Helen Westley — Actor (7)

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Bedtime Story (1941) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Bedtime Story
director: Alexander Hall actor: Fredric March / Loretta Young …
other title: La vida empieza hoy / J'épouse ma femme
A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there

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The Smiling Ghost (1941) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Smiling Ghost
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Wayne Morris / Brenda Marshall …
other title: Verlobung mit dem Tod / El fantasma sonriente
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.

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Looking for Trouble (1934) IMDb TMDB
Looking for Trouble
other title: Distruzione / Una avería en la línea
Joe and Casey trouble-shoot for the phone company. They try to prove that Joes's girl Ethel's boss Dan is a crook but are trapped by criminals and left in a burning building.

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Death Takes a Holiday (1934) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Death Takes a Holiday
other title: La morte in vacanza / Die schwarze Majestät …
After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon spiral out of control as he falls in love with the beautiful young Grazia, the only woman not afraid of him. As he falls in love with her, her father sees him for what he is and begs him to return to his duties. Death must decide whether or not to seek his own happiness or sacrifice it so that Grazia may live.