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Paul Stanton

Paul Stanton

Paul Stanton (1884-1955) was an American character actor and bit-part player in American films.

Originally from Illinois, he appeared in about 130 films between 1918 and 1952, mostly in supporting roles. He often portrayed authoritarian figures like judges, attorneys, managers, officials and doctors.

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Movies Starring Paul Stanton (94)

The Fountainhead (1949)

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards. ...

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Here Comes Trouble (1948)

A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat. ...

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My Wild Irish Rose (1947)

Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott. ...

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Always Together (1947)

An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous ...

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Her Husband's Affairs (1947)

Bill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret's approval of his work, instead he gets constructive (and on-target) feedback, which he hates. Things get really strange when Bill creates advertising for a wacky inventor's embalming fluid. ...

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Cry Wolf (1947)

A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family. ...

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Welcome Stranger (1947)

Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his temporary replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young, singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once Pearson meets teacher Trudy Mason, he is delighted to stay. The locals, taking their cue from Mc ...

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Sister Kenny (1946)

An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims. ...

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Shadow of a Woman (1946)

Brooke's brief marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that he is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in order to claim his inheritance. ...

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Crime of the Century (1946)

Ex-convict Hank Rogers is searching for his brother Jim, a newspaperman, and becomes involved with a group of people trying to conceal the death of the president of a large corporation so they can profit financially. With the aid of the dead man's daughter ...

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Hit the Hay (1945)

An unsophisticated farm girl pursues a career as an opera singer. ...

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She Gets Her Man (1945)

The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer. ...

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Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944)

Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific. ...

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Once Upon a Time (1944)

Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Flynn meets a young boy who just might save the day. Inside a small box the boy shows Flynn his pride and joy ...

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Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)

Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth. ...

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So's Your Uncle (1943)

Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not approve of their relationship. ...

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Crash Dive (1943)

A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own P ...

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Flight for Freedom (1943)

A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission. ...

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Air Raid Wardens (1943)

Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant. ...

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Slightly Dangerous (1943)

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity. ...

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Lucky Jordan (1942)

Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he does ...

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My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942)

A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow. ...

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Across the Pacific (1942)

Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his g ...

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The Magnificent Dope (1942)

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" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson ...

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Pacific Blackout (1941)

Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered ...

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Remember the Day (1941)

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost. ...

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You're in the Army Now (1941)

Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge. ...

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The Night of January 16th (1941)

Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial. ...

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Whistling in the Dark (1941)

Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a perfect murder. ...

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The Big Store (1941)

A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager. ...

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The People Vs. Dr. Kildare (1941)

An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paralyzed. ...

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Strange Alibi (1941)

An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity. ...

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Lady with Red Hair (1940)

An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top. ...

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Public Deb No. 1 (1940)

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 company. ...

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I Love You Again (1940)

Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife. ...

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Queen of the Mob (1940)

Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns. ...

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And One Was Beautiful (1940)

A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy. ...

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The Farmer's Daughter (1940)

Broadway producer Nicksie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clarice Sheldon, in the lead role and rehearse out of town. The crew set up on a family farm, and all is well u ...

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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940)

A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however. ...

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20,000 Men a Year (1939)

Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year. ...

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption. ...

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Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound. ...

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They Shall Have Music (1939)

The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children. ...

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Bachelor Mother (1939)

Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together. ...

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Stronger Than Desire (1939)

An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing. ...

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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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Rose of Washington Square (1939)

Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble. ...

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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone ...

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Army Girl (1938)

A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to modern changes, is killed. ...

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Kentucky Moonshine (1938)

The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show. ...

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Rascals (1938)

A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite who has amnesia. She works as a fortune teller and raises enough money for an operation to regain her memory. ...

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Law of the Underworld (1938)

A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution ...

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Condemned Women (1938)

A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison. ...

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Paid to Dance (1937)

Government undercover agents William Dennis and Joan Barclay are working to solve the disappearances of girls working as "taxi-dancers" from dance halls operated by Jack Miranda and his henchman Nifty. ...

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Portia on Trial (1937)

Lady lawyer Portia Merryman defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners, who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon. Ironically, Portia herself had once had a relationship with Earle Condon, but Earle's father, powerful publisher John Condon, forced them ...

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The Awful Truth (1937)

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance. ...

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Youth on Parole (1937)

Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they get out, they join forces to track down the real thieves. ...

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Danger – Love at Work (1937)

A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family. ...

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Stella Dallas (1937)

A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future. ...

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It Can't Last Forever (1937)

Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-pr ...

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It Could Happen to You (1937)

A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigrants are prepared for American citizenship. The school's European teacher dreams of a fascist America. Base ...

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Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house. ...

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A Star Is Born (1937)

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 idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. S ...

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Midnight Taxi (1937)

A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters. ...

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Time Out for Romance (1937)

A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot. ...

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Black Legion (1937)

When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence. ...

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Man Of The People (1937)

An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks. ...

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Dangerous Number (1937)

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. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave the groom-to-be and marry him. Shortly after the marriage, they discover t ...

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Night Waitress (1936)

Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of the la ...

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Crack-Up (1936)

Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage. ...

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The Public Pays (1936)

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement and the courage of a local businessman. ...

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Dimples (1936)

Dimples Appleby lives with her pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket. A rich lady makes it possible for the girl to go legit. ...

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The Longest Night (1936)

Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner. ...

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The Road to Glory (1936)

The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche. ...

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Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)

The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and m ...

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Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)

Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan ...

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Sins of Man (1936)

Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing. ...

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Private Number (1936)

Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler also has an infatuation for the young girl but his intentions are not that good. ...

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Half Angel (1936)

Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence. ...

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Champagne Charlie (1936)

The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry. ...

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Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)

While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received. ...

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Every Saturday Night (1936)

First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes. ...

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The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocio ...

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Another Face (1935)

The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her! ...

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Whipsaw (1935)

Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfriend, Vivian Palmer. Federal agent Ross McBride goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and, suspecting Vivi ...

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Red Salute (1935)

The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Mexico--hoping that she will forget her "Red" boyfriend--by a young, handsome soldier named Jeff ...

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Strangers All (1935)

Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children. ...

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West Point of the Air (1935)

An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer. ...

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Anne of Green Gables (1934)

Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and to the local villagers. ...

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Wednesday's Child (1934)

A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced. ...

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His Greatest Gamble (1934)

A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold. ...

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Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)

President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his depart ...

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The Women in His Life (1933)

An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him. ...

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Should Ladies Behave (1933)

A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daughter. ...

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