Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Also Known As: Skeets Gallagher, Richard "Skeet" Gallagher, "Skeets" Gallagher
Biography: Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher was an American stage, screen, and television actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 27, 1891
Age: 133 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 22, 1955
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Fast Company
Overview: Egomaniacal baseball slugger Elmer Kane is not only good, he enjoys telling everybody how good he is. A professional scout, Bert Wade, takes an interest in Elmer, who in turn takes an interest in Evelyn Corey, an attractive actress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-20
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Alice in Wonderland
Overview: In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-18
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The Phantom of Crestwood
Overview: Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-14
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The Unwritten Law
Overview: A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electrician.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-26
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Possessed
Overview: Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer can make her dreams come true, but there is only one problem, he will give her everything but a marriage proposal. Will this affair ever lead to marriage?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-21
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Bird of Paradise
Overview: When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in and saves his life. Thus begins the romance of Johnny and Luana. Though Luana is promised to another man, Johnny whisks her away, and for a brief time the lovers live very happily together. But, when a local volcano threatens their lives, Luana knows that she must sacrifice herself to the volcanic gods in order to save her island.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-12
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Brooklyn Orchid
Overview: Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-31
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Bachelor Bait
Overview: After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-27
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Let's Go Native
Overview: The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-15
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Duke of Chicago
Overview: To save his publishing firm, a prizefighter comes out of retirement in a fixed match.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-15
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Love Among the Millionaires
Overview: A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon, and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with he and his family in Palm Springs.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-05
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The Perfect Clue
Overview: Mona Stewart, madcap, spoiled daughter of a wealthy man, becomes upset when she learns that her father is engaged to a woman she hates. She runs away, via various modes of transportation, and hires an ex-con, David Mannering, to drive her around as she eludes the all-out search conducted by her father and her fiancée, Ronnie Van Zandt. A romance is blossoming until her chauffeur is arrested for the murder of a crime-syndicate boss.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-13
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Lightning Strikes Twice
Overview: An actress goes up to a dude ranch for relaxation, when she falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of his wife's murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-07
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Espionage
Overview: Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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Riptide
Overview: Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-29
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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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Pointed Heels
Overview: Fay Wray plays a beautiful showgirl who falls for a rich Park Avenue guy played by Phillips Holmes. William Powell is a producer in love with Miss Wray, but he won't use his influences to take any advantages.... as usual, he's a perfect gentleman. Pointed Heels was supposed to have been a vehicle for "boop-boop-a-doop" girl Helen Kane, but by the time the film was released, Kane's role was reduced to a supporting part.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-20
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In the Money
Overview: When the chemical company owned by eccentric Professor Higginbottom files for bankruptcy, the formerly-affluent family loses its income. Levelheaded oldest daughter Lambie struggles to make ends meet but has trouble persuading her carefree, profligate siblings to cut down on their spending. Youngest brother Dick enters a motorcycle race to win $500, but crashes his bike on the speedway and is paralyzed. Shocked into reality by the tragedy, Lambie's younger sister Babs persuades ex-prizefighter Gunboat Bimms to enter the ring one last time in hopes of winning a purse that will pay for Dick's surgery.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-06
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Polo Joe
Overview: A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-04
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The Night Club Lady
Overview: A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-27
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The Meanest Gal in Town
Overview: A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-12
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The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Overview: Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-01
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The Sport Parade
Overview: Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-11
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Too Much Harmony
Overview: A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-23
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Danger on the Air
Overview: Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-30
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Her Wedding Night
Overview: Norma Martin is an American movie star in France trying to avoid the attention of men. Going to visit a friend in Southern France, she finds herself "married" to a playboy song writer Ralph Forbes she hadn't yet met. Some of his lady friends then show up. Some very good sequences, but also some flat spots. Her "husband's" house is very Hollywood deco and some of the costumes are very good.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-28
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The Social Lion
Overview: Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most proficient mallet-wielder, having learned to play polo while serving in the U.S. army. His hobnobbing with the town-elite and social upper-crust at the polo-matches gives him an inflated idea of his social position, and he decides he is is moving on up. He breaks off with his girl-friend, true-blue Cynthia Brown, and hits on débutante Gloria Staunton, who appears to have an interest in being hit upon. Gloria's interest lies mostly in showing Marco that hired-hands who can play polo still aren't to the manor born.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-21
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Close Harmony
Overview: Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes interested in Al West, a warehouse clerk who has put together an unusual jazz band, and uses her influence to get him a place on one of the programs. Max Mindel, the house manager, has a yen for Marjorie and, discovering that she is in love with Al, gives the band notice and hires harmony singers Barney & Bey as a replacement. Marjorie makes up to both men and soon breaks up the team. Al learns of her scheme, however, and makes her confess to the singers. Barney and Bey make up, and Max gives Al and his band one more chance. Al is a sensation, and Max offers him a contract for $1,000 a week.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-12
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Woman Unafraid
Overview: A dedicated and compassionate policewoman risks her job by offering refuge to a young mother with mob associations. Crime drama.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-27
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Yours for the Asking
Overview: Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear he may follow Lucille onto the straight-and-narrow path, which would not be good for business. So they hire Gert Malloy and Dictionary McKinney, a pair of con-artists, to manipulate Johnny back off the path of righteousness.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-23
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For the Love of Mike
Overview: Three men join forces to raise an adopted son. A lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-31
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It Pays to Advertise
Overview: To prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesn't exist--can be merchandized if it is advertised properly, a young man gets together with his father's savvy secretary to market a non-existent laundry soap. Complications ensue when his "product" turns out to be more successful than even he imagined--and now he has to deliver.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-18
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The Man I Marry
Overview: A wealthy young man writes a play under a different name to prove to his overbearing mother that he can succeed on his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-31
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Hollywood on Parade
Overview: A short featuring many stars
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-05
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Up Pops the Devil
Overview: The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In order to support the family, the wife is forced to take a job as a dancer in a Broadway show. As the marriage begins to fall apart, complications ensue when she discovers that she's pregnant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-19
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Idiot's Delight
Overview: A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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The Conquerors
Overview: A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
Genres: Western Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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Citadel of Crime
Overview: A gang of mobsters try to take over the various moonshine operations in the hills of West Virginia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-23
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The Stolen Jools
Overview: Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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Honey
Overview: A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-29
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Paramount on Parade
Overview: This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-22
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Zis Boom Bah
Overview: "Hey, kids, let's get together and put on a show!" That's the idea behind this raucous spoof about a vaudeville performer who's sent to college to spy on his bratty son.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-07
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The Road to Reno
Overview: Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact that fourth husband Robert is a good provider, good step-dad, and all-around good sport about Jackie's rather wild ways, Jackie is intent on divorcing him although she seems to bear the man no resentment. It just seems that her only reason is that it's time for a change, much like an impulse to buy a new hat. Both children are upset about her decision since they have great affection for Robert. However, daughter Lee has just arrived home from school and decides to accompany her mother to Reno to look after her. On the train west, Lee meets a young mining engineer, Tom, who is headed to a job interview in California. The two hit it off and a romance buds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-25
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New York
Overview: A product of the Bowery, Trent Regan grows up to become a powerful gangster. Regan's girlfriend Angie Miller, hearing that her childhood sweetheart (and Regan's lifelong pal) Mike Cassidy is about to marry Marjorie Church, pays a visit to Mike to offer congratulations. Convinced that Angie is fooling around behind his back, Regan accidentally kills her. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-30
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The Past of Mary Holmes
Overview: Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down shanty and suffers from alcoholism. Known for her eccentric behavior, Mary breeds geese, and is thus known in her neighborhood as 'The Goose Woman'. She blames her grown son Geoffrey (Linden) for the deterioration of her voice, and does everything to destroy his life. When Geoffrey, who works as a commercial artist, announces to her that he will marry Joan Hoyt (Arthur), an actress, she becomes torn with jealousy and threatens to reveal to Joan that he is an illegitimate birth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-20
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The Crosby Case
Overview: Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-05
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The Potters
Overview: Pa Potter invests four thousand dollars in worthless oil stock. Or is it worthless?
Genres: Comedy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-15
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The Racket
Overview: A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-01
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Merrily We Go to Hell
Overview: A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-10
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Reform Girl
Overview: A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-04
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The Daring Years
Overview: Cabaret dancer Suzie La Motte is in love with Jim Moran, a boxer, but she tempts a young man named John Browning. Moran and John get into a fight in which Moran accidentally shoots himself. Out of anger at John, Suzie accuses him of Moran's murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-15
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The Dragon’s Claw
Overview: A little girl and her father are among the settlers in a small western town. The father is very friendly with the neighboring Indian tribe and is presented with a quaint piece of metal representing a dragon's claw, the tribe's good luck omen. Some time later, while traveling with his daughter, he is held up by a band of bandits and shot dead. A bandit takes from him this dragon's claw. Years pass. The little girl has grown into a beautiful young lady. She marries. Their love is very real and their life most happy. He decides to go out west to see a mine that yields the richest gold and his wife expresses a desire to go along with him. The mine is christened "The Dragon's Claw," because of an Indian charm the man owns. While out on a western desert, he shows the dragon's claw to his wife. She then recognizes it as the kind her father possessed when he was killed. She has understood it to be the only one of its kind. She now believes it is her husband who killed her father.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-13
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Mr. Satan
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-01
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