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Paul Stanton (1884-1955) was an American character actor and bit-part player in American films.
Originally from Illinois, he appeared in about 130 films between 1918 and 1952, mostly in supporting roles. He often portrayed authoritarian figures like judges, attorneys, managers, officials and doctors.
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22 January 1937
Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry.
01 April 1935
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
20 December 1935
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face.
18 December 1936
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive.
19 April 1941
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
05 June 1936
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications.
15 July 1937
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
05 April 1940
A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.
11 January 1940
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family.
30 September 1937
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
28 November 1941
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial.
07 November 1942
A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.
19 October 1939
After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington.
09 June 1939
Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his nurse Margaret Hopkins.
16 November 1942
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home.
21 October 1937
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
18 December 1935
Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfriend, Vivian Palmer.
24 December 1947
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
06 May 1936
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
09 May 1937
An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.
25 June 1949
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
26 October 1939
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
14 July 1918
Marcia Calhoun, a talented but penniless singer, leaves her Southern home hoping to study opera in New York.
28 February 1946
Ex-convict Hank Rogers is searching for his brother Jim, a newspaperman, and becomes involved with a group of people trying to conceal the death of the president of a large corporation so they can profit financially.
30 June 1939
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling.
18 March 1938
A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.
02 May 1941
An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paralyzed.
11 December 1937
Government undercover agents William Dennis and Joan Barclay are working to solve the disappearances of girls working as "taxi-dancers" from dance halls operated by Jack Miranda and his henchman Nifty.
30 June 1939
An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
04 September 1942
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact that he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941.
08 August 1941
Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a perfect murder.
22 April 1943
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping.
13 September 1940
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
10 October 1946
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
04 September 1936
The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt.
20 April 1937
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester.
04 April 1939
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice.
06 August 1937
A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
18 July 1936
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father.
27 January 1937
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
04 May 1934
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression.
10 March 1944
Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
14 December 1936
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.
25 December 1941
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
13 March 1936
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.
30 January 1937
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
02 October 1936
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
04 April 1937
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
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.
18 August 1939
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
25 December 1941
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
04 April 1943
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
13 June 1947
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his temporary replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young, singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once Pearson meets teacher Trudy Mason, he is delighted to stay.
10 October 1936
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement and the courage of a local businessman.
20 May 1938
A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite who has amnesia.
12 September 1935
The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father.
23 March 1935
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
09 October 1936
Dimples Appleby lives with her pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket.
06 May 1938
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connection
01 April 1943
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.