George E. Stone

biography:
George E. Stone (born Gerschon Lichtenstein; May 18, 1903 – May 26, 1967) was a Polish-born American character actor in movies, radio, and television.

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Perry Mason

overview: The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

character: Court Clerk

original_name: Perry Mason

original_language: en

The Twilight Zone

overview: An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

character: Fenwick (uncredited)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

overview: A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

character: Barney

Lux Video Theatre

overview: Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

character: Carl

original_name: Lux Video Theatre

M Squad

overview: Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The Squad's task is to root out organised crime and corruption in America's Second City, Chicago.

character: Fingers Purdy

original_name: M Squad

The 20th Century Fox Hour

overview: The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.

original_name: The 20th Century Fox Hour

Private Secretary

overview: Private Secretary is an American sitcom that aired from February 1, 1953 to September 10, 1957 on CBS, alternating with The Jack Benny Program on Sundays at 7:30pm EST. The series stars Ann Sothern as Susan Camille "Susie" MacNamara, devoted secretary to handsome talent agent Peter Sands, played by Don Porter.

original_name: Private Secretary

Mr. & Mrs. North

overview: Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry North, a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good amateur detective, and his wife, Pamela, as they solve crimes in New York City.

original_name: Mr. & Mrs. North

Hey, Jeannie!

overview: Hey, Jeannie! is an American situation comedy starring Jeannie Carson as a young Scottish woman living in New York City. Twenty-six episodes aired on CBS from September 8, 1956 to May 4, 1957 in the Saturday slot following The Gale Storm Show and preceding the western series Gunsmoke. Six additional episodes aired in 1958 in syndication. Reruns of Hey, Jeannie! aired during the summer of 1960 under the title The Jeannie Carson Show.

character: Evil Eye

original_name: Hey, Jeannie!

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

overview: Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.

character: Joe

original_name: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Public Defender

overview: The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955, a season and a half.

character: Louie Ingram

original_name: Public Defender

The Ford Television Theatre

overview: This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.

original_name: The Ford Television Theatre

Adventures of Superman

overview: It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a syndicated TV adaptation of the beloved DC Comics superhero! You know the drill: When he isn't fighting for truth, justice and the American way, the man in tights dons a suit and glasses for his secret identity as Daily Planet newspaper reporter Clark Kent, who works alongside friends Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen for gruff boss Perry White.

character: Big George

original_name: Adventures of Superman

character: Duke Taylor

Have Gun, Will Travel

overview:
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958.

The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel.

Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.

character: Joe Roland

original_name: Have Gun, Will Travel

Public Defender

character: Charles

Perry Mason

character: George

Public Defender

character: Tony

77 Sunset Strip

overview: Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.

character: Mr. DeVinger

original_name: 77 Sunset Strip

The 20th Century Fox Hour

character: Angelo

Passport to Danger

overview: A diplomatic courier travels to exotic locales, where danger (and women) seem ever present.

original_name: Passport to Danger

The Red Skelton Show

overview: The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades, from 1951 to 1971. It was second to Gunsmoke and third to The Ed Sullivan Show in the ratings during that time. Skelton, who had previously been a radio star, had appeared in several motion pictures as well. Although his television series is largely associated with CBS, where it appeared for more than fifteen years, it actually began and ended on NBC. During its run, the program received three Emmy Awards, for Skelton as best comedian and the program as best comedy show during its initial season, and an award for comedy writing in 1961.

character: Arnold

original_name: The Red Skelton Show

Revlon Mirror Theatre

overview: Also known as 'Mirror Theater', this was an American anthology drama television series.

original_name: Revlon Mirror Theatre

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

character: Frankie

English

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iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

Català

biography: George E. Stone, nascut Gerschon Lichtenstein (Łódź, Polònia, 18 de maig del 1903 - Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, 26 de maig del 1967), va ser un actor nord-americà de personatges en pel·lícules, ràdio i televisió, nascut a Polònia.

iso_639_1: ca

iso_3166_1: ES

english_name: Catalan

Pусский

Джордж Э. Стоун

biography: Джордж Э. Стоун, имя при рождении Гиршон Лихтенштейн - американский актёр кино, радио и телевидения, более всего известный ролями в фильмах 1930-1950-х годов. На протяжении своей карьеры Стоун играл преимущественно небольшие или характерные роли, появившись в 150 фильмах, среди них такие значимые картины, как «Седьмое небо» (1927), «Маленький Цезарь» (1931), «Пять последних звёзд» (1931), «42-я улица» (1933), «Пулями или голосами» (1936), «Лицо под маской» (1941), Сломанное копьё (1954), «Человек с золотой рукой» (1955), «Парни и куколки» (1955) и «В джазе только девушки» (1959). В 1941-1948 годах Стоун сыграл роль верного помощника главного героя в цикле из 12 криминальных комедий про Бостонского Блэки. На протяжении своей карьеры Стоун появился в девяти фильмах, которые были номинированы на Оскар.

iso_639_1: ru

iso_3166_1: RU

english_name: Russian

also_known_as:
Gerschon Lichtenstein
George Stone
Georgie Stone

title: Some Like It Hot

overview: In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.

character: Toothpick Charlie

original_title: Some Like It Hot

title: 42nd Street

overview: Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.

character: Andy Lee

original_title: 42nd Street

title: Guys and Dolls

overview: In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a Salvation Army missionary to Havana, and unexpectedly they fall for each other. And the bet has a hidden motive ... classic song and dance ensues!

character: Society Max

original_title: Guys and Dolls

title: Cactus Caballeros

overview: Harry and Joey are reluctantly out to capture "Black Pedro" the bandit.

original_title: Cactus Caballeros

title: Suspense

overview: The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate.

character: Max

original_title: Suspense

title: The Phantom of Crestwood

overview: Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.

character: The Cat

original_title: The Phantom of Crestwood

title: The Racket

overview: A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.  Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

character: Joe Scarsi

original_title: The Racket

title: A Slight Case of Murder

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

character: Kirk

original_title: A Slight Case of Murder

title: Little Caesar

overview: A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

character: Otero

original_title: Little Caesar

title: Bullets or Ballots

overview: After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.

title: The Face Behind the Mask

overview: A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire.

title: Penthouse

overview: Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.

title: Scared Stiff

overview: A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.

title: The Robe

overview: Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixion. Marcellus has never been a man of faith like his slave, Demetrius, but when Demetrius escapes with the robe, Marcellus experiences disturbing visions and feels guilty for his actions. Convinced that destroying the robe will cure him, Marcellus sets out to find Demetrius — and discovers his Christian faith along the way.

title: Don't Be a Sucker!

overview: Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces.

title: Five Star Final

overview: 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.

title: The Front Page

overview: Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.

title: The Story of Mankind

overview: The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.

title: The Vampire Bat

overview: A German village is stricken by a series of murders that appear to be the work of vampires.

title: Viva Villa!

overview: In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.

title: Return of the Terror

overview: "The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.

title: A Close Call for Boston Blackie

overview: Blackie runs into a woman he formally loved who now is married with a kid. When her husband gets out of prison he's killed in Blackie's apartment and of course the police thing Blackie pulled the trigger. Blackie must set out to prove his innocence as well as capture the real killers.

title: After Midnight with Boston Blackie

overview: Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.

title: Boston Blackie's Rendezvous

overview: Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.

title: Boston Blackie and the Law

overview: Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape.

title: Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion

overview: Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.

title: Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

overview: Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and deliver it to him in California. Performing this good deed, he is accused of theft, but is allowed to proceed to Hollywood to help the police find a lost diamond.

title: Confessions of Boston Blackie

overview: A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the law makes him an easy target for the police. When the body disappears, Blackie must find it to prove his innocence.

title: One Mysterious Night

overview: After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.

title: Trapped by Boston Blackie

overview: Blackie is the natural suspect when an expensive pearl necklace is stolen while he is supposed to be guarding it.

title: The Dragon Murder Case

overview: Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.

title: The Last Mile

overview: Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.

title: Alias Boston Blackie

overview: It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.

title: Taxi!

overview: Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.

title: Rhythm on the Range

overview: Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters

title: The Stolen Jools

overview: Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)

title: North West Mounted Police

overview: Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)

title: The Miami Story

overview: Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to help eliminate the biggest crime syndicate in the city.

title: Maid to Order

overview: While trying to nab a gang of diamond smugglers, the police are notified by Scotland Yard that the gang's leader, a beautiful Englishwoman who was on her way to the States to take control of the gang, has been caught. Because the American gangsters don't know what their English boss looks like, the police persuade a female impersonator to pretend to be her and infiltrate the gang.

title: Mr. Moto's Gamble

overview: Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count...permanently!

title: The Chance of a Lifetime

overview: A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.

title: The Phantom Thief

overview: Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. "Blackie" out to help his pal, "Runt," recover some jewels, finds himself involved in the homicides, and also finds himself as the prime suspect, and now has to find the real culprit in order to clear himself. So "Blackie,", a man of many talents and already a proved magician from cases past, shows he knows a little bit about dancing skeletons, walking phantoms and spiritualism himself, and holds a séance to unmask the murderer.

title: The Devil with Hitler

overview: Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the Devil on notice they intend to replace him with Adolf Hitler unless he can get Hitler to commit a good deed. The devil has his work cut out for him, and doesn't appear likely to escape being replaced by the German leader.

title: Island of Doomed Men

overview: An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.

title: Little Tokyo, U.S.A.

overview: Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is 63 minutes' worth of speculation about prewar Japanese espionage activities. Los Angeles cop Preston Foster suspects that there's dirty work afoot in the city's Japanese community, but no one will believe him except for intrepid girl reporter Brenda Joyce. When the spies frame Foster on a trumped-up murder charge, Joyce does a little detective work herself. The enemy agents are rounded up just before they can do any real damage. Because of its strident insistence that most (if not all) Japanese-American citizens were secretly loyal to the Rising Sun, Little Tokyo USA is seldom seen these days.

title: Broken Lance

overview: Tensions erupt within an Arizona cattle baron's household when his three sons vie for control of the ranch.

title: Emergency Call

overview: A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.

title: Secret of the Chateau

overview: Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.

title: The Steel Cage

title: Jungle Hell

overview: Jungle natives are treated by a physician who goes against the wishes of a witch doctor to provide burn healing methods caused by radioactive rocks discovered when the elephants were felling trees.

title: Over the Wall

overview: When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.

title: Roger Touhy, Gangster

overview: Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.

title: Doll Face

overview: Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show because she lacks culture. Her boss/manager Mike decides that she can get both culture and plenty of publicity by writing her autobiography. He hires a ghost writer to do all the work, but doesn't count on the possibility that Doll Face and her collaborator might have more than a book on their minds.

title: Road Show

overview: Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.

title: Frisco Kid

overview: 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.

title: You and Me

overview: Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.

title: Sing, Sinner, Sing

overview: A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on trial for the crime.

title: Broadway Limited

overview: A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought in for it.

title: Make a Million

overview: A college economics professor's "radical" ideas about capitalism get him fired. When he decides to put those ideas into practice, he finds that they actually do generate him huge amounts of money. Soon a local banker and others who scoffed at his ideas see the amount of money he's making and try to cheat him out of his system.

title: The Adventurous Blonde

overview: The third of nine Torchy Blane movies.  Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée,  Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish.  The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.

title: The Tijuana Story

overview: Courageous newspaper editor Manuel Acosta Mesa tries to take on the mob in Tijuana through his newspaper, reporting on the violence, prostitution and drug sales in the border town.

title: The Spider

overview: Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe’s clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant? After the police restrain the audience from leaving, Lowe uses his magical powers to help expose the killer. Watch for the terrific séance scene where weird ghost-like creatures float above the stage.

title: Moonlight on the Prairie

overview: A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.

title: Calypso Heat Wave

overview: A jukebox operator helps promote a calypso craze.

title: Here Comes Carter

overview: A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals

title: The Housekeeper's Daughter

overview: A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

title: The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

overview: A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.

title: King of Hockey

overview: Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.

title: Polo Joe

overview: A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.

title: Submarine Patrol

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

title: Running Hollywood

title: Sierra Stranger

overview: A prospector becomes a small town outcast after he rescues a man about to be lynched.

title: Weary River

overview: A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations abound.

title: The Woman from Monte Carlo

overview: On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party.  The strain of command on the older captain and his new,  young wife is very great.

title: Under a Texas Moon

overview: A cowboy arrives in a small town and winds up trying to help a local rancher stop a gang of cattle thieves while romancing a pretty young girl.

title: 42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage

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

original_title: 42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage

title: Bloodhounds of Broadway

overview: A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird, Emily Ann Stackerlee , he'll do anything to help her make it big -- including a stint in jail to pay for his crimes. But will the tough guy's sacrifice of the heart pay off when it comes to his girlfriend's singing career?

title: Timber Queen

overview: Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited is doing poorly, but Elaine gets an order in for a huge shipment of lumber. Russ and his friend Squirrel volunteer to help her cut the timber for the shipment, along with her friends Smacksie Golden and his girlfriend Lil Boggs, who are not used to doing physical labor. Russ pilots the plane to deliver the lumber before the company falls to a slimy businessman.

title: Combat Squad

overview: A tough sergeant helps a raw recruit find courage under fire during the Korean War.

title: Tenderloin

overview: Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the 'Tenderloin' district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the gang that uses the place as their hangout. Chuck's interest in her is only just as another toy to play with. Rose is unknowingly placed in a position in which she is implicated in a crime which she knows nothing about.

title: Back in Circulation

overview: Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.

title: Public Hero Number 1

overview: G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.

title: Slightly Tempted

overview: A con man tries to sell phony stocks to unwary investors.

title: Ocean's Eleven

overview: Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.

title: Emergency

overview: An armed man breaks into a family's home during a terrible thunderstorm. Aired on Oct 15, 1953 as Season 2, Episode 3 of The Ford Television Theatre.

title: The Conqueror

overview: Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.

title: San Francisco Nights

overview: Young lawyer John Vickery is in love with his wife, but he thinks she is in love with another man...

title: Cimarron

overview: When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.

title: Last of the Duanes

overview: Based on Zane Grey's tale of a man who gains an unfair reputation as a gunfighter while out to avenge his father's death.

title: The Wrecker

overview: The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan (Jack Holt). While he's off on another assignment, Regan's wife Mary (Genevieve Tobin) and supposed best friend Cummings (Sidney Blackmer) engage in some heavy petting. About to wash his hands of his faithless wife and his back-stabbing chum, our hero is compelled to save both their lives when they're pinned under the wreckage of a collapsed schoolhouse. George E. Stones supplies some good-natured ethnic humor as Regan's junk-dealer pal Shapiro.

title: The Medicine Man

overview: The son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help.

title: Abie's Irish Rose

overview: Cultures clash when a Jewish boy wants to marry an Irish girl.

title: The Long Shot

overview: A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thoroughbred horse. Despite the rivalries of their parents, the couple prepares to jointly enter the Santa Anita handicap. The odds are against their entry, but Hunt and Jones have every confidence of winning. Just before the starting bugle, gangsters intrude, demanding that the trainers throw the Big Race.

title: King for a Night

overview: A cocky prizefighter on his way to the bigtime in New York comes crashing down when his sister is involved in a murder and he takes the blame.

title: The Big Brain

overview: A small-town barber finds himself short of stature but a giant in the world of stock promotion. As his bank account grows, Stone's ethics diminish, and soon he's playing fast and loose with other people's money. Disgruntled investor Fay Wray is the one who finally blows the whistle on the prevaricating hair-snipper.

title: Boulder Dam

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

title: Baby Face Nelson

overview: Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll.

title: Cherokee Strip

overview: Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, Morrell finds himself at odds with banker Coy Barrett (Victor Jory), who is actually the leader of all local criminal activities.

title: The Untamed Breed

overview: A cowboy sets out to capture an escaped Brahma bull that is terrorizing local ranchers. Based on a story by Eli Colter that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.

title: Sentimental Journey

overview: An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides to adopt the child so that her husband Bill will not be alone when she dies. Unfortunately, Bill is not charmed by Hitty.

title: I Take This Woman

overview: On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi  from jumping overboard.  At Decker's suggestion to  keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.

title: Jailbreak

overview: A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.

title: 7th Heaven

overview: In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall in love.

title: Man Hunt

overview: A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.

title: Alcatraz Island

overview: A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

title: My Buddy

overview: A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his return from the war, he puts off his marriage and works for a bootlegger. He is forced to take a rap for his boss, goes to prison, and forms a gang.

title: Freshman Love

overview: A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.

title: Song of the Eagle

overview: This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused upon a family endeavoring to keep their little brewery.

title: He Couldn't Take It

overview: Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process server. He serves process on a gangster and exposes a criminal conspiracy while trying to stop his long-suffering girlfriend from taking a vacation with her lecherous boss.

title: Brass Knuckles

overview: Zac Harrison, upon his release from prison, assumes responsibility for seeing to the needs of June Curry, the 17-year-old daughter of a fellow inmate who has died. He is reformed by her innocence and, in time marries her.

title: Breakdowns of 1936

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

title: Frontier Marshal

overview: Thinly veiled reworking of the Wyatt Earp story with the renamed Michael Wyatt rolling into Tombstone, becoming acquainted, teaming up, and cleaning up the town with the help of “Doc” Warren and saloon singer Queenie La Verne, while sweet young maiden Mary Reid waits patiently on the sidelines.

title: A Girl in Every Port

overview: After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.

title: The World and the Flesh

overview: During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of them, a ballerina, and gives her an ultimatum: give in to him or her friends will face the firing squad.

title: Midnight Manhunt

overview: Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

title: The Captain's Kid

overview: In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.

title: You Can't Get Away with Murder

overview: Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.

title: Pocketful of Miracles

overview: A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.

title: Lone Star Ranger

overview: Texas Ranger Buck Dunne is assigned to round up a gang of bank robbers. The leader of the gang turns out to be the "respectable" Judge Longstreth, making life difficult for Dunne inasmuch as he's in love with Longstreth's niece Barbara.

title: Walking Back

overview: Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile's being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang's hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced.

title: Ladies Must Love

overview: Lighthearted comedy film following the (mis)adventures of four gold diggers.

title: State Street Sadie

overview: Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank robbery. Considered a lost film.

title: The Redeeming Sin

overview: The Redeeming Sin (1929) is a crime drama part-talking silent film with Vitaphone music and sound effects. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and stars Dolores Costello. This film is currently a lost film.

title: Daisy Kenyon

overview: Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.

title: Naughty Baby

overview: A cloak room girl (Alice White) falls for a rich boy who may not actually be rich.

title: The Girl in the Glass Cage

overview: A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and won't leave her alone, and she discovers that her uncle is stealing the box-office receipts.

title: Melody Lane

overview: A songwriter leaves his chorus girl sweetheart to join the US Army in WWI. In France he falls in love with French singer Madelon. He is crippled in action. Back in the States, his girl friend there leaves him. But Madelon can't forget him and comes to the USA to work there as singer. Per chance she meets the songwriter, and he is cured. Singing one of his love songs, he knows that he has found the right girl.

title: Don't Get Me Wrong

overview: Don't Get Me Wrong is a 1937 British comedy film co-directed by Arthur B. Woods and Reginald Purdell and starring Max Miller and George E. Stone. It was made at Teddington Studios with sets designed by Peter Proud.  Unlike several of Miller's Teddington films which are now lost, this still survives.  Miller plays a fairground performer who meets a professor who claims to have invented a cheap substitute for petrol. They team up and persuade a millionaire to finance them to develop and market the product, while unsavoury elements are keen to steal the formula and try all means to get their hands on it, involving slapstick chases and double-crosses. It then turns out that the miracle fluid is diluted coconut oil, and the genius professor is an escaped lunatic. The millionaire finds himself taking the brunt of the disappointment.

title: One Hour Late

overview: A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to propose marriage to her.

title: Anthony Adverse

overview: Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.

title: Clothes Make the Woman

overview: A young Russian peasant feels pity for the Princess Anastasia and saves her life by accidentally wounding her in the massacre of the Romanovs during the Russian Revolution.

title: Woman's World

overview: Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.

title: Some Came Running

overview: A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.

title: The Man with the Golden Arm

overview: When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.

title: Slightly Scarlet

overview: Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol "Solly" Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. Seductive Dorothy will do anything to get what she wants, which includes having a good time with Ben-- whom June is now in love with.

title: Back to Nature

overview: The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography.

title: The Night of Nights

overview: A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.

title: File 113

overview: A Parisian cop sets out to solve a sudden series of crimes, including robbery and blackmail. Based on a novel by Émile Gaboriau.

title: Embarrassing Moments

overview: 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.

title: Sailor Be Good

overview: A Navy boxer (Jack Oakie) meets a dance-hall hostess (Vivienne Osborne) who tries to sober him up for a fight.

title: Pickup on South Street

overview: In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.

title: Turn Back the Hours

overview: Turn Back the Hours is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, and Sam Hardy.

title: Million Dollar Baby

overview: A husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest run by a movie studio that's looking for "a new Shirley Temple".

title: Hold 'Em Yale

overview: A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.

title: Dancing in the Dark

overview: Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.

title: Alias Jesse James

overview: Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out with more cash, he plans to rob him too and have Milford get killed in the robbery while dressed as Jesse, and collect on the policy.

character: New York Bar Gibson Girl Fan (uncredited)

title: Shock

overview: In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door neighbor, Janet Stewart. As Janet attempts to convince her husband of the doctor's dastardly deed, Cross shows up to advise him that Janet is in dire need of some in-depth counseling.

title: New York Confidential

overview: Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.

title: Sob Sister

overview: Jane Ray, a very clever reporter of crimes of passion, or "sob sister," for a New York tabloid, begins to feel depressed by the sordidness of her latest assignment, the investigation of a young woman's murder by her husband. Despite her growing distaste for her profession, Jane gets her story and, with typical ingenuity, frustrates her competitors' attempts to follow her lead.

title: So This Is Paris Green

title: The Stronger Sex

overview: A satire on companionate marriage, in which both sides of a polyamorous married couple take lovers.  But when this free love arrangement threatens to break up their comfortable domestic life, they throw them over in favor of an exclusive relationship.

title: Beautiful But Dumb

overview: Janet Brady, a stenographer, wants the love of her boss. She learns her personality has no appeal, so she drops her mannish clothes and blossoms forth as a simpering flapper. She develops sex appeal plus and though her boss is nonplussed for a time she wins him in the end.

title: The Voice of Hollywood No. 13

overview: Ruth Roland comes in crashing in on George E. Stone as the host for the 13th installment of The Voice of Hollywood, with Charles Irwin, Davey Lee and Jack Benny among the guests.

title: Two Men and a Maid

title: Sunshine Gatherers

overview: Dried fruits and less-perishable varieties of citrus had been sent east for decades, but Sunshine Gatherers promotes the canning of delicate fruits like apricots and peaches that had previously been consumed out of season in the Northeast only after the expensive luxury of shipment in refrigerated trains. Now California’s sunshine would be packaged for the nation year-round.

place_of_birth: Lódz, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland]

title: Some Like It Hot

title: 42nd Street

title: Guys and Dolls

title: Cactus Caballeros

title: Suspense

title: The Phantom of Crestwood

title: The Racket

title: Little Caesar

title: A Slight Case of Murder

title: Bullets or Ballots

title: The Face Behind the Mask

title: Penthouse

title: Scared Stiff

title: The Robe

title: Don't Be a Sucker!

title: Five Star Final

title: The Front Page

title: The Story of Mankind

title: The Vampire Bat

title: Viva Villa!

title: Return of the Terror

title: After Midnight with Boston Blackie

title: A Close Call for Boston Blackie

title: Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion

title: Confessions of Boston Blackie

title: Boston Blackie's Rendezvous

title: Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

title: Boston Blackie and the Law

title: One Mysterious Night

title: Trapped by Boston Blackie

title: The Dragon Murder Case

title: The Last Mile

title: Alias Boston Blackie

title: Taxi!

title: Rhythm on the Range

title: The Stolen Jools

title: North West Mounted Police

title: The Miami Story

title: Maid to Order

title: Mr. Moto's Gamble

title: The Phantom Thief

title: The Chance of a Lifetime

title: The Devil with Hitler

title: Island of Doomed Men

title: Little Tokyo, U.S.A.

title: Broken Lance

title: Emergency Call

title: Secret of the Chateau

title: The Steel Cage

title: Jungle Hell

title: Over the Wall

title: Roger Touhy, Gangster

title: Doll Face

title: Road Show

title: Frisco Kid

title: You and Me

title: Sing, Sinner, Sing

title: Broadway Limited

title: Make a Million

title: The Adventurous Blonde

title: The Tijuana Story

title: The Spider

title: Calypso Heat Wave

title: Moonlight on the Prairie

title: Here Comes Carter

title: The Housekeeper's Daughter

title: The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

title: King of Hockey

title: Polo Joe

title: Submarine Patrol

title: Running Hollywood

title: Sierra Stranger

title: Weary River

title: The Woman from Monte Carlo

title: Under a Texas Moon

title: Bloodhounds of Broadway

title: Timber Queen

title: Combat Squad

title: Tenderloin

title: Back in Circulation

title: Public Hero Number 1

title: Slightly Tempted

title: Ocean's Eleven

title: Emergency

title: The Conqueror

title: San Francisco Nights

title: Cimarron

title: Last of the Duanes

title: The Wrecker

title: The Medicine Man

title: Abie's Irish Rose

title: The Long Shot

title: King for a Night

title: The Big Brain

title: Boulder Dam

title: Baby Face Nelson

title: Cherokee Strip

title: The Untamed Breed

title: Sentimental Journey

title: I Take This Woman

title: Jailbreak

title: 7th Heaven

title: Man Hunt

title: Alcatraz Island

title: My Buddy

title: Freshman Love

title: Song of the Eagle

title: He Couldn't Take It

title: Brass Knuckles

title: Breakdowns of 1936

title: Frontier Marshal

title: A Girl in Every Port

title: Midnight Manhunt

title: The World and the Flesh

title: The Captain's Kid

title: You Can't Get Away with Murder

title: Pocketful of Miracles

title: Lone Star Ranger

title: Walking Back

title: Ladies Must Love

title: State Street Sadie

title: The Redeeming Sin

title: Daisy Kenyon

title: Naughty Baby

title: The Girl in the Glass Cage

title: Melody Lane

title: Don't Get Me Wrong

title: One Hour Late

title: Anthony Adverse

title: Clothes Make the Woman

title: Woman's World

title: Some Came Running

title: The Man with the Golden Arm

title: Slightly Scarlet

title: Back to Nature

title: The Night of Nights

title: File 113

title: Embarrassing Moments

title: Sailor Be Good

title: Pickup on South Street

title: Turn Back the Hours

title: Million Dollar Baby

title: Hold 'Em Yale

title: Dancing in the Dark

title: Alias Jesse James

title: Shock

title: New York Confidential

title: Sob Sister

title: So This Is Paris Green

title: The Stronger Sex

title: Beautiful But Dumb

title: The Voice of Hollywood No. 13

title: Two Men and a Maid

title: Sunshine Gatherers