Geneva Mitchell
Also Known As: Geneva Doris Mitchell
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Geneva Mitchell (February 3, 1907 – March 10, 1949) was an American film actress. She appeared in over 70 films between 1929 and 1946. Mitchell started her career on the stage in a musical comedy. At age 17, she was in the choruses of Sally and the Ziegfeld Follies of 1921. She signed a contract with Warner Brothers in October 1929, and with Columbia Pictures in June 1934. Modern viewers will recognize Mitchell from her appearances in the Three Stooges 1935 films Restless Knights, Pop Goes the Easel, and particularly Hoi Polloi. In Hoi Polloi, Mitchell plays a dance instructor who directs the Stooges to "do exactly as I do." Before she begins her dance, a bumblebee lands on her bare back, and then crawls under her dress. She becomes alarmed. Naturally, the Stooges mimic her every startled move. This hilarious footage was to be reused six years later in In the Sweet Pie and Pie.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Medarysville, Indiana, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 03, 1907
Age: 118 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: March 10, 1949
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Honeymoon Bridge
Overview: His wife's obsession with playing bridge is starting to drive Leon crazy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-02
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The Big Gamble
Overview: A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the one-year suicide clause has elapsed.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-04
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Ann Vickers
Overview: After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-26
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Pop Goes the Easel
Overview: The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-29
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Night World
Overview: "Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-04
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The World Gone Mad
Overview: A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-15
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Restless Knights
Overview: Set in Medieval times, the stooges learn they are of royal blood and vow to save the kingdom. They become the queen's royal guards but are sentenced to die when the queen is abducted on the orders of the evil prime minister. The stooges escape, free the queen, and end up knocking each other out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-20
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Millie
Overview: After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men - men who once devoted their time to her mother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-06
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Bring 'Em Back a Wife
Overview: When Billy must prove that he's married in order to keep his job, he disguises Ben in drag in an attempt to pass him off as the little woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-13
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His Bridal Sweet
Overview: Harry and his wife move into a "modern", gimmick-laden house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-14
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Back Pay
Overview: Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-01
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Air Hawks
Overview: A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.
Genres: Action Romance Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-07
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The Crime Patrol
Overview: Prizefighter Bob Neal (Ray Walker) is in debt to gangster Vic Santell (Hooper Atchley) for training expenses. Santell orders Bob to take a dive in the fourth round so Santell can recoup prior gambling losses. Taunted by his ring opponent, Bob wins the fight. Realizing that his profession and underworld characters connected to it are causing him problems, Bob decides to join the police force. After taking nurse Mary Prentiss (Geneva Mitchell) to a drive-in restaurant where the total bill is a depression-era cheap eighty-two cents, Bob and his fellow officers round-up a gang of fur thieves in a warehouse shoot-out.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-12
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A Man of Sentiment
Overview: A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-15
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Follow Thru
Overview: Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend, Jack Martin, show up. Lora takes him on as her golf teacher to work on her putt. She falls for him, but so do several other women. Meanwhile Angie Howard, Lora's friend, chases after Jack. A lot of silliness ensues.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-26
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Son of the Gods
Overview: The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but experiences prejudice, rejection, insult, and heartache when the socialite (Constance Bennett) he loves learns of his heritage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-09
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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 All-American Kickback
Overview: Homer Bagwell (Harry Gribbon) is an incredibly talented, but reluctant college football player who is dating one of his teachers, Helen Dover (Geneva Mitchell). A jealous rival tries sabotaging Homer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-29
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Working Girls
Overview: Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for the scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-12
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Good Sport
Overview: Marilyn Parker decides not to accompany her husband Rex on his business trip to Europe when she receives a surprise visit from her mother.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-12
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Disorderly Conduct
Overview: When motorcycle cop Dick Fay gives a ticket to Phyllis Crawford, her father's graft-fed influence leads to his demotion to foot patrolman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-20
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House of Mystery
Overview: Two hunters discover a dead young woman in a cabin in the woods.One of them being the sheriff, he proceeds to press the wealthy owner for an explanation. At first it looks like his son has killed his unfaithful wife, but the wife's lover and the family butler are acting suspiciously enough to be followed.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-16
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What Price Taxi
Overview: Ill-tempered Billy proves troublesome for fellow taxi drivers Franklin and Clyde.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-13
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The Girl from Calgary
Overview: A French-Canadian girl is a champion bronc rider and is also a nightclub singer. An ambitious young man sees her act one night and is struck by her talent, realizing that she is good enough to become a Broadway star. He convinces her to accompany him to New York, where she indeed does become a Broadway star. However, the young man finds himself being squeezed out by greedy Broadway producers who see the talented young girl as their own personal gold mine.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-23
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Get That Girl
Overview: A young girl, who is about to receive a large inheritance, is abducted to an isolated sanitarium where a crazed doctor is performing strange experiments.
Genres: Thriller Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-15
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The Single Sin
Overview: A lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a prominent millionaire. The magnate falls madly in love with his new secretary and they marry. Unfortunately, she has not revealed her shady past to him, and when friends from her smuggling days suddenly show up as employees, mayhem ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-23
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False Faces
Overview: The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicago as a "prestigious" plastic surgeon to the stars. However, Brenton's silver tongue can't cover up his dubious methods, and an investigation into his practice is launched by the examining board of plastic surgeons. A delirious film à clef based on the loathsome career of Henry J. Schireson, the self-styled “King of Quacks”.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-12
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Only Yesterday
Overview: On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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Above the Clouds
Overview: Robert Armstrong stars as Scoop Adams, an ace newsreel cameraman whose love affair with the bottle all but destroys him professionally. Scoop manages to get his photographer pal Dick (Richard Cromwell) fired as well, but he promises to restore Dick's reputation, some way or another. He gets his chance while covering a dirigible wreck (some three years before the Hindenburg), saving the day for both Dick and himself.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-13
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Madison Square Garden
Overview: Eddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of loyalty. When his manager Doc Williams is offered the opportunity to stage a match at Madison Square Garden, but only if he gets rid of his stable of fighters, Eddie fabricates an alibi and stages a walkout on Doc.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-04
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I Am Suzanne!
Overview: A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-25
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Morning Glory
Overview: Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory after its brief blooming?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-18
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This Side of Heaven
Overview: A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-02
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Blind Date
Overview: A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-20
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The Hell Cat
Overview: Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulted her. To get revenge , she disguises herself and gets a job at Collins' paper, where she manages to throw his crusade against the gamblers into disarray.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-16
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A Man's Game
Overview: During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy (Evelyn Knapp). Falling in love with the girl, the boys try to save her from getting mixed up in an embezzlement scheme.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-16
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Springtime for Henry
Overview: A rakish fellow involves himself with a married woman. Later his secretary endeavors to win him away with the promise of a more stable relationship. The rake is tempted, but then decides he prefers the married woman, which is fine with her husband who has an eye for the secretary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-22
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Behind the Evidence
Overview: Norman Foster plays a millionaire who takes a job as a reporter after he's wiped out in the Stock Market. Foster's managing editor Samuel S. Hinds considers the young upstart to be a pain in the neck. But all is forgiven-at least until next time-when Foster solves a series of puzzling robberies..
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-08
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Night Life of the Gods
Overview: A scientist named Hunter Hawk invents a device that can turn flesh to stone. While celebrating his discovery he becomes involved with a half naked leprechaun. On a trip to New York, Hunter and Meg (the leprechaun) decide to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and turn all of the Statues of Greek Gods into people. What follows in a drunken romp around New York with Medusa's severed head still in Perseus' hand.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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Death Flies East
Overview: Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row inmate who accused her of the deed in the first place. On board the airliner, Evelyn makes the acquaintance of John Robinson Gordon (Nagel), who is transporting a revolutionary munitions formula to Washington, D.C. Another passenger, Baker (Robert Allen), complains of having been poisoned and leaves the plane during a stopover in Dallas. Back in the air, Gordon's bodyguard, Lieutenant O'Brien (Fred Kelsey), suffers the same fate, but this time the poison proves fatal. The plane returns to Dallas, where Police Captain Barrie (William B. Davidson) accused poor Evelyn of the crime. Happily, Gordon can prove otherwise and the real culprit is unmasked.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-28
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Party Wire
Overview: When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-27
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Fighting Shadows
Overview: Mountie Tim O'Hara is sent to Indian River to investigate a fur trading racket. But he quickly finds himself in trouble when he is accused of shooting a prisoner in the back and is then put in jail by a fellow Mountie.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-18
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It Always Happens
Overview: While on a business trip, Andy accidentially gets into a compromising position with the wife of a client.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-14
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Gobs of Trouble
Overview: Two sailors decide to settle down and get married, and live to regret it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-12
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Western Courage
Overview: Wealthy Henry Hanley takes his family to a dude ranch. But his daughter Gloria's boyfriend Eric is waiting and he is after Hanley's money. Ken overhears Eric's plan and abducts Gloria to stop the elopement. The outlaw Lacrosse and his henchman then catch Ken without his guns, take off with Gloria, and leave a tied up Ken in a burning shack.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-29
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The Captain Hits the Ceiling
Overview: Franklin gets into a disagreement with a tough sea captain. However, he doesn't find out until later that the captain is his fiance's father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-09
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The Cattle Thief
Overview: Ken, sent to investigate cattle rustlers, poses as a peddler during the day but the Masked Rider at night.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-26
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Lawless Riders
Overview: Edith overhears Bart's plan to rob the bank so she informs Ken. But she is also overheard and when Ken goes to investigate, Bart's Henchman Prod frames him for the robbery. Thrown in jail, Ken's pal Pedro arrives with a plan to get him out.
Genres: Adventure Western Romance Music Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-06
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I Don't Remember
Overview: Amnesiac can't find the other half of his winning sweepstakes ticket.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-25
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Andy Plays Hookey
Overview: Andy makes elaborate plans to attend a prizefight, and they all backfire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-19
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Safety in Numbers
Overview: Before handing over a large inheritance, a guardian hires three chorus girls to educate his charge about the "underside" of big-city life.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-30
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Pleasure Cruise
Overview: Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-01
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The Defense Rests
Overview: A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-15
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Girl in Danger
Overview: Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
Genres: Mystery Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-11
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Skyscraper Souls
Overview: After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan. Despite the devotion of longtime mistress Sarah, the ruthless David, while seeking bank mergers to protect his building, tries to seduce Sarah's secretary, Lynn. David then agrees to a plot by a bank board member to inflate his bank's stock and sell short — just before the market crashes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-16
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Carnival
Overview: "Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
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His Old Flame
Overview: Just as Charlie is running for mayor on a purity platform, an old flame threatens to show his torrid love letters to his wife if he does not withdraw from the campaign.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-25
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Faithless
Overview: Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-15
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Big City Blues
Overview: An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-18
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