Edward McWade
Edward McWade was an American writer and stage and screen actor. He appeared in more than 132 films from 1919 to 1944, mostly in secondary roles. He also wrote 15 stage plays and silent film scenarios.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.156 |
Birthday | 1865-01-14 |
Place of Birth | Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
Also Known As | Eddie McWade, Ed McWade, Edward McQuade, |
1944
Arsenic and Old Lace
7.6/917
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married;...
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Arsenic and Old Lace
1932
Two Seconds
6.1/20
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flash...
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Two Seconds
1922
Deserted at the Altar
0/0
Anna Moore, a poor orphaned country girl, and her little brother, Tommy, live with hypocritical Squire Simpson, who conspires with his son to acquire...
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Deserted at the Altar
1937
They Won't Forget
5.7/27
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with polit...
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They Won't Forget
1940
Teddy the Rough Rider
5.9/7
This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897...
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Teddy the Rough Rider
1932
The Crowd Roars
6/20
Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to beco...
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The Crowd Roars
1936
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
6/25
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1920
Stop Thief
0/0
When Jack Dougan and Snatcher Nell, partners in crime as well as love, decide to purloin the gifts at the wedding of Madge Carr to James Cluney, Nell...
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Stop Thief
1935
Frisco Kid
6.8/8
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of t...
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Frisco Kid
1935
The Girl from 10th Avenue
6.5/9
When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decid...
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The Girl from 10th Avenue
1931
The Big Shot
0/0
A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers.
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The Big Shot
1934
A Lost Lady
6.1/10
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
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A Lost Lady
1939
Indianapolis Speedway
5/7
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
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Indianapolis Speedway
1934
The Meanest Gal in Town
6.5/2
A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
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The Meanest Gal in Town
1938
Comet Over Broadway
5/2
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
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Comet Over Broadway
1938
White Banners
5.8/4
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook...
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White Banners
1937
The Women Men Marry
5.5/1
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
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The Women Men Marry
1940
Chad Hanna
6/2
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.
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Chad Hanna
1932
6 Hours to Live
5/5
A murder victim is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his killer in that...
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6 Hours to Live
1936
F-Man
0/0
Johnny Dime has aspiration of becoming a "G-Man" , gums up the work of Rogan, an actual government agent is his pursuit of Public Enemy No. 1. Dimes a...
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F-Man
1938
The Patient in Room 18
5.1/6
Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles d...
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The Patient in Room 18
1936
Darkest Africa
7.2/3
A 15-episode serial in which Beatty goes to darkest Africa to rescue the Goddess of Joba, who is being held by the high priest.
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Darkest Africa
1920
Dangerous Days
5.3/3
Patriotism, love and treason in the United States during the First World War. Barker manages to give every scene the right climate through inventive u...
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Dangerous Days
1940
The Return of Frank James
6.3/123
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth...
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The Return of Frank James
1922
The Strangers' Banquet
0/0
In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and accedes to the unreasonable demands of John Treve...
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The Strangers' Banquet
1937
Love and Hisses
0/0
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
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Love and Hisses
1934
I'll Tell the World
0/0
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, new...
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I'll Tell the World
1935
The Goose and the Gander
4.6/6
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot...
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The Goose and the Gander
1939
Zenobia
4.6/12
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
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Zenobia
1938
Garden of the Moon
5.8/4
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast ov...
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Garden of the Moon
1936
Laughing at Trouble
6/1
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the re...
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Laughing at Trouble
1937
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
6.8/6
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve th...
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
1936
The Case of the Black Cat
6.6/7
Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her...
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The Case of the Black Cat
1939
Naughty But Nice
6.2/6
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindse...
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Naughty But Nice
1934
Gentlemen Are Born
6.5/2
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn t...
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Gentlemen Are Born
1935
Oil for the Lamps of China
7.3/5
An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.
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Oil for the Lamps of China
1936
The Big Noise
5/1
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half inte...
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The Big Noise
1938
Three Comrades
7.2/27
A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their...
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Three Comrades
1935
Mary Jane's Pa
6/3
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and...
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Mary Jane's Pa
1934
Journal of a Crime
5.7/13
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
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Journal of a Crime
1934
One Exciting Adventure
0/0
One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream.
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One Exciting Adventure
1939
Bad Little Angel
4.9/4
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
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Bad Little Angel
1936
The Country Doctor
6/3
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
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The Country Doctor
1920
The Husband Hunter
0/0
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The Husband Hunter
1933
Girl Missing
5.1/7
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June de...
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Girl Missing
1942
Lady in a Jam
5.7/9
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of...
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Lady in a Jam
1940
Brother Orchid
6.4/32
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himsel...
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Brother Orchid
1935
Red Salute
5.8/6
The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and...
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Red Salute
1939
They Asked For It
3/1
In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into the strange death of an old...
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They Asked For It
1936
I Married a Doctor
4.7/3
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
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I Married a Doctor
1934
I Sell Anything
4.5/4
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
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I Sell Anything
1935
Here's to Romance
0/0
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patron...
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Here's to Romance
1938
Jezebel
7/189
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
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Jezebel
1940
A Dispatch from Reuters
5.7/11
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
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A Dispatch from Reuters
1941
Nothing But the Truth
7.1/9
A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.
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Nothing But the Truth
1943
Don't You Believe It
5/1
This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's...
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Don't You Believe It
1935
Life Begins at Forty
0/0
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft fr...
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Life Begins at Forty
1936
Satan Met a Lady
5.9/28
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
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Satan Met a Lady
1936
King of the Islands
0/0
In this musical short, a shipwrecked sailor is washed up on the shores of a tropical island and falls in love with a beautiful princess.
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King of the Islands
1942
Woman of the Year
6.9/141
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hecti...
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Woman of the Year
1934
Murder in the Clouds
4.7/6
Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy he...
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Murder in the Clouds
1935
Shipmates Forever
6.5/4
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no...
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Shipmates Forever
1941
I Wake Up Screaming
6.8/67
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip co...
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I Wake Up Screaming
1935
Stranded
5.8/5
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Stranded
1943
Trifles That Win Wars
0/0
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short looks at how a few specific inventions made a major contribution to the U.S. war effort.
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Trifles That Win Wars
1943
Crash Dive
6.1/22
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new...
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Crash Dive
1939
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
2/1
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their...
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
1942
Famous Boners
5/2
This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the victims of errors.
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Famous Boners
1935
If You Could Only Cook
7.4/18
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
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If You Could Only Cook
1935
The Calling of Dan Matthews
3/1
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a...
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The Calling of Dan Matthews
1933
Bureau of Missing Persons
5.6/16
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
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Bureau of Missing Persons
1932
Big City Blues
5.3/11
An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets...
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Big City Blues
1940
Money and the Woman
4.3/3
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
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Money and the Woman
1937
She Had to Eat
5/4
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con...
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She Had to Eat
1943
The Hard Way
6.6/19
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
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The Hard Way
1933
Murders in the Zoo
5.8/43
Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in...
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Murders in the Zoo
1936
Alibi for Murder
5.5/1
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the d...
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Alibi for Murder
1937
Let's Get Married
0/0
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Let's Get Married
1925
The Monster
5.6/24
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.
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The Monster
1940
Hot Steel
0/0
Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues.
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