Arthur Housman

Total Credits at Criticker: 38 (Actor), 2 (Writer)

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    Sunrise
    An attractive woman from the city, on vacation, stays in a small farming community and dazzles a young married farmer... (imdb)
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    Punch Drunks
    Punch Drunks (1934) - Short Film
    Moe discovers Curly's unknown boxing talent when he knocks out the Champ at a restaurant when Larry plays "Pop Goes the Weasal" on the violin. Moe becomes Curly's manager, and they win every fight, with the help of Larry. At the championship game, though, Larry's violin breaks. Curly is getting beat down bad when Larry makes his unexpected entrance and helps Curly prevail. (imdb)
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    Braveheart
    Chief Standing Rock's tribe has a treaty protecting their fishing grounds, but a canning corporation is violating the treaty through intimidation and force. The tribe is divided as to how to handle the threat. Standing Rock's son, Braveheart, is sent to college to study law so that he can protect their rights, but others in the tribe, led by the hot-tempered Ki-Yote, want to provoke a more violent confrontation.
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    The Edison Minstrels
    A group of actors in various costumes including powdered-wigged 18th century interlocutor, and black-faced comedian side men, engage in some jokes and sing several songs, including "Grand Introductory Overture", "Soldier's Chorus from Faust", "Silver Threads Among The Gold" and the then current hit "When The Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves For Alabam". The finale is a patriotic medley ending in "The Star Spangled Banner".
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    Night Life in Reno
    A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An (interrupted) indiscretion by John Wyatt with a floozy prompts his wife, June, to make a trip to Reno, Nevada in order to get a quickie six-week-waiting-period divorce. John, penitent over his past actions (since he got caught), follows his wife to Reno and manages a reconciliation after a murder gives him a chance to prove his true devotion. (imdb)
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    Help Wanted, Female
    A new housekeeper, her son, and two not-too-bright burglars wreak havoc at a doctor's office. (imdb)
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    Sing, Sinner, Sing
    A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on trial for the crime. (imdb)
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    Good Housewrecking
    Edgar Kennedy and his family open a home decorating service, even though they have no clue what they are doing. The day of their first job, they make the mistake of going to the wrong house. The man of the house is not pleased with all the noise they are making and spends most of his time punching Edgar throughout the film. (matineeclassics.com)
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    The County Fair
    "The County Fair" begins with a nasty rich guy threatening to turn an old lady onto the street--unless her niece (who lives with her) marries this man's son. While she's dead set against it, the niece is a sweet thing and would do anything to help her aunt--even marry the rich jerk. However, a possible way out is presented. When a poor young man is taken in and fed, he turns out (naturally) to be a jockey and thinks he can win the $3000 prize at the fair and save the farm. (imdb)
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    It Always Happens
    While on a business trip, Andy accidentially gets into a compromising position with the wife of a client. (imdb)
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    Am I Having Fun!
    Taxi driver Andy Clyde gets mixed up in drunken passenger Arthur Housman's scheme and has to dress up as a Indian to entertain Housman's guests. Then the real Indian comes and he gets confusion about what kind of Indian he's supposed to be. (imdb)
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    The Singing Fool
    After years of hopeful struggle, Al Stone (Jolson) is on his way. "I'm Sittin' on Top of the World", he sings to an appreciative speakeasy crowd. But, as Al discovers, getting there is one thing. Staying there is another. Singing waiter Stone gets his huge break on a magical night when his song wows a big-time producer and a gold-digging showgirl he fancies. Broadway success and marriage follow, but sure enough, hard times are on the way. (en.wikipedia.org)
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    Racing Blood
    Frankie Reynolds (Frankie Darro' ), youngest member of a family of jockeys, borrows $4.85 (yes, four dollars and eighty-five cents) from his sister Phyllis (Gladys Blake), who is not a jockey, to buy a crippled colt from the stables owned by Clay Harrison (Kane Richmond). He nurses the colt back to health, and in two years has one of the fastest horses in the country. (imdb)
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    With Love and Kisses
    A naïve farmer writing songs tries his chances in New York. Unlucky, he is helped by a crooner who lusts after one of his songs. Ignoring the real value of his composition, he sold it for the money he owed to his friends: $200. (imdb)
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    Under the Red Robe
    Under the Red Robe is a 1923 silent historical drama directed by Alan Crosland based upon the Stanley Weyman novel Under the Red Robe. The film marks the last motion picture appearance by stage actor Robert B. Mantell who plays Cardinal Richelieu and the only silent screen performance of opera singer John Charles Thomas. (Wikipedia)
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    Step Lively, Jeeves!
    Butler Jeeves goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to the fortune of Sir Francis Drake. (imdb)
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    Where the West Begins
    Lynne Reed, Jack Manning's fiancée, is stagestruck and wants to go to New York for a career. She is encouraged in this delusion that she is a great actress by Barnes, who offers to buy her ranch, cheaply of course, so she can have enough money to get to the Big City. Barnes has Jack thrown into jail on a trumped-up charge of cattle rustling, and organizes a lynching party to get Jack permanently out of the way. (imdb)
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    Officer O\
    Bill O'Brien is promoted to lieutenant in the police department for his arrest of Mike Patello, gang leader and racketeer, for murder. Ruth Dale, who loves Bill, is concerned when her brother, Johnny, who witnessed the murder, proposes to testify against the racketeer. Meanwhile, Captain Antrim informs Bill that his father has just been released from prison and does not know his son is a policeman.
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    Benny, from Panama
    Jeanette and Eddie get married, but their wedding night is a fiasco. First, their wedding guests follow them, resulting in a police chase, then the guests show up at their apartment, disrupting the building. Then, a rowdy sailor friend of Eddie's shows up, accompanied by a squad of even rowdier buddies and an enormous vengeful mosquito. (imdb)
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    Mr. Toots\
    A short silent film in which Mr. Toots miraculously loses his tooth. Mister Toots tries everything to cure his toothache. He eventually succeeds with a string and a book. Furious with the staff, he throws the book towards them, and is then freed of his sore tooth.
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    Navy Secrets
    A Navy officer is assigned to break up a spy ring within the service itself. (imdb)
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    Nearly Spliced
    Nearly Spliced (1921) - Short Film
    Leon Errol comedy produced by George Kleine
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    Next Door Neighbors
    Song composer Howard Green is frustrated by disturbances his wife, in-laws, and landlord while writing his latest song. (imdb)
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    Back to the Woods
    Harold Lloyd and Snub going camping up in the wilds, where they run into bears, mountain lions, a skunk, and Bebe Daniels and her gun, who falls for Harold's City Slicker ways. (imdb)
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    Everything Comes to Him Who Waits
    Cud McGiven applies for employment in a Bowery restaurant. The restaurant is conducted by a German, who engages Cud. Whenever Cud finds himself alone in the pantry he exercises his mania for juggling plates with disastrous results to the crockery. Every time the proprietor bears a crash he is Johnny-on-the-spot and takes out his little book to jot down the damage and charge it to Cud. At last the proprietor loses all patience and decides to discharge Cud. (imdb)
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    How a Horseshoe Upset a Happy Family
    A farce in which Ms. Murphy finds that a horseshoe brings her anything but happiness.
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    Babes in the Goods
    Thelma and Patsy get jobs demonstrating washing machines in a department store window. However, on their first day on the job, they accidentally get locked in the store overnight. (imdb)
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    Partners in Crime
    After being dismissed for imitating his boss's voice on radio, former Assistant District Attorney Richard Deming witnesses a store robbery and is taken captive by the criminals. Suspected of the crime, he is sought by the police, but his sweetheart, Marie, convinced of his innocence, enlists the help of two friends, a newspaper reporter and a half-witted detective. Hoping to win the girl's favor, the two go to the gangsters' hideout, encounter a violent gang war, and accidently set off a case... (The Movie Database)
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    The End of the Road
    Childhood friends Mary Lee and Vera receive two different versions of the 'birds and the bees' from their mothers. Mary Lee gets the facts, while Vera gets a prudish fairytale version. Their lives separate after graduation, Mary Lee becomes a nurse who falls in proper love with a Doctor, whereas Vera follows her mother's advice and seeks to marry a rich man, but falls for the unlawful and syphilitic charms of a wealthy cad.
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    Manhandled
    Comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.
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    Howling Hollywood
    A Hollywood satire in slapstick.
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    The Non-Stop Bride
    Arthur Housman gets invited into a ranch house.
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    A Hit with a Miss
    Shemp Howard is a prizefighter in this Columbia All-Star Comedy who has a complex that leaves him a coward and unable to fight unless he hears "Pop Goes the Weasel." He hears it enough here, from various and outlandish sources, to eventually win his championship match. (imdb)
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    Jack\
    Jack tells two people, privately, on a blind date that each of them is hard of hearing and wacky hijinks ensue.
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    Roadhouse Queen
    Roadhouse Queen (1933) - Short Film
    Walter Catlett learns his son Ben Alexander has thrown over fiancee Joyce Compton for acrobat Nora Lane. He takes lawyer Arthur Housman to the road house where she is performing to lay down the law.
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    Side Street
    Three successful Irish brothers cross paths in a very unexpected way.
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    A Duke for a Day
    Movie star Gloria Blossom (Jeanette Loff) is unhappy with her press agent's (Eddie Foy, Jr.) attempts at publicity. After reading newspaper stories about other stars marrying into royalty, she demands that Eddie "promote me a husband with a title within 24 hours". With the dubious assistance of reporter Don Barclay and photographer Billy Nelson he talks the first man with a British accent that he meets into marrying Gloria, fooling her into believing he is a Duke.
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    Whispering Wires
    A woman hears of a murder plot through a whispered voice on the telephone.
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