George O'Hanlon
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George Samuel O'Hanlon (November 23, 1912 – February 11, 1989) was an American actor, comedian, writer and director. He was best known for his role as Joe McDoakes in the Warner Bros.' live-action Joe McDoakes short subjects from 1942 to 1956 and as the voice of George Jetson in Hanna-Barbera's 1962 prime-time animated television series The Jetsons and its 1985 revival.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.068 |
Birthday | 1912-11-23 |
Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | George Samuel O'Hanlon Jr., George Samuel O'Hanlon, |
1976
Rocky
7.788/7616
An uneducated collector for a Philadelphia loan shark is given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fight against the world heavyweight boxing champion...
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Rocky
1952
Park Row
6.656/32
In New York's 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opp...
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Park Row
1957
Kronos
5.7/39
Scientists investigate a huge meteor that crashes into the ocean off Mexico, and encounter a skyscraper-tall, mobile machine which is designed to syp...
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Kronos
1938
Hollywood Hotel
5.2/9
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her curre...
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Hollywood Hotel
1946
So You Want to Keep Your Hair
6/1
Average American Joe McDoakes searches in vain for any cure that will halt his fast-disappearing hairline.
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So You Want to Keep Your Hair
1946
So You Want to Play the Horses
6/1
In this outing, Joe loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winning.
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So You Want to Play the Horses
1990
Jetsons: The Movie
6/183
George Jetson is forced to uproot his family when Mr. Spacely promotes him to take charge of a new factory on a distant planet.
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Jetsons: The Movie
1958
The Vanishing Duck
6.5/33
George gives Joan a baby duck for her birthday. While they are out celebrating, Tom goes after the duck, but his plans are thwarted when it (and, late...
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The Vanishing Duck
1950
So You Think You're Not Guilty
5.7/16
Joe McDoakes pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setback in his usual manner, the two-dollar fine quickl...
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So You Think You're Not Guilty
1944
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
6.2/4
A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic training film.
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Resisting Enemy Interrogation
1948
So You Want to Be a Detective
6.8/18
Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
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So You Want to Be a Detective
1942
Criminal Investigator
4/1
A reporter investigates the murder of a showgirl, who was the widow of a millionaire. While digging in to the mysterious murder of a showgirl (Vivian...
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Criminal Investigator
1947
So You Want to Be in Pictures
5.8/5
Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
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So You Want to Be in Pictures
1952
Cattle Town
6.7/3
The governor of Texas sends a cowboy to keep the peace between ranchers and a land baron.
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Cattle Town
1947
Heading For Heaven
5.1/4
A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't...
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Heading For Heaven
1951
So You Want to Be a Bachelor
0/0
"I never knew what happiness was till I got married—and then it was too late," Joe recalls, flashing back to bachelor days and his courtship with Alic...
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So You Want to Be a Bachelor
1952
So You Want to Wear the Pants
5/1
It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes to switch points of view during a session.
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So You Want to Wear the Pants
1948
The Counterfeiters
5.6/4
Scotland Yard cop goes undercover to nab counterfeiter and his gang.
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The Counterfeiters
1988
Rockin' with Judy Jetson
5.8/12
There's intergalactic trouble when the lyrics Judy Jetson wrote for teen heartthrob Sky Rocker are swapped with a secret message from a music-hating w...
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Rockin' with Judy Jetson
1942
Man From Headquarters
6/2
A police reporter solves a murder case in Chicago, then moves on to St. Louis-but not voluntarily, since he has been kidnapped by the minions of the W...
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Man From Headquarters
1947
The Hucksters
6.9/17
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
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The Hucksters
1940
Spring Parade
6.8/9
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she wil...
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Spring Parade
1956
So Your Wife Wants to Work
7/1
Joe McDoakes' wife Alice wants to return to work to add income to the household. Joe would rather she stay at home to tend to domestic duties. When Al...
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So Your Wife Wants to Work
1948
June Bride
7.3/9
A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong.
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June Bride
1948
So You Want an Apartment
4/3
Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.
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So You Want an Apartment
1947
So You're Going to Be a Father
4.3/3
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes goes through the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father.
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So You're Going to Be a Father
1947
So You Want to Hold Your Wife
5/2
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes, dissatisfied, attempts to save his five-years marriage to Alice.
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So You Want to Hold Your Wife
1948
So You Want to Build a House
4.5/2
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes is evicted from his apartment and decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, his dream house turns...
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So You Want to Build a House
1942
So You Want to Give Up Smoking
0/0
A semi-humorous look at the various types of smokers and the methods available to them to kick the habit.
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So You Want to Give Up Smoking
1948
So You Want to Be a Gambler
4.7/3
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes experiences the pitfalls of gambling.
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So You Want to Be a Gambler
1942
So You Think You Need Glasses
4/1
A humorous but informative look at how an average man can remedy common vision problems. (Taken from the imdb page)
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So You Think You Need Glasses
1944
Once Over Lightly
0/0
A short compilation movie similar to When Comedy was King (1960), and The Golden Age of Comedy (1957).
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Once Over Lightly
1946
So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck
6/3
Joe McDoakes attempts to deal with his myriad neuroses.
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So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck
1938
Brother Rat
5/2
Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.
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Brother Rat
1939
A Child Is Born
6.5/3
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
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A Child Is Born
1939
Daughters Courageous
6.1/7
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim...
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Daughters Courageous
1939
Hell's Kitchen
6.2/4
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the i...
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Hell's Kitchen
1939
Dust Be My Destiny
6.1/16
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 l...
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Dust Be My Destiny
1939
Swanee River
0/1
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, t...
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Swanee River
1940
The Fighting 69th
5.4/24
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove hi...
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The Fighting 69th
1943
All by Myself
0/0
Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who of course is unaware of it. But unknown to Jea...
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All by Myself
1973
Charley and the Angel
5.167/12
Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be...
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Charley and the Angel
1940
Saturday's Children
6.4/8
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
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Saturday's Children
1945
So You Think You're Allergic
4/1
Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic.
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So You Think You're Allergic
1955
So You Want a Model Railroad
0/0
Alice visits Mr. Agony with her latest problem with Joe. They had given Junior a toy railroad for a Christmas present, and Joe had taken it over and b...
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So You Want a Model Railroad
1950
So You Want to Hold Your Husband
0/0
Fed up with Joe's indifference toward her, Alice McDoakes takes her troubles to a marriage counselor. None of the courses of action she is advised to...
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So You Want to Hold Your Husband
1940
City for Conquest
6.8/31
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York C...
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City for Conquest
1956
Your Safety First
5/3
An animated film about the development of the automobile from the perspective of futuristic consumers.
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Your Safety First
1952
The Lion and the Horse
5.7/6
After selling it to a cruel rodeo owner, a cowboy attempts to buy back the wild stallion he snared.
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The Lion and the Horse
1947
So You're Going on a Vacation
6/2
Joe takes his wife on a much-needed vacation, and almost survives.
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So You're Going on a Vacation
1948
Are You With It?
4/4
Milton Haskins, a math genius known for his infallibility with numbers, quits his job with an insurance company when he discovers he made a mistake, a...
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Are You With It?
1972
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
6.3/59
Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible. Before Dex...
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Now You See Him, Now You Don't
1949
So You're Having In-Law Trouble
0/0
Joe's in-laws come over, and they suck.
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So You're Having In-Law Trouble
1949
So You Want to Get Rich Quick
0/0
Joe comes up with a complicated scheme to bilk his dead uncle out of an inheritance.
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So You Want to Get Rich Quick
1987
The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
6.6/146
Elroy Jetson invents a time machine that takes him back to prehistoric times, where he meets the Flintstone family.
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The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
1941
New Wine
0/0
The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.
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New Wine
1948
So You Want to Be on the Radio
5.7/6
Joe McDoakes and his wife love to participate in radio show contests, but something seems to interfere every time they are lucky enough to be chosen a...
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So You Want to Be on the Radio
1950
So You're Going to Have an Operation
0/0
A satiric look at doctors and hospitals through the eyes of Joe McDoakes.
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So You're Going to Have an Operation
1932
The Death Kiss
5.056/27
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative...
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The Death Kiss
1949
So You Want to Be Popular
0/0
Joe McDoakes takes advice on how to be more likeable from his only friend Homer Hotbox
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So You Want to Be Popular
1949
So You Want to Be an Actor
0/0
Joe McDoakes, unemployed thespian, makes all the casting calls,reads all of the trade papers, sees agents and tries out for casting directors and prod...
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So You Want to Be an Actor
1950
So You Want to Throw a Party
4/1
Joe and Alice McDoakes are planning on throwing a party, but Joe mixes up his list of creditors with the list of names Alice gave him to invite. The c...
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So You Want to Throw a Party
1950
So You Want to Move
0/0
Joe plans on moving but needs tips on how.
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So You Want to Move
1950
So You Want a Raise
6/1
Joe McDoakes asks for a raise and is informed by his boss that the employee selected by him to run the office while he is on vacation will get a raise...
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So You Want a Raise
1951
So You Want to Be a Handyman
0/0
Joe MacDoakes' next-door neighbor, Marvin, comes over to help him fix his lawn-sprinkling system, but they get the pipes crossed with the gas-line and...
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So You Want to Be a Handyman
1951
So You Want to Be a Cowboy
0/0
Joe McDoakes and his wife Alice attend a western movie and George soon has himself in the movie shown on the screen as Jump-Along Skip-Along McGur
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So You Want to Be a Cowboy
1951
So You Want to Be a Paper Hanger
0/0
Joe McDoakes, ever obliging and always helpful, volunteers to hang the new wallpaper for his wife.
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So You Want to Be a Paper Hanger
1951
So You Want to Be a Plumber
3/1
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.
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So You Want to Be a Plumber
1952
So You Want to Get It Wholesale
0/0
Joe uses his "contacts" to buy a new oven as cheaply as possible.
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So You Want to Get It Wholesale
1952
So You Want to Enjoy Life
2/1
Believing he has only a month to live, average guy Joe McDoakes decides to live life to the fullest in the time he has left.
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So You Want to Enjoy Life
1952
So You Want to Go to a Convention
0/0
Joe has to find a way to go to a convention.
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So You Want to Go to a Convention
1952
So You Never Tell a Lie
0/0
When a watch intended for a contest winner at the office gets mixed up and confused with the one Joe McDoakes purchased for his wife, Joe once again f...
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So You Never Tell a Lie
1952
So You're Going to the Dentist
0/0
Joe McDoakes' dimwit neighbor Marvin becomes a dentist, and manages to convince poor Joe to let him become Marvin's first patient.
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So You're Going to the Dentist
1953
So You Want to Be a Musician
0/0
Joe McDoakes can't find a job as a bassoonist, so he pawns his instrument.
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So You Want to Be a Musician
1953
So You Want to Learn to Dance
0/0
Joe McDoakes is invited by his boss to a swanky dance. Joe admits he can't dance and the boss gives him a lesson in the office.
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So You Want to Learn to Dance
1953
So You Want a Television Set
0/0
Joe and Alice buy a television set and, due to some excuse, or another, the neighbors begin to drop in, stay to watch television, and raid their refri...
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So You Want a Television Set
1953
So You Love Your Dog
0/0
Despite the fact that during the war, Joe McDoake's dog Dusty did everything wrong including giving information to the enemy, Joe brings him home with...
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So You Love Your Dog
1953
So You Think You Can't Sleep
5/1
Average working man Joe McDoakes tries desperate measures to cure his chronic insomnia.
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So You Think You Can't Sleep
1953
So You Want to Be an Heir
0/0
Thinking he may inherit a million dollars from his dying grandmother, Joe McDoakes finds himself the target of murderously greedy family members.
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So You Want to Be an Heir
1954
So You're Having Neighbor Trouble
0/0
Joe starts having trouble with an obnoxious neighbor.
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So You're Having Neighbor Trouble
1954
So You Want to Be Your Own Boss
0/0
Joe McDoakes, determined to be his own boss in this Joe McDoakes Comedy entry, opens up a new restaurant. Complaining customers and a sanitation inspe...
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So You Want to Be Your Own Boss
1954
So You Want to Go to a Nightclub
0/0
In this Joe McDoakes Comedy, Alice insists they go to a night club, although Joe is both tired and broke.
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So You Want to Go to a Nightclub
1954
So You Want to Be a Banker
0/0
Joe McDoakes graduates from Potash University and gets a job in a bank run by Harrington Arrington Farrington Jr, a former classmate.
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So You Want to Be a Banker
1954
So You're Taking in a Roomer
0/0
Joe and Alice decide to rent a room in their house to their neighbor Marvin, who says he is a potato broker.
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So You're Taking in a Roomer
1954
So You Want to Know Your Relatives
0/0
Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many of his black sheep relations reveal the skeletons...
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So You Want to Know Your Relatives
1955
So You Don't Trust Your Wife
5/1
When his wife Alice questions Joe as to whether his insurance policy is paid up, he begins to see a plot to murder him in everything she does.
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So You Don't Trust Your Wife
1955
So You Want to Be a Gladiator
5/1
Joe thinks he's back in the gladiator days, and finds himself sentenced to be thrown to the Coliseum lions after breaking a string while playing the l...
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So You Want to Be a Gladiator
1955
So You Want to Be on a Jury
0/0
Joe and Homer are both on a jury trying an accident case involving their boss and a gangster. Interference from both sides makes their task difficult.
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So You Want to Be on a Jury
1955
So You Want to Be a V.P.
8.5/1
Joe McDoakes is employed as the seventh vice-president in a firm that only makes promotions from the employee ranks.
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So You Want to Be a V.P.
1955
So You Want to Be a Policeman
0/0
Joe McDoakes is a shy, rookie motorcycle cop.
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So You Want to Be a Policeman
1956
So You Think the Grass is Greener
0/0
When he gets to his office after a usual morning of nagging by his wife, Alice, Joe McDoakes starts to daydream about what life would be like married...
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So You Think the Grass is Greener
1956
So You Want to Be Pretty
2/2
In this comedic short, Joe and Alice McDoakes each wish their looks were better.
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So You Want to Be Pretty
1956
So You Want to Play the Piano
4/1
Alice neglects her housework because she is enthralled with the long-haired piano player, Gregor Flatorsharpsky, next door. Joe buys a piano, and the...
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So You Want to Play the Piano
1943
Action in the North Atlantic
7/51
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as pa...
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Action in the North Atlantic
1947
So You Want to Be a Salesman
5/1
Joe McDoakes begins a new job as a vacuum cleaner salesman but can't seem to sell any.
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So You Want to Be a Salesman
1943
Reconnaissance Pilot
0/0
Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War as he flies reconnaissance missions over enem...
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Reconnaissance Pilot
1938
Blondes at Work
6.1/8
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in...
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Blondes at Work
1943
Corvette K-225
6.2/11
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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Corvette K-225
1971
The Million Dollar Duck
5.663/80
Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.
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The Million Dollar Duck
1956
Battle Stations
5.6/7
The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.
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Battle Stations
1940
Sailor's Lady
4/1
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is acci...
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Sailor's Lady
1957
Bop Girl Goes Calypso
4.2/5
Bop Girl Goes Calypso is a 1957 American United Artists film directed by Howard W. Koch and starring Judy Tyler. It featured Calypso music, and music...
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Bop Girl Goes Calypso
1947
Hollywood Wonderland
6.7/3
Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.
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Hollywood Wonderland
1949
Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
6/1
Gangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big event. Joe investigates in an attempt to prove his...
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Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
1943
Nearly Eighteen
5/1
A singer pretends to be younger so she can enter a music school.
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Nearly Eighteen
1948
So You Want to Be in Politics
0/0
Joe McDoakes becomes enmeshed in a corrupt political election.
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So You Want to Be in Politics
1949
So You Want to Be a Baby Sitter
0/0
Joe McDoakes does NOT want to be a baby sitter.
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So You Want to Be a Baby Sitter
1949
So You Want to Be a Muscle Man
0/0
Joe wants to be a muscle man.
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So You Want to Be a Muscle Man
1968
The Movie Orgy
6.222/9
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and gov...
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The Movie Orgy
1947
The Spirit of West Point
0/0
The story of Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis, two All-American football players at the U.S. Army Military Academy at West Point.
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The Spirit of West Point
1938
Secrets of an Actress
5.6/5
Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
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Secrets of an Actress
1938
Women Are Like That
5.7/3
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her...
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Women Are Like That
1952
Room for One More
6.3/44
Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her hu...
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Room for One More
1951
The Tanks Are Coming
8.3/3
An American tank crew fights its way into Germany in World War II.
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The Tanks Are Coming
1943
Two Tickets to London
6/1
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
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Two Tickets to London
1949
Zamba
3.5/2
Jenny and her six-year-old son, Tommy, are flying over the Belgian Congo when they are forced to bail out and become separated. Jenny lands in a dense...
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Zamba
1985
A Jetson Christmas Carol
6/2
What do Santa Claus and George Jetson have in common? They both have to work on Christmas eve! That mean old Mr. Spacely forces George to work late, w...
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