William Demarest — Actor (31)
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Dangerous Blondes (1943) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Dangerous Blondes
director: Leigh Jason actor: Allyn Joslyn / Evelyn Keyes …
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.
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The Great Moment (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Great Moment
director: Preston Sturges actor: Joel McCrea / Betty Field …
other title: El gran momento
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
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Easy Living (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Easy Living
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Jean Arthur / Edward Arnold …
other title: Un colpo di fortuna / Mein Leben in Luxus …
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.
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Twenty Plus Two (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Twenty Plus Two
director: Joseph M. Newman actor: David Janssen / Jeanne Crain …
other title: Começou em Tóquio
A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress?
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The Mountain (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Mountain
director: Edward Dmytryk actor: Spencer Tracy / Robert Wagner …
other title: La montagna / Der Berg der Versuchung …
Selfish Chris Teller pressures his older brother, a retired climber, to accompany him on a treacherous Alpine climb to loot the bodies of plane crash victims.
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Never a Dull Moment (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Never a Dull Moment
director: George Marshall actor: Irene Dunne / Fred MacMurray …
other title: Che vita con un cow boy! / Mon cow-boy adoré …
Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo and they get married, and leave for his ranch in the west. Her friends warn her of an early disillusionment with life on a ranch, far away from the glitter and bright lights of Broadway. Kay makes one difficulty adjustment after another, as the ranch is presided over by Chris's kids, and an incident occurs with a neighbor that prompts Kay to return to her glamorous life in New York. But she soon finds her heart is with Chris and his children.
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Whispering Smith (1948) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Whispering Smith
director: Leslie Fenton actor: Alan Ladd / Robert Preston …
other title: Smith il taciturno / Der Todesverächter …
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa).
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The Strip (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Strip
director: László Kardos actor: Mickey Rooney / Sally Forrest …
other title: La donna del gangster
Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of her murder.
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The Murder Man (1935) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Murder Man
director: Tim Whelan actor: Spencer Tracy / Virginia Bruce …
other title: Ultime notizie / Der Mann für Mord …
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
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The Perils of Pauline (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Perils of Pauline
director: George Marshall actor: Betty Hutton / John Lund …
other title: La storia di Pearl White / Pauline, laß das Küssen sein …
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take
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On Our Merry Way (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
On Our Merry Way
director: Leslie Fenton / King Vidor actor: Paulette Goddard / Burgess Meredith …
other title: La strada della felicità / Når enden er god …
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?
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Son of Flubber (1963) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Son of Flubber
director: Robert Stevenson actor: Fred MacMurray / Nancy Olson …
other title: Professore a tuttogas / As Descobertas do Sr. Professor …
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hopes to have better luck with a gravity-busting derivative he's dubbed "Flubbergas." Ned's experiments, constantly hampered by government obstruction, earn the consternation of his wife, Betsy. But a game-winning modification to a football uniform may help Ned make the case for his fantastic new invention.