Edgar Kennedy — Actor (22)
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Murder on the Blackboard (1934) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Murder on the Blackboard
director: George Archainbaud actor: Edna May Oliver / James Gleason …
other title: El crimen de la pizarra / El crimen en la pizarra
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.
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Who Killed Aunt Maggie? (1940) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
director: Arthur Lubin actor: John Hubbard / Wendy Barrie …
When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friends" fall under suspicion. Sheriff Gregory is the official investigator, but most of the clue gathering is done by amateur sleuths Kirk Pierce and Sally Ambler.
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It's a Wonderful World (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
It's a Wonderful World
director: W.S. Van Dyke actor: Claudette Colbert / James Stewart …
other title: Questo mondo è meraviglioso / Afinal, o Mundo é Belo! …
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.
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Woman Wanted (1935) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Woman Wanted
director: George B. Seitz actor: Maureen O'Sullivan / Joel McCrea …
other title: L'avventura di Anna Gray / La fugitiva
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
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Money Means Nothing (1934) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Money Means Nothing
director: Christy Cabanne actor: Wallace Ford / Gloria Shea …
At Joe's Roadside, a popular but rundown New York roadhouse where the wealthy and not-so-wealthy hang out, a wealthy Manhattan girl and a struggling Brooklyn boy meet and fall in love. She marries him against the wishes of her family, believing that love can solve everything, but she soon wonders if she made the right choice when she finds herself living in a manner, and with the kinds of people, she hadn't counted on.
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The Falcon Strikes Back (1943) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Falcon Strikes Back
director: Edward Dmytryk actor: Tom Conway / Harriet Nelson …
other title: El Halcón a la defensiva
The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic lodge. From here he uncovers a phony war bond operation.
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There's One Born Every Minute (1942) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
There's One Born Every Minute
director: Harold Young actor: Hugh Herbert / Peggy Moran …
other title: There’s One Born Every Minute
A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.
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Little Orphan Annie (1932) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Little Orphan Annie
director: John S. Robertson actor: Mitzi Green / Buster Phelps …
Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted daughter, Annie. While he's out west working on another fortune, Annie finds an orphaned boy on the streets and helps him find a home.
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True Confession (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
True Confession
director: Wesley Ruggles actor: Carole Lombard / Fred MacMurray …
other title: La moglie bugiarda / La folle confession …
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.
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Professional Sweetheart (1933) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Professional Sweetheart
director: William A. Seiter actor: Ginger Rogers / Norman Foster …
other title: Novia profesional
Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor and his nutty henchmen pick her a public-relations "sweetheart" from fan mail, who turns out to be a hayseed.
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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
director: Preston Sturges actor: Harold Lloyd / Jimmy Conlin …
other title: Meglio un mercoledì da leone / En tosset onsdag …
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
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Unfaithfully Yours (1948) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Unfaithfully Yours
director: Preston Sturges actor: Rex Harrison / Linda Darnell …
other title: Infedelmente tua / Odeio-te Meu Amor …
Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked his staid brother-in-law August to look out for his young wife, Daphne, during his absence. August has hired a private detective to keep tabs on her. But when the private eye's report suggests Daphne might have been canoodling with his secretary, Sir Alfred begins to imagine how he might take his revenge.