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Henry Armetta

Henry Armetta

Henry Armetta (born Enrico Armetta, July 4, 1888 – October 21, 1945) was an Italian-born American character actor who appeared in at least 150 American films, starting in silents around 1915 to 1946, when his last film was released posthumously.

Henry Armetta (born Enrico Armetta, July 4, 1888 – October 21, 1945) was an Italian-born American character actor who appeared in at least 150 American films, starting in silents around 1915 to 1946, when his last film was released posthumously.

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Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)

The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. He begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to ...

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Anchors Aweigh (1945)

Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew. ...

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Penthouse Rhythm (1945)

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A Bell for Adano (1945)

Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests ...

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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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Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)

An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort. ...

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Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943)

A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front. ...

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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. ...

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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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Caught in the Act (1941)

On the day of his daughter's wedding, a good-natured construction worker (Henry Armetta) is suspected by his wife of being involved with another woman, wrongly implicates his company's boss as a racketeer, and is arrested by police for running a shakedown ...

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You're Not So Tough (1940)

The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. ...

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We Who Are Young (1940)

A man violates company policy by getting married. ...

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The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)

A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters. ...

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The Escape (1939)

An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie pl ...

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Dust Be My Destiny (1939)

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on th ...

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I Stole a Million (1939)

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways. ...

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The Lady and the Mob (1939)

Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business. ...

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Winner Take All (1939)

When a waiter makes a lucky hit and wins a benefit prizefight, gamblers rig some fights for him; but a reporter arranges for a real boxer to put him in his place. ...

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Fisherman's Wharf (1939)

Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in San Francisco until Carlo's widowed sister-in-law, Stella, shows up with her brat-son, Rudolph, and takes over. ...

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Road Demon (1938)

At the Indianapolis Speedway mobsters try to bump off a young racer just as they did his dad. Junk yard owner tap dances. ...

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Submarine Patrol (1938)

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew. ...

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Speed to Burn (1938)

Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse. ...

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Everybody Sing (1938)

Boisterous teen Judy Bellaire is expelled from her all-female boarding school for convincing her fellow school chorus members to sing a classical piece with a modern swing beat. She returns to her dysfunctional home, dejected, but, with the encouragement o ...

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Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937)

In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the gangster's strong-arm tactics nearly cause a singer to lose his fiancée. A wide variety of entertainers ap ...

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Make a Wish (1937)

While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, ...

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Top of the Town (1937)

In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: ...

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The Magnificent Brute (1936)

A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes of his landlady at the boarding house and falls in love with a gold-digger. His best friend also finds himself smitten by the seduct ...

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Two in a Crowd (1936)

When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress Julia Wayne needs the whole $1,000, and so does sportsman Larry Stevens. Since compromise will serve neit ...

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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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The Crime of Dr. Forbes (1936)

Injured scientist Eric Godfrey asks his protege to give him a fatal dose of opiates to end his misery. When he dies the doctor is accused of murder. ...

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Let's Sing Again (1936)

An orphan (Eight-year-old boy soprano Bobby Breen) gets a chance to sing opera in New York. ...

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Carnival Day (1936)

It's carnival time, crowds gather for horse races and the games and food of a midway. Bobby the singing jockey will be riding the favorite Stardust, and if they win, the prize money will enable Bobby to ask Maggie, a carnival florist, to marry him. Tony, a ...

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Magnificent Obsession (1935)

A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death. ...

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3 Kids and a Queen (1935)

An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, ...

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Manhattan Moon (1935)

Night club owner Dan Moore is trying to collect a debt owed to him by playboy Reggie Van Dorn, but Reggie is a playboy with no money but lots of social connections. In lieu of the cash, Dan gets Reggie to introduce him to the swells of high society. They g ...

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Dinky (1935)

A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge. ...

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Princess O'Hara (1935)

When King's beloved horse dies, Princess tries to purchase a new nag, and that's how she inadvertently gets her hands on a "stolen" race horse. Our heroine nearly ends up with a lengthy prison term before the story is resolved during the climactic Big Race ...

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Straight from the Heart (1935)

In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent ...

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I've Been Around (1935)

Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer. ...

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After Office Hours (1935)

A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder. ...

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The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934)

A writer discovers he's being used as a pawn by greedy businessmen. ...

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Imitation of Life (1934)

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way. ...

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Cheating Cheaters (1934)

The Palmers, an apparently wealthy family, move into the house next door to the Lazarres. However, the Palmers are actually a gang of thieves plotting to rob the Lazarres. ...

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The Merry Widow (1934)

A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country. ...

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Two Heads on a Pillow (1934)

A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife. ...

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Wake Up and Dream (1934)

The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time. ...

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Gift of Gab (1934)

Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station. ...

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Embarrassing Moments (1934)

Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it looks as though Jerry's latest prank has resulted in the death of his best friend. ...

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Hide-Out (1934)

Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is fully prepared to shoot his way out when the cops come calling, but he is softene ...

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Romance in the Rain (1934)

The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest. ...

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One Night of Love (1934)

Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings pr ...

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Kiss and Make-Up (1934)

Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean ...

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Let's Talk It Over (1934)

A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her. ...

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Half a Sinner (1934)

A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher. ...

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The Black Cat (1934)

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor. ...

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Good Time Henry (1934)

Henry is lured by old pal Hale into a night on the town despite fears that his wife will discover their hijinks. ...

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The Poor Rich (1934)

Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced ...

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The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)

A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer. ...

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Cross Country Cruise (1934)

A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and c ...

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Too Much Harmony (1933)

A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one. ...

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Hello Pop (1933)

A stage director is trying to put on a musical/comedy revue, but has to contend with temperamental musicians, an inept stage crew and his three idiot sons. ...

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Her First Mate (1933)

A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas. ...

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Laughing at Life (1933)

Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, ...

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The Devil's Brother (1933)

Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw. ...

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So This Is Africa (1933)

Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance. ...

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The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble (1933)

Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony. ...

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What! No Beer? (1933)

When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters. ...

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Rasputin and the Empress (1932)

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted. ...

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Central Park (1932)

Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end. ...

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A Farewell to Arms (1932)

A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war ...

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Men Of America (1932)

Bank robbers and killers cause mayhem in a small western town. ...

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Prosperity (1932)

Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry. ...

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Deception (1932)

Modest programmer denotes a young man's rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn't realize have been "fixed", and ensuing romantic turbulence. ...

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Hat Check Girl (1932)

Gerry Marsh is a hat-check girl in a nightclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and others before she falls in love with millionaire playboy Buster Collins. Gerry is supported by her girlfriend Jessie. ...

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Okay, America! (1932)

A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell. ...

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Speak Easily (1932)

A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical. ...

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Bachelor's Affairs (1932)

A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry but the man soon regrets his rash move when she's constantly bored and looking for dancing and excitement, l ...

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Red-Headed Woman (1932)

Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her. ...

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Week Ends Only (1932)

A recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she meets a handsome, sophisticated and wealthy fellow who hires her to help him spice up his weekend parties. She begins helping him and regains her los ...

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Huddle (1932)

Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice. ...

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The Doomed Battalion (1932)

During World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the Italian army. ...

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Scarface (1932)

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life. ...

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Steady Company (1932)

Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and ZaSu Pitts supply the laughs. ...

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Arsène Lupin (1932)

A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris. He even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon ...

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The Passionate Plumber (1932)

Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financin ...

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Sightseeing in New York (1931)

Nick, and Tony, are New York City taxicab drivers, who are constantly arguing in broken-English and Italian, who take two out-of-town school teachers on a sight-seeing tour of their fair burg. They pick them up at Pennsylvania Station and drive through Was ...

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The Unholy Garden (1931)

At a hotel in the middle of the Sahara, an old man and his daughter try to keep the location of a hidden treasure from a collection of thieves and criminals staying at the hotel who are determined to get it. A suave gentleman thief arrives at the hotel one ...

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Hush Money (1931)

Story of a girl who tries to live down the past and marries a wealthy man. Blackmail attempt by old associate foiled by friendly detective. ...

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Five and Ten (1931)

John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though grand, is falling apart due to his constant working. Wife and mother Jenny is lonely. Son Avery hates his job. D ...

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Just a Gigolo (1931)

A playboy pretends to be a paid escort in order to court--and test the moral character of--a young British socialite. Comedy. ...

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Laughing Sinners (1931)

Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she is saved by Carl, a Salvation Army officer. Encouraged by Carl, Ivy joins the Salvation Army. When her old flame re-enters her life, Ivy ...

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Strangers May Kiss (1931)

After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casual romance with journalist Alan. Against the advice of her happily married aunt Celia -- who encourages her to demand a serious commitment -- Lisbeth contin ...

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A Tailor-Made Man (1931)

John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs his way into a high society party. After meeting wealthy businessman Abraham Nathan, John Paul quickly ris ...

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