Walter Kingsford — Actor (29)
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It Could Happen to You (1937)
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Phil Rosen actor: Alan Baxter / Andrea Leeds …
A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigrants are prepared for American citizenship. The school's European teacher dreams of a fascist America. Based on a story by Nathanael West and Samuel Ornitz, who was one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the McCarthy Era.
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Don't You Believe It (1943)
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Edward L. Cahn actor: John Nesbitt / Harry Cording …
This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's cow did not start the great Chicago fire; Nero didn't fiddle while Rome burned; and Lady Godiva never rode naked through the streets of Coventry.
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I'll Take Romance (1937)
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Edward H. Griffith actor: Grace Moore / Melvyn Douglas …
other title: 歌台艷史 / La vuelta del ruiseñor …
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.
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Fly By Night (1942)
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Robert Siodmak actor: Richard Carlson / Nancy Kelly …
other title: Fly-by-Night / Fuga de noche
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
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Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)
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Harold S. Bucquet actor: Lew Ayres / Lionel Barrymore …
other title: Dr. Kildare – Unter Verdacht / Llamen al Dr. Kildare …
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?
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The White Cockatoo (1935)
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Alan Crosland actor: Jean Muir / Ricardo Cortez …
In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.
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Slattery's Hurricane (1949)
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André de Toth actor: Richard Widmark / Linda Darnell …
other title: Sturmflug / Furia del trópico …
A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. The story unfolds in flashbacks as the pilot battles the storm and recalls his failures, including a love affair with the wife of his best friend.