Frank Whitbeck
Birthday: 1882-07-17
Place of Birth: Rochester, New York, USA
Biography: Frank Whitbeck was the longtime chief of publicity/exploitation at MGM. He also narrated several hundred theatrical trailers for MGM features.
Movies
Eyes of the Navy
Produced by MGM in cooperation with the U.S. Navy, this short film follows U.S. naval aviators throu...
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The Grand Bounce
A man writes a check for $1,000 to cover a gambling debt. The problem is that he doesn't have enough...
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The Old South
This short film chronicles the importance of cotton to the economy and culture of America's Old Sout...
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Babes in Arms
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his gir...
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Arsène Lupin Returns
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle i...
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Northward, Ho!
Behind-the-scenes promotional featurette to publicize the epic outdoor adventure Northwest Passage f...
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Edison, the Man
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story star...
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Young Tom Edison
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and sci...
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The Mortal Storm
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. Aft...
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The City of Little Men
The story of Boys Town, founded by Father Edward Flanagan in 1917 as a haven for wayward, homeless, ...
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Twenty Years After
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...
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We Must Have Music
A short history of movie music is presented, from silent films accompanied by a single piano, to the...
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Another Romance of Celluloid: Electrical Power
This short begins at Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam). The electricity generated here by the Colorado Ri...
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Hollywood: Style Center of the World
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It ...
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The Romance of Celluloid
Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the m...
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind th...
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Hollywood Goes to Town
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film c...
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The Horse with the Human Mind
This short film focuses on Bess, considered to be the smartest horse in the movies, as she works wit...
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Presenting Lily Mars
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role bu...
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Fingers at the Window
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparen...
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Another Romance of Celluloid
This second entry in MGM's "Romance of Film" series documents how celluloid movie film is processed ...
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You Can't Fool a Camera
This short starts out as a documentary. In a dramatization, Eadward Muybridge's photographic experim...
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The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention
This short film chronicles various events associated with MGM's 1937 convention for the studio's nat...
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Personalities
In this "Romance of Celluloid", MGM showcases performers whose careers are just starting. Excerpts f...
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The Ice Follies of 1939
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a...
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Lest We Forget
MGM hosts a salute to Will Rogers (1875-1935) shortly after his death. After a few words from Gary C...
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America, Preferred
Short documentary pitching sales of U.S. Defense Bonds and Savings Stamps....
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