Jean Hersholt — Actor (16)
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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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Skyscraper Souls (1932) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Skyscraper Souls
director: Edgar Selwyn actor: Warren William / Maureen O'Sullivan …
After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan. Despite the devotion of longtime mistress Sarah, the ruthless David, while seeking bank mergers to protect his building, tries to seduce Sarah's secretary, Lynn. David then agrees to a plot by a bank board member to inflate his bank's stock and sell short — just before the market crashes.
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Flesh (1932) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Flesh
director: John Ford actor: Wallace Beery / Ricardo Cortez …
other title: Carne / Ring frei für die Liebe …
Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
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'49–'17 (1917) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
'49–'17
director: Ruth Ann Baldwin actor: Joseph W. Girard / Leo Pierson …
A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experience in this rather fanciful silent Western. The make-believe turns serious when a real gold mine is discovered nearby and a local girl is kidnapped by a nasty gambler.
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Transatlantic (1931) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Transatlantic
director: William K. Howard actor: Edmund Lowe / Lois Moran …
other title: Transatlantico / Transatlantique …
As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe heads the cast as Monty Greer, a suave gambler who falls in love with Judy, the daughter of immigrant lens grinder Rudolph Kramer. In trying to recover some valuable securities stolen from banker Henry Graham, Greer finds himself in the middle of a fierce gun battle in the ship's engine room. Meanwhile, Graham, who has been cheating on his wife Kay with sexy dancer Sigrid Carline, is murdered by person or persons unknown.
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Seventh Heaven (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Seventh Heaven
director: Henry King actor: Simone Simon / James Stewart …
other title: Settimo cielo / Im siebenten Himmel …
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.
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So Big (1924) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
So Big
director: Charles Brabin actor: Colleen Moore / Joseph De Grasse …
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."
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His Brother's Wife (1936) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
His Brother's Wife
director: W.S. Van Dyke actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Robert Taylor …
other title: L'ultima prova / Zwischen Haß und Liebe …
Epidemiologist Cliff Claybourne falls in love with Rita Wilson in a gambling house. They want to marry but Cliff's brother is convinced Rita is no good and forces Cliff to fulfill his agreement to do research in Africa in exchange for paying gambling debt. Rita, Cliff and brother are furious with each other, but Rita and Cliff are still in love.
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The Beast of the City (1932) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Beast of the City
director: Charles Brabin actor: Walter Huston / Jean Harlow …
other title: Il pericolo pubblico n. 1 / El monstruo de la ciudad …
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his police detective brother Ed to watch over Daisy who is associated with Belmonte but things don't go as planned.
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Dinner at Eight (1933) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Dinner at Eight
director: George Cukor actor: Marie Dressler / John Barrymore …
other title: Pranzo alle otto / Dinner um acht …
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.
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Don Q Son of Zorro (1925) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Don Q Son of Zorro
director: Donald Crisp actor: Douglas Fairbanks / Mary Astor …
other title: Don X, figlio di Zorro / Don Q - Sohn des Zorro …
Don Cesar De Vega crosses swords with a vicious member of the Queen's Guard, and steals the affection of a young heiress. When the officer frames the young upstart for murder, Don Cesar fakes his own death and retreats to the crumbling ruins of the family castle he plots his vengeance.
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Hell's Hinges (1916) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hell's Hinges
director: Charles Swickard actor: William S. Hart / Clara Williams …
other title: Il vendicatore / As Portas do Inferno …
When Reverend Robert Henley and his sister Faith arrive in the town of Hell's Hinges, saloon owner Silk Miller and his cohorts sense danger to their evil ways. They hire gunman Blaze Tracy to run the minister out of town. But Blaze finds something in Faith Henley that turns him around, and soon Silk Miller and his compadres have Blaze to deal with.