Donald Novis
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Department: Acting
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Trouble in Paradise
Overview: Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-30
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One Hour with You
Overview: Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-23
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The Night Before Christmas
Overview: A narrator sings the opening stanzas of the classic poem while we see the house at rest. Santa lands on the roof, comes down the chimney, and opens his bag. The toys march out and decorate the tree, with the toy soldiers shooting balls from their cannon, a toy airplane stringing a garland like skywriting, and the toy firemen applying snow. A blimp delivers the star to the top. Meanwhile, Santa fills the stockings. His laughter awakens the children, who sneak out. The toys rush to their places, and Santa escapes up the chimney just in time.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-09
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Monte Carlo
Overview: A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-27
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Everybody Likes Music
Overview: In the province of Bullvania, the President loses important papers and war is almost declared. Detective Shemp Howard and his partner come to the rescue.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-09
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Slightly Terrific
Overview: A manufacturer and an impresario (who has promised some young people he will stage their show) are twin brothers causes a lot of confusion when the manufacturer is mistaken for his no-money brother.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-01
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The Pajama Party
Overview: After running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at her mansion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-03
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Let's Do Things
Overview: Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-06
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Flying High
Overview: An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-14
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The Big Broadcast
Overview: The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-14
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Irish Fantasy
Overview: An Irish grandfather tells his young grandson stories of his roots, his courtship with his grandmother and love of freedom through stories and song.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-14
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Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
Overview: A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-07
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This Is the Night
Overview: When Stephen, the husband of Gerald’s mistress, Claire, discovers a pair of tickets for their planned trip to Venice, Gerald must invent a wife to cover their tracks. He is then forced to hire a woman to play “his wife” when Stephen insists he and Claire accompany them to Venice.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-08
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Bulldog Drummond
Overview: Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-02
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Ma's Pride and Joy
Overview: This Mack Sennett produced short has Donald Novis playing Danny O'Brien, a young singer whose mother takes him to a talent agent office where she demands that the owners listen to him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-14
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Guilty Bystander
Overview: A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-20
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The Policy Girl
Overview: An insurance salesman persuades his sister to help him meet a radio star so he can sell the celebrity a policy.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-11
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Down Memory Lane
Overview: This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo at the end of the film.
Genres: Comedy History Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-01
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