Dolph Thomas

Birth : 1892-12-08, Portland, Oregon, USA

Death : 1966-04-21

Movies

Gypsy
Sound
Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.
The Music Man
Sound
A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.
Alpine Glory
Sound
A scenic panorama of the Tyrolian wonderland that strikes many thousands of visitors each year with the immensity of its grandeur.
The Blue Danube
Sound
The Danube, not always blue but always beautiful, a river that like no other has inspired human imagining to expressions of lyrical beauty and dramatic wonderment.
Serenade
Sound Mixer
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico where he meets a sweet farm girl.
Pete Kelly's Blues
Sound
In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.
So You Want to Be a Plumber
Sound
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.
Strangers on a Train
Sound Designer
A deranged socialite accosts a tennis star with his theory that if two strangers trade murders, they can disguise their motives and avoid suspicion.
The Enforcer
Sound
After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.
Colt .45
Sound
Gun salesman Steve Farrell gets two of his new Colt .45 pistols stolen from him by ruthless killer Jason Brett but vows to recover them.
Barricade
Sound
Western remake of Jack London's The Sea Wolf. A sadistic mining camp owner "hires" scoundrels to work the mine. He just won't let them quit.
It's a Great Feeling
Sound
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
Whiplash
Sound
An artist follows a woman from California to New York, where he boxes for her mobster husband.
Key Largo
Sound Designer
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.
Escape Me Never
Sound
A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.
Dark Passage
Sound
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
The Man I Love
Sound
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls for him hard.
Deception
Sound
After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
Cinderella Jones
Sound
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
Shine on Harvest Moon
Sound
Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
Oklahoma Outlaws
Sound
In this short western, a gang of outlaws plots to gain control of the town of Tulsa.
Watch on the Rhine
Sound
On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara's wealthy mother near Washington, DC. Kurt secretly works for the anti-Nazi resistance. A visiting Romanian count, becoming aware of this, seeks to blackmail him.
They Died with Their Boots On
Sound
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
Manpower
Sound
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
High Sierra
Sound
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
She Couldn't Say No
Sound
Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the oddball and very shrewd characters in a small town.
The Letter
Sound
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
It All Came True
Sound
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
Smashing the Money Ring
Sound
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
Angels Wash Their Faces
Sound
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Sound
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
Hell's Kitchen
Sound
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
Code of the Secret Service
Sound
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
Secret Service of the Air
Sound
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Sound
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
Blondes at Work
Sound
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
Tovarich
Sound
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
Prairie Thunder
Sound
To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad. When Lynch sells rifles to the Indians, Rod Farrell captures Lynch and his gang. But Lynch's Indian friends free him and this time Farrell finds himself the prisoner.
That Certain Woman
Sound
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
Smarty
Sound
Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attorney Vernon Thorpe secures a divorce for her, and Vicki and Vernon are soon married. Vicki's yen for wearing revealing clothes and a penchant for inviting ex-husband to dinner soon provokes the easily-provoked Vernon into belting one on her himself. She goes to Tony's apartment, where Tony is entertaining Bonnie, who is not all that entertained by the presence of Vicki, especially after Vicki shows every intent of moving in and staying.
Ever in My Heart
Sound
World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.
42nd Street
Sound
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
The Match King
Still Photographer
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
Beauty and the Boss
Sound
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
The Finger Points
Sound
Lee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment on gangsters gets his name in the paper, the police on a raid and Lee in the hospital.
One Night at Susie's
Sound Engineer
A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.