James Flavin

James Flavin

American character actor whose career lasted nearly half a century. James Wilson Flavin Jr. was the son of a hotel waiter of Canadian-English extraction and a mother, Katherine, whose father was an Irish immigrant. (Thus Flavin, well-known in Hollywood as an "Irish" type, was only one-quarter Irish.) Flavin was born and raised in Portland, Maine (a fact that may have enrichened his later working relationship with director John Ford, also a Portland native). He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, but (contrary to some sources) did not graduate. Instead he dropped out and returned to Portland where he drove a taxi. Then as now, summer stock companies flocked to Maine each year, and in 1929 he was asked to fill in for an actor. He did well with the part and the company manager offered him $150 per week to go with the troupe back to New York. Flavin accepted and by the spring of 1930 was living in a rooming house at 108 W. 87th Street in Manhattan. Flavin didn't manage to crack Broadway at this time (his Broadway debut would not occur for another thirty-nine years, in the 1971 revival of "The Front Page," in which Flavin played Murphy and briefly took over the lead role of Walter Burns from star Robert Ryan). He worked his way across the country in stock productions and tours, arriving in Los Angeles around 1932. He quickly made the transition to movies, landing the lead in his very first film, a Universal serial, The Airmail Mystery (1932). He also landed his leading lady, marrying the serial's female star Lucile Browne that same year. However, the serial marked virtually the last time that Flavin would play the lead in a film. Thereafter, he was restricted almost exclusively to supporting characters, many of them without so much as a name. He specialized in uniformed cops and hard-bitten detectives, but played chauffeurs, cabbies, and even a 16th-century palace guard with aplomb. Flavin appeared in nearly four hundred films between 1932 and 1971, and in almost a hundred television episodes before his final appearance, as President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976). Flavin died of a heart ailment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on April 23, 1976. His widow Lucile died seventeen days later. They were survived by their son, William James Flavin, subsequently a professor at the United States Army War College. James and Lucile Brown Flavin were buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1906-05-14
Place of Birth: Portland, Maine, USA
Also Known As: James William Flavin Jr., James Flaven, Jim Flavin

Movies List of James Flavin

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King Kong

1933 Movie
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Manpower

1941 Movie
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Confidentially Connie

1953 Movie
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Youth Will Be Served

1940 Movie
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My Girl Tisa

1948 Movie
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One Way Ticket

1935 Movie
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Armored Car Robbery

1950 Movie
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Here Come the Marines

1952 Movie
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Three Loves Has Nancy

1938 Movie
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Night Passage

1957 Movie
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Mannequin

1938 Movie
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The Devil's Henchman

1949 Movie
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Desert Fury

1947 Movie
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Nora Prentiss

1947 Movie
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Nobody Lives Forever

1946 Movie
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Wild Is the Wind

1957 Movie
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Destination Murder

1950 Movie
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The Savage Horde

1950 Movie
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Cloak and Dagger

1946 Movie
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Cheyenne Autumn

1964 Movie
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Born to Be Wild

1938 Movie
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The Shanghai Cobra

1945 Movie
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Hot News

1953 Movie
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Fingers at the Window

1942 Movie
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Mighty Joe Young

1949 Movie
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Kathleen

1941 Movie
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Homicide

1949 Movie
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In Cold Blood

1967 Movie
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Wild Gold

1934 Movie
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Belle Starr

1941 Movie
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Mr. Wong in Chinatown

1939 Movie
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Dragonfly Squadron

1954 Movie
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The Murder Man

1935 Movie
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Rendezvous

1935 Movie
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Sailor Beware

1952 Movie
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The Naked Street

1955 Movie
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God Is My Co-Pilot

1945 Movie
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How to Behave

1936 Movie
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So Proudly We Hail

1943 Movie
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Reap the Wild Wind

1942 Movie
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I Dood It

1943 Movie
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The Missing Lady

1946 Movie
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Riot Squad

1933 Movie
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Flamingo Road

1949 Movie
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Law and Order

1976 Movie
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Never Say Goodbye

1956 Movie
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Prison Warden

1949 Movie
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Abroad with Two Yanks

1944 Movie
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Hold That Hypnotist

1957 Movie
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Wives Under Suspicion

1938 Movie
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Boys' Ranch

1946 Movie
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Girls Can Play

1937 Movie
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O. Henry's Full House

1952 Movie
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They All Come Out

1939 Movie
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Apache Ambush

1955 Movie
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Follow the Sun

1951 Movie
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The Brand of Hate

1934 Movie
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We Go Fast

1941 Movie
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Convicts at Large

1938 Movie
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Irish Luck

1939 Movie
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Hello, Sister!

1933 Movie
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Anchors Aweigh

1945 Movie
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Mississippi Rhythm

1949 Movie
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While New York Sleeps

1938 Movie
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Massacre Canyon

1954 Movie
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Operation Pacific

1951 Movie
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Oh! Susanna

1951 Movie
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The Devil's Pipeline

1940 Movie
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Sleep, My Love

1948 Movie
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Pot o' Gold

1941 Movie
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They Met in a Taxi

1936 Movie
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My Dear Miss Aldrich

1937 Movie
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Midnight Taxi

1937 Movie
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Live, Love and Learn

1937 Movie
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Night Spot

1938 Movie
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Blondie

1938 Movie
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Woman Wanted

1935 Movie
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Tell No Tales

1939 Movie
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Everybody's Doing It

1938 Movie
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The Airmail Mystery

1932 Movie
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Back Street

1932 Movie
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Start Cheering

1938 Movie
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Carrie

1952 Movie
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Manhattan Heartbeat

1940 Movie
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Jesse James

1939 Movie
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Good Times

1967 Movie
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Union Pacific

1939 Movie
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They Shall Have Music

1939 Movie
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Each Dawn I Die

1939 Movie
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Christmas Holiday

1944 Movie
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Sergeant Madden

1939 Movie
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Fast and Furious

1939 Movie
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The Roaring Twenties

1939 Movie
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A Stolen Life

1946 Movie
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Lucky Cisco Kid

1940 Movie
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South of Pago Pago

1940 Movie
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Secrets of Chinatown

1935 Movie
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The Grapes of Wrath

1940 Movie
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Bedtime Story

1941 Movie
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Air Force

1943 Movie
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Dangerously Yours

1937 Movie
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I Am the Law

1938 Movie
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Miracle Money

1938 Movie
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Unconquered

1947 Movie
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Uncertain Glory

1944 Movie
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Mildred Pierce

1945 Movie
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Treat 'Em Rough

1942 Movie
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The Daring Young Man

1935 Movie
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Remember the Night

1940 Movie
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Sentimental Journey

1946 Movie
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The Fighting 69th

1940 Movie
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Brother Orchid

1940 Movie
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Dakota Lil

1950 Movie
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Hold Back the Dawn

1941 Movie
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Bungalow 13

1948 Movie
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Laura

1944 Movie
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Johnny Apollo

1940 Movie
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Everybody's Baby

1939 Movie
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Saboteur

1942 Movie
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Ship of Wanted Men

1933 Movie
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Thru Different Eyes

1942 Movie
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When the Daltons Rode

1940 Movie
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Ride on Vaquero

1941 Movie
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Code of the Streets

1939 Movie
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Baby Take a Bow

1934 Movie
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Gateway

1938 Movie
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Tin Pan Alley

1940 Movie
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The Long Voyage Home

1940 Movie
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One Touch of Venus

1948 Movie
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Gentleman Jim

1942 Movie
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Castle on the Hudson

1940 Movie
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It All Came True

1940 Movie
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Florian

1940 Movie
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The Golden Fleecing

1940 Movie
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And One Was Beautiful

1940 Movie
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Girl in 313

1940 Movie
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Rhythm on the River

1940 Movie
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The Ghost Breakers

1940 Movie
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The Way of All Flesh

1940 Movie
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The Great Profile

1940 Movie
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Women Without Names

1940 Movie
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Angel on My Shoulder

1946 Movie
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Rock Island Trail

1950 Movie
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Easy to Wed

1946 Movie
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Robin Hood Of Texas

1947 Movie
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Chinatown Squad

1935 Movie
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La Conga Nights

1940 Movie
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Captain Hurricane

1935 Movie
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Trouble Along the Way

1953 Movie
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I Beheld His Glory

1953 Movie
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Tough as They Come

1942 Movie
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Four Mothers

1941 Movie
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The Plunderers

1948 Movie
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Western Union

1941 Movie
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Ride 'Em Cowboy

1942 Movie
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Star of Texas

1953 Movie
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Texas

1941 Movie
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Johnny Rocco

1958 Movie
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Shockproof

1949 Movie
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Big Town Czar

1939 Movie
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Big Town Girl

1937 Movie
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Double Alibi

1940 Movie
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New York Town

1941 Movie
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Angel's Holiday

1937 Movie
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Dangerous Number

1937 Movie
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Shipmates Forever

1935 Movie
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I Wake Up Screaming

1941 Movie
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Fighting Coast Guard

1951 Movie
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Tars and Spars

1946 Movie
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Once Upon a Time

1944 Movie
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Song of the Thin Man

1947 Movie
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Affectionately Yours

1941 Movie
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The Big Race

1934 Movie
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Corvette K-225

1943 Movie
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Hot Water

1937 Movie
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Heaven Can Wait

1943 Movie
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Mission to Moscow

1943 Movie
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Rendezvous with Annie

1946 Movie
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I Promise to Pay

1937 Movie
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Murder, He Says

1945 Movie
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Strange Affair

1944 Movie
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Only Yesterday

1933 Movie
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My Favorite Brunette

1947 Movie
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Public Hero Number 1

1935 Movie
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'G' Men

1935 Movie
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Hollywood Canteen

1944 Movie
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Special Agent

1935 Movie
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Dishonored Lady

1947 Movie
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Buck Privates

1941 Movie
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It Ain't Hay

1943 Movie
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Night in New Orleans

1942 Movie
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Over 21

1945 Movie
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Mister Roberts

1955 Movie
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Private Affairs

1940 Movie
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The Noose Hangs High

1948 Movie
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Pot o' Gold

1941 Movie
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You Only Live Once

1937 Movie
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Riding High

1943 Movie
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The Spider

1945 Movie
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The Restless Breed

1957 Movie
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My Man Godfrey

1936 Movie
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Rhubarb

1951 Movie
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Young Widow

1946 Movie
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Ziegfeld Girl

1941 Movie
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Okay, America!

1932 Movie
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Kid Glove Killer

1942 Movie
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Beloved

1934 Movie
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Queen of the Mob

1940 Movie
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Mickey the Kid

1939 Movie
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The All-American

1932 Movie
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Swing Shift Maisie

1943 Movie
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The Velvet Touch

1948 Movie
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Step by Step

1946 Movie
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Nightmare Alley

1947 Movie
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Hot Steel

1940 Movie
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Test Pilot

1938 Movie
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South Sea Sinner

1950 Movie
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The Last Hurrah

1958 Movie
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Return of the Dead

1954 Movie