Dooley Wilson
Also Known As: Arthur Wilson
Biography: Arthur "Dooley" Wilson was an American actor, singer and musician who is best remembered as Sam in the 1942 film, Casablanca; in the film, he also performed its theme song, "As Time Goes By". Wilson was a drummer and singer who led his own band in the 1920s, touring nightclubs in London and Paris. In the 1930s he took up acting, playing supporting roles onstage on Broadway and in a series of modest films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tyler, Texas, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 03, 1894
Age: 131 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 30, 1953
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Casablanca
Overview: In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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Cairo
Overview: Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-17
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Stormy Weather
Overview: The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-21
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Higher and Higher
Overview: A valet to a bankrupt millionaire plans to rebuild his boss's fortune by passing a scullery maid off as a high-society debutante.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-31
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My Favorite Blonde
Overview: Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-02
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Seven Days Ashore
Overview: Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-25
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Take a Letter, Darling
Overview: A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-06
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Come to the Stable
Overview: Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-27
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Night in New Orleans
Overview: A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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Knock on Any Door
Overview: An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-22
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Two Tickets to London
Overview: Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-14
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Racing Luck
Overview: Brother and sister "Boots" Warren and Phyllis Warren inherit two race horses. One of the horses is claimed by a rival horse-owner, Jeff Stuart, when it wins a claiming race at Santa Anita. Then Stuart learns that the horse will not run without its former stablemate. But neither Stuart nor the Warrens want to give up their respective horses. It is finally agreed that both horses will be entered in the same race, and the winning owner will gain possession of both horses. The only complication is that Phyllis has fallen in love with Stuart.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-18
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Passage West
Overview: In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed by preacher Jacob Karns. Tensions and hardships grow as the travelers continue to trek toward California across dry, desolate country.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-01
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Free For All
Overview: The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-01
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Father Is a Bachelor
Overview: Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living without parents. Their parents died a while ago, and they want to keep that secret from the townspeople, especially the young school teacher, Prudence Millett, to avoid being sent to a children's home and eventual separation. Johnny moves in with the kids and poses as their uncle to take care of them while romancing Prudence. But in order to keep the children, he has to get married.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-22
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Keep Punching
Overview: Henry Jackson, known as Little Dynamite, is a Golden Gloves champion, who agrees to turn professional when approached by fight manager Ed Watson, despite the opposition raised by his father and Fanny Singleton, his sweetheart.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-02
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No Man of Her Own
Overview: A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-21
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Bogart: The Untold Story
Overview: Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends and co-workers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-05
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Tell It to the Judge
Overview: Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her divorce makes her unfit for the job. This evolves into situations, happening in Florida, New England, Washington D.C., and the Adirondacks, such as the misunderstood husband trying to win back his wife, and the misunderstood wife trying to make her husband jealous, and one case of mistaken identity after another, after another.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-18
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