Charles Coleman

Charles Coleman

Birthday: 1885-12-21

Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Biography: Australia native Charles Coleman was a stage, screen, and television actor who most frequently portrayed butlers or manservants.

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Almost Married
Almost Married

To avoid a costly breach of contract suit, a rich young man marries a nightclub singer....

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Shall We Dance
Shall We Dance

Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical sta...

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It Started with Eve
It Started with Eve

A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last mo...

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Jewel Robbery
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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The Vagabond Trail
The Vagabond Trail

Searching for his wayward brother, saddle tramp Donnegan (Buck Jones) gets in trouble with a bully a...

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The Gay Divorcee
The Gay Divorcee

Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. Ther...

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Big Dan
Big Dan

Dan O'Hara, known as "Big Dan," returns from the war, and finding that his wife has left him, turns ...

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Good Morning, Judge
Good Morning, Judge

Freddie, a rich young idler, meets Julia Harrington, a wealthy social service worker who runs a have...

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Melody Lane
Melody Lane

In this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and fortun...

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Alexander's Ragtime Band
Alexander's Ragtime Band

Classical violinist Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, bu...

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The Rage of Paris
The Rage of Paris

Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try ...

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Broadway Melody of 1938
Broadway Melody of 1938

Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading ...

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The Little Minister
The Little Minister

The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Th...

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Beauty for the Asking
Beauty for the Asking

Denny breaks up with his fiancée Jean to marries wealthy Flora. When Jean is fired from her job she ...

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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh

Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his tre...

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Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble wi...

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Never Say Goodbye
Never Say Goodbye

Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very un...

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The Greeks Had a Word for Them
The Greeks Had a Word for Them

A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair ...

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Becky Sharp
Becky Sharp

In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the positio...

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Second Hand Love
Second Hand Love

Andy Hanks is an itinerant fix-it man who comes to town with his horse and dog as his only pals. He ...

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One Hour with You
One Hour with You

Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatiou...

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Merrily We Go to Hell
Merrily We Go to Hell

A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prenti...

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Two Tickets to London
Two Tickets to London

Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find th...

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Bachelor Apartment
Bachelor Apartment

A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, H...

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I Loved a Woman
I Loved a Woman

The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as...

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The Murder Man
The Murder Man

Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When ...

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Rendezvous
Rendezvous

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies....

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The Runaround
The Runaround

Two private eyes compete to find an heiress and bring her back, unmarried, to New York....

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Colleen
Colleen

Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees...

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Variety Girl
Variety Girl

Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business char...

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Danger – Love at Work
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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The Goose and the Gander
The Goose and the Gander

When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romanti...

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Danger Street
Danger Street

Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder....

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Sis Hopkins
Sis Hopkins

An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical....

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The Heart of New York
The Heart of New York

A poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighbo...

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The Magnificent Rogue
The Magnificent Rogue

A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own ver...

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The Border Patrolman
The Border Patrolman

When a border patrolman catches their spoiled daughter smoking in a no-smoking area, parents hire hi...

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Housewife
Housewife

Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, ...

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What a Man
What a Man

Wade Rawlings, a former Captain in the Gold Stream Guards, has lost his fortune and has become a wan...

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The Imperfect Lady
The Imperfect Lady

A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London....

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That's My Daddy
That's My Daddy

A wealthy bachelor lies his way out of a speeding ticket by telling the cops he's on his way to visi...

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Too Many Wives
Too Many Wives

An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp....

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The Missing Corpse
The Missing Corpse

A feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (Bromberg) and McDonald (Guilfoyle) goes deadly when blackm...

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Radio City Revels
Radio City Revels

A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly ...

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Fight for Your Lady
Fight for Your Lady

Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich...

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Down to Their Last Yacht
Down to Their Last Yacht

Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sai...

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Little Miss Broadway
Little Miss Broadway

An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The ...

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Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Michael Shayne: Private Detective

Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyll...

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The Pilgrim Lady
The Pilgrim Lady

Dennis Carter, the head of a detective agency, and his secretary, Henrietta Rankin, get involved in ...

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Boom Town
Boom Town

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both lov...

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Master Will Shakespeare
Master Will Shakespeare

A short biography of William Shakespeare that highlights the various jobs he worked at in the theate...

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Mexican Spitfire Out West
Mexican Spitfire Out West

Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His h...

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Mexican Spitfire
Mexican Spitfire

Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita'...

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Miss Annie Rooney
Miss Annie Rooney

A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn'...

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Sandy
Sandy

Sandy McNeil adopts strictly unconventional jazz ethics and against the wishes of her parents runs w...

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Blond Cheat
Blond Cheat

Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan duri...

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The Affairs of Annabel
The Affairs of Annabel

Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve ...

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Lawful Larceny
Lawful Larceny

When Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she dedica...

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Roughly Speaking
Roughly Speaking

In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerou...

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Walking on Air
Walking on Air

A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him hom...

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The Devil Is a Sissy
The Devil Is a Sissy

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-wel...

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Million Dollar Ransom
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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Manhattan Parade
Manhattan Parade

Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the o...

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Kind Lady
Kind Lady

Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a si...

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His Family Tree
His Family Tree

A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in m...

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The Merry Frinks
The Merry Frinks

An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter....

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Moonlight in Hawaii
Moonlight in Hawaii

Deciding to quit his singing act and become a tourist guide, Pete Fleming escorts wealthy Mrs. Floto...

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Mummy's Boys
Mummy's Boys

Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, g...

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The White Angel
The White Angel

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurs...

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Her Master's Voice
Her Master's Voice

Besieged by his adoring female fans, radio celebrity Ned "The Fireside Troubadour" Farrar hides out ...

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Repent at Leisure
Repent at Leisure

Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, ex...

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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from...

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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Three Smart Girls Grow Up

Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until ...

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They Shall Have Music
They Shall Have Music

The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step f...

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Man About Town
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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In Name Only
In Name Only

A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrive...

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First Love
First Love

In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncl...

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The Perfect Gentleman
The Perfect Gentleman

A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actr...

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The Under-Pup
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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Three Smart Girls
Three Smart Girls

The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from m...

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Grand Canyon Trail
Grand Canyon Trail

Sintown is just a deserted ghost town until Vanerpool starts looking for silver. Cookie and Roy's pa...

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Sins of Man
Sins of Man

Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to lo...

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Bridal Suite
Bridal Suite

A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps....

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Maisie
Maisie

Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer cl...

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Shock
Shock

Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a Worl...

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Brother Orchid
Brother Orchid

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, h...

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As the Devil Commands
As the Devil Commands

Slowly dying of a terminal illness, wealthy invalid John Duncan wants his aide Dr. Graham to end hi...

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High Stakes
High Stakes

High Stakes is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy drama produced and released by RKO Pictures. The pict...

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What's Cookin'?
What's Cookin'?

J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Cour...

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The Whistler
The Whistler

A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. Bu...

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Voice of the Whistler
Voice of the Whistler

A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure....

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Captains Courageous
Captains Courageous

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transat...

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He Hired the Boss
He Hired the Boss

A shy bookkeeper accidentally discovers that the company where he works is targeted in a series of l...

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Boom Town
Boom Town

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both lov...

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The Westerner
The Westerner

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

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Between Us Girls
Between Us Girls

A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mothe...

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Love Is News
Love Is News

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns th...

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Three Daring Daughters
Three Daring Daughters

Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband....

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Gateway
Gateway

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists th...

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That Certain Age
That Certain Age

Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, new...

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Phantom Raiders
Phantom Raiders

In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Lle...

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Cross-Country Romance
Cross-Country Romance

A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco....

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Beyond Victory
Beyond Victory

Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind....

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I've Always Loved You
I've Always Loved You

A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maest...

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Earl Carroll Vanities
Earl Carroll Vanities

Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring a...

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Arabian Nights
Arabian Nights

Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous da...

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Hunting Trouble
Hunting Trouble

A wife tries to hide a surprise birthday present from her husband but the butler causes trouble....

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The Washington Masquerade
The Washington Masquerade

An honest, talented and well respected attorney defeats a corrupt incumbent U.S. Senator. After a ve...

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The White Cliffs of Dover
The White Cliffs of Dover

American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan m...

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Little Orphan Annie
Little Orphan Annie

Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the fil...

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Young as You Feel
Young as You Feel

Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that ne...

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Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He...

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Big Town Girl
Big Town Girl

When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Maske...

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Twin Beds
Twin Beds

Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany fr...

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The Great Impersonation
The Great Impersonation

An Englishman kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London....

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Baby Face
Baby Face

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins t...

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The Little Giant
The Little Giant

Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a hou...

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The Go-Getter
The Go-Getter

A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success....

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Design for Scandal
Design for Scandal

A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry bos...

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Diplomaniacs
Diplomaniacs

Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they ...

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Magnificent Obsession
Magnificent Obsession

A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death....

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Gold Diggers of 1935
Gold Diggers of 1935

Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a ...

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Marriage Is a Private Affair
Marriage Is a Private Affair

Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been marr...

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Poor Little Rich Girl
Poor Little Rich Girl

Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap ...

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A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...

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Lord Jeff
Lord Jeff

Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and...

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Fired Wife
Fired Wife

A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets...

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The West Side Kid
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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West Point Widow
West Point Widow

In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but th...

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Du Barry Was a Lady
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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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi...

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The Widow from Monte Carlo
The Widow from Monte Carlo

In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befrien...

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Lloyd's of London
Lloyd's of London

Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close f...

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The Shining Hour
The Shining Hour

A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it....

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3 Kids and a Queen
3 Kids and a Queen

An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subseq...

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Hangover Square
Hangover Square

When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in hi...

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Buck Privates
Buck Privates

Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop ...

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It Ain't Hay
It Ain't Hay

Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feedin...

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In Society
In Society

Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the p...

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Lured
Lured

Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared...

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Anchors Aweigh
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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Kitty
Kitty

Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gai...

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Frenchman's Creek
Frenchman's Creek

An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on t...

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No More Ladies
No More Ladies

A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous....

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Oh, Professor Behave!
Oh, Professor Behave!

Leon, sight unseen, rents a room in his house to a professor, who turns out to be a beautiful blonde...

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1905 auto mechanic, to Arthurian England, 528 A.D., where he i...

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Union Depot
Union Depot

Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metr...

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A Successful Calamity
A Successful Calamity

Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wil...

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The Cowboy and the Lady
The Cowboy and the Lady

Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out ...

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Maisie Was a Lady
Maisie Was a Lady

Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires h...

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The Love Cheat
The Love Cheat

Henry, a struggling Greenwhich Villiage artist, accidentally finds an invitation to Louise Gordon's ...

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The Mummy and the Humming-Bird
The Mummy and the Humming-Bird

The Mummy and the Humming-Bird recounts the tragedy of a neglected wife who seeks amusement in the c...

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When We Were Twenty-One
When We Were Twenty-One

Richard "The Imp" Audaine is a clever but dissolute orphan whose guardian and friends are trying to ...

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Lady in a Jam
Lady in a Jam

A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned ...

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David Harum
David Harum

Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom ...

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The Place of Honeymoons
The Place of Honeymoons

Parisian opera star Nora Harrigan is idolized by legions but not her rival Flora Desimone. Edward Co...

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Everybody's Old Man
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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My Friend Irma
My Friend Irma

Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love life o...

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The Richest Girl in the World
The Richest Girl in the World

Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and...

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