Leila Hyams
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Biography: Leila Hyams (May 1, 1905 – December 4, 1977) was an American model, vaudeville and film actress, who came from a show business family. Her relatively short film career began in the 1920s during the era of silent films and ended in 1936. Although her career only lasted around twelve years, the blonde blue-eyed ingenue appeared in more than 50 film roles and remained a press favorite, with numerous magazine covers.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 01, 1905
Age: 120 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 04, 1977
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Island of Lost Souls
Overview: An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-24
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Overview: In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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The Bishop Murder Case
Overview: The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he was killed. The note found dealing with the murder was part of a nursery rhyme and signed by 'Bishop'. The only witness may have been Mrs. Drukker and Adolph, but they are not talking. As the murders progress, each one is accompanied by a nursery rhyme. It is up to Philo Vance to unravel the clues and unmask the identity of the murderer 'Bishop'.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-31
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The Big House
Overview: Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-14
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The Branded Sombrero
Overview: A cowboy promises his dying foster-father, "Honest" John Maggert, that he will return the cattle that Maggert rustled from the local ranchers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-08
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Spite Marriage
Overview: An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-24
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The Phantom of Paris
Overview: Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-12
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Sandra
Overview: BY DAY a beautiful wife-accepting a husband's humble love, his humble home, his humble pleasures. BY NIGHT a glittering butterfly yearning for the wine of life and tossing all to the winds when the glamour of romance calls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-01
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Red-Headed Woman
Overview: Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-25
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The Thirteenth Chair
Overview: Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.
Genres: Mystery Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-19
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The Far Call
Overview: A greedy poacher travels to a small island in the Bering sea to rob a seal rookery. There he falls for the governor's daughter who learns that the poacher is the estranged son of a prominent citizen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-28
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The Constant Woman
Overview: A mother abandons her family only to become a crispy critter with her lover, the husband finds out about it AND that his son isn't really his, becomes an alcoholic, is being held prisoner in a speak-easy, is rescued by 'Beef', is sobered up, gets a good job, negotiates a great contract for lots 'o money, realizes he's in love, asks the girl to marry him, son returns from boarding school and freaks out when told this, runs off and joins the circus that now happens to catch fire.....
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-12
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Sing, Sinner, Sing
Overview: A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on trial for the crime.
Genres: Music Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-16
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The Sins of the Children
Overview: A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-27
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Way Out West
Overview: Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch. He falls in love with Molly, the pretty owner of the ranch, but runs afoul of foreman Steve, who also loves Molly.
Genres: Western Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-02
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Way for a Sailor
Overview: A devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-01
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Wonder of Women
Overview: A German pianist is going to break up with his unfaithful wife, when he receives the message that his favourite stepchild has died. This film is believed lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-13
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The Girl Said No
Overview: A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar, bound and gagged.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-15
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Gentleman's Fate
Overview: A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-07
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The Poor Rich
Overview: Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced to move into the dilapidated house. When Albert receives a letter from old acquaintances Lord and Lady Fetherstone advising the Spottiswoods of their impending visit to the manor, the cousins are at wit's end as to how to exercise non-existent skills required to make the old house acceptable for guest reception.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-25
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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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Summer Bachelors
Overview: Derry Thomas is a pretty girl from a good family who earns her own living, but is disillusioned about marriage and is firmly set against ever getting married. Nothing against men, just marriage. She is drawn into the company of some rich businessmen whose wives have gone away for the summer. Parties follow in New York nightclubs, road-houses, country clubs and fashionable estates. Situations and contradictions follow.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-18
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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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Part Time Wife
Overview: The story concentrates of neglectful husband Jim Murdock (Edmund Lowe) and his frustrated wife Betty (Leila Hyams). For lack of anything else to do, Betty takes up golf, soon achieving professional status. Meanwhile, Jim's doctor advises him to start playing golf as an outlet for his frustrations. Sure enough, Jim and Betty are reteamed on the links, and all is well -- for everyone except Betty's erstwhile beau Tommy Milligan (Tom Clifford)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-30
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The Flirting Widow
Overview: An older daughter invents a fiancé so that her father will allow her younger sister to marry. However, the lie comes back to haunt her.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-11
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The Idle Rich
Overview: Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her family, part of "the great middle class" (as blowhard nephew Henry keeps reminding us), is happy for Joan, but reluctant to take charity from Will. He moves in with them, and they keep resisting, until one day he takes drastic action.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-15
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New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
Overview: Wallingford is a con-man whose specialty is taking money from suckers. His partners are Schnozzle, a pickpocket and car thief; and Blackie, who has played the game for years.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-03
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Men Call It Love
Overview: Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-14
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Hurricane
Overview: Captain Black and his motley crew of pirates are shipwrecked on a South Sea island, where they hold several shanghaied sailors captive. Black observes the ship commanded by Hurricane Martin approaching and conspires to get his men aboard the vessel and seize the cargo.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-30
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The Christmas Party
Overview: In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His fellow stars at MGM help him out.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-17
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Horse Play
Overview: Ranchowner Slim Perkins is in love with his neighbor's niece, Angelica Wayne, but her aunt and uncle throw him off their property because he is a poor bumbler. One day a stranger buys Slim's ranch for one million dollars because the land contains valuable minerals. Slim and his partner, Andy Jones, are overwhelmed by their new found wealth, but it does not help to soothe Slim's hurt feelings when he finds out that Angelica has gone to England to stay with her other aunt. He decides to bring her his horse, "Cynthia Ann," as a gift, and with Andy and the horse, he sets sail.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-01
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Yellow Dust
Overview: After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-12
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Affairs of a Gentleman
Overview: When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-01
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Alias Jimmy Valentine
Overview: An Incompetent insurance salesman sells a policy to Jesse James and has to protect his client until he can get it back.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-15
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The Wizard
Overview: A mad doctor sews human head onto gorilla's body.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-27
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Surrender
Overview: Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-06
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A Girl in Every Port
Overview: Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young woman come between them?
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-26
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$1,000 a Minute
Overview: Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-21
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One-Round Hogan
Overview: "One-Round' Hogan is a heavyweight prizefighter with a knockout punch contending for a championship bout who, because of the death of a friend, almost wrecks his own career by holding back.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-17
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No Ransom
Overview: In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat son. To gain some much needed attention, the lonesome fellow hires a hitman to kill him. Instead, the gunman kidnaps him to frighten the family into appreciating their devoted father.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-07
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Sweethearts and Wives
Overview: An aristocrat tries to prevent her sister's divorce by attempting to recover a diamond necklace, which is being used as incriminating evidence against her.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-15
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Saturday's Millions
Overview: Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-30
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First Aid
Overview: This Pete Smith Specialty is a semihumorous look at basic first aid techniques for mishaps that often occur around the house. It was produced in cooperation with the Beverly Hills First Aid Unit of the American Red Cross Disaster Service. —David Glagovsky
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-02
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Dancing Mothers
Overview: An unfaithful husband and his daughter go on nightly club outings, leaving the mother at home. The mother rebels against her lonesome life and attempts to prevent a man from pursuing her daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-01
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The Crimson City
Overview: Gregory Kent is on the run for a crime he did not commit.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-07
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Masquerade
Overview: The second version of Louis Joseph Vance's 1907 mystery melodrama The Brass Bowl. The story of a wealthy world traveler and his evil lookalike, the master criminal Anisty.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-14
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Honor Bound
Overview: When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and goes to prison. Complications ensue when he is provisionally released.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-29
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Freaks
Overview: A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-01
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People Will Talk
Overview: Henry and Clarice Wilkins have been married twenty-three years and are a model suburban couple who have never had a quarrel. But when their daughter, Peggy, and her husband, Bill Trask, have a squabble, Clarice has a plan to show the daughter just how distasteful domestic bickering appears; She enters into an agreement with Henry that they will fake a fuss to serve as an object lesson. Clarice's will to play the game and her sense of humor play out at about the same time when Henry's remarks become more pointed as the charade goes on. Their fake fight is soon a real barn-burner.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-24
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Land of the Silver Fox
Overview: Rin-Tin-Tin's first sound feature, in which he plays an abused dog recused by a young girl in the far north.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-18
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The Bush Leaguer
Overview: "Specs" White owns a garage in town and is the local baseball team's #1 pitcher--but he's more interested in working on his latest invention, a new and improved gas pump, than pitching on the team. A scout for the Los Angeles Angels professional baseball team offers Specs a contract. He accepts, but only so he can use the money he gets to work on his invention. However, Specs has a secret he dare not tell anyone--he's scared to death of large crowds. Alice Hobbs, the young, pretty owner of the Angels, tries to help him with that problem, but a misunderstanding causes another problem. this time between Specs and Alice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-20
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The Brute
Overview: Martin Sondes is an easy-going cowhand going up against a shady, saloon owner called "Square Deal" Fenton, whose chief means of making money is befuddling cowpuncher's brains with liquor and then cheating and robbing them of their money.
Genres: Action Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-20
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