Andrew Tombes

Acting

Andrew Tombes

Born June 28, 1885 · Ashtabula, Ohio, USA

Died March 17, 1976 · aged 90

No biography available.

Known For

Bathing BeautyBathing Beauty · 1944
Bathing Beauty
5.91944
MovieMusicComedy
After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.
Sis HopkinsSis Hopkins · 1941
Sis Hopkins
6.31941
MovieComedy
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
Swing FeverSwing Fever · 1943
Swing Fever
6.01943
MovieComedyRomance
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
Easy LivingEasy Living · 1937
Easy Living
7.21937
MovieComedyRomance
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Du Barry Was a LadyDu Barry Was a Lady · 1943
Du Barry Was a Lady
6.51943
MovieComedyFantasy
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Frontier GalFrontier Gal · 1945
Frontier Gal
5.31945
MovieRomanceWestern
Johnny Hart is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a saloon owned by singer Lorena Dumont. The two seem a good, albeit tempestuous match, although Johnny has no plans to marry -- Lorena has other ideas and a shotgun wedding ensues.
CheckersCheckers · 1937
Checkers
10.01937
MovieDrama
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
They All Kissed the BrideThey All Kissed the Bride · 1942
They All Kissed the Bride
5.91942
MovieComedyRomance
Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book on some of her tough ways. With no time for men, the effect an attractive stranger has on her at her sister's wedding is unnerving. When it turns out this is the hated writer, she starts seriously to lose her bearings. Surely it can't become Maggie and Mike?

Movies

Bathing BeautyBathing Beauty · 1944
Bathing Beauty
5.91944
MovieMusicComedy
After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.
Sis HopkinsSis Hopkins · 1941
Sis Hopkins
6.31941
MovieComedy
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
Swing FeverSwing Fever · 1943
Swing Fever
6.01943
MovieComedyRomance
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
Easy LivingEasy Living · 1937
Easy Living
7.21937
MovieComedyRomance
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Du Barry Was a LadyDu Barry Was a Lady · 1943
Du Barry Was a Lady
6.51943
MovieComedyFantasy
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Frontier GalFrontier Gal · 1945
Frontier Gal
5.31945
MovieRomanceWestern
Johnny Hart is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a saloon owned by singer Lorena Dumont. The two seem a good, albeit tempestuous match, although Johnny has no plans to marry -- Lorena has other ideas and a shotgun wedding ensues.
CheckersCheckers · 1937
Checkers
10.01937
MovieDrama
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
They All Kissed the BrideThey All Kissed the Bride · 1942
They All Kissed the Bride
5.91942
MovieComedyRomance
Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book on some of her tough ways. With no time for men, the effect an attractive stranger has on her at her sister's wedding is unnerving. When it turns out this is the hated writer, she starts seriously to lose her bearings. Surely it can't become Maggie and Mike?
Down Mexico WayDown Mexico Way · 1941
Down Mexico Way
10.01941
MovieWesternComedy
Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately from Autry's regular B-western series as an A-picture attraction. The story gets under way when a pair of con artists, Gibson (Sidney Blackmer) and Allen (Joe Sawyer), breeze into the town of Sage City claiming to be movie producers. The two scoundrels promise to film a movie in the little burg on the condition that the townsfolk pony up the necessary production fees.
Road to MoroccoRoad to Morocco · 1942
Road to Morocco
6.91942
MovieComedyMusic
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
Here Comes TroubleHere Comes Trouble · 1936
Here Comes Trouble
7.01936
Movie
Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks.
Obliging Young LadyObliging Young Lady · 1942
Obliging Young Lady
6.01942
MovieComedyRomance
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
Vacation from LoveVacation from Love · 1938
Vacation from Love
10.01938
MovieComedy
A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy.
Oh, You Beautiful DollOh, You Beautiful Doll · 1949
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
5.51949
MovieDramaMusic
Period musical about a song plugger who vows to turn an opera composer's music into popular hits.
Five of a KindFive of a Kind · 1938
Five of a Kind
4.81938
MovieComedyDrama
Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.
I Dood ItI Dood It · 1943
I Dood It
5.01943
MovieMusicComedy
Constance Shaw, a Broadway dance star, and Joseph Rivington Reynolds, a keen fan of hers, marry after she breaks up with her fiancé. Connie thinks Joseph owns a gold mine, but he actually works as a presser at a hotel valet shop. When everyone learns what he really is, Joseph is banned from the theater. When he sneaks in again, he learns of a plot to set off a bomb in the adjoining munitions warehouse.
Riding on AirRiding on Air · 1937
Riding on Air
6.01937
MovieComedy
Smugglers are using a device for controlling airplanes in flight, and newspaper reporters from Chicago are vying for the story. Reporter Elmer Lane is out to scoop rival reporter Betty Harrison, and capture her heart in the process.
Sally, Irene and MarySally, Irene and Mary · 1938
Sally, Irene and Mary
6.81938
MovieComedyRomance
Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.
Meet John DoeMeet John Doe · 1941
Meet John Doe
7.31941
MovieDramaComedy
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
Here Comes CookieHere Comes Cookie · 1935
Here Comes Cookie
7.21935
MovieComedy
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
Sing and Be HappySing and Be Happy · 1937
Sing and Be Happy
10.01937
MovieComedy
Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.
Hi'ya, ChumHi'ya, Chum · 1943
Hi'ya, Chum
6.51943
MovieComedy
Entertainers get stranded in a small boomtown, and open up a restaurant.
The Wild Man of BorneoThe Wild Man of Borneo · 1941
The Wild Man of Borneo
6.71941
MovieComedyRomance
A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.
The Go-GetterThe Go-Getter · 1956
The Go-Getter
10.01956
MovieComedy
The Go-Getter (1956)