Fred Keating - Turner Classic Movies

Filmography

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Tin Pan Alley (1940)

Eternally Yours (1939)

Master of ceremonies

Society Smugglers (1939)

Lawrence Kearns

Prison Train (1938)

Doctor Rhythm (1938)

Melody for Two (1937)

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Nitwits, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) You Opened My Eyes

Nitwits, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Music In My Heart

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Tin Pan Alley (1940)

Eternally Yours (1939)

Master of ceremonies

Society Smugglers (1939)

Lawrence Kearns

Prison Train (1938)

Doctor Rhythm (1938)

Melody for Two (1937)

When's Your Birthday? (1937)

The Devil on Horseback (1936)

13 Hours by Air (1936)

Gregorie Stephanie

To Beat the Band (1935)

The Nitwits (1935)

William Darrell

Shanghai (1935)

I Live My Life (1935)

The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)

Danny Checkett [also known as "Fairaday"]

Cast (Special)

Time Out For Ginger (1955)

Life Events

Videos

Nitwits, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) You Opened My Eyes George Stevens with a clever opening, directing his third feature and his second Wheeler & Woolsey vehicle, with a song introduced by Joey Ray, Joan Andrews also singing, the tune by Felix Bernard and L. Wolfe Gilbert, Donald Kerr the lackey, Hale Hamilton the music company boss, and the stars, Bert and Robert, running the cigar shop (Betty Grable in the photo!), in The Nitwits, 1935.

Nitwits, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Music In My Heart If Betty Grable looks like she’s 18 it’s because she was, in one of her earliest credited features, as Mary, secretary to the boss upstairs at the music publishing company, who needs a murder song, so she can’t wait to tell her songwriting beau Johnnie (Bert Wheeler) down at the cigar shop, launching into a Jimmy McHugh-Dorothy Fields original, in the Wheeler & Woolsey comedy The Nitwits, 1935.

Nitwits, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) The Black Widow's Going To Get You! Having by chance written a song about the “Black Widow,” not knowing that music publishing company boss Lake (Hale Hamilton), to whom they’re pitching the song, is being tormented by a blackmailer by that very name, Bert hesitates but Robert manages to perform, in the Wheeler & Woolsey vehicle The Nitwits, 1935.

Captain Hates The Sea, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) To Part Is To Die A Little Just away from Los Angeles, Akim Tamiroff as Salazaro misses his family, with new shipmates, John Gilbert as ex-reporter Steve, Victor McLaglen as gumshoe Schulte, who, while Helen Vinson introduces herself, predicts that their other pal, Danny (Fred Keating), his suspect in a big bond theft, will turn up, in The Captain Hates The Sea, 1934.

I Live My Life (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Brigands Are Men, Aren't They? Early business on a cruise liner off Greece, Frank Morgan is Bentley, playing cards badly, Eric Blore the servant Grove, Fred Keating the fiancè to leading lady Joan Crawford, making her first appearance as Kay, various bits of exposition, in MGM’s I LIve My Life, 1935, also starring Brian Aherne.

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