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Robert Carroll Nye (October 4, 1901 – March 17, 1974) was an American film actor. He appeared in 58 films between 1925 and 1944. His mother, Myra Nye, worked for the Los Angeles Times. Carroll was educated at the University of California and later became a reporter and radio editor with the Times like his mother. However, he went into film business in 1924. At the beginning of his career he had a score of leading man roles in Hollywood opposite such silent screen stars as Anita Page and Corinne Griffith. In his late career, he played usually small roles, perhaps most memorably as Frank Kennedy, Scarlett's second husband, in Gone with the Wind (1939). His film career ended in 1944 with an uncredited role in Wilson. Nye also worked with Groucho Marx at CBS.
After his film career, Nye served as a Hollywood newscaster and publicity man. He was married to actress Helen Lynch since 1928, but the marriage ended in divorce. He later married a woman named Dorothy, mentioned on his gravestone at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills. His brother was respected Hollywood makeup artist Ben Nye.
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13 July 1927
At the outbreak of the War Between the States, Maryland Calvert is loved by Maj. Alan Kendrick, son of a Virginia general, and Capt.
15 December 1939
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
02 March 1928
Blinded in a train accident James Driscoll (Holmes Herbert), whose wife, Miriam Driscoll (Belle Bennett), has been having an affair with his young male secretary Phillip Kingston )Carroll Nye), regains his eyesight.
18 September 1936
A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote.
09 May 1929
A fiesty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.
18 April 1926
The debauched son of a wealthy family, Dick Gilbert, is forced to raise money to pay off gambling debts and uses a valuable family jewel as security for a loan from Prince Borkoff, but it is stolen by Morris, a gambler.
20 April 1927
Martin Sondes is an easy-going cowhand going up against a shady, saloon owner called "Square Deal" Fenton, whose chief means of making money is befuddling cowpuncher's brains with liquor and then cheating and robbing them of their money.
20 May 1938
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
11 November 1940
The Mesquiteers try to help their friend build a telegraph system, despite a local newspaper editor's attempts to sabotage the lines.
05 September 1926
The story is a variation on the Abie's Irish Rose theme, detailing the marriage between an Irish Catholic and a Jew.
04 November 1931
Bill Grant is a small-time gambler who spends more time embellishing his accomplishments than actually doing anything.
09 November 1927
Mary Carlton, who lives with her invalid father on a cotton plantation, receives a letter from Bob, her brother, in New York, stating that he faces death in the electric chair for a crime of which he claims to be innocent.
04 June 1927
Dan Foster, the engineer of the Black Diamond Express express train falls in love with Jeanne Harmon, whose snobbish, high society mother, Mrs.
24 September 1937
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
18 March 1938
Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast.
15 August 1941
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young.
30 May 1938
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
29 July 1929
"Light Fingers" is both the name and the physical description of this film's hero, a dapper petty thief.
28 January 1928
Rinty becomes the best pal of juvenile "human" hero Danny O'Shea. Their devotion to one another is proven beyond doubt when Danny is threatened by kidnappers.
04 April 1926
The story is set in the hills of Tennessee, where practically everybody gets smashed on rotgut moonshine.
15 February 1928
A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the detective knows he's guilty of committing them.
17 August 1940
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.
20 April 1928
Rinty rescues heroine June and hero Pat from all manner of desert dangers, both natural and man-made.
21 August 1936
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical.
05 May 1931
Dancer June Page is charged with the murder of gangster "Honest Ed" Baker. Allan Perry, an ambitious journalist at the dawn of his career, seeks at all costs to cover the case to obtain exclusivity and impress his hierarchy.
18 October 1928
Rin-Tin-Tin's first sound feature, in which he plays an abused dog recused by a young girl in the far north.
19 February 1929
A ship's captain keeps a tame gorilla as a pet. During a mutiny the captain is injured by a blow and the gorilla saves him by hiding him in a cave.
10 March 1928
Rex Hale, a reform mayor, closes the musical comedy "Powder My Back" because he feels that it is immoral.
31 December 1929
The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he was killed.
19 January 1929
Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy.
17 August 1929
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France.
01 December 1928
Fighting the invasion of their small New England town by a big city--type nightclub, the Jazzland, a young newspaperman and his brother endeavor to learn the identity of the club's owner.
20 July 1926
The Wolf Hunters is a 1926 American silent Western film, also classified as a Northern, directed by Stuart Paton and starring Robert McKim, Virginia Brown Faire and Mildred Harris.
23 June 1929
A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and won't leave her alone, and she discovers that her uncle is stealing the box-office receipts.
19 July 1926
The only son of Gov. Adele Fenway, Bob, is engaged to Marian Lee, and at a dinner Adele announces her intention of giving them a wedding house.
11 October 1925
Babs Comet is employed by the classified ad department of the daily paper and uses her looks and position to get a husband.
16 September 1928
Harriet Craig, whose obsession with material possessions and immaculate neatness results in misery for all concerned.
27 December 1927
The main plot concerns an architect who, when he begins losing his eyesight, worries that he is on the verge of losing his girl as well.
04 August 1928
A police inspector 'solves' a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all.
28 March 1935
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor.
29 September 1930
Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.
12 November 1927
Bernice Randall, who has forsaken the love of her sweetheart, Tom Richards, to marry for wealth, turns down Richards' proposal after the death of her husband, and she is denounced by him as a slave to silver.
03 August 1930
Jim Brandon, foreman of the Wind River Ranch, owned by Martin Stavnow, is in love with Ronnie, the rancher's daughter, though he is unaware that Harvey, a youthful cowhand, also loves her.
10 July 1931
After his girlfriend's brother is murdered, a San Francisco newspapermen goes on the track of his killers.
20 January 1932
A wealthy family loses all of its money, but a foreign count who has married into the family helps them out.
20 March 1927
A young girl and her two brothers are sent to a children's home after their older brother, who is the only one supporting them, winds up in jail.
01 September 1927
A fortunate young man discovers gold and is then threatened by a jealous, leering villain.
15 October 1931
Tim thinks saloon owner Coldeye killed his brother. Seeking the ultimate payback, Tim gets a job in the saloon but has no idea he is targeting the wrong man.
