Charles Halton

Charles Halton

Birthday: 1876-03-16

Place of Birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Biography: Charles Halton was an American stage, screen, and television character actor.

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To Be or Not to Be
To Be or Not to Be

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...

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Dr. Cyclops
Dr. Cyclops

Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich sour...

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The Shop Around the Corner
The Shop Around the Corner

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling i...

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Bluebeard's 8th Wife
Bluebeard's 8th Wife

American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke ...

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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if...

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My Sister Eileen
My Sister Eileen

Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. ...

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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a wor...

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3 Godfathers
3 Godfathers

Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safe...

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Stranger on the Third Floor
Stranger on the Third Floor

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has s...

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Mama Loves Papa
Mama Loves Papa

A loose remake of the 1935 comedy of the same name. Thanks to the efforts of his social-climbing wif...

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The Westerner
The Westerner

Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bea...

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Whispering Footsteps
Whispering Footsteps

An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer....

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The Saint in New York
The Saint in New York

A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fi...

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Saboteur
Saboteur

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of sta...

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Across the Pacific
Across the Pacific

Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-mart...

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Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a...

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The Ghost Goes Wild
The Ghost Goes Wild

Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disgu...

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Hideout
Hideout

Philip Ford's crime thriller stars Lloyd Bridges as a city attorney who comes to the dawning realiza...

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The Smiling Ghost
The Smiling Ghost

Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hir...

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The Nevadan
The Nevadan

A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher....

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Unholy Partners
Unholy Partners

A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner....

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Million Dollar Baby
Million Dollar Baby

A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression....

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Young People
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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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
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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Whispering Ghosts
Whispering Ghosts

A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the mysterious decade-old murd...

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I Am the Law
I Am the Law

With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organi...

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Sing Me a Love Song
Sing Me a Love Song

A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the busines...

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Pick a Star
Pick a Star

A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with th...

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Mr. District Attorney
Mr. District Attorney

An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case....

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A Slight Case of Larceny
A Slight Case of Larceny

Two nitwits decide to open a gas station....

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Stolen Holiday
Stolen Holiday

A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bo...

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The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis

Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis - women, especially Pansy Hammer. Pansy's f...

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The Girl Downstairs
The Girl Downstairs

A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom ...

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Blossoms On Broadway
Blossoms On Broadway

A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway....

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Rationing
Rationing

A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing....

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Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Tugboat Annie Sails Again

Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business....

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Gasoline Alley
Gasoline Alley

A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip....

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Behind the News
Behind the News

As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom...

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Three Little Girls in Blue
Three Little Girls in Blue

Three sisters go to Atlantic City with hopes of finding rich husbands....

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No Place to Go
No Place to Go

An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but ...

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Indianapolis Speedway
Indianapolis Speedway

A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather...

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Federal Man-Hunt
Federal Man-Hunt

By a daring ruse and inside help, Pete Rennick, a noted criminal behind bars on federal charges, esc...

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Reno
Reno

A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon....

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Partners in Crime
Partners in Crime

Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor....

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More Than a Secretary
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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She Went to the Races
She Went to the Races

A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy....

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H.M. Pulham, Esq.
H.M. Pulham, Esq.

A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of ...

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The Mad Miss Manton
The Mad Miss Manton

When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police ...

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That Other Woman
That Other Woman

A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her...

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Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die

Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly....

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The Sickle or the Cross
The Sickle or the Cross

Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty ye...

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I'll Give a Million
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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Woman Chases Man
Woman Chases Man

A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing de...

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Up in Arms
Up in Arms

Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-b...

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Wilson
Wilson

The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post ...

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The Doctor Takes a Wife
The Doctor Takes a Wife

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage ...

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20 Mule Team
20 Mule Team

It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it i...

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Gasoline Alley
Gasoline Alley

A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip....

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Ready, Willing and Able
Ready, Willing and Able

Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in th...

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A Man to Remember
A Man to Remember

On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients....

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A Star Is Born
A Star Is Born

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career ...

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Storm at Daybreak
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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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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Jesse James
Jesse James

After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn t...

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Carrie
Carrie

In the late 1890s, the ambitious, innocent Carrie arrives in Chicago’s South Side and stays with her...

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Nancy Drew... Reporter
Nancy Drew... Reporter

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a...

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Three Sons o' Guns
Three Sons o' Guns

Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men....

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They Made Her a Spy
They Made Her a Spy

When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes...

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Dodge City
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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Young Mr. Lincoln
Young Mr. Lincoln

In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modes...

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News Is Made at Night
News Is Made at Night

Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a co...

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Lady of the Tropics
Lady of the Tropics

American playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal...

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Swanee River
Swanee River

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls ...

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beaut...

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Dust Be My Destiny
Dust Be My Destiny

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a ...

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The Traveling Saleswoman
The Traveling Saleswoman

The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product....

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's ...

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When Willie Comes Marching Home
When Willie Comes Marching Home

When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frus...

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Sister Kenny
Sister Kenny

An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences gr...

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My Dear Secretary
My Dear Secretary

A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen...

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It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life

A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people...

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The Daring Caballero
The Daring Caballero

Daring Cabellero was the third of producer Phil Krasne's Cisco Kid "B" westerns. Duncan Renaldo and ...

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Gangs of Chicago
Gangs of Chicago

A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along th...

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The Moonlighter
The Moonlighter

Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) is caught cattle rustling and promptly jailed. The public is outraged,...

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The Body Disappears
The Body Disappears

Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor p...

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It Happened Tomorrow
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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Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle
Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle

Joe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law....

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Foreign Correspondent
Foreign Correspondent

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the i...

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Talent Scout
Talent Scout

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom....

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The Town Went Wild
The Town Went Wild

Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched a...

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There's One Born Every Minute
There's One Born Every Minute

A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-br...

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They Asked For It
They Asked For It

In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals a...

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Penrod's Double Trouble
Penrod's Double Trouble

When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical...

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The Lady from Cheyenne
The Lady from Cheyenne

Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founde...

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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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Henry Aldrich, Editor
Henry Aldrich, Editor

Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of myster...

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Friendly Persuasion
Friendly Persuasion

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to vio...

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Midnight Manhunt
Midnight Manhunt

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum....

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In Old California
In Old California

Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt D...

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Summer Holiday
Summer Holiday

Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neigh...

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Here Comes the Groom
Here Comes the Groom

Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orpha...

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Government Girl
Government Girl

An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort....

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If You Knew Susie
If You Knew Susie

In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, e...

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Lillian Russell
Lillian Russell

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star....

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Little Nellie Kelly
Little Nellie Kelly

Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and matern...

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The Man with Nine Lives
The Man with Nine Lives

Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an e...

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They Drive by Night
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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I Love You Again
I Love You Again

Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and love...

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Lucky Partners
Lucky Partners

Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results....

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Look Who's Laughing
Look Who's Laughing

Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufactu...

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Dance Hall
Dance Hall

Singer Lili Brown is attracted to dance hall manager Duke till she realizes he does that to all the ...

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Three Girls About Town
Three Girls About Town

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next doo...

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The Spoilers
The Spoilers

When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon sing...

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Blonde Inspiration
Blonde Inspiration

A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for....

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Gold Diggers of 1937
Gold Diggers of 1937

The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a go...

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The Adventurer
The Adventurer

A young girl is trying to live an honest life in a crooked city. Caught up with a crook that might b...

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Sudden Money
Sudden Money

Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney a...

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The Great Mr. Nobody
The Great Mr. Nobody

A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit....

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Penrod and His Twin Brother
Penrod and His Twin Brother

Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodn...

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I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island
I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island

A ship's officer is sentenced to Devil's Island for murder after a fatal brawl....

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Tobacco Road
Tobacco Road

Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors ...

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Come and Get It
Come and Get It

An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years l...

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The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return...

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Room Service
Room Service

Broke Gordon Miller tries to land a backer for his new play while he has to deal with with the hotel...

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Shadows in the Night
Shadows in the Night

A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion....

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Honor Among Lovers
Honor Among Lovers

Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who...

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Penrod and Sam
Penrod and Sam

A boy and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out....

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Priorities on Parade
Priorities on Parade

Band leader Johnny Draper auditions his band, the Dixie Pixies, at the Eagle Aircraft Co., hoping to...

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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartme...

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Lady Scarface
Lady Scarface

A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes ...

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Ex-Champ
Ex-Champ

A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts....

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Singin' in the Corn
Singin' in the Corn

Judy McCoy, a fortune teller with a circus, learns she has inherited some property and heads west to...

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The Fighting Guardsman
The Fighting Guardsman

A French Baron robs Louis XVI like Robin Hood....

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Address Unknown
Address Unknown

When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted t...

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Black Legion
Black Legion

When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining ...

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A Very Young Lady
A Very Young Lady

A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the ...

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Rhapsody in Blue
Rhapsody in Blue

Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway....

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Laughter
Laughter

Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows tired ...

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Dead End
Dead End

Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, droppin...

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Gold Is Where You Find It
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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Broadway Ballyhoo
Broadway Ballyhoo

In this musical short, three barkers for a New York City sightseeing bus drum up customers with song...

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The Ghost Comes Home
The Ghost Comes Home

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voya...

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Trouble at Midnight
Trouble at Midnight

Noah Beery Jr. stars as Kirk Cameron in the modern-day western Trouble at Midnight. Freshly discharg...

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Because of Him
Because of Him

A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway...

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You Can't Escape Forever
You Can't Escape Forever

A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpi...

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Penitentiary
Penitentiary

The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he pro...

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One Foot in Heaven
One Foot in Heaven

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another....

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The Adventures of Martin Eden
The Adventures of Martin Eden

Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published....

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Behind the Mask
Behind the Mask

Financier Mark Harrold is responsible for the financial ruin and subsequent suicide of Stanton. Foll...

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The Fabulous Oliver Chantry
The Fabulous Oliver Chantry

A newspaper columnist, critic and novelist suddenly becomes caretaker to an infant boy left by his p...

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The Lady Is Willing
The Lady Is Willing

Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a bab...

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I'm from Missouri
I'm from Missouri

Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the Br...

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The Thin Man Goes Home
The Thin Man Goes Home

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation....

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The Tower of Jewels
The Tower of Jewels

Emily Cottrell, one of the most respected members of a large gang of crooks headed by Fraser Grimste...

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The Climbers
The Climbers

To keep his social-climbing wife and daughters in the lifestyle to which they are accustomed, wealth...

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