Maria Alba
Also Known As: María del Pilar Margarita Casajuana Martínez
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Birthday: March 19, 1910
Deathday: October 26, 1999
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Charros, gauchos y manolas
Overview: The magazine "Paintings of the People" initiates a contest to select the best watercolor painting of ethnic peoples and customs. A hungry bohemian painter invokes his muse to help him to produce the winning painting, and when he experiments with scenes set in Mexico, Argentina and Spain, his paintings come to life. In Xochimilco, Mexico, a young bachelor has a drunken dream that his girl friend is performing Josephine Baker's famous banana dance in a Parisian nightclub. In Buenos Aires, an Italian and a Galician are rivals for the affections of a Creole girl. At the other side of the Hispanic world, a Sevillian girl tells of her tragic romance with a matador, who obstinately continues to appear in the ring despite having been injured.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-15
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Face of Desire
Overview: Spanish-language version of The Big Fight (1930).
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-21
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Olimpia
Overview: Spanish version of the MGM romance, His Glorious Night: in the old Austro-Hungarian empire, a princess rejects her arranged marriage and loves, instead, a dashing cavalry captain.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-10
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Mr. Robinson Crusoe
Overview: Steve Drexel voluntarily strands himself on a deserted island on a bet. He intends to re-create civilization and carves a miniature city of 52nd Street and Park Avenue out of the jungle. Drexel is befriended by his dog, a native monkey, and a wild goat that is captured in one of his traps. He attempts to cultivate a native as his Man Friday from Robinson Crusoe, but fails as the native escape.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-19
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The Return of Chandu
Overview: Chandu consults his crystal ball and sees that Nadji, Princess of Egypt, is in danger. She is about to be sacrificed by the black magic cult of Ubasti. Headed for the magic island of Lemuria, he is shipwrecked , washed ashore and captured. He becomes invisible, escapes and after numerous detours is able to rescue the princess.
Genres: Action Fantasy Romance Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-01
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Kiss of Araby
Overview: While the commander of the British Army in Arabia, Major J. W. Courtney, is out in the desert chasing marauding tribesmen, his wife carries on an affair with Captain Randall. Courtney returns to the outpost ahead of time and the wife takes refuge in the quarters of Lieutenant W.B. Lawrence. Lawrence, maintaining the silence (and stiff upper lip) that his code of honor dictates is drummed out of the service. He joins the forces of El Rahman and becomes a sheik of the desert. Warfare, instigated by Randall, breaks out between the troops and the tribesmen and ends when the mortally wounded Randall confesses to his dastardly deeds, the least of which included making love to his commander's wife.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-21
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Flirting with Danger
Overview: Three brash and cocky powder mixers are sent to South America to work at a dynamite plant there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-01
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Road House
Overview: Larry Grayson, jazz age son of permissive parents, drifts from wild parties with his classmates to more heady, roadhouse entertainment. There he becomes involved with an underworld gang and falls in love with Spanish Marla, one of their vamps. Larry leaves home after an argument with his father, throws in with the gang (who are using him for their own purposes), and is blamed for a murder. Tried and convicted, Larry is given a light sentence when the judge places most of the blame on his overindulgent parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-25
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Chandu on the Magic Island
Overview: On the mystic island of Lemuria, the cult of Ubasti seek the Egyptian Princess Nadji to sacrifice so that their goddess Ossana, whose soul resides in Nadji's body, may be resurrected by Black Magic. Nadji is located in the Far East port of Suva, but shielded by the White Magical powers of Frank Chandler, an American raised by Eastern mystics who is also known as Chandu. When Chandu takes a voyage alone, however, the evil Voice of Ubasti is able to magically spirit her to Lemuria, where Black Magic reigns supreme. Chandu sets out in pursuit with his sister Dorothy, niece Betty and nephew Bob; but, shipwrecked on the magic island, Chandu finds his family also held prisoner for sacrifice while he is plunged into an endless maze of caverns beneath the evil temple, where both his mortal and magical strength seem rendered useless.
Genres: Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Just a Gigolo
Overview: A playboy pretends to be a paid escort in order to court--and test the moral character of--a young British socialite. Comedy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-06
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Hell's Heroes
Overview: Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers. Remade as Three Godfathers (1936) and 3 Godfathers (1949).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-27
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Great God Gold
Overview: Greed, ambition and hunger-for-power drive John Hart, a New-York-City stock-market broker, into crooked dealings and deception, but he doesn't realize that those he ruined will seek vengeance. He meets his match and downfall when his path crosses with a reporter, Phil Stuart; a girl, Marcia Harper, and a man-with-a-gun from a family he ruined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-14
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Goldie
Overview: Sailor Spike dates girls whose names he finds in an address book. Each girl has the same tatoo, placed there by another sailor Bill. When Spike meets Bill they become friends. In Calais Spike meets Goldie. Bill warns him against her, but Spike ignores the warning until he finds Bill's tatoo on Goldie as well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-27
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Hypnotized
Overview: A Gypsy violinist searches for her missing fiance, a circus worker who recently won a sweepstakes prize and was kidnapped by a hypnotist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-25
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Those Who Dance
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Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1930-12-05
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Joy Street
Overview: Mimi, an unsophisticated American girl attending an exclusive Swiss boarding school, unexpectedly inherits a large fortune. Returning to the United States she quickly begins to live a wild and reckless life. Good-natured Joe attempts to set her straight, but she keeps right on living riotously. It takes Mimi a serious accident while joyriding to comes to her senses and realize she is ready for a more settled existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-12
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Su Última Noche
Overview: The comedy that is making the whole world laugh!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1931-05-01
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A Girl in Every Port
Overview: Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young woman come between them?
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-26
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Overview: A man of mystery known only as Doctor Terror recounts seven stories from his casebook of personal encounters with evil and the supernatural.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-10
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Blindfold
Overview: Blindfold is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed by Charles Klein and written by Ewart Adamson, Robert Horwood and William Kernell. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film movietone process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-09
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West of the Pecos
Overview: Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-27
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Law of the Harem
Overview: When Renée Duval, a Frenchwoman who had been on her way to Venice, is discovered by Al-Hadi, an Arabian prince in the wreckage of an ambushed caravan it is just the beginning of a breathless adventure that will put both their lives at risk!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1931-10-09
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