Hal K. Dawson Trailers
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Hal K. Dawson (October 17, 1896 – February 17, 1987) was an American actor. The films he performed in include: Dr. Socrates, My American Wife, Libeled Lady, Wells Fargo,, Broadway Melody of 1940, Star Dust, The Doctor Takes a Wife, Washington Melodrama, Week-End in Havana,, Guest Wife, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Chicken Every Sunday, Bonzo Goes to College and The Benny Goodman Story.
He died on February 17, 1987, in Loma Linda, California aged 90.
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02 February 1949
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.
03 November 1934
Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old daughter Mariette.
19 October 1935
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife.
25 April 1940
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
12 July 1940
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
28 April 1937
An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
16 October 1947
BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer that is difficult to refuse.
06 November 1937
A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more short films that would be produced in New York.
12 June 1942
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
24 October 1939
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
22 December 1937
Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank robbers after walking into the bank during the robbery and one of the robbers, in taking money from her purse, left his fingerprints on the purse.
14 October 1938
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
09 December 1942
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink.
30 September 1937
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
30 August 1940
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
01 December 1939
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
02 May 1952
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
12 August 1938
Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.
18 April 1947
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
01 August 1939
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
29 April 1938
A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed.
19 July 1940
A man violates company policy by getting married.
01 April 1942
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
29 February 1940
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.
15 May 1942
A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
18 January 1949
A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.
27 August 1938
Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.
16 July 1959
Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely mansion in a remote section of swampland tenanted by snakes, alligators, a drunken one-armed lout, a mysterious doctor, and a cold-hearted elderly woman who lives alone in a brooding manse.
29 December 1939
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out.
06 April 1940
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.
02 August 1943
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right.
09 July 1937
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business.
19 September 1968
The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.
25 December 1946
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home.
09 October 1936
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her.
29 November 1940
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes.
28 May 1942
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
16 July 1937
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith.
01 November 1935
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
05 August 1938
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
29 November 1940
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused.
22 January 1958
Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house.
09 January 1947
Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series.
13 July 1955
A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.
17 April 1941
An elderly businessman plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl's murder.
12 August 1938
A millionaire courts a working-class woman.
15 December 1954
An actor on the skids is given one more chance to regain his stardom, as well as his self-respect, yet his alcoholism may prevent that from happening.
29 January 1939
A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.
25 March 1948
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.
01 July 1942
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course.
01 May 1959
A man who was falsly accused for murder escapes the sheriffs and starts a new life in a town at the border of the States to Mexico.
19 April 1940
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat.
06 November 1957
An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.
31 December 1958
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
21 December 1937
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
23 November 1951
Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well.
08 September 1939
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
13 March 1942
With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O'Brien.
09 October 1936
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well.
12 February 1937
A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.
