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Tom Ricketts

Tom Ricketts

Tom Ricketts (January 15, 1853 – January 19, 1939) was an English stage, later a Hollywood screen, actor. He also directed numerous early Hollywood Silent films, and was the writer of several.

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The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)

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Son of Frankenstein (1939)

One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge. ...

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The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)

Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowb ...

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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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The Young in Heart (1938)

A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune. ...

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Young Fugitives (1938)

A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000. ...

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Four Men and a Prayer (1938)

The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name. ...

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Breakfast for Two (1937)

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 ...

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Dead End (1937)

The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum. ...

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The Lady Escapes (1937)

A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy. ...

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Parnell (1937)

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom. ...

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Carnival in Paris (1937)

In this short, the janitor of a Paris museum's Egyptology department agrees to help a girl hide from the police. ...

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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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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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Maid of Salem (1937)

When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. Sh ...

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After the Thin Man (1936)

Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's ...

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Daniel Boone (1936)

In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites. ...

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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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To Mary - with Love (1936)

Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together. ...

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Trouble for Two (1936)

A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called The Suicide Club, and so he seeks to become a member. ...

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Show Boat (1936)

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady. ...

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Human Cargo (1936)

Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Ca ...

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The Great Impersonation (1935)

The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy. ...

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Music Is Magic (1935)

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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The Three Musketeers (1935)

In 17th century France, young d'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers — Athos, Porthos, and Aramis — and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and ...

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Hi, Gaucho! (1935)

The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love. ...

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Top Hat (1935)

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immed ...

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Now or Never (1935)

A visitor to a big city gets involved in intrigue when a look-alike jewel thief sets out to doublecross his gang. ...

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Vagabond Lady (1935)

Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead. ...

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Cardinal Richelieu (1935)

The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle. ...

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Forsaking All Others (1934)

A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man. ...

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By Your Leave (1934)

A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes. ...

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The Curtain Falls (1934)

In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, th ...

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One More River (1934)

A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship. ...

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The Red Rider (1934)

"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J. ...

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In Love with Life (1934)

Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that football and other sports play in the curriculum, and soon finds himself dead broke when publishers show no inter ...

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Manhattan Love Song (1934)

After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe their chauffeur and maid back wages they are unable to pay. They're forced to let their former employees liv ...

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No Greater Glory (1934)

A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang. ...

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Stolen Sweets (1934)

Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness)on a ship cruise and falls in love, much to the annoyance of her high-society, fortune-hunting fiance Barrington ...

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I Am Suzanne! (1933)

A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love? ...

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The Invisible Man (1933)

After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost. ...

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Secret Sinners (1933)

A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to another new acquaintance, a man of means, unaware that he is married and going through a messy divorce. ...

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Stage Mother (1933)

Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she ...

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Berkeley Square (1933)

A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors. ...

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Blind Adventure (1933)

Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they try to unravel the mystery, enlisting the aid of a cat burglar named Holmes, who they bump into along the wa ...

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Gordon of Ghost City (1933)

A cowboy is hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but gets involved with a beautiful girl trying to run her grandfather's gold mine and other outlaws who are trying to stop her. ...

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Mama Loves Papa (1933)

A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance. ...

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Zoo in Budapest (1933)

Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true friends are the zoo's animals. When Zani meets Eve, a young orphan girl, they fall in love. To be together Eve must somehow escape from her strict orphan school. ...

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Pleasure Cruise (1933)

Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her. ...

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He Learned About Women (1933)

He Learned About Women is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Corrigan and written by Lloyd Corrigan, Ray Harris and Harlan Thompson. The film stars Stuart Erwin, Susan Fleming, Alison Skipworth, Gordon Westcott, Grant Mitchell and Sidne ...

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Forgotten (1933)

Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws' object to his smelly pipe smoking. Finally the family tucks him 'out of sight and out of mind' into a nursing h ...

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Cavalcade (1933)

A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and th ...

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Laughter in Hell (1933)

In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover. ...

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If I Had a Million (1932)

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory. ...

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Women Won't Tell (1932)

A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is actually the rightful heir. ...

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The Phantom President (1932)

Too bad for the presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course, they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public spokes ...

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Thrill of Youth (1932)

Chet Thayer returns to his family and the loving arms of his long suffering sweatheart Marcia. Not being the faithful type he soon falls under the spell of the town vamp Jill Fenwick. ...

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Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)

A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania. ...

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Vanity Fair (1932)

In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society. ...

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The Expert (1932)

An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago. ...

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Ambassador Bill (1931)

An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he liv ...

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Side Show (1931)

A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps. ...

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The Common Law (1931)

When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress? ...

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Big Business Girl (1931)

A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band. ...

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Man of the World (1931)

A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle. ...

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East Lynne (1931)

The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite being nearly blinded as the result of an explosion, she returns home to see her son again. ...

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