John Darrow
Also Known As: Harry Simpson
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Leonia, New Jersey, USA
Birthday: July 17, 1907
Deathday: February 24, 1980
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Flirtation Walk
Overview: A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-01
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Prep and Pep
Overview: A boy finds it difficult to live up to his father's reputation at his school.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-18
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The Lady Refuses
Overview: A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young woman to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated when the son declares his love for her, too.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-08
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The Big Chance
Overview: Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-28
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Monte Carlo Nights
Overview: A man wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of the real killer. The problem is that he only has one clue to go on.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-20
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Symphony of Living
Overview: Just before Adolph Greig's solo violin performance at the Cosmopolitan Orchestra, his right hand is injured and his dream, shattered. His flighty children turn their backs on him and he collapses in the street. However, an opportunity arises for him to tutor a young violin prodigy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-19
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The Midnight Lady
Overview: The hard-boiled owner of a big-city speakeasy is reunited with her daughter, who has been raised to believe that her mother is dead, then finds herself accused of murdering her daughter's no-good boyfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-15
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Probation
Overview: Janet Holman is suspicious of her fiancé, Allen Wells, after he kisses her best friend Gwen when the lights are turned out during a party. Allen leaves early, purportedly for business reasons, but in reality, he is going to visit his secret girl friend, seventeen-year-old Ruth Jarrett. When Ruth's neighbor and landlady, Mrs. Humphries, overhears her talking to Allen on the phone, she becomes morally outraged and calls the police. Ruth is taken away to juvenile hall, and when Ruth's older brother Nick comes home to celebrate Ruth's birthday, Mrs. Humphries explains that Ruth has been seeing an older, wealthy man who has been leading her astray, and that she sent her away for her own good. Nick is saddened that he has failed to keep Ruth on the right track, and when he returns to his apartment, he becomes enraged to see Allen there. When Allen claims ignorance of Ruth's age, Nick hits him, and they engage in a brawl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-15
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Alias Mary Smith
Overview: A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-14
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Everything’s Rosie
Overview: A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-22
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Cheer Up and Smile
Overview: When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especially his recent girlfriend, who just broke up with him, he becomes an overnight sensation.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-22
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The Primrose Path
Overview: A naive high school girl falls for the school's star football player. Her ignorance in the matters of sex leads to pregnancy and heartbreak.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-25
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A Notorious Gentleman
Overview: A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-21
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The Curtain Falls
Overview: In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-02
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Eight Bells
Overview: A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-10
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High School Hero
Overview: Pete (Nick Stuart) and Bill (John Darrow) are childhood rivals who continue to feud in high school, especially when they both develop feelings for Eleanor Barrett (Sally Phipps). Their rivalry threatens to disrupt the school basketball team, but they eventually make amends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-16
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Fanny Foley Herself
Overview: A vaudeville performer has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two daughters.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-09
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Square Shooter
Overview: Tim returns from prison after being framed for murder to clear his name and retrieve the ranch taken from his uncle with a forged will.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-21
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Avalanche
Overview: An otherwise honest gambler, played by Jack Holt, begins to cheat at cards in order to put his son John Darrow through mining school in this lavish Zane Grey adaptation produced by Paramount. The callow foster-son pays back the noble gesture by running off with Holt's mistress, Olga Baclanova.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-10
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Midshipman Jack
Overview: Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-22
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Strange People
Overview: All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstration of how convictions can be made on circumstantial evidence. During the proceedings, a phony murder is quickly revealed as the real thing.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-16
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The Argyle Case
Overview: A multimillionaire is murdered, and his will leaves all his money to a beautiful young blonde. The murdered man's son thinks something is fishy, and a homicide cop sets out to find out who was behind the man's death. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-17
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Ten Nights in a Bar-room
Overview: A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-01
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Crime Over London
Overview: With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
Genres: Adventure Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-21
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The Racket
Overview: A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-01
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The Big Race
Overview: Bob Hamilton gets into trouble when crooks cause the defeat of his father's horse in the Derby, and it is reported he is in with the crooks. The old man disowns him and his sweetheart, Patricia , breaks their engagement. So Bob and "Skipper", the also-suspected trainer, head for the western tracks, taking with them the horse Hamilton Senior forced them to buy, determined to make good and prove they are on the level.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-14
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The All-American
Overview: The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-01
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Annapolis Farewell
Overview: Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his days in the "old" navy, especially about his part in the Battle of Manila Bay under Adm. Dewey during the Spanish-American War, when he commanded the USS Congress. That ship, now decommissioned and docked in Annapolis harbor, is--unknown to Fitzhugh--about to be towed out to sea to be used for target practice. When Fitzhugh finds this out, he sets out to either save his beloved vessel or "go down with his ship".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-23
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I Give My Love
Overview: After accidentally killing her no-good husband, Judy makes her true love promise not to tell her small son about his imprisoned mother. She is released ten years later...
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-17
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The Bargain
Overview: A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-23
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