Paul Guilfoyle
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Paul Guilfoyle (July 14, 1902 – June 27, 1961) was an American stage, film and television actor. Later in his career, he also directed films and television episodes.
Guilfoyle was born in Jersey City, New Jersey.
He started off working on stage, performing on Broadway in 16 plays according to the Internet Broadway Database, beginning with The Jolly Roger and Cyrano de Bergerac in 1923 and ending with Jayhawker in 1934. He appeared in many films that starred Lee Tracy in the 1930s. In the 1949 crime film White Heat, he played (uncredited) a treacherous prison inmate murdered in cold blood by James Cagney's lead character.
He died of a heart attack on June 27, 1961 in Hollywood. He had a son, Anthony. Guilfoyle was interred in Glendale, California's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.952 |
| Birthday | 1902-07-14 |
| Place of Birth | Jersey City, New Jersey, USA |
| Also Known As |
1938
Bringing Up Baby
7.5/989
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo...
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1940
The Grapes of Wrath
7.8/995
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The Grapes of Wrath
1944
It Happened Tomorrow
6.7/58
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It Happened Tomorrow
1955
Chief Crazy Horse
5.6/23
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Chief Crazy Horse
1953
Julius Caesar
7/213
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
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Julius Caesar
1949
Follow Me Quietly
6/30
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Follow Me Quietly
1938
This Marriage Business
4.8/4
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This Marriage Business
1940
Brother Orchid
6.4/32
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Brother Orchid
1950
The Woman on Pier 13
5.3/25
Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
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The Woman on Pier 13
1940
Remember the Night
7.3/110
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone...
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Remember the Night
1938
Carefree
6.6/62
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Carefree
1944
The Mark of the Whistler
5.9/15
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The Mark of the Whistler
1954
Apache
6.115/130
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Apache
1949
White Heat
7.7/484
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White Heat
1949
Mighty Joe Young
6.3/113
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1949
The Judge
5.8/9
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1938
The Saint in New York
6.2/15
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The Saint in New York
1960
The Boy and the Pirates
5.4/15
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The Boy and the Pirates
1947
Second Chance
5/3
Jewel thieves battle investigators.
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Second Chance
1946
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
0/0
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Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
1935
Special Agent
6.3/10
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Special Agent
1940
The Saint Takes Over
6.3/11
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The Saint Takes Over
1941
The Saint In Palm Springs
5.7/9
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The Saint In Palm Springs
1952
Confidence Girl
5.4/8
After successfully swindling thousands of dollars from hapless victims, conflicted con artist Mary (Hillary Brooke) decides to go straight, but her gr...
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Confidence Girl
1944
The Seventh Cross
6.7/39
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The Seventh Cross
1947
The Millerson Case
5.5/6
While on vacation, a criminal psychologist investigates a murder during a typhoid epidemic.
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The Millerson Case
1938
Blind Alibi
5.8/2
A Paris sculptor (Richard Dix) fakes blindness in Los Angeles to recover his blackmailed sister's love letters.
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Blind Alibi
1937
Sea Devils
5.7/3
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash,...
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Sea Devils
1947
Roses Are Red
5.5/8
A crooked crime boss tries to put a crony into office.
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Roses Are Red
1938
The Law West of Tombstone
4/2
A blustering gunfighter talks himself into the position of mayor in a small western town.
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The Law West of Tombstone
1936
Two-Fisted Gentleman
0/0
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Two-Fisted Gentleman
1940
One Crowded Night
4/1
The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.
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One Crowded Night
1943
White Savage
5.2/6
A native boy plays Cupid for a shark fisherman and a South Sea Islands princess.
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White Savage
1938
Crashing Hollywood
5.8/5
A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.
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Crashing Hollywood
1937
Super-Sleuth
5/4
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
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Super-Sleuth
1938
Law of the Underworld
5.5/4
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Law of the Underworld
1939
Society Lawyer
5.1/7
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Society Lawyer
1940
Wildcat Bus
4.6/4
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
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Wildcat Bus
1945
Why Girls Leave Home
5/5
In this crime drama, a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated night club singer. Her first job is nearly fatal when she...
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Why Girls Leave Home
1938
Tarnished Angel
5.3/3
A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.
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Tarnished Angel
1937
Behind The Headlines
6.2/3
A radio reporter sets out to rescue his ex-girlfriend when she is kidnapped by gangsters.
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Behind The Headlines
1950
Bomba and the Hidden City
4.6/8
A nature photographer and his guide meet a corrupt emir with a dirty secret. Only jungle-dwelling Bomba knows the truth.
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Bomba and the Hidden City
1954
The Golden Idol
4.2/4
Prince Ali wants the Golden Idol of Watusi and hires a ruthless hunter to get it for him. Bomba has the idol and, with the help of Commissioner Barnes...
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The Golden Idol
1938
Maid's Night Out
6.2/3
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Maid's Night Out
1945
The Missing Corpse
5.3/7
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The Missing Corpse
1937
Fight for Your Lady
4.3/3
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.
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Fight for Your Lady
1946
The Scarlet Horseman
0/0
Government agents work to interfere with schemes to trick the Comanches into war with the Texans.
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The Scarlet Horseman
1946
The Virginian
6.1/19
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The Virginian
1936
Wanted: Jane Turner
5.3/3
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
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Wanted: Jane Turner
1937
She's Got Everything
5.3/3
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She's Got Everything
1937
The Woman I Love
0/0
In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.
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The Woman I Love
1938
The Mad Miss Manton
6.4/37
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves t...
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The Mad Miss Manton
1944
The Master Race
6.2/5
When allied troops liberate a small battle-scarred Belgium town in 1944 the American and British commanders do all they can to help the war-weary peop...
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The Master Race
1937
Quick Money
4/3
Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years. Accompanying...
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Quick Money
1938
Sky Giant
4.7/3
Given the job of training young pilots for important post-war cargo flights, hard-boiled Col. Stockton forces ex-officer Stag Cahill back into the mil...
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Sky Giant
1938
Fugitives for a Night
6/1
A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.
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Fugitives for a Night
1940
Millionaires in Prison
6/6
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
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Millionaires in Prison
1943
Petticoat Larceny
6.7/3
An 11 year old radio star decides to throw in her scripts and go undercover to get a better feel for her roles, but when she is kidnapped, trouble soo...
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Petticoat Larceny
1938
Double Danger
6.5/2
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 Fo...
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Double Danger
1937
Danger Patrol
5.3/3
An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.
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Danger Patrol
1937
Hideaway
4/1
A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out.
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Hideaway
1943
The North Star
6.1/23
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."
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The North Star
1955
Trial
6.7/15
A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute pr...
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Trial
1937
You Can't Buy Luck
4.5/4
When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
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You Can't Buy Luck
1937
Flight from Glory
5.5/4
Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney Bou...
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Flight from Glory
1939
Pacific Liner
5.2/11
The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the shi...
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Pacific Liner
1942
The Man Who Returned to Life
6/1
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
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The Man Who Returned to Life
1939
Heritage of the Desert
5.8/4
John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his...
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Heritage of the Desert
1939
News Is Made at Night
4.5/2
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal o...
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News Is Made at Night
1944
Dark Shadows
9.3/13
A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a killer.
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Dark Shadows
1939
Sabotage
7/3
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson,...
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Sabotage
1936
Winterset
5.6/14
A man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly executed.
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Winterset
1940
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
7/22
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his el...
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1935
The Crime of Doctor Crespi
4.6/12
A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in anyone who gets the injection. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, in orde...
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The Crime of Doctor Crespi
1939
Thou Shalt Not Kill
0/0
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
1939
Money to Loan
6.5/2
The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the extraordin...
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Money to Loan
1940
East of the River
5.7/7
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
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East of the River
1949
There's a Girl in My Heart
0/0
A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and mu...
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There's a Girl in My Heart
1953
Torch Song
6/22
Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn't take criticism from anyone. Yet there is one individual, Tye Graham, a blind pianist who ma...
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Torch Song
1939
Unexpected Father
0/0
Jimmy Hanley learns that his former dancing partner has been killed, leaving a baby boy Sandy, so he takes the baby to live with him and his roommate...
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Unexpected Father
1950
Davy Crockett, Indian Scout
4.9/13
It's 1848 and a wagon train with an Army escort is heading west through Indian territory, It's scout is Davy Crockett, nephew of his more famous names...
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Davy Crockett, Indian Scout
1947
Messenger of Peace
0/0
Poignant true story of Pastor Armin Ritter, who is sent to build a church in a backwoods community and rebuilds the faith of the residents. He ministe...
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Messenger of Peace
1939
Our Leading Citizen
0/0
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to t...
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Our Leading Citizen
1937
The Soldier and the Lady
6.5/2
In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir...
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The Soldier and the Lady
1932
The Skull Murder Mystery
4.7/3
When a skeleton is dug up in an alley, a mysterious Chinese merchant and his eccentric upstairs tenants come under suspicion. The team of Inspector Ca...
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The Skull Murder Mystery
1942
The Incredible Stranger
6.5/2
In December 1892, a silent mysterious and very private man, for whom a new house has just been built, arrives in the small town of Bridgewood to keep...
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The Incredible Stranger
1951
When I Grow Up
6.5/2
Josh is a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, he chances across an old diary once kept by his grandfather....
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When I Grow Up
1939
The Story of Alfred Nobel
6/2
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and later established the Nobel Prize.
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The Story of Alfred Nobel
1942
Who Is Hope Schuyler?
4/1
A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed atte...
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Who Is Hope Schuyler?
1943
Three Russian Girls
0/0
Another of a wartime cycle of Hollywood films lauding the praises of America's Soviet allies, Three Russian Girls is a remake of Russia's The Girl Fro...
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Three Russian Girls
1938
I'm from the City
5/1
Pete Pepper is a shy, timid circus performer who is scared to death of horses, but rides like a whirlwind when he has been hypnotized by "Ollie" Finch...
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I'm from the City
1942
Time to Kill
5.5/3
Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.
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Time to Kill
1949
Miss Mink of 1949
0/0
Winning a mink coat brings nothing but trouble to a couple on a budget.
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Miss Mink of 1949
1949
A Woman's Secret
5.7/38
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal p...
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A Woman's Secret
1936
Roaming Lady
5/1
Joyce Reid, a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as passengers her dashing aviator sweetheart, Dan Bailey and and...
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Roaming Lady
1936
You May Be Next!
2.5/1
Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
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You May Be Next!
1942
Madero of Mexico
6/1
This Passing Parade series short chronicles the political life of Francisco Madero, who tried to bring democracy and land reform to Mexico.
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Madero of Mexico
1939
One Hour To Live
0/0
Gangsters and police cross each other, including murder, in an attempt to cover up crimes.
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One Hour To Live
1953
The Body Beautiful
0/0
Susan Morrow, the secretary to Robert Clarke, a model photographer, is upset when her boss pays too much attention to model Noreen Nash. Morrow's youn...
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The Body Beautiful
1952
Actors and Sin
5.2/3
Two-part story--the first is about a washed-up Broadway actor and his tough daughter, who is a bigger star than he is; the second is about a literary...
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Actors and Sin
1948
Trouble Preferred
0/0
A suicide attempt is investigated by a pair of female police rookies.
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Trouble Preferred
1951
Journey Into Light
6/2
John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunk...
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Journey Into Light
1953
The Diamond Queen
0/0
A French jeweler travels to India in search of a fabulous diamond.
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