Ruth Rogers
Also Known As: Barbara Ruth Rogers
Biography: Ruth Rogers was born on October 4, 1918 in Tracy, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Hidden Gold (1940), Silver on the Sage (1939) and The Night Riders (1939). She died on October 9, 1953. She entered a beauty contest in Spokane, Washington hoping to win a screen test, but lost. She returned to her job as a cashier where she was discovered by a talent scout.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tracy, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 19, 1918
Age: 107 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 09, 1953
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Overview: American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy to tame him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-25
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The Man from Texas
Overview: Hall is after Dennison's land and hires the Shooting Kid to finish him off. The Marshal sends Tex to help Dennison, but the Kid has been helped by Tex in the past and changes sides.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-19
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Hidden Gold
Overview: Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking gold from Colby's mine and Hoppy suspects it may be ex-outlaw Colby himself. When Speedy strikes gold, Hoppy borrows it and announces a gold shipment hoping to catch the gang and their leader.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-07
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Silver on the Sage
Overview: Hoppy goes undercover as a gambler from the East when Bar 20 cattle are stolen by unknown rustlers. Brennan/Talbot are twin brothers (one a casino owner, the other a rancher) and Hoppy believes they provide alibis for each other while one is out committing crimes. Hoppy gets a job in the casino to learn more but is exposed when a gambling gunslinger notices him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-31
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Illegal Traffic
Overview: G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-02
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Boy Trouble
Overview: A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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Cocoanut Grove
Overview: Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
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Men with Wings
Overview: Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-16
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Overview: The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
Genres: Action Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-25
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The Night Riders
Overview: Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes mysterious "night riders" to fight this evil.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-12
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Light of Western Stars
Overview: Easterner Madeline Hammond buys a ranch not knowing Hayworth is using it to smuggle ammunition across the border. When trouble starts, she brings back Gene Stewart ex-foreman who left the country after fighting with the Sheriff.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-17
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The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Overview: With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-13
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The Mad Doctor
Overview: A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
Genres: Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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Cafe Society
Overview: A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-03
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Say It in French
Overview: An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-25
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Tropic Holiday
Overview: A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-29
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If I Were King
Overview: King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-28
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Hunted Men
Overview: Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. Joe escapes through a window and hails a taxi, but when he gets nervous at the sound of sirens, he jumps out. Hardware salesman Peter Harris accidentally hits Joe with his car, and unharmed, Joe seizes this opportunity to hide in Peter's car. Peter is so drunk that Joe is able to con him into believing that he is Charles Edwards, a fellow hardware man who was with him at a convention, and in the guise of friendship, accompanies Peter to his suburban home. The next morning, Joe gets antsy and wants to leave, but Peter's family, his wife Mary, young son Robert and daughter Jane all entreat him to stay.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-27
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You and Me
Overview: Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
Genres: Crime Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-01
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A Night at Earl Carroll's
Overview: Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, the defeated racketeer-politician, has Earl Carroll and several of his acts kidnapped, figuring the kidnapping coup will cause Jones to be laughed out of office. In Carroll's absence his assistant, Ramona Lisa, and his press agent, Barney Nelson put on the show themselves with the remaining talent, the chorus girls and also pressing into the entertainment cigarette girls, cloakroom girls, the doorman and others including oil heiresses Brenda Gusher and Cobina Gusher. Carroll and the other prisoners make their escape when a kidnapped juggling act sends their captors down in a barrage of beer bottles.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-06
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