Johnny Arthur
Also Known As: John Lennox Arthur Williams
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Scottdale, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: May 18, 1883
Deathday: December 31, 1951
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Sakima and the Masked Marvel
Overview: Feature version of the 1943 serial "The Masked Marvel", q.v., edited for television syndication and 16mm rental only.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Paper Hanging with Johnny Arthur
Overview: A penny-pinching house-holder attempts to put up wallpaper without professional help.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-30
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Li'l Abner
Overview: Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-09
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The Monster
Overview: A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-16
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Down with Husbands
Overview: When their wives go on strike, two husbands form an organization they call the "Husbands Protective League".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-08
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Convention City
Overview: Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company sales manager. T.R. Kent and George Ellerbe are two salesmen who both want the job. However, they both get into trouble: T.R. is discredited when jealous saleswoman, Arlene Dale, interferes with his attempted seduction of Honeywell's daughter, Claire, and George attempts to seduce Nancy Lorraine. The position of sales manager is bestowed upon a drunken employee as a bribe after he catches J.B. about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator." Considered a lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-14
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Night 'n' Gales
Overview: Because of a storm, the Gang has to stay overnight at Darla's house, and they drive her father crazy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-24
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Nazty Nuisance
Overview: Germany's Adolf Hitler, with his Axis-stooges, Italy's Mussolini and Japan's Suki Yama, although he tried to avoid taking them, is on his way, via submarine, to a tropical country to negotiate a treaty with the High Chief Paj Mab. However, an American P.T-boat crew is already there and have some plans for schickenbit-grubber and his buddies.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-06
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Rendezvous
Overview: A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Overview: A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-24
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My Stars
Overview: Johnny tries hard to impress his girl, but she seems to be much more interested in movie stars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-17
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Cleaning Up
Overview: While his wife is away, the husband attempts to clean the house which ends up being a disaster. The house is completely destroyed by an overflowing bathtub, fire in the kitchen, feathers from the pillows everywhere, and a dog decides to chase a cat around the house wiping out what the water and fire didn't damage already.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-22
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The Tourist
Overview: The Tourist is a 1925 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-20
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The King Steps Out
Overview: Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-27
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She Couldn't Say No
Overview: A night club singer falls for a gangster.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-15
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Doubting Thomas
Overview: A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-10
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Blossoms On Broadway
Overview: A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-19
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Ellis Island
Overview: It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a million dollars in cash. They are soon apprehended and sent to prison for ten years but the money is not recovered. Flash forward to 1936 when all three men have been released from prison and are about to be deported back to where they came from via the Deportation department at Ellis Island. They arrive by the ferry boat and already on hand to bid them adieu, and possibly learn where they stashed the missing money, is gang leader Dude and his three henchmen, Nails, Moxie and Bugs, and also Kendrich's niece Betty Parker there to bid old Uncle Ted a fond goodbye. Also on Ellis Island is a crook called Solo, who has an upper hand as he has stolen the credentials of a Treasury Agent named Peter James and has access to the prisoners, and has cut a deal with Kendrichs to get him off of Ellis Island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-04
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The Masked Marvel
Overview: A team of two-fisted insurance investigators (one of whom disguises himself as The Masked Marvel) endeavor to discover and thwart the loathsome saboteur Sakima.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-06
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Make a Wish
Overview: While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiancé Walter Mays refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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Feed 'em and Weep
Overview: It's Mr. Hood's birthday and he's looking forward to a quiet celebration with his family. But Darla's friends show up with living presents, eat his dinner, argue about Tarzan and Alfalfa croons a special song for the unhappy man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-06
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The Unknown Purple
Overview: Inventor Peter Marchmont has discovered a purple light that renders the user invisible. On his release from prison, Marchmont, disguised as Victor Cromport, uses the light to revenge himself against his former wife, Jewel, and her partner, James Dawson, who framed him for theft. Making himself invisible, Marchmont gradually ruins Dawson. He so wins Jewel's confidence and love that she is willing to kill Dawson at Marchmont's request. Finally, Marchmont leaves the scheming couple to their own misery and marries Jewel's sister, Ruth Marsh.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-01
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It Happened Out West
Overview: Bank employee assigned to tell Arizona rancher her property is no good gets suspicious when her foreman agrees. Turns out his banker boss and the foreman know there's silver on that property.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-02
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Exiled to Shanghai
Overview: A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in television.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-20
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Cheer Up and Smile
Overview: When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especially his recent girlfriend, who just broke up with him, he becomes an overnight sensation.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-22
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The Ghost Walks
Overview: A ghostly and deadly dinner party, which at first turns out to be an elaborate staging of a new play for the benefit of a Broadway producer, becomes a true mystery when the players start to go missing.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-01
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The Desert Song
Overview: French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert. Their dashing, daredevil leader is the mysterious "Red Shadow". Margot Bonvalet, a lovely, sassy French girl, is soon to be married at the fort to Birabeau's right-hand man, Captain Fontaine. Birabeau's son Pierre, in reality the Red Shadow, loves Margot, but pretends to be a milksop to preserve his secret identity. Margot tells Pierre that she secretly yearns to be swept into the arms of some bold, dashing sheik, perhaps even the Red Shadow himself. Pierre, as the Red Shadow, kidnaps Margot and declares his love for her.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-08
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The Bride Comes Home
Overview: A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in her than in their publishing venture.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-25
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Danger on the Air
Overview: Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-30
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The Draw-Back
Overview: A dim witted, scrawny fellow from the country finds college full of bullies that trick him into various painful situations with the dean. His wife mistakes him for a prize athlete, and he's put on the football team. The big game includes unusual things like a mud hole on the field and a wasp nest substituting for the ball.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-10
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Penrod and Sam
Overview: Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale. But there’s also plenty of time to play pranks, put on a carnival, experience the pangs of first love, and romp with Duke, the world’s best dog.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-01
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Mademoiselle Midnight
Overview: Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by Napoleon III at Empress Eugenie's insistence to Mexico. Renee is kept locked at the hacienda at night by her father to prevent her following in her grandmother's wayward footsteps. She falls in love with a visiting American (Monte Blue) but is also pursued by the craven outlaw Manuel Corrales. Miss Murray gets to do some of her trademark dancing, but this one isn't a comedy, despite comic relief provided by Johnny Arthur.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-14
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A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
Overview: A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-07
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Stage Struck
Overview: A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-12
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One Wild Night
Overview: Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-02
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An All American Toothache
Overview: Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-25
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Fugitives for a Night
Overview: A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-23
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Going Wild
Overview: Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what Story looks like. So they get free room and meals at the Palm Inn and everything is going well until they want Story to fly in the race on Saturday. Rollo has never even be up in a plane, never mind fly one, so he must figure a way out. But the girls have everything bet on his winning the race. Written by Tony Fontana
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-21
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Overview: A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-11
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The Gamblers
Overview: A father-and-son team of cons gamble their firm’s assets. The son is caught investing money that doesn't belong to him and is indicted on a swindling charge. The plot gets spicy when the District Attorney handling the case is his former sweetheart's husband. This situation gives the DA an opportunity to prosecute his romantic rival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-29
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Traveling Saleslady
Overview: A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-28
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You Can't Take It with You
Overview: Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-01
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Personality
Overview: Directed by Victor Heerman. With Sally Starr, Johnny Arthur, Blanche Friderici, Frank Hammond.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-14
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The Aviator
Overview: Misadventures of a bogus flyer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-14
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Bridal Night
Overview: A couple is stranded in a supposedly haunted house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-11
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Dames
Overview: A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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Too Tough to Kill
Overview: A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-20
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Freshman Love
Overview: A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-18
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It's in the Air
Overview: Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-10
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Road to Singapore
Overview: Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-22
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Honest Injun
Overview: Johnny Arthur has been ordered to spend a year out west to toughen him up, so he and butler George Davis head out. The cowboys at the ranch don't like him, so Johnny and they play practical jokes on each other. However, when Virginia Vance is kidnapped, it turns out to be real desperadoes.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-03
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Something to Sing About
Overview: James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-30
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Shepherd of the Ozarks
Overview: Aluminum magnate James J. Maloney, Sr. meets with government officials to discuss the war effort and the need to end price-fixing. After the meeting, Maloney receives word that his son Jimmy, a playboy turned Army flight instructor, is lost with his navigator, Scully, somewhere in the Ozarks. While Maloney rushes to find his son, Jimmy and Scully crash land in the small town of Weaverville, where the mayor and his wife, Abner and Elviry Weaver, are trying to impress upon the citizens that they are better off in the mountains than in the big city
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-26
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Anniversary Trouble
Overview: The gang's treasury is entrusted to Spanky, who accidentally gets it mixed up with his father's money.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-13
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Always Tomorrow: The Portrait of an American Business
Overview: Feature length promotional film presented by The Coca-Cola Company during World War II, focuses on a small town bottler as he looks back on his company's past and plans for an optimistic future.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-03
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On Trial
Overview: A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful and decides to defend him. However, he is very inexperienced.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-01
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Halfway to Hollywood
Overview: Johnny writes a screenplay, then gets Tom and his wife to star with him in his amateur production. Their production is about their boss, who walks in on a screening of the finished product, puts "two and two" together and is infuriated....until the footage reveals the truth behind Tom and Johnny's co-worker...who is collecting workman's comp for his "injuries".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-01
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It's a Wise Child
Overview: In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-10
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Things You Never See on the Screen
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-01
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Overview: A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-17
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Home Cured
Overview: Johnny is a hypochondriac and he spends all of his time fussing over his health instead of paying attention to his lovely wife. The wife and the family doctor pretend he is going to die -- and behave in a heartless fashion that gets him to lose his temper and get out of his sickbed forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-14
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Scared Silly
Overview: The guests at a dinner party in a mansion are spooked when a creepy "spirtualist" decides to stay for dinner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-13
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Overview: A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-01
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Show of Shows
Overview: Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-21
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Under Cover of Night
Overview: A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.
Genres: Mystery Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-08
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Pick a Star
Overview: A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-21
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Many Happy Returns
Overview: Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual Gracie Allen logic---while distracted Papa is trying to get younger daughter, beauty contest winner Florence, married before she can head to Hollywood and get into the movies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-08
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A Hint to Brides
Overview: When a newly married couple go back to their apartment, they discover a robbery is in progress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-13
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Adam's Eve
Overview: Johnny gets drunk at his bachelor party. He intends to "sleep it off" in the apartment of his best man, but mistakenly goes to the apartment of two women instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-12
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Divorce Made Easy
Overview: When his aunt disapproves of his marriage to Mabel Deering and threatens to disinherit him, Percy elicits the aid of his buddy Billy Haskell, who is engaged to Eileen Stanley. It is arranged that Billy and Mabel be found together in compromising circumstances by Percy and his aunt, but matters are complicated by the arrival of Billy's uncle in the city, and Aunt Emma becomes very fond of him. All is subsequently explained and thoughts of "divorce" are smoothed away as Uncle Todd couples up with Aunt Emma, and Billy and Eileen, and Percy and Mabel, reinstitute their carefree engagements.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-06
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Dreams
Overview: This entry in MGM's Passing Parade series looks at the meaning of dreams, including one by Abraham Lincoln that foretold his death.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-10
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Hell in the Heavens
Overview: During World War I, an American pilot vows to bring down the German ace responsible for his friend's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-12
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