Spencer Charters — Actor (30)
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April Folly (1920) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
April Folly
director: Robert Z. Leonard actor: Marion Davies / Madeline Marshall …
April Poole (Davies), a young writer in love with publisher Kerry Sarle (Tearle), visits the office of Mr. Sarle and his partner Ronald Kenna (Frank) and reads her latest story to them. She has made Sarle the hero, Kenna the villain, and herself the heroine. In the story, April changes places with Lady Diana Mannister (Marshall), who is being sent to South Africa to separate her from her lover, a young artist. A famous diamond that Lady Diana is to deliver at the end of her journey is given to April. Thieves trail her during her journey. With efforts by Kenna to steal the diamond prevented by the intervention of Sarle, the story comes to a close.
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Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Yes, My Darling Daughter
director: William Keighley actor: Priscilla Lane / Jeffrey Lynn …
other title: Le Printemps de la vie
Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend their last weekend together in a tourist cabin at a rural lake. Her family is shocked that a young unmarried woman would engage in such amoral activity. The comic plot develops as Ellen argues her case for women's freedom and independence, trying to win over her mother, grandmother, and other dubious relatives.
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In Person (1935) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
In Person
director: William A. Seiter actor: Ginger Rogers / George Brent …
other title: Lerne lieben ohne zu weinen / En persona …
Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected by her star status.
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Pacific Blackout (1941) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pacific Blackout
director: Ralph Murphy actor: Robert Preston / Martha O'Driscoll …
other title: El ángel de medianoche
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
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The Lady from Cheyenne (1941) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Lady from Cheyenne
director: Frank Lloyd actor: Loretta Young / Robert Preston …
other title: Una mujer de carácter / Une femme à poigne
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
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The St. Louis Kid (1934) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The St. Louis Kid
director: Ray Enright actor: James Cagney / Patricia Ellis …
other title: Ein schwerer Junge / 膠輪友艷福 …
Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine (1942) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
director: Bernard Vorhaus actor: Dennis O'Keefe / Ruth Terry …
other title: Las aventuras de Jimmy Valentine
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
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The Boys from Syracuse (1940) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Boys from Syracuse
director: A. Edward Sutherland actor: Allan Jones / Martha Raye …
other title: 雪城双兄弟 / 古城春色 …
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love
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The Match King (1932) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Match King
director: Howard Bretherton / William Keighley actor: Warren William / Lili Damita …
other title: Le Roi des allumettes
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
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Gambling Ship (1933) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Gambling Ship
director: Max Marcin / Louis J. Gasnier actor: Cary Grant / Benita Hume …
other title: Casino del mar
Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new name. On the train, he meets Eleanor and they fall in love. Eleanor is afraid to tell Ace she's a soiled dove and Ace doesn't tell Eleanor of his shady past. Old enemies won't let Ace begin his new life, and old commitments's won't free Eleanor of her sordid ties. Ace's old life and Eleanor's deception collide with the typical results. But love conquers all!
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Whoopee! (1930) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Whoopee!
director: Thornton Freeland actor: Eddie Cantor / Ethel Shutta …
other title: 哇呼 / 哇呼！ …
Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note saying they've eloped! Chasing them are jilted Bob, Henry's nurse Mary (who's been trying to seduce him) and others.