Sig Ruman
Sig Ruman was a German-American actor known for his portrayals of pompous and often stereotypical Teutonic officials or villains. Ruman made his film debut in Lucky Boy (1929).
He became a favorite of the Marx Brothers, appearing in A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, and A Night in Casablanca. His German accent and large stature kept him busy during World War II, playing sinister Nazi characters in a series of wartime thrillers.
During this period, he also appeared in several films by director Ernst Lubitsch including Ninotchka and To Be or Not to Be. Ruman continued playing over-the-top German characters later in his career for Billy Wilder in The Emperor Waltz, Stalag 17, and The Fortune Cookie.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.444 |
| Birthday | 1884-10-10 |
| Place of Birth | Hamburg, Germany |
| Also Known As | Sig Rumann, Siegfried Rumann, Sigfried Rumann, Siegfried Carl Alban Rumann, |
1966
The Last of the Secret Agents?
3.3/3
Marty and Steve, American tourists in France, are given a multipurpose umbrella and pitted against an international band of art thieves. Among the sto...
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The Last of the Secret Agents?
1942
To Be or Not to Be
7.825/718
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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To Be or Not to Be
1953
Stalag 17
7.695/594
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seem...
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Stalag 17
1944
House of Frankenstein
6/165
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count...
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House of Frankenstein
1939
Ninotchka
7.489/380
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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Ninotchka
1944
It Happened Tomorrow
6.7/57
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new...
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It Happened Tomorrow
1938
The Great Waltz
5.643/14
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
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The Great Waltz
1941
Love Crazy
7.1/34
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
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Love Crazy
1936
The Princess Comes Across
6.1/13
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a band...
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The Princess Comes Across
1937
A Day at the Races
7.085/200
Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a hi...
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A Day at the Races
1940
Comrade X
5.8/22
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
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Comrade X
1946
A Night in Casablanca
6.793/138
The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
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A Night in Casablanca
1949
Border Incident
6.8/39
The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border t...
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Border Incident
1940
Outside the Three-Mile Limit
4/2
Government Agent Conway, posing as a crew member of a ship, is investigating the flood of counterfeit money that seemingly is originating for a gambli...
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Outside the Three-Mile Limit
1942
Crossroads
5.9/35
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
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Crossroads
1953
Houdini
6.5/69
By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackl...
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Houdini
1937
Nothing Sacred
6.2/97
When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.
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Nothing Sacred
1941
That Uncertain Feeling
6.4/46
A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.
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That Uncertain Feeling
1964
36 Hours
6.937/63
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe o...
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36 Hours
1939
Only Angels Have Wings
7.2/235
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a majo...
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Only Angels Have Wings
1935
A Night at the Opera
7.432/482
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera sin...
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A Night at the Opera
1937
Thin Ice
6.667/6
A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.
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Thin Ice
1954
3 Ring Circus
5.5/20
Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money and are looking for a job. They finally find employment working in a circus, but Jerry has different drea...
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3 Ring Circus
1957
The Wings of Eagles
6.2/62
The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.
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The Wings of Eagles
1954
The Glenn Miller Story
6.9/145
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1...
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The Glenn Miller Story
1938
The Saint in New York
6.2/15
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox...
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The Saint in New York
1942
Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
5.5/3
Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.
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Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
1944
Summer Storm
5.1/8
It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an...
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Summer Storm
1955
Many Rivers to Cross
6.2/13
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this...
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Many Rivers to Cross
1942
China Girl
5.4/12
Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes fro...
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China Girl
1943
Government Girl
5.2/8
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
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Government Girl
1943
Tarzan Triumphs
6.1/51
Zandra, white princess of a lost civilization, comes to Tarzan for help when Nazis invade the jungle with plans to conquer her people and take their w...
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Tarzan Triumphs
1952
The World in His Arms
6.5/35
A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.
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The World in His Arms
1941
The Wagons Roll at Night
6.3/14
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lio...
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The Wagons Roll at Night
1937
Think Fast, Mr. Moto
6.063/24
When his import/export business infiltrated by international diamond smugglers, Mr. Moto must follow a trail of clues littered with beautiful women, g...
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Think Fast, Mr. Moto
1937
Thank You, Mr. Moto
6.278/18
Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Khan's tomb—a crypt filled with fabulous treasure! Bu...
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Thank You, Mr. Moto
1940
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
6.3/29
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1947
Mother Wore Tights
5.3/9
In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus lin...
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Mother Wore Tights
1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
6/2
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension th...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1937
Lancer Spy
6/4
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check h...
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Lancer Spy
1940
Four Sons
7/2
Four Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name.
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Four Sons
1939
Never Say Die
6.8/6
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry h...
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Never Say Die
1955
Carolina Cannonball
0/0
Judy and her grandpa run a trolley between a train depot and a ghost town in Nevada, near the California border. Three spies intent of tracking down a...
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Carolina Cannonball
1935
The Farmer Takes a Wife
6.1/8
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
1938
Girls on Probation
5.9/8
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
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Girls on Probation
1955
Spy Chasers
7/2
Slip and the gang (Bowery Boys) foil foes of the exiled, incognito king of Truania (Sig Ruman).
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Spy Chasers
1936
The Bold Caballero
5.7/12
The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governo...
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The Bold Caballero
1939
Remember?
5.8/5
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff...
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Remember?
1942
Desperate Journey
5.9/24
During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German...
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Desperate Journey
1948
Give My Regards to Broadway
7/1
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
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Give My Regards to Broadway
1938
Paradise for Three
6.8/4
A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.
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Paradise for Three
1941
Shining Victory
5.9/8
In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistan...
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Shining Victory
1939
Honolulu
6.1/7
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
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Honolulu
1940
Bitter Sweet
5.8/5
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
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Bitter Sweet
1945
She Went to the Races
5.5/4
A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy.
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She Went to the Races
1938
Suez
5.4/14
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
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Suez
1943
They Came to Blow Up America
6.2/5
Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, by submarine, with orde...
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They Came to Blow Up America
1953
The Girl on The Roof
4.4/5
A comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy architect Donald Gresham on the observation deck of the Emp...
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The Girl on The Roof
1948
The Emperor Waltz
5.9/25
At the turn of the 20th century, travelling salesman Virgil Smith journeys to Vienna in the hope he can sell a gramophone to Emperor Franz Joseph, who...
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The Emperor Waltz
1935
The Wedding Night
6/22
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of a...
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The Wedding Night
1938
I'll Give a Million
5.7/6
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is k...
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I'll Give a Million
1940
I Was an Adventuress
6.3/9
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists...
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I Was an Adventuress
1935
Under Pressure
5/4
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs...
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Under Pressure
1937
Midnight Taxi
5/3
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
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Midnight Taxi
1944
The Hitler Gang
5.9/7
The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time politico to dictator of Germany.
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The Hitler Gang
1946
Faithful in My Fashion
6.3/2
A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge pr...
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Faithful in My Fashion
1937
The Great Hospital Mystery
4/3
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
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The Great Hospital Mystery
1937
On the Avenue
6.7/3
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, b...
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On the Avenue
1943
The Song of Bernadette
7/111
In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anythi...
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The Song of Bernadette
1942
Berlin Correspondent
5.9/7
Dana Andrews plays Bill Roberts, an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. Having witnessed Nazi brutalities...
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Berlin Correspondent
1939
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
6/28
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1952
O. Henry's Full House
6.457/35
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is...
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O. Henry's Full House
1942
Remember Pearl Harbor
6/1
A man tries to redeem himself after ducking out on his comrades before the fatal attack.
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Remember Pearl Harbor
1940
Victory
0/0
A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.
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Victory
1961
One, Two, Three
7.5/363
C.R. MacNamara is a managing director for Coca Cola in West Berlin during the Cold War, just before the Wall is put up. When Scarlett, the rebellious...
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One, Two, Three
1934
The World Moves On
5.7/14
Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great busin...
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The World Moves On
1950
Father Is a Bachelor
7.4/7
Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living wit...
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Father Is a Bachelor
1937
Love Under Fire
5.5/2
A suspense-thriller-comedy set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.
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Love Under Fire
1937
This Is My Affair
7.3/15
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Pa...
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This Is My Affair
1954
Living It Up
6.4/32
Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic provi...
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Living It Up
1941
Breakdowns of 1941
7/3
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.
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Breakdowns of 1941
1948
If You Knew Susie
7.5/2
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they...
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If You Knew Susie
1934
Marie Galante
4.8/9
On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt l...
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Marie Galante
1945
The Dolly Sisters
5.5/8
Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with lots of songs.
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The Dolly Sisters
1952
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
7.2/6
The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he i...
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Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
1941
This Woman Is Mine
3.2/5
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
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This Woman Is Mine
1966
Way... Way Out
5.7/18
A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.
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Way... Way Out
1943
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
6/6
An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometow...
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady
1941
So Ends Our Night
6/8
An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
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So Ends Our Night
1941
The Man Who Lost Himself
4/2
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do some...
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The Man Who Lost Himself
1937
Heidi
6.838/99
Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Krame...
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Heidi
1929
Die Königsloge
0/0
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Die Königsloge
1937
Maytime
6.2/10
An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.
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Maytime
1966
The Fortune Cookie
7.2/301
A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance-chasing lawyers, starts a suit while he's still k...
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The Fortune Cookie
1951
On the Riviera
5.9/18
In this fast-paced remake of the Maurice Chevalier vehicle Folies Bergère, talented Danny Kaye plays both a performer and a heroic French military pil...
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On the Riviera
1937
Seventh Heaven
6.6/14
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the sev...
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Seventh Heaven
1945
Men in Her Diary
0/0
Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of...
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Men in Her Diary
1961
The Errand Boy
6.1/49
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mai...
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The Errand Boy
1954
White Christmas
7.222/501
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romanticall...
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White Christmas
1945
A Royal Scandal
6.9/18
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
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A Royal Scandal
1935
East of Java
6/1
Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.
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East of Java
1966
Doom of Dracula
0/0
An EIGHT minute excerpt from the 1944 feature, House of Frankenstein, released in the 1960's to the 16mm & 8mm home movie market.
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Doom of Dracula
1946
Night and Day
5.7/31
When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee...
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Night and Day
1964
Robin and the 7 Hoods
6.1/67
Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob bos...
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Robin and the 7 Hoods
1941
World Premiere
5/1
A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity for his latest project. He decides to have three m...
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World Premiere
1935
Spring Tonic
5.3/3
Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.
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Spring Tonic
1934
Servants' Entrance
0/0
Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda fa...
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Servants' Entrance
1929
Lucky Boy
4.7/3
A young Jewish man works in his father's jewelry business, but he doesn't like it at all--he wants to be an entertainer, something he knows that his f...
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