Fritz Feld

Fritz Feld

Nacimiento : 1900-10-15, Berlin, Germany

Muerte : 1993-11-18

Historia

Fritz Feld was born on October 15, 1900 in Berlin, Germany as Fritz Feilchenfeld. He is known for his work on Bringing Up Baby (1938), Barefoot in the Park (1967) and Hello, Dolly! (1969). He was married to Virginia Christine. He died on November 18, 1993 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Born in Berlin, Germany, Feld began his acting career in Germany in 1917, making his screen debut in Der Golem und die Tänzerin (The Golem and the Dancing Girl). Feld filmed the sound sequences of the Cecil B. DeMille film The Godless Girl, released by Pathé, without DeMille's supervision since DeMille had already broken his contract with Pathé, and signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He developed a characterization that came to define him. His trademark was to slap his mouth with the palm of his hand to create a "pop!" sound that indicated both his superiority and his annoyance. The first use of the "pop" sound was in If You Knew Susie. Feld often played the part of a maître d', but also a variety of aristocrats and eccentrics; his characters were indeterminately European, sometimes French and sometimes Belgian but always with his particular mannerisms. In the 1938 screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby he played the role of Dr. Lehman. In 1939 he appeared with the Marx Brothers in At The Circus in the small but memorable role of French orchestra conductor Jardinet. In one 1967 episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., "The Napoleon's Tomb Affair", Feld played a banker, a beatnik, a diplomat and a waiter. The episode also featured Ted Cassidy from The Addams Family. In his later years, Feld appeared in several Walt Disney films and also played an uncharacteristically dramatic role in Barfly. In addition to films, he acted in numerous television series in guest roles, including the recurring role of "Zumdish", the manager of the intergalactic Celestial Department Store on Lost In Space, in two Season 2 episodes, The Android Machine and The Toymaker. Zumdish returned in the Season 3 episode Two Weeks In Space, where he has been brainwashed by bank robbers into believing he is a tour director taking the robbers on holiday. He also portrayed one of the Harmonia Gardens waiters in the movie Hello Dolly! Feld made his final film appearance in 1989.

Perfil

Fritz Feld
Fritz Feld

Películas

Homer y Eddie
Mortician
Un hombre retrasado recibe ayuda de una mujer sociópata cuando trata de reunirse con su padre moribundo, quien años atrás lo desheredó.
El borracho
Bum
Henry Chinaski es un escritor alcohólico y genial que se pasa la vida en los bares. Su preferido es el "Golden Horn", frecuentado por un variopinto grupo de vagabundos, prostitutas y otros desechos de la sociedad. Henry se lleva muy bien con Jim, el barman de día, pero discute frecuentemente con Eddie, el barman de noche, un hombre iracundo y fanfarrón. Sus peleas son objeto de apuestas por parte de los clientes. Cuando Henry gana, gasta su dinero recorriendo los demás bares del barrio. Así es cómo conoce a Wanda, una mujer todavía bella y tan alcohólica como él
Heidi's Song
Sebastian
Orphan Heidi lives with her grandpa in Swiss Alps. She brings joy to all there. However, her aunt takes her to the city to live as a servant girl to a cold rich strict family and their nice but sad handicapped daughter.
La loca historia del mundo
Maitre 'D - The Roman Empire
"La loca historia del mundo" es una visión irreverente de la evolución de la historia, desde la aparición del primer hombre hasta la Revolución Francesa. La Última Cena es captada a través de los ojos de un atormentado camarero. El Imperio Romano es más alocadamente corrompido de lo que DeMille jamás pudiera soñar. Se divulgan los secretos de la Revolución Francesa. E incluso los ritos tribales del hombre prehistórico aparecen desnudos.
Herbie, torero
Chief Steward
Pete y Davie, dos americanos de unos veinte años llegan a Puerto Vallarta para heredar un coche de carreras perteneciente al tío de Pete, que no es otro que el famoso Herbie, quien en varias ocasiones ha ganado el Gran Premio de Montecarlo. Ellos planean introducir a Herbie en Río para el prestigioso premio de Gran Brasil. Para Pete y Davie, los problemas comienzan cuando encuentran a Paco, un ratero de 10 años quién rápidamente roba a Pete su cartera. (FILMAFFINITY)
El mejor amante del mundo
Tomaso Abalone
Rudy Valentine es un hombre muy desdichado, no dura mucho tiempo en ningún trabajo por culpa de sus manías y es infeliz en su matrimonio. Un día el cinematógrafo Adolph Zitz realiza un casting para elegir al actor idóneo que interprete al italiano Rodolfo Valentino. El papel está muy demandado y al casting se presentan cientos de aspirantes, pero hay uno que destaca entre todos: Rudy Valentine. Esta es la oportunidad que el protagonista llevaba buscando. Rudy está seguro de poder encarnar al actor italiano mejor que ningún otro y lucha con todas sus fuerzas para conseguir el papel y demostrar a todo el mundo su valía. Su mujer lo ha abandonado recientemente para irse con el auténtico Rodolfo Valentino y Rudy necesita más que nunca creer en él mismo.
Viernes loco
Mr. Jackman
Cuando Annabel, que es un poco "chicazo", se encuentra dentro del cuerpo de su madre Ellen, ¡se convierte de pronto en la encargada de todas las tareas domesticas! Y Ellen, ahora en el cuerpo de su hija, se enfrenta a los retos del colegio, incluyendo un examen de mecanografía, entrenamiento de hockey sobre hielo y mucho más. En el año 2003 la Disney hizo un conocido remake: "Ponte en mi lugar (Freaky Friday)", protagonizado por Jamie Lee Curtis y Lindsay Lohan.
Won Ton Ton, el perro que salvó a Hollywood
Rudy's Butler
Hollywood, año 1924. La dulce Estie llega a la ciudad soñando con convertirse en una estrella de cine. Pero no será sencillo de conseguir triunfar en la meca del cine, aunque ella y el perro Won Ton Ton harán todo lo posible por conseguirlo.
La última locura
Maitre d'
Homenaje satírico al cine mudo norteamericano, en el que grandes estrellas como Paul Newman o Burt Reynolds se autoparodian. Mel Brooks interpreta a un director que propone lo que él considera una idea fantástica: hacer una película muda. Está convencido de que su original idea evitará la desaparición de los estudios de cine para los que trabaja.
La pareja chiflada
Mr. Gilbert
Dos ancianos actores de vodevil, conocidos en otro tiempo como "Lewis y Clark", llegaron a odiarse tanto cuando trabajaban juntos que, fuera del escenario, ni siquiera se dirigían la palabra. Cuando el sobrino de Clark intenta reunirlos de nuevo para su última actuación en televisión, los dos tendrán que hacer enormes esfuerzos para poder soportarse civilizadamente.
El hombre más fuerte del mundo
Uncle Frederick
Comedia familiar de ambiente estudiantil en el que los protagonistas describen una fórmula similar al elixir mágico de Astérix. En ese momento los protagonistas se dedicarán a deshacer entuertos.
Herbie, un volante loco
Maitre d'
Un promotor inmobiliario ha comprado varios bloques en el el centro de la ciudad para construir una alameda gigantesca. El único obstáculo lo representa una anciana viuda que no está dispuesta a vender su vivienda. El promotor recurre entonces a toda clase de argucias para conseguirlo. Pero la viuda cuenta con la ayuda de Herbie, el Volkswagen fantástico.
Call Her Mom
Waiter
A sexy waitress becomes the house mother in a fraternity house.
The Phynx
Fritz Feld
Una banda de rock es enviada a Albania con el fin de localizar a unos estadounidenses secuestrados en un alejado castillo.
Mi cerebro es electrónico
Sigmund Van Dyke
Por accidente, el contenido de una enciclopedia informática se transfiere al cerebro de Dexter Riley, un universitario no muy dotado. Debido a sus conocimientos recién adquiridos decide competir en un concurso entre varias universidades, donde consigue todos los puntos. Un niño prodigio de otra universidad se entera de su falsa sabiduría y hace todo lo posible para desacreditar a Dexter.
Hello, Dolly!
Rudolph's Assistant
Cornelius Hackl, dependiente de una tienda de alimentación de Yonkers, marcha a Nueva York con su mejor amigo para pasar un buen rato. Allí no pueden evitar cruzarse con su jefe Horace, que les promete darles una reprimenda si los ve en un restaurante de moda en lugar de estar atendiendo la tienda. A través de Horace, comerciante viudo, conocemos a Dolly Levi, una casamentera de mediana edad -también viuda- que está intentando buscarle una nueva mujer.
El cómico
Armand
Billy Bright, un conocido cómico de vodevil, llega a Hollywood en la dorada época del cine mudo para convertirse en uno de los más famosos y queridos personajes del público, realizando infinidad de películas. Pero Billy no se parece en nada al personaje que interpreta: es infiel a su mujer Mary, abusa de su ayudante Cockeye y para colmo, para olvidar comienza a beber, lo que hace que su carrera comience a dar tumbos. Pero el tiempo le dará una segunda oportunidad, ya anciano, para relanzar su carrera.
Descalzos por el parque
Restaurant Proprietor
Un joven y conservador abogado (Robert Redford) es la quintaesencia de la sensatez y el sentido común. En cambio, su esposa (Jane Fonda) es un poco alocada y sólo piensa en pasárselo lo mejor posible. Ambos se enamoran al instante y se casan de inmediato; pero la dura realidad (un quinto piso sin ascensor, un apartamento como una caja de cerillas) hace que la pasión y la armonia se resientan.
Harlow, la rubia platino
Fritz (uncredited)
Jean Harlow es una hermosa rubia platino con un gran talento artístico. En los años 30 conoce a Arthur Landau, un hombre que confía en ella y se convierte en su representante. Durante largo tiempo los empleos son escasos, pero Arthur sigue apoyándola y Jean acaba llegando a lo más alto y convirtiéndose en una actriz inolvidable. Sin embargo, fuera de la pantalla no tiene tanta suerte, su vida personal es un desastre.
Jerry Calamidad
Maitre D'
Un famoso cómico muere en un accidente de aviación y su equipo de producción, se queda sin su gallina de los huevos de oro. Reunidos en la habitación de un lujoso hotel, el productor, los agentes y la secretaria, más preocupados por el desolador panorama de sus carreras que por la muerte de su estrella, deciden buscar a alguien para que ocupe su lugar y convertirlo en el nuevo y fulgurante rostro de la televisión. En ese instante aparece tras la puerta de la habitación un torpísimo botones, Stanley Belt, quien parece tener potencial. Lo que el equipo de producción no tiene en cuenta es que, en ocasiones, las apariencias engañan...
Cuatro tíos de Texas
Fritz
El simpático y caradura Zacharias Thomas (Frank Sinatra) controla muchos de los negocios de la ciudad de Galverston, en Texas. Para ello cuenta con la inestimable colaboración del presidente del banco local, el miserable Harvey Burden (Victor Buono). Pero Zach acaba de sufrir un duro revés: la diligencia que transportaba 100.000 dólares de su propiedad ha sido asaltada por un tal Joe Jarrett (Dean Martin), un aventurero que, además, es abogado. La osadía de Jarrett no se detiene aquí, ya que va a Galverston e ingresa el botín en el banco de Burden, dispuesto a hacer la competencia al poderoso Zacharias.
Lío en los grandes almacenes
Irving Catastrophe
Barbara, hija de Phoebe Tuttle, una millonaria propietaria de una importante cadena de grandes almacenes, se ha enamorado de un personaje honrado pero un tanto alelado llamado Raymond Philler. Para que su hija pueda darse cuenta de tan mala elección, su adinerada progenitora empleará a Raymond en uno de sus establecimientos otorgándole los trabajos más difíciles y variados. Así pasará por la sección de deportes, zapatería, alimentación, mobiliario, etc.
Promesas, promesas
Ship's Doctor
Después de una borrachera en un crucero, dos mujeres descubren que están embarazadas, y se disponen a encontrar a los padres de los niños.
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
John Swallowtail
A TV movie with intertwining music numbers and sketches.
Un gángster para un milagro
Pierre
En la época de la Ley Seca (1920-1933), Dave es un contrabandista de alcohol que está a punto de cerrar un trato importante con un mafioso de Chicago. Como las manzanas de la mendiga Annie siempre le han dado suerte, envía a uno de sus hombres a buscarla para cerrar la operación. Pero Annie está completamente desesperada: su hija, a la que no ve desde hace muchos años, llega de Europa acompañada de su novio y de su suegro, unos aristócratas italianos, y Annie tendrá que convertirse en una gran dama para no defraudarla.
Un espía en Hollywood
Busby - Roaring 20's Director
En los majestuosos estudios de cine Paramutual las cosas no funcionan como deberían. Surgen retrasos inesperados, pérdida incomprensible de materiales y demás incidentes que repercuten en el negocio. Tom Paramutual (Brian Donlevy), uno de los magnates que controlan los estudios, no entiende que está ocurriendo y decide emprender una investigación para hallar las causas de tan misterioso sabotaje. La investigación caerá en manos de Morty (Jerry Lewis), el más torpe y extravagante de todos los chicos de los recados que trabajan en Paramuntual, por la sencilla razón de que los dichosos saboteadores actúan siempre tras él.
El terror de las chicas
Mrs. Wellenmellon's Hairdresser (uncredited)
Tras ser plantado por su chica, un deprimido Herbert H. Herbert (Jerry Lewis) reniega de las relaciones románticas, y está decidido a vivir toda su vida como un soltero redomado. Entonces, encuentra trabajo en una residencia para señoritas en Hollywood, ¡y las residentes se vuelven locas con el nuevo ayudante! Es entonces cuando el desventurado Herbert pasa de ser un simple manitas a convertirse en...¡"El terror de las chicas"!
Juke Box Rhythm
Ambrose
An European princess visiting America helps a record producer organize a big concert.
Up In Smoke
Dr. Bluzak (uncredited)
The Bowery Boys: In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil.
So You Want to Be Pretty
Dr. Von Slaughter (uncredited)
In this comedic short, Joe and Alice McDoakes each wish their looks were better.
Jail Busters
Dr. Fernando F. Fordyce
Slip and Sach (Bowery Boys) go to prison to help a reporter with a story.
Viviendo su vida
Barber (uncredited)
Al desdichado Homer Flagg (Lewis) le comunica su médico, el Dr. Harris (Martin) que se está muriendo a causa de una radiación venenosa. Cuando una periodista de Nueva York (Janet Leigh) se entera de la situación de Homer, decide escribir una serie de artículos sobre el desgraciado personaje. Pero el doctor informa a Homer de que el diagnóstico ha sido un error, lo que no les impide aceptar la oferta de la periodista para hacer un fabuloso viaje a Manhattan, durante el que ambos tratarán de mantener sus mentiras.
El Vigilante de la diligencia
Fritz
Un vigilante de diligencia, acusado de conspiración, es perseguido por los vecinos de una pequeña ciudad del Oeste.
Paris Playboys
Marcel the Maitre d'
Sach is the exact double of a famous French scientist who has invented a powerful rocket fuel. Enemy agents, mistaking Sach for the scientist, attempt to kidnap him and get the formula for the fuel.
Ola de crímenes
Jess (uncredited)
Tres criminales atracan una gasolinera, pero uno de ellos resulta herido y es abandonado a su suerte. Perseguido por la policía, busca refugio en casa de un ex presidiario reformado, que se verá envuelto a su pesar en los planes del grupo.
So You Want to Wear the Pants
Psychiatrist (uncredited)
It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes to switch points of view during a session.
Cuatro páginas de la vida
Maurice (segment "The Gift of the Magi") (uncredited)
Película basada en relatos del escritor inglés O. Henry. Consta de varios episodios independientes ambientados en Nueva York, a finales del siglo XIX, y presentados por John Steinbeck. Fue rodada por cinco de los mejores directores del momento: Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Henry King, Henry Koster y Jean Negulesco.
¿Alguien ha visto a mi chica?
Alvarez (uncredited)
Un anciano millonario sin familia, que pretende dejar toda su fortuna a los descendientes de una novia suya que lo rechazó, se traslada a la localidad donde residen para comprobar cómo viven sus futuros herederos.
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
Headwaiter
Shy farmboy loves his next-door neighbor, but she dreams of going to the big city. Then she gets mixed up with big-city gangsters.
So You Want to Enjoy Life
Dr. Hugo Flugleman (uncredited)
Believing he has only a month to live, average guy Joe McDoakes decides to live life to the fullest in the time he has left.
Sky High
Dr. Kapok
When he is told that he is to spend three more years as a tailgunner, goofball GI Herbert Pumice thinks that a promotion--which he has little to no chance of getting--will get him out of the job he hates. He asks his girlfriend Sally, who owns the base café, for help. She goes to the base commander, Col. Baker--who she knows has a crush on her--to help out Herbert. Col. Baker schedules a promotion hearing for Herbert that Friday. He naturally fails it miserably, and then learns that Col. Baker is going out on a date with Sally. Meanwhile, the base military intelligence officer discovers that Herbert is a dead-ringer for the head of a spy ring intending to sabotage a new automated plane, and gets Herbert assigned to infiltrate the gang. Complications ensue.
Journey Into Light
Clothing Salesman
John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunkenly interrupts a sermon, then despondent after her suicide. Burrows travels to Los Angeles for a fresh start, but takes to the bottle himself and ends up arrested for public intoxication. A skid-row con man, Gandy, finds him a bed at a flop house, while a street preacher, Doc Thorssen, and daughter Christine take him to a local mission. Christine is blind. She falls in love with Burrows, enjoying his discussions of the spirit and the soul but knowing little of his past. One day she is struck by a streetcar and knocked unconscious, causing Burrows to once again question his faith. He ultimately accepts the Lord's will and is offered a better place to live and preach. Burrows decides he is better suited to the mission, with Christine by his side.
Kentucky Jubilee
Rudolph Jouvet
A film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film. There, he gets kidnapped.
Missing Women
Pierre (hairdresser)
A woman becomes desperate to find a pair of car thieves after her husband -- while on their honeymoon -- is killed during a robbery.
Rhythm Inn
Prof. Rinaldo
A bandleader, desperate to get his band's instruments out of hock, promises the pawnshop clerk--an aspiring songwriter--that he'll let the band's female singer do the clerk's songs at a local club if he will let the band "borrow" their instruments at night. The clerk's girlfriend, however, thinks that the band singer is after more than her boyfriend's songs.
Cuidado con los inspectores
Pianist
Cuenta la historia de un individuo felizmente casado, con trabajo y dos niños, cuya vida cambia radicalmente cuando gana un concurso radiofónico de preguntas y respuestas, convirtiéndose en una celebridad.
Lo quiso la suerte
French Dressmaker (uncredited)
Un entrenador de hípica que pasa por una mala racha pone toda su confianza en su caballo para la próxima competición. No obstante, éste se escapa de su cuadra. Los problemas se complican cuando el sheriff del condado reclama a Dan su caballo al no haber hecho frente al pago de unas facturas. A medida que se acerca la hora del Derby, cuando tenía previsto competir su caballo "Broadway Bill", los nervios atenazan a Dan Brooks, quien una vez que ha recuperado a su caballo se encuentra con un nuevo imprevisto.
Reto a la muerte
Window Dresser
Tras el asesinato de un empleado de Correos, una monja asegura que podría reconocer a uno de los asesinos si lo volviese a ver. Desde ese momento su vida correrá peligro.
Belle of Old Mexico
Dr. Quincy
Wealthy Kip Artmitage III (Robert Rockwell) honors his late wartime friend's request to look after the friend's "little sister."
The Lovable Cheat
Monsieur Louis
Posing as a wealthy Parisian, Mercadet fleeces friends and casual acquaintances alike. He is forced into this life of crime to keep up appearances, so that his daughter Julie can land herself a rich husband.
Mexican Hayride
Professor Ganzmeyer
Joe Bascomb persigue al estafador Harry Lambert hasta la Ciudad de México, luego de que Harry aparentemente lo estafara en un negocio de acciones petrolíferas en los Estados Unidos. Harry es el agente artístico de la ex-novia de Joe, Mary, quien bajo el nombre de Montana se hace pasar por torera. Cuando Joe se encuentra con Harry en la plaza de toros, Mary está a punto de tirar su montera a la multitud donde el afortunado destinatario será proclamado 'embajador de buena voluntad' en la Semana del Amigo Americano, una festividad local que permite al ganador viajar por México durante una semana. En realidad Harry lo ha arreglado para que Mary arroje la montera a Gus Adamson, otro estafador, pero en vez de eso, Mary se la lanza enfurecida a Joe. Resulta que Joe ahora es el 'embajador de buena voluntad' pero, a su vez, también está siendo perseguido por las autoridades estadounidenses por participar en la estafa del petróleo...
Trouble Makers
Mr. Andre Schmidtlap - Hotel Manager
Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel.
¡Viva la vida!
Pierre
La indecisa heredera Dee Dee Dillwood es empujada a casarse con su novio, pero incapaz de enfrentarse a la noche de bodas, ella se escabulle en el hotel a la habitación de al lado donde se aloja el piloto comercial Marvin Payne, que lo único que quiere es dormir. De alguna manera, ella le convence para que la lleve a California. Sus compañeros de viaje incluyen un chimpancé, un cadáver (en un ataúd), un estafador fugado y dos recién casados.
Julia se porta mal
Pepito
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites her mother to her wedding, with the disapproval of William's mother.
The Noose Hangs High
Psychiatrist
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
My Girl Tisa
Prof. Tabor
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
If You Knew Susie
Chez Henri
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker.
La vida secreta de Walter Mitty
Anatole
Walter Mitty, es un escritor soñador con una madre sobreprotectora, al que le gusta imaginar que es un héroe que vive fantásticas aventuras. Su sueño se convierte en realidad cuando conoce accidentalmente a una misteriosa mujer que le entrega un pequeño libro negro. Según ella, contiene las ubicaciones de las joyas de la corona holandesa, ocultas desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Pronto, Mitty se encuentra en medio de una conspiración, donde tendrá dificultades para diferenciar entre la realidad y la ficción.
Hollywood Wonderland
Director (clip from "Swingtime in the Movies", 1938) (uncredited)
Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.
Fun on a Weekend
Sergei Stroganoff
Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.
Carnival in Costa Rica
Hotel Clerk
En Costa Rica todo es color, y nos muestran la historia de una pareja joven, Dick Haymes en la plenitud de su popularidad junto a la guapa Vera Ellen, quien, en contra de la voluntad de sus padres, se niega a casarse.
La gran pasión
Nicholas Kavlun
Historia de amor entre un tiránico director de orquesta y su alumna pianista a través del tiempo.
Gentleman Joe Palooka
Club Steward
In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize=fighting profession. But, his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name and discredit the crooked politicians.
Her Sister's Secret
Wine Salesman
A WWII tale of romance that begins during New Orlean's "Mardi Gras" celebration when a soldier and a girl meet and fall in love. He asks her to marry him but she decides to wait until his next leave. He is sent overseas and she does not receive his letter and feels abandoned, but she does find out she is pregnant. She gives the child to her married sister and does not see her child again for three years. She returns to her sister's home to reclaim the child, and the soldier, who has been searching for her, also turns up. The sister is not interested in giving up the child. Written by Les Adams
The Catman of Paris
Prefect of Police
When author Charles Regnier (Carl Esmond) returns to Paris with a best-selling book that criticizes the government, he's tormented by frequent blackouts. After a mysterious cat-like creature slaughters people close to him, Charles is suspected of murder. Charles fears that he is the beast, but his paramour, Marie (Lenore Aubert), and best friend, Henry (Douglass Dumbrille), believe he's innocent ... until the creature begins to stalk Marie (from Netflix description).
Movieland Magic
(archive footage)
Released as part of a series of WB shorts under the collective title of "Technicolor Specials" (WB production number 2003) this short most likely holds the WB house record for a 20-minute film containing footage from the most different titles in their inventory. It's theme of a singing guided tour of the lot (and some of the footage) is from 1944's "Musical Movieland", the former title holder, and it contains clips from 1939's "Quiet, Please" and "Royal Rodeo"; "Sunday Roundup" from 1936 and 1940's "The Singing Dude." Pieces from "Out Where the Stars Begin" and "Swingtime in the Movies" may also be used, but it's hard to tell since they all tend to run together and show up in a lot of places during the 1940's Warner shorts. Its title of "Movieland Magic" is most apt considering the sleight-of-hand performed by the WB Shorts and Sales departments in once again selling the same film clips for the 3rd, 4th or more times.
Captain Tugboat Annie
Al Pucci aka Alfred Puccini
This tale of two tugboats focuses upon the rivalries between two operators competing to win a major shipping contract. Meanwhile a tugboat office secretary and an ex-con who wants to go straight, fall in love. Tugboat Annie is put in charge of a child violinist. When a waterfront fire breaks out, the two warring captains join forces to put it out.
George White's Scandals
Montescu
Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.
The Great John L.
Claire's manager
Portrait of legendary fighter John L. Sullivan, aka "The Boston Strong Boy", and his meteoric rise to become the first gloved World Heavyweight Champion. But the famed boxer is no match for the two women with holds on him, love struck actress Kathy Harkness and the real love of his life, beautiful but unyielding Anne Livingstone.
Ever Since Venus
Michele
The American Beauty Association is about to hold its annual trade show in New York City and songwriter "Tiny" Lewis (Billy Gilbert) has just sold a song to Ina Ray Hutton ('Ina Ray Hutton'), the leader of an all-girl band headlining the show. Lewis shares an apartment with Bradley Miller ('Ross Hunter') and Michele (Fritz Feld), an artist, and Miller has just invented a non-staining lipstick called "Rosebud." Preparing to get a booth at the show, Miller is told by J. Webster Hackett (Alan Mowbray), a very devious "Cosmetics King,", intent on selling a big lipstick order to buyer Edgar Pomeroy (Thurston Hall), that it will cost him a $1000 to join the association and get a booth, which is about $999 more than Miller and his roomies have between them. But Miller's beauty-parlor girl friend, Janet Wilson ('Ann Savage'), meets factory-owner P. G. Grimble (Hugh Herbert), and money is soon no issue. (IMDb)
Take It Big
Doctor Dittenhoffer
Jack Haley plays Jack North, the nether end of a vaudeville horse act who inherits a western ranch. When he heads to the Great Outdoors to take possession, Jack winds up at the wrong place: a swanky dude ranch. He immediately begins running things, at it's quite a while before his error is discovered. By the time he shows up at his own ranch, he's up to his ears in unpaid debts-which naturally requires a fund-raising musical show as a bail-out. Harriet Hilliard handles the romantic portion of the proceedings, occasionally dueting with her real-life husband, bandleader Ozzie Nelson.
Knickerbocker Holiday
Poffenburgh
The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn) arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyvesant is hardly the fun-loving type, and one of his first official acts is to call for the death of Brom Broeck (Nelson Eddy), a newspaper publisher well-known for his fearless exposes of police and government corruption. However, Broeck hasn't done anything that would justify the death penalty, so Stuyvesant waits (without much patience) for Broeck to step out of line. Broeck is romancing a beautiful woman named Tina Tienhoven (Constance Dowling), whose sister Ulda (Shelley Winters) happens to be dating his best friend, Ten Pin (Johnnie "Scat" Davis). After Stuyvesant's men toss Broeck in jail on a trumped-up charge, Stuyvesant sets his sights on winning Tina's affections.
Passport to Destiny
Chief Janitor
A British war widow travels to Berlin to assassinate Hitler.
Sagrado matrimonio
Critic
Basada en la novela de Arnold Bennett. Un artista que regresa a su hogar después de muchos años en el extranjero, se hace pasar por su criado muerto para evitar a la prensa
El fantasma de la Ópera
Lecours
Un violinista de la Ópera de París, locamente enamorado de Christine Dubois, una joven aspirante a soprano, es despedido porque su mano izquierda ya no es tan hábil como antes. Solo y sin dinero, después de haberlo gastado todo en pagar -sin que ella lo sepa- las lecciones de canto de Christine, decide publicar un concierto con el fin de completar la instrucción de la soprano y de hacerse famoso. Pero, a causa de un malentendido, ataca a su editor, y la secretaria de éste le desfigura el rostro con ácido. Se refugia entonces en los sótanos de la Ópera y, desde entonces, actúa como un fantasma cuya sombra amenazadora acecha en la sombra y siembra el pánico entre el público.
Henry Aldrich Swings It
Josef Altman
Teenager Henry Aldrich decides to take matters into his own hands when his high school principal forbids the student band from playing swing music.
Heavenly Music
Niccolò Paganini (uncredited)
Bandleader/singer/songwriter Ted Barry arrives to heaven. The receptionist tells him that before he can take his place in the Hall of Music, a committee must review his work and decide whether he is worthy of admittance.
Iceland
Herr Tegnar
Marine James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina her Icelandic family take his actions as a proposal of marriage to Katina. Desperately wanting out, James gets his buddy to help him.
Maisie Gets Her Man
Professor Orco
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
Sleepytime Gal
Chef Petrovich
Bessie Cobb, cake decorator in the kitchen of one of Miami's swankier hotels, is the central figure in an elaborate scheme by Chick Patterson, bell captain, who believes he can not only enrich Bessie, but himself, his fiancée, and the kitchen's three screwball chefs, Chef Popodopolis, Chef Petrovich and Chef Barzumium. He plans to enter Bessie in the singing contest sponsored by band-leader Danny Marlowe for a large recording company looking for new talent.. Chick has a recording made of Bessie's voice and substitutes it for that of "Sugar" Caston, who is being sponsored by a big-time gangster and is set up to win. But members of a rival gang, out to get "Sugar", mistake Besiie for her.
Shut My Big Mouth
Robert Oglethorpe
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
Four Jacks and a Jill
Mr. Hoople
Karanina "Nina" Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little Aregal Cafe, with herself as the vocalist, by pretending she once knew the King or Aregal back in the old country. Steve shows up pretending to be the King of Aregal, and complicates the growing romance between Nina and Nifty. When Steve runs off with Opa, the real King of Aregal (also Steve) appears and complicates things again.
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Pierre Gaston de la Blanc
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
Me perteneces
Hotel Clerk
Peter Kirk es un atractivo playboy que se ha casado con una atractiva doctora, Helen Hunt. Al poco tiempo los celos van a hacer que Peter sospeche de todos los pacientes masculinos de su mujer, para desesperación de ella.
World Premiere
Field Marshal Muller
A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity for his latest project. He decides to have three men pose as spies, disrupting the opening, but things don't go quite as planned...there are actual spies also present!
Three Sons o' Guns
Stage Director
Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.
No puedo vivir sin ti
Mac, the Headwaiter (uncredited)
Despues del estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), Johanna Janss, una austriaca que vive en los Estados Unidos, va a ser deportada a su país. Para evitarlo, decide casarse con Bill, un humilde escritor norteamericano a quien conoce en un bar. Ella está dispuesta a pagarle el favor con el dinero que consigue de su amante, el editor Barton Kendrick.
Victory
Signor Makanoff
Un inglés que vive retirado, lejos del mundanal ruido, tendrá que enfrentarse con tres peligrosos personajes para ayudar a una muchacha que se encuentra en una difícil situación.
Sandy Is a Lady
Mario
Mary and Joe Phillips' (Nan Grey and Tom Brown) attempts to improve their financial status are alternately aided and endangered by the antics of their two-year-old, Sandy.
I Was an Adventuress
Henri Gautier
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...
It's a Date
Oscar, the Headwaiter
Una aspirante a actriz, que pretende participar en una película importante, descubre que su madre también esta tratando de conseguir el papel. Por si esto fuera poco, las dos se enamoran del mismo hombre.
Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
Forsythe
In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a cheap line of clothing. To escort her about town, the agent invents a "Mr. Manhattan." He then has them fake a marriage. When he realizes that he is in love with his creation, the agent promptly fires "Mr. M" and takes her to the altar personally. Songs include: "Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me," "Unfair To Love," and "A Lemon In The Garden Of Love."
Millionaire Playboy
'G.G.' Gorta
A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman.
Little Old New York
Tavern Keeper
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
Everything Happens at Night
Gendarme
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
Little Accident
Malisse
A baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her.
Una tarde en el circo
Jardinet
Los Hermanos Marx tratar de ayudar al dueño de un circo a recuperar algunos fondos robados antes de que se encuentre a él mismo sin trabajo.
Huracán
Nicholas
Philip Chagal, un pianista francés de está de gira en Estados Unidos, queda prendado de Helen, una camarera, que cree que se trata de un espía sindical de la empresa donde trabaja. Una vez resuelto el malentendido, tienen que refugiarse en una iglesia ante la inminente llegada de un huracán, y allí se declaran su amor. El problema es que Philip está casado con una mujer desequilibrada que le impedirá ser feliz. (FILMAFFINIT)
Quiet, Please
Mr. Nitvitch
A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie's production.
La delicia de los idiotas
Pittatek
En los Alpes, en vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), dos estafadores profesionales se conocen durante un espectáculo burlesco. Tras el estallido de la guerra, vuelven a encontrarse en Francia, pero ella va acompañada por un odioso barón, que se dedica al tráfico de armas y que cree que ella es una exiliada rusa.
Swingtime in the Movies
Mr. Nitvitch
In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.
Artists and Models Abroad
Dubois
Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the 'Hotel de Navarre' in furnishing accommodations for his group, but the proprietor's wife locks them out. In his search for funds, Buck meets Patricia Harper, the fourth-richest girl in the world, but he isn't aware of that and thinks she is penniless. Patricia joins his troupe as a lark, and her father, James Harper, also pretends he is broke. Through some chicanery, Buck gets jobs for the girls as models at the Palace of Feminine Arts at the Paris International Exposition. James Harper borrows the priceless Napoleaon necklace to have a copy made for his daughter, but Buck thinks he stole it.
Campus Confessions
'Lady MacBeth'
This comical campus romance showcases the fancy footwork of All-American basketball player Hank Luisetti while it tells the story of a dean's son who does his very best to become a good student. When he fails, he turns to playing basketball and befriends Luisetti, which makes him quite popular. This doesn't sit well with the dean, who wants academics to be more important than sports.
The Affairs of Annabel
Vladimir
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for publicity.
I'll Give a Million
Max Primerose
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
Gold Diggers in Paris
Luis Leoni
When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love.
Out Where the Stars Begin
Mr. Nitvitch
When the ballerina star of a musical feature walks off in a huff, aided by the fit-throwing director, her understudy steps in and a star is born.
Go Chase Yourself
Count Pierre Fountaine de Louis-Louis
When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team. Comedy.
Romance in the Dark
Fritz
A baritone aids a young servant in making her dream of singing professionally come true.
La fiera de mi niña
Fritz Lehman
David Huxley (Cary Grant) es un paleontólogo tímido y despistado que está a punto de acabar la laboriosa reconstrucción del esqueleto de un brontosaurio, al que sólo le falta una clavícula intercostal. También está a punto de casarse con su anodina secretaria. En un partido de golf con el abogado de una solterona millonaria, potencial mecenas del museo para el que trabaja, Huxley conoce a Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn), una joven adinerada y caprichosa que hará lo posible para que no culmine ninguno de sus dos proyectos: se dedicará a manipular a Huxley para seducirlo con un estilo muy peculiar: le abolla el coche, le desgarra el smoking, esconde su ropa, le rompe las gafas y por si fuera poco, lo embauca para que cuide a un joven leopardo llamado "Baby".
Tovarich
Martelleau
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.
Confesión sincera
Krayler's Butler
Enloquecida comedia sobre una mentirosa patológica que se acusa del asesinato de su jefe. Mientras tanto, su recto marido, que es abogado, tiene que defenderla.
Hollywood Hotel
The Russian
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
Expensive Husbands
Herr Meyer, Hotel Director
Unable to get work in her home country, Laurine Lynne (Beverly Roberts) travels to Vienna where her press agent, Joe Craig (Allyn Joslyn), convinces her to marry royalty. The lucky fellow is Prince Rupert (Patric Knowles), an impoverished nobleman now working as a waiter. Do the two of them fall in love despite this marriage of convenience?
Lancer Spy
Fritz Mueller
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love with him.
I Met Him in Paris
Swiss Hotel Clerk
Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket to Switzerland, but George (with no illusions about his friend) appoints himself chaperone. Through a series of slapstick winter sports, Kay remains puzzled about George's disapproval of Gene...but there's a reason.
The Wizard's Apprentice
Wizard
This one has it all, the apprentice, the multiplying brooms, the buckets of water, everything that the Fantasia sequence has.
One Hysterical Night
Paganini
The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Napoleon at a fancy masquerade ball, but they are actually having him committed to an insane asylum. Since all the other inmates/attendees think they are historical figures such as Robin Hood, the Duke of Wellington, Paul Revere, William Tell, Salome, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes and others, it takes a while for Judd to separate the wheat from the chaff and prove he is not deranged. His quest becomes more urgent when he falls in love with a nurse named Josephine, who does not think she is Napoleon's "Josephine" but is convinced Judd thinks he is Napoleaon.
Black Magic
James Fraser
On a South Seas island, "three white derelicts drink away memories of the past. After many adventures during which a girl enters the picture, the three are rehabilitated and everything turns out happily."
Broadway
Mose Levett
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
La última orden
A revolutionist
La Última Orden se inspira en una historia supuestamente real, que se atribuye a Ernst Lubitsch. Su protagonista es un aristócrata zarista arruinado que, tras la Revolución Soviética, acaba recalando en Hollywood, donde trabaja como extra en una película que narra los convulsos días de la Revolucíón de 1917, y en la que encarna a un personaje cuya vida es idéntica a la suya. Esta extraña e insólita situación hace que afloren a su memoria los recuerdos del pasado. (FILMAFFINITY)
A Ship Comes In
Sokol
Film which tells the story of immigrants coming to the United States.
Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon
Escape from the Golden Dungeon is the second part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.
El Golem
Jester (uncredited)
Clásico del cine mudo alemán que cuenta la leyenda de una estatua: el Golem. En el siglo XVI, en el gueto de Praga, vivía el Rabino Löw, mago y maestro en el arte de la nigromancia. Para evitar la expulsión de los judíos, ordenada por el Emperador Rodolfo II, modeló la figura de arcilla del Golem e invocó al espíritu de Astaharot para que le otorgará la vida. Sin embargo, cuando los judíos consiguen quedarse en la ciudad, y el Golem salva la vida del Emperador, el rabino trata de invalidar su conjuro y quitarle la vida porque ya ha realizado su cometido. Pero cuando un sirviente, cegado de amor, se la devuelve, la figura de arcilla escapa de la influencia humana y se convierte en una amenaza. Esta fascinante obra maestra del expresionismo, claro precedente del mito de Frankenstein es, seguramente, la primera gran película sobre monstruos de la historia del cine .