Donald Kerr

Nascimento : 1891-08-05, Eagle Grove, Iowa, USA

Morte : 1977-01-25

Filmes

Os Pistoleiros da Noite
Spieler (uncredited)
O mundo está mudando e para um velho homem da lei como Steve Judd, não há muitas oportunidades de trabalho. Ele aceita trabalhar para um banco para transportar um carregamento de ouro através de um território perigoso. Ele contrata o velho parceiro Gil Westrum e seu jovem pupilo Heck para ajudá-lo. Mas não sabe que Gil e Heck planejam roubar o ouro com ou sem a sua ajuda. Na fuga, os três se envolvem no desejo de uma jovem mulher de escapar tanto de seu pai como de seu noivo e seus irmãos perigosamente psicóticos.
O Túnel do Amor
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Isolde Poole (Doris Day) e August "Augie" Poole (Richard Widmark) são incapazes de ter um bebê, depois de anos de tentativas. Eles contratam a Agência de Adoção Rock-A-Bye, e a Srta Novick (Gia Scala) é designada como investigadora. Por conta de um absurdo mal entendido ela fica com uma impressão muito ruim de Augie Poole e o seu relatório será desfavorável. Por circunstâncias ainda mais rebuscadas, Augie é capaz de mudar a ideia da Srta. Novick e então passa a acreditar que o bebê que ela está carregando é dela. Rock-A-Bye encontra um bebê para os Pooles, e Augie está convencido de que o bebê é da Srta Novick, e que ele é o verdadeiro pai. Tanto que sua esposa Isolde passa a acreditar também. Ela corre o risco de deixá-lo, mas todos os mal-entendidos são finalmente esclarecidos por um final feliz.
A Bela dos Bas-Fond
Backstage Card Player (uncredited)
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
Da Terra Nascem os Homens
Liveryman (uncredited)
Duas famílias de fazendeiros texanos, lutam durante anos pela posse de um sítio pequeno, de onde vem água necessária a seus rebanhos e plantações. A personagem principal é a Terra e, como pano de fundo os grandes latifúndios do Texas, motivo pelo qual este primoroso filme foi fotografado em tela larga, pelo processo Technirama. Faroeste de alto nível, dirigido pela mão segura de Wyler, com elenco vigoroso, trilha sonora e música excepcional de Jerome Moross. Oscar de coadjuvante para Burl Ives.
O Galante Vagabundo
Restaurant Waiter (uncredited)
The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and noticing his obviously good manners, gets him the job. He proves a great success, but keeps his past to himself. When an old flame turns up Irene's sister Cordelia starts making waves.
Yaqui Drums
Saloon Piano Player
In this western, a Mexican bandit and an angry rancher team up and take on a crooked saloon keeper.
Eles e Elas
Barber (uncredited)
Comédia musical ambientada no submundo de Nova York, entre pequenos furtos e jogadores profissionais. Marlon Brando é o jogador Sky Masterson e Jean Simmons, uma voluntária do Exército da Salvação. Frank Sinatra completa o trio como o banqueiro Nathan. A história começa quando Brando é desafiado a levar a missionária Simmons para Havana. A aposta funciona até que eles se apaixonam. Oportunidade de se ver e ouvir Marlon Brando cantando "Luck Be A Lady", enquanto Sinatra entoa "Guys And Dolls" e "Adelaide".
Horas de Desespero
Barkeeper
Três condenados escapam e aterrorizam um lar do suburbio. Depois de escapar da prisão, Glenn Griffin, seu irmão Hal e um terceiro detento Sam Kobish escolhem aleatoriamente uma casa em um subúrbio de Indianápolis onde se esconder. A casa pertence à família Hilliard, Dan e Ellie que moram lá com sua filha de 19 anos Cindy e seu filho Ralph. Eles planejam ficar apenas até a meia-noite, enquanto Griffin está esperando por sua namorada, que vai encontrá-los com algum dinheiro que ele escondeu. Quando ela não chega, a estadia deles se estende por vários dias. Dan Hilliard joga seu jogo sabendo que se ele fizer qualquer tentativa de contatar a polícia, sua família pode ser pega no fogo cruzado.
Pete Kelly's Blues
Drunk in Speakeasy (uncredited)
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.
O Código do Diabo
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Harvey (uncredited)
Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubles in film the which Gorman is now shooting, while the conman tries to have the bungling pair done away with before they realize who he really is.
O Derradeiro Assalto
Town Loafer
Outlaws on the lam battle attacking Apaches.
Região do Ódio
Miner (uncredited)
Em 1896, Jeff Webster (James Stewart) vê o início da corrida do ouro de Klondike como uma oportunidade para consguir uma fortuna no ramo do gado. Ele leva um rebanho de gado do Wyoming para Seattle, e depois para Skagway. Lá, ele e seu parceiro Ben Tatum (Walter Brennan) vendem o gado e passam a trabalhar com o ouro. Os problemas vão começar, pois duas mulheres começam a disputar o seu coração e várias pessoas ambiciosas estão de olho no seu dinheiro, e de tudo farão para roubá-lo.
O Bígamo
Hollywood Tour Bus Pitchman
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr. Jordan uncovers the fact that Graham has another wife, Phyllis, and a small child in Los Angeles, he confesses everything.
Os Corruptos
Cabby (uncredited)
O policial durão Dave Bannion enfrenta o sindicato do crime politicamente poderoso. Dave Bannion é um policial honesto investigando uma gangue cruel que ele suspeita ter influência sobre a força policial. Bannion é alertado após o suicídio de um colega e o silêncio suspeito de seus colegas policiais o leva a acreditar que eles estão na folha de pagamento dos gângsteres. Quando uma bomba destinada a ele mata sua esposa, Bannion se torna uma furiosa força de vingança e justiça, auxiliado ao longo do caminho pela rejeitada namorada do gângster, Debby. Quando Bannion e Debby caem cada vez mais na armadilha traiçoeira e brutal do mundo do crime, eles devem usar todos os meios necessários (incluindo assassinato) para chegar à verdade. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Blackjack Dealer
Professional killer Bus Crow is hired by cattlemen to eliminate squatters. When Marshal Sam Rochelle is sent to investigate, saloon owner Hallie has to be a reluctant witness.
A Vida é uma Canção
Jacob (uncredited)
No século 19, Molly Larkins, a namorada do capitão Jotham Klore se apaixona por Dan Harrow.
Paris em Abril
A Senhorita Ethel "Dynamite" Jackson (Doris Day) é uma "Garota do Coro" que erroneamente recebe um convite do Departamento de Estado para representar o teatro americano em uma exposição de artes em Paris. Há apenas um problema, o convite foi feito para a senhorita Ethel Barrymore. Então S. Winthrop Putnam (Ray Bolger), o burocrata que cometeu o erro tentou, sem sucesso, corrigir o seu engano. É muito tarde, pois "Dynamite" Jackson está fora de Paris, onde os dois se encontram e se casam, ou assim eles imaginam! - traduzido de Kelly
Abbott e Costello no Alasca
Multolah
Na década de 1890 na cidade de São Francisco, dois bombeiros voluntários resgatam o garimpeiro Joe McDermott quando este tenta cometer suicídio. Por um equívoco, a polícia começa a persegui-los por suspeita de assassinato deste garimpeiro. Para provarem sua inocência eles precisam do garimpeiro vivo, porém muitos o querem morto. Acabam todos indo para o Alasca, onde podem entrar numa fria.
Perdição por Amor
Slawson's Bartender
A jovem Carrie (Jennifer Jones) viaja do Meio-Oeste dos Estados Unidos para Chicago em busca de crescimento na vida. No trem, ela conhece George Hurstwood (Laurence Olivier), um respeitável homem de família e de boa situação financeira. O rapaz se apaixona por ela e se dispõe a largar tudo por seu amor.
Na Voragem do Vício
Passerby on Street (uncredited)
Aging advertising executive Alan Miller is a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called by the elevator operator of a residential hotel to come and intervene in the case of one of the guests, struggling Broadway actress Jenny Carey. The two find they have even more in common than their taste for drink. But Jenny wants to put an end to their romance because Alan is a married man, who moreover is the father of two children. How will Jenny and Alan resolve their feelings without destroying Alan's marriage?
Flechas Incendiárias
A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When rancher Tex McCloud has his place burned out, he vows to find and kill the Sidewinder.
Chaga de Fogo
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Conta a história de um dia na vida de várias pessoas que passam por um esquadrão de detetives da polícia. Um policial amargurado, Det. Jim McLeod (Douglas) lidera uma série de personagens em sua sombria batalha diária com a baixa qualidade da cidade. Os personagens que passam pela delegacia ao longo do dia incluem um jovem trapaceiro, um par de ladrões e um ingênuo ladrão de lojas.
The Basketball Fix
Headwaiter
A college basketball star collaborrates with organized crime and becomes involved in 'point shaving.' A sportswriter tries to get him back on the right track.
So You Want a Raise
Joe McDoakes asks for a raise and is informed by his boss that the employee selected by him to run the office while he is on vacation will get a raise.
Extorsão
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
Bunco Squad
Bunco Truck Driver (uncredited)
Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, lining up rich widow Jessica Royce as his latest mark, sets up a false paranormal society with other charlatans to convince the credulous Jessica that her late son is speaking to her through their sham seances. When the plan leads to murder, Johnson and McManus must bring the group down before they kill again.
Peggy
Cab Driver
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy but she's smitten with a famous football star so she tries to redirect his interest to Susan.
Sideshow
Barker
A Treasury Department agent on the trail of an international jewel smuggling ring joins a carnival that he thinks the gang is using as a front. He finally locates the jewels hidden as the eyes of wax figures.
A Grande Ilusão
Spectator (Uncredited)
O filme conta a história de ascensão e queda de um político rebelde do interior que começa exigindo reformas e justiça social, mas acaba embriagado pelo próprio poder. O roteiro é uma adaptação do romance de Robert Penn Warren, publicado em 1946, e pelo qual o autor recebeu o Prémio Pulitzer de Literatura.
Tarde Demais
Fish Peddler (uncredited)
Uma jovem ingênua se apaixona por um bonito jovem, mas seu pai emocionalmente abusivo suspeita que seja um caçador de fortunas. Em meados do século XIX, a rica família Sloper - o cirurgião viúvo Dr. Austin Sloper, sua filha adulta Catherine Sloper (única filha sobrevivente de Dr. Sloper) e Lavinia Penniman, recentemente viúva irmã de Dr. Sloper - moram em uma casa suntuosa em 16 Washington. Square, Nova York. Apesar de todas as lições que Dr. Sloper pagou para encentivar as graças sociais para ela, Catherine é uma mulher simples, desajeitada e extremamente tímida, que passa todo o seu tempo livre sozinha fazendo bordados quando não está idolatrando seu pai. A falta de charme e beleza social de Catherine é óbvia para o Dr. Sloper, que espera que sua irmã Lavinia atue como sua guardiã e ajude socialmente .O primeiro homem a mostrar interesse por Catherine é o belo Morris Townsend, que ela conheceu em uma festa de família.
Punhos de Campeão
Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
O Demônio da Noite
Mailman (uncredited)
Em Los Angeles, a força policial começa uma grande caçada contra um criminoso que matou um policial e passou a cometer vários crimes na cidade escapando através de rede de esgoto.
Ladies of the Chorus
Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and Peggy takes her place. When Peggy falls in love with wealthy Randy, May fears class differences may lead to misery.
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Vaudeville Man
Around Christmas time, a woman tries to prove the innocence of her dancer husband jailed for a crime she just knows he didn't commit.
So You Want to Build a House
Andy McGoon (uncredited)
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes is evicted from his apartment and decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, his dream house turns into a nightmare.
Arthur Takes Over
Cab Driver
A young woman must find a way to break the news to her parents and a stuffy suitor that she is now married to a sailor.
The Judge Steps Out
Photographer with Reporter (uncredited)
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
Always Together
Cab Driver (uncredited)
An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors.
Desesperado
News Vendor on Train (uncredited)
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.
Buck Privates Come Home
Tie Demo Bystander (uncredited)
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
Wife Wanted
Bellboy
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby, they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people. Carole, unknowingly, is used as bait for one of their victims, Walter Desmond, who "commits suicide." Reporter William Tyler thinks otherwise.
Noturno
Gaffer
O detetive Joe Warner investiga o assassinato do compositor mulherengo Keith Vincent. Evidências apontam para suicídio e este acaba sendo o veredito oficial, mas Joe não acredita e obsessivamene continua a investigar.
Flight to Nowhere
Stable Hand
A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets.
Interlúdio
Reporter (uncredited)
Localizado no Rio de Janeiro, conta a história de Alicia e Devlin, dois polos completamente opostos que acabam se apaixonando devido ao tempo em que trabalharam juntos. Ela é filha de um espião alemão preso pelo governo dos EUA e, para evitar a morte do pai, é obrigada a ajudar o governo americano a prender inimigos mais importantes. Ele é um agente do governo que vai comandar a operação, monitorando para que tudo saia nas mais perfeitas condições planejadas.
The Last Crooked Mile
Carnival Barker
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
O Intruso Misterioso
Reporter (Uncredited)
A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.
O Transviado
Reporter (Uncredited)
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
Murder Is My Business
Taxi Driver
Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper press that he is going to close Shayne's agency, just as Michael is about to be hired by the wealthy Eleanor Ramsey, who is being blackmailed. She is the stepmother of what she considers to be two grown-up brats, Dorothy and Ernest, and she considers their father to be of little value to the world himself. They all conspire to get their hands on her money, even to the extent of attempting to hire Shayne to frame an insurance robbery. Mrs. Ramsey is murdered, and Rafferty is trying to pin the killing on Shayne, despite the fact that suspicion points to Buell Renslow, brother of the slain woman. Shayne's secretary, the fetching Phyllis Hamilton, decides to do a little detective work to help her boss.
Little Giant
Salesman (uncredited)
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
A Guy Could Change
Counterman
A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.
The Face of Marble
2nd Photographer
John Carradine stars as Dr. Charles Randolph, a scientist dedicated to deciphering the secrets of life and death. Aided by assistant David Cochran (Robert Shayne), Charles conducts experiments that have horrifying side effects. Charles's lonely wife, Elaine (Claudia Drake), is frightened by his work, and in order to protect her, housekeeper Maria (Rosa Rey) unleashes a torrent of voodoo that wrecks havoc.
On Stage Everybody
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
The Naughty Nineties
Croupier (uncredited)
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 gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
Earl Carroll Vanities
Assistant Dance Director
Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual "Vanities" provided story material for three Hollywood films: Murder at the Vanities (34), A Night at Earl Carroll's (40) and Earl Carroll Vanities (45). This last film was produced by Republic Pictures, a bread-and-butter studio specializing in Westerns and serials; Republic had made musicals before, but few of them were expensive enough to allow for lavish production numbers. Earl Carroll Vanities is likewise rather threadbare, though some of the individual musical highlights aren't bad. The plot, such as it is, concerns financially strapped nightclub owner Eve Arden, who finagles Earl Carroll into staging one of his revues at her club.
The Man Who Walked Alone
Zilch
A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.
Here Come the Co-eds
Man Taking Dance Lesson (uncredited)
Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.
Double Exposure
Newspaper Reporter
In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to prove her own innocence.
Até a Vista, Querida
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Philip é contratado por Moose, um trapaceiro de quinta categoria que acaba de sair da prisão. Ele deve encontrar Velma, a ex-namorada de Moose, desaparecida há seis anos. Durante a investigação, o detetive depara-se com uma complexa rede de crimes. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Um Retrato de Mulher
First Elevator Operator (uncredited)
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Legado Perigoso
Newspaper Photographer (uncredited)
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.
Atlantic City
Oakes
In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon".
Youth Runs Wild
Member of Horse Act (uncredited)
The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.
South of Dixie
Newspaper Reporter
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate of Dixieland.
And the Angels Sing
Mickey
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an offer of ten dollars to sing at a dubious night club on the edge of town where a band led by Happy Marshall is playing.
True to Life
Guide on Bus (uncredited)
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
There's Something About a Soldier
Cab Driver
Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.
Nearly Eighteen
Harry, the Bartender
A singer pretends to be younger so she can enter a music school.
Perseguidos
Reporter at Winnipeg (uncredited)
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Photographer (uncredited)
Murders result from an uncle's wish to eliminate beneficiaries to a will.
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Police photographer
Murders result from an uncle's wish to eliminate beneficiaries to a will.
So's Your Uncle
Chauffeur
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 approve of their relationship.
Arrisca-te, Mulher!
Gambler
Uma bancária de Nova York, Mollie Truesdale (Jean Arthur), no final dos anos 1930, acha que seu sonho de fazer uma viagem de ônibus de 17 dias com todas as despesas pagas para a costa do Pacífico e voltar, pode não ser tudo o que ela acha que deveria ser... até que ela chega ao Oregon e um bronco enfurecido joga em cima dela um cowboy de rodeio e a derruba. Duke Hudkins (John Wayne), a título de pedido de desculpas, a leva para conhecer as vistas de Fairfield, Oregon, e ela perde seu ônibus, briga com um Duke perplexo, pede carona pelo deserto... e um romance nasce.
Crime Doctor
Second Reporter in Court
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
All by Myself
Bit
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.
Redhead from Manhattan
Musician
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
Silver Skates
Mail Boy
The management of touring ice show faces mounting debts.
The Great Gildersleeve
Photographer
A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew.
A Pantera
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Serbian fashion designer Irena Dubrovna and American marine engineer Oliver Reed meet in Central Park, fall in love, and marry after a brief courtship; but Irena won't consummate the union for fear that she will turn into a panther compelled to kill her lover, pursuant to a belief harbored by her home village.
Rua das Ilusões
Pete the Passer (Uncredited)
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.
Obliging Young Lady
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
The Fleet's In
Sailor Herb
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 placed on his prowess with the ladies.
Riot Squad
Herbie
Crime drama starring Richard Cromwell as a young medic who becomes the private physician to an underworld gang.
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
John, the Chauffeur
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
Birth of the Blues
Skeeter, Barbershop Musician
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
Man-I-Cured
Watson, Errol's Butler
Leon Errol and his wife try to prevent their nephew's romance.
Roar of the Press
'Red' Keane, Photographer
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
Kitty Foyle
First New York Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.
Souls in Pawn
Nan's P.R. Man
Although she is secretly married to a student, a young girl is forced to give up her baby rather than be thought of as an "unwed mother".
The Devil Bat
'One-Shot' McGuire
Dr. Paul Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers' family members by instilling in the bats a hatred for a particular perfume he has discovered, which he gets his victims to apply before going outdoors. Johnny Layton, a reporter, finally figures out Carruthers is the killer and, after putting the perfume on himself, douses it on Carruthers in the hopes it will get him to give himself away. One of the two is attacked as the giant bat makes one of its screaming, swooping power dives.
Drums of the Desert
Hospital Attendant
On his way to a post as special adviser of the new parachute troops of the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Paul Dumont meets the beautiful Helene on the ship. A romance ensues, but the two decide to part when Paul learns that Helene is the fiancée of his best friend and fellow officer Raoul. Raoul is wounded during an Arab attack and the wedding is postponed, and Helene and Paul are thrown together and find it impossible to hide their feelings. The meet in the tent of Hassan, a fortune teller, not knowing the tent is a storage place for arms and ammunition belonging to Addullah, an Arab leader determined to avenge the death of his brother Ben Ali.
O Gorila Matador
Citizen Carrying Mauled Ape Trainer
Dr. Bernard é um cientista louco que procura curar a pólio de uma jovem. Ele precisa de fluido espinhal de um ser humano para completar a fórmula do seu soro. Enquanto isso, um macaco de circo sai da gaiola e aterroriza as pessoas da cidade.
O Filho do Delegado
Express Agent
The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been murdered by person or persons unknown. The new sheriff (Henry Brandon) resents the arrival of the Mesquiteers, going so far as to frame Tucson on a murder charge.
A Vida é uma Dança
Photographer in Hallway (uncredited)
Judy O'Brien é uma bailarina aspirante em um grupo de dança. Também está no grupo Bubbles, uma trambiqueira ousada que sempre deixa a trupe lutando pela carreira no burlesco. Quando o grupo se desfaz, Bubbles dá a Judy uma tarefa ingrata. As duas finalmente se chocam quando ambas se apaixonam pelo mesmo homem.
Wildcat Bus
Mechanic
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
O Homem de Olhos Esbugalhados
Man Wanting Seat at Lunch Counter (uncredited)
No julgamento de um assassinato, um repórter é a testemunha-chave e acaba sendo responsável pela condenação de um homem inocente. Aos poucos, ele começa a se sentir culpado e acaba sendo perseguido por pesadelos e pelas lembranças das juras de inocência do homem que ajudou a condenar.
One Crowded Night
Car Owner
The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.
Millionaires in Prison
Prison Library Clerk (uncredited)
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
Pop Always Pays
Parking Lot Attendant
A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money. This 1940 comedy stars Leon Errol, Marjorie Gateson, Dennis O'Keefe, Adele Pearce and Walter Catlett.
On the Spot
Reporter in Phone Booth
Frankie Kelly is the soda jerk and embryo scientist in Midvales only drugstore. Two murders and an attempted killing suddenly swing Midvale into national prominence. Frankie and his pal, Jefferson, become involved when a wounded gangster starts to tell them where $300,000 in stolen loot is hidden, but he is murdered before he can give them all of the information. The search is on.
Mad Youth
Taxi Driver
A rich society mother hires a male escort, but he falls for her daughter instead. The mother-daughter conflict forces the daughter to run off to stay with a friend who is enslaved by a prostitution ring.
Son of the Navy
Roving-Eyed Sailor
A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.
Quero Ser Feliz
Sailor in Bluebell
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
Millionaire Playboy
Sporting Goods Store Proprietor
A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman.
Amada Por Três
Driver
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt (George Raft) sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda (Joan Bennett), testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma (Lloyd Nolan), who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan (Walter Pidgeon), who knows nothing about her past.
Chasing Trouble
Cassidy
A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign espionage ring.
The Fighting 69th
New Recruit (uncredited)
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
The Saint's Double Trouble
Card Player (uncredited)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
Noite de Terror
The Drunk
When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. Wong faces increasing danger and is nearly executed himself as the investigation develops in treachery and complexity. As Mr. Wong follows the trail of dead bodies, he uncovers a jewel smuggling ring on the San Francisco waterfront and a case much larger than the death of a police officer.
Mexican Spitfire
Taxi Driver
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up their marriage.
Slightly Honorable
Photographer (Uncredited)
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
Reno
Waiter Bringing Drinks
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
Heróis Esquecidos
Cabbie (uncredited)
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 Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
A Mulher Faz o Homem
Reporter (uncredited)
Ingênuo homem do interior (James Stewart) é convidado para preencher uma vaga no Senado dos Estados Unidos. Aos poucos vai descobrindo o mar de lama que é o ambiente político dos comandantes de seu país. Tudo em que acredita está ameaçado. Como enfrentar esses poderosos Senadores e dirigentes políticos?
Irish Luck
Reporter
A spunky young bellhop investigates the murder of a hotel guest.
Mr. Wong no Bairro Chinês
Taxi Driver
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military mission for Chinese forces fighting the Japanese invasion. Mr. Wong finds two captains with the intial J in the case, neither being quite what he seems; there's fog on the waterfront and someone still has that poison-dart gun...
The Spellbinder
Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?
Second Fiddle
Pool Party Photographer
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
The Girl from Mexico
Soda Vendor
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.
Exile Express
Reporter
A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
Lucky Night
Seller in Play Palace (uncredited)
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.
Streets of New York
Newspaper Distributor (uncredited)
Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of making his fortune. Along the way he faces numerous obstacles, opportunities and temptations, but through it all, he considers the actions of his hero, Abraham Lincoln, for guidance. Will Jimmy see his dreams come true, or will he be another of the countless hopefuls chewed up and spit out by New York's mean streets?
Sudden Money
Ted
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.
Almost a Gentleman
Bystander
Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.
King of the Turf
Taxi Driver
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a job around horses; his biggest hobby. When he finds out the real identity of Mason, Goldie takes care of him. The two find an occasion to buy a horse for only two dollars, and start entering competitions. Goldie is an instant celebrity, but his mom reads the newspapers and tracks him down. Mason is very surprised to see her, his ex-wife, and even more astonished to hear that Goldie is his own son. However, Goldie must go back to school and so they decide to keep the secret. Since Goldie does not want to leave Mason behind, he goes to the bookies and fixes the next race, hoping to disappoint Goldie by asking him to lose on purpose.
They Made Me a Criminal
Man in Ring After First Fight (uncredited)
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Convict's Code
Barfly
On parole after three years in prison, a football player (Robert Kent) encounters the man (Sidney Blackmer) who framed him.
The Great Man Votes
Milk Truck Driver
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.
Gang Bullets
Joe Armstrong
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
Mars Attacks the World
'Happy' Hapgood
Feature version of the 1938 film serial FLASH GORDON'S TRIP TO MARS: Flash Gordon fights Ming the Merciless once again to ensure the survival of the Earth.
Quando Elas Teimam
Ben - Melsa's Chauffeur (uncredited)
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
Fugitives for a Night
Man Greeting Nelson on Studio Lot
A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.
Quatro Filhas
Earl
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue.
Rebellious Daughters
Girl moves out of her parents house against their wishes. Gets a job in a dress shop, gets mixed up with dirty pictures and blackmail.
Woman Against Woman
Country Club Cloak Room Attendant
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
Air Devils
Constable
Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.
The Lady in the Morgue
Greening
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
Happy Hapgood
A 15-episode serial starring Buster Crabbe.
The Dummy Owner
Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of record. At first, Leon is excited, but the arrangement soon creates difficulty for him. First, he knows nothing about horses except how to bet on them, and second, when his wife finds out, she is furious.
She's Got Everything
First Taxi Driver
The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marry a millionaire, but Carol insists on getting a job.
You're a Sweetheart
Stagehand (uncredited)
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
High Flyers
The Chauffeur
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.
Hollywood Round-Up
Movie Set Crewman
While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a "fake" bank robbery turns out to be the real thing.
Music for Madame
Movie Set Assistant (Voice) (Uncredited)
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
A Bride for Henry
Reporter (uncredited)
On the day of her wedding a young woman's fiancé doesn't show up, sleeping off the results of the previous night's wild bachelor party. Miffed, the woman decides to go ahead with the wedding anyway to teach her fiancé a lesson, so she calls her lawyer, Henry, and has him stand in for her missing groom. She intends to divorce her new "husband" at the first opportunity, but Henry--who has been in love with her for a long time--is determined to win his "wife's" hand.
Forty Naughty Girls
Call Boy
Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.
Talent Scout
Twerp - Writer (uncredited)
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
The Big Shot
Mac
A small-town veterinarian inherits $2 million from an uncle he barely knew. His attempts to help mankind don't go smoothly.
On Again-Off Again
Mug Butler
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs (Wheeler) and Claude Augustus Horton (Woolsey), who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!
Talhado para Campeão
(uncredited)
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
Circus Girl
Gabby
A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
We Who Are About to Die
Agitated Citizen at Shoeshine Stand (uncredited)
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
One Live Ghost
Chauffeur
Henry Morton just wants to go fishing. Little things thwart him: Maxine the maid makes noise, Sonny, a lad in the household, makes a mess, and Henry's wife wants the car for shopping. A newly arrived friend, Bert, suggests that Henry fake his own death, don a disguise and appear as Bert's English valet, and skulk about. They'll mourn and the truth can later be revealed. Sonny hears the entire plan and alerts Henry's wife and the rest of the household. Only Maxine is in the dark. Henry's wife gives the valet an attic room, throws herself in his arms, complains about her late husband, and sends Henry into a tizzy. He and Bert set up a séance to try to fix their ruse.
The Drag-Net
Al Wilson
A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.
Taming the Wild
Jimmy Taylor - Reporter
Madcap society girl June Bolton has a talent for trouble. Trying to evade a subpoena in connection with one of her misadventures, she winds up in jail and has to be bailed out by the family attorney, Dick Clayton. But June is soon in trouble again, this time involved with a mob boss and a shady lady. Exasperated by his wealthy client's reckless escapades, Clayton determines to quit... until he realizes he has fallen in love with the little madcap.
The Rainmakers
Townsman
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
Confidential
Reporter
A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.
She Couldn't Take It
Sailor
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
Hot Tip
Spider
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
The Nitwits
Martin
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
Baby Face Harrington
Reporter
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2." Comedy.
The Murder in the Museum
Museum Tour Guide
When a city councilman is murdered while investigating allegations of drug dealing going on a a somewhat disreputable sideshow, the daughter of the chief suspect teams up with a newspaper reporter to find the real killer.
The Road to Ruin
Drunk shooting Dice
A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion.
Carnival Lady
Dick
When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Depressed, he joins a circus.
Bombshell
Monte - Lola's Makeup Man (uncredited)
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
My Woman
Party Guest (Uncredited)
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
Picture Snatcher
Mike - Man with Colleen (uncredited)
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
The Voice of Hollywood No. 1
Radio announcer Lloyd Hamilton tries on straw boaters while various performers do things on the mythical station STAR. They include Dorothy Burgess, Donald Kerr, Carlotta King, and Ruth Hiatt.