Steffi Duna
Also Known As: Штеффи Дуна
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
Birthday: February 07, 1910
Deathday: April 22, 1992
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Great McGinty
Overview: Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-01
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The Making of a Great Motion Picture
Overview: Narrated documentary of the making of Anthony Adverse (1936), featuring many clips from the actual film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-15
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Anthony Adverse
Overview: Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-26
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Law of the Pampas
Overview: Hoppy and Lucky are headed to South America to deliver a heard of cattle. Bay guy Ralph Merritt gets in their way. For a while.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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Panama Lady
Overview: A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-12
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Way Down South
Overview: In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.
Genres: Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-21
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The Magnificent Fraud
Overview: A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-19
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Dancing Pirate
Overview: Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy. When the pirate vessel arrives at the port of Las Palomas, Jonathan, clad in buccaneer's garb, makes his escape. Everyone in Las Palomas, including Governor Alcalde (Frank Morgan) and fetching senorita Serafina (Steffi Duna), assumes that Jonathan is the pirate chieftain, leading to a series of typical comic-opera complications.
Genres: Music Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-22
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I Conquer the Sea!
Overview: 1936 was a different world in Newfoundland - the bigotry and the unexpected ending will give you plenty to talk about and think about in this forgotten masterpiece of human drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-23
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River's End
Overview: An escaped criminal pretends to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in order to prove his innocence of murder. Star Dennis Morgan plays two roles.
Genres: Action Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-10
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Escape by Night
Overview: Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man's pastoral farm and decide to go straight.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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Flirting with Fate
Overview: A troupe of traveling entertainers become stranded in Paraguay.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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La Cucaracha
Overview: Señor Martinez, a famous theater owner, visits a local café in Mexico because of its reputation for good food and to audition the famous dancer who performs there. Martinez tells the café owner that if the dancer is as good as he has heard, he will offer the dancer a contract to perform in his theater. The café's female singer hears about this and is determined that he won't leave the café without her.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-31
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The Girl and the Gambler
Overview: An outlaw kidnaps a dancer and her lover in order to win a bet.
Genres: Western Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-15
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The Marines Fly High
Overview: Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-04
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Red Morning
Overview: A captain's daughter become marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Hi, Gaucho!
Overview: The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-10
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One New York Night
Overview: Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, and with the aid of Phoebe, the hotel telephone operator who takes a liking to him, and also Countess Louise Browssiloff, who innocently had left some personal belongings in the murdered man's room and is most anxious to recover the incriminating evidence, Foxhall solves the murder mystery.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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A Life in Technicolor
Overview: Alone in her apartment during the pandemic, Natalie turns to her favorite classic movies to keep her company. When her life in color gradually begins to turn to black-and-white, she takes a magical tour through film history, recreating a dazzling array of classic movie scenes.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-27
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Waterloo Bridge
Overview: On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-17
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Girl from Havana
Overview: Rebels and a singer cause trouble for two U.S. oil-drillers in South America...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-11
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Man of Two Worlds
Overview: A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-13
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Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Overview: Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts and distributing it through Germany with an underground-press operation.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-07
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Pagliacci
Overview: Canio and his Comedia dell'Arte troupe tour Italy. His wife Nedda meets a young cadet and they plan to elope. He tries to leave her when he finds how important she is for his husband, but a rejected trouper interferes. As jealous Canio suspects the truth the tragedy approaches. The film was partly made in Ufacolor.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-11
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Phantom Raiders
Overview: In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.
Genres: Crime Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-07
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Rascals
Overview: A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite who has amnesia. She works as a fortune teller and raises enough money for an operation to regain her memory.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Overview: La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Color). It features a young, pre-stardom 13-year-old Judy Garland singing "La Cucaracha" with her two sisters (billed as "The Garland Sisters"). In the film, Hollywood stars participate in a Mexican-themed revue and festival in Santa Barbara. Andy Devine, the "World's Greatest Matador," engages in a bullfight with a dubious bovine supplied by Buster Keaton, and musical numbers are provided by Joe Morrison and The Garland Sisters. Comedy bits and dance numbers are also featured.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-07
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Indiscretions of Eve
Overview: Eve and Peter fall in love at first sight at a New Year's Eve party, but are separated by Eve's jealous fiancé, Ralph. With neither knowing the other's name, they both spend the following day searching frantically for each other around London. Peter's only clue is a set of shop mannequins, all perfect likenesses of Eve - and all made by Ralph's factory.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-12
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