Gordon Westcott
Also Known As: Myrthus Hickman, Myrthus Hansen Hickman
Biography: Gordon Westcott (born Myrthus Hickman, November 6, 1903 – October 30, 1935) was an American film actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint George, Utah, USA
Birthday: November 06, 1903
Deathday: October 31, 1935
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Love Me Tonight
Overview: A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-18
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Fashions of 1934
Overview: When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-14
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Heroes for Sale
Overview: Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized but courageous man who will experience, in the years to come, the pain of misfortune but also the happiness of success and hope and love for other human beings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-17
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Private Detective 62
Overview: A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-10
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Lilly Turner
Overview: One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-13
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The Working Man
Overview: A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-20
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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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Murder in the Clouds
Overview: Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-15
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Dark Hazard
Overview: Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-31
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6 Day Bike Rider
Overview: To get his girl back, that has fallen for a biker, a worker and one of his friends enter a six day race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-20
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Heritage of the Desert
Overview: A young man must defend his land from claim jumpers in this adaptation of the popular Zane Grey novel.
Genres: Western
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1932-09-30
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Going Highbrow
Overview: A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-06
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Voltaire
Overview: Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire, but is increasingly influenced against him by his minister, the Count de Sarnac.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-05
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The World Changes
Overview: Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-25
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Two-Fisted
Overview: A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is now out of the sport and has a drinking problem. They decide to train him for a big match, and in the process find themselves involved in romance, shady characters and a possible kidnapping.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-03
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The White Cockatoo
Overview: In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-29
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I've Got Your Number
Overview: Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
Genres: Romance Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-24
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Kansas City Princess
Overview: Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-14
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The Circus Clown
Overview: A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-30
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The Case of the Howling Dog
Overview: A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-22
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Registered Nurse
Overview: In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surgeons when her husband goes mad and needs an operation. One of the surgeon's regards his pursuit a lark, while the other harbors genuine affections for the nurse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-06
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Fog Over Frisco
Overview: Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-02
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This Is the Life
Overview: A popular child star, exploited and overworked by her greedy guardians, decides enough is enough--and takes it on the lam.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-07
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Footlight Parade
Overview: A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-21
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Front Page Woman
Overview: Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-11
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Devil and the Deep
Overview: Naval commander Charles Sturm has made life miserable for his wife Diana due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. His obsessive behavior soon drives her to the arms of a handsome lieutenant. When Charles learns of their affair, he plots revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-12
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He Learned About Women
Overview: He Learned About Women is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Corrigan and written by Lloyd Corrigan, Ray Harris and Harlan Thompson. The film stars Stuart Erwin, Susan Fleming, Alison Skipworth, Gordon Westcott, Grant Mitchell and Sidney Toler. The film was released on November 4, 1932, by Paramount Pictures
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-02
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A Night at the Ritz
Overview: A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-23
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Bright Lights
Overview: Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-27
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Call It Luck
Overview: A London taxicab driver cashes in on a big sweepstakes ticket and becomes the prey of a confidence-gang that sells him a nag of a cavalry horse on the claim that it is a brother to a current Derby winner.
Genres: Crime Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-09
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Go Into Your Dance
Overview: An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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Merrily We Go to Hell
Overview: A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-10
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