Jack Norton

Jack Norton

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jack Norton (September 2, 1882 – October 15, 1958) was an American stage and film character actor who appeared in 184 films between 1934 and 1948, often playing drunks, although in real life he was a teetotaler. Career Jack Norton was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 2, 1882. In his early career he had a vaudeville comedy act with his wife Lillian Healy. Norton made his Broadway debut in 1925 in that year's edition of Earl Carroll's Vanities, and also appeared in Florida Girl, which was produced and staged by Carroll. Norton's first film work was for a musical short, School for Romance, in 1934, in which a young Betty Grable appeared, but his scenes were deleted. His work survived to reach the screen in his next assignment, The Super Snooper, a comedy short, and in his third film, his first full-length movie, Finishing School, which featured Frances Dee, Billie Burke, Ginger Rogers and Bruce Cabot, Norton played a drunk, setting the pattern for many of his future performances. Although he also played stone sober characters as well, he was best known for his inebriated characterizations, and he improved his work by following genuine drunks around, picking up behavioral tips. Norton worked continuously and consistently, sometimes appearing in as many as 20 films in one year, although many of his performances went uncredited. One of the few times he was credited as part of the main cast was in 1945 for the film A Guy, a Gal and a Pal In the 1940s, Norton was part of Preston Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors, appearing in five films written and directed by Sturges. He is perhaps best known to modern audiences as A. Pismo Clam, the drunken film director whom W.C. Fields is hired to replace in The Bank Dick (1940). In 1947, Norton retired from films due to illness, his last appearance being in Alias a Gentlemen, which was released in 1948, although he did make some live television appearances in the early 1950s. Jack Norton's final appearance would have been in the 1956 episode of The Honeymooners entitled "Unconventional Behavior", but age and infirmity had so overwhelmed him that he was literally written out of the show as it was being filmed, though Jackie Gleason saw to it that Norton was paid fully for the performance he was ready, willing, but unable to give. Norton died on October 15, 1958 in Saranac Lake, New York at the age of 76. He is buried in Sacred Hearts Cemetery in Southampton, New York on Long Island.

  • Title : Jack Norton
  • Popularity : 1.84
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1889-09-01
  • Place of Birth : Brooklyn, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As : Mortimer John Naughton
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Jack Norton Movies

  • 1947
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    The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

    The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

    6.3 1947 HD

    Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull,...

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  • 1942
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    The Palm Beach Story

    The Palm Beach Story

    7.024 1942 HD

    A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying...

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  • 1945
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    Flame of Barbary Coast

    Flame of Barbary Coast

    5.6 1945 HD

    Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito...

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  • 1934
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    Fixing a Stew

    Fixing a Stew

    1 1934 HD

    Leon Erroll drinks too much, in the opinion of his mother-in-law, Dot Farley. So she arranges for everyone around him to talk in non-sequiturs until...

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  • 1934
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    The Super Snooper

    The Super Snooper

    1 1934 HD

    Andy is a rich and well-respected man. But he's concerned what sort of boyfriend his daughter might have gotten as she's talking marriage and her...

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  • 1944
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    Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat

    Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat

    6.4 1944 HD

    To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.

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  • 1945
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    The Scarlet Clue

    The Scarlet Clue

    5.9 1945 HD

    Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.

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  • 1946
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    Shadows Over Chinatown

    Shadows Over Chinatown

    5.7 1946 HD

    In San Francisco's Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing relatives and uncovers a murder for insurance scheme.

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  • 1940
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    The Villain Still Pursued Her

    The Villain Still Pursued Her

    5.1 1940 HD

    Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to...

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  • 1945
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    Fashion Model

    Fashion Model

    3 1945 HD

    When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a lowly stock boy.

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  • 1941
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    No Hands on the Clock

    No Hands on the Clock

    4.9 1941 HD

    A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.

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  • 1947
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    Variety Girl

    Variety Girl

    6.1 1947 HD

    Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful...

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  • 1943
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    Taxi, Mister

    Taxi, Mister

    3 1943 HD

    The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.

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  • 1935
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    Sweet Music

    Sweet Music

    5.7 1935 HD

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

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  • 1936
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    Who's Looney Now

    Who's Looney Now

    1 1936 HD

    Mr. Brown is riding home from work one day with his new neighbor, Mr. Johnson. When Brown explains that he has all kinds of problems at home, Johnson...

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  • 1938
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    Thanks for the Memory

    Thanks for the Memory

    5.7 1938 HD

    Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's...

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  • 1935
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    Foolish Hearts

    Foolish Hearts

    1 1935 HD

    A little entry from the RKO shorts department serving also as an audition-type (stick 'em in one of these and see if they appeal to a real audience,...

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  • 1935
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    Dr. Socrates

    Dr. Socrates

    6.4 1935 HD

    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...

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  • 1938
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    The Awful Tooth

    The Awful Tooth

    6.8 1938 HD

    When one of the Our Gang kids finds money under his pillow after losing a tooth, all the kids decide to get rich by having all their teeth pulled.

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  • 1938
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    Hold That Kiss

    Hold That Kiss

    6.5 1938 HD

    Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.

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  • 1945
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    Man Alive

    Man Alive

    5.1 1945 HD

    A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.

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  • 1942
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    The Fleet's In

    The Fleet's In

    7 1942 HD

    Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are...

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  • 1949
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    Malice in the Palace

    Malice in the Palace

    5.636 1949 HD

    Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn from the...

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  • 1935
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    His Night Out

    His Night Out

    1 1935 HD

    When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by...

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  • 1938
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    Meet the Girls

    Meet the Girls

    4.5 1938 HD

    Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.

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  • 1937
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    Meet the Missus

    Meet the Missus

    4 1937 HD

    A small town Ohio barber accompanies his ditzy wife to Atlantic City, where she competes in the Happy Noodle Company's Mrs. America Contest.

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  • 1934
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    Finishing School

    Finishing School

    6.2 1934 HD

    Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the...

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  • 1945
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    Captain Tugboat Annie

    Captain Tugboat Annie

    1 1945 HD

    This tale of two tugboats focuses upon the rivalries between two operators competing to win a major shipping contract. Meanwhile a tugboat office...

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  • 1937
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    The Women Men Marry

    The Women Men Marry

    5.5 1937 HD

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

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  • 1935
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    Calling All Cars

    Calling All Cars

    2 1935 HD

    A reporter out to break up a criminal gang finds time to make a play for a mobster's girlfriend.

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  • 1935
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    Going Highbrow

    Going Highbrow

    6 1935 HD

    A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.

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  • 1937
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    My Dear Miss Aldrich

    My Dear Miss Aldrich

    6.1 1937 HD

    A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.

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  • 1938
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    Love Is a Headache

    Love Is a Headache

    5.7 1938 HD

    A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her...

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  • 1935
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    One More Spring

    One More Spring

    5.7 1935 HD

    Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.

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  • 1935
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    Broadway Gondolier

    Broadway Gondolier

    5.4 1935 HD

    A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

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  • 1939
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    The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt

    The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt

    6.5 1939 HD

    Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.

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  • 1938
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    Everybody's Doing It

    Everybody's Doing It

    5 1938 HD

    Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.

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  • 1940
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    The Bank Dick

    The Bank Dick

    6.453 1940 HD

    Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a...

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  • 1935
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    Stolen Harmony

    Stolen Harmony

    6 1935 HD

    Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray...

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  • 1943
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    Prairie Chickens

    Prairie Chickens

    1 1943 HD

    Two unemployed cowhands help a pill-popping rancher find the nasty varmint who's been rustling cattle.

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  • 1942
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    Moonlight in Havana

    Moonlight in Havana

    1 1942 HD

    A talented baseball player discovers he can only sing beautifully when he has a cold, leading a nightclub manager to hilariously attempt to keep him...

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  • 1939
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    News Is Made at Night

    News Is Made at Night

    4.5 1939 HD

    Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal...

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  • 1942
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    Dr. Broadway

    Dr. Broadway

    5 1942 HD

    A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.

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  • 1939
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    The Roaring Twenties

    The Roaring Twenties

    7.5 1939 HD

    After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie...

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  • 1939
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    Grand Jury Secrets

    Grand Jury Secrets

    1 1939 HD

    A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room session.

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  • 1938
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    Arsène Lupin Returns

    Arsène Lupin Returns

    5.8 1938 HD

    A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy...

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  • 1941
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    Let's Make Music

    Let's Make Music

    5.6 1941 HD

    An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song.

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  • 1936
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    The Preview Murder Mystery

    The Preview Murder Mystery

    6 1936 HD

    The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist...

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  • 1944
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    Going My Way

    Going My Way

    6.73 1944 HD

    Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a...

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  • 1947
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    Linda, Be Good

    Linda, Be Good

    1 1947 HD

    A writer decides to join a burlesque show so that she can write an authentic expose of the business.

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  • 1953
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    I Was a Burlesque Queen

    I Was a Burlesque Queen

    1 1953 HD

    1947 film "Linda, Be Good" with added 3-D scenes with chorus girls.

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  • 1934
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    Counsel on De Fence

    Counsel on De Fence

    1 1934 HD

    New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.

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  • 1937
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    Time Out for Romance

    Time Out for Romance

    5.6 1937 HD

    A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

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  • 1939
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    Society Smugglers

    Society Smugglers

    5.7 1939 HD

    The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds.

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  • 1945
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    Two O'Clock Courage

    Two O'Clock Courage

    6.2 1945 HD

    A cab driver nearly hits a man with amnesia, then helps him unravel his past, only to discover he's a murder suspect as she falls for him.

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  • 1941
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    Ride on Vaquero

    Ride on Vaquero

    4.2 1941 HD

    The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army...

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  • 1934
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    Cockeyed Cavaliers

    Cockeyed Cavaliers

    6 1934 HD

    Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.

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  • 1938
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    Jezebel

    Jezebel

    7 1938 HD

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

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  • 1940
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    The Ghost Breakers

    The Ghost Breakers

    6.5 1940 HD

    After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning...

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  • 1940
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    The Way of All Flesh

    The Way of All Flesh

    4 1940 HD

    Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver...

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  • 1940
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    City of Chance

    City of Chance

    5.2 1940 HD

    Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.

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  • 1943
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    Thank Your Lucky Stars

    Thank Your Lucky Stars

    6.1 1943 HD

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

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  • 1942
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    The Spoilers

    The Spoilers

    6.2 1942 HD

    When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle...

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  • 1943
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    The Kansan

    The Kansan

    5.2 1943 HD

    Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He...

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  • 1942
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    Brooklyn Orchid

    Brooklyn Orchid

    7 1942 HD

    Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.

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  • 1941
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    Pacific Blackout

    Pacific Blackout

    6.3 1941 HD

    Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the...

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  • 1942
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    My Favorite Spy

    My Favorite Spy

    5.2 1942 HD

    The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).

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  • 1940
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    The Farmer's Daughter

    The Farmer's Daughter

    5 1940 HD

    Broadway producer Nickie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend,...

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  • 1945
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    Strange Confession

    Strange Confession

    6.8 1945 HD

    A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in...

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  • 1936
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    Down the Ribber

    Down the Ribber

    1 1936 HD

    Leon Errol trying to report a stolen car.

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  • 1942
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    Dr. Renault's Secret

    Dr. Renault's Secret

    5.2 1942 HD

    A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancée who lives with her...

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  • 1944
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    Once Upon a Time

    Once Upon a Time

    5.8 1944 HD

    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,...

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  • 1943
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    So's Your Uncle

    So's Your Uncle

    5 1943 HD

    Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not...

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  • 1943
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    Crazy House

    Crazy House

    5 1943 HD

    Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names...

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  • 1943
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    The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

    The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

    6.862 1943 HD

    A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married...

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  • 1939
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    Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

    Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

    2 1939 HD

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

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  • 1943
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    The Falcon Strikes Back

    The Falcon Strikes Back

    5.6 1943 HD

    The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic...

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  • 1944
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    Make Your Own Bed

    Make Your Own Bed

    5.8 1944 HD

    Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for...

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  • 1964
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    The Big Parade of Comedy

    The Big Parade of Comedy

    6.3 1964 HD

    Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

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  • 1935
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    Page Miss Glory

    Page Miss Glory

    6.3 1935 HD

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

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  • 1946
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    Rhythm and Weep

    Rhythm and Weep

    5.3 1946 HD

    The Stooges are actors who can't hold a job, so they decide to jump off a high building and end it all. On the roof top they meet three pretty...

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  • 1937
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    Marked Woman

    Marked Woman

    6.493 1937 HD

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

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  • 1943
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    It Ain't Hay

    It Ain't Hay

    6.4 1943 HD

    Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack,...

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  • 1945
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    The Naughty Nineties

    The Naughty Nineties

    6.8 1945 HD

    In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating...

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  • 1935
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    Ship Cafe

    Ship Cafe

    1 1935 HD

    The singing stoker and the vamp.

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  • 1946
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    Nocturne

    Nocturne

    5.6 1946 HD

    In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne...

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  • 1940
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    Opened by Mistake

    Opened by Mistake

    1 1940 HD

    A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.

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  • 1941
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    Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

    6.6 1941 HD

    A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.

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  • 1944
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    The Story of Dr. Wassell

    The Story of Dr. Wassell

    6.3 1944 HD

    As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser...

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  • 1935
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    Don't Bet on Blondes

    Don't Bet on Blondes

    5 1935 HD

    Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his...

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  • 1945
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    A Guy, a Gal and a Pal

    A Guy, a Gal and a Pal

    1 1945 HD

    A young woman devises a clever scheme to secure a train reservation by pretending to be married to a stranger.

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  • 1947
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    Hired Husband

    Hired Husband

    1 1947 HD

    The millionairess aunt of Errol's previously married wife is coming to visit, and since the aunt is dead set against divorce, the wife prevails upon...

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  • 1934
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    One Too Many

    One Too Many

    1 1934 HD

    Wife tries to do something about her husband's fondness for the bottle.

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  • 1936
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    Forgotten Faces

    Forgotten Faces

    1 1936 HD

    Harry Ashton is a superstitious gambling house owner, who relies on sprigs of heliotrope as his good luck charm. One day, Harry catches his wife,...

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  • 1944
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    Hail the Conquering Hero

    Hail the Conquering Hero

    7.008 1944 HD

    Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to...

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