Harry Seymour

North by Northwest · 1959

North by Northwest

★ 8.01959

MovieThrillerAdventure

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

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Victor - Captain of Waiters (uncredited)

A Star Is Born · 1954

A Star Is Born

★ 7.11954

MovieDramaMusic

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

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Wheeler (uncredited)

Monkey Business · 1952

Monkey Business

★ 6.71952

MovieComedyScience Fiction

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.

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Clothing Store Salesman (uncredited)

River of No Return · 1954

River of No Return

★ 6.71954

MovieAdventureWestern

An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.

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Pianist (uncredited)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes · 1953

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

★ 7.31953

MovieComedyRomance

Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.

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Louie, Captain of Waiters (uncredited)

Violent Saturday · 1955

Violent Saturday

★ 6.71955

MovieDramaCrime

Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.

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Train Conductor (uncredited)

Seven Sinners · 1940

Seven Sinners

★ 6.01940

MovieAdventureComedy

Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.

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Piano Player (uncredited)

Manhattan Melodrama · 1934

Manhattan Melodrama

★ 7.01934

MovieCrimeDrama

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

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Piano Player in Casino (uncredited)

Belle of the Yukon · 1944

Belle of the Yukon

★ 5.81944

MovieWesternComedy

Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.

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Disgruntled Bank Depositor (uncredited)

Sitting Pretty · 1948

Sitting Pretty

★ 7.11948

MovieComedy

Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.

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Waiter (uncredited)

The Spoilers · 1955

The Spoilers

★ 5.11955

MovieAdventureWestern

In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.

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Piano Player

It's a Great Feeling · 1949

It's a Great Feeling

★ 5.91949

MovieComedyMusic

A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.

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Man in Upper Berth (uncredited)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn · 1945

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

★ 7.51945

MovieDrama

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.

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Floorwalker at 5 & 10 Cent Store (uncredited)

Marjorie Morningstar · 1958

Marjorie Morningstar

★ 6.31958

MovieDramaRomance

While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.

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Frank (uncredited)

Three on a Match · 1932

Three on a Match

★ 6.31932

MovieCrimeDrama

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.

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Jerry Carter (uncredited)

Gentlemen Are Born · 1934

Gentlemen Are Born

★ 7.31934

MovieDramaMusic

A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.

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Fence

42nd Street · 1933

42nd Street

★ 6.91933

MovieComedyDrama

Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.

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Aide (uncredited)

It Happens Every Spring · 1949

It Happens Every Spring

★ 6.61949

MovieComedy

A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.

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Jewelry Store Clerk (uncredited)

The Daring Young Man · 1935

The Daring Young Man

★ 10.01935

MovieComedy

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.

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Archie Archer

Fog Over Frisco · 1934

Fog Over Frisco

★ 6.41934

MovieThrillerCrime

Valkyr Bradford takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite involved in criminal activities.

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Bill (Uncredited)

The Case of the Howling Dog · 1934

The Case of the Howling Dog

★ 6.31934

MovieCrimeMystery

A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.

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David Clark

One Way Passage · 1932

One Way Passage

★ 7.31932

MovieRomanceDrama

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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Ship's Officer (uncredited)

Hi, Nellie! · 1934

Hi, Nellie!

★ 6.71934

MovieComedyDrama

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.

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Drunk at Bar (uncredited)

Dancing in the Dark · 1949

Dancing in the Dark

★ 6.01949

MovieComedyRomance

Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.

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Pianist, 'New Day' Number