Karl Dane
Also Known As: Carl Dane, Dane, Rasmus Karl Therkelsen Gottlieb, The Great Dane
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Denmark
Adult: No
Birthday: October 10, 1886
Age: 138 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 14, 1934
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The Big Parade
Overview: The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-05
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The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Overview: An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-23
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The Everlasting Whisper
Overview: Cowboy Mark King (Tom Mix) comes to the aid of an old miner, Honeycutt (George Berrell) who, in gratitude, reveals the location of a secret gold mine. To get to the mine, however, King must fight an evil claim jumper, Gratton (Robert Cain), whose fiance, Gloria (Alice Calhoun), he once saved from falling off a cliff.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-10
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Free and Easy
Overview: Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira with an agent, Gopher City's own Elmer J. Butz. Elmer likes Elvira and the shy Elvira likes him, but Mrs. Plunkett, a formidable woman, has little use for hapless Elmer. On the train west, they meet movie star Larry Mitchell, who takes a shine to Elvira and helps her meet MGM directors once they get to Tinsel Town. Elmer, meanwhile, wants to help Elvira with her career and he also wants to be her man. Movie stardom does come to the Gopher City entourage, but to whom is a surprise. And who will win the lovely Elvira's hand?
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-22
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The Big House
Overview: Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-14
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Baby Mine
Overview: Remake of the 1917 film of the same name. A young chiropractor is tricked by a tall, homely girl into marriage, but he ducks out the morning after the honeymoon. Months go by and he learns that his bride has become a mother. Obliged to his responsibilities, he returns. however, it's just another ruse, with three borrowed babies and a midget dressed as one standing in for his new children.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-08
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The Scarlet Letter
Overview: In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-08
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Speedway
Overview: Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son since he took him in. One day at the track, Bill sees Pat Bannon, and tries his best to impress her, but to no avail. On his way to catch a flight, he tricks Pat into taking him to the airport and she gets even by taking him up in a plane. He hates to fly, but will not show her that he is afraid and when the plane breaks up, he is a hero for rescuing her. This gets him publicity and Renny offers him his car to drive in the Indianapolis 500. Bill breaks with Mac to drive the car and puts it on the pole for the race. Then Renny double crosses Bill and plans to drive the car himself since Bill has tuned it so well.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-07
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Slide, Kelly, Slide
Overview: A minor league pitcher lets pride get the better of him after he joins the New York Yankees.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-12
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The Trail of '98
Overview: Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-20
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Billy the Kid
Overview: Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his way to Mexico when Garrett, recapturing him, must decide whether to bring him in or to let him go.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-16
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Crazy House
Overview: Benny Rubin takes a tour of the Lame Brain Sanitarium and meets some of its strange patients.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-01
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The Whirlwind
Overview: The Whirlwind is a 1920 movie serial.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-17
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The Great Gamble
Overview: The Great Gamble is a 1919 movie serial.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-03
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Knights Before Christmas
Overview: Karl Dane and his pal come home for a disastrous Christmas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-15
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Dumbbells in Derbies
Overview: Karl Dane & George K. Arthur enter a gangster town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-07
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Lime Juice Nights
Overview: Karl Dane & George K. Arthur trading places while dining.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-22
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Navy Blues
Overview: On shore leave, a young sailor meets and falls in love with a pretty young blonde. He goes home with her to meet her parents, but they don't approve of him at all. Their daughter takes offense at this, and in the ensuing argument she storms out of the house determined to live on her own.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-20
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New Moon
Overview: New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriving at the port of Krasnov, Petroff learns that Tanya is engaged to the old Governor Brusiloff. Petroff, disillusioned, crashes the ball to talk with Tanya. Found by Brusiloff, they invent a story about her lost bracelet. To reward him, and remove him, Brusiloff sends Petroff to the remote, and deadly, Fort Darvaz. Soon, the big battle against overwhelming odds will begin.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-23
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Wolves of Kultur
Overview: Alice Grayson's uncle develops a wireless torpedo that can be controlled by radio. After he announces his invention to several of his colleagues, two of them murder the scientist, steal the blueprints and prototype, and make plans to sell both to the highest bidder. When Alice discovers the identity of the thieves, the intrepid heroine, with the help of Bob Moore, her two-fisted boyfriend, desperately tries to recover the plans and torpedo before enemy countries can unleash the torpedoes against American ships.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-13
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La Bohème
Overview: A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-13
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My Four Years in Germany
Overview: The experiences of the American ambassador to Germany, James Gerard, are recounted in this semi-documentary.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-10
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The Son of the Sheik
Overview: Ahmed, son of Diana and Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, falls in love with Yasmin, a dancing girl who fronts her father's gang of mountebanks. She and Ahmed meet secretly until one night when her father and the gang capture the son of the sheik, torture him, and hold him for ransom.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-05
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Detectives
Overview: Lois, a stenographer at a luxury hotel, is being pursued by the hotel's house detective and a bellhop. When some valuable jewels are stolen, the bellhop--who has always dreamed of being a detective--sees his chance to both solve the jewel robbery and impress the woman he loves. The house detective, however, has other ideas.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-09
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Brotherly Love
Overview: Oscar, a tough guard at Newberry Prison, gets into an argument with Jerry, a smallish barber. He causes Jerry to be arrested as a fugitive, and gets him sent to Newberry. It's not long before both men fall in love with Mary, the daughter of the warden. Oscar gets Jerry put on the prison football team, where he is the smallest guy there, figuring that he will look like a fool in front of Mary and then she will pick Oscar. However, things don't turn out quite the way Oscar planned.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-23
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All at Sea
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-09
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China Bound
Overview: Two loony buddies get caught up in a Chinese revolution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-18
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Fast Life
Overview: Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run, but all they succeed in doing is sinking the Admiral's barge. After discharge, broke and out of work, they find work with a boat builder who wants the fastest race boat in the world. They design the boat, carburetor and the engine but lack of money and the foreclosure of the business hinders their efforts to prove the new design.
Genres: Comedy Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-16
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Alias Jimmy Valentine
Overview: An Incompetent insurance salesman sells a policy to Jesse James and has to protect his client until he can get it back.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-15
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Monte Carlo
Overview: Three girls from a small town win a trip to Monte Carlo. The trip was sponsored by their local newspaper, which sends along its ace reporter Bancroft as their "chaperone".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-01
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War Paint
Overview: An Indian chief of the Arapahoe escapes the reservation where he has been living and takes along some of his warriors. The cavalry is sent out for them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-09
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The Red Mill
Overview: A servant girl plays matchmaker for the local burgomaster's daughter while setting her own sights on a visiting Irishman.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-29
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The Duke Steps Out
Overview: Millionaire's son Duke wants to be a champion boxer but takes time out to enroll in college when he sees co-ed Susie. The students wonder about his having a chauffeur and house full of servants. Susie likes him but, to get rid of her, his manager tells her Duke already has a New York chorus girl. As the students listen to a radio broadcast of his victorious fight from San Francisco, she learns that the student Duke is the boxer Duke and that there is no chorus girl.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-19
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Rookies
Overview: Greg, an arrogant entertainer, gets drafted into the army and runs up against tough drill sergeant Sgt. Diggs. Not wanting to stay in the army, Greg sets out to annoy and aggravate Sgt. Diggs so much that Diggs will have him thrown out. To make matters more complicated, they both have their sights set on pretty Betty Wayne. Complications ensue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-30
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The Mysterious Island
Overview: On a volcanic island near the Kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island's inhabitants. Dakkar, his sister Sonia and her fiance, engineer Nicolai Roget have designed a submarine which Roget pilots on its initial voyage just before the island is overrun by Baron Falon, despotic ruler of Hetvia. Falon sets out after Roget in a second submarine and the two craft, diving to the ocean's floor, discover a strange land populated by dragons, giant squid and an eerie undiscovered humanoid race.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Action Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-05
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Montana Moon
Overview: A wild-partying flapper marries a cowboy and tries to adjust to life on a western ranch.
Genres: Comedy Drama Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-20
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Lights of Old Broadway
Overview: Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives in the Irish slums.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-31
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The Whispering Shadow
Overview: A mysterious criminal known as The Whispering Shadow commits crimes by means of a gang he controls by television and radio rays. Jack Norton, whose brother was murdered by The Whispering Shadow, suspects that the eerie Professor Strang - whose ghostly wax museum contains figures far too lifelike - may be involved in the crimes.
Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-17
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Show People
Overview: Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-20
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The Enemy
Overview: Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl's father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl's return from the front.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-08
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Summer Daze
Overview: Karl's so lethargic and sleepy, he dozes off at his club, and nobody notices him for days. To give him some pep, George takes him and their wives camping in the Catskills, but Karl still finds places to snooze away while all have a bad time.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-15
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Overview: Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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His Secretary
Overview: When a secretary overhears her boss disparaging her looks, she decides to show him how wrong he is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-06
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Bardelys the Magnificent
Overview: Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-30
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A Put Up Job
Overview: Once again finding themselves out of work, Karl and George get a job assembling pre-fab houses -- with disastrous results.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-23
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The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns
Overview: After a prologue where we are shown the backgrounds of Wilhelm II and Woodrow Wilson, we see the story of Conrad Le Brett from Alsace-Lorraine. Forced to fight for Germany Conrad, sees soldiers taking girls into a church to rape them and kills one who murders a baby. Shot in the encounter he is taken to a Brussels hospital run by nurse Edith Cavell where he falls in love with American nurse, Amy Gordon. After Edith Cavell assassination and the murder of Conrad’s sister Vilma by the evil Lieutenant Ober Conrad honors her dying request that he go to America and defend Alsace-Lorraine's reputation. Once there he convinces President Wilson that Alsatians should be allowed to enlist. Fighting with the "doughboys," Conrad kills Ober, and after the armistice, returns to Amy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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