Charley Grapewin
Also Known As: Charles Ellsworth Grapewin, Charles Grapewin
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Ellsworth Grapewin (December 20, 1869 – February 2, 1956) was an American vaudeville performer, writer and a stage and silent and sound actor, and comedian who was best known for portraying Aunt Em's husband, Uncle Henry in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Wizard of Oz (1939) as well as Grandpa Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road (1941). He usually portrayed elderly folksy-type characters in a rustic setting, in all appearing in over 100 films. He was the oldest cast member of The Wizard of Oz. Born in Xenia, Ohio, Charles Ellsworth Grapewin ran away from home to be a circus acrobat which led him to work as an aerialist and trapeze artist in a traveling circus before turning to acting. He traveled all over the world with the famous P. T. Barnum circus. Grapewin also appeared in the original 1903 Broadway production of The Wizard of Oz, 36 years before he would appear in the famous Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film version. After this he continued in theatre, on and offstage, for the next thirty years, starting with various stock companies, and wrote stage plays as a vehicle for himself. His sole Broadway theatre credit was the short-lived play It's Up to You John Henry in 1905. Grapewin married actress Anna Chance (1875–1943) in 1896, and they remained a devoted couple until her death some 47 years later. Two years after his first wife's death, Grapewin married Loretta McGowan Becker on Jan 10, 1945. Grapewin began in silent films at the turn of the twentieth century. His very first films were two "moving image shorts" made by Frederick S. Armitage and released in November 1900; Chimmie Hicks at the Races (also known as Above the Limit) and Chimmie Hicks and the Rum Omelet, both shot in September and October 1900 and released in November of that year. During his long career, Grapewin appeared in more than one hundred films, including The Good Earth, The Grapes of Wrath, Tobacco Road, and in what is probably his best-remembered role: Uncle Henry in The Wizard of Oz. He also had a recurring role as Inspector Queen in the Ellery Queen film series of the early 1940s. Grapewin died of natural causes in Corona, California at age 86, and his ashes are interred with his wife's in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California, at the Great Mausoleum's Columbarium of Inspiration.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Xenia, Ohio, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: December 20, 1869
Age: 155 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 02, 1956
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The Grapes of Wrath
Overview: Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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The Wizard of Oz
Overview: Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-15
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Judge Priest
Overview: Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-15
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Libeled Lady
Overview: When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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Dust Be My Destiny
Overview: Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-16
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Follow the Boys
Overview: During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.
Genres: Music Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-05
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No Man of Her Own
Overview: An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-30
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One Frightened Night
Overview: Eccentric tycoon Jasper Whyte hosts a dinner at his mansion and announces that he will divide his money and give each guest a million dollars before the stroke of midnight. When his long-lost granddaughter suddenly arrives, Whyte changes his mind and proclaims that she will receive his entire fortune. A second lady appears at the estate, claiming that she is actually Whyte's granddaughter, Doris Waverly, and the first woman is found murdered in her room! With each guest possessing a motive, the mystery of the killer's identity briskly unfolds through a stirring series of surprises.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-01
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The Girl of the Golden West
Overview: A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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Broadway Melody of 1938
Overview: Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse, she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with to ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-20
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Alice Adams
Overview: In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-23
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Anne of Green Gables
Overview: Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and to the local villagers.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-23
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Return of the Terror
Overview: "The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-07
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Captains Courageous
Overview: Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-25
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They Died with Their Boots On
Overview: The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
Genres: Western War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-20
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The Petrified Forest
Overview: Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-08
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Tobacco Road
Overview: Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-20
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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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Johnny Apollo
Overview: Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-19
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A Close Call for Ellery Queen
Overview: Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-29
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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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Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Overview: The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-18
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Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
Overview: Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed to death. Ellery Queen gets to the bottom of the mystery.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-14
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Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
Overview: Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-30
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Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Overview: Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-30
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Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
Overview: Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen asks his son Ellery to help out.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-24
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Midnight Mary
Overview: While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of affairs.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-30
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Torch Singer
Overview: When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she searches for the child she gave up.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-08
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Big City
Overview: Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-03
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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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Listen, Darling
Overview: To stop Pinkie's widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn't love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend Buzz kidnap her in the family travel trailer to live a carefree life on the open road. They then get the idea to find Dottie a financially secure husband whom both she and Pinkie would like.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-21
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Ah, Wilderness!
Overview: At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of growing up, with some loving help and guidance from his wise father. A tender, coming-of-age story, with a wonderful look at a long-gone, but fondly remembered, small town America.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-25
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Small Town Girl
Overview: Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-10
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Of Human Hearts
Overview: This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm. It is a rich story about striving for excellence, the tension of father-son rebellion, and the love of a mother that can never die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-11
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Turn Back the Clock
Overview: While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made different choices twenty years earlier.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-25
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Party Wire
Overview: When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-27
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Rhythm on the River
Overview: Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own name. The problem is every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-28
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A Family Affair
Overview: Judge Hardy faces problems at work and at home. Powerful men in town are upset with his decisions and want to see him impeached; his daughters, Joan and Marion, have romantic problems; and his son, Andy discovers Polly Benedict. As usual, Judge Hardy is concerned with everyone in the family and lends wisdom and calmness to all.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-12
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Stand Up and Fight
Overview: A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Genres: Drama History Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-06
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Shanghai
Overview: A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-19
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Hell's House
Overview: A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-30
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Are You Listening?
Overview: WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and sponsors smiling. But one sponsor, a producer of plumbing supplies, isn’t happy. So WBLA scriptwriter Bill Grimes is bounced from his job, setting in motion this movie’s turn from comedic to darkly tragic. William Haines, two years removed from being Tinseltown’s top male star, plays Grimes in a melodrama noted for its glimpses of live radio production and for a Depression-era ethos that includes peroxide cuties eager to land a job, a sugar daddy or both.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-21
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The Impatient Years
Overview: Standing before a divorce court judge are Sergeant Andy Anderson and Janie Anderson asking him to dissolve their marriage. Janie's father, William Smith, objects and the judge allows him to give his version of their story. They had met in San Francisco fifteen months earlier and, after knowing each other only three days, had gotten married. Andy was sent overseas the day after the wedding and when he returns and despite the fact that Janie had borne him a son, they find they are almost strangers. Mr. Smith suggests, and the judge orders, that if they retrace their actions over the four days they knew each other they would regain their love.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-10
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The Voice of Bugle Ann
Overview: A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-15
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Don't Bet on Love
Overview: A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-30
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Hello, Everybody!
Overview: The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole town, depends on Kate to hold everything together. The power company wants to build a dam which will require flooding many of the farms; Kate is holding out; if Kate sells, everyone else will sell; if Kate refuses, the rest of the town will refuse as well. Randolph Scott meets Kate's beautiful sister, Sally Blane, at a dance. Randolph Scott, as it turns out, is an agent for the power company. Kate thinks he's just using Sally; Sally believes that he truly likes her. Randolph comes to the farm and appears to woo Kate. Kate remains unconvinced about selling out, but falls for Randolph.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-17
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Beauty for Sale
Overview: A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-01
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Atlantic City
Overview: In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon".
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-15
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The Millionaire
Overview: A millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-01
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Between Two Women
Overview: Allen Meighan, an intern, assures himself residency at 'General Hospital', when he saves the life of a man trapped in an explosion. Allen is in love with student nurse, Claire Donahue, and she with him, but, she is married to Tom a physically abusive husband.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-09
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Gold Dust Gertie
Overview: Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-27
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Bad Guy
Overview: A power-company troubleshooter has his brother get him out of prison by running high voltage to the bars of his cell.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-27
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Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
Overview: An auto mechanic suspects sabotage in a recent series of fatal racecar accidents.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-13
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Artists and Models Abroad
Overview: Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the 'Hotel de Navarre' in furnishing accommodations for his group, but the proprietor's wife locks them out. In his search for funds, Buck meets Patricia Harper, the fourth-richest girl in the world, but he isn't aware of that and thinks she is penniless. Patricia joins his troupe as a lark, and her father, James Harper, also pretends he is broke. Through some chicanery, Buck gets jobs for the girls as models at the Palace of Feminine Arts at the Paris International Exposition. James Harper borrows the priceless Napoleaon necklace to have a copy made for his daughter, but Buck thinks he stole it.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-20
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The Big Timer
Overview: Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-10
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Sudden Money
Overview: Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-31
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The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Overview: With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-13
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Sand
Overview: Novelist Will James, a specialist in horse stories, wrote the yarn upon which 20th Century-Fox's Sand was based. Mark Stevens plays horse breeder Jeff Keane, who loses his prize stallion in a train accident. While the stallion roams wild and free, Keane enlists the aid of rancher Joan Hartley (Coleen Gray) in searching for the animal. Once the horse is located, it is clear that it has developed a mean streak, the result of various cruelties inflicted upon it by humans. Jeff and Joan combine their efforts to regain the horse's friendship. Veteran Native American actors Iron Eyes Cody and Jay Silverheels make significant supporting appearances. Sand was attractively filmed in Technicolor on location in Colorado.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-03
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Two Alone
Overview: Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-26
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Three Loves Has Nancy
Overview: A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-02
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Overview: Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Bad Man of Brimstone
Overview: A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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The Night of June 13
Overview: Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudie is having an affair with her husband, John, and vows revenge on Trudie. John explains to Trudie Elna's condition and plan. Trudie, being good-hearted tells John that she'll move. One evening, John returns late from work to discover Elna dead. John burns Elna's suicide note to protect Trudie. This results in John being charged for murder and put on trial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-17
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The Washington Masquerade
Overview: An honest, talented and well respected attorney defeats a corrupt incumbent U.S. Senator. After a very good start he has to face the subtle temptations and innocent looking traps of Washington.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-09
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Earthbound
Overview: A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.
Genres: Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-06
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The Man Who Dared
Overview: An elderly grandfather proves to be heroic when he takes a stand against local city corruption.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-03
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American Madness
Overview: Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-15
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The President Vanishes
Overview: The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-17
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Heaven on Earth
Overview: A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-27
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Without Orders
Overview: At Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick lands at the end of a cross-country record flight, met by his father J.P. Kendrick who owns Amalgamated Air Lines. Len is a media darling, adored by fans for his daring flights. He is in love with Amalgamated stewardess Kay Armstrong who is dating veteran pilot "Wad" Madison. Len dates her sister Penny who learns that his hard-drinking and recklessness has caused the death of his co-pilot. Penny knows that he was drinking before the fateful flight and only escaped prosecution by bribing a bartender. She leaves Len who ends up at Amalgamated as a line pilot, being tutored by Wad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-22
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Only Saps Work
Overview: Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis Sr., the film casts Errol as James Wilson, a kleptomaniac who starts with picking pockets and ends up robbing a bank. Wilson's friend Lawrence Payne (Richard Arlen) inadvertently aids our hero during one of his heists, ending up in deep doo-doo with the law. Before Wilson is able to extricate Payne from his dilemma for the sake of heroine Barbara Tanner (Mary Brian), he pauses long enough to pose as a private eye -- and even gives bellboy Oscar (Stu Erwin) tips on how to spot a crook! If only all of Leon Errol's feature films had been as consistently hilarious as Only Saps Work.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-05
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For the Love of Fanny
Overview: Glenn (Glenn Tryon), is trying to get into a secret fraternity in order to impress his girlfriend, Fanny (Helen Mann). But his rival is the president of the fraternity and has some very special plans for Glenn. The latter soon finds himself crooning a love song to two tough policeman. and being instructed to convince his blond sweet patootie, Fanny, that he prefers a brunette sweet patootie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-27
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Eight Bells
Overview: A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-10
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Caravan
Overview: A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-30
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The Kiss Before the Mirror
Overview: When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-04
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Sabotage
Overview: The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-13
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Hell and High Water
Overview: The life of an avowed bachelor who tows garbage is changed when he meets a runaway taxi dancer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-16
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The Quitter
Overview: When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hard-fighting champion of the working-class into an upscale society paper catering to the rich and powerful. Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another man's identity and is still living there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-05
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Breakdowns of 1936
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-30
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The Woman in Room 13
Overview: Divorcee Laura marries Paul but his employer is also enamored with Laura and sends Paul on a business trip during which a murder is committed and he is accused of the crime.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-15
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Gunfighters
Overview: Gunfighter "Brazos" Kane lays aside his guns "forever" when he is forced to shoot his best friend, and decides to join another friend, Bob Tyrell, as a cowhand on the Inskip ranch. Upon arriving there he finds the bullet-riddled body of his friend. He carries the body to the Banner ranch, the largest in the territory, and is accused by Banner of murdering Tyrell; Banner orders Deputy Sheriff Bill Yount, who is in Banner's pay, to arrest Kane. But Kane has the sympathy of Banner's daughter, Jane, who notifies Inskip of Kane's plight, and Inskip arrives in time to prevent a lynching. Sheriff Kiscade dismisses the murder charge for lack of evidence. Brazos then sets out to find the killer of his friend. Bess Bannister, Jane's sister, is in love with the Banner ranch foreman, Bard Macky, and knowing that Bard killed Tyrell and that Kane will track him down, then hampers Kane's mission somewhat by pretending to be in love with him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-15
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Huddle
Overview: Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-14
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The Good Earth
Overview: China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the many hardships of life over the years; but the temptations of a fragile prosperity will endanger their love and the survival of their entire family.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-02
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The Loudspeaker
Overview: A young man from a small town hits New York City, bound and determined to become a radio star. Amazingly, he achieves his ambition, but in the process alienates everyone around him with his arrogance and egomania.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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King Solomon of Broadway
Overview: An underworld character wins a Broadway nightclub in a card game.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-30
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The Dark Side of the Rainbow
Overview: The movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973); several uncanny moments of synchronisation and a generally darker tone than the original film.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-01
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Sinner Take All
Overview: A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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Above the Limit
Overview: Filming of a character sketch by the well-known vaudevillian Charles E. Grapewin. On a bare stage backed by a dark curtain, a man dressed in a three-piece suit and overcoat holds a racing program and excitedly watches a race supposedly taking place offstage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1900-11-21
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Wild Horse Mesa
Overview: Chane Weymer, an Arizona rancher, goes after a gang that is trapping wild horses by the use of barbed-wire enclosures.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-25
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Wild Boys of the Road
Overview: At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-07
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Three Comrades
Overview: A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-02
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When I Grow Up
Overview: Josh is a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, he chances across an old diary once kept by his grandfather. Leafing through the yellowed pages, Josh discovers that Grandpa went through many of the same childhood travails that he is enduring at that moment. Armed with a renewed understanding of and appreciation for his elders, Josh decides to stick around for a while and see how things develop.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-19
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Female
Overview: Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-11
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Overview: Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-16
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Crash Dive
Overview: A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
Genres: War Romance Drama Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-22
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Overview: Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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The Enchanted Valley
Overview: Armed robbers invade the home of a crippled boy and his grandfather and the effect the boy and his surroundings have on them is reforming.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-24
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In Spite of Danger
Overview: Bill Crane, race-car driver has an accident while racing and finds himself unable to return to the fast-paced racetrack. Looking for another occupation he meets a girl, Sally Sullivan, who runs a roadside lunch-wagon and she helps him get a job as a truck driver. They fall in love and get married. He gets a contract to haul a load of dynamite and, when coming down a steep mountain, he finds his truck's brakes have been sabotaged, just as were the brakes on his race-car.
Genres: Action Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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Hero for a Day
Overview: When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-06
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She Made Her Bed
Overview: "Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally Eilers), just as he does his lions. But she is a one-man woman, married to the wrong man, and refuses to cheat on her cheating husband even though her happiness depends on doing so.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-26
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Pilgrimage
Overview: A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-12
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The Dark Side of Oz
Overview: Pink Floyd Meets The Wizard of Oz
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-15
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