Charles Dorety — Actor (16)
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Money Squawks (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Money Squawks
director: Jules White actor: Andy Clyde / Shemp Howard …
Andy Clyde and Shemp Howard are station agents for the railroad. Their job is to defend against robberies but neither seems capable of doing anything but trouble. Through the course of the story, they shoot at some innocent hunters, are terrorized by a duck AND end up GIVING the money to the crooks by mistake. Can Andy and Shemp somehow redeem themselves?
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Dizzy Pilots (1943) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Dizzy Pilots
director: Jules White actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
The Three Stooges, as the Wrong Brothers, aid the war effort by inventing a new plane in this below-average two-reel comedy. Actually, they are attempting to avoid the draft but when their plane, the Buzzard, fails miserably, they march off to war. Richard Fiske, formerly a busy supporting player in Stooges comedies, appears courtesy of stock footage from the earlier Boobs in Arms (1940). Ironically, Fiske had himself been drafted and would be killed in action in France in August of 1944.
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Loco Boy Makes Good (1942) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Loco Boy Makes Good
director: Jules White actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
After being thrown out of their apartment, the Stooges try a scam to get some money: find a hotel, slip on a cake of soap, and sue the owners to get a huge settlement. In their attempts they come across an old lady who is on the brink of losing her hotel if she doesn't pay the interest on her note. Taking pity on her, they immediately start fixing up the place, turn it into a swanky nightclub, and go all out to impress important columnist Waldo Twitchell on opening night.
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From Nurse to Worse (1940) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
From Nurse to Worse
director: Jules White actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put Curly on a leash and take him to the insurance doctor and have him act like a dog. Unfortunately, the insurance doctor wants to perform a brain operation (Cerebrum decapitation). The boys try to escape by hiding in the dog catchers wagon, but are caught and taken to the hospital. They escape again, this time by rigging a sheet to a gurney and sailing down the street, where they run into Jerry and knock him into wet cement.
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Playing the Ponies (1937) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Playing the Ponies
director: Charles Lamont actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges are gypped into trading their restaurant for "Thunderbolt", a washed up race horse. When Curly feeds Thunderbolt some chili pepperinos, he runs like crazy towards the nearest water. The boys enter Thunderbolt in a big race. With jockey Larry feeding Thunderbolt the pepperinos, and Moe and Curly on a motorcycle leading him with a bucket of water, they win the race.
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3 Dumb Clucks (1937) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
3 Dumb Clucks
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Moe Howard …
other title: Papai Perde a Cabeça
The stooges escape from jail when they learn their father, who has just become rich, is planning to leave their mother and marry a young girl. Curly is mistaken for the stooges father (he plays both parts) and marries the girl instead. When they learn that she is working with gangsters who plan to kill their father for his money, they escape and take their father with them.
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Three Little Beers (1935) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Three Little Beers
director: Del Lord actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to get some practice. They quickly proceed to bother the other golfers and destroy the course. Forced to escape in their beer truck, more havoc ensues when the load of beer barrels are spilled out down a steep hill.
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Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939) [Movie] WikiData IMDb
Dick Tracy's G-Men
director: John English / William Witney actor: Ralph Byrd / Irving Pichel …
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
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Laughing Gravy (1931) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Laughing Gravy
director: James W. Horne actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Dick und Doof - Alle Hunde lieben Stan / Laurel und Hardy: Alle Hunde lieben Stan
Stan and Ollie try to hide their pet dog Laughing Gravy from their exasperated, mean tempered landlord, who has a "No Pets" policy.
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The Death Kiss (1932) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Death Kiss
director: Edwin L. Marin actor: David Manners / Adrienne Ames …
other title: El beso de la muerte / 死亡之吻 …
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
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女性之光 (1946) [Movie] Douban
Sister Kenny
director: 达德利·尼柯尔斯 actor: 罗莎琳德·拉塞尔 / 亚历山大·诺克斯 …
other title: Sister Kenny / 凯妮护士 …
Russell gives a moving performance as sister Elizabeth Kenny, the dedicated nurse who crusaded for the treatment of infantile paralysis. Academy Award Nominations: Best Actress--Rosalind Russell.