Henry O'Neill
Birthday: 1891-08-09
Place of Birth: Orange, New Jersey, USA
Biography: Henry O'Neill (1891–1961) was an American film actor known for playing gray-haired fathers, lawyers, and similarly roles during the 1930s and 1940s. O'Neill began his acting career on the stage, after dropping out of college to join a traveling theatre company. He served in the military in World War I, then returned to the stage. In the early 1930s he began appearing in films, including The Big Shakedown, Santa Fe Trail, Anchors Aweigh, The Green Years, and The Reckless Moment. His last film was The Wings of Eagles. Henry O'Neill died in 1961 at the age of 69.
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Santa Fe Trail
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, G...
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Jezebel
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who car...
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Holiday Affair
Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, ...
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Nothing But Trouble
Two bumbling servants are hired by a dizzy society matron to cook and serve a meal for visiting roya...
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The Heavenly Body
The beautiful wife of a tweedy astronomer becomes convinced that her astrologer's prediction of a ne...
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Castle on the Hudson
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden....
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Scandal Sheet
A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself....
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The Walking Dead
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to d...
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Alias Nick Beal
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul...
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Bullets or Ballots
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly...
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The Reckless Moment
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measure...
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No Man of Her Own
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash....
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Girl Crazy
Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his ...
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Johnny Eager
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love....
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Strange Bargain
Bookkeeper Sam Wilson learns from his boss, Malcolm Jarvis, that he is losing his job because the co...
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The People Against O'Hara
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client....
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Shadow of the Thin Man
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigatin...
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Midnight
Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter S...
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The Florentine Dagger
A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect....
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A Guy Named Joe
A cocky U.S. Army Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female...
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Thousands Cheer
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the ...
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Knute Rockne All American
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne....
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Lady Killer
An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Ho...
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The Second Woman
In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coa...
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Air Raid Wardens
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs ...
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The Wings of Eagles
The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter....
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming o...
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Untamed
When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those le...
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Dodge City
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a r...
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The Human Comedy
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family ...
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Two Girls and a Sailor
A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous s...
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Special Agent
A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster'...
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You're My Everything
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him...
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The Key
A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man....
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Fashions of 1934
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Sna...
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Whistling in the Dark
Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenou...
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The Man with Two Faces
Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Va...
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Whistling in Brooklyn
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himsel...
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The Story of Louis Pasteur
A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused...
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Blossoms in the Dust
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very y...
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Flirtation Walk
A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a...
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Black Fury
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and manage...
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The Beginning or the End
The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hirosh...
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Racket Busters
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket....
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The Great O'Malley
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly a...
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Juarez
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment f...
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Honky Tonk
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his...
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The Big Shakedown
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate kn...
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Tortilla Flat
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is...
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syph...
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This Time for Keeps
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult....
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The Bugle Sounds
An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post....
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White Cargo
In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival ...
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The House on 56th Street
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a d...
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The Green Years
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a...
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Two Against the World
Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to...
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The Sun Shines Bright
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involve...
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I Loved a Woman
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as...
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Men of Boys Town
Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school....
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Angels Wash Their Faces
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending ...
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First Lady
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President....
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Dangerous Partners
A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring....
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Billy the Kid
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and ...
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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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Bedside
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses...
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The Personality Kid
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success....
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Brother Rat
Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married an...
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Wonder Bar
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, t...
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The Case of the Lucky Legs
A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with...
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'Til We Meet Again
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to Ame...
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The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
A writer discovers he's being used as a pawn by greedy businessmen....
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Now I'll Tell
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love ...
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Submarine D-1
Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock ...
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Lost Angel
Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest sto...
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Sweet Music
A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in ...
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chine...
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Boulder Dam
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on th...
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Stranded
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters....
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Midnight Alibi
An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his gir...
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The Great Hotel Murder
Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder b...
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Lucky Night
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, ...
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From Headquarters
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of ...
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The World Changes
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen...
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Massacre
Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reserva...
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The Return of October
A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Wi...
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Road Gang
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a ...
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Living on Velvet
A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege t...
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Dr. Socrates
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed d...
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The Flying Missile
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines....
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Money and the Woman
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him....
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Dinky
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a priso...
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Scarlet Angel
After robbing a sea captain in New Orleans, a beautiful saloon girl flees and assumes a dead woman's...
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The Family Secret
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murde...
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Madame du Barry
Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon, former street waif Madame du Barry ch...
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I've Got Your Number
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes....
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Sons of Liberty
Set during the American Revolution, this colorful 2 reel short tells the story of Haym Salomon, Amer...
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Bordertown
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss....
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White Banners
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana to...
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We're in the Money
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, b...
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Anchors Aweigh
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affai...
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The Virginian
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve a...
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Gold Is Where You Find It
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a ...
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Upperworld
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably un...
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A Child Is Born
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward....
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Leather Gloves
A fallen prizefighter must choose between two women from vastly different walks of life....
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Barbary Coast Gent
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and ...
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Born to Sing
A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real compos...
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Twenty Million Sweethearts
Unscrupulous agent Rush Blake makes singing waiter Buddy Clayton a big radio star while Peggy Cornel...
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The Man Who Dared
An elderly grandfather proves to be heroic when he takes a stand against local city corruption....
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The Fighting 69th
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the ...
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Fog Over Frisco
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of ...
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Draegerman Courage
After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners....
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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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Personal Maid's Secret
A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised...
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Gentlemen Are Born
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the ...
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Oil for the Lamps of China
An American oil company representative risks sacrificing his marriage for his career in the rural la...
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The Big Noise
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for hi...
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Calling Philo Vance
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to...
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The White Angel
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurs...
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Four Wives
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she fa...
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund....
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Journal of a Crime
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime....
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Wings of the Navy
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on...
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While the Patient Slept
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill fami...
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The Singing Marine
Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they p...
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Best Foot Forward
Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to ...
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Service with the Colors
Service with the Colors is a 1940 American short drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason. This drama ...
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Rainbow on the River
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in...
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
Mary Dugan is a young woman accused of murdering her billionaire lover. In the process, his defense ...
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The Golden Arrow
A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys....
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The Secret Bride
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can ann...
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Freshman Love
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like ...
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The Hoodlum Saint
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's m...
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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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The Life of Emile Zola
A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair...
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Bright Lights
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head....
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Down in San Diego
A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego,...
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A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio
This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bro...
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Little Mister Jim
After his mother's death, a young boy tries to help his father stop drinking....
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This Man's Navy
During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New J...
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For God and Country
The story of the U.S. Army Chaplain Service as dramatized in the stories of three chaplains, Father ...
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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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Green Light
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's ...
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Big Hearted Herbert
After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws...
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Murder in the Clouds
Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver ...
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Yellow Jack
A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed's search for the cause of "Yellow Jack" or Yello...
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Stand by for Action
U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about ...
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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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The Kennel Murder Case
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder o...
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The Chaser
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him,...
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Main Street Today
This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional smal...
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challe...
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The Right Way
A young boy whose father is dead joins a secret society that, unknown to him, has subversive motives...
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Keep Your Powder Dry
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps....
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Invisible Stripes
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison....
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