Kirby Grant
Also Known As: Kirby Grant Hoon Jr., Kirby Grant and His Orchestra, Kirby Grant & His Orchestra, Robert Stanton
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Butte, Montana, USA
Birthday: November 24, 1911
Deathday: October 30, 1985
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Blondie Goes Latin
Overview: Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-27
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Comin' Round the Mountain
Overview: Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert's cousin, Dorothy McCoy. They find out that Wilbert's grandfather, Squeeze-box McCoy, had treasure hidden in the hills of Kentucky, which they go to find.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-26
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In Society
Overview: Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-16
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I Dream Too Much
Overview: Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love, Jonathan encourages the talented Annette to sing — yet when his own attempt at an opera fails, Jonathan lashes out at Annette's success. Despite her husband's jealousy, Annette embarks on a successful career that allows her to secretly fund Jonathan's opera, bringing their marriage to a crisis.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-29
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Red River Range
Overview: The Cattlemen's Association has called in the Mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers. They get Tex Riley to pose as Stony so Stony can arrive posing as a wanted outlaw. This gets Stony into the gang of rustlers and he alerts Tucson and Lullaby as to the next raid. But Hartley is on hand and unknown to anyone is the rustler's boss and he joins the posse with a plan that will do away with the Mesquiteers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-22
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Bullet Code
Overview: Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has warned Holden of the rustlers' approach. Unaware that Mathews was actually killed by rustler boss Cass Barton, Holden heads out to Mathews' home town where he plans to tell the boy's family of his death but instead uncovers a plan by a local businessman to force Mathews' father out of his ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-12
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Babes on Swing Street
Overview: The president of a settlement-house group puts on a benefit variety show.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-27
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I'll Remember April
Overview: The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-01
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The Spider Woman Strikes Back
Overview: A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-22
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Trail of the Yukon
Overview: When the local Banker jumps the Blaine's claim, they have men rob the bank to retrieve their money. When the men try to double-cross the Blains, a gunfight erupts and Jim Blaine gets away with the money. Mountie Bob McDonald gets Jim Blaine to return the money. Bob thinks the Banker was really behind the robbery and now uses the money to try and lure him into a trap.
Genres: Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-31
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The Marines Fly High
Overview: Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-04
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Hi, Good Lookin'!
Overview: An usher at a radio station studio pretends to be an executive at the station in order to help a pretty girl become a singer.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-22
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Ghost Catchers
Overview: Two zanies get mixed up with a Southern colonel, his beautiful daughters, a nightclub and a haunted mansion.
Genres: Comedy Horror Music Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-16
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There Goes My Heart
Overview: An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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Millionaire Playboy
Overview: A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-14
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Singin' Spurs
Overview: In order to help neighboring Indians irrigate their farms, the Hotshots plan to put on a fair for tourists. But first they need $2000 for an advertising campaign, and the only way they can get it is to borrow it from a wealthy local woman, who has made it clear that she won't give them the money until Hezzie marries her.
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-22
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Yukon Gold
Overview: In this Yukon adventure, a gold mining community is rocked by a murder. A Mountie investigates and encounters a female gambler. Action ensues, but justice prevails.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-30
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Lawless Breed
Overview: Government agents Ted Everett and Tumbleweed are sent to Spearville, Texas, where the law agencies have failed to stop a series of bank robberies. Arriving incognito, they become involved with the gang, and end up being accused of murdering banker Bartlet Mellon. They escape a lynch mob and return with evidence that Mellon has faked his death, hoping to gain the insurance, and is also leading the gang under another name.
Genres: Mystery Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-16
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Mexican Spitfire
Overview: Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up their marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-12
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Rustler's Round-up
Overview: A cowboy sets out to break up a gang of rustlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-01
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Law Men
Overview: U.S. Marshals "Nevada" Jack McKenzie and "Sandy" Hopkins go undercover to bust a gang of stagecoach robbers in this vintage Western serial. Nevada infiltrates the gang, while Sandy works as a cobbler in town, keeping an ear open for local gossip as they try to flush out the inside man tipping off the crooks.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-25
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Three Sons
Overview: A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-13
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Call of the Klondike
Overview: A brother and sister are running a phony gold mine scam in the Klondike, which leads to murder. A Canadian Mountie sets out to bring them to justice.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-17
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Northwest Territory
Overview: Wilderness adventure starring Kirby Grant and Chinook.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-09
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Indian Territory
Overview: Columbia's final release for 1950 was the Gene Autry western Indian Territory. Set during the Reconstruction Era, the story finds Autry working as an undercover agent for the U.S. cavalry. His mission: to neutralize a former Austrian army officer named Curt Raidler (Phil Van Zandt), who is leading a group of renegade Indians on a series of destructive raids.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-29
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Yukon Manhunt
Overview: In this North Woods adventure, the Mounties investigate a series of payroll robberies and discover that it is an inside job.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-12
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Snow Dog
Overview: The third installment in low-budget producer Lindsley Parson's "Chinook" series, Snow Dog was ostensibly based on pulp writer James Oliver Curwood's 1915 short-story "The Tentacles of the North," which was also the working title. Kirby Grant again played Rod McDonald of the Canadian Royal Mounted, and once again the vehicle was stolen by his canine sidekick, the white malamute Chinook. This time, Rod and Chinook are tracking a mysterious white wolf, thought to have killed several of the local traders.
Genres: Western Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-16
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The Stranger From Pecos
Overview: Brown fights a swindler and his pal, Hatton, finds a way to help a robbery victim buy back his property.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-10
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Bad Men of the Border
Overview: Set on the Mexican border in 1850, Bad Men of the Border was the first of seven Universal Westerns starring handsome Kirby Grant, a former singer from Montana who had earlier acted under the name Robert Stanton. The series, Universal's last attempt at competing with Republic Pictures' many streamlined B-Westerns, also featured the bucolic Fuzzy Knight as Grant's sidekick. Grant and Knight are undercover U.S. marshals tracking down a gang of counterfeiters. To their surprise, they are soon assisted by a beautiful Mexican dancehall performer, Dolores Mendoza (Armida), who proves to be an undercover agent as well, in her case for the Mexican rurales headed by Captain Garcia (Francis McDonald).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-01
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Code of the Lawless
Overview: In this western, the hero fights the bad guys by impersonating the son of a rancher. The outlaws have been making the good landowners pay fake taxes. Not only does the good guy succeed in catching the bad guys, he also catches himself the postmistress.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-01
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Trail to Vengeance
Overview: A cowboy investigating his brother's murder finds himself going up against a banker who holds the deed to the cowboy's family ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-01
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Feudin' Rhythm
Overview: Eddy Arnold, singing star of the Ace Lucky radio program gets involved when Ace's equipment for a television program is destroyed by a fire. Aces accepts the sponsorship of social-climber Lucille Upperworth, who tries to revamp the western/hillbilly music format to classical music.
Genres: Western Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-02
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Gunman's Code
Overview: Wells Fargo agents Jack Douglas (Kirby Grant) and Bosco O'Toole (Fuzzy Knight) are sent after a gang of stage robbers. Danny Burton (Bernard Thomas, brother of Laura Burton (Jane Adams, is implicated before Jack is able to prove that saloon owner Lee Fain (Danny Morton) is the man behind the outlaw gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-01
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Gun Town
Overview: Indian Agent Kip Lewis arrives in Gun Town where Buckskin Sawyer is having her payroll shipments robbed by Indians. Kip and his men are ready the next time and learn the robbers are white men dressed as Indians. Kip finds Davy Sawyer's case at the scene and confronts him. When Davy accuses Talbot whom he lent it to, Talbot shoots him. But Davy names Talbot before he dies and Kip goes after him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-18
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Black Midnight
Overview: A young man with a love of horses, Scott Jordan (Roddy McDowall) lives on the family ranch with his uncle Bill (Damian O’Flynn). When he buys a wild stallion from his black-sheep cousin Daniel (Rand Brooks), Scott names the horse Midnight and does his best to tame him. But when the sheriff (Sky King’s Kirby Grant) suspects the stallion was stolen and Daniel’s plan to get rid of the horse ends with a man being trampled, Scott must prove Midnight acted in self-defense before his uncle destroys him. The fourth of six films McDowall coproduced and starred in for Monogram Pictures, Black Midnight was directed by Oscar “Budd” Boetticher, whose seven Westerns with Randolph Scott are considered classics of the genre.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-01
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The Wolf Hunters
Overview: A Canadian Mountie follows a fugitive to a small fur-trapping community. Most of the action is handled by Chinook, a handsome German Shepherd.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-29
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Hollywood Wonderland
Overview: Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-09
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Fangs of the Arctic
Overview: Canadian Mounties Corporal Rod Webb and Constable Mike Kelly, along with Rod's dog Chinook, are sent to the Blackfoot Crossing country to find a killer.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-18
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Northern Patrol
Overview: Northern Patrol was the last entry in Monogram/Allied Artists' off-and-on "Northwest Mountie" series. Taking time off from his Sky King shooting schedule, Kirby Grant stars as mounted policeman Rod Webb, while second billing is bestowed upon Webb's faithful dog Chinook. In this one, Webb tries to prove that the suicide of a young trapper was actually murder. The film offers a dash of novelty value in having the principal baddie turn out to be a beautiful woman (Marion Carr). Scripted by actor Warren Douglas, Northern Patrol was directed by Rex Bailey, the former assistant to the series' original helmsman, Frank McDonald.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-12
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Yukon Vengeance
Overview: In this north-western set in the Yukon, a Mountie must investigate the violent deaths of three mail carriers.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-17
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She Wrote the Book
Overview: A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. When she arrives she gets a bump on the head which brings on a form of amnesia and she begins to believe she is the author of the book. Hijinks and adventures follow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-31
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The Power of God
Overview: As the elderly man visiting his wife's grave remembers how a renewed faith in Christianity help a shady businessman, a juvenile delinquent a young couple and a shiftless man find the way to righteousness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-15
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Rhythm Inn
Overview: A bandleader, desperate to get his band's instruments out of hock, promises the pawnshop clerk--an aspiring songwriter--that he'll let the band's female singer do the clerk's songs at a local club if he will let the band "borrow" their instruments at night. The clerk's girlfriend, however, thinks that the band singer is after more than her boyfriend's songs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-11
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Bombardier
Overview: A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular sequence.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-14
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Ditch and Live
Overview: Lt. Scott Reynolds is co-pilot on a B-17 bomber. When his ship is forced to ditch at sea, only Reynolds survives. The nine other crew members died as a result of insufficient training in ditching procedure. Sent back to the States and promoted, Captain Reynolds takes command of a new B-17 and indoctrinates his crew carefully in the proper methods of preparation for ditching and for survival at sea thereafter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Easy to Look At
Overview: In this musical, a talented aspiring costume designer leaves her small town to seek her fortune in the Big Apple. The girl, who is also a singer, soon begins establishing herself in the fashion industry, but when a rival accuses her of stealing a pattern, her career is nearly destroyed. Fortunately, a handsome, romantic hero is around to help her clear her name. Songs include: "Come Along My Heart", "That does It", "Swing Low Sweet Lariat" and "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?".
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-01
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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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Blonde Alibi
Overview: Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-01
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Hello, Frisco, Hello
Overview: In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-26
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The Editor’s Notebook
Overview: The Editor’s Notebook is a salute from one titan of Chicago media to another. A sponsored film produced by Wilding Picture Productions on behalf of the Chicago Daily News, The Editor’s Notebook mixes documentary footage, staged recreations, and interviews with the newspaper’s staff to illuminate and explain the work of the Daily News and the importance of a free press in American democracy. As both Wilding and the Daily News are long defunct, The Editor’s Notebook also provides an entertaining and accessible look at media companies whose legacies have no present-day corporate guardian or benefactor.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-07
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