Donald Novis
Actor
Movies19
Movie7.4ComedyCrimeThief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
Trouble in Paradise
1932 · 322 votes
Movie5.7ComedyMusicWhen a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.
Love in the Rough
1930 · 7 votes
Movie5.4ComedyRomanceWhen Stephen, the husband of Gerald’s mistress, Claire, discovers a pair of tickets for their planned trip to Venice, Gerald must invent a wife to cover their tracks. He is then forced to hire a woman to play “his wife” when Stephen insists he and Claire accompany them to Venice.
This Is the Night
1932 · 18 votes
Movie6.4ComedyRomanceAndre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
One Hour with You
1932 · 85 votes
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An Irish grandfather tells his young grandson stories of his roots, his courtship with his grandmother and love of freedom through stories and song.
Irish Fantasy
1929
Movie6.5ComedyMusicA countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
Monte Carlo
1930 · 21 votes
Movie5.4DramaCrimeA drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up.
Guilty Bystander
1950 · 32 votes
Movie7.0ComedyHistoryThis film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo at the end of the film.
Down Memory Lane
1949 · 1 votes
Movie6.5AnimationA narrator sings the opening stanzas of the classic poem while we see the house at rest. Santa lands on the roof, comes down the chimney, and opens his bag. The toys march out and decorate the tree, with the toy soldiers shooting balls from their cannon, a toy airplane stringing a garland like skywriting, and the toy firemen applying snow. A blimp delivers the star to the top. Meanwhile, Santa fills the stockings. His laughter awakens the children, who sneak out. The toys rush to their places, and Santa escapes up the chimney just in time.
The Night Before Christmas
1933 · 59 votes
Movie5.0ComedyMusicA manufacturer and an impresario (who has promised some young people he will stage their show) are twin brothers causes a lot of confusion when the manufacturer is mistaken for his no-money brother.
Slightly Terrific
1944 · 4 votes
Movie8.0ComedyZasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
Let's Do Things
1931 · 1 votes
Movie7.5MusicRomanceAn insurance salesman persuades his sister to help him meet a radio star so he can sell the celebrity a policy.
The Policy Girl
1934 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ComedyAfter running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at her mansion.
The Pajama Party
1931 · 3 votes
Movie5.8RomanceComedyAn inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
Flying High
1931 · 5 votes
Movie5.7MusicComedyA WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
1944 · 3 votes
Movie6.5ActionThrillerBulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.
Bulldog Drummond
1929 · 27 votes
Movie7.1ComedyMusicThe top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.
The Big Broadcast
1932 · 9 votes
MovieComedyMusicIn the province of Bullvania, the President loses important papers and war is almost declared. Detective Shemp Howard and his partner come to the rescue.
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This Mack Sennett produced short has Donald Novis playing Danny O'Brien, a young singer whose mother takes him to a talent agent office where she demands that the owners listen to him.