Harry Semels
Birthday: 1887-11-20
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Harry Semels (November 20, 1887 – March 2, 1946) was an American film actor. He appeared in over 315 film between 1917 and 1946. Semels appeared in his first film in 1917. He began to achieve fame after arriving at Columbia Pictures, appearing in several Three Stooges shorts including Disorder in the Court, Wee Wee Monsieur and Three Little Sew and Sews. He also appeared in feature films like Road to Morocco, The Princess and the Pirate and The Kid from Brooklyn. A versatile character actor, Semels often appeared as villains, waiters, soldiers, lawyers, et al.
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Disorder in the Court
The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend Gail Tempest, who dances at the Black...
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Twentieth Century
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she prov...
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The Crackerjack
A pickle salesman finds himself in the middle of a South American revolution, impersonating a rebel ...
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Into the Net
Madge Clayton, a society girl, mysteriously disappears. The police suspect a master criminal is behi...
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King of the Wild Horses
Columbia's King of the Wild Horses is a remake of the silent Hal Roach western feature of the same n...
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The Revenge Rider
Cowboy Tim McCoy becomes an instrument of revenge when he discovers his parents have been killed....
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The Girl of the Golden West
A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer....
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Here Comes the Bride
A young man with little means wants to marry a rich girl, and thinks up a scheme to get rich....
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Movie Maniacs
The boys are stowaways on a train box-car filled with furniture bound for Hollywood where they hope ...
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Elmer, the Great
Baseball star Elmer Kane leaves the little town of Gentryville, Indiana, to join the Chicago Cubs, w...
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Rocky Rhodes
Rocky Rhodes returns to find his father dead and his best friend Joe accused of the murder. The culp...
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Can't Help Singing
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young arm...
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Safe in Hell
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the wo...
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General Nuisance
A millionaire falls for an army nurse, who tells him she likes men in uniform. So he enlists at Camp...
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Broadway Bill
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daugh...
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I Love a Mystery
In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk...
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Damaged Lives
An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease....
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Hawk of the Hills
Hawk of the Hills (1927), a ten episode serial, re-edited into a five-reel feature length version re...
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Riding High
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the b...
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Kid Galahad
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid...
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Big News
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he did...
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Three Little Sew and Sews
The stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they can't get passes to go ashore, th...
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I'll Name the Murderer
Gossip columnist Tommy Tilton, who excels in slinging nonsense about, is not a timid bluffer when it...
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Young Blood
A reformed gunfighter battles a crooked sheriff who used to be a member of his gang....
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King of the Turf
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of on...
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The Phantom Foe
Janet Dale feels that there is a danger looming over her home but cannot put her finger on what it i...
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Dizzy Pilots
The Three Stooges, as the Wrong Brothers, aid the war effort by inventing a new plane in this below-...
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The Black Secret
Adventures of an American Secret Service-girl in search of an important German secret during the war...
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New News
Aa Columbia 2-reel comedy starring Tom Kennedy and Monty Collins in NEW NEWS (1937). Fans of the 3 S...
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Swing It Professor
A music professor is fired from his job for not knowing enough about modern "swing" music. He goes t...
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More Than a Secretary
When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through s...
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South of the Rio Grande
Sergeant Carlos Olivarez (Buck Jones) becomes entangled in the machinations of an oil baron, havoc-w...
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Drum Taps
Skinner and his gang are grabbing land from the ranchers. When they go after Kerry's ranch Ken stops...
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I Don't Remember
Amnesiac can't find the other half of his winning sweepstakes ticket....
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The Royal Rider
Dick Scott takes his Wild West show to the Balkan kingdom of Alvania where the boy king of the coun...
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Sin's Pay Day
A woman married to a defense lawyer leaves him when he refuses to stop defending criminals she belie...
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Weary River
A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the ...
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The Delightful Rogue
A modern-day pirate vies with a society playboy for the love of a dancer....
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Command Performance
Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter...
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi...
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My Dear Miss Aldrich
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters....
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Wells Fargo
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, wil...
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Midnight Taxi
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeit...
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I'll Give a Million
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that...
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Hollywood Round-Up
While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star ...
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A Very Honorable Guy
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacterist...
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I Am Suzanne!
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The...
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secret...
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Storm at Daybreak
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of...
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Overland Mail
Overland mail riders Jack Mason and his pal, Porchy, learn that an Indian uprising is imminent becau...
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Hell's Angels
When the Great War breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford University, en...
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Star Reporter
An idealistic young newspaper reporter crusades against organized crime....
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Midnight
An unemployed American showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian high society....
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Thunder Afloat
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I....
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Sally of the Subway
Con artists use a member of a European royal family to swindle a major jewelry company....
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Vanity Street
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get he...
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Ninotchka
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who repres...
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Balalaika
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activiti...
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It Happened One Night
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up s...
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Night Beat
A young couple finds themselves mixed up with mobsters planning to rob a warehouse....
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Stone of Silver Creek
In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough ...
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Eve Knew Her Apples
Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager an...
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Captain Thunder
A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner B...
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Missing Witnesses
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City....
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The Yellow Ticket
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British ...
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The Great Dictator
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...
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American Madness
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbi...
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You Can't Take It with You
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony K...
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Riley the Cop
In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a y...
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Kit Carson
Frontiersman Kit Carson fights off Indian attacks on the trail to California....
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This Is the Night
When Stephen, the husband of Gerald’s mistress, Claire, discovers a pair of tickets for their planne...
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North West Mounted Police
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) trave...
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I Sell Anything
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?...
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Plunder
Various groups of people, both well-intentioned and otherwise, search for a buried treasure that is ...
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Foreign Correspondent
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the i...
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Strange Cargo
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure....
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Little Nellie Kelly
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and matern...
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Seven Sinners
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale ...
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They Drive by Night
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck b...
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Phantom Raiders
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Lle...
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He Stayed for Breakfast
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker ...
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He Stayed for Breakfast
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker ...
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Bombay Mail
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and B...
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The Wedding Night
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett develops ro...
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Midnight Blunders
The evil Dr. Wong abducts prominent scientist Dr. Edwin Millstone. Bumbling bank guards Tom and Mont...
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Down to Their Last Yacht
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sai...
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Give Us This Night
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout...
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend....
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A Lady Takes a Chance
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her ci...
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Texas Buddies
Kincade and Blake cause a mail plane carrying a payroll to make a forced landing in the desert. When...
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The Gay Desperado
Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (...
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The Soldier and the Lady
In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles awa...
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Suicide Fleet
Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who wo...
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Human Cargo
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end...
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Woman of the Year
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relation...
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Slightly Dangerous
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a ne...
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Beware of Blondes
Jeffrey (Matt More), a jewelry store clerk prevents a robbery and, as a reward, given a vacation in ...
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The House Without a Key
A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not...
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The Last Command
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie...
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Hurricane Hutch
Story concerns a paper mill, a mortgage and the struggle to obtain the lost formula for making paper...
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After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend....
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Hot Water
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous new...
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Torch Singer
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and...
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfacti...
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Make Your Own Bed
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires ...
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Strange Affair
Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet h...
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Baby Face
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins t...
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Road to Morocco
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the lus...
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Road to Utopia
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had bee...
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Badman's Territory
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a...
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Rogues and Romance
Sylvia Lee, a young American in Spain, is torn between her attraction to dashing revolutionary Pedro...
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A Fallen Idol
The Hawaiian Princess Laone's love for Keith Parrish is thwarted by social pressure. After being per...
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A Thousand and One Nights
On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, w...
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One Rainy Afternoon
Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young...
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The Hard Way
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small ...
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Our Daily Bread
John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bra...
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The Diary of a Chambermaid
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use ...
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Marie Antoinette
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, ...
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The Chance of a Lifetime
A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wart...
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Reunion in France
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed ...
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Virgin Lips
In a banana republic, way south of the Texas border, a dumb-Dora American girl, Norma (Olive Borden)...
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Dishonored
The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians....
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The Case of the Velvet Claws
Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, b...
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Les Misérables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
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The American Way
English hellraiser Richard Farrington is sent by his wealthy titled parents for a visit to his aunt ...
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The Luckiest Girl in the World
A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being mar...
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Platinum Blonde
Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her hig...
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Mills of the Gods
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her ir...
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Anthony Adverse
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymou...
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Hold Your Man
Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidenta...
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Dance, Fools, Dance
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling a...
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Two Yanks in Trinidad
The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy),...
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Virtue
A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York street girl and a good-hearted cab driver...
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The Last Train from Madrid
The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War....
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The Desert Bride
Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists w...
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A Slight Case of Murder
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law...
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The Bowery
"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had g...
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The Yellow Cameo
The Yellow Cameo is a 1928 American adventure film serial directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet....
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The Harvey Girls
On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young wo...
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Bound and Gagged
Our hero's fiancée, who has broken off their engagement, agrees to make a trip around the world, sta...
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Play Ball
The story of this 10 episode serial deals with the love affair between Doris Sutton, daughter of a m...
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The Demon
A band of marauders are burning the property of ranchers in Slocum Valley. Dane Gordon, Percival Wad...
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The Lion and the Lamb
Directed by George B. Seitz. With Walter Byron, Carmel Myers, Raymond Hatton, Montagu Love....
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The Isle of Forgotten Women
Directed by George B. Seitz. With Conway Tearle, Dorothy Sebastian, Gibson Gowland, Alice Calhoun....
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