Franklin Pangborn
Also Known As: Joseph Franklin Pangborn, Franklyn Pangborn, Frank Pangborn
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Franklin Pangborn (January 23, 1889 – July 20, 1958) was an American comedic character actor famous for playing small but memorable roles with comic flair. He appeared in scores of feature films playing essentially the same character: prissy, polite, elegant, highly energetic, often officious, fastidious, somewhat nervous, prone to becoming flustered but essentially upbeat, and with immediately recognizable high-speed, patter-type speech. He typically played an officious desk clerk in a hotel, a self-important musician, a fastidious headwaiter, an enthusiastic birdwatcher, and the like, and was usually put in a situation of frustration or flustered by the antics of others. Pangborn was an effective foil for many major comedians.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Birthday: January 23, 1889
Deathday: July 20, 1958
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Bank Dick
Overview: Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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Reno or Bust
Overview: A scrapping married couple, Franklin Pangborn and Bernice Elliott, are going to Reno to get a divorce. They have a scheme in order to obtain cruelty against the husband for divorce grounds but, in the process, find out they don't really want a divorce.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-07
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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Overview: Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-04
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King Kelly of the U.S.A.
Overview: A theatrical troupe headed by a flashy showman finds itself in the tiny--and bankrupt--kingdom of Belgardia. The showman falls in love with the daughter of the dotty king, who has promised her to another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-15
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My Dream Is Yours
Overview: Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace him. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice. He arranges for her to move to Hollywood, but then has a problem trying to sell her to the show's sponsor. Doug tries every trick he can think of to make Martha a star, and as the two work more closely, he falls in love with her. Complicating matters further, Martha meets and becomes attracted to Garry.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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A Star Is Born
Overview: Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-27
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Overview: Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-09
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Overview: American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-25
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The Palm Beach Story
Overview: A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-28
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Now, Voyager
Overview: A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-22
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Christmas in July
Overview: An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-25
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Overview: Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beaten up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. W. C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-10
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George Washington Slept Here
Overview: New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, where George Washington was supposed to have actually slept during the American Revolution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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Hail the Conquering Hero
Overview: Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-09
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The Great Moment
Overview: The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-18
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Carefree
Overview: Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with him. When he tries to use hypnosis to strengthen her feelings for Steven, things get complicated.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-02
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Tillie the Toiler
Overview: While attending stenographer school, Tillie Jones meets office boy Mac, who falls in love with her at first sight. Though Tillie likes Mac as a friend, she continually throws him over for handsomer men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-07
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The Story of Mankind
Overview: The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-08
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Just Around the Corner
Overview: Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-11
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The Flame of New Orleans
Overview: In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-07
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Romance on the High Seas
Overview: Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-25
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Stage Door
Overview: The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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Fifth Avenue Girl
Overview: A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-22
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Sullivan's Travels
Overview: Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
Genres: Comedy Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-30
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Overview: Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast.
Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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The Mandarin Mystery
Overview: Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-23
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The Horn Blows at Midnight
Overview: A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-28
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Four's a Crowd
Overview: A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-04
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Easy Living
Overview: J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-16
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Topper Takes a Trip
Overview: Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs. Parkhurst takes Mrs. Topper on a trip to France where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce. With help of a gold-digging French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too easy.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-29
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Trying Out Torchy
Overview: The final entry in the Torchy short series starring Ray Cooke as things go wrong at a gathering.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-25
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Hollywood and Vine
Overview: A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-25
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Design for Living
Overview: An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-29
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The Half-Naked Truth
Overview: A carnival pitchman (Tracy) finagles his girlfriend, a fiery hoochie dancer (Vélez), into a major Broadway revue under the auspices of an impresario (Morgan).
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-16
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Reveille with Beverly
Overview: Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-04
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Swing High, Swing Low
Overview: In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub brawl which causes Maggie to miss her ship back to the States. Now stranded, she's forced to move in with Skid and his pal Harry. She soon falls in love with Skid. Skid gets a job playing the trumpet at a local club and becomes a big success. Fame and fortune go to his head which eventually destroys his relationship with Maggie and his career.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-12
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Cockeyed Cavaliers
Overview: Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-29
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I'll Be Yours
Overview: A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-02
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Blue of the Night
Overview: Starring Bing Crosby as himself in a short comedy/romance telling a tale of mistaken identity. Two-reeler; directed by Mack Sennett
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-13
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Broadway Serenade
Overview: A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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A Fool's Advice
Overview: An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-20
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Her Man
Overview: A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-21
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Danger – Love at Work
Overview: A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-30
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Calendar Girl
Overview: Around the turn of the century, two young men, Johnnie Bennett, a composer and Steve Adams, an artist, go to New York City to make their fortune. They both fall in love with the same girl, Patricia O'Neill. The artist paints a picture of her which outrages her father's sensibilities; but, as a result of the picture, she wins a chance to star in a Broadway play. She soon learns that the artist is just a trifler; and she turns to the composer, who loves her sincerely
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-31
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It Happened in Hollywood
Overview: A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-07
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Obliging Young Lady
Overview: A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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Holy Matrimony
Overview: An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-24
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Art in the Raw
Overview: Aspiring artist Edgar, with family in tow, relocates to Greenwich Village - according to his wife, mother-in-law, and brother-in-law the right environment for him to be inspired.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-23
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A Blonde for a Night
Overview: After an argument, a newlywed decides to test her husband's fidelity by disguising herself as a blonde.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-25
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Manhattan Love Song
Overview: After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe their chauffeur and maid back wages they are unable to pay. They're forced to let their former employees live in their luxury apartment in lieu of paying the money they owe them.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-29
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Menu
Overview: A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-23
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Tomorrow's Youth
Overview: A look at how his parents' divorce affects the life of a young boy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-14
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Tell It to a Star
Overview: Carol (Ruth Terry), the cigarette girl at a swank Palm Springs hotel, dreams of singing in the establishment's nightclub. She gets a chance when her well-to-do uncle, "Colonel" Morgan (Alan Mowbray), and a pal blow into town ... until their visit turns out to be a con job. Carol's voice impresses the bandleader (Robert Livingston), but the hotel manager (Franklin Pangborn), still smarting from Morgan's chicanery, isn't ready to give her a chance.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-16
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All Over Town
Overview: Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being haunted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-09
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Sweepings
Overview: Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-14
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Dream Stuff
Overview: Walter Catlett is the cousin to some squeaky voiced Dagwood Bumstead type who can't get a girl. Can he browbeat his cousin into swiping pretty girl from accomplished gunman, boxer, and horseman Franklin Pangborn (!?), or is that just DREAM STUFF?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-11
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My Friend from India
Overview: Wealthy young man about town, Tommy Valentine (Franklin Pangborn) comes to the aid of Barbara Smith (Elinor Fair). But before he can learn anything about Barbara, her social climbing Aunt Bedelia (Ethel Wales), whisks her away. On a mission to "find the girl," Tommy looks for her everywhere. He unknowingly befriends her brother Charlie, who invites him to spend the evening in Smith's palatial home. The next morn Aunt Bedelia finds Tommy with his head wrapped in a towel and assumes him to be the Hindu prince that Charlie promised to bring to her society party. Introduced to all as a Prince from Calcutta, Tommy is forced to see the charade through. But the local con-man Charlie had previously arranged to appear at the party as the Prince shows up as well. At least Tommy is able to reconnect with Barbara, that is until the police show up with orders to arrest all fake fakirs.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-18
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The Loud Mouth
Overview: Del Lord, famous director of the Three Stooges shorts, directed this story of one man in various comical vignettes playing the "loud mouth" - a guy who can't keep a secret and is always getting himself in trouble with everyone he comes in contact with by shouting out his opinions and criticizing strangers to their face.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-16
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A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Overview: Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-14
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Cradle Snatchers
Overview: To cure their flirtatious husbands of consorting with flappers, three wives-- Susan Martin, Ethel Drake, and Kitty Ladd-- arrange with three college boys-- Henry Winton, Oscar, and Joe Valley-- to flirt with them at a house party. Joe Valley, who poses as a hot-blooded Spaniard, is vamped by Ginsberg in female attire, and Oscar, a bashful Swede, uses caveman methods when aroused. During a rehearsal of the party, the three husbands arrive, followed by their flapper friends, leading to comic complications.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-28
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The Girl Downstairs
Overview: A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-23
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Hats Off
Overview: The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo Allen. Both have been assigned to stir up publicity for separate expositions at the 1936 Texas Centennial (newsreel footage of which predominates throughout the film's short running time). To throw Jimmy off the track, Jo pretends to be a schoolteacher, but by the time the ruse has been revealed, the two leading characters have fallen in love.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-05
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Not So Dumb
Overview: Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she's not so dumb after all.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-02
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Tango
Overview: Believing his wife to be unfaithful, a husband deserts her and his child. Destitute, the woman is forced to take a job as a tango dancer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-13
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The Chumps
Overview: When the story begins, a newly married couple (Franklin Pangborn and Marjorie Beebe) board a train for their honeymoon. Soon they make friends with what they THINK is a nice couple...not realizing they are card sharps. They crooks are spotted on the train and are warned NOT to take advantage of other passengers...so they invite the couple to their home in order to fleece them. Does the plan go as the crooks planned?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-16
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Jimmy's New Yacht
Overview: A young lady is wooed by two men
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-03
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Torchy Passes the Buck
Overview: Torchy (Ray Cooke) is an office boy....sort of like a secretary that does a variety of tasks for the boss. Well, when the boss is out one day, a friend of Torchy's has friends come to see him. Torchy wants his friend to make a great impression, so he sneaks him into the boss' office and has him pose as the boss! Soon, however, the boss arrives but instead of exposing the ruse, he goes along with it. But he also convinces Torchy to do a job for him...to sneak some venison past the game warden. It seems the boss wants to serve it to friends and win some odd bet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-06
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Torchy Turns the Trick
Overview: When he bother can't take Dorothy Dix to a fancy dinner, office boy Ray Cooke escorts her. He also has a chance to win a contract for the business by reuniting a visiting prince with his declasse sweetheart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-07
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Torchy
Overview: Fired from his job as office boy, Torchy gets involved with a phony gold mine promoter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-04
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Torchy's Night Cap
Overview: Ray Cooke is Torchy the Office boy, told to deliver a letter; through a series of accidents, he winds up with the letter torn and can't explain it to his boss because reason. Later, he tries to help two friends elope, which eventually brings us back to the first sequence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-03
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Torchy's Two Toots
Overview: When his boss goes out of town on a big deal and leaves important securities behind, it's up to office boy Ray Cooke to get them to him tout suite.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-06
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Torchy Raises the Auntie
Overview: Ray Cooke's employer needs to raise $100,000 to retain control of his company. He hopes to get them from his cousins. When the old ladies show up, they are sent to a restaurant with office manager Franklin Pangborn, his daughter, Dorothy Dix, and Cooke. Cooke and Miss Dix are having a dull time, but the restaurant has a supply of laughing gas, as restaurants apparently did back then, and its release causes the older people to become very silly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-01
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Torchy Rolls His Own
Overview: In the eighth of the series of short sound comedies, Ray Cooke as the office boy 'Torchy' is thought to be a whiz at polo -- don't ask; in these short comedies, people believe the most peculiar things because it serves the unimportant plot. Cooke, of course, has never been on a horse so we have comedy sequences of him preparing for the big match, and his inevitable triumph which will offend those who hold polo so dear..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-20
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Torchy's Busy Day
Overview: Edmund Breese, Ray Cooke's boss, is trying to buy a sausage factory. However, the cash hasn't come through, so he sends an insulting telegram to the owner. This ends in the two of them playing a round of office gold to see whether the payment gets made in cash or stock.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-02
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Torchy's Kitty Coup
Overview: Dot Farley is throwing a benefit for cats but hasn't any. This means she calls up her husband, Edmund Breese, to bring some. He being busy with business deputes the job to Franklin Pangborn. Pangborn gets office boy Ray Cooke, and in no time at all, Breese has fleas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-22
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Torchy's Loud Spooker
Overview: When the story begins, you learn that Torchy's boss has a problem with his blood pressure and the doctor recommends he take a rest. So, he plans on taking some of his staff with him to a mansion in Florida. However, one of his clients offers the use of his place and the boss accepts. Torchy doesn't like this, as the place is the old Link Estate...the same place where Mr. Link was murdered years ago!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-25
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Torchy Turns Turtle
Overview: One of those gangs of Arab spies who use to infest Wall Street in their colorful native costumes steals a super-secret bomb formula from Edmund Breese's safe. Naturally he blames his office boy, Ray Cooke. Breese's daughter, Marion Shockley, tells Torchy the way back into her father's graces is to join his lodge, the Turtles.... but they have rough initiations. She drives him to what they imagine is the lodge hall, which is where the Arab gang is waiting, expecting a master spy, for whom they mistake Cooke.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-23
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Professional Sweetheart
Overview: Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor and his nutty henchmen pick her a public-relations "sweetheart" from fan mail, who turns out to be a hayseed.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-09
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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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Lover Come Back
Overview: A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-21
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Flirtation
Overview: A naive farmer encounters a beautiful burlesque dancer on the streets of New York and agrees to pose as her husband during her mother's visit.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-09
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Weekend for Three
Overview: Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet Jim turns genuinely dismayed once Randy arrives and turns out to be an insufferable, boorish braggart with bad manners and little self-awareness. That dismay turns to outright annoyance when Jim realizes Randy thinks he has come to stay for the weekend. How much damage to a marriage can one unwanted guest do in the space of one weekend?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-12
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Tee for Two
Overview: A musical revue in which a golfer is knocked unconscious by a golf ball and dreams that the Country Club is loaded with beautiful girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-08
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Dangerous Holiday
Overview: A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-06
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She's Dangerous
Overview: A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-24
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Rich Relations
Overview: A secretary finds herself being romanced by a "ladies man". What she doesn't know is that it's her boss who really loves her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-01
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Doctor's Orders
Overview: Doctor's Orders is a 1932 comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-08
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Doctor Rhythm
Overview: Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-06
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It's All Yours
Overview: Jimmy Barnes arrives from Europe to be educated by his multi-millionaire uncle, Edward J. Barnes and in five years the extravagant escapes of Jimmy, now a lawyer, are the talk of San Francisco. Linda Gray is a mouse-like secretary to the elder Barnes who has fallen in love with Jimmy, but he favors actress Constance "Connie" Marlowe. Mr. Barnes dies and leaves everything to Linda but he has urged his partner, Alexander Duncan, to plan things so that Jimmy and Linda will get married. Coached by Duncan, Linda accepts the inheritance and announces that she is departing for New York on a wild spending spree. He tells Jimmy that the will can be broken but only after many months and he suggests that Jimmy follow Linda and curb her spending or there won't be any money left. In New York, Linda hires Jimmy as her private secretary. Connie also arrives in New York, as does the ingenious Baron Rene de Montigny with the intention of marrying the wealthy Miss Gray.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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Always Goodbye
Overview: Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is born, Jim helps her find a home for the baby with Phil Marshall and his wife. Margot insists that neither the Marshalls nor the child can ever know that she is his mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-24
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Cheer Up and Smile
Overview: When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especially his recent girlfriend, who just broke up with him, he becomes an overnight sensation.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-22
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Three Blind Mice
Overview: Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her staff.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-18
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Breakfast in Bed
Overview: A woman, affectionately called Blondie by her husband, hires a cook called Blondie by both her boyfriends. When all five end up in the house at the same time, romantic complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-16
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Spring Parade
Overview: In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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A Lady Surrenders
Overview: A wealthy industrialist's wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean trip. He thinks she's left him for good, so he marries another woman. When his first wife returns, complications ensue.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-06
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Over the Counter
Overview: In this musical short, the son of a department store owner replaces the regular sales girls with chorus girls.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-15
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You Came Along
Overview: War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with several girls in every town on the tour. After some amusing escapades, Bob and Ivy become romantically involved, agreeing it's "just fun up in the air." Then Ivy finds out the real reason why it shouldn't be anything more.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-04
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The Important Witness
Overview: A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and she is arrested for it.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-15
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Joy of Living
Overview: Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-06
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Overview: Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Getting Gertie's Garter
Overview: Attorney Ken Walrick, not quite realizing the difference between a garter and a bracelet, gives Gertie Darling a bejewelled garter with his photograph in miniature attached. But then he must cover his indiscretion by getting the garter back before his fiancee finds out.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-28
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Hollywood Victory Caravan
Overview: A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-30
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What Price Taxi
Overview: Ill-tempered Billy proves troublesome for fellow taxi drivers Franklin and Clyde.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-13
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Call Out the Marines
Overview: Two Marine sergeants (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe) flirt with a cafe girl (Binnie Barnes) in San Diego, then find out she's a spy.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-13
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The Captain Hits the Ceiling
Overview: Franklin gets into a disagreement with a tough sea captain. However, he doesn't find out until later that the captain is his fiance's father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-09
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Vivacious Lady
Overview: College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-13
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Easy on the Eyes
Overview: A Mack Sennett Talking Comedy, released through Paramount Pictures, starring Franklin Pangborn and featuring Dorothy Granger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-17
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She Married an Artist
Overview: Because Thornwood's portraits of comely model Sally Dennis are in such great demand, he is obliged to spend virtually all his time with Sally, which prompts Toni to seek retribution in divorce court.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-27
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A Woman of Experience
Overview: It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she will make an excellent spy.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-08
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Doughnuts and Society
Overview: Kate Flannagan and Belle Dugan operate a downtown coffee shop and, while dispensing their locally-famous doughnuts, engage in their favorite pastime, friendly quarreling between themselves. This changes when Belle suddenly becomes heir to a small fortune which allows her to crash high-society and make her daughter,Joan, a débutante. This creates a rift between the two former partners, with the result that the proud Kate refuses to accept her friend's good fortune nor allow her son, Jerry, who is in love with Joan, to do so.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-27
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The Life of the Party
Overview: A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-03
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Bed of Roses
Overview: A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-29
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Dangerous Number
Overview: Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave the groom-to-be and marry him. Shortly after the marriage, they discover that they have nothing in common. They separate. Hank decides to pick any name from the phone book and date them. That date results in a wild and frightful night for Hank, thanks to Eleanor's clever plan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-22
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Living on Love
Overview: A man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-12
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The Sap
Overview: A small town dimwit takes the blame for his brother-in-law's crime.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-09
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Young and Beautiful
Overview: Bob Preston, publicity man for Superba Pictures, uses his publicity skills in an attempt to make this fiancée June Dale the most famous movie star in the world. But in doing so, he forgets that women want to be attended to for themselves, not as objects of fame.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-16
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We Have Our Moments
Overview: A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-28
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I'll Take Romance
Overview: Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-17
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Turnabout
Overview: Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-17
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Eight Bells
Overview: A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-10
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Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case
Overview: Like the first entry, this one is played mostly for laughs, with Radio's Mister District Attorney. James Ellison replacing Dennis O'Keefe as feckless assistant DA P. Cadwallader Jones. The publisher of a tony fashion magazine is murdered, requiring Jones to sift through a colorful array of suspects. He is helped along by snoopy girl reporter Terry Parker.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-18
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The Lady Escapes
Overview: A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-22
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Three Smart Girls
Overview: The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-20
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Hit Parade of 1941
Overview: In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station. He begins looking for sponsors. He finds one with a department store owner who will only lend him the money if he will allow his daughter, an aspiring tap-dancer and singer, to perform on the air. This is unfortunate as she is tone-deaf. To compensate, the owner hires a real singer to dub the daughter's voice. The singer and the owner's nephew fall in love and mayhem ensues. Songs include: the Oscar nominated "Who Am I?," "Swing Low Sweet Rhythm," "In The Cool of the Evening," "Make Yourself at Home," "The Swap Shop Song," "The Trading Post," "Sally," "Ramona," "Sweet Sue," "Dinah," "Margie," and "Mary Lou."
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-14
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Moonlight Masquerade
Overview: Two business partners, John Bennett, Sr. and Robert Forrester, are starting to get nervous when the birthday of Victoria, Forrester's daughter, approaches. A long time ago the two men made an arrangement that they would sign over one third of their company to their oldest children when they turned twenty-one, with the condition they married each other within thirty days....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-10
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My Best Gal
Overview: A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-28
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She Married Her Boss
Overview: A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-19
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Parachute Jumper
Overview: An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-28
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Give Us This Night
Overview: After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-06
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What's Cookin'?
Overview: J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-20
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Love on Toast
Overview: The plot concerns a female press agent who must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a soup company. The Mr. Manhattan chosen is a singing soda jerk, who doesn't want to play along until he is given the honor of choosing his own Miss Brooklyn.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-03
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Stage Door Canteen
Overview: A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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$1,000 a Minute
Overview: Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-21
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When Love Is Young
Overview: In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no one notices her. Later a mentor turns her into a successful Broadway entertainer. She returns to her former college to get sweet revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-26
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Where Did You Get That Girl?
Overview: In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording contract. The trouble is, the composer's works are never played without another band member doctoring them up to make them swingier. Fortunately, the composer isn't too averse to the changes as he has just won the heart of the beauty who sings his revamped songs.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-03
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Allergic to Love
Overview: Newlywed bliss surround O'Driscoll and Beery until they get on board the ship for their honeymoon in South America. Then she starts sneezing, and hay fever's uncontrollable grip does not seem to want to let up.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-21
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Never a Dull Moment
Overview: Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-19
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Honeymoon Lodge
Overview: Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-23
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My Grandfather's Clock
Overview: At Phwitterby-on-Thames, England, a murder has occurred and Philo Holmes and Dr. Watkins are out to investigate it. It seems as though there was a second will and changes have been made as to who will receive what. Philo is the ace detective, and he brings everyone from the nightclub to see him solve the case.
Genres: Music Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-27
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The Eternal Melody
Overview: A group of struggling artists, poets, and musicians struggle to survive in squalor without giving up their artistic ideals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-12-02
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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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To Mary - with Love
Overview: Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-01
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Next Door Neighbors
Overview: Song composer Howard Green is frustrated by disturbances his wife, in-laws, and landlord while writing his latest song.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-28
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Two Guys from Milwaukee
Overview: Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the microphone is live, the two stage a debate on democracy versus monarchy broadcast back to the Prince's homeland. A plebiscite there puts Henry out of a job. Flying to Milwaukee to become a beer salesman, he meets Bacall on the seat next to his, but a tap on his shoulder means he must give up his seat (and dream) to Bogie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-26
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Flying Down to Rio
Overview: A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-22
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Exit Smiling
Overview: The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's (Flaming Women) female lead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-06
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Sunny
Overview: A showgirl falls for a society boy but has to win over his family.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-09
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Unknown Blonde
Overview: An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-23
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Don't Gamble with Love
Overview: Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to start a family wife feels the need to change their situation. Situation is changed and husband gets a new job and then a promotion but is tricked into a bad business deal and wants to go back to his old life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-28
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Poor Aubrey
Overview: A poor clerk pretends that he has lots of money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-30
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The Unchained Goddess
Overview: A scientist and a writer explain the various meteorological phenomena to Meteora, the goddess of weather, while giving an insight into the technology involved in predicting them and warning about the threat of global climate change.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-12
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Hollywood Trouble
Overview: An oil-rich rube who aspires to stardom is bilked by a phony acting school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Wild Poses
Overview: Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-28
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Headline Shooter
Overview: A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-28
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On Trial
Overview: A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful and decides to defend him. However, he is very inexperienced.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-01
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Thrill of a Lifetime
Overview: "Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He is so imbued with the idea that he has established a summer camp for that reason,and has written a play on the subject. The Yacht Club Boys visit the camp, misrepresenting themselves as Broadway producers, and the talented guest of the camp put on Nelson's play...which all ends up with a lot of marriage mating; Judy and Skipper, Betty Jane and Stanley and...Gwen and "Howdy,' the guy who was positive there was no such thing as true love.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-03
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College Rhythm
Overview: The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After graduation they carry their their feud and collegiate ideas over into the department store business.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-23
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Swing Banditry
Overview: A group of musicians is determined to appear on a radio program.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-09
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The Giddy Age
Overview: A quirky short about Love and Liars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-25
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Public Deb No. 1
Overview: When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-13
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Two Weeks to Live
Overview: When Abner is mistakenly diagnosed as having only two weeks to live, his partner gets the idea that they can make a ton of money by having Abner perform all kinds of dangerous stunts.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-26
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My Man Godfrey
Overview: Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-02
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Sing, Bing, Sing
Overview: After singing over the radio, Bing Crosby transmits a signal to elope to his sweeheart Helen; but her father is listening too. Undaunted, Bing tries, tries again.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-23
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Bad Housekeeping
Overview: Edgar Kennedy's wife decides he should do the housework for the day, the same day the piano tuner Franklin Pangborn comes by.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-05
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The Girl in the Pullman
Overview: Dr. Burton's divorce is about to be effective when his flappery ex-wife Irene pays him a visit turning everything upside down. To avoid explanations to his bride-to-be and her mother they all take the train, including Irene and her lawyer, who will try to prevent him from committing bigamy, as the divorce won't be effective until midnight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-31
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See My Lawyer
Overview: Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub owner, B. J. Wagonhorn, refuses to let them go. In reprisal, they start hurling insults at the nightclub patrons… a ploy that soon has them facing multiple lawsuits… to the delight of three struggling attorneys, Charlie Rodman, Bettty Wilson and Arthur Lane.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-09
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She Had to Eat
Overview: An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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Bachelor Daddy
Overview: The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-04
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Crazy House
Overview: Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-08
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Reckless Age
Overview: Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-01
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She Couldn't Take It
Overview: The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-08
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Finger Prints
Overview: A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-08
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Only Yesterday
Overview: On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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Lighthouse Love
Overview: Two marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-06
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Imitation of Life
Overview: A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-23
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Step Lively, Jeeves!
Overview: A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-30
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Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Overview: Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating stars including Irene Dare and Phyllis Ann Thomoson, as well as Hollywood luminaries such as Franklyn Pangborn, Norma Shearer, Rita Hayworth, Mickey Rooney, Dick Purcell and Ann Sheridan.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-08
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Lighthouse Love
Overview: Two marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-06
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Many Happy Returns
Overview: Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual Gracie Allen logic---while distracted Papa is trying to get younger daughter, beauty contest winner Florence, married before she can head to Hollywood and get into the movies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-08
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Strictly Dynamite
Overview: A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-11
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Strictly in the Groove
Overview: College student, cattle baron, confused love story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-20
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Lady of the Pavements
Overview: Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a "girl of the streets" than her. Outraged, Diane decides to grant his wish, and enlists the services of a Spanish singer/dancer from a disreputable nightclub to pose as a sophisticated, convent-educated singer, and surreptitiously arranges for her to meet Karl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-22
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The Villain Still Pursued Her
Overview: Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-11
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The Headline Woman
Overview: When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-14
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Down Memory Lane
Overview: This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo at the end of the film.
Genres: Comedy History Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-01
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Hollywood Halfbacks
Overview: Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that could beat the firemen. Since Johnny Mack Brown is about the only person in the film that even looks like he could play football other than Johnny and stuntman Joe Bonomo, it’s doubtful that the team Harron put together could even beat the Our Gang football team! So, Betty Compson, anxious to see her Hollywood friends win the game, keeps phoning false alarms to the fire department. A Hollywood Thalians Club short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-23
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The Luckiest Girl in the World
Overview: A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-01
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She Married Her Boss
Overview: A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-19
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That's Gratitude
Overview: Fly-by-night stage producer Bob Grant inadvertently saves the life of small-towner Thomas Maxwell. The grateful Maxwell invites Grant to move in with his family, which he does, rapidly wearing out his welcome. Finally booted out of the Maxwell household, Grant takes Tom's homely but sweet-voiced daughter Dora with him, giving her a cosmetic makeover and turning her into a big star -- and thereby repaying his host's kindness in a most roundabout fashion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-08
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