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Edward McWade

Edward McWade

Edward McWade was an American writer and stage and screen actor. He appeared in more than 132 films from 1919 to 1944, mostly in secondary roles. He also wrote 15 stage plays and silent film scenarios.

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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killin ...

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Trifles That Win Wars (1943)

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short looks at how a few specific inventions made a major contribution to the U.S. war effort. ...

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Don't You Believe It (1943)

This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's cow did not start the great Chicago fire; Nero didn't fiddle while Rome burned; and Lady Godiva never rode ...

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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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The Hard Way (1943)

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty. ...

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Famous Boners (1942)

This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the victims of errors. ...

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Lady in a Jam (1942)

A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there. ...

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Woman of the Year (1942)

Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle. ...

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I Wake Up Screaming (1941)

A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans. ...

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Nothing But the Truth (1941)

A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours. ...

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Chad Hanna (1940)

Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway. ...

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A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency. ...

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Money and the Woman (1940)

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him. ...

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The Return of Frank James (1940)

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords. ...

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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. ...

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Hot Steel (1940)

Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues. ...

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Teddy the Rough Rider (1940)

This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American ...

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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)

Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself. ...

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Our Neighbors - The Carters (1939)

A small town drugstore owner considers selling one of his children for money. ...

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Bad Little Angel (1939)

A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town. ...

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Indianapolis Speedway (1939)

A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school. ...

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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 ...

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They Asked For It (1939)

In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into the strange death of an old hermit who lived on the fringe of town. ...

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Zenobia (1939)

A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant. ...

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Comet Over Broadway (1938)

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition. ...

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Garden of the Moon (1938)

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything ...

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White Banners (1938)

A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager P ...

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Three Comrades (1938)

A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis. ...

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Jezebel (1938)

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her. ...

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The Patient in Room 18 (1938)

Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles delivers a delightfully comic performance as Lance, an outwardly normal young man obsessed with detective s ...

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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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The Women Men Marry (1937)

A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him. ...

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They Won't Forget (1937)

A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for t ...

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She Had to Eat (1937)

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster. ...

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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937)

A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bish ...

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Let's Get Married (1937)

Let's Get Married is a 1937 American comedy film starring Ida Lupino, who plays the daughter of a political consultant, Joe Quinn. ...

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Laughing at Trouble (1936)

A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is. ...

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The Case of the Black Cat (1936)

Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, ...

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Alibi for Murder (1936)

A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he'd stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry's studio, right in the middle ...

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Satan Met a Lady (1936)

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief. ...

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The Big Noise (1936)

The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers ...

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F-Man (1936)

Johnny Dime has aspiration of becoming a "G-Man" , gums up the work of Rogan, an actual government agent is his pursuit of Public Enemy No. 1. Dimes ambitious goal is to improve his "F" rating to a "G". His sweetheart, Evelyn hopes to not get shot in the p ...

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I Married a Doctor (1936)

City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople. ...

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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife. ...

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The Country Doctor (1936)

A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets. ...

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King of the Islands (1936)

In this musical short, a shipwrecked sailor is washed up on the shores of a tropical island and falls in love with a beautiful princess. ...

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Darkest Africa (1936)

A 15-episode serial in which Beatty goes to darkest Africa to rescue the Goddess of Joba, who is being held by the high priest. ...

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If You Could Only Cook (1935)

An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion. ...

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The Calling of Dan Matthews (1935)

Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen wh ...

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Frisco Kid (1935)

After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast. ...

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Shipmates Forever (1935)

An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it. ...

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Here's to Romance (1935)

Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and ...

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The Goose and the Gander (1935)

When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back. ...

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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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Stranded (1935)

A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters. ...

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Oil for the Lamps of China (1935)

An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career. ...

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The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935)

When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decide to give their marriage a chance. Their landlady, a one-time Floradora girl, offers to help Miriam becom ...

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Mary Jane's Pa (1935)

Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone. ...

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Life Begins at Forty (1935)

A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank. ...

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Murder in the Clouds (1934)

Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. ...

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Gentlemen Are Born (1934)

A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market. ...

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I Sell Anything (1934)

Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned? ...

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A Lost Lady (1934)

A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man. ...

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One Exciting Adventure (1934)

One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream. ...

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The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934)

After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police detective who's been trying to nail her finally comes up with what seems a foolproof scheme--to catch her off ...

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I'll Tell the World (1934)

Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire servi ...

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Journal of a Crime (1934)

A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime. ...

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The Meanest Gal in Town (1934)

A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town. ...

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Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)

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

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Murders in the Zoo (1933)

Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in the arms of other men. In turn, Gorman uses his animals to kill these men. When a New York City zoo sugge ...

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Girl Missing (1933)

Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward. ...

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6 Hours to Live (1932)

A murder victim is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his killer in that time. ...

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Big City Blues (1932)

An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed. ...

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Two Seconds (1932)

A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne) dupe a high rise riveter (Edward G. Robinson) ...

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The Crowd Roars (1932)

Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion. ...

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The Big Shot (1931)

A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers. ...

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