Lawrence Grossmith
Also Known As: Lawrence Randall Grossmith
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: March 28, 1877
Age: 148 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 21, 1944
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Men Are Not Gods
Overview: Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the secretary of a noted stage critic to produce a glowing review of his 'Othello'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-26
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Tiger Bay
Overview: Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles a protection racket.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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The Girl in the Taxi
Overview: In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting to be just like his dad, begins dating a seductive widow--the same widow his father has been seeing. Trouble ensues when the father refuses to let his daughter marry her true love. When the fiancée learns of the father-son shenanigans, he begins blackmailing them into letting him marry the daughter.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-02
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Make-Up
Overview: Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an independent production company at Shepperton Studios.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-28
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Gaslight
Overview: A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-04
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Silver Blaze
Overview: Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-01
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The Brass Bottle
Overview: A Jinn's magic helps a poor architect win a professor's daughter. This film is considered lost.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-30
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Cash
Overview: A formerly wealthy man and his daughter try to regain wealth by selling a scheme to some investors, when they come upon a huge amount of unclaimed cash that a young electrician has in his tool box.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-08
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Counsel's Opinion
Overview: Divorce barrister Logan arrives back in London from a trip overseas to find the whole city fogbound. Unable to reach his flat, he books into the exclusive Royal Parks Hotel. Leslie sweet-talks Logan into letting her stay in his suite, and although the pair are attracted to each other, the night passes innocently. On arriving at Chambers, Logan is asked to act as counsel for Lord Rockburn, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Logan accepts the brief, but then discovers to his horror that Lady Rockburn was a guest at the Royal Parks Hotel ball the previous night, and a cornerstone of the case is alleged impropriety after a maid observed a man leaving her room that morning......
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-01
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The Luck of a Sailor
Overview: In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when the king must return to his country and marry an heiress. Fortunately, his first bride has fallen for an army officer and is happy to have her royal marriage annulled.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-26
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It Happened in Paris
Overview: A British millionaire's son travels to France to study art, and falls in love in Paris.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-30
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No Time for Comedy
Overview: An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-14
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Captain Fury
Overview: An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-26
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All Women Have Secrets
Overview: When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-15
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Everything in Life
Overview: An opera singer pretends to be poor in order to romantically win over a composer.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-01
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The Private Life of Don Juan
Overview: What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Opened by Mistake
Overview: A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-10
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Smash and Grab
Overview: John Forrest, an insurance investigator with a weakness for model railways, is on the trail of a gang of smash-and-grab thieves targeting Europe's most prestigious jewellers. As the chase leads him to Ireland, Forrest finds he needs help and who better to call upon than his impossibly elegant, highly capable wife, Alice?
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-20
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In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
Overview: Actor Patrick Macnee leads the viewer through London in the footsteps of the genius private investigator Sherlock Holmes and his assistant and friend, Dr. Watson.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-01
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Sing As We Go
Overview: When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-13
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The Common Cause
Overview: Helene Palmer and her husband Orrin have grown apart, and she becomes infatuated with bachelor Edward Wadsworth. With the outbreak of World War I, Orrin and Edward enlist, while Helene works as a Red Cross nurse in a small French town. Edward is wounded on a dangerous scouting mission near the town and Orrin carries him to safety. The enemy invades during the night, and Orrin rescues Helene as she is about to be overpowered by a German officer. The dying Edward, morally strengthened by his experience as a soldier, encourages the couple to reunite. Soon after, peace is declared.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-05
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Rolling in Money
Overview: An impoverished duchess arranges a marriage for her daughter to a wealthy working-class London barber.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-20
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A House Divided
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-27
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