Samuel Adams

Acting

Samuel Adams

Born — Died

1870-12-16 — 1958-03-24

Place of birth

Ontario, Canada

Known for

Acting

Credits

17 titles

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 13 titles

Million Dollar Legs poster
6.8

A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.

Million Dollar Legs

1932

Dirty Work poster
6.9

Stan and Ollie are chimney sweeps working at the home of mad scientist Professor Noodle.

Dirty Work

1933

Pick a Star poster
4.8

A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.

Pick a Star

1937

Umpa poster
4.3

Jack Osterman is smitten with a woman on a park bench, and cannot stop saying the word "Umpa" for the rest of the film, which involves his treatment by a doctor and his singing and dancing temptress nurses. Somewhere between utterly silly and consummately brilliant with its fully rhyming dialogue, "Umpa" is the catchword for that enduring urge that makes people do ludicrous things with absolute determination.

Umpa

1933

Amateur Crook poster
5.0

Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.

Amateur Crook

1937

The Luckiest Girl in the World poster
7.2

A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.

The Luckiest Girl in the World

1936

It's A Small World poster
6.0

Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which fleeces travelers through corrupt law enforcement.

It's A Small World

1935

Violent Is the Word for Curly poster
7.1

The stooges are left in charge of a gas station and manage to blow up the car of their first customers, three famous European professors. The stooges steal some of the academics' clothes and wind up at "Mildew", a women's college where the three professors are expected. Mistaken as the real thing, the boys take their place on the faculty. When the real professors show up, the stooges try to convince a rich woman, the schools benefactor, that an athletics programs is more important. Their athletics demonstration comes to an explosive end when the real professors slip them a nitroglycerin basketball.

Violent Is the Word for Curly

1938

The Voice of Bugle Ann poster
5.5

A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.

The Voice of Bugle Ann

1936

We Live Again poster
6.8

Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.

We Live Again

1934

Treasure Blues poster
9.0

Thelma and Patsy follow a map looking for treasure.

Treasure Blues

1935

Hill-Tillies poster
5.7

The girls camp out in the woods for a publicity stunt.

Hill-Tillies

1936

Million Dollar Racket poster
6.5

Millionaire Larry Duane is posing as his own chauffeur while touring the West and meets Molly Hennessey. They have a small romance until it is ended when her father strikes oil and moves his family east to satistify his wife's social aspirations. Larry also return east to close his estate for the summer, but stays on, still posing as the chauffeur, when he learns that Molly's family is renting the place.

Million Dollar Racket

1937