James Hall
Also Known As: James E. Brown
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 22, 1900
Age: 124 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 07, 1940
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Hell's Angels
Overview: When the Great War breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford University, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.
Genres: Drama War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-15
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Sporting Chance
Overview: A jockey finally hits the big time, but he lets his success go to his head, threatening his career and his life.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-25
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The Canary Murder Case
Overview: A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-16
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Rolled Stockings
Overview: Though billed second, the stunningly beautiful Louise Brooks is the focal point of the campus comedy Rolled Stockings. It's the old one about two collegiate brothers, Jim and Ralph Treadway (James Hall, Richard Arlen), in love with the same girl, Carol Fleming (Brooks).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-18
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Four Sons
Overview: A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-13
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Millie
Overview: After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men - men who once devoted their time to her mother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-06
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Hotel Imperial
Overview: During World War I, an Austrian officer is trapped behind the Russian lines. He tries to sneak through to his own lines, but is forced to take refuge in a small hotel, where he is hidden by the establishment's chambermaid. The two fall in love, but a Russian general makes the hotel his headquarters and sets his sights on the maid. In addition, the Austrian must find out the identity of a spy who is feeding the Russians military information that could lead to the destruction of the Austrian army.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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Manhattan Tower
Overview: The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-01
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Silk Legs
Overview: Male and female sales agents, Phil and Ruth, for rival hosiery concerns try to land an order. For a while Phil succeeds and puts on an exhibition but Ruby makes the mannequins use her own brand of hose, flirts with the buyer and wins order away from her rival.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-18
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Let's Go Native
Overview: The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-15
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Dangerous Nan McGrew
Overview: Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lodge of wealthy Mrs. Benson. Nan is invited to put on a show for the benefit of Mrs. Benson's Christmas-Eve guests. While performing her boop-a-doop songs, Eustace Macy, the saxophone-tooting nephew of Mrs. Benson falls in love with Nan. And, then, the villain, the bank-robbing Doc Foster, makes his entrance. Can Dawes of the Royal Mounted be seen slushing in pursuit behind the gangster? Could Be.
Genres: Western Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-22
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The Good Bad Girl
Overview: A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-20
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This Is Heaven
Overview: This film was released in both silent and sound versions.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-22
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Maybe It's Love
Overview: A very young Joan Bennett tops the cast as Nan Sheffield, the daughter of a college president. The nominal leading man is Tommy Nelson, the black-sheep son of a wealthy alumnus. Though Nelson is an ace football player, President Sheffield refuses to enroll the boy because of his bad reputation, whereupon Tommy's father withdraws his financial backing and bars his son from ever setting foot on Sheffield's campus. Falling in love with Nan, Tommy signs up with the college under an assumed name, giving up his wastrel ways to lead the football team to victory. Joe E. Brown steals the show as Speed Hanson, a goofy gridiron star who emits a loud and long yell whenever scoring a touchdown (this was, in fact, the first film in which Brown's famous "Yeeeeowww" was heard -- but certainly not the last).
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-04
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The Saturday Night Kid
Overview: Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is Jean Harlow's first credited role.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-25
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Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
Overview: Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort; Barbara Stanwyck and Ricardo Cortez play golf; other celebrities are shown in Malibu Beach.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-01
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Divorce Among Friends
Overview: George Morris constantly lies to his wife, Helen, to hide his escapades. As he is about to leave his wife, some guests arrives, including Paul Wilcox, who is in love with Helen. By the end of the party, however, George and Helen have reconciled yet again. Soon after, George meets Joan Whitley and loses a lighter which his wife has given him; Whitley drives off with it. When Helen throws a party, Joan, who is an old friend of Helen, arrives. When Helen introduces Joan to George, they pretend not to know each other. George pleads with Joan to return his lighter. She agrees to meet him later in the library and if he is nice to her she will give him back the lighter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-13
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The Fleet's In
Overview: A girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what it is she does and doesn't want anything to do with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-15
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Just Married
Overview: After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-18
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Senorita
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Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-01
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The Case of Lena Smith
Overview: A peasant girl goes to great lengths to protect her child in 19th century Vienna. The film is considered lost, and only four minutes of footage are known to remain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-29
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The Third Alarm
Overview: The story of the firemen at Engine House No.8, where widower Frank "Dad" Brooks is the beloved veteran and whose children, Milly and Jimmie, are especially fond of firemen Dan and "Beauty" Johnson. The problem of the day is concern whether or not Brooks is going to qualify for a pension...until a three-alarm inferno breaks out at the orphanage.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-16
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The She-Wolf
Overview: An unprincipled female financier tries to get even with a rival railroad buyer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-01
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Swim Girl, Swim
Overview: Serious university co-ed Alice Smith, is wholly engrossed, it would appear, in chasing butterflies and rare insects under the guidance of her friend, Mr. Spangle, Ph. D., though she secretly yearns to be an athlete and thus win the admiration of Jerry Marvin, a popular schoolmate. She takes up swimming, making herself the campus joke because of her ideas on the subject.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-03
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The Fifty-Fifty Girl
Overview: Strong-willed Kathleen O'Hara, believes in equality of sexes, makes a pact with her sweetheart, Jim Donahue, when they become joint owners of a California gold mine. According to the agreement, Donahue will do the housekeeping while Kathleen runs the mine; the first to call for help loses his share of the mine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-12
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Smiling Irish Eyes
Overview: A pretty, young violinist who travels from Ireland to America to seek fame and fortune on Broadway finds a bit more than she expected. A lost film.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-22
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Stranded in Paris
Overview: American shop-girl Julie McFadden, wins a free passage to Paris; en route she meets Robert Van Wye, who has to kiss her when she loses a sack race. In Paris, Julie finds her proposed residence destroyed, and while waiting for Bob her purse is snatched; in the ensuing chase she gets lost and enters a dressmaker shop, where the two owners are in dire need of an English-speaking girl to deliver some gowns. Accidentally she is given free entry to the apartment of Countess Pasada and is shown to her rooms; the count is in his pajamas when she emerges from her bath, and she locks him in the bathroom.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-13
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The Campus Flirt
Overview: A product of wealth and high society, Patricia Mansfield is sent to Colton College by her father, who hopes to eradicate her snobbish veneer. On the train, Pat meets Denis Adams, a prominent athlete who is working his way through school as coach of the girls' track team; he introduces her to track star Charlie Paddock. Through efforts to keep her associates in place, Pat sinks deeper into the mire of antagonism; her only friends are Harriet Porter and Knute Knudson, the Swedish janitor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-18
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