Jack Barty
Also Known As: John Bartholomew, J. Barton, John Walter Bartholomew
Biography: Jack Barty (born John Bartholomew) was a British stage and screen actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: December 30, 1888
Age: 136 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 25, 1942
Popularity:
Known For:
Oliver the Eighth
Overview: Barbershop owners Stan and Ollie answer an ad in the newspaper from a wealthy widow looking for a husband. Ollie only mails in his response and is invited to the widow's mansion. Stan discovers his unmailed letter and insists on tagging along. At the mansion, the widow's creepy butler informs them that the woman is crazy. She was once jilted by an Oliver and now her hobby is marrying Olivers and then slitting their throats. Now the boys must figure out how to escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-13
Popularity:
Luncheon at Twelve
Overview: Charley unwittingly becomes a house painter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-09
Popularity:
Devil Monster
Overview: A schooner disappears at sea without a trace. Years later, evidence of possible survivors prompts the mother of the schooner's mate Jose to hire a tuna boat to investigate. They discover the lad living happily on a South Seas island, and, when he refuses to leave with them, they abduct him. However, Jose gets revenge by leading the ship into the lair of a mysterious giant manta ray.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-29
Popularity:
Mixed Nuts
Overview: Oddly enough for a Roach comedy the premise of MIXED NUTS is grounded in topical political satire aimed at the New Deal, although the satire is of a very lightweight (and light-hearted) nature. The film begins at a city council meeting where an unidentified politician announces that the government has released $50,000 for the relief of unemployed plumbers. This prompts applause, but also a pointed question from an angry woman who wants to know what the government is going to do for the members of her profession: chorus girls. The politician glibly replies that the administration has set aside money—two million dollars, no less!—for the re-education of chorus girls, "to fit them for the better things in life."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-16
Popularity:
Talking Feet
Overview: An east London fishmonger's young daughter (Hazel Ascot) is so grateful to Dr Hood (John Stuart) for saving her dog Patch after a road accident that she persuades her dad and various friends to help stage a concert at the local Hippodrome to raise money to save the local hospital.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-26
Popularity:
Maid in Hollywood
Overview: Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy are packing up and packing it in. Then, through Patsy's deviousness, Thelma gets a call to come to the studio immediately to audition for a costume drama.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-19
Popularity:
In Town Tonight
Overview: A British musical film directed by Herbert Smith.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
Popularity:
Babes in the Goods
Overview: Thelma and Patsy get jobs demonstrating washing machines in a department store window. However, on their first day on the job, they accidentally get locked in the store overnight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-10
Popularity:
My Song Goes Round the World
Overview: Set in Venice, the touching and sometimes comic story of a diminutive tenor who falls in love whilst striving for success. Also filmed in German as Ein Lied geht um die Welt.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-22
Popularity:
Feather Your Nest
Overview: A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-12
Popularity:
The Sea Fiend
Overview: The Sea Fiend, aka Devil Monster, is an American adventure film directed by S. Edwin Graham and it was shown in Great Britain as The Sea Fiend in 1938. An edited version of the film was released in 1946 as Devil Monster, a low-budget South Seas drama spiced up with stock footage inserts including half-dressed native girls that were also featured in the film's trailer.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-14
Popularity:
Gaslight
Overview: Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired detective B.G. Rough, who worked on the Barlow case, is still in the area and grows suspicious of Paul, who he feels bears a striking resemblance to one of Barlow's relatives. Rough must find the truth before the killer can strike again and reclaim his bounty.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
Popularity:
Stepping Toes
Overview: The granddaughter of an old showman is kept away from him by his daughter, ashamed of their background. But the girl is phenomenally talented by hereditary, and wins a talent competition, leading to star in a west end show.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-11
Popularity:
All In!
Overview: Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an attempt to avoid doing so, he accidentally buys a failing all-in wrestling stadium as well. Now Archie is faced with the tasks of ensuring success for his stable's Derby entry, paying the salaries of his newly-acquired wrestlers, and avoiding a plot to convert the stables into a holiday home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-29
Popularity:
Take a Chance
Overview: Comedy about Bookmakers and punters and their interest in the horse Take A Chance
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-05
Popularity:
This Is the Life
Overview: This Is the Life is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Gordon Harker, Binnie Hale and Betty Astell. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios by British Lion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-01
Popularity:
Apples to You!
Overview: A burlesque impresario is hired to help the failing fortunes of an old opera company.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-07
Popularity:
Crook's Tour
Overview: A down-and-out Englishman, mistaken for a duke, is invited (for $50.00) to meet the wife of a gangster who is a passenger on a boat chartered by gangsters. When he cannot initially find his wife, the gangster tells the "duke" to remain in his room with his daughter while he finds the wife. Crazy complications ensue!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-23
Popularity: