Buddy Messinger
Actor · 1907 – 1965 · San Francisco, California, USA
Buddy Messinger (born Melvin Joseph Messinger; 26 October 1907 – 25 October 1965) was an American actor who was cast in substantial roles in dozens of films during the silent film era. He began his career as a jovial chubby child actor. With the advent of sound films he was relegated mostly to bit parts.
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Movie8.0MysteryDramaNewspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Citizen Kane
1941 · 6.3K votes
Movie8.3ComedyDramaA bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...
Modern Times
1936 · 4.2K votes
Movie7.3ComedyRomanceWhen a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
Libeled Lady
1936 · 136 votes
Movie5.7ComedyFamilyJudge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
1940 · 12 votes
Movie6.8DramaAt the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
Wild Boys of the Road
1933 · 53 votes
Movie6.1ComedyAdventureWhile in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America, her opinion of him begins to change.
Too Hot to Handle
1938 · 22 votes
Movie6.7DramaRomanceRomanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
Hold Back the Dawn
1941 · 51 votes
- Movie6.5Comedy
Two henpecked men run off and pretend to be athletic trainers in order to get jobs in a weight loss club for women. The Sunkist Bathing Beauties are featured performers.
Dumb-Belles
1927 · 2 votes
Movie7.3WesternHomesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The Lone Ranger is on hand to help the homesteaders battle Bart's men as he overcomes traps, ambushes, burning buildings and other obstacles in his attempt to bring peace to the valley.
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
1939 · 3 votes
Movie6.1ComedyDramaA group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Idiot's Delight
1939 · 17 votes
Movie6.9WesternA Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
Devil's Doorway
1950 · 53 votes
Movie7.0ComedyDramaA well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
The Devil Is a Sissy
1936 · 12 votes
Movie6.7DramaRomanceA nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
The Shining Hour
1938 · 22 votes
Movie5.8ComedyA truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society.
Three of a Kind
1936 · 8 votes
Movie7.2ComedyDramaFour student nurses at a large urban hospital cope with life's problems and career issues.
Four Girls in White
1939 · 4 votes
Movie7.0ComedyEdgar from the city goes to visit his country cousin and at once begins to impress him and his gang with the superiority of life and ways in the city. His brave effort to go barefoot "like we do in the city" causes him much pain, and everything he attempts to demonstrate the city's superiority has disastrous results. However, a black eye, a face full of bee-stings, and the general bawling-out of the gang fails to conquer him, and he declares that he is having a bully time. This silent comedy short is presumably lost.
Edgar's Country Cousin
1921 · 1 votes
Movie6.4MysteryDramaA private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.
Crime by Night
1944 · 8 votes
Movie4.6ComedyA mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
The Housekeeper's Daughter
1939 · 5 votes
Movie6.6RomanceComedyMembers of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
The Affairs of Martha
1942 · 7 votes
Movie10.0ComedyAmong other Christmas gifts, Edgar receives a tool chest containing a little saw. While he is out displaying some of his other presents to the boy next door, little brother Charlie saws up everything in the house, furniture, hats, and at length attempts operations on the cat. Edgar gets the blame, and is being kept from his sweetheart's party as punishment, when Charlie's guilt is discovered. This film is presumably lost.
Edgar's Little Saw
1920 · 1 votes
Movie5.2ComedyCrimeJoel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
Fast and Furious
1939 · 11 votes
Movie7.5CrimeDramaA dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Sergeant Madden
1939 · 2 votes
Movie10.0MusicWhen a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especially his recent girlfriend, who just broke up with him, he becomes an overnight sensation.
Cheer Up and Smile
1930 · 1 votes
Movie4.6ComedyAn advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
1941 · 9 votes