Janet Shaw
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 23, 1919
Deathday: October 15, 2001
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Jezebel
Overview: In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-26
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Shadow of a Doubt
Overview: Just when Charlie is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderful news: Her uncle and namesake, Charlie, is coming to visit. However, as secrets about him come to the fore, her admiration turns into suspicion.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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Alias the Deacon
Overview: A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-13
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The Scarlet Clue
Overview: Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-11
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Dark Alibi
Overview: After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had been forged. Charlie then proceeds to find the true bank robbers.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-25
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Gold Diggers in Paris
Overview: When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-11
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Johnny Eager
Overview: A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-09
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Girls on Probation
Overview: A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-22
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The Rookie Cop
Overview: A rookie cop tries to prove his friend is innocent of a robbery, despite the police commissioner's objection to his use of a trained German Shepherd dog named Ace.
Genres: Adventure Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-28
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Jungle Raiders
Overview: Greedy traders have kidnapped a researcher, hoping he will reveal the location of a treasure in a hidden village. Family and friends of the researcher come looking for him. Adventure ensues.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-14
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It Happened Tomorrow
Overview: A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-31
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You're Out of Luck
Overview: An elevator operator and a janitor team up to solve two murders that may be connected to an illegal gambling operation. Monogram.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-20
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The Scarlet Horseman
Overview: Government agents work to interfere with schemes to trick the Comanches into war with the Texans.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-22
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Time Out of Mind
Overview: The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-03
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Lucky Devils
Overview: Lucky Devils casts the mismatched duo as a pair of intrepid newsreel cameramen. When they're not risking their lives coverning the Hot Spots of the world, Dick (Arlen) and Andy (Devine) busy themselves romancing Norma (Dorothy Lovett) and Gwendy (Janet Shaw), respectively.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-03
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Expensive Husbands
Overview: Unable to get work in her home country, Laurine Lynne (Beverly Roberts) travels to Vienna where her press agent, Joe Craig (Allyn Joslyn), convinces her to marry royalty. The lucky fellow is Prince Rupert (Patric Knowles), an impoverished nobleman now working as a waiter. Do the two of them fall in love despite this marriage of convenience?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-27
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Going Places
Overview: A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-31
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It's Love I'm After
Overview: An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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The Old Maid
Overview: The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-16
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The Mummy's Tomb
Overview: A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
Genres: Horror Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-23
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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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King of the Underworld
Overview: Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-14
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Waterloo Bridge
Overview: On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-17
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They Made Me a Criminal
Overview: A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-21
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She Loved a Fireman
Overview: A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-18
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Sensation Hunters
Overview: A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-12
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Bad Men of Thunder Gap
Overview: Tex Wyatt is blamed for a murder actually committed by Ransom and Holman, a couple of thieves. Tex manages to escape and is reunited with his two ranger pals Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins, both of whom are working undercover as performers in a medicine show.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-05
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Prairie Thunder
Overview: To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad. When Lynch sells rifles to the Indians, Rod Farrell captures Lynch and his gang. But Lynch's Indian friends free him and this time Farrell finds himself the prisoner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-10
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I'll Tell the World
Overview: A PR man saves a struggling radio station from ruin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-08
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The Sisters
Overview: Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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Blondie on a Budget
Overview: Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-29
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Overview: Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-02
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Escape
Overview: An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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Hold That Ghost
Overview: Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-08
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Accidents Will Happen
Overview: A married insurance claims adjuster investigates a gang of accident-fraud racketeers, but they retaliate by targeting his wife.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-09
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Broadway Musketeers
Overview: Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nightclub performer.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-08
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Honolulu Lu
Overview: While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-11
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Arizona Trail
Overview: A young cowboy returns home to help his father fight off a gang trying to take over the family ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-15
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Keep 'Em Slugging
Overview: A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-01
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Night Monster
Overview: Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-20
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False Faces
Overview: A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-28
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Nocturne
Overview: In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-29
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Alcatraz Island
Overview: A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Genres: Romance Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-13
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Comet Over Broadway
Overview: Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-03
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The Front Page
Overview: Newspaper comedy based loosely on the 1928 stage-play and its subsequent film adaptations.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-08
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Sergeant Murphy
Overview: An Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Many Sappy Returns
Overview: Charley mistakes a lunatic as the father of the girl he's interested in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-19
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Poppy
Overview: Poppy is a celebration of Victorian values and exposes the hypocrisy, racism, drug dealing, money worship and sexual repression of the time through its favourite entertainment form, pantomime. Dick Whittington, his man Jack, Sally the Principal Girl, the Dame, two pantomime horses, a flying ballet, a transformation scene and even the traditional song-sheet are all brought on to tell the serious and finally devasting story of the single most profitable crop of the British East India Company.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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They Won't Believe Me
Overview: On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-16
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Gambling Daughters
Overview: A couple of rich girls at a private boarding school find themselves mixed up in gambling and blackmail, and must steal from their parents to pay their gambling debts.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-01
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