Donald Meek — Actor (28)
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Double Danger (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Double Danger
director: Lew Landers actor: Preston Foster / Whitney Bourne …
A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". Director Lew Landers' 1938 B-film stars Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Cecil Kellaway, Donald Meek, Samuel S. Hinds, Arthur Lake, Paul Guilfoyle and June Johnson.
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Third Finger, Left Hand (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Third Finger, Left Hand
director: Robert Z. Leonard actor: Myrna Loy / Melvyn Douglas …
other title: Wapakoneta / Dritter Finger, linke Hand
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
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The Hole in the Wall (1929) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Hole in the Wall
director: Robert Florey actor: Claudette Colbert / Edward G. Robinson …
other title: Le Trou dans le mur
Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief. Love entanglements with a gangster known as "The Fox" and newspaperman Grant complicate her plans.
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The Feminine Touch (1941) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Feminine Touch
director: W.S. Van Dyke actor: Rosalind Russell / Don Ameche …
other title: Chi dice donna... / Huellas femeninas
A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind Russell), to New York where he plans to publish a book on the subject. Meeting with publisher Elliott Morgan (Van Heflin), who falls head over heels for Julie, John is assigned to his assistant Nellie (Kay Francis), who only has eyes for her boss. Working closely with Nellie, who Julie thinks is after her husband, John continues his high-minded ways while his angry spouse schemes to make him so jealous he'll knock Elliott's block clean off.
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State Fair (1945) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
State Fair
director: Walter Lang actor: Jeanne Crain / Dana Andrews …
other title: A Feira da Vida / Jahrmarkt der Liebe …
During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine Blueboy; and his wife Melissa enters the mincemeat and pickles contest...with hilarious results.
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Magic Town (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Magic Town
director: William A. Wellman actor: James Stewart / Jane Wyman …
other title: La città magica / Lille by hvad nu? …
Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.
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Sky Murder (1940) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Sky Murder
director: George B. Seitz actor: Walter Pidgeon / Donald Meek …
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
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Phantom Raiders (1940) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Phantom Raiders
director: Jacques Tourneur actor: Walter Pidgeon / Donald Meek …
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.
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Barbary Coast (1935) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Barbary Coast
director: Howard Hawks actor: Miriam Hopkins / Edward G. Robinson …
other title: La costa dei barbari / Cidade Sem Lei …
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Jim Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. She goes after him, Chamalis goes after her with intent to harm Carmichael.
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Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Du Barry Was a Lady
director: Roy Del Ruth actor: Red Skelton / Lucille Ball …
other title: Mademoiselle du Barry / La du Barry était une dame …
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
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The Toast of New York (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Toast of New York
director: Rowland V. Lee actor: Edward Arnold / Cary Grant …
other title: Alla conquista dei dollari / L'Or et la femme …
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
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The Gilded Lily (1935) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Gilded Lily
director: Wesley Ruggles actor: Claudette Colbert / Fred MacMurray …
other title: Il giglio d'oro / Das Mädchen, das den Lord nicht wollte …
Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her best friend, reporter Peter Dawes, who secretly loves her. When Peter learns that the already-engaged Charles has hurt Marilyn, he fabricates an article casting her as the "No Girl" who refused to marry a callous aristocrat. But when the publicity brings Marilyn unexpected fame, and Charles returns, she is forced to choose between the two men.