Walter Catlett — Actor (13)
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Dancing in the Dark (1949) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Dancing in the Dark
director: Irving Reis actor: William Powell / Mark Stevens …
other title: Ho incontrato l'amore / La comedia de la vida …
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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It Started with Eve (1941) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
It Started with Eve
director: Henry Koster actor: Deanna Durbin / Charles Laughton …
other title: La prima è stata Eva / Die ewige Eva …
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
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Love Is News (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Love Is News
director: Tay Garnett actor: Tyrone Power / Loretta Young …
other title: L'amore è novità / L'Amour en première page …
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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Manpower (1941) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Manpower
director: Raoul Walsh actor: Edward G. Robinson / Marlene Dietrich …
other title: Fulminati / Herzen in Flammen …
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
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Platinum Blonde (1931) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Platinum Blonde
director: Frank Capra actor: Jean Harlow / Robert Williams …
other title: La donna di platino / Vor Blondinen wird gewarnt …
Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
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My Gal Sal (1942) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
My Gal Sal
director: Irving Cummings actor: Rita Hayworth / Victor Mature …
other title: Follie di New York / Die Königin vom Broadway …
Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New York society, writing one hit song after another. Despite his egotistical behavior, he manages to woo and win Sally Elliott, one of the more popular songstresses of the day
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A Tale of Two Cities (1935) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Tale of Two Cities
director: Jack Conway actor: Ronald Colman / Elizabeth Allan …
other title: Le due città / Flucht aus Paris …
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
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The Inspector General (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Inspector General
director: Henry Koster actor: Danny Kaye / Walter Slezak …
other title: L'ispettore generale / Generalinspektøren …
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.
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The Front Page (1931) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Front Page
director: Lewis Milestone actor: Adolphe Menjou / Pat O'Brien …
other title: Un gran reportaje
Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.