Inez Courtney
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Inez Courtney (March 12, 1908 – April 5, 1975) was an American actress on the Broadway stage and in films. Born in New York City, New York, she came from a large Irish-American family. Her father died when she was fifteen so she decided to go onto the stage. A year later she was doing a specialty dance which earned her the nicknames of St Vitis, Mosquito and Lightning. Courtney's first role as a singer and dancer came in the musical The Wild Rose in 1926. She became well-known among New York theatrical audiences for her work in Good News (1927), a musical comedy about college life. Her other credits include Spring Is Here in 1929 and America's Sweetheart in 1931. In the early 1930s, Miss Courtney left Broadway and went to Hollywood. Courtney acted in 58 films between 1930 and 1940. She secured her first movie work by asking Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures for his assistance. The red-headed comedian made her screen debut as Cousin Betty in Loose Ankles (1930). The film co-starred Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Loretta Young. Her many movie credits include The Raven (1935), Suzy (1936), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), and Turnabout (1940), her last film. Courtney was married to an Italian nobleman, whereby she acquired the title Marchesa, but did not use it. She died at the Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune, New Jersey in 1975 of undisclosed causes at the age of 67.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Amsterdam, New York, USA
Birthday: March 12, 1908
Deathday: April 05, 1975
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Gender: Female
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Blondie Meets the Boss
Overview: Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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Not Damaged
Overview: A fortune teller informs a hopeless romantic that she'll be meeting a mysterious, tall, dark stranger. Initially skeptical, the young lady latterly concedes when the soothsayer's premonitions begin to ring true.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-25
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The Shop Around the Corner
Overview: Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-12
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Having Wonderful Time
Overview: Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-01
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The Raven
Overview: A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-08
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Broadway Bill
Overview: Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin and the luck is against him. He is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planned fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-30
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Beauty for the Asking
Overview: Denny breaks up with his fiancée Jean to marries wealthy Flora. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented. After sending it to twelve rich woman, only Flora decides to invest in the business. As Denny has no job, the girls give him an office at the factory. The business takes off, but Jean finds that she is still in love with Denny and Denny seems to forget he is married to Flora.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-24
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Turnabout
Overview: Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-17
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Break of Hearts
Overview: Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-31
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Crime Ring
Overview: Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-08
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Big City Blues
Overview: An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-18
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Missing Evidence
Overview: G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-15
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Sunny
Overview: A showgirl falls for a society boy but has to win over his family.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-09
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Sweepstake Annie
Overview: A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and not necessarily for the better.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-29
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Let's Sing Again
Overview: An orphan (Eight-year-old boy soprano Bobby Breen) gets a chance to sing opera in New York.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-07
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The Girl Friend
Overview: An actor and two songwriters become rural con men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-27
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The Hot Heiress
Overview: Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much to the shock of her friends and family.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-28
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It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)
Overview: When a play's two producers are murdered, the playwright tries to solve the crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-01
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The Reckless Way
Overview: The DVD for this film bears the title "The Lure of Hollywood". Marian Nixon plays a girl who doesn't want to settle for second best. She is offered chance to be a model and jumps at it. Her boyfriend is upset--he just wants to marry her and settle down to a life of domestic bliss. But she has stars in her eyes--and soon learns to use publicity to create a new movie star persona. Throughout all this, the sappy boyfriend is always waiting nearby--hoping that she'll come to her senses and give up this new life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-01
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Five of a Kind
Overview: Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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Spring Is Here
Overview: Musical about two sisters in love with the same man.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-13
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The Hit Parade
Overview: Agent Pete Garland is fired by society singer Monica Barrett after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds fits in better with her social status. To get even, Pete wants to make an unknown singer into a star. He finds Ruth Allison, drives her hard through rehearsals and makes her a star. But she is worried about her past, something she hasn't told Pete: She's an ex-convict and jumped bail in order to keep her partners in crime out of it. Further she's in love with Pete, but feels that he's still carrying a torch for Monica. When Monica's popularity is decreasing, Pete is able to get Ruth a stint on the program, the result is Monica is fired and Ruth get her job, but Monica takes revenge by revealing Ruth's past. Ruth considers it is best for her to disappear before being arrested, but she has become a star in public opinion. Will she get Pete or will she go to prison again?
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-26
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The 13th Man
Overview: A tough district attorney has been cleaning up the town, and has already imprisoned twelve dangerous criminals. As he is about to name the target for his next investigation, he is murdered in the midst of a crowd. The police have many suspects and hardly any clues, so two reporters decide to investigate for themselves.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-29
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Partners in Crime
Overview: Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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The Song of the Flame
Overview: This was a screen version of the 1925 operetta by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Herbert Stohart, and George Gershwin. The story of the movie is about a peasant who is known as "The Flame" who leads a revolution in Russia. This peasant who is in love with a Russian prince saves his life by agreeing to sacrifice her virginity to an evil fellow-conspirator. This was an all Technicolor musical which was had a sequence in Vitascope (a Warner Brother's wide screen process)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-24
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Suzy
Overview: A French air ace discovers that his showgirl wife's first husband is still alive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-20
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Wedding Present
Overview: Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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Armored Car
Overview: Larry Willis and Bill Wane are security guards who ride in the back of Banks Co. armored trucks. When they barely avoid a robbery, they return to headquarters, where their boss John Hale introduces them to detective Tom Sheridan, who will be working with them to uncover a new gang of robbers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-01
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Loose Ankles
Overview: A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the approval of three of her stuffed-shirt relatives, and without scandal. Otherwise, the estate goes to the cat and dog hospital. Ann, not needing the money, rebels by seeking scandal with a gigolo.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-02
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The Captain Hates the Sea
Overview: Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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Hold Your Man
Overview: Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie takes off and Ruby is sent to a reformatory for two years.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-30
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The Affair of Susan
Overview: Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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Brilliant Marriage
Overview: When a wealthy heiress discovers the terrible family secret that has been hidden from her since birth, her world is turned upside down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-25
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The Hurricane
Overview: A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all pretense of law and order are soon shattered by an incoming tropical storm.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-09
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Bright Lights
Overview: A successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But her tumultuous past isn't done with her yet.
Genres: Music Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-21
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Cheating Blondes
Overview: A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-01
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The Farmer's Daughter
Overview: Broadway producer Nickie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clarice Sheldon, in the lead role and rehearse out of town. The crew set up on a family farm, and all is well until the leading man falls for the farmer's daughter, Patience Bingham. When flighty starlet Sheldon finds out he has a new girlfriend, she takes off, leaving North and Trimble to find a new leading lady.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-29
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Time Out for Romance
Overview: A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-10
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Clarence
Overview: The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things, and who concentrates by playing his saxophone. Clarence ingratiates himself with the wealthy and eccentric Wheeler family, though daughter Cora can't stand the boy.
Genres: Romance Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-12
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Two in a Crowd
Overview: When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress Julia Wayne needs the whole $1,000, and so does sportsman Larry Stevens. Since compromise will serve neither of their needs, they are stalemated - until complications arise.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-03
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Air Hawks
Overview: A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.
Genres: Action Romance Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-07
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Carnival
Overview: "Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
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Jealousy
Overview: Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during his big fight distracts Larry and he is knocked out. He then promises never to be jealous again and marries Jo. When she realizes that they're broke she asks Lambert for a job (she had quit on marrying Larry.) One thing leads to another and Larry, enraged with jealousy, end up killing Lambert. He then wanders off in a daze, and Jo takes the rap for the murder. Larry descends from his amnesiac fog just in time to interrupt the announcement of the jury's verdict in Jo's trial. then it's off to the chair for Larry. Or is it?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-23
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I Love That Man
Overview: Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across the country until they decide to settle down in a small town and give up their life of crime. He goes into business and all seems to be going well until some ex-partners he double crossed show up in town demanding the money he cheated them out of.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-07
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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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Ship Cafe
Overview: The singing stoker and the vamp.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-09
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Another Face
Overview: The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-20
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Dizzy Dames
Overview: A musical comedy in a theatrical boarding house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-29
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Millions in the Air
Overview: The daughter of a radio-program sponsor wants to get on the air too, but her father doesn't allow it, so she enters an amateur contest on his radio program under an assumed name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-12
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