Bert Roach
Birthday: 1891-08-20
Place of Birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Egbert "Bert" Roach (August 21, 1891 – February 16, 1971) was an American film actor. He appeared in 327 films between 1914 and 1951. He was born in Washington, D.C., and died in Los Angeles, California, age 79.
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The Crowd
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start...
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Tin Hats
Three United States soldiers are lost in the Rhineland on Armistice Day and accepted as conquering o...
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Show People
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic s...
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Decoy
A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before s...
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Double Wedding
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-control...
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The Time, the Place and the Girl
A musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player whose swollen he...
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Love Me Tonight
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess livi...
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The Flaming Forest
North-West Mounted Police Sgt. David Carrigan takes a breather from fighting as he brings a convict ...
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Free Love
A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divor...
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Mannequin
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to fi...
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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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She Sighed by the Seaside
Lifeguard Ben Turpin tries to keep order at the beach, where tennis players James Finlayson and Char...
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official....
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Down with Husbands
When their wives go on strike, two husbands form an organization they call the "Husbands Protective ...
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to...
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Tillie the Toiler
Tillie is a secretary always dressed in the height of fashion who tries to capture a millionaire nam...
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Little Giant
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the cro...
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t...
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The Rowdy
When retired New England skipper Captain Purcell finds Kit as a baby in a storm, he adopts the child...
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Fingers at the Window
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparen...
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia....
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Arrowsmith
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of ...
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Wedding Yells
Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920)....
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Bird of Paradise
When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in...
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Universal Ike Junior at the Dance of Little L.O.
Universal Ike Junior at the Dance of Little L.O....
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The Arkansas Traveler
The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, ...
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The Flirt
Treats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged to R...
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God's Country and the Woman
Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve ...
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Why Beaches Are Popular
This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin...
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Hotel Continental
Scheduled for demolition, Hotel Continental has seen 50 years of romance, intrigue, and tragedy. The...
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Keystone Hotel
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the f...
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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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Evenings for Sale
Impoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume ball...
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Shadow of Doubt
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the vict...
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Sensations of 1945
As dancer Ginny Walker performs on stage, a veiled woman in the audience stands up, accuses Ginny of...
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The Girl Said No
Jimmie Allen, a shady bookie, is in love with Pearl Proctor, a greedy dance hall girl. He schemes to...
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Daring Daughters
A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the t...
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Viennese Nights
In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Elsa in...
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Night World
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, ...
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The Song of the Flame
This was a screen version of the 1925 operetta by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Herbert Stohar...
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Guard That Girl
Attorney Joshua Scranton hires "Budge" Edwards and Larry Donovan, who has just bought into Edwards' ...
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Romance on the Run
A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in...
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the G...
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The Great Waltz
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer....
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So Long Letty
Uncle Claude goes on vacation with his granddaughters and meets and dislikes boisterous Letty. When ...
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Down on the Farm
The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more ...
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicid...
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Accidents Will Happen
A comic one-act film about an insurance agent who has to sell an insurance policy to a reluctant cli...
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Lawful Larceny
When Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she dedica...
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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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No, No, Nanette
A bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show....
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Here Comes the Band
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an un...
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Saratoga
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y....
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Hold Your Breath
Charles and Bert who have defied the Volstead act are seen clambering about the roof of a building, ...
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Mr. Moto's Last Warning
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon a...
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They Made Me a Criminal
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk....
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Show Boat
A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boa...
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Liliom
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the you...
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Honolulu
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to ...
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Rose of Washington Square
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets de...
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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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Nurse Edith Cavell
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son o...
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Fast and Furious
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a ...
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Fury
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the ...
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Six Cylinder Love
Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for ...
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Captain Thunder
A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner B...
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Traveling Saleslady
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting bu...
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Love Crazy
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorc...
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Man from Rainbow Valley
When unscrupulous rodeo promoter Colonel Winthrop gets the idea of capturing "Outlaw" and making him...
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Twelve Miles Out
Jerry always wins in his rivalry with Red over women, gunrunning, and diamond smuggling. While runni...
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International Settlement
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers...
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Secret Sinners
A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to anothe...
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Compromised
Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and soci...
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The Thin Man
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed f...
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Cairo
Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Alli...
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Soapsuds and Sirens
A professor who teaches dancing classes has few students. A janitor suggests advertising flyers from...
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Code of the Streets
Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap....
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The Mortal Storm
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. Aft...
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The Bad Sister
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsemen...
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Women Without Names
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of ...
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Sons o' Guns
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays t...
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That's the Spirit
Mr Green tells his wife that spiritualism is the bunk. She offers to run a seance that evening. Whil...
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Hotel Imperial
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrian...
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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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Under a Spell
When Neely is hypnotized to think he's a monkey, he goes on a freewheeling chase where he climbs thi...
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Say It in French
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married ...
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland a...
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Fatty's Magic Pants
'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly...
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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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A Slight Case of Murder
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law...
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The Latest from Paris
The Latest from Paris takes place in New York's garment district, where business rivals Blogg and Li...
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Things You Never See on the Screen
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935....
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Money Talks
Sam Starling (Owen Moore) is deep in debt, his wife Phoebe (Claire Windsor) is leaving him and still...
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My Favorite Spy
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy miss...
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The Last Warning
A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the a...
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Quiet Please, Murder
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich...
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Telling the World
The journalist Don Davis becomes involved in a murder case, where Chrystal Malone is part of it. Dav...
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The Desert Rider
Jack Hoxie pledges to take care of a prospector's son before the man dies from shooting wounds. Jack...
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Mardi Gras
The first of a series of six two-reel "Musical Parade" shorts produced in Technicolor for the Paramo...
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A Lady of Quality
Clorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to a ri...
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Dr. Renault's Secret
A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village t...
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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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A Small Town Idol
Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and no...
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Hi Diddle Diddle
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's fat...
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Young Nowheres
Albert Whalen, a hotel elevator operator, together with one of the pretty chambermaids, Annie Jackso...
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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era....
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San Francisco
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days befo...
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The Good Old Soak
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction....
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Fun on a Weekend
Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by P...
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The Princess and the Plumber
A derogated prince hopes to restore his wealth and power by marrying off his daughter to royalty. Un...
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The Battle of the Century
Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange...
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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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The Jury's Secret
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fia...
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Under the Black Eagle
A German Shepherd Dog and the people he loves are entangled in World War One....
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The Millionaire
Jack Norman is an office clerk who falls in love with co-worker Kate Blair, a stenographer. He gets ...
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The Denial
When Dorothy wants to marry Bob (Robert Agnew), her mother, Mildred, forbids the match. Dorothy angr...
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Honeymoon
Two men are rivals for the same girl. When she finally agrees to marry one, the other--appearing to ...
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....
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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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Joy of Living
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel B...
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Hellzapoppin'
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together...
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Public Hero Number 1
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which ...
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The Tall Target
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train rid...
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Bedside Manner
A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle...
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious M...
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Swingin' on a Rainbow
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is pa...
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Duel in the Sun
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself...
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A Certain Young Man
An aristocratic English womanizer is forced to take a fishing trip to avoid the husbands of his conq...
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Call Her Savage
A high-spirited and short-tempered Texan woman storms her way through life until her luck runs out, ...
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Smouldering Fires
A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her much younger factory workers. She doesn't k...
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Excuse Me
A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them....
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The Perils of Pauline
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a de...
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Handy Andy
A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national ch...
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome...
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Cupid's Day Off
Heretofore running a shoe store has been considered a quiet, respectable business, but Ben and his p...
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Bad Boy
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can...
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Wickedness Preferred
He couldn't help it if the girls all fell for him. But his wife certainly cramped his romantic style...
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You're the One
100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead ...
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Shine on Harvest Moon
Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth....
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The Stronger Sex
A satire on companionate marriage, in which both sides of a polyamorous married couple take lovers. ...
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The Black Bag
Billy Kirkwood, a young businessman, travels to New York City for a vacation. There he comes to the ...
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Riders of the Dark
Lieutenant Crane of the U. S. Cavalry is assigned to clean up and bring law and order to a frontier ...
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Music in Manhattan
Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to th...
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Married Life
Ben Turpin's rival marries his college sweetheart played by Phyllis Haver....
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The Storm Daughter
A brutal sea captain sets out to seduce a beautiful young girl but finds himself falling in love for...
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