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Johnnie Davis, also billed as Johnny Davis and Johnnie "Scat" Davis, was an American actor and singer.
Born John Gustave Davis in Brazil, Indiana, into a family of musicians, Davis developed an interest in music during his childhood. He learned to play the trumpet and by the age of 13 was performing with his grandfather's band.
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Total trailers found: 19
15 January 1938
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere.
08 August 1938
A naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy.
11 June 1943
A dancer in a girlie show plots revenge when a judge orders her show closed.
09 July 1938
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
11 April 1944
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place.
01 January 1956
A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.
16 October 1937
The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as well as costing the college a donation which would save the school from closing.
29 October 1938
Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.
15 June 1938
Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband.
04 September 1937
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show.
23 September 1938
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio.
17 March 1944
The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy.
16 September 1939
In this comedic short, when a waiter accidentally knocks out boxing champ Tiger Dorsey in Slapsie Maxie's restaurant, Maxie arranges a boxing match between the reluctant waiter and the champ.
11 June 1938
At the Katnip Kollege, we see a roomful of cats taking a course in Swingology. Everyone swings except Johnny, who can't cut it and has to sit in the dunce chair.
28 February 1944
In this WW II musical, a group of lovely college co-eds, realizing that there is a shortage of single young men, decide to begin rationing their dates so that all of them can have some fun.
17 September 1938
This musical comedy has a popular basketball star playing for a different college than what his father wanted after he falls in love with a co-ed.
18 July 1936
A stern classical music teacher becomes a father of four musically-inclined sons, but when one of them demonstrates a preference for jazz music, his father kicks him out of the house.
20 May 1939
A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.
07 December 1939
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.