Captain Charles


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His Parisian Wife (1919)
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Music In My Heart (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Oh, What A Lovely Dream! Through a flimsy plot device in this Columbia Pictures vehicle for non-contract star Tony Martin, he’s been recruited to sing for a Manhattan politician (Joseph Crehan), from the neighborhood where his prospective new girlfriend Pat (Rita Hayworth) lives, and plays piano, with a Bob Wright-Chet Forrest original, in Music In My Heart, 1940.
April Showers (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Have A Cigar! Vaudeville stars since their son Buster (Robert Ellis) joined their act, the Tymes (Jack Carson, Ann Sothern) arrive for their big gig in New York and find out from Barnes (Joseph Crehan) that they’re not legal, Billy Curtis walking in with the solution, and Mel Blanc providing the nutty dubbed voice, in Warner Bros.’ April Showers, 1948.
Case Of The Stuttering Bishop, The (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Conscience Or Curiosity Clever doings for the principals, Donald Woods the hero, Ann Dvorak his gal Della, Joseph Crehan the P-I Paul Drake, pursuing a mystery gal who may have clobbered the missing title character, in the final Warner Bros. Perry Mason mystery, The Case Of The Stuttering Bishop, 1937.
Ruby Gentry (1953) -- (Movie Clip) You Turned Wildcat Jennifer Jones (title character) pursued by her intense back-in-town boyfriend Boake (Charlton Heston), plotting to ditch polite Dr. Manfred (Bernard Phillips) during a deer hunt the next day, in Max Ophuls' Ruby Gentry, 1953.
Ruby Gentry (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Brains And Breedin' Tracy (Phyllis Avery) arrives at the lodge, meeting Dr. Manfred (Bernard Phillips), collecting boyfriend Boake (Charlton Heston), testy with her rival Jennifer Jones (title character), who then tangles with brother Jewel (James Anderson), in King Vidor's Ruby Gentry, 1953.
Ruby Gentry (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Just Anatomy After a prologue, narration into the opening scene by Dr. Manfred (Bernard Phillips), with local rich guy Jim Gentry (Karl Malden), meeting Jennifer Jones (title character) at her family's hunting lodge, from Max Ophuls' Ruby Gentry, 1953.
Ruby Gentry (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Out For Blood Jennifer Jones (title character) with dad (Tom Tully) and Dr. Manfred (Bernard Phillips, also narrating) dealing with local furor over the legit accidental death of her husband, then taking revenge with her lawyer (Dayton Lummis), in Ruby Gentry, 1953.
Phantom Lady (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Too Spoiled And Too Beautiful We learn here that Alan Curtis is professional engineer Henderson, returning home after a date with a mystery woman, with whom he shared a Broadway ticket after his wife stood him up, greeted by cops Regis Toomey, Joseph Crehan, and Thomas Gomez as Burgess, early in Robert Siodmak’s Phantom Lady, 1944.
Moonlighter, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) If I'm What You Want Rela (Barbara Stanwyck) learning from Usqubaugh (Charles Halton) years later of the exploits of the man she is now certain must have been her supposedly deceased suitor Wes (Fred MacMurray), then discussing plans with his brother (William Ching), with whom she's since taken up, in The Moonlighter, 1953.
Moonlighter, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) You Got The Wrong Man Early events, cowboy Wes (Fred MacMurray) rightly jailed for night-time rustling, protests but not enough when the locals mistake Tidy (Norman Leavitt) for him, slipping away in the aftermath, in the Barbara Stanwyck 3-D Western The Moonlighter, 1953.
Whistling In Dixie -- (Movie Clip) Grape O Mix Crime Hour After an opening murder in Georgia, we meet Marty "The Fox" Benton on his radio show, with girlfriend and co-star Carol (Ann Rutherford), the commissioner (Joseph Crehan), doctor (Pierre Watkin) and producer (Emmett Vogan), in the second film in MGM's series, Whistling In Dixie, 1942.
Brother Orchid (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Nice Mugs Vignettes as gangster Little John (Edward G. Robinson) learns the ways of the monks (Donald Crisp, Cecil Kellaway, Charles D. Brown, Joseph Crehan) at the monastery where he's hiding out, in Brother Orchid, 1940.

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