Spencer Charters
Birthday: 1875-03-23
Place of Birth: Duncannon, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Spencer Charters (March 25, 1875 – January 25, 1943) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 220 films between 1920 and 1943, mostly in small supporting roles. Spencer Charters first stage work soon after leaving school was a walk on part, but it wasn't long before he was being given fair-sized roles. He played on Broadway between 1910 and 1929 and was a busy character actor in films during the 1930s and early 1940s. He often portrayed somewhat befuddeled judges, doctors, clerks, managers, and jailers. He died by suicide from a mix of sleeping pills and carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Arsenic and Old Lace
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The Pursuit of Happiness
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Four's a Crowd
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Blondie Plays Cupid
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Our Town
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Petticoat Politics
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The Covered Trailer
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Welcome Home
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High Sierra
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Lady Killer
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It's a Gift
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Three Faces West
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Remember the Night
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Moon Over Miami
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Second Fiddle
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Young Mr. Lincoln
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Little Old New York
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Fashions of 1934
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The Raven
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Movie Crazy
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Don't Bet on Blondes
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Murder on a Honeymoon
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In Old Chicago
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Crime School
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
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Colleen
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Pick a Star
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Palmy Days
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The Match King
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Lonely Wives
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Danger – Love at Work
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The Goose and the Gander
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Scattergood Survives a Murder
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The Lady from Cheyenne
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The Nut Farm
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Love on a Bet
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The Pride of the Yankees
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She Couldn't Say No
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Mr. Chump
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He Married His Wife
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Five of a Kind
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The Preview Murder Mystery
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
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Make a Wish
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Lady Behave!
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Mr. Boggs Steps Out
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The Harvester
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The Bride Walks Out
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Mr. Skitch
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Boy Trouble
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Hotel Imperial
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Spendthrift
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Topper Takes a Trip
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Career Woman
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Three Blind Mice
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Pacific Blackout
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Traveling Husbands
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The Flying Irishman
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The Crooked Circle
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The Circus Clown
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Whoopee!
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Exile Express
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Breaking the Ice
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Wake Up and Dream
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The St. Louis Kid
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The Firebird
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The Gay Deception
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Lady from Nowhere
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Blind Date
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In Person
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F-Man
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Inside Story
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Ex-Bad Boy
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Banjo on My Knee
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The Moon's Our Home
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Back in Circulation
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Women in the Wind
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Tobacco Road
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The Bat Whispers
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In Name Only
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One Wild Night
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The Hurricane
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Ever Since Eve
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Wells Fargo
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36 Hours to Kill
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Million Dollar Ransom
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helpi...
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Fugitive in the Sky
Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline host...
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The Lady and the Mob
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business....
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Spring Madness
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go ...
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The Tenderfoot
Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth learns ...
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Alias the Deacon
A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight ...
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Three Comrades
A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I...
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Jesse James
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn t...
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The Famous Ferguson Case
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following e...
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Eight Bells
A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge....
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Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case
Like the first entry, this one is played mostly for laughs, with Radio's Mister District Attorney. J...
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Caravan
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, H...
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Girl Loves Boy
Bob Conrad is the playboy son of town squire Charles Conrad. Much against his dad's wishes, Bob fall...
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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
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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Boulder Dam
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on th...
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Dr. Broadway
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers....
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The Texas Rangers
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to ...
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Professor Beware
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join...
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Drums Along the Mohawk
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the M...
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The Under-Pup
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy...
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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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The Farmer in the Dell
An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star....
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The Secret Bride
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can ann...
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Lucky Cisco Kid
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the C...
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Whispering Smith Speaks
O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. ...
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Bedtime Story
A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is t...
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Janice Meredith
It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cav...
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, b...
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Female
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of bu...
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The Kid From Texas
A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and...
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Hold 'Em Jail
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship ...
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So This Is Africa
Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance....
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and ...
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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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Jewel Robbery
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a je...
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All American Chump
A country bumpkin who's a mathematical genius falls into the hands of gangsters....
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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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Four Days Wonder
Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective sto...
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Man at Large
FBI agent Bob Grayson works in collaboration with Max, a British agent posing as a fugitive German a...
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The Postman Didn't Ring
Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The let...
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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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Rough Necking
The Blondes and Redheads series, June's father forbids her to see her boyfriend, so she sneaks him i...
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The Mine with the Iron Door
Having acquired the controlling interest in the Eureka Discovery Corporation for five-hundred dollar...
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Santa Fe Trail
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, G...
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Virginia City
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in ...
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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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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him....
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Gambling Ship
Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross...
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Friendly Neighbors
The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the eleven-f...
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The Loudspeaker
A young man from a small town hits New York City, bound and determined to become a radio star. Amazi...
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The Boys from Syracuse
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys fr...
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Maryland
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with ho...
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Gabriel Over the White House
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis...
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Romance in Manhattan
Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New Yor...
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Vivacious Lady
College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzl...
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From Headquarters
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of ...
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Unexpected Father
Jimmy Hanley learns that his former dancing partner has been killed, leaving a baby boy Sandy, so he...
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Yes, My Darling Daughter
Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year j...
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Silver Queen
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and h...
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The Singing Hill
If a young lady gives up her inheritance the local ranchers will lose their free grazing land....
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Stablemates
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down...
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Forbidden Valley
In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately,...
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Bad Men of Missouri
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They Died with Their Boots On
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death...
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So Ends Our Night
An anti-Nazi refugee on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler...
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April Folly
April Poole (Davies), a young writer in love with publisher Kerry Sarle (Tearle), visits the office ...
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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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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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Dangerous Number
Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his fo...
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Slightly Dangerous
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Venus Makes Trouble
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Fifty Roads to Town
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Stranded
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters....
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The Great American Pie Company
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Three on a Match
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throw...
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The Kennel Murder Case
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder o...
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Back to Nature
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The Front Page
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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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Joy of Living
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel B...
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Hips, Hips, Hooray!
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Hold That Ghost
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. The...
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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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Girl from God's Country
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Till We Meet Again
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Central Park
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The Ghost Walks
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Star of Midnight
When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a tra...
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Mountain Music
Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows ...
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Union Depot
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metr...
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Look Who's Laughing
Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufactu...
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Checkers
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Murder on a Bridle Path
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper...
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I'm from Missouri
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