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John Kelly is a Actor born on 29 june 1901
John Kelly (June 6, 1901 - December 9, 1947) was an American actor whose career spanned the very end of the silent film era through the 1940s. While most of his parts were smaller, often uncredited, roles, he was occasionally given a more substantial supporting or even featured role.
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Birth name John F. Kelly
Birth 29 june 1901
Death 9 december 1947 (at 46 years)
Birth 29 june 1901
Death 9 december 1947 (at 46 years)
John Kelly (June 6, 1901 - December 9, 1947) was an American actor whose career spanned the very end of the silent film era through the 1940s. While most of his parts were smaller, often uncredited, roles, he was occasionally given a more substantial supporting or even featured role.
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Girl Trouble (1942)
, 1h21Directed by Harold D. Schuster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Don Ameche, Joan Bennett, Billie Burke, Frank Craven, Fortunio Bonanova, Alan Dinehart, Sr.
Roles Mug
Rating66%
June Delaney belongs to the upper circles of New York City's social life. When she learns that her private money has been impounded by the British government, since most of her investments are made by her father in England before the outbreak of World War II, she is very annoyed. To make the most of what she got and continue living as before she is forced to rent out her upscale apartment. She advertises in a newspaper, and gets a response from a prospective tenant, a Venezuelan playboy and sole heir to an American rubber industry, Pedro Sullivan.
Black Friday (1940)
, 1h10Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror, Crime
Actors Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Paul Fix, Anne Nagel, Raymond Bailey
Roles Taxi Driver
Rating62%
The famous Dr. Ernest Sovac's best friend, bookish college professor George Kingsley, is run down while crossing a street. In order to save his friend's life, Sovac implants part of another man's brain into the professor's. Unfortunately, the other man was a gangster who was involved in the accident. The professor recovers but at times behaves like the gangster, and his whole personality changes. Sovac is horrified but also intrigued, because the gangster has hidden $500,000 somewhere in the city. The doctor continues to treat his friend and, when the professor is under the influence of the gangster's brain, Karloff attempts to have the man lead him to the fortune. Béla Lugosi plays a gangster also trying to get his hands on the cash.
Meet Dr. Christian (1939)
, 1h8Directed by Bernard Vorhaus
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Lovett, Robert Baldwin, Enid Bennett, Paul Harvey, Marcia Mae Jones
Roles Cass
Rating59%
Kid Nightingale (1939)
, 57minutesDirected by George Amy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors John Payne, Jane Wyman, Walter Catlett, Edward Brophy, John Ridgely, William Haade
Roles Dynamite Dennis
Rating58%
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
, 1h42Directed by Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, LGBT-related films, Films about marriage, LGBT-related film
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett, May Robson, Fritz Feld
Roles Elmer, Constable Slocum's assistant
Rating77%
David Huxley (Cary Grant) is a mild-mannered paleontologist. For the past four years, he has been trying to assemble the skeleton of a Brontosaurus but is missing one bone: the "intercostal clavicle". Adding to his stress is his impending marriage to the dour Alice Swallow (Virginia Walker) and the need to impress Elizabeth Random (May Robson), who is considering a million-dollar donation to his museum.
Wings Over Honolulu (1937)
, 1h18Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Wendy Barrie, Ray Milland, William Gargan, Kent Taylor, Polly Rowles, Samuel S. Hinds
Roles Gob
Rating52%
Lauralee Curtis is introduced to a Navy lieutenant, pilot Sam "Stony" Gilchrist, at her 20th-birthday party. It is love at first sight. Two days later, they are husband and wife.
The Big Shot (1937)
, 1hDirected by Edward Killy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Guy Kibbee, Cora Witherspoon, Gordon Jones, Russell Hicks, Frank M. Thomas, George Irving
Roles Deuces
Rating60%
Bertram Simms is a veterinarian is a small town, who is quite content with his place in life. When he inherits a large estate and fortune from an unknown relative, he wants to continue living in the small town. His wife, Elizabeth, has other plans, wanting to see their daughter, Peggy, enter into high society in the city where Bertram's relative (an uncle) used to live. Upon their arrival in the uncle's mansion things do not seem to add up properly.
You Can't Buy Luck (1937)
Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Onslow Stevens, Helen Mack, Vinton Hayworth, Frank M. Thomas, Paul Guilfoyle (acteur, 1902-1961), Eddie Gribbon
Roles Puggy
Rating54%
Superstitious New York gambler Joe Baldwin (Onslow Stevens), owner of the thoroughbred racing horse Sarcasm, believes that luck can be bought with charitable deeds. Before the Kentucky Derby, to "buy luck," he finances an expensive trip to Europe for gold-digger Jean Jason, his "good luck charm," not knowing she is taking her lover with her, gigolo and sometime artist Paul Vinette (Vinton Hayworth). He also gives his old friend Frank Brent cash to save his cab business and visits an orphanage in Louisville with his sister, where he meets Betty McKay (Helen Mack), a pretty teacher who scoffs at his philosophy.
Lady Luck (1936)
, 1h4Directed by Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Actors Patricia Farr, William Bakewell, Iris Adrian, Duncan Renaldo, Jameson Thomas, Lew Kelly
Roles Joe (bouncer at the Blue Moon)
Rating55%
In New York City, Mamie Murphy is working as a manicurist when she hears on the salon's radio that she has won $2,500 on the racehorse Lady Luck in the sweepstakes draw, with the chance to win a further $150,000. Newspaper reporter Dave Haines is sent to interview Mamie because he already knows her and fancies her. She turns down his invitation to accompany him that evening to the Blue Moon nightclub, but accepts an invitation from "businessman" Jack Conroy to meet there.
Timothy's Quest (1936)
, 1h5Directed by Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Tom Keene, Dickie Moore, Virginia Weidler, Elizabeth Patterson, Benny Bartlett, Samuel S. Hinds
Roles Herb
Rating67%
Kid Millions (1934)
, 1h30Directed by Roy Del Ruth, Willy Pogány
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Eddie Cantor, Ann Sothern, Ethel Merman, George Murphy, Berton Churchill, Warren Hymer
Roles Adolph, one of Eddie's stepbrothers who lives on the barge.
Rating66%
In New York City, 1934, we meet jazz singer, Dot Clark, and her shady gangster boyfriend, Louie The Lug ("An Earful of Music"). After having an affair with the deceased Professor Edward Wilson, Dot is now technically his common-law wife and heiress to 77 million dollars. She has to go to Egypt to claim the money, and sets off with Louie in hopes of getting the cash. Former assistant to Edward Wilson, Gerald Lane, informs the law offices of Benton, Loring, and Slade of Professor Wilson's death and the fact that Edward's son, Eddie Wilson Jr is the rightful heir to the money. Mr. Slade, the lawyer, goes to a barge in Brooklyn where Eddie is living with his adopted father, Pops, an old stevedore, and his three sons, Oscar, Adolph, and Herman, who roughhouse Eddie. However, Eddie is managing to live a nice life nonetheless, with his girlfriend, Nora 'Toots', and his care for all the kids on the barge. He dreams of the day when he will have enough money to live his own life outside of the dirty barge ("When My Ship Comes In"). Moments later, Eddie is informed that he has inherited the 77 million dollars and boards a ship bound for Egypt to claim the money. Aboard the ship, we meet Colonel Henry Larrabee, a gentleman from Virginia who sponsored Eddie Sr's exploration endeavors and wants a share of the money as well. Eddie befriends his beautiful niece, Joan, and Dot and Louie realize that they are not the only ones traveling to Egypt. In an elaborate scheme to trick Eddie into signing over the inheritance, Dot disguises herself as Eddie's mother and almost succeeds in duping him but Louie ruins the plan at the last minute. Meanwhile, Gerald Lane has boarded the ship and we see that he is in love with Joan Larrabee.
Little Miss Marker (1934)
, 1h20Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Charles Bickford, Lynne Overman, Warren Hymer
Roles Canvas Back
Rating68%
The film tells the story of "Marky" (Shirley Temple), whose father gives her to a gangster-run gambling operation as a "marker" (collateral) for a bet. When he loses his bet and commits suicide, the gangsters are left with her on their hands. They decide to keep her temporarily and use her to help pull off one of their fixed races, naming her the owner of the horse to be used in the race.
Murder in the Private Car (1934)
, 1h3Directed by Harry Beaumont
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Films based on plays
Actors Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel, Mary Carlisle, Russell Hardie, Porter Hall, Willard Robertson
Roles Man Reporting Escaped Gorilla (uncredited)
Rating61%
Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)
, 1h30Directed by Lowell Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Paul Kelly, Constance Cummings, Russ Columbo, Texas Guinan, Gregory Ratoff, Lucille Ball
Roles Louie
Rating64%
Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?
Good-bye Love (1933)
, 1h7Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charles Ruggles, Verree Teasdale, Sidney Blackmer, Phyllis Barry, Ray Walker, Mayo Methot
Roles Sergeant Dugan the Jailer
Rating53%
Chester Hamilton (Sidney Blackmer) is sent to prison for non-payment of alimony to Phyllis Van Kamp (Verree Teasdale). Hamilton's valet, Oswald Groggs (Charles Ruggles), uses his boss’s reservations at an exclusive resort to go on vacation under the assumed identity of wealthy eccentric "Sir Oswald". Phyllis tries to marry "Sir Oswald" for his money. When Oswald seems to fall for her, the question is who will be left standing at the altar. A secretary (Phyllis Barry) and a reporter (Ray Walker) witness all these shenanigans.