Ole Olsen
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 06, 1892
Deathday: January 26, 1963
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Crazy House
Overview: Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-08
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Hellzapoppin'
Overview: Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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Fighting Mad
Overview: Ann Fenwick is a witness to a bank robbery in the U.S. and the bandits, led by Trigger and Leon capture her and when she disappears, a warrant is issued for her arrest as a material witness. The bank robbers flee across the border into Canada where they steal a trailer in which they lock Ann and the loot. The hitch breaks and the trailer plunges into a lake. Sergeant Renfrew and Constable Kelly, of the Canadian Mounties, rescue Ann and she tells them she is a hitch-hiking tourist and gives a false name. Renfrew sends Kelly for aid, Ann escapes and Kelly returns with the news that she is wanted. The leader of the gang, Cardigan, sends the gang back for Ann and the loot, which Ann has hidden in a trappers cabin, just before Trigger recaptures her. Renfrew goes to her rescue, but is also captured. But reliable Constable Kelly is somewhere in the woods.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-05
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Cinema Circus
Overview: Actor Lee Tracy presides as ringmaster over a show that combines the best elements of cinema with the circus, what he calls a Cinema Circus. Tracy introduces a number of professional circus acts, plus a cavalcade of movie stars who have side shows under the open air big tent. There is as much action in the audience as Tracy identifies a number of movie stars watching the proceedings incognito, having their own fun in the stands, and sometimes interacting with the circus acts.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-27
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All Over Town
Overview: Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being haunted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-09
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Country Gentlemen
Overview: After being run out of town after town for trying to sell worthless stock, two con artists breeze into the small town of Chesterville, where they find themselves accused of kidnapping a young boy to whom they offered a ride. When that misunderstanding is cleared up, the two conmen hatch a plot to unload all their worthless paper on the gullible citizens of Chesterville.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-08
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Overview: Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Gold Dust Gertie
Overview: Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-27
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Johnny at the Fair
Overview: At the Canadian National Exhibition, a young boy gets separated from his parents and meets some celebrities.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Oh, Sailor, Behave!
Overview: Based on the farcical stage play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning* writer Elmer Rice, Oh, Sailor Behave! is a movie Musical with a split personality. Nanette Dodge (Irene Delroy) falls for newspaper reporter Charlie Carroll (Charles King) who is on assignment in Venice to land an interview with Romanian General Skulany (Noah Beery). Our couple is split apart by a pair of storylines - Nanette tries to woo a Russian prince (Lowell Sherman) who is blackmailing her sister, while Charlie, following a lead to the general, finds himself Romantically involved with Kunegundi (Vivien Oakland), "the general's favorite."
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-15
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50 Million Frenchmen
Overview: In this comedy, two men make an extravagant $50,000 dollar bet that one of them will be able to successfully court a lovely woman without spending any money. To foil his scheme, the other bettor hires two henchmen to stop him.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-14
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Ghost Catchers
Overview: Two zanies get mixed up with a Southern colonel, his beautiful daughters, a nightclub and a haunted mansion.
Genres: Comedy Horror Music Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-16
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Paroled from the Big House
Overview: A federal agent poses as a criminal to infiltrate a gang of parolees seeking vengeance on the lawmen who jailed them.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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See My Lawyer
Overview: Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub owner, B. J. Wagonhorn, refuses to let them go. In reprisal, they start hurling insults at the nightclub patrons… a ploy that soon has them facing multiple lawsuits… to the delight of three struggling attorneys, Charlie Rodman, Bettty Wilson and Arthur Lane.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-09
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