Frank Orth
Also Known As: Frank Kaiser Orth
Biography: Frank Orth was an American actor born in Philadelphia. He is probably best remembered for his portrayal of Inspector Faraday in the 1951-1953 television series “Boston Blackie”. By 1897, Orth was performing in vaudeville with his wife, Ann Codee, in an act called “Codee and Orth.” In 1909, he expanded into song writing, with songs such as “The Phone Bell Rang” and “Meet Me on the Boardwalk, Dearie.” His first contact with motion pictures was in 1928, when he was part of the first foreign-language shorts in sound produced by Warner Bros. He and his wife also appeared together in a series of two-reel comedies in the early 1930s. Orth's first major screen credit was in “Prairie Thunder,” a Dick Foran western, in 1937. From then on, he was often cast as bartenders, pharmacists, and grocery clerks, and always distinctly Irish. He had a recurring role in the Dr. Kildare series of films and also in the Nancy Drew series as the befuddled Officer Tweedy. Among his better roles were the newspaper man Cary Grant telephones early in “His Girl Friday,” one of the quartet singing “Gary Owen” in “They Died with Their Boots On” (thereby giving Errol Flynn as Gen. Custer the idea of associating the tune with the 7th Cavalry), and as the little man carrying the sign reading “The End Is Near” throughout Colonel Effingham's Raid. However, Orth is probably best remembered for his portrayal of Inspector Faraday in the 1951-1953 television series “Boston Blackie.” A short, plump, round-faced man, often smoking a cigar, Orth as Faraday wore his own dark-rimmed spectacles, though rarely in feature films. In 1959, Orth retired from show business after throat surgery. His wife died in 1961 after around fifty years of marriage. Orth died on March 17, 1962. He is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills next to his wife.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 20, 1880
Age: 145 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 17, 1962
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His Girl Friday
Overview: Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-18
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Blondie's Secret
Overview: Dagwood prepares for a long-delayed vacation with the family. His boss Mr. Radcliffe has promised the Bumsteads that there'll be no more postponements for their holiday. But when something comes up that requires Dagwood's presence, Radcliffe hires a couple of thugs to steal Blondie and Dagwood's luggage so that they'll have to stay in town. And that's only the beginning of the frantic fun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-23
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Taking Ways
Overview: In this Vitaphone one-reeler, husband-and-wife team Frank Orth and Ann Codee in one of the many co-starring shorts they made together for Vitaphone, Orth is one of a pair of house-burglars who take time out from their looting to make amorous advances toward the wife of the house, Ann Codee.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-30
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Father of the Bride
Overview: Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-18
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I Wake Up Screaming
Overview: A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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Come Live with Me
Overview: Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-31
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Red Light
Overview: Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-30
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Overview: Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-19
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Storm Over Lisbon
Overview: A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-16
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Unwelcome Stranger
Overview: Horse-breeder Howard Chamberlain has many superstitious quirks but his primary one is that he believes orphans are bad luck and a jinx to be around. This is bad news when 'Gimpy", an orphan, shows up at Chamberlain's horse-ranch in search of a place to stay. But Howard's soft-hearted wife, Madeline, allows the young boy to stay on and work in the barn with the horses. And "Gimpy" breaks Chamberlain's "orphan-jinx" in a big way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-05
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Cheaper by the Dozen
Overview: "Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-31
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The Lost Weekend
Overview: Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-29
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Houdini
Overview: By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-02
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Footlight Serenade
Overview: Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts paying attention to beautiful chorus girl Pat Lambert. Pat's boyfriend Bill Smith isn't impressed with Tommy even though Tommy gets him a boxing part in the show. When Tommy finds out that Pat and Bill were secretly together the night before the show opens, he angrily plans to turn the boxing scene with Bill into a real bout.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-01
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The Guilt of Janet Ames
Overview: A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-06
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Nancy Drew… Detective
Overview: After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-19
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Overview: Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-09
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The Great Rupert
Overview: Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-01
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The Big Clock
Overview: Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-18
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Wilson
Overview: The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2006.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-01
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The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
Overview: An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paralyzed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-02
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Pillow to Post
Overview: With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. She finally gets one tentative sale with the Black Hills Oil Co., but Earl wants dinner with her. With the shortage of housing due to the war, Jean needs a military husband to get a place to stay in Clayfield, which is next to Camp Clay. She gets Lt. Mallory to act as her husband just to register. Then things go wrong as his commanding officer is there and believes them to be married. It gets worse as Don's mother shows up and then Jean's father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-09
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San Quentin
Overview: Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-24
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Pier 13
Overview: A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-08
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The Petty Girl
Overview: An artist famous for his calendar portraits of beautiful women becomes fascinated by a prim and proper professor and tries to get her to pose for his arwork. She declines his offer, but he's determined not to take no for an answer.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-17
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Here Come the Girls
Overview: Bob Hope stars as an inept member of the chorus boy in a turn of the century stage show. After being fired, he finds himself starring acting as a decoy when a killer goes after the real star.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-22
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Broadway Serenade
Overview: A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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Think It Over
Overview: A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-24
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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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Doll Face
Overview: Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show because she lacks culture. Her boss/manager Mike decides that she can get both culture and plenty of publicity by writing her autobiography. He hires a ghost writer to do all the work, but doesn't count on the possibility that Doll Face and her collaborator might have more than a book on their minds.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-31
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Tell It to a Star
Overview: Carol (Ruth Terry), the cigarette girl at a swank Palm Springs hotel, dreams of singing in the establishment's nightclub. She gets a chance when her well-to-do uncle, "Colonel" Morgan (Alan Mowbray), and a pal blow into town ... until their visit turns out to be a con job. Carol's voice impresses the bandleader (Robert Livingston), but the hotel manager (Franklin Pangborn), still smarting from Morgan's chicanery, isn't ready to give her a chance.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-16
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Fast and Furious
Overview: Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-06
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Mr. Chump
Overview: A naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-08
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Marry the Girl
Overview: Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is owned by and staffed with cuckoos.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-13
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Land Beyond the Law
Overview: A wild cowboy changes course and becomes a sheriff after his father is murdered.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-13
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Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
Overview: An auto mechanic suspects sabotage in a recent series of fatal racecar accidents.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-13
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Polo Joe
Overview: A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-04
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Wake Up and Dream
Overview: Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-02
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Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Overview: Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-19
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She Went to the Races
Overview: A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-04
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Boom Town
Overview: Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-30
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The Patient in Room 18
Overview: Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles delivers a delightfully comic performance as Lance, an outwardly normal young man obsessed with detective stories. When his obsession threatens to lapse over into lunacy, Lance is sent to the hospital for a nice long rest. It isn't long before he gets mixed up in a genuine murder mystery, using his second-hand knowhow to solve the case. Up-and-coming Ann Sheridan is quite amusing as Lance's nurse and confidante, while the murderer is played by a fellow who is usually cast as the murder victim.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-08
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Ever Since Eve
Overview: Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews, accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-15
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Young Dr. Kildare
Overview: A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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Tell No Tales
Overview: A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-12
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At the Circus
Overview: Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to find the thief and get the money back.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-20
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Greenwich Village
Overview: In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-27
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Henry and Dizzy
Overview: After accidentally sinking a borrowed motorboat, teenager Henry Aldrich scrambles to raise the replacement cash the boat's owner demands. The catch: Henry only has two days to come up with the funds, or the boat's angry owner will turn him over to the police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-05
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Idiot's Delight
Overview: A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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The Footloose Heiress
Overview: A rich businessman brings home a homeless man who promises to tame his willful 18-year-old daughter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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Fast and Loose
Overview: The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-17
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Nancy Drew... Reporter
Overview: While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-18
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Within the Law
Overview: Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful ways.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-17
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Calling Dr. Kildare
Overview: Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-28
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Young Mr. Lincoln
Overview: In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-09
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Thunder Afloat
Overview: A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Genres: Action Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-15
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Stanley and Livingstone
Overview: When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-18
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The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Overview: Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-24
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Dust Be My Destiny
Overview: Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-16
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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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It Had to Be You
Overview: A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-07
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You, the People
Overview: This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the current corrupt mayor. By using several illegal tactics, and aided by voter apathy, the crime boss nearly continues his control of the city.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-30
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Missing Witnesses
Overview: A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-11
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Born to Speed
Overview: The romantic, dangerous and fast-paced world of professional midget auto racing provides the backdrop for this dramatic tale of a young driver who decides to follow in his late father's footsteps and win the big race.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-12
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Overview: An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometown.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-01
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Roger Touhy, Gangster
Overview: Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-03
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The Ox-Bow Incident
Overview: A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-11
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Blue, White, and Perfect
Overview: In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-06
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The Devil's Saddle Legion
Overview: Tal is in a lot of trouble. Seems that his father has been murdered while he was in Montana and they put the blame on him. Also, he has been framed and sentenced to 10 years hard labor for another murder which he did not do. The crooks need convict labor to build the dam so they convict innocent people for a pool of cheap labor. But Karan believes that Tal, using the name Smith J. Brown, could not be a killer. Unknown to her, her step brother, Hub, is part of the gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-14
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Brother Orchid
Overview: When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-07
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Coney Island
Overview: Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-18
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Over My Dead Body
Overview: Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-15
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Two Against the World
Overview: Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-11
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Ride on Vaquero
Overview: The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army regiment, to help break up a kidnap ring. On his way to Las Tables with his pal, Gordito, he makes a stop at the Martinez Rancho, where they learn that his friend Carlos has been kidnapped, from his wife Marquerita. At the Crystal Palace Saloon, Cisco runs into an old girlfriend, Sally, who he once jilted for a tight-rope walker, but she doesn't betray him when the sheriff and an army officer enter searching for Cisco.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-18
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Heartaches
Overview: Up-and-coming Hollywood actor/crooner, Vic Morton, has a secret. He starts receiving death threats in the mail and an attempt on his life is made. Soon after, two of his associates are murdered. Who is behind it all?
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-28
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The Gas House Kids in Hollywood
Overview: The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-23
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Prairie Thunder
Overview: To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad. When Lynch sells rifles to the Indians, Rod Farrell captures Lynch and his gang. But Lynch's Indian friends free him and this time Farrell finds himself the prisoner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-10
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Sergeant York
Overview: Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-27
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Orchestra Wives
Overview: Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the band's tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
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The Hoodlum Saint
Overview: A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-04
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Gallant Sons
Overview: When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-15
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The Payoff
Overview: An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-09
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
Overview: A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-25
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Talent Scout
Overview: A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-24
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'Til We Meet Again
Overview: Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-20
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Hot Money
Overview: Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-18
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Father Is A Prince
Overview: Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners. He's a bit of a skinflint, too. His family thinks he works too hard. He feels inferior for not having gone to college, so now he doesn't want his children going, either. His daughter Connie is afraid to break the news of her engagement to Gary Lee, especially since not only is Gary a lawyer and a college grad, but his father owns a vacuum-cleaner company, too.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-18
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Florian
Overview: Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-05
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Overview: Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Overview: Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-12
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Overview: A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-06
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Dr. Kildare's Victory
Overview: Dr. Gillespie supports Kildare's crusade against their hospital's deal with a rival hospital.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-04
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My Gal Sal
Overview: Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New York society, writing one hit song after another. Despite his egotistical behavior, he manages to woo and win Sally Elliott, one of the more popular songstresses of the day
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-30
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La Conga Nights
Overview: In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when she hails his cab as she skips out on her former boarding house because she cannot pay rent.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-31
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Respect the Law
Overview: Shows how so-called "minor" lawbreakers can do more damage than major criminals.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-04
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A Bird in the Hand
Overview: Frank Orth strikes a conversation with a lady feeding imaginary birds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-29
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Something to Live For
Overview: Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actress Jenny Carey whose developing career is threatened by an increasing dependence on alcohol. Alan's growing interest in Jenny strains his marriage to Edna, with whom he has two children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-07
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They Died with Their Boots On
Overview: The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
Genres: Western War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-20
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Mexican Spitfire Out West
Overview: Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but ends up as the surprised one when she sees him with another woman. Instead of a second honeymoon, Carmelita begins divorce proceedings
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-29
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The Bride Wore Boots
Overview: A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-05
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The Impatient Years
Overview: Standing before a divorce court judge are Sergeant Andy Anderson and Janie Anderson asking him to dissolve their marriage. Janie's father, William Smith, objects and the judge allows him to give his version of their story. They had met in San Francisco fifteen months earlier and, after knowing each other only three days, had gotten married. Andy was sent overseas the day after the wedding and when he returns and despite the fact that Janie had borne him a son, they find they are almost strangers. Mr. Smith suggests, and the judge orders, that if they retrace their actions over the four days they knew each other they would regain their love.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-10
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Bride for Sale
Overview: Nora Shelley is a tax expert for the accounting company which is led by Paul Martin. She thinks she can find a suitable husband by inspecting their clients' tax documents. Martin finds out and tries to dissuade her from this approach, later enlisting the help of his friend Steve Adams, who tries to woo Shelley.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-12
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Know Your Money
Overview: This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb counterfeiting.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-27
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Buyer Beware
Overview: This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-17
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Murder in the Music Hall
Overview: An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.
Genres: Crime Music Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-10
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Torchy Blane in Panama
Overview: Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
Genres: Crime Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-07
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Gold Rush Maisie
Overview: Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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Roxie Hart
Overview: A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-20
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Rings on Her Fingers
Overview: Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother and uncle of a pretty girl in order to separate millionaires from their money. They convince Susan she has an opportunity to fulfill all her dreams, and the trio heads for Palm Beach. Susan meets John Wheeler who says he is shopping for a sailboat. Believing that he is a millionaire, Warren and May sell him a boat that doesn't belong to them, and make off with his $15,000 life savings. Looking for greener pastures, they work themselves into the family of wealthy Tod Fenwick, who falls for Sue, posing as "Linda Worthington". But John shows up as a guest of Fenwick and he tells "Linda", not knowing she was part of the scam, that he has a detective after the fake captain that sold him the boat...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-20
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Broadway Limited
Overview: A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought in for it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-13
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Hello, Frisco, Hello
Overview: In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-26
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It's Great to Be Young
Overview: Ricky Malone, Spud Winters and some other returning G.I.'s are trying to break into show business by the old summer resort. Terry, a runaway daughter of a big producer who is trying to stifle her show-biz career, hires on as the (dubbed) singer.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-12
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The Girl from Manhattan
Overview: A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his boarding house to the hilt. In her efforts to help him keep his boarding house, she becomes involved with a handsome young minister and his superior, an older bishop.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-01
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Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
Overview: The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-01
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Comet Over Broadway
Overview: Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-03
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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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Tales of Manhattan
Overview: Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-05
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Lady in the Lake
Overview: Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-19
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The Meanest Man in the World
Overview: Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice and tries to convince the world he's a ruthless heel. Suddenly he's the most popular lawyer in town -- but he could lose his fiancée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-12
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Double Dynamite
Overview: An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-25
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