Glenda Farrell
Known for Acting
Born
June 30, 1904
Died
May 1, 1971 (age 66)
Birthplace
Enid, Oklahoma, USA
Filmography
82 films, 18 shows
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Tiger by the Tail
1970 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Vietnam war hero, accused of murdering his brother, recruits his socialite girlfriend to hunt for the real killer.
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The Disorderly Orderly
1964 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice when you're hopelessly squeamish. So he settles for the job of orderly at the Whitestone Sanitarium, a career move that's guaranteed to keep the patients – and viewers – in stitches!
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Kissin' Cousins
1964 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Army officer Josh Morgan returns to the Smoky Mountains and tries to convince his kinfolk to allow a missile site to be built on their land. Once he arrives, he discovers he has a lookalike cousin.
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A String of Beads
1961 · 1h
country: Unknown
An ordinary girl's life is radically changed by the mistaken receipt of a $60,000 strand of pearls.
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Middle of the Night
1959 · 1h 58m
country: United States
Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 50s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a romance with divorced 24-year-old receptionist Betty. The relationship is dismissed by his daughter, Lillian, discouraged by his sister, Evelyn, and denounced by Betty's mother. But when Jerry begins to mention marriage, even Betty is forced to confront her ambivalence.
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The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
1955 · 1h 49m
country: United States
Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White and the wealthy but unstable Harry Thaw. Nesbit marries Thaw, but White’s continued pursuit puts him in the path of Thaw’s volatile temper. A fictionalized account of true events that occurred at the turn of the 20th century.
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Susan Slept Here
1954 · 1h 38m
country: United States
On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Maizel. Knowing Christopher is working on a juvenile delinquent script, the sergeant brings by delinquent Susan thinking she will inspire Christopher while providing a place for her to spend the holidays outside of juvenile hall.
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Secret of the Incas
1954 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) is a tourist guide determined to make his fortune by finding the Sunburst, an Inca treasure.
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Girls in the Night
1953 · 1h 23m
country: United States
Juvenile delinquents (Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Harvey Lembeck) trap a neighborhood hoodlum in New York.
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Apache War Smoke
1952 · 1h 7m
country: United States
An outlaw murders several Apaches and flees to a stagecoach way station with the tribe in hot pursuit. A stagecoach and its passengers have just pulled into the station, as has the stationmaster's father, a former bandit named Peso, and they all find themselves besieged by the Apaches, who want them to turn over the killer to them or they'll take the station and kill everybody. The problem is that the people in the station aren't sure just who among therm is the actual killer.
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Lulu Belle
1948 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his fiancée and career to marry Lulu Bell. When his money runs out, Lulu Belle goes to work in a New Orleans club run by tough gambler Mark Brady. She tries to send George back to Natchez by pretending that she has fallen for prize-fighter Butch Cooper but George, in a fit of jealousy, drives a handful of forks into Butch's face. He is sent to prison and Lulu goes to New York with millionaire Harry Randolph, who makes her the singing sensation of Broadway and asks her to marry him. She refuses when she learns that George has been released from prison, realizing that he is the only man she ever truly loved.
Mary Lou
1948 · 1h 5m
country: United States
Airline hostess Ann Parker is fired for being undignified when she sang to calm the passengers during a storm. Mike Connors, publicity man for Frankie Carle's orchestra, invites her to try out as the band's vocalist since the regular singer, Mary Lou, had just quit the band on the eve of an engagement at a swanky New York night club. Encouraged by her boyfriend, Steve Roberts, Ann lands the job and assumes the name of "Mary Lou", a trademark almost for Frankie Carle singers. But the departed Mary Lou shows up and threatens to sue if she is not rehired. Ann returns to her former job. Meanwhile, Steve locates the woman who was the original Mary Lou with the band, and urges Mike to keep the current Mary Lou off the bandstand until he can return with Ann.
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I Love Trouble
1948 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A wealthy man hires a private detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.
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Heading for Heaven
1947 · 1h 5m
country: United States
A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't long to live.
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Ever Since Venus
1944 · 1h 14m
country: United States
The American Beauty Association is about to hold its annual trade show in New York City and songwriter "Tiny" Lewis (Billy Gilbert) has just sold a song to Ina Ray Hutton ('Ina Ray Hutton'), the leader of an all-girl band headlining the show. Lewis shares an apartment with Bradley Miller ('Ross Hunter') and Michele (Fritz Feld), an artist, and Miller has just invented a non-staining lipstick called "Rosebud." Preparing to get a booth at the show, Miller is told by J. Webster Hackett (Alan Mowbray), a very devious "Cosmetics King,", intent on selling a big lipstick order to buyer Edgar Pomeroy (Thurston Hall), that it will cost him a $1000 to join the association and get a booth, which is about $999 more than Miller and his roomies have between them. But Miller's beauty-parlor girl friend, Janet Wilson ('Ann Savage'), meets factory-owner P. G. Grimble (Hugh Herbert), and money is soon no issue.
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Klondike Kate
1943 · 1h 4m
country: United States
A young man in Alaska finds himself accused of murder, and must fight to clear his name.
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A Night for Crime
1943 · 1h 12m
country: United States
A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth solving yet another mystery among Hollywood's famous.
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City Without Men
1943 · 1h 15m
country: United States
A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.
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The Talk of the Town
1942 · 1h 58m
country: United States
Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.
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Twin Beds
1942 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.
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Johnny Eager
1941 · 1h 47m
country: United States
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
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Breakdowns of 1939
1939 · 16m
country: United States
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
1939 · 1h
country: United States
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
1939 · 58m
country: United States
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
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Breakdowns of 1938
1938 · 13m
country: United States
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Torchy Gets Her Man
1938 · 1h 3m
country: United States
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
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Exposed
1938 · 1h 3m
country: United States
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.
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The Road to Reno
1938 · 1h 12m
country: United States
An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
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Prison Break
1938 · 1h 12m
country: United States
Story of a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemplary behavior in prison ensures that he is up for early parole. He realizes, however, that his movements will be limited, and he will be unable to join and wed his beloved. The only solution is to escape and hunt down the real killer, himself.
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Stolen Heaven
1938 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Two attractive jewel thieves, one female (Olympe Bradna), one male (Gene Raymond) escape together after their latest escapade and hide out in the home of an aged concert pianist (Lewis Stone). To cover their tracks and keep the old man from turning them in, the thieves pretend to arrange his comeback concert. The artifice becomes reality, the pianist makes a triumphant return, and the thieves reform. This 1938 film is not a remake of 1932's Stolen Heaven, which wove an entirely different story about a suicide pact.
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Blondes at Work
1938 · 1h 3m
country: United States
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
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Hollywood Hotel
1938 · 1h 49m
country: United States
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
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Breakdowns of 1937
1937 · 7m
country: United States
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.
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The Adventurous Blonde
1937 · 1h 1m
country: United States
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
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Breakfast for Two
1937 · 1h 7m
country: United States
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.
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Sunday Night at the Trocadero
1937 · 21m
country: United States
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment.
You Live and Learn
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You Live and Learn
1937 · 1h 21m
country: United Kingdom
American chorus-girl Mamie Wallace (Farrell) travels to Paris with a ramshackle touring musical revue. The company runs out of money, and it looks as though Mamie and her dancing colleagues are going to be stranded in Europe with no way home. Luckily, she meets a handsome, well-spoken Englishman Peter Millett (Hulbert), who falls in love with her and proposes marriage. Under the impression that he is a man of means, she readily accepts, imagining an entrée to English high society. The couple return to England and Mamie discovers to her horror that not only is her new home a decrepit farmhouse out in the sticks, but that Peter is a widower and his three children also come as part of the package.
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Dance Charlie Dance
1937 · 1h 4m
country: United States
A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise, when he is sued for plagiarism.
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Fly Away Baby
1937 · 1h
country: United States
Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
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Smart Blonde
1937 · 59m
country: United States
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
Breakdowns of 1936
1936 · 9m
country: United States
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.
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Gold Diggers of 1937
1936 · 1h 41m
country: United States
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.
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Here Comes Carter
1936 · 58m
country: United States
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
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High Tension
1936 · 1h 3m
country: United States
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
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Nobody's Fool
1936 · 1h 15m
country: United States
A naive country boy goes to New York City, where he gets mixed up with real estate swindlers.
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The Law in Her Hands
1936 · 58m
country: United States
A female lawyer sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.
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Snowed Under
1936 · 1h 3m
country: United States
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but he just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer Arthur Layton sends Alice, Alan's first ex-wife, to help him stick to business. But then Daisy, his second ex-wife, shows up wanting her alimony. Stranded with two ex-wives, a girlfriend, and a jug of applejack, Alan still has to finish his play!
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Miss Pacific Fleet
1935 · 1h 6m
country: United States
A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".
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Things You Never See on the Screen
1935 · 10m
country: United States
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
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Little Big Shot
1935 · 1h 18m
country: United States
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
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We're in the Money
1935 · 1h 6m
country: United States
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
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In Caliente
1935 · 1h 24m
country: United States
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
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Go Into Your Dance
1935 · 1h 29m
country: United States
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
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Traveling Saleslady
1935 · 1h 3m
country: United States
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
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Gold Diggers of 1935
1935 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
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The Secret Bride
1934 · 1h 4m
country: United States
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, they decide to keep their marriage secret. The political intrigue becomes more involved, and no one is quite what they seem. Soon Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life.
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Kansas City Princess
1934 · 1h 4m
country: United States
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
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The Personality Kid
1934 · 1h 8m
country: United States
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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Merry Wives of Reno
1934 · 1h 4m
country: United States
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
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Heat Lightning
1934 · 1h 3m
country: United States
Olga runs an isolated gas station and restaurant in the stifling hot American desert with her discontented younger sister Myra. When two escaped criminals stop for a bite to eat, Olga is reminded of the past she left behind.
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I've Got Your Number
1934 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
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Dark Hazard
1934 · 1h 13m
country: United States
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.
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Hi, Nellie!
1934 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
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The Big Shakedown
1934 · 1h 1m
country: United States
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
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Man's Castle
1933 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
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Havana Widows
1933 · 1h 2m
country: United States
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
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Bureau of Missing Persons
1933 · 1h 13m
country: United States
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
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Lady for a Day
1933 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Apple Annie is an aging New York City fruit seller whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanish convent since she was an infant. As she grows up, Louise is led to believe that her mother is a society matron called Mrs. E. Worthington Manville. Annie worries that her lie is in danger of being uncovered when she learns that Louise is sailing to New York with her new fiancé and his nobleman father.
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
1933 · 1h 12m
country: United States
Lifelong friends and medical school graduates Mary Stevens and Don Andrews decide to set up office together. While Mary struggles to earn respect because of her gender, Don gets caught up in his ambitions for a bigger life.
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Gambling Ship
1933 · 1h 12m
country: United States
Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new name. On the train, he meets Eleanor and they fall in love. Eleanor is afraid to tell Ace she's a soiled dove and Ace doesn't tell Eleanor of his shady past. Old enemies won't let Ace begin his new life, and old commitments's won't free Eleanor of her sordid ties. Ace's old life and Eleanor's deception collide with the typical results. But love conquers all!
How to Break 90 #2: Position and Back Swing
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How to Break 90 #2: Position and Back Swing
1933 · 10m
country: United States
Bobby Jones magnanimously demonstrates two specific aspects of a good drive: Position and back swing.
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The Keyhole
1933 · 1h 9m
country: United States
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
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Girl Missing
1933 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Showgirls Kay and June are stranded on Palm Beach when they become involved in the case of a fellow chorine who has gone missing on her wedding night.
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Grand Slam
1933 · 1h 7m
country: United States
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
1933 · 1h 18m
country: United States
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection. The disappearance of both people and corpses coincides with this grand reopening and leads a reporter to start investigating.
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The Match King
1932 · 1h 19m
country: United States
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932 · 1h 32m
country: United States
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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Three on a Match
1932 · 1h 3m
country: United States
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
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Life Begins
1932 · 1h 11m
country: United States
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
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Scandal for Sale
1932 · 1h 15m
country: United States
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
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Little Caesar
1931 · 1h 18m
country: United States
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
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Lucky Boy
1929 · 1h 17m
country: United States
A young Jewish man works in his father's jewelry business, but he doesn't like it at all--he wants to be an entertainer, something he knows that his father would never approve of. He comes up with a scheme to put on his own show in a theater and show his father that he can be a success, but things don't work out quite as well as he planned.