Sam McDaniel

Sam McDaniel

Birthday: 1886-01-28

Place of Birth: Wichita, Kansas, USA

Biography: Sam McDaniel was an American screen and television actor, as well as a jazz musician. He was the brother of actresses Hattie and Etta McDaniel.

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Four's a Crowd
Four's a Crowd

A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter....

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Blondie Johnson
Blondie Johnson

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to c...

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Stormy
Stormy

A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck....

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Three Loves Has Nancy
Three Loves Has Nancy

A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically invo...

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The Vanishing Frontier
The Vanishing Frontier

Its 1850 and California is under ruthless military rule. Kirby Tornell's rancho has been taken over ...

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Flamingo Road
Flamingo Road

A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town societ...

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Unwelcome Stranger
Unwelcome Stranger

Horse-breeder Howard Chamberlain has many superstitious quirks but his primary one is that he believ...

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Lady Killer
Lady Killer

An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Ho...

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Polo Joe
Polo Joe

A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he ...

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All Through the Night
All Through the Night

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship....

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Employees' Entrance
Employees' Entrance

Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thin...

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The Traitor Within
The Traitor Within

In this drama, a truck driver begins wooing a young woman who still lives with her father who consta...

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Without Reservations
Without Reservations

Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train...

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Johnny Trouble
Johnny Trouble

An elderly woman becomes convinced that a trouble-making college student is her grandson she's never...

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Experiment Perilous
Experiment Perilous

In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him tha...

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Ice Palace
Ice Palace

Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountai...

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Fashions of 1934
Fashions of 1934

When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Sna...

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Bargain with Bullets
Bargain with Bullets

A gangster film about the Harlem underworld....

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The Ghost and the Guest
The Ghost and the Guest

Newlyweds Webster and Jackie Frye spend their honeymoon in a sinister old country house. Before long...

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Gangway for Tomorrow
Gangway for Tomorrow

Five defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from the Fr...

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Exclusive Story
Exclusive Story

A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster be...

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She Wouldn't Say Yes
She Wouldn't Say Yes

Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her prac...

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Heavenly Daze
Heavenly Daze

Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invi...

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Danger – Love at Work
Danger – Love at Work

A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina...

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Hearts Divided
Hearts Divided

Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young w...

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Stablemates
Stablemates

A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down...

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Lady on a Train
Lady on a Train

While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When sh...

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Give My Regards to Broadway
Give My Regards to Broadway

A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Mu...

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A Hole in the Head
A Hole in the Head

An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son....

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We're in the Money
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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Dark Hazard
Dark Hazard

Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling c...

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Manhattan Melodrama
Manhattan Melodrama

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and...

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They Made Me a Criminal
They Made Me a Criminal

A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk....

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Party Girl
Party Girl

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he mee...

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Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity

A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on he...

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It Happened in Hollywood
It Happened in Hollywood

A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound....

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Whistling in the Dark
Whistling in the Dark

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist the...

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Dark Manhattan
Dark Manhattan

A low-level gangster determines to let nothing stand in the way of his gaining control of the number...

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Woman Wanted
Woman Wanted

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into anoth...

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36 Hours to Kill
36 Hours to Kill

Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a...

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Going Hollywood
Going Hollywood

The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. ...

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A Man Called Peter
A Man Called Peter

Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but...

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Calling All Husbands
Calling All Husbands

A henpecked husband and his bossy wife are due for a surprise when the wife's former boyfriend unexp...

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Let Us Live
Let Us Live

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentence...

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Union Pacific
Union Pacific

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad acro...

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Good Girls Go to Paris
Good Girls Go to Paris

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor ...

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Chicken Wagon Family
Chicken Wagon Family

Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam...

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Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Broadway Thru a Keyhole

Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night ...

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Days of Jesse James
Days of Jesse James

Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank ro...

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Son of Dracula
Son of Dracula

Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local official...

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Pride of the Blue Grass
Pride of the Blue Grass

A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion....

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Kid Millions
Kid Millions

A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has ...

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Race Street
Race Street

A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend....

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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his ...

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3 Men in White
3 Men in White

Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves ...

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Dixie Dugan
Dixie Dugan

Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dol...

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Without Reservations
Without Reservations

Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train...

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My Reputation
My Reputation

Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems...

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The Great Lie
The Great Lie

After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his af...

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Brother Orchid
Brother Orchid

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, h...

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Everybody's Baby
Everybody's Baby

The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture o...

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Captains Courageous
Captains Courageous

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transat...

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Rough Necking
Rough Necking

The Blondes and Redheads series, June's father forbids her to see her boyfriend, so she sneaks him i...

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Two Hearts in Wax Time
Two Hearts in Wax Time

In this MGM Colortone Musical short, a department store custodian who overindulges in drink sees the...

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Virginia City
Virginia City

Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in ...

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I Was Framed
I Was Framed

A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later....

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Lady Tubbs
Lady Tubbs

A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and bar...

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Guilty Hands
Guilty Hands

A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and th...

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Gambling Ship
Gambling Ship

A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage....

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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he i...

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Jezebel
Jezebel

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who car...

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College Coach
College Coach

Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along th...

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Too Many Husbands
Too Many Husbands

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for ju...

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Brown Gravy
Brown Gravy

A musical short starring Sam McDaniel and Spencer Williams....

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Rhythm on the Range
Rhythm on the Range

Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as...

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Sing, Baby, Sing
Sing, Baby, Sing

The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed i...

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Never Say Goodbye
Never Say Goodbye

Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very un...

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I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 2...

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The Chief
The Chief

The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to be...

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Silver Queen
Silver Queen

A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and h...

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Am I Guilty?
Am I Guilty?

A young black doctor sets out to establish a free clinic in Harlem....

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Bad Men of Missouri
Bad Men of Missouri

The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of Wi...

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They Died with Their Boots On
They Died with Their Boots On

The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death...

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South of Panama
South of Panama

Secret agent Roger Pryor is dispatched below the border to protect an important scientific formula. ...

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Walking Down Broadway
Walking Down Broadway

Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway prod...

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Golden Hoofs
Golden Hoofs

A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sol...

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The Rich Are Always with Us
The Rich Are Always with Us

A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has...

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Contented Calves
Contented Calves

An add campaign for stockings embarrasses the girls....

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Johnny Doughboy
Johnny Doughboy

As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, loo...

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Mokey
Mokey

A newlywed tries to deal with her troubled stepchild....

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Sweepstakes Winner
Sweepstakes Winner

A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes tick...

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The All-American
The All-American

The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player....

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Stranded
Stranded

A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters....

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Gold Diggers of 1935
Gold Diggers of 1935

Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a ...

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The Egg and I
The Egg and I

World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and movin...

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Marriage Is a Private Affair
Marriage Is a Private Affair

Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been marr...

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The Public Enemy
The Public Enemy

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life...

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A Free Soul
A Free Soul

An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when hi...

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After Midnight with Boston Blackie
After Midnight with Boston Blackie

Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend....

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Grand Slam
Grand Slam

A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winn...

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New York Town
New York Town

Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City s...

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Joe Palooka, Champ
Joe Palooka, Champ

After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits...

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Grand Central Murder
Grand Central Murder

Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Ce...

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Wagon Wheels
Wagon Wheels

A wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy Clint B...

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The Human Side
The Human Side

The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children....

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Only Yesterday
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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Operator 13
Operator 13

American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of...

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The Calling of Dan Matthews
The Calling of Dan Matthews

Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the d...

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The Naughty Nineties
The Naughty Nineties

In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act...

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International Lady
International Lady

Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reg...

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Broadway Limited
Broadway Limited

A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wan...

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The File on Thelma Jordon
The File on Thelma Jordon

Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a t...

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Footlight Parade
Footlight Parade

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when ...

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In This Our Life
In This Our Life

An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the l...

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Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Purchase

A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese b...

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Sleepers West
Sleepers West

Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witn...

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Gentleman Joe Palooka
Gentleman Joe Palooka

In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming t...

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When Strangers Marry
When Strangers Marry

A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a m...

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Movie Crazy
Movie Crazy

After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and go...

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Union Depot
Union Depot

Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metr...

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Heart of Virginia
Heart of Virginia

Jimmy Easter is a jockey who gets shook up when he is responsible for the death of a fellow rider du...

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Sergeant Murphy
Sergeant Murphy

An Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter....

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Belle of the Nineties
Belle of the Nineties

Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular...

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The Dragon Murder Case
The Dragon Murder Case

Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides t...

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Secret Service Investigator
Secret Service Investigator

Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing g...

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Charlie Chan's Courage
Charlie Chan's Courage

Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes h...

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Here Comes the Navy
Here Comes the Navy

A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism....

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Crack-Up
Crack-Up

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or th...

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Hold Your Man
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
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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High Barbaree
High Barbaree

After his plane is downed in the South Pacific, a Navy flier recounts his life to a co-pilot while a...

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Virginia
Virginia

Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMur...

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Tall in the Saddle
Tall in the Saddle

When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been...

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