Erik Rhodes

Erik Rhodes

Erik Rhodes (born Ernest Sharpe; February 10, 1906 - February 17, 1990) was an American stage, film, and television actor best remembered for his comedic performances as delightful hyperactive Italian gentlemen in the classic Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Hollywood musicals The Gay Divorcee (1934) and Top Hat (1935). With a good baritone voice, he was successful, both prior to and subsequent his film career, in Broadway musicals.

  • Title: Erik Rhodes
  • Popularity: 0.2007
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1906-02-10
  • Place of Birth: El Reno, Oklahoma Territory, USA
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  • Also Known As: Ernest Sharpe, Eric Rhodes
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Erik Rhodes Movies

  • 1935
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    Top Hat

    Top Hat

    7.244 1935 HD

    Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.

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  • 1935
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    Charlie Chan in Paris

    Charlie Chan in Paris

    6.5 1935 HD

    Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much. The case, complicated by a false murder accusation for banker's daughter Yvette, climaxes with a strange journey through the Paris sewers.

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  • 1934
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    The Gay Divorcee

    The Gay Divorcee

    6.9 1934 HD

    Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.

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    Mysterious Mr. Moto

    Mysterious Mr. Moto

    5.975 1938 HD

    The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.

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    Second Wife

    Second Wife

    1 1936 HD

    Kenneth discovers that his son by his first wife is ill in a remote Swiss village, and is forced to leave Wife Number Two alone during childbirth.

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  • 1937
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    Beg, Borrow or Steal

    Beg, Borrow or Steal

    5 1937 HD

    We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and his wife, Agatha, have been separated for 15 years, but he promises to give their daughter, Joyce, a lavish wedding at his "château" in France. The fact that he doesn't have a château in France is just a minor trifle. He induces the caretaker, Bill Cherau, of a large country estate to allow it to be used for the wedding. The wedding party arrives and Bill falls madly in love with Joyce and she with him, but a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do, and her intended marriage to stuffed-shirt Horace Miller stays on the books. But Steward has a change of heart and he tells one and all that he and his friends, Von Gersdorff, Lefevre, Iznamof, Clifton Summitt and Sasch, are all frauds and crooks. Horace and his family stalk out, which is just fine with Joyce as her true love, the caretaker, is waiting on the grounds.

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  • 1935
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    Old Man Rhythm

    Old Man Rhythm

    6.3 1935 HD

    Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.

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  • 1935
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    The Nitwits

    The Nitwits

    6.1 1935 HD

    A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.

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  • 1936
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    Two in the Dark

    Two in the Dark

    5.9 1936 HD

    Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.

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  • 1937
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    Music for Madame

    Music for Madame

    5 1937 HD

    An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.

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  • 1937
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    Criminal Lawyer

    Criminal Lawyer

    5.9 1937 HD

    Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a rebuke. On the same night in court, Madge Carter is on trial for disorderly conduct, and Brandon volunteers to defend her, and proves the case against her if a frame-up. Finding that she is penniless, Brandon hires her as his secretary, and falls in love with her. Brandon is appointed district attorney and has ambitions of becoming the state governor. Having dinner at Betty's home, she maneuvers him, while he is drunk, into marrying her. Later, Madge is a witness when Larkin shoots down a fellow gangster. By threatening Brandon's life, he forces her to commit perjury at his trial, and say he fired in self-defense. Brandon, the prosecuting attorney (who has had his marriage to Betty annulled) knows she is lying but doesn't know why.

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  • 1935
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    A Night at the Ritz

    A Night at the Ritz

    3 1935 HD

    A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.

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    Chatterbox

    Chatterbox

    6 1936 HD

    Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah. Stowing away in the car of Philip Greene, a wealthy young man working with the theater troupe, Jenny talks her way into the play's lead role. But director Archie Fisher doesn't tell her that the new version of the play is meant as a spoof.

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  • 1937
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    Woman Chases Man

    Woman Chases Man

    5.6 1937 HD

    A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.

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  • 1938
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    Say It in French

    Say It in French

    1 1938 HD

    An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....

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  • 1938
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    Dramatic School

    Dramatic School

    6.2 1938 HD

    Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.

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  • 1936
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    One Rainy Afternoon

    One Rainy Afternoon

    4.8 1936 HD

    Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to kiss her. Charged with assault, the quick-thinking Philippe claims it's French tradition to do as he did, and is let go. To his surprise, Philippe learns that Monique has paid his fine. As the tabloids exploit the situation, Monique dates Philippe, until a photo appears of him kissing Yvonne.

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  • 1936
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    Smartest Girl in Town

    Smartest Girl in Town

    5.5 1936 HD

    A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.

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  • 1939
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    On Your Toes

    On Your Toes

    3.9 1939 HD

    A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.

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  • 1935
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    Another Face

    Another Face

    4.2 1935 HD

    The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!

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    Special Investigator

    Special Investigator

    5.167 1936 HD

    A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.

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  • 1938
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    Meet the Girls

    Meet the Girls

    4 1938 HD

    Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.

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  • 1937
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    Fight for Your Lady

    Fight for Your Lady

    4.8 1937 HD

    Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.

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  • 1935
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    A Night at the Biltmore Bowl

    A Night at the Biltmore Bowl

    6 1935 HD

    Join vocalists broadcasting from the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles.

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  • 1938
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    The Canary Comes Across

    The Canary Comes Across

    3.5 1938 HD

    A prisoner with a good singing voice escapes, only to grow jealous when an opera singer who looks like him is delivered back to the prison and receives attention, especially from Ann, the warden's daughter who leads the prison glee club.

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    The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

    The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

    4.923 1997 HD

    A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.

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  • 1934
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    Give Her a Ring

    Give Her a Ring

    1 1934 HD

    A telephonist falls for her employer.

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  • 1958
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    Naked City

    Naked City

    5.5 1958 HD

    Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.708 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6.3 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6.3 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

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  • 1950
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    The Bob Hope Show

    The Bob Hope Show

    7 1950 HD

    The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC rotated with other variety shows in a Sunday night block known as "The Colgate Comedy Hour" (Sept. 1950 to Dec. 1955). Also known as, "The Chevy Show with Bob Hope." When the first special debuted in October of 1950 it was the most expensive television program made up to that point - costing an astronomical $1,500 a minute to produce. Bob Hope had his own television show and radio show at the same time. For the next three seasons, The Bob Hope Show was broadcast once a month on Tuesday nights, giving Milton Berle a week off. Bob ended his radio show in April, 1956. Bob Hope also had another show by a similar name, "The Bob Hope Show (All Star Revue)". In addition, he performed in "Specials" for many years. It is the longest running variety program in television's history with a record of 45 years of televised entertainment.

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