Elsa Janssen
Also Known As: Else Jannsen
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Birthday: October 04, 1883
Deathday: February 05, 1969
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Dillinger
Overview: The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-25
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The Pride of the Yankees
Overview: The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-14
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So Proudly We Hail
Overview: During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-09
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Song of Love
Overview: Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-09
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The Great Lover
Overview: An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-18
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Wednesday's Child
Overview: A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-26
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Claudia and David
Overview: The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Connecticut town.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-25
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They Came to Blow Up America
Overview: Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, by submarine, with orders to blow up various defense installations.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-07
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A Dog of Flanders
Overview: Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition is to become a painter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-22
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Journal of a Crime
Overview: A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-10
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Dracula's Daughter
Overview: A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-11
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The Fatal Hour
Overview: When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. Wong faces increasing danger and is nearly executed himself as the investigation develops in treachery and complexity. As Mr. Wong follows the trail of dead bodies, he uncovers a jewel smuggling ring on the San Francisco waterfront and a case much larger than the death of a police officer.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-15
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3 Is a Family
Overview: Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled business schemes force his wife, Fay Bainter, to enter the workplace. The couple's daughter, Marjorie Reynolds, shows up with her twin babies in tow. Son Arthur Lake arrives with his pregnant wife (Jeff Donnell). And overbearing maiden aunt Helen Broderick also decides to move in. Because his wife is away at work, poor old Charlie Ruggles is not only housekeeper, but nursemaid and servant as well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-23
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His Butler's Sister
Overview: Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-26
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It Could Happen to You
Overview: A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigrants are prepared for American citizenship. The school's European teacher dreams of a fascist America. Based on a story by Nathanael West and Samuel Ornitz, who was one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the McCarthy Era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-28
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Claudia
Overview: Child bride Claudia Naughton has made life difficult for her husband David because she can't stand living so far away from her mother. She's also afraid her husband doesn't find her desirable enough. To remedy both situations, she sells their farm to an opera singer so they'll have to move back to the city near her mother, and she tries to make her husband jealous by flirting with a neighbor. Eventually, Claudia has to learn to grow when she discovers that she's about to become a mother and that her own mother is gravely ill.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-04
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Blonde Venus
Overview: In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-23
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