
Acting
John Arledge
Born 1906-03-12 · Crockett, Texas, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Johnson Lundy Arledge (March 12, 1906 – May 15, 1947) was an American film and stage actor. He played dozens of supporting roles in the Hollywood movies of the 1930s–1940s, including the tractor driver who destroys a house in The Grapes of Wrath.
Acting credits
7.9The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Gone with the Wind
1939
7.8Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
7.3A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
Dark Passage
1947
5.8Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
The Fighting 69th
1940
6.7A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.
That's My Man
1947
6.9The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
City for Conquest
1940
6.5Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.
Arizona
1940
7.0Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
Strange Cargo
1940
6.5A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
We're Only Human
1935
6.3A large-scale revue musical built around Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, presenting a series of musical performances, sketches, and staged tableaux in early two-color Technicolor, emblematic of Hollywood’s early sound-era “all-star” musical productions.
King of Jazz
1930
7.5A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
1947
5.8Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
Careless Lady
1932
6.8Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory.
Devil Dogs of the Air
1935
6.2A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
7.0Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.
Huddle
1932
6.8Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
Mary Jane's Pa
1935
5.8A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her.
Flirtation Walk
1934
7.0Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.
Old Man Rhythm
1935
5.4When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper presumes her death was accidental, until his friend, amateur detective Hildegarde Withers, locates Violet’s horse and discovers it is streaked with blood.
Murder on a Bridle Path
1936
5.7An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
Twelve Crowded Hours
1939
4.6In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.
Ski Patrol
1940
7.0Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939
7.0After her brother is wrongfully arrested for the theft of some bonds, a nurse sets out to clear his name by becoming the home-care nurse for the ailing leader of the gang which actually stole the bonds.
Numbered Woman
1938
7.7Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
Big City
1937