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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

23-11-1912

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George Samuel O'Hanlon

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Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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Jetsons: The Movie

Jetsons: The Movie

George Jetson is forced to uproot his family when Mr. Spacely promotes him to take charge of a new factory on a distant planet.
6.0

Year:

1990

Rockin' with Judy Jetson

Rockin' with Judy Jetson

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 witch. Now it's up to Judy, her family, and friends to save rock-and-roll.
5.9

Year:

1988

The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones

The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones

Elroy Jetson invents a time machine that takes him back to prehistoric times, where he meets the Flintstone family.
6.7

Year:

1987

Rocky

Rocky

An uneducated collector for a Philadelphia loan shark is given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fight against the world heavyweight boxing champion.
7.8

Year:

1976

The Whiz Kid and the Mystery at Riverton

The Whiz Kid and the Mystery at Riverton

A 13-year-old brainiac invents an ingenious listening device, which he uses to bring a crooked city official and his pals to justice
0.0

Year:

1974

Charley and the Angel

Charley and the Angel

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 a better husband and father with the time he has left.
5.2

Year:

1973

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible. Before Dexter and his friends, Debbie and Richard Schuyler, can even enjoy their spectacular discovery, corrupt businessman A.J. Arno plots to get his greedy hands on it. Slapstick hijinks ensue as Dexter and his pals try to thwart the evil Arno before he can use the invisibility spray to rob a bank.
6.3

Year:

1972

The Million Dollar Duck

The Million Dollar Duck

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.
5.7

Year:

1971

The Movie Orgy

The Movie Orgy

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
6.5

Year:

1968

The Vanishing Duck

The Vanishing Duck

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, later, Jerry) finds a jar of vanishing cream and uses it to get even.
6.5

Year:

1958

Bop Girl Goes Calypso

Bop Girl Goes Calypso

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 by the Bobby Troup Trio and bassist Jim Aton. The calypso craze of the late 1950s drives this fun musical about grad student Bob Hilton (Bobby Troup), who sets out to prove that rock 'n' roll and bop are going the way of the dinosaur, to be replaced by the refreshing rhythms of calypso.
4.2

Year:

1957

Kronos

Kronos

Scientists investigate a huge meteor that crashes into the ocean off Mexico, and encounter a skyscraper-tall, mobile machine which is designed to syphon energy from earth, including any energy directed at it in an effort to destroy it.
5.6

Year:

1957

So Your Wife Wants to Work

So Your Wife Wants to Work

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 Alice threatens to return to her old job, a reluctant Joe agrees to her request to get her a job at his office. How will this work out?
7.0

Year:

1956

So You Want to Play the Piano

So You Want to Play the Piano

Alice neglects her housework because she is enthralled with the long-haired piano player, Gregor Flatorsharpsky, next door. Joe buys a piano, and the accompanying free lessons, and sets out to impress Alice. Alice is vastly unimpressed.
4.0

Year:

1956

So You Want to Be Pretty

So You Want to Be Pretty

In this comedic short, Joe and Alice McDoakes each wish their looks were better.
2.0

Year:

1956

Battle Stations

Battle Stations

The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.
5.6

Year:

1956

So You Think the Grass Is Greener

So You Think the Grass Is Greener

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 to the beautiful office blonde.
0.0

Year:

1956

Your Safety First

Your Safety First

An animated film about the development of the automobile from the perspective of futuristic consumers.
5.0

Year:

1956

So You Want to Be a Policeman

So You Want to Be a Policeman

Joe McDoakes is a shy, rookie motorcycle cop.
0.0

Year:

1955

So You Want to Be a V.P.

So You Want to Be a V.P.

Joe McDoakes is employed as the seventh vice-president in a firm that only makes promotions from the employee ranks.
8.5

Year:

1955

So You Want a Model Railroad

So You Want a Model Railroad

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 become obsessed to the point he has built a railroad empire using all of his time, energy and money. When Alice's mother comes to dinner, Joe even has a rigged-up train serving as the dumb waiter. Mr. Agony helps Alice to solve her problem.
0.0

Year:

1955

So You Want to Be on a Jury

So You Want to Be on a Jury

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.
0.0

Year:

1955

So You Want to Be a Gladiator

So You Want to Be a Gladiator

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 lyre for King Nero.
5.0

Year:

1955

So You Don't Trust Your Wife

So You Don't Trust Your Wife

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.
5.0

Year:

1955

So You Want to Know Your Relatives

So You Want to Know Your Relatives

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 in the family closet.
0.0

Year:

1954

So You're Taking in a Roomer

So You're Taking in a Roomer

Joe and Alice decide to rent a room in their house to their neighbor Marvin, who says he is a potato broker.
0.0

Year:

1954

So You Want to Be a Banker

So You Want to Be a Banker

Joe McDoakes graduates from Potash University and gets a job in a bank run by Harrington Arrington Farrington Jr, a former classmate.
0.0

Year:

1954

So You Want to Go to a Nightclub

So You Want to Go to a Nightclub

In this Joe McDoakes Comedy, Alice insists they go to a night club, although Joe is both tired and broke.
0.0

Year:

1954

So You Want to Be Your Own Boss

So You Want to Be Your Own Boss

Joe McDoakes, determined to be his own boss in this Joe McDoakes Comedy entry, opens up a new restaurant. Complaining customers and a sanitation inspector who closes the restaurant are just some of Joe's problems.
0.0

Year:

1954

So You're Having Neighbor Trouble

So You're Having Neighbor Trouble

Joe starts having trouble with an obnoxious neighbor.
0.0

Year:

1954

So You Want to Be an Heir

So You Want to Be an Heir

Thinking he may inherit a million dollars from his dying grandmother, Joe McDoakes finds himself the target of murderously greedy family members.
0.0

Year:

1953

So You Think You Can't Sleep

So You Think You Can't Sleep

Average working man Joe McDoakes tries desperate measures to cure his chronic insomnia.
5.0

Year:

1953

So You Love Your Dog

So You Love Your Dog

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 him.
0.0

Year:

1953

So You Want a Television Set

So You Want a Television Set

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 refrigerator.
6.0

Year:

1953

So You Want to Learn to Dance

So You Want to Learn to Dance

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.
0.0

Year:

1953

So You Want to Be a Musician

So You Want to Be a Musician

Joe McDoakes can't find a job as a bassoonist, so he pawns his instrument.
0.0

Year:

1953

So You Want to Wear the Pants

So You Want to Wear the Pants

It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes to switch points of view during a session.
5.0

Year:

1952

So You're Going to the Dentist

So You're Going to the Dentist

Joe McDoakes' dimwit neighbor Marvin becomes a dentist, and manages to convince poor Joe to let him become Marvin's first patient.
0.0

Year:

1952

Cattle Town

Cattle Town

The governor of Texas sends a cowboy to keep the peace between ranchers and a land baron.
6.7

Year:

1952

Park Row

Park Row

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 opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner.
6.7

Year:

1952

So You Never Tell a Lie

So You Never Tell a Lie

When a wristwatch intended for a office contest winner gets mixed up and confused with the one Joe McDoakes purchased for his wife, Joe once again finds himself on the short end.
6.0

Year:

1952

So You Want to Go to a Convention

So You Want to Go to a Convention

Joe has to find a way to go to a convention.
0.0

Year:

1952

The Lion and the Horse

The Lion and the Horse

After selling it to a cruel rodeo owner, a cowboy attempts to buy back the wild stallion he snared.
5.7

Year:

1952

So You Want to Enjoy Life

So You Want to Enjoy Life

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.
2.0

Year:

1952

So You Want to Get It Wholesale

So You Want to Get It Wholesale

Joe uses his "contacts" to buy a new oven as cheaply as possible.
0.0

Year:

1952

Room for One More

Room for One More

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 husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.
6.3

Year:

1952

So You Want to Be a Plumber

So You Want to Be a Plumber

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.
3.0

Year:

1951

The Tanks Are Coming

The Tanks Are Coming

An American tank crew fights its way into Germany in World War II.
8.3

Year:

1951

So You Want to Be a Bachelor

So You Want to Be a Bachelor

"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 Alice.
0.0

Year:

1951

So You Want to Be a Paper Hanger

So You Want to Be a Paper Hanger

Joe McDoakes, ever obliging and always helpful, volunteers to hang the new wallpaper for his wife.
0.0

Year:

1951

So You Want to Be a Cowboy

So You Want to Be a Cowboy

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
0.0

Year:

1951

So You Want to Be a Handyman

So You Want to Be a Handyman

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 almost asphyxiate themselves.
0.0

Year:

1951

So You're Going to Have an Operation

So You're Going to Have an Operation

A satiric look at doctors and hospitals through the eyes of Joe McDoakes.
0.0

Year:

1950

So You Want a Raise

So You Want a Raise

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.
6.0

Year:

1950

So You Want to Move

So You Want to Move

Joe plans on moving but needs tips on how.
0.0

Year:

1950

So You Want to Hold Your Husband

So You Want to Hold Your Husband

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 take have any impact on Joe, until she is advised to create the impression that she has left Joe for another man.
0.0

Year:

1950

So You Think You're Not Guilty

So You Think You're Not Guilty

Joe McDoakes pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setback in his usual manner, the two-dollar fine quickly pyramids to a 10-year jail sentence.
5.7

Year:

1950

So You Want to Throw a Party

So You Want to Throw a Party

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 creditors have a much better time than Joe does.
4.0

Year:

1950

So You Want to Be an Actor

So You Want to Be an Actor

Joe McDoakes, unemployed thespian, makes all the casting calls,reads all of the trade papers, sees agents and tries out for casting directors and producers
0.0

Year:

1949

So You Want to Get Rich Quick

So You Want to Get Rich Quick

Joe comes up with a complicated scheme to bilk his dead uncle out of an inheritance.
0.0

Year:

1949

Zamba

Zamba

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 jungle and is rescued by a safari headed by two wild-animal collectors, but Tommy is not found. He has amnesia and is lost, but is adopted by Zamba, a huge gorilla. He lives happily with his new family. Jenny comes back with a searching party, and Zamba, the gorilla mother, is determined to protect Tommy from his real mother.
3.5

Year:

1949

So You're Having In-Law Trouble

So You're Having In-Law Trouble

Joe's in-laws come over, and they suck.
0.0

Year:

1949

So You Want to Be a Muscle Man

So You Want to Be a Muscle Man

Joe wants to be a muscle man.
0.0

Year:

1949

So You Want to Be Popular

So You Want to Be Popular

Joe McDoakes takes advice on how to be more likeable from his only friend Homer Hotbox
0.0

Year:

1949

Joe Palooka in the Big Fight

Joe Palooka in the Big Fight

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 innocence.
6.0

Year:

1949

So You Want to Be a Baby Sitter

So You Want to Be a Baby Sitter

Joe McDoakes does NOT want to be a baby sitter.
0.0

Year:

1949

So You Want to Be on the Radio

So You Want to Be on the Radio

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 as participants.
5.7

Year:

1948

June Bride

June Bride

A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong.
7.2

Year:

1948

So You Want to Be in Politics

So You Want to Be in Politics

Joe McDoakes becomes enmeshed in a corrupt political election.
0.0

Year:

1948

So You Want to Be a Detective

So You Want to Be a Detective

Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
6.8

Year:

1948

The Counterfeiters

The Counterfeiters

Scotland Yard cop goes undercover to nab counterfeiter and his gang.
5.6

Year:

1948

So You Want to Build a House

So You Want to Build a House

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 into a nightmare.
4.5

Year:

1948

Are You With It?

Are You With It?

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, and hooks up with a traveling carnival. His knowledge of mathematics makes him a natural as an assistant at the wheel of fortune. His fiancée begs him to return to his job but he refuses, so she joins the carnival and becomes a striptease artist. When Milton attempts to drag her off the stage, a brawling mêlée breaks out and the entire troupe is arrested by the local police. The carnival is sold but Milton reveals that the new owner has conspired to defraud the insurance company. The insurance company has to accept the carnival in lieu of the money owed, and they allow Milton and his fiancée, Vivian, to stay with and help run the carnival.
4.0

Year:

1948

So You Want to Be a Gambler

So You Want to Be a Gambler

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes experiences the pitfalls of gambling.
4.7

Year:

1948

So You Want an Apartment

So You Want an Apartment

Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.
4.0

Year:

1948

Heading for Heaven

Heading for Heaven

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 long to live.
4.9

Year:

1947

So You Want to Hold Your Wife

So You Want to Hold Your Wife

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes, dissatisfied, attempts to save his five-years marriage to Alice.
5.0

Year:

1947

The Spirit of West Point

The Spirit of West Point

The story of Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis, two All-American football players at the U.S. Army Military Academy at West Point.
0.0

Year:

1947

So You Want to Be a Salesman

So You Want to Be a Salesman

Joe McDoakes begins a new job as a vacuum cleaner salesman but can't seem to sell any.
5.0

Year:

1947

Hollywood Wonderland

Hollywood Wonderland

Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.
6.7

Year:

1947

The Hucksters

The Hucksters

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.
6.9

Year:

1947

So You're Going on a Vacation

So You're Going on a Vacation

Joe takes his wife on a much-needed vacation, and almost survives.
6.0

Year:

1947

So You Want to Be in Pictures

So You Want to Be in Pictures

Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
5.8

Year:

1947

So You're Going to Be a Father

So You're Going to Be a Father

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes goes through the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father.
4.3

Year:

1947

So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck

So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck

Joe McDoakes attempts to deal with his myriad neuroses.
6.0

Year:

1946

So You Want to Keep Your Hair

So You Want to Keep Your Hair

Average American Joe McDoakes searches in vain for any cure that will halt his fast-disappearing hairline.
6.0

Year:

1946

So You Want to Play the Horses

So You Want to Play the Horses

In this outing, Joe loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winning.
6.0

Year:

1946

So You Think You're Allergic

So You Think You're Allergic

Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic.
4.0

Year:

1945

Once Over Lightly

Once Over Lightly

A short compilation movie similar to When Comedy was King (1960), and The Golden Age of Comedy (1957).
0.0

Year:

1944

Resisting Enemy Interrogation

Resisting Enemy Interrogation

A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic WW2 training film.
6.6

Year:

1944

Nearly Eighteen

Nearly Eighteen

A singer pretends to be younger so she can enter a music school.
5.0

Year:

1943

Corvette K-225

Corvette K-225

The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
6.2

Year:

1943

Two Tickets to London

Two Tickets to London

Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
6.0

Year:

1943

Action in the North Atlantic

Action in the North Atlantic

Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
7.1

Year:

1943

All by Myself

All by Myself

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 Jean, Mark has become engaged to singer Val. When Jean finds out she tries to save face by saying that she is also engaged, and then uses a little social blackmail to get psychiatrist Bill Perry to pretend to be her fiancé for an evening out with Mark and Val.
0.0

Year:

1943

Reconnaissance Pilot

Reconnaissance Pilot

Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War as he flies reconnaissance missions over enemy-held islands.
0.0

Year:

1943

So You Think You Need Glasses

So You Think You Need Glasses

A humorous but informative look at how an average man can remedy common vision problems.
4.0

Year:

1942

So You Want to Give Up Smoking

So You Want to Give Up Smoking

A semi-humorous look at the various types of smokers and the methods available to them to kick the habit.
0.0

Year:

1942

Criminal Investigator

Criminal Investigator

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 Wilcox), intrepid reporter Bob Martin (Robert Lowery) uncovers a connection between that case and another one he's been working on. An inmate (Lawrence Creighton) holds the key to the crime, but there's one problem: He's deaf and mute. Meanwhile, the murderers (Jan Wiley and Charlie Hall) appear to be working for a very powerful person.
4.0

Year:

1942

Man From Headquarters

Man From Headquarters

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 Windy City gang leader against whom he is scheduled to testify.
6.0

Year:

1942

New Wine

New Wine

The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.
0.0

Year:

1941

Spring Parade

Spring Parade

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 will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
6.8

Year:

1940

City for Conquest

City for Conquest

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
6.8

Year:

1940

Sailor's Lady

Sailor's Lady

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 accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
4.0

Year:

1940

Saturday's Children

Saturday's Children

An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
6.4

Year:

1940

The Fighting 69th

The Fighting 69th

Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
5.4

Year:

1940

Swanee River

Swanee River

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, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
6.5

Year:

1939

A Child Is Born

A Child Is Born

A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
6.5

Year:

1939

Dust Be My Destiny

Dust Be My Destiny

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 leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
6.2

Year:

1939

Hell's Kitchen

Hell's Kitchen

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 institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
6.2

Year:

1939

Daughters Courageous

Daughters Courageous

Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
6.2

Year:

1939

Brother Rat

Brother Rat

Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.
5.0

Year:

1938

Secrets of an Actress

Secrets of an Actress

Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
5.6

Year:

1938

Women Are Like That

Women Are Like That

Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.
5.7

Year:

1938

Blondes at Work

Blondes at Work

When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
6.1

Year:

1938

Hollywood Hotel

Hollywood Hotel

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 current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
5.4

Year:

1938

The Death Kiss

The Death Kiss

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 publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
5.3

Year:

1932