Isabel Jewell
Also Known As: Isabel Jewel, Isobel Jewell
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Isabel Jewell (July 19, 1907 – April 5, 1972) was an American actress most active in the 1930s and early 1940s. Some of her most famous films were Ceiling Zero, Marked Woman, A Tale of Two Cities, and Gone With the Wind. After years in theater stock companies, including an 87-week stint in Lincoln, Nebraska, she hit the big time after getting a part on Broadway in Up Pops the Devil (1930). She received glowing critical reviews for Blessed Event (1932) as well. Jewell's film debut came in Blessed Event (1932). She had been brought to Hollywood by Warner Brothers for the film version of Up Pops the Devil. Jewell gained other supporting roles, appearing in a variety of films in the early 1930s. She played stereotypical gangsters' women in such films as Manhattan Melodrama (1934) and Marked Woman (1937). She was well received playing against type, as the seamstress sentenced to death on the guillotine along with Sydney Carton (Ronald Colman in A Tale of Two Cities (1935). Her most significant role was as the prostitute Gloria Stone in Lost Horizon (1937). Jewell's films included Gone with the Wind (1939) (in the role of "that white trash, Emmy Slattery"), Northwest Passage (1940), High Sierra (1941), and the low-budget The Leopard Man (1943). By the end of the 1940s, her roles had reduced in significance to the degree that her performances were often uncredited, e.g. The Snake Pit. She performed in radio dramas in the 1950s, including This is Your FBI. In 1972, Jewell appeared opposite Edie Sedgwick in the film Ciao! Manhattan. Her final film was the B movie Sweet Kill (1973), the directorial debut of Curtis Hanson, a future Academy Award winner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isabel Jewell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Shoshone, Wyoming, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 19, 1907
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: April 05, 1972
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Gone with the Wind
Overview: The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-15
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Lost Horizon
Overview: British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden, idyllic valley of Shangri-La. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-La provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-03
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The Seventh Victim
Overview: After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-21
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Marked Woman
Overview: In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-10
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I've Been Around
Overview: Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-05
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Born to Kill
Overview: A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-30
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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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A Tale of Two Cities
Overview: The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris. The action switches between London and Paris on the eve of the revolution where we witness 'the best of times and the worst of times' - love, hope, the uncaring French Aristocrats and the terror of a revolutionary citizen's army intent on exacting revenge.
Genres: History Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-25
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Manhattan Melodrama
Overview: The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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The Leopard Man
Overview: When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Genres: Horror Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-19
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Man in the Attic
Overview: London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst; her niece Lily (star of a decidedly Parisian stage revue) finds him interesting and increasingly attractive. Is Lily in danger, or are her mother's suspicions merely a red herring?
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-23
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Ciao! Manhattan
Overview: Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Edie Sedgwick’s own self-destructive spiral.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-19
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Blessed Event
Overview: A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-10
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Advice to the Lovelorn
Overview: Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper's "Miss Lonelyhearts" advice column because he missed the scoop on a major earthquake whilst out on the town. Determined to be fired from the column he starts to give crazy advice to the readers, but this only makes him even more popular.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-01
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Bombshell
Overview: A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-13
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36 Hours to Kill
Overview: Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-24
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The Falcon and the Co-Eds
Overview: The Falcon is called to a young woman's school to investigate a murder. When he arrives, another victim is discovered.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-10
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The Bishop's Wife
Overview: An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-25
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Go West Young Man
Overview: Mavis Arden is a sensational movie star. Her following spans the world and her personal appearance tours prove her popularity. On her way home from one such appearance, Arden's car breaks down. She orders her publicity man to find her a place to stay, suspicious that he planned the break down to keep her away from a man. However, she soon finds herself mooning over an attractive repairman in town and listening to his ideas about inventing equipment for film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-18
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Counsellor at Law
Overview: A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-25
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Evelyn Prentice
Overview: A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-09
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Ceiling Zero
Overview: War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot's girl-friend and due to this he changes flights with Texas.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-16
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Design for Living
Overview: An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-29
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The Man Who Lived Twice
Overview: A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-25
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The Casino Murder Case
Overview: When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the casino owned by Uncle Kinkaid, Lynn is indeed poisoned under the watchful eye of Philo. However, he recovers, but the same cannot be said for Lynn's wife Virginia, who is at the family home. Only a family member could have poisoned Lynn and Virginia and everyone has their dark motives. Philo will follow the clues and find the perpetrator.
Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-15
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Marked Men
Overview: A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into the desert.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-30
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Small Town Girl
Overview: Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-10
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Sweet Kill
Overview: Horror and suspense in the story of a psychotic maniac who literally "loves" women to death.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-18
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Irene
Overview: Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a model. She soon catches the eye of socialite Bob Vincent, whose mother is hosting a ball at the family mansion. To promote Madame Lucy's dress line, Mr. Smith arranges for his models to be invited to the ball.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-23
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Career Woman
Overview: A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 courtroom drama stars Claire Trevor, Isabel Jewell, Michael Whalen, Gene Lockhart, Eric Linden, Charles Middleton, Edward Brophy, Kathleen Lockhart, Guinn Williams, El Brendel, Sterling Holloway, Ray Brown, Howard Hickman, Frank McGlynn Sr., Charles Waldron Sr., Spencer Charters and Eily Malyon.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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Day of Reckoning
Overview: In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly nagging wife who, as soon as he is put away, takes up with a more successful businessman. This causes her new lover's ex-lover to get insanely jealous and kill the conniving wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-26
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Bondage
Overview: Judy Peters is about to be sentenced after she has pled guilty to her third offense of prostitution, when Dr. Nelson interrupts and tells her story to the court. (Mubi.)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-22
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Here Comes the Groom
Overview: Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety. But the robbery goes awry and Mike finds himself on the run from the police, pretending to be a famous singer whose gimmick is wearing a mask in public.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-21
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Michael O'Halloran
Overview: A young crippled girl and her love for a teenage newsboy despite her over-protective and alcoholic mother's objections.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-08
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Beauty for Sale
Overview: A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-01
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Babies for Sale
Overview: A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-14
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Shadow of Doubt
Overview: When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
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The Crime of the Century
Overview: Driven to desperation by his young and extravagant wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has arranged a perfect crime; now he begs the police to lock him up before he can commit it.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-18
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The Merry Monahans
Overview: The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get himself and his family blacklisted from every major vaude house in the country. Though Pete's kids Jimmy and Patsy love their dad, they're forced to break away from the act and go off on their own to survive. Eventually, the whole gang is reunited in a shamelessly lachrymose musical finale.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-15
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Swing It, Sailor!
Overview: Comical exploits of two Navy pals, at sea and on shore.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-04
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Overview: Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-31
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The Crowd Roars
Overview: A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-06
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Scatterbrain
Overview: A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-20
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Big Brown Eyes
Overview: Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-03
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She Had to Choose
Overview: A young actress hits Hollywood determined to be a movie star and runs into a lot of roadblocks along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-01
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The Women in His Life
Overview: An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.
Genres: Crime Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-08
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Danger! Women at Work
Overview: Three women inherit a 10-ton truck and decide to go into business. Hi jinks ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-23
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Belle Starr's Daughter
Overview: The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find her killer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-13
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Times Square Lady
Overview: A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir and seize control.
Genres: Music Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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Northwest Passage
Overview: Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on their famous raid at Fort St. Francis and their marches before and after the battle.
Genres: Adventure History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-23
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Dancing Feet
Overview: Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy refuses to accompany Peyton on a slumming trip to a cheap dance hall, and Peyton dances with several of the dowagers and tells them that Silas is practically dying of scarlet fever. The guests hastily depart and Joan joins Peyton at the Dreamland Dance Hall. She is mistaken by Jimmy Cassidy (Edward J. Nugent) as one of the hostesses and decides to dance with him as a lark. One thing follows another and Judy gets disinherited and takes a job at the dance hall through Jimmy and his friend Mabel(Isabel Jewell.) Jimmy confides to Judy his ambition to become a dance instructor over the radio and Judy decides to help him but can't get the needed financial backing. She gets Peyton to front the money, promising him she will reconsider his offer of marriage if Jimmy's plan fails.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-20
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Overview: Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-06
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Steppin' in Society
Overview: In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly esteemed racketeer.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-09
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Love on Toast
Overview: The plot concerns a female press agent who must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a soup company. The Mr. Manhattan chosen is a singing soda jerk, who doesn't want to play along until he is given the honor of choosing his own Miss Brooklyn.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-03
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Sensation Hunters
Overview: A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-12
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The Leathernecks Have Landed
Overview: Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherneck buddy "Tubby" Waters killed, hothead "Woody" Davis infiltrates a gang of Shanghai gunrunners to bring the culprit to justice.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-17
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Missing Daughters
Overview: The Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy dance-hall operator Lucky Rogers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-22
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Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!
Overview: In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads for her elopement. The two begin traveling together and get further mixed up with a fleeing bank robber, a crazy tourist camp, and other troubles. Songs include: "Oh Johnny, How You Can Love," "Maybe I Like What You Like," "Swing Chariot Swing," and "Make Up Your Mind."
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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They Asked For It
Overview: In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into the strange death of an old hermit who lived on the fringe of town.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-20
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The New Cinema
Overview: Between the French La Nouvelle Vague and the Italian Neorealismo, Europe had been undergoing a continuous cinema transformation since the 1950s, while the ailing American studio system groaned under its own weight and inertia. New Hollywood had arrived with Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, and already by 1968 it was changing how Hollywood thought and acted. The student film scene was getting ready to explode, and it knew it.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Little Men
Overview: Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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Let’s Be Ritzy
Overview: Complications ensue when a young married couple pretend to be something they're not.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-01
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Drum Beat
Overview: President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her aunt and uncle. After Modoc renegade Captain Jack engages in ambush and other atrocities, MacKay must fight him one-on-one with guns, knives and fists.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-10
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
Overview: Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and a Gala Hollywood Premiere.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-02
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For Beauty's Sake
Overview: A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-06
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Badman's Territory
Overview: After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-04
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Bernardine
Overview: A teenager pines for (and sings about) his dream girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-24
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Mad Love
Overview: An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-12
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