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Charles Williams

Charles Williams

Charles Williams was born on September 27, 1898 in Albany, New York. He was an actor and writer, known for It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Hollywood and Vine (1945) and Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938). He was married to Isabel and Virginia Josephine Evans. He died on January 3, 1958 in Hollywood, California.

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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987)

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life. ...

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The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history. ...

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Fighting Trouble (1956)

An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss. ...

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A Lawless Street (1955)

A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town. ...

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Main Street to Broadway (1953)

In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl ...

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The Magnetic Monster (1953)

The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. ...

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According to Mrs. Hoyle (1951)

A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters. ...

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Kentucky Jubilee (1951)

A film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film. There, he gets kidnapped. ...

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Lullaby of Broadway (1951)

Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan. She doesn't know that her mother is actually a burnt-out cabar ...

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Gasoline Alley (1951)

A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip. ...

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The Missourians (1950)

In the little town of Dorado, widely known as a town with no crime and no bank to rob, young Polish-born Steve Kovacs is fighting a two-edged sword of prejudice; his foreign birth and also the fact that his brother, Nick Kovacs, is the leader of an outlaw ...

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Task Force (1949)

After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the superiority of naval air power. But military and political "red tape" continually frustrate their efforts, ...

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The Judge (1949)

A study of an amoral and sleazy defense lawyer who suddenly tries to "go straight" when he finds out that his tart wife is cheating on him; as well as the similarities he has in life with one of his clients. ...

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The Accused (1949)

A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense. ...

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Parole, Inc. (1948)

A federal agent's life is in danger when he's exposed while investigating a parole scheme. ...

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The Strange Mrs. Crane (1948)

Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former associate Floyd Durant shows up to blackmail Gina, she has no choice but to murder him. Things take a biz ...

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Marshal of Amarillo (1948)

Nugget, Underwood and Short walk to the Half-Way House after the driver purposely wrecks the stage. They arrive late at night and it is so spooky that Nugget leaves for Amarillo. Unknown to him, the dead body of Short is in the wagon. When Sheriff Lane com ...

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Hazard (1948)

A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail. ...

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Wedlock Deadlock (1947)

Newlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house before Betty's mother (Esther Howard), aunt (Patsy Moran) and brother (Charles Williams) show up and give every indication of becoming permanent free-loading gues ...

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Heading for Heaven (1947)

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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The Trespasser (1947)

Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a book-reviewer who was involved with a group of rare book forgers and whose sister has been convinced her e ...

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Saddle Pals (1947)

Autry is drawn into the plot when he's given power of attorney in a property settlement involving his old pal and a gang of land swindlers. The pal then goes on an extended vacation, leaving Autry to sort things out. ...

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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost a ...

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Lady Chaser (1946)

A poisoned aspirin creates headaches for a woman who received the deadly pill from a stranger, then passed it on to her uncle. ...

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Queen of Burlesque (1946)

Various performers and backstage crew come under suspicion when a dancer is found murdered at a burlesque theatre. ...

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Night and Day (1946)

When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a ...

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A Boy, a Girl and a Dog (1946)

During World War II, a young boy and girl, living with their respective families in an apartment house that had restrictions against pets, adopt a lost dog and hide it in a vacant apartment, which may have been the only vacant apartment in the United State ...

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Without Reservations (1946)

Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rus ...

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Passkey to Danger (1946)

An advertising man's new campaign for a fashion designer attracts the attention of mysterious characters. ...

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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband. ...

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Hitchhike to Happiness (1945)

An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them believe that the waiter lacks the talent to make it big. Only an aspiring songwriter, and a former waitress who ...

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Scared Stiff (1945)

A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set. ...

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Hollywood and Vine (1945)

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 on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star. ...

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Identity Unknown (1945)

A soldier survives a bombing in which his three fellow soldiers were killed. When he recovers he discovers he has amnesia, and since his companions' bodies were burned beyond recognition, the army doesn't know which one of the four he is. He goes AWOL and ...

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The Man Who Walked Alone (1945)

A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops ca ...

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End of the Road (1944)

A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious "Flower Shop Murder" is innocent of the crime. He believes he knows who the actual culprit is, and sets out to befriend the man and get enough evidence to prove that he is the real ...

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Greenwich Village (1944)

In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue. ...

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Atlantic City (1944)

In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracti ...

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Call of the Rockies (1944)

Cowboy Sunset Carson teams up with Frog Millhouse on a routine supply trip to Placer City. Before long, the duo find themselves ambushed by a team of dastardly highwaymen embroiled in an extortion ring. Sunset and Frog must then go undercover to set things ...

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Song of the Open Road (1944)

A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with normal kids. It doesn't take her long to discover that being "normal" isn't easy as it looks. When a crop ...

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Sweethearts of the U.S.A. (1944)

A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime. ...

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Career Girl (1944)

Joan Terry, from Kansas City, comes to New York to get a job on the stage. But until she finds an opportunity, she stays at a boarding house where other talent is also waiting. To get a better chance, the people there decide to build a talent pool, where t ...

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Whispering Footsteps (1943)

An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer. ...

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The Girl from Monterrey (1943)

Mexican club singer Lita Valdez is amazed to find that her younger brother Alberto is a talented boxer and is even more thrilled by his consistent success in the ring. Till he is forced to fight Jerry O'Leary, the man she loves. Caught between her devotion ...

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Nobody's Darling (1943)

Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the upcoming school play. But Chuck thinks that she is too untalented and unglamorous to have a part in his prod ...

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The West Side Kid (1943)

Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her time to parties; his daughter Gloria is in one scandal after another, changing husbands as often as her moods, and son Jerry spends his time getting drunk and ...

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I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943)

A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang. ...

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Redhead from Manhattan (1943)

Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway ...

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Time to Kill (1942)

Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin. ...

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Call of the Canyon (1942)

A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast. ...

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The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig. ...

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Night in New Orleans (1942)

A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation. ...

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My Favorite Spy (1942)

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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One Thrilling Night (1942)

A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver under their bed. ...

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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine (1942)

A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset ...

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Girls' Town (1942)

A West Coast version of "Stage Door", set at a Hollywood boarding house for young women hoping for movie careers. ...

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The Fleet's In (1942)

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 placed on his prowess with the ladies. ...

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Blue, White and Perfect (1942)

In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variet ...

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The Great Man's Lady (1941)

In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and ...

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Flying Cadets (1941)

Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers. ...

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The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)

Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of th ...

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Mr. District Attorney (1941)

An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case. ...

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Marked Men (1940)

A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into the desert. ...

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Trifles of Importance (1940)

Part of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series, this short shows how three seemingly unimportant things can affect people. The first is how the number 7 affects a student accused of theft charges. The second segment shows that a person's doodles can reveal p ...

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Grand Ole Opry (1940)

Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians. ...

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Girl in 313 (1940)

A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks? ...

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Johnny Apollo (1940)

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison ...

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Primrose Path (1940)

Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry ...

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Women Without Names (1940)

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. ...

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Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939)

Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected. ...

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Days of Jesse James (1939)

Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang. ...

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Sabotage (1939)

The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but ...

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Those High Grey Walls (1939)

Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police. ...

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Undercover Doctor (1939)

Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his nurse Margaret Hopkins. The FBI agent Robert Anders has to catch on to Morgan's illicit activities. ...

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The Flying Irishman (1939)

This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single eng ...

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The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)

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, out of work. ...

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Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)

Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops. ...

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Trade Winds (1938)

After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment. ...

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Gateway (1938)

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island. ...

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Little Miss Broadway (1938)

An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage. ...

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Men with Wings (1938)

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newsp ...

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Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)

Classical violinist Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to b ...

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Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938)

Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! Bu ...

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Hollywood Stadium Mystery (1938)

A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling. ...

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Born to Be Wild (1938)

Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowh ...

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Love and Hisses (1937)

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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Amateur Crook (1937)

Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks ...

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Blossoms On Broadway (1937)

A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway. ...

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Merry Go Round of 1938 (1937)

Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief. ...

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Stand-In (1937)

An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio, receives some help from a former child star who now works as a stand-in for the studio. ...

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Sky Racket (1937)

A government agent sets out to capture a gang of airmail bandits who use a death ray to blow planes out of the sky. ...

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Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937)

Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence. ...

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It Happened in Hollywood (1937)

A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound. ...

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Wake Up and Live (1937)

Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell. ...

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Vogues of 1938 (1937)

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 top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plo ...

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Flying Fists (1937)

A lumberjack knocks out a champion boxer in a brawl, gets drawn into the boxing world where he is unknowingly set up for a fixed fight. ...

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Big Business (1937)

A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy. ...

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Turn Off the Moon (1937)

Department store owner J. Elliott Dinwiddy has waited fifteen years for the perfect astrological moment to propose to his secretary, Myrtle Tweep. His astrological advisor, Dr. Wakefield, has told him that if he can unite a boy and a girl in true love befo ...

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Jim Hanvey, Detective (1937)

Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the eme ...

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History Is Made at Night (1937)

An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control. ...

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Fair Warning (1937)

In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort. ...

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Love Is News (1937)

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series o ...

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Espionage (1937)

Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe. ...

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Sinner Take All (1936)

A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family. ...

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Four Days Wonder (1936)

Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity, Judy insists upon playing sleuth, dragging teenaged astronomer Tom Fenton (Kenneth Howell) into her Sherloc ...

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Wedding Present (1936)

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their ...

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Hollywood Boulevard (1936)

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to de ...

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Rhythm on the Range (1936)

Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. ...

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Sleepless Hollow (1936)

Newlywed Harry Gribbon brings his wife home to meet his country family which includes their perspective choice for a daughter-in-law. ...

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Moon Over Manhattan (1935)

A musical short about a young couple, an artist for an advertising firm and a hopeful model. They try a couple of schemes to get Sally a job with the firm. ...

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Woman in the Dark (1934)

A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is disrupted when a mysterious woman arrives. ...

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The Thin Man (1934)

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts. ...

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Sadie McKee (1934)

A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house. ...

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A Very Honorable Guy (1934)

Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live ...

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Gambling Ship (1933)

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 do ...

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The Gay Nighties (1933)

This short features two women who run around in their nighties. Paul McCullough spends most of the picture in a dress, and Bobby Clark does an extended riff on the word "Alright!" which Lou Costello later stole verbatim. There is a political frameup, a nea ...

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The Nuisance (1933)

Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized. ...

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Made on Broadway (1933)

A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway press agent who has his own private club where he cultivates the rich and powerful. With the help of his selfless ex-wife (Madge Evans), Jeff molds an illiter ...

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Central Airport (1933)

Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins. ...

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Hip Zip Hooray (1933)

Sheriff Bell inadvertently ends up as owner of a lingerie salon. ...

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The Devil Is Driving (1932)

Gabby Denton, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck drifter, seems to get a chance at redemption when his brother-in-law helps get him a job as a mechanic. Not realizing the garage he works for is actually a front for a stolen car ring, Gabby soon finds himsel ...

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Blondie of the Follies (1932)

New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for Blondie, as well, to join the cast and gain the advantages. But the friendship goe ...

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Strangers of the Evening (1932)

Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on. ...

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Strictly Unreliable (1932)

Zasu inadvertently turns Thelma's vaudeville act into a shambles. ...

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Dance Team (1932)

Jimmy Mulligan and Poppy Kirk, both out of work, strike up a conversation outside a radio shop and discover a shared dream of hitting it big dancing and decide to team up. As "Mulligan & Kirk" they have their highs and lows while falling in love but eventu ...

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Forgotten Women (1931)

Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections. As a result of the story, Jimmy becomes city ...

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The Mad Genius (1931)

A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with. ...

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Movies Made By Charles Williams (6)

Carnival Story (1954)

In search of a better life, a German girl named Willi joins an American carnival passing through Munich. While traveling from town to town, she is torn between two suitors: cruel carnival barker Joe and kindhearted high-dive artist Frank. Frank gets the up ...

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Hollywood and Vine (1945)

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 on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star. ...

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Midnight Limited (1940)

The Phantom Robber gets a fortune in jewels and some valuable papers from a robbery on the crack train "The Midnight Limited" and Val Lennon and his pretty assistant, Joan Marshall, are on his trail. But the Phantom strikes three more times and adds murder ...

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Heroes in Blue (1939)

Family heartbreak: A dedicated New York City policeman raises two sons, one following in his dad's footsteps as a cop while the other turns to crime and is arrested for murder. ...

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Moon Over Manhattan (1935)

A musical short about a young couple, an artist for an advertising firm and a hopeful model. They try a couple of schemes to get Sally a job with the firm. ...

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