Production
Lou Brock
Born — Died
1892-08-21 — 1971-04-19
Place of birth
Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
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Production
Credits
22 titles
Known for
5.2A Texas oil millionaire, after failing to secure oil lands in Argentina, seeks out a famous racehorse in Buenos Aires and orders his representative to buy the nag at any price. The representative, Tim Kelly, has a love affair with Lolita O'Shea, the beautiful daughter of the prize horse's owner.
They Met in Argentina
1941
Writers gather at actor Tom Kennedy's house for a brainstorming session, hoping to conceive the next hit movie.
How Comedies Are Born
1931
6.5Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with songs.
Down to Their Last Yacht
1934
8.0Ted Fio Rito and his Orchestra provide the title element with their snappy tunes fronted at different times by just starting out Betty Grable & Leif Erickson.
Air Tonic
1933
Louis Prima, between song numbers, tells how he happened to get a job in a Hollywood cafe playing music while a couple, unrelated to anything else, play a slot machine in the background. This short was reissued in 1944 and again in 1952. Lucille Ball has a bit part. Song numbers include; "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans", "Up a Lazy River", "Dinah","Basin Street Blues" and "Johnny Get Your Gun."
Swing It
1936
5.3At a Florida hotel, absconding miscreant J. Effingham Bellweather goes slapstick golfing with the house detective's flirtatious wife and an incompetent caddy.
The Golf Specialist
1930
Behind the camera
5.2A Texas oil millionaire, after failing to secure oil lands in Argentina, seeks out a famous racehorse in Buenos Aires and orders his representative to buy the nag at any price. The representative, Tim Kelly, has a love affair with Lolita O'Shea, the beautiful daughter of the prize horse's owner.
They Met in Argentina
1941
Writers gather at actor Tom Kennedy's house for a brainstorming session, hoping to conceive the next hit movie.
How Comedies Are Born
1931
6.5Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with songs.
Down to Their Last Yacht
1934
8.0Ted Fio Rito and his Orchestra provide the title element with their snappy tunes fronted at different times by just starting out Betty Grable & Leif Erickson.
Air Tonic
1933
Louis Prima, between song numbers, tells how he happened to get a job in a Hollywood cafe playing music while a couple, unrelated to anything else, play a slot machine in the background. This short was reissued in 1944 and again in 1952. Lucille Ball has a bit part. Song numbers include; "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans", "Up a Lazy River", "Dinah","Basin Street Blues" and "Johnny Get Your Gun."
Swing It
1936
5.3At a Florida hotel, absconding miscreant J. Effingham Bellweather goes slapstick golfing with the house detective's flirtatious wife and an incompetent caddy.
The Golf Specialist
1930
5.4The film is a series of comical musical numbers and skits following Phil Harris around, starting with him performing at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, which is listened to by Dorothy on the radio whose home-brewing husband Walter hates Harris. The action then moves to the country club where Walter unknowingly encounters Harris while being aggravated by his music. Walter then pretends to be Phil to meet a woman while Harris "entertains" her friend, Dorothy. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, in 2012.
So This Is Harris!
1933
6.0Scratch-As-Catch-Can is a 1932 American short comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 5th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Comedy).
Scratch-As-Catch-Can
1931
8.0Joan Grey is a young pianist that falls for the good manners and nice clothes of a gang of mobsters. She is warned by Mark Hampton, an investigator, that she is associating with gangsters and she is heading for trouble. She refuses to believe him and becomes innocently involved in some robberies and killings.
Prisoners in Petticoats
1950
Edgar Kennedy short from The Common Man series.
Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath
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1.0When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only the members of the Beer and Bicycle Club can save her.
Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
1933
10.0Hugh Herbert and Roscoe Ates are in a bar where all the men wear fezzes. They are trying to make time with cigarette girl Dorothy Granger. Their loud celery-crunching rouses the ire of Jerry Mandy, aka Sham Poo the magician.
Sham Poo, the Magician
1932
Ray Whitley and his Six-Bar Cowboys Band are working for a rancher named Pop, who has a weakness for goldmines. He trades his ranch for a worthless mine, but Ray and his boys, with the aid of a chorus girl named Mitzi, manage to get his ranch deed back.
Ranch House Romeo
1939
9.0Professor Leon Errol, an authority on how to be charming, has a few too many drinks at the Ocean View Hotel and forgets all he knows on the subject. Among those he doesn't charm are his wife, his lawyer and his lawyer's wife, a blonde cutie he thinks he has bigamously married.
The Wrong Room
1939
9.0Professor Leon Errol, an authority on how to be charming, has a few too many drinks at the Ocean View Hotel and forgets all he knows on the subject. Among those he doesn't charm are his wife, his lawyer and his lawyer's wife, a blonde cutie he thinks he has bigamously married.
The Wrong Room
1939
8.0Leon Errol moves because of a rent increase.
Moving Vanities
1939
NRTwo incompetent lawyers attempt to protect a client accused of being a peeping Tom.
Suits to Nuts
1933
10.0The Blondes and Redheads series, June's father forbids her to see her boyfriend, so she sneaks him into the house disguised as a woman. One of her father's friends, however, falls in love with the mysterious young "woman".
Rough Necking
1934
10.0Leon trades in his old car for an expensive new car, which promptly begins to fall apart.
Autobuyography
1934
3.3A pair of barbers attempt to solve a kidnapping.
Bedlam of Beards
1934
To trick a judge who's trying him on a gambling charge, Leon poses as a famous British explorer.
Major Difficulties
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1933 Short: This film is a compilation of six separate featurettes which where shown separately in RKO Keith circuit cinemas. Ely Culbertson, contract bridge most famous player of the day, gives lessons about this method, not lacking sense of humor.
My Bridge Experiences
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