George Barbier — Actor (19)
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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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The Magnificent Dope (1942) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Magnificent Dope
director: Walter Lang actor: Henry Fonda / Lynn Bari …
other title: Le Nigaud magnifique / Así vivo yo
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
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Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Hello, Frisco, Hello
director: H. Bruce Humberstone actor: Alice Faye / John Payne …
other title: Vecchia San Francisco / Hello Frisco, Hello …
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.
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Smuggled Cargo (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Smuggled Cargo
director: John H. Auer / Michael Jacoby actor: Barry MacKay / Rochelle Hudson …
When a sudden cold snap hits the Imperial Valley in California, orange growers fear that frost will kill their crops. Orange Growers Association president John Clayton assures his fellow farmers that he will help them obtain the oil needed to keep warming fires burning.
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This Day and Age (1933) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
This Day and Age
director: Cecil B. DeMille actor: Charles Bickford / Richard Cromwell …
other title: La nuova ora / Revolution der Jugend …
A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged high-school students turns into vigilante crusaders hell-bent on punishing the wrongdoers. Memorable pre-Code moment: the students torturing a gangster by dangling him over a pit filled with rats.
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Thunder Birds (1942) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Thunder Birds
director: William A. Wellman actor: Preston Foster / John Sutton …
other title: Pilotes de chasse / Águilas de fuego …
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse, competes with Britt for the affections of Kay Saunders, the daughter of a local rancher. Despite their differences, Britt makes sure Sutton passes his training and becomes a combat pilot -- even though he loses Kay to the young man in the process.
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The Preview Murder Mystery (1936) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Preview Murder Mystery
director: Robert Florey actor: Frances Drake / Reginald Denny …
other title: L'Homme sans visage / L'uomo senza volto
Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and refuses to let anyone leave, the studio’s publicity head and his secretary attempt to solve the murders themselves.
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The Princess Comes Across (1936) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Princess Comes Across
director: William K. Howard actor: Carole Lombard / Fred MacMurray …
other title: Resa d'amore / Eine Prinzessin für Amerika …
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
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The Milky Way (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Milky Way
director: Leo McCarey actor: Harold Lloyd / Adolphe Menjou …
other title: La via lattea / Ausgerechnet Weltmeister …
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.