Alphonse Martell
Birthday: 1890-03-27
Place of Birth: Straßburg, Alsace, Germany [now Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France]
Biography: Alphonse Martell (born March 27, 1890 in Strasbourg, German Empire, died March 18, 1976 in San Diego, California, United States) was a screen and television actor. Martell performed many French roles in American cinema and directed a film, Gigolettes of Paris. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alphonse Martell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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One Night of Love
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, ...
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Artists & Models
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign....
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Dodsworth
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that the...
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The Prairie Wife
While in Europe, Chaddie Green, a society girl, discovers that she has been left penniless. She retu...
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The Love Thief
To avert war between their countries an official marriage is arranged between Crown Prince Boris of ...
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Naughty Nanette
The Jazz Age rages in this comedy film starring Viola Dana as the madcap title character madly dashi...
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The Mask of Dimitrios
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead bo...
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Phantom of the Opera
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed i...
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The Divine Sinner
Lillia is a small town girl who gets involved with the wrong crowd in Paris. Arrested by police pref...
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Zamba
Jenny and her six-year-old son, Tommy, are flying over the Belgian Congo when they are forced to bai...
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My Sister Eileen
Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune...
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The Catman of Paris
When author Charles Regnier returns to Paris with a best-selling book that criticizes the government...
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Alias Mary Dow
A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before....
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Letter of Introduction
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter show...
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Confession
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is reveal...
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia....
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Love Before Breakfast
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for K...
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Can-Can
A Parisian nightclub owner known for her performances of the can-can attracts the ire of a self-righ...
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The Match King
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden....
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Enter Arsène Lupin
A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it,...
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The Strings of Steel
The Strings of Steel is a silent Action serial. Episode titles: 1. The Voice on the Wire 2. The Firs...
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Fort Ti
Set in the 18th century, the film recounts the exploits of Rogers' Rangers, a band of adventurers de...
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Seventh Heaven
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the ...
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Doctor Rhythm
Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazin...
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Judge Hardy's Children
Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambass...
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Maid in Hollywood
Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy a...
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Bathing Beauty
After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal l...
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Soup and Fish
At a ritzy beauty salon, while a mud pack is on her face, a wealthy socialite invites Thelma and Pat...
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Dream of Love
A duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a countess, t...
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the dis...
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Phffft
Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into ...
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God's Gift to Women
A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor th...
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The Cowboy and the Bandit
Bill travels to a new state after the outlaw Scarface saves him from a lynch mob. There he takes a j...
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We Have Our Moments
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen ...
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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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They Gave Him a Gun
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use....
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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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City in Darkness
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the mu...
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Give Me Your Heart
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman....
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I'll Take Romance
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace M...
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Broadway Hostess
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer....
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Colleen
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees...
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Beg, Borrow or Steal
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of...
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Gold Diggers in Paris
When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite th...
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The Mystery of Marie Roget
A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress....
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Stronger Than Desire
An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing....
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The Three Musketeers
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on...
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until ...
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Another Thin Man
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a ...
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Man About Town
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't t...
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Miracles for Sale
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered....
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Gilda
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss....
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Confidential
A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicat...
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A New Kind of Love
A down-and-out reporter and a fashion designer fall in love in Paris....
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the s...
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Rebecca
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the ...
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Broadway Melody of 1940
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as...
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Libeled Lady
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she f...
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and ...
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The Princess Comes Across
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds...
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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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Hired Wife
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his ...
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Arise, My Love
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World Wa...
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A Dispatch from Reuters
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news age...
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts ...
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I Was an Adventuress
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two ac...
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Let's Do It Again
Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alle...
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Pilgrimage
A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she ...
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Sweethearts and Wives
An aristocrat tries to prevent her sister's divorce by attempting to recover a diamond necklace, whi...
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The Girl from Scotland Yard
A female agent tacks down the cause of mysterious explosions....
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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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Satan Met a Lady
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress...
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Shall We Dance
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical sta...
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The Gigolo Racket
As a publicity stunt, a musical comedy star announces her engagement to a young man she believes is ...
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Seven Thieves
A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull of...
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Suez
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and...
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The Jitters
When his wife dances with the dancing instructor, Errol gets jealous and decides to take dancing les...
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Scarlet Youth
A country girl is seduced by a criminal and moves with him to the big city. When she sees him with a...
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Private Lives
Amanda and Elyot are one another's former spouse. Elyot is remarried to Sibyl and Amanda married Vic...
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Coney Island
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at f...
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A Woman of Affairs
Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Nevill...
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A Woman's Secret
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at...
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Honeymoon Lodge
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol ...
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The Widow from Monte Carlo
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befrien...
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Tovarich
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they...
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Only Yesterday
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a...
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Paris Playboys
Sach is the exact double of a famous French scientist who has invented a powerful rocket fuel. Enemy...
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One More River
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship....
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Club Havana
A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fas...
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Marked Woman
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangste...
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Noah's Ark
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World...
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The Bride Wore Red
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor....
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The Man Who Understood Women
A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems....
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Dick Tracy
Detective Tracy rescues Tess Trueheart and Junior from a killer called Splitface....
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Sin Takes a Holiday
Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to...
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Cocktail Hour
Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebel...
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The Notorious Sophie Lang
After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--...
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Let's Live Tonight
Nick Kerry (Tullio Carminati) is a rich rounder who holds tremendous fascination over women......mai...
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Scared Stiff
A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who ...
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The Fan
Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband. The ...
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A Fighting Heart
Jack Melford, the prize hurdler at a small college, wins a big race and learns immediately afterward...
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The Countess of Monte Cristo
A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to ...
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The Casino Murder Case
After socialite Lynn Llewellyn receives an anonymous threat, he is poisoned at his uncle's casino, a...
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The Mystery Club
The Mystery Club, an organization of millionaires, draws up an agreement at the instigation of Crana...
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