Hal K. Dawson
Birthday: 1896-10-17
Place of Birth: Rockville, Connecticut, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hal K. Dawson (October 17, 1896 – February 17, 1987) was an American actor. The films he performed in include: Dr. Socrates, My American Wife, Libeled Lady, Wells Fargo,, Broadway Melody of 1940, Star Dust, The Doctor Takes a Wife, Washington Melodrama, Week-End in Havana,, Guest Wife, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Chicken Every Sunday, Bonzo Goes to College and The Benny Goodman Story. He died on February 17, 1987, in Loma Linda, California aged 90.
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Blondie's Big Moment
Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in t...
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The Tin Star
An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge....
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Easy Living
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bou...
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Park Row
In New York's 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It i...
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Superman and the Mole Men
Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the...
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming o...
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Blondie in the Dough
BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so...
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Wedding Present
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involve...
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You're My Everything
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him...
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Mama Runs Wild
Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she...
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Song of the Islands
With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on beha...
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The Rat Race
An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer,...
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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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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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Danger Street
Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder....
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Face of a Fugitive
A man who was falsly accused for murder escapes the sheriffs and starts a new life in a town at the ...
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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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Public Enemy's Wife
Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, finge...
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My American Wife
Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, whe...
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Funny Girl
The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York,...
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Chicken Every Sunday
A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes....
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The Great Victor Herbert
In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in ...
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Dr. Socrates
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed d...
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Teacher's Pet
A rugged city editor poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor....
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The Firebird
Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna...
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On Again—Off Again
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug com...
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Love and Hisses
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winch...
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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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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the countr...
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Vogues of 1938
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reis...
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Wells Fargo
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, wil...
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The Nurse from Brooklyn
A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is ...
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Boy Meets Girl
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be ...
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Music Is Magic
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the ...
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Three for the Show
This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's...
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Greenwich Village
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue....
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Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought dow...
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Paddy O'Day
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an ...
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The Ice Follies of 1939
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a...
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures la...
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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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A Night at the Movies
A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success s...
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Swanee River
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls ...
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Blackmail
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him....
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Kentucky
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby...
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines....
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The Last Hurrah
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a yo...
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Foxfire
A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride....
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International Settlement
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers...
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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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Washington Melodrama
An elderly businessman plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away....
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Merton of the Movies
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studio...
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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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Broadway Melody of 1940
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as...
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Libeled Lady
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she f...
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The Alligator People
Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified ...
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How to Read
Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading....
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him....
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One Mile from Heaven
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by w...
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Gateway
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists th...
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Lillian Russell
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star....
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Tin Pan Alley
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to Engla...
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Hotel for Women
Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling....
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Two Girls on Broadway
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He se...
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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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Little Men
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tou...
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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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The Great Profile
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore,...
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Cracked Nuts
A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to hi...
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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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How to Sub-Let
A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away....
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I Stole a Million
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways....
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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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Obliging Young Lady
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divor...
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Rhubarb
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. The...
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Slightly French
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "Fren...
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Second Honeymoon
Raoul McLish stops over in Miami Beach where he runs into his ex-wife, Vicky Benton, and her new hus...
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Week-End in Havana
A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is s...
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Star Dust
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build ...
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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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Safety in Numbers
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral d...
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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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Mr. Lucky
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience be...
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfacti...
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An American Dream
Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personali...
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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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Young Man with Ideas
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children....
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Lydia
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home ...
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China Clipper
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China....
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She Had to Eat
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to...
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You Gotta Stay Happy
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face th...
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Keep Smiling
Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncl...
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The Touch of Satan
A murderous and decrepit old woman resides on a California walnut farm with her family. On a whim, a...
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The Glenn Miller Story
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscu...
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Baby Face Morgan
When crime boss Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers, learns that Morgan has a so...
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A Lawless Street
A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of t...
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Two Bright Boys
A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away....
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The Magnificent Dope
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure...
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The Female Animal
Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursu...
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The Yellow Mountain
A formula brawling-buddies western where one goes bad and then returns to the fold. Pete Menlo owns ...
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Meet the Stewarts
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget....
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The Mad Martindales
A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art tr...
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You and Me
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in...
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Everybody's Old Man
An elderly businessman thinking about aging and death takes time off to help teach a dead friend's c...
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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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The Country Girl
An actor on the skids is given one more chance to regain his stardom, as well as his self-respect, y...
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Too Hot to Handle
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pi...
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