Television Actor
Frank McHugh
- May 23, 1898 - Sep 11, 1981 (age 83)
- 5' 7" (1.70 m)
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1981
Personal∙September 1981
Frank McHugh
Frank McHugh passed away.
1967
Movie∙Mar 22, 1967
Easy Come, Easy Go
Navy frogman, Ted Jackson (Elvis Presley), balances his time …
Navy frogman, Ted Jackson (Elvis Presley), balances his time between twin careers as a deep sea diver and nightclub singer. During a dive, Ted spots sunken treasure and returns with hope to retrieve it.
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1958
Movie∙Oct 22, 1958
The Last Hurrah
An aging politician tries to get re-elected one last time in the …
An aging politician tries to get re-elected one last time in the changing world of the 1950s when TV started to play a bigger part in politics. Based loosely on the career of multi-term Boston Mayor James Michael Curley, this film examines the good and evil inherent in politics and all the things that go into an election. Tracy's uphill battle to stay in office is set against the political machinery that preyed on ethnic hatred and old-time money.
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1954
Movie∙Dec 16, 1954
There's No Business Like Show Business
Molly and Terry Donahue, …
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
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1949
Movie∙Jul 27, 1949
Mighty Joe Young
In Africa, the girl Jill Young trades a baby gorilla with two natives …
In Africa, the girl Jill Young trades a baby gorilla with two natives and raises the animal. Twelve years later, the talkative and persuasive promoter Max O'Hara organizes a safari to Africa with the Oklahoma cowboy Gregg to bring attractions to his new night-club in Hollywood. They capture several lions and out of blue, they see a huge gorilla nearby their camping and they try to capture the animal. However, the teenager Jill Young stops the men that intended to kill her gorilla. Max seduces Jill with a fancy life in Hollywood and she signs a contract with him where the gorilla Joseph "Joe" Young would be the lead attraction. Soon she realizes that her dream is a nightmare to Joe and she asks Max to return to Africa. However he persuades her to stay a little longer in the show business. But when three alcoholic costumers give booze to Joe, the gorilla destroys the spot and is sentenced by the justice to be sacrificed. Will Jill, Gregg and Max succeed in saving Joe?
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1945
Movie∙Aug 29, 1945
State Fair
Farm family Frake, with discontented daughter …
Farm family Frake, with discontented daughter Margy, head for the Iowa State Fair. On the first day, both Margy and brother Wayne meet attractive new flames; so does father's prize hog, Blue Boy. As the fair proceeds, so do the romances; must lovers separate when the fair closes?
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1944
Movie∙May 3, 1944
Going My Way
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, …
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy, but his level gaze and twinkling eyes make it clear that he knows he made the right choice. After joining a parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of kids looking for direction and handle the business details of the church-building fund, winning over his aging, conventional superior, Father Fitzgibbon.
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1942
Movie∙Jan 10, 1942
All Through the Night
Broadway gambler "Gloves" …
Broadway gambler "Gloves" Donahue (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find who killed the baker of his favorite cheesecake. He sees nightclub singer Leda Hamilton (Kaaren Verne) leaving the bakery. When her boss Marty Callahan's (Barton MacLane's) partner Joe Denning (Edward Brophy) is murdered, Leda and her accompanist Pepi (Peter Lorre) disappear. It turns out that beneath all of the mystery is a gang of Nazi operatives planning to blow up a battleship in New York harbor.
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1941
Movie∙Aug 9, 1941
Manpower
Two friends, who are members of a road crew employed by a …
Two friends, who are members of a road crew employed by a Los Angeles power company, battle the elements to restore electrical power and trade punches over the same woman.
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Movie∙Feb 4, 1941
Back Street
Pretty Rae Smith and handsome Walter Saxel meet, fall in …
Pretty Rae Smith and handsome Walter Saxel meet, fall in love and make plans to marry. Unfortunately, their marriage plans get sabotaged when a jealous beau makes Rae miss the ceremony. The two meet many years later in New York, only now Walter is married. Refusing to be shut out of his life, Rae agrees to be Walter's mistress.
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1940
Movie∙Sep 21, 1940
City for Conquest
Danny is a content truck driver, but his girl Peggy shows …
Danny is a content truck driver, but his girl Peggy shows potential as a dancer and hopes he too can show ambition. Danny acquiesces and pursues boxing to please her, but the two begin to spend more time working than time together.
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Movie∙Aug 9, 1940
I Love You Again
While alone on a cruise, the upstanding - and mean - …
While alone on a cruise, the upstanding - and mean - teetotaler, Larry Wilson, receives a blow on the head, causing him to revert to his old, forgotten persona of man-about-town and swindler, George Carey. Deciding to get what he can out of his position as Wilson, he returns to Wilson's hometown to continue the pretense. The only trouble is he takes a serious shine to his wife, Kay, and doesn't at all agree that Larry should be letting her go.
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Movie∙Apr 19, 1940
'Til We Meet Again
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury …
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
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Movie∙Mar 16, 1940
Virginia City
Virginia City is a 1940 American Western film directed by …
Virginia City is a 1940 American Western film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, and a mustachioed Humphrey Bogart in the role of the real-life outlaw John Murrell. Based on a screenplay by Robert Buckner, the film is about a Union officer who escapes from a Confederate prison and is sent to Virginia City from where his former prison commander is planning to send five million dollars in gold to Virginia to save the Confederacy. The film premiered in its namesake, Virginia City, Nevada. The film was shot in black and white (sepiatone).
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Movie∙Jan 26, 1940
The Fighting 69th
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his …
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
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1939
Movie∙Oct 28, 1939
The Roaring Twenties
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after …
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
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Movie∙Sep 16, 1939
Dust Be My Destiny
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, …
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
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Movie∙Apr 1, 1939
Dodge City
Dodge City. A wide-open cattle town run by Jeff Surrett. …
Dodge City. A wide-open cattle town run by Jeff Surrett. Even going on a children's Sunday outing is not a safe thing to do. What the place needs is a fearless honest Marshal. A guy like Wade Hatton, who helped bring the railroad in. It may not help that he fancies Abbie Irving, who won't have anything to do with him since he had to shoot her brother. But that's the West.
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1938
Movie∙Aug 27, 1938
Boy Meets Girl
Two screenwriters in a rut come up with a story idea starring a …
Two screenwriters in a rut come up with a story idea starring a bankable cowboy and the baby of the studio's waitress.
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Movie∙Aug 9, 1938
Four Daughters
Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, …
Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, has passed on his love of music to his four early adult daughters - Thea, Emma, Kay and Ann - who live with him and his sister, the girls' Aunt Etta, in the long time family home. Of the four, Kay has the greatest promise as a musical performer, specifically as a singer. Theirs is a loving family, however much the girls exasperate their father with their love of popular music, since he loves only the classics, most specifically Beethoven. The girls support each other however they can, but each is an individual with her own distinct personality and wants, including the type of man each wants as a husband. Practical but deep in her heart romantic Emma has long been courted by their next door neighbor, unassuming florist Ernest Talbot, and clever Thea wants to be Mrs. Ben Crowley, he a wealthy up and coming banker with prospects. Only the youngest, the fun loving Ann, states that she doesn't want to get married. Their collective lives change with the entry into their lives of two men. The first is Adam's old friend's son, popular music composer and conductor Felix Deitz, who easily gets a job at the foundation using his natural and sincere charm which he applies to all equally. Many women misconstrue that charm for romantic interest. The second is Felix's acquaintance, musician Mickey Borden, who he hires to orchestrate his latest composition. Mickey has a chip on his shoulders about what life has dealt him, which he uses in turn as a reason for living a reckless life. The two men make each of the four daughters reexamine what she thinks she wants in life, or more precisely who she wants, which for all may be the same person.
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1936
Movie∙Nov 21, 1936
Three Men on a Horse
A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is …
A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
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Movie∙Mar 29, 1936
Snowed Under
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't …
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer Arthur Layton sends Alice, Alan's first wife, to help him stick to business. But then Daisy, his second wife, shows up wanting her alimony. Stranded with two wives, a girlfriend, and a jug of applejack, Alan still has to finish his play!
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1935
Movie∙Oct 9, 1935
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Theseus, Duke of Athens, is …
Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the ...
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Movie∙Aug 30, 1935
Page Miss Glory
Loretta Dalrymple, a homely young country girl comes to New …
Loretta Dalrymple, a homely young country girl comes to New York City and gets a job as a chambermaid in a large hotel. She meets Ed Olson, a photographer out of work, and Dan Riley, a promoter with nothing to promote. When an advertiser offers a reward for a photograph of 'America's Prettiest Girl,", Ed makes a composite photo of all the famous movie stars and society belles and calls the girl in his picture "Dawn Glory." A Dawn-Glory craze sweeps the country, and Loretta, with makeup and new clothes, turns out to be the reincarnation of the picture. Loretta has fallen in love with a newspaper picture of "Bingo" Russell, a famous aviator, and when Dan and Ed ask her to pose as Dawn Glory, she readily agrees, hoping she will get to meet Russell. She does meet him and, then, complications arise.
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Movie∙Jul 31, 1935
The Irish in Us
Two brothers, a police officer and a boxing promoter, vie for the …
Two brothers, a police officer and a boxing promoter, vie for the affections of a lovely young woman.
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Movie∙Mar 15, 1935
Gold Diggers of 1935
In a luxury hotel stage director Nicoleff stages a show to get …
In a luxury hotel stage director Nicoleff stages a show to get the money to pay his bills. Mrs. Prentiss, who is backing the show wants her daughter Ann to marry the millionaire T. Mosely Thorpe, but Ann falls in love with Dick Curtis, while Dick's girl friend marries Ann's brother Humbolt. But the hotel secretary Betty knows a way to avoid dificulties with old Mrs. Prentiss.
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1934
Movie∙Oct 20, 1934
6 Day Bike Rider
To get his girl back, that has fallen for a biker, a worker and one …
To get his girl back, that has fallen for a biker, a worker and one of his friends enter a six day race.
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Movie∙Oct 10, 1934
Happiness Ahead
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's …
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.
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Movie∙Jul 20, 1934
Here Comes the Navy
To continue a grudge with naval officer Biff Martin, feisty …
To continue a grudge with naval officer Biff Martin, feisty construction worker Chesty O'Connor joins the navy and manages to get stationed on the same ship as Martin. Further complications arise when O'Connor starts dating Martin's sister, whom he meets while on shore leave.
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Movie∙May 19, 1934
Smarty
Vicki Wallace (Joan Blondell) takes great pleasure in teasing her …
Vicki Wallace (Joan Blondell) takes great pleasure in teasing her husband,Tony Wallace (Warren William), 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 (Edward Everett Horton), 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 Tony 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 (Joan Wheeler), who is not all that entertained by the presence of Vicki, especially after Vicki shows every intent of moving in and staying. Vernon shows up with George (Frank McHugh) and Anita (Claire Dood), evidently along so F. Hugh Herbert's lines can be spread among five players instead of three, and Vicki more or less tells Vernon that as long as she is going to be slugged by a husband, she will just go back to Tony because he is a better slugger...or something. A pre-production code film and one of the reasons for the creation of same.
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Movie∙Apr 18, 1934
Merry Wives of Reno
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for …
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
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Movie∙Mar 1, 1934
Heat Lightning
In the Mohave Desert, Olga runs a gas station, lunch counter, …
In the Mohave Desert, Olga runs a gas station, lunch counter, and auto camp with her younger sister Myra. In a 24-hour period, Olga must deal with Myra's desire to go to a town dance with a cad, the appearance by happenstance of George, an old boyfriend whose conduct is never above suspicion, and the overnight presence of two women recently divorced in Reno, who, with a chauffeur, are carrying valuable jewels. George gets wind of the jewels and plays with Olga's heartstrings to set up a robbery. Myra arranges to sneak off with her beau. It's hot, and the heat lightening is crackling on the horizon. Is Olga's life of peace and hard work in the desert about to change for the worse?
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Movie∙Feb 14, 1934
Fashions of 1934
Sherwood Nash is a swindler who bootlegs Paris fashions for …
Sherwood Nash is a swindler who bootlegs Paris fashions for sale at cut-rate prices. His assistant Lynn poses as An American interested in a dress and Snap conceals a camera in his cane. When they try to steal the latest Baroque designs hidden cameras capture them. Threat and counterthreat lead to the suggestion of putting on a legitimate show.
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1933
Movie∙Dec 2, 1933
The House on 56th Street
It is the World War I period, …
It is the World War I period, and Peggy Martin, a showgirl and mistress to London Fiske, marries her love, handsome Monte Van Tyle. They move into the house on 56th street and have a baby, Eleanor. Monte enlists in the army and is killed in action. Peggy is revisited by Fiske who wants her back or he'll commit suicide. She refuses his advances and the gun he brought accidentally goes off killing him. Peggy is convicted with murdered and jailed. Eleanor is told her mother is dead. Twenty years later, Peggy is released and meets gambler, Bill Blaine. The house on 56th street is now a gambling house owned by politician, Bonelli. Bill and Peggy get jobs there. Eleanor comes to visit them, and goes with Bill into his office. Bill threatens Eleanor, now a huge gambler, that he'll tell her husband about her huge debts. Eleanor kills Bill and Peggy takes the blame. Bonelli believes Peggy is innocent and offers to help her if she only stays at the house on 56th street.
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Movie∙Sep 30, 1933
Footlight Parade
Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's …
Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.
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Movie∙Jun 9, 1933
Professional Sweetheart
A vice-free radio singer …
A vice-free radio singer wants to experience the dark side of life, so a press agent convinces her sponsor to choose a "professional sweetheart" from her fans.
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Movie∙May 14, 1933
Ex-Lady
Commercial artist Helen Bauer believes marriage kills …
Commercial artist Helen Bauer believes marriage kills romance. She lives with advertising writer Don Peterson. He convinces her to marry him. He later carries on with client Peggy Smith; Helen takes up with Don's competitor Nick Malvyn. In the end, the couple agree to give marriage another chance.
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Movie∙May 13, 1933
Lilly Turner
A carnival magician deserts his wife when he finds out she's …
A carnival magician deserts his wife when he finds out she's pregnant. She then marries the carnival's barker, but finds herself attracted to a young engineer.
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Movie∙Apr 29, 1933
Elmer, the Great
Country bumpkin Elmer Kane joins the Chicago Cubs as the …
Country bumpkin Elmer Kane joins the Chicago Cubs as the greatest hitter in baseball. His skill with a bat takes the team to the World Series, but on the way to the championship he has to deal with gamblers and crooked pitchers.
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Movie∙Feb 17, 1933
Mystery of the Wax Museum
In London, sculptor Ivan Igor …
In London, sculptor Ivan Igor struggles in vain to prevent his partner Worth from burning his wax museum...and his 'children.' Years later, Igor starts a new museum in New York, but his maimed hands confine him to directing lesser artists. People begin disappearing (including a corpse from the morgue); Igor takes a sinister interest in Charlotte Duncan, fiancée of his assistant Ralph, but arouses the suspicions of Charlotte's roommate, wisecracking reporter Florence.
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Movie∙Jan 25, 1933
Parachute Jumper
To share expenses, unemployed Alabama moves in with also …
To share expenses, unemployed Alabama moves in with also unemployed Bill and Toodles. Bill is hired by a gangster's mistress and ultimately becomes the gangster's bodyguard. Alabama unknowingly applies for a stenographer's job at Mr. Weber's (the gangster's) business. Bill is forced to fly a plane carrying narcotics into the U.S. but fights back.
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Marriage∙1933
Dorothy Spencer
Dorothy Spencer, aka Dot, was an American film editor with 75 …
Dorothy Spencer, aka Dot, was an American film editor with 75 feature film credits from a career that spanned more than 50 years. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing on four occasions, she is remembered for editing three of director John Ford's best known movies, including Stagecoach (1939) and My Darling Clementine (1946), which film critic Roger Ebert called "Ford's greatest Western".
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1932
Movie∙Oct 4, 1932
One Way Passage
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing …
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
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Movie∙Sep 1, 1932
Blessed Event
Al Roberts writes a gossip column for the Daily Express. He will …
Al Roberts writes a gossip column for the Daily Express. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets into a little difficulty with a hood named Goebel who sends Frankie to talk to Alvin. But Al has the confession of Frankie on cylinders so Frankie becomes his own bodyguard and information line. One person Al is always taking digs at is crooner Bunny Harmon, because he hates crooners. When he writes a story about Dorothy's blessed event, he comes to regret destroying her life. But more importantly to Al and Frankie, her man may end 'Spilling the Dirt' permanently.
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Movie∙Apr 16, 1932
The Crowd Roars
Famous motor-racing champion Joe Greer returns to his …
Famous motor-racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race. He discovers his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion and during the race Joe loses his nerve when another driver his killed, leaving his brother to win. Joe's luck takes a plunge while his brother rises to height of fame.
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Movie∙Jan 14, 1932
Union Depot
Travelers of different and varied backgrounds meet and …
Travelers of different and varied backgrounds meet and interact on one night in a metropolitan train station and its environs.
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1931
Movie∙Mar 19, 1931
The Front Page
Hildy Johnson, newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant …
Hildy Johnson, newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning to move to New York for a higher paying advertising job. The court press room is full of lame reporters who invent stories as much as write them. All are waiting to cover the hanging of Earl Williams. When Williams escapes from the inept Sheriff, Hildy seizes the opportunity by using his $260 honeymoon money to payoff an insider and get the scoop on the escape. However, Walter Burns, the Post's editor, is slow to repay Hildy back, hoping that he will stay on the story. Getting a major scoop looks possible when Hildy stumbles onto the bewildered escapee and hides him in a roll-top desk in the press room. Burns shows up to help. Can they keep Williams' whereabouts secret long enough to get the scoop, especially with the Sheriff and other reporters hovering around?
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Movie∙Feb 6, 1931
Millie
Millie Blake has a love affair that goes wrong, so Millie plays …
Millie Blake has a love affair that goes wrong, so Millie plays the field recklessly from that point on. When she finds out that one of the reckless players from her past has now cast his spell on her daughter, she takes matters into her own hands and finds herself in a courtroom trying to find a better defense plea than mother-love and honor-protection.
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1930
Movie∙Nov 23, 1930
The Widow from Chicago
Vice lord Dominic has …
Vice lord Dominic has brought Swifty Dorgan east to do a job for him. When Swifty appears to have died falling from a train, detective Henderson impersonates him hoping to get into the mob. When he's killed his sister Polly poses as Swifty's widow and gets a singing job at Dominic's nightclub. Then the real Swifty shows up.
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Movie∙Aug 24, 1930
Top Speed
Two clerks pose as rich playboys at a swanky summer resort. …
Two clerks pose as rich playboys at a swanky summer resort. One of them falls in love with a millionaire's daughter who has a very disapproving father, until he wins, through fate and fortune, the Big Boat Race, in the vessel owned by his sweetheart's father.
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Movie∙Jul 10, 1930
The Dawn Patrol
World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his …
World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but Courtney is soon promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.
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1898
Birth∙May 1898
Frank McHugh
Frank McHugh was born.
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