn complicated when her ex-husband shows up.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-25
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Stop, You're Killing Me
Overview: With the end of Prohibition a former bootlegger and his wife attempt to go straight. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-10
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My Sister Eileen
Overview: Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They find an apartment, but fame and fortune are a lot more elusive. Ruth gets the attention of playboy publisher Bob Baker when she submits a story about her gorgeous sister Eileen. She tries to keep his attention by convincing him that she and the gorgeous, man-getting Eileen are one and the same person.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-22
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He Laughed Last
Overview: A 1920s chorus girl inherits a slain gangster's empire.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-12
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The Shootist
Overview: Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son. However, it is not Books' fate to die in peace, as he becomes embroiled in one last valiant battle.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-21
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Norma Rae
Overview: Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-02
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Three Sailors and a Girl
Overview: A group of sailors invest in a musical revue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-23
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Somebody Loves Me
Overview: Backstage musical biography of nightclub star Blossom Seeley that charts her rocky relationship with vaudeville singer Benny Fields.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-24
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The Frogmen
Overview: The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over the death of their former commander and resentful of the new one.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-25
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O. Henry's Full House
Overview: Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-07
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Bloodhounds of Broadway
Overview: A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird, Emily Ann Stackerlee , he'll do anything to help her make it big -- including a stint in jail to pay for his crimes. But will the tough guy's sacrifice of the heart pay off when it comes to his girlfriend's singing career?
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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Three for the Show
Overview: This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late husband's songwriting partner, Gower Champion, but the new marriage is thrown for a loop when Lemmon, her first husband, turns up very much alive and eager to see Grable.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-24
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Hey Boy! Hey Girl!
Overview: Meant primarily as TV fare, this standard, song-filled romantic drama stars Louis Prima as himself, and his real-life wife Keely Smith as Dorothy Spencer, a devout woman with a good singing voice. Dorothy is active in her local parish which like all parishes, is constantly thinking of ways to raise funds. One of the needy projects is a boys' camp, so when Dorothy is approached by Louis Prima to sing with his band she agrees only on one condition -- that he perform a concert benefit for the parish church and boys' camp. The interactions between Dorothy and Prima lead toward romance and a happy ending, as well as a popular album with the same title song featured in this film. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi (NY Times Review).
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-05
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The Cat from Outer Space
Overview: A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that gives it special powers, including the ability to communicate with humans, has eluded the authorities and seeks the help of a scientist in order to reclaim and repair his ship and get back home.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-09
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Overview: A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-08
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Meet Me in Las Vegas
Overview: Chuck Rodwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't like to hold hands with him, at least not in the beginning...
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-09
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The Last Ninja
Overview: A successful art dealer is sought out by law enforcement after terrorists take some scientists hostage. Finding no possible solution, a law enforcement agent approaches the dealer (Beck). Mr. Cosmo, the agent believes the dealer to be linked to the ninja responsible for tracking down criminals and serving them justice. Mr. Cosmo hopes that the ninja's seemingly supernatural skills will remedy this impossible hostage situation.
Genres: TV Movie Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-07
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The Jazz Singer
Overview: A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-14
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Rock Around the Clock
Overview: A frustrated big-band promoter runs in to rock-and-rollers Bill Haley and the Comets at a small-town dance. He quickly becomes their manager and, with the help of Alan Freed, hopes to bring the new sound to the entire country. But will a conniving booking agent, with a personal ax to grind with the manager, conspire to keep the band from making the big time?
Genres: Drama Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-21
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No Deposit, No Return
Overview: Two rich children devise a way to escape their grandfather and visit their mother. Unfortunately for two hapless safe crackers, they become part of the plan.
Genres: Comedy Family Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-05
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Hit the Deck
Overview: Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-24
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Three for the Show
Overview: This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late husband's songwriting partner, Gower Champion, but the new marriage is thrown for a loop when Lemmon, her first husband, turns up very much alive and eager to see Grable.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-24
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Pickup on South Street
Overview: In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-27
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Bus Stop
Overview: Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to take Cherie back to his native Montana and marry her, but she dreams of traveling to Hollywood and becoming famous. When she resists his advances, Decker forces Cherie onto the bus back to Montana with him, but, when the bus makes an unscheduled stop due to bad weather, the tables are turned.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-31
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The Patsy
Overview: When a star comedian dies, his comedy team decides to train a 'nobody' to play the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man chosen, bellboy Stanley Belt (Lewis), can't do anything right. The TV show is getting closer, and Stanley is getting worse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-24
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Beyond Reason
Overview: An unconventional psychiatrist slowly begins to question his own sanity.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-26
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