Jimmie Dodd
Also Known As: Jimmy Dodd, Jimmy Dood, James Dodd, James Wesley Dodd
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Birthday: March 28, 1910
Deathday: November 10, 1964
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Flaming Fury
Overview: A Los Angeles fire captain (Roy Roberts) sends an arson-squad rookie (George Cooper) undercover.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-28
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The Man I Love
Overview: Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls for him hard.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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Singing Guns
Overview: Notorious stagecoach robber Rhiannon is unintentionally appointed as deputy when he saves the sheriff's life and must wear two hats between his new job that he enjoys and his old occupation that he misses.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-28
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The Second Woman
Overview: In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Ellen is strongly attracted to Jeff, who's being plagued by unexplainable accidents, major and minor. Bad luck, persecution...or paranoia? Warned that Jeff could be dangerous, Ellen fears that he's in danger, as the menacing atmosphere darkens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-07
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Riders of the Rio Grande
Overview: A banker struggles to keep his bank solvent and his town from going bankrupt after the bank is robbed and all its money taken. The Three Mesquiteers ride into town and set out to help.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-21
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The I Don't Care Girl
Overview: This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-14
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The Crimson Canary
Overview: Members of a Jazz Band come under suspicion when a beautiful nightclub singer is murdered.
Genres: Mystery Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-09
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Post Office Investigator
Overview: A mailman leads PO-men to a pistol-packing stamp thief and her gang.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-01
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Something for the Boys
Overview: The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who gets radio through her teeth!), inherit southern plantation Magnolia Manor, which alas proves to be a "termite trap" and tax liability. Fortunately, Sgt. Rocky Fulton from a nearby army camp appears with a plan to convert the place to a hotel for army wives; but to pay bills until then, they decide to put on a show. Of course, romantic and military complications intervene...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-01
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Lackadaisical Lady
Overview: A Soundie with Jimmie Dodd.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-29
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The Unknown Man
Overview: A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-09
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Rolling Home
Overview: An elderly rodeo rider, his young grandson and their injured horse help transform the lives of various citizens in a small town. Released in 1946.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-01
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Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Overview: Film based on the story of Al Jennings, a former train robber turned attorney.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-17
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Private Snuffy Smith
Overview: A hillbilly moonshiner enlists in the army. Monogram Pictures' comedy was inspired by the then-popular comic strip character.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-16
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Daredevils of the Clouds
Overview: Terry O'Rourke, an American operating a small airline in Canada, is having a tough time making a go of it; he has to cope with unfavorable weather conditions, a rocky terrain, and a large Americam company determined to buy him out at their low price. In addition, one of his primary employees is working against him. One of his airplanes is transporting a cargo of gold and the pilot arranges for the gold to be stolen. He planned to parachute to safety, letting the airplane be looted when it crashed, but a co-worker cuts his parachute cord and he is killed. O'Rourke, with the air of one of his best pilots, Kay Cameron, sets out to track down the culprits.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-26
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Phffft
Overview: Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of bringing them together.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-10
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Whiplash
Overview: An artist follows a woman from California to New York, where he boxes for her mobster husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-24
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Sleep, My Love
Overview: A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-18
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So This Is Washington
Overview: Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is a good substitute for rubber--Abner's homemade licorice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-01
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The Jackie Robinson Story
Overview: Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-16
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Too Late for Tears
Overview: Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-17
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Shadows on the Sage
Overview: Shadows on the Sage is a 1942 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by Lester Orlebeck. The Three Mesquiteers, Tucson, Stony, and Lullaby arrive to help Sheriff Lippy fight the outlaws. But when the gang leader Curly Joe captures Tucson and notices the resemblance, he assumes Tucson's identity.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-24
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Santa Fe Scouts
Overview: This late entry in Republic's long-running "Three Mesquiteers" series stars Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Jimmy Dodd as, respectively, Tucson Smith, Stony Brooke and Lullaby Johnson. This time out, the Mesquiteers try to help young Tim Clay (John James), who's been framed for murder by villains who want to gain possession of Clay's ranch property.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-15
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Valley of Hunted Men
Overview: Fugitive Nazis threaten to take over the Wyoming range in this Three Mesqueteers outing, which also warns about the danger of blithely assuming that every German-American is a fifth columnist. Which is exactly what rancher Clem Parker (Hal Price) does when learning that a couple of escaped Axis war criminals may be heading towards the local valley.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-13
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Thundering Trails
Overview: In this western, the Three Mesquiteers team up with a Texas Ranger to round up the outlaws who forced the ranger's younger brother into becoming a criminal.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-25
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The Blocked Trail
Overview: A horse called Brilliant is the only one who knows the location of a gold mine. When Brilliant's owner is killed, the trio known as the Three Mesquiteers (Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Jimmie Dodd) are mistakenly arrested for the murder.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-12
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Law and Order
Overview: Bill Ralston arrives in town planning to settle down but quickly gets caught up in the fight between the townspeople and Poe Daggett and his gang. He takes the job of town Marshal and soon brings law and order. When Daggetts men ambush him he kills Poe's brother. Poe then kills Bill's friend Brant and this leads to the showdown.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-28
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The Lusty Men
Overview: Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of this rough sport.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-24
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The Richest Man in Town
Overview: The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He is reformed by the daughter of one.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-02
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Since You Went Away
Overview: In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-30
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Flying Tigers
Overview: Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-08
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Walt Disney Treasures - The Mickey Mouse Club
Overview: "M-I-C--K-E-Y--M-O-U-S-E." Before the theme song's memorable spelling became an audio icon, before the series even aired, the Mickey Mouse Club was the most anticipated children's programming ever. This volume features the five episodes of week one of the black-and-white series that launched a television revolution.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-07
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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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Twilight on the Prairie
Overview: In this musical western, a cowboy band is offered the chance to appear in a Hollywood movie and begins the journey to the West Coast. Unfortunately, the band ends up stranded in Texas and must take a job running a ranch. Musical mayhem ensues: Songs include: "Let's Love Again," "Where the Prairie Meets the Sky," "Don't You Ever Be a Cowboy," "Texas Polka," "No Letter Today," "I Got Mellow in the Yellow of the Moon," "Sip Nip Song," "Salt-Water Cowboy," "The Blues," "Little Brown Jug" and "And Then."
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-30
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The Silver Bullet
Overview: A cowboy heads for the town where his father was murdered to find out who was responsible.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-05
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It Grows on Trees
Overview: The Baxters are a typical happy American family trying to live on too little money. Mrs. Polly Baxter acquires two mysterious trees that got into a nursery shipment by mistake. They turn out to be money trees. After initial problems, Polly decides to spend the money.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-02
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G.I. Jane
Overview: A civilian, ordered to report to his draft board, slips off into a dream about the army life ahead of him. He is assigned to a remote desert post where the soldiers crave female companionship. He forges orders that brings a platoon of WACs who are forbidden to fraternize with the soldiers.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-06
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Quicksand
Overview: Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled. As Brady scrambles to cover evidence of his petty theft, he fast finds himself drawn into an ever worsening "quicksand" of crime.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-24
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The Tender Years
Overview: A progressive pastor takes on thoughtless brutality (and constitutional scruples against search and seizure) in order to promote animal cruelty protection laws.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-03
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Living in a Big Way
Overview: A World War II pilot (Gene Kelly) comes home to a bride (Marie McDonald) who, spoiled by her father (Charles Winninger), now wants a divorce.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-10
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Corvette K-225
Overview: The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-29
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Let's Live a Little
Overview: A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate ... and his former fiancée. The latest client of the agency is a psychiatrist and author of a new book. When the executive goes over to discuss the ad campaign, the psychiatrist turns out to be a woman. But what does he really need? Romance? Or analysis?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-09
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Stop That Dancing Up There
Overview: Kay Starr singing "Stop That Dancing Up There".
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-08
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Song of My Heart
Overview: The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-31
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Convicted
Overview: A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-01
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Buck Privates Come Home
Overview: Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
Genres: Comedy Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-04
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China's Little Devils
Overview: In this propaganda film, a courageous group of Chinese children risk their lives to assist downed American pilots escape the ruthless Japanese oppressors.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-27
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The Noose Hangs High
Overview: Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-05
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You Gotta Stay Happy
Overview: Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. She then persuades him to take her to California.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-28
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Young Widow
Overview: A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-01
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Caught in the Draft
Overview: Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. In basic training, Don hopes to make a good impression on the fair Antoinette and her father, but his military career is largely slapstick. Will he ever get his corporal's stripes?
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-04
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Mystery of the Riverboat
Overview: A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ownership of it.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-24
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Kidnapped
Overview: In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-28
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Moon Over Las Vegas
Overview: A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-01
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3D Jamboree
Overview: 3D film showcasing the Mousketeers, produced for the Disneyland Resort.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-16
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Easter Parade
Overview: On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To prove Nadine's not important to him, Don acquires innocent new protege Hannah Brown, vowing to make her a star in time for next year's Easter parade.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-08
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