Edward Everett Horton — Actor (23)
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It's a Boy (1934) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
It's a Boy
director: Tim Whelan actor: Leslie Henson / Albert Burdon …
"It's a Boy" stars Horton as Dudley Leake, who is betrothed to Mary Bogle (the very pretty Wendy Barrie). Shortly before the wedding, Dudley blurts a confession to his friend and best man, Jim Skippett: 20 years ago, Dudley had a brief affair with a certain Miss Piper, but he's never heard from her since then. Next day, who should suddenly appear? A youth about 19 or 20 years old, claiming to be named Joe Piper. Is he Horton's son, or is Skippett playing a practical joke?
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Dad's Choice (1928) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Dad's Choice
director: J.A. Howe actor: Edward Everett Horton / Sharon Lynn …
Eddie wants to marry a girl, but her father is strongly opposed to it. For her sake, she convinces him to at least meet Eddie.
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Sunny (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Sunny
director: Herbert Wilcox actor: Anna Neagle / Ray Bolger …
other title: Mardi gras
A circus performer who falls in love with a rich car dealer's son, against her family's wishes. Features some spirited dance numbers with Ray Bolger.
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Roar of the Dragon (1932) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Roar of the Dragon
director: Wesley Ruggles actor: Richard Dix / Gwili Andre …
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain Carson, who becomes involved with a woman who "belongs" to Voronsky. Carson must contend with the bandits outside and the conflicting personalities of those trapped inside the inn, as well as dealing with spies among the inn's personnel.
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Top Hat (1935) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Top Hat
director: Mark Sandrich actor: Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers …
other title: Cappello a cilindro / Ich tanz' mich in dein Herz hinein …
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
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Holiday (1938) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Holiday
director: George Cukor actor: Katharine Hepburn / Cary Grant …
other title: Incantesimo / A Irmã da Minha Noiva …
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!
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The Gang's All Here (1943) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Gang's All Here
director: Busby Berkeley actor: Alice Faye / Carmen Miranda …
other title: Banana Split / Sinfonia de Estrelas …
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
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Cold Turkey (1971) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Cold Turkey
director: Norman Lear actor: Dick Van Dyke / Pippa Scott …
other title: Uma Cidade Contra o Vício / Der 25 Millionen Dollar Preis …
Reverend Brooks leads his small Iowa town in a contest to stop smoking for a month. But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.
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Kiss and Make-Up (1934) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Kiss and Make-Up
director: Harlan Thompson actor: Cary Grant / Genevieve Tobin …
other title: Il tempio del dottor Lamar / El templo de las hermosas …
Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the effects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, and wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher... after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.
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Lady on a Train (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Lady on a Train
director: Charles David actor: Deanna Durbin / Ralph Bellamy …
other title: Due pantofole e una ragazza / Die Dame im Zug …
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
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The Gay Divorcee (1934) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB IMDb TMDB
The Gay Divorcee
director: Mark Sandrich actor: Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers …
other title: Cerco il mio amore / A Alegre Divorciada …
Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.
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The Devil Is a Woman (1935) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Devil Is a Woman
director: Josef von Sternberg actor: Marlene Dietrich / Lionel Atwill …
other title: Capriccio spagnolo / O Diabo é Uma Mulher …
In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Arsenic and Old Lace
director: Frank Capra actor: Cary Grant / Priscilla Lane …
other title: Arsenico e vecchi merletti / Arsenik og gamle kniplinger …
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby — killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
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Ziegfeld Girl (1941) [Movie] TMDB
Ziegfeld Girl
director: Busby Berkeley / Robert Z. Leonard actor: James Stewart / Judy Garland …
other title: Le fanciulle delle follie / Mädchen im Rampenlicht …
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
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Lost Horizon (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Lost Horizon
director: Frank Capra actor: Ronald Colman / Jane Wyatt …
other title: Orizzonte perduto / Horizonte Perdido …
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.