George Raft
George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s. A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, today Raft is mostly known for his gangster roles in the original Scarface (1932), Each Dawn I Die (1939), and Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot, as a dancer in Bolero (1934), and a truck driver in They Drive by Night (1940).
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2486 |
| Birthday | 1901-09-26 |
| Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Also Known As | George Ranft, Georgie, Джордж Рафт, |
1959
Some Like It Hot
8.084/3806
In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but...
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Some Like It Hot
1960
Ocean's Eleven
6.366/388
Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.
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Ocean's Eleven
1932
Scarface
7.41/675
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to pr...
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Scarface
1968
The Movie Orgy
6.3/15
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and gov...
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The Movie Orgy
1956
Around the World in 80 Days
6.63/561
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve...
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Around the World in 80 Days
1954
Rogue Cop
5.3/12
A police detective on the take tries to catch his brother's killer.
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Rogue Cop
1941
Manpower
6.7/16
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tens...
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Manpower
1967
Casino Royale
5.259/806
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be...
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Casino Royale
1949
Red Light
5.8/23
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pay...
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Red Light
1978
Sextette
3.722/18
On the day of her wedding to her sixth husband, a glamorous silver screen sex symbol is asked to intervene in a political dispute between nations, whi...
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Sextette
1968
Skidoo
4.7/23
Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, Go...
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Skidoo
1955
A Bullet for Joey
5.685/27
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to car...
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A Bullet for Joey
1944
Follow the Boys
5.3/10
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical...
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Follow the Boys
1943
Background to Danger
6.596/26
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
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Background to Danger
1961
The Ladies Man
6.3/132
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is...
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The Ladies Man
1945
Johnny Angel
5.9/29
George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.
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Johnny Angel
1939
Each Dawn I Die
6.795/61
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the re...
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Each Dawn I Die
1980
The Man with Bogart's Face
5.9/12
In this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so much that he has his features altered to look exactly li...
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The Man with Bogart's Face
1935
The Glass Key
6.4/13
When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-h...
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The Glass Key
1929
Queen of the Night Clubs
0/0
Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.
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Queen of the Night Clubs
1937
Souls at Sea
6.3/12
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
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Souls at Sea
1949
Johnny Allegro
6.353/17
Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hun...
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Johnny Allegro
1954
Black Widow
6.304/51
When a young stage hopeful is found dead, suspicion falls on her mentor, a successful Broadway producer.
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Black Widow
1946
Nocturne
5.862/29
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn'...
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Nocturne
1940
The House Across the Bay
5.5/14
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be s...
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The House Across the Bay
1938
You and Me
6.5/44
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Am...
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You and Me
1939
I Stole a Million
6/1
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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I Stole a Million
1940
They Drive by Night
6.894/132
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distri...
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They Drive by Night
1947
Intrigue
5.2/4
Dishonorably discharged from the Army Air Corps, Brad Dunham (George Raft) disconsolately decides to try his luck with Shanghai's postwar black market...
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Intrigue
1949
A Dangerous Profession
5.6/15
A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation involving a former flame.
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A Dangerous Profession
1941
Breakdowns of 1941
7/3
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.
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Breakdowns of 1941
1932
Night After Night
6.15/20
A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.
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Night After Night
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
6.5/2
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1952
Loan Shark
5.548/21
A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factory suffer violence at the hands of the loan sharker...
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Loan Shark
1948
Race Street
5.8/19
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
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Race Street
1929
Gold Diggers of Broadway
7/2
Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.
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Gold Diggers of Broadway
1946
Whistle Stop
4.296/27
When beautiful Mary returns to her "whistle stop" hometown, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and...
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Whistle Stop
1967
Five Golden Dragons
5.1/19
While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden D...
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Five Golden Dragons
1966
The Upper Hand
6.3/42
In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an unde...
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The Upper Hand
1938
Spawn of the North
5.7/11
Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.
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Spawn of the North
1947
Christmas Eve
5.1/13
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three l...
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Christmas Eve
1950
We Will All Go to Paris
5.2/5
The film tells the story of three presenters on Radio X, an amateur clandestine radio station.
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We Will All Go to Paris
1942
Broadway
5.5/3
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
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Broadway
1932
If I Had a Million
6.6/45
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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If I Had a Million
1959
Jet Over The Atlantic
5.4/7
Director Byron Haskin's 1960 airplane-in jeopardy drama stars Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft, Ilona Massey, Margaret Lindsay, George Macready...
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Jet Over The Atlantic
1964
The Patsy
6.2/56
Eccentric bellhop Stanley Belt is recruited unexpectedly by the comedy team of a recently deceased entertainer. Stanley struggles to become a song-and...
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The Patsy
1931
Palmy Days
7/7
Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") where Eddie Cantor, the overworked assistant to a phony psychi...
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Palmy Days
2008
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
6.9/7
Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film.
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Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
1931
Quick Millions
7.1/10
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pill...
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Quick Millions
1951
I'll Get You for This
6.8/4
Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino. N...
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I'll Get You for This
1933
Pick-up
4/5
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, sh...
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Pick-up
1932
Winner Take All
4.7/7
Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves...
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Winner Take All
1934
The Trumpet Blows
5/1
In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent...
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The Trumpet Blows
1934
Limehouse Blues
3.714/7
Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seamy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloo...
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Limehouse Blues
1973
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
6.8/10
A documentary filmography of Howard Hawks, including lengthy footage of Hawks himself discussing his films and many clips from his best-known pictures...
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
1934
Bolero
6.3/10
The complicated relationship between an ambitious, ruthless nightclub dancer and the woman he loves.
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Bolero
1953
The Man From Cairo
5/6
"The Man from Cairo", a Michaeldavid production for distribution by Lippert, with Ray Enright the only credited director on the film print, finds Mike...
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The Man From Cairo
1949
Outpost in Morocco
4.8/10
Captain Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel and find out what he c...
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Outpost in Morocco
1933
Midnight Club
0/0
With a sparkling script by Leslie Charteris, creator of "The Saint" - the latest crime wave has Scotland Yard baffled. Commissioner Hope (Sir Guy Stan...
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Midnight Club
1945
Nob Hill
5.7/3
A Barbary Coast saloon owner hopes to marry his way into San Francisco's high society. Directed by Henry Hathaway, the film was released in 1945.
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Nob Hill
1935
She Couldn't Take It
4.5/2
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-cent...
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She Couldn't Take It
1935
Every Night at Eight
6.7/3
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing,...
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Every Night at Eight
1934
All of Me
6/1
A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.
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All of Me
1932
Madame Racketeer
4.8/5
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a...
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Madame Racketeer
1933
The Bowery
5/10
"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was k...
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The Bowery
1932
Dancers in the Dark
4.8/5
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gan...
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Dancers in the Dark
1935
Stolen Harmony
6/1
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks...
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Stolen Harmony
1932
Night World
6.667/15
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's st...
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Night World
1936
It Had to Happen
5.5/2
A poor boy rises to power in politics.
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It Had to Happen
1936
Yours for the Asking
3.5/2
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income....
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Yours for the Asking
1932
Taxi!
6.6/33
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered...
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Taxi!
1929
Side Street
5.2/5
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
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Side Street
1933
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
0/0
Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots.
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
2011
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
9/1
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of Al...
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
1946
Mr. Ace
5.6/7
A rich society woman uses a gangster to win a congressional election.
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Mr. Ace
1994
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
0/0
As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race — on stage, in films, on radio and tele...
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Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
1932
Under-Cover Man
4.5/2
When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring...
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Under-Cover Man
1952
Escape Route
5.222/9
When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.
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Escape Route
1943
Stage Door Canteen
6.1/18
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of theatre and film appear and host a recreational...
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Stage Door Canteen
1935
Rumba
6/7
A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.
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Rumba
1950
Riviera Dream
0/0
This black & white novelty film features Egyptian actor Alex d'Arcy -- playing the part of a discharged American soldier -- traveling the French Rivie...
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Riviera Dream
1972
Hammersmith Is Out
5.7/7
The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient off...
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Hammersmith Is Out
1935
The Fashion Side of Hollywood
6/1
Compilation of lighting and costume tests from various films, most notably Sternberg's "The Devil Is a Woman" (1935).
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The Fashion Side of Hollywood
1972
Deadhead Miles
5.5/8
A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non seq...
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Deadhead Miles
1940
Breakdowns of 1940
4/1
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.
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Breakdowns of 1940
1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
6.5/3
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche...
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
6.1/8
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1939
The Lady's from Kentucky
0/0
Good-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard times. His one out is a marker for half-ownership in a...
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The Lady's from Kentucky
1931
Hush Money
0/0
Story of a girl who tries to live down the past and marries a wealthy man. Blackmail attempt by old associate foiled by friendly detective.
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Hush Money
1941
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
6/1
Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's co...
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1939
Invisible Stripes
6.096/26
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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Invisible Stripes
1942
Breakdowns of 1942
6/1
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
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Breakdowns of 1942
1964
For Those Who Think Young
5.25/10
A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.
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For Those Who Think Young
1980
Gay, Gay Hollywood
0/0
The short shows various clips from Hollywood feature films that, like the title of the film, are full of double entendre. It includes a segment from a...
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Gay, Gay Hollywood
1992
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
0/0
One way or another, the Hollywood police have been kept busy with murders on their ground. There are numerous theories about the killings of Thelma To...
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Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
1934
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
0/0
Essentially an advertisement for Murder at the Vanities (1934). Features Chico Marx, W.C. Fields, Duke Ellington and many others.
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