Chester Clute
Birthday: 1891-02-18
Place of Birth: Orange, New Jersey, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chester Clute (February 18, 1891 – April 2, 1956) was an American actor familiar in scores of Hollywood films from his debut in 1930. Diminutive, bald-pated with a bristling moustache, he appeared in mostly unbilled roles, consisting usually of one or two lines, in nearly 250 films. He died of a heart attack aged 65. Born Chester Lamont Clute in Orange, New Jersey. He died in Woodland Hills, California and is buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Arsenic and Old Lace
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against ...
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Manpower
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and ...
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. ...
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Here Comes Elmer
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One Exciting Week
The citizens of the small town of Midburg are thrilled when one of their native sons, Dan Flannery, ...
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True Confession
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Nothing But Trouble
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Kill the Umpire
Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctant...
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All Through the Night
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship....
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Larceny, Inc.
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can d...
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The Town Went Wild
Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched a...
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To Each His Own
During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. ...
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The Clock
A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City....
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Just Off Broadway
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Train to Alcatraz
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Change of Heart
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Colorado Sundown
The Hurley's own a lumber mill and want to harvest all the timber in the valley. They kill the Fores...
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Guest Wife
Christopher Price, a small-town bank executive, continues to be loyal to and idolize his boyhood fri...
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A Tragedy at Midnight
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find ...
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Walking the Baby
Street-sweeper George flirts with a pretty, but dizzy, nursemaid in the park. Incorporates Burns &am...
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He Couldn't Say No
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marr...
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Love Thy Neighbor
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars p...
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She Couldn't Say No
Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the od...
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Mr. Chump
A naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy....
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Lucky Losers
Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of match...
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The Wrong Road
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to ...
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The Desperadoes
Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan...
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Navy Blues
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Easy Come, Easy Go
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter'...
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Go Chase Yourself
When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team....
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Artists and Models Abroad
Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of t...
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Comet Over Broadway
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition....
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Service de Luxe
Glamorous and efficient Helen Murphy runs a service that will provide any type of assistance to weal...
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Spook Busters
The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and g...
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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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She Went to the Races
A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy....
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Kentucky Jubilee
A film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film. There, he...
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Annabel Takes a Tour
Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival ge...
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Millionaires in Prison
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton wa...
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Stop That Cab
The trials and tribulations of a cab driver working the night shift, who must put with an assortment...
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Television Spy
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try ...
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Three Hearts for Julia
When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again....
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A Little Bit of Heaven
A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a big-buck...
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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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Living on Love
A man and a woman, who have never met, are forced by pecuniary circumstances to share the same basem...
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Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
A satirical visualization of strange and forgotten, but (at that time) nevertheless still existing l...
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Youth Takes a Fling
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to Ne...
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Live, Love and Learn
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get mar...
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Love Is a Headache
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publici...
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Dance Charlie Dance
A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unin...
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Snow Gets in Your Eyes
A department store has an indoor ski slide for the annual contest for store employees. Salesgirl Jun...
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Exclusive
Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on ...
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Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
Henry and his pal Dizzy become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly proves t...
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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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East Side of Heaven
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbul...
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Bachelor Mother
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a fo...
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The Spellbinder
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending crim...
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Miracles for Sale
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered....
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Dancing Co-Ed
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his...
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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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Arsène Lupin Returns
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle i...
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In the Good Old Summertime
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an...
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He ...
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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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A Likely Story
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself t...
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You Can't Take It with You
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony K...
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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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Arson Squad
Tom Mitchell is an insurance investigator and Fire Capt. Joe Dugan is chief of the police department...
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Mildred Pierce
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful re...
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Remember the Night
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter ...
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Blondie on a Budget
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old gi...
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Mary Ryan, Detective
A female police detective enters jail to gain the confidence of a shoplifter and learn the identity ...
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Hold Back the Dawn
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota sys...
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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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This Gun for Hire
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bill...
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Scattergood Meets Broadway
Scattergood finds out that his neighbor, Elly Drew, is going to sell her home to support her son Dav...
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The West Side Kid
Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her tim...
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Sagebrush Law
Tom Weston arriving in town just as the Doctor announces his father's death a suicide, sees the gun ...
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The Forest Rangers
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidenc...
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Rascals
A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a soc...
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Sun Valley Serenade
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwe...
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Hired Wife
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his ...
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Sing, You Sinners
Of the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in ...
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Dance, Girl, Dance
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash man...
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Scared Stiff
A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who ...
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Turnabout
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants the...
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Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friend...
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My Favorite Wife
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her hu...
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Too Many Girls
Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he send...
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Master Minds
When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he's able to predict the future. Slip t...
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San Diego I Love You
A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father...
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This Thing Called Love
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months...
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The Strange Mrs. Crane
Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wif...
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Laugh It Off
Four former actresses decide to restart their careers by opening up a nightclub....
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Two O'Clock Courage
A cab driver nearly hits a man with amnesia, then helps him unravel his past, only to discover he's ...
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Two Guys from Milwaukee
Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends c...
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What a Woman
An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book....
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Suddenly It's Spring
A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce....
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The Time, The Place and The Girl
The stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is dete...
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Someone to Remember
An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is t...
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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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George Washington Slept Here
New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Conn...
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Earl Carroll Vanities
Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring a...
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Crime Doctor
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to bec...
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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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The Fleet's In
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous ...
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Singin' Spurs
In order to help neighboring Indians irrigate their farms, the Hotshots plan to put on a fair for to...
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Valley of the Sun
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble....
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Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore
A young girl rents an apartment from a man who has recently enlisted in the Marines. The trouble is ...
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The Spoilers
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon sing...
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Square Dance Jubilee
Two talent scouts for a New York-based country music TV show called "Square Dance Jubilee" are sent ...
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The Falcon in Hollywood
Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence--aka Michael Arlen's literary hero The Falcon--arrives in Holly...
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On Our Merry Way
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where h...
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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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Chatterbox
While shooting a western on location, a Hollywood "cowboy" star--whose offscreen image is exactly th...
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Big Town Girl
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Maske...
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New York Town
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City s...
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Mary Lou
Airline hostess Ann Parker is fired for being undignified when she sang to calm the passengers durin...
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The Remarkable Andrew
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budge...
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Get Hep to Love
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her...
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Inside Job
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who k...
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Unfinished Business
Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman...
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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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Ringside
Joe O'Hara finds out he has a damaged optic nerve just before a boxing match for the title. He need...
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Public Deb No. 1
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoo...
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False Faces
A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer...
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Web of Danger
Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew work...
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The More the Merrier
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C....
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All That I Have
As a wealthy retired surgeon nears the end of his life, he begins to distribute his wealth to those ...
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She Knew All the Answers
A rich playboy wants to marry a chorus girl, but he'll lose his fortune if his trustee doesn't appro...
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So's Your Uncle
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself p...
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She Gets Her Man
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer....
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house wit...
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Wedding Worries
The Our Gang kids worry that Darla's new stepmother will be an evil stepmother like of fairy tale fa...
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Too Busy to Work
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run...
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Du Barry Was a Lady
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a p...
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Crazy House
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie....
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No Place for a Lady
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, ...
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Princess O'Rourke
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States....
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On an Island with You
A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made ...
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Hard to Get
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill...
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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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Reckless Age
Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home...
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Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot....
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The Secret Heart
Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death ...
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Angel on My Shoulder
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up f...
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Always Together
An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical...
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The Good Humor Man
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Mar...
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Pardon My Sarong
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their...
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder...
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That Brennan Girl
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hus...
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Two Sisters from Boston
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New...
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The Man Who Walked Alone
A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speed...
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Joe Palooka in the Knockout
The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby ...
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Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey...
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Personal Maid
Nora Ryan, a poor Irish girl, living in New York decides to change her life by working as a personal...
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Blondie's Reward
After bungling a real-estate transaction, Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is demoted to office boy by...
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Blondie's Big Deal
Dagwood accidentally discovers a non-flammable paint. Bad guys Dillon and Stack steal it before he ...
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Down Missouri Way
When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a ne...
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The Meanest Man in the World
Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is un...
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The Crimson Key
Larry Morgan, a private detective, is hired by a woman who wants Larry to trail her husband. The hus...
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The Great Garrick
A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his ...
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Jiggs and Maggie in Court
Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon ...
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Meet the Stewarts
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget....
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Sing Your Way Home
A war journalist escorts a spirited teen band back to NYC post-WWII, turning the journey into a musi...
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Kimbar of the Jungle
Failed TV pilot short which had an episode name of "Chapter One: The Lion Men of Tanganyika". The en...
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Canyon Passage
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty ...
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Along Came Ruth
Miss Etting plays herself, and the clever opening sequence conveys two messages: 1) that she's very ...
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Invisible Stripes
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison....
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Let's Go Stepping
Leon (Leon Errol) wants to spend quiet evenings at home but his wife, Dorothy (Dorothy Granger) want...
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