Henry Armetta
Also Known As: Tony Martin, Enrico Armetto
Biography: Henry Armetta (born Enrico Armetta, July 4, 1888 – October 21, 1945) was an Italian-born American character actor who appeared in at least 150 American films, starting in silents around 1915 to 1946, when his last film was released posthumously. From Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: July 03, 1888
Age: 136 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 21, 1945
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One Night of Love
Overview: Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-16
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The Black Cat
Overview: After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-07
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I've Been Around
Overview: Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-05
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Dust Be My Destiny
Overview: Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-16
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Love, Live & Laugh
Overview: Any movie that starts Jewish entertainer George Jessel as an Italian accordionist named Luigi can't be all bad. In love with the beautiful Margharita (Lila Lee), Luigi lands a job in the music store owned by the girl's uncle. Ultimately, however, our hero does the Pagliacci act when Margharita evinces a preference for handsome Pasquale (David Rollins). The film's best scene takes place in a nursery full of talented tots, a sequence that undoubtedly reminded Jessel of his days with Gus Edwards' "Schoolroom" act. Exercising his droit du seigneur, Georgie Jessel sings the title tune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-02
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Steady Company
Overview: Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and ZaSu Pitts supply the laughs.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-13
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Straight from the Heart
Overview: In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-22
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Five and Ten
Overview: John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though grand, is falling apart due to his constant working. Wife and mother Jenny is lonely. Son Avery hates his job. Daughter Jennifer is snubbed by classmate Muriel and her friends. At a charity bazaar, Jennifer meets Berry and sparks are evident. However, he is engaged to Muriel and Muriel will make sure that she, and only she, marries Berry. After the marriage, Berry still thinks of Jennifer as Jennifer thinks of Berry. Avery laments about the state of his family since they were happy in Kansas City.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-13
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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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Imitation of Life
Overview: A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-23
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The Desert's Price
Overview: Returning from college, Wils McCann discovers that the long-standing feud between his family and their neighbors is actually the fault of the nasty Martin brothers. In love with neighbor girl Julia Starke, Wils succeeds in setting the record straight and disarming the villainous brothers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-13
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In Old Arizona
Overview: Army Sergeant Mickey Dunn sets out in pursuit of the Cisco Kid, a notorious if kind-hearted and charismatic bandit of the Old West. The Kid spends much of his loot on Tonia, the woman he loves, not realizing that she is being unfaithful to him in his absence. Soon, with her oblivious paramour off plying his trade, Tonia falls in with Dunn, drawn by the allure of a substantial reward for the Kid's capture -- dead or alive. Together, they concoct a plan to ambush and do away with the Cisco Kid once and for all.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-25
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The Devil's Brother
Overview: Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-05
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The Unholy Garden
Overview: At a hotel in the middle of the Sahara, an old man and his daughter try to keep the location of a hidden treasure from a collection of thieves and criminals staying at the hotel who are determined to get it. A suave gentleman thief arrives at the hotel one day with his own plan to get the loot, but complications ensue when he begins to fall for the daughter.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-06
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7th Heaven
Overview: In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-10
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Romance
Overview: A beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-20
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The Man Who Talked Too Much
Overview: A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-16
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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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Let's Sing Again
Overview: An orphan (Eight-year-old boy soprano Bobby Breen) gets a chance to sing opera in New York.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-07
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Two Heads on a Pillow
Overview: A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-02
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The Poor Rich
Overview: Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced to move into the dilapidated house. When Albert receives a letter from old acquaintances Lord and Lady Fetherstone advising the Spottiswoods of their impending visit to the manor, the cousins are at wit's end as to how to exercise non-existent skills required to make the old house acceptable for guest reception.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-25
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Fisherman's Wharf
Overview: Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in San Francisco until Carlo's widowed sister-in-law, Stella, shows up with her brat-son, Rudolph, and takes over. Poor Toma gets his feelings hurt and the idea he "isn't wanted" and runs away
Genres: Adventure Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-03
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Make a Wish
Overview: While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiancé Walter Mays refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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Half Marriage
Overview: A young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home from the city where she's been studying art and encourage the attentions of Tom, a persistent suitor. Judy and her jealous husband have an argument that leads her back to the city, a drunken, amorous Tom and a tragedy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-12
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The Lady and the Mob
Overview: Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-03
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Dinky
Overview: A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-11
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Laughing at Life
Overview: Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-12
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Anchors Aweigh
Overview: Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-13
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Lovin' the Ladies
Overview: A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to fall for with each other and get engaged within a month.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-06
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Men Of America
Overview: Bank robbers and killers cause mayhem in a small western town.
Genres: Crime Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-25
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Her First Mate
Overview: A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-03
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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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Everybody Sing
Overview: Boisterous teen Judy Bellaire is expelled from her all-female boarding school for convincing her fellow school chorus members to sing a classical piece with a modern swing beat. She returns to her dysfunctional home, dejected, but, with the encouragement of her family's cook, Judy decides to follow her dream and audition for a Broadway musical.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Bachelor's Affairs
Overview: A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry but the man soon regrets his rash move when she's constantly bored and looking for dancing and excitement, leaving him feel his age. He conspires with a loyal friend to find a suitable man she might run away with so he can divorce her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-26
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Prosperity
Overview: Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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Street Angel
Overview: A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-09
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The Girl Said No
Overview: A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar, bound and gagged.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-15
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Laughing Sinners
Overview: Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she is saved by Carl, a Salvation Army officer. Encouraged by Carl, Ivy joins the Salvation Army. When her old flame re-enters her life, Ivy finds she is still attracted and begins another affair with him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-30
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Wake Up and Dream
Overview: The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-01
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Hide-Out
Overview: Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is fully prepared to shoot his way out when the cops come calling, but he is softened by the daughter's affections.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-24
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Cross Country Cruise
Overview: A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
Genres: Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-16
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Princess O'Hara
Overview: When King's beloved horse dies, Princess tries to purchase a new nag, and that's how she inadvertently gets her hands on a "stolen" race horse. Our heroine nearly ends up with a lengthy prison term before the story is resolved during the climactic Big Race.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-31
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Magnificent Obsession
Overview: A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-30
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Arsène Lupin
Overview: A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris. He even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon to catch him.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-26
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Huddle
Overview: Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-14
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The Cat and the Fiddle
Overview: A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-16
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Jazz Heaven
Overview: A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-03
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Poor Little Rich Girl
Overview: Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored by a rival soap company.
Genres: Adventure Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-18
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Moonlight and Monkey Business
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-15
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Homesick
Overview: Babe, a lonely servant girl in California, puts a "husband wanted" ad in the newspaper...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-16
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Two in a Crowd
Overview: When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress Julia Wayne needs the whole $1,000, and so does sportsman Larry Stevens. Since compromise will serve neither of their needs, they are stalemated - until complications arise.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-03
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The Sins of the Children
Overview: A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-27
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Sunny Side Up
Overview: Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-25
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The Escape
Overview: An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-05
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Caught in the Act
Overview: On the day of his daughter's wedding, a good-natured construction worker (Henry Armetta) is suspected by his wife of being involved with another woman, wrongly implicates his company's boss as a racketeer, and is arrested by police for running a shakedown operation. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-17
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The Ship from Shanghai
Overview: On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-31
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The Big Store
Overview: A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-20
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What! No Beer?
Overview: When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-10
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So This Is Africa
Overview: Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-21
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After Office Hours
Overview: A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-22
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You're Not So Tough
Overview: The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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Submarine Patrol
Overview: A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-25
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The Magnificent Brute
Overview: A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes of his landlady at the boarding house and falls in love with a gold-digger. His best friend also finds himself smitten by the seductive young woman. But when the one of the workers fritters away a collection that had been taken up for the wife of a deceased co-worker on a foolish bet, he and the vamp take off until the good-hearted landlady intervenes and convinces them to stay and take their lumps.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-11
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Sightseeing in New York
Overview: Nick, and Tony, are New York City taxicab drivers, who are constantly arguing in broken-English and Italian, who take two out-of-town school teachers on a sight-seeing tour of their fair burg. They pick them up at Pennsylvania Station and drive through Washington Square, the Bowery, Chinatown, the financial district, by City Hall and, finally, across the Brooklyn Bridge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-22
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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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So This Is Africa
Overview: Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-21
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Kiss and Make-Up
Overview: Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the effects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, and wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher... after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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The Crime of Dr. Forbes
Overview: Injured scientist Eric Godfrey asks his protege to give him a fatal dose of opiates to end his misery. When he dies the doctor is accused of murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-05
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Stage Door Canteen
Overview: A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
Overview: In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the gangster's strong-arm tactics nearly cause a singer to lose his fiancée. A wide variety of entertainers appear including cowboy crooner Gene Autry, baseball hero Joe DiMaggio, and big band stars Cab Calloway, Ted Lewis, and the Kay Thompson Singers. Songs include "Mamma I Wanna Make Rhythm," "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round," "Heaven?," "I Owe You," and "It's Round-up Time in Reno."
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-26
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Speed to Burn
Overview: Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-07
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Road Demon
Overview: At the Indianapolis Speedway mobsters try to bump off a young racer just as they did his dad. Junk yard owner tap dances.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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Winner Take All
Overview: When a waiter makes a lucky hit and wins a benefit prizefight, gamblers rig some fights for him; but a reporter arranges for a real boxer to put him in his place.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-29
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Scarface
Overview: In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-09
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Overview: A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-29
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We Who Are Young
Overview: A man violates company policy by getting married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-19
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Week Ends Only
Overview: A recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she meets a handsome, sophisticated and wealthy fellow who hires her to help him spice up his weekend parties. She begins helping him and regains her lost wealth and posh lifestyle.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-19
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Red-Headed Woman
Overview: Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-25
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Gift of Gab
Overview: Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
Overview: An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-25
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Carnival Day
Overview: It's carnival time, crowds gather for horse races and the games and food of a midway. Bobby the singing jockey will be riding the favorite Stardust, and if they win, the prize money will enable Bobby to ask Maggie, a carnival florist, to marry him. Tony, an exuberant balloon man, happens on a plot to hobble Stardust. Tony has bet his business on the race's outcome. How will Stardust do?
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-11
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Hello Pop
Overview: A stage director is trying to put on a musical/comedy revue, but has to contend with temperamental musicians, an inept stage crew and his three idiot sons.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-16
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The Merry Widow
Overview: A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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The Red Dance
Overview: Tasia (Dolores del Río), a beautiful dancer lower class of Russia, falls heir to the throne Prince, Grand Duke Eugene (Charles Farrell), but only admired from a distance. At the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, the Duke falls in captivity and this allows Tasia be near him.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-02
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The Marble Heart
Overview: Therese Roger, daughter of a West Indian planter, whose parents are murdered while she is a baby, becomes the adopted daughter of her aunt, Madame Roger, keeper of a haberdashery shop in one of the smaller villages in southern France. She grows up with Camille, Madame Roger's son, a sickly, sexless creature, whom she ultimately marries in deference to her aunt's wishes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-05
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Top of the Town
Overview: In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-17
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Manhattan Moon
Overview: Night club owner Dan Moore is trying to collect a debt owed to him by playboy Reggie Van Dorn, but Reggie is a playboy with no money but lots of social connections. In lieu of the cash, Dan gets Reggie to introduce him to the swells of high society. They go to the opera and, after hearing Yvonne Malloy sing, Dan falls in love with her. Reggie introduces them, but the introduction is to Yvonne's double and stand-in, Toots. This leads to many complications for all concerned.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-01
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Cheating Cheaters
Overview: The Palmers, an apparently wealthy family, move into the house next door to the Lazarres. However, the Palmers are actually a gang of thieves plotting to rob the Lazarres.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-05
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Good Time Henry
Overview: Henry is lured by old pal Hale into a night on the town despite fears that his wife will discover their hijinks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-03
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The Trespasser
Overview: A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ensure the child's welfare, which starts gossip that she is a "kept woman."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-11
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A Tailor-Made Man
Overview: John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs his way into a high society party. After meeting wealthy businessman Abraham Nathan, John Paul quickly rises to the top of Nathan's company. Suffering during The Depression, John Paul helps Nathan save his company with a radical program of cooperative ownership between workers and management. Meanwhile, John Paul makes an enemy of Gustav, who is engaged to Tanya - the daughter of Mr. Huber, owner of the tailor shop. John Paul maintains a friendship with Tanya, provoking jealousy in Gustav. Gustav threatens to reveal John Paul's plain origins to Nathan, and John Paul briefly resigns from Nathan's company. However, John Paul's plan is a success, and Nathan hires him back immediately. Tanya leaves Gustav and ends up with John Paul.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-28
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Madame X
Overview: A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her three year old son again despite her earnest attempts to make amends. For many years the mother seeks refuge overseas and in Absinthe. In the end, her son, a young and promising lawyer unknowingly defends her in court. Ruth Chatterton gives a marvelous performance in this early talkie in her portrayal of Madame X.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-17
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Rasputin and the Empress
Overview: The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-23
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A Farewell to Arms
Overview: A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-08
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Little Accident
Overview: On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-03
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Hush Money
Overview: Story of a girl who tries to live down the past and marries a wealthy man. Blackmail attempt by old associate foiled by friendly detective.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-05
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The Climax
Overview: Young Italian girl wants to become a great opera singer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-04
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Once Upon a Time
Overview: Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Flynn meets a young boy who just might save the day. Inside a small box the boy shows Flynn his pride and joy: a caterpillar named Curly that dances to Yes Sir, That's My Baby. Word quickly spreads about the amazingly talented hoofer, and the caterpillar becomes a symbol of hope for wartime America. Soon, offers are pouring in to capitalize on this sensational insect.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-29
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Deception
Overview: Modest programmer denotes a young man's rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn't realize have been "fixed", and ensuing romantic turbulence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-04
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Penthouse Rhythm
Overview: Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-22
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Let's Talk It Over
Overview: A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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Romance in the Rain
Overview: The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-13
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Half a Sinner
Overview: A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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3 Kids and a Queen
Overview: An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-21
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Strangers May Kiss
Overview: After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casual romance with journalist Alan. Against the advice of her happily married aunt Celia -- who encourages her to demand a serious commitment -- Lisbeth continues to see Alan, even after she hears he may have a wife in France. When Alan's work sends him abroad, a lovesick Lisbeth struggles to understand her feelings.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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A Bell for Adano
Overview: Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-21
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The Doomed Battalion
Overview: During World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the Italian army.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-30
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Central Park
Overview: Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-10
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The Passionate Plumber
Overview: Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-06
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Speak Easily
Overview: A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-13
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Okay, America!
Overview: A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-08
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The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
Overview: A writer discovers he's being used as a pawn by greedy businessmen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-24
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Colonel Effingham's Raid
Overview: The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. He begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to save the square.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-24
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Hat Check Girl
Overview: Gerry Marsh is a hat-check girl in a nightclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and others before she falls in love with millionaire playboy Buster Collins. Gerry is supported by her girlfriend Jessie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-08
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Embarrassing Moments
Overview: Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it looks as though Jerry's latest prank has resulted in the death of his best friend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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Lady of the Pavements
Overview: Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a "girl of the streets" than her. Outraged, Diane decides to grant his wish, and enlists the services of a Spanish singer/dancer from a disreputable nightclub to pose as a sophisticated, convent-educated singer, and surreptitiously arranges for her to meet Karl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-22
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The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
Overview: Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-15
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A Midsummer Night's Steam
Overview: A silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-05
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The Eternal Sin
Overview: Gennaro, the son of Lucretia Borgia, lives unaware of the identity of his mother, who has married the Duke of Ferrara. After Lucretia's brother is killed by five conspirators, the fathers of Gennaro's dearest friends, Lucretia tortures the old men to death. Later, Gennaro and his companions journey to Lucretia's domain, and she sees her son for the first time. The Duke, who believes him to be her lover, poisons him, but Lucretia administers the antidote in time and saves his life. Then she schemes to poison her sons' five friends for their fathers' mistake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-15
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The Face at Your Window
Overview: Two factory owners, Hiram Maxwell and Nicholas Harding are almost polar opposites -- Maxwell pays careful attention to his employees needs, while Harding totally disregards them. Maxwell's son, Frank, is very much like his father, and he is engaged to Harding's daughter, Ethel, who, unfortunately, has some of her father's less appealing traits. Naturally, she's not thrilled when he goes to work amongst the laborers at her father's factory. One of the other workers is Ruth Kravo, and both Frank and Ivan Koyloff are attracted to her. One night when Frank calls on Ruth, Ivan jealously stabs him. The trouble this causes loses Ruth her job, but she goes to work as a secret service agent amongst her own people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-31
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Lonesome
Overview: Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-20
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The Silent Command
Overview: A distinguished young Naval officer from a celebrated military falls prey to a terrorist and his seductress accomplice bent on destroying the Panama Canal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-18
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