Date of birth: 1901-03-24
Place of birth: Neodesha, Kansas, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Shelton Jett

1942-08-28
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, de

1945-05-05
This short shows how two objects led to important discoveries. Children playing with a seesaw inspir

1950-06-23
The Lionians, a tribe of lion worshippers, make a desperate attempt to find a cure for the mysteriou

1942-07-14
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

1937-07-16
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to

1939-04-03
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.

1935-01-15
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.

1939-04-04
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying

1940-09-27
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card

1937-03-06
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car

1941-02-25
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Ch

1952-04-11
Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an

1944-10-25
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

1940-08-30
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both lov

1935-10-10
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants

1941-10-23
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next doo

1943-10-16
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's e

1950-04-07
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to ar

1935-08-20
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the po

1951-08-13
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.

1947-10-17
In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by

1941-10-24
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is

1947-11-11
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the
1944-07-15
This MGM Passing Parade series short takes a look at changing definitions of art in the United State

1946-06-06
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New

1942-12-25
French woman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed

1937-01-01
In a meeting with the leaders of his vice syndicate, gangster boss James "Lucky" Lombardo complains

1932-06-24
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film dir