Hal K. Dawson
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Hal K. Dawson (October 17, 1896 – February 17, 1987) was an American actor. The films he performed in include: Dr. Socrates, My American Wife, Libeled Lady, Wells Fargo,, Broadway Melody of 1940, Star Dust, The Doctor Takes a Wife, Washington Melodrama, Week-End in Havana,, Guest Wife, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Chicken Every Sunday, Bonzo Goes to College and The Benny Goodman Story.
He died on February 17, 1987, in Loma Linda, California aged 90.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.522 |
| Birthday | 1896-10-17 |
| Place of Birth | Rockville, Connecticut, USA |
| Also Known As | Hal Dawson, |
1947
Blondie's Big Moment
5.4/5
Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood ha...
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Blondie's Big Moment
1957
The Tin Star
7.035/143
An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.
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The Tin Star
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
1952
Park Row
6.667/36
In New York's 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opp...
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Park Row
1937
Café Metropole
7.25/12
An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
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Café Metropole
1951
Superman and the Mole Men
5.362/76
Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however, has...
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Superman and the Mole Men
1938
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
7.167/57
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceed...
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1952
The Captive City
6.143/28
A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.
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The Captive City
1947
Blondie in the Dough
6.667/3
BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer...
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Blondie in the Dough
1936
Wedding Present
6.25/16
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great...
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Wedding Present
1949
You're My Everything
4.833/6
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and...
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You're My Everything
1937
Mama Runs Wild
7/1
Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank...
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Mama Runs Wild
1942
Song of the Islands
7/5
With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by tr...
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Song of the Islands
1960
The Rat Race
6.8/18
An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance...
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The Rat Race
1945
Guest Wife
6.192/13
Christopher Price, a small-town bank executive, continues to be loyal to and idolize his boyhood friend, Joseph Jefferson Parker, a famous war corresp...
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Guest Wife
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
Danger Street
6.5/2
Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.
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Danger Street
1959
Face of a Fugitive
5.729/24
A man who was falsly accused for murder escapes the sheriffs and starts a new life in a town at the border of the States to Mexico. But he cannot sett...
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Face of a Fugitive
1946
The Best Years of Our Lives
7.768/734
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrive...
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The Best Years of Our Lives
1936
Public Enemy's Wife
6.357/7
Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claim...
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Public Enemy's Wife
1936
My American Wife
9/1
Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian...
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My American Wife
1968
Funny Girl
7.2/425
The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Fol...
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Funny Girl
1949
Chicken Every Sunday
6.2/5
A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.
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Chicken Every Sunday
1938
Rich Man, Poor Girl
6.111/9
A millionaire courts a working-class woman.
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Rich Man, Poor Girl
1939
The Great Victor Herbert
5.429/7
In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert. Very little of Herbert's...
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The Great Victor Herbert
1935
Dr. Socrates
6.556/9
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor...
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Dr. Socrates
1958
Teacher's Pet
6.845/103
A rugged city editor poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor.
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Teacher's Pet
1934
The Firebird
6.4/5
Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old...
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The Firebird
1937
On Again—Off Again
8/2
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Ho...
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On Again—Off Again
1937
Love and Hisses
10/1
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
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Love and Hisses
1940
The Doctor Takes a Wife
6.8/10
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
1948
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
6.992/196
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with proble...
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1937
Wells Fargo
5.467/15
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fres...
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Wells Fargo
1937
Vogues of 1938
5.533/15
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The...
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Vogues of 1938
1938
The Nurse from Brooklyn
6.5/2
A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of sho...
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The Nurse from Brooklyn
1938
Boy Meets Girl
6.857/7
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie abo...
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Boy Meets Girl
1935
Music Is Magic
5.333/3
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
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Music Is Magic
1955
Three for the Show
5.875/8
This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late husba...
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Three for the Show
1944
Greenwich Village
6.667/6
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
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Greenwich Village
1942
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
6.8/5
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling tra...
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Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
1936
Paddy O'Day
7/2
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in...
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Paddy O'Day
1939
The Ice Follies of 1939
5.727/11
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home,...
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The Ice Follies of 1939
1939
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
7.036/42
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt...
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939
Rose of Washington Square
6.667/6
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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Rose of Washington Square
1937
A Night at the Movies
5.882/17
A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more...
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A Night at the Movies
1939
Swanee River
7/4
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, t...
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Swanee River
1939
Blackmail
6.778/9
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
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Blackmail
1938
There Goes My Heart
7.267/15
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
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There Goes My Heart
1938
Kentucky
6.077/13
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...
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Kentucky
1939
Pack Up Your Troubles
6.833/3
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
1958
The Last Hurrah
7.177/62
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Fr...
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The Last Hurrah
1955
Foxfire
6.7/10
A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.
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Foxfire
1947
A Likely Story
4.833/6
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
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A Likely Story
1938
International Settlement
6.333/6
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
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International Settlement
1941
Washington Melodrama
6/5
An elderly businessman plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl'...
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Washington Melodrama
1947
Merton of the Movies
6.3/5
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert...
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Merton of the Movies
1940
Broadway Melody of 1940
6.841/40
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who...
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Broadway Melody of 1940
1940
Blondie on a Budget
6.222/9
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters w...
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Blondie on a Budget
1936
Libeled Lady
7.287/134
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the pub...
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Libeled Lady
1959
The Alligator People
5.646/65
Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a ma...
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The Alligator People
1938
How to Read
5.333/12
Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.
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How to Read
1940
We Who Are Young
6.333/6
A man violates company policy by getting married.
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We Who Are Young
1937
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
7/3
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1938
Gateway
7.375/4
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in h...
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Gateway
1937
One Mile from Heaven
6.6/5
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.
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One Mile from Heaven
1940
Tin Pan Alley
5.364/11
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new s...
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Tin Pan Alley
1940
Lillian Russell
6.667/12
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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Lillian Russell
1939
Hotel for Women
7.5/2
Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.
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Hotel for Women
1940
Two Girls on Broadway
7/6
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney wh...
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Two Girls on Broadway
1940
This Thing Called Love
8.4/5
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
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This Thing Called Love
1940
Little Men
5.7/10
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's h...
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Little Men
1940
Millionaires in Prison
6.143/7
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
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Millionaires in Prison
1940
The Great Profile
6.75/4
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel...
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The Great Profile
1941
Cracked Nuts
7/1
A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked att...
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Cracked Nuts
1941
Three Girls About Town
6.5/4
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...
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Three Girls About Town
1942
The Fleet's In
7.333/3
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are plac...
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The Fleet's In
1939
How to Sub-Let
5.667/3
A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.
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How to Sub-Let
1937
We're on the Jury
6.167/6
A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.
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We're on the Jury
1939
I Stole a Million
8/2
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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I Stole a Million
1942
My Favorite Spy
5.667/6
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
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My Favorite Spy
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
1951
Rhubarb
5.833/9
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money...
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Rhubarb
1949
Slightly French
7.5/6
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new dis...
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Slightly French
1937
Second Honeymoon
6.375/8
Raoul McLish stops over in Miami Beach where he runs into his ex-wife, Vicky Benton, and her new husband Bob, a belt manufacturer. At first Bob enjoys...
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Second Honeymoon
1941
Week-End in Havana
7.038/13
A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains waiver...
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Week-End in Havana
1940
Star Dust
5.6/5
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.
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Star Dust
1943
Hi Diddle Diddle
6.571/14
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things...
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Hi Diddle Diddle
1938
Safety in Numbers
7/1
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
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Safety in Numbers
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
Mr. Lucky
6.957/46
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
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Mr. Lucky
1939
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
5/2
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their...
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
1966
An American Dream
5/8
Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personality. During a vicious argument with his wife, Debor...
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An American Dream
1941
Hellzapoppin'
7.239/109
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth...
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Hellzapoppin'
1952
Young Man with Ideas
5.167/9
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
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Young Man with Ideas
1941
Lydia
6.538/13
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young...
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Lydia
1936
China Clipper
5.909/11
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
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China Clipper
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
1948
You Gotta Stay Happy
6.765/17
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel...
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You Gotta Stay Happy
1938
Keep Smiling
8/1
Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.
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Keep Smiling
1971
The Touch of Satan
2.989/45
A murderous and decrepit old woman resides on a California walnut farm with her family. On a whim, a traveler named Jodie makes a brief side trip to t...
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The Touch of Satan
1954
The Glenn Miller Story
6.95/159
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1...
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The Glenn Miller Story
1942
Baby Face Morgan
4.364/11
When crime boss Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers, learns that Morgan has a son named Edward living in the country with his moth...
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Baby Face Morgan
1955
A Lawless Street
5.424/33
A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.
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A Lawless Street
1939
Two Bright Boys
10/1
A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.
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Two Bright Boys
1942
The Magnificent Dope
7.333/12
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" t...
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The Magnificent Dope
1958
The Female Animal
6.031/16
Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach...
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The Female Animal
1954
The Yellow Mountain
5.385/13
A formula brawling-buddies western where one goes bad and then returns to the fold. Pete Menlo owns some gold claims in Nevada where he is joined by h...
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The Yellow Mountain
1942
Meet the Stewarts
5.5/4
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
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Meet the Stewarts
1942
The Mad Martindales
7.5/2
A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
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The Mad Martindales
1938
You and Me
6.556/45
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
1936
Everybody's Old Man
8/1
An elderly businessman thinking about aging and death takes time off to help teach a dead friend's children about life and business.
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Everybody's Old Man
1941
You're the One
4.667/3
100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character.
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You're the One
1954
The Country Girl
7.016/94
An actor on the skids is given one more chance to regain his stardom, as well as his self-respect, yet his alcoholism may prevent that from happening.
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The Country Girl
1938
Too Hot to Handle
6.024/21
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he m...
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