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Rise and Shine | Boley Bolenciecwcz | 1941-11-21 | The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game… |
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The Affairs of Annabel | Lanny Morgan | 1938-09-09 | Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for pu… |
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Once in a Lifetime | George Lewis | 1932-10-02 | Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies…. |
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Million Dollar Legs | Migg Tweeny | 1932-07-08 | A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money…. |
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Super-Sleuth | Bill Martin | 1937-07-16 | A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes…. |
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Let’s Go Native | Voltaire McGinnis | 1930-08-15 | Dress designer Joan Wood, who’s heavily in debt, has created costumes for a Broadway show that is exported to Argentina. With the money she wants to p… |
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Sitting Pretty | Chick Parker | 1933-11-23 | Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon propriete… |
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The Big Broadcast of 1936 | Spud Miller | 1935-09-20 | The wisp of a storyline involves two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller, who doubles as the station’s sole announcer while his comic partner Smiley s… |
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Shoot the Works | Nicky Nelson | 1934-07-18 | Jack Oakie stars as seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn’t even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lil… |
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Radio City Revels | Harry | 1938-02-11 | A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly under his own name. Comedy…. |
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Sea Legs | Searchlight Doyle | 1930-12-02 | Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a re… |
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The Social Lion | Marco Perkins | 1930-06-21 | Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club’s polo team because he is the town’s most pr… |
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The Sap from Syracuse | Littleton Looney | 1930-07-26 | Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foil… |
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Annabel Takes a Tour | Lanny Morgan | 1938-11-10 | Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head … |
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Madison Sq. Garden | Eddie Burke | 1932-11-04 | Eddie Burke ( Jack Oakie) is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of … |
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Dude Ranch | Jennifer / Vance Kilroy | 1931-05-15 | Chester Carr, owner of a dude ranch in the Rockies, caters to guests seeking the thrill of the Wild West. Among his guests are the wealthy Spruce Mead… |
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Florida Special | Bangs Carter | 1936-04-21 | A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant carrying $1 million in diam… |
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Hit the Deck | Bilge | 1930-02-02 | A sailor finds himself the object of a cafe owner’s affections…. |
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Uptown New York | Eddie Doyle | 1932-11-27 | Jack Oakie plays Eddie Doyle, a gumball machine salesman who marries Pat Smith (Shirley Grey) knowing full well that the girl is on the rebound from a… |
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Paramount on Parade | Himself / Master of Ceremonies / Fu Manchu’s Victim (Murder Will Out) / Girls Gym Instructor (In a Girls’ Gym) | 1930-04-22 | This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios’ contract stars, credits 11 directors… |
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June Moon | Frederick Martin Stevens | 1931-03-21 | An ordinary Joe has ambitions to become a Tin Pan Alley writer…. |
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The Gang Buster | Charlie Case | 1931-01-17 | Naïve insurance agent ‘Cyclone’ Case falls in love with Sylvia Martine, whose father has a dispute with gangster Mike Slade. When Sylvia is kidnapped… |
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Sailor Be Good | Kelsey Jones | 1933-03-07 | A Navy boxer (Jack Oakie) meets a dance-hall hostess (Vivienne Osborne) who tries to sober him up for a fight…. |
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On Stage Everybody | Michael Sullivan | 1945-07-13 | Radio’s miracle show is on the screen…. |
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The Great Dictator | Benzino Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria | 1940-10-15 | Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel’s regime…. |
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Finders Keepers | B. B. Brown | 1928-02-18 | Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress…. |
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Wintertime | Skip Hutton | 1943-09-17 | Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces her… |
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The Texas Rangers | Henry B. ‘Wahoo’ Jones | 1936-08-28 | Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw…. |
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That’s the Spirit | Steve ‘Slim’ Gogarty | 1945-06-01 | A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated by a greedy banker…. |
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Young People | Joe Ballantine | 1940-08-30 | Wendy Ballantine’s parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the f… |
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Hitting a New High | Corny Davis | 1937-12-24 | A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa…. |
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Looking for Trouble | Casey | 1934-03-28 | Joe and Casey trouble-shoot for the phone company. They try to prove that Joes’s girl Ethel’s boss Dan is a crook but are trapped by criminals and lef… |
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From Hell to Heaven | Charlie Bayne | 1933-02-24 | The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in di… |
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College Humor | Barney Shirrel | 1933-07-05 | A college professor and the school’s star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed…. |
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Last of the Buccaneers | Sgt. Dominick | 1950-10-25 | Swashbuckler about the adventures of pirate Jean Lafitte after he helped save New Orleans from a British invasion during the War of 1812…. |
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Navy Blues | ‘Cake’ O’Hara | 1941-09-13 | On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having f… |
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Fight for Your Lady | Honest “Ham” Hamilton | 1937-11-05 | Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer’s love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl…. |
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Dancers in the Dark | Duke Taylor | 1932-03-11 | A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gan… |
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Too Much Harmony | Benny Day | 1933-09-23 | A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a “good” girl and one a “bad” one.”… |
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The Great American Broadcast | Chuck Hadley | 1941-05-09 | After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coa… |
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That Girl From Paris | Whammo Lonsdale | 1936-12-31 | Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins… |
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Little Men | William “Willie” Deming | 1940-11-29 | Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo’s h… |
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Thanks for Everything | Bates | 1938-12-23 | Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love with… |
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Bowery to Broadway | Michael O’Rourke | 1944-11-03 | Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud erup… |
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Sky Bride | Alec Dugan | 1932-04-19 | Barnstorming pilots Speed Condon, Bill Adams, and Eddie Smith travel the country with their manager, Alec Dugan, performing at fairs and air shows and… |
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She Wrote the Book | Jerry Marlowe | 1946-05-31 | A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written … |
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Collegiate | Jerry Craig | 1936-01-22 | A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls’ school and tries to save it by a big show…. |
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Fast Company | | 1929-09-20 | Egomaniacal baseball slugger Elmer Kane is not only good, he enjoys telling everybody how good he is. A professional scout, Bert Wade, takes an intere… |
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It Happened Tomorrow | Uncle Oscar Smith | 1944-03-31 | A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day’s paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new… |
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The Eagle and the Hawk | Mike ‘Slug’ Richards | 1933-05-06 | The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enem… |
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Murder at the Vanities | Jack Ellery | 1934-05-18 | Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll’s Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading la… |
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Street Girl | Joe Spring | 1929-08-21 | A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life…. |
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Something to Shout About | Larry Martin | 1943-02-25 | A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway…. |
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The Rat Race | Mac | 1960-07-10 | An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance … |
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Colleen | Joe Cork | 1936-03-21 | Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees… |
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Call of the Wild | ‘Shorty’ Hoolihan | 1935-08-09 | Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck… |
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Sweet and Low-Down | Popsy | 1944-09-21 | After their annual free concert at Chicago’s Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are packing up to go to their next engagement when a kid … |
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When My Baby Smiles at Me | | 1948-11-10 | Bonny Kane and ‘Skid’ Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital difficulties when Skid gets an offer to appear on… |
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The Merry Monahans | Pete Monahan | 1944-09-15 | The Merry Monahans is one of the higher-budgeted Universal musicals of the 1940s, even though the storyline is strictly grade-B material. During the f… |
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King of Burlesque | Joe Cooney | 1936-01-03 | Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who hel… |
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Champagne Waltz | Happy Gallagher | 1937-02-05 | n Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss an… |
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Song of the Islands | Rusty Smith | 1942-03-13 | With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by tr… |
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Northwest Stampede | Mike Kirby | 1948-07-28 | In this romantic western, the real stars are a mustang and a police dog. The human aspect of the story centers on a rodeo rider whose late father bequ… |
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Hello, Frisco, Hello | Dan Daley | 1943-03-26 | In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his tr… |
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College Rhythm | Francis J. Finnegan | 1934-11-23 | The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After gra… |
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Tin Pan Alley | Harry Calhoun | 1940-11-29 | Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new s… |
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Polo with the Stars | Himself – Watching Polo Match | 1941-09-20 | A short in the WB Hollywood Novelty series (production number 7301) about the training of polo ponies. Buddy Rogers buys one of the ponies in training… |
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The Fleet’s In | Searchlight Doyle | 1928-09-15 | A girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what it is she does and doesn’t want anything to do with he… |
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Iceland | Slip Riggs | 1942-09-21 | Marine James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina her Icelandic family take his actions as a proposal of marriage to Ka… |
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Touchdown! | Babe Barton | 1931-11-15 | Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs…. |
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The Toast of New York | Luke | 1937-07-22 | After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he str… |
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If I Had a Million | Private Mulligan | 1932-12-02 | An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory…. |
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Sweetie | Tap-Tap Thompson | 1929-10-25 | Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her…. |
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Close Harmony | Ben Barney | 1929-04-12 | Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes interested in Al West, a warehouse clerk who has put together a… |
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Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove | Himself | 1934-12-01 | Several members of MGM’s ‘galaxy of stars’ attend an evening of music and a fashion show…. |
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Hollywood Rhythm | | 1934-11-15 | This short plugs the new tunes written by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel for the movie “College Rhythm” and shows the audience how they were written and … |
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The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet | (archive footage) | 2011-05-24 | In this visual essay, Charles Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance, author of “Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema”, draws upon a wealth of photography as well … |
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Thieves’ Highway | Slob | 1949-09-20 | Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his fa… |
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Lover Come Back | J. Paxton Miller | 1961-12-20 | Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client ou… |
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Tomahawk | Sol Beckworth | 1951-02-05 | In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and fort in territory ceded by previous treaty to the… |
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The Man I Love | Lew Layton | 1929-05-25 | Wellman’s first all-talkie, scripted by Herman Mankiewicz, with arrogant boxer Richard Arlen romancing Mary Brian, then falling for temptress Olga … |
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Chinatown Nights | The Reporter | 1929-03-29 | Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the de… |
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The Wonderful Country | Travis Hyle | 1959-10-21 | Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father’s murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mex… |
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The Wild Party | Al | 1929-04-06 | Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets i… |
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The Dummy | Dopey Hart | 1929-03-09 | The title character is office-boy Barney. Pretending to be a deaf-mute, Barney tries to trump his detective boss Walter Babbing by tracking down the p… |
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Road House | Sam | 1928-07-25 | Larry Grayson, jazz age son of permissive parents, drifts from wild parties with his classmates to more heady, roadhouse entertainment. There he becom… |
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Big Brother | | 1923-12-23 | When gangster Jimmy Donovan is made guardian of Midge, the 7-year-old brother of his friend Big Ben Murray, he decides to reform and rear Midge proper… |
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 | | 1933-12-01 | Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots…. |
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Galas de la Paramount | (from original version) | 1930-07-31 | Spanish-language version of PARAMOUNT ON PARADE (q.v.), with new sequences of interest to Spanish-speaking audiences mixed with original- version sequ… |
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His Children’s Children | Minor Role (uncredited) | 1923-11-04 | Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch reminisces about his rough beginnings in post-Civil … |
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Alice in Wonderland | Tweedledum | 1933-12-18 | In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland populated by even more fantastic characters…. |
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Make Me a Star | Himself (uncredited) | 1932-07-01 | A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent…. |
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Take It or Leave It | Himself | 1944-07-17 | A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife’s doctor…. |
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Bing Crosby: Rediscovered | | 2014-12-02 | Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first half of the twentieth century, pulling audiences in w… |
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Breakdowns of 1942 | Self | 1942-01-01 | This is a collection of bloopers and film manipulation by The Warner Studio Club for an annual dinner for the staff at Warner Brothers…. |
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The Stolen Jools | Jack Oakie | 1931-04-04 | Famous actress Norma Shearer’s jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuber… |
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Around the World in Eighty Days | SS Henrietta Captain | 1956-10-17 | Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve… |
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Hollywood My Home Town | | 1965-12-31 | Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood…. |
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