Russell Gleason
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Biography: Russell Gleason (February 6, 1908 – December 25, 1945) was an American actor who began his career at the very beginning of the talking film era. Born into an acting family, one of his earliest roles was in the 1930 classic film, All Quiet on the Western Front. While still in the middle of a successful acting career, Gleason joined the U.S. Army in late 1943, during World War II. While awaiting deployment to Europe in December 1945 in New York City, Gleason fell to his death from a hotel window. He was the son of actors Lucille and James Gleason.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Portland, Oregon, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 06, 1908
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 26, 1945
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Earl of Puddlestone
Overview: When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decides to get back at them by making them believe that his family has "royal" connections.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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The Covered Trailer
Overview: The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil unwittingly sabotages their plans by telling insurance representative Wells that Joe is only forty-four, not forty-five, and is therefore ineligible to collect the annuity insurance that was to pay for the cruise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-10
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Condemned to Live
Overview: After a series of murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampire committing the murders.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-15
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Fingers at the Window
Overview: In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-22
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Homicide Squad
Overview: The police use a gangster's son to get to him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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Big Business
Overview: A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-18
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Laugh and Get Rich
Overview: An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-27
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Unexpected Uncle
Overview: An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-07
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Fury Below
Overview: Jim Cole, heir to a mining operation, takes over the mine, which is suffering from unexplained low production, and is facing a strike by the miners. Jim will soon loose the mine if production doesn't increase and the sabotage continues. Mary Norsen, office-secretary, accidentally learns of a plot by Fred Johnson to wreck the mine and force Cole to sell his coal-mine. She and her brother, Joe, join Cole in his fight to stop Johnson.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-22
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I Can't Escape
Overview: An ex-convict, unable to get a good job because of his prison record, gets mixed up in a phony stock scam.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-04
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The Flying Fool
Overview: A man protective of his brother checks out the girl his brother is in love with, in order to see if she's the real thing or just trying to take advantage of him. Unfortunately, he winds up falling in love with her himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-10
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Off His Base
Overview: It begins with the Mustangs in trouble in their championship series... all the players are banged up and they're being clobbered. But a sports reporter insists that his nephew, Minor, can really play ball and will help the team win.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-18
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Undercover Agent
Overview: A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-19
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Love on a Budget
Overview: This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-04
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Here I Am a Stranger
Overview: The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-29
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Officer O'Brien
Overview: Bill O'Brien is promoted to lieutenant in the police department for his arrest of Mike Patello, gang leader and racketeer, for murder. Ruth Dale, who loves Bill, is concerned when her brother, Johnny, who witnessed the murder, proposes to testify against the racketeer. Meanwhile, Captain Antrim informs Bill that his father has just been released from prison and does not know his son is a policeman. On the way from prison, O'Brien (J. P.) meets Limo, a former cockney pal who recognizes Bill and keeps J. P. from seeing his son; later, J. P. arrives intoxicated and is enraged, forcing Bill to knock him unconscious. J. P. is arrested for robbery but returns the loot to save his son from disgrace; Johnny is killed before testifying against Patello, who is released but confronted by J. P., who proves his guilt and, when he struggles with the police, kills him. Bill plans to resign, but confident of Ruth's love, he decides to remain on the force.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-15
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Beyond Victory
Overview: Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-03
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A Trip to Paris
Overview: The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-06
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The Sophomore
Overview: Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this nostalgic slice of college, replete with songs, romance, prom dances and the inevitable big football game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-24
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A Tenderfoot Goes West
Overview: Wellington Pike, author of 'Wild and Bloody Tales of the West', has never been away from the sedate and civilized East, so he takes a vacation to see the land he knows nothing about. Rancher Ann Keith and her cowhands, who have read and laughed at Pike's "wild" west, decide to give him a shock impression that is even wilder than depicted in his imaginative literary flights. Gang leader "Killer" Madden and his bandits decide to make the staged robberies real ones and Pike is arrested for the crimes Madden has pulled.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-15
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Seeing Hands
Overview: This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig was blinded in an accident while playing baseball. He eventually acquired a guide dog and now works in a defense plant.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-03
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News Is Made at Night
Overview: Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-20
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Dudes Are Pretty People
Overview: Western comedy about a cowhand falling in love with the pretty guest at a local dude ranch.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-13
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Should Husbands Work?
Overview: Joe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework. A Higgins Family comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-26
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Money To Burn
Overview: In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a whopping $50,000.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-31
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My Wife's Relatives
Overview: It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the romance between Ellis' son Bill and Joe's daughter Jean. Refusing, Joe quits his job and sets up his own candy company. It's a money-losing enterprise until Joe's wife Lil loses her diamond ring in a batch of candy and offers a $5000 reward to anyone who can retrieve the ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-20
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The Higgins Family
Overview: Pa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his eccentric family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-28
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Grandpa Goes To Town
Overview: Joe and Lil Higgins invest their life savings in a frontier hotel. Upon arrival, the family discovers that the establishment is smack dab in the middle of a ghost town that hasn't seen a human face in years.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-13
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Everybody's Baby
Overview: The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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Hot Tip
Overview: An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-20
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Salute to the Marines
Overview: It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-02
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Hitch Hike To Heaven
Overview: A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his family relationships at risk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-12
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Young as You Feel
Overview: Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-16
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Overview: When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-29
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Private Jones
Overview: After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter of his family and is employed by businessman Roger Winthrop, his sister Helen's boss.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-25
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Strange Cargo
Overview: On board a yacht sailing from India to Britain, the owner of the vessel is murdered by one of the passengers. (This film was produced both in full sound and silent versions, the latter for theaters that had not yet been wired for sound.)
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-31
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Hot Water
Overview: The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-24
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Borrowing Trouble
Overview: The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-10
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Safety in Numbers
Overview: The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-30
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Down on the Farm
Overview: Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-11
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Nice Women
Overview: A mother tries to get her daughter to marry for money, but the daughter wants to marry for love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-28
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Swing Fever
Overview: Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-01
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Off to the Races
Overview: The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-05
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Always Kickin'
Overview: When Russel Gleason is thought to have made a kick by Jim Thorpe, he is reinstated on the college team in time for the big game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-09
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The Strange Case of Clara Deane
Overview: A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a criminal...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-06
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Swing Shift Maisie
Overview: Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-01
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Seven Faces
Overview: A 1929 American pre-Code drama film with fantasy elements that was released by Fox Film Corporation in the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system on December 1, 1929.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-01
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Sunday Night at the Trocadero
Overview: A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-02
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