Ruth Donnelly — Actor (17)
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The Family Next Door (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Family Next Door
director: Joseph Santley actor: Hugh Herbert / Joy Hodges …
Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her smart aleck son Sammy hears that an electric railroad line is to be built through town, she decides that the family can become rich by purchasing the lots along the right of way. Patriarch George Pierce laughs at the idea, but when Rose and Sammy learn that Cora Stewart, the wealthy town widow, has withdrawn her savings from the bank, they jump to the conclusion that she is interested in buying the lots, and mother and son secretly invest the family bank roll in the land.
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Convention City (1933) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Convention City
director: Archie Mayo actor: Joan Blondell / Adolphe Menjou …
other title: ¡Que semana! / ¡Qué semana! …
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company sales manager. T.R. Kent and George Ellerbe are two salesmen who both want the job. However, they both get into trouble: T.R. is discredited when jealous saleswoman, Arlene Dale, interferes with his attempted seduction of Honeywell's daughter, Claire, and George attempts to seduce Nancy Lorraine. The position of sales manager is bestowed upon a drunken employee as a bribe after he catches J.B. about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator." Considered a lost film.
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Johnny Doughboy (1942) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Johnny Doughboy
director: John H. Auer actor: Jane Withers / Henry Wilcoxon …
other title: 步兵约翰 / 步兵約翰 …
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
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Red Salute (1935) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Red Salute
director: Sidney Lanfield actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Robert Young …
other title: El soldadito del amor / 绯色恋爱 …
The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Mexico--hoping that she will forget her "Red" boyfriend--by a young, handsome soldier named Jeff who, while somewhat of a goof-up, the general believes is still better for her.
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The White Cockatoo (1935) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The White Cockatoo
director: Alan Crosland actor: Jean Muir / Ricardo Cortez …
In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.