Acting

Joseph Cawthorn

Born March 27, 1868 · New York City, New York, USA

Died January 21, 1949 · aged 80

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Cawthorn (March 29, 1868, New York City, New York – January 21, 1949, Beverly Hills, California) was an American stage and film comic actor. Cawthorn started out in show business as a child, debuting at Robinson's Music Hall in his hometown of New York in 1872. He appeared in minstrel shows and vaudeville as a "Dutch" comic, employing a thick German d…

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Housewife

Housewife · 1934

Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.

The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld · 1936

The Great Ziegfeld

MovieMusicDrama

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever-bigger, more spectacular shows

White Zombie

White Zombie · 1932

A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away from her fiancé. The madman later betrays their agreement by keeping the woman for himself…as a zombie.

Naughty Marietta

Naughty Marietta · 1935

Naughty Marietta

MovieMusicRomance

In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.

Love Me Tonight

Love Me Tonight · 1932

Love Me Tonight

MovieComedyRomance

A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.

Blondie Johnson

Blondie Johnson · 1933

Blondie Johnson

MovieCrimeDrama

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.

The Runaround

The Runaround · 1931

MovieComedyRomance

Filmed in an early Technicolor process, The Runaround tells the story of Broadway dancer Evelyn who refuses to play the gold-digging games indulged in by her fellow chorines

Scatterbrain

Scatterbrain · 1940

MovieComedyMusic

A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.

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Housewife

Housewife · 1934

Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.

Krueger (as Joe Cawthorne)

The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld · 1936

The Great Ziegfeld

MovieMusicDrama

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever-bigger, more spectacular shows

Dr. Ziegfeld

White Zombie

White Zombie · 1932

A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away from her fiancé. The madman later betrays their agreement by keeping the woman for himself…as a zombie.

Dr. Bruner

Naughty Marietta

Naughty Marietta · 1935

Naughty Marietta

MovieMusicRomance

In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.

Herr 'Schumie' Schuman

Love Me Tonight

Love Me Tonight · 1932

Love Me Tonight

MovieComedyRomance

A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.

Dr. Armand de Fontinac

Blondie Johnson

Blondie Johnson · 1933

Blondie Johnson

MovieCrimeDrama

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.

Jewelry Store Manager (as Joe Cawthorn)

The Runaround

The Runaround · 1931

MovieComedyRomance

Filmed in an early Technicolor process, The Runaround tells the story of Broadway dancer Evelyn who refuses to play the gold-digging games indulged in by her fellow chorines

Lou

Scatterbrain

Scatterbrain · 1940

MovieComedyMusic

A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.

Nicholas Raptis

Kiki

A young Frenchwoman is determined to get into and stay in show business, no matter what. Then she's determined to win a recently divorced man's heart... again, no matter what.

Alfred Rapp

Lillian Russell

Lillian Russell · 1940

Lillian Russell

MovieDramaMusic

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Leopold Damrosch

Page Miss Glory

Page Miss Glory · 1935

Page Miss Glory

MovieComedyMusic

A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.

Mr. Freischutz

Peach-o-Reno

Peach-o-Reno · 1931

MovieComedyRomance

After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but they want to get their parents back together. Joe and Aggie, accidentally, are becoming clients at the same law-firm, Wattles and Swift, which is the biggest and most successful in town.

Joe Bruno

So Ends Our Night

So Ends Our Night · 1941

So Ends Our Night

An anti-Nazi refugee on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.

Leopold Potzloch

Music in the Air

Music in the Air · 1934

Music in the Air

MovieComedyRomance

A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.

Hans Uppman

Freshman Love

Freshman Love · 1936

A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.

Wilson, Sr.

Smart Girl

Smart Girl · 1935

Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a pile of debts. Pat sets up a successful hat-designing business, providing the sole support for herself and her sister Kay (Gail Patrick). So devoted is Pat to Kay's welfare that she stands by in stoic silence as Kay begins romancing Pat's sweetie Nick Graham (Kent Taylor).

Karl Krausemeyer

One Rainy Afternoon

One Rainy Afternoon · 1936

One Rainy Afternoon

Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to kiss her. Charged with assault, the quick-thinking Philippe claims it's French tradition to do as he did, and is let go. To his surprise, Philippe learns that Monique has paid his fine. As the tabloids exploit the situation, Monique dates Philippe, until a photo appears of him kissing Yvonne.

Monique's Father

They Call It Sin

They Call It Sin · 1932

They Call It Sin

A young, innocent small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a crush to the big city and is left fending for herself.

Mr. Hollister

Lazy River

Lazy River · 1934

MovieDramaRomance

Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.

Mr. Julius Ambrose

Men Are Such Fools

Men Are Such Fools · 1932

Men Are Such Fools

An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is having an affair with a local lowlife; when he turns up dead, the husband is jailed for his murder, even though he protests his innocence.

Werner (as Joseph Cawthorne)

Gold Diggers of 1935

Gold Diggers of 1935 · 1935

Gold Diggers of 1935

Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.

August Schultz

Whistling in the Dark

Whistling in the Dark · 1933

Whistling in the Dark

MovieComedyCrime

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.

Barfuss

Two Girls Wanted

Two Girls Wanted · 1927

Two Girls Wanted

MovieComedyDrama

Marianna Miller, who together with her sister Sarah pounds the pavements, looking for a job. After a period of starvation and deprivation Marianna is hired as secretary to duplicitous businessman Philip Hancock.

Philip Hancock

Young and Beautiful

Young and Beautiful · 1934

Young and Beautiful

MovieComedyRomance

Bob Preston, publicity man for Superba Pictures, uses his publicity skills in an attempt to make this fiancée June Dale the most famous movie star in the world. But in doing so, he forgets that women want to be attended to for themselves, not as objects of fame.

Herman Cline