Edward Everett Horton
Also Known As: E.E. Horton, Edward Horton, Edward Everett Horton Jr.
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward Everett Horton Jr. (March 18, 1886 – September 29, 1970) was an American character actor. He had a long career in film, theater, radio, television, and voice work for animated cartoons. Horton began his stage career in 1906, singing and dancing and playing small parts in vaudeville and in Broadway productions. In 1919, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he began acting in Hollywood films. His first starring role was in the comedy Too Much Business (1922), but he portrayed the lead role of an idealistic young classical composer in the drama Beggar on Horseback (1925). In the late 1920s, he starred in two-reel silent comedies for Educational Pictures, and made the transition to talking pictures with Educational in 1929. As a stage-trained performer, he found more film work easily, and appeared in some of Warner Bros.' early talkies, including The Terror (1928) and Sonny Boy (1929). Horton initially used his given name, Edward Horton, professionally. His father persuaded him to adopt his full name professionally, reasoning that other actors might be named Edward Horton, but only one named Edward Everett Horton. Horton soon cultivated his own special variation of the time-honored double take (an actor's reaction to something, followed by a delayed, more extreme reaction). In Horton's version, he would smile ingratiatingly and nod in agreement with what just happened; then, when realization set in, his facial features collapsed entirely into a sober, troubled mask. Horton starred in many comedy features in the 1930s, usually playing a mousy fellow who put up with domestic or professional problems to a certain point, and then finally asserted himself for a happy ending. He is best known, however, for his work as a character actor in supporting roles. These include The Front Page (1931), Trouble in Paradise (1932), Alice in Wonderland (1933), The Gay Divorcee (1934, the first of several Astaire/Rogers films in which Horton appeared), Top Hat (1935), Danger - Love at Work (1937), Lost Horizon (1937), Holiday (1938), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Pocketful of Miracles (1961), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and Sex and the Single Girl (1964). His last role was in the comedy film Cold Turkey (1971), in which his character communicated only through facial expressions.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: March 17, 1886
Deathday: September 29, 1970
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Arsenic and Old Lace
Overview: Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-01
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Pocketful of Miracles
Overview: A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-18
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Top Hat
Overview: Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-29
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Lost Horizon
Overview: British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-03
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Take the Heir
Overview: A butler impersonates his tippler boss and falls for a beautiful young maid. However, a notorious gold-digger, who thinks the butler is the wealthy young man he's impersonating, sets her sights on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-15
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Lady on a Train
Overview: While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-03
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Overview: A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-07
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The Emperor's Oblong Pancake
Overview: An animated version of the story about an emperor who tried to change all the round objects in his kingdom into oblong ones
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-01
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Shall We Dance
Overview: Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-07
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Once a Gentleman
Overview: A butler goes on vacation, where he is wrongly taken to be a wealthy man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-01
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Overview: American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-25
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Reaching for the Moon
Overview: Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic. He then loses his fortune in the market crash and feels he has also lost his girl.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-29
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Alice in Wonderland
Overview: In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-18
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Sex and the Single Girl
Overview: A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-25
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The Gay Divorcee
Overview: Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-12
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Cold Turkey
Overview: Reverend Brooks leads the town in a contest to stop smoking for a month, But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts, from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-19
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The Front Page
Overview: Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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The Devil Is a Woman
Overview: In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-03
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The Story of Mankind
Overview: The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-08
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Forever and a Day
Overview: In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-21
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Springtime in the Rockies
Overview: Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-06
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The Merry Widow
Overview: A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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Angel
Overview: While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-29
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To the Ladies
Overview: Three clerks for the Kincaid Piano Company -- Leonard Beebe, Chester Mullin, and Tom Baker are in competition for a promotion to factory manager.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-06
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Holiday
Overview: Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-26
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Overview: Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-07
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The Whole Town's Talking
Overview: Chester Binney, a wounded war veteran, erroneously believes he is carrying a silver plate in his head and must avoid all excitement. He returns to his hometown, and there his former employer, George Simmons, attempts to arrange a match between Chester (who is to inherit a fortune) and his daughter Ethel. Ethel, however, finds Chester unexciting as a lover; and to enliven the affair, the father invents a lurid past for the boy by displaying a signed photograph of Rita Renault, a famous movie star. Rita, accompanied by her jealous husband, Jack Shields, arrives in the town for a personal appearance. By chance, Jack discovers the photograph of Rita, presumably the property of Chester, and when he sees his wife kissing Chester, a running fight ensues.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-26
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Down to Earth
Overview: Upset at a new Broadway musical mocking The Nine Muses, Greek goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth to land a part in the show and change it.
Genres: Music Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-21
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The Gang's All Here
Overview: A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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The Ghost Goes Wild
Overview: Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a genuine ghost during a seance. Things come to a head during his trial, where the invisible ghost takes the witness stand on Our Hero's behalf.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-08
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Summer Storm
Overview: It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-14
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Ladies Should Listen
Overview: The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the man's current girlfriend is actually part of a scheme to swindle him out of some mineral rights he owns, she devises a plot to save him and expose the con artists.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-10
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San Diego I Love You
Overview: A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-29
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Kiss and Make-Up
Overview: Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the effects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, and wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher... after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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Design for Living
Overview: An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-29
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Hitting a New High
Overview: A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-24
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Holiday
Overview: A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-03
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Little Big Shot
Overview: A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-07
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A Bedtime Story
Overview: Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-22
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2000 Years Later
Overview: A satirical film on fads in the US. A TV host on a late night show tries to convince his viewers that they should return to Rome and Roman ways.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-11
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The Perfect Specimen
Overview: Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wishes until a chance encounter with Mona Carter leads him into the outside world.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-23
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College Swing
Overview: Gracie Alden tries to graduate from college to get an inheritance.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-29
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Lonely Wives
Overview: A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line. When an actor-impersonator comes to see him, the two switch lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-15
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Danger – Love at Work
Overview: A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-30
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Sunny
Overview: Sunny is a 1941 film American film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sunny. It stars Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Edward Everett Horton, Grace Hartman, Paul Hartman, Frieda Inescort, and Helen Westley.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-30
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The Great Garrick
Overview: A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-30
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Overview: An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-07
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The King and the Chorus Girl
Overview: A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-27
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The Singing Kid
Overview: Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-10
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Ask Dad
Overview: Tommy, home from school, is infatuated with his father's secretary, so he goes to their office to try to tell her.After quoting much poetry, he finds she loves another, causing more quotes.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-16
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Going Highbrow
Overview: A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-06
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Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Overview: Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeking to convince her to write her biography as a feature for his magazine. One of Marion's old beaus, now running for U.S. Senator from their home state, also comes calling.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-04
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Smart Woman
Overview: A society man's loving, devoted wife, upon learning that he has been unfaithful and is planning to leave her for the other woman, strategically pretends to be having an affair of her own. The woman's friends gladly assist in the deception.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-12
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It's a Boy
Overview: "It's a Boy" stars Horton as Dudley Leake, who is betrothed to Mary Bogle (the very pretty Wendy Barrie). Shortly before the wedding, Dudley blurts a confession to his friend and best man, Jim Skippett: 20 years ago, Dudley had a brief affair with a certain Miss Piper, but he's never heard from her since then. Next day, who should suddenly appear? A youth about 19 or 20 years old, claiming to be named Joe Piper. Is he Horton's son, or is Skippett playing a practical joke?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-07
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Easy to Love
Overview: Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-13
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The Perils of Pauline
Overview: Pauline becomes involved in a series of adventures around the world and is aided by her ever present friend, George.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-02
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But the Flesh Is Weak
Overview: A poor-but-charming father and son try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-09
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Hearts Divided
Overview: Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
Genres: Drama Romance Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-20
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Helen's Babies
Overview: A young man, who has vowed never to marry and doesn't particularly like children, is left in charge of his two very young nieces. At first they drive him to distraction, but then he begins to warm to them, and also to a beautiful young local girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-11
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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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Sing and Like It
Overview: While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-20
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Wide Open
Overview: An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-01
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The Night Is Young
Overview: Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-11
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The Town Went Wild
Overview: Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-15
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The Great Junction Hotel
Overview: A Masquers' Club spoof short. Newly-weds spend their wedding night in a run-down hotel, watched over by an under-employed house detective. When the bride goes missing, the groom (Horton) is chief suspect number one. Fortunately, the cops are completely incompetent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-26
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Smarty
Overview: Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attorney Vernon Thorpe secures a divorce for her, and Vicki and Vernon are soon married. Vicki's yen for wearing revealing clothes and a penchant for inviting ex-husband to dinner soon provokes the easily-provoked Vernon into belting one on her himself. She goes to Tony's apartment, where Tony is entertaining Bonnie, who is not all that entertained by the presence of Vicki, especially after Vicki shows every intent of moving in and staying.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-19
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Brazil
Overview: Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of US films made by Brazilian singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typical screwball-comedy fashion, the plot is set in motion by authoress Nicky Henderson, who has hit the best-seller charts with her latest tome, Why Marry a Latin? While researching her next book in Rio De Janeiro, she finds out "why" when she meets handsome songwriter Miguel Soares. Upon learning about Nicky's book, Miguel decides to teach her a few lessons in the affairs of the heart. Edward Everett Horton is also on hand, twittering his way through the role of a well-meaning buttinsky. Thanks to the "Good Neighbor" policy of the 1940s, South American musicals were a glut on the market, but Brazil was good enough on its own merits to pay its way at the box office.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-30
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In Caliente
Overview: At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-25
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$10 Raise
Overview: A timid, overworked and underpaid bookkeeper needs a $10 raise to marry his sweetheart...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-04
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Success at Any Price
Overview: A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market crashes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-16
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Weekend for Three
Overview: Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet Jim turns genuinely dismayed once Randy arrives and turns out to be an insufferable, boorish braggart with bad manners and little self-awareness. That dismay turns to outright annoyance when Jim realizes Randy thinks he has come to stay for the weekend. How much damage to a marriage can one unwanted guest do in the space of one weekend?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-12
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One Got Fat
Overview: This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and recklessly.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-01
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Paris Honeymoon
Overview: A Texas millionaire travels to Europe to meet his girlfriend, a European countess. He stops in a rustic mountain village and meets a beautiful peasant girl. He falls in love with her, then must decide if he wants her or the rich countess.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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All the King's Horses
Overview: A Hollywood actor visits a mythical country where he looks like the king and confuses the queen.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-22
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Kiss Me Again
Overview: An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that marriage would be a mistake. The officer goes off to war and she becomes an opera star.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-07
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Six Cylinder Love
Overview: Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for rides.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-10
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Roar of the Dragon
Overview: A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain Carson, who becomes involved with a woman who "belongs" to Voronsky. Carson must contend with the bandits outside and the conflicting personalities of those trapped inside the inn, as well as dealing with spies among the inn's personnel.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-08
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The Age for Love
Overview: A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and marries a woman who does.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-17
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His Night Out
Overview: When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by the gang.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-01
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Flapper Wives
Overview: Broad-minded rector Stephen Carey is ousted from his church by his vestrymen and befriends Claudia Bigelow, a young divorcée who defended his position in the church. Claudia's carelessness in leaving a cigarette burning causes Jimsy, the housekeeper's son, to go blind. Stephen's prayers restore the boy's sight, and a happy future is predicted for all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-23
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The Magnificent Dope
Overview: Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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The Gang's All Here
Overview: John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company. Aided by his butler, his Cockney assistant and his (initially) unwilling wife, Forrest sets out on the trail of the thieves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-04
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Ziegfeld Girl
Overview: Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-25
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La Bohème
Overview: It is 1830 in Paris and the rent is due, but the money is not there. An article here, a painting there and a monkey with a cup gives them enough money for the rent, but not for food. Fortunately, Musette from downstairs has enough food for everyone including Mimi - the poor little waif from next door who Rodolphe has met. But Count Paul also has his lusting eye on Mimi and uses her embroidery to get close to her. Rodolphe and Mimi fall in love and Mimi works endlessly to support Rodolphe who is writing his play with a new found passion. He does not know that he has been discharged from writing for 'Dog and Cat Fanciers'. Mimi wants to get his play produced and Count Paul offers to help, but there is a terrible fight when Rodolphe thinks that Mimi is faithless to him with Count Paul. After the fight, he seeks out a doctor as she is sick, but she has left when Rodolphe returns and will stay away until his play is finished.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-13
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Beggar on Horseback
Overview: Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the courage to seek love over comfort?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-05
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Faithful in My Fashion
Overview: A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge promotion where they used to work together - and has become engaged to another man.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-21
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The Sap
Overview: A small town dimwit takes the blame for his brother-in-law's crime.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-09
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Her Primitive Man
Overview: An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-29
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Her Master's Voice
Overview: Besieged by his adoring female fans, radio celebrity Ned "The Fireside Troubadour" Farrar hides out at the home of his wife Queena's imperious Aunt Min. Pretending to be Aunt Min's handyman, he performs his tasks so well that she refuses to let him leave.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-17
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Cinderella Jones
Overview: Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-09
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I Married an Angel
Overview: A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven shows up.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-09
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The Man in the Mirror
Overview: A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he always wanted to but never could.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-15
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That's Right – You're Wrong
Overview: J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-24
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Dad's Choice
Overview: Eddie wants to marry a girl, but her father is strongly opposed to it. For her sake, she convinces him to at least meet Eddie.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-07
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Little Tough Guys in Society
Overview: A society matron invites the gang to her estate as playmates for her spoiled brat son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-01
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Steppin' in Society
Overview: In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly esteemed racketeer.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-09
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Earl Carroll Sketchbook
Overview: An aspiring singer and her lover, a songwriter who has desperately resorted to writing radio jingles, have many conflicts on their road to success...
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-22
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The Aviator
Overview: Misadventures of a bogus flyer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-14
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Her Husband's Affairs
Overview: Bill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret's approval of his work, instead he gets constructive (and on-target) feedback, which he hates. Things get really strange when Bill creates advertising for a wacky inventor's embalming fluid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-12
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
Overview: An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-25
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Wild Money
Overview: A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping conspiracy. He quickly phones the paper and they order him to follow up on the story and stay off the phone so the reporter (whom he secretly has a crush on) can use it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-09
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Nobody's Fool
Overview: A naive country boy goes to New York City, where he gets mixed up with real estate swindlers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-01
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Oh, Doctor
Overview: A hypochondriac is afraid he will die before he gets an inheritance that will "cure" him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-31
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The Hottentot
Overview: The Hottentot is a lost 1929 American pre-Code film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Edward Everett Horton and Patsy Ruth Miller. It is based on a 1920 Broadway play, The Hottentot, by William Collier, Sr. and Victor Mapes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-10
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The Private Secretary
Overview: A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-26
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The Man Who Fights Alone
Overview: John Marble, a construction engineer is stricken by paralysis and begins to envision the growth of love between his wife Marion and his best friend, Bob Alten. Bent on suicide, however, the shock of seeing his wife and child endangered on a broken bridge shakes him to recover from his illness and discover that his suspicions were all imaginary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-15
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The Body Disappears
Overview: Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible by eccentric college professor Reginald Shotesbury. An unbelievable series of events is revealed by several witnesses testifying in a "mystery trial" to determine the reason for DeHaven's "disappearance".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-22
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The Right Bed
Overview: A mysterious blonde in a married man's bed! A mystery to be solved by the funniest means possible.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
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The Way to Love
Overview: Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets Madeleine, who works at a circus.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-20
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Behind the Counter
Overview: Eddie, a prim store salesman, gets locked in overnight and battles hoodlums.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-03
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Try and Get It
Overview: Bryant Washburn and Edward Everett Horton are ordered to retrieve an old $25 debt from a stubborn (and violent) client. The fact that he has an attractive daughter (Billie Dove) could complicate or simplify the situation! Originally released at six reels, only reels 1, 2, and 6 survive.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
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The Terror
Overview: Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-06
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Soldiers of the King
Overview: When Cicely Courtneidge's mother (also played by Miss Courtneidge, albeit in heavy makeup), retires, Cicely succeeds as Queen of the Marvellos, a family of music-hall performers. However, when young Dorothy Hyson begins an affair with a young soldier, Miss Courtneidge is trapped between her responsibilities and memories of her affair years ago with another young soldier.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-13
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Your Uncle Dudley
Overview: A paint store owner turns his attention to civic affairs while his business falls apart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-13
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Things You Never See on the Screen
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-01
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Bachelor Daddy
Overview: The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-04
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You're the One
Overview: 100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-19
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Overview: A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-01
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Poker Faces
Overview: In order to secure a lucrative contract, a businessman hires a woman to pose as his wife at a business dinner when his own wife can't make it. Unfortunately, the woman he hires is the wife of an insanely jealous prizefighter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-05
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No Publicity
Overview: Cameraman Eddie is sent to photograph a socialite at a private lecture on morals. The young woman's guardian will have none of it however, and Eddie resorts to a number of deceptions in order to get a picture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-01
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Find the King
Overview: In this two-reel comedy, Edward Everett Horton is the pampered scion of a family, raised by a couple of prissy aunts. He does card tricks. Through various machinations, he winds up running a saloon out west, where he charms one of the two tough guys in town by taking away his tie and fixing a bow tie to him; the other, Jack Curtis, he bests at poker "for keeps!" and wins the heart of local good girl Violet Bird.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1927-11-05
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Horse Shy
Overview: Despite his fear of horses, Eddie Hamilton takes part in a fox hunt, in order to impress the daughter of his host, Colonel Calhoun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-19
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Vacation Waves
Overview: Eddie and his wife rent a boat and plan a relaxing weekend fishing. Unfortunately, her mother and bratty kid brother show up and insist on coming along, sending relaxation right to the bottom of the ocean.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-15
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Let's Make a Million
Overview: A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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Sonny Boy
Overview: Sonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into kidnapping him because she is terrified that her husband will take the boy out of the country after the divorce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-18
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The Wonderful World of Trains
Overview: A promotional film made by the Lionel Train company to display the various toy trains available and featuring the Suzari Puppets.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Scrambled Weddings
Overview: Edward Everett Horton and Ruth Dwyer are in love and expect to get married as soon as one of them mentions it to the other. In the meantime, Lolita Lee accepts Horton's proposal, which he doesn't recall making, and Miss Dwyer is invited to be a bridesmaid. So he tells Miss Dwyer that it's Stanley Taylor she's marrying, and hopes no one spills the beans before Taylor shows up in a false beard to spike the proceedings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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Call Again
Overview: Edward Everett Horton is scheduled to go on a date with Duane Thompson. She, being only 25, is a schoolgirl at Aileen Manning's girl's school. Horton becomes trapped in the school, trying to avoid headmistress and cops.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
Overview: Gordon Jenkins' record album "Manhattan Tower" was a best seller for 12 years and this spectacular is based on it, with book, music and lyrics by Jenkins, produced and staged by him as well. The story is of a young man named Steven, visiting New York City and falling in love with Julie. Together they do the town, with music and dance this production is a vintage classic.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-27
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Taxi! Taxi!
Overview: An architect, constantly in trouble with his employers, falls for the boss's niece. When he spontaneously buys a taxicab to take her home on a rainy night, the purchase leads to more trouble.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-24
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