Dorothea Kent
Also Known As: Dorothea Jane Schaeffer, Dorothy Kent
Biography: Dorothea Kent was born on June 6, 1916 in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947), King of the Cowboys (1943) and Horses' Collars (1935). She died on December 10, 1990 in Burbank, California, USA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 06, 1916
Age: 108 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 10, 1990
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It Started with Eve
Overview: A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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Having Wonderful Time
Overview: Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-01
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Overview: A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-17
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Hayseed Romance
Overview: Elmer answers an ad for a handyman job and starts working for an older woman and her niece. He gets the impression that his employer wants to marry him, even as he finds himself falling in love with her niece.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-15
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Tars and Stripes
Overview: Naval recruit Elmer is seemingly unable to discharge any of his duties without making life miserable for his irascible commanding officer, who winds up getting doused with paint, splattered with muck, and repeatedly tossed into the water due to Elmer's ineptitude. To make matters worse, Elmer takes a shine to the CO's girlfriend, which prompts her jealous boyfriend into several wrathful chases after Elmer. He eventually has Elmer locked in the brig -- but his girlfriend is in there too, so she can be together with her beloved Elmer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-03
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The E-Flat Man
Overview: Elmer attempts to elope with his fiancée, but they escape her parents by driving off in a car that's actually owned by a wanted gangster. When they hear on the radio that the police are looking for them, they dump the car and hide out near a farmhouse. But the farmer's radio also broadcasts the couple's description, so they run away and start hitchhiking, only to be picked up by two policemen. They manage to flee into a railroad yard and hop a train that turns out to be refrigerated. Finally they decide to turn themselves in -- just as they learn that the real crooks have been apprehended.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-09
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Flight Angels
Overview: Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing. Aided by Mary Norvell and Nan Hudson, Graves persuades Chick to take a job as teacher in the school for airline hostesses, and Chick and Mary get married. He learns that the Army is going to test a stratosphere plane that he and Artie Dixon designed and feels that he should make the first flight but permission is refused.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-18
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King of the Cowboys
Overview: Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-09
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Call of the Canyon
Overview: A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-17
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Behind the Mask
Overview: Falsely accused of murdering a crooked newspaper reporter, suave detective Lamont Cranston -- aka the Shadow -- vows to track down the real killer.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-25
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She Married a Cop
Overview: This comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation among two producers when he sings at the annual Policeman's Ball. For a long time, they have been looking for a voice for their new cartoon feature, "Paddy the Pig," and the cop is just perfect. The policeman is tickled pink at the prospect of being a star and begins telling all his friends about his good fortune (he has no idea what they plan to do with his voice). Eventually he ends up marrying one of the producers, who still hasn't told him the truth. Suddenly the night of the big premiere finally arrives and all of the policeman's old friends and colleagues are there. As it begins, the policeman is appalled and humiliated to see that he has been mocked and has become a laughing stock. He immediately spurns his new wife and goes back to the police force. Time passes, and fortunately, the two reunite and settle their differences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-11
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Goodbye Broadway
Overview: Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singers, a trained dog and an educated seal. Harry Clark, the clerk at the rundown Swanzey Hotel, insults Pat and the latter uses the $4000, that he and Molly have been saving for years to buy a retirement farm, to buy the hotel so he can fire Harry. Local skinflint, J.A. Higgins wants the hotel as he knows the state has intentions to buy it for a museum, but Pat won't sell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-01
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More Than a Secretary
Overview: When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-10
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Pin Up Girl
Overview: Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for. Now she's leaving home to go into government service (not, as she fantasizes, to join the USO). On a side trip to New York, her vivid imagination leads her to True Love with naval hero Tommy Dooley; but increasingly involved Musical Comedy Complications follow.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-25
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Young Fugitives
Overview: A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-30
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Cross-Country Romance
Overview: A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-12
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Risky Business
Overview: Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-03
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Youth Takes a Fling
Overview: McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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George White's Scandals
Overview: Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the latest edition of his famous revue. As it turns out, she has lots of backstage gossip to choose from
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-15
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Danger Ahead
Overview: The Royal Mounties are called in when one of the armored cars owned by Maxwell, containing a gold shipment, disappears with driver George Hill suspected of trying to get away with the gold. Actually, Maxwell and two henchmen had poured acid on the brake lines, causing the car to crash. Genevieve, daughter of the Mountie chief, suspects Maxwell and Thomas Hatch, president of the bank shipping the gold, but she quickly becomes more trouble than help to Sergeant Renfrew in charge of the investigation. Renfrew and Constable Kelly drive the next shipment but Maxwell plans to make them crash the same way as Hill did. Renfrew steers the vehicle into a hillside and this gives him an idea of what happened to the other car.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-22
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Million Dollar Legs
Overview: At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his girl Susie; he schemes to revive crew boat racing. Sinking boats, no money, and his own waistline stand in his way. Can they win the big race with State University?
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-13
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Stage Door Canteen
Overview: A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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Prescription for Romance
Overview: In this romance, a detective teams up with a count and travels to Budapest in search of an embezzler. While there, the two get involved with a female physician in whose house the criminal is concealed (the doctor doesn't know this). Soon the detective and the doctor are involved.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-12
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Carnival Queen
Overview: A young woman not only inherits her late father's estate, she also gets control of a carnival on the edge of bankruptcy in this comedy. Intrigued by carnival life, the woman disguises herself and joins up. She hopes to see how she might save it. She has many adventures and even becomes a magician's assistant.
Genres: Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-02
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Some Blondes Are Dangerous
Overview: "Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty old manager George Regan, Mason dumps his ever-loving girlfriend Judy Williams in favor of sexy blonde Rose Whitney.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-31
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The Last Express
Overview: A woman finds herself unwillingly mixed up in a series of murders. At the behest of the district attorney, private detective Duncan MacLain (Kent Taylor) investigates the probability of corruption in high government circles.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-27
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A Girl with Ideas
Overview: A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-01
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Horses' Collars
Overview: The Stooges are private detectives in the Old West trying to help a girl recover an IOU from a bad guy. Their attempts to steal the IOU from the villain's wallet and then from a safe meet with problems until Curly, who goes berserk whenever he sees a mouse, knocks out all the bad guys.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-10
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No, No, Nanette
Overview: Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-19
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They Drive by Night
Overview: Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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The Missing Lady
Overview: While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible sleuth Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow (Kane Richmond) finds himself being blamed for the crime. It doesn't help the Shadow's claims of innocence when more bodies begin piling up. Good thing he knows exactly who's guilty among an increasingly smaller group of suspects.
Genres: Science Fiction Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-17
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As Good as Married
Overview: When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-09
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Knockout Drops
Overview: In this short from Educational Pictures, teenaged Sonny is working hard for the upcoming boxing match against his rival, Harry. Much of the film consists of his preparing for the match as well as his little sister's antics. When the match finally arrives, Harry is beating the snot out of Sonny and the only hope for Sonny is if he cheats...which he does without realizing it!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-06
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The Luckiest Girl in the World
Overview: A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-01
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It Never Rains
Overview: When Junior's parents have their friends visit, they expect him to entertain their daughter. Expecting the worst, Junior pays his kid sister to be a pest to keep them apart. But when the visitor is a beauty, he regrets his decision. "Frolics of Youth" short starring Junior Coghlan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-24
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