Frank McHugh — Actor (34)
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The Tougher They Come (1950) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Tougher They Come
director: Ray Nazarro actor: Wayne Morris / Preston Foster …
Set in a rugged Northwest logging camp, this drama follows the exploits of the lumberjack who inherits the camp. For a long time, he has been courting a pretty young thing, and now that she believes him wealthy, she decides to finally accept his proposal. When she finds out that the company has many financial woes and that living in the woods takes guts and courage, she turns into a nagging shrew, constantly urging him to sell-out to a major corporation. Meanwhile his treacherous foreman, an agent of the bigger company, uses sabotage to change the stubborn camp owner's mind.
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Professional Sweetheart (1933) 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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Convention City (1933) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Convention City
director: Archie Mayo actor: Joan Blondell / Adolphe Menjou …
other title: ¡Que semana! / ¡Qué semana! …
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company sales manager. T.R. Kent and George Ellerbe are two salesmen who both want the job. However, they both get into trouble: T.R. is discredited when jealous saleswoman, Arlene Dale, interferes with his attempted seduction of Honeywell's daughter, Claire, and George attempts to seduce Nancy Lorraine. The position of sales manager is bestowed upon a drunken employee as a bribe after he catches J.B. about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator." Considered a lost film.
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Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: Lucille Ball / William Holden …
other title: Miss Grain de sel / 痴鳳登龍
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
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Smarty (1934) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Smarty
director: Robert Florey actor: Joan Blondell / Warren William …
other title: Caprichos
Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attorney Vernon Thorpe secures a divorce for her, and Vicki and Vernon are soon married. Vicki's yen for wearing revealing clothes and a penchant for inviting ex-husband to dinner soon provokes the easily-provoked Vernon into belting one on her himself. She goes to Tony's apartment, where Tony is entertaining Bonnie, who is not all that entertained by the presence of Vicki, especially after Vicki shows every intent of moving in and staying.
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High Pressure (1932) WikiData IMDb TMDB
High Pressure
director: Mervyn LeRoy actor: William Powell / Evelyn Brent …
other title: Ein ausgefuchster Gauner
Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and he is looking for investors. Finding them is relatively easy, but it becomes difficult when those want to see the inventor of the synthetic rubber...