Franklin Pangborn
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Franklin Pangborn (January 23, 1889 – July 20, 1958) was an American comedic character actor famous for playing small but memorable roles with comic flair. He appeared in scores of feature films playing essentially the same character: prissy, polite, elegant, highly energetic, often officious, fastidious, somewhat nervous, prone to becoming flustered but essentially upbeat, and with immediately recognizable high-speed, patter-type speech. He typically played an officious desk clerk in a hotel, a self-important musician, a fastidious headwaiter, an enthusiastic birdwatcher, and the like, and was usually put in a situation of frustration or flustered by the antics of others. Pangborn was an effective foil for many major comedians.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.2701 |
| Birthday | 1889-01-23 |
| Place of Birth | Newark, New Jersey, USA |
| Also Known As | Joseph Franklin Pangborn, Franklyn Pangborn, Frank Pangborn, |
1940
The Bank Dick
6.511/131
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank gu...
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The Bank Dick
1930
Reno or Bust
0/0
A scrapping married couple, Franklin Pangborn and Bernice Elliott, are going to Reno to get a divorce. They have a scheme in order to obtain cruelty a...
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Reno or Bust
1947
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
6.375/32
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, de...
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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1934
King Kelly of the U.S.A.
5.2/5
A theatrical troupe headed by a flashy showman finds itself in the tiny--and bankrupt--kingdom of Belgardia. The showman falls in love with the daught...
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King Kelly of the U.S.A.
1949
My Dream Is Yours
6.457/23
Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace him. In New York...
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My Dream Is Yours
1937
A Star Is Born
7.184/237
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her ido...
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A Star Is Born
1936
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
7.542/404
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the bi...
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1938
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
7.042/106
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a...
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Bluebeard's 8th Wife
1942
The Palm Beach Story
7/208
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an...
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The Palm Beach Story
1942
Now, Voyager
7.423/228
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
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Now, Voyager
1940
Christmas in July
6.978/90
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford Ho...
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Christmas in July
1941
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
6.961/38
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little...
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
1942
George Washington Slept Here
6.444/18
New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsy...
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George Washington Slept Here
1944
Hail the Conquering Hero
7.164/76
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to...
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Hail the Conquering Hero
1944
The Great Moment
5.795/22
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and...
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The Great Moment
1938
Carefree
6.63/69
Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunders...
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Carefree
1941
Tillie the Toiler
8/1
While attending stenographer school, Tillie Jones meets office boy Mac, who falls in love with her at first sight. Though Tillie likes Mac as a friend...
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Tillie the Toiler
1957
The Story of Mankind
4.429/28
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
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The Story of Mankind
1938
Just Around the Corner
5.75/12
Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.
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Just Around the Corner
1941
The Flame of New Orleans
6.62/25
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
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The Flame of New Orleans
1948
Romance on the High Seas
6.643/35
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband che...
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Romance on the High Seas
1937
Stage Door
7.049/133
A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought...
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Stage Door
1939
Fifth Avenue Girl
7/25
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.
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Fifth Avenue Girl
1941
Sullivan's Travels
7.408/507
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise a...
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Sullivan's Travels
1938
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
6.854/24
Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secr...
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1936
The Mandarin Mystery
4.853/17
Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.
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The Mandarin Mystery
1945
The Horn Blows at Midnight
5.81/21
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactl...
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The Horn Blows at Midnight
1938
Four's a Crowd
5.433/15
A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.
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Four's a Crowd
1937
Easy Living
7.147/68
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...
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Easy Living
1938
Topper Takes a Trip
6.615/26
Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost...
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Topper Takes a Trip
1933
Trying Out Torchy
0/0
The final entry in the Torchy short series starring Ray Cooke as things go wrong at a gathering.
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Trying Out Torchy
1945
Hollywood and Vine
4.4/10
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted...
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Hollywood and Vine
1933
Design for Living
7.132/209
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
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Design for Living
1932
The Half-Naked Truth
5.115/13
A carnival pitchman (Tracy) finagles his girlfriend, a fiery hoochie dancer (Vélez), into a major Broadway revue under the auspices of an impresario (...
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The Half-Naked Truth
1943
Reveille with Beverly
7.5/6
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a n...
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Reveille with Beverly
1937
Swing High, Swing Low
5.364/11
In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved i...
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Swing High, Swing Low
1934
Cockeyed Cavaliers
6/5
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
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Cockeyed Cavaliers
1947
I'll Be Yours
6.2/5
A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.
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I'll Be Yours
1931
Blue of the Night
6/4
Starring Bing Crosby as himself in a short comedy/romance telling a tale of mistaken identity. Two-reeler; directed by Mack Sennett
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Blue of the Night
1939
Broadway Serenade
6.6/5
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer...
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Broadway Serenade
1932
A Fool's Advice
6.667/3
An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.
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A Fool's Advice
1930
Her Man
5.196/23
A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.
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Her Man
1937
Danger – Love at Work
7/5
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
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Danger – Love at Work
1947
Calendar Girl
5.636/11
Around the turn of the century, two young men, Johnnie Bennett, a composer and Steve Adams, an artist, go to New York City to make their fortune. They...
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Calendar Girl
1937
It Happened in Hollywood
6.333/15
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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It Happened in Hollywood
1942
Obliging Young Lady
6/3
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
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Obliging Young Lady
1943
Holy Matrimony
6.8/15
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
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Holy Matrimony
1933
Art in the Raw
3.333/3
Aspiring artist Edgar, with family in tow, relocates to Greenwich Village - according to his wife, mother-in-law, and brother-in-law the right environ...
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Art in the Raw
1928
A Blonde for a Night
5.688/8
After an argument, a newlywed decides to test her husband's fidelity by disguising herself as a blonde.
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A Blonde for a Night
1934
Manhattan Love Song
5.714/7
After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe th...
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Manhattan Love Song
1933
Menu
5.4/15
A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.
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Menu
1934
Tomorrow's Youth
10/1
A look at how his parents' divorce affects the life of a young boy.
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Tomorrow's Youth
1945
Tell It to a Star
10/1
Carol (Ruth Terry), the cigarette girl at a swank Palm Springs hotel, dreams of singing in the establishment's nightclub. She gets a chance when her w...
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Tell It to a Star
1937
All Over Town
6.429/7
Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being haunted.
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All Over Town
1933
Sweepings
5.75/8
Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the busine...
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Sweepings
1933
Dream Stuff
6/3
Walter Catlett is the cousin to some squeaky voiced Dagwood Bumstead type who can't get a girl. Can he browbeat his cousin into swiping pretty girl fr...
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Dream Stuff
1927
My Friend from India
7.5/2
Wealthy young man about town, Tommy Valentine (Franklin Pangborn) comes to the aid of Barbara Smith (Elinor Fair). But before he can learn anything ab...
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My Friend from India
1932
The Loud Mouth
6.75/4
Del Lord, famous director of the Three Stooges shorts, directed this story of one man in various comical vignettes playing the "loud mouth" - a guy wh...
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The Loud Mouth
1941
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
5.5/6
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as h...
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A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1927
Cradle Snatchers
3.75/4
To cure their flirtatious husbands of consorting with flappers, three wives-- Susan Martin, Ethel Drake, and Kitty Ladd-- arrange with three college b...
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Cradle Snatchers
1938
The Girl Downstairs
4.7/10
A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falli...
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The Girl Downstairs
1936
Hats Off
5/4
The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo Al...
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Hats Off
1930
Not So Dumb
5.375/8
Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she's not so dumb after all.
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Not So Dumb
1936
Tango
6/2
Believing his wife to be unfaithful, a husband deserts her and his child. Destitute, the woman is forced to take a job as a tango dancer.
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Tango
1930
The Chumps
3.667/3
When the story begins, a newly married couple (Franklin Pangborn and Marjorie Beebe) board a train for their honeymoon. Soon they make friends with wh...
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The Chumps
1932
Jimmy's New Yacht
4/3
A young lady is wooed by two men
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Jimmy's New Yacht
1931
Torchy Passes the Buck
0/0
Torchy (Ray Cooke) is an office boy....sort of like a secretary that does a variety of tasks for the boss. Well, when the boss is out one day, a frien...
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Torchy Passes the Buck
1932
Torchy Turns the Trick
9/1
When he bother can't take Dorothy Dix to a fancy dinner, office boy Ray Cooke escorts her. He also has a chance to win a contract for the business by...
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Torchy Turns the Trick
1931
Torchy
0/0
Fired from his job as office boy, Torchy gets involved with a phony gold mine promoter.
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Torchy
1932
Torchy's Night Cap
10/1
Ray Cooke is Torchy the Office boy, told to deliver a letter; through a series of accidents, he winds up with the letter torn and can't explain it to...
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Torchy's Night Cap
1932
Torchy's Two Toots
7/1
When his boss goes out of town on a big deal and leaves important securities behind, it's up to office boy Ray Cooke to get them to him tout suite.
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Torchy's Two Toots
1932
Torchy Raises the Auntie
7/1
Ray Cooke's employer needs to raise $100,000 to retain control of his company. He hopes to get them from his cousins. When the old ladies show up, the...
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Torchy Raises the Auntie
1932
Torchy Rolls His Own
7/1
In the eighth of the series of short sound comedies, Ray Cooke as the office boy 'Torchy' is thought to be a whiz at polo -- don't ask; in these short...
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Torchy Rolls His Own
1932
Torchy's Busy Day
10/1
Edmund Breese, Ray Cooke's boss, is trying to buy a sausage factory. However, the cash hasn't come through, so he sends an insulting telegram to the o...
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Torchy's Busy Day
1933
Torchy's Kitty Coup
8/1
Dot Farley is throwing a benefit for cats but hasn't any. This means she calls up her husband, Edmund Breese, to bring some. He being busy with busine...
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Torchy's Kitty Coup
1933
Torchy's Loud Spooker
9/1
When the story begins, you learn that Torchy's boss has a problem with his blood pressure and the doctor recommends he take a rest. So, he plans on ta...
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Torchy's Loud Spooker
1933
Torchy Turns Turtle
8/1
One of those gangs of Arab spies who use to infest Wall Street in their colorful native costumes steals a super-secret bomb formula from Edmund Breese...
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Torchy Turns Turtle
1933
Professional Sweetheart
6/5
Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality,...
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Professional Sweetheart
1937
High Hat
5.75/4
An opera singer whose career is on the wane finds newfound fame doing popular songs on the radio.
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High Hat
1946
Lover Come Back
7.125/4
A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.
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Lover Come Back
1934
Flirtation
5.583/6
A naive farmer encounters a beautiful burlesque dancer on the streets of New York and agrees to pose as her husband during her mother's visit.
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Flirtation
1941
Weekend for Three
6.75/4
Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet Jim turns genuinely dismayed once Randy arrives a...
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Weekend for Three
1932
Tee for Two
8/1
A musical revue in which a golfer is knocked unconscious by a golf ball and dreams that the Country Club is loaded with beautiful girls.
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Tee for Two
1937
Dangerous Holiday
5.333/3
A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
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Dangerous Holiday
1937
She's Dangerous
7/2
A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.
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She's Dangerous
1937
Rich Relations
5.5/2
A secretary finds herself being romanced by a "ladies man". What she doesn't know is that it's her boss who really loves her.
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Rich Relations
1932
Doctor's Orders
9/1
Doctor's Orders is a 1932 comedy
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Doctor's Orders
1938
Doctor Rhythm
7.5/2
Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.
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Doctor Rhythm
1937
It's All Yours
5.4/5
Jimmy Barnes arrives from Europe to be educated by his multi-millionaire uncle, Edward J. Barnes and in five years the extravagant escapes of Jimmy, n...
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It's All Yours
1938
Always Goodbye
7.188/8
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is...
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Always Goodbye
1930
Cheer Up and Smile
10/1
When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especiall...
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Cheer Up and Smile
1938
Three Blind Mice
6.143/7
Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with, Pamela poses as a socialite a...
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Three Blind Mice
1930
Breakfast in Bed
10/1
A woman, affectionately called Blondie by her husband, hires a cook called Blondie by both her boyfriends. When all five end up in the house at the sa...
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Breakfast in Bed
1940
Spring Parade
6.917/12
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she wil...
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Spring Parade
1930
A Lady Surrenders
4.5/4
A wealthy industrialist's wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean trip. He thinks she's left him for good, so he mar...
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A Lady Surrenders
1932
Over the Counter
4.4/5
In this musical short, the son of a department store owner replaces the regular sales girls with chorus girls.
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Over the Counter
1945
You Came Along
7.333/3
War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with...
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You Came Along
1933
The Important Witness
7.5/2
A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and she...
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The Important Witness
1938
Joy of Living
5.875/8
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic...
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Joy of Living
1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
9/2
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
1927
Getting Gertie's Garter
8/4
Attorney Ken Walrick, not quite realizing the difference between a garter and a bracelet, gives Gertie Darling a bejewelled garter with his photograph...
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Getting Gertie's Garter
1945
Hollywood Victory Caravan
5.6/10
A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.
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Hollywood Victory Caravan
1932
What Price Taxi
5/2
Ill-tempered Billy proves troublesome for fellow taxi drivers Franklin and Clyde.
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What Price Taxi
1942
Call Out the Marines
6/2
Two Marine sergeants (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe) flirt with a cafe girl (Binnie Barnes) in San Diego, then find out she's a spy.
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Call Out the Marines
1935
The Captain Hits the Ceiling
7/1
Franklin gets into a disagreement with a tough sea captain. However, he doesn't find out until later that the captain is his fiance's father.
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The Captain Hits the Ceiling
1938
Vivacious Lady
7.022/68
College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.
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Vivacious Lady
1933
Easy on the Eyes
9/1
A Mack Sennett Talking Comedy, released through Paramount Pictures, starring Franklin Pangborn and featuring Dorothy Granger.
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Easy on the Eyes
1937
She Married an Artist
10/1
Because Thornwood's portraits of comely model Sally Dennis are in such great demand, he is obliged to spend virtually all his time with Sally, which p...
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She Married an Artist
1931
A Woman of Experience
6.2/5
It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nu...
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A Woman of Experience
1936
Doughnuts and Society
8/1
Kate Flannagan and Belle Dugan operate a downtown coffee shop and, while dispensing their locally-famous doughnuts, engage in their favorite pastime,...
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Doughnuts and Society
1937
The Life of the Party
6.2/5
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
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The Life of the Party
1933
Bed of Roses
6.133/15
A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin.
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Bed of Roses
1937
Dangerous Number
4.857/7
Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry....
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Dangerous Number
1937
Living on Love
6.286/7
A man and a woman, who have never met, are forced by pecuniary circumstances to share the same basement apartment in shifts.
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Living on Love
1929
The Sap
10/1
A small town dimwit takes the blame for his brother-in-law's crime.
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The Sap
1934
Young and Beautiful
4.625/8
Bob Preston, publicity man for Superba Pictures, uses his publicity skills in an attempt to make this fiancée June Dale the most famous movie star in...
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Young and Beautiful
1937
We Have Our Moments
7.167/3
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down the...
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We Have Our Moments
1937
I'll Take Romance
6.333/3
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, how...
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I'll Take Romance
1940
Turnabout
6.036/14
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.
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Turnabout
1935
Eight Bells
6.5/2
A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge.
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Eight Bells
1941
Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case
7.5/2
Like the first entry, this one is played mostly for laughs, with Radio's Mister District Attorney. James Ellison replacing Dennis O'Keefe as feckless...
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Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case
1937
The Lady Escapes
7/1
A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy.
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The Lady Escapes
1936
Three Smart Girls
6.5/24
The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and reunite him wi...
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Three Smart Girls
1940
Hit Parade of 1941
6.2/5
In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station. He begins looking...
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Hit Parade of 1941
1942
Moonlight Masquerade
6.25/4
Two business partners, John Bennett, Sr. and Robert Forrester, are starting to get nervous when the birthday of Victoria, Forrester's daughter, approa...
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Moonlight Masquerade
1944
My Best Gal
9/1
A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.
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My Best Gal
1935
She Married Her Boss
7.5/2
A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his sp...
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She Married Her Boss
1933
Parachute Jumper
5.85/21
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
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Parachute Jumper
1936
Give Us This Night
7/2
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Meriv...
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Give Us This Night
1942
What's Cookin'?
7/3
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the c...
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What's Cookin'?
1937
Love on Toast
5.75/4
The plot concerns a female press agent who must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a soup company. The Mr. Man...
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Love on Toast
1943
Stage Door Canteen
6.289/19
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
$1,000 a Minute
5.923/13
Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
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$1,000 a Minute
1937
When Love Is Young
10/1
In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no one notices her. Later a m...
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When Love Is Young
1941
Where Did You Get That Girl?
6/4
In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording contra...
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Where Did You Get That Girl?
1944
Allergic to Love
8/1
Newlywed bliss surround O'Driscoll and Beery until they get on board the ship for their honeymoon in South America. Then she starts sneezing, and hay...
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Allergic to Love
1943
Never a Dull Moment
7/2
Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).
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Never a Dull Moment
1943
Honeymoon Lodge
8/1
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-d...
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Honeymoon Lodge
1934
My Grandfather's Clock
7/1
At Phwitterby-on-Thames, England, a murder has occurred and Philo Holmes and Dr. Watkins are out to investigate it. It seems as though there was a sec...
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My Grandfather's Clock
1949
The Eternal Melody
7/1
A group of struggling artists, poets, and musicians struggle to survive in squalor without giving up their artistic ideals.
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The Eternal Melody
1933
International House
5.545/22
Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house...
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International House
1936
To Mary - with Love
5.667/3
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keepin...
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To Mary - with Love
1931
Next Door Neighbors
10/1
Song composer Howard Green is frustrated by disturbances his wife, in-laws, and landlord while writing his latest song.
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Next Door Neighbors
1946
Two Guys from Milwaukee
4.944/9
Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the micro...
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Two Guys from Milwaukee
1933
Flying Down to Rio
6.296/71
An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance,...
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Flying Down to Rio
1926
Exit Smiling
7.875/8
The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's (Fla...
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Exit Smiling
1930
Sunny
6.625/4
A showgirl falls for a society boy but has to win over his family.
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Sunny
1934
Unknown Blonde
3.25/4
An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
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Unknown Blonde
1936
Don't Gamble with Love
10/1
Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to st...
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Don't Gamble with Love
1930
Poor Aubrey
6/2
A poor clerk pretends that he has lots of money.
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Poor Aubrey
1958
The Unchained Goddess
7/3
A scientist and a writer explain the various meteorological phenomena to Meteora, the goddess of weather, while giving an insight into the technology...
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The Unchained Goddess
1935
Hollywood Trouble
10/1
An oil-rich rube who aspires to stardom is bilked by a phony acting school.
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Hollywood Trouble
1933
Wild Poses
7.385/13
Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.
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Wild Poses
1933
Headline Shooter
6.333/6
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
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Headline Shooter
1928
On Trial
7/2
A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful and decides to defend him. However, he is very in...
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On Trial
1937
Thrill of a Lifetime
7/2
"Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He i...
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Thrill of a Lifetime
1934
College Rhythm
5.6/5
The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After gra...
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College Rhythm
1936
Swing Banditry
7/1
A group of musicians is determined to appear on a radio program.
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Swing Banditry
1932
The Giddy Age
8/1
A quirky short about Love and Liars.
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The Giddy Age
1940
Public Deb No. 1
4.9/5
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his c...
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Public Deb No. 1
1943
Two Weeks to Live
4.5/2
When Abner is mistakenly diagnosed as having only two weeks to live, his partner gets the idea that they can make a ton of money by having Abner perfo...
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Two Weeks to Live
1936
My Man Godfrey
7.576/389
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a...
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My Man Godfrey
1933
Sing, Bing, Sing
5.444/9
After singing over the radio, Bing Crosby transmits a signal to elope to his sweeheart Helen; but her father is listening too. Undaunted, Bing tries,...
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Sing, Bing, Sing
1937
Bad Housekeeping
8/1
Edgar Kennedy's wife decides he should do the housework for the day, the same day the piano tuner Franklin Pangborn comes by.
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Bad Housekeeping
1927
The Girl in the Pullman
10/1
Dr. Burton's divorce is about to be effective when his flappery ex-wife Irene pays him a visit turning everything upside down. To avoid explanations t...
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The Girl in the Pullman
1945
See My Lawyer
7.333/3
Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub own...
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See My Lawyer
1937
She Had to Eat
5.6/5
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con...
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She Had to Eat
1941
Bachelor Daddy
8/1
The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.
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Bachelor Daddy
1943
Crazy House
6/4
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names eva...
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Crazy House
1944
Reckless Age
9/1
Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one...
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Reckless Age
1935
She Couldn't Take It
5.333/3
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
1927
Finger Prints
7/1
A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.
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Finger Prints
1933
Only Yesterday
7.333/6
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his...
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Only Yesterday
1932
Lighthouse Love
0/0
Two marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol.
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Lighthouse Love
1934
Imitation of Life
7.029/87
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face fami...
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Imitation of Life
1937
Step Lively, Jeeves!
6/4
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
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Step Lively, Jeeves!
1939
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
4/1
Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating stars including Irene Dare and Phyllis Ann Thomos...
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Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1932
Lighthouse Love
6.667/3
Two marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol.
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Lighthouse Love
1934
Many Happy Returns
5.333/4
Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual...
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Many Happy Returns
1934
Strictly Dynamite
6.5/4
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
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Strictly Dynamite
1942
Strictly in the Groove
9/1
College student, cattle baron, confused love story.
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Strictly in the Groove
1929
Lady of the Pavements
5.188/8
Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a "girl of the...
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Lady of the Pavements
1940
The Villain Still Pursued Her
5.231/13
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get...
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The Villain Still Pursued Her
1935
The Headline Woman
4.6/5
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping...
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The Headline Woman
1949
Down Memory Lane
7/1
This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo a...
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Down Memory Lane
1931
Hollywood Halfbacks
9/1
Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that could...
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Hollywood Halfbacks
1936
The Luckiest Girl in the World
7.25/2
A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.
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The Luckiest Girl in the World
1935
She Married Her Boss
7.5/2
A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his sp...
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She Married Her Boss
1934
That's Gratitude
8/1
Fly-by-night stage producer Bob Grant inadvertently saves the life of small-towner Thomas Maxwell. The grateful Maxwell invites Grant to move in with...
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That's Gratitude
1932
The Candid Camera
7/1
Mrs. Townes has been refused a new car by her husband for 3 years while he's driving in cabs all over town. But when Jack Townes is exposed in a newsr...
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The Candid Camera
1927
The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary
9/1
Film was released on August 8th, 1927
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The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary
1933
Divorce Sweets
0/0
A pair of private detectives, Peek and Boo, are hired to prove a wife is cheating to secure a divorce for her husband. The film focuses on the humorou...
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Divorce Sweets
1976
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
0/0
Bob's favorite memories and funniest moments on TV The biggest Stars! ... The biggest laughs! On DVD for the first time, this special 90 minute coll...
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