Minna Gombell
Also Known As: Minna Gombel, Mina Gombell, Minna Marie Gombell, Minna Marie Gombel
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Minna Gombell (May 28, 1892 – April 14, 1973) was an American film actress of the 1930s and 1940s. She appeared in 50 Hollywood films including; Laurel and Hardy's Block-Heads, The Merry Widow, The First Year, Boom Town, High Sierra, Hoop-La, The Thin Man, and The Best Years of Our Lives. Her third husband was the film writer, producer and director Myron Coureval Fagan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Minna Gombell, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Birthday: May 27, 1892
Deathday: April 14, 1973
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Best Years of Our Lives
Overview: It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-25
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The Thin Man
Overview: A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-25
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-29
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High Sierra
Overview: Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-23
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Make Way for Tomorrow
Overview: At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-09
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Second Fiddle
Overview: Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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Block-Heads
Overview: It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan who has now been returned to the States and invites him back to his home.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-19
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The Snake Pit
Overview: Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-04
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Destiny
Overview: Framed for two crimes he didn't commit, and betrayed by his girl, Cliff Banks finds himself on the run from the police. Now distrustful of everyone, he finds a safe haven hiding out at a quaint country cottage under the care of a kindly old farmer and his daughter, a Cinderella-like blind woman who seems to be able to communicate with nature. There he is forced by their love to question his misanthropy.
Genres: Crime Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-22
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Pagan Love Song
Overview: Island girl Mimi plans to leave Tahiti, but maybe she'll have a reason to stay when Mr. Endicott arrives.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-26
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Wild Boys of the Road
Overview: At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-07
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Doomed Caravan
Overview: Stephen Westcott and Ed Martin scheme to put Jane Travers' wagon line out of business. They want to use it take over all the wagon- train traffic going west. Hoppy, California and Lucky must make sure that doesn't happen.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-10
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Bad Girl
Overview: A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-13
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Hoopla
Overview: A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-30
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After Tomorrow
Overview: In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney's is cold, Pete's is clingy. Sidney's mother is looking for her own happiness, no matter how much that search harms her daughter and long-suffering husband; and, the longer the engagement lingers, the more pressure Pete's mom puts on Sidney to break it off and set her son free. "After Tomorrow" is Pete and Sidney's favorite song, but with illness, poverty, and temptation: will that good day ever come?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-06
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Wild Girl
Overview: Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-09
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Miss Pacific Fleet
Overview: A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-14
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Return of the Bad Men
Overview: US Marshall Vance is assigned to rid the Oklahoma Territory of outlaws.
Genres: Drama Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-17
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Slave Ship
Overview: Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-16
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Strictly Dynamite
Overview: A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-11
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The White Cockatoo
Overview: In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-29
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Man Alive
Overview: A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-16
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Mr. Reckless
Overview: An oil well digger tries to win back his former girlfriend, now engaged to another man.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-26
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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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Hello, Sister!
Overview: Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-14
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Pleasure Cruise
Overview: Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-01
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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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Women Must Dress
Overview: A divorced woman finds success as a fashion designer.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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Good Sport
Overview: Marilyn Parker decides not to accompany her husband Rex on his business trip to Europe when she receives a surprise visit from her mother.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-12
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The Hell Cat
Overview: Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulted her. To get revenge , she disguises herself and gets a job at Collins' paper, where she manages to throw his crusade against the gamblers into disarray.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-16
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Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost
Overview: Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in order to develop a nitroglycerin bomb.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-26
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Cross Country Cruise
Overview: A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
Genres: Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-16
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Bachelor's Affairs
Overview: A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry but the man soon regrets his rash move when she's constantly bored and looking for dancing and excitement, leaving him feel his age. He conspires with a loyal friend to find a suitable man she might run away with so he can divorce her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-26
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The Great Waltz
Overview: Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-04
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Chip Off the Old Block
Overview: The son of a strict Navy officer falls for the daughter of a musical-comedy star.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-01
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Banjo on My Knee
Overview: A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New Orleans in search of his runaway wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-11
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Overview: Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-17
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Going Places
Overview: A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-31
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Sunbonnet Sue
Overview: Set in New York's Lower East Side during the Gay '90s, this lively low-budget musical follows the exploits of a feisty and talented saloon owner's daughter who loves nothing more than to perform in her father's tavern. Her late-night shenanigans appall her wealthy and socially conscious aunt who launches a secret campaign to shut down the bar and force her niece to reside in her palatial home.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-05
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Doctors' Wives
Overview: The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one couple. Their troubles begin when the doctor makes a housecall to a seductive woman with designs upon him. His suspicious wife follows him and spies on him. She thinks they are getting romantic when he is actually trying to extricate himself from his predatory patient. She decides to get revenge with his best friend, but nothing happens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-14
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Keep 'Em Rolling
Overview: World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-02
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Stop, Look and Love
Overview: Daughter has trouble holding onto boyfriends because of her critical mother until understanding father comes to her aid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-22
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Careless Lady
Overview: Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-02
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Registered Nurse
Overview: In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surgeons when her husband goes mad and needs an operation. One of the surgeon's regards his pursuit a lark, while the other harbors genuine affections for the nurse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-06
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Champagne Charlie
Overview: The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-06
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Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Overview: A young girl rents an apartment from a man who has recently enlisted in the Marines. The trouble is that he's given out keys to a half-dozen of his friends, and they all keep dropping in.
Genres: War Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-07
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The Big Brain
Overview: A small-town barber finds himself short of stature but a giant in the world of stock promotion. As his bank account grows, Stone's ethics diminish, and soon he's playing fast and loose with other people's money. Disgruntled investor Fay Wray is the one who finally blows the whistle on the prevaricating hair-snipper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-04
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What Price Innocence?
Overview: A young woman has to pay the price for fooling around with men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-24
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Thieves Fall Out
Overview: Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-03
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Swingin' on a Rainbow
Overview: A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-01
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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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Night Club Girl
Overview: Two show-business wannabees get their big chance to show off their big-time act and talents in a nightclub,and bomb. Othet acts come on---endlessly---and do well, but the kids will be back.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-05
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Stepping Sisters
Overview: A trio of former burlesque dancers now living in high society try to prevent their past occupation from being discovered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-09
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Perilous Holiday
Overview: A tale of an international counterfeiting-ring operating in Mexico starts with Patrick Nevil viewed as a suspicious character by newspaper woman Agnes Stuart, who is working on a story to expose racketeering night-club owner Doc Lilley.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-20
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Dance Team
Overview: Jimmy Mulligan and Poppy Kirk, both out of work, strike up a conversation outside a radio shop and discover a shared dream of hitting it big dancing and decide to team up. As “Mulligan & Kirk” they have their highs and lows while falling in love but eventually find enormous success. Their personal relationship, however, hits a few snags on the way to a happy ending.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-17
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Here Comes the Groom
Overview: Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-20
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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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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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Babbitt
Overview: Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-08
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The First Year
Overview: Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being courted by two men, the steady but predictable Tommy Tucker and the more ambitious, flashy, and worldly Dick Loring, who seems closer to Grace in his desire for travel and adventure.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-30
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Cheating Cheaters
Overview: The Palmers, an apparently wealthy family, move into the house next door to the Lazarres. However, the Palmers are actually a gang of thieves plotting to rob the Lazarres.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-05
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Wyoming
Overview: Small ranchers battle against a land baron trying to take their spreads.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-28
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The Last Bandit
Overview: About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortune can be made robbing gold shipments that are being transported by the railroad. In Bannock City she meets reformed-bandit Frank Plummer, posing as Frank Norris, brother of Jim Plummer, who has being going straight and working as an express shipment guard. Jim also shows up and plans a robbery by stealing a train and hiding it in an abandoned tunnel. The two brothers are on opposite sides of the law with the now-reformed Kate caught in the middle.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-25
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No More Women
Overview: Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no place on earth is big enough for both of them at the same time, even the bottom of the ocean. All day long they fight to salvage sunken gold at forty fathoms deep in the ocean, and all night long they fight over dames. This situation continues even when they both go to work for Helen Young, the owner of a tug-boat and a salvage business.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-03
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Cadets on Parade
Overview: A military school cadet runs away after failing to fit in at sports or school life. He's befriended by a newsboy and they tutor each other, but soon get embroiled in a ransom scheme.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-22
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Penthouse Rhythm
Overview: Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-22
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The Lemon Drop Kid
Overview: The Lemon Drop Kid is a fast-talking racetrack bum who swindles $100 from an old, ailing man. He takes it on the lam with his sidekick, The Professor.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-27
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Two Sinners
Overview: An ex-convict gets released after shooting a fellow who made a play for his wife. When he meets Sleeper, his life takes a change for the better, but along with her comes the boisterous little Collins, for whom she is a governess.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-12
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The Rainbow Trail
Overview: The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-03
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Salute for Three
Overview: Press agent Jimmy Gates gets an idea while watching a New York parade, for a returned war hero Sergeant Buzz McAllister, with his chief client, singer Judy Ames; Dona Drake, leader of an all-girl orchestra; his photographer Foggy, and his secretary Myrt. Jimmy, thinking Judy needs publicity in order to get a singing job on a radio program, thinks that a romance between her and the war hero would be just the ticket.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-17
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Skyline
Overview: Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by Felix Riesenberg. It was produced and released by Fox Film Corporation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-08
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The Great Power
Overview: John Power is a hard-nosed financier who has neglected his domestic life and who tries to ruin the Wray family. But a revelation concerning a Wray family member sends Power into a climactic delirium in which he believes he is being judged by people in his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-23
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I'll See You in My Dreams
Overview: Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-06
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Sob Sister
Overview: Jane Ray, a very clever reporter of crimes of passion, or "sob sister," for a New York tabloid, begins to feel depressed by the sordidness of her latest assignment, the investigation of a young woman's murder by her husband. Despite her growing distaste for her profession, Jane gets her story and, with typical ingenuity, frustrates her competitors' attempts to follow her lead.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-25
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