Samuel Adams
Also Known As: Samuel James Adams
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ontario, Canada
Birthday: December 16, 1870
Deathday: March 24, 1958
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Dirty Work
Overview: Stan and Ollie are chimney sweeps working at the home of mad scientist Professor Noodle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-25
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Mutiny in the Arctic
Overview: A pair head to the frozen wastes with an expedition in search of radium deposits. Certain members of the group succumb to greed, plotting to bump off the others and claim the radium for themselves.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-17
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Pick a Star
Overview: A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-21
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Violent Is the Word for Curly
Overview: The stooges are left in charge of a gas station and manage to blow up the car of their first customers, three famous European professors. The stooges steal some of the academics' clothes and wind up at "Mildew", a women's college where the three professors are expected. Mistaken as the real thing, the boys take their place on the faculty. When the real professors show up, the stooges try to convince a rich woman, the schools benefactor, that an athletics programs is more important. Their athletics demonstration comes to an explosive end when the real professors slip them a nitroglycerin basketball.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-02
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Amateur Crook
Overview: Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-10
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Umpa
Overview: Jack Osterman is smitten with a woman on a park bench, and cannot stop saying the word "Umpa" for the rest of the film, which involves his treatment by a doctor and his singing and dancing temptress nurses. Somewhere between utterly silly and consummately brilliant with its fully rhyming dialogue, "Umpa" is the catchword for that enduring urge that makes people do ludicrous things with absolute determination.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-24
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Hill-Tillies
Overview: The girls camp out in the woods for a publicity stunt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-24
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Treasure Blues
Overview: Thelma and Patsy follow a map looking for treasure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-26
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Million Dollar Racket
Overview: Millionaire Larry Duane is posing as his own chauffeur while touring the West and meets Molly Hennessey. They have a small romance until it is ended when her father strikes oil and moves his family east to satistify his wife's social aspirations. Larry also return east to close his estate for the summer, but stays on, still posing as the chauffeur, when he learns that Molly's family is renting the place.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-30
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Foreign Correspondent
Overview: American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-16
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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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It's A Small World
Overview: Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which fleeces travelers through corrupt law enforcement.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-12
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Death of a Saleswoman
Overview: Top-ranking RubberTubber saleswoman Agatha J. Ruby was brutally beaten and shot on her morning jog by an unknown assailant. Over six thousand dollars worth of her best plastic storage ware was stolen from her trunk. Nearly all 200 residents in her hometown of Mametville, Washington knew her personally. All were named as suspects. See if you can figure out her killer.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-18
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Million Dollar Legs
Overview: A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-08
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The Voice of Bugle Ann
Overview: A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-15
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The Luckiest Girl in the World
Overview: A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-01
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