Dorothy Christy
Also Known As: Dorothea J. Seltzer, Dorothy Christie
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dorothy Christy (born Dorothea J. Seltzer, May 26, 1906 – died May 21, 1977) was an American actress. Christy acted with Will Rogers, Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers, and with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in the film Sons of the Desert (1933), in the role of Mrs. Laurel. She was Queen Tika of Murania in The Phantom Empire, Gene Autry’s 1935 cliffhanger serial. She concluded her cinema career in 1953. Dorothy Christy died of natural causes five days shy of her seventy-first birthday.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 26, 1906
Age: 118 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 21, 1977
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She Got What She Wanted
Overview: Mahyna, a dissatisfied Russian peasant girl, marries Boris and comes to New York in search of "the soul of love," only to become a drudge in their cheap flat. Meanwhile, Boris, a bookshop keeper, dreams of a prosperous future from the book he is writing. Their boarder, Dave, a partner in a gambling establishment, makes a play for Mahyna; she is tempted to leave with him when Eddie, a former admirer, arrives on the scene, and the two get into constant arguments over her.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-09
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Overview: A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-27
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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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King of the Wild
Overview: Richard Grant, imprisoned in India for a crime he did not commit, escapes and makes his way to Africa.
Genres: Adventure Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-01
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Sons of the Desert
Overview: Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-29
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Convicted
Overview: A criminologist investigates the murder of a Broadway producer on an ocean liner.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-01
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Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
Overview: Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica gets married first. Angelica, in turn, finds every man she knows too dull and predictable, and for this reason prefers to stay single. Jeff then tries to make Angelica interested in the mild-mannered and timid Reggie Irving passing him off as a notorious playboy to intrigue her. He asks his friend Polly to teach Reggie "how to treat a woman right", but he turns to be a disastrous learner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-28
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Cowboy and the Senorita
Overview: Chip has inherited a supposedly worthless gold mine from her father and Craig Allen is about to buy it. Roy suspects the mine may be valuable and using a clue left by Chip's father, investigates. He finds the hidden shaft that contains the gold and with the posse chasing him on a trumped up robbery charge, races to town with ore samples hoping to get there before the ownership is transferred.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-13
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Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
Overview: Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of contemporary comedians. Hosted by Dom DeLuise.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-05
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Fashion Model
Overview: When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a lowly stock boy.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-02
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Scared to Death
Overview: A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor indicate they want the marriage dissolved. Arriving at the scene is a mysterious personage identified as the doctor's brother who formerly was a stage magician in Europe. He is accompanied by a threatening dwarf...
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-01
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Big Business Girl
Overview: A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-12
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Men with Steel Faces
Overview: Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-02
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6 Day Bike Rider
Overview: To get his girl back, that has fallen for a biker, a worker and one of his friends enter a six day race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-20
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Cutie on Duty
Overview: Leon Errol buys his wife a gift.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-29
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Extravagance
Overview: Alice Kendall is the darling of her social set, the sons and daughters of millionaires, although Alice's mother has impoverished herself to provide Alice with the luxuries she expects as her right. Mom blows what's left of her fortune to provide the best trousseau that money can buy when Alice marries Fred Garlan, and then wishes Fred lots of luck. Now, Alice is trying to coax Fred into buying her a new sable coat while Fred is busily trying to borrow enough money to keep his business afloat.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-09
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The Phantom Empire
Overview: When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the surface. The peaceful civilization of the Muranians is corrupted by the greed from above, and it becomes Autry's task to prevent all-out war, ideally without disrupting his regular radio show.
Genres: Action Music Science Fiction Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-22
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Gold Dust Gertie
Overview: Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-27
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The Arm of the Law
Overview: A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved in a divorce scandal.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-19
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Grief Street
Overview: A reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who is found strangled to death in his theater dressing room with its door and window locked from the inside.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-01
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Playboy of Paris
Overview: Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-18
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Slightly Married
Overview: Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-15
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Caught Cheating
Overview: Joe Cabrone vows to kill Sam after believing him to be having an affair with his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-21
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The Pilgrim Lady
Overview: Dennis Carter, the head of a detective agency, and his secretary, Henrietta Rankin, get involved in the murder of a scandal-peddling, blackmailing radio commentator, and evidence point toward Henrietta. Dennis sets out to clear her and also find the real culprits.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-22
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Topper
Overview: Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-16
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The Unexpected Father
Overview: A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's calculating, money-hungry fiancée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-03
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Woman Against Woman
Overview: A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-24
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Fighting Back
Overview: An ex-convict, freed to fight in World War II, gets a factory job and is accused when a bracelet is missing.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-30
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So Big
Overview: A girl of wealth comes to a Dutch community outside Chicago as a schoolteacher, and while there falls in love with a poor but big-hearted farmer.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-31
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You Can't Have Everything
Overview: Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-02
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No, No, Lady
Overview: When the story begins, a couple are rehearsing a play...one that is REALLY hard to believe. In the play, the cheating wife convinces her mousy and ineffectual husband to not only condone this affair but help pay for the lovers to run off together!! The director things the whole thing is unbelievable, so the couple from the play decide to act it out with her real life husband...the mousy and ineffectual Ed Martin (Andy Clyde).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-04
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Million Dollar Ransom
Overview: To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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Rough Riders' Round-up
Overview: Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a local saloon. Determined to get revenge at any cost, Roy and Rusty cross the border in search of Arizona Jack, the man responsible for Tommy's death.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-13
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One Exciting Adventure
Overview: One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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East Side of Heaven
Overview: A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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They Shall Have Music
Overview: The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
Genres: Family Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-18
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The Big Squeal
Overview: Andy Wilson (Andy Clyde), a millionaire pig farmer from Kansas, comes to Chicago (unless New York has a stock yard district)looking for his girl friend, Natalie (Dorothy Christy) who had left the Sunflower state as she did not care much for the company of pigs and/or pig handlers, although Andy wasn't rich when she left, else she would have most likely been a bit more tolerant. Andy runs into his old friend Jake (Billy Bevan), who has been married for about a year to another belle from Kansas, that Andy hasn't met.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-09
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Caught
Overview: Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, violent tendencies. Eventually, young Leonora escapes her unhappy life and begins working with New York City doctor Larry Quinada, who she soon falls for. Unfortunately, Ohlrig refuses to grant his wife a divorce, and things get even darker for Leonora when she realizes she's pregnant with his child.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-17
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Sailors on Leave
Overview: If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-30
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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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That's My Wife
Overview: Oliver stands to inherit a large fortune from his rich Uncle Bernal, with the condition that he be happily married. But when Mrs. Hardy walks out just before Uncle Bernal is due for a visit, Stanley is pressed into duty (and into drag) to impersonate Oliver's loving spouse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-23
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Sierra Sue
Overview: To fight a poisonous weed, ranchers are burning their land. Gene is the Inspector brought in and he recommends spraying. The spraying goes well until the Larabee ranch is reached. When Larrabee refuses to allow the equipment on his land, Gene has it sprayed by airplane. Cattle must stay off recently sprayed land and when a Larrabee man shoots down the plane, the crash sends the cattle stampeding toward the newly sprayed land.
Genres: Adventure Music Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-12
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Miracle on 34th Street
Overview: Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-04
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The Daring Young Man
Overview: The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-17
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Night Life in Reno
Overview: A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An (interrupted) indiscretion by John Wyatt with a floozy prompts his wife, June, to make a trip to Reno, Nevada in order to get a quickie six-week-waiting-period divorce. John, penitent over his past actions (since he got caught), follows his wife to Reno and manages a reconciliation after a murder gives him a chance to prove his true devotion.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-01
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Laura
Overview: A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-11
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Devil and the Deep
Overview: Naval commander Charles Sturm has made life miserable for his wife Diana due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. His obsessive behavior soon drives her to the arms of a handsome lieutenant. When Charles learns of their affair, he plots revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-12
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Love Is News
Overview: When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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City of Chance
Overview: Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-13
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The Magnificent Rogue
Overview: A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-07
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Flame of Barbary Coast
Overview: Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-28
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She Who Gets Slapped
Overview: A meek husband takes lessons on how to take control of his dominating wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-15
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Sunset on the Desert
Overview: Judge Kirby is being blackmailed and forced to let outlaws go free. He was once the partner of Roy's father and when Roy reads in the paper that he is in trouble he heads out to help him. Arriving, Roy quickly realizes he has been mistaken for one of the outlaws and is not wanted in town. However he stays, and now posing as that outlaw, hopes to learn who is causing all the problems.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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Early to Bed
Overview: Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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The Devil Plays
Overview: A mystery novelist's detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder is committed.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-15
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Slave Ship
Overview: Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-16
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Get Hep to Love
Overview: Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-02
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Junior Miss
Overview: A Manhattan family's Christmas season turns topsy-turvy when 13-year-old Judy Graves mistakenly thinks her newly-arrived visiting uncle has just been released from prison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-16
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Love Birds
Overview: ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the California desert. Their lonely lives become much more crowded when a drifter discovers gold on the property—though all he’s found is Slim’s missing filling. (adapted from MoMA capsule)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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Bright Eyes
Overview: An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody.
Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-28
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Dear! Deer!
Overview: Errol goes to a convention with his pal, but upon his return tells his wife he was on a deer hunting trip, and then lapses into amnesia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-23
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So This Is London
Overview: Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man with a profound distaste for everything British. Yet he must travel to London with his family. When Junior falls in love with an aristocratic girl, whose father despises Americans with equal intensity, fireworks are just about to start.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-23
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Double Up
Overview: Leon hires a lookalike to take his place at home every night while he goes out partying.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-29
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Gem-Jams
Overview: Leon tells his wife that he has to leave to meet a client--unaware that the client is a beautiful woman and that his wife is suspicious.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-19
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Radio Runaround
Overview: As Leon is getting ready to go to his job at a radio station, his wife is fuming because Leon has forgotten their wedding anniversary. With the help of a friend, Leon's wife writes a fake letter to a marital advice show that airs on Leon's station. Little does she realize that her letter will set off a chain of complicated misunderstandings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-07
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Undercurrent
Overview: After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-11
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The Unfaithful
Overview: Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-01
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Only Yesterday
Overview: On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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The Fountainhead
Overview: An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-25
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Little Giant
Overview: Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-22
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Black Market Babies
Overview: Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket he soon finds out. But when will the police get wise to this highly immoral scheme of his? And will they be able to pin a rap on him before he goes a little too far? ALL IS TOLD in this EXCITING tale of CRIME and CORRUPTION!
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-15
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Marie Antoinette
Overview: The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-26
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Big Money
Overview: A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-28
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Union Depot
Overview: Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-14
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The Fabulous Joe
Overview: Milo Terkel's life is never the same after he is willed a dog named Joe. Milo buys his wife a diamond necklace for their anniversary, but when he returns home he finds a note saying she is attending a charity affair. He decides to celebrate alone, taking Joe along for company. After two "mystery gardenias" at the Florida Club, he meets gorgeous Miss Gilmore who spots the necklace and asks to try it on. Milo is punched in the nose by Miss Gilmore's boyfriend, Louie. But Milo's troubles really begin when his dog starts to talk to him, and ONLY to him! He tells Milo to act tough, like Humphrey Bogart. It's a laugh-a-minute as Milo changes from lamb to lion and is innocently caught by his wife with the shapely Miss Gilmore. When his wife sues for divorce he tells the judge about Joe being his advisor. The judge can only suggest that Milo and his wife take a long vacation to work out their problems. Everyone knows a dog simply can't talk!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-28
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The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
Overview: The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-27
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Servants' Entrance
Overview: Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda falls in love with humble chauffeur Eric Landstrom.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-25
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