Don Alvarado
Also Known As: Jose Paige, Don Page, Joseph Don Page, Joseph Ray Paige, José Ray Paige
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 04, 1904
Age: 120 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 31, 1967
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Estrellados
Overview: A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is the Spanish version of Free and Easy (1930) with Hispanic/Spanish-speaking actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-07
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Morning Glory
Overview: Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory after its brief blooming?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-18
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Satan in Sables
Overview: A young lady plans her devious revenge on a Russian aristocrat of fantastic wealth, who will not give her his permanent affections.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-14
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One Night in the Tropics
Overview: Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia. The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey, and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe, who sends two enforcers - Abbott and Costello - to ensure that the wedding occurs as planned.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-15
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The Pleasure Buyers
Overview: Joan Wiswell, Ted Workman, and wholesome Helen Ripley are among the half-dozen or more suspects, all for good reasons of their own, murdered a high-society crook called Genne Cassenas.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-19
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The Sculptor's Dream
Overview: A sculptor dreams about his work coming to life and having various adventures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1930-04-07
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The Big Steal
Overview: Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-01
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Rio Rita
Overview: Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita, though he suspects that her brother is the bandit.
Genres: Romance Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-15
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The Battle of the Sexes
Overview: Gum-chewing frizzy-haired golddigger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly middle-aged real estate tycoon, William Judson. Marie moves into Judson's apartment building and contrives to meet and seduce him, plying him with compliments, music, swoons, décolletage, and batted eyes. When his loyal wife (and their two children) see him out catting with Marie at a night club, mom's devastated and confronts him. He moves out. Babe wants Marie to sell Judson worthless bonds. Will mom commit suicide? Will sis shoot the floozy? Will pops figure out he's being a fool?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-12
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The King Murder
Overview: A beautiful blonde makes a career out of seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married men. She is found murdered after demanding a $5000 payoff from her latest victim, and the detective investigating the case finds out that she was involved in a lot more than just blackmail.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-15
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Overview: This first cinematic version of the classic book is a part-talkie, although the only surviving print is silent (housed in the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY). It is a straight-forward telling of the intermingled lives of a group of strangers doomed to die in a collapsing bridge accident. The Art Direction, paltry and unremarkable, surprisingly won an Oscar over the far more remarkable work nominated in THE IRON MASK. The special effect scene of the lovers plummeting with the bridge into the chasm is unforgettable and remarkably done.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-30
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His Jazz Bride
Overview: Young lawyer Dick Gregory, is hard pressed to pay the bills of his wife, Gloria, and equally hard pressed to keep up with the frantic pace of her life. Edward Martindel, an attorney who represents a corporation against which Dick is litigating, attempts to bribe Dick with a substantial sum of money; Dick refuses, and Gloria develops a complaint against him on this account. After a particularly bitter argument, Gloria leaves Dick and joins some friends for a moonlight cruise. Alec Seymour, a friend of the Gregorys', tells Dick that the boat on which Gloria is sailing has not met safety standards, and Dick goes after her, saving her life when the boat sinks. Gloria repents of her wild and wicked ways, and she and Dick settle into calm domesticity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-15
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I Live for Love
Overview: A failed actor finds success as a radio singer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-28
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The Monkey Talks
Overview: In 1927 Olive Borden starred in Fox drama The Monkey Talks directed by Raoul Walsh. She played a circus performer who meets a man pretending to be a talking monkey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-20
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A Demon for Trouble
Overview: Dyer is buying ranches and then retrieving his check by having his gang kill the owner. Bob Worth arrives just as Buck Morton is killed and gets blamed for the murder. Fleeing from the Sheriff, Bob teams up with the Mexican outlaw Golinda. Having seen Dyer pay off his men, he has a plan to trap him and Golinda is just the man he needs to make it work.
Genres: Western Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-10
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La Cucaracha
Overview: Señor Martinez, a famous theater owner, visits a local café in Mexico because of its reputation for good food and to audition the famous dancer who performs there. Martinez tells the café owner that if the dancer is as good as he has heard, he will offer the dancer a contract to perform in his theater. The café's female singer hears about this and is determined that he won't leave the café without her.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-31
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Red Wagon
Overview: Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-06
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The Spaniard
Overview: In England, Don Pedro de Barrego meets Dolores Annesley, and he decides he must have her. Dolores, however, refuses to have anything to do with him. Later, when she visits Spain, she discovers he is a famous bullfighter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-04
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Westward Passage
Overview: A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-27
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Bachelor's Affairs
Overview: A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry but the man soon regrets his rash move when she's constantly bored and looking for dancing and excitement, leaving him feel his age. He conspires with a loyal friend to find a suitable man she might run away with so he can divorce her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-26
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Mademoiselle Midnight
Overview: Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by Napoleon III at Empress Eugenie's insistence to Mexico. Renee is kept locked at the hacienda at night by her father to prevent her following in her grandmother's wayward footsteps. She falls in love with a visiting American (Monte Blue) but is also pursued by the craven outlaw Manuel Corrales. Miss Murray gets to do some of her trademark dancing, but this one isn't a comedy, despite comic relief provided by Johnny Arthur.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-14
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A Hero of the Big Snows
Overview: Rin-Tin-Tin is saved from the beatings of a trapper by Ed Nolan, a shiftless trapper himself, and 'Rinty" follows Nolan home to his cabin but refuses to enter. Nolan takes him to the home of Mary Mallory, the girl he has failed to win as his wife because of his ways, and in their mutual love of 'Rinty," a new understanding is born and Nolan goes to work.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-24
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The Night Cry
Overview: A giant condor decimates a herd of sheep, and Rin-Tin-Tin is accused of having turned killer.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-27
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Drums of Love
Overview: A princess is betrothed to a deformed monarch, but falls hard for his handsome brother.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-24
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The Bad One
Overview: In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sailor and agrees to be his bride. Unfortunately, one of her former suitors suddenly shows up and a terrible fight ensues.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-03
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The Lady Escapes
Overview: A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-22
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Under Secret Orders
Overview: A young bank employee is sent to South America to bring some valuable bonds to a client there. Unfortunately for him, he tends to drink a bit too much and winds up getting involved with a gang that's planning on stealing the bonds to start a revolution.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-06
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The Scarlet Lady
Overview: Silent film drama...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-01
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Captain Thunder
Overview: A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the darndest Mexican accents you've ever heard in your life. The star is Hungarian-born Victor Varconi, portraying a legendary south of the border outlaw who tries to force Canadian senorita Fay Wray to marry a rival rustler whom she despises. She pleads with the bandito so pathetically that he is moved to grant her a single wish. Without hesitation she chooses her poor but true love. The bandit king, being a somewhat honorable fellow grants the wish and without a twitch, guns down the wicked cattle thief. Fortunately the film was played for comedy, a wise decision since it probably would have garnered laughs as a straight drama anyway.
Genres: Western Drama Adventure Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-27
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The Loves of Carmen
Overview: Carmen, a gypsy, working in a Spanish cigar factory, is flaunted by Escamillo, the bullfighter, but infatuates José, a soldier, who aids her to escape from jail and follows her to the gypsy camp. Tiring of his love, Carmen finally fascinates Escamillo and the love-crazed José kills her at a bull fight just as Escamillo is being proclaimed by the audience.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-03
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Rose of the Rancho
Overview: It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of California were the descendants of the Dons who had colonized it a hundred years before and whose title deeds bore the signature and seal of a long-dead Spanish king. But, by a loop-hole in the law, the title-deeds of the Dons could not be recognized, and this opened the door of organized gangs of land-grabbers, such as the one led by Joe Kincaid, to operate with a prime excuse for legitimate plunder and robbery. In most cases the law was unable to cope with the situation. Then Rosita Castro, the daughter of Don Pasqual Castro, masked and disguised as a man, organized a band of vigilantes to fight against the tyranny of the outlaws, aided by an undercover federal agent, Jim Kearney.
Genres: Music Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-09
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Beau Ideal
Overview: An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
Genres: War Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-25
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Federal Agent
Overview: A federal agent sets out to track down his partner's killers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-13
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Rose of the Rio Grande
Overview: The story, based on a novel by Johnston (Zorro) McCulley, concerns a group of aristocratic vigilantes, who go about trying to restore their prominence in Mexico by killing anyone who stands in their way.
Genres: Romance Adventure Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-15
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Love Under Fire
Overview: A suspense-thriller-comedy set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.
Genres: War Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-20
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Lady with a Past
Overview: A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-19
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Cafe Society
Overview: A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-03
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The Apache
Overview: Sonya, a Marseilles Cafe performer involved with a pack of thieves is rescued from her criminal life by a police official who sends her lover and partner in a knife-throwing act to jail and then tries to seduce her. Not submitting to the official's advances, she falls in love with an Apache dancer in Paris and works with him, holding her other admirer at a distance. The official is mysteriously killed, presumably by her lover, it then falls to Sonya to find the real felon.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-19
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No Other Woman
Overview: Frenchman is engaged to marry South American heiress but a fortune-hunting friend disrupts the romance and marries the girl himself. She later realizes her mistake after her no-good husband has frittered away most of her fortune and she turns back to her first love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-10
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Breakfast at Sunrise
Overview: While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall for each other.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-23
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On Secret Service
Overview: Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-15
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Contrabando
Overview: Contrabando is an adventure film. The film tells of the millionaire Hernández who smuggles weapons from the United States into Mexico. He does this because he is planning an uprising. The hotel attendant Carlos is informed of this. Hernández and his troops are defeated by the army. Carlos is acquitted and can marry his lover Lolita. The film Contrabando was shot in locations on the border with the United States, such as Tijuana, Ensenada and Playas de Rosarito. It was shot in Spanish and in English under the title Contraband. The role of Lolita was cast for the English version with Dorothy Sebastian. Contrabando's plot was inspired by an actual 1929 rebellion led by José Gonzalo Escobar.
Genres: Drama Adventure Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1932-09-14
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The Devil Is a Woman
Overview: In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-03
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Nobody's Baby
Overview: Kitty Reily (Patsy Kelly) and Lena Marchetti (Lyda Roberti) meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompetent Lena. They keep running into each other until Kitty resigns to being friends with Lena when they become hospital nurses and share a dorm room.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-23
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Black Beauty
Overview: Black Beauty is being trained to run in the steeplechase race, upon which the Cameron family has staked its fortune. However, the horse is injured racing for a doctor when its owner is hurt, and it looks like it won't recover in time to compete in the race.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-01
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Driftwood
Overview: Daisy Smith (Marceline Day), a floater and non-desirable citizen in most societies, seeks refuge on a tropical island in the South Seas. She meets Jim Curtis (Don Alvarado), another society-outcast and a piece of human driftwood, and a romance takes place that regenerates both and they sail back to the United States determined to start life anew.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-15
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