Ned Sparks — Actor (16)
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The Miracle Man (1932)
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Norman Z. McLeod actor: Sylvia Sidney / Chester Morris …
other title: Spiel am Abgrund
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.
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Magic Town (1947)
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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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Conspiracy (1930)
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Christy Cabanne actor: Bessie Love / Ned Sparks …
Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric mystery writer Winthrop Clavering help unravel the truth about the murder.
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Iron Man (1931)
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Tod Browning actor: Lew Ayres / Robert Armstrong …
other title: 铁人 / L'Homme de fer
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.
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Lady for a Day (1933)
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Frank Capra actor: Warren William / May Robson …
other title: Signora per un giorno / Milionária por Um Dia …
Apple Annie is an aging New York City fruit seller whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanish convent since she was an infant. As she grows up, Louise is led to believe that her mother is a society matron called Mrs. E. Worthington Manville. Annie worries that her lie is in danger of being uncovered when she learns that Louise is sailing to New York with her new fiancé and his nobleman father.
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Alias the Lone Wolf (1927)
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Edward H. Griffith actor: Bert Lytell / Lois Wilson …
other title: Ladrones a bordo
Michael Lanyard, aka the Lone Wolf, is sailing to America when he meets pretty Eve de Montalais. Eve wants to sneak her valuable necklace through U.S. customs so that she can use the money from its sale to help straighten out her brother. The only problem is that there is a gang of jewel thieves on board who are just as determined to steal the necklace.
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The Bride Walks Out (1936)
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Leigh Jason actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Gene Raymond …
other title: La forza dell'amore / Cásate y verás …
Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin. But part of the marriage arrangement requires that Carolyn quit her $50-per-week modeling job to be a full-time housewife; the couple will instead live on Michael’s $35-per-week job.
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Imitation of Life (1934)
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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.
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Kept Husbands (1931)
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Lloyd Bacon actor: Dorothy Mackaill / Joel McCrea …
other title: El obrero y la millonaria
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.
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The Canary Murder Case (1929)
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Malcolm St. Clair / Frank Tuttle actor: William Powell / James Hall …
other title: La canarina assassinata / Die Stimme aus dem Jenseits …
A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.
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42nd Street (1933)
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Lloyd Bacon actor: Warner Baxter / Bebe Daniels …
other title: Quarantaduesima strada / 42. gade …
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
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Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
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Mervyn LeRoy actor: Warren William / Joan Blondell …
other title: La danza delle luci / Goldgräber von 1933 …
When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.