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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.
28 June 1937
A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigrants are prepared for American citizenship.
12 January 1945
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.
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 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.
27 January 1937
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
13 October 1939
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them.
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.
14 December 1936
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.
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.
04 October 1937
Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they get out, they join forces to track down the real thieves.
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.
27 March 1936
While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.
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.
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.
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.
20 May 1938
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
06 May 1936
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
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.
19 October 1939
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington.
09 May 1937
An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.
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.
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.
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.
30 June 1939
An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
23 November 1934
Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work.
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.
02 October 1936
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
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.
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.
29 March 1940
Broadway producer Nicksie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clarice Sheldon, in the lead role and rehearse out of town.
23 March 1935
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
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.
06 May 1938
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connection
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.
09 August 1940
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
05 May 1939
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
10 August 1934
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
26 October 1934
A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.
30 June 1939
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling.