Frank Jenks
Date of birth: 1902-11-04
Place of birth: Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Known for: Acting
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Movie Credits
His Girl Friday
1940-01-18
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star
Dig That Uranium
1955-12-25
The boys buy a uranium mine out west, but when they get there they find that it's pretty much worthl
Blondie's Lucky Day
1946-04-04
Not only must Blondie put on a brave face when her husband Dagwood is fired for the umpteenth time b
Blondie's Reward
1948-06-03
After bungling a real-estate transaction, Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is demoted to office boy by
Blondie's Hero
1950-03-09
Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts of
Zombies on Broadway
1945-05-01
Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss
Follow the Boys
1944-05-05
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star
Rogues' Gallery
1944-12-06
Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of
The Houston Story
1956-02-01
A Texas oil driller schemes to steal millions of dollars in oil.
Christmas in Connecticut
1945-07-27
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewi
Woman on the Run
1950-11-10
Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspec
The Scarf
1951-04-06
A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the
Bedside Manner
1945-06-22
A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle
The She-Creature
1956-08-01
A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monst
The Flame of New Orleans
1941-07-07
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing se
Thousands Cheer
1943-09-13
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the
One Hundred Men and a Girl
1937-09-05
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends a
The Falcon in Hollywood
1944-12-08
Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence--aka Michael Arlen's literary hero The Falcon--arrives in Holly
Highway Dragnet
1954-01-20
An ex-Marine, on the lam from a murder charge, hitches a ride with a glamour-magazine photographer,
Philo Vance's Gamble
1947-04-12
Private Detective Philo Vance gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery concerning th
Philo Vance's Secret Mission
1947-08-30
Philo Vance is hired to write a true-crime mystery... but when the facts about an unsolved crime are
High Wall
1947-12-17
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having co
Outlaw Treasure
1955-05-15
When two outlaw gangs team up to rob gold shipments, the U.s. Army sends their ace-troubleshooter, D
Angel's Holiday
1937-06-07
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes invo
Tall, Dark and Handsome
1941-01-24
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a
Family Honeymoon
1948-12-06
Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machina
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942-06-01
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a b
Back Street
1941-02-07
In turn-of-the-century Cincinnati, vibrant shop girl Ray Smith falls in love with banker Walter Saxe
White Tie and Tails
1946-08-30
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up getting involv
Seven Miles from Alcatraz
1942-11-18
After Pearl Harbor, convicts at Alcatraz prison live in fear of bomb attacks, driving Champ Larkin a
Motor Patrol
1950-05-12
A cop poses as a member of a stolen-car ring to capture the men responsible for the murder of his fi
Shake Hands with Murder
1944-04-22
A female bail-bond broker and her partner help an accused embezzler prove his innocence. Having the
Roger Touhy, Gangster
1944-06-03
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most po
Let's Go Navy!
1951-07-29
The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors.
To Please a Lady
1950-10-13
Mike Brannon is a former war hero turned midget car racer. His ruthless racing tactics have made him
Lucky Losers
1950-05-14
Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of match
The Kid Sister
1945-02-06
A madcap comedy about a kid sister who tries to steal her older sister's boyfriend. Her plan involve
Love Is a Headache
1938-01-14
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publici
Smartest Girl in Town
1936-11-27
A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.
Mr. Walkie Talkie
1952-11-28
Military comedy about two sergeant buddies constantly getting into trouble.
Goodbye Broadway
1938-04-01
Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town o
When's Your Birthday?
1937-02-19
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes
The Missing Corpse
1945-06-01
A feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (Bromberg) and McDonald (Guilfoyle) goes deadly when blackm
That Brennan Girl
1946-12-23
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hus
Mr. Reckless
1948-03-26
An oil well digger tries to win back his former girlfriend, now engaged to another man.
Dancing on a Dime
1940-11-01
Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross, Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe o
Two Girls and a Sailor
1944-06-14
A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous s
Hello, Everybody!
1933-02-17
The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sis
Letter of Introduction
1938-08-05
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter show
Asleep in the Feet
1933-01-21
The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
That's My Gal
1947-05-15
Two sharpie promoters (Don Barry and Frank Jenks) put on a show they believe is so bad it will not p
The Lady in the Morgue
1938-04-22
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
The Devil's Party
1938-06-02
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
Women Are Trouble
1936-07-31
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.
Saturday's Heroes
1937-10-08
College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his sc
One Way to Love
1946-01-08
A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's fathe
S.O.S Tidal Wave
1939-06-02
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand a
There Goes My Girl
1937-05-21
Jerry and Connie are engaged to be married, but they're also rival newspaper reporters, and when the
A Little Bit of Heaven
1940-10-10
A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a big-buck
That Girl from Paris
1936-12-31
Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her j
We Who Are About to Die
1937-01-08
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sente
Youth Takes a Fling
1938-09-22
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to Ne
Walking on Air
1936-09-11
A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him hom
Broadway to Hollywood
1933-09-15
In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville
College Humor
1933-07-05
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coe
Rosie the Riveter
1944-04-08
In this romantic wartime comedy, four female defense plant workers share a house with four male work
Luxury Liner
1933-02-03
This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious t
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939-02-17
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from
Golden Boy
1939-09-05
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter
First Love
1939-11-10
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncl
Blonde Savage
1947-11-22
An expedition into the deep jungle discovers a native tribe led by a tall Caucasian blonde woman.
The Witness Chair
1936-04-23
Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker
The Under-Pup
1939-08-31
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy
The Farmer in the Dell
1936-03-27
An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.
Pecos River
1951-12-15
Steve is a Government Agent looking for the gang that stole the U.S. Mail. He goes undercover...
Gildersleeve's Bad Day
1943-05-10
Gildersleeve has jury duty.
Three Little Sisters
1944-07-31
The three Scott sisters, Susie, Hallie and Lily, live in the small town of Riverdale with their fath
Steppin' in Society
1945-07-09
In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces
Dixie Jamboree
1944-08-15
A medicine man on the last show boat on the Mississippi is mistaken by two gangsters as a bootleger,
The Human Comedy
1943-03-02
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family
Ladies Courageous
1944-02-02
Loretta Young stars in this drama about female pilots during WWII.
Slightly Scarlet
1956-02-29
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to
Society Smugglers
1939-03-01
The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected o
Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle
1950-11-04
Joe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law.
Prescription for Romance
1937-12-12
In this romance, a detective teams up with a count and travels to Budapest in search of an embezzler
The Westland Case
1937-10-30
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows wer
Melody and Moonlight
1940-10-10
Jane Frazee made her starring film debut in the Republic B-plus musical Melody and Moonlight. The pl
The Last Warning
1938-12-07
In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate t
Hi'ya, Sailor
1943-10-08
Bob Jackson and his three Merchant Marine shipmates have each invested $50 in a song Bob has written
Scattergood Meets Broadway
1941-08-22
Scattergood finds out that his neighbor, Elly Drew, is going to sell her home to support her son Dav
G.I. Honeymoon
1945-04-06
In this romantic comedy, set during WW II, an newlywed army couple are unable to consummate their ma
Corregidor
1943-03-29
A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japane
Shantytown
1943-04-20
Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"
Friendly Persuasion
1956-10-30
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to vio
Reckless Living
1938-03-01
This harmless Universal musical comedy is worth having as one of the few filmed records of legendary
The Hoodlum Saint
1946-04-04
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's m
Don't Turn 'em Loose
1936-09-18
A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alia
Two Yanks in Trinidad
1942-03-26
The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy),
Strange Affair
1944-10-05
Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet h
Swing Time
1936-08-28
Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will
White Lightning
1953-03-08
The Red Devils, a professional ice hockey team, owned by Jack Monohan, is in the midst of a long los
You're a Sweetheart
1937-12-26
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production
The Big Broadcast of 1937
1936-10-05
The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of con
Syncopation
1942-05-22
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
Silver City Bonanza
1951-03-01
Blind Pete Horne knows the location of the Lost Spanish Silver Lode, but is knifed before he can tel
Utah Wagon Train
1951-10-14
Rancher Rex Allen receives a summons from his uncle. an old time frontiersman, that he is in trouble
The Navy Comes Through
1942-10-30
A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.
His Butler's Sister
1943-11-26
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
Big Town Czar
1939-05-03
When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, ex
Mary Lou
1948-01-23
Airline hostess Ann Parker is fired for being undignified when she sang to calm the passengers durin
The Storm
1938-10-28
A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
The Impatient Years
1944-09-10
Standing before a divorce court judge are Sergeant Andy Anderson and Janie Anderson asking him to di
Kilroy Was Here
1947-07-19
"Kilroy Was Here" was a popular expression during World War II, but it's not much fun to John J. Kil
So's Your Uncle
1943-09-01
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself p
Take It or Leave It
1944-07-17
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant
This Is the Life
1944-06-01
18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which sh
The Phantom of 42nd Street
1945-05-02
A theatre critic teams up with a cop to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.
Sudden Danger
1955-12-14
Detective Andy Doyle suspects that a suicide is actually a murder. He suspects the victim's son, Wal
College Rhythm
1934-11-23
The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the foo
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
1948-09-19
Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948-10-28
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face th
Shake, Rattle and Rock!
1956-11-01
A TV star meets with opposition from adults who object to the opening of a rock 'n' roll palace for
The Last Outlaw
1936-06-19
After serving 25 years in prison for robbery, Dean Payton returns to his home town to see his daught
The Amazing Colossal Man
1957-10-25
Lt. Col. Glenn Manning is inadvertently exposed to a plutonium bomb blast and although he sustains b
Bowery Battalion
1951-01-24
Slip, Sach and the gang think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.
Shep Comes Home
1948-12-03
Little Larry Havens, whose father died in WWII, runs away from home to keep from being separated fro