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Allen Jenkins (April 9, 1900 – July 20, 1974) was an American character actor on stage, screen and television. He was born Alfred McGonegal on Staten Island, New York.
He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In his first stage appearance, he danced next to James Cagney in a chorus line for an off-Broadway musical called Pitter-Patter. He made five dollars a week. He also appeared one thousand times in Broadway plays between 1924 and 1962, including The Front Page with Lee Tracy (1928). His big break came when he replaced Spencer Tracy for three weeks in the Broadway play The Last Mile.
He was called to Hollywood by Darryl F. Zanuck and signed first to Paramount Pictures and shortly afterwards to Warner Bros. He originated the character of Frankie Wells in the Broadway production of Blessed Event and reprised the role in the film adaptation, both in 1932. With the advent of talking pictures, he made a career out of playing comic henchmen, stooges, policemen and other "tough guys" in numerous films of the 1930s and 1940s, especially for Warner Bros. He was labeled the "greatest scene-stealer of the 1930s" by the New York Times. He voiced the character of "Officer Dibble" on the Hanna-Barbera television cartoon Top Cat and was a regular on the 1956-1957 television situation comedy Hey, Jeannie! (1956), starring Jeannie Carson. He was also a guest star on The Red Skelton Show, I Love Lucy, Playhouse 90, The Ernie Kovacs Show, Zane Grey Theater, and The Sid Caesar Show. Eleven days before his death he made his final appearance, at the end of Billy Wilder's 1974 film adaptation of The Front Page.
He went public with his alcoholism and was the first actor to speak in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate about it. He helped start the first Alcoholics Anonymous programs in California prisons for women.
Jenkins, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien and Frank McHugh were the original members of the so-called "Irish Mafia". He was the seventh member of the Screen Actors Guild.
Most Popular Allen Jenkins Trailers
Total trailers found: 131
25 February 1983
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
07 April 1933
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before.
08 March 1941
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes.
29 July 1951
The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors.
01 June 1942
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon.
07 March 1947
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
18 November 1933
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
21 November 1936
A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
16 July 1938
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
27 October 1934
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.
07 November 1963
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California.
10 April 1937
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
26 May 1934
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
11 September 1932
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
24 February 1934
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
26 September 1947
Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup money.
11 March 1933
Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.
21 March 2006
Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.
09 September 1951
The boys get mixed up with a race horse & crooked gamblers
08 May 1943
This short film showcases six production numbers from various Warner Bros. musicals.
07 June 1940
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
24 March 1952
A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff.
23 March 1935
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
07 October 1959
Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines.
09 November 1932
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities.
01 November 1974
Ruthless Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns resorts to dubious motives in order to get top reporter Hildy Johnson to cover one more big crime story before retirement.
06 July 1937
A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit.
01 June 1964
A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.
24 June 1964
Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over.
16 April 1938
An incognito Hollywood star in Paris meets a penniless nobleman who follows her to London.
16 October 1942
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
16 January 1942
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds.
27 August 1937
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
01 December 1935
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
03 August 1945
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels.
21 May 1942
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.
02 December 1941
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language.
27 November 1941
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
26 September 1936
A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.
06 May 2003
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content.
11 June 1942
Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book on some of her tough ways.
15 May 1947
Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple.
23 June 1939
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset.
03 July 1937
Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest.
14 December 1935
A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".
10 May 1967
Heather is the lead singer for a band that is on its way to fame and fortune. Things get complicated when she becomes pregnant and has three men willing to be both husband and father.
08 June 1945
Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson.
23 June 1939
Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course.
31 December 1938
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
09 June 1933
Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths.
30 December 1936
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.
05 November 1938
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds.
26 July 1947
The baby sitter is none other than veteran Hollywood tough guy Tom Neal. A private detective, Neal is hired to keep an eye on the child of married couple George Meeker and Rebel Randall.
10 November 1934
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.
24 June 1933
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles.
25 March 1933
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
28 January 1933
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
29 October 1932
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
13 March 1987
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
28 September 1935
A failed actor finds success as a radio singer.
