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The Fabulous Senorita

The Fabulous Senorita

A Cuban businessman's daughter elopes with a professor instead of marrying a banker's son.
6.0

Year:

1952

Oklahoma Annie

Oklahoma Annie

A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.
8.0

Year:

1952

Honeychile

Honeychile

A music publishing company tries to swindle a song from a country girl that they inadvertently recorded without her permission.
6.0

Year:

1951

Havana Rose

Havana Rose

Ambassador Rico DeMarco is in Washington trying to raise a five-million dollar loan for his country, Lower Salamia. Filbert Filmore and his domineering wife are about to sign on the dotted line for the loan when DeMarco's vivacious daughter, Estelita, upsets the deal by accidentally knocking hot coffee over the papers---and Mrs. Fillmore, who leaves the house in a huff. When word of the difficulties filters back home it's Viva la Revolution. But Estelita, disguised as a fortune teller tries to convince astrology believer Fillmore that the stars are propitious for his making the loan.
0.0

Year:

1951

Cuban Fireball

Cuban Fireball

Cuban Fireball is a vehicle for the combustible talents of Estelita Rodriguez, here cast as "herself." The plot finds Estelita arriving in Los Angeles to claim a multimillion-dollar inheritance. To fend off fortune hunters, she disguises herself as a meek little old lady.
4.5

Year:

1951

Cuban Fireball

Cuban Fireball

Cuban Fireball is a vehicle for the combustible talents of Estelita Rodriguez, here cast as "herself." The plot finds Estelita arriving in Los Angeles to claim a multimillion-dollar inheritance. To fend off fortune hunters, she disguises herself as a meek little old lady.
4.5

Year:

1951

The Newlywed's Boarder

The Newlywed's Boarder

Comedy film short
0.0

Year:

1950

Don't Fool Your Wife

Don't Fool Your Wife

Errol has been splurging on his hobby of collecting antiques and must hide the actual prices he has paid for them from his wife. In the meantime, his daughter has been secretly married and has yet to break the news to her father.
0.0

Year:

1948

Vacation in Reno

Vacation in Reno

A hapless husband searches for buried treasure at a dude ranch; meanwhile, his wife wants a divorce and bank robbers want him dead.
7.0

Year:

1946

Partners in Time

Partners in Time

Squire Skimp has a new plan to swindle the people of Pine Ridge. However, Lum has something more important on his mind. He has to tell a young engaged couple on the verge of breaking up the story of how the Jot 'em Down store first started (through flashbacks). Based on characters from the popular "Lum and Abner" radio program of the time.
6.0

Year:

1946

Riverboat Rhythm

Riverboat Rhythm

A financially-strapped showboat captain struggles to stay in business.
5.0

Year:

1946

The Big Beef

The Big Beef

Edgar invites his boss home for a steak dinner, but the steak hasn't arrived. A pushy book salesman does arrives and this causes Edgar a few problems and several slow-burns. The double-take slow-burn comes when the meat arrives in the form of a live, 1000-pound steer.
0.0

Year:

1945

Mama Loves Papa

Mama Loves Papa

A loose remake of the 1935 comedy of the same name. Thanks to the efforts of his social-climbing wife Jessie, furniture store employee Wilbur Todd is tossed headfirst into the world of small-town politics. Sized up as a patsy by crooked politician Kirkwood, poor Wilbur is plied with champagne as part of Kirkwood's scheme to land a sweetheart playground-equipment contract.
0.0

Year:

1945

What a Blonde

What a Blonde

American gas rationing during WWII results in comic mayhem as a lingerie executive finds his home overrun with showgirls.
3.5

Year:

1945

Goin' to Town

Goin' to Town

General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical joke being played on them.
0.0

Year:

1944

Radio Rampage

Radio Rampage

When the family radio goes on the fritz, Edgar, naturally, decides to fix it himself in order to save a few bucks. That Edgar will destroy the house doing this simple project is a foregone conclusion.
0.0

Year:

1944

Prunes and Politics

Prunes and Politics

Edgar is running for county supervisor against his mother-in-law. Edgar, whose campaign is going nowhere, decides to try some dirty-tricks style tactics but, as usual, everything backfires on him.
5.0

Year:

1944

Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event

Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event

Dennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat's new kittens.
5.7

Year:

1943

Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event

Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event

Dennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat's new kittens.
5.7

Year:

1943

Ladies' Day

Ladies' Day

A top baseball pitcher "loses" his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. After marrying a movie star extreme measures are taken for the benefit of the team.
4.3

Year:

1943

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant

A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it past customs. Now, his lordship is visiting Uncle Matt Lindsay who looks just like him. Thanks to flirtatious Diana's efforts to get the elephant back, the comic confusion proliferates, with 'spitfire' Carmelita (now a blonde) playing a prominent part.
5.2

Year:

1942

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant

A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it past customs. Now, his lordship is visiting Uncle Matt Lindsay who looks just like him. Thanks to flirtatious Diana's efforts to get the elephant back, the comic confusion proliferates, with 'spitfire' Carmelita (now a blonde) playing a prominent part.
5.2

Year:

1942

Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost

Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost

Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in order to develop a nitroglycerin bomb.
4.4

Year:

1942

Framing Father

Framing Father

Leon Errol tries to thwart his son's romance.
0.0

Year:

1942

Framing Father

Framing Father

Leon Errol tries to thwart his son's romance.
0.0

Year:

1942

Mexican Spitfire at Sea

Mexican Spitfire at Sea

An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series.
3.0

Year:

1942

Sing Your Worries Away

Sing Your Worries Away

This package for comedy and the musical numbers has Luke Brown being drugged by the gangster operators of the swank Boathouse Inn; most notably Roxie a sexy pickpocket. Brown has information that Chow Brewster and his cousin have inherited $3,000,000. The owner of the Inn intends to keep Brown under wraps until they can drive Chow to suicide. He will then marry Chow's cousin before she finds out about her inheritance.
5.5

Year:

1942

Rough on Rents

Rough on Rents

Comedy Short
10.0

Year:

1942

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby

An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
4.3

Year:

1941

I'll Fix It

I'll Fix It

Edgar decides to do a home plumbing job himself.
0.0

Year:

1941

A Panic in the Parlor

A Panic in the Parlor

Leon goes partying in Tiajuana with a friend,and his wife gets wise and makes plans to each him a lesson. She pretends to have a couple of lovers, including a large Cossack knife-handler. Leon, in order to trap her, disguises himself only to mess up things all around, plus getting fired by his boss.
0.0

Year:

1941

A Panic in the Parlor

A Panic in the Parlor

Leon goes partying in Tiajuana with a friend,and his wife gets wise and makes plans to each him a lesson. She pretends to have a couple of lovers, including a large Cossack knife-handler. Leon, in order to trap her, disguises himself only to mess up things all around, plus getting fired by his boss.
0.0

Year:

1941

Hurry, Charlie, Hurry

Hurry, Charlie, Hurry

In this comedy, the marital conflicts between a meek banker and his nagging wife are chronicled.
6.0

Year:

1941

Mexican Spitfire Out West

Mexican Spitfire Out West

Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but ends up as the surprised one when she sees him with another woman. Instead of a second honeymoon, Carmelita begins divorce proceedings
4.6

Year:

1940

Bested by a Beard

Bested by a Beard

Leon Errol disguises himself as a mystic, in order to fool repo men.
0.0

Year:

1940

Pop Always Pays

Pop Always Pays

A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money. This 1940 comedy stars Leon Errol, Marjorie Gateson, Dennis O'Keefe, Adele Pearce and Walter Catlett.
0.0

Year:

1940

Pop Always Pays

Pop Always Pays

A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money. This 1940 comedy stars Leon Errol, Marjorie Gateson, Dennis O'Keefe, Adele Pearce and Walter Catlett.
0.0

Year:

1940

'Taint Legal

'Taint Legal

Edgar Kennedy is over-joyed when told he has won a $5,000 prize in a "How To Be Happy Though Married" contest. A reporter interviews Edgar and his wife Vivien who tell him about their engagement and elopement. Then Viviens father tells them that according to a law he has found in a law-book, they aren't legally married. After a series of misadventures, they learn that the law is a new one and that the Kennedy marriage is legal.
0.0

Year:

1940

Millionaire Playboy

Millionaire Playboy

A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman.
2.7

Year:

1940

Mexican Spitfire

Mexican Spitfire

Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up their marriage.
4.6

Year:

1940

Kennedy the Great

Kennedy the Great

A short film about a family man who realizes he's a bore at social gatherings so he purchases a trunk full of magic tricks hoping to soon be the life of the party.
0.0

Year:

1939

Dog-Gone

Dog-Gone

Mr. Jones overhears a doctor prescribe a diet he thinks is for him, but it's really for his dog.
0.0

Year:

1939

Maid to Order

Maid to Order

Father-in-law Billy Franey discovers the letter that Edgar has written a matrimonial agency to marry him off and slips Edgar's picture in it. When Minerva Urecal (sporting an Italian accent) shows up, wife Vivien Oakland resists attempts to get her out of the house so she can confront the interloper and her husband.
0.0

Year:

1939

Sagebrush Serenade

Sagebrush Serenade

Ray Whitley and the other Lazy-Q cowhands break up a plot by Mrs. Pierce (Isabel La Mal) to have her son George (Sid Coke) acquire the ranch by marrying the owner's daughter (Jean Joyce).
0.0

Year:

1939

Sagebrush Serenade

Sagebrush Serenade

Ray Whitley and the other Lazy-Q cowhands break up a plot by Mrs. Pierce (Isabel La Mal) to have her son George (Sid Coke) acquire the ranch by marrying the owner's daughter (Jean Joyce).
0.0

Year:

1939

Baby Daze

Baby Daze

Edgar starts out in a non-unfamiliar grumpy mood and tells some people off obnoxiously, then becomes overcome with joy and kindheartedness when he discovers that his wife is about to have a baby.
0.0

Year:

1939

Baby Daze

Baby Daze

Edgar starts out in a non-unfamiliar grumpy mood and tells some people off obnoxiously, then becomes overcome with joy and kindheartedness when he discovers that his wife is about to have a baby.
0.0

Year:

1939

Clock Wise

Clock Wise

Pop's noisy mechanical clock is driving Edgar crazy.
0.0

Year:

1939

A Clean Sweep

A Clean Sweep

Edgar lost his job at the bank three months ago, but hasn't told his wife, and they have been living off their savings, while Edgar pretends to go to work everyday. He answers a want-ad for a job selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door. He makes no sales, especially after he fills an apartment hallway with trash to demonstrate his cleaner and then finds there is no electricity to run the machine. He comes to a house where a bridal shower is being held, with his wife in attendance, and she thinks Edgar has brought the cleaner as gift for her friend. Edgar has to take the last of their money out of the bank to pay for the demo model he had. The bank manager shows up at Edgar's house to offer him his bank job back, but Edgar's wife won't let him go back, as she has found the prefect job for Edgar... selling vacuum cleaners.
0.0

Year:

1938

Beaux and Errors

Beaux and Errors

To make Edgar do something about his physical condition, his wife has invited her old boy friend, in tip-top shape, to spend the weekend with them. In addition to getting worn out playing golf, Edgar overhears a phone call that makes him think Vivien is arranging to run off with his hated rival.
0.0

Year:

1938

The Jitters

The Jitters

When his wife dances with the dancing instructor, Errol gets jealous and decides to take dancing lessons himself.
6.0

Year:

1938

Berth Quakes

Berth Quakes

Noted child psychologist Errol marries a widow with a nasty brat, and finds none of his theories seem to work when trapped in a pullman car on the way to his honeymoon at Niagara Falls.
0.0

Year:

1938

His Pest Friend

His Pest Friend

Leon's wife wants to surprise him by buying the cabin where they had spent their honeymoon. But when she secretly meets with the man who owns the cabin, Leon misunderstands what she is doing, and gets suspicious. When his friend at work convinces Leon that his wife is going to run away with another man, Leon decides to take immediate action.
0.0

Year:

1938

Rhythm Wranglers

Rhythm Wranglers

Ray Whitley and his Bar-Six musical cowboys apply for work at the Bar-X ranch. The owner refuses at first but gives in when his niece intercedes. When the owner of the Lazy Q hears the music, she steps foot on the Bar-X for the first time in years. Ray and the girl get the two owners together and they decide to marry and merge the ranches.
0.0

Year:

1937

Rhythm Wranglers

Rhythm Wranglers

Ray Whitley and his Bar-Six musical cowboys apply for work at the Bar-X ranch. The owner refuses at first but gives in when his niece intercedes. When the owner of the Lazy Q hears the music, she steps foot on the Bar-X for the first time in years. Ray and the girl get the two owners together and they decide to marry and merge the ranches.
0.0

Year:

1937

Harris in the Spring

Harris in the Spring

Band leader Phil Harris, through a misunderstanding, finds himself with a job as a professional escort, and a date to take a rich young society girl to a night club. She picks the club where the Harris band is playing. Phil is kept busy trying to keep the band from telling the girl who he really is, and to keep the girl distracted enough so she won't notice he is leading the band.
1.0

Year:

1937

Harris in the Spring

Harris in the Spring

Band leader Phil Harris, through a misunderstanding, finds himself with a job as a professional escort, and a date to take a rich young society girl to a night club. She picks the club where the Harris band is playing. Phil is kept busy trying to keep the band from telling the girl who he really is, and to keep the girl distracted enough so she won't notice he is leading the band.
1.0

Year:

1937

A Rented Riot

A Rented Riot

While his wife and mother-in-law are away on a vacation, Errol sub-lets their apartment and the new tenants throw a wild party.
0.0

Year:

1937

Many Unhappy Returns

Many Unhappy Returns

Ford Sterling is married to a very jealous wife, who has a hobby of collecting French dolls. In order to keep her appeased and unsuspecting. he buys her an expensive doll for her birthday. But before he can give it to her, he gets mixed up with the blonde at the cigar-store, the doll gets burned up, and his wife is also burned up about many things.
0.0

Year:

1937

Many Unhappy Returns

Many Unhappy Returns

Ford Sterling is married to a very jealous wife, who has a hobby of collecting French dolls. In order to keep her appeased and unsuspecting. he buys her an expensive doll for her birthday. But before he can give it to her, he gets mixed up with the blonde at the cigar-store, the doll gets burned up, and his wife is also burned up about many things.
0.0

Year:

1937

Mummy's Boys

Mummy's Boys

Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse."
4.7

Year:

1936

So and Sew

So and Sew

A wife whose husband is away asks her decorator to impersonate her husband, to help her deal with a pest. Soon there is quite a web of confusion that also involves the decorator's girlfriend and the wife's suddenly returned husband.
0.0

Year:

1936

Dummy Ache

Dummy Ache

Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Misunderstandings, mishaps, and hijinks ensue. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division in 2013.
4.8

Year:

1936

Swing It

Swing It

Louis Prima, between song numbers, tells how he happened to get a job in a Hollywood cafe playing music while a couple, unrelated to anything else, play a slot machine in the background. This short was reissued in 1944 and again in 1952. Lucille Ball has a bit part. Song numbers include; "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans", "Up a Lazy River", "Dinah","Basin Street Blues" and "Johnny Get Your Gun."
4.2

Year:

1936

The Reckless Way

The Reckless Way

The DVD for this film bears the title "The Lure of Hollywood". Marian Nixon plays a girl who doesn't want to settle for second best. She is offered chance to be a model and jumps at it. Her boyfriend is upset--he just wants to marry her and settle down to a life of domestic bliss. But she has stars in her eyes--and soon learns to use publicity to create a new movie star persona. Throughout all this, the sappy boyfriend is always waiting nearby--hoping that she'll come to her senses and give up this new life.
4.0

Year:

1936

Suicide Squad

Suicide Squad

Larry Baker is a young fireman whose daring exploits have led him to receiving a lot of newspaper publicity which goes to his head. His sweetheart, Mary O'Connor, and fire-department friends begin to shun him as they think he is just a publicity hound. But a daring rescue of Mary and her younger brother, Mickey, from a blazing inferno shows him to be more than just a publicity-chaser and, now, a real hero to all.
7.9

Year:

1935

Adventurous Knights

Adventurous Knights

David De Portola, an outstanding athlete with an abundant youthful exuberance, is raised by a wealthy American guardian. He learns that he is the heir to the throne of Translavia and is recalled to accept the Crown, which along with the freedom of the country is threatened by the impostor, Black Prince. During a forbidden outing on the town with his college sidekick, Mickey Daniels, who has been brought along to make a (unintended) bungling Major Domo, David meets the lovely Princess Carmencita who, unknown to David, is to be the wife of the new King. David rejects his crown when told he must marry a girl he doesn't know. Black Prince has no trouble detaining him until David learns that Princess Carmencita is the girl he must marry. Delighted with this prospect, he saves the country, Crown and Princess following a wild and humorous escape from his captors.
6.0

Year:

1935

Fighting Pioneers

Fighting Pioneers

Driving off an Indian attack, the soldiers capture one of the Indian rifles only to learn that it came from their own warehouse. With Lieutenant Bentley and Sergeant Luke having the only keys to the guns, Bentley finds himself under suspicion and starts to investigate.
6.0

Year:

1935

Social Error

Social Error

A wild college student gets in fights, steals cars, is caught by the police and finally expelled from college. Later on, though, he comes to the aid of a kidnapped heiress.
5.0

Year:

1935

Roaring Roads

Roaring Roads

Young David Morton, heir to millions, has been over-zealously restrained from normal youthful activities by his two old-maid Aunts, Harriet and Agatha. In an outburst from his confinement, he meets lovely Gertrude, and promises to race her injured-brothers car in the Big Race. Between the gangsters trying to win the race by disabling him, and his bungling bodyguards trying to bring him home safely, David has a battle to win the race and Gertrude's heart.
5.0

Year:

1935

The Super Snooper

The Super Snooper

Andy is a rich and well-respected man. But he's concerned what sort of boyfriend his daughter might have gotten as she's talking marriage and her previous boyfriends were very short-term and he didn't like them very much. So, when he learns where this boyfriend works, he goes undercover as a porter there to spy on him. Unfortunately, he ends up befriending the wrong folks and thinks the boyfriend is a crook...when it's really these new 'friends' who are jewel thieves.
0.0

Year:

1934

What's to Do?

What's to Do?

Sonny Rogers has just gotten elected class president, he's a star baseball player, and has a cute girlfriend. But, thanks to the conniving of his rival, Harry Vanderpool, he and his whole family are going to have to move to Seattle! Sonny needs the help of his pals and his pesky little sister, Mary Lou, to get out of this one.
5.5

Year:

1933

The Flaming Signal

The Flaming Signal

A pilot and his dog crash-land on an island run by a psycho who owns a motel--and most of the locals.
5.0

Year:

1933

The Flaming Signal

The Flaming Signal

A pilot and his dog crash-land on an island run by a psycho who owns a motel--and most of the locals.
5.0

Year:

1933

Corruption

Corruption

A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for. The problem is that most of the corruption he's vowed to eliminate is caused by the crooked political machine that helped elect him.
5.2

Year:

1933

Corruption

Corruption

A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for. The problem is that most of the corruption he's vowed to eliminate is caused by the crooked political machine that helped elect him.
5.2

Year:

1933

Fighting Texans

Fighting Texans

Randolph Graves, a high-pressure haberdashery salesman, is fired for arguing with a customer and gets job selling oil stock in a nearby town; there he falls in love with the sheriff's daughter and tangles with crooked stock promoters.
0.0

Year:

1933

Western Limited

Western Limited

A fancy masquerade party is the scene of a jewel robbery, and later several suspects in the robbery are discovered to be aboard the same train.
0.0

Year:

1932