Hugh Herbert
Actor · 1884 – 1952 · Binghamton, New York, USA
Movies24
Movie5.7ComedyMusicOliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?
On Our Merry Way
1948 · 18 votes
Movie7.2MusicComedyOlsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
Hellzapoppin'
1941 · 112 votes
Movie6.8ComedyMusicA fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
Footlight Parade
1933 · 106 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
Movie6.5RomanceMusicA reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
Dames
1934 · 43 votes
Movie6.4FantasyRomanceFour young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935 · 52 votes
Movie6.0CrimeDramaHarry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
Wonder Bar
1934 · 21 votes
Movie5.7CrimeComedyA young woman goes to the police looking for her missing husband. When it turns out her husband is both a murder victim and a bachelor - and that she is the primary suspect - tough cop Butch Saunders comes up with a scheme to crack the case.
Bureau of Missing Persons
1933 · 19 votes
Movie4.2ComedyExtra-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.
Convention City
1933 · 5 votes
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Bob's favorite memories and funniest moments on TV The biggest Stars! ... The biggest laughs! On DVD for the first time, this special 90 minute collection proves that laughter is the universal language with a sidesplitting salute to slapstick, satire, sketch comedy and zingers. Featuring Bob's funniest moments on television, this tribute includes a virtual who's who of legendary entertainers like Bing Crosby, Jackie Gleason, Roy Rogers, Ingrid Bergman, Bob Newhart, Lucille Ball, Ann-Margret, Jack Benny, Angie Dickinson, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, Danny Thomas, Don Rickles, Milton Berle, Redd Foxx, Dorothy Lamour, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Dyan Cannon, Debbie Reynolds, Lassie and more.
Movie6.4ComedyMusicThe story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.
A Song Is Born
1948 · 47 votes
Movie6.0WesternIn the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, brothers Jim and Bob Holliday are bumping heads over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson. While all this is going on, Wild Bill Hickok does his best to neutralize the local criminal element-and to fend off the romantic overtures of boisterous Calamity Jane.
Badlands of Dakota
1941 · 10 votes
Movie6.4ThrillerCrimeVal takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
Fog Over Frisco
1934 · 20 votes
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A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner Bros. Studios and is greeted by several stars; Margaret Lindsay, Guy Kibbee, and Dick Powell work at a gold mine; Joan Blondell, recovered from a recent illness, thanks her fans; songs from the movie Harold Teen (1934) are performed by the songwriters and the film's stars.
Hollywood Newsreel
1934 · 2 votes
Movie5.5AdventureFantasyHafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
Kismet
1944 · 18 votes
Movie6.4ComedyHorrorGreedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
The Black Cat
1941 · 45 votes
Movie6.7ComedyA small town man inherits a significant fortune and takes his family to New York City whereupon they are continually shocked at the alien culture of the Big Apple.
So This Is New York
1948 · 6 votes
Movie6.3ComedyRomanceA young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of theatre and film appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance.
Stage Door Canteen
1943 · 20 votes
Movie5.5ComedyRomanceA public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.
Four's a Crowd
1938 · 16 votes
Movie6.3DocumentaryA promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
A Dream Comes True
1935 · 4 votes
Movie8.0ComedyHugh Herbert forms a company to relieve other people from worrying, but a jealous husband, Harry Barris, gives him sone unexpected trouble. Following some narrow escapes, Hugh works his way out of the trouble by making the husband believe he has killed his wife, Christine McIntyre.
Woo, Woo!
1945 · 1 votes
Movie5.9DramaMusicComposer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
The Great Waltz
1938 · 18 votes
Movie5.9DramaComedyAnita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.
Eternally Yours
1939 · 22 votes
Movie5.9ComedyMusicGinger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
We're in the Money
1935 · 7 votes