Merna Kennedy
Also Known As: Maude Kahler
Biography: Merna Kennedy (born Maude Kahler) was an American screen actress of the late silent and early talkies era.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kankakee, Illinois, USA
Birthday: September 07, 1908
Deathday: December 20, 1944
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Police Call
Overview: A professional fighter decides to quit the sport and go to college, but he finds out that his sister has gotten mixed up with gangsters.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-24
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The Circus
Overview: Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-06
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The Midnight Special
Overview: A thrilling drama of young love and the great sacrifice made by railroad workers that we may travel in safety. (Print ad- Evening News, Tonawanda, N.Y. 4 February 1931)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-07
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Lady with a Past
Overview: A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-19
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Laughter in Hell
Overview: In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-12
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Broadway
Overview: A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
Genres: Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-27
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Wonder Bar
Overview: Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
Genres: Crime Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-31
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Red Haired Alibi
Overview: A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-21
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The Big Chance
Overview: Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-28
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Don't Bet on Love
Overview: A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-30
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Stepping Out
Overview: After catching their husbands with other women, two wives go on a girls-only vacation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-11
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Embarrassing Moments
Overview: A couple meet, fall in love and get married in a 24-hour period.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-17
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Jimmy the Gent
Overview: An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-09
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Come On, Tarzan
Overview: Ken Maynard's exceptionally intelligent horse, Tarzan the Wonder Horse, is the star of this western about evil cowboy Steve Frazer (Welch) who gathers horses for slaughter, whose meat is sold to pet food manufacturers. The wild horse Tarzan frees the doomed horses from their corrals, and Frazer convinces the Sheriff that Tarzan is a threat and can be shot on sight. Local cowboy Ken Benson (Maynard) and rancher Pat Riley (Kennedy) work together to clear Tarzan's good name and put Frazier behind bars for his evil deeds.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-10
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The Rampant Age
Overview: Wealthy playboy Sandy Benton falls for pretty but decidedly less wealthy neighbor Doris Lawrence. She rebuffs his attentions, but scheming golddigger Estelle has her own plans for Sandy. When Doris hears about Sandy's wild times with Estelle, she sets out to show him that she, too, can be a "modern" woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-15
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Ghost Valley
Overview: A cowboy and a beautiful girl inherit a supposedly haunted gold mine.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-13
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Skinner Steps Out
Overview: William Henry Skinner's young wife has great confidence in her husband's abilities and is ambitious for his success. He informs her of his importance at the office; but in reality he is an insignificant employee on a small salary, and when refused a raise, he hasn't the courage to tell his wife. Distressed at her husband's shabby appearance, "Honey" persuades him to buy a dress suit, and at a charity bazaar she pushes him to the front so that he dominates the affair and comes to the attention of the dignitaries. Skinner forces himself upon the attention of his employer and the employer's chief rival, whose admiration he wins when he bluffs him out of a poker pot. In spite of Skinner's efforts to prevent it, the rival companies are consolidated; and impressed by his spirit and enthusiasm, his superiors promote him to sales manager.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-24
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Arizona to Broadway
Overview: A team of con men trying to double-cross a woman they are supposedly helping to get some stolen money back wind up getting crossed themselves... by the mob.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-22
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Son of a Sailor
Overview: A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-29
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Worldly Goods
Overview: A businessman who has devoted his whole life to obtaining money and power finds that he can't buy the one thing he craves: love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-31
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The Gay Buckaroo
Overview: Rancher Clint Hale wants to marry Mildred Field, but so does very bad guy gambler Dave Dumont.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-02
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Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
Overview: Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort; Barbara Stanwyck and Ricardo Cortez play golf; other celebrities are shown in Malibu Beach.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-01
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Emergency Call
Overview: A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-24
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Fashion News
Overview: Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-06
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I Love That Man
Overview: Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across the country until they decide to settle down in a small town and give up their life of crime. He goes into business and all seems to be going well until some ex-partners he double crossed show up in town demanding the money he cheated them out of.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-07
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The All-American
Overview: The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-01
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Barnum Was Right
Overview: Freddie owns a failing old hotel. To attract new business he spreads the rumor that there's pirate treasure hidden somewhere in the building.
Genres: Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-22
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I Like it That Way
Overview: A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-01
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