Edmund Mortimer
Birthday: 1874-08-21
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edmund Mortimer (21 August 1874 – 21 May 1944) was an American actor and film director. He appeared in 251 films between 1913 and 1945. He also directed 23 films between 1918 and 1928. He was born in New York, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.
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The Male Animal
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspect...
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Dodsworth
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that the...
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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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The Devil Bat
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have...
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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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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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Tell Your Children
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have d...
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Sunny
A circus performer who falls in love with a rich car dealer's son, against her family's wishes. Feat...
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The Mad Ghoul
A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning...
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The Dark Horse
The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Z...
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It's Love I'm After
An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady....
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The Night of Nights
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left hi...
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia....
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Under Your Spell
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bri...
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Frisco Kid
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him ris...
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Kid Galahad
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid...
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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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Arrowsmith
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use 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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Exposed
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue...
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Crashing Through Danger
Three electrical linemen work through the hazardous conditions of the Depression Era. Sparks fly, an...
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Breakfast for Two
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted hi...
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The Gay Deception
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, ...
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Frisco Lil
Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her fat...
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Bathing Beauty
After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal l...
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Werewolf of London
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster....
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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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Vogues of 1938
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reis...
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Live, Love and Learn
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get mar...
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Smashing the Rackets
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothin...
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A Man to Remember
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients....
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The President Vanishes
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American pol...
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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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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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Going Places
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargain...
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Change of Heart
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fl...
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Parole Girl
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being releas...
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Broadway Gondolier
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job....
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Give Me Your Heart
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman....
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Sorority House
A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join....
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Tell No Tales
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save ...
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington....
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Zenobia
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage...
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Broadway Hostess
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer....
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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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The Ship That Died
This MGM An Historical Mystery short traces the final voyage of the Mary Celeste, a ship discovered ...
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Stage Mother
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls eve...
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The White Angel
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurs...
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Three Who Loved
A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling....
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Champagne Charlie
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry....
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Buck Rogers
Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught ...
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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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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 sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until ...
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Wuthering Heights
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns fro...
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Midnight
An unemployed American showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian high society....
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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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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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At the Circus
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Cart...
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We Are Not Alone
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife...
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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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The Daredevil Drivers
To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her r...
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First Love
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncl...
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Raffles
Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. M...
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Sergeant Madden
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime....
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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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Eternally Yours
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say pre...
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Arsène Lupin Returns
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle i...
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Kentucky
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby...
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I Married a Witch
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter ...
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Holiday
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the s...
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He ...
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Libeled Lady
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she f...
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Missing Witnesses
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City....
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Transatlantic
As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to th...
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The Yellow Ticket
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British ...
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The Glass Key
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help d...
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Woman Against Woman
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence...
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The Lady Objects
A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her...
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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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The Saint Takes Over
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the a...
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The Awful Truth
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start underm...
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chine...
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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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The Earl of Chicago
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Ear...
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Edison, the Man
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story star...
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Man's Castle
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will sup...
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The Lodger
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lo...
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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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Guilty Hands
A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and th...
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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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Mr. Skitch
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and ...
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I Sell Anything
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?...
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Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyll...
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Freshman Love
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like ...
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Foreign Correspondent
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the i...
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Little Nellie Kelly
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and matern...
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Hired Wife
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his ...
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Waterloo Bridge
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he ...
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A Chump at Oxford
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disast...
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The Son of Monte Cristo
Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil Gen...
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Before I Hang
Dr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and combating ag...
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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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They Drive by Night
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck b...
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That Certain Age
Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, new...
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My Love Came Back
Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arran...
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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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Mr. Skeffington
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth...
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In Old Missouri
The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is...
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Girl in 313
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one ...
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Island of Doomed Men
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamon...
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Road to Singapore
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer....
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort....
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Who's Superstitious?
This short film examines the origins of several superstitions including crossing your fingers, knock...
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Stage Door
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls fr...
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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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Music for Madame
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks wh...
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You Were Never Lovelier
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer....
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Honolulu Lu
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a g...
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The Girl in 419
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a ...
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That Girl from Paris
Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her j...
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Curtain Call
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in ...
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train h...
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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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Brooklyn Orchid
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort....
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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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Break of Hearts
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music t...
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What Do You Think? (Number Two)
This short presents the possibility that a dead person's spirit can intervene in the lives of the li...
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What Do You Think? (Number Three)
This short looks at the possibility that those who have passed on can communicate with us in ways we...
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Neptune's Daughter
The daughter of King Neptune takes on human form to avenge the death of her young sister, who was ca...
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Chained
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to div...
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Penrod's Double Trouble
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical...
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Crash Dive
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant ra...
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His Butler's Sister
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway....
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Crazy House
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie....
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The Constant Nymph
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. W...
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The Spider Woman
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain be...
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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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True to Life
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents ...
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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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3 Kids and a Queen
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subseq...
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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 Moonstone
Pursued by three Indian priests after stealing “The Moonstone” a valuable diamond from the eye of an...
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If You Could Only Cook
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion....
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Page Miss Glory
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant cel...
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The Major and the Minor
Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train...
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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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Intermezzo: A Love Story
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her ...
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the m...
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The Wet Parade
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich ...
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Two Against the World
Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to...
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Satan Met a Lady
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress...
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Incendiary Blonde
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York n...
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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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Female
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of bu...
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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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Goin' to Town
Cleo Borden grew up in a saloon, loves the men—and the men love her—but her aspirations lead her to ...
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Weird Woman
After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was ra...
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Belle of the Yukon
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest c...
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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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Stand Up and Cheer!
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in ord...
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Sadie McKee
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house....
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Platinum Blonde
Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her hig...
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The Phantom President
Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for sav...
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The Common Law
Based on the Novel by Robert W. Chambers of New York City life among the upper-crust, Valerie West ,...
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The Good Fairy
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, d...
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Red-Headed Woman
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair...
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What Price Hollywood?
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film dir...
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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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Fast Company
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller....
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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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Thirty Day Princess
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contr...
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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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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, ...
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When Tomorrow Comes
A waitress destined for a better life falls in love with a handsome stranger, only to find that he i...
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Upperworld
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably un...
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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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Lawyer Man
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York ...
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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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The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance....
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Follow the Boys
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star...
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