Jack Oakie
Birthday: 1903-11-12
Place of Birth: Sedalia, Missouri, USA
Biography: Jack Oakie (November 12, 1903 – January 23, 1978) was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television.
Movies
The Great Dictator
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...
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Fast Company
Egomaniacal baseball slugger Elmer Kane is not only good, he enjoys telling everybody how good he is...
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It Happened Tomorrow
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings...
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Thieves' Highway
Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfr...
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Finders Keepers
Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress....
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The Wonderful Country
Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady t...
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-1
In the first entry of this series, the show open with a troupe of dancing chorus girls getting a sal...
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Alice in Wonderland
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderla...
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Lover Come Back
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike e...
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Wintertime
Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After No...
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The Dummy
The title character is office-boy Barney. Pretending to be a deaf-mute, Barney tries to trump his de...
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Tomahawk
In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and...
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Hitler: The Comedy Years
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture....
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The Wild Party
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, S...
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Rise and Shine
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football ...
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The Toast of New York
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, a...
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The Texas Rangers
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to ...
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Murder at the Vanities
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vaniti...
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The Eagle and the Hawk
The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in...
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That's the Spirit
A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated ...
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Young People
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are un...
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Hitting a New High
A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her M...
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Once in a Lifetime
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies....
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If I Had a Million
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight st...
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The Rat Race
An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer,...
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The Affairs of Annabel
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve ...
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The Man I Love
Wellman’s first all-talkie, scripted by Herman Mankiewicz, with arrogant boxer Richard Arlen romanc...
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Street Girl
A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love...
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Something to Shout About
A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway...
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Colleen
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees...
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Looking for Trouble
Joe and Casey trouble-shoot for the phone company. They try to prove that Joes's girl Ethel's boss D...
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Million Dollar Legs
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a ...
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Uptown New York
Jack Oakie plays Eddie Doyle, a gumball machine salesman who marries Pat Smith (Shirley Grey) knowin...
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Call of the Wild
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold f...
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Sweet and Low-Down
After their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are pac...
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Road House
Larry Grayson, jazz age son of permissive parents, drifts from wild parties with his classmates to m...
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Super-Sleuth
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-li...
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Let's Go Native
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Bro...
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When My Baby Smiles at Me
Bonny Kane and 'Skid' Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital...
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From Hell to Heaven
The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby ...
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College Humor
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coe...
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Sitting Pretty
Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame ...
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The Big Broadcast of 1936
Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of ban...
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Last of the Buccaneers
Swashbuckler about the adventures of pirate Jean Lafitte after he helped save New Orleans from a Bri...
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Shoot the Works
The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even ...
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Navy Blues
On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will ...
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Big Brother
When gangster Jimmy Donovan is made guardian of Midge, the 7-year-old brother of his friend Big Ben ...
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The Merry Monahans
The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love a...
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That Girl from Paris
Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her j...
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King of Burlesque
Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway...
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Radio City Revels
A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly ...
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Fight for Your Lady
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich...
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Dancers in the Dark
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, t...
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Thanks for Everything
Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and ...
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Too Much Harmony
A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."...
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Sea Legs
Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fle...
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The Sap from Syracuse
Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a pro...
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Annabel Takes a Tour
Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival ge...
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Madison Square Garden
Eddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his characte...
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Song of the Islands
With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on beha...
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The Social Lion
Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country...
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Close Harmony
Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes interested in...
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The Great American Broadcast
After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goe...
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Northwest Stampede
In this romantic western, the real stars are a mustang and a police dog. The human aspect of the sto...
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Chinatown Nights
Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Ch...
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots....
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Dude Ranch
Chester Carr, owner of a dude ranch in the Rockies, caters to guests seeking the thrill of the Wild ...
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Florida Special
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue when one of the passengers disappears whil...
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Kilroy
Just discharged from the Marine Corps, Oscar Kilroy arrives in the small town of Wilton Junction. Be...
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Little Men
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tou...
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Hello, Frisco, Hello
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk ...
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Sweetie
Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabota...
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College Rhythm
The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the foo...
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Tin Pan Alley
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to Engla...
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Bowery to Broadway
Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly ...
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Champagne Waltz
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its ...
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The Stolen Jools
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to ra...
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Polo with the Stars
A short in the WB Hollywood Novelty series (production number 7301) about the training of polo ponie...
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Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
Several members of MGM's 'galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show....
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Paramount on Parade
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, cre...
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Around the World in 80 Days
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the wor...
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Sky Bride
Barnstorming pilots Speed Condon, Bill Adams, and Eddie Smith travel the country with their manager,...
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She Wrote the Book
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to ...
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The Fleet's In
A girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what it i...
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Iceland
Marine James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina her Icelandic famil...
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Collegiate
A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show....
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Take It or Leave It
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant...
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His Children's Children
Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch re...
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Hollywood Rhythm
This short plugs the new tunes written by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel for the movie "College Rhythm"...
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The Gang Buster
Naïve insurance agent 'Cyclone' Case falls in love with Sylvia Martine, whose father has a dispute w...
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Sailor Be Good
A Navy boxer (Jack Oakie) meets a dance-hall hostess (Vivienne Osborne) who tries to sober him up fo...
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Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first hal...
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Touchdown!
Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs....
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The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
In this visual essay, Charles Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance, author of "Chaplin: Genius of the Ci...
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Breakdowns of 1942
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942....
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Make Me a Star
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. ...
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Someone to Love
A poor but honest sheet-music salesman is parted from his wealthy fiancée when she comes to believe ...
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One to One: John & Yoko
An exploration of the seminal and transformative 18 months that one of music’s most famous couples —...
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