Henry Armetta — Actor (29)
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The Unholy Garden (1931) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Unholy Garden
director: George Fitzmaurice actor: Ronald Colman / Fay Wray …
other title: El paraíso del mal
At a hotel in the middle of the Sahara, an old man and his daughter try to keep the location of a hidden treasure from a collection of thieves and criminals staying at the hotel who are determined to get it. A suave gentleman thief arrives at the hotel one day with his own plan to get the loot, but complications ensue when he begins to fall for the daughter.
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Hat Check Girl (1932) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Hat Check Girl
director: Sidney Lanfield actor: Sally Eilers / Ben Lyon …
Gerry Marsh is a hat-check girl in a nightclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and others before she falls in love with millionaire playboy Buster Collins. Gerry is supported by her girlfriend Jessie.
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Sunny Side Up (1929) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Sunny Side Up
director: David Butler actor: Janet Gaynor / Charles Farrell …
other title: La Vie en rose
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.
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Arsène Lupin (1932) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Arsène Lupin
director: Jack Conway actor: John Barrymore / Lionel Barrymore …
other title: Arsene Lupin, der König der Diebe
A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris. He even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon to catch him.
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The Passionate Plumber (1932) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Passionate Plumber
director: Edward Sedgwick actor: Buster Keaton / Jimmy Durante …
other title: Chi la dura la vince / Le Plombier amoureux
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.
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Dust Be My Destiny (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Dust Be My Destiny
director: Lewis Seiler actor: John Garfield / Priscilla Lane …
other title: Weg aus dem Nichts / Defiendo mi vida …
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
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A Girl in Every Port (1928) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
A Girl in Every Port
director: Howard Hawks actor: Victor McLaglen / Louise Brooks …
other title: Capitan Barbablù / Blaue Jungs – blonde Mädchen …
Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young woman come between them?
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Street Angel (1928) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Street Angel
director: Frank Borzage actor: Janet Gaynor / Charles Farrell …
other title: Engel der Straße / L'Ange de la rue …
A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.
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Cross Country Cruise (1934) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cross Country Cruise
director: Edward Buzzell actor: Lew Ayres / June Knight …
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
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Carnival Day (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Carnival Day
director: Ralph Staub actor: Henry Armetta / Felix Knight …
It's carnival time, crowds gather for horse races and the games and food of a midway. Bobby the singing jockey will be riding the favorite Stardust, and if they win, the prize money will enable Bobby to ask Maggie, a carnival florist, to marry him. Tony, an exuberant balloon man, happens on a plot to hobble Stardust. Tony has bet his business on the race's outcome. How will Stardust do?
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Imitation of Life (1934) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Imitation of Life
director: John M. Stahl actor: Claudette Colbert / Louise Beavers …
other title: Lo specchio della vita / Espelho da Vida …
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.