Patricia Farr
Also Known As: Arleine Rutledge Farr, Arleine Rutledge Mayo, Patricia Farr Mayo, The Kansas City Girl
Biography: Patricia Farr (born Arleine Rutledge Farr) was an American screen actress who appeared in films of the 1930s and 1940s. Despite being known as "The Kansas City Girl", her birthplace was San Francisco, California. Farr died, the result of cancer, at age 35.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Birthday: January 15, 1913
Deathday: February 23, 1948
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Overview: Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No". Later that day, they separately discover that, due to a legal complication, they are not legally married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-31
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Silence
Overview: A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-29
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This Gun for Hire
Overview: Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-24
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Helldorado
Overview: Arthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her fiance, wealthy J. F. Van Avery after he helps them to replace the top of their convertible when it begins to rain. As they approach a bridge, Art notices a few stalled cars, and when the storm worsens, the bridge washes away, leaving Art, Glenda, Van and several others stranded in a canyon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-05
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The Lady in Scarlet
Overview: When a wealthy art dealer is murdered, the private investigator hired for the case discovers a web of blackmail, corruption and stolen bonds.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-20
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Orchids to You
Overview: An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-09
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Tailspin Tommy
Overview: A young mechanic gets a job with a small airline, which he helps win a mail contract. A rival airline plots to destroy it in order to get the contracts for itself.
Genres: Adventure Thriller Romance Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-29
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Lady Luck
Overview: New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is announced the winner of $2,500 and a ticket worth $150,000 for champion horse Lady Luck, if the horse wins an upcoming race, Mamie is pursued by wealthy sportsman Jack Conroy and nightclub owner and racketeer Tony Morelli.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-13
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Three of a Kind
Overview: A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-19
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Lady Behave!
Overview: It's bad enough that Clarice Kendall Andrews, Paula's irresponsible sister, comes home from celebrating Mardi Gras and drunkenly mentions that she got married during the festivities. What's worse is the fact that Paula knows that Clarice is still married to an equally irresponsible gigolo. Paula learns that the man Clarice married, Stephen Cormack, is on his yacht and his lawyer, thinking that Paula is Clarice, offers the older woman $5000 to annul the marriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-22
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Trade Winds
Overview: After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
Genres: Romance Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-28
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I Am Suzanne!
Overview: A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-25
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Girls Can Play
Overview: The Hollywood Post's sports writer, Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley), yearns to be a crime reporter, and thus looks for foul play on even the most routine assignments. In writing a piece about a girl's softball team, Jimmy discovers that their sponsor, Foy Harris (John Gallaudet), is a notorious racketeer who has supposedly gone straight. Jimmy suspects Foy is still up to no good. He begins hanging around the team to do a bit of snooping, and also to be near the cute new pitcher, Ann Casey (Jacqueline Wells).
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-23
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Criminals of the Air
Overview: Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez in breaking up a well-organized band of smugglers.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-30
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Three Girls About Town
Overview: Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-23
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The Secret Call
Overview: The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy Shannon plays Wanda Kelly, the daughter of a disgraced politician. Reduced to working as a switchboard operator, Wanda is privy to the many secrets and indiscretions of the clients of a big-city hotel. She also finds romance in the form of handsome Tom Blake (Richard Arlen). The huge cast of characters comes in handy for the film's multitude of subplots, none of which ever get their wires crossed. Peggy Shannon acquits herself nicely in her first major role, but by the end of the decade her career was in decline.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-24
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West Point Widow
Overview: In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-20
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All American Sweetheart
Overview: Cap Collender (Arthur Loft),a showboat gambling racketeer, ensnares a collegiate rowing team's coxswain, "Squirt" Adams (Jimmy Eagles), into the sports-gambling racket.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-20
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Stand Up and Cheer!
Overview: President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.
Genres: Comedy Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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What Price Hollywood?
Overview: Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-24
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Everybody's Old Man
Overview: An elderly businessman thinking about aging and death takes time off to help teach a dead friend's children about life and business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-20
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