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James Donlan

James Donlan

James Donlan was an American stage and screen actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1929 and 1939.

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Movies Starring James Donlan (57)

Babes in Arms (1939)

Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl. ...

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Professor Beware (1938)

Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way. ...

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Borrowing Trouble (1937)

The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to. ...

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Music for Madame (1937)

An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels. ...

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It Happened in Hollywood (1937)

A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound. ...

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This Is My Affair (1937)

President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. ...

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The Plot Thickens (1936)

A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case. ...

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Crash Donovan (1936)

A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring. ...

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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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Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)

When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blo ...

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Boulder Dam (1936)

Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run. ...

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Exclusive Story (1936)

A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars. ...

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We're Only Human (1935)

A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster. ...

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Dr. Socrates (1935)

Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout. ...

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Here Comes the Band (1935)

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who de ...

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Hot Tip (1935)

An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies. ...

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The Daring Young Man (1935)

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero ...

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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 ...

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Traveling Saleslady (1935)

A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the ...

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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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The Whole Town's Talking (1935)

Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil crim ...

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Under Pressure (1935)

Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaran ...

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Belle of the Nineties (1934)

Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men. ...

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Paris Interlude (1934)

Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro... ...

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Now I'll Tell (1934)

A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most. ...

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A Very Honorable Guy (1934)

Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live ...

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Dark Hazard (1934)

Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys rac ...

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Hi, Nellie! (1934)

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the m ...

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Design for Living (1933)

An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves. ...

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I Loved a Woman (1933)

The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love. ...

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Doctor Bull (1933)

In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating ...

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The Avenger (1933)

A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison. ...

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Pilgrimage (1933)

A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I. ...

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College Humor (1933)

A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed. ...

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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 ...

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The Nuisance (1933)

Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized. ...

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The Working Man (1933)

A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon hi ...

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Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor. ...

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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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20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him. ...

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The Penguin Pool Murder (1932)

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium. ...

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The Death Kiss (1932)

When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface. ...

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Thirteen Women (1932)

Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them. ...

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Back Street (1932)

A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life. ...

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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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Just a Pain in the Parlor (1932)

Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to the high brow party in progress. ...

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The Final Edition (1932)

A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate. ...

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Big Dame Hunting (1932)

A drunken husband tries to sneak in but his wife catches him... and that means trouble! ...

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Men of Chance (1931)

A gambler falls for a fake countess. ...

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Five Star Final (1931)

Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved. ...

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Sporting Blood (1931)

A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well. ...

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A Free Soul (1931)

An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him. ...

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The Good Bad Girl (1931)

A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man. ...

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Daybreak (1931)

An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy. ...

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Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)

When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, his naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people. ...

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The Painted Desert (1931)

Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young m ...

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Danger Lights (1931)

Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; then he finds the man was a railroader, too, and takes him under his wing. Engaged to Mary, Dan doesn't no ...

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