Dennis O'Keefe
Birthday: 1908-03-29
Place of Birth: Fort Madison, Iowa, USA
Biography: Dennis O'Keefe (March 29, 1908 – August 31, 1968) was an American actor. He was the son of Irish vaudevillians working in the United States. As a small child he joined his parents' act and later wrote skits for the stage. O'Keefe started in films as an extra in the early 1930s. After a small but impressive role in Saratoga, Clark Gable recommended O'Keefe to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which signed him to a contract in 1937. His film roles were bigger after that, starting with The Bad Man of Brimstone and Burn 'Em Up O'Connor. O'Keefe left MGM around 1940 but continued to work in mostly lower budget productions. In the 1950s he did some directing, wrote mystery stories and by the mid-1950s found work on television shows such as Justice, The Martha Raye Show, The Ford Show as well as his own series The Dennis O'Keefe Show.
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Siren of Atlantis
Two Foreign Legion soldiers, Jean (Dennis O'Keefe) and Andre (Jean Pierre Aumont), accidentally disc...
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Theodora Goes Wild
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little...
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Hangmen Also Die!
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assass...
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The Fighting Seabees
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work...
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A Star Is Born
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at...
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History Is Made at Night
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her ...
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Bombshell
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on....
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Dishonored Lady
Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with a...
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Walk a Crooked Mile
A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that t...
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Abandoned
A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring....
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The Company She Keeps
A lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer's fiance....
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Raw Deal
Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic...
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T-Men
Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to ...
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Blonde Venus
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retire...
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Lady Killer
An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Ho...
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Woman on the Run
Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspec...
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The Leopard Man
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders....
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Brewster's Millions
Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns tha...
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Cover Up
Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midweste...
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Topper Returns
Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, accidentally m...
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Saratoga
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y....
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Show Boat
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the ...
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You'll Find Out
The manager of Kay Kyser’s band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mans...
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Dragoon Wells Massacre
A cavalry officer, the sole survivor of an Indian attack, and a wagon load of prisoners travel throu...
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The Story of Dr. Wassell
As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to esca...
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Night After Night
A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl....
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The Fake
Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with ...
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The Diamond Wizard
While in London trying to nab several fugitives who stole a million dollars from a U.S. Treasury vau...
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Broadway Bill
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daugh...
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Under Eighteen
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the...
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Lady Scarface
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes ...
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Riding on Air
Smugglers are using a device for controlling airplanes in flight, and newspaper reporters from Chica...
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A Yank at Oxford
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win...
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All Hands on Deck
The admiral is coming, so a sailor and his buddy hide their girlfriend and pet turkey....
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The Firefly
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her...
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Love Before Breakfast
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for K...
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One Big Affair
Lawyer Jimmy Donovan thinks a bicycle tour through Mexico is just the thing to keep him out of troub...
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Drums of Tahiti
A smuggler (Dennis O'Keefe) buys a bride (Patricia Medina) in San Francisco to help him run guns in ...
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Lady of Vengeance
When publisher William Marshall learns his young ward Melissa Collins has committed suicide, he sets...
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Arise, My Love
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World Wa...
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Pop Always Pays
A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then franti...
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Las Vegas Shakedown
A teacher writing a book about gambling meets a hotel/casino owner threatened by a gangster....
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Wonder Bar
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, t...
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Doll Face
Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show becau...
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Mr. District Attorney
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case....
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Mr. District Attorney
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is in...
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Up in Mabel's Room
Newly-married Gary Ainsworth once gave his former sweetheart Mabel a sexy negligee with his initials...
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Getting Gertie's Garter
Dennis O'Keefe, newly married to lovely Sheila Ryan, is in a jam. O'Keefe's former girl friend, exot...
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That's Right – You're Wrong
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Ky...
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Broadway Limited
A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wan...
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The Affairs of Susan
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three form...
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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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Tahiti Honey
The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe ('Dennis O'Keefe (I)' ), are stranded ...
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Honeymoon Trio
This Educational Comedies one-reeler is all about Walter Catlett in his obnoxious mode as he somehow...
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He Was Her Man
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for hi...
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Chicago Syndicate
An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to ...
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Everything I Have Is Yours
A husband and wife act are hoping to find success on Broadway....
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Abroad with Two Yanks
Biff and Jeff, two American G.I.'s on furlough in Australia during The Second World War, are enjoyin...
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Passage West
In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murdere...
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Bowery Boy
Dr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy ganglea...
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The Great Dan Patch
David Palmer, a young chemist, returns to his father's Indiana farm, to marry a local school teacher...
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Smarty
Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being...
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify...
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Sensations of 1945
As dancer Ginny Walker performs on stage, a veiled woman in the audience stands up, accuses Ginny of...
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A Lost Lady
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man....
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The Eagle and the Hawk
Texas Ranger Todd Crayden is assigned a suicide mission South of the Border, to smuggle a government...
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Weekend for Three
Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet...
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Follow the Sun
A biographical film of Ben Hogan, from his start as a golf caddy to being considered one of golf's g...
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Hold That Kiss
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. C...
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Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
An auto mechanic suspects sabotage in a recent series of fatal racecar accidents....
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Angela
Dennis O'Keefe plays a GI who falls in love with Mara Lane in postwar Rome. Lane kills her boss, for...
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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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Reaching for the Moon
Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian B...
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Hello, Everybody!
The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sis...
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The Gilded Lily
Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her bes...
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Bachelor's Affairs
A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided...
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Vacation from Love
A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy....
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The Bad Man of Brimstone
A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own ...
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The Wedding Night
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett develops ro...
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Small Town Girl
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One ...
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Two Heads on a Pillow
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife....
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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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One New York Night
Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room ...
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Rose Bowl
Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; P...
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Swing High, Swing Low
In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees...
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Girl Missing
Showgirls Kay and June are stranded on Palm Beach when they become involved in the case of a fellow ...
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I'm No Angel
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she ...
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The Naked Flame
A Doukhobor sect in Northern Alberta tries to prevent the wedding of a Russian girl to a Canadian....
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Too Much Harmony
A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."...
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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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The Prizefighter and the Lady
An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title....
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Broadway Hostess
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer....
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Baby Face Harrington
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the po...
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Colleen
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees...
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Beloved Enemy
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks....
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Make Way for Tomorrow
An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to t...
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Personal Maid's Secret
A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised...
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Strike Me Pink
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters....
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Here Comes the Band
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an un...
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Alias the Deacon
A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight ...
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Mama Steps Out
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Fur...
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Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night ...
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economi...
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Jimmy the Gent
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and te...
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Inside Detroit
Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A....
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Fury
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the ...
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Moonlight Masquerade
Two business partners, John Bennett, Sr. and Robert Forrester, are starting to get nervous when the ...
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Girl from Havana
Rebels and a singer cause trouble for two U.S. oil-drillers in South America......
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Kid Millions
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has ...
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The Red Rider
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his ...
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The Great Gambini
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, includin...
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The Eagle and the Hawk
The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in...
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The Daring Young Man
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a...
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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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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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Duck Soup
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring S...
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Burning Gold
Jim Thornton is an independent wildcat driller in Califonia who hits a gusher and overnight riches, ...
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The Girl from Scotland Yard
A female agent tacks down the cause of mysterious explosions....
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I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now
In this low-budget musical, two sets of politically ambitious parents attempt to pair up their young...
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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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La Conga Nights
In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The st...
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Good Morning, Judge
A songwriter is sued for libel, and when he gets to court he discovers that his girlfriend is the pl...
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Captains Courageous
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transat...
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Scarface
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots...
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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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Gold Diggers of 1933
When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to...
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The Singing Kid
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperatin...
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Huddle
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company...
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Everything's Ducky
Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough take to the streets as pots and pans salesmen, wreaking havoc door t...
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From Hell to Heaven
The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby ...
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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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Piccadilly Jim
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at ...
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It's in the Air
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants ...
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Blood Money
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grif...
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Champagne Waltz
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its ...
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Murder at the Vanities
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vaniti...
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We're Rich Again
A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet....
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Cimarron
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a ...
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Rhythm on the Range
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as...
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The Big Broadcast of 1937
The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of con...
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Skyscraper Souls
After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his...
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Doubting Thomas
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local produc...
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She Had to Say Yes
Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Grea...
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The Man from Yesterday
A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She tr...
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All of Me
A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend does...
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Sinner Take All
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing f...
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Top of the Town
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom...
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The Phantom of the Air
An adventure serial presented in 12 chapters. Inventor Thomas Edmunds uses a super plane, 'The Phant...
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San Francisco
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days befo...
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Lady by Choice
To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother....
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Top Hat
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new ...
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Working Girls
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June...
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A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
Join vocalists broadcasting from the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles....
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The Cabin in the Cotton
Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance....
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13 Hours by Air
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to Calif...
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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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The Miracle Woman
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a p...
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The Chaser
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him,...
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The Accusing Finger
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly c...
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College Rhythm
The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the foo...
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Torch Singer
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and...
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42nd Street
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to r...
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Coming Out Party
In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her ...
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A Feather in Her Hat
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identit...
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Only Yesterday
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a...
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Imitation of Life
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The t...
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Love Affair
Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses....
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Big City Blues
An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfrien...
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A Bill of Divorcement
A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has ch...
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Every Night at Eight
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphon...
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Her Adventurous Night
A boy's tall tale about a gun puts his parents and school principal in jail....
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Central Park
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled ...
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Fog Over Frisco
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of ...
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Private Number
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son whi...
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Great Guy
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold t...
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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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Sail Into Danger
In this adventure, an American is forced by smugglers to sail his boat from Barcelona to Tangiers. T...
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Laugh and Get Rich
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've be...
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Cocktail Hour
Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebel...
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Mississippi
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in ...
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Yours for the Asking
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, i...
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The Woman Accused
Jeffrey and Glenda are two lovers about to embark on a three-day cruise to nowhere. Their plan is to...
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West of Broadway
A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry h...
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Confession
When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds h...
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Ann Carver's Profession
Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshado...
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Upperworld
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably un...
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White Lies
A powerful publisher John Mitchell whose pursuit of sensational headlines at the expense of all else...
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