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Jack La Rue (born Gaspere Biondolillo) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. La Rue went from high school to his first acting job, in Otis Skinner's road company production of Blood and Sand. He performed in Broadway plays from around 1923 to 1931. According to La Rue, while appearing in Mae West's play Diamond Lil, he was spotted by Howard Hawks, who offered him a part in the film Scarface, starring Paul Muni.
He moved to Hollywood, where he appeared in numerous films. However, Scarface was not one of them. La Rue stated in a newspaper article that, after four days, Hawks had to replace him with George Raft because La Rue was taller than Muni and had a more powerful voice. Later, however, Raft turned down the role of the despicable villain in The Story of Temple Drake, fearing it would damage his screen image, so the part went to La Rue. Sometimes mistaken for Humphrey Bogart, he played thugs and gangsters for the most part. However, director Frank Borzage atypically cast him as a priest in the 1932 version of A Farewell to Arms simply because, according to newspaper columnist Hubbard Keavy, he was "tired of seeing conventional characters". La Rue stated he turned down a role in The Godfather and many parts in the television series The Untouchables because of the way they portrayed Italian-Americans.
La Rue died of a heart attack at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 81. He was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California.
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10 September 1932
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
25 June 1937
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks.
07 August 1942
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.
05 January 1997
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends and co-workers.
17 September 1938
A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
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.
01 February 1939
A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.
01 March 1940
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
14 February 1936
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler.
04 November 1942
A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty.
14 September 1935
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston.
01 June 1964
A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.
31 December 1962
Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl.
04 October 1935
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
27 February 1946
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs.
06 May 1933
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
15 December 1945
In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra "Sandy" Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon.
03 February 1967
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman.
03 June 1944
Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlough; actually, Muggs has been honorably discharged with a physical defect, but he tells no one of this.
21 March 1932
A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.
28 July 1933
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
26 July 1976
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
04 October 1943
Mexican club singer Lita Valdez is amazed to find that her younger brother Alberto is a talented boxer and is even more thrilled by his consistent success in the ring.
07 October 1944
A police lieutenant is determined to bust the gang of crooks selling defective automobile tires.
06 June 1937
A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
23 November 1945
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
14 May 1935
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her.
06 May 2003
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content.
02 October 1942
A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.
24 November 1942
The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
04 May 1932
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
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.
18 December 1936
Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy Scouts.
26 August 1944
A private eye (James Dunn) investigates the murder of a fur dealer. Monogram.
07 October 1934
In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat son.
28 October 1933
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
17 October 1941
Investigators crack down on a gang of nightclub con artists that has been victimizing wealthy bachelors.
10 April 1946
An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.
01 October 1945
Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene, governed by Don Juan Alvardo, a Spanish ruler.
09 July 1945
In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly esteemed racketeer.
02 June 1932
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
15 December 1950
An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate their child that has been waiting to be born.
08 December 1932
A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley.
12 January 1934
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year.
01 August 1936
When a play's two producers are murdered, the playwright tries to solve the crime.
07 May 1942
A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.
06 December 1930
A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show.
14 April 1933
An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
09 September 1937
Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.
15 March 1940
A disillusioned factory worker is charged with the attempted murder of her mother's lover.
04 November 1936
It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a million dollars in cash.
07 September 1935
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
18 April 1940
A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are.
24 December 1932
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry.
05 October 1940
Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama.
15 April 1948
A sheltered heiress is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of cheap hoods.
09 October 1935
Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.
27 July 2007
The reclusive Patricia Douglas comes out of hiding to discuss the 1937 MGM scandal, in which the powerful film studio tricked her and over 100 other underage girls into attending a stag party, where she was raped.
25 January 1935
A reporter out to break up a criminal gang finds time to make a play for a mobster's girlfriend.
13 June 1941
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
