Allen Jenkins — Actor (34)
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Gold Diggers in Paris (1938) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Gold Diggers in Paris
director: Ray Enright / Busby Berkeley actor: Rudy Vallee / Rosemary Lane …
other title: 巴黎的淘金者 / Chercheuses d'or à Paris …
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.
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Professional Sweetheart (1933) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Professional Sweetheart
director: William A. Seiter actor: Ginger Rogers / Norman Foster …
other title: Novia profesional / 专业甜心 …
Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor and his nutty henchmen pick her a public-relations "sweetheart" from fan mail, who turns out to be a hayseed.
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Fun on a Weekend (1947) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Fun on a Weekend
director: Andrew L. Stone actor: Eddie Bracken / Priscilla Lane …
other title: 儍瓜艷遇 / Ardides de juventud
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.
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The St. Louis Kid (1934) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The St. Louis Kid
director: Ray Enright actor: James Cagney / Patricia Ellis …
other title: Ein schwerer Junge / 膠輪友艷福 …
Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.
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The Hat Box Mystery (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Hat Box Mystery
director: Lambert Hillyer actor: Tom Neal / Pamela Blake …
Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentally hidden in the box and the woman is killed. Susan is charged with murder, but Russ and his less-than-useful associate, Harvard, get on the case.
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The Perfect Specimen (1937) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Perfect Specimen
director: Michael Curtiz actor: Errol Flynn / Joan Blondell …
other title: Un homme a disparu / El perfecto ejemplar …
Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wishes until a chance encounter with Mona Carter leads him into the outside world.
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Naughty but Nice (1939) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Naughty but Nice
director: Ray Enright actor: Ann Sheridan / Dick Powell …
other title: 顛倒眾生 / Cuatro tías y un sobrino …
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
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The Mind Reader (1933) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Mind Reader
director: Roy Del Ruth actor: Warren William / Constance Cummings …
other title: El adivino
Con-man Chandler and his partner Frank decide to start a clairvoyant act. Chandler falls for Sylvia, one of their marks, but their relationship is challenged when his deception impacts others' lives and Sylvia urges him to reform.
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The Spy in the Green Hat (1967) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Spy in the Green Hat
director: Joseph Sargent actor: Robert Vaughn / David McCallum …
other title: Der Mann im grünen Hut / L'Espion au chapeau vert …
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.