David Mendoza
Рождение : 1894-03-13, New York City, New York, USA
Смерть : 1975-03-23
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In this Broadway Brevities short, a stunt double is hit on the head and imagines himself in a series of movie scenes with doubles for various stars.
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Bandleader Frances Carroll leads The Coquettes, an all-female band, in several swing tunes.
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In this entertaining short, famous literary figures step out of the pages of books after dark.
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June never leaves her apartment, which has a view of an advertising sign of a knight in shining armor. She is two weeks behind in her rent and believes that if she leaves the apartment, the landlord will never let her back in. The only way she gets food is when her friend, singer Earlayne Schools, brings it to her. One evening June sees Hal, a tap-dancing sign painter, painting over her knight. She explains her predicament, and he does his best to help her out.
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A score of amateur children sing and dance in costume in a multi-act musical revue.
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When an out-of-work Chicagoan travels west as a hobo on a freight train, he finds himself falsely accused of murder.
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In this short film, Babe Ruth proposes to put a song about baseball on the radio.
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In this short film, Babe Ruth proposes to put a song about baseball on the radio.
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In this musical-comedy short, an out-of-work theatre troupe assumes management of the debt-ridden Grand Majestic Hotel.
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In this short film, a boy holds a talent show in his backyard by and for his adolescent friends.
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Comedic short featuring Shakespeare's notable characters; many performing musical numbers. An assistant director is told to read all Shakespeare’s works in order to mine them for potential film plots. Falling asleep on the job, he dreams of various Shakespearean characters coming to life from the pages of giant books and singing and dancing in celebration of their "goin’ Hollywood." The characters appearing include Romeo, Juliet, Juliet’s Nurse, Puck, Peter Quince, Hamlet, Old Hamlet’s Ghost, Falstaff, Antony, Cleopatra, and Macbeth. Shakespeare appears toward the end of the film to object, but he is quickly convinced by his characters to join a big song and dance routine. Includes passing references to a number of familiar Shakespearean scenes including Hamlet’s "to be or not to be" soliloquy, Romeo and Juliet’s balcony scene, Hamlet with Yorick’s skull, and Enobarbus’ speech on Cleopatra’s barge.
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In this musical short, three barkers for a New York City sightseeing bus drum up customers with songs and nightclub tours.
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Ruth Etting is the star attraction on the Albertson Travel Agency radio show. When her producers learn that her recordings are on another program at the same time, they devise a contest, based on the words in a song she sings, in which the winner gets Etting's services at a banquet.
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This short film provides highlights from American history, focusing on George Washington's farewell to the troops to the War of 1812.
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An insurance salesman persuades his sister to help him meet a radio star so he can sell the celebrity a policy.
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A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
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A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
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The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
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The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
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A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.
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A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake.
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Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Rose is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with his brother.
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Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Rose is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with his brother.
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Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.
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Робинсон играет парикмахера, обладающего невероятным везением в азартных играх. При поддержке друзей он отправляется испытать удачу в большом городе, и в итоге проходит тернистый путь от провинциала из крошечного городка до «крупного босса в крупном городе», став царём азартного мира. Но такие выскочки мешают жить добропорядочным высокопоставленным гражданам, и окружной прокурор решает любыми средствами избавиться от парикмахера, у которого есть одна слабость — блондинки…
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Преподаватель музыки Свенгали при помощи гипноза превращает прелестную, но лишенную музыкального слуха девушку Трильби О'Фиррэл, которая работает натурщицей для художников, в замечательную певицу. Свенгали увозит Трильби, и она начинает совсем другую жизнь, выступая в качестве знаменитой певицы мадам Свенгали. Однако маэстро вынужден постоянно держать свою жертву под гипнозом, поскольку, просыпаясь, она испытывает необъяснимый ужас перед хозяином, несмотря на его глубокую любовь к ней. Это подтачивает силы самого гипнотизера и приближает трагическую развязку...
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A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one.
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1909 год, двое ирландских мальчишек Том и Мэтт взрослеют на «грязных» улицах Саут-Сайда Чикаго, проходя курс обучения преступной жизни у скупщика краденого. Став взрослыми, ребята переходят к ограблениям, в результате убит полицейский. Далее идет бутлеггерство, приходит «успех», они уже живут в апартаментах с двумя блондиночками Мэмю и Китти.
Том, более крутой и жестокий, быстрее поднимается по ступенькам гангстерской иерархии, и через какое-то время убийство становится для обоих настолько обыденным, что они убивают даже лошадь. Но расплаты, по законам морали того времени, не избежать.
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A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.
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Young Bill Emory is a typical mischievous, rambunctious boy, but his father William is a strict disciplinarian, and Bill is constantly being punished for simple childhood transgressions. Finally Bill can take no more of his father's excessive punishments and runs away. Complications ensue.
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Мелкий преступник Цезарь Энрико Банделло, известный как Рико, и его друг Джо Массара переезжают в Чикаго в поисках удачи. Они присоединяются к банде Сэма Веттори, но Джо, мечтающий стать танцором, больше заинтересован в славе и женщинах. Он знакомится с Ольгой и отходит от дел банды. Тем временем Рико быстро встаёт во главе организации Сэма и занимает место в верхах чикагского преступного синдиката. Одновременно в нём растёт уверенность, что однажды Джо предаст его…
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An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that marriage would be a mistake. The officer goes off to war and she becomes an opera star.
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A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.
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Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a life of crime and now returns to inflict his insane behavior on the family household.
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A hard-bitten saloon girl falls for a dashing outlaw, and tries to keep the local sheriff from catching him and sending him to prison.
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Based on the farcical stage play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning* writer Elmer Rice, Oh, Sailor Behave! is a movie Musical with a split personality. Nanette Dodge (Irene Delroy) falls for newspaper reporter Charlie Carroll (Charles King) who is on assignment in Venice to land an interview with Romanian General Skulany (Noah Beery). Our couple is split apart by a pair of storylines - Nanette tries to woo a Russian prince (Lowell Sherman) who is blackmailing her sister, while Charlie, following a lead to the general, finds himself Romantically involved with Kunegundi (Vivien Oakland), "the general's favorite."
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This was a screen version of the 1925 operetta by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Herbert Stohart, and George Gershwin. The story of the movie is about a peasant who is known as "The Flame" who leads a revolution in Russia. This peasant who is in love with a Russian prince saves his life by agreeing to sacrifice her virginity to an evil fellow-conspirator. This was an all Technicolor musical which was had a sequence in Vitascope (a Warner Brother's wide screen process)
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Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.
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Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.
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A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.
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Based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
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If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.
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It is 1830 in Paris and the rent is due, but the money is not there. An article here, a painting there and a monkey with a cup gives them enough money for the rent, but not for food. Fortunately, Musette from downstairs has enough food for everyone including Mimi - the poor little waif from next door who Rodolphe has met. But Count Paul also has his lusting eye on Mimi and uses her embroidery to get close to her. Rodolphe and Mimi fall in love and Mimi works endlessly to support Rodolphe who is writing his play with a new found passion. He does not know that he has been discharged from writing for 'Dog and Cat Fanciers'. Mimi wants to get his play produced and Count Paul offers to help, but there is a terrible fight when Rodolphe thinks that Mimi is faithless to him with Count Paul. After the fight, he seeks out a doctor as she is sick, but she has left when Rodolphe returns and will stay away until his play is finished.
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«Бен-Гур» — рассказ о богатом юноше еврее, который в результате случайности был обвинен в покушении на римского наместника и попадает в рабство, а его сестру и мать забирают в тюрьму. По пути на галеры, он сталкивается с Иисусом Христом, сыном плотника, который подаст воду страждущему. Когда судно потопили пираты, Бен-Гур спасает римского центуриона от гибели, и тот в благодарность усыновляет его…
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Фильм рассказывает о судьбе трех американских солдат, воевавших в Европе. Все трое были представителями разных социальных классов — рабочий, мелкий торговец и сынок богатых родителей. Война стерла классовые перегородки и сблизила молодых людей. Двое погибли на фронте. Третий же, потеряв ногу, вернулся домой. Он разочарованный в своих ожиданиях и надеждах, уезжает обратно в Европу, где узнает крепкую мужскую дружбу и испытывает настоящую любовь.
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The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.