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Allen Jenkins

Allen Jenkins

Allen Jenkins (April 9, 1900 – July 20, 1974) what is an American character actor on stage, screen and television. He was born Alfred McGonegal on Staten Island, New York.

He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In his first stage appearance, he danced next to James Cagney in a chorus line for an off-Broadway musical called Pitter-Patter. He made five dollars a week. He also appeared one thousand times in Broadway plays between 1924 and 1962, including The Front Page with Lee Tracy (1928). His big break came when he replaced Spencer Tracy for three weeks in the Broadway play The Last Mile.

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Movies Starring Allen Jenkins (129)

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage (2006)

Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street. ...

Complicated Women (2003)

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimens ...

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1988)

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

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50 ...

The Front Page (1974)

A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn't like the idea one bit. ...

Getting Away from It All (1972)

Two city couples decide to leave the hectic urban life and retreat to the country, but find that rural living isn't quite what they thought it would be. ...

Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding! (1967)

In this comedy, an aspiring singer finds herself single and pregnant. The story begins when she is rushed to the hospital to give birth. She is joined by three men; all of them want to marry her. The story of her pregnancy and her rise to stardom are told ...

The Spy in the Green Hat (1967)

"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's ...

I'd Rather Be Rich (1964)

An updated remake of It Started With Eve (1941). A young heiress is summoned to the bedside of her dying grandfather. The man's last wish is to meet her fiance, but problems arise when the fiance is delayed and a young chemical engineer is persuaded to tak ...

Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)

Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives Robbo a large sum, believing he has aveng ...

For Those Who Think Young (1964)

A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club. ...

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself. ...

Pillow Talk (1959)

Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about ...

The WAC from Walla Walla (1952)

An unsophisticated country girl accidentally joins the army. ...

Oklahoma Annie (1952)

A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy. ...

Chained for Life (1952)

A Siamese twin kills the husband who left her. The courts have to decide if she is convicted of murder, how can they punish her sister, who had nothing to do with the crime? ...

Behave Yourself! (1951)

A young man takes in a dog that turns out to be wanted by mobsters. ...

Crazy Over Horses (1951)

The boys get mixed up with a race horse & crooked gamblers ...

Let's Go Navy! (1951)

The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors. ...

Bodyhold (1949)

A plumber with a girlfriend turns pro wrestler for a crooked promoter. ...

The Big Wheel (1949)

The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father's legacy and achieve his own successes. ...

The Inside Story (1948)

A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by mistake and solves a number of financial problems before it ...

The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947)

A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen. ...

Blow-Ups of 1947 (1947)

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947. ...

Wild Harvest (1947)

Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup money. Farmer's niece Fay falls for Joe. He puts her off. To get back she marries Jim whom she prods into high- ...

The Case of the Baby-Sitter (1947)

The baby sitter is none other than veteran Hollywood tough guy Tom Neal. A private detective, Neal is hired to keep an eye on the child of married couple George Meeker and Rebel Randall. Actually, Meeker and Randall are jewel thieves, and their "baby" is t ...

The Hat Box Mystery (1947)

Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentally hidden in the box and the woman is killed. Susan is charged with murder, but Russ and his less ...

Fun on a Weekend (1947)

Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a conf ...

Easy Come, Easy Go (1947)

Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman. ...

Singin' in the Corn (1946)

Judy McCoy, a fortune teller with a circus, learns she has inherited some property and heads west to collect. ...

The Dark Horse (1946)

Story of a war veteran, who is persuaded by a machine politico to run for alderman. He finds that disreputable politicians are using his war record to push through some shady legislation, so he renounces these hacks. ...

Meet Me on Broadway (1946)

Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club. Eddie and his girlfriend, actress Ann Stallings, hope the production will launch their legitimate Broadway careers. But complications arise w ...

Lady on a Train (1945)

While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, ...

Wonder Man (1945)

Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summ ...

Stage Door Canteen (1943)

A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. ...

Three Cheers for the Girls (1943)

This short film showcases six production numbers from various Warner Bros. musicals. ...

Eyes in the Night (1942)

Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter. ...

They All Kissed the Bride (1942)

Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book on some of her tough ways. With no time for men, the effect an attractive stranger has on her at her siste ...

Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)

Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence? ...

The Falcon Takes Over (1942)

While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps. ...

Tortilla Flat (1942)

Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends. ...

A Date with the Falcon (1942)

In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making ...

Ball of Fire (1941)

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets ...

Go West, Young Lady (1941)

A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws. ...

The Gay Falcon (1941)

Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have v ...

Time Out for Rhythm (1941)

A producer and his partner clash over two women in show business. ...

Footsteps in the Dark (1941)

A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out. ...

Dive Bomber (1941)

A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive. ...

Breakdowns of 1940 (1940)

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940. ...

Tin Pan Alley (1940)

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England. ...

Meet the Wildcat (1940)

Magazine photographer Ann Larkin is snapping photos at Mexico's National Museum when she sees Brod Williams steal a painting from its frame. Convinced that Brod is the notorious art thief known as "The Wildcat," Ann follows him into the street and accuses ...

Margie (1940)

Newlyweds Bret (Tom Brown) and Margie (Nan Grey) both aspire to show-biz careers: he wants to be a songwriter, while she is desirous of becoming a radio scripter. Inevitably, Bret and Margie quarrel and break up, only to be reunited by their efforts to sna ...

Brother Orchid (1940)

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk. ...

Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love! (1940)

Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love! (1940)

In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads for her elopement. The two begin traveling together and get further mixed up with a fleeing bank robber, a crazy tourist camp, and o ...

Destry Rides Again (1939)

Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn't believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent. ...

Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite (1939)

Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll. ...

Five Came Back (1939)

Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course. Crashing into jungles known to be inhabited by head hunters, pilots Bill and Joe race against time to ...

Naughty But Nice (1939)

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is expose ...

Sweepstakes Winner (1939)

A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket. ...

Going Places (1938)

A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for. ...

Breakdowns of 1938 (1938)

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938. ...

Heart of the North (1938)

A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo. ...

Hard to Get (1938)

When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financin ...

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)

A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader. ...

Racket Busters (1938)

A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket. ...

Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)

When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring ...

Fools for Scandal (1938)

An incognito Hollywood star (Carole Lombard) in Paris meets a penniless nobleman (Fernand Gravet) who follows her to London. ...

A Slight Case of Murder (1938)

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses. ...

Swing Your Lady (1938)

Promoter Ed Hatch comes to the Ozarks with his slow-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos whom he pits against a hillbilly Amazon blacksmith, Sadie Horn. Joe falls in love with her and won't fight. At least not until Sadie's beau Noah shows up. ...

Breakdowns of 1937 (1937)

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937. ...

Sh! The Octopus (1937)

Comedy-mystery finds Detectives Kelly and Dempsey trapped in a deserted lighthouse with a group of strangers who are being terrorized by a killer octopus AND a mysterious crime figure named after the title sea creature. ...

The Perfect Specimen (1937)

Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wishes until a chance encounter with Mona Carter leads him into the outside world. ...

Dead End (1937)

Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses pat ...

Talent Scout (1937)

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom. ...

Ever Since Eve (1937)

Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews, accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie. ...

Marry the Girl (1937)

Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is owned by and staffed with cuckoos. ...

Dance Charlie Dance (1937)

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. ...

The Singing Marine (1937)

Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest, however, sets him up for trouble in romance, in his career, and wi ...

A Day at Santa Anita (1937)

Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races. ...

Marked Woman (1937)

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters. ...

Ready, Willing and Able (1937)

Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show. ...

Breakdowns of 1936 (1936)

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936. ...

Sing Me a Love Song (1936)

A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs. ...

Three Men on a Horse (1936)

A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers. ...

Cain and Mabel (1936)

A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt. ...

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. ...

The Singing Kid (1936)

Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines. ...

Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel (1936)

A behind-the-scenes look at the massive preparation in the production of Cosmopolitan's lavish musical comedy romance, 'Cain and Mabel. ...

Miss Pacific Fleet (1935)

A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet". ...

Broadway Hostess (1935)

Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer. ...

Things You Never See on the Screen (1935)

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935. ...

The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)

A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason. ...

I Live for Love (1935)

A failed actor finds success as a radio singer. ...

Page Miss Glory (1935)

A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer. ...

The Irish in Us (1935)

A boxer and his policeman brother feud over a police captain's daughter. ...

The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)

After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is al ...

A Night at the Ritz (1935)

A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef. ...

While the Patient Slept (1935)

A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch. ...

Sweet Music (1935)

A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York. ...

The St. Louis Kid (1934)

Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott a ...

Happiness Ahead (1934)

Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer. ...

The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)

A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady livi ...

Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)

Unscrupulous agent Rush Blake makes singing waiter Buddy Clayton a big radio star while Peggy Cornell, who has lost her own radio show, helps Buddy. ...

The Merry Frinks (1934)

An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter. ...

Whirlpool (1934)

An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists. ...

Jimmy the Gent (1934)

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor. ...

I've Got Your Number (1934)

Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes. ...

Bedside (1934)

Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses. ...

The Big Shakedown (1934)

Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products. ...

Havana Widows (1933)

Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana. ...

Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work... ...

The Mayor of Hell (1933)

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thomps ...

Professional Sweetheart (1933)

Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "puri ...

The Silk Express (1933)

As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton corners the market with plans to drive up the price. Determined to fulfill his contracts, manufacturer Donald Kilgore imports $3 million worth of silk to Seattle and accompanies it ...

Tomorrow at Seven (1933)

People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace". ...

The Mind Reader (1933)

Con-man Chandler and his partner Frank decide to start a clairvoyant act. Chandler falls for Sylvia, one of their marks, but their relationship is challenged when his deception impacts others' lives and Sylvia urges him to reform. ...

The Keyhole (1933)

A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame. ...

King Kong (1933)

Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be ...

42nd Street (1933)

A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star. ...

Blondie Johnson (1933)

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss. ...

Employees' Entrance (1933)

Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful yo ...

Hard to Handle (1933)

A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads. ...

Lawyer Man (1932)

Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in hi ...

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

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. ...

Three on a Match (1932)

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. ...

Rackety Rax (1932)

Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his ...

Blessed Event (1932)

A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press. ...

Grand Hotel (1932)

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache. ...

The Girl Habit (1931)

A Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him. ...

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