Hobart Cavanaugh
Also Known As: Hobart Cavanagh
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hobart Cavanaugh (September 22, 1886 – April 26, 1950) was an American character actor in films and on stage. He was born in Virginia City, Nevada on September 22, 1886. Cavanaugh attended the University of California. He worked in vaudeville, teaming with Walter Catlett at some point. He appeared in numerous Broadway productions, including the original 1919 musical Irene and the long-running 1948 musical As the Girls Go. He made his film debut in San Francisco Nights (1928). Over the next few years he established himself as a supporting actor, and although many of his roles were small and received no film credit, he played more substantial roles in films such as I Cover the Waterfront (1933) and Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933). By the mid-1930s, he was appearing in more prestigious productions, such as A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), Captain Blood (1935), Wife vs. Secretary (1936) and A Letter to Three Wives (1949). He continued playing small, often comical roles until the end of his life, mostly as downtrodden or henpecked little men. His last performance was in Stella (1950); he knew he did not have long to live and collapsed twice on set, but was determined to see it through. By the end of his life, he had appeared in more than 180 films. He died following an operation at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. He was survived by his wife Florence and a daughter.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Virginia City, Nevada, USA
Birthday: September 21, 1886
Deathday: April 27, 1950
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Picture Snatcher
Overview: An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-06
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Santa Fe Trail
Overview: As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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My Girl Tisa
Overview: 1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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Black Angel
Overview: A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-02
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The Covered Trailer
Overview: The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil unwittingly sabotages their plans by telling insurance representative Wells that Joe is only forty-four, not forty-five, and is therefore ineligible to collect the annuity insurance that was to pay for the cruise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-10
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Home Movies
Overview: A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-17
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I Cover the Waterfront
Overview: An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-19
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Night Key
Overview: The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
Genres: Science Fiction Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-18
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Kismet
Overview: Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-01
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Rose of Washington Square
Overview: Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-05
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A Letter to Three Wives
Overview: A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-20
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Three Smart Girls
Overview: The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-20
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Wife vs. Secretary
Overview: Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-28
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Captain Blood
Overview: Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
Genres: Adventure Action History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-26
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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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The Human Comedy
Overview: Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-02
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The Kansan
Overview: Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-10
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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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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Overview: Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
Genres: Fantasy Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-09
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Jimmy the Gent
Overview: An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-09
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Wings in the Dark
Overview: In his dedicated pursuit of technology that will aid pilots to safely "fly blind" during adverse conditions, aerial innovator Ken Gordon is literally blinded in an accident, but this setback doesn't deter him from his goal.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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Gildersleeve on Broadway
Overview: On a trip to New York, a small-town blowhard gets caught between a wealthy widow and a gold digger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-28
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The Key
Overview: A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-09
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Whistling in Dixie
Overview: Radio sleuth Wally 'The Fox' Benton travels to Georgia with his fiancé Carol to be married; and to help Carol's college chum, Ellamae Downs, solve a mystery involving a murdered man, old Fort Dixon, and buried treasure.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-31
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Don't Bet on Blondes
Overview: Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-13
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Harold Teen
Overview: A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same title. With Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert,Douglass Dumbrille and Patricia Ellis.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-07
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Our Wife
Overview: A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-20
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The Great O'Malley
Overview: His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-13
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Merry Wives of Reno
Overview: Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-18
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Jackass Mail
Overview: An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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Driftwood
Overview: An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-15
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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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Sing Me a Love Song
Overview: A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-25
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Colleen
Overview: Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-21
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Margie
Overview: A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-15
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Wonder Bar
Overview: Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
Genres: Crime Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-31
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Now I'll Tell
Overview: A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-07
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Pilot #5
Overview: A small group of Allied soldiers and airmen on Java are being bombed by Japanese 'planes daily. With only one working fighter of their own, and five pilots anxious to fly it, the Dutch commander chooses George Collins to fly a mission to drop a 500-lb bomb on the Japanese carrier lying offshore. As the flight progresses, the commander asks the other pilots to tell him about George. They recount his rise from brilliant law student, through the time he became involved in the corrupt machine of his state's Governor, and his attempts to redeem himself, both in his own eyes, and in Fredie, his long-time love.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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A Scream in the Dark
Overview: A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-15
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I Am a Thief
Overview: A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-24
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A Tragedy at Midnight
Overview: The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-02
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Cain and Mabel
Overview: A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-26
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Easy to Love
Overview: Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-13
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Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Overview: Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?
Genres: Romance Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-02
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Housewife
Overview: Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-11
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Page Miss Glory
Overview: A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-07
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From Headquarters
Overview: When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-16
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
Overview: A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-22
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Here Comes Carter
Overview: A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-24
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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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Stage Struck
Overview: A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-12
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Dr. Socrates
Overview: Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-19
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A Lost Lady
Overview: A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-29
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Goodbye Again
Overview: Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-09
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Up in Central Park
Overview: A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-09
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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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Havana Widows
Overview: Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-18
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Easy Come, Easy Go
Overview: Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-07
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The Man from Down Under
Overview: An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-04
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Madame du Barry
Overview: Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon, former street waif Madame du Barry charms her way into the heart of gouty King Louis XV.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-13
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A Very Honorable Guy
Overview: Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-18
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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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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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Reno
Overview: A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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I Sell Anything
Overview: Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-20
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We're in the Money
Overview: Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-17
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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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State Fair
Overview: The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-10
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Shooting High
Overview: A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.
Genres: Music Action Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-25
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The Lady Consents
Overview: Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-07
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Louisiana Hayride
Overview: A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-13
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Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
Overview: In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him. However, he changes his mind when he falls in love with another woman--but he can't stop the man trying to kill him because he doesn't know who he is.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-07
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The St. Louis Kid
Overview: Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-10
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The Firebird
Overview: Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old daughter Mariette. One day, as Carola leaves the building, Brandt catches her in the stairwell and proposes she "visit" him at his apartment after everyone has gone to bed. Shocked and offended at his brazenness, she complains to the building manager, who orders Brandt to leave. He refuses, so the Pointers decide that they will move out instead. While they're packing, the police show up at their apartment with some bad news--Brandt has been found murdered, shot in the head. Inspector Muller, the detective investigating the murder, discovers that there is more to this case than meets the eye.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-03
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A Child Is Born
Overview: A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-07
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Cowboy from Brooklyn
Overview: A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-09
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Mysterious Crossing
Overview: While crossing on the train ferry to New Orleans, roving reporter Addison Francis Murphy borrows money from singing hillbilly "Carolina," then loses it all in a crap game. Outside on deck, Murphy sees two men shaking hands, and after he looks away, hears a splash of water and discovers both men have disappeared...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-27
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Love Letters of a Star
Overview: A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to mention yachts and sea planes all wrapped up in an efficient 66 minutes of screen time with Henry Hunter, Polly Rowles and C. Henry Gordon in the leads, and Lewis R. Foster sitting in the director’s chair.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-08
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My Woman
Overview: A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-04
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Moulin Rouge
Overview: A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. However, her husband won't let her. When she hears that a popular French singer named "Raquel" is coming to New York, she decides to go to Raquel with a plan--unbeknownst to her husband, "Raquel" is actually her sister, and her plan is for them to switch places so she can fulfill her dream of going back on the stage. However, things don't go quite as planned.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-10
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Career
Overview: Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early friendship falls apart when they woo the same woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-07
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Reported Missing
Overview: A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-15
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The Wall Street Mystery
Overview: When the apparent murder of two stockbrokers are discovered in their Wall Street office. Police Inspector Crane summons forensic expert Dr. Crabtree to the crime scene. A beautiful woman found in the closet, a frightened African-American elevator operator, and a suspicious business associate are among the witnesses questioned.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-04
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Faithful in My Fashion
Overview: A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge promotion where they used to work together - and has become engaged to another man.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-21
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Tell No Tales
Overview: A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-12
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Zenobia
Overview: A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-21
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That's Right – You're Wrong
Overview: J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-24
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Too Much Harmony
Overview: A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-23
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San Francisco Nights
Overview: Young lawyer John Vickery is in love with his wife, but he thinks she is in love with another man...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-01
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Roughly Speaking
Overview: In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-31
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Broadway Gondolier
Overview: A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-27
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Hi, Nellie!
Overview: Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-20
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Naughty But Nice
Overview: Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-23
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Hired Wife
Overview: Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-13
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Cinderella Jones
Overview: Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-09
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Idiot's Delight
Overview: A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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While the Patient Slept
Overview: A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-09
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Land of the Open Range
Overview: A land owner's will leaves his ranch to anyone who has served at least two years in prison.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-17
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Never Say Die
Overview: Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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Daughters Courageous
Overview: Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-23
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The House of Fear
Overview: A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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Chicken Wagon Family
Overview: Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-10
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Four Wives
Overview: In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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Thieves Fall Out
Overview: Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-03
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Horror Island
Overview: A down-on-his luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-28
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No Marriage Ties
Overview: An unemployed reporter, fired because of his drinking, takes a job at an advertising agency. Drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-11
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Overview: An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometown.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-01
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Bordertown
Overview: An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-23
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The Golden Arrow
Overview: A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-23
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Lady in a Jam
Overview: A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-19
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A Modern Hero
Overview: A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-21
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Taxi, Mister
Overview: The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-16
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Carnival Queen
Overview: A young woman not only inherits her late father's estate, she also gets control of a carnival on the edge of bankruptcy in this comedy. Intrigued by carnival life, the woman disguises herself and joins up. She hopes to see how she might save it. She has many adventures and even becomes a magician's assistant.
Genres: Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-02
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Charter Pilot
Overview: US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-06
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Street of Memories
Overview: Joe Mason suffers from amnesia and is often in trouble. Catherine Foster befriends him and they marry. After a jolt jogs his memory, he remembers that he is the son of a rich businessman from Chicago, but he can't remember anything recent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-15
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The Devil's Mate
Overview: A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to find out the identity of the man behind the killings.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-20
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Two Against the World
Overview: Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-11
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An Angel from Texas
Overview: A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-27
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Best Man Wins
Overview: Jim Smiley has a frog that can jump further than anyone else's frog, and Jim becomes obsessed with entering the frog in all of the local jumping-frog contests, not realizing that his obsession is about to cost him his marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-06
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Love Begins at Twenty
Overview: A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-22
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The Hoodlum Saint
Overview: A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-04
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Stella
Overview: Screwball black comedy about a wacky family that forgets where they've buried a corpse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-20
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San Diego I Love You
Overview: A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-29
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What a Woman
Overview: An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-29
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Mandalay
Overview: Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-10
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Her Cardboard Lover
Overview: A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-16
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Sympathy
Overview: Hobart Cavanaugh & Harry Shannon out on a date without their wives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-29
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Down in San Diego
Overview: A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego, and suspect that a foreign espionage ring is at work trying to find out military secrets.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-01
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You Can't Fool Your Wife
Overview: Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-21
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The Poor Fish
Overview: Harry comes home unexpectedly and overhears his wife calling another man 'sweetheart' on the telephone. It turns out that both men are avid fishermen. They leave, so Daisy calls Mr. Gill at the Aquarium and asks if he likes fish. He doesn't, so she invites him over.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-07
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Headline Shooter
Overview: A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-28
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Don Juan Quilligan
Overview: When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-01
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The Mayor of Hell
Overview: Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-24
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How to Sub-Let
Overview: A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-29
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I Stole a Million
Overview: A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-01
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A Dream Comes True
Overview: A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-31
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The Remarkable Andrew
Overview: When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-05
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Little Iodine
Overview: Little Iodine does her best to break up the marriage of her parents, ruin a romance and cost her father his job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-19
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Overview: Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-06
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My Favorite Spy
Overview: The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-12
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Dangerous Blondes
Overview: Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-23
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Bureau of Missing Persons
Overview: Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-16
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Public Deb No. 1
Overview: When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-13
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Girl Overboard
Overview: A beautiful girl on a passenger ship is suspected of murder.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-01
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The Inside Story
Overview: A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by mistake and solves a number of financial problems before it is returned.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-14
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Doctor Jim
Overview: Dr. Jim Gateson, a country doctor who has counselled and ministered to his community for 30 years, is being honored with a surprise testimonial dinner. The scenario then flashes back through three decades, commencing with the young GP first hanging up his shingle, serving at the front during WWI, home life being disrupted by telephone calls from those in need, and competition from a new medic in town who doesn't make country calls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Stage to Chino
Overview: To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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See Your Doctor
Overview: A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man has when he seeks treatment at the doctor's office.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-16
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Reaching for the Sun
Overview: Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-01
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The Mighty Treve
Overview: Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-17
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Guest in the House
Overview: Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother, Douglas, who is happily married to Ann. Evelyn then sets forth to break up the happy marriage and win the love of Douglas.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-08
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The Adventures of Jane Arden
Overview: Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her mission becomes more dangerous when her identity is discovered early on by one of the gang leaders.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-18
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The Great Plane Robbery
Overview: Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the client alive after he is taken hostage by former henchmen.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-09
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The Ghost Comes Home
Overview: Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
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The Magnificent Dope
Overview: Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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Stand by for Action
Overview: U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas.
Genres: Action Drama War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-31
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I Wanted Wings
Overview: Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps: a wealthy playboy, a college jock, and an auto mechanic. Love interest is supplied by a female photographer and a sultry blonde.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-26
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Railroadin'
Overview: Produced in 1941, this film was sponsored by Alco Locomotives & General Electric, so naturally their railroad equipment is featured front and center.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-30
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Night and Day
Overview: When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-02
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