Charles Farrell

Charles Farrell

Popular Hollywood leading man of late silents and early talkies. He is best remembered for his teaming with Janet Gaynor in 12 screen romances between 1927 and 1934. He retired from films in the early 1940s, but TV audiences of the 1950s would see him as Gale Storm's widower dad in the popular television series My Little Margie (1952).

  • Title: Charles Farrell
  • Popularity: 0.5077
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1900-08-09
  • Place of Birth: Walpole, Massachusetts, USA
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  • Also Known As: Charles David Farrell, Charlie Farrell
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Charles Farrell Movies

  • 1923
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    The Ten Commandments

    The Ten Commandments

    6.5 1923 HD

    The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco. Two brothers, rivals for the love of Mary, also come into conflict when John discovers Dan used shoddy materials to construct a cathedral.

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  • 1934
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    Falling in Love

    Falling in Love

    1 1934 HD

    British comedy. It was released in the United States the following year under the alternative title Trouble Ahead.

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  • 1924
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    Three Women

    Three Women

    2.667 1924 HD

    A frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for the daughter, leaving the young boyfriend crushed.

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  • 1926
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    A Trip to Chinatown

    A Trip to Chinatown

    1 1926 HD

    A young hypochondriac who believes that he has only a week to live. His name, by the way, is Welland Strong. He decides to visit his uncle in the short amount of time he has left in the world. Eventually Strong winds up in Chinatown.

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  • 1923
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    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    6.512 1923 HD

    In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.

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  • 1931
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    Heartbreak

    Heartbreak

    1 1931 HD

    John Merrick and Vilma Walden, who fall in love at an embassy fundraiser in Vienna before World War I. Vilma's brother, Carl, who is a war veteran, poses as a rival for Vilma's affections. When war erupts, John requests a transfer to the Italian front, where he confronts Carl, who had borrowed his aircraft for a mission. John is devastated to learn the pilot he downed was actually Carl, leading him to announce he will no longer kill.

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  • 1926
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    The Gosh-Darn Mortgage

    The Gosh-Darn Mortgage

    1 1926 HD

    An over the top parody film

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  • 1937
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    Midnight Menace

    Midnight Menace

    6.5 1937 HD

    When a reporter is killed under mysterious circumstances, the political cartoonist on his paper begins to investigate on his own. He finds that a vengeful industrialist may be trying to manipulate an international peace conference to stage a bombing attack on London.

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  • 1934
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    Change of Heart

    Change of Heart

    6.2 1934 HD

    Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.

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  • 1928
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    Street Angel

    Street Angel

    7 1928 HD

    A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.

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  • 1931
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    Body and Soul

    Body and Soul

    4.5 1931 HD

    Andress, Watson and Johnson, pilots with a Royal Air Force squadron in France, are tasked with a deadly mission.

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  • 1926
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    Sandy

    Sandy

    1 1926 HD

    Sandy McNeil adopts strictly unconventional jazz ethics and against the wishes of her parents runs with a fast young set. An auto breakdown after a party places her in a compromising situation, and she grudgingly marries a wealthy suitor of her father's choice. When her husband's cruelty results in the death of her child, she leaves him and meets Ramon, an architect with whom she becomes infatuated. The return of his former mistress causes her to seek refuge with her cousin Judith, where she falls in love with Douglas, Judith's sweetheart. As Sandy refuses to return to Ramon, he shoots her and then kills himself. Douglas, taking the blame for her sake, is tried for murder, but Sandy rises from her sickbed and confesses in court; she succumbs after restoring Judith to Douglas.

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  • 1930
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    High Society Blues

    High Society Blues

    1 1930 HD

    After selling his business in Iowa, Eli Granger and his family move to an exclusive Scarsdale area in New York, where by chance he occupies a house adjacent to Horace Divine, a wealthy businessman with whom he made his business transaction...

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  • 1926
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    Old Ironsides

    Old Ironsides

    6.2 1926 HD

    An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, who fall afoul of the same pirates and thus become involved with the Constitution's mission.

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  • 1929
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    The River

    The River

    7.2 1929 HD

    Passion carried an innocent boy and a worldly woman beyond the barriers of conscience.

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  • 1928
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    Fazil

    Fazil

    5.1 1928 HD

    An Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry, but the tremendous differences in their backgrounds and the cultural differences between their two different societies put strains on their marriage that may well prove irreparable.

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  • 1930
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    City Girl

    City Girl

    7.4 1930 HD

    A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.

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  • 1934
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    The Big Shakedown

    The Big Shakedown

    5.6 1934 HD

    Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.

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  • 1932
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    After Tomorrow

    After Tomorrow

    5.8 1932 HD

    In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney's is cold, Pete's is clingy. Sidney's mother is looking for her own happiness, no matter how much that search harms her daughter and long-suffering husband; and, the longer the engagement lingers, the more pressure Pete's mom puts on Sidney to break it off and set her son free. "After Tomorrow" is Pete and Sidney's favorite song, but with illness, poverty, and temptation: will that good day ever come?

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  • 1929
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    Lucky Star

    Lucky Star

    7.6 1929 HD

    Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his legs. Home again, Tim is visited by Mary, and they are powerfully attracted to each other; but his physical handicap prevents him from declaring his love for her. Deeper complications set in when Martin, Tim's former sergeant and a bully, takes a shine to Mary.

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  • 1930
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    Liliom

    Liliom

    6.8 1930 HD

    A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

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  • 1938
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    Just Around the Corner

    Just Around the Corner

    5.5 1938 HD

    Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.

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  • 1932
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    Wild Girl

    Wild Girl

    6 1932 HD

    Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.

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  • 1932
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    Tess of the Storm Country

    Tess of the Storm Country

    6 1932 HD

    When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long. A local millionaire, Frederick Garfield, lays a false claim to the property and has them evicted. Later, when Tess saves a young man about her age from drowning, she is a bit dismayed to learn that he is Garfield's son. But when her father is jailed on a false-accusation charge of murder, the younger Garfield comes to their aid and proves he himself.

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  • 1925
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    Clash of the Wolves

    Clash of the Wolves

    6.4 1925 HD

    A fire in the mountains drives a wolf pack into the nearby desert where they terrorize the local residents. The leader of the wolf pack is Lobo, actually a halfbreed (Rin Tin Tin). When the pack is discovered hunting a herd of cows, a posse gives chase. Lobo leaves his pack to lead the posse away. He is injured and found by a local prospector, Dave Weston (Charles Farrell). The prospector nurses Lobo back to health and the two become close friends. Meanwhile, Weston has made a Borax find in the area. His girlfriend May Barstowe (June Marlowe), daughter of a wealthy rancher, is pleased. However, the local chemist, Borax Horton (Pat Hartigan), actually a claim jumper, plans to steal the claim.

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  • 1933
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    Girl Without a Room

    Girl Without a Room

    5.3 1933 HD

    A Tennessee art school student wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he arrives and discovers that his style is hopelessly passe and is considered trashy. The enterprising artist immediately changes style and begins painting highly-abstract moderns.

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  • 1931
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    The Man Who Came Back

    The Man Who Came Back

    3.4 1931 HD

    A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.

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  • 1937
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    Moonlight Sonata

    Moonlight Sonata

    7 1937 HD

    In this romantic tale Paderewski, the famed pianist, and two other plane crash survivors are guests of a Swedish baroness. Interwoven throughout this gentle and charming story are exquisite piano solos performed superbly by the elderly pianist, Paderewski.

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  • 1927
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    7th Heaven

    7th Heaven

    7.3 1927 HD

    In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall in love.

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  • 1929
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    Happy Days

    Happy Days

    6 1929 HD

    In Fox's contribution to the all-star revue cycle of early talkies, showboat singer Margie, hearing that the show is in arrears, goes to New York to gather all of the former stars to stage a minstrel show as a benefit.

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  • 1931
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    Delicious

    Delicious

    6.2 1931 HD

    A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.

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  • 1939
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    Tail Spin

    Tail Spin

    5.8 1939 HD

    Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.

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  • 1928
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    The Red Dance

    The Red Dance

    6.2 1928 HD

    Tasia (Dolores del Río), a beautiful dancer lower class of Russia, falls heir to the throne Prince, Grand Duke Eugene (Charles Farrell), but only admired from a distance. At the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, the Duke falls in captivity and this allows Tasia be near him.

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  • 1933
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    Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men

    Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men

    7.2 1933 HD

    Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption.

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  • 1929
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    Sunny Side Up

    Sunny Side Up

    6.833 1929 HD

    Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.

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  • 1935
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    Forbidden Heaven

    Forbidden Heaven

    1 1935 HD

    Charles Farrell stars as a British working stiff named Niba, who hopes one day to attain a Parliamentary seat. Niba's life is permanently altered when he rescues forlorn American girl Ann (Charlotte Henry). Though forced to give up his political dreams, Niba contentedly sets up house with Ann, eventually falling in love with her.

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  • 1927
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    The Rough Riders

    The Rough Riders

    4 1927 HD

    The story of the military unit organized by future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt and its adventures in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898. This film is lost.

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  • 1931
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    Merely Mary Ann

    Merely Mary Ann

    1 1931 HD

    Orphan drudge Mary Ann finds love and hope in the arms of a promising but poor composer, John Lonsdale.

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  • 1925
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    Wings of Youth

    Wings of Youth

    1 1925 HD

    Mrs. Katherine Manners loves her three grown daughters who are in boarding school. When she plans a party for them at home, they phone from the school that they cannot come because they are too busy. But she hears the sounds of a party in the background, so she goes to the school where she finds her daughters with young men. She is told that two of the daughters plan to be married, while the third plans to marry Grantland Dobbs as soon as he gets a divorce, and the mother is frightened by this announcement. She goes abroad and returns with a man, gets an apartment at a wealthy center, and lives with him. Her daughters are shocked when the mother entertains guests at drinking parties. When Mrs. Manners proves to her daughters that their fiancées are not respectable, she reveals to them that she was acting a part just to prove to them that she was right about their chosen mates. She reveals that the man she was living with was her cousin.

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  • 1932
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    The First Year

    The First Year

    1 1932 HD

    Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being courted by two men, the steady but predictable Tommy Tucker and the more ambitious, flashy, and worldly Dick Loring, who seems closer to Grace in his desire for travel and adventure.

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  • 1941
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    The Deadly Game

    The Deadly Game

    6 1941 HD

    A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as Washington's deadly game of espionage and intrigue thunders on...as the FBI hunts the nation's invisble foes! They may have been invisible but their accents and billing names von Morhart, William Vaughn (William von Brincken already hiding under another name before hostilities were formally declared), Frederick Gierman and Walter Bonn---provide clues aplenty as to their country of origin and paymaster.

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  • 1923
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    A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

    A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

    6.7 1923 HD

    When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.

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  • 1930
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    Song of Soho

    Song of Soho

    1 1930 HD

    An ex-French Foreign Legion soldier comes to Soho and ends up as a singer in a cafe.

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  • 1931
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    The Flying Fool

    The Flying Fool

    1 1931 HD

    Vincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentleman's Clubs is in fact a secret agent hot on the trail of Michael Marlowe whom he suspects of smuggling drugs into Britain from France on a regular basis. Floyd has so far struggled to gain evidence on Marlowe, but through a series of incidents finds himself bound for Paris on the same plane as Marlowe.....

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  • 1935
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    Fighting Youth

    Fighting Youth

    7 1935 HD

    A radical campus group persuades student Carol Arlington to lead a protest of a college's football team. She manages to recruit Larry Davis, even though he is a star player for State's team.

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  • 1930
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    The Princess and the Plumber

    The Princess and the Plumber

    1 1930 HD

    A derogated prince hopes to restore his wealth and power by marrying off his daughter to royalty. Unfortunately, she has fallen in love with a young man who has been hired to fix the plumbing in their run-down castle.

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  • 1925
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    The Freshman

    The Freshman

    7 1925 HD

    Harold Lamb is so excited about going to college that he has been working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning a special way of introducing himself that he saw in a movie. When he arrives at Tate University, he soon becomes the target of practical jokes and ridicule. With the help of his one real friend Peggy, he resolves to make every possible effort to become popular.

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  • 1935
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    Hollywood Hobbies

    Hollywood Hobbies

    6 1935 HD

    This short documentary narrated by sportscaster Ted Husing explores the free-time activities of some of Hollywood's most popular celebrities. Big names such as Boris Karloff, Buster Crabbe, and Clark Gable make appearances, enjoying games of golf, field hockey, swimming, and many other fun hobbies.

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  • 1938
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    Flight to Fame

    Flight to Fame

    5 1938 HD

    An evil villain steals a newly invented death ray.

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  • 1923
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    Rosita

    Rosita

    6.45 1923 HD

    The King tosses Rosita in jail and when Don Diego, who Rosita loves, tries to defend her, he too is thrown in jail. While Don Diego is sentenced to be executed, the King lusts after Rosita and decides to put her up in a luxurious villa. To give her a title, he marries her to a masked nobleman, who turns out to be Don Diego.

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  • 1952
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    My Little Margie

    My Little Margie

    3 1952 HD

    My Little Margie is an American situation comedy starring Gale Storm and Charles Farrell that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to 1955.

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  • 1956
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    The Charlie Farrell Show

    The Charlie Farrell Show

    1 1956 HD

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