William Newell

William Newell

Nacimiento : 1894-01-06, Millville, New Jersey, USA

Muerte : 1967-02-21

Perfil

William Newell

Películas

Pollyanna
Mr. Hooper (Uncredited)
Una jovencita hace cambiar a todo un pueblo gracias a su alegría. Aunque se quedó huérfana a los doce años, Pollyanna siempre tiene ganas de sonreír, incluso a su severa tía, a la que acabará ablandando con su contagiosa alegría.
Diez semanas en el circo
Jailbird
Acogido por sus tíos después de quedar huérfano, Toby Tyler huye para unirse al circo.
El último tren de Gun Hill
Hotel Desk Clerk
El sheriff Matt Morgan (Kirk Douglas) ha jurado llevar ante la justicia al asesino de su esposa, una joven india. Su tarea se complica cuando se entera de que el padre del sospechoso es un viejo amigo suyo, el ganadero Craig Belden (Anthony Quinn). A pesar de todo, Morgan está decidido a arrestar al hijo de Craig y marcharse con él en el tren de las 9:00.
Furia en el valle
Bartender (uncredited)
Jason Sweet es un rudo ovejero que se ve obligado a enfrentarse con los ganaderos de la comarca, sobre todo con Stephen Bedford. Dell Payton, una despreocupada chica de frontera, atrae la atención tanto de Jason como de Bedford. (FILMAFFINITY)
El temible Mr. Cory
Ned - Owner (uncredited)
El señor Cory, cansado de vagabundear por los suburbios de Chicago, abandona la ciudad y se coloca de camarero en un lujoso hotel de la costa. Su trabajo le pone en contacto con jugadores profesionales y piensa, entonces, que con las cartas enderezará su vida. Sin embargo, le despluman en la primera partida. Pero Cory no desiste y se asocia con un viejo jugador con el que empezará a recorrer los "garitos" más prestigiosos del país.
Our Miss Brooks
Dr. Henley
The big-screen translation of the successful television show of the 1950's. Arden stars as Connie Brooks, wisecracking English teacher at Madison High School, still hoping to tie the knot with shy biology teacher Philip Boynton (Robert Rockwell).
Wichita, ciudad infernal
Bartender (uncredited)
Wyatt Earp, antiguo cazador de búfalos y aventurero, llega a Wichita (Kansas), un pueblo ganadero en el que impera la ley del más fuerte. Su habilidad con el revólver le convierte en el candidato perfecto para el puesto de sheriff, pero rechaza el empleo. Sin embargo, las circunstancias hacen que se sienta moralmente obligado a imponer la ley y el orden en la caótica ciudad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Fort Bravo
Symore
Guerra Civil (1861-1865). En 1863, Fort Bravo se ha convertido en un campo de prisioneros de guerra sudistas, situado en el desierto de Arizona, territorio poblado por los belicosos apaches mescaleros. Con la ayuda de una mujer (Parker), un pequeño grupo de reclusos logra huir, pero el severo Capitán Roper (Holden) sale en su busca.
Here Come the Marines
Maj. Desmond
After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and he is promoted. During a drill that he is putting the rest of the gang through, they find a soldier left for dead on the side of the road. Slip discovers a playing card next to the marine and traces it to Jolly Joe Johnson's gambling house. They suspect that the gambling house is cheating and set out to uncover the proof.
Solo ante el peligro
Jimmy - Drunk with Eye Patch (uncredited)
Will Kane (Gary Cooper), el sheriff del pequeño pueblo de Hadleyville, acaba de contraer matrimonio con Amy (Grace Kelly). Los recién casados proyectan trasladarse a la ciudad y abrir un pequeño negocio; pero, de repente, empieza a correr por el pueblo la noticia de que Frank Miller (Ian MacDonald), un criminal que Kane había atrapado y llevado ante la justicia, ha salido de la cárcel y llegará al pueblo en el tren del mediodía para vengarse de Kane. El tiempo va pasando lentamente, pero nadie en el pueblo está dispuesto a ayudar al sheriff.
Young Man with Ideas
Party Waiter (uncredited)
El joven abogado Maxwell Webster, casado y con tres niños, empieza su carrera en un pueblecito perdido de Montana. Como la vida allí no es nada sencilla, la familia no tiene más remedio que trasladarse a Los Ángeles, donde tendrán que afrontar problemas de toda índole, especialmente económicos. Por si fuera poco, Maxwell se verá involucrado en un proceso judicial.
The Lady Pays Off
Bartender (as Billy Newell)
The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money. In order to pay her debts, casino manager Matt Braddock asks her to take care of his sad little daughter Diana.
Nuevo amanecer
Todd the Bartender (uncredited)
En el norte de África, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), al Sargento Larry Nevins lo alcanza una bala, disparada por un francotirador alemán, que lo está dejando ciego.
Louisa
Movie Usher (uncredited)
Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.
Song of My Heart
Doorman
The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.
Wedlock Deadlock
Dick
Newlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house before Betty's mother (Esther Howard), aunt (Patsy Moran) and brother (Charles Williams) show up and give every indication of becoming permanent free-loading guests. Dick (William Newell) gives Eddie a plan that will cause his unwanted guests to vacate the premises, by having Dick and his wife, Ruby (Dorothy Granger), move in as Eddie's relatives, and even bigger pests, thereby causing Betty's relatives to move out. The plan works and Eddie and Betty are pleased until Dick announces that he and Ruby have intentions of staying on.
Key Witness
Smiley
A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.
Second Chance
Pinky
Jewel thieves battle investigators.
Doctor Jim
Editor (as Bill Newell)
Dr. Jim Gateson, a country doctor who has counselled and ministered to his community for 30 years, is being honored with a surprise testimonial dinner. The scenario then flashes back through three decades, commencing with the young GP first hanging up his shingle, serving at the front during WWI, home life being disrupted by telephone calls from those in need, and competition from a new medic in town who doesn't make country calls.
Alias Mr. Twilight
Delivery Man (uncredited)
Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the simple luxuries of life, yet has no qualms when working a racket devised to relieve his victims of their property. Trudy Marshall is the governess of the granddaughter, and is in love with a detective (Michael Duane) who is about to expose the old man's unsuspected activities.
La Dama del lago
Drunk (Uncredited)
Una editora literaria (Audrey Totter) encarga al detective Phillip Marlowe (Robert Montgomery) encontrar a la misteriosa mujer de su jefe (Leon Ames), que supuestamente ha huido con un amante (Richard Simmons) y tal vez ha provocado una muerte.
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Piano Player (uncredited)
A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.
The Magnificent Rogue
Stage Manager
A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
Bowery Bombshell
Detective Dugan
Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car to a street cleaner for a fabulous amount, so they can get enough money to save Louie's (Bernard Gorcey) Malt Shop. Sidewalk photographer Cathy Smith (Teala Loring) snaps a pictures of three bank robbers as they are fleeing a robbery but when the Bowery Boys and Cathy realize that Sach is also in the photograph, they break into the photo lab to destroy the negative, which might make the police think Sach was involved in the robbery.
The Man Who Dared
Police Sgt. Clay
A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based on circumstantial evidence alone, but his plan goes awry.
Esclava de un recuerdo
Charlie (Uncredited)
La hermosa Joan Kenwood no puede superar la muerte de su marido en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Periodista de profesión, Joan tiene obsesivamente presente la imagen de su difunto esposo en todos los aspectos de su vida. El simpático ex soldado Jim Cameron la persigue con la esperanza, contra toda lógica, de que finalmente olvide a su marido y le preste su atención a él.
Aventura
Barber #1 (uncredited)
Un marino mercante que lleva una vida bastante despreocupada se enamora de una dulce y sumisa bibliotecaria, pero muy pronto se da cuenta de que no puede seguir con ella porque su vida es el mar.
Días sin huella
Liquor Store Proprietor (uncredited)
Don Birnam es un escritor fracasado a causa de su adicción al alcohol, adicción que lo ha destruido física y moralmente y lo ha convertido en un hombre desprovisto de voluntad. Con tal de seguir bebiendo es capaz de todo, incluso de robar. Tanto su novia como su hermano intentan por todos los medios regenerarlo, pero sus esfuerzos parecen estériles.
On Stage Everybody
Mason (uncredited)
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
Her Lucky Night
Proprietor
In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.
The Great Morgan
Film Character (uncredited)
Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, interspersed with a repeated loop of a scene from some melodrama. (Contains in their entirety the shorts, "Musical Masterpieces," "Our Old Car," and "Badminton," as well as clips from other projects)
The Missing Juror
Wally, Counterman (Uncredited)
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
Un hombre importante
Secretary
El hijo de un oficial de la Marina se pone al frente de la familia, dirige el esfuerzo bélico y monta un espectáculo musical para elevar la moral de los trabajadores.
Fired Wife
Bartender
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
Honeymoon Lodge
Bartender
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
All by Myself
Price
Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who of course is unaware of it. But unknown to Jean, Mark has become engaged to singer Val. When Jean finds out she tries to save face by saying that she is also engaged, and then uses a little social blackmail to get psychiatrist Bill Perry to pretend to be her fiancé for an evening out with Mark and Val.
Slightly Dangerous
Waiter (uncredited)
Una chica de pueblo cambia de identidad para triunfar en Nueva York, y su novio resulta sospechoso de su "desaparición".
La llama sagrada
Piggot
Un notable periodista (Spencer Tracy) quiere publicar un homenaje a un respetado y admirado patriota muerto en un accidente de coche. Hepburn es la viuda del hombre sobre el que Tracy quiere escribir.
No Place for a Lady
Toreador Club Waiter
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.
El forajido
Drunken Cowboy (uncredited)
Billy el Niño y Doc Holliday huyen del sheriff Pat Garret, que antes había sido su amigo. Los forajidos llevan consigo a la mestiza Río, que es la chica de Bill. Las peleas entre los dos amigos son constantes: cuando no es por los caballos es por Río.
¡Qué noche aquella!
Police Photographer
Jeff Troy escribe novelas de poco éxito y Nancy, su mujer, piensa que ello es debido a que viven en un apartamento poco conveniente para un escritor como él, por lo que decide acabar con la mediocridad de su existencia y alquilar un piso bajo con un jardín en una discreta casa de un barrio más tranquilo. En ella vivirán una experiencia tan extraordinaria como irrepetible. La casa entera tiene un aire siniestro, y los vecinos parecen hostiles y asustados. Jeff deberá entonces poner en práctica sus conocimientos detectivescos para resolver un asesinato cometido en su propia casa.
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Clerk
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.
Get Hep to Love
Janitor
Una niña prodigio dotada de una voz maravillosa huye de su represora tía y convence a una pareja rural de que la adopte.
El mayor y la menor
Ticket Agent #2 (uncredited)
Después de probar fortuna en Nueva York y no tener éxito, Susan Applegate decide regresar a su pueblo en Iowa. Previendo esta situación había reservado 27,50$ para el tren, pero como la tarifa ha aumentado decide disfrazarse de niña de 12 años para pagar la mitad. Los revisores del tren dudan que en realidad sea una niña y para escapar de ellos entra en el camarote de un apuesto militar, el Mayor del título, y es donde comienzan los enredos.
A Tragedy at Midnight
Swanson
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
Inflation
Jerry the Man Wanting to Buy Car (uncredited)
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
Miss Polly
Hubert - New Postman
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.
Devil Pays Off
Second Steward
Chris Waring es un investigador del gobierno que trata de reunir las pruebas necesarias para condenar a un magnate naviero.
Three Girls About Town
Laundry Man
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
Ice-Capades
Harry Stimson
Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.
El difunto protesta
Murdock Handler (uncredited)
Joe Pendleton (Robert Montgomery) es un boxeador que iba a luchar por el campeonato mundial antes de morir en un accidente de avión. Por desgracia para Joe, él no estaba destinado a morir en el accidente, pero sube al cielo antes de tiempo por culpa de un ángel demasiado eficiente (Edward Everett Horton). Ahora es cosa del jefe del ángel, Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains), encontrar un nuevo cuerpo para Joe y darle otra oportunidad de luchar por el título. Mientras le buscan un nuevo hogar, Joe conoce a una joven idealista (Evelyn Keyes) de la que se enamora locamente, y lo que le da una razón para vivir, aparte de para poder pelear por el título. Adaptación de la obra "El cielo puede esperar", que en 1978 también fue adaptada por Warren Beatty.
Blondie Goes Latin
Steward Ringing Chime and Crying (uncredited)
The 8th film in the Blondie series - Blondie Goes Latin. Mr. Dithers invites the Bumstead's on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.
Caught in the Act
Sgt. Riley
On the day of his daughter's wedding, a good-natured construction worker (Henry Armetta) is suspected by his wife of being involved with another woman, wrongly implicates his company's boss as a racketeer, and is arrested by police for running a shakedown operation. Comedy.
Mysterious Doctor Satan
Speed Martin
A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer America. The only one standing in his way is Bob Wayne, who fights Satan as the enigmatic Copperhead. Mysterious Doctor Satan is a 1940 film serial named after its chief villain. Doctor Satan's main opponent is the masked mystery man, "The Copperhead", whose secret identity is Bob Wayne, a man searching for justice and revenge on Satan for the death of his step-father. The serial charts the conflict between the two as Bob Wayne pursues Doctor Satan, while the latter completes his plans for world domination.
Wedding Bills
Groom-to-be (uncredited)
Another in the long series of "Pete Smith" shorts from M-G-M in which William Newell meets and falls in love with Sally Payne, and begins to budget for their plans to get married. His budget, alas, does not include nor anticipate the plans of Sally and her parents. This short was reissued in June of 1950 to be shown as a trailer with 1950's "Father of the Bride" and some sources think this short was made for that express purpose and date it as a 1950 film.
Ciudad de conquista
Max's Lyricist (uncredited)
Nueva York. Un camionero (James Cagney) decide hacerse boxeador para ayudar a su hermano que se dedica a la música (Arthur Kennedy), pero a un gángster sin escrúpulos no le gustará la idea.
Public Deb No. 1
Reporter
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
He Stayed for Breakfast
Waiter
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.
The Great Profile
Reporter
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
Andrés Hardy, tenorio
Insurance Investigator (uncredited)
El juez Andy Hardy se muda con su familia a Nueva York. Allí, su hijo Andrés se enamora de una chica de la alta sociedad. Éste intenta por todos los medios acercarse a ella, sin tener en cuenta que Betsy tiene la clave del asunto en sus manos.
Hold That Woman!
A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang that has stolen diamonds from a Hollywood movie star has stashed them inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.
Bubbling Troubles
Alfalfa's Dad (uncredited)
To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.
El doctor se casa
Soda Jerk
Una autora de libros feministas y un profesor de medicina bastante retrógrado, encuentran que les beneficia mutuamente simular que están casados.
The Domineering Male
Marriage Proposer (uncredited)
This Pete Smith Specialty short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. Who's really chasing whom?
The Ghost Comes Home
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive. Director William Thiele's 1940 film stars Frank Morgan, Billie Burke, Ann Rutherford, John Shelton, Harold Huber, Donald Meek, Nat Pendleton, Renie Riano, Frank Albertson, Reginald Owen, Ann Morriss and Richard Carle.
El hombre invisible vuelve
Minor Role (uncredited)
Un hombre que va a ser ejecutado, acusado del asesinato de su hermano, recibe la visita del Dr. Griffin, hermano del científico que años atrás descubrió la fórmula de invisibilidad. El condenado huye gracias a que se hace invisible, y trata de demostrar su inocencia, pero la locura que va unida a los efectos secundarios de la fórmula para ser invisible harán acto de presencia...
Swanee River
Bill, Stagehand
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
Nick Carter, Master Detective
Taxi Driver
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
The Invisible Killer
Det. Sgt. Pat Dugan
Reporter Sue Walker has too much inside information on the local gambling rackets to suit her sweetheart, Detective Lieutenant Jerry Brown, chief of the police Homicide Squad. When the call comes in that there has been a killing at Lefty Ross' place, a notorious gambling joint, Jerry is peeved when Sue beats him there. He discovers that gambler Jimmy Clark was killed as he answered a telephone call, and his body is riddled with bullets but Jerry can't find any weapon. Sue is amazed to see Gloria Cunningham there. Gloria's father is one of the town's leading reformers and she is engaged to District Attorney Richard Sutton. Ross decides to give Sutton all the information he needs and makes an appointment to go to Sutton's home. Once there, Ross is called to the telephone before he can give any information, and is killed in the same mysterious manner as Jimmy Clark.
Let's Talk Turkey
Abner J. Poodlebeam
It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her scowling family, and Abner has no idea how to proceed. The film's narrator has us cut away to the kitchen of chef M.O. Cullen who demonstrates the proper way to carve the bird, spoon out the stuffing, and lay out the platter. Back to Abner, who's missed Cullen's lesson, so he makes a fine mess. Can this marriage survive?
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Reporter
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Caballero sin espada
Reporter (uncredited)
Jefferson Smith, un joven ingenuo e idealista, que parece fácilmente manipulable, es nombrado senador. Ignora que en Washington tendrá que vérselas con políticos y empresarios sin escrúpulos que le harán perder la fe. Sin embargo, gracias a su secretaria, una joven que conoce muy bien los entresijos de la política, protagoniza en el Senado una espectacular y maratoniana intervención en la que, además de defender apasionadamente la democracia, pone en evidencia una importante trama de corrupción.
The Day the Bookies Wept
Maxie T. Bookmaker (uncredited)
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
Second Fiddle
Make-Up Artist
Un publicista (Power) conoce en Minnesota a una gran profesora de patinaje(Henie) a la que quiere llevar a Hollywood para que adquiera más fama. Finalmente ella decidirá regresar a su pueblo seguida del amor que el siente hacia ella.
Naughty But Nice
Arranger (uncredited)
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
Good Girls Go to Paris
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
Invitation to Happiness
Waiter (uncredited)
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
Es mi hombre
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
En Nueva York durante los años 20, una cantante lucha por apartar a su novio de los problemas...
Everybody's Baby
Waiter (uncredited)
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
Honolulu
Second Interne
Movie star Brooks Mason tries to avoid his fans and spend some weeks on vacation. When Hawaiian plantage-owner George Smith is mistaken by Mason's fans for Mason and brought to Mason's home. They decide to change their identities for a few weeks. But George Smith is mobbed by Mason's fans again on a personal appearance tour in New York, Mason falls in love to dancer Dorothy March, who also is on her way to Hawaii. Problems for Mason arise due to the fact that Smith is engaged with Cecilia Grayson, and her wealthy father believes, that Smith has double-crossed him. Mason isn't able to establish a connection with Smith in New York due to his agent's orders.
Alfalfa's Aunt
John Switzer
Alfalfa's weird aunt Penelope pays a visit. She's working on a murder mystery novel, but Alfalfa thinks she's trying to murder him. It's up to the Spanky and the gang to save him.
Slander House
Terry Kent
Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client.
Rhythm in the Clouds
Clyde Lyons
Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
Dangerous Holiday
Solitaire
A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
Dejad paso al mañana
Ticket Seller (uncredited)
Un anciano matrimonio reúne a sus dos hijos para comunicarles que están arruinados y los van a desahuciar en un plazo muy breve. Sus vidas tomarán un nuevo rumbo.
Bill Cracks Down
Eddie 'Porky' Plunkett
William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he finds "Tons' Walker, a strong and burly steel worker running the company, per his late-father's will request. He also finds that his father's will specifies the Junior will change his name to Bill Hall and work in the family steel mill for a year under the fake name. Walker's job is to make a man out of the son. The son is not overjoyed by this prospect. Neither is Walker.
Larceny on the Air
Andrews
A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.
A Man Betrayed
Gabby
A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders, but gets framed.
The Mandarin Mystery
Detective Guffy
Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.
Beware Of Ladies
Sniff
An unhappily married newspaper reporter discovers she's being used as a pawn in a scheme to discredit the political candidate she's been assigned to write about.
Happy Go Lucky
Charlie Davis
A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold the experimental airplane that he was flying. Foreign gangsters, the missing flyers girlfriend, and the U.S. military wants him, dead or alive.
Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
Hank McGlaurie
A 14-episode serial in which Mala, a Polynesian in the employ of U.S. Intelligence investigates sabotage on Clipper Island. A gang of spies causes the eruption of a volcano, for which our hero is blamed. He convinces the local Princess Melani of his innocence and helps her ward off a takeover by rival high priest Porotu.
Una mujer difamada
Divorce Detective
Cuando Loy, una diva social, calumnia al periodista Tracy, éste decide contraatacar implicando en el asunto a su prometida y al desafortunado Powell, un famosísimo pescador deportivo. El plan de Tracy incluye un matrimonio improvisado, una falsa seducción, la pesca de la trucha, puñetazos, promesas rotas...
Bulldog Edition
Charlie Hunter
Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also complicating matters is that one newspaper's editor and circulation director are competing for the affections of a pretty blonde reporter.
Sitting on the Moon
Mike
A successful songwriter and a struggling singer become involved professionally and romantically on the road to stardom.
Furia
Service Station Owner (uncredited)
Durante un viaje, Joe Wilson llega a un lugar desconocido, donde es encarcelado por un delito que no ha cometido. Los vecinos, amotinados, provocan el incendio de la cárcel y dan por muerto al forastero. Sin embargo, Wilson consigue sobrevivir y, entonces, intentará vengarse haciendo que sus potenciales asesinos corran el mismo peligro del que él escapó milagrosamente. "Fury" es el primer film americano del gran director alemán Fritz Lang.
Navy Born
Lt. Bill Lyons
A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best friends. Despite the resistance of the lad's surviving relatives, who worry that growing in the Navy will be hard on the boy, the officer loves and takes good care of the boy. At least he does until the child is abducted by a gangster who has mistaken him for his long-lost boy. Fortunately for the young fellow, the officer rallies the entire Navy and comes to the rescue.
Absolute Quiet
Bill Dahle (Uncredited)
Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary hostage, the convicts inadvertently cause the crash-landing of a small plane ferrying Axton's political adversary, Gov. Sam Pruden, and a nosy reporter. As the long night unfolds, each person's rivalries and weaknesses are prodded by the others.
La voz irresistible
Mr. Tanner
Sprinfield Davis es un experto cazador de zorros en los Ozarks, y cuenta con un fiel socio: el leal perro llamado Bugle Ann. Pero las cosas empiezan a cambiar en esa zona campestre cuando un pastor casquivano decide levantar una valla alrededor de sus rebaños de ovejas, anunciando además que le pegará un tiro al primer perro que se acerque...
Flor de arrabal
Pete
El atunero Dutch se casa con Hattie, una trabajadora de la fábrica de conservas. Dutch es expulsado de su sindicato y despedido de su trabajo, por lo que Hattie roba una cantidad de dinero para él y termina en prisión. Finalmente, el atunero consigue un nuevo trabajo, frustrando un complot para dinamitar el muelle y comprometiéndose a esperar por Hattie.
Here Comes the Band
Greasy (uncredited)
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
Honeymoon Limited
Cop (uncredited)
A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco.
Bombshell
Lola's Chauffeur (uncredited)
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.