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Grant Mitchell (born John Grant Mitchell Jr.) was an American stage and screen actor. He is best remembered for his portrayals of fathers, husbands, bank clerks, businessmen, school principals and similar type characters, usually supporting, in films of the 1930s and 1940s.
Mitchell, a Yale post graduate at Harvard Law, gave up his law practice to become an actor, making his stage debut at age 27. He appeared in lead roles on Broadway in such plays as "It Pays to Advertise", "The Champion", "The Whole Town's Talking", and "The Baby Cyclone", the last which was specially written for him by George M. Cohan.
His screen career took off with the advent of sound (years earlier he had appeared in at least two silent films). He appeared primarily in B films, though from time to time enjoyed being a part of A-quality productions such as Dinner at Eight (1933), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).
Grant Mitchell retired from show business in 1948. He died, age 82, in Los Angeles in 1957.
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17 April 1947
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him.
22 August 1931
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals.
18 June 1932
In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner.
15 April 1933
Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.
25 February 1934
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced to move into the dilapidated house.
07 July 1939
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable.
29 October 1932
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
22 November 1935
Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected by her star status.
05 April 1941
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
24 November 1933
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch.
24 September 1942
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes to succeed on the stage.
18 November 1940
Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners.
10 May 1940
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York.
05 December 1930
A young man attempts to overcome the memory of his father, who was sent to jail for committing a murder.
07 August 1934
Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate with no chance of winning.
04 September 1942
Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot.
22 June 1945
A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and help him, and he and a macho test pilot who's fallen for her come up with a plan that involves the pilot faking an illness and being treated by her, with her uncle's "help".
12 November 1937
A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and make him disclose the location of the loot he hid before going to the slammer.
14 August 1936
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory.
08 October 1937
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
19 April 1932
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed.
21 November 1941
As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business.
24 April 1942
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers.
22 December 1937
It's bad enough that Clarice Kendall Andrews, Paula's irresponsible sister, comes home from celebrating Mardi Gras and drunkenly mentions that she got married during the festivities.
17 January 1936
Besieged by his adoring female fans, radio celebrity Ned "The Fireside Troubadour" Farrar hides out at the home of his wife Queena's imperious Aunt Min.
17 February 1940
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
01 June 1933
People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace".
09 June 1939
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.
13 December 1935
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn.
01 November 1941
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
08 March 1941
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes.
27 March 1936
An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.
19 October 1939
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington.
28 June 1940
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
02 March 1933
He Learned About Women is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Corrigan and written by Lloyd Corrigan, Ray Harris and Harlan Thompson.
24 April 1936
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
30 December 1932
An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
23 April 1938
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.
10 April 1947
Dagwood gets a raise due to a new contract with a bank manager. Blondie misunderstanding the amount of the raise pledges more than they can afford to Dagwood's high school reunion organizer who was also Dagwood's high school sweetheart.
31 December 1935
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
01 December 1935
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
21 May 1942
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
16 April 1945
Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.
08 July 1939
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution.
18 December 1947
Blondie finds a valuable watch that has been hidden by hubby Dagwood. She assumes that it's a surprise wedding gift, but the truth is that Dagwood has been guarding the watch on behalf of a client who bought the gift for his own wife, which soon leads to trouble with his boss, a loan shark, and crooked building contractors.
18 March 1944
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences.
15 April 1945
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his information, but is released and helps to expose the syndicate.
26 July 1944
Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit.
06 October 1938
Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China.
01 October 1941
A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind Russell), to New York where he plans to publish a book on the subject.
13 May 1933
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
15 January 1938
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere.
13 March 1941
In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI agent and a cabby, the boy sees it all.
17 September 1932
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie.
13 July 1934
A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.
19 July 1940
A man violates company policy by getting married.
02 September 1964
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
27 July 1935
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
29 June 1935
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
07 October 1933
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job.
