
El Brendel
Actor · 1890 – 1964 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
El Brendel (March 24, 1890 - April 9, 1964); born Elmer Goodfellow Brendel), nicknamed "The Synthetic Swede", was an American stage, film, and television actor. Although of German and Irish parentage, he adopted the comedic persona of a Swede who speaks fractured English.
Movies23
Movie7.2DramaActionTwo young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
Wings
1927 · 346 votes
Movie6.7DramaWesternYoung scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth Cameron and plans his revenge on the harsh scoundrels who murdered a friend of his in the past.
The Big Trail
1930 · 137 votes
Movie3.6ComedyDramaA new dress plays a key role in the lives of four women who are not acquainted with each other.
Paris Model
1953 · 5 votes
Movie5.9ComedyWesternSaloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. As this is usually the local judge's rear-end, Freddie and friend Conchita are soon hiding out teaching school in the middle of nowhere.
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
1949 · 15 votes
Movie6.3ComedyMusicBandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.
Happy Landing
1938 · 4 votes
Movie6.5DramaFamilyAn orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
Little Miss Broadway
1938 · 17 votes
Movie5.8ComedyMusicNew York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.
Just Imagine
1930 · 26 votes
Movie6.3MusicIn Fox's contribution to the all-star revue cycle of early talkies, showboat singer Margie, hearing that the show is in arrears, goes to New York to gather all of the former stars to stage a minstrel show as a benefit.
Happy Days
1929 · 3 votes
Movie6.0MusicSeveral members of MGM's 'galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show.
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
1934 · 4 votes
Movie5.7ActionAdventureWhen her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
Captain Caution
1940 · 11 votes
Movie6.7AdventureA lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
Valley of the Giants
1938 · 6 votes
Movie7.0ComedyFamilyConstruction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his buddies, her father, is killed. Buzz and Pat, along with their chum Axel Swensen, head to New York to look for the girl's uncle. The trio soon unexpectedly become owners of a tired restaurant.
If I Had My Way
1940 · 7 votes
Movie9.0ComedyGangsters, gold-digging dames, and other assorted characters nettle an overworked custodian in this odd farce.
Olsen’s Big Moment
1933 · 1 votes
Movie5.6ComedyFamous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
The Stolen Jools
1931 · 34 votes
Movie4.1Science FictionHorrorA mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
The She-Creature
1956 · 36 votes
Movie8.0DramaRomanceThough billed second, the stunningly beautiful Louise Brooks is the focal point of the campus comedy Rolled Stockings. It's the old one about two collegiate brothers, Jim and Ralph Treadway (James Hall, Richard Arlen), in love with the same girl, Carol Fleming (Brooks).
Rolled Stockings
1927 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
Three klutzy moving men end up in a museum that may or may not be haunted - slapstick hijinks ensue.
Phoney Cronies
1942 · 1 votes
Movie7.7DramaCrimeFrankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis, Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay is innocent.
Code of the Streets
1939 · 3 votes
Movie5.2ComedyIn this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and begin fighting over her.
Hot Pepper
1933 · 6 votes
Movie6.1DramaRomanceOn her way to the theater, Vera, star of a Russian vaudeville troupe, is rescued from a falling girder by Eugene Foster, a wealthy broker who persists in his efforts to win the girl. Foster engages the troupe to perform at his home, and Vera, stunned by a fall, awakens to find Foster pleading his love, while Norodin, her partner who loves her, sees them embrace. Norodin, who performs an underwater stunt, asks Vera not to be present for his act and causes her to believe him dead; heartbroken, Vera tells Foster of her mistake; and enraged, he attempts to seize her. The magician appears, pins Foster to the wall with knives, and advises him to leave before the last blade is thrown.
You Never Know Women
1926 · 7 votes
Movie9.0ComedyTroubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for rides.
Six Cylinder Love
1931 · 1 votes
Movie7.3ComedyA stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
The Meanest Gal in Town
1934 · 4 votes
Movie7.0CrimeMysteryLowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe’s clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant? After the police restrain the audience from leaving, Lowe uses his magical powers to help expose the killer. Watch for the terrific séance scene where weird ghost-like creatures float above the stage.
The Spider
1931 · 3 votes
Series4
TV7.7MysteryDramaThe cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Perry Mason
1957 · 139 votes
- TV7.8Comedy
The George Gobel Show is an American television series hosted George Gobel that aired on NBC from 1954 to 1960.
The George Gobel Show
1954 · 4 votes
TV6.5DramaAction & AdventureRacket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
Racket Squad
1951 · 4 votes
TV5.0ComedyMy Little Margie is an American situation comedy starring Gale Storm and Charles Farrell that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to 1955.
My Little Margie
1952 · 2 votes