Jack Henley

Writer

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06-12-1896

Birthday

Sagittarius

Zodiac Sign

Genres

Total Films

Also known as (male)

Ireland

Place of Birth

06-12-1896

Birthday

Sagittarius

Zodiac Sign

Genres

Total Films

Also Known As (male)

Ireland

Place of Birth

Popular works

Media

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Creative career

actor

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producer

0 Works

director

69 Works

writer

67 Works

other

2 Works

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki

Ma and Pa, along with daughter Rosie, go off to Hawaii in answer to cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers from an illness. Pa soon causes a major explosion and gets himself kidnapped.

6.8

Year:

1955

The Rocket Man

After procuring a special ray gun, a precocious orphan helps his community by exposing the shady doings of local government, and plays a part in a cute couple getting together.

6.3

Year:

1954

Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation

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 is given a letter to deliver to Adolph Wade, a spy who gets killed by spies Inez and Cyrus Kraft.

7.2

Year:

1952

Bonzo Goes to College

When Bonzo turns out to be the answer to the football teams troubles, the only solution is to enroll him college.

5.0

Year:

1952

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.

5.9

Year:

1952

Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm

The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether their grandchild will be raised "hygiencially."

6.3

Year:

1951

Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm

The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether their grandchild will be raised "hygiencially."

6.3

Year:

1951

He's a Cockeyed Wonder

An orange packer (Mickey Rooney) foils robbers with magic and wins the boss's (William Demarest) daughter (Terry Moore).

3.3

Year:

1950

Katie Did It

Katherine Standish, who has been brought up in a strict manner in a prudish New England town, falls in love with a city slicker commercial artist, Peter Van Arden. The romance blossoms until Katie falls victim of some false information, and becomes convinced that Peter is already married and the father of two children.

6.0

Year:

1950

Beware of Blondie

Mr. Dithers leaves Dagwood in charge of the office for a short period. Poor old Dagwood manages to gum things up when he falls for a confidence scam engineered by the duplicitous Toby Clifton. He even finds himself in a compromising position that seriously endangers his future connubial happiness with his wife Blondie. Once again, it's up to Blondie to straighten out the mess.

5.3

Year:

1950

Blondie's Hero

Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts of problems which lead to numerous conflicts.

6.3

Year:

1950

Blondie Hits the Jackpot

Fired for messing up an important contract, Dagwood takes a job as a manual laborer for a construction firm while trying to get his old job back.

6.5

Year:

1949

Blondie's Secret

Dagwood prepares for a long-delayed vacation with the family. His boss Mr. Radcliffe has promised the Bumsteads that there'll be no more postponements for their holiday. But when something comes up that requires Dagwood's presence, Radcliffe hires a couple of thugs to steal Blondie and Dagwood's luggage so that they'll have to stay in town. And that's only the beginning of the frantic fun.

6.5

Year:

1948

Blondie's Anniversary

Blondie finds a valuable watch that has been hidden by hubby Dagwood. She assumes that it's a surprise wedding gift, but the truth is that Dagwood has been guarding the watch on behalf of a client who bought the gift for his own wife, which soon leads to trouble with his boss, a loan shark, and crooked building contractors.

5.6

Year:

1947

Blondie in the Dough

BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer that is difficult to refuse. Unfortunately, this creates all kinds of problems for the Bumsteads.

6.5

Year:

1947

It's Great to Be Young

Ricky Malone, Spud Winters and some other returning G.I.'s are trying to break into show business by the old summer resort. Terry, a runaway daughter of a big producer who is trying to stifle her show-biz career, hires on as the (dubbed) singer.

0.0

Year:

1946

Meet Me on Broadway

Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club. Eddie and his girlfriend, actress Ann Stallings, hope the production will launch their legitimate Broadway careers. But complications arise when Maxine Whitaker, daughter of a wealthy rival club owner, becomes romantically interested in charming Eddie.

7.0

Year:

1946

One Way to Love

A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and the other must write commercial jingles.

7.0

Year:

1946

A Thousand and One Nights

On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie. He uses it to return as a visiting prince asking for the princess's hand. Unfortunately for him, the sultan's wicked twin brother has secretly usurped the throne, someone else is after the lamp for his own ends, and Babs has taken a shine to Aladdin herself and is bent on wrecking his endeavours.

5.7

Year:

1945

Strange Affair

Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can use a pay phone. At the dinner, Bill and Jack are seated with Brenner's daughter, Freda, and, to Bill's surprise, another man is introduced as Baumler -- who dies moments later.

6.2

Year:

1944

My Kingdom for a Cook

While visiting Massachusetts, a famous English author (Charles Coburn) faces the wrath of a socialite (Isobel Elsom) after stealing her chef.

0.0

Year:

1943

Dangerous Blondes

Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.

6.0

Year:

1943

Reveille with Beverly

Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.

7.0

Year:

1943

A Night to Remember

A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.

6.5

Year:

1942

Mr. Wise Guy

The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Bill Collins, brother of co-leader Danny, becomes involved in a killing and, while also innocent, is convicted and sentenced to death. Through a series of events, Muggs, Glimpy, Danny and the rest of the gang, learn that Knobby, a henchman of Luke Manning, knows something about the murder.

6.1

Year:

1942

Private Snuffy Smith

A hillbilly moonshiner enlists in the army. Monogram Pictures' comedy was inspired by the then-popular comic strip character.

3.8

Year:

1942

Zis Boom Bah

"Hey, kids, let's get together and put on a show!" That's the idea behind this raucous spoof about a vaudeville performer who's sent to college to spy on his bratty son.

7.1

Year:

1941

Spooks Run Wild

A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.

4.8

Year:

1941

The Lady and the Lug

In this comedic short, a reporter wins a boxer's contract and decides to stage an exhibition fight for a society ladies' Milk Fund benefit bazaar.

0.0

Year:

1941

That’s The Ticket

Two nightclub cloakroom attendants become entangled with an enemy spy ring in an adventure that takes them to Paris.

0.0

Year:

1940

Hoots Mon

An English comedian is infuriated by a Scottish comedienne's impersonation of him

5.0

Year:

1940

Script Girl

A movie director needs a script girl . A strip girl, misunderstanding the job title, shows up.

1.0

Year:

1938

Ups and Downs

An elevator operator and an engaged girl in love dodge the girl's fiancee and attempt to win over her father.

6.3

Year:

1937

Postal Union

A telegraph postal union worker has no luck when asks a pretty co-worker to marry him. She says he'd have to be a magician to get her to say yes. Things are complicated when, as a favor to a stuttering acquaintance, he takes his overweight girlfriend to the movies to propose to her by proxy. Unfortunately the pretty co-worker spots him with her in the theater, so he begins to learn magic tricks.

7.5

Year:

1937

Nut Guilty

In this short film, Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen preside over the courtroom for a day, dispensing their own comic brand of justice.

0.0

Year:

1936

Absorbing Junior

Johnny's freeloading brother Henry will go to any length to bet on a tip at Belmont, including stealing from Junior's piggy bank. When Johnny's mother-in-law tells them to take Junior to the dentist to have a tooth pulled, and gives them $2 for the doctor, the game is afoot. The money goes to Henry's bookie, and the boys decide to pull Junior's tooth themselves... by tying a string onto the back bumper of a car. But a pet parrot spills the beans, and mother-in-law goes chasing after them with fire in her eye, and a fireplace poker under her coat.

0.0

Year:

1936

Absorbing Junior

0.0

Year:

1936

Calling All Tars

This early comedy short has Bob Hope and John Berkes putting on sailor uniforms to find dates, getting mistaken for real sailors and being dragged back to a Navy ship by the shore patrol. Though not much plot, the short does give each star a chance to shine doing comedy bits both together and separately.

0.0

Year:

1936

While the Cat's Away

Henry and Johnnie need to clean the apartment before the wives get home.

0.0

Year:

1936

Rushin' Art

An expert on Russian art apparently doesn't know as much about it as he thinks he does.

0.0

Year:

1936

Double Exposure

An aspiring photographer and his bumbling assistant go to great lengths to take a picture of a beautiful actress whose wealthy husband does not want her photographed.

7.0

Year:

1935

The Officer's Mess

Gus Doakes joins the National Guard; hilarity ensues.

0.0

Year:

1935

All American Drawback

The Dean and Board of Flunk Well College are arguing with its football coach, Bergen, about the team's star player, Charlie McCarthy, who is the only reason the team is a winning one, but who isn't doing well academically and could be pulled from the team if his grades and behavior don't improve. In other words, Charlie is a dummy in more ways than one. Beyond other problems Coach Bergen has with Charlie concerning the coach's girlfriend Joan, Coach Bergen has to get Charlie prepared to pass an exam administered by the Dean. Instead of cheating like he usually does, Charlie has his own way of dealing with the exam.

5.0

Year:

1935

On the Wagon

Henry and Elmer stay out all night, then fear returning home because of their formidable mother-in-law.

0.0

Year:

1935

Watch the Birdie

Prankster Bob is traveling to New York by ship with his girlfriend and he proposes to marry her. Along the trip, he plays pranks on the captain, passengers and his future father-in-law. When they arrive in the harbor, the captain and his father-in-law decide to revenge and the captain asks his men to retain Bob at the customs for hours. Then he heads to the office of his father-in-law where his girlfriend is waiting for him. But her father is still upset with Bob. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

5.5

Year:

1935

His First Flame

After fire chief, Fire-Eating Sam's girlfriend is married to Smoky Moe, and his house is burned down during a wedding ceremony, he gets revenge on Moe and plays a humiliating joke on him.

0.0

Year:

1935

A Peach of a Pair

Vaudeville performers Cook and Butler are mistaken for domestic servants; hilarity ensues.

0.0

Year:

1934

Smoked Hams

A vaudeville team convinces an agent to book their new act, which uses a Civil War theme.

0.0

Year:

1934

Daredevil O'Dare

Elmer O'Dare fancies himself an expert circus performer.

0.0

Year:

1934

My Mummy's Arms

Two Americans attempt to make time with the daughter of the British financier of an archaeological expedition to Egypt.

0.0

Year:

1934

Art Trouble

Harry Gribbon and Shemp Howard enter the world of fine art in Paris.

6.5

Year:

1934

I Scream

Gus Shy, an ice cream man, gets embroiled in a vicious gangland feud.

0.0

Year:

1934

Corn on the Cop

A 1934 Warner Brothers Vitaphone short, "Corn on the Cop." In this one, two hobos launch a get-rich scheme by trying to sell axle grease marketed as salve for relief from corns and bunions. The idea, unfortunately, goes awry. Starring Harry Gribbon with Shemp Howard, Boyd Davis, and Mary Doran.

6.0

Year:

1934

Pure Feud

Edgar Appletree learns the ins and outs of family feuding courtesy of Charlie McCarthy.

0.0

Year:

1934

Very Close Veins

Ben Blue has "the largest vein in the country," but not the kind that the gold prospectors in Alaska think he's got!

0.0

Year:

1934

Pugs and Kisses

A glass-jawed champ is the victim of an elaborate prank hatched by his manager in order to get him off of women and to focus on boxing.

0.0

Year:

1934

Mushrooms

Harry Gribbon is Horace, a man with one passion in life: Mushrooms.

0.0

Year:

1934

Howd' Ya Like That?

Two sailors come ashore in New York with enough liquor--which was illegal at the time, due to Prohibition--to have a good time. They wind up getting involved with an actress in vaudeville and her very jealous boyfriend. Not only that, but a Customs Officer who found out they smuggled booze ashore is closing in on them.

0.0

Year:

1934

Here Comes Flossie!

A clumsy handyman mixes up a mail-order bride and a prize cow, both named "Flossie," with humorous results.

0.0

Year:

1933

Tomalio

Roscoe runs afoul of a demented Mexican general.

2.0

Year:

1933

In the Dough

A cafeteria owner has problems with gangsters and gets more trouble by hiring 'Fatty' Arbuckle and chef.

6.5

Year:

1933

Paul Revere, Jr.

A drunken fool by the name of Paul Revere Wilson (or Williams or something) drinks too much and imagines himself living in 1776.

0.0

Year:

1933

Close Relations

Roscoe believes he is in line to receive a large inheritance, but the reality is considerably more psychopathic-- no, nuts.

0.0

Year:

1933

Salt Water Daffy

In this comedic short, two screw-ups join the Navy and make life miserable for their supervisor.

5.7

Year:

1933

How've You Bean?

Roscoe gets into a lot of wacky troubles, some involving a misplaced box of Mexican Jumping Beans.

0.0

Year:

1933

Buzzin' Around

Fatty invents a liquid with flubber-like properties which makes objects resilient and unbreakable. Unfortunately, in his rush to get out of the house to demonstrate his invention, he unknowingly grabs a jar of moonshine instead of the jar which holds his wonder liquid. To make matters worse, as he drives to the demonstration, a football-sized beehive falls from a tree onto the cargo bed of his truck . . .

6.0

Year:

1933

Hey, Pop!

Roscoe Arbuckle loses his job to protect a young boy from the orphanage.

9.0

Year:

1932

Tip Tap Toe

Hal and Mitzi have known each other since they were babies. Tap dancer Hal now works as a window dresser in Blake's Department Store, owned by Mitzi's dad. Mr. Blake hates jazz music and dancing. He refuses to let Mitzi marry Hal, because Hal's ambition is to be a dancer on stage. When Mitzi reveals a secret about Mrs. Blake's past, her father soon changes his tune.

0.0

Year:

1932

A Trip to Paris

Bobby Jarvis and Eloise Taylor, a scrapping married couple, enter a newspaper essay contest on Happy Marriage, and win a trip to Paris.

0.0

Year:

1930