Grant Mitchell

Grant Mitchell

June 17, 1874

Grant Mitchell (born John Grant Mitchell Jr.) was an American stage and screen actor. He is best remembered for his portrayals of fathers, husbands, bank clerks, businessmen, school principals and similar type characters, usually supporting, in films of the 1930s and 1940s. Mitchell, a Yale post gr…

Known For

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939 · 2h 9m · Movie

A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his c...

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Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace

1944 · 1h 58m · Movie

Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murd...

7.9
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Leave Her to Heaven

Leave Her to Heaven

1945 · 1h 50m · Movie

A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.

7.6
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The Life of Emile Zola

The Life of Emile Zola

1937 · 1h 56m · Movie

The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair, a Jewish army officer who is accused of treason.

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Dinner at Eight

Dinner at Eight

1933 · 1h 51m · Movie

As an aspiring New York socialite prepares for a lavish dinner party, her guests find themselves consumed by a tangle of business, romantic, and personal crises - all of which come to a head on the big night.

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The Man Who Came to Dinner

The Man Who Came to Dinner

1941 · 1h 52m · Movie

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.

7.5
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

1947 · 1h 56m · Movie

Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.

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Conflict

Conflict

1945 · 1h 26m · Movie

An engineer kills his first Wife, then woos her sister.

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The Great Lie

The Great Lie

1941 · 1h 48m · Movie

After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.

7.0
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1935 · 2h 13m · Movie

Two couples and a troupe of actors have an encounter with some mischievous fairies in the forest.

6.8
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Gold Diggers of 1935

Gold Diggers of 1935

1935 · 1h 35m · Movie

Romantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.

6.8
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Dancing Lady

Dancing Lady

1933 · 1h 32m · Movie

An attractive dancer is rescued from jail by a rich man who helps her to have her first big opportunity at a musical play on Broadway.

6.8
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On Borrowed Time

On Borrowed Time

1939 · 1h 39m · Movie

A cantankerous old man takes in his beloved, orphaned grandson, whom he must protect at all costs with the help of an agent of Death and a magical apple tree.

7.7
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No Man of Her Own

No Man of Her Own

1932 · 1h 25m · Movie

An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.

6.6
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The Cat's-Paw

The Cat's-Paw

1934 · 1h 42m · Movie

A naive missionary brought up in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate with no chance of winning.

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Nothing But the Truth

Nothing But the Truth

1941 · 1h 30m · Movie

A stockbroker's new partner bets $10,000 that he can only tell the truth for twenty-four hours.

7.1
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Hollywood Hotel

Hollywood Hotel

1938 · 1h 49m · Movie

Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band, has won a talent contest and a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But she ...

6.4
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Next Time We Love

Next Time We Love

1936 · 1h 27m · Movie

A young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.

6.4
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Skylark

Skylark

1941 · 1h 32m · Movie

As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at the moment when she is trying to decide what to do, she meets a handsome ...

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Cairo

Cairo

1942 · 1h 41m · Movie

Reporter Homer Smith accidentally draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied convoys with robot-planes.

6.1
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Lilly Turner

Lilly Turner

1933 · 1h 5m · Movie

A carnival magician deserts his wife when he finds out she's pregnant. She then marries the carnival's barker, but finds herself attracted to a young engineer.

6.5
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That Certain Age

That Certain Age

1938 · 1h 35m · Movie

A teenage girl clashes with her newspaper publisher father's star reporter while he stays in their country guest house, but soon finds herself falling in love with him.

6.6
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365 Nights in Hollywood

365 Nights in Hollywood

1934 · 1h 17m · Movie

Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school.

5.7
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It's in the Air

It's in the Air

1935 · 1h 20m · Movie

Calvin Churchill, a confidence-man, and his sidekick/stooge, "Clip" McGurk, are being pursued by an Internal Revenue agent, Henry Potke, for their failure to file an income-tax on the advice of a shyster lawyer. They are hiding ou...

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