Henry Travers — Actor (21)
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You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
You Can't Get Away with Murder
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Humphrey Bogart / Gale Page …
other title: La bolgia dei vivi / Le Châtiment …
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.
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Death Takes a Holiday (1934) [Movie] Skybridge IMDb TMDB WikiData
Death Takes a Holiday
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Fredric March / Evelyn Venable …
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.
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Four Hours to Kill! (1935) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Four Hours to Kill!
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Richard Barthelmess / Ray Milland …
other title: Compás de espera / Ultime Forfait
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.
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The Flame (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Flame
director: John H. Auer actor: John Carroll / Vera Ralston …
George McAllister, the black sheep of a wealthy family who has squandered his share of the family inheritance, lives in constant jealousy, hatred and resentment of his half-brother Barry, who has been supporting him. George gets his girlfriend, Carlotta Duval, a job as Barry's nurse, with the idea being to marry him, kill him, and inherit his money—and marrying George.
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Madame Curie (1943) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Madame Curie
director: Mervyn LeRoy actor: Greer Garson / Walter Pidgeon …
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
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Primrose Path (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Primrose Path
director: Gregory La Cava actor: Ginger Rogers / Joel McCrea …
other title: Il piccolo porto / Quero ser Feliz …
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
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Too Many Parents (1936) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Too Many Parents
director: Robert F. McGowan actor: Frances Farmer / Lester Matthews …
Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart writes himself letters his father should be writing. When his hoax is discovered, Philip attempts suicide.
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Dark Victory (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Dark Victory
director: Edmund Goulding actor: Bette Davis / George Brent …
other title: Tramonto / Sejr over mørket …
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.
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The Naughty Nineties (1945) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Naughty Nineties
director: Jean Yarbrough actor: Bud Abbott / Lou Costello …
other title: L'arca di Noè / Tramposos entrampados …
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
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Ready for Love (1934) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Ready for Love
director: Marion Gering actor: Richard Arlen / Ida Lupino …
In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when a young woman flees her boarding school to stay with her retired aunt, a former actress, who try as she might, has never been welcomed into the snobbish community in which she resides. The young woman too, is shunned and ends up being victimized in witchcraft trial and ducked into a pool of water.
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Edison, the Man (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Edison, the Man
director: Clarence Brown actor: Spencer Tracy / Charles Coburn …
other title: Il romanzo di una vita / Edison, o Mago da Luz …
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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The Rains Came (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Rains Came
director: Clarence Brown actor: Myrna Loy / Tyrone Power …
other title: La grande pioggia / Nacht über Indien …
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.
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Ball of Fire (1941) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Ball of Fire
director: Howard Hawks actor: Gary Cooper / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: Colpo di fulmine / Die merkwürdige Zähmung der Gangsterbraut Sugarpuss …
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
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The Invisible Man (1933) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
The Invisible Man
director: James Whale actor: Claude Rains / Gloria Stuart …
other title: L'uomo invisibile / Den usynlige mand …
After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban NeoDB Skybridge WikiData
It's a Wonderful Life
8.2 (19 ratings) director: Frank Capra actor: James Stewart / Donna Reed …
other title: La vita è meravigliosa / Det er herligt at leve …
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.