Biography: Johnny Downs |
The son of a Naval officer, American actor Johnny Downs was hired as one of Hal Roach's "Our Gang" kids in 1923. Alternately playing heroes and bullies, Downs stayed with the short-subject series until 1927, appearing in twenty-four two-reelers. He... more
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Cast: Vera-Ellen George Sanders Donald O'Connor Fritz Feld Billy De Wolfe
Tags: Musical Comedy Musical Romance
Length: 114min
Ethel Merman reprised her role as a socialite turned diplomat in this screen adaptation of Irving Berlin's hit Broadway musical. Sally Adams (Merman) has made it her business to know everyone worth knowing in Washington D.C., and her penchant for...
Cast: Robert Kent
Tags: Drama
Length: 67min
In this romantic drama, an office clerk's quiet personal life is disrupted when a sick woman appears at his doorstep in desperate need of help. The kindly fellow takes her in and helps her to recover. He then discovers that she isn't sick at all; she...
Adventures of the Flying Cadets [Serial] (1943)
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure
Length: 169min
Four enterprising air cadets are suspected of a series of murders actually committed by The Black Hangman, a mysterious Nazi agent. A typical war-time serial, this Universal offering basically wasted the talents of one of the best screen villains in...
Cast: Rosemary Lane
Tags: Musical
Length: 74min
In this musical, two young people inherit their foster father's nightclub. The joint teeters on the brink of bankruptcy until they bring in exciting jazz music and entertaining acts ranging from comedy to cartoonists. Songs include: "Shoo-Shoo Baby,"...
Tags: Musical Comedy Comedy Musical
Length: 61min
"It'll make you yell SOLID!" boasted the ads for the Monogram musical Campus Rhythm. Johnny Downs stars as Scoop, a rather long-in-tooth college newspaper correspondent who suspects something when a vaguely familiar-looking young lady enrolls in...
Cast: Gale Storm Mantan Moreland
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 63min
The bucolic, down-home novels and short stories of Gene Stratton-Porter had been fodder for Monogram's screenwriting staff ever since the early 1930s. This cinemazation of Stratton-Porter's Freckles Comes Home stars Johnny Downs as the title...
Cast: Johnny Downs Glenn Strange Sam Newfield
Tags: Horror Creature Film
Length: 77min
Bland former child actor Johnny Downs earns top billing in this low-budget horror film, but the real star is that most psychotic of all the mad doctors George Zucco. The British-born character actor plays Dr. Lorenzo Cameron, a discredited -- and...
Cast: The Ritz Brothers [Al, Jimmy, Harry]
Tags: Detective Film Comedy Mystery Musical
Length: 60min
To say that Behind the Eight Ball is the best of the Ritz Brothers' quartet of Universal vehicles is faint praise indeed, but it's fact that the Ritzes pack an awful lot of laughs in the film's 60-minute running time. The story takes place at a summer...
Cast: Sheldon Leonard
Tags: Musical Comedy Musical Showbiz Comedy
Length: 70min
As PRC pictures go, the modest Harvest Melody is practically a spectacular. Rosemary Lane plays former film star Gilda Parker, who hopes to regain her popularity with a carefully staged publicity stunt. Aiming for the "rural" trade, Gilda goes to work...
Cast: Frances Langford Hal Roach Esther Dale
Length: 51min
This 48-minute Hal Roach "streamliner" represents a rare directorial assignment for veteran Hollywood choreographer LeRoy Prinz, who also produced the film. Johnny Downs stars as Bob Sheppard of Quinceton University, who is appointed by his frat...
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