Date of birth: 1890-02-09
Place of birth: Wichita, Kansas, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Ernest Earl Alexander, Ernest Alexander

1933-03-03
Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get marri

1937-11-11
Benchley tries his best to demonstrate the routine one should follow to start the day right.

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

1932-06-03
A young lady is wooed by two men

1937-09-11
Carey Wilson narrates this MGM Miniature short in which an average office worker suffers all week-en

1938-09-14
Three electrical linemen work through the hazardous conditions of the Depression Era. Sparks fly, an

1930-11-23
A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death.

1936-05-08
Terry is the chief car tester for Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to

1934-03-30
At a ritzy beauty salon, while a mud pack is on her face, a wealthy socialite invites Thelma and Pat

1937-09-10
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.

1933-02-10
Harold Hobbs doesn't much like that his lazy, sponging and unemployed brother-in-law Claude and his

1933-01-13
A Mack Sennett-produced sound short about couples playing bridge through the ages.

1933-03-03
The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."

1935-03-08
Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room

1934-07-14
Thelma rushes into the apartment she shares with Patsy, excited because she's fallen in love with Ar

1932-10-29
Zasu and Thelma are working their way through college by selling magazine subscriptions. Finding lit

1933-09-16
The girls win a car in a raffle.
1936-01-25
Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to pr

1932-09-24
When Thelma is stopped by a cop for speeding, she tries to get out of it by telling him that she and

1937-05-07
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.

1938-01-14
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publici

1938-05-13
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. C

1934-06-28
Shanghai nightclub singer Jean falls in love to a sailor, but after his ship left Shanghai, he is of

1933-07-28
A divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather's farm and recover in the Midwest, where she une

1935-08-02
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into anoth

1939-06-12
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save

1935-11-01
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the

1933-12-29
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when t

1940-10-11
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Sav

1939-06-30
An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

1936-09-11
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.

1939-05-06
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.

1939-04-07
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audi

1939-08-18
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked

1939-06-01
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, a

1939-06-30
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Mi

1939-07-20
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a co

1942-03-01
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a

1935-09-27
A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative

1939-12-22
Judge Hardy guides Andy through problems with girls, money and an essay contest.

1939-12-13
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter

1939-03-24
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

1939-10-06
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a

1939-10-28
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally

1939-10-26
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

1936-06-05
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the

1940-01-11
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He

1938-11-25
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a m

1936-06-19
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to lo

1931-01-30
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.

1936-02-21
Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette l

1943-06-11
Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark,

1936-01-10
When Mr. X (Walter Able) wakes up in the city park with amnesia, bloody and apparently connected to

1936-12-11
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he b

1940-04-29
Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn.

1940-11-22
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and matern

1940-08-16
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

1940-10-11
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleague

1940-11-29
Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiance

1940-08-30
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are un

1943-01-02
This short film examines the origins of several superstitions including crossing your fingers, knock

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

1937-06-15
Despite his older brother's objections, a young man vows to become a newsreel cameraman.

1936-12-18
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing f

1941-08-22
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Ma

1938-10-07
Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.

1942-01-31
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.

1941-02-14
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sol

1942-02-01
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a

1943-07-17
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short looks at how a few specific inventions made a major contrib

1943-06-03
During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diver

1934-08-31
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to div

1938-03-11
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway prod

1943-08-13
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a p

2004-05-31
Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy a

1942-04-22
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparen

1935-10-21
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subseq

1940-07-19
A man violates company policy by getting married.

1935-09-07
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant cel

1937-10-15
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-control

1934-12-23
A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.

1943-11-01
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.

1942-10-10
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpi

1942-10-21
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

1943-10-01
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in

1937-09-11
Alfalfa and Butch are competing in an amateur radio contest, and Butch tries to fix it so that he wi

1931-04-26
Walter MacIntosh and Abe Salisbury are filmmakers in the process of viewing their swashbuckling roma

1938-09-16
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pi

1929-02-03
Late silent short with a Hal Roach approach to situational comedy. Bevan is battling a widow and his

1942-04-17
Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by

1937-01-08
A newspaper reporter covering a famous magician's eroding marriage must later prove that the subject